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1. The toilet is big because this was supposed to be a room for people over 400 pounds. Then they found out that no one told the architect and the door frame will not accommodate The bigger beds. They fold to get into the room but once the patient is in, they cannot roll them out the door for surgery, etc.... 2. The pace maker may be defective. More on this on Monday. 3. The medicine did not have any life altering consequences but also hasn’t been beneficial. ( of course this is likely inconclusive if the pace maker is actually defective). 4. I am not at the hospital but instead going to take Paulie to dog school at 10. That will likely be a disaster but he needs the routine. 5. All of us are tired of this but I see others at that hospital and know we are blessed.

Nothing exploded after we came home. The first photo is from a picnic dinner Wednesday evening on the eastern slope of my local mountain. The other two are about three hours from ABQ.

It is good to see you came to us first. You should probably gift it to me and avoid the tax hit.

I think this is as close as I'll ever get to the Swiss Alps.

Just went to the LGS and picked up a small tin. Sardines on toast! Im also making chicken & dumplings for Sunday dinner!

NJ?

Should I continue my streak of 23,633 days of being morel-free or not?

I found a pic of the first house in the winter.

Walked about 3 miles push mowing the yard. Took the MTB over to Dark Island Trail and did about 1 2/3 laps. I was running out of gas on the 2nd lap so turned back at the highway. Cold front coming. Temperature dropped from 91 to 81 on the ride. Very dry and dusty.

Came home from my AM shopping..and wondered about lunch. Remembered a can of Trader Joe's sardines in the cupboard ( not out of date )...As a child, my grandfather made them for me..mashed with vinegar and on white bread..Today, I had them the same way on a small piece of Naan bread. I like them every once and awhile.

You crack me up, @shootingstar.

Alberta..., pretty much Texas but with winter and way less guns

Wait. So, your spouse is in Vancouver? And you’re in Calgary? Cash that bitch out and go be with your man!

Lauterbrunnen is all that. We spent four days in the area.

I cleaned the picnic table so we could eat outside. When the kids arrived the first thing they did was turn on the Steeler game. I thought I might have to feed them inside. They eventually decided to come outside and eat their lunch.

Once the streamers deploy, I'll be one stylin' frog!

I am a Texan. Where else but Texas could I live?

Just rode the Greater Allegheny Passage/C&O canal trail non-stop, from Pittsburgh to Washington D.C. in 21 h 36 m. To raise money for a food pantry. Beast.

I vote family. And I’m loving the possibility of a new Cafe tradition: Moral Dilemma Mondays.

I'd say yes we fit. (the short answer) It took years for WoBG and I to find a place to live. First we looked at homes in MANY locations. We'd find a home we liked but the location was horrible. Or there were locations we liked and none of the home were something we liked. Then we switched to looking for empty lots. So location became the only concern. We looked at MANY locations. During these searches... I'd find several possible locations and WoBG and I would have a road trips to see the homes or lots. You can see pictures on the internet, but many are staged with the 'perfect' picture of a location. I'm old school and want to SEE the site. When we did find our lot. Then it took me a LONG time looking at hundreds (or more) of plans for homes on the internet. WoBG would get the short list (which over time was rather long) for her input. Eventually we found 'our' home to build. So we built our home on our lot and we survived that process. (If you have built a home you know what I mean.) We have no plans on leaving anytime soon.

I’m good here. We’re doubling down on our house this year, remodeling the kitchen, bathrooms, replacing flooring, and building a bigger shed. What I like best is coming home after traveling somewhere else.

I fit where I live. No desire to move.

I’m never sure I ever really “fit” here. But I could live a happy life as a misfit. However, the last few years things have polarized to such a degree that I don’t enjoy it the way I used to. That and winters just get harder as I get older.

new-human-powered-era RG's helping

Acreage is great. Two words: Elbow room. Won't really see the neighbor's homes from our windows. City lots are very close. I can hear the neighbor's garbage can slam shut. I can hear their dogs like they are in my bedroom. Less congestion. Area for a large garden with my OWN water. Less light pollution. County property offers lower property taxes Less crime compared to the city Parking is a non-issue

Language barriers. Americans who don't speak English posting with someone raised Chinese who now lives in Canada and speaks Canadian which is also not English. It's a wonder we can communicate at all.

If you can afford it make memories. But you could still ask them to bump a little.

And every educator has heard this. I am a fan for sure but never attributed those songs to him. "I cannot go to school today," Said little Peggy Ann McKay. "I have the measles and the mumps, A gash, a rash and purple bumps. My mouth is wet, my throat is dry, I'm going blind in my right eye. My tonsils are as big as rocks, I've counted sixteen chicken pox And there's one more—that's seventeen, And don't you think my face looks green? My leg is cut—my eyes are blue— It might be instamatic flu. I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke, I'm sure that my left leg is broke— My hip hurts when I move my chin, My belly button's caving in, My back is wrenched, my ankle's sprained, My 'pendix pains each time it rains. My nose is cold, my toes are numb. I have a sliver in my thumb. My neck is stiff, my voice is weak, I hardly whisper when I speak. My tongue is filling up my mouth, I think my hair is falling out. My elbow's bent, my spine ain't straight, My temperature is one-o-eight. My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear, There is a hole inside my ear. I have a hangnail, and my heart is—what? What's that? What's that you say? You say today is. . .Saturday? G'bye, I'm going out to play!"

That sounds like a mob guy

The original plan was to wall in the side yard outside the master bedroom window, turn the window into a doorway, and build a hot tub retreat for two accessible only through the master bedroom.

I thought he was moving in with Chris's MIL, what gives?

I find myself eating them, because they are healthy. I'd rather have a salmon, cod or halibut.

She owns mountain property to protect it from development. It’s habitat to wildlife, so she doesn’t see it as land that’s doing nothing.

I’m all in on Aire appreciation! She broke the good things cookie jar when she gifted Einstein a tractor. A tractor! That is how good things is done.

Hit photo limit with 2 from an older iPhone (6s)

A rode in some small German towns near the Austrian border. It was like riding through a fairy tale.

Apparently one of your limited skillz is posting here, so you should visit for the practice!

I don't count the windows 7 machine slaved to the battery chargers. I did have one windows 10 machine in the secret lab however for all those programs that don't run on chromebooks. It has been misbehaving for a couple of months, making noises of the HDD tracking rapidly back and forth between adjacent tracks without any data being moved. I did take the two months to vacuum all the pics and data files and music off the drive in preparation of it's impending demise. Well, today it finally crashed, won't even find the boot track and boot the computer. Well shit, do I want to repair the HDD equipped, no wifi, low memory, small power supply, no DVD, dead computer. No Found a new one 10th Generation Intel Core i3-10100 4-Core Processor (Up to 4.3GHz) 8GB 2666MHz DDR4 Memory | 512GB NVMe M.2 SSD | 8X DVD-Writer Double-Layer Drive (DVD-RW) Intel Wireless Wi-Fi 6 AX200 802.11ax Dual-Band 2.4GHz and 5GHz featuring 2x2 MU-MIMO technology | Bluetooth 5.1 | 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet LAN 1 - USB 3.2 Type C Gen 1 port (up to 5 Gbps) (Front) | 5 - USB 3.2 Gen 1 Ports (1 Front and 4 Rear) | 2 - USB 2.0 Ports (Rear) | 2 - HDMI Ports Windows 10 Home (USB Keyboard and Mouse Included) Not a gamer computer but adequate and 450 new after taxes delivered. I still have a graphics card that can be moved over and another external dvd along with my seagate backup drive.

I almost gave your post a trophy.

...doesn't this predispose us toward assuming vulgarity when something is omitted in any other slang vernacular phrase like this ? I'm thinking of how I always use, "...and the horse you rode in on, " as a handy substitute for "Fuck you." If we were not predisposed toward assuming vulgarity, it might imply, "I have great respect for you, and the horse you rode in on."

I thought it was a wild hare?

^this I had a deck built for a glassed in spa room and hot tub twenty years ago. I took out the bedroom window and installed a door. The outside wall I removed the siding and covered the wall with 4X8 plexiglas mirrors. The outside spa door goes out onto the pool deck. I have never regretted it although I should have used four season windows. I keep plants in the spa room over the winter. The outside door on the spa room not only gives pool access but also is a fire escape if we had a fire between the bedrooms and the front door.

Without the "up the ass" part it might be a fashion critique.

That’s how my grandma wrote her name, too. The treasurer at her church thought her name was Paula because she addressed all her offering envelopes Mrs. Paul A Martinez. Her name was Rose.

Autumn is beautiful!!!!

Yup, it is good to have many different arrows in your quiver. Yuengling Premium Light and Lager Light are the piss waters of choice for me.

Dark chocolate is now a health food. Even more beneficial than ketchup.