Never mind, doggie (not sure of your Mumper nickname so I just took a stab at it), turns out we are already FB friends.
I should do my research first, but why start now after 70 years of ‘blurt first and squirm later’.
Boo
Boo I have a headache specialist but I’m always happy to exchange notes with another veteran of the head wars. 
Today I had a headache and almost didn’t get up. Mostly the headache and partly just being frustrated with the whole thing. I did get up because the Sunbeams don’t manage to get themselves to class without some parental nudging.
The weather here is swinging from upper 80s to 107 by Sunday. I will be so glad when Summer is over and temps come down to say, 80. Phooey.
My husband just got a job in Canada. He’s working remotely for now, as he has for quite a while. I really hope not to move until my son has more time at his school under his belt, but we shall see what happens.
Dinner shall be schnitzel. I got one of those Ninja Foodi gadgets and I love it. It makes dinner much easier, and it doesn’t heat the kitchen up to a billion degrees.
Moomm I vote that the front door be painted a nice deep reddish burgundy. Clearly this is the correct color for doors. 
Nut what kind of food would the bees eat? Honey? I just can’t understand why you’d have any on a navy ship that (effectively) is always at sea.
Sari good luck with fence and Da Jungle.
Dot are you ok? I may have missed a post. Just checking in.
Need a hug. Like, a real one - y’all are sweet enough to give me cavities, but there’s no substitute sometimes.
Yeah, they basically don’t eat anything but honey. The only times I’ve heard of people actually taking hives on long sea journeys is when people are either emigrating to places honeybees aren’t found (the species generally kept is only native to Europe and Northern Africa, there are some Asian species as well, but not all of them are suited to being kept) or hoping to sell hives to people who were. It is indeed a silly place to keep a hive without a good reason.
I am so looking forward to this weekend- I am dreading next Tuesday a bit though, I’m supposed to be taking a class where my brief is basically ‘find them things to do, don’t worry, there’s no exam, it’s just to fix a timetable issue’. I’ve had no training, and I’m feeling more than a little out of my depth.
Oh well, it’s nowhere near a sensible bed time; nevertheless, I’m going to bed. This return to irk is being the shock to the system I was expecting, even without the assistance of that horrid day yesterday. One more day til the weekend… I’m looking forward to it. I’ll finally be able to do nothing with a clear conscience.
I hate days like that.
I’m not a big fan of brownies, but right now, I’d like brownies with frosting, without frosting, with any kind of nuts, without nuts… I really like the idea of a layer of marshmallow on the top.
Saturday it will be a week since I started the CBD oil. I haven’t had any anxiety/panic attacks, although I’ve been wobbly a couple of times. I’m taking it morning and evening, ~18 mg each time for a total of 36 mg per day. It’s hard to measure exactly when you’re dosing with an eyedropper. I note my mood every day at 7 pm on the Calm.com app on my phone. I’ve been tracking ever since March and noticed that I would have a day of panic every 6 to 10 days. Frankly, the last few days, I’ve felt what I would call “normal.” This is much-coveted and rare state of being for me. Feeling “normal” most of the time is what I most desire in life right now. What I mean by normal is not under imminent threat, not being hunted by some demon, not having a target in the middle of my forehead… not even fragile, which has been my usual state of mind and body. Too soon to draw conclusions. I’m keeping an eye on this. Not sleeping any better-- awake this morning at 4:30. Oh well.
I love this name for your kids. I’m sure they are sunbeams-at least almost all the time.
Of course, that sounds stunning! Could you tell that is exactly the color my front door is?
{{{sincere}}} best I can do from afar.
Sounds like a plan, especially after irk demands like yours. Sleep tight.
Just got back—I had to dash back out to the kitchen to check my grilled cheese. Seems like I’m destined to char one side every time. Too impatient to stand there and wait so I go off to do some little thing and…well you know the rest.
Boo
once upon a time… it’s been quite a while since I’ve done anything like this and the online communities where it used to be a thing have long since dissolved…
we would “get together” in some form of chat room/messenger group type thing (usually AIM, which I’m not sure is even a thing anymore) and all watch the same movie or TV show at the same time. Point being just to get through the night “together.” Didn’t matter too much what movie. It was just so nobody felt pressured to keep conversation going or to necessarily talk about anything they didn’t feel like talking about. Like you can if you want, but you can also talk about Moana or Life of Brian or QI or whatever.
Anyway, it was helpful to me… like I said, just getting through the night and feeling both like I wasn’t alone and like there wasn’t a ton of pressure.
MMP is kind of like that, but a little less real time and a little more… on record, I guess. Not that I have any desire or plan to say anything mean or anything and I guess it’s probably more embarrassing to think that the stuff I DO say has actually had any kind of thought put into it… but… I don’t know, I’m not communicating this well.
Anyway, if anyone is interested… I was about to start The Neverending Story on Netflix because I’ve never seen it before and there’s QI on Youtube for something everyone would have access to for free and which is also funny and plotless and probably new to a lot of people.
BBBoo - I guess my truck post was a bit vague… SIL took a load of crap in the truck and he was going to drop it off at the house before going to work tonight. He’s off tomorrow and daughter has a half day. They plan to move their bed, then set up both bedrooms so they can be pretty much moved in.
I’ll be helping them over the next few days to get organized and settled, mostly by wrangling Roxy down there. I’ll take her to the playground in their community, and I may take some of my garden tools so I can hack back some of the overgrown branches.
Exhausting weekend ahead.
Howdy Y’all! Today we managed quality cee-mint pond time, nappage, and sup. I don’t know how we keep up such a whirlwind pace! Nice just to lounge around and be the grumpy old men we are.
I’d have to bring a big thermos of coffee to keep moving. You’re an inspiration.
I bet Roxy would love ‘hacking’ back some unwanted vegetation. Trick is to find safe tools. My grandgirl loves to ‘help’ her dad by rescuing whatever earthworms he dislodges doing yard work and relocating them to safer homes in the lily beds, talking reassuringly to them all the time she is walking them across the yard to their new home.
Give yourself a whole day off between helping there and painting your ‘new’ front doors. If you’ve already finished that, I don’t want to know since my big achievement the last two days is returning my library books on time.
BBBoo
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Mom I vote that the front door be painted a nice deep reddish burgundy. Clearly this is the correct color for doors. [/quote]
Yup. I like it! 
Put in 4 hrs in the basement. It got up to 100F while I was down there. Feeling wiped out, specially since somebody (Gibbs) woke me up at 4:30 in the early dark and I couldn’t go back to sleep. 
Hanging around waiting for dinner time now. Life is so hard. 
Maybe we’ll make brownies tonight. Now there’s an idea.
nm again
BBBoo - the door may not be painted for a few weeks or longer. I have to pack and stow as much as I can before the painter gets here, then scrub the baseboards and cut back the carpet. And take down all the curtains and rehome some houseplants for a few weeks, and take all the pictures off the walls. Whew, I’m pooped already…
But this weekend is about getting the kids settled.
Evening all. Soccer has been practiced, we had to move to another field as the one we’re supposed to be on was locked and hadn’t been mown, but all 10 boys made it and we had a pretty good workout. The division is 10-Under, but the ages are 7-8-9 so it’s a struggle to keep their attention at times. Worked mostly on basic skills so the assistant coach and I could see how they did. Several water breaks cause it was still pretty hot out there.
Now tomorrow is the 12U girls and we’ll see how that goes…
Was going to fix a salad for dinner but just figured it could wait a day and let the Burger King deal with dinner.
FCM, my doors are plain white, but burgundy sounds nice.
Boo, the story about granddaughter and the worms made this old face smile…
Dot, I know Facebook has something like that, but I don’t know a thing about setting it up.
Thel, hope the oil is the key to a ‘normal’ for you.
Shoe, wish I was close enough to give the hug…but {{{ }}} is the best I can do.
Sunny, Canada doesn’t sound all that bad right now…
OK, need to add more fluids and think, like Nut, that it will be an early night tonight. Actually being out and ‘exercising’ is a bit of a shock to my system.
All y’all take care.
wordy, we’ve had cicadas here this summer too. Not as bad as, what?, 15-20 years ago, but I hear them when I go out.
I’m off for the holiday weekend! I took Nelson to the dog park when I got home this afternoon. His buddies Jersey (pug/dachshund) and Junior (beagle) were there as well as a new chocolate lab puppy named Addie, who won’t be much longer on the small dog side of the park. He had a good workout and I had a good visit with the humans.
Went through the drive-thru for the stoner special for supper. I get to sleep in for the next four days!
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
Is anyone else staying home and not having company for Labor Day? I get the impression most people are going to celebrate with friends and/or extended family, COVID notwithstanding.
Nope, not going any where or doing anything out of the ordinary. I will spend the weekend as usual, hunkered down in my house on the prairie with my books, 3 cats and SD and the NYT on my iPad.
I’m not opposed to Labor Day (or the 4th of July or Memorial Day) but I’m not much for water skiing, beer and hot dogs on the beach for any of them. When my kids were young we would have a fun day at home with favorite foods and their grandparents would stay overnight and spoil them rotten. That was last done 20 years ago. Good fun for all! Leftover potato salad, baked beans and brownies for days.
My flag will be flying on my porch celebrating the working person. That is the extent of it.
Boo
Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to sort. Will we be short handed? Will the belts break? Will a shipment of fire spiders get loose in the hub? Details at 11!
That is my plan, since I should be off Sunday and Monday. Weird change from retail.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 70 Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 98 and N.O.S. with a heat index of a bazillion once again. When it’s daylight enough, I shall fire up the smoker. Ribs for a little soiree tomorrow and some chikin boobs for later purposes. JDD and Partner are comin’ over to hang at the cee-mint pond and feast with us. We’re doin’ the ribs (duh!) and baked beans and they will bring over N.O.T. sallit and ‘nanner puddin’. I’ll also do some stupped jalapeños to nosh upon whilst at the cee-mint pond. Beerverages will also be involved. Sup shall be smoked chikin boobs, peas 'n carrots, wild (as opposed to tame?) rice, and rolls.
doggio now I want fire spiders!
Now I need more caffeine and rumbly tummy wants sustenance. Then, onward into the day! Rah.
Happy Firday Y’all!
We’ve never done anything special for Labor Day that I can recall, and this year, it’ll be all about getting Daughter et. al. unpacked, etc. Even back in the days when we had a boat, we avoided going out on Memorial day, July 4, and Labor day because it seemed that there were too many folks who only went out on the water on those days, and they were mostly stupid and dangerous.
As for the front door - I think we’ve settled on a deep gray. The front porch is sorta painted red (the previous owners did a lousy job of it and we never repainted) and I don’t want to worry about clashing colors. Plus I Googled paint colors to go with brick, and gray was the most popular. We like gray - the common areas will be gray, so gray doors make sense. I’m not even going to start it till after our painter is done and gone.
Busy day ahead, followed by a peaceful night. Happy Firday!!