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Post by staytuned on Nov 29, 2021 13:42:15 GMT
Wowee, we're almost in the last month of the year and that much closer to Christmas. Temps are supposed to go up a bit more in 40s normal range and snow we got has pretty much melted, so that' a goo dthing. Hope everybody stays safe and warm!
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Post by kritter on Nov 29, 2021 15:53:53 GMT
Temps in the mid to high 70s with sunshine here this week so all is good for me. Nighttime lows in the 50s and 60s.
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Post by staytuned on Nov 29, 2021 16:07:49 GMT
Yeah, rub it in, kritter.
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Post by jesmelric on Nov 29, 2021 19:55:06 GMT
Hello, I hope everyone had a nice holiday. My turkey came out a little dry but the gravy was good so that made up for it lol. Youngest DD had to open her mouth and start cr*p but that is par for the course for her. Long story short she is a difficult person. Sigh. Plenty of leftovers, so it's been nice not to have to do a bunch of cooking. By today we are pretty much turkey-ed out. I made a turkey potpie Saturday and it was delicious. Mom enjoyed her meal a lot and dessert, too. My sister took her out shopping for a bit at Target Saturday, mom really wanted to go. And then it turned out she was having bathroom issues and her foot started hurting and she wanted to leave pretty quickly. I guess her shopping days are pretty much over
Black Friday at the VV was a MAD HOUSE! I've been going for years and it's never been this crowded! They used to open at 6 on Black Friday and now they have changed it to 8, so the only thing I can think of is that more people are willing to show up at 8 than 6 lol. The surprising thing is probably at least 60% of people were wearing masks. They did it last year and it was the normal amount of Black Friday crowded. It took Forever to get through the racks and counting the line and check out process, that took 45 minutes. We spent 4 hours in that dang store. I was exhausted when we were done, I do believe I am getting old
DH and I did the ornaments Saturday and it was a bit more hassle than I was expecting (typical for me) I am really pleased with how they came out
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Post by val2525 on Nov 29, 2021 20:00:23 GMT
Those look really nice, jes!
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Post by kritter on Nov 29, 2021 20:00:46 GMT
Yeah, rub it in, kritter.
Yep, I think Kritter posted a weather gloat.
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Post by labbypaws on Nov 29, 2021 20:46:45 GMT
My mom had ALZ and I always had to have a pad on the car seat because I never knew what was going to happen. She also had dumping syndrome from having her gall bladder out and she had a few #2 issues and so I stopped taking her anywhere but day care. When we got her placed they were going to give her an enema and I told them she has the opposite problem.
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Post by labbypaws on Nov 29, 2021 20:49:40 GMT
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Post by Emerald_Door on Nov 29, 2021 21:02:18 GMT
DH and I did the ornaments Saturday and it was a bit more hassle than I was expecting (typical for me) I am really pleased with how they came out
The ornaments look fantastic! Where did you get the tiny deer, etc?
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Post by kritter on Nov 29, 2021 21:07:49 GMT
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Post by jesmelric on Nov 29, 2021 21:15:35 GMT
DH and I did the ornaments Saturday and it was a bit more hassle than I was expecting (typical for me) I am really pleased with how they came out
The ornaments look fantastic! Where did you get the tiny deer, etc? Thanks 😊 I got most of the items here www.smilemercantile.com/
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Post by staytuned on Nov 29, 2021 21:20:16 GMT
labbypaws- which cutie is that in the pic? He sure looks like he enjoyed the walk. Nice trail, too. Blue skies and sunshine make even the nekkid trees look a lot better.
jesmelric- glad you had a nice Thanksgiving and sorry you have a party pooper DD. Those are really nice ornaments!
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Post by staytuned on Nov 29, 2021 21:29:21 GMT
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Post by Desire on Nov 29, 2021 22:14:58 GMT
Yeah, rub it in, kritter.
Yep, I think Kritter posted a weather gloat. We had snow Saturday night and this morning the roofs were still all white because it's so cold here. And it's only just begun........... Only consolation with the very cold weather is that the black bears are probably going into hibernation and will leave the bird feeders alone. About every two weeks in the summer and lately every week they pull the whole damn feeding station right down. We improvised by getting one of our patio umbrella stands and putting the bird feeding station pole right into the slot that holds the umbrella pole. Then some shims and wedges to hold the feeder pole tight. So when the bears pull the whole thing over, the pole and umbrella base go over in one fall-over, and the bird pole doesn't get bent-off. Before he was bending/breaking the pole right off at ground level when he pulled the feeding station over, ruining the bottom section of the pole. Someday I will post the video when they came one Sunday afternoon (they usual come at night) and I was screaming like crazy and blowing the whistle. They were right at our deck, a few feet from our deck stairs. If I can figure out how to remove the voice from the video, as I cannot have anyone listening to such swearing words. Until DIL played it back for me I never realized I was screaming and swearing like that at them, with DH yelling at me in the background to leave the bears alone. Neighbors around here blow the bear horns or whistles to warn a bear is in the area. Here's one pic of a big one from last summer leaving our yard and crossing the road to go down our neighbors driveway.
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Post by denise15601 on Nov 29, 2021 22:39:52 GMT
Jes-beautiful ornaments!
Desire-that is one big bear!
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Post by labbypaws on Nov 30, 2021 0:21:40 GMT
labbypaws- which cutie is that in the pic? He sure looks like he enjoyed the walk. Nice trail, too. Blue skies and sunshine make even the nekkid trees look a lot better. jesmelric- glad you had a nice Thanksgiving and sorry you have a party pooper DD. Those are really nice ornaments! That is Patton. He will be 11 in March. He normally tires out in the warmer weather but he loves cool days. The trail is nice but they are putting in sewer lines along it. This section has a mile with black mesh fencing. Then looking down at the creek, all you see is construction equipment, pathways for the vehicles, huge sewer lines etc. I would love to see our resident eagles up close but I usually only see them high in flight. If I go the other way, part of the trail collapse around Hrurricane Ida and they are still repairing it. It is nice and peaceful during the week.
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Post by labbypaws on Nov 30, 2021 0:29:50 GMT
This is our wildlife. They creep under our fence. Come around a few times a year. They are at my dog door. The one photo shows 2 of them. I yelled at the one to “go home” and he jumped a mile and took off. I am going to have to grate some Irish Spring.
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Post by denise15601 on Nov 30, 2021 1:09:38 GMT
This is our wildlife. They creep under our fence. Come around a few times a year. They are at my dog door. The one photo shows 2 of them. I yelled at the one to “go home” and he jumped a mile and took off. I am going to have to grate some Irish Spring. Whoa! Can they come through your dog door?
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Post by labbypaws on Nov 30, 2021 1:15:34 GMT
This is our wildlife. They creep under our fence. Come around a few times a year. They are at my dog door. The one photo shows 2 of them. I yelled at the one to “go home” and he jumped a mile and took off. I am going to have to grate some Irish Spring. Whoa! Can they come through your dog door? We keep it closed at night although once in a while we leave it open if we go to bed early. I think they want the dog food which we have in heavy duty Vittle Vaults near the patio door. The scary thing is the one night this weekend, hubby woke up at 3 AM and let them out because he thought the one had to go. He left the dog door open and Foxy Fox stopped by at 5 AM. Luckily he didn’t push on the flap.
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Post by Desire on Nov 30, 2021 2:20:01 GMT
This summer was bad here in CT. The bears were breaking into many homes and even cars, and the State warned us not to leave food or groceries in unattended cars in our driveways. The bears stand straight up on their hind legs and open the car doors and will pull out the food. We never saw them until the summer of 2020 when they started here in our area. On our local Facebook groups were so many posting pictures all summer long of bears in their yards, pulling feeders down, opening doors, etc. I used to leave our sunroom doors open at night and just lock the sliding glass door screens, now we have to be sure that the glass doors are closed and locked or they would break right through the screens. I'm sick of it.
On the video of them in the back here, they were standing right up staring at us. They are scary when they are up on their hind legs, over 6' tall.
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Post by staytuned on Nov 30, 2021 2:31:01 GMT
Desire and labbypaws, you both make my constant battle with the squirrels pretty lame in comparison, especially the bears. Yikes to that.
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Post by kritter on Nov 30, 2021 2:48:25 GMT
I am one for the path of least restriction so I would yank down those bird feeders and let the feathered ones fend for themselves or visit somebody else's house.
If you don't have anything out there for them to yank down maybe they will move on to your neighbor's house that does.
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Post by RetroMonde on Nov 30, 2021 4:50:10 GMT
The ornaments look fantastic! Where did you get the tiny deer, etc? Thanks 😊 I got most of the items here www.smilemercantile.com/I've ordered from them and they have the CUTEST stuff AND are nice folks to deal with! Your ornaments are adorable!
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Post by Desire on Nov 30, 2021 14:07:12 GMT
I am one for the path of least restriction so I would yank down those bird feeders and let the feathered ones fend for themselves or visit somebody else's house. If you don't have anything out there for them to yank down maybe they will move on to your neighbor's house that does. We had been taking the feeders off the poles and bringing them in at night but then we'd forget, nothing would happen so we'd get lazy about it and they would be ok, then we would see the pole knocked down. But it's not just the feeders. It's garbage cans that are left out for collection, food on grills, etc. Last month our neighbor across the street had his 2 cans that were left out for collection tipped over and garbage was all over the street. We take our garbage bags to the dump every few days, store them in the garage, and installed a new garbage disposal for most food scraps. We used to have driveway collection but stopped it a few years ago. The day they showed up here on a Sunday afternoon we think it was the smell of the food on the grill that attracted them as I had a slower-cooking big piece of meat on the grill. We were sitting here in the family room and kitchen when DH said are those two bears out there? It was a bright hot sunny day and it seemed so wrong to see them standing there. I wonder if we hadn't gone out to scare them off with yelling and whistling if they would have tried to open the grill to get that meat. Now when we are grilling, we need to keep watch while the food cooks if it's a longer-cooking piece that take over a half-hour on indirect method of cooking. Our state is considering an actual bear hunt to eliminate many of them as they are becoming a big nuisance everywhere. It happened so fast here, we never saw a bear or any signs of them around here until June of 2020. I wonder if the lock-downs of Covid that started in March of 2020 contributed with so many people working from home that summer, more outdoor cooking as so most restaurants were closed, many planting gardens of food, starting bird feeder hobbies, etc.
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Post by blissfullymiserable on Nov 30, 2021 15:06:42 GMT
One time on a walk in a nearby neighborhood we saw a Javelina family but that's about it for wildlife here. There's other desert wildlife but we don't live close to a desert area. Shopped a lot this weekend and Cliff was home for four days so wasn't able to get much done, worked a good part of the day yesterday listing and didn't make that much of a dent. Hopefully today I'll get caught up but then there's a silly amount of stuff to organize/put away. Vicious cycle.
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Post by jesmelric on Nov 30, 2021 19:00:39 GMT
Desire and labbypaws, you both make my constant battle with the squirrels pretty lame in comparison, especially the bears. Yikes to that. Omg, right?!! I just don't think I could deal with bears. Yikes. I live in an urban area. There's coyotes down by the bayou, I'm a few blocks from it. I have seen one trotting down the street in the middle of the day. It seemed so out of place at first I thought it was kind of a weirdish dog lol. And of course squirrels, possums, raccoons. My neighbor has a lovely vegetable garden, but it attracts raccoons like crazy. She's had to have families removed twice. They have gotten in my backyard, much more so when we didn't have a dog. One cra*ped in the backyard some years ago and it was so HUGE I was convinced a human being some how (and why?) climbed our fence (a wood fence) and pooped in the yard. DH kept saying, that's a coon. I was like well how BIG was it? They do get pretty big, but nowhere near a bear size.
I am trying to put up my Christmas decorations today and I can't find my vintage knee hugger elves or my vintage tree topper. I don't like to put them in the attic so I always keep them in a bag in the hall closet. Except now they are not there. I don't have a single clue where else they could be, I never put them anywhere else. I've gotten myself so frustrated. And I'm also missing a small classroom of wooden angels. And come to think of it, I am also missing some other vintage angel ceramic candle holders, and some little vintage cardboard angels. Well shoot. I even went in the attic myself and looked for another box but nothing. Maybe DH will have some ideas when he gets home. I keep looking in the same stupid places over and over again. Sigh.
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Post by chapeaunoir on Nov 30, 2021 19:25:48 GMT
jesmelric - you didn't clean out the house at some point since last Christmas, did you? I lost an entire box of inventory when we were doing that and boxes got mixed up somehow. I only found out when I sold something out of that box and found donations in it instead. Other times the danged thing is right under my nose and the DH finds it lol. labbypaws - nice photos and I love Patton! How do you get the time and mileage watermark on the photo with runkeeper? I use it all the time but haven't seen that capability. It's just the usual weather here, dark and drizzly so nothing really exciting, except we're breaking rainfall records but so far the flooding and mudslides have been small - we get some huge mudslides here, like entire sides of bluffs, but fortunately not often - usually it's a pile of mud blocking a road, or a tree uproots and takes part of a hillside with it. It's absolutely against regs to cut any trees or brush on the steep hillsides here for fear of slides and so far everything is staying put. We don't have those huge black bears - gawd, that's a big one! Just what I call "household wildlife" - raccoons, possums, cabybaras down near the waterfront, some deer. Unfortunately, we also have coyotes - they are not native to the region but came down from the mountains. They do look like some kind of weird dog but I knew what they were as soon as I saw them as I used to encounter coyotes when I mountain biked. They're big and pretty bold - one pair took out a neighbour's very large sheep. I haven't seen too many lately, though.
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Post by denise15601 on Nov 30, 2021 19:37:32 GMT
There are a lot of wooded areas around me in my rural area.
But when there are bear sightings, everyone goes nuts. If one is seen in the Pittsburgh area, it will be on the news.
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Post by jesmelric on Nov 30, 2021 19:55:12 GMT
jesmelric - you didn't clean out the house at some point since last Christmas, did you? I lost an entire box of inventory when we were doing that and boxes got mixed up somehow. I only found out when I sold something out of that box and found donations in it instead. Other times the danged thing is right under my nose and the DH finds it lol. labbypaws - nice photos and I love Patton! How do you get the time and mileage watermark on the photo with runkeeper? I use it all the time but haven't seen that capability. It's just the usual weather here, dark and drizzly so nothing really exciting, except we're breaking rainfall records but so far the flooding and mudslides have been small - we get some huge mudslides here, like entire sides of bluffs, but fortunately not often - usually it's a pile of mud blocking a road, or a tree uproots and takes part of a hillside with it. It's absolutely against regs to cut any trees or brush on the steep hillsides here for fear of slides and so far everything is staying put. We don't have those huge black bears - gawd, that's a big one! Just what I call "household wildlife" - raccoons, possums, cabybaras down near the waterfront, some deer. Unfortunately, we also have coyotes - they are not native to the region but came down from the mountains. They do look like some kind of weird dog but I knew what they were as soon as I saw them as I used to encounter coyotes when I mountain biked. They're big and pretty bold - one pair took out a neighbour's very large sheep. I haven't seen too many lately, though. You know I have done that before, but no clean out in the last year. The more I am realizing it's vintage stuff that I probably didn't want to put in the attic, the more I think I put it in a box or bag SOMEWHERE. Thank you menopause. Ugh. But the angel classroom I probably wouldn't have. But since I don't remember at all maybe I shouldn't say that lol. I've already looked in the hall closet. Guest room closet is full of ebay inventory so no way. DH closet is off limits to me, he's got way too much junk. So that leaves my closet which is small and I have already looked in twice. You know, you would think having a small house would make it easier but apparently not. I feel like a 3 year old who drops to the floor and rolls around in frustration lol. Only I'd probably have a hard time getting back up.
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Post by labbypaws on Nov 30, 2021 21:15:39 GMT
jesmelric - you didn't clean out the house at some point since last Christmas, did you? I lost an entire box of inventory when we were doing that and boxes got mixed up somehow. I only found out when I sold something out of that box and found donations in it instead. Other times the danged thing is right under my nose and the DH finds it lol. labbypaws - nice photos and I love Patton! How do you get the time and mileage watermark on the photo with runkeeper? I use it all the time but haven't seen that . I think if I put the photo in the activity and hit share (like to Facebook) it does it. Then I save the photo to my photos.
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