Look at this!
She’s ASLEEP! What is it about my shoes??? Lord Thunderbutt will stick his head as far down my tennis shoes as he can get!
My car is SUPPOSED to be done tomorrow. Thing is going to cost me $500.00. We’re going to be eating a lot of beans the next 2 weeks. I told Spawn IF it’s done, when he comes to get me, we are going to the beach for a walk. We’re within 20 minutes of it and we need it. Badly.
Oh. Said transmission pan…. holy cats!
That’s the leaking…
And that’s the damage. I’m PRAYING there isn’t more damage to the transmission. I can’t afford it. I can’t afford THIS, I really can’t afford that. All bills should be paid at the beginning of the month. NOT this month. I see us riding the electric and water bill and maybe the gas bill until the 15th.
And eating lots of beans. Lots. Of. Beans. My home will be quite musical. You probably won’t want to come visit.
The ugly Autumn spiders are making their webs and that means cooler weather is finally on it’s way here. According to the weather service, highs will be in the mid 80’s for the next 10 days. Before you snort, highs have been in the mid 90’s, so we’re talking a drop by 10 degrees. It’s a start and I’ll take it!
I’m ignoring the clothing catalogs.
That’s a lie and you know it.
ManCandy will be LATE tomorrow. It might be Tuesday. No whining. Someone has chased me on 3 different archives begging me to write a series fic for a series I’ve not looked at in a few years. (A Rohirrim fic), I’m laying ground work to continue my NanoWriMo – When the Ribbons Dance – this November. Everything is being laid aside. William Edward is going to kill me when it’s over and Gary just has this sad look in his eyes, when he should be because he’s getting steady nookie! besides the fic that they are begging me to write won’t be very long at all. 2 itty bitty chapters at best.
Lord Thunderbutt is sitting in the laundry room, staring at the food dish. I guess he’s hoping for Second Dinner. Not happening.
My one social site where I get REALLY political has been a war zone this weekend. Not my feed, my PAGE. On it. At me. And I didn’t start it! People are fucking nuts!
I’m stressed people! really stressed.
I read ONE book this month – ONE! I’ve broken down and am doing something I”ve not done in eons! I’m reading someone else’s fanfiction. I”m having issues with the punctuation and formatting and I don’t know if the formatting is a download problem because I’m reading it on my kindle or what. i’m going to go back to the original site and see if the punctuation is awful there and mention it when I review. It’s not bad, considering it’s a movie I’ve not seen for REASONS… but I’m having issues.
OKAY! The ONE book I read this month is –
This series, while light-hearted and funny most times, always ends on somber notes, notes that make you think and either sadden you or make you think. The inhabitants are hysterical, if all related and in-bred. I don’t know why Arly hangs around. Jim Bob and Mrs Jim Bob need someone’s foot shoved up their ass… hard! Brother Verber – he who makes Christians look REALLY bad – discovers the joys of cross- dressing. I shit you not. Somehow, Arly manages to pull clues from the air and solve things with nothing to go on.
Oh and in this book, we discover just how much Kevin Buchanan REALLY loves his bovine wife. (Hint – he loves her a lot!)
I’m thinking I’m going to put down my kindle, put down my attempt to finish 15 series (hint – NOT going to happen! I’ve put a great dent in them, tho! I only have 4 more Maggody books left in this series) and write some. Like I said, I’m going back to When the Ribbons Dance for Nanowrimo and see if I can add another 25-30K to it. I hope.
And that’s a wrap. have some Richard.
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Did you get any rest at all this weekend? The damage came from the pot hole in the road? Hang in there with the car. We are in the low 80’s this week. My inside temp was at 71 on Saturday!!! These are great pics of Richard. Is the second one from Berlin Station?
The first agent said it’s road hazard and another said it was collision. Fate never deals me a fair hand so I’m planning on collision and me paying for it. It’s going to be an extremely tight month.
Our temps will be in the mid 80’s this week and next. A welcome break! When it hits the 70’s, we’ll turn the air OFF and open the doors. I get a great cross breeze.
I’m not real sure where the 2nd picture came from. I’m just enjoying the long long legs!!!
Oh yes the long lean legs for sure! I hesitated to ask about the political discussion on your social site (ie FB?) bec I thought you avoided the politics subject. My neighborhood blog yesterday blew up bec a man posted a pic and captioned it “most horrible lawn in the neighborhood” I was waiting for football to start and it just hit me full on angry and I wrote back sort of Armitage style but trying not to be preachy that how about some empathy for the fellow neighbor instead of shaming the house bec maybe an elderly couple live there or perhaps people who could not afford lawn service (I do my own lawn and my neighbors have cut mine and I theirs in the past) Why this man decided to shame this particular house I’m still trying to wrap my head around. A few other neighbors chimed in. I think I was so angry bec he posted the pic and shamed the house like he was the neighborhood policeman of lawns.
Yes FB – and I’m political there. That’s the ONLY place I’m political! LOL! My friends there know which way I lean and when there are discussions, they are typically reasonable, intelligent, and an exchange of ideas.
Not Saturday! NOPE! I just let them fight and ignored it. I have friends I don’t politically agree with and I tend to ignore their political posts. For some reason, they don’t return the favor, so it’s on them.
As for your nasty neighbor, I would put a ‘Nastiest neighbor in the neighborhood’ sign in his yard. My lawn man disappeared for 2 months and my neighbor was kind and mowed mine for me.
Yeah the nasty neighbor got an earful from not only me but a few other neighbors. The post disappeared this morning. I never comment on the neighborhood blog for the last 7.5 years I’ve lived in this community except when we had massive parking issues with people abusing the visitor parking spots. Normally it is innocuous about selling stuff or a couple of book clubs or cats or dogs that have gotten out (that upsets me too and is hard for me to read) But this just really broke my heart that someone would just take a pic and then post such a terrible and unkind heading. He also made such a nasty (worse than snarky) comment about no leaves on the tree which I didn’t quite get. I kept thinking what if that had been my parents house or if the owners living there were struggling financially or disabled how would that make them feel? The shaming of the people I think was what triggered me. Still sitting unsettled in me today.
I can’t stand that sort of thing! Our neighborhood is older – around 30 years. Some houses have been kept up VERY well and others haven’t. When Hurricane Matthew came through a few years ago, over 100 trees came down – 50 of them went through roofs. One house that was damaged is just now being repaired.
At the same time, we’ve had a home built in the back of the neighborhood – a Habitat for Humanity house! It took almost a year for it to get finished, but we have some happy neighbors and a happy neighborhood for it! I’ve found the majority of the people in my neighborhood are really nice and very helpful!
Yeah my neighbors on both sides of my townhouse are nice. My three dogs tend to be loud and guard our row of townhouses. We have small lawns and I noticed the neighbor on the right had her son mow both my stretch and theirs. My neighbor on the left did my other stretch when he had a bush trimmed. Both just did it on their own and I return the favor as often as I can. Overall the neighborhood is safe and friendly. There are more expensive single family homes within our Blog perimeter and this nasty behavior usually does not occur. It’s depressing really bec it is part of a bigger problem.. apathy. I’m not on FB and was bullied on it a few years ago so I won’t join that also goes for Twittter and Instagram even though Richard is on both. Just can’t stomach it to be honest.. so negative and so disrespectful.
People think because they can hide behind a name or whatnot, they’re safe and it’s okay to just say what they want. We’ve entered an age of no manners, no compassion, no empathy for anyone. It’s sad.
I have had a Twitter for years. I’m rarely there. I don’t have an Instagram. I got a FB when they first came out and then didn’t log on for 3 years – lol! I mostly play games and keep up with family.
And rude. I’m rather rude at times – lol!
I for one don’t find you rude. Rude is heartless, apathetic and mean spirited. You have a heart of gold. I find this blog refreshing and honest. I’m glad I’m reading your blogs from 4 years ago. I love the pics of Richard a lot of them I haven’t seen yet. Social media and I do not get along. I know a lot of commenters here are on SM and I’m happy if they get joy out of it. It freaks me out and upsets me bec of the apathy and lack of civility and no manners displayed and that is just the celebrity ones I read about!! The response would be tune it out Michele but it just breaks my heart the level of meanness now a days. Maybe I’m just too naïve and ignorant….
I have a pretty thick skin, so most times, rudeness doesn’t bother me. Of course, there are people who think I’m a bully and tell me so. They can’t tell me WHY they think I’m a bully. (They’ve showed up in my inbox under nonny to insult and harass me, and yet I’m the bully? really?)
Bullying is just horrible ugly and vindictive and done by
people who are shits. You are very strong and I just love
your blog for its honesty and how you open your life and
heart to EVERYTHING! I feel like yeah you’ve got a marvelous garden and I’m so happy to discover and participate in the plethora of flowers that bloom here! 😊😛 Corny I know ?!
Corny is good!
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Happy you are updating. Glad I’m not the one nagging. We all love your stories. ☺☺Here’s my usual “update Please”.!!!!!
Oh do you still name your cars? Is this Christine? I’m been back reading your blogs to catch up and is this the same Christine as 4 years ago?
No. Christine gave up the ghost back in February of 2015. My cousin gave my a Toyota Avalon – the Silver Fox – and my son rolled it a year ago to the day we had the incident with my Chevy. I’ve not named this one.
Time for a name? Napey curls maybe or Danny Boy? The package? How am I doing?
Hehehe. Has to be nice. My son and I share the vehicle.
Oh yes of course. Maybe have him bless the car with a name.
I’m afraid he’ll name it after a Formula Racer! LOL! Hey Mom! I’m taking the Force India out to get gas!!!
Well maybe Thorin? Balin? Dwalin? Gandolf? Is he a Hobbit or LOTR fan like you? That pic you posed of the two of you in 2014 he’s tall and good lookin kid! I like Christine! Quite clever-many references although I never saw the 1983 movie bec it was scary and my mom wouldn’t let my sister and I go to the movies by ourselves.
Christine was named after the car in the Stephen King novel/movie. I swear that car was possessed!!!! Oh my gosh, I had more trouble with her!!!
He’s a LOTR fan, not like me.
The Impala is heavy, low to the ground, reliable, a good car. I don’t know….