The "what's On Your Mind?" Thread -2018

[Alicia88]

I understand that. This whole part of the country is considered "low income" and it takes years for anything to get fixed - if ever. And, no one seems to care. Not long ago, the paper ran a quote from someone in power - I don't remember which position - about how the roads wouldn't be fixed until the meth problem was solved. I guess bone jarring potholes are our "normal" now.

 

[Mamanyt1953]

The back six apartments were wiped out. They lost EVERYTHING.

And there are HORDS of them from the flooding and the heat! Last night I was sitting in the livingroom, morosely attempting to gouge hunks of itching flesh off of my arms and legs when suddenly three brain cells fired in tandem, then four more joined the party, and I said to myself, "SELF...MAKE CHAMOMILE TEA, you nitwit!" So I did. And it works on that, too!

 

[Alicia88]

Don't be bug me, mom! I'm working!

 

[Alicia88]

 

[kashmir64]

So that's what you look like. For some reason, I did picture you with blonde hair.

 

[Alicia88]

Is it cuz I seem like a dumb blonde? Jk lol.
This boy is driving me nuts tonight. He's BITING. Still nursing and won't touch a bottle with a 10 foot pole and it hurts! I'm trying to get him to take some of my milk from a sippy cup. It's going a little better than a bottle but still not that well.

 

[kashmir64]

Is it cuz I seem like a dumb blonde? Jk lol.
This boy is driving me nuts tonight. He's BITING. Still nursing and won't touch a bottle with a 10 foot pole and it hurts! I'm trying to get him to take some of my milk from a sippy cup. It's going a little better than a bottle but still not that well.

LOL. No, you do not seem that way. I try to picture some people in my mind.
For example, I picture Margaret as having red hair.

 

[aliceneko]

It was my birthday on Monday and I've been celebrating for most of this week, though I'm exhausted already because I've been up very early in the morning for two days straight before busy days which is rare for me! I'm a late starter in the morning (or afternoon in my case ) since I'm much more of a night owl.

 

[Mamanyt1953]

Hekitty has caught a lizard, and retired under the daybed with it. The sounds are grotesque, and at some point, I'm going to have to deal with the remains. AND she managed to tear the hook to the drapery tieback out of the wall in the process, which I will also have to deal with. What fun!

 

[Alicia88]

It was my birthday on Monday and I've been celebrating for most of this week, though I'm exhausted already because I've been up very early in the morning for two days straight before busy days which is rare for me! I'm a late starter in the morning (or afternoon in my case ) since I'm much more of a night owl.

Happy birthday!

Hekitty has caught a lizard, and retired under the daybed with it. The sounds are grotesque, and at some point, I'm going to have to deal with the remains. AND she managed to tear the hook to the drapery tieback out of the wall in the process, which I will also have to deal with. What fun!

You need some good headphones. I would not want to hear that.

 

[Mother Dragon]

Must be my house! Never mind. It didn't come through.

It was a cat saying, "Yes, I know how hair got all over the couch. It's called FURniture, isn't?"

 

[debbila]

Hekitty has caught a lizard, and retired under the daybed with it. The sounds are grotesque, and at some point, I'm going to have to deal with the remains. AND she managed to tear the hook to the drapery tieback out of the wall in the process, which I will also have to deal with. What fun!

When Chicqui catches a lizard/gecko I not only have to deal with the remains, but also the upchucking. Sorry, I didn't want to make anyone queasy but didn't know how to say it gently.

 

[LTS3]

I don't think I'll get home until close to 7pm tonight if not later There's a VIP visiting sometime between 4pm and 5pm today and no idea how long the person will stay. No one from the office is here (CEO et al) so it's just the few of us lab people. We have to stick around so the place looks occupied and busy. I may splurge on a Lyft ride if it's not "prime time", meaning prices are nearly doubled. Hopefully I won't get the same rude and directionally challenged driver as last time.

The cats should be ok, just cranky and hungry. They normally get dinner by 4:30.

 

[Mamanyt1953]

When Chicqui catches a lizard/gecko I not only have to deal with the remains, but also the upchucking. Sorry, I didn't want to make anyone queasy but didn't know how to say it gently.

LOL, there really isn't any "gentle" way to discuss cat yack, and I would imagine that the vast majority of people who can't deal with that don't spend large amounts of time here. Now, THAT IS NOT A SLAM AT ANY OF OUR MEMBERS with sensitive tummies! But cat yack, including the ever-present hairball, is a fact of life.

 

[segelkatt]

It's time to pull out whatever is still growing in the summer garden and start the winter garden. I still have one tomato plant that gives me a tomato once a week, there are pumpkins growing on the fence, dragon fruit is late this year due to screwy weather but getting bigger, second harvest of concord grapes starting to have color (the first one is fermenting in carboys) but everything else has been pulled up, even the last zucchini. I've put in onions in both seeds and sets, broccoli, cauliflower, savoy cabbage, red cabbage, bibb lettuce, carrots. Thinking of putting in some Asian greens (bokchoy and Chinese cabbage), daikon radish and Swiss chard, cleaned out the flower bed, some of the bulbs are getting really big, I need to get about about 3 more bags of horse compost to top off the raised beds. I never dig, I just plant right in the compost and let the microbes do their job. Steer manure is too strong and needs to be dug in and it stinks too, horse compost does not. There is a place here where people keep their horses and the sweepings and horse manure are composted and sterilized and sold to the public. It's as good as the sludge I could get in Tacoma, WA when I lived there for about 18 months. Here sludge is exported to Kern County for agricultural purposes and I can't get it here. (So people and animal poop get exported to Kern County to return as fruit and vegetables to LA and Orange County!!!) The noses of the people are allegedly too sensitive to its odor. Hah! there are scents that really upset me! People have been using manure of animals and people for thousands of years to fertilize their fields!!! Forget about fertilizers made from chemicals, I prefer those made from natural things like straw, poop, dead plants, etc including animal and human poop!!! The Earth is one big recycling bin , think about it! Nothing ever goes away, it just changes into something else.

 

[LTS3]

The VIP didn't show up until after 6pm as I ready to leave with the OK with the associate director So I had to stick around for another half hour. I was at work for a good 12 hours yesterdayThe extra hours are going on my time sheet next week since this week's time had already been approved. I didn't get home until close to 8pm Hopefully us sticking around late on a Friday before a holiday weekend was good enough to impress the VIP and everything works out for the company

Cats were fine. No mystery puddles of vomit on the floor. Leroy's tummy was gurgly but I think that's from going too long without food.

 

[Mamanyt1953]

Little Bit showed up last night with TWO KITTENS in tow! They are, of course, still VERY shy of me, so I only got a glimpse, but there is one who I think is solid black, and one little Tuxedo. I'm guessing that Austin (the Old Man) may have fathered this litter. He's getting more feeble by the week, and it was a comfort to see his immortality eating kitten chow on my back porch. THAT SAID, if this stupid town would change their 19th century thinking, they would all be TNR'd, and I wouldn't have to worry about homeless kittens at all!

 

[Alicia88]

I wonder if there might be some kind of "underground" program for this. Maybe there's a vet somewhere who turns a blind eye to feral kitties.

 

[Alicia88]

Aedan has a cold or something. He's been coughing. It's a weird cough. Sounds like a cross between a cough and a sneeze. I looked up croup videos and it sounds a little like that but not quite. He's not wheezing or anything. He's not even acting sick. Just that weird cough.

 

[kashmir64]

After a week of 75° temps, I went ahead and prepped the cooler for winter. It's cool enough, I won't need it again 'til next year.
I wake up this morning and ran outside to take the dogs out...it's 34° and sleeting. Come on, it was 75° not even 15 hours ago. Who expected this?!! I just wish I had realized this before I went out in shorts and a tank top. Nothing quite like standing there freezing, being pelted with tiny bits of ice and your dog is peeing a river and won't stop.
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