# The Official unofficial-start-of-summer MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [May 27, 2013, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456 "2013-05-27T10:26:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/381 "2013-06-02T16:34:28Z")
I’ve been doing some cleaning like activities. Not perfect, but definitely guest-ready. Some friends are coming over later. I hope there’s enough time to show them around the whole place. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/382 "2013-06-02T17:05:30Z")
Haven’t read. Am with family at niece’s graduation. Only an hour left before it starts. Big fun. Hugs. GT ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/383 "2013-06-02T17:05:59Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > Still haven’t gotten around to doing the rest of my laundry. I have so much to do, but I feel too down. It’s lunchtime but I’m too depressed to eat anything. Go check on Rosie. She may have gotten lost in that big house again. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/384 "2013-06-02T17:51:08Z")
A little past 10:45am and it’s already 82 degrees (28 for our Celsius readers), projected high 97 (36C). Next weekend’s supposed to hit 104 (40C). My car does not have working AC at this time. ICK! Trying to get my brain booted up for deheathenizing today, especially since I’m substitute-teaching the 7-year-old class today. At least they should have more attention span than 3-year-olds, right? It’s still too early for them to be doing the adolescent thing, right? ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/385 "2013-06-02T18:31:58Z")
I’ve deheathenated, had **N.O.L.** and been to :eek: Wally_World :eek:. I finally found the pool float I like. [This one](https://www.swimways.com/spring-float-p-59.aspx) to be exact, except I only paid sixteen bucks for it at :eek: Wally_World :eek:. It replaces the one I had just like it that I finally had to relegate to the trash at the end of last Summer. It lasted five years so I got my money’s worth out of it. Let’s hope the same for the new one. Yeah, my life is so excitatin’, ain’t it! 😃 **Jim** why do you have to move? ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/386 "2013-06-02T18:37:59Z")
So much for stuffed cabbage… 😛 After finishing laundry and some other things, I just didn’t feel like all the mess of stuffing cabbage, so I made a meatloaf instead using some of the cabbage-stuffing ingredients. We’ll have cabbage as our side. \*\*FCD \*\*is back from his ride - turns out it was a fund-raiser for a kid with big medical bills. He had a good time but he said it was hot-hot-hot out there. um _duh!_ He has bathed the dog and showered himself, so no stinkies in this house at the moment. I think it’s time to knit a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/387 "2013-06-02T18:41:14Z")
sitting in a historic cemetery overlooking the road, waiting for the next lap of the bike race to come through. Its starting to drizzle & the drops are COLD. Yeah, end of heat wave coming! Gotta Go, here they come again. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/388 "2013-06-02T18:51:24Z")
{{{{{Midget}}}}} I hope whatever has you down will pass quickly. Just remember, we love you and will listen to any rant you care to share. Laundry is in the wash - I’m just taking a break before taking the trash to the chute. My friends will be here within the hour. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/389 "2013-06-02T18:57:52Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > {{{{{Midget}}}}} I hope whatever has you down will pass quickly. Just remember, we love you and will listen to any rant you care to share. > Laundry is in the wash - I’m just taking a break before taking the trash to the chute. My friends will be here within the hour. Already wrote about it in the rant thread - a bunch of my friends went out without me last night, and are now posting videos on Facebook and boasting about how much fun they had. Might go out to the jazz club tonight. I have a friend who’s playing. It’s not drinking alone if you know a member of the band… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/390 "2013-06-02T19:12:29Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > I finally found the pool float I like. [This one](https://www.swimways.com/spring-float-p-59.aspx) to be exact, Does the girl come with it? You’re probably not going to want her in your kitchen, so I’ll be friendly and take her off your hands for you. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/391 "2013-06-02T19:28:31Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > Might go out to the jazz club tonight. I have a friend who’s playing. It’s not drinking alone if you know a member of the band… 😉 Cool! ---
**Author:** ![sangfroid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@sangfroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sangfroid)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/392 "2013-06-02T19:29:52Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > It’s not drinking alone if you know a member of the band… 😉 Now _that’s_ the attitude! 🙂 Good vibes to you from just south of the Quebec border. Go have a blast - I haven’t been up your way in a while, but I know there’s a whole lot to do in and around Montréal. Wonderful city. And tell your friends precisely where they can place their video cameras… No,really - amatuer video is SO easy to critique: See, you hold the camera like this, and then you.. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/393 "2013-06-02T19:31:32Z")
Oh my. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![sangfroid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@sangfroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sangfroid)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/394 "2013-06-02T19:40:36Z")
Oh, and Good Afternoon, all. Stoopit rain keeps coming back like a bad rash. Like enough for the garden and such (saves watering), but we just had a yard of composted moo-doo delivered and I’ve had to keep it covered until it can be distributed. We’re (and by ‘we’, I mean the wife and kiddos, who aren’t home for two more days) are about halfway through the process, and I want to keep it dry - much easier to handle. Nice stuff, it is. Pure black gold for top and side dressing the veggie plants. Well, gonna take the doggies out for a dodge-the-raindrops walk now, it seems to have stopped for the moment, and the radar shows a break in the line of storms. They’re giving me the serious hairy-eyeball-time-for-WALKIES! look, so I best get going. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/395 "2013-06-02T20:12:37Z")
I didn’t get a chance to walk my bass clarinet today. Oh well. Heading out to the jazz thingie soon. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/396 "2013-06-02T20:36:30Z")
**Midget** when you asked for that bass clarinet you said you’d be responsible for it. This means takin’ it for its daily walk. Do we have to find another home for it? :dubious: I have a turkey boob roastin’ away. It’ll make for some tasty meals this week plus sammiches. Go Me! ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/397 "2013-06-02T21:03:41Z")
**Swampy** I am having to move because my landlord will not renew my lease. I suspect the property is getting renovated and/or sold. I am not prepared for this at all and because I did not pay attention I am going to have to do it quickly. That is my own fault. I think I found a house and roomie so all may be even better. Houston is hawt and humid today. Went and had awesome Thai Curry, it burns so good oh so good. Cheers all **Jim** ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/398 "2013-06-02T21:30:57Z")
\*\*Jim \*\*- I’m sure \*\*mmmmmmmmm \*\*and her husband would love to have you come stay with them! 😃 Plus I believe they’re out of the country at the moment, so imagine their surprise when they get back!!! :eek: My work here is done. Supper was good - instead of cabbage, I made fresh green beans, cooked in salt, pepper, a little onion, and a little olive oil. Very yummy! \*\*FCD \*\*said the recipe is a keeper - I just kinda made it up -go me! 😃 It’s clouding over - c’mon rain!!! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/399 "2013-06-02T21:36:39Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > **Midget** when you asked for that bass clarinet you said you’d be responsible for it. This means takin’ it for its daily walk. Do we have to find another home for it? :dubious: > > I have a turkey boob roastin’ away. It’ll make for some tasty meals this week plus sammiches. Go Me! Speaking of responsibility, you’ve not said anything about the float girl. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/400 "2013-06-02T22:20:31Z")
Storm approaching. I’m gonna log off and knit. C’ya in the next edition!! _ **MWAH!!** _ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456.md?page=21)