Ever run over anything in a yard buried in the snow? Shovels, rakes, implements if destruction?
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I agree with this, family can’t help out? 
The only thing possibly all natural from that is that the box was made from trees; however, depending upon the brand, the logo coloring may be man made. :dubious:
Butters, how is he traveling, drive or fly?
Do you not realize you’re asking that to Ruble, a guy who drives around with a cannon in the back of Polly Subaru?
Today is ‘nice’; twas 41° this morn, going all the way up to 46° today. Tonight will be a low of 21° & tomorrow is a high of 30° w/ wind chills into the teens°.
All the more weight to jack up when you wrap a rake around a tire.
Say that last part fast three times.
Spidey He rented a car and is driving. Today is his birthday. He is only going halfway and stopping at a friend’s house to spend the night. It is about a 16 hour drive one way. Way too much for one day.
[Ascending Soapbox …]
Not to scare you (too much), but that was me.
Naturally thin. I graduated from college at 5’11" and 130#. Slowly piled on 50# over age 35-50 and compared to most Midwesterners my age I looked average to good. But they were made of meat and some fat while I was made of skin, bones, and a mound o’ FAT.
My Mom had developed diabetes late in life, so I ought to have understood the connection. As I understand it (now :smack:), if you have the bad genes *and * let yourself get fat, you’re all but certain to trigger the diabetic cascade. Because it’s symptomless (other than a very slowly advancing feeling of agedness) until you’re damn near screwed, most folks don’t get a clue until they’ve burned out all, or almost all, of their pancreas.
I hate to sound like a preacher of hellfire and damnation, but your wakeup call isn’t going to get much louder.
[Down Off Soapbox]
I promise I won’t make the MMP my ongoing blog on this stuff; I’ve said my piece.
Hi y’all. First check-in of Tue for me.
Day dawned 50 & sunny, is now 72 & sunny. Much erranding early and a picnic lunch at the beach. Dinner shall be lamb chops & fixin’s. Talked to some of our neighbors at the pool who only come down a couple weeks a year. Sweet folks. Tonight they fly back to NYC and are not looking forward to the mukluks and parkas.
Tomorrow’s our building Xmas party. So I’ll be off in the morning to gather provisions and make my share of the communal feast. We usually have about 50 folks and food for a hundred or so. Many of the older ladies still love to cook, but they forget they’re now feeding old people, not the teenagers they used to. The leftovers are legendary. 
Happy birthday to Butters-hubby! 
Ruble it is amazing how a change in the weather makes everyone drive like idjits. Here in Orygun, you’d think that rain would be no big deal, but the first few Fall rains are signs of the End of Days.
About Pepper, I’m leaving it with Fate, I guess. There are a number of people who want her. I don’t know yet who will take her. It may work out that she ends up staying with me, or coming back if somebody doesn’t like her. I don’t think it will happen, but it might. My hubby and kids can’t help. Hubby can do some things, but he works and travels. The kids have great intentions, but they won’t follow through. I wish I could figure something out, but I don’t see any other way right now. 
Heading for the airport now. Pre-op stuff tomorrow and surgery on Thursday.
I can report another morning in low 20s while walking dogs. The kids feel that if it’s going to be this cold, there ought to be snow. So far, their argument has not been persuasive.
Happy Toesday all.
ETA: SkyGuy I’m going to print that out. I’m a decade behind you, and you have inspired me.
Good Luck! Sorry to hear of the puppy leaving. You’re wise to recognize the kids won’t pick up the slack and to not fall for the wishful thinking that they will.
We have supped upon chikin pot pie and green sallit. Tummies are full and happy. Plus I have a chikin pot pie in da freezer to take to a couple next week when it’s my turn to provide sup. They are a nice couple. She is in remission from cancer but the chemo and stuff has made her weak as in she is unable to walk and he, well, he’s frail elderly so a bunch of us have been makin’ meals for 'em. They love my chikin pot pie so it’s all win-win!
You’re a good man, Swampy.
I still hate chicken pot pie. Bletch.
Well, it’s in the mid to upper 50’s where I’m at, though the nights are cold. However, there is no precipitation in the forecast for at least the next week or so, and it hasn’t even rained here in over 2 months, so I don’t think the white stuff is a realistic expectation. I will say that when it does snow here it’s usually a complete cluster fuck since most of the drivers in my area have little experience with it. So there will be accidents and traffic snarls galore. That’s what usually catches me out, personally…the other drivers sliding around or coming right at me because they have lost control (this has happened several times in the last few years).
Good meeting with money guy. His advice has been great - our annuities are looking mighty fine! When we got home, **FCD **peeled N.O.T.s while I chopped an onion and did the peas-n-carrots. I threw the last of the poke roast in a corning ware pot with BBQ sauce and heated it up. Supper was yum. Pie later.
**FCD **will be going to a training class near Madison, WI in January. He was going to drive, but we did the math and it’ll be cheaper for him to fly there and rent a car. We don’t have any Mumpers in Madison, do we? I had an ex-bf who used to live there, but I haven’t been in touch with him for almost 40 years - for all I know, he’s dead… :eek:
Anyway, that’s all that’s new and exciting at FairyChatEstates. Chillage ahead!
Blurf. So weird with hubby gone. Just waiting for the cat to come back to get fed and I am calling it an early night. The cat was in all day sleeping. I ran her out when I got home so she could go do her business. Now she needs to come on back so I can get to bed. There is nothing like being a slave to a cat.
swampy, it sounds like you do chikin pie like I do. I make a double batch of filling and put one in a tinfoil pan for the freezer and top the other for immediate bakage.
Mooooom, Wisconsin in January? Who did FCD piss off? :eek:
Middle Tennessee has returned to its regularly scheduled winter. It’s time to hunker down and keep warm.
**red **- he’s buying a machine from the company and they offer training on operation and software. The timing was right. He’s doing this voluntarily. Yeah, I know…
Worked, came home. It’s 40 out, and a 20mph wind. Hockey shortly.
I was born in Milwaukee ,does that help?
Day is done
Gone the sun.
Lambekins were very tasty. As was dessert. Sleepiness is upon the land.
Manana boys & girls.
Today I plan to spend a totally unnecessary length of time on busses. As a perk from where the college is, we get free county wide bus transport as an attempt to encourage people to use the bus from the nearest town rather than drive, which as I live in the second nearest town where it’d be a multi bus hour+ trip, I don’t do. But, we can use it all year, so my choices for getting into the Big Town to go Christmas shopping is a 45 minute drive, followed by paying quite a bit to park (it’s a tourist town, parking is pricey and very strictly enforced) or spending nearly 2 hours on the bus and getting there for free.
Right now, I have plenty of spare time and not much spare money, so bus it is!
Nuts, enjoy your day “On The Buses”…watch out for Blakey! I like riding around on the bus, I use it to get from home to the station and then from the station at the other end out to campus. Pleasant little rides and the bonus is that the bus goes from the bottom of my street, and the other one drops me a minute’s walk from my building on campus.
Today I got to sit on it a bit longer and get off at the next stop because I had to go to a building I worked in a few years ago to collect some files as I am auditing them today. Various people (and I’m one of the lucky ones!) have been nominated to visit other parts of our College to audit files we keep on the students who have study visas granted by the UK Border Agency. Since we had a Home Office official audit recently, we’re keeping tabs on the quality of our files to make sure everything is ok. The BA didn’t find fault with us as a University and some of what we did in my office has been held up as a standard of best practice (yay!). Any road up, today I be mostly auditing files.
Hope everyone else has a somewhat more excitipatin’ day!
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Today’s main task is testing for whatever the Programmer gets done on an automagic program. I taught him the word “automagic”, he liked it. The program is designed by someone who doesn’t know the process, doesn’t know the main program to which the automagic piece attaches, can’t read and throws tantrums. I’m very happy that I learned that line about circuses and monkeys.
TWENTY-ONE FREEKIN’ DEGREES this morning! I am not amused!
But I’m up, dressed, and in the office, ready for another day of fun and frolic… or drafting… either way. Josh left me some stickies for 3 more drawings, so I’ll take a break from Tim’s stuff and do these for Josh. They’re quickie stickies - shouldn’t take more than a couple of hours to get them all done.
Other than that, just another day in paradise.
Happy Wednesday!!