Windows are open and it’s in the mid 60s - aaaaaahhh!!! I grabbed an afghan because it’s supposed to get into the 50s and I’m a delicate flower!
It stayed cool today! Cloudy (and smoky) and not hot!!! Woo-hoo! Yay Orygun.
Did he (or she) object to being grabbed by you…
Red, hope both car and Bruce have many good days in their future.
I always clean my plate (well, almost always), that got drilled into me by my parents, who were children of the Depression, so they wouldn’t put up with wasting stuff, especially food.
Soccer with the 12U girls went pretty well, I think we’ll have a good team, we’ll see how we do Saturday.
And I’m out…
Much excitement here.
I was sitting on the couch, watching videos while waiting for calls to come in. I kept seeing shadows on the wall, but I thought it was the TV.
I was wrong.
Just as I figured out what was going on, and yelled to my son for help, then I get a call from a customer.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to talk to a customer when a big assed bat is flying in circles about your head?
While I was trying to keep my composure on the phone, my son was running around opening windows and the door hoping the bat would find it’s way out.
Ripple was running around leaping into the air trying to catch it.
It flew into the kitchen and got behind the fridge and wedged itself between the wall and the cabinet over the fridge. I grapped the long handled grasper thingie and grabbed it by the wing and pulled it out.
It got away from me and fell behind the fridge.
So we had to pull the fridge out to get to it, and it started flying around the room again.
Then back into the living room.
Then upstairs.
Then back downstairs.
Then my son used the broom and pinned it to the wall.
Who knew bats could make so much noise?
So we were standing there like now what do we do?
So while my son held it pinned, I tried to use the grabber thingie again.
That didn’t work and it fell on the floor and Ripple caught it. It got away, and Ripple caught it again, and again, and again.
It got away and stuck itself into the corner of the wall.
I called the emergency vet, they told me to call my vet in the morning to see if Ripple needs to get a rabies booster right away. He is due at the end of September anyway.
We put the harness and leash on Ripple and I took him out front. My son knocked the bat off the wall. We thought it was dying, but oh no, it started flying around the room again.
It finally went into the hallway, we put up one of the leftover temporary shades to trap it in the hall. My son took the dog back outside, I knocked the damn thing off the wall again, and it finally, finally, finally, flew out the open door.
Then we rushed in and closed to doors and windows so it couldn’t come back in.
I have no idea how it got in the house in the first place.
It was a big assed bat too, the body was bigger than a mouse. I’vee seen bats close up before but they were pretty tiny.
So that was our excitement for the night.
Took over an hour to get it out of the house.
I have a feeling I won’t sleep well wondering if it has a friend.
I have to call the vet first thing and see if I have to take Ripple in for a booster right away.
or you could just toilet train your cat. I’ve known that to be done a time or two.
Ain’t pretty but it works.
Fittingly for Hockey Night, the Bulls pulled a Canes ,and got shutout 5-0:smack: But because we had a big group, we all got replicas of the Bull’s last Championship ring.
: crosses fingers for bruce :
I walked him as soon as I got home.
Dunno. Gordie can poop 8 times in a day. I go through a lot of plastic bags.
Ruble, I couldn’t toilet train Alex Catt. Mainly because she couldn’t get her chunky butt up onto the toilet.
Hubby tried for several months to toilet train our cats (about 20 years ago - different cats). They were not interested. I finally made him stop. It’s not fun sharing a toilet with cats. 
Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to work.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 73 out and dark but TWPTB say partly cloudy with a predicted high of 89 and mostly N.O.S. for the day. Not a whole lot planned for the day which is fine by me. I have had enough adultin’ for one week. I foresee some quality cee-mint pond time. We shall sup upon sammiches (got a bunch of deli stuff from the Pubic Sto’) and fries. I could mow but don’t want to so that will wait until one day next week.
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, onward into the day. Rah.
Happy Firday Y’all!
Weird and disturbing dreams woke me. **FCD **was being sued (?!?!?) and we had to go some place to talk to some people, and for some reason, we were holding unwrapped ham steaks. Then he left and I was pissed because I had to get to work. My phone got all weird and I couldn’t text my boss, and when I tried to call FCD, I kept getting my MIL. Then the alarm went off and my day began for reals.
Lovely and cool this morning - I know it won’t last, but it was a great sleeping night. And it’s Firday! WOOHOO!! No plans for the weekend yet. But I have stuff to do on my desk and there were chocolate pop tarts in the snack cabinet, so my day is starting off great!
Happy Firday!!!
Up about 5am, don’t know why but I was.
Sari, that was quite an adventure! Hopefully things won’t be that exciting for awhile…
doggio, Gordie has you living up to your name alright.
FCM, I like Ham steaks.
No rain in the forecast and highs in the very low 80’s, so another nice day. Tiling commences on the bathroom and shower today and the next chunk of change is due to the contractor. Also need to go inspect lighting for the bathroom. The 12U Boys soccer tonight.
I like ham steaks also, but I don’t generally walk around carrying them, especially outside of the kitchen.
Guess I need to get back to work. Except people I need to talk to aren’t here yet. Dammit.
Happy Firday!
It’s a clear, cool, 57 degrees outside.
I feel like crap today, went to sleep too late and woke up too early.
I was hoping to get a nap in today, but I have to take Ripple in for a rabies booster. I hope they will give him all his other vaccines today, they are all due next month anyway.
MetalMouse - excitement like that is something I don’t need any more of.
Ham steaks are good for breakfast. Quick and easy to make.
I’m invited to a bridal shower tomorrow but I never rsvp’d so I’m not going. I got a save the date card months ago but have not gotten the wedding invitation yet. Other people have, so either I am not invited, or I am second or third tier and they are waiting to see who else is coming.
Won’t hurt my feelings if I am not invited, but I think it is a bit rude to send a save the date card and not an invitation. What if I had turned down other invitations? Not that I did, but I could have.
When did Save the Date cards become a thing? Back in the olden days, friends or relatives would be told “We’re getting married in <month>” and that’s pretty much all you’d hear till lots closer to the day. Maybe our lives weren’t as booked up back in those days.
Then again, I was only invited to one friend’s wedding - mainly because none of my close friends got married, or the ones who did married when I was far away and unable to attend anyway. So what do I know?? Well, I know I don’t like going to weddings… or showers… bah, humbug!
It’s lunch time and I can leave in about 4 hours. Yay!
FCM and Sari, I hate food wasters, too. Yet, just about every meal, food goes in the garbage. I have a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old, so inevitably, something is “too spicy” or “too yucky” or “too saucy” or something for at least one of them. If they have a lot leftover, it goes in the fridge for their next meal. But I’m not saving a couple of half-eaten chicken nuggets and two bites of corn. Some meals, my kids are great about clearing their plates. Other meals? Well, if we had a dog, that dog would be well fed.
Sari, that is so rude about the wedding. Everyone who gets a save-the-date should get a wedding invite. Unless there is something horrendous (like, “I found out Uncle Bob is cheating on Aunt Sue and they’re going through a contentious divorce, so we’re not inviting Uncle Bob.”), it is proper etiquette to invite everyone you sent a save-the-date card to. Furthermore, people should not be invited to your wedding shower if they’re not invited to the wedding; that just looks greedy and tacky.
Romeo Jr. has only been back to daycare for two days, and he already has a cough. Juliet Jr is on her way to Illinois until Wednesday to hang out with Grammy, Grandpa, and my brother who lives with them. My sister, her godmother, who also lives near them will visit her for a day, too. I’ll miss the girlie, but I know she’s having fun with her grandparents.
Today is the first day of vacation! I go back to work the day after Labor Day! I’m going to enjoy this.
So you have a pet batty bat now Sari? I love bats, hope the poor thing wasn’t too shaken up.
Irk was somewhat irksome today. Holiday cottage cleanin’; family booking have a child badly allergic to dogs, were booked into one of the cottages that haven’t had a dog in for months (though still not a great choice, the carpet in there is oooold and is especially notable for holding onto hair). Guess what the people leaving today had two of, that they had neither booked for nor paid the extra fee for? :mad:
We don’t normally do much in the way of checking if the booking matches who shows; they’re self catering cottages, with a store room running on an honesty system, most of the guests visit every year and they’re mostly really nice. Some jerks just take advantage. It should take about 2 hours to clean that house, it took over an hour for two of us just to clean the carpet in the front room…
Need to make and consume dindin and go buy fuel for the car. Probably in that order, as it means going to the supermarket, and then of course I may as well go in… not a good plan on an empty stomach.
As the Petri dish turns…
Mooommm chocolate pop tarts are yum. My favorites are the cinnamon ones.
Nut some people are jerks. Do they pay a deposit that the cottage people can keep to cover the extra cleaning?
I admit I waste more food now than I used to, at least at restaurants. If I order something and I don’t like it, I feel no pressure to bring it home. Life’s too short to eat crappy food.
Tilers are grouting the kitchen and tiling the bathroom, I have approved the new bathroom lighting fixtures, so progress is being made; the contractor has his latest paycheck, so he at least is happy. And all of this labor should be completed about the 12th of September, so I can start enjoying my house again. I hope. Since I was out, I ate a Krystal’s for the first time in months; not great but filling and their fries are better than I remember.
Nut, human beings can be a real pain…it’s the nice ones that make up for the SOB’s…
Cupcakes, enjoy the vacation time.
Sari, haven’t been to a wedding in so long I can’t remember protocol; but yeah, if they want you to save the date, it ought to mean something. Apparently not.