Perfectly describes me today (and the day before that and the day before that day before and…).
Nope, need even more information. It’s like with pets~if you mention it we need pictures or it didn’t happen.
Sound exactly how I feel about canoes.
It’s a great story, well told. I laughed, so I’ll apologize too.
No worries. I can chuckle at it from 25 years distance. My wife still apologizes for putting me in danger. She crewed in SF Bay at one point in her life and enjoyed it, so thought I might, also. She’s been mentioning renting a houseboat after we move to MN, so I’m going to have to bring it up to her again. NO BOATS!
Aside from that experience, I also nearly drowned when my friend insisted on taking his little pram up a creek in Alaska. It ended up swamped with me clinging to a fallen tree. Then there was the time three of us in a peddle boat were nearly run over by a huge river barge on the Main River in Germany when the steering failed on the stupid thing.
Yanno, even if you wanted to come aboard our boat, after these stories, with you being the common denominator, I think I’d have to say no! 
Toby has been returned to his mom. I’ve got a chickie tit in the microwave to defrost - not sure how I’ll prepare it for supper, but I’ll think of something. Sides will be some leftover veggies. Ice cream for dessert. That’s all the planning I’ve done for the balance of today.
Just curious: why can’t Dad and Grandpa take kid watch?
Dad will not be going (he has to work) and FCD, apart from being the only licensed captain among us, has neuropathy in both feet, so he’s not fit to chase after a 4-y/o while juggling a 4-month-old, especially on a potentially rocking boat. There’s nothing sexist about it - we do what we do best.
Must have gotten mixed up. Thought you’d said SIL and FCD were driving the car back while you and FCDaughter were sailing.
Afternoon all. Pedaled 13.1 miles and pushed a few weights, so burned some calories (I put them right back on, of course, soon as I got home). Will help with soccer uniform distribution tonight and maybe get a walk in.
Agreed to coach a soccer team Saturday since the Head and Assistant coaches are both out, they promised to get me a lineup to go on, so all I have to do is stand there and yell (I can do that real good… Had to re-arrange my refereeing a bit, but still have three games scheduled (note to self: put folding chair in car tonight). So Saturday I’ll see if all that exercising has helped or not…
Cookie, sounds like the only boat you should get on should weight 50,000 tons or more…and even then I don’t know if I’d want to be cruising the seas with you…My only mishap was on some vacation years ago, part of the trip was kayaking to another shore, I was put in a boat with a woman I didn’t know and who had the same amount of experience I did (none whatsoever). We finally made it there and back, but you’ll not be getting me in a kayak again.
OK, need to do a couple things then get ready to go down to what we call "Soccer Central’ (it’s a little concession stand next to the fields) to help out. All y’all take care.
Understandable that the song playing now, “The End” (The Doors), got the Explicit tag. I’m honestly surprised they played this version with that Oedipal spoken-word passage in the middle.
hey @nelliebly i think the IRS is trying to do to my aunt what they did to you … any tips oh what she should say etc ??
No, SIL and his brother are supposed to bring the vehicles back… I think. The plan still isn’t set. I hope we figure it out this weekend.
That’s up on my list of things not to do.
Supper was not bad. We’ll digest a bit longer before having ice cream.
It is legit snowing here in the western Mitten State!
I’m having some hot chicken soup, and contemplating a walk in the snow, once I recuperate from irk.
It’s 81 here, which IMO is a bit high for March. If we could, I’d split the difference with you.
I spent 23 years in the Navy and never once set foot on anything that floats. Think of all the lives I saved.
Happy Thorsday!
It was chilly and rainy this morning.
We didn’t go to the park because Ripple, my chill, sweet, laid-back Ripple, got into a fight at daycare yesterday. The staff wasn’t sure who started it, or how it happened, other than there was a tangle of dogs trying to run out the door. Ripple has a gash on his head. They took him over to the clinic but nobody over there could touch him. They gave me some antibiotics and told me to bring him back to the vet this morning.
I was supposed to leave him so they could sedate him, clean the wound and stitch him up. The tech told me I could leave and they would call me when I could pick him up. I said are you sure, because usually you need me to muzzle him and hold him. She went into the back and asked, then asked if I could stay until the vet came in.
Ripple has quite a reputation there.
The vet came in, asked me to show her the wound. Then she asked if he would hold still like that if I was holding his head. So, I held his head and she used glue to close the wound and we were done.
No leaving him, no muzzle, no sedation, and no charge!
Last night Echo cornered a mouse and Ripple went in for the kill. They make a good team.
I told Adam he needs to step up his game.
I don’t know what they are doing next door, it sounds like a lot of drilling, and grinding. I hope they are fixing the pipes in the basement. Then I can get mine fixed and have a sink again. Not that it matters so much to me, my son is the one who has to carry the bucket from the dehumidifier upstairs to empty it.
If I remember correctly, Louie Louie was banned from many radio stations, even though there is nothing questionable in the lyrics.
My mother is going to the doctor today. I’ll hear some time what is going on.
Actually, by now she is probably home.
OW, how could I have forgotten our Waffle House meet up?
VanGi, I seriously doubt that you make crap, but post a pic or two to jucge for ourselves.
So you pedaled a 1/2 marathon metal mouse?
I hope that Ripple heals up well soon sari.
TGIT!
I’ve never been on a boat larger than a houseboat, but growing up in northern Indiana with boucoup lakes, I’ve skippered my share of pontoons, rowboats, outboards and johnboats. Once in TN, I got into canoeing for a while and played around with kayaks, rafts and duckies.
They announced the upgrade of 12 of our parking spaces to EV charging slots at irk today. The problem is that 8 of them will be in the production lot, where parking is at a premium already and only about 3 Leafs would qualify. Two will be in the jewelry facility lot, where parking is just as tight, there is only emergency access to the rest of the building and zero EVs. Two will be in the front office lot, where 1/2 - 3/4 of the people are still working from home and about a half dozen EVs that regularly commute. They’re pretty much robbing two parking lots to make the front office EV drivers walk half a mile to charge up. And they wonder why we’re losing business. Oy!
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
Howdy Y’all! I went and did the things this mornin’ and even tweaked my spreadsheet for servers so’s I could include the three extra services for April. Go Me! Now if it will only work when I actually input data… One can dream and hope. Sup was good and now we chill. Been rainy since late this afternoon and a little chilly. Spring is wafflin’.
See, this is why I always hated March when I lived in Chicago.
December and January, you know what you’re getting and you just deal.
February is short and the end is in sight, so it’s bearable.
Then March comes. March is a tease, a false promise. Sure there’s a nice day here or there, but then, BAM! It’s legit snowing. It’s supposed to be Spring and It’s. Still. Winter.
Screw March.
Good Evening. Busy selling uniforms (they were supposed to be buying them on-line when they signed up, but it appears a lot of parents didn’t get the memo), passing out equipment bags to the coaches, and some other stuff. Didn’t get my walk in, but was on my feet and moving around for nearly 90 minutes, so I guess that counts. Came home and fixed myself a Cheeburger, so I’m fed through the night.
Sari, glad Ripple didn’t get badly hurt, wonder what brought that on.
Cookie
shoe, one reason I’m glad to be in N. Ali-bama. Down here in March a cold wave is when it hits 40F.
Never thought of it that way, but I guess I did. Sweated like a beast, too. Will swim 0.7 miles tomorrow (1250 yards, 50 lengths of a 25 yd pool).
OK, go watch the legitimate football (soccer) and some basketball for awhile, then off to bed. All y’all take care.
Woof, what a day. I was at the hardware store getting supplies at 8:15 am and got back home at 9 pm. But did get a lot done. 4 sheets of laminate put on countertops; 16 sheets of plywood put onto the desk front and inside. I’ll be finishing that desk fabrication tomorrow, then I just need to do the dumb decorative “wooden slats” over the weekend. Gotta get the stuff out of the shop, so’s I have space to build the rest of the show.
Now need to ponder dinner. Don’t feel like cooking. maybe some cheerios.
I once had foot surgery and was supposed to stay off my foot for 6 weeks. The guilts set in after a week, which is why I always tell anyone having surgery to pay attention to their discharge orders. My foot didn’t recover well and having surgery to correct my post-surgery stupidity was too much to think about, so it never happened.
Now that I’m retired, it seems to me that I was never well rested while I was working. During the week, I came home and did chores and got ready to get up sooner than I wanted so I could do it all over again the next day. Weekends were spent doing chores and maybe hanging out with friends between dealing with the laundry and yard work. Vacations meant packing all the fun in we could during those two weeks because we didn’t want to waste any of our precious free time.
I think this sounds like a big win. I also think that overlygirl is pretty awesome for handling this so well. Don’t let her hurt you too much at the gym!
Hurray for cookies! Hubs found a turkey in our freezer which has since been smoked. GG thinks that turkey is WONDERFUL!!! We let him jump on the chairs to look at our food, but he isn’t allowed to have any. He’s learned that if he touches our food, he doesn’t get any, but if he’s good and waits, he will get some.
GG was months younger when he last got turkey, this time he sat down to wait then snarfed up all of the turkey hubs put on GG’s mat, then jumped back up on hub’s chair so he could sniff hub’s turkey and get rewarded again for being a good kitty.
So, what’s your new job or are you concerned about the bad language that might happen if you open up?
All of our cats do that, try the pate stuff next time. The extra moisture is good for their kidney’s.
No apologizes from me, cookie. The sounds you heard were unashamed belly laughs!
Mom on the phone, catch you guys laters.