What's on your agenda for today?

When we travel I like to buy something from the areas I enjoyed. Not needing a blessed thing for the house I settle for T shirts. The problem is,the one size fits all is way to long. I am 5'8". I can't imagine how tall they think most people are. Anyway, my agenda for today is to wack off the bottom of these and hem them. Most will be worn around the house or in the garden but I just can't stand them being that long. I also measured my vegetable garden for new netting to hopefully keep the deer out.
 

GeorgiaXplant said:
Butterfly, how's our Bonny today? Back to her old self yet?

Ameriscot! Good grief, woman. It's not as though you haven't traveled before. What the heck is the problem? My virtual luggage is neatly packed with all my own virtual stuff and all the virtual stuff I got for my virtual friends with none of it over the virtual weight limit.

BTW, Ameriscot, I always flew business class here to Europe and within Europe. Why? Because it wasn't my dime paying for it:)

Another warm and rainy day. Sigh. Why can't it just be spring?

Everything in Lilliput has been cleaned to a fare thee well, the laundry has been folded and put away, and I can't play outside. Yes. I have a book. I have a book that is for sure a good read and very entertaining...Top Secret Twenty-One by Janet Evanovich...but I've only had it about a month, and it needs to age a little. I have a new knitting book that appears to be more geared to those who aren't true left-handers and are dexterity challenged, and I have my grown-up coloring book. There's Netflix and plain old TV. So what the Dickens is my problem?

Being lonely and bored isn't all that bad just as long as everybody knows I'm lonely and bored. Never mind the comments about being whiny! LOL
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Problem is I bought too many gifts for people. Harem pants and embroidered handbags mostly. I will get it to fit though, it'll just be tight. Hubby has some extra room in his bag.

We've upgraded to business about 4 or 5 times, and we could do it a lot more often if Emirates airmiles didn't expire. Best trips were Australia back to UK, and Uganda to the US.
 
Ruth n Jersey said:
When we travel I like to buy something from the areas I enjoyed. Not needing a blessed thing for the house I settle for T shirts. The problem is,the one size fits all is way to long. I am 5'8". I can't imagine how tall they think most people are. Anyway, my agenda for today is to wack off the bottom of these and hem them. Most will be worn around the house or in the garden but I just can't stand them being that long. I also measured my vegetable garden for new netting to hopefully keep the deer out.
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Wouldn't be a problem here - Thais are not tall. I'm 5'4 1/2" and the one size fits all harem pants fit just fine. Cotton and light and very very comfy. I wear them at home, and here in Thailand I will wear them to dinner so I don't have to put mosquito repellant on my legs.
 

Another rainy day in Georgia. Rats.

My adventures for today include taking the trash to the curb and going to the post office.

Ameriscot, please may we stay another couple of weeks, just long enough for spring to get here? Please? I promise to behave.
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
Another rainy day in Georgia. Rats.

My adventures for today include taking the trash to the curb and going to the post office.

Ameriscot, please may we stay another couple of weeks, just long enough for spring to get here? Please? I promise to behave.
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Sorry. Got to go. We'll have flowers blooming when we get home but it would still be in the 40's.
 
Bonnie dug up another rawhide chew that had been buried -- it was all gross and she brought it in the house. I took it away from her. I wonder how many more of those darn things she has buried out there. If it was bacteria from the earth that caused her illness, I sure don't want her to eat any more of those things, but I can't follow her around with a shovel all day, either. SIGH!!! The vet said that clostridium bacteria that made her so sick is anaerobic and gets on buried things.

She does seem to be perking up, and we changed back to her regular arthritis meds today. We had a really nice long walk yesterday.
 
Butterfly, see how much like raising pets is like raising kids?:)

Ameriscot, okay. I'll go but grudgingly. What day exactly? I need to know this so that I can plan how to squeeze maximum fun into what's left of our vacation.
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
Butterfly, see how much like raising pets is like raising kids?:)

Ameriscot, okay. I'll go but grudgingly. What day exactly? I need to know this so that I can plan how to squeeze maximum fun into what's left of our vacation.
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We're leaving next Monday. Rented the house for 3 months. But you'll have to have fun on your own for another day as I think I ate bad shrimp. Been a bit....ill. Yuck.
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
Okay. That sounds like a swell idea. Is Thailand one of those places where we use the "wrong" side of the road?
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You must mean the correct side of the road - the left. :D But here the motorbikes drive all over the place! The tourists who rent bikes are the worst! Maybe it's best if you drive a car instead.....
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
Butterfly, see how much like raising pets is like raising kids?:)

Ameriscot, okay. I'll go but grudgingly. What day exactly? I need to know this so that I can plan how to squeeze maximum fun into what's left of our vacation.
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Georgia, you're right -- it's a lot like raising kids, but at least they never want to use the car and you don't have to argue with them about what they are wearing!
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
Being that I'm not a tourist (more like a part-time resident), I'll take the scooter over the car. I can do too much damage with a car:(
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At least in a car there is metal between your bare arms and legs and the hard road. There are thousands and thousands of motorbikes (mostly automatic so not very loud) on this island. We've seen many accidents involving them - although they've all gotten up on their own. One of our neighbours broke his arm recently and we see countless people walking around with obvious motorbike accident injuries - bandaged legs, arms, long scrapes on their legs and arms. Many ride wearing bikinis or short shorts, tank tops or no tops.

The tourists are most definitely the worst drivers here. The Thais have been driving motorbikes since they were about 10 - we see them off the main roads. So they may be assertive but don't take stupid chances.

So how about just riding in one of the tuk tuks?
 
I'm 95% over my food poisoning. It's been at least 2 months since I had any problem. I think it was shrimp although I've eaten it many times here at this same restaurant. Grateful this didn't happen the day before our flight. Going to be extra cautious until we fly.

Sitting on our beach now enjoying the breeze while the housekeepers go in to do our house.
 
I need to do some housecleaning today. I also have laundry I need to do. As usual I am putting it off. I need a good swift kick in the rear. lol :)
 
I just got up. Had a full-moon sleepless night combined with a smoke alarm that decided it wanted its batteries changed at 2 am. That was an adventure. Smoke alarm will never bother me ever again. I killed it. It wouldn't open up so I finally ripped the damned thing off the ceiling, and it still wouldn't open to get the batteries out! So I took it out to my patio in the pouring rain and smashed it with a hammer because it wouldn't stop telling me "low batteries" and then had the audacity and unmitigated gall to start shrieking at me. It didn't want to give up even after many blows. At that point, I got vicious and took out all my aggression on it, every tiny little thing that had ever annoyed me, and was almost disappointed when it finally shut up because I was having a perfectly lovely time beating it to death. In. The. Rain.


Now I have two screw holes in the ceiling in my sitting room.


Oh...and so that I could see what I was doing when I was trying to get it open, I turned on a lamp. Poof! Bulb burned out with a big pop and smoke. Unplugged lamp. I guess that's dead, too. It might be a goner, has been acting strangely for about a year. Bought that thing maybe 30 years ago and paid a whopping $100 for it at a time when nobody with good sense paid $100 for a lamp. Now I'm scared of it because I think it's all part of a grander plan between it and the smoke alarm.


Sat on my patio this morning with my coffee and gloated while looking at the dead smoke alarm.
 
Dang! A stake would have be easier than beating it to death. By the time I was done, my wrist hurt. It didn't want to die.

I suppose that I'll have to spend the rest of my life wearing a little thingie around my neck with garlic in it. Isn't that supposed to keep ghouls and goblins and vampires and such away?
 

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