@vickyday One question, did the toilet flush when the wipers were turned on?
I was just going through the week's O's and quoting bits & pieces. I was cruising along until I realized the news sounded really familiar and I'd gone back a week, sort of the way the week has gone . I figured I'd reply to as much as I quoted to that point and the quote feature had only recorded one. See first sentence ... now I'm going to do that test they do at the doctor each year...... remember these words, draw a clock reading 8:20, what were the words.
@faerywings I haven't known you that long, although it has been 5 months, time flies when I'm having fun, anyway "squirrel" I've never known you to put less than 200% into everything you do. Never a single doubt in my mind that you would be anything less than spectaclular so flush those ideas out of your head. Ask
@vickyday could have Mark turn on the wipers, see very first comment...
Debby, I've been thinking of you all week has Helene started her devastating behavior. It sounds like you readied yourselves very well. Do you have hurricane shutters where you are or is that only close to the coast? It was awful seeing live coverage from Key West and places we're so familiar with. Seems like there's always a price to be paid for paradise, volcanoes, typhoons, hurricanes, tornadoes , earthquakes, winter. I've been keeping Florida in my prayers.
@AK_Tracy I'm sarry so many hours of your day are spent in misery, but you still push through and accomplish more than many people without pain.
Power outages in your neck of the woods have to be troublesome, but see previous sentence. Hubs would tell you we have a power outage all winter long here. I wait till like the last possible second to turn on the furnace, like the house hits 62 degrees kind of thing.. Then when I do break down and turn it on the house goes down to 64 at night and the upstairs stays at 66 all day, in my defense, ok no defense for the first part of the sentence, but in my defense on the second, our waking hours are spent downstairs where we have a lovely gas fireplace set at 71 degrees and then hubs has fits that it's too hot and he can't wear a sweatshirt. When I get a chill that goes to the bone, then I pop into the 104 degree hot tub and melt it out. The cold upstairs I figure is why God created fabric and blessed me with the ability to quilt. Hubs complains they are too hot in the summer, house is at 66 at night (yah, I know, but previouys sentence and I like that extra weight from a quilt on my side) so all of these intriicate quilts I've made stay folded up in the spare bedroom. When we do have them on they are folded up about a foot from the end of the bed because the nerve pain in my feet, I can't tolerate the weight there, go figure.
@Vicky I so knew where that story was going, when you say "self, this is a baaaddddd idea" but we ignore self and do it anyway and God sits back and laughs because that's why He gave us free will, and I'm sure He gets very few laughs from the way we've used His work. Your story did, remind me a bit of my Monday, but I was outside.
@mimes1 I'm glad Mark is feeling better after his surgery and he's blessed to have you as a life partner and vice versa.
My week started out great guns and then landed in a quagmire of 'meh', I seem to be having a lot of that lately. While the family drama moves ahead an inch, it always seems to backtrack 2 inches. Thiursday would have been my cousin's 73rd birthday, I still miss her every day, we'd had such a love stream of text conversations during those last 6 months. I went to the gym on Monday and half way through breakfast hubs called me from outside LOL and said it was time to put the pond to bed. so he pulled the lilies up by the hooks on their hanging pots, I know hanging pots submerged in a pond, and I got the immensely fun task of cutting them back (sarcasm). I cut everything back except buds that were coming because they'll still make it back to the surface. Now, if you saw them in the spring, when he pulls them up from the bottom, oh, you'd smell them too., with their topping of fish poo and other decayed biological matter, you'd think they were dead as doornails, but it's amazing what they can do in a summer, especially after we had the tree lifted, the other one taken down and everything had more light. There are 8, but most he could hardly pull up because they'd gotten so big and their leaves cover so much surface area they weigh a ton, in pond measurement system which is easier than metric. They grow from rhizomes so most of them. the rhizomes have extended themselves back over the edge of the pot and up to a foot outside the pot. I cut the leaves off with a pruning shears, but many of the rhizomes were to thick for the shears, and the lopping shears couldn't even get through them all of the way. 5 minutes of summer and they perform like that. The pond is tiered in one foot 'steps' with the center deepest at 3 feet.. All of the pots get lowered down there for the winter and the fish spend the winter in the pond also. The plants really need to be split, I'm sure they'll break the pots next summer if I don't split them in the spring, nasty, stinky, job, that requires a machete size knife and stinky, mucky, mud to dig through. It's how we ended up with 24 lilies at one point beause I couldn't bear to throw parts away. I'm getting too chronologically advanced for that. so if I do split them, half is headed for the town's compost pile, imagine all that free fish poo fertilizer.
I started and finished an Anna class on Tuesday and sprained my shoulder patting myself on the back for that accomplishment. I either collect classes or do enough to be dangerous, so actually finishing something I started is a big deal since I have UFOs from any craft I've ever done, I think I've had ADD from back in the day when add meant 2+2=4 with a little OCD mixed in, looking back I can see it in some of my trademark behaviors. Anyway, I got caught up in a quagmilre of using the new skills, and trying to integrate some unlearned skills, along with trying to use really bad, low resolution photos and going around and around in circles and burning myself out. I really, really, really need to do some layouts without ramming myself into artsy minutiae, the brain cells leak out for too long and too fast. I know you are surprised with all of the leaking I do that there are any more to even leak, but I need someone to invent Depends for brains.
@taxed4ever the move Thelma sounded familiar so I had to look it up, it's not the one I was thinking of but it definitely need to go on our list to watch. We've watched Brilliant Minds and I really liked it, hubs will need a little time because the concept is different. We also binged the full Leverage series over the last couple of months, we'd seen them before, but I think we missed the final season, so wanted that refresher before starting Leverage Redemption, the new incarnation of the show. The new, I enjoy as much as the old. We're also binging Almost Paradise and hooked on that. Island locale is gorgeous and Christian Kane from Leverage and The Librarians is the star. That man is a seriously good actor and MAJOR eye candy imho. I've babbled forever, sorrry for the novel and the meh part of my week which necessitated the novel.
@BrightEyes so glad you had a great week with your dd. I know the rest of you have had busy weeks too and I'm going to get more coffee and do a better job of battling the 'mehs' this week.
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Did you have a wonderful day puttering about yesterday and take some time for yourself? Hope so!
Have to work today so its at least slow and low key.
