General Discussion & Chat: Coffee and...part 10! :-D, 0 by meezersfive

meezersfive wrote:
Good Morning all....SE Wisconsin escaped all that snow. When I looked out yesterday morning, it was just wet out there. Then I did a long post, with a picture, and it went POOOOOFFFF into cyberspace......and then we got busy. Had to go pick up the newly painted "spare" commuter car that DH bought last month, looks really good. Has a lot of miles but with his TLC it will have more. The truck he fell in love with gets about 9 to 10 mpg......so it's costing about $200 a month to go to work. Imagine having all these cars and nothing to drive to work ...typical car guy.

Then it was off to breakfast, (my chauffeuring reward) and then to watch GS participate in an Askiemo (sp.?) tournament which involved sitting on hard bleachers for about three hours watching padded and helmeted combatants hit each other with sticks. The littlest kids were hysterical to watch because they closed in on each other and just kept bopping each other on the head...and dropping their "weapons". The older ones moved around more, but it was poorly organized and there was lots of waiting for the next event. Mind and butt numbing three hours..never again.

Julie did you say Iowa RG?? I've never been to one. I'd love to go, but we'd need to talk more about it.

Darius, we'll be happy to have you safe at home, we miss you. The walk with the birds sounds fantastic. Years ago when we were living in Denver the butterflies were migrating, and I could stand in the back yard with my arms outstretched and they would land on my hands. My kids thought I was magic!! It's such a thrill to have a wild creature touch you.

You all know this, having a mess in your house almost guarantees visitors. It kind of runs along the same lines as making a quick trip to the market in your ripped and/or dirty clothes (gardeners have lots of them) and running into a coworker or a snooty acquaintance. ...isn't that one of Murphy's laws? Same like when you are in a hurry, everybody is driving waaaaay too slow?

I'd better get busy, birthday dinner to fix for DS, who is 49 this year, and he's requested the same thing for the past 40+ years, spaghetti and chocolate cake with butter cream frosting...the frosting is a pain in the patoot to make as it requires more patience than I usually can muster, but it is delicious........and why not, it's got mucho butter and egg yolks in it... I had called DIL so she could ask him what he wanted and when she called me back I said I already knew, .....She said how did I know.........!! Like that was a big stretch!!!
Need to go chase dustbunnies too..................LOL