Uncharacteristically quiet in the CDR for a weekend. Everyone must be working on their resumes to take over for PM Truss?
Pretty nice day here.
Pretty nice day here.
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I had company all day
but I did manage to get 4 more t-shirt shopping bags done for tomorrow. Kroger hasn't stopped using plastic bags for shopping yet but they are probably next. They warned us a couple of years ago 
Another major grocery store in our city announced they will not be using them anymore 
I don't even know what they are using now. I think MD passed a "must be reusable" plastic law bill but I'm really not sure. Kerry & I go to the stores where we take our own bags.....
British PM....I have been known to go after "unreachable" jobs.....just to see if I could do them......but that would require higher investment of scant personal resources and I'm pretty sure there's a whole "must be a British subject" thing involved so I'm going to officially pass. I have eggs to buy, you know! Besides, it looks today to be some type of Boris replay? I'm sorry ladies, I know he's a pig, but I just like the guy.....I know, prob a deep reflection on my personality. LOL
Calming pics....nice day with a light jacket, or maybe the sun/paddling was enough on the water Saturday. We went up to Downs park in the late afternoon and talked with an old lady with a spotter scope at the pond but didn't see and of the little guys. We went up to oldest daughters in the morning to install the new dishwasher top clips that I had just plain fubared, then couldn't use...took ten minutes after a 75 minute drive there....and she was having cleaning day so we didn't stay long. She's a little sad so we talk....I looked around at her home with a mortgage, 2br condo but very nice with old ladies walking around the community (safe) and reminded her that while life is indeed very different from the family she had a year ago, she is quite well off emotionally because she frickin rocks it and she is secure....and, she has Superman as her father. Oh yeah, kids grew up knowing....LOL
We went grocery shopping on the way back to my house, no racing go carts this weekend
. I learned a valuable trick at the grocery store where I typically will pay for both of us. If I let HER get in the front of the cart when checking out, instead of blocking her and taking that position, then when it's time to pay, I'm still behind the cart.....and she "wins" and inserts her bank card! Total was $240 but all I had bought was fruit, milk/cream & 25 bucks of what I call "contraband"...cupcakes, Twinkies, peanut butter bars, ice cream....contraband. Like most things contraband-a little is fun.....too much and you pay the price! I of course offered to pay, she said, "no, you got it last time". Really sweetheart? "last time" was $300....you owe me $$$!! LOL
Yesterday it was gloomy with on off rain after 11am. Of course Matilda was out soaking and turtling.....my son came over in the afternoon to pickup some of his firearm stuff (ammo) that's been resting in one of my extra bedrooms for a year or two(3rd world armies have less). Good to see him getting back into target shooting. He's good but he went though a bout of humility earlier this year and lost interest.... I don't think he would have shot well anyway. He came out with me to see Matilda....he was a little upset that I was leaving her outside this year. When he was little, we used to bring his box turtle in each year. He found a home for him when he went to college and never got another.
OK, I'm pushing off work......(see Warren, you push no boundaries my friend<LOL>)...time for me to go play!
Enjoy the day
British PM....I have been known to go after "unreachable" jobs.....just to see if I could do them......but that would require higher investment of scant personal resources and I'm pretty sure there's a whole "must be a British subject" thing involved so I'm going to officially pass. I have eggs to buy, you know! Besides, it looks today to be some type of Boris replay? I'm sorry ladies, I know he's a pig, but I just like the guy.....I know, prob a deep reflection on my personality. LOL
Calming pics....nice day with a light jacket, or maybe the sun/paddling was enough on the water Saturday. We went up to Downs park in the late afternoon and talked with an old lady with a spotter scope at the pond but didn't see and of the little guys. We went up to oldest daughters in the morning to install the new dishwasher top clips that I had just plain fubared, then couldn't use...took ten minutes after a 75 minute drive there....and she was having cleaning day so we didn't stay long. She's a little sad so we talk....I looked around at her home with a mortgage, 2br condo but very nice with old ladies walking around the community (safe) and reminded her that while life is indeed very different from the family she had a year ago, she is quite well off emotionally because she frickin rocks it and she is secure....and, she has Superman as her father. Oh yeah, kids grew up knowing....LOL
We went grocery shopping on the way back to my house, no racing go carts this weekend
. I learned a valuable trick at the grocery store where I typically will pay for both of us. If I let HER get in the front of the cart when checking out, instead of blocking her and taking that position, then when it's time to pay, I'm still behind the cart.....and she "wins" and inserts her bank card! Total was $240 but all I had bought was fruit, milk/cream & 25 bucks of what I call "contraband"...cupcakes, Twinkies, peanut butter bars, ice cream....contraband. Like most things contraband-a little is fun.....too much and you pay the price! I of course offered to pay, she said, "no, you got it last time". Really sweetheart? "last time" was $300....you owe me $$$!! LOLYesterday it was gloomy with on off rain after 11am. Of course Matilda was out soaking and turtling.....my son came over in the afternoon to pickup some of his firearm stuff (ammo) that's been resting in one of my extra bedrooms for a year or two(3rd world armies have less). Good to see him getting back into target shooting. He's good but he went though a bout of humility earlier this year and lost interest.... I don't think he would have shot well anyway. He came out with me to see Matilda....he was a little upset that I was leaving her outside this year. When he was little, we used to bring his box turtle in each year. He found a home for him when he went to college and never got another.
OK, I'm pushing off work......(see Warren, you push no boundaries my friend<LOL>)...time for me to go play!
Enjoy the day
You can still buy big boxes of them from places like uline.comI had company all day
I used my recycled Tshirt bags Sunday when I did my shopping even though my store still uses them. Kroger sent me a little magazine and warned me that they are going to phase them out a couple of years ago. They put instructions on how to recycle old tshirts into machine washable bags... so I got prepared. And well... I still have to use trash bags and they sell them
What's really sad is most of those bags are biodegradable. The stores have been trying to come up with something safer. However the plastic disintegrates and mixes into the soil easier
Yeah, I used them, crumpled up and stapled around the edges of the lids on tortoise enclosures and they only lasted a season before disintegrating. Whereas the ones you now have to pay the grocer to pack your groceries in probably last forever as litter.
The ones Kroger uses are really thin bags for free. I'm trying to get out of having so much trash. So I'll stop getting them as much as I can But I like them for certain things. Like a little trash bag in the bathroom and cleaning up after Dilly's litter box and Sapphire's enclosure once a day. I'll just have to find a different way.
I told my doctor today about my episode of over doing my arm and getting laid up. I was bragging about my new tortoise outdoor enclosure that I built 
and well ... I
managed to show him a picture of my enclosure before I left.because he wanted to see it He's the same doctor that visited me and Joe in our home during the pandemic. He got tied up by an angel in a mural Joe hung in our living room. Oh my garsh he gave me pain killers I probably won't take 
and well ... Imanaged to show him a picture of my enclosure before I left.because he wanted to see it He's the same doctor that visited me and Joe in our home during the pandemic. He got tied up by an angel in a mural Joe hung in our living room. Oh my garsh
he gave me pain killers I probably won't take 
Our stores still use them but you have to pay for them. It's surprising how many people are buying them still instead of reusingI had company all day
Good morning all.
Still no laptop repairs yet - they are waiting for the part - so my use of it is as limited as my patience when I end up all over the screen and on pages I don't want to be
We have yet another PM - the first British Asian and the youngest in 200 years - time will tell if he'll have a hat trick of record breaking by beating LIz Truss as PM for the shortest time in history (44 days)! Place your bets folks!!!!
My nephew and his family are over from Las Vegas so it's been a busy time catching up with them and spending time with their little girl who is a real little Miss Sunshine and full of smiles for everyone, I don't think I've ever seen such a happy baby.
Anyway my laptop is about to fly through the window if I don't sign out now - just popped in to make sure all is well with everyone and I'll see you soon.
Take care
Still no laptop repairs yet - they are waiting for the part - so my use of it is as limited as my patience when I end up all over the screen and on pages I don't want to be
We have yet another PM - the first British Asian and the youngest in 200 years - time will tell if he'll have a hat trick of record breaking by beating LIz Truss as PM for the shortest time in history (44 days)! Place your bets folks!!!!
My nephew and his family are over from Las Vegas so it's been a busy time catching up with them and spending time with their little girl who is a real little Miss Sunshine and full of smiles for everyone, I don't think I've ever seen such a happy baby.
Anyway my laptop is about to fly through the window if I don't sign out now - just popped in to make sure all is well with everyone and I'll see you soon.
Take care
I'm really happy that at least some companies around here are trying to deal with plastic bags. My problem is that I actually reuse at least 7 per week to clean up some of my critters poo food etc...and one of the biggest poopers is Dilly cat kitty litter and all.. I also reuse them in small garbage cans throughout our home. I don't know what I'll do for that problem yet. Razberri, Sapphire and my little survivor Zebra Finch are not a plastic problemOur stores still use them but you have to pay for them. It's surprising how many people are buying them still instead of reusing
Wow. I did go ahead and start a short burst of Prednisone for my shoulder (like my doc said) today. He didn't want to because I'm on prolia for heavens sake but he knew I needed it. It helped within a couple of hours. Yeah . I was having internal fits but took it anyway. I pretty much know there's corny stuff in it but it worked and it'll only be for 4 more days. So youall have Cathie on steroids
. I was having internal fits but took it anyway. I pretty much know there's corny stuff in it but it worked and it'll only be for 4 more days. So youall have Cathie on steroids Sorry you are still yelling at the keyboard Lyn, hope resolution comes soon.
Ms Cathie, NOW is a great time to clean the house......it's be spic and span in no time now that you're using "juice"! LOL
My Plastic rant;
You know guys, I've never been a "tree hugger" in the extreme.... not by a long shot, just look at my collection of motorcycles, the exact target of the late Mrs Joan Claybrook's EPA war on two-stroke engines. The two stroke fumes probably still make her turn in her grave to this day!
I do live in conflict though..
I respect nature, and like everyone in my generation, I donated to save the rainforest a few years after seeing the Indian in the commercial...you know the one. In the 60's, it was horrible with trash piled on nearly every highway. We as kids would watch as whole families threw out their dinner trash from the car while driving. I remember driving through Pittsburg in 1963 and we couldn't see the sky on a clear bright day. Was like driving under a cloud, JUST like it. When I moved to MD as a child, the Potomac was yellow in summer and so toxic, even the poor people didn't fish there. it's worlds better today but while they were improving it there, they were spraying the bay's tributaries for seaweed....agent orange. Then they wonder why populations collapsed....ah well...
Looks like we finally put that nightmare behind us but now we have other sins to pay for......I knew at 12 years old that plastic was going to be the "bad thing" of my future but I thought it would do with the chemicals that make them/human health, not the actual garbage. Come on, trash that doesn't go away? Anyone with 46 chromosome knows that isn't going to work long term. I don't have a solution but I can sure as heck see the long game!
Even knowing all that....when they TOLD me I had to recycle or do this or that, I resist...just my natural inclination.
A very good comic, his name escapes me but he said "I'm a lot easier to pull than I am to push" Brilliant!
Ms Cathie, NOW is a great time to clean the house......it's be spic and span in no time now that you're using "juice"! LOL
My Plastic rant;
You know guys, I've never been a "tree hugger" in the extreme.... not by a long shot, just look at my collection of motorcycles, the exact target of the late Mrs Joan Claybrook's EPA war on two-stroke engines. The two stroke fumes probably still make her turn in her grave to this day!
I do live in conflict though..
I respect nature, and like everyone in my generation, I donated to save the rainforest a few years after seeing the Indian in the commercial...you know the one. In the 60's, it was horrible with trash piled on nearly every highway. We as kids would watch as whole families threw out their dinner trash from the car while driving. I remember driving through Pittsburg in 1963 and we couldn't see the sky on a clear bright day. Was like driving under a cloud, JUST like it. When I moved to MD as a child, the Potomac was yellow in summer and so toxic, even the poor people didn't fish there. it's worlds better today but while they were improving it there, they were spraying the bay's tributaries for seaweed....agent orange. Then they wonder why populations collapsed....ah well...
Looks like we finally put that nightmare behind us but now we have other sins to pay for......I knew at 12 years old that plastic was going to be the "bad thing" of my future but I thought it would do with the chemicals that make them/human health, not the actual garbage. Come on, trash that doesn't go away? Anyone with 46 chromosome knows that isn't going to work long term. I don't have a solution but I can sure as heck see the long game!
Even knowing all that....when they TOLD me I had to recycle or do this or that, I resist...just my natural inclination.
A very good comic, his name escapes me but he said "I'm a lot easier to pull than I am to push" Brilliant!
Well... while I'm getting better and my shoulder and arm is recovering I'm sure not gonna do housework
I'm gonna be doing some fun stuff. Like sewing gypsy bags and spending extra time with my critters. I don't want to overdue it again 
Ugh, in bed at 7pm and woke at 11:30pm, for the night....gonna be a Friday though so I leave the office at 11:30AM so it's not a terribly long day.
Little Matilda got hurt so she's inside now to give her a chance to heal, away from those big bad animals. I only have a 20Gal long tank for her inside, not much room for a 2yr old but it's safe for her and with consistent temps, it's has to be easier for her body to repair itself.
Kerry is coming over tonight and we're going to a kegger in Virginia tomorrow. 30yrs sober and I go to a kegger?.....LOL
We decided to make a day out of it and maybe run out to Skyline drive so we got a hotel out there for Sat night.
enjoy the day guys
Little Matilda got hurt so she's inside now to give her a chance to heal, away from those big bad animals. I only have a 20Gal long tank for her inside, not much room for a 2yr old but it's safe for her and with consistent temps, it's has to be easier for her body to repair itself.
Kerry is coming over tonight and we're going to a kegger in Virginia tomorrow. 30yrs sober and I go to a kegger?.....LOL
We decided to make a day out of it and maybe run out to Skyline drive so we got a hotel out there for Sat night.
enjoy the day guys
My son Joe's Halloween costume.
We all were razzing him for a little over a year about his hair. His hair is really brown. He grew his hair out for this Halloween season.
We all were razzing him for a little over a year about his hair. His hair is really brown. He grew his hair out for this Halloween season.
I recognized him right off. Here's hoping no one at the party is dressed as Carol!
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