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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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We had a good old-fashioned redneck fireworks show in the driveway last night. Lots of cinder rain but Irish Storyteller is paranoid about anything hurting his trees so he soaked everything down with the hose before and after.

Samantha (the cat in my icon) caught a kitty cold from Tiny Tabitha so she’s going to be in isolation until she stops sneezing. Diarmuid cat already tried to come in the cat door when he smelled me cooking bacon and he was Quite Distressed that it was locked. Usually I wouldn’t lock Miss Mantha up because she has a complex about doors but there are two tiny kittens downstairs and I don’t want her getting them sick.

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Happy Sunday!

It’s already hot outside.

Home from the park, when we got there this morning the gates we still locked. Lucy’s dad found a park person to open them for us.
Echo was flipping out, dogs don’t understand driving to the park and not going in.

The lawn guy is coming by to mow the lawn, and he gave me the price on the shed roof - $150. I was expecting about $400, so I am pleased.
I have a few other things I want him to look at doing.
I’d send him to help you FlyBoy, but you’d have to pay for air fare and lodging, I think.

I have to go back out to the atm for cash for him. I remembered to look up my pin before leaving, but I forgot to take the card with me.
I think I go to the atm about once a year, maybe less. Not much need for cash.

I have lots to do today. When I drove by the house on the way to the park, I saw a spot where my son didn’t put any rocks. Good thing we still have 4 bags from last year in the back yard. He can use those to fill in the empty space. Truth is, I could use another ton, but that can wait until next year. See what the economy and my bank account look like. And there are other more pressing things that need to be done around here.

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I am aware of the cat pics rule. Since I mentioned them, here are pictures of all the cats currently in the house:

Samantha (my owner)
Samantha and Diarmuid in a rare moment of co-existence
Tabitha and the Late Great Durwood. Durwood died in April. This is the last picture I have of him. He was 15 years old and a Very Good Cat.
Murphy (left) and Connor (right), the Boondock Kittens. Durwood was such a Good Cat it took two kittens to replace him.

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Watering is done. The toilet is outside waiting to be claimed. I’ve got a load of towels and bathing attire in the washer. Dunno when I’ll get my walk in.

Roxy woke around 8 or so, and came out asking for chocolate milk. Then she wanted an orange. Now she’s watching a video and Daughter just got up. So I’m off-duty. I need a shower but I don’t want to wake FCD - he had a worse night than I did.

And it’s hot and muggy already. Have I mentioned today how much I hate summer?

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The trip to the Home Despot cost over $115 for my 10x10 roof project. (I bought too many nails. I could have saved $20.) I still have to buy probably four sheets of ½" plywood, 10 rafter hangers, four 8-foot cladding boards to replace the ones I broke, the roofing material, and paint. For the roof. Eventually I’ll need to paint the shed. And I want a new door. I hope they have one the right size at The RE Store.

I went to bed around 22:30 last night. Woke up just before four to urinate. Never got back to sleep. :frowning: The tasks ahead are daunting,

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Morning all. Slept to 6:30am, so nappage is again a probability. Just finished my first Sunday sudoku and a big bowl of Rice Krispies, so brain and stomach are satisfied. Not much on the agenda today, about a 40% chance of afternoon rain so we’ll see what comes of that. Dishes need to be sorted and washed via dishwasher sometime today.

swampy, when I was young (we’re talking 4-7 years old), my dad’s folks lived right next to the Erie mainline tracks, and the line had 50-60 trains a day, and brother and I would always go outside and watch them when we visited. The people and railroad tracks are gone now, but I still enjoy watching trains (there’s a EB container train passing through Ft. Madison, Iowa right now…).

Flyboy, tetanus shots or not, watch for infections. And be safe on the ladder, that can equal broken bones…

shoe, family is…family. Hang in there.

Vow (and all y’all others), it was relatively quiet around here, lots of small stuff but no real big bangs and they were pretty well done by midnight.

FCM, great pic and are you a lefty hammerer??

Ok, have a fine Fifth and we’ll see what the day brings.

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MetalMouse - I don’t do much of anything with my left hand exclusively - I just paused to pose for my friend.

Swimming stuff is on the line and I threw a load of jeans and shorts into the washer. Roxy won’t be going to her grandmother’s today - that may affect my Hamilton viewing… We shall see.

FCD wants to go by the house we’re thinking about buying - guess I’ll be venturing out after all. But I may put off my walk till tomorrow, just because.

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Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off today. I need to run to Teeter to buy coffee beans, and pay the rent, so I have somewhere to keep my coffee beans. And I shall watch racing.

sari, so shoring up your She Shed saves you simoliens?

shoe, maybe things will be OK with family. maybe you need a fifth or 3 to cope,

Kittah!

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@purplehorseshoe

Offer to let Mom hold Pretzel.

Offer to let Mom FEED Pretzel.

~VOW

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Attempting a Kitty picture:

Not allowed to insert images in posts…

this is Ralphie

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Cute little pink nose needs a boop. :slight_smile:

Allie seems to be feeling unusually affectionate today. Got TWO requests for snuggles before I got up.

Commotion settled a bit around 11-something, which allowed for falling asleep. I really hope they’ve blown through everything and I won’t have to deal with it tonight, since I have to get up stupid early (taking the bus to irk, DH needs the car).

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I really need to learn multi-quote here. It’s hard to keep track of everything I want to respond to without it.

Owl - Have fun at Knoebels. Sending hugs. I was just thinking about Kopek today (it had to do with exploding things. Come to think of it, I was also recently thinking of him and knives). I miss him.

Nellie - please keep sharing. We like to know how you are doing.

Flyboy - I’ve got a ladder that lets me set up with different lengths on each side. Would one of those work?

Cat - cute cats! :stuck_out_tongue: (Also Hippie)

Metal Mouse - I love that you track the trains. I always smile when I see your notes. I suppose your soccer coaching is cancelled this year?

Lots of fireworks here last night. I hope things are at least a little bit quieter tonight. We had a lot of fires. I wish people would be more careful.

Hubby has passed two stones and is all better now. I am nagging him (and will continue) that he needs to see a urologist and establish care. He should really get a baseline scan and a thorough work up. I’ve started telling him that scar tissue could cost him kidney function or kidneys. I’ll get through to him sooner or later.

Yesterday I managed to get a few things done around the house. Step by step, inch by inch, I will get there. We had chinese food last night. Tonight we will have lamb chops.

Happy Sunday everyone!

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Teetered, and got home just before the thunderstom rolled up.

“Mom, can you help me find Pretzel? She’s learned to open her cage.”
:snake: :snake: :wink:

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I survived the onslaught, but the KABOOMS and marauding bands of young drunks made for interrupted sleep, so I eslept too late, which I hate. As I’ve said, fireworks are illegal here, but that makes little difference when so many people violate the law that cops can’t keep up. It’d help if states that allowed them wised up, but I guess the people demand the right to blow off some fingers.

I hope all the frightened pets are snoozing soundly today.

I really am done complaining about health crud. I was raised by example to soldier through with a cheerful smile, and I generally do. Also, when I was married, the now-ex didn’t take kindly to any statements of ill health, so I got used to only mentioning those that were really, really obvious. The downside of all this is that my close friends and family have me figured out, and now they don’t believe me when I say I’m OK.

Enough about me. On to more interesting people: Mumpers! In no particular order:

OWL, I hope Knoebel’s was a good experience, bittersweet as it was apt to be.

Sunny, glad your hubs passed the two stones. He sounds pretty stubborn, but I know you’ll persist.

Shoe, I like VOW’s Pretzel Plan. Or you could smoke a lot and hope she get’s a contact mellow.

Nut, I get a chuckle out of your posts. Since the KABOOMS, as swampy puts it, went on all day long, probably wouldn’t matter if it got dark earlier. I just don’t understand why people have to celebrate by blowing stuff up.

flyboy, good luck on the project, and stay safe.

Such sweet kitties, people!

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I’m quite ophidiophobic, and I thought that was funny.

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Afternoon all. A combination of getting up too early, a long hot bath, and lying down to watch TV added up to a 3-hour nappage/sleepage, so that shot the day pretty much. Thinking about getting something to eat shortly, I’ve only had that cereal bowl this morning for sustenance. But it’s 94F out and rain is about, so maybe-maybe not.

Vow, well played. And I’m the opposite, nettie; snakes do not bother me in the slightest (my brother, on the other hand, can be frightened literally senseless by them).

Sunny, spring soccer (March-June) was cancelled, but Fall Soccer (August-November) may still take place, that’s still up in the air. Keeping tabs. And keep after him on the stones…maybe he’ll finally get one that won’t pass and causes such pain he will have to get something done, but it shouldn’t have to come to that.

Not a cat person per se, but love the photos, Hippie and Cats

OK, need to check the waiting time at Metro Diner, I’ve developed a liking for their meatloaf dinner.

All y’all take care.

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I’ve finally seen Hamilton. Wow - just wow…

And I’ve brought the laundry in and de-scaled the ice maker (our water is pretty hard.) Guess it’s time to think about supper.

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@Sunny_Daze

Mr VOW had an attack of kidney stones ONCE. It knocked him to the floor and he couldn’t move. An ambulance took him to the ER. Paramedics told him he could scream all he wanted to in the ambulance, nobody would hear a thing. The route to the ER must have felt like a washboard, he said he screamed his head off the whole way.

A couple of days of filtering his tinkle yielded something the lab could analyze. We won’t talk about the absolute mess he made in the bathroom playing mad scientist. His stones ended up being a rare variety, crystals of uric acid. He takes his medication like clockwork, and he says he NEVER wants to do that again!

Testing is the way to go, guessing doesn’t work. And you are absolutely right about scar tissue formation. A lot of scarring leaves you vulnerable to kidney infections, which are no fun, either.

Good luck.

~VOW

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@purplehorseshoe

I like dogbutler’s idea better than mine.

In fact, you could sweeten it by adding, “I think Pretzel might be looking for mice. Since she started getting out, I don’t have any stuff chewed in the kitchen any more.”

~VOW

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Well, rats - it looks like the house we were interested in has gone off the market. Dammit.