alas, it's snowing, so mulching has been suspended until at least noon...but, being Derby Day, I can say we're in the home stretch.
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two more outings and mulching will be done, though I'll have a nice mound for bartering purposes..
Fresh batch of homemade granola made and being consumed.
Unrelated to goat post above.
Willie Nelson does a lovely cover of Just Breathe.
^ jealous
at least we're dining at friends' house where the food is really good...
That might have been the silliest thing I've posted on DBR.
Sometimes there can be too much of a good thing.
Today is T-Bone's 21st birthday.
Happy birthday, T-Bone!
I called a bakery about 2 blocks from his dorm and ordered up a chocolate cake. He had to walk to the bakery himself to pick it up but I did manage to get him a birthday cake. He said he might take his passport with him and find somewhere to buy a 6 pack. He doesn't have any friends to drink it with though. Or to help him eat the cake.
Aw, thanks.
I was looking into having something mailed to him, but cake delivery companies don't do PO Boxes and I decided fresh baked was better anyway. Paddies birthday is May 13 - he's getting a cake in the mail but it's coming with candy. He lives in an apartment, no PO Box. Also - no bakeries that close to where he lives. T-Bone only had to walk about 5 minutes.
Been a long while since I had strawberry shortcake. Yum yum.
Yard planting day. Jalapeno and habanero peppers, cherry tomatoes, garlic, basil, mint + a some new pollinators in the dirt.
Get to da choppa.
My garden wrens are back.
I gave up caffeine for Lent about 15 years ago. When I tried to reintroduce it I couldn't go to sleep at night. I was one of those people before this who could drink caffeine while laying in bed and go to sleep, but not after this. I eventually figured out that I'm fine with no more than two caffeinated beverages in the course of a day but I generally only do one and I never consume caffeine after 1 pm. And also this makes me feel really old.
And I don't like water. I drink it but I don't really enjoy drinking water at all. At night I allow myself 1 decaf diet soda. Since I don't eat sweets this late night uncaffeinated fizzy beverage might as well be a piece of cheesecake to my taste buds and it's all that gets me through the day. Otherwise I would go crazy and just start slaughtering people. But otherwise I'm absolutely fine and perfectly stable.
And I drink coffee.
My mom thinks I have a fancy palate for some reason and doesn’t understand why I don’t get into all the different beans and coffee preparations. It’s all just degrees of bitter to me. You can put a dress on bitter but she still won’t love you. Ya know?
I’m going to miss Willie and Dolly when they’re done.
The greatest day in music history was the day that Dolly wrote "I Will Always Love You" and "Jolene" in the same day. I saw this on the twitters, but this is the music equivalent of Michelangelo wrapping up the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and then sitting down to pen "Jolene".
I hate coffee. I drink hot tea. Lots of it. I switch to decaf around 6pm. I also drink iced tea, but not as much as I drink hot tea.
There are lots of different kinds of tea and I have opinions about them. It is only the very few that taste like hot brown water but perhaps coffee lovers have burned out their tastebuds drinking that swill. I did drink "coffee" for a little while during my college years, but to make it even remotely palatable, the ratio of coffee to cream was probably 50-50 and I'd add 2 or 3 sugars. Much better to drink tea, which I drink with a little bit of milk (black teas only) and no sugar.
Going to be 80 today. Putting on a tank top and going to tell every neighbor I see I just completed a push up challenge.
Mulching victory has been declared stop.
Mop up operations will resume in the morning against small pockets of resistance stop.
Never learned to drink coffee. I never acquired the taste - don't like almost all things coffee but can drink Kahlua and Tia Maria. I think those are both coffee based.
I do love the smell of it, however.
Facebook suggested a Rudolph Steiner page to me. Had no idea who he was. Best I can tell, it’s because of the science/religion conversation in the pandemic thread, which I have observed but left alone.
Freakin’ zuckerberg man.
Diet Dew for lunch, Diet Pepsi for dinner, 144 oz of water during the day. Occasional tea or iced tea.
A guy I knew in Ohio used to have a yard for mulch, compost, stone, etc. But mostly mulch. It was next to the shop where my '68 coupe was restored. He used to hang out and talk cars with the group. He had a toll booth he used to sit in at the yard so he could interact with the customers coming and going. They found him in it late one evening. Heart attack.
tales of dead mulchers worry me.
I think I've been drinking coffee since I was three. Seriously. It was mostly milk and sugar then, but still coffee. I am far from an addict, I drink way more tea, both hot and iced. Bu, I do love me a good cup of coffee.
The torrential rains of the last 4 days displaced much of my mulch as well as the thatch layer. It deposited much of it in stripes across the lawn. After getting a bagel with some friends, I decided to clean up part of the house and have lunch. That was enough time for the thatch stripes to burn into the grass. I ended up having to rake all the stripes and mowed the lawn twice(lengthwise and then across). Fun, fun, fun.
There’s people out there, turning music into gold.
Is Sunday night the worst night of the week? I'm on the record for Tuesday being the worst full day of the week but Sunday night is just blah.
Here's my take.
There has to be a first day of the week. It's Monday. Bite the bullet and live with it.
Wednesday is Hump Day. Thursday is the penultimate day of the work week (and in college it was the first night out). Friday is Friday and the weekend are weekends (except Sunday night).
Tuesday is 2/5ths through the week. It's just...you're just in the week at the point and that's it.
Edit: Essentially what OPK said...
Yeah, I think it was a product problem and not a process problem.
I seem to be the only one worried about it though. Everyone else seemed to like it or at least were polite enough to say they did.
Frankly, it was just great to gather with friends. First time we had done this in 14 months.
Tuesday, to me, is the LONGEST day of the week. Mondays tend to move quickly, but Tuesdays drag so slow for me. And if Monday is a holiday, then Wednesday becomes Tuesday and drags, too.
Sundays suck b/c you know the weekend is ending, you have to go back to work, and all you can think is How did it go by so quickly?!?
I'm not going to spready seven cubic yards of rock, this I know...though many years ago I did own a house mostly landscaped with crushed stone, I appreciate the easy care of that.
oooh, Danger, Danger! A few years ago my wife and toured some National Parks in Utah, did it in early May, the parks were empty...several park rangers told me that, by far, their biggest problem was tourists stumbling around in grotesquely inappropriate footwear, lots and lots of flip flops, lots and lots of sprained ankles and ugly falls...
As someone who wears sandals on 90% of my day hikes, I am sympathetic but also feel you have to make allowances and exceptions. I suspect many folks in national parks are not experienced outdoor folks.
If it's easy terrain and I'm not carrying something heavy, I'm happy to wear Chacos and plop my feet in the creek.
Not just Utah. You do not want to be at the bottom of the Grand Canyon or miles up in the Sierras with blisters from bad shoes. Some people should not be allowed in the back country.
I have seen people asking strangers for water because they didn’t bring enough of their own.
I absolutely chew through shoes with my walking/exercise regimen. I wear only Adidas, because that's what Duke wore in the 80s when I first became a fan. Now obviously Duke switched, but I never did. Although we did wear Converse Weapons in high school. The team all wore the same white with silver and blue Converse. And REAAAAAAAAAAALLY short shorts...although I do have the legs for that.
Best accompaniment to a bagel when cream cheese is not a choice?
We’re going all in on feet this morning, huh?
Apparently, liposuction for your feet may not be a viable medical procedure according to some, but others won't mind charging you for the procedure.
A weary May Monday in junior high with repeated off-and-on tornado warnings laughs in the face of your silly, mundane Tuesdays.
the 22 foot long snow rake has been disassembled and put away for the season. That's worth a cold beer.
This will mark summer 2 we won't be doing a vacation...for good reasons but high hopes for next year!
A month in CO sounds pleasant.
Edit: Weird, the first 2 tags are from daaaayyyysss ago and I don't know why they stayed linked.
We skipped last summer for obvious reasons and are venturing out on the early side of the curve this summer because a) we're both vaccinated, and b) we'll be traveling by RV and thus self-contained/outdoors for basically the entirety of the trip. Meeting up a time or two along the way with friends/family who are likewise vaccinated and really feeling in need of it all.
Definitely maybe! One of the purposes of this trip is to continue crossing off states, so Oklahoma and Nebraska are higher priorities, but there's a non-zero chance we pass through Kansas for a day or two. We quite enjoyed our unplanned 36 hours there in the summer of '19...celebrated our wedding anniversary there, in fact!
We are thinking of going to Charlotte for the Clemson vs Georgia game. I just looked at the schedule and Duke plays at Charlotte the same day. Depending on the timing, I could do both or, more likely, part of the Duke game and all of the Clemson game.
Not sure what team activities/visiting with Nephew Alex timing might be that day.
I will be attending multiple Vermont Lake Monsters games this summer although the exact dates of my enjoyment of Centennial Field are TBD. I will be fully vaccinated in time for their home opener but family duties require me to be in Massachusetts at that time. I'm looking at June 19th as a probably first game for me this summer. I will be moving Paddies out of his apartment in Burlington sometime in mid-August :( I will miss having a good reason to drive up to Burlington. UVM is definitely on the list for my youngest when he starts looking at colleges. The hubby is flying out to Missouri to visit his parents the last week of May. I will need to go to Missouri too, sooner rather than later, but probably not this summer.
Paddies got J&J yesterday and does not feel at all well today.
Cool! I love the Lake Monsters logo.
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Could anyone explain how 1/4 pound of hydraulic epoxy can’t seal a hairline crack, but 2 pine needles and 3 leaves will completely clog a 3” gutter downspout?
Gotta love those veteran colleagues who, even after 20howevermany years in the field, still spend a significant amount of time acting like they don't know [poop] from shinola.
Well, my new found freedom(less restrictions on myself due to Covid)is starting to get expensive.
Bill and Melinda calling it quits.
I don't really care much about seeing future stars, Centennial Field for a fan is an awesome place to see a baseball game and I get to go with my son who is a huge minor league baseball fan. He doesn't care that it's college kids.
I tell ya, RVing is really a fun pastime if you can make it work, and even as Covid fears begin to wane, it’s really nice to be able to travel self-contained, especially if you’re a cook.
I share bundaberg’s question; where ya headed?
More rain...pretty heavy too. And hail.
Parkwood Car Wash!
Also, Tip Top Bakery.
And, of course, Chico's Bail Bonds.
Two are true.
There's just something about avocados.
This was more like peas and carrots.
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This is also the worst part of the yard right now. Had to kill a lot of Poa Annua and oxalis. Pulled up a little bit of spurge that had already settled in.
Almost at 40k.
It’s a fergy morning in my neck of the woods.
here comes the triple play: hardware store, dump, Costco. BIG day...
I think songs go on Mount Rushmore, but maybe the Louvre. It was a Snoop Dog morning for me. I do indeed like to party and I don't hurts nobody. I do sometimes cause trouble, but I at least try to make it good trouble.
At a deli yesterday, I heard “Party All the Time” by Eddie Murphy on the radio. Did not help my appetite.