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Post by Emerald_Door on Nov 5, 2023 11:18:49 GMT
Today is November 5. On this day in history: Parker Brothers bought the copyright to Monopoly in 1935 and began marketing the game on November 5, 1935. On November 5, 1940, Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected for a third term, defeating Wendell Willkie. This actress was born on November 5, 1913. Do you recognize her?
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Post by Desire on Nov 5, 2023 12:15:42 GMT
Vivien Leigh, more famously recognized as Scarlett O'Hara. I've watched that movie at least a dozen times throughout the years and could watch it another dozen.
Parker Brothers hit the jackpot on the rights to Monopoly. We had an original set when we were kids and one when I was older. I think we played it several times a week. I always tried to get Boardwalk and Park Place.
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Post by val2525 on Nov 5, 2023 17:40:55 GMT
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Post by denise15601 on Nov 6, 2023 0:12:25 GMT
Today was pretty nice and I went to watch my grandson play his final football game. And he has already started into basketball.
So unfair---my veggies and flowers are all dead, but the grass keeps growing. I guess I have to mow again tomorrow if my tractor starts up okay.
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Post by kritter on Nov 6, 2023 0:49:25 GMT
LOL Kenya is all pissed off and yelling to go outside at the back door. I don't let her go out after dark and it has been after dark for an hour. She is not a happy girl.
All my plants are still alive, leaves are on the trees, and a new crop of weeds is coming around after the rain last week.
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Post by denise15601 on Nov 6, 2023 1:02:43 GMT
My plants look all sad, brown and droopy. I covered them with double sheets at night, to no avail. But before the frost, I did put some containers into my shed where they are still blooming. I am hoping that they will somehow regrow in the spring.
My snapdragons bloomed all summer and I had some regrowth this spring where the seeds fell.
I want to find some knock-out roses next summer. There is an apartment complex close to me that just planted them and they would bloom, drop the blossoms and bloom again. So pretty. But I didn't see any at the area nurseries. And then there is the fact that I am out of room to plant stuff.
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Post by chapeaunoir on Nov 6, 2023 1:22:13 GMT
Those are great daylight savings cartoons, and a beautiful photo!
We had a pretty good storm yesterday, but it didn't knock all the leaves off so when I went for my run today I was treated to beautiful red and yellow from the Japanese elms (which actually grow like weeds around here) and maples, contrasting against the evergreens, all of it glowing against the gray skies.
Ugh - that run. Sunday is my long run day and like a half wit I did NOT spend my extra hour last night sleeping, but reading and then puttering around the house, and stayed up too late. So I was tired when I got up and ended up dragging and prodding myself through 15 miles. I was supposed to meet up with my running friend for about half of it, but I think he's working too much because when I texted him about 6 miles in at our meetup spot asking where he was, he said he was on a completely different trail! Here we'd made these plans. I said maybe next weekend. So I just chugged through the rest of it. I'd had a peanut butter sandwich and a small latte I had made before I left, and some water during the run and that was it - I thought it would be enough but I was flagging at the end. I revived a bit after I had a bagel with some red pepper whipped cream cheese and a big glass of water with some replacement in it. Then I had a shower and put my Batgirl sherpa socks on and everything was better lol. Next weekend I'm going to use some of the DH's liquid replenishment, though plain old dilute Gatorade has worked really well, too, and see if I can manage a longer run with that and not start bonking. At the half marathon they had LMNT replacement which is not sweet but has essential salts, and despite just taking in small amounts every several miles, it worked really well. The best thing after a long, hard effort doing anything is V8 juice, though, and I didn't think to get any.
We used to play Monopoly all the time when I was a kid! It was the kind of game that appealed to both kids and adults.
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Post by sunsetpainter on Nov 6, 2023 5:55:19 GMT
Gone With The Wind is in my top 10 favorite movies. When DH was still working, I'd watch it every year on my birthday. But he doesn't like it so I'll put it on the TV in my office when I'm working.
I HATED playing Monopoly. My siblings always cheated and made up their own rules. Yahtzee was my game.
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Post by chapeaunoir on Nov 6, 2023 7:16:07 GMT
I used to play checkers with someone who made up her own rules, too. I mean, checkers...come ON!
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Post by labbypaws on Nov 6, 2023 12:22:20 GMT
We had a great time at the AJ Croce concert last night. Hubby was a little reluctant to go but boy was he surprised! It was just under 2 hours so it wasn’t too long for a Sunday night. 7-8:45.
He did some of his stuff and some of his father’s stuff and ended with Time in a Bottle. I would think that song is hard for him to do. His mom came up on stage and sang a few songs with the backup singers.
Lots of “old people” there like us. Kids today don’t realize what a treat it is to have musician play a real piano. No fancy lights to distract from the music. Well worth the $65 for each ticket.
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Post by Emerald_Door on Nov 6, 2023 13:21:45 GMT
Labby, it sounds like a great concert!
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Post by jesmelric on Nov 6, 2023 19:43:08 GMT
Hi guys, hope everyone is doing well. We had a wonderful Halloween! There were so many trick or treaters! I had four huge bags of candy and six regular size ones and gave out all but a few pieces. The adults who took kids out were dressing up, too. There were a lot of family costumes, as well. Two couples came together and dressed up as Fred and Wilma Flintstone and Barney and Betty Rubble. The kids were dressed as Pebbles and Bambam and they even had wood on the sides of the stroller to make it look like the Flintstone car! It was awesome. They started coming at about 5:30 and the last ones were right before 9, which is when we shut down. It was a super fun night. My nieces came to take their little ones out, and my nephew dropped by to visit for a bit, too.
On a more somber note, we buried mom's ashes Saturday. As DH was digging we played a song that mom really liked; Knockin' on Heaven's door by Bob Dylan. Then we read a poem (very hard with lots of tears, it's called Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep by Mary Elizabeth Frye) and when he filled it in we played Everybody Dance Now by C+C Music factory as mom always busted out dance moves when it came on and it lightened the grief a bit. DH marked it with a metal yard flower. My sister in law was telling me about a shrub called Indian Hawthorne. It makes lovely pink flowers in the spring into summer, and the leaves turn red in the fall. It is hardy to this zone and needs lots of sunshine and the spot we picked is perfect for that. So in the spring I will plant one there. I like the idea of mom's ashes nurturing flowers and I think she would like that, too.
We are nice and warm again, with temps expected to cool off later in the week. I am getting out to vote tomorrow, so the mild weather works fine for me. I sure hope PROP 4 passes in TX to reduce property taxes. They are outrageous. I can't imagine people wouldn't vote for it.
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Post by val2525 on Nov 6, 2023 20:52:25 GMT
I sure hope PROP 4 passes in TX to reduce property taxes. They are outrageous. I can't imagine people wouldn't vote for it. They may vote against it because lowering property taxes will most likely result in increased sales taxes. TX doesn't have a personal income tax and that's the other main source of tax revenue for any state. If anything, we need a personal income tax and to lower the exemption level for the business franchise tax. Businesses used to have to pay a minumum of $400/year in franchise tax, then it was raised to $800/yr, and then changed so that businesses making less than $2 mil gross receipts (I think it's $2 mil) don't pay franchise tax. That's a LOT of tax money the state is losing. Any company making $1-$2 mil a year can easily afford $800 in annual franchise tax. More franchise tax income would also help offset property taxes. IMO anyway. At least with an income tax, you have an idea all year long how much you'll need to pay. One can't control property taxes or sales taxes though. /folding up soapbox Mid 80's a muggy here for the next few days. Bleah. I'm OK with the 80s, but not the muggy. It's November, not May
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Post by chapeaunoir on Nov 6, 2023 23:31:11 GMT
jesmelric - your mom sounds like she was young at heart, busting moves to C+C! I have that song on my iPod and periodically do jazz hands to it when I'm running and no one is around lol. That's a great idea to have the shrub over her ashes! labbypaws - that sounds like a great concert - Croce's music is enduring and thematic, a bit like Harry Chapin. It's been pretty much raining steadily - on Saturday it was coming down in literal sheets - our flood mitigation system was almost a max with water pumping out of the drainage tube so hard that it was washing dirt down into our yard, and the drainage ditches in our area were flooding gravel and grot onto the roads. Then it settled down and we had a dry morning and early afternoon yesterday, but the DH hadn't been in long from his bike ride and me from my run when it started up again, and its just been pelting down most of the time since. We're going up to Canada tomorrow, but it's supposed to let up Tues. afternoon for a couple of days before coming back Friday morning, so we can squeeze a couple of hikes in. Over and above being out and about in the dirt and trees, we have to earn our pints at the pub and all that flash fried calamari that this one pub does so well. Anyway, with the clocks back and the heavy cloud cover it was starting to get dark at 3:00 pm. But, it's lighter in the morning. It's warm and cozy in the house, though!
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Post by denise15601 on Nov 7, 2023 0:15:53 GMT
Jes-that sounds really nice for your mom and I am sure she loved it. Although very sad, it still honored the special kind of lady that she was.
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Post by frakinfashion on Nov 7, 2023 17:53:01 GMT
((((jes)))) that sounds like a lovely ceremony for your mom and a great idea about the planting. It is apparent that she was much loved.
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Post by staytuned on Nov 8, 2023 2:35:34 GMT
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Post by Desire on Nov 8, 2023 13:43:22 GMT
staytuned The house is spectacular. The wall panels and woodwork are beautiful, as is all the stained glass. The only thing I didn't like was all the very busy wallpaper and the foyer tiled floors. The hardwood is beautiful throughout the rest of the house. They spent a fortune on the wallpaper, but I would take 90% of the wallpaper down. The painted walls in many of the other rooms is more of what I would strive for. Outside, it needs landscaping added to it. But it's a gorgeous house and the owners put a lot of work into it.
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Post by Tabby on Nov 8, 2023 14:50:43 GMT
Wow! Spectacular is the perfect word for that house. I actually loved all of the patterned wallpaper, ceilings, and floors. It must be sensory overload to walk into that foyer! And the millwork! Even the showers are clad in gorgeous wood panels. Can't imagine what it costs to maintain that old beauty - makes me think of the old saying about how nobody would buy an elephant, even for a dime, because you'd have to pay a fortune to feed it.
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Post by Emerald_Door on Nov 8, 2023 18:30:15 GMT
I completely agree with Desire and have to add that the wallpaper in the stairwell might give me vertigo.
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Post by jesmelric on Nov 8, 2023 18:47:59 GMT
Wow, that is fabulous!! What a beautiful home. Here is what a mansion for sale is in my neighborhood:
No history, just a bunch of excess and a ton of money Please bear in mind I live in a "old" home (ie built 1949, 1200 sq ft, land worth way more than house lol). We didn't have old Victorian houses before these mansions, just post WW II starter homes, but they sure have ruined the charm of the neighborhood. And there's so many, way too late to go back now. Sigh.
Another warm day here, some rain promised for Thursday evening into Friday. I guess we'll see. We are still in a drought here.
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Post by val2525 on Nov 8, 2023 20:22:19 GMT
Yuck, jes, on that "mansion". Here's a mansion in SA (actually in Alamo Heights): www.zillow.com/homedetails/555-Argyle-Ave-Alamo-Heights-TX-78209/26146545_zpid/I don't think I'd buy it even if I had the money. Or maybe buy it and turn it into a hotel and conference center TBH, I've driven past that place a few times and I honestly thought it was an abandoned hotel or office building. For that price, you'd expect more than just 3 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms
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Post by kritter on Nov 8, 2023 20:52:30 GMT
Of the 3 houses shown, I like the one that Val posted because of all the windows, the balconies, the bathrooms and the view. I have been in that house when somebody lived there and it looks a lot better fully furnished.
The first one is just way too busy with all those wall and rug patterns fighting each other and too much wood detail for me. The second one is too stark and cold looking.
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Post by denise15601 on Nov 8, 2023 22:28:40 GMT
All 3 of them make me tired just thinking of cleaning one of the rooms. Of course, millionaires have maids. No thanks.
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