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Well... another sunny warm day -mid 70's...f..it's 2pm...

I've had a zoom meeting with my lawyer, and she's advised me as to the latest coming out of the opposing camp.... then I took all the area rugs outside , hung them over the line ( I keep a retractable washing line just for this purpose)... and brushed them all clean... I vac them every day, but they never get as clean as when I hang them out and brush them...

I also sprayed the weeds with weed killer on my paths.. and rear lawn.

having a sit down and cuppa tea to ease my aching back... (y)
 

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Pepper said:
I remember my son's sixth birthday so well. I have a VCR tape of it. It was held in a Plaster store, where the kids painted their own choices. There was pizza. I, Me, was the Entertainment Act---I learned Magic Tricks with Balloons and you can see me expertly make all kinds of stuff which I gave out to all the kids.
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You were a good mom! I remember all those birthday parties. I once had Barney come to the house😁
*Barney the purple dinosaur
 

Murrmurr said:
I'm kind of excited today for 2 reasons:

I feed stray and feral cats in my backyard and this new one showed up about 2 weeks ago; basically a kitten not more than 3 months old, 4 at the most. She was scruffy looking, dehydrated, generally unhealthy, and she's an ugly little thing. She started looking pretty good after eating like a freaking horse for a week, but she also started looking pregnant.

She is definitely pregnant. And she's just a kitten, really. Still kind of ugly, but some Tom out there somewhere didn't mind it.

So anyway, I started looking around for a cat trap so I could take her to get spayed, dewormed, and vaccinated and all that, and I found this whole group of cat-trappers who not only trap feral cats, they take them to a clinic to get all that stuff done.

So, 1), a lady is coming this afternoon to trap "Scribbles" (named because it looks like someone scribbled all over her orange face with a black marker), take her to a vet, and then bring her back here. I'll keep her inside for 3 days while she recuperates from an abortion and spay, and then she can go back outside. ...maybe. Depends on how Pixel takes it (my indoor cat). If he's okay with her being kind of ugly and scrappy as hell, she'll stay inside with us.
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Successful capture of the pregnant little feral cat yesterday. She put up a hell of a fight after the cage door shut, but calmed down after the lady covered it with a blanket.

"Scribbles" will have surgery this morning and the lady will bring her back here this evening to release her back to the colony, but I have a storage room all ready if she needs the 3-day recovery time.

The clinic doesn't do adoptions even for the really young ones, and the lady doesn't have room for another foster. She said she's got 8 at home already, and that's 3 more than she's supposed to have. But I doubt anyone would adopt Scribbles anyway; she is not a *pretty* cat by any stretch of the imagination. Best you could say is....she's interesting looking.

If Pixel takes to her, I'll keep her inside. I'll be feeding her either way, so WTH.

What's odd about the whole entire thing is, I've never been particularly fond of cats. But here I am, the neighborhood cat-lady guy.
 
TGS was in a great mood yesterday so we went to Travel Town, a train museum with plenty of old trains that people can go in. It also has a 16" gauge miniature train ride over 1/2 mile long. The ride slowly loops the Travel Town perimeter (twice) so it's a decently long ride. A very reasonable $3.00 for little kids and seniors. The ride is roughly 10 minutes long, so you get your money's worth.

TGS was enthralled with the entire adventure and loved going inside the trains and wasn't happy about leaving when it was time to go (but we'd already put off naptime further than we should have). Next time start the visit an hour earlier.

Last evening, to distract him from a little mischief (running his cars along the walls) I asked him if he wanted to take a bath. I hadn't yet organized myself or even rinsed out the sink (I bathe him in our big farmhouse kitchen sink) before he stripped off all his clothes and was working on removing his diaper! Lesson learned - ask him when the bath is ready for him to climb in!

He wanted me to leave the water running, but wasting water in a drought-prone area is against my better nature. I gave in and let it run but instead of pulling the plug when it was over, I bailed the water into a big bowl and made several runs to our rose garden. No wasted water and the roses are happy to get an extra drink! (The baby shampoo and body wash is non-toxic to humans and plants.)

Not sure what fun today will bring. He's still snoozing - 11 hours so far. He'll go home this afternoon/evening.
 
StarSong said:
TGS was in a great mood yesterday so we went to Travel Town, a train museum with plenty of old trains that people can go in. It also has a 16" gauge miniature train ride over 1/2 mile long. The ride slowly loops the Travel Town perimeter (twice) so it's a decently long ride. A very reasonable $3.00 for little kids and seniors. The ride is roughly 10 minutes long, so you get your money's worth.
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That sounds like an ideal place for kids of all ages. Great to see reasonable prices too.
 
My new name is I. M. Xahsted.

Dang! NL worked alone yesterday so very little of the work I do got done, and Cookie left trays of cookies to be packaged/priced/labeled.

Every day I set up trays of yeast breads that need to thaw and put them in the cooler so they'll be ready to be proofed first thing next day. NL didn't get to it. Between that and Cookie's cookies, it set me back...1 1/2 hours!

Sir was there when I got there, although not scheduled to work until 1pm today because he's manager on duty until close (11pm). Somebody called him at home last night to tell him the Suits would be visiting this morning. Arg. Thank heaven he was there because there's no way on god's green earth that I could've done it all myself. I didn't even get to leave until well after 10. Made for a long morning.

No Suits in sight. Nope. Nary a one.

However, everything got done and set up and ready to go for tomorrow. That's the day when we will all be there (including Cookie at 8am...she usually works 4pm-8pm) tripping over one another. Gotta wonder why "they" keep letting the computer make the schedules, yanno?

And woodenchoono, today's the day I volunteered to make dinner. Gonna get a nap in this afternoon for sure.

It's gonna be semi-homemade chicken pot pie. At least it'll be easy to throw together. Already Ready pie crust, canned chicken breast, frozen veggies, jarred chicken gravy. There are only two choices: take it or leave it :ROFLMAO:
 
Visiting my son in Boston. Arrived yesterday amidst the gray clouds and rain. Staying in a hotel, up on a top floor. This morning it was sunny, which makes a big difference in mood and atmosphere! Lots of lakes around here. Here is the view I saw of Charles River outside my hotel window this morning. Across the river is the vicinity of Harvard:
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Murrmurr said:
Successful capture of the pregnant little feral cat yesterday. She put up a hell of a fight after the cage door shut, but calmed down after the lady covered it with a blanket.

"Scribbles" will have surgery this morning and the lady will bring her back here this evening to release her back to the colony, but I have a storage room all ready if she needs the 3-day recovery time.

The clinic doesn't do adoptions even for the really young ones, and the lady doesn't have room for another foster. She said she's got 8 at home already, and that's 3 more than she's supposed to have. But I doubt anyone would adopt Scribbles anyway; she is not a *pretty* cat by any stretch of the imagination. Best you could say is....she's interesting looking.

If Pixel takes to her, I'll keep her inside. I'll be feeding her either way, so WTH.

What's odd about the whole entire thing is, I've never been particularly fond of cats. But here I am, the neighborhood cat-lady guy.
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@Murrmurr I totally sympathize with you because I had the same experience.

While working in the garden, a calico cat approached me cautiously. I took pity on her and let her sleep under my bed where she promptly gave birth to a litter. So, that's what it was all about. Everyone fell in love with the cat family, my grandson and dogs included, but I had mixed feelings because I am a dog-only guy. Luckily a friend of my daughter adopted the whole bunch eventually.

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Visiting my son in Boston. Arrived yesterday amidst the gray clouds and rain. Staying in a hotel, up on a top floor. This morning it was sunny, which makes a big difference in mood and atmosphere! Lots of lakes around here. Here is the view I saw of Charles River outside my hotel window this morning. Across the river is the vicinity of Harvard:
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How far is Boston to where you live ?.. how long will you be staying ? :)
 
HoneyNut said:
I drove home from NYC today. I really enjoyed my three weeks in New York City, it was such a friendly clean lively city (but noisy!). For some reason I thought it would be dirty and although I'd recently bought new shoes, I wore my old ones for my trip, so then every subway ride I'd sit and stare at everyone else's pretty clean new shiny shoes and feel a little bad about my old scruffy ones.

Being a tourist is exhausting, so much walking and stairs and standing in lines. But it was all worth it, except maybe the Broadway play because I chose a cheap seat in an old theater and the seats were so small with no legroom, it became very uncomfortable, and then at intermission there was such a massive number of people trying to get to the restrooms, I just gave up and left. It turned out well because that gave me time to wander around Times Square, and to go buy genuine NY store-made hand-rolled kettle-boiled bagels that were AWESOME.

Yesterday, my last day of sight-seeing, I went on tours of two libraries which were actually surprisingly good, and I even saw the taxidermied paw of Bob, a cat that would snuff out candles with his paw (belonged to Charles Dickens)

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The Morgan Library:
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I'm so glad you enjoyed your trip. 🌹
 
I spent the last 2 hours Framing a couple of Very large pictures. I'm not entirely sure where they're going to go yet, I had a place in mind but I've decided not there now.. so I'll figure out..at some point.

I've also made some home made Spider Repellent.. I've got a whole load of cobwebs in the shed , suddenly.. so I went to buy some repellent and they want between £12 and £15 for a spray bottle.. so I researched and it's easy to make my own.. so that's what I've done...
 
Been very busy with spring photography with my a6700 out in the field and then many following days post processing images. More of that complex computer work today. A reason am typing this from my cheap travel laptop with its annoying touchpad, is simultaneously running Photoshop, Zerene Stacker, Excel, and Adobe Bridge from my Dell laptop then adding the web browser tends to cause slow memory issues and sometimes crashes.

Tomorrow, Saturday, will be a local region bands free outdoor street music and food festival with 6 stages covering different genres drawing thousands, I can just walk a few blocks to. Biggest stage is the Classic Rock stage where 5 seasoned cover bands will play over the 2 weekend days. So a lot of my freestyle street dancing enjoying myself and trying to encourage others, that in this era tend to be so inhibited dancing in public. Then Monday Tuesday am back out in the field at a genuine "Superbloom" about 150 miles north on our foggy cool marine weather rugged coast, as fresh wildflowers don't last long.

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Speaking of letting the computer make our work schedules...next week's just got published, and I am not a happy camper. It effed up mine. Again. 6-12? I think not! What it means is that yes, I can still show up at 4am, but I have to get into the computer and correct my time. Every. Damn. Day. It wastes about 10 minutes of my time. If there's anything that'll cheese me off, it's wasting my time. I'm old. I don't have 10 minutes to waste every day:mad:. Work five days, waste 50 minutes. That's almost an hour of my time. Fifty minutes that I'll never get back.

Yanno that saying "Ain't wife happy, ain't nobody happy"? Well, in this case it's "Ain't Gramma happy, ain't nobody happy." Maybe "they" need to remind the computer that I don't have to work there. Or anywhere for that matter. And good luck finding somebody who's willing to show up at 4am.

Rant over.
 
We got my bird feeder rehung this morning.
I hinted that the large bush by back porch needed a trim.

That fell on hubby's deaf ears,, he had his morning planned out.

So after & trip into town,, here I sit answering. some threads.
Hubby was going smooth our the ruts they made the other day, where they getting the logs.

Guess its good that I haven't started to do any trimming of the bush by the back porch.

For the heck of thinking I'll grab the clippers & start on it.


May catch up later. ~~~~~~~~~~~
 
FOOEY! I got rained out of trimming off new grown the back porch brush.
I kept whacking away at it thinking,,hubby has to be getting wet

Because it was raining he started trying to get logs out of the brush.
He fell down due to brush & vines,, tried to get up & finally manged to get up.

I hope he learned a lesson but he's so hard headed,, thinks he's 28 ,,when he isn't
 
Sliverfox said:
@GG,,oopps , cake pan hanging from bend out of shape clothes hanger.

By the way, Are the peaches ripe in Georgia or any of the Carolina states?

The Farmer's Market opens Saturday.
Hubby said peaches were mentioned,,, he loves fresh peaches.
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Cake pan. OK, then :ROFLMAO:

Peaches ripe. Nope. It's only mid-May! Farmer's Market might be open, but they're not getting peaches from anywhere around here. California maybe? South America?
 
Left: about five times a day, my pups get a treat to cheer them up. Here a spoonful of canned dog food, but also 1/3 of a hot dog, or commercial dog treats. Right: dogs are so meticulous in cleaning up even if it's cottage cheese (I just had a snack of cottage cheese with honey.) If I have only one treat, the girl gets it and the boys ignore it. But if I have only one treat and would give it to a boy, then the other boy would get upset. There is some rivalry between the boys, and I have to be careful not to make them jealous of each other.
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The last rain brought my neighbor's Palm Tree trash close to my fence. I have his standing permission to enter his property and clean it up, so that the next rain won't push it against my fence and possibly damage it, as a flash flood would do it. The bottom of the fence opens up to any pressure and lets trash flow into our property, but too much trash at once causes real problems. The fence is also deteriorating. I already had to insert a PVC pipe into one galvanized post because rust had damaged the metal after 50 years.
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Left: the hawk fledglings above left the nest, and left a mess behind. I still hear them screaming for food in nearby Eucalyptus Trees, but the parents are unimpressed and are resting, and seem to imply that the fledglings are old enough to find their own food.
Right: I advertised more free Eucalyptus firewood in front of our gate. It's cheaper than bringing it to the public dump and paying for unloading it. And it's too much work trying to sell it.
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We have two hummingbird feeders hanging under the carport. Incredibly, ants found them and indulged in the sugar
water. Spraying and cleaning up. No more ants in sight. My wife is preparing new sugar water for the hummingbirds.
 

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