And so were you Zack. And yes I refrained from rubbing it in the repair guy’s face…..
Car’s all fixed, and it wasn’t even that expensive!
Nothing Much
Sitemeter problems?
Is anyone else having trouble with their Sitemeter?
A few days ago it spent 24hrs with two logos side by side, then it changed back to one logo but it was off center and it was COMPLETELY distorting the footer. Yesterday I played around with the code, confirmed it was definetly the Sitemeter that was the problem, and submitted a ticket to them. Last night the spot on the footer thats supposed to show the Sitemeter logo is now a white bar, attempts to log into their page how tells me my account is under maintenance. I assume that means they’re working on it, but is anyone else having issues?
WTF Spammers??
For SOME reason, in the last 3 days, spammers have latched onto this post. I don’t know why, but I’ve had to delete 22 comments in the last 3 days from spammers on that ONE post. That post itself is now locked, no additional comments to be made. Not likely to affect you all since its so old, but I thought I’d let you know…
QOTD
Ted Bundy never used a gun; unfortunately, neither did any of his victims.
Brigid @ Home On the Range
Need a gift for a 4 year old?
My (husband’s) nephew’s birthday party was Saturday. My husband usually misses it due to his work schedule, but this year he was able to swing getting the day off. In the weeks previous we racked our brains trying to come up with a gift that wasn’t likely to already be bought. The kid has more aunts and uncles (some blood, some not) who enjoy buying lots of gifts than you can imagine, so it makes it difficult to pick out things sometimes.
Then I ran across this (the rain boots aren’t included):
No, that’s not my nephew, that’s the stock photo from the site. I WISH we’d gotten a picture of him in it, infact, I wish I’d had my phone ready to record video, cause you have never seen a happier kid. He insisted on putting it on RIGHT THEN (even though there were still quite a few presents to open) and preceded to race around the yard several times before his mother could get him to come back and open the rest of the presents. I call that a success!
Disclaimer: we bought and paid for the raincoat ourselves, we were not asked to do a review, nor in anyway compensated for it, nor do I receive anything cause you clicked on the link.
The year of the wasp
Ok, I have no idea what the actual animal is that this is the year of. But it OUGHT to be the wasp. Holy fricking cow.
I went through 4 cans of wasp spray today. On top of another 4 already used this spring/early summer.
I thought the nest pictured here was pretty reasonably sized…
Not so much any more.
3 nests larger than one of my husband’s fists, and full of eggs.
4 more nests that were GOING to be that large if they were allowed to complete them, also full of eggs.
And god knows how many more normally sized nests, plus several cracks and crevices where the wasps were congregating…..and I’m not sure I got them all.
We didn’t have wasp problems like this LAST year! A few nests, but nothing like this!
And one of those HUGE nests can’t have been there very long. It was on the bottom of the trailer for the lawn tractor, its barely been a month since we last used it!
Odd week…
Not bad really, just odd…
Monday husband and I agreed to spend way to much money on a home improvement project. Its not NEEDED, and as such I’m cringing a bit at what its doing to our savings and our budget, but it was one of those opportunities that doesn’t come along very often….more details when things are a bit further along and I’m less likely to jinx it….
Tuesday, Husband called me after he got to work to warn me that his car had been acting weird as he pulled into the lot, and so be prepared for bad things…..sure enough the car only kinda started and barely ran when he got out of work. Since he works 2nd shift it was 1am before the AAA driver showed up. Good thing I didn’t have to work Wednesday.
Wednesday was 4th of July, it went well, and both dogs enjoyed getting to meet new people at my inlaws for fireworks.
Thursday we got the quote on Husband’s car, $700+, new alternator, new battery, and a couple odds and ends associated with them. Sigh. Of course they couldn’t get it fixed in time for him to drive it to work that day….
On the other hand I got to watch Apollo scare some poor random guy that afternoon….he was working through the neighborhood looking for anyone who wanted their driveway sealed. He pulled up, opened the door and started to swing out of the truck…..and Apollo hit the front door on his hind legs, in full voice. I was very amused to see him stop, swing his feet back into the truck, shut the door, and roll the window down about halfway waiting for me to step out onto the porch to talk to him instead of coming to the door. Donno if he really was looking for work, or if he was scouting, but I don’t think it matters in this case.
Friday and Saturday were quiet. We got the left over firewood restacked so its ready come fall to use first and yet not in the way of the delivery of new wood.
The regular blueberry bushes are producing berries, not tons, and something’s eating most of them before I can pick them, but they’re producing. Next year I’ll invest in some bird netting. Nothing else is producing berries yet, but everything looks healthy and growing, so I’ll take it. I didn’t expect a big berry crop this year anyway. Jalapenos are growing peppers, several of them of nice size already. The sweet pepper plants are FINALLY thriving, though I don’t know how many peppers I’m going to get off them now, it’ll depend on the fall weather I guess. The herbs are all flourishing well. The honeydew is taking off and getting ready to send its vines over the edge of the container, and the pumpkin is right behind. Both are showing buds, so hopefully our weird weather hasn’t screwed them up too badly. I did finally give up on the broccoli, when I checked them yesterday I discovered that something had eaten the tops off the heads. Sigh.
Fireworks
We can see the fireworks from the NY State Fairgrounds from my in-laws front yard, so last night we took both dogs over about 8:30pm along with a couple folding chairs and everyone had fun catching up with family while we waited for the fireworks to start. They were late as usual.
Everyone was surprised when we showed up with the dogs. They were skeptical when we insisted they both were fine with fireworks.
An aunt who’d never met Apollo before last night sucked in a deep breath of horror when our niece lit off a sparkler, and my husband lit off a smoke bomb, about 10 ft behind Apollo.
He turned around, looked the whole thing over, and went back to trying to convince an uncle’s Pomeranian to play with him (little puff ball barreled out of the house barking and growling and having the biggest snit at Apollo, who said COOL, PLAY!!!).
Arty didn’t blink either, he’s already figured out that if Apollo isn’t worked up over it then its probly not worth getting worked up over.
Fun was had by all, both watching fireworks and catching up with family. Hope you all did the same.
(I thought about doing a patriotic post for the day, but everyone else says it better than me, so go read them if thats what you want.)