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Great friendships sometimes start out caustic. I been there too!
US good people figure it out. …. :coffee: ….. I was cutting Mo. scrub
brush out of the Cliff / steep hill overlooking the Lake today. Its just a lil job
and the temps were Mid 80’s F. Most afternoon. Not too bad and
It makes me feel better in a couple of days / that hard work / a different
life than the St. Louis area. My UTV has a winch to drag them up and then
Shred them in the Shredder and put them to mulch tomorrow & saturday.
 

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papa tiger said:
Great friendships sometimes start out caustic. I been there too!
US good people figure it out. …. :coffee: ….. I was cutting Mo. scrub
brush out of the Cliff / steep hill overlooking the Lake today. Its just a lil job
and the temps were Mid 80’s F. Most afternoon. Not too bad and
It makes me feel better in a couple of days / that hard work / a different
life than the St. Louis area. My UTV has a winch to drag them up and then
Shred them in the Shredder and put them to mulch tomorrow & saturday.
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For all of you for personally DM'd me. Many thanks for the heads up. This is supposed to be a general public forum. Not just for one queen. You're absolutely right! I'm starting to get it now. Thanks again!
 
Paulina said:
For all of you for personally DM'd me. Many thanks for the heads up. This is supposed to be a general public forum. Not just for one queen. You're absolutely right! I'm starting to get it now. Thanks again!
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Think a great many here have Ignored some as they seem caustic to us and later its better
in many instances. See how poorly the middle east gets along with each other at times. Lol
 

papa tiger said:
Think a great many here have Ignored some as they seem caustic to us and later its better
in many instances. See how poorly the middle east gets along with each other at times. Lol
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Caustic. A great word! Definition,

sarcastic in a scathing and bitter way:
"The players were making caustic comments about the refereeing"

I tend to lean on the bitter way by folks for whom doesn't even know me. May they rot in H&&L.
 
I tend to quit following threads that seem to be going nowhere.
Not troll, I guess is the term. Just Not going to talk about an AC
system auto repair here. …. :coffee: …. Turbos is about ready for a
new set of front tires. A place in town puts in new valve stems for
free.
 
Well today I went to the project house. There is one guy who shows up and actually does the job. But man that job is pricey. My little sewer repair is right at 16000$ now….I must say I had a bit of trouble drawing breath when he told me. Had to be done once you know how bad it is…but still. It was 120 degrees when I was driving home. I saw one car driving with their windows down. That could not have been pleasant. Off to bed for me…good night you all.
 
Arizona area can really be hot, tired dry and more hot then.
Been there, sat with Ice Tea and Swamp pump cooling.

Things started happening after 9 pm. cars fronts bouncing
off the streets down town Phoenix.
The H.S. Football team across the street practicing on a
muddy field after the Irrigation.
 
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Permit me to chip in my tuppence about women.

When my wife and two daughters were about to kill each other and I tried to reestablish peace, then all three jumped at me and accused me for having caused the fight. They put through a meat grinder. That's when I learnt to keep my mouth shut and just to scratch my head in bewilderment.

About my younger daughter: around age 5, she wanted to marry me. Around age 7, she wanted to become a doctor to take care of daddy when I grow old. At age 15 1/2, I was the devil personified. But once she reached 30, she admitted that dad is really not so stupid, and she started giving me again hugs. And so the story goes.

While I was married with my first wife for only one year, we actually had lived together for five years. After our divorce, we spent two months vacationing in Europe; and we spent the next Christmas with her parents who had no clue that we were divorced. I still remember her last words when we finally split: she was jealous of my would-be second wife because she has straightened me out, and my second wife would have it so much easier with me. Right. While it I took me six years to get re-married, my second marriage has lasted already fifty years.

I have learnt my lesson. When my wife screams and yells at me, then I just give her a hug and say that I love her, and that reestablishes peace.
 
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I sort of learned that talking with the ladies is a good choice.
Different cultures chase to the bone. We have been back in
the 80’s for over a week now but will end this weekend with
Blazing sun again. UGh.

Talked with my friend again this evening, think a metal pole shed
at the lake to park stuff under is in the moving stage. Kids Camper
vehicles, even Golf Carts Utv’s in out of the sun at different times
of the year is a great have to have.
 
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Mornin' folks... sunny morning here.. . Later this morning I have to go a 65 mile round trip to the Salvage place where my car is, and see if there's anything worth retrieving from my poorly car... before it goes to car heaven

It sounds crazy about an inaminate object but after having it for so long I feel I need to physically say goodbye to it.. and thank it for saving my life... 😔
 
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Morning folks!!!! Yep up early again, into this habit sleep pattern now, 330am up wide awake, well maybe not wide...
Cleaning person is coming in today, that is about all i can
think is going on for me....hate being up so early...oh well...
take care all.....;):love::devilish:🥰
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just inagine you're here in the UK Hawkie... it's 10.18 am here...:D
 
packleader said:
Temperatures in the Los Angeles area ranged today from Oxnard 69 on the left side, to 118 in the lower desert (Palm Springs)
at 118 on the right side. We are living in the Inland Empire at 100 degrees, but at our house I measured 109 degrees today. The
mountain resorts are cooler, like Wrightwood 82 degrees at 6,000 feet, and Big Bear 79 at 7,000 feet altitude. Along the
ocean, Long Beach at 91 degrees and Catalina Island (Avalon) at 93 is absurd; something seems to be "kaput."

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70.3 inside was under the aircondition outlet; I keep the house at 78 degrees........Not dogsitting but dogsleeping my grandson's puppy.

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Left: My grandson insisted on getting a picture taken with those pretty showgirls in Las Vegas before school starts
Right: while my other daughter attended a concert with the fabulous Popstar Shakira at the Los Angeles SoFi Stadium

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People always say " it's a dry heat in the west". No matter, it's a hot damn dry heat!
 
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@Imogene Eeek! I have a thing about snakes. A couple of years ago I was tidying up in the garden and bent over to pick up what I thought was a dead branch. It was a copperhead. I'm tellin' ya, I had no idea I could move so fast. Zero to 60 in a nanosecond!

Another time when we lived out West in married student housing where my DH was a student, I opened the front door one morning to fetch the milk out of the milk box and there was a rattler coiled up top of it. Had to call the university police to come because there was a law against firearms on campus so it wasn't like I could shoot it.

A neighbor had the same thing happen to her so she got a shovel and hacked the rattler to death. Broke the milk box and the bottles, but she didn't shoot anything.

No snakes, thank you. And no tarantulas, either, if you don't mind.

Well. Yesterday I forgot that I was going to eat gelato in the evening so went to bed without gelato :(. I'm not gonna forget tonight. It's almost gelato time. Let's hear it for gelato. Yay!
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DH killed a copperhead a few weeks ago during a dry spell. It was near the water spicket, a place I always watch for them.
I'm not deathly afraid of snakes but I'm definitely cautious. I don't want to get bit!
 
Well @hawkdon, you and I aren't the only early birds. @hearlady is up, too.

After a turn around the garden, I'm gonna make myself presentable to accompany DD to Aldi.

Aside from that, I have no idea what else is on today's agenda.

ETA: Wait! I do have an idea what else is on today's agenda. We're going to visit Aldi's Aisle of Shame. That's always fun. While we're there, I'm going to replenish my supply of gelato because I polished off my carton last night.
 
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Morning all, on my early walk at 6:50 temp was 65 with a slight breeze as I went around the building then to the next driveway just to change the routine a bit.Once again its a bit hazy
I'm on cloud 9 because the 1st time since mid June I'll be dogsitting with my 'buddy boy' Tage{pharoh hound} from 10am- mid afternoon.I'm not needed as much as I once was because Marcia's husband, Dave retired end of June . Marcia&Dave,my neighbor Bill& another church friend ,Dorothy are going to Niagara on the Lake,Ont for lunch then see a play,. Dorothy is picking me&Bill up at 9:30
The rest of my day whenever I get home read today's NYT, pick up my dinner order at 5:30
 
Good morning and Happy Friday, August 8th.

I'm feeling fine this morning, the pain from Tuesday's surgery seems to be in the past. :)

Poor little Ozzy-dog hasn't been feeling well. Poop puddles during the night, three nights in a row. This from a dog who NEVER has an accident unless he's ill. Threw out that damnable flea shampoo... we've given him two baths since then and he's still poorly. I don't believe he even had fleas in the first place. Poor baby and poor DH. He's the one who cleans it off the bedroom carpet. My hero.

As @packleader mentioned, So Cal is dealing with a (blessedly short) heat spell. It was about 100° in my area yesterday with 15% humidity, but each day forward we'll have a drop of a few degrees until next Friday's high is supposed to be 86°. I've lived where summer temps hit well into the 90s or low 100s with humidity at nearly the same level. I'll take dry heat any day.
 
Terrible day.... had to go and view my car and the extent of the damage... and see if anything could be saved from it.. before they crush it. It's been up there a month almost exactly a month... it is in far worse state than I even knew...

To save typing all the story out again... I"ve put all on Sunny's injury thread.... with pictures... you can read it all here on this link...


Forum member seriously injured


The men at the salvage yard couldn't believe that I was was the driver, given the extent of the damage... to the car.. they thought for sure the driver must have been killed..


On the way there... we'd just got to about 2 miles from the yard, and the traffic came to a stop... at the major roundabout ahead there had been a collision .. 2 cars had collided which we could see, but apparently it was after an elderly man had walked out and got killed... I learned all this when we got to the yard, because they had been called out to it...... so this really upset me.. seeing yet another accident....
 
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Worse was to come tho'... when I got home DD rang in tears... she's just been made redundant.. her whole plant has to be shut down.... it's not just her job its everybody..including the directors.

She was crying, because she loves that job, plus it has many advantages being so close to where she lives, she can take her dog into work as well.. the whole workforce get on like a big family.... .. she's one of the office managers... and the only woman who works there at the plant...

She said that when they got told they were being laid off..one big guy... threw up.. because he's got a wife and small kids, and he'd just taken out a second mortgage... another guy...... grown..men.broke down and cried....
 
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hollydolly said:
Mornin' folks... sunny morning here.. . Later this morning I have to go a 65 mile round trip to the Salvage place where my car is, and see if there's anything worth retrieving from my poorly car... before it goes to car heaven

It sounds crazy about an inaminate object but after having it for so long I feel I need to physically say goodbye to it.. and thank it for saving my life... 😔
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I have always given my rides names. Turbos and Mz Whitty are my current F150’s

I’m not very happy with the current stuff going on here either Its like that card game? Bullskat.
 
I am so sick of this year.. 2025 has been a horrible, horrible year.... what with all my divorce situation, and battling the ex through lawyers... to the car crash and all my injuries and now have to battle different lawyers because of that third party denying liability... ... and now to my daughter, losing her job...

...and even here on the forum, a few of our long term members have had serious health issues requiring them to be hospitlized this year....... it's just been a Hell year... I can't wait for it to be over !
 
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Today has been a 'hurry up and wait' day... Been waiting all week for two difference medical appt. to be set up... they called within 30 min of each other so that's all set for next week. Hopefully, I'll make inroads into what is going on with me (anemia, etc)

I'm still waiting on the pest control. He usually does just the outside of the house but over the last month I've noticed occasional smaller roaches (less than an inch) in my kitchen and so I had asked for him to make a note to come in and do at least the area around the kitchen sink.

Lastly I'm looking forward to hearing that my daughters LVP flooring got installed in living room/hall of her house. That and an area rug in the living room will make a big difference in helping it to feel like a HOME vs just a place to eat and flop.

y'all have a good weekend
 

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