Today is Caturday, which means that it’s definitely not laundry day. So set aside any hope of getting the washing done and join Teller, from reader Muppet2171, for open chat.
Weekend Open Thread
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Pretty Teller! I’m afraid it’s laundry day for me nonetheless.
Me too! I did three loads this afternoon and dusted,vacuumed, cleaned the bathroom and steam mopped. I am tuckered out… but feeling accomplished.
Want to come to my house?🙏🏻
😀
Looking handsome as ever, Teller! Lily approves of your message!
Can not resist. BOOP!
I cannot resist either. BOOP BOOP BOOP!
Teller looks very decisive that you will not do laundry or remove me from this basket. Did laundry earlier this week but might need to do another load tomorrow. Other than that, got to go to the fabric store and then do 2 quick sewing projects. And who knows, might get brave and go to the movie theater.
Darnit, I was gonna do a load of towels, too. Oh, well. [sips cocoa and turns on TV]
Went grocery shopping last night. Friday night: Good if you’re trying to avoid crowds. Bad if you actually want them to have produce in stock. Or ice cream. (They had all the summer fruits I love finally – plums, apricots, nectarines…but the bins were nearly empty and what was left didn’t look that great. Had to settle for bananas and some veggies. But they were fully stocked on organic chicken, unlike last time I went.) Also looked for Fever Tree; all they had was a few different flavors of tonic water and ginger ale. I got some Bruce Cost ginger ale, instead. Haven’t had that in a while. I also got some limeade to mix with my vodka (wanted lemonade but they had none).
This weekend’s free show on The Shows Must Go On is The Wiz Live (from 2015; stars include Queen Latifah, Mary J. Blige, Uzo Aduba, and Ne-Yo). Available until 7pm Sunday (British time; 2pm Eastern US). They’ve been using the shows as fundraisers, also; it’s been covid-related stuff but this week it’s the NAACP.
So…this might be hard to look at, but sometimes I think we need to remember how cruel nature can be.
Squee!!!!!
Red in tooth and claw. And shoe.
Kittens enchant me every single time.
I would gladly take on this fearsome beast for some tickling and cuddling
I ended up buying a laundry bag to get around this issue, but Penny has claimed it. Well, it was a nice thought anyway.
Two words: Baby. Mabel.
I submitterated that to Mike yesterday. Isn’t it wonderful?
I was going to send it to him but then decided to just share it today ‘cuz I didn’t want to wait. 🙂
Amazingly wonderful!
I’m ded. Just ded. Hilarious and adorable.
Okay, one more thing I saw his week. Not cute animals but I love it so much I wanted to share. (And they are an adorable pair of Santa Clauses in matching outfits. I mean, c’mon.)
2 Uncles And A ‘Doorway To Imagination’ Spread Love On Social Media
they are beyond adorable!!! I wonder if they’re open to adopting another niece? Especially since one makes my all time favorite pudding – butterscotch.
I love that his “recipe” is just boxed mix and raspberries.
I usually find couples in matching outfits kind of homespun but these two look adorable in matching plaid and beards. Like their matching shirts are a sign of their devotion or “two made one.’
That is a YA movie/show in the making. Can already picture some kids visiting their uncles and then opening the door to a different world every afternoon.
Narnia but in a less-theology way
And every episode ends back in the yard with butterscotch pudding and raspberries.
[closing credits roll….]
I’d watch that!
It’s the weekend!
Stupid mouth lesions nearly gone. Some scarring, but since it happened that way in the lungs, it was to be expected. Off those meds, at least.
Sleeping in seems to help my mood significantly, so I’m no longer forcing myself to immediately get up in the mornings. Wreaks havoc on my housework, but I’m happier.
My doctor told me I need to get back to writing, to relieve stress. I’m going to give it a try.
Teller, you would make a totally gorgeous pillow to cuddle with. Jan, I wasn’t expecting Lily like that, and she startled me. Then I tried to scritch her chin.
Our fabric store got in some incredible food patterned cotton last week, and I think I’m going to get a few different pieces for a project. I’m going to sew hotpads for certain people in my family to use when holding hot plates or bowls in their hands while tv. I can match each person to a favourite food. I could, if I wanted, make pot holders, placemats and aprons in matching foods.
Off to grocery shop, and then tidying so I can laze tomorrow.
Have a fantastic weekend, everyone.
Duckie this is so good!! Feeling better and sounding optimistic!! Excellent!
What Dulcie said.
I love the hot pad holder idea! Matching a person to their fav food is a cute idea. Might have to check out our fabric store!😀
I support the writing. even if it’s dictation or bullet journals. Whatever helps you to get out what you feel and want for yourself and others.
Glad that you’re feeling better.
Good going Duckie.
Teller takes his work seriously. Preventing laundry AND adding beautiful fur to all of Muppet’s clothes!
Took the next step in my linen closet upgrade, which felt great. Now that the closet insert thingy has arrived, I want to get the space painted so I can install it. I’m still grappling with ideas and costs for the stairwell upgrade and wishing I’d never started. But inspiration will hit and once it’s done, it will be fantastic.
I’m also grappling with the news that a beloved auntie, my bio dad’s sister, has been diagnosed with cancer. They’re still testing so they haven’t settled on a treatment plan, but my father says it doesn’t look good. This aunt has been wonderful ever since bio dad and I reunited. Next to dad himself, she’s been the most supportive on his side of the family. (Reunions with bio families can be very sticky.) Sanding the stairwell walls will be good therapy as I process the news.
Stay safe, everybody.
News like that is always hard to take. Especially when she’s a favorite and had such a positive impact on you. Amazing what reunions like this can bring. I hope there’s a miracle in there somewhere for her. 💕
Best wishes for your aunt.
Personally I’ve never been interested in finding my bio family, nor learning the family health history.
Let’s me be my own person and determine my own life/health rather than feel the weight of people I’ve never met.
That’s so interesting Kar. Everyone seems to have a unique response to this scenario. I know my response could not be true, in the sense that I was not adopted, but I think I would feel the way you do. I don’t think I would be even curious. It depends on so much! Having said that, I certainly don’t take ANYTHING away from those that feel the need to find bio-parents because I am sure there’s a natural imperative there that drives it.
true, it’s a personal decision and once thought that I’d want to know the medical history of my bio family. On the other hand my brother was constantly reminded of a family history in this and that so I feel like I have a blank slate.
I do get hacked off when people assume that because they’re blood that there’s an automatic bond or a legal right.
I work with foster care cases and get annoyed when one of my peers say, “but they need to be with their people” when their so-called people let the kids be warehoused in shelters or other cases when they have loving, bonded foster parents who want to adopt and they’ve never bothered to even meet the kids.
I’m glad though that you (DEBG) had some quality experiences/bond with your bio family.
Kar, what an interesting perspective on family health history! Now that you say it, I can see how knowing that history could feel like a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I had a poor relationship with my adoptive mom and as a kid always felt like a total outsider in the extended family. Searching for blood relatives made sense for me. But it doesn’t work that way for everybody and I got really lucky with bio parents. My bio mom and I were close until she died; my bio dad and I check in with each other at least once a month. Four cousins—all kids of my dad’s brother—were adopted, all searched, and I don’t think any of them stayed in touch with their bio parents.
DEBG,
That’s great that you had good bonds with your family, bio or adoptive. I would wish that for everyone.
I get the outsider stance, I’m sorry that you were made to feel that way. I think that i’m still the only non-caucasian in my immediate/extended family. I was mistaken over the years as a foster child – child bride – concubine – au pair – maid over the years. Still bothers the crap out of my father.
Debg so sorry for your sad news. Thank goodness you got to know her. I have been forgotten completely by both sides of my bio family. Dropped like a hot potato. They all moved on without including me or making a single phone call. One side dropped us because my mother’s brother hid from his wife that he was gay until he died from AIDS in the early 1980s. The other side dropped my Father over business loans that he couldn’t pay back. Luckily I have friends who have treated me well.
That’s unfortunate as you’re not at fault for either. Glad that you have people who know your worth.
Thank you Kar. Their loss.
Exactly Faye! Exactly.
(I was going to say “right on” as in “you are so right” but I thought I would be dating myself using that phrase”! 😁
But what the heck…”Right on Sister”!)
Thank you Dulcie. Yup. Right on! That’s my generation too.
I never ever suffer fools gladly.
At first I thought Teller had chewed on the front of the basket but then I realized its towel floof. Living with a chewy rabbit you make assumptions!😋
BTW, I love your posts today, Allein! Especially your attitude towards laundry!😆
I will probably have to break down and do laundry.
OK, here’s another one. I was watching To Tell the Truth the other night and they had a blind painter on (he called himself a “non-visual visual artist” :). One, he had a cute seeing-eye dog (a yellow lab, who looked like he was sound asleep during the game but hopped right up every time the guy stood up). Anyway, I googled him a little while ago and found his website, and he’s got some cute animal paintings (you can buy prints and other merch, including a kitty-looking-through-a-fishbowl shower curtain).
I like “Two Dogs”
Kitty:
Oh! And I learned yesterday that my college has a therapy dog! We didn’t have a therapy dog when I was there! I want a refund! 🙁
https://www.wgal.com/article/meet-truman-the-dog-helping-elizabethtown-college-students-reduce-stress/20106614
Maybe I can send you a couple of bags of Wilbur buds instead.
Lol…I had to google that. Sadly I never experienced those…
A shame, there’s some Penn Dutch foods that I’d skip over [red beet eggs? really] but Wilbur buds was a good one.
Still miss chicken corn chowder and cope’s corn down here in the south too.
Dark chocolate Wilbur Buds are the best. Grew up with them piled into a
hollow dark choc egg at Easter. Also, a quick substitute for chicken corn
chowder is a can of creamed corn and the same quantity chicken soup
(homemade, if possible). Close enough for nostalgia’s sake.
Kitty bath time!
https://www.sadanduseless.com/bath-time/#more-90527
Very late to the party. Relaxed in a wonderful cross breeze in the house. Sat on the cool front porch with Millie. Sat in the shaded backyard.
Then: Immersed in learning how to self publish a print and ebook of my artwork and text. I have one last drawing to complete and some accompanying text to write. This is at least a year in the making project. First I need a good camera to take well lighted correct color photos for uploading. First I need to take car in for maintenance and Millie in for her annual checkup. Meanwhile I’m learning the jargon and have to find design software and what service to upload to for printing and formatting.
Slow but steady progress re art studio. Room for soon to be assembled storage/drop leaf cart and task chair.
Keeping fingers crossed re my back and hip popping into place accidentally while kneeling on top of my bed smoothing the bedspread. Surprisingly resulting in 5 days with no pain and improved range of motion.
No laundry done.