COLD DARK ROOM

[CarolM]

Thank you Yvonne, I just ordered the phantom mirror. ?
It's easy to spend money!?

Well done. Very proud of you. It is a step in the right direction.

 

[EllieMay]

Good Morning All,

So this weekend it was working in the complex garden and I made a big tortoise for the front where everybody comes in. I forgot to take a photo and will take one when I get home to post on here for you all to see. It was a lot of hard work and my body was finished once I was done with everything. But I am happy because it is all starting to look much better and the efforts are starting to pay off.

However saying that it was NOT a good weekend, as I ended up mowing my keys and totally destroyed my car keys. Only to find out that the spare set does not work. I have to get the battery replaced. ?

Short story long, I was not wearing pants which had a pocket and I did not want to leave my keys on the ground outside the complex while I was mowing. I was worried that someone might steal them. So I hung them on a protrusion on the handle of the lawn mower. They stayed there the whole time I was mowing with no problem and towards the end they fell off and I did not notice until I heard the grinding noise of the mower going over the keys.?‍?‍?‍?‍?‍. Yeah Yeah, so very stupid and I should have known better and just worn pants which had pockets or hung the keys on a Lanyard to hang around my neck. But hindsite is always a B*#$%itch. But anyway that is the short story long.

Then after working on the tortoise late into the night on Saturday, we built it inside the complex first with the intention of anchoring it into the ground outside the complex (so that nobody could steal it) at a later stage, but then someone on Sunday morning went and pushed it over so that all of the succulents and everything fell over onto the ground and basically broken the whole thing. We then decided to just put it outside and dig the bottom part of the tortoise into the ground to stabilize it better with the hope that it would not be able to be pushed over again. But the fact that someone in the complex was nasty enough to do that kind of thing is just so mind boggling. I really do not understand why people have to be so nasty towards each other and why would they want to destroy the hard work of someone else when they are just trying to make the whole complex look better and beautiful. Ok Rant over. Sorry for ranting so long. But I really needed to vent and get it out of my system.

Today is windy, and we are expecting the next couple of days to be cloudy with a day here and there having rain. I love it when it rains as it is free water for my garden. I just don't like it raining when I need to work on my pond.??

Soooooo how was everybody else's weekend and How are you all doing?

Well that was a poopy weekend! There’s no sense in people just being destructive to be so.. to actually waste the effort to be a shitty person is extra shitty! Sorry about your tortoise.. I want to beat someone up for you! But I’m glad you got to play in the dirt at least.. I find that’s always therapeutic for me in some way or another ?

 

[Lyn W]

I would have quietly smiled to them... and then in the morning.... back into it and run it over with my CAR! (I did that once) they couldn’t get the big dent out. Serves them right... they see the lanes and yet they overstep . I think it is a test to see if I will say anything.... ??
I didn’t have to..???
Never did see their bins again?? ????
either one the driveway or in the street??
I wonder now how they put their garbage out??? ????????
Sorry I am mean ,but I am like a volcano.. I hold everything in until one day.... I explode!

Unfortunately this is only a footpath so no chance of getting my car anyway near their bins......great idea though!

 

[EllieMay]

Good Mornynooon, Random Roommates.
Today is Can Opener Day.
The fun never ends............

I am no longer participating in our national holidays.. you see, when it was national left handers day, I stabbed my left hand with a knife! I was trying to stab a hole in the bottom of a dog food can to break the vacuum seal so that when I pulled the top off it would pour easily.. but I grabbed a kitchen knife to stab the hole and the blade was flimsy.... so it bounced off the can and stabbed into the hand that was holding the can..(I glued it shut and it’s healing nicely now. ) I can’t imagine what I could do with a can opener?..

 

[EllieMay]

Holy cats!!! You are awesome! I am that way as well, maybe(but not awesome). I don't believe I said anything about my neighbor story on TFO because I am already a public embarrassment to my sister, but here is a summary.
A male neighbor and I were friends, somewhere along the line the friendship went bad and he started doing things, dog crap on my door, somebody else's garbage dumped in my carport, crap like that. So I come home one day to a handwritten sign in my carport reading " your a f***ing b**ch Maggot". So I stopped my car blocking the street, grabbed a hammer and took off for his house 3 blks away. I pounded on his house with the hammer screaming obscenities, pulling up his plants and throwing them at his windows. I was simply WAY outa line. So without buncha details, I was arrested 7 times in 5 years for retaliation for things he did to me. Now please understand, I was 69-70 he's 40 something. He loosened the lug nuts on my wheels, I had been doing 80 mph the day before, now I am doing 30 mph when my tire comes off and passes me up the street. Cops wouldn't even come. He did $4000 worth of damage throwing rocks at my car. One day he ran up to my car and punched me upside my head, I had a maple rolling pin next to me in the car, I just hit him straight on breaking his cheek, arrested for assault, me, not him. This thing carried on for about 5 years, with him crying in court, shaking and saying how afraid of me he was, and me showing stoic anger. I was arrested when he tazed me, I was arrested he was taken to the hospital crying and shaking...as a renter, he got kicked out of his house, I own my house, and he moved to the MidWest. and peace reined.
Please understand, I felt I only retaliated, not instigated. But I did fight back in a way that Little Suzy Normal would not. He regularly called the cops on me, I didn't call them but once. I got some pretty good charges, felony/criminal mischief, felony assault with hammer and more. I feel I defended myself against him. But the bottom line is, I am grateful my car got repainted (!), that I didn't lose my home or anything else. I think I would handle that kind of thing differently now, but I had been in a 25 yr marriage and relationship with a 1% biker, and that's what he taught me.

It sounds like you got the short end of the stick there.... but I believe in Karma so I’m sure that he’s had to scratch imaginary fleas in unspeakable places at least a couple times!!!

 

[Lyn W]

Greetings all. I see lots of nasty neighbor stories..... Here’s ours. Our long-time very quiet kept to himself kind of single dad moved. House bought by a guy who got around. Hung with gangs of undocumented folks - used his house as a business place with various trucks parked all over the street. Workers would park & gather in our cul-de-sac every morning for work instructions. Semi-trailer truck deliveries. Work Vehicle washing in the street, blocking lanes, etc. It was a mess and all illegal activity based on County regs. It took my wife & another neighbor to document, record the activity - go to County management with formal complaints. They took action over n over and the guy finally moved. Whew......it was a bad three years maybe two. He kept expanding and expanding his activities. Really sad when one individual thinks they own the neighborhood/street & circumvent laws to their own benefit. Good luck in your search @Lyn W - in the mean time REPORT all the crap to the Council!

It's awful how one selfish householder can upset things for other. I have been keeping a record and photographing all the rubbish they have fly tipped behind the low wall opposite my garden, it's escalated this summer and usually done when I'm not home. I will be sending it all to the council and their housing association who own their home. I think they are more worried about the latter finding out.

 

[EllieMay]

Were you able to fix it? I'd love to see pictures.

Me too!

 

[Lyn W]

I'm having a rough morning.

Oh no I'm sorry to hear that and hope the day got better for you,

 

[EllieMay]

Thank you Yvonne, I just ordered the phantom mirror. ?
It's easy to spend money!?

Well done Ray!

 

[Pastel Tortie]

Oh no I'm sorry to hear that and hope the day got better for you,

It did get better, at least somewhat. Thanks!

 

[EllieMay]

I'm having a rough morning.

I missed this earlier.. what happened Anne?? Is it a better evening?

 

[Pastel Tortie]

I missed this earlier.. what happened Anne?? Is it a better evening?

Let's file that one under Yesterday and call Today better. Even if both have been really rainy.

Speaking of rain... Are you ready for the weather this week?

 

[Lyn W]

Stuff some clothes so that it looks like a body And shove a Halloween mask on it and stuff it inside the bin. It’ll give them a freaking heart attack when they open the bin and you can always put a note on and say “howdy neighbors”. People don’t tend to mess with me because I’m more than happy to have a confrontation with them if that’s what they’re looking for. And if I play, I play to win. Ethically and honestly of course, and always sensitive to the needs of others as I am a physician. Hee hee.

I think I'll try that when the creepy husband gets up on his ladder to look over the fence into my garden. He may fall off his ladder if he comes face to face with something like that - oh dear what a shame!

 

[Lyn W]

Hello everyone, been hiding in my corner in this round room.
My doctor was weaning me off the med Lyrica. It's for nerve pain and my phantom pains have returned. The pain sidelined me for a moment. The phantom pains have subsided but not gone but bearable.
Will try to catch up. Looks like you all have been busy. ?

Good to see you back Ray, hope you're doing OK and not in too much pain.

 

[Pastel Tortie]

I think I'll try that when the creepy husband gets up on his ladder to look over the fence into my garden. He may fall off his ladder if he comes face to face with something like that - oh dear what a shame!

Maybe you can put a motion sensor controlled light up, aimed at where he'd go looking over the fence. You know, to light him up... Proper lighting for pictures and all that! ?

 

[EllieMay]

Let's file that one under Yesterday and call Today better. Even if both have been really rainy.

Speaking of rain... Are you ready for the weather this week?

As ready as I can be I suppose... I have plenty of propane to run the generator.. I’ve never really had to deal with a hurricane this far inland.. it’s the tornados that usually get us.. Bring on the rain ?

I’m glad today’s better for you whatever the case may be!

 

[EllieMay]

I think I'll try that when the creepy husband gets up on his ladder to look over the fence into my garden. He may fall off his ladder if he comes face to face with something like that - oh dear what a shame!

Totally should .. and a game camera to catch the expression when he does ?

 

[EllieMay]

Maybe you can put a motion sensor controlled light up, aimed at where he'd go looking over the fence. You know, to light him up... Proper lighting for pictures and all that! ?

Great minds think alike!!! Lol

 

[Pastel Tortie]

As ready as I can be I suppose... I have plenty of propane to run the generator.. I’ve never really had to deal with a hurricane this far inland.. it’s the tornados that usually get us.. Bring on the rain ?

For some reason, I'm imagining your ferrets on a raft, paddling along without a care in the world. Or something like that. ?

 

[Blackdog1714]

I am no longer participating in our national holidays.. you see, when it was national left handers day, I stabbed my left hand with a knife! I was trying to stab a hole in the bottom of a dog food can to break the vacuum seal so that when I pulled the top off it would pour easily.. but I grabbed a kitchen knife to stab the hole and the blade was flimsy.... so it bounced off the can and stabbed into the hand that was holding the can..(I glued it shut and it’s healing nicely now. ) I can’t imagine what I could do with a can opener?.View attachment 304335.

Or glue!