30 thoughts on “Rants! and Raves! 7-27-13”

  1. 😦 2.9 inches of rain last night. Still coming down in a drizzle.
    I wish Arizona or Nevada had it. My yard isn’t just wet, it’s soggy. My push mmower leaves a half inch depression in the yard.
    We’ve already broken the record for the year.

    🙂 Chuck settled on his new house Thursday and moved in yesterday. We’re going over there next week to celebrate Becky’s BD.

    My rants are trivial compared to the problems some of you, and others around here are having.

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  2. We get lots of rain here. Keeps it green, but I know what you mean by soggy ground. My class is asked to bring extra clothes because slipping in the muddy ground is not too unusual. We have actually had to close off the grassy areas of school a few times as it was so mucky.

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  3. We sure could use the rain here. There hasn’t been nearly as much as there usually is by this time of year. The farmers (and almost everyone farms, no matter what other jobs they have) are getting nervous. 😦

    🙂 Spent three days adventuring. Oh, the places I’ve been and the things I’ve seen…

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  5. 🙂 My folks are here

    😦 My folks are here

    🙂 They are doing tons of work on our house, but working with them slows down our progress 😦

    🙂 I am grateful they want to help

    😦 I need soooo much more patience

    🙂 Got the west wall finished to the point the house wrap is up. Taping the windows and staples today, then sanding and painting the window trim.

    🙂 It hasn’t rained for 2 days straight – got the lawn mowed yesterday

    🙂 Garden is finally producing, although not like it should due to the cold nights we’ve been having.

    😦 Having to make a sit down supper every night

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  6. 😦 We could definitely use some rain. We had a smattering of rain drops the other day, but not nearly enough to do anything. My grass (or whatever it is) is brown as it is every summer.

    🙂 But, it is Saturday. And our temperatures are nice and comfortable for summer, barely hitting 70 most days.

    🙂 On being handy (after reading kare’s chronicles about their house): I’m not. Neither is a co-worker of mine who’s Jewish and told me the other day that he always figured it was a Jewish thing, no one in his family or Jewish circle of friends could ever fix anything. But he said he’s also noticed the same lack of any real fix-it abilities among journalists. 🙂

    🙂 Gas prices, which have (again) been skyrocketing out here, appear to be at least stabilizing a bit. We were up to the $4.10+ range again just a few days ago. And that’s a big 😦 😦

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  7. ????Suggestions????????
    The left turn signal on my car is clicking twice as fast as normal. Usually that means that a bulb is out or that something is not working WRT turn signals or brake lights.
    However, everything works!
    I can’t figure out what makes my left turn signal click fast. Right TS is normal.
    Brake lights work ok.

    😦 I have jury duty on 20 August.

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  9. It has to be electrical, Donna. If it were the truck, I would change bulbs just to see. But changing them on the car is a pain becsuse they are protected by stuff to make it “look nice”. Besides, the front light is yellow and I would need to buy one.
    (I have some white bulbs.)

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  10. 🙂 It is much better to be married to a handy man instead of being handy yourself. That way you can read a book or each bon bons while they do all the work.

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  11. Kim, yes that would be great – we aren’t very handy yet, but because of need, we are slowly becoming handier and handier 🙂

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  12. I know. I have had to learn to be handy myself. It’s just easier now that I leave home in the morning with the bathroom light not working and receive a text and photo later with it working.

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  13. I can be handy on computers, but not fixing things around my place. Here it is sweet to be cared for. I got my van stuck in the mud and a friend showed up at my door asking for my keys to get it out. At school a couple of years ago someone told me I had a flat tire, before I had even seen it, someone came for my keys and the principal was out there fixing it for me. Blessed

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  14. Jo, the others have heard this. But one Wednesday evening in 1955, after prayer meeting. I was walking to the parking lot and saw that Elvera Collin had a flat tire. i changed the tire for her and she got into the car and drove off with a soldier from Fort Jackson. She still says that Ernest came up later, but that’s not the way I remember it. I think Ernest didn’t know how to change a tire.

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  16. After a year of trying to sell this old house, 🙂 We have a contract! We’re not sure if we’ll accept the offer or ask for a little more, since the offer is only $5000 less than the asking price, and more than we expected. The realtor is on his way over so we’ll ask him his advice. I’ve heard it is best not to accept the first offer since it makes you feel desperate, but when it is 5-10 thousand more than we expected, I think we might just take it.

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  17. TAKE IT! That is the advice of your under employed realtor. Figure the percentage of asking price. If it is above 90 to 92% you are within good range. Do you want to keep it for sale another year or do you want to move on with your life and plans?

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  18. Kim- We took it on the advice of our realtor. One drawback is the buyer is using Section 8 funding for part of the loan, so I hope our old house passes their inspections. The realtor thinks it will.

    Now to find a house in closer to the part time jobs I and D3 have.

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  19. So now we’ll have 2 wanderers looking for a new house.

    🙂 Got the casserole done for church tomorrow and made a quick spaghetti dinner for myself. Finally saw “Brave” on tv tonight. Parts of it were like watching my alter ego as a kid. 🙂

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  20. 😦 But I know I’ll hate myself if I stay up to watch “Sharknado” on the SyFy channel at 9 p.m. It’s about sharks being blown out of the water off L.A. in a rare tornado even (global warming, don’t you know) only to land onshore where they create all kinds of havoc in the big city.

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  22. Ah, I can now answer that Chas. I only watched the first part of it — it was predictably horrible — but what happens is the city floods in the midst of a hurricane that comes north out of Mexico, spawning tornado conditions on the land.

    So tthe ocean rises (isn’t that an Obama line somewhere?) and sends huge waves crashing into the city, flooding streets with shark-infested waters.

    It’s all really quite plausible. 🙄

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  24. Sharknado…

    Yeah, Sci-fi really jumped the shark with that one. 🙂

    Seriously though, I love Sci-fi and their monster movies, but after watching some, way too much IMHO, I can only say this. I award them no points, I feel stupider having watched it, and you know the rest. Just awful.

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  25. Chas,

    “How can a shark do any damage in a city? All it can do is flip around and die.”

    Most of the city was flooded, so they swam. The ones in the sky were remarkably accurate. They all seemed to fall on people. Weird. 😯

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  29. 😦 Tension this week of many sorts — personal, marital, parental — that it’s hard to think of the good things that happened.

    🙂 A new day tomorrow. Lamentations 3:22 It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

    23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

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