summer cows grazing in verdant pastures
 

well i am in fredericton==== a beautiful town on the saint john river,and the fields are filling out with corn and raspberries and tomatoes,so i invite all you cowpies to loll in the pasture and partake of the luscious fruits of summer---i will go and grind up some wheat for our fresh bread,and we shall feast on strawberries and wine under the weeping willows =-------------------lah tee dah-00000=-000000000000 now report in you wayward heifers!!!

Holy Carp!
 

This is unusual -- I'm away for 3 days and you guys fall asleep. I've been trying to get a wireless connection since we left Saturday a.m. and havn't gotten connected once. Then this morning DD sat down, turned it on and had a connection immediately. We had a good trip down, made great time and got here in time for dinner on Sunday. The beach is beautiful, hot, humid but breezy (and TGFA/C).

Fredtown sounds idyllic, Bagz. The river is so gorgeous; we haven't spent much time in the city but have been to the prov park nearby.

Gotta go swimming. Tata

Kiwi

Ahhhhhhh Swimming In The Ocean--how Delightful=----the River Is Lovely To Look At But I Fear A Bit Slimy On The Bottom-----the Golf Course Is Gorgeous But Alas I Am A Duffer----carry On Cows

Yesterday, I felt I had to go to two certain schools and take packets of stuff showing how grrrrrrreat I am. On the way, my car made noises like when you put a card on your bike spoke and then it coyly said "ping" and fog came out the vent. I turned off the a/c and drove it to my mighty mechanics who said the a/c I had paid over $1,000 for in March was out of warranty (3 months) but "that's bullsh*t. I'll make it good." I love my mechanics.

So DS had to fetch me as I didn't want to arrive at schools all sweaty like Kiwi. One school was locked but there were lots of cars there so I called on the cell phone and asked if someone could come to the door and take this packet from me. Secretary was there alone as everyone had gone to workshop and had locked the door so she could go potty. She came out, saw DS, remembered him from when he went to school with her DD and chatted him up. Then she gave me an appt. Which I just had. And if I get past the guy on the very very top, I'm hired.

Only fear is that I had talked to the very-very guy and have written about him in the news and I hope hope hope I never p*ss*d him off.

So ..if car had not broken ds would not have been with me and I might not have got appt so readily and so on and so on and stuff.

Been waching DVDs of Martin & Lewis and the Colgate Hour. Jerry Lewis was SOOOO CUTTEEE. Actually, he looked a lot like ex-dh when they were both young.

When I get a job and make money, I'm going to Freddy Town and eat strawberries and blueberries and raspberries and drink yoo hoo.

Since it stopped raining here, it is h.o.t.
Wish I were in Canada!!
Or just on vacation.

PEACHBAT!! what a serendipitous event that turned out to be!!! here is a bushel full of strawberry wishes for your success!!!---i am very excited as the local garden stall in the market has informed me that the raspberries===my VERY favourite berry on the planet will be available at the end of the week!!NOW WHAT ARE YOUR FAVOURITE BERRIES,COWCANS????----and painty--it's always cool where i live----last night it was 12 degrees {celsius}---53 degrees F!!! today it may get up to 20--around 68----we can get as high as 75 in the sun and out of the fog or wind!! however ,this is just in my town---fredericton has temps up to 95-------------like they always say----10 degrees cooler on the coast----- I usually complain until i go to a hot place and then i can't take it!----ramble ramble ramble---if you go back to all the summer posts i have ever made,i ususally drone on and on about how cold it is up here--------------feel free to SKIM!!!!!-----maybe i will make some biscuits for my strawberry jam!!! maybe i will eat too many of them----maybe i will shut up now and move on-------GOOD LUCK PEACH--REPORT BACK AND KIWI=====HOW WAS THE OCEAN SWIM????

No A/C, no ocean, no raspberries
 

Headache since Saturday. Too hot to post. Will post anyway for procrastination's sake.

Boiling hot but looks like rain. Go figure.

Peachy!!!! Amost hired is GOOOOOOOOOOOOD. I KNOW you're going to get this job.

Kids are out of school for the summer. Must go do stuff.

Almost hired is not the same as being able to pay bills. But I realllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll llly want, need, am drooling for job.

Want to tell Sugar that DS had to go to orthodontist and naturally we went next door to eat German food. I had curry wurst which catsup with curry powder and two very dry (unfatty I hope) crumbly sausage. Pretty good. Never thought of putting curry power into catsup and can tell you that it's still catsup.

Originally Posted by Cowpernia:
I had curry wurst which catsup with curry powder and two very dry (unfatty I hope) crumbly sausage

Yes! They have currywurst in Dogpatch! That's the former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's favourite. BUT watch out...it has something like 30 g of fat per 100g of sausage. Fatty, fatty, fatty fat wrapped up in an innocent looking weenie. I have no idea who thought up the putting curry powder in the ketchup thing. Here they cut it up in little pieces and pour the ketchup over and you eat it with a plastic toothpick thingie. So sophisticated. :p

Originally Posted by Cowpernia:
And if I get past the guy on the very very top, I'm hired.

Yay!!!!!!! :crossed:

Originally Posted by SugP:
Headache since Saturday.

You need a prescription for Relpax.

Originally Posted by SugP:
Here they cut it up in little pieces and pour the ketchup over and you eat it with a plastic toothpick thingie. So sophisticated. :p

What? They don't mix grape jelly with the ketchup? :barf:

The ocean is beautiful!! Warm but not too warm. However the waves are real monsters this year with lots of undertow. Tough to swim for very long.

The BF arrived yesterday so DD is happy. And all the kids think he makes a very good climbing gym.

Tomorrow is our last beach day. Where did the week go?

Hope everyone is chillin'. Except Bagz, who should have a hot flash or something to warm up. :devil:

Kiwi

Update from Dogpatch: The woman who fired me is no longer in her job. She still works for the organization but in a position where is not so free to run amuck. I have heard that she said something about a "letter" but no details were included in the gossip .. I mean information.

Hee Hee Hee That's very gratifying, eh? I love it!! Way to go.

I went to see 1408 tonight, which was kind of fun, mainly because I was sitting in stadium seating and pretty close and it was shot very closeup with some good suspense. Hardly movie of the year, but fun. The kids (the older ones) went to Pirates of the Caribbean which ended up being so much longer than my movie that I had to sit around and wait for them for an hour and a half in the steam. They had my car keys so I couldn't even go for a drive or listen to music or enjoy the a/c. Which explains the goofy message you got on your cell, Peachie. On the drive home I heard my message beep, but somehow I cannot locate my phone any more :dunno: which explains why I haven't listened to it or replied. Tomorrow I assume I will find it under the seat of the car or something.

There is some nice person here at the beach who I would like to thank for the open wireless connection. Well, unless he is hacking into mycomputer or something with it.....

I am like a yokel in New York City with this high speed internet. I just updated my Norton Antivirus, which needed about 1.5 mb of updates. Thewhole process took less than a minute. At home I would be sitting there waiting for about 20 minutes wondering when I was going to get some bandwidth back...

My mother is so funny. She really can't do carp on the computer, but she is fully invested in the age of technology. When we are watching a DVD or something, she'll push a button on the player expecting instant results (and then push the button a few more times for good measure while I give her a look as the tray goes in and out a few times...) and if I'm looking something up on the computer she expects it right this second. Lord. When even my mom is impatient for faster technology, you know the world has gone to **** in a handbasket.

Who can live in this climate I want to know. Too dang hot and humid for me. Much as I love the beach and the ocean and seeing my family, give me cool nights and hot days that don't suffocate you, anytime. And I must mention, I miss my puppy. Oh and I suppose the hubster too, if I must..... ;) but really, he could have come with and didn't. Jet had no choice. :dizzy:

Oh yeah -- John Cusack, mm hmm. Not hardly Johnny Depp, but enjoyable to watch.

Kiwi

TV news seems to be making DH VERY CRABBY.
I am reverting to immature reactions and thinking that it's my fault. Makes me want to eat eat eat eat eat eat. feh.
Don't plan to give in.
TTYL

I haven't watched or read the news all week. Is the world still there?

Around here news is a thunderstorm or a catamaran toppling over.

We're out of here tomorrow :bb: so today is probably the last I'll get to be online. Have a good weekend.

Kiwi

yessss have a good weekend cowtanks!!! i have an american cruise ship visiting me tomorrow so i have to get my sleep====i feel like an army girl during the second world war waiting for my ship to come in----dd21 is home from her european vacation so i am catching up on news from the continent.otherdd is still there with her danish lover----how ooh la lah my daughters have become----compared to the peddlar their mother has become.

How strange it is to speak of one's child's lover. Ooh la lah indeed. I fear lcp may hve broken up with ds. He won't talk but I know she was fed up with his not talking and not doing.

I am quite depressed. Just got a rejection letter in the mail. How CAN I GET A JOBBBB That I Want???? I am so sad.

this wasn't the job that you just were talking about??? crap!! tell me peachbot,would you be willing to relocate to have a job??? i was wondering if there were other states nearby that have teaching jobs??? poor ds---i hope he isn't depressed----the first love thing is hard on the kids------------i like saying 'lover' cause it sounds old fashioned to me,or european,or romantic-----maybe i am living in a dream world,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

two of the kitties are friends,the other one is an old bag of misery.

Originally Posted by Kiwonk:
I haven't watched or read the news all week. Is the world still there?

The world is definitely still OUT there. WAY out there. I have subscribed to nearly a dozen liberally biased e-letters that keep saying how @#$%'d up the US government is getting. Perhaps sailing on a catamaran would be an improvement.
DH and I rectified our misunderstanding. :hug:

Originally Posted by Cowpernia:
I am quite depressed. Just got a rejection letter in the mail. How CAN I GET A JOBBBB That I Want???? I am so sad.

You already know: the best antidote to depression is ACTION... AND that's how you've gotten your other jobs and interviews, etc. etc. Keep at it. You can do it! :cheer::cheer:YOU CAN DO IT!:coach::coach:

Originally Posted by Bagzz:
two of the kitties are friends,the other one is an old bag of misery.

I'm taking a figure drawing class. DH won't let me draw him... and our cat is brown with browner stripes. Next cat I get will have to be LIGHT COLORED so I can see where her lumps and bumps are! Plus she tends to hide (see below!)

Today was OK food wise. The stickers are still a necessity (juvenile motivation rah rah rah :carrot::broc: I was unceremoniously awakened by the Police Department awaking me (I'm on call this weekend) and needing me to console/help a woman who's husband died in his sleep last night. She, her daughter and their gorgeous golden labrador retriever were doing way better than I anticipated. She doesn't know it, but I'm adding this woman to my role model list. Spry, slim, sharp at 77 (had pretty silk pj's on when I first got there.)

I went to the gym on the way home. (Had some anger that such a difficult thing happened to such a neat family.) Am now VERY sore! Serves me right, because I skipped the gym since Monday. :o

Ran errands a big, came home in time to meet the "squirrel trapper." He says the squirrels (or possibly RATS.... YUCK) were definitely IN THE ATTICK. They prefer the insulation in the corners and take it outside to their "real" nest he says. YUCK YUCK. I'm so glad we were only a brief stop over and supply station. :p:lol3:

Had dinner out then went to Half Price books. Found an anatomy/drawing reference and novels that I'd missed... (Elizabeth Adler) I should be able to read myself (rather than feed myself) to sleep for at least this week.

Hope I don't get called out in the middle of the night tonight... and that all of you have a good remainder of the weekend.

Bagzie, I have this HOUSE which is cheaper to pay for than rent and that includes the tax and insurance. Other than that, I'm willing to move.

Thanks for the rah rah Painty.

Bagzie, there is one job left out there that I am not rejected from yet.

Don't you hate it when you call and say

"May I speak to Mr. Smarkcledder."

and she says

"May I ask who's calling."

"Peaches O'Cowpie."

"Oh. I'm sorry. He's in a meeting."

Don't you HATE THAT.!! It is so rude.

1. We're spending the day taking our little baby to summer camp, 2 1/2 hours away. I will miss him.

2. My mother also can't do carp on the computer. But she is fully able to send me ancient internet urban legend chain letters and pictures of fluffy kittens.

3. A rejection letter is NOT a rejection of you!

4. I have never had a Danish love. There's still time, I suppose.

5. Mostly when men are cranky it's not about us.

6. Lcp breaking up with Peach Jr. might be the best thing that ever happened to him, he just doesn't know it yet.

7. The world is still here and it's as boring as ever.

8. ds11 went to swimming party yesterday and not knowing they were going to an outdoor pool I forgot to put sunscreen on him. Oops. Ask me how guilty I feel.

8. Mixing grape jelly with ketchup would be considered a sin here but you can buy tubes of ketchup and mayonnaise mixed together in stripes like toothpaste. That's what people eat with fries.

9. The Dalia Lama is visiting Germany. They did a unofficial poll and found out that he's more popular than the Pope. Well, duh.

10. Must go pack more stuff and make everyone breakfast.

I am missing my herdette.

Peachie-- I just know a job will find you!!!! Its deeepressing I know but keep yer chinny chin chin up. :hug:
Oooh, poor DS..the loss of first "paramour" (I like that word, its soooo sofistikated) is hard to take... especially those quiet sensitive sorts..

Kiwi: You were here and I was near there... I go back there tonight. The office is in cambridge about 3 miles from Logan.. I stayed at the Hyatt last week smack dab in MITs campus. The only exercise I got was walking along the Charles River.

Painty: What a wonderful vocation you have helping people :hug: I feel for that lady.. I came this close to her experience..however, I would have been in stained sleep shirt and ratty pants.

Bagz... :love: I hope those 'mericans spend lots of greenbacks on smelly soaps and fridgadaire magnets!!! Did the DDS bring back any Danish? not men, the pastry? Have a cheese danish for me.

Suggie-- I hope you feel better..where are you packing too? details woman!


A typical Sunday morn in Schatziville.. DH is :rollpin: yelling at the TeeeVee as he watches "Meet the Press" ..

I am so educated by Sugar !!! I know now about "fully kittens" and toothpastish condiments. I love you, Sugar!!

And if Shotsy says I'll get a job then, by golly, I will.

I am ahead in the postcard contest by a few points. I will win!! I will conquer!!!!

This nice Scots lady who postcards with me told me about the Glencoe massacre wherein a bunch of people (Campbells and stuff) stayed with the MacDonald's. They stayed in a bunch of MacDonald houses, ate dinner, slept in their beds, accepted their hospitality and got up in the night and killed them all. It was because someone liked the king and someone didn't. Luckily we don't do that too much here because all those Bush voters would be feeling guilty about now.

i started a fight between two new jerseyites in the shop---i said the money would get better {as in be worth more} when the war stopped and i was tired of seeing all these twenty something young men die in EYE-RACK {as some of the big boys are calling it} WELL!!!! this one woman totally agreed with me but her friend who was on the cruise with her got all huffy at us and said 'WOULD YOU RATHER THEY BE OVER HERE KILLING US ON OUR OWN SOIL"-----so i got all sorry cause i caused a fight and said 'don't fight---sorry sorry sorry!!!" and they were still a little miffed at each other { and the other one whispered to me--i agree with you} anyway,i gave them each a pewter canada coin that we have for good luck with a maple leaf on it---i also told them i was against CANADIAN boys being killed in Afghanistan so i wasn't anti american or anything!! WHEW!!! i should keep my big mouth shut----last year a man got all mad at me cause i said i was excited that the Dixie Chicks were coming to town!!! TOUCHY TOUCHY TOUCHY !!!OUCH OUCH OUCH!!!!

Oh yeah, politics and earrings don't mix! But it seems like whatever one says, someone else will take offense and go off all huffy so I guess it's just better to talk about the weather or something.

Fluffy kittens. Fluffy. I'm a carpy speller. I just talked to my mother and dad and brother and li'l tiny baby on video chat. Fun, but you have to make sure you're dressed and there's a 5 second delay.

ds11 is now safely at camp getting all soggy in the rain.

Schatz - I was packing camp stuff. Not for me, I'm afraid. Two weeks in a tent would do me in, I think.

Originally Posted by SugP:
2. My mother also can't do carp on the computer. But she is fully able to send me ancient internet urban legend chain letters and pictures of fluffy kittens.

3. A rejection letter is NOT a rejection of you!

4. I have never had a Danish love. There's still time, I suppose.

8. ds11 went to swimming party yesterday and not knowing they were going to an outdoor pool I forgot to put sunscreen on him. Oops. Ask me how guilty I feel.

8. Mixing grape jelly with ketchup would be considered a sin here but you can buy tubes of ketchup and mayonnaise mixed together in stripes like toothpaste. That's what people eat with fries.

9. The Dalia Lama is visiting Germany. They did a unofficial poll and found out that he's more popular than the Pope. Well, duh.

I'm going to tell DS that he can quote you about HIS mother: can't do CARP!
Definitely something fishy going on. Remind me not to send you fluffy kittens. (Do you like off-color jokes?)

Cowie: the advice is right: job rejection is NOT a rejection of you. If it isn't a good fit, be glad you aren't there. cue music: There's a plaaaaaace for you....:D

I would like to have a shot at living the life of Isak Dinesen. Then you could BE the Danish lover. Having one's probably cool, too.

Hope DS11 isn't blistered. At 11, he COULD have figured it out, I think. :p

Is "currant jelly" and ketchup any more OK than grape? It really IS pretty yummy when warmed up into a sweet/sour kind of sauce. They have that mayo & jelly stuff here, too. I think it's gross. ESPECIALLY on fries! Oh well, we didn't get to 3FC because we were smart about food, right?

I like the Dalai Lama better than the pope. Should I move to Germany?

Originally Posted by Bagzz:
i started a fight between two new jerseyites in the shop---i should keep my big mouth shut----last year a man got all mad at me cause i said i was excited that the Dixie Chicks were coming to town!!! TOUCHY TOUCHY TOUCHY !!!OUCH OUCH OUCH!!!!

Perhaps there's just lots of rancor in New Jersey. Might not take much to set 'em off. And, I think you've been vindicated about the Dixie Chicks. Just my opinion. Be bold! Be yourself.

Did I mention I'm home? I'm home. I'm tired. We had to get home yesterday because DD's BF's grandmother died and they had to go up to the back of beyond to the funeral this morning.

DH is grilling chicken for my dinner. Of course I did all the prep work and all the other items....

ta

Kiwi

WELCOME HOME MISS NEW ZEALAND!!!!----sorry to hear about the grandmother---hope the family is okay----i always like it when i know you are home and keeping the herd under control----maybe you can keep me from starting fights with yankees!!!

Thengku. I was hoping to get into it with a few New Jerseyites myself. But I had to behave myself with 3 impressionable young people in the cah. But of course you are quite right, we can't get into an international incident over such things as dumb people's views of the world.

I actually listened to Karl Rove on the radio yesterday. I get why he is where is -- he has an answer for everything and is an incredible manipulator of the conversation. I completely agreed with him on the immigration bill, which made me wonder if he was lying. I think he's a seamless liar. At least I didn't have to look at him while he was talking.

The bf's family is doing okay, as okay as you can be when you have a gigantic family dealing with a death.

Jet turned two years old and I think we should have a birthday party. At least a Frosty Paws and a new toy, don't you think?

I have some lovely pics of beach and family, will post on Facebook when I have time. Ta

Kiwi

Dear Little Children Cows:

Yesterday, I flipped out. I yelled things at DS and threw things around. This is because of the letter that is not a rejection of me AND that I went to dinner at friend's Sunday night and her mom, retired teacher, was there. I took along my portfolio to see what she thought of it and she said it was more than "they would be interested in."

Then she said they hire people they know.

Then she said "they know you."

So .. they know me and they will not even interview me. I gave up all hope yesterday but instead of going right to the bridge and throwing myself off, I just threw a fit around the house. Honestly, I don't know what to do. They advertise these jobs on their web sites and you apply there. I've been to most of the schools. Calling has not proved fruitful as they don't answer. I am simply out of options.

Arrggghhh! I feel your pain! I can think of 3 things that might do something for you:

1. Go to an employment agency and ask their advice
2. Go to the local "job center" and ask them to help you put together resume/portfolio materials (either as if you are starting from scratch or to improve your current resume)
3. Get to know someone with PULL

Don't you feel like you are smacking up against age discrimination? One of my friends who is extremely qualified in her field was applying for jobs for something like 2 years before she got one working for someone she knew. She was positive that it was age discrimination.

Flying off the handle now and then is entirely forgivable. I lost it in the car on the way home from NC once. DD made a U-turn and did it so fast and out of control she almost tipped the SUV over.

At least it was only once...

Going up to Oregonian friends' camp for dinner and swimming. Ta

Kiwi

Well, Kiwiwiwi, age is something else I can't do anything about so I've not been entertaining that idea. Now I feel worse. There is no hope .. at least not in my hands.

1. Local employment agency is staffed by giraffes and rhinos.
2. Job Center is the same place. This is podunksville.
3. As references, I have a former superintendent from this county and a board member from the other county. I haven't called them recently. Maybe I should.

Someone gave DS a book called "Sam Stern's Cooking Up a Storm .. the teenage survival cookbook." Yummy easy stuff with pictures of kids who all must love Harry Potter. It's a British book he says. We made Spiced PIta with Chicken and Hummus" today. I recommend it. In fact, you should buy it from my friend's book store. Pay shipping and all that just because you're nice people. Or go to Amazon like she would do.

Addendum:

I know of plenty of people who retire and get teaching jobs so I don't feel it's age really.

The hummus in the recipe was made by ds and me per bagz's recipe she gave me eons ago. There's a recipe in the book but I didn't follow it. It involved heating some oil and using tamari which I don't have.

I got a postcard from someone in Norway. It's written in English but I can only read 2/3 of it. They curve their letters in a way that makes H look like Fl and so on. Frustrating.

show and tell
 

It's a left foot .....

That's a beautiful sock. I am concerned though: are you going to bbq it?

My den smells really weird. It smells like the kitchen of the messiest person I know (she is actually much worse than I am -- pathological perhaps). I don't think this is a good thing. And I can't figure out what it is that would smell like that. It's not a dead thing; I know what that smells like. It smells like stale food, which makes no sense because there is no food in here. That I know of...

I suck at giving advice. I should just shut up. DH would really appreciate that. Especially if I also stopped asking him questions and talking about anything that interested me.

I am in a super bad mood, can you tell?

My friend whose camp we were visiting gave DD's bf beers. I do not want him to drink, like it's any of my business.

We still have bats. DH assured me that he plugged up a hole they were using to come in, but he killed another bat last night. I am not impressed.

Kiwi, who left the beach to come home and beetch.

answers to your probable questions:

1. There is rotting broccoli or soup somewhere.

2. Rent and watch The Snow and the Tiger or some title with those words.Stars that cute chinless guy from A Beautiful Life. He recites poetry to bats and they fly out the window.

3. No matter how you cook socks, they are still stringy.

4. Do you think ANY men ask their doctors if they're healthy enough for sex? Viva Viagra!! (oh that was a question.) Answer: Nope.

5. They canceled Pirate Master with no notice and put on reruns of whatever was still laying on the table watiing to be filed.

oh maybe it was Life is Beautiful.

Hope everyone enjoyed their Whine!
Some days just require it.
Today wasn't one of mine... was busy and felt good about most things... but clients are graduating themselves en masse-- which means another few weeks (or months) of "self-promotion." I hate that part.

Cowie-- hand in there. Do not try to eat the sock! (Although somebody's been knitting what they called asparagus socks... because of the yummy color of her yarn.). I'd rather knit "hot fudge sundae" socks.

Best to each and every.

Originally Posted by Cowpernia:
oh maybe it was Life is Beautiful.

The Italian guy? I can picture him singing bats out the window. I was sort of hoping it was the guy from A Beautiful Life (Russell Crowe, no?) -- I can't quite imagine myself having any luck emulating the Italian guy, but if Russell Crowe could do it, I'd have a shot.

On the other hand, my voice, well, the bats might attack...

It's too hot here, even though it appears to only be 81 deg. For some reason that's too hot today. Yesterday it was 91 and it wasn't any hotter. Well inside the house anyway.

Kiwi

Yep, the Italian guy. Russell Crowe has a chin but isn't as delightful. I was hoping you'd watch it so we could compare notes. I found it deliberately deceived to advance the plot and make you all surprised later. But he's adorable and it's nice.

He doesn't sing. He calls the bat "beautiful something of the night." He's a poet.

Did Bagz run off to New Jersey?

Originally Posted by Cowpernia:
I was hoping you'd watch it so we could compare notes.

I would watch it if it didn't require any effort to acquire it. It's too hot to do anything or go anywhere. Last time I looked it was 94 deg. Should I mention our lack of air conditioning? Whining on line takes less effort than whining in person, so yes, I think I should.

Originally Posted by Cowpernia:
He doesn't sing. He calls the bat "beautiful something of the night." He's a poet.

It's also too hot to go back and read a post accurately. I could probably call out the bats, but I prefer to whine about them and make DH do something.

Maybe I should go down to the lake and sit in the water. I have a noodle chair.

Seriously. I have a noodle chair.

Kiwi