The Coffee House-Come & Chat With Us!(May 2020)

[silva]

I last let off where Monster Neighbor had laid what now I know to be dead red bud tree limbs and dead vines across the path between our yards. I initially thought it was to discourage the mail man from taking a short cut. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that she deliberately put the limbs where E and I would see them while we were sitting in the yard in the evenings as we do, chatting with neighbors as they go by on walks. That made me really mad. This is the same Monster Neighbor who, on a tree that straddled the shared property line, cut off all the branches on their side to make the poor tree so disfigured that E felt he really had to cut it down. It wasn't a great tree, but I liked it.

So once I realized that her gesture was more than likely directed toward us, I decided to "fix" it. I made several trips dragging those branches across my yard and through the back and piled them in the debris pile to be picked up by the city next go round. This afternoon when I was in my office I heard some noises from the yard and looked out the window and that witch had begun dragging the branches from my back alley right back where she had put them between our yards! I was livid.

I ran into her in the alley, she dragging yet another dead branch to put back in the front yard and boy did we have words. She accused me of being on her property (I was) and I accused her of deliberately trying to put an eyesore in our field of vision. I called her mean and selfish, and ended with "What the hell is wrong with you!". Later this afternoon, she removed the branches from the path. I don't know where they are, but I wouldn't be surprised if they block my getting out of my garage.

It takes a lot to make me blow. And when I do it's pretty impressive. I feel better now.

Be sure to become familiar with your cities ordinances to see what constitutes an infraction!

 

[Val]

@Poppy , (((Hugs)))

 

[PTree15]

@Poppy, I hope tomorrow is a better day for you.

 

[Val]

It's night over here, 2.30 a.m. Unghshu had quite a late walk this evening, moreover, i somehow don't sleep enough, and i'm acting like a zombie. Tomorrow, Elijah will come here again and continue doing repairs. I hope there will be less dust. Mom had bought a few tomatoes in the kiosk at the country, so she promised she would send them to me with Elijah. Life without tomatoes would be dull. I have (little) hangnails again, so i'm stuffing my face with red beans. I feel tired and anxious.
This evening, walking along the river, i saw some dudes on the opposite bank. I don't think those were the same dudes, but these ones were having a picnic (like those ones). In both cases, there were folding tables, folding chairs, a lot of booze and bbq. While there are very few cars on the roads, the amount of humanoids traipsing around is getting bigger. But i need to admit, that most of them are distancing from each other. Nevertheless, i saw 2 women (with little kids) standing in the middle of the road, very close to each other, chatting cheerfully, and their kids were having fun either,- none of them was wearing a mask.
When i was approaching my house, i saw one of our neighbours, who was dragging huge sacks of cement out of the entrance and putting them at the door. I tarried in indecision,- so he said hello, and (thankfully) stepped aside, like, 2.5 meters left, to let me pass through.
The weather is getting more and more summer-like, so i understand that staying at home all the time is not an option. OTOH, there's plenty of space outside to make avoiding each other possible. I wish people understood that.
Unghshu's walk (it was pretty late, so the moon was up, despite that the sky was still blue). It has got dark now, but in 30 min., it will start getting lighter.






Liza and mom are sending me photos from the country. We also can make video calls.
Look, David is playing with my toy car! (the car that Unghshu had bought for him the last year: he was too small for it then, but now he seems to enjoy it). He has a lot of fancy hats, lol.










"Helping" mom in the greenhouse.

 

[Chryssie]

The baby is growing up so fast!

 

[Chryssie]

Morning/afternoon y'all! Another sunny and hot day today! I may go out and about today. Publix has a couple of bargains I want to get before the sale is over. I made "sock masks" last night after my cousin posted a video It is really easy and should work better than the t-shirt I was tying around my head.

 

[silva]

Morning/afternoon y'all! Another sunny and hot day today! I may go out and about today. Publix has a couple of bargains I want to get before the sale is over. I made "sock masks" last night after my cousin posted a video It is really easy and should work better than the t-shirt I was tying around my head.

I saw that! Ingenious yes, too hot-yes.
I got an email from newegg.com for the pleated masks and bought 50 for like $35. I tried no-sew, sew, and was given one that was made very nicely.
Cutting the tops off socks is the perfect answer to making ear loops, and tee shirts make good ties.

 

[Chryssie]

I got grocery shopping done. Both Publix and Walmart had bare shelves but I got everything I wanted and needed. People still can't seem to get the concept of one way aisles! I also got gas for the cheapest I have seen it in a very long time!

 

[SuicideBlonde]

Hubby bought me a wrieless charger, so at least I can charge the phone. I need a new one, but I need work first.

 

[Chryssie]

I need to get a portable charger thingy. The one I had the cord isn't compatible with this phone I have now. I just discovered this after having the phone over a year!

 

[SuicideBlonde]

I have a couple of those, but since the port seems to not work, useless. I have my husband's old phone and it is slow to charge. My old one I had for about 2.5 years. It was super old and starting to get useless.

We did a nice house clan today. I keep up with it, sweeping and moping every other day, but he deep vacuums (allergies) and I mopped. I cleaned out the fridge, microwave, washed the sheets, put up launder. I need to load the dishwasher after another cleaning load. For a small home it gets messy. I have bbq jackfruit in the crock pot for a twisted taco night with the kimchi (yum).

 

[KLS52]

That’s impressive SB!

 

[SuicideBlonde]

Thanks. Did nothing yesterday and the weekend. It caught up a bit.


Quickly put toghter my couch with my squishmellow obsession. Old ugly couch, hand me down. Covering is peeling off and it lost a lot of stuffing. I cover it to make it not so bad.

 

[Amy SF]

Ever since I had a cold in early March, I’ve cut way down (though not completely out) on my dairy intake. Because today is Cinco de Mayo, the Latino activity director, who would normally have planned a whole big celebration for today, is going around offering snacks and nachos to everyone. I’m not a big fan of nachos to begin with, and I hate American cheese, so I politely declined. I took some potato chips instead. I don’t know if I’ll ever cut dairy out of my diet completely, but it feels good to know I can minimize my intake. That’s not easy to do around here. There’s cheese in so many things, especially what they make for me because I’m officially vegetarian.

 

[silva]

My house is a disaster-I need to purge. I should have learned long ago that if you keep things just in case you need them again you'll never need them. Only when you get rid of them do you need them--really bad!
I used to keep the mini blind brackets, I removed many from my old house and just kept them in case. Well here I have perfectly good blinds, but the brackets are all busted. I can only guess they got new blinds and put them up with the decades old brackets! Another one fell when I pulled it up and the plastic broke. Of course I chided myself about keeping them and threw them away. No, you can't buy the right ones anymore

 

[Danielle]

Anyone else able to taste food in their sleep? In my dream I tasted mint, there’s no mint in the house

 

[KLS52]

Anyone else able to taste food in their sleep? In my dream I tasted mint, there’s no mint in the house

Wow that’s interesting! I don’t recall being able to do that.

 

[Danielle]

I have several times, it‘a kinda cool but I’m not sure how accurate the flavor is

 

[Raven]

Ever since I had a cold in early March, I’ve cut way down (though not completely out) on my dairy intake. Because today is Cinco de Mayo, the Latino activity director, who would normally have planned a whole big celebration for today, is going around offering snacks and nachos to everyone. I’m not a big fan of nachos to begin with, and I hate American cheese, so I politely declined. I took some potato chips instead. I don’t know if I’ll ever cut dairy out of my diet completely, but it feels good to know I can minimize my intake. That’s not easy to do around here. There’s cheese in so many things, especially what they make for me because I’m officially vegetarian.

It is hard to give up dairy. I used to love cheese so much, OMG.

My house is a disaster-I need to purge. I should have learned long ago that if you keep things just in case you need them again you'll never need them. Only when you get rid of them do you need them--really bad!
I used to keep the mini blind brackets, I removed many from my old house and just kept them in case. Well here I have perfectly good blinds, but the brackets are all busted. I can only guess they got new blinds and put them up with the decades old brackets! Another one fell when I pulled it up and the plastic broke. Of course I chided myself about keeping them and threw them away. No, you can't buy the right ones anymore

I am going to get rid of so much stuff when this is over!

 

[KLS52]

Ok, so who here knows/knew that a package store is liquor. I was so excited to see a store that said Brentwood packages and thought how convenient if I need to ship something!