As we continue “Plumber’s Friend,” Janis seems to be catching on to what makes a truly invaluable assistant. I have things to do this morning, but I did want to drop off another episode of the plumbing series, and I’ll try to post another one or two Saturday. That’s tomorrow.
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So that’s what that means. I can never get the male female thing right either when sent to hardware store.
Jimmy, I suggested a friend get a long-sleeved t-shirt for his repair-challenged Dad: left sleeve to bear the word “loosie,” right sleeve “tightie.”
Ghost, Gypsy is pretty darned adorable. You probably already tried this at night, but if not, putting one of your worn t-shirts in her bed at night might comfort her. Dickens the Adventure Dog will get through this…he may be small, but I have the feeling he is mighty. (I had a Chihuahua…the smaller they are, the mightier they think they are.)
And yeah, what are sand and Loon up to?
I really liked this retro A&J. I’m a lefty and have battled inanimate objects all my life. I should make “righty tight, lefty loose” my mantra.
But it can be darn hard to figure out when you are looking at it from the opposite side. Many a time I will turn the stupid thing from wrong direction because I am looking at it from the wrong direction. Does that make sense to anyone?
Words like complement/compliment and affect/effect get used wrong all the time. I mentioned my son who TOWed the line when I meant TOEd the line and a friend gently reminded me of my mistake (which I KNEW better too).
However using LOOSE instead of Lose bothers me. Of course the “o” can stick on the keyboard and we can’t edit on this blog, but it really bothers me on FB posts Their/They’re ones that really bother me. lol
Steve from Royal Oak, MI. Here’s a graphic of things that annoy me on Facebook. (apologies to Bob Kane and Robert Finger)’
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And among things I’ve discovered I enjoy, Trader Joe’s Greek yogurt. Tastes better to me than most of the name brands I’ve tried. Had coconut cream this morning with coffee. Yum!
Yes, Mark I totally agree. I post my dogs, my cats, my food, my garden, my flowers, birds, cars, restaurants, boats, adventures.
I hate “Can I have an amen?” Or “Prayer fors” and similar posts. I am not an atheist but I don’t like being asked to verify my faith or have it challenged.
Had seen Batman and Robin joke already but still funny.
Take it that Trader Joe’s got opened in Tulsa?
Last night I tried to get Ghost to go to Aldis and Sprouts while we were in Tulsa. He says there are things he likes to do more than visit grocery stores and sight see.
He has never seen either, don’t know about Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s. He used to shop Publix, one of my old customers, very up market.
Yes, they’ve had Publix in both Tennessee and Alabama for some time and they are my favorite chain.
From Googling the Trader Joe’s opened last year sometime. Where I’m located I have a Sprouts, Trader Joe’s and a couple of Whole Foods near, as well as Reasor’s, Aldi’s and Walmart supercenter and neighborhood market stores. So if I want something particular, odds are I can find it. And the Fresh Market is across the street from that Farrell’s bakery.
Jackie: re plumbing
It is goesinta = male
or goesonta = female
Steve f RO:
I have a problem that way too – most times I just let the sub conscience
guide my hand.
Food:
Cub & Targette
Isn’t Tulsa a wonderful place to shop? I love the food selections there and variety.
Ghost shopped Reasors with me and liked it a lot. He is trying to curb my shopping addictions. We did buy me around a dozen short shorts last night at a Ross store because they were a great bargain and because I didn’t have many and my butt has gotten small enough to wear junior sizes and look good.
Healthy eating. Going to make a meat loaf for lunch with some sauteed squash and whole grain rice. Garden going wild.
Steve/RO: At the risk of being a heckler, I think you meant to use the adverb “wrongly” in your opening line.
I too have always hated the idea of turning a pipe or screw to the left or right. For me, it has to be clockwise our counterclockwise because that doesn’t change as you move around.
The problem with San Antonio is we get a choice between HEB and Walmart. HEB ran Kroger and Albertson out of town and then raised prices.
cep: Heckle away, you are correct…or is it correctly 😛
I’m with you Sideburns. When you’re turning something round, at any time one part is moving right, another left, another up, and the other down. So which part are we talking about with that rightie/leftie thing? 🙂
For Ghost, if I remember correctly. Your short list of disliked food was the first thought I had when reading this.
http://www.gocomics.com/redandrover/2017/06/09
Dog love a bonus.
This is beginning to remind me of the sign in the antique store that read “Unsupervised Children Will Be Given a Sugar Donut and a Puppy”. Dickens’s food was upsetting Gypsy’s stomach, so I sent Terrie the Sometimes As Much As 76% Naked Housekeeper to the feed & seed again for the food Gypsy had been being fed. There she found Gypsy’s identical twin sister, and, being a bit absent-minded, she thought she had taken Gypsy with her to the store and brought “her” back. So guess how many large-footed puppies we have now.
Details will follow, but the twin’s working name (with apologies to Cher*) is Tramp. And just as we had managed to eliminate all the Thieves around here.
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLTETaWswCY
Lunch ended up being Barbque meatloaf, fresh green beans, new potatoes and cucumber salad from garden. Fresh baked cornbread. Having it all over again tonight along with fresh creamed yellow squash out of garden.
Country dinner. Ghost is being seduced with good cooking and fresh vegetables. But no beets.
I love beets.
Sounds like the local feedery has found two solutions in one. Loving home for litter, and repeat customer base. Good stories and friendship thrown in gratis. I think I like this place.
Maybe Tramp would like to share some Spaghetti with a Lady?
Jackie, out here, Whole Foods is commonly known as “Whole Paycheck” because everything there is so outrageously overpriced. Trader Joe’s, on the other hand, has a variety of things that you probably can’t find anyplace else except a specialty shop, at reasonable prices. You can buy brie cheese made from goat’s milk, sausages (both italian and breakfast) made from chicken and bacon made from chopped and formed smoked salmon. It doesn’t have as wide a variety as a regular supermarket, but in many cases, that just means that it doesn’t carry the lower-grade brands.
Sideburns, I follow one main practice in those specialty stores, if it isn’t on sale, I let them keep it. Since there is no proven increase in nutrition in organic produce, I see no reason to prefer it over the other. However, I do like better tasting foods, and have found some products in these stores to taste much better than what you get in the normal chains.
Someone at Burdine’s must have asked Terrie if she wanted to go double or nothing. At least Gypsy should cry less now that she has a trusted family member with her. Dickens, on the other hand, is now outnumbered as well as outsized.
Sideburns, I no longer have a Trader Joe’s nearby. But I enjoyed curiously different products offered there. As an example, they had their own brand of creme filled sandwich cookie. I doubt it was healthful, and don’t recall if it was cheaper. But definitely more enjoyable than Oreo, Hydrox, or any of the knockoff impersonators 2lbs for a dollar. Back when it seemed like I burned off everything I ate. Well, I ate a lot of them.
Just one specific in a wide range of pleasant surprises from a favored store.