After the flight, we walked across the field to where the DirectTV blimp was. We got a mini tour; they are amazing things up close. They are providing aerial coverage to today’s Yankees game; too bad I don’t get to watch it here.
Then we walked back to our cars, remembering to look left, right, left before crossing the active runway! :eek:
I’d be January Sweet Potato Pancake! 
With ham. 
We’ve been demolishing the red shed. **FCD **took a load to the dump yesterday, and this morning, we took a truck-and-trailer load. The guy on duty cut us some slack and let us in for $10, so yay! **FCD **is there now but just with a truck load, so it’ll just be $10 again.
We’re down to the floor and foundation - dunno if we’ll tear that apart this afternoon or not. In any case, it won’t go to the dump before Monday. I didn’t paint, nor have I done any garden work yet. I did wash a load of jeans and a load of towels, so there’s that. And when my sweetie gets home, I’ll see if he wants to finish the foundation. If not, I’m going to gather granite rocks from around the yard to make a garden border around the shed.
Sun has been in and out, and it even sprinkled a little bit. But it’s been a nice, if sweaty, day.
Wow, everyone has been busy! I have, too. I planted one flat of marigolds around one of the raised beds, I planted a flat of impatiens in the area behind the house, the total of another flat in three hanging baskets, and a few flowerpots. I still need LOTS more flowers. Probably 4 more flats, I imagine.
I would be March Onion Bagel. With liverwurst, and spicy mustard. All that planting sure works up an appetite!
Now, I need to relax a bit, and get a big glass of iced tea. It’s a beautiful day, but still a bit too cool for my liking, at 65 degrees. It wouldn’t be too bad, if the wind/breeze would just STOP. Geez.
Much yahd irk has been accomplished. I cut a buncha low hangin’ limbs whilst OYKW was still abed, the sluggard. We took two loads of limbs over to his place cause we can put 'em in the alley and they will get picked up. We mowed his yahd and edged and trimmed, then did the same for da cave yahd. I grilled some hotdawgs for N.O.L. We had just slaw dawgs so we have not been combustible.
I have the outdoor cooker all set up cause in just a little while I will need to fire it up to get the water to boil. That takes a while. Meanwhile we’s all cleanded up and chillin’ for a bit. Lookin’ forward to havin’ folks over and hangin’ out on the back porch. It’s a very nice 75 Amurrkin out and the big, shiny, yellow thing is up in the sky.
Rosie HEE!
We sound like we’d be low rent hookers. 
ETA: Ace I’m sittin’ here enjoyin’ a big glass of iced tea. GMTA!
The parents have 4 pacu as well- in a 12" pool, and it’s getting a bit small for 'em. They’re nice fish though, it’s fun feeding them chunks of fruit.
Back from irk, and irk it was- it was the last footy game of the season, and it was a bleedin’ nightmare. We had a capacity crowd (over 10,000), including about 40 troublemakers who support the team’s main rivals (there solely to try and provoke a fight) joined the away fans, and it was the team’s last chance to avoid being relegated out of the leagues (for the first time since 1920). If they won or even drew, they were safe, if they lost- and another team in a different match won or drew- then they’re down playing against non-professional teams.
The other team in danger of relegation won, and the guys I was working for lost.
I was originally supposed to be working in the on-call trouble bustin’ squad (sadly not its official name), but got moved to a bar last minute- and I am soo glad I was. It all kicked off big time. At the most impressive point, there were about 300 fans, from both sides, about 20 police and 5 police horses on the pitch. A full on fight between fans and police started up in the car park, and apparently one of the directors got hemmed in his car by a bunch of ‘fans’, and had to give them money to get out. It was crazy. I, by the way, was watching this through a window and a fence, from in the empty Old Boys bar, and feeling very glad I was.
I’m not sure what the knock on of the relegation will be, but it could be pretty bad- for a start, they’ll be losing budget like crazy, so they’re not going to be needing all the staff that they currently have. Some of them have been there for decades, and were walking round in kind of a daze at the end of the day. They’d also just finally got permission to build a really expensive new, bigger stadium, and now that’s not going to be needed. I don’t care at all about football, and I hope I won’t be for the same company anyway by next season, but I’ve been working with these guys for the last six months, so it was still pretty rotten to watch.
Rugby should be nicer tomorrow at least.
Anyway, I need to go buy sensible food, as I just got takeaway instead of shopping yesterday, and I’s hungry. I got back from irk hours late, so I’d better rush before it shuts.
Iced tea for me too. Was lazy as is the plan for all weekend days. Made some chicken and rice for the dog and us.
Watched a documentary name Coma on HBO on demand. It followed four patients with severe brain injury and just sat there and cried. What am I so sensitive. I cry reading the newspaper sometimes and watching videos of things like soldiers being reunited w/ their dogs after deployment. Just boo hooing.
And, Rosie wins this week’s thread.
Shoulda said, “You can haz bun”, but she is too nice to make that joke.
We just finished tearing up the foundation - boy, was there a lot of rot!!! **FCD **is taking the hunks of floor and supports to the dump - hope he gets there in time - it closes in less than half an hour! I put the tools away, and I need to bring in the jeans and get the towels out of the dryer - especially since ALL of our towels were in the wash and we need showers tonight!
Tomorrow, my sweetie is going to ride with his HOG buddies and I’ll, finally, get some garden time. But apart from the laundry, I’m done for tonight. Supper will be grab whatever.
Manual labor kicks my butt! I’m too old for this. I think a bunch of you younger Mumpers need to pool your resources and buy the house across the street so you can be at my beck and call.
Dammit.
HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY!!!
The HFH are gone for a while!
I had heard rumors they were going away for a bit but I wasn’t sure they were both going since he went away for a few days last week. I know his birthday is coming up and I suspect he went to FL to renew his driver’s license. They have been here for over 2 years and their cars are still registered in FL. I have no idea how they are getting away with it. Now they are going away but Sah-son doesn’t know if it’s for 1 week or 2. I have to teach that kid to be a better spy.
My mother and her bf are gone for a while.
So it’s just me and the son and the dog. Well their dogs are still here but they will be shut up in their bedroom except for the few times a day my niece will come over to let them out.
Today has been a lazy day. I haven’t done a damn thing except take a long bath and a nap. It was when I woke up I found out they are gone.
The people across the street are throwing a party. One thing about open windows, you know a lot more about what is going on in the neighborhood.
I’m hungry. I have to figure out something to eat.
Sari - maybe you should buy the house across from Mooooom
Pizza for supper - it should be here in half an hour or so.
The shed is gone - we just need to clean up the spot where it sat, and I need to plant something there. All the debris has gone to the dump. We’re showered and clean and waiting for supper to show up.
I didn’t do anything I wanted to do today, except for the laundry, but I’m glad we got the shed mess gone. Tomorrow, **FCD **is going on a ride with his HOG group, so I’ll have gardening time.
And after all of this fresh air and exercise, I’m sure I’ll sleep like the dead tonight.
If y’all want to donate to the cause.
I think that house is way out of my price range.
Well, crap. My husband won’t be able to make it home at all this weekend. 
So, I’m getting ready to go meet him up in Covington, Indiana, about 40 miles north of here. I’ll give him the batch of chocolate Toll House cookies I made for him, and a couple of containers of taco salad. It’ll give him a couple of meals, and lots of snacks for the upcoming week. Hopefully, he’ll be able to get home next Friday evening. I can hope. It usually never happens that way, though.
A good time was had by all. We ate, we drank, we laughed. They’re all gone (this was to be a late afternoon to early evenin’ thing which it was) and every thing is cleaned and put away. Da bear is about ready to drop over on the keyboard. I’s tahrd!
Ace bummer about the hubby.
Everybody else, yays, boos, hugs, trouts, chitlins, noogies, kisses, how you doin’s as needed.
Nitey Nite Y’all!
Work was crazy. I stopped at the Bistro for a beer and some Redneck Eggrolls.
Sorry hubby can’t come home, Ace.
Yay for a HFH free week(or two), sari!
I’m home, again. Saw the hubby for a grand total of 7 minutes, and he was on his way, again. Good grief.
Doggio, what the hell is a redneck eggroll? It might sound like something I’d be interested in. Would I?
Swampy, I’m glad a good time was had by all! Now, go get some rest. You sound like you’re probably pooped.
Sticky, how did the show go?
FCM, are you asleep, yet? Doing lots of work outside makes me very tired, and I seem to sleep better than usual. Makes me think I should do yard work everyday.
Naw. I’m not up to that crap. 
Sari, enjoy the peace!
Doggio what is a redneck eggroll?
Glad your party went well Swampy
Pulled pork and collard greens in an eggroll wrapper with Western N.C. style BBQ sauce(tomato based). darn good.
Doggio, OMG, that sounds delicious! I love pulled pork, and I adore collards. Yep. I’d eat that!