I quoted this 'cause I wanted to see how she did that.
Cool!
I am up and not doing homework OR housework. This is not a good thing. Off your arse, Rigs and MOVE.
I kinda want hot dish on a stick as tapas now. Damn you MMPers!
Off to forage for not good for me food.
Good morning everyone.
Very nice OP, taxi. I avoid the state fairs. I went as a kid, but, I find them horribly expensive, dirty, and CROWDED. I don’t like crowds.
Besides, I live on South Hill, which is just up the hill from Puyallup, and I have to deal with all the idiots who go to the Puyallup fair and clog up Hwy 512 and the roads surrounding the fairgrounds.
kai, in reference to last week’s thread, I’m sort of a transplant to the Northwest. I moved here just before I started first grade. I lived on Fort Lewis for two and a half years, then moved to Tacoma. I moved to Puyallup/South Hill in 1991 when I bought my first house. I don’t know why I stuck “the” in front of Hood Canal. I loved Hood Canal, but I had a horrible oyster experience there as well. I was in second grade and my Grandpa gave me a raw oyster to eat. I didn’t know that you didn’t chew oysters. I have been traumatized for life, and to this day, abhor oysters.
I have to do some work now. I’ll try to pop in later.
Oh! FCM, I looked at your pictures in the last MMP. I think the pots turned out just dandy.
Great SNMMP, taxi!
I used to love going to the local county fairs - wandering through all the 4-H exhibits, petting the animals, admiring jars of preserves and craft projects. Now all we get is a “Fair” with a midway. No more 4-H. No more preserves. I don’t go anymore. Especially after my bartending stint where all the carnies would come to my bar after the place shut down for the night. No way am I getting on anything put together by those guys!
Had a visit from two old family friends (of Mr. SCL’s family). Neither one had seen what we had done to the house, so a tour was provided. One of them was so enthuastic about the cat suite I got all excited about it again! Then we worked on photographing jewelry. Blah. It’s a pain in the butt.
Well, I need to go make some copies of the Booster Club application, and mail a book to PaperBack Swap. I’ll be back later.
idiotic cow-orker rant:
we have apparently outsourced some of the more mundane drudgeries of issuing credit for product returns - however, the batch worked over the weekend is SUCH A MESS!!! The man-hours that will now be wasted on correcting their myriad errors could easliy have been saved if some home based coworkers had taken care of these in the first place
YEEEEAAARRRGGHHH
I just had to go begging for Benadryl, because yesterday’s sting itches so much that I seriously considered amputating the affected finger. GAAAAAAAAH!!!
:mad:
Well, like I said, I was a kid, in the late '60s/early '70s. And I know it took place over in SW Penny, not too far from Pittsburgh. So it probably wasn’t a proper State Fair, but it was state Fair-ish in nature.
rosie sounds like a chance to submit an “Opportunity for Improvement” on your standard Corrective/Preventive Action Report. If you document it the right way, you may even get a bonus check out of it.
I hit an underground wasp’s nest years ago, VB, while pulling a swingset out of the ground, and my hand swelled up so much I couldn’t move my fingers. I actually broke down and went to the ER, but of course they just told me to take Benadryl and go away. I’ll never forgot the misery of that, though – pain, swelling, itching. You have my sympathy!
In another aargh, Papa T’s company, which has been employee-owned since its inception, is going public through an IPO. To date, the IPO has been delayed and delayed and delayed, for something like two years thus far. And each time, of course, the market has been further downt, so the projected value goes down and down. So we won’t make as much out of the IPO as we’d hoped to. Even though I know I shouldn’t bitch about the dividend per share at IPO time going down and down, it still pisses me off because we love that lovely green stuff, thank you!
So what happens today? Because they’ve delayed the IPO already so many times, it now gets caught up by the potential impacts of the Pension Protection Act of 2006, which was just signed into law a week ago; the lawyers haven’t figured out how it will apply, if at all. So it’s delayed another month. So it looks like our IPO windfall will just keep going down. Crap! More delays, less lovely green stuff. It’s a conspiracy, I tell you!
It actually wasn’t as bad or odd as it sounds. It was some sort of meat (meatballs or sausage or somesuch) and tater tots on the stick, breaded and deep fried, with a side of cream of mushroom soup for dipping. Odd, but not as messy as it sounds!
I didn’t get any fried dough while we were at the fair, which I’m sorely disappointed about, but the other stuff almost made up for it.
They also had walleye and some other sort of fish on a stick, which we didn’t see, but read about online.
Glad everyone enjoyed hearing about the fair.
Now back to work. 
*sean ** - we don’t work that way - but we do have a QC team who is aware of this mess and will address the issue with the “team” in question
*would that we did - but then everyone would spend more time looking for other peoples’ errors than doing their own work
7:01 am and both kids are gone off for the first day of school…happy dance!!! I am a little concerned about The Son who first of all doesn’t seem to be able to consume food in a reasonable manner. He shovels it in so fast that he burns his mouth and eats too quickly to realize when his stomach is full, so he lies around groaning for a couple of hours afterward. Also he takes after his mama, and gets a bad case of the trots when he is nervous, so he never went to sleep at all last night. I hope he has a good day, he’s a bear when things don’t go smoothly. #3 is also nervous this morning, they both moved up to new schools this year and are aprehensive.
Taters you were young enough so you count as a Washingtonian in my book! Don’t you just love it when out-of-towners call Puyallup POO-yall-up? Also Yah-KI-ma, and TOO-la-lip? 
I confess that Tacoma isn’t my favorite place in the state, but that is primarily where one of my brothers lives when he isn’t incarcerated. It’s sad, and I hate meth and cocaine for what they have turned him into. I am curious, which lake is it that you boat in so often? I’ve done a lot of swimming during the years in Green Lake, Lake Washington (the Kenmore side), Twin Lakes up the road from Marysville, and Silver Lake in Everett. Up toward Arlington I had a couple of nice swimming spots on the Stillaguamish, my favorite being Blue Stilly Park. Of course having been gone for over 17 years who knows if those places still exist? I only eat oysters if they are the tiny ones and have been battered and fried, more than one bite is more than I can handle!
Well I only got about two and a half hours of sleep, the critters have been fed and are taking their morning snooze and I believe that I will do the same! A couple of hours and I’ll drag my sorry self up and get to work on the housework. yawn I am so, so tired. Have a good day everyone!
I feel for ya, man! Wasp stings are just brutal. I still have a scar on my right calf where a very small denizen of the species got me in the spring. Little bastids!
Hah! I’ve heard the name Puyallup butchered so many ways! It’s actually quite entertaining.
As to boating, if we stay in town, we mainly boat on American Lake in Lakewood. It’s clean, large and pretty. If we go out of town, we boat on Lake Kachess, up just past Snoqualmie Pass. We go to Lake Kachess because it’s very large, very pretty, very clean, and VERY uncrowded. American Lake is nice if you’re out there on a weekday evening, or early in the morning on a nice weekend. Otherwise, it starts resembling I-5. We don’t go to Lake Tapps because it’s usually rough, and it’s basically a “party” lake. Too many people consuming too many adult beverages and doing stupid things. People are killed out there every year because of stupidity.
I’ve never been to our State Fair. I could go this weekend, but the idea of driving down to Paso Robles over Labor Day weekend does not appeal to me. I fondly remember the county fair as a kid. It was so much fun! I loved the baby bunnies and the draft horses especially. And the cotton candy! I don’t think I’ve been to the fair in over 10 years. Our county fair is a sad 3 day event, with a midway and some handcrafts and that’s about it. Pretty pathetic for the Valley of the Heart’s Delight, no?
bobbio, when I was about 10, I was horseback riding with a friend and my horse blundered into a yellowjacket nest. I got stung 30+ times (they quit counting after 30) and they pulled about that many yellowjackets off of my poor horse. I thought for sure she was going to throw me right into the nest (ouch!) but I managed to hang on and get back to the barn. Luckily, my friend’s mom was a nurse and she gave me benedryl and had me climb into the swimming pool until my mom came and picked me up. My mom said later that she didn’t recognize me, since my face was so swollen and my eyes were almost completely swollen shut. Being my mom, she had to get a picture and sure enough, you can only tell it’s me by the blonde braid.
My poor horse was never quite the same after that and she went nuts and started bucking any time she even thought she heard buzzing.
Yeah, and it seems like the younger wasps are meaner and have stronger sting. Kinda funny - you see a big wasp and think “Oh man, that guy’s gonna sting me and unload a gallon of venom” but it’s the tiny ones that get you.
Around our Renaissance Faire site, we get Gilroy Snow. What may well be the planet’s largest garlic processing plant is on the road leading to the Faire site, and at this time of year, there’s a seemingly endless procession of double dump trucks full of garlic going there. As a result, there is so much garlic “paper” blowing around and forming small drifts that it looks like snow on the ground.
What is truly (and not sarcastically) scary is that not 5 minutes before, VunderWife tried to get the same sawhorse out for herself, but couldn’t lift it out over the junk. She’s very susceptible to anaphylactic shock, and the nearest hospital is 20 minutes away.
The reason it’s so obvious is that so many of them choose to wear spandex. THAT is exactly why I avoid the fair. Some folks end up looking like too many potatoes stuffed into a hefty.
Did ya try Ye Olde Mill Taxi? The most over-rated thing in the fair, I tells ya.
Talk to her doctor about getting her an epi-pen. As many of the nasty buggers as you have seen in the short time you’ve been there, it is a sensible precaution.
My mother in law had planted touch-me-nots in the front garden for many years. I have not planted any in the two years we’ve been here, but they are still coming up. I went out to pull some this afternoon, but I had waited too long and some of the seed pods were ripe. So I’ll have touch-me-nots again next year, want them or not!
I am going to empty the litter boxes. Fun, fun. Tomorrow’s project is going to be taking pictures of every room in the house, with close-ups of the valuable furniture, and individual shots of my hockey jerseys. I am going to burn a CD of the pictures and put it in the safe-deposit box. A friend of my SILs had her house burn down almost a year ago and the insurance company is giving her fits.
Silly jayjay.
State Fairs are for states, not commonwealths.
That’s on the list of things to do. We bought a bottle of liquid Benadryl for her to literally chug if stung to keep her breathing until we can get her to the ER in Ahoskie…
Oh, and I should add that I live THREE BLOCKS from the Minnesota State Fairgrounds.
I hate State Fair time.
HATE IT.
All those thousands of tattooed, spandex-wearin’ people goin’ to the Fair have to park their rides somewhere. And that means the streets here are packed with vehicles all day and night.
Hey you in the pick-up truck with the straight pipes loud enough to raise the dead, give it up already!. If you haven’t found a parking space in the 15 times you’ve circled our block, it just ain’t gonna happen.
And let’s not forget late at night when the Midway rides shut down and all the rubes are returning to their rides. I tells ya, not all the pigs at the Minnesota State Fair spend the night in the Swine Barn, know what I mean?
Thank Og my family is heading out of town on Thursday for a long Labor Day weekend!