Evening, everyone.
Barry, I told you in the spring to stock your lake with catfish but, would you listen - no. You'd be rolling the dough with your 2,000 pound catfish harvest about now.
Chris, I could have really used that hedge trimmer today, since we're having a bunch of people from church over for dinner tomorrow and it was "Clean up the yard or else" day for me. That little Craftsman hedge trimmer is only good for things the size of toothpicks.
The dufus who owned the house before us considered himself to be some kind of horticultural expert and planted all kinds of wierd stuff, including some kind of tree thing in the narrow space between the brick wall and and the walk up to our front door. It has little red berries on it and no one here has been able to identify it. They grow about four inches a day and I have to constantly prune them because they grow down over the walk and up into the gutter and soffits. I started on them today again and then I thought, wait a minute, I hate these trees. They are my enemy. In combat, deadly force is authorized, so out came the chain saw. All four are now in the bottom of a gully down the road. I should have done it the second day I moved in. The front of the house looks much better.
LTF, when I got my teeth yanked, it took about a week for the swelling to go down. I hope yours does better. As far as pain pills, I was eating them like candy, but I'm a big wuss
I have no fear of death but I do fear pain, so bring on the heavy duty narcotics. Happy early birthday to you if you don't get back to Flo's before Thursday.
Jeffrey, it only bottomed out at 52 here so I'm surprised your neck of the woods got so low. It's 52 now and I don't think it will drop much more than into the high 40's tonight. From your description, it sounds like some component in the DVR is failing but only intermittently. Dish was always good with me when I had them. If something started acting up, they didn't even try to troubleshoot it, just gave me a new one. I think those things are really meant to be disposable now.
Bob, sorry to hear about Angela's aunt. I know what you mean about too many funerals. Sorry about the busted molar too. It is kind of funny that wives think we must have been on life support before we met them.
I managed to make it just fine on my own, including keeping the house and me reasonably neat. I was married too young for wild super bowl parties but it sounds like they must have been fun if you were drunk enough.
Rex, the first "real" job I got when I was still in high school was in a machine shop. I had to sandblast 1500 pipes that were going for some Navy contract. It was summer, no air conditioning, and the the gloves that stick into the sand blasting booth had holes in them. It was that summer that convinced me that getting better grades and going to college was a good idea.
The Tide almost blew what should have been an easy game. As you said, they have to keep focus for every game, and I don't think it was there today. Thank goodness for that monster we have that can block field goals.
Whew, I'm tired. After all the yard work, I had to clean the basement and get the layout in presentable shape since some of the guys coming over want to see it. Everything ran fine this afternoon. By tomorrow, I expect that half of everything will suffer from some mysterious malady like what's attacking Jeff's DVR. It never fails the few times I have anyone look at the layout. The tropics have now gone back to sleep. 95L couldn't escape the dry air and it's being absorbed by the cold front that went through here. Nothing on the horizon looks threatening. It's still nine days before we leave for our cruise so I expect a monster storm to develop out of nowhere about eight days from now.
BTW, is anyone else nervous about the "National Health Emergency" proclamation that was signed "late" last night?
