Off topic and Absurd

it went south of us as well today...but they have SNOW in the forcast for this week

tis the season
now that xmas stuff is all over the place---cant we have thanksgiving first? (though I did go to one store at the beginning of october and they were just putting out the xmas decorations!.....earliest I have seen them out: july, saw a christmas tree with american flags on them /facepalm).

so everyone have their gifts bought yet? Or plan on being part of the black friday festivities? (or what is it called...cyber monday?? ) cant believe we have given names to all of these things!

I hate shopping malls, cant believe it was a place we all wanted to go as teens (though I never got to hang out there...)
and here decades later, I would rather go to the dentist than a shopping mall. I do most of my shopping by catalogs (of which my mail box is full of this time of year...not sure how I got on the chewy.com one since we dont have any pets nor can we)...or I buy stuff during the year for people (friend loves eeyore...see eeyore gadget--buy it and store until december, etc), also avoids the pain of paying a large cc bill in january. Also usually cant wait until the end of november to buy for my friends since I have to mail them out internationally and want to get them out before the huge lines at the post office start which means buying and mailing ...er NOW (reminder to self: wrap gifts for international mailing this week)

I think either I am drunk or your spell checker konked out there ....(and I have only had green tea to drink today so I think its the latter of the choices)

one of the (few) perks of living in a condo is: no lawn to mow, that being said, instead you get 3 days a week of listening to the lawn mower going at 8AM! One of the other perks is (supposed to be) not having to shovel snow, yeah right, sometimes they do, sometimes they dont, the only good thing about having the shortest driveway here (1 1/2 cars long) is that there is not much to shovel if you have to do it yourself (one of my cars is always parked in the driveway since we only have a ONE car garage and I have yet to figure out how to get the second car in there....have thought about the lift----). And now the mowing season is just about ending (they will TRY to keep mowing all those days so they get paid....but, seriously the grass has stopped growing!) so soon there will be peace at 8am!

So giving this one a kick....

spring is FINALLY here, been great to have the balcony door open (ok, that only lasted about 2 days and then the condo went into the mid 80's--even at night).

Got some new herbs and planted them. So how is everyone else enjoying their spring?

Yeah, it was pretty cold here yesterday (and raining--and hail)....Funny to go from almost 80 one day and then be barely in the 50's the next. But that is life here in the ole midwest (the saying is if you dont like the weather, wait 15 minutes).

In other news: remember this sunday is Mother's day!! We all have one (ok, mine is no longer with us) so remember her!

Yes, seems that without pwnd there isnt much interest in shooting the breeze (though the last few days we really could'a used a good breeze----)

Hope you have a good retirement!

Snoggy!!! Missed you old buddy!!! (think you probably picked your avatar when you signed up....years ago).
Glad you got the card (and show your face more often!)

hm. didnt know that...my email is different and it doesnt offer me the choice my email has, but then again I have changed my avatar a bunch of times perhaps it is now confused!

Either way, good to see my fellow rat back among us! (havent heard a peep from pwnd since 2 went away).

/sigh poor fiep, he actually would fit in that basket (and he got that way by eating all that bread ) though he is quite a large mousey--about the size of a standard football,-- he is not the largest of his family (considering he is called 30cm and there are 45cm and 80cm cosyfieps--yes I have them all as well)

In that image Fiep is on the very top above the blue fiep the big white one is 80cm)

as for the on top and absurd---what IS 'on topic'?

fiep is a bread ...er...ah fanatic, yeah, that works...he has tons of stuffed toy breads ( giant croissant, loafs, baguettes....and then he sits near the real bread and when it goes bad--hard or fuzzy, he claims it as well until we find it and toss it).

looooong time. wha'tcha been up to?

Dang, really looooooong time there slayer!! Seems most of the OT posters moved on as well...though I am still here!

We recently had some live fieps at our condo as well--think it was due to the cold weather this last winter since we live on the 3rd floor, not sure where they came from (though we do know why they avoided our neighbors--cats!!)

Hey Red long time...yes I remember nice to see some more mature players posting