Posted on 02/03/2015 6:27:08 AM PST by MasterMason
I just re-joined FR and I would like to post to my local NC state board but I am not able to. How do I get the ability to do that?
Oh, you missed it? DP, Elen, and I went out to lunch and shopping at Target. On the way back, I suggested we stop again at the G household to see if, being an engineer, DP might press the keys on the garage access pad and cause the door to rise. Stranger things have happened.
Unfortunately, it didn’t work. However, after viewing the dog door and hearing my suggestion that Tom bash it with a sledgehammer, DP produced a screwdriver and got the door open without violence. Then we went home, got Frank, and sent him through the dog door to open the patio door. (Frank is used to this sort of thing. Our neighbor Vicki, the crazy cat lady, had a problem with the door handle of her truck. For several weeks, every time she wanted to go somewhere, she would come get Frank and have him climb through the back window.)
While all this was going on, a neighbor came out to see why we were breaking in, accepted our explanation, and offered to sell us some of her furniture when she moves next month. I’ve got her number on the refrigerator; we need to replace the zebra-striped loveseat with something more-new to us.
Anyhow, the guinea pigs were doing well at last report, and we also found a fish in a jar on their counter and fed him.
If that were to happen in a movie I’d roll my eyes and say, ‘Oh, puh-LEEZE!”
I’ve burgled at least two houses, at the owner’s request when they locked themselves out.
The trick with that is to find a way in without damaging something that would then have to be repaired. That’s the way I do things.
What puzzled me afterward was that no one was curious to discover the weakness in their security that I had used to make entry. I guess they figured that if someone is going to be quiet and not break things then they’re okay to be there.
Which part is unrealistic?
The Movie Reviews
Tonight we saw “Big Eyes,” the story of Margaret Keane, who painted the soulful children with huge eyes and doleful expressions. It turns out that her husband took
all the credit for her paintings, and when she divorced him, he lied in court about doing that. She won the suit and left him in the dust of oblivion when people found
out he actually couldn’t paint at all, and everything he supposedly “painted” was done by others, whose signatures he painted over with his own name. “Keane” wasn’t
even his real name, either. It was 4 stars for the acting and the story. I had no idea about this until we watched this movie.
Then, “Wild Card” with my favorite tough guy, Jason Statham, who is a sort-of enforcer for the good guys. He’s very good at beating up the bad guys, but his dream
is to go to Corsica with enough money to buy a really nice yacht and live on it forever. He wins really big at Blackjack, but he loses it all again. He is nearly killed
by a mob brat, Milo Ventimiglia, but Jason wins out in the end. It was definitely 4-star material.
Some people who reviewed it didn’t like it, but they were comparing it to “Heat,” which had the same story line but with Burt Reynolds in the Jason Statham part.
Why would you replace a zebra-striped loveseat?
Tom has been sitting on it for two years.
It’s a clever thought, but I don’t think it will work — to try to get rid of the seat with him still on it.
Even charities will insist that you keep him before they accept the furniture.
It looks like a paint palette....
Busdaddy’s first wife passed away yesterday morning, and his truck wouldn’t start, so I went over to help him run some errands. The good news is that he filled my gas tank.
The bad news is that I didn’t get any work done here except for changing the sheets on the bed. *sigh* I still have dishes to do and floors to sweep and mop, but the floors are a little iffy, as I’m nearly out of Wet-Jet solution. No more til payday. The same for shower cleaner. :o|
I left my pedometer at Busdaddy’s, but with luck, he will bring it tomorrow. That is, if the truck is working. He seems to think the original diagnosis ($4500 worth) might be faulty, and it may be something that can be solved for a paltry $200. It will certainly take some pressure off him, for sure.
Jerry called me yesterday and told me there was still no news on the part, and asked what I wanted to do. I told him we will wait, and if I have to, I will get another movement permit. Right now, I’m good until the 27th. This wouldn’t have improved if I had had the original smog test even a week earlier.
Kittens have three daddies.
I’ll take the gray one. He or she looks a bit like our late Muffin.
What I have observed, though not tested rigorously, is that pets which most resemble other or former pets, are actually the least like them.
Buyer beware.
My sister slurps too loudly, but I love her anyway.
What an adorable family!
Possibly..
But not necessarily so. I would bet that the black kitty and the orange kitty are both males and the gray/cream/whatever kitty is a female.
My memory could be off in some of the details but as I remember, it is the X chromosome that carries the color gene. The Y in the male has no color gene, and to get your multicolored blotchy (calico, tortoiseshell, etc) you need two different color genes - say the orange gene on one X and the black gene on the other X..
In normal places a mammal possessing two X chromosomes is a female, it is only the higher mammals of the Homo Whatever species that seem to have a problem with that (can't call 'em Sapiens because they aren't). Thus female cats can exhibit a wide range of combos from their two color genes while males are stuck with the black, white, orange and dilutants (browns and grays for instance - a dilute black..)
If not totally correct the above is at least the general idea. I tried to find where I read that (researched it once due to a discussion on the possibility of a male calico cat - yes it's possible but it would be sterile and have a messed up gene pattern something like XXY or similar) but at the moment the source has fallen into the cracks in the interwebs..
And on an unrelated note, re: your tagline, if you take the entire Psalm, there seem to be some other applicable verses you could choose to pray for that particular person ;-)
Thank you for ALL that info, NC.
None of them looks like the Mom. Calico is a recessive pattern.
I’m very sorry about Busdaddy’s first wife, and also his truck. We’ve had another day of success with the new car. Tom took Pat to his Envirothon meeting, way over near South Carolina, and came back safely.
If a part was needed, it would have been needed if you’d gone for the test earlier. That doesn’t make it less annoying of course.
Kathleen missed her nap again. It’s going to be a long 3 hours or so until she can go to bed for the night! Anoreth and Bill have gone to Raleigh for a concert. The Dog is sad.
Saw “While We’re Young” today.
Mediocre film.
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