COLD DARK ROOM

[EllieMay]

Oh, thank you! I had an interesting pizza in Rome, in an area called Trastevere - a foodie and nightlife hub of the city. The pizza had a thin crust, as Roman pizzas go, and had zucchini and hot red pepper as the topping. I’d never had a spicy pizza like that, and am generally not into spicy food, but it was good!

Talking of spice, before our Italy trip we had dinner (braai, of course!) at our South African friends. They had a spicy tomato sauce from over there and I loved it!

That sounds like something I would love.. our town has one of the few brick oven pizzerias nearby and it makes me want to visit. Not a bad house wine either

 

[Kristoff]

YES!!! Tuesday means NCIS is on TV tonight!

Whatever that means...
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[Maro2Bear]

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Corn for deer....or turkey? I’m guessing deer.

 

[Maro2Bear]

So you’d be Ed’s customer if you were in Florida! Is Sully indoors now full time?

Yes....we normally pick up stuff from big box store of Home Depot....but no clean, pure cypress mulch. So, longer trip over to Lowes.

Yes....Sully just had breakfast - banana leaves, some butternut squash, some kale, romaine, and a cup of Mazuri topped with some nice fresh aloe cubes.

 

[EllieMay]

Corn for deer....or turkey? I’m guessing deer.

Yes! You can’t bait for turkey.. we have a very large hog problem here so I try to keep that under control. I mostly photograph and video.. that’s my favorite part about being out here.. this is my peace time. ;-)

 

[Toddrickfl1]

Hi, Spud! Nice to meet you!
Did you break the big news to Murphy yet? [emoji23]

Not yet lol. I'm going to stick with the "M" Theme and call the new one Marge. Murphy and Marge, and when she gets bigger im going to call her " Large Marge" brownie points to whoever gets the reference......

 

[Kristoff]

Look! It's a stranger, o wait.. it's just me[emoji12]
Hope everybody is well, perhaps Carol will give me one of her awesome summaries.
Hubby is currently dealing with an "offer war" between three jobs, apparently his resume was quite the catch (I'll take credit for that).
We are currently looking at jobs in..
Oklahoma- this interview was just a couple days ago and it went really well, but they want to do a "test" online before deciding what pay they want to offer. The benefits package are amazing though!
Texas- we we're looking at two jobs here but declined one. The remaining possiblity is a newer company that really needs a full time mechanic/technician, they originally offered an "entry-level" pay which we had turned down but they contacted us back with a new, more reasonable offer. This was after four machines went down in a week and they had to hire people to come in and fix them. Apparently the cost was enough for them to rethink having someone with experience on hand. Benefits are OK.
Montana- I think I mentioned this one last time I was on. The interview went great but there is a lot of pros and cons about the job. Only a couple days after the interview they contacted us back and requested ANOTHER interview before we had given a response to their offer. They have made it clear that they may want to increase the offer if this one goes well also. The pros for this job are that this is a management job and hubby will be running his own shop with a small crew, they offer a monthly bonus depending on how profitable business was, it's in a VERY small town. Cons are that insurance is pretty high and the actual base pay isn't that great.
We turned down the job in Missouri.
I decided not to do the large commission piece, the individual just couldn't seem to decide on what they wanted so I told them that I wasn't sure if I would have time to complete it before the move.
I Ruined the piece that I was working on after I spilt a glass of milk on it... Yep, I cried over the spilt milk.
So now im working on a different piece, trying out a new type of paper that I'm liking so far.
Daughter has been taking swimming lessons.. she takes after me and sinks like a rock.
Hubby has been trying to work on Clunker's wagon when the weather permits. When it's raining or to cold we try to get more stuff done inside the house.
Gosh I think that about sums it up for me! It's so nice to be able to chat about what's going on in my life, and to hear about what's going on in the lives of others.

Wow, you’re at such crossroads now. Hope you guys make a choice you’ll be happy with!

Daughter’s obsessed now with Leonardo da Vinci, and he’s someone who’d ruined more than one piece of his work, either by accident or excessive experimenting, or others ruined it for him. Just saying.

 

[EllieMay]

Good morning all. Today is my shopping day, and right now, this is my view:
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You can just barely see my new Vision Cage in the background.

That’s my kind of shopping!!! I dislike going in stores anymore!

 

[Kristoff]

On my walk today. I had to stop and rest so that my back muscles could relax. So i lay on one of the benches along the pathway. And this was my view. View attachment 254418View attachment 254419

Nice to see pictures from your neck of the woods!

 

[Kristoff]

I like that idea. So Everybody needs to take a pic of their view and post it saying "This is my view....."

At this moment after a long day!

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A bit like Kathy’s...

 

[Kristoff]

Hmm. What a nice scene to wake up to.
I have a question for you. I have two of those birds that I had in my picture on my walk the other day. It was the small one with the brown. Anyway these two live in my garden and every morning they keep on flying into my bedroom window. Over and over again. Why would they be doing that? Do you by any chance know?

Cool. Some of us have cuckoo clocks, you have live sparrows to wake you up! Wow.

 

[Kristoff]

Ahh Okay the first reason makes sense. As they do it in the morning and as soon as I open my blinds they stop doing it. The problem is I cannot leave my blinds open while I am at work during the day, so I worry that they will carry on during the day. So I will just have to get some stickers to put on the window in question and hopefully that will stop it. As I don't want them to hurt themselves.
Thanks for the advice.

Oh, I understand now. They fly into a closed window. Silly birds.

 

[Kristoff]

Spike can be pretty demanding
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They say commas save lives...
Just teasing. Gorgeous Spike!

 

[Kristoff]

I say free the leprechaun! He would want to help with Halloween deco I’m sure!

I heard the One-legged Pirate was hoping to convert the bar into a Haunted House for Halloween. I’m sure he could use another pair of hands.

 

[Kristoff]

That’s horrible.. my son has awful reactions to them as well and they are sure thick here.. maybe we should come visit you[emoji16] I’ll bring you some Benadryl!

Anytime! But better not in summer — mosquitoes love Danish summer. Everybody loves Danish summer. It’s the best day of the year.

 

[JoesMum]

You know there’s no hope when you’re stood outside your governor school about to go into a meeting and you start thinking the grass has a particularly good selection of weeds [emoji849][emoji23]

 

[Bee62]

Who needs the Gees when Bee is here? I love this song! Thank you, @Bee62!

Thank you ! @Kristoff

 

[Bee62]

Your thinking of snap, that's spike, one of my bigger sliders.

Snap or Spike or Murphy, they are all gorgeous !

 

[Bee62]

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You know there’s no hope when you’re stood outside your governor school about to go into a meeting and you start thinking the grass has a particularly good selection of weeds [emoji849][emoji23]

Thinking like a tortoise ! LOL ! "Hmmm, yummy , yummy green everywhere......."

 

[Bee62]

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Looks beautiful green. I love pine trees.