Posted on 12/29/2021 5:57:37 AM PST by Red Badger
Happy Thorsday! It’s 24 fs here and forecast to be mid-40s later. We’ll wait until after lunch to go over to the science team leader’s house and identify trees.
Those doorknobs are to die for! The blue one, especially!
But this is a two-paned screen/storm door, with the screen on the bottom and an adjustable window that is supposed to be on the inside. It’s currently on the outside because it’s a left-hand door. It would fit the apartment next door, but not this one because they face each other at an angle. A wide “V” with about 5” of wall that separates them. The manager, being new and being young, didn’t realize she was supposed to order a right-hand door.
The maintenance man is young as well and was trying to get the door to fit until I told him to give up. It’s not going to work, no matter what he does to it. Not his fault. He was trying to correct someone else’s mistake but this one isn’t correctable.
Yep, them, Spock and Cthulhu...........................
I wish my grammar school teachers would have been tolerating enough to allow me to stay standing after a misspelling in spelling bee drills but I would be forced to sit down, I’d get fidgety, and then be forced to stand in the corner. I was a happy camper. I was standing
What a sweet little floof!
Good morning.
I hope you slept well.
I was awake longer than I should have been, but I still woke up 15 minutes after the alarm should have gone off.
Today is National Chocolate Day as well as Holocaust Remembrance Day. The two should not coincide.
FS may or may not come over today and put some things together. It depends on his work load. I won’t know for another hour or two. Or maybe several.
Last night, they were filling out their applications for European driver’s licenses, and he sent me a text asking where he was born. Well, he was born at Gt Lakes, NTC, but it’s been decommissioned so he was born at the nearby army base. How does that work, I wonder? :o] Anyway, it’s probably the only contact I’ll have with them until Saturday.
The squirrels are a chatty bunch, and if one of them saw the murder of a gang member, you can bet the entire gang and their cousin’s brother’s uncle’s dad knows all about it. They’ll steer clear for a while, and then they’ll force a young one into a rite of passage to bell the cat. I love a good story!
And hooray for the Duke de Marmelade! Although squirrels are like crows in intelligence, which is why they’re so successful. They bury up to 10,000 nuts/acorns and can remember where they all are. If they don’t retrieve them, it’s because they don’t want to and not because they’ve forgotten. They always find the oldest ones first when the need arises.
Good Friday Eve morning.
I haven’t done my Wordle today. Maybe I should. My brain needs the stimulation. ;o]
Current read of outdoor non_digital thermometer is 10°F, no wind to speak of, so there’s that.
A few years back there was feral Siamese, unusual, that used the storm drain line to peer out from the curb cuts, his private pill box system...always odd to see him peering out looking for lunch safe from Bluejays.
Huh. Took me five again. *sheesh*
It’s 31° here, with a high of 43° expected. It’s overcast for now, so it’s possible that it will just stay cold.
Siamese are clever and stealthy. This one obviously figured out how to survive in an area where most humans would think impossible. Blue jays are opportunistic thieves. They also are very territorial. The cat was smart to use the pill boxes to avoid being bombarded.
Good morning again. I’m going to take a shower, and then probably go to Walmart. We’re out of apples and bananas again, and I expect the bros will want supper at some point.
Tom the Son is not, in fact, dead, as I had begun to expect from the lack of response to my texts. I told him to come this afternoon and take Vlad to practice backing and turning.
I listened to an uplifting talk, then made my bed and figured while I was in there, I should probably vacuum, which I did.
Now, I have to sit for a bit before the next project, which is sorting the pills for the next week. Maybe I’ll get another box unpacked today. I’ll see how I feel after getting the pills sorted. One more box is one step closer to being able to wash the walls at the far end of the room!
Good luck to Tom and Vlad on the Driving Adventures.
Maybe I can snag my FS and have him drop off this package at the post office. I’ll text him and ask.
Good Morning!
Will get caught up on pings soon.
Today’s:
Wordle 222 4/6
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Del Rio is a lot further south at around 29.3° N.
Much warmer down there usually.
Yesterday's was an odd one, first 3 rows eliminated a lot of letters and gave me two letters in use. The guess was made based on that data (and bearing in mind that it is a British game)...
I like to eat, eat, eat apples and bananas.
I've not the British-ness of the source impact the choice of words yet. There was one day the word was "shire", but because of the popularity of the LOTR here I didn't consider that a particularly British word.
The Trivial Pursuit game on Pat’s Nintendo is British. It asks questions about cricket, football teams, and the English version of Monopoly.
Yesterday’s was pretty rugged for me, and today’s almost as bad. I’ll get the hang of it as I do more puzzles. Right now, the brain effort is almost painful.
I’m not a quitter, though, so I’ll keep plugging along until I’m good at it! I’m just SO out of practice!
That winter was especially cold, with night-time temps in the 20s. I remember it because there were some carolers on Christmas Eve that were determined to stay out in the cold, even though they weren’t dressed for it, and sing to me. So I gave them some warm homemade pumpkin pie and sent them on their way. They were singing to everyone who had a porchlight on, I think! It was an amazing Christmas gift.
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