Early Risers - Eastern Time Zone
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Hi ValerieGardenKatGardens wrote: »Good Morning...
In a bit of a hurry, need to hit the shower and get on the road to see about my foot!
Tried to carpet clean last night....something wrong with it...it was being really rascally and not steaming, and I knew that....but had a work around so that I really only needed the water/dirt extraction...well, it now won't do that either....so out to the curb it will go on Thursday, and the new one will arrive the day before..(Wednesday)...so all is well...or will be.
Glad J and Ed are home, sounds like they have a bit of food, but not so horribly much! Good Job. Also seems that Lilo was happy to have them back home.
Ed, finish filling out adoption papers...and bring home new kitty? or is that another trip to the shelter? I made the awful mistake of looking at the dogs needing homes.....oh boy, I really have to stop doing that. Fortunately there was only one that really caught my eye...a Westie/toy poodle mix. NO, I didn't go....or I'd have had a dog. Long as I have my senses, and Tom E. no new pets!
I hope the Foot gets better quickly.
Hmm... No New Pets
Roger, not sure about the down the road repairs to expect. I know there will be battery replacements some time in the future. And I don't think anybody can make any long range predictions, as these are really a very new line of cars. The one I rode in was 4 years old, so can't place much 'historical' predictions on that! But, we do have a dealer, with show space at Lenox Mall in ATL...very close to where I lived when I rented in ATL.... I don't think I really need worry about owning one, unless I might sell a grandchild???? No, better idea would be to win the lottery..:)
Ok, outta here..with plans to return and respond to some of the earlier posts...
Later...
As far as having dealers, So did the Yugo
Will these become the new Yugo down the road, only time will tell if they Join Studebaker, Rambler, Hudson and Kaiser to name a few on histories discard heap.
That's the Plan, Win the Lottery !
Good Luck with that one, when You do let me know so I can drive down for a share
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Hi Edparityanimal wrote: »Adoption papers finalized. I need to make an appointment for Wednesday afternoon at our vet for a full checkup. The shelter is having her spayed (or at least checking to see if she's already spayed) and chipped during this interval, and giving her a rabies vaccination.
Actually I paused and scheduled our vet appointment! We're scheduled to pick her up between 11:00 and 12:00 on Wednesday at the shelter and we have an appointment at 1:00 with our vet to have her checked out.
It is probably the Camera angle that makes the head look large.
Good Luck with all that running around
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Hi Againparityanimal wrote: »Howdy y'all. It's terrific Tuesday! 68 out there now with an expected high of 90 and 20% chance of rain. We actually had quite the downpour last night with all the lightning and thunder and special effects!
Maybe dishwasher and some laundry on the agenda today. And maybe some light housework.
These are all maybes...
There was rain in NJ yesterday, enough to cause some rush hour home traffic problems, Around here, Nada, Nothing, Zip, Zilch, Zero rain
Yesterday my Crazy Brother washed his Pickup Truck and my car. When He said they were both washed I asked why didn't you call me and his answer was I figured You would know when the water kept coming on and off and You did not see me, No it never occurred to me that he would do that ! Today he wants to Wax them
I have been getting some Raspberries, Probably where the critters can not reach them. I also had Blackberries Yesterday and This Morning, Same probability for their survival on the plant.
My Laundry was placed in the washer on the way out walking and currently is in the dryer
Have a Nice Day
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And 100 years of fine dining.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dac9ONfMGI0
Actually think I've shared this one before, but it's still interesting.
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Well, J has let the cat out of the bag on FaceBook. We will be picking Kiara (key-ARE-uh) up Wednesday, July 19 between 11:00 and 12:00.
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Howdy y'all. It's wonderful Wednesday!
We're scheduled to pick Kiara up between 11:00 and 12:00 today. I hope she and Lilo like each other or at least tolerate each other.
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I did some walking , The temperature this morning was 77 on the news channel and 75 degrees on the front porch. Warmer than yesterday
The humidity is up in what they are calling Tropical once again
Here is what I was watching Yesterday during Lunch and Dinner. One on YouTube and the other from Dailymotion. Both serve up videos and are IMO safe to use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'Allo_'Allo
'Allo 'Allo! is a BBC television British sitcom that was first broadcast on BBC One from 1982 to 1992, comprising 85 episodes. The story is set in a small-town café in German-occupied France during the Second World War. It is a parody of another BBC programme, the wartime drama Secret Army. 'Allo, 'Allo! was created by David Croft, who also wrote the theme music, and Jeremy Lloyd. Lloyd and Croft wrote the first six series. The remaining series were written by Lloyd and Paul Adam.
Pilot Episode here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6HK_ngimSE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-de-Hi!
Hi-de-Hi! was a BBC television sitcom shown on BBC1 from 1 January 1980 to 30 January 1988.
Set between 1959 and the early 1960s in Maplins, a fictional holiday camp, the show was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, who also wrote Dad's Army and It Ain't Half Hot Mum amongst other programmes. The title was the greeting the campers heard and in early episodes was written Hi de Hi. The series revolved around the lives of the camp's management and entertainers, most of them struggling actors or has-beens.
The inspiration was the experience of Jimmy Perry, one of the writers. After being demobilised from the Army, he was a Redcoat at Butlins, Pwllheli during the holiday season.
The series gained large audiences and won a BAFTA as Best Comedy Series in 1984. In a 2008 poll on Channel 4, Hi-de-Hi! was voted the 35th most popular comedy
Pilot Here by following the link.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5d76du
Have a Great Wednesday
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http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Golden-Retriever-Rescue-Deer-Fawn-Long-Island-Mark-Freeley-434958383.html
Incredible Video Shows Golden Retriever Rescue Drowning Fawn Off Long Island Beach
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/14/almost-half-of-americans-have-buyers-remorse-about-their-house.html
Almost half of Americans have buyer's remorse about their house
44 percent of Americans have regrets about their current home or the process they went through when choosing it, a Trulia survey says.
Wishing they had bought a larger home was the top disappointment.
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Hi ValerieGardenKatGardens wrote: »So far its been 'read only' kinda morning. Fixed breakfast yesterday...and had preplanned leftovers, heated them in the Micro...Text messages, (lotsa s'es) from our former gym manager, meeting her Saturday morning to see the baby who at 4 months is adorable!!!! So we're attempting coffee.
I think I also heard rumbles yesterday...I should go look...a tad over 2.5 was there yesterday from Sunday nights storms....ok, so at my house yesterday evening was 'only' ¾ of an inch. But with the other rains, I have to empty the gauge today, as another inch, and it will spill over!
So, Ed when do you get to bring new baby home? I know you're anxious.......
Roger, is there any way that you can prop up those berry bushes? And check the internet, you can train the canes so they're not fruiting at ground level.
That is the plan, We do want to get them off of the Patio.
I wonder if that call was a call pocket dialed. It doesn't happen with flip phones, however it can happen with Smart PhonesI just got the strangest phone call, and left a message....from some guy Stephen Barrett from Alabama, small wide spot in the road...a little larger than the cartoon...6 people and a cat!....there were not words...just loud racket...I finally got tired of listening and deleted...sounds like a kid prank, and isn't it about time for school to start again???
LOL I lived in Richmond VA for a year, and when school started, I began getting phone calls from some giggly kids who'd obviously just had their 1st. Spanish class and were trying it out! They called several times that fall...we had some interesting chats!!! Funny kids!
Ok, gotta go for now,
Later...
Here is an example of that gone bad
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2016/08/16/Police-Woman-butt-dialed-911-discussed-illegal-activities/5861471369868/
Police: Woman 'butt dialed' 911, discussed 'illegal activities'
By Ben Hooper Contact the Author | Aug. 16, 2016 at 2:48 PM
BREMERTON, Wash., Aug. 16 (UPI) -- Police in Washington state said a woman "learned that butt dialing can be more than just embarrassing" when a 911 operator heard about her "illegal activities."
Bremerton Police Chief Steven Stachan said in his weekly newsletter that a woman apparently accidentally dialed 911 from her pocket and operators heard the "very angry sounding" suspect talking to a man believed to be her boyfriend.
The woman was heard discussing "scratch tickets and illegal activities," leading officers to visit the address on Cherry Ave. where the call originated.
"When officers got to the area, she could be heard saying that she 'saw the police' and would 'not be going to jail.' She was seemingly clairvoyant, but that prediction was wrong," Stachan wrote.
https://iaedjournal.org/pocket-dialing/
POCKET DIALING
February 24, 2016, 1 year ago By Josh McFadden
It’s embarrassing, but we’ve all done it before: made an accidental phone call to an unintended recipient.
Usually, this mishap occurs when our phone is in our back pocket and we sit down. Next thing we know, we’ve inadvertently dialed up one of our contacts or perhaps even a stranger. Sometimes we’re even unaware the connection has been made, and someone on the other end is saying “hello, hello,” with no response.
This is a phenomenon known as “butt dialing,” or “pocket dialing.”
Cheers
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Hi Edparityanimal wrote: »Well, J has let the cat out of the bag on FaceBook. We will be picking Kiara (key-ARE-uh) up Wednesday, July 19 between 11:00 and 12:00.
I am a cautious person and I want to have something in my Hot Little Hands before I say I have it
Good Luck With the Catsparityanimal wrote: »Howdy y'all. It's wonderful Wednesday!
We're scheduled to pick Kiara up between 11:00 and 12:00 today. I hope she and Lilo like each other or at least tolerate each other.
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As I love British comedy, usually, I'll definitely be checking out the two videos Roger posted. Just not right this second...
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Kiara is safely tucked away in the hall bathroom now, with her own litter box, some toys, canned food, kibble, and water, along with a one story "kitty condo" and a large cat bed. She likes the kitty condo. We hung a scratching pad/post from the linen closet door knob for her in there, with a bell to make it more fun to use. Needless to say, we already had all of this stuff around as we've been raising cats and kittens for many years.
The only new items we got for them are a couple of automatic food bowls that will only open for the right cat, as they can be programmed to sense the microchip in the cat's neck and won't open for the wrong cat. This will prevent Lilo (at 14 1/2 years old) from eating Kiara's kitten food and also keep Kiara (at 5 1/2 months old) from eating Lilo's adult, special food to help maintain and promote kidney health and function. She hasn't had any kidney problems, but when our oldest (and first) cat did, we switched all the adult cats to that food on the veterinarian's advice, and he said he fed that to all his adult cats that were at least 2 years old.
Right now Lilo hisses or growls at Kiara and she hisses or growls right back at. We are letting them have short moments of highly supervised interaction, usually with J holding Kiara while Lilo is free to move about. Perhaps tomorrow we can shut Lilo up for a short time in the master bedroom and let Kiara explore more of the house, but it will be probably a week or so that Kiara needs to rest up and let her surgical incision heal, so she'll live in the bathroom for that week. At least it has a lot more room than that small cage at the shelter!
Here's J and Kiara at the vet, waiting for the doctor to come and give her a check-up. The check-up went well and it seems all systems are GO.
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Kiara, being a kitten, has made a bit of a mess of the hall bathroom playing with her toys and knocking her water bowl around, but when J goes in there she usually wants to be held for a while before doing anything else.
After a bit of wary sniffing, licking, and sampling, she has eaten some of her canned food and some of her kibble, so I guess she has decided that the Science Diet Kitten food I bought for her is acceptable even if it doesn't look or smell like whatever they were feeding her for the last three weeks at the shelter. I expect it is more along the lines of what she SHOULD be eating as I'm pretty sure they feed all the cats and kittens a food that is supposedly suitable for all cats and kittens but really not quite...
Lilo seems to have accepted her new, automatic opening food bowl fairly well but I haven't got the lid actually moving much as yet. She is willing to eat food out of it and tomorrow when I refill it I will be having the lid partially close. Then close a bit more, almost all the way, and then finally close and open all the way.
Meanwhile here are some funny pictures of rabbits addicted to technology.
http://cheezburger.com/2792453/two-rabbits-addicted-to-technology-12-funny-comics?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+ICanHasCheezburger+(I+CAN+HAS+CHEEZBURGER)0 -
In the weird news category
https://www.clickorlando.com/strange-florida/15-pounds-of-frozen-italian-sausage-crashes-down-on-familys-roof
15 pounds of frozen Italian sausage crashes on Florida family's roof
Family wonders how mystery meat ended up there
By Neki Mohan - Anchor/Reporter
Posted: 4:42 PM, July 17, 2017
Updated: 9:57 AM, July 18, 2017
I call this one weird since:
Manufacturing Hate for 'Made in America'
Michelle Malkin
Posted: Jul 19, 2017 12:01 AM
It's "Made In America" week in Washington, D.C. You'd think this would be cause for bipartisan celebration. Who could be against highlighting the ingenuity, self-reliance and success of our nation's homegrown entrepreneurs and manufacturers?
Enter Bill Kristol.
The entrenched Beltway pundit ridiculed a festive kickoff event on Monday at the White House, where President Donald Trump hosted companies from all 50 states to showcased their American-made products.
"Maybe it's just me," killjoy Kristol tweeted, "but I find something off-putting about turning the White House into an exhibition hall for American tchotchkes." (That's the Yiddish word for useless trinkets).
"Tchotchkes"?
Tell that to the engineers at Hytrol, the Arkansas-based conveyor manufacturer that brought a mechanical display of its technology to the State Dining Room. Hytrol's late founder, Tom Loberg, started out as a gopher at an electronics parts factory during the Great Depression, worked his way up to designing Navy turbines, hydraulic pumps and cylinders, and entered the conveyor belt business after perfecting bag-transporting machinery for seed, grain and tobacco farmers.
Hytrol's state-of-the-art products are now used by companies ranging from Amazon.com to Office Depot to leading pharmaceutical, retail, food and publishing conglomerates around the world. A pioneer in the materials handling industry, Hytrol employs 1,300 high-skilled workers and will rake in revenues of more than $200 million this year alone.
CARTOONS | Gary Varvel
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"Tchotchkes"?
Tell that to the employees of Wisconsin's Pierce Manufacturing, which displayed one of its 30,000 custom-built fire trucks on the White House front lawn. Pierce started out as an auto body shop operating out of a converted church and now boasts a 2,000-person workforce. The company produces the iconic aerial tillers, pumpers, tankers and rescue trucks driven by first responders across the country every day.
"Tchotchkes"?
Tell that to Iowa-based RMA Armament's founder Blake Waldrop, a former Marine and police officer, who was inspired to manufacture stronger body armor after losing a comrade in Iraq to an IED attack. His ceramic plates, also featured at the "Made in America" event on Monday, have been purchased by police departments in Baltimore, Los Angeles and Waterloo, Iowa. Waldrop is working on partnerships to bring his products to the U.S. military and overseas.
"I always tell people I didn't invent armor any more than Steve Jobs invented the computer," Waldrop told the Des Moines Register earlier this year. "I just found a better way to do it, just like he did."
"Tchotchkes"?
Delaware's ILC Dover participated in President Trump's "Made in America" exhibition, too. Its trademark trifling bauble? The space suit worn by every U.S. astronaut since Project Apollo. Prolific inventor-turned-industrialist Abram Spanel, a Russian-born son of Jewish garment workers, spun off the company from his giant latex conglomerate that manufactured everything from girdles and swimwear to canteens and lifeboats.
ILC Dover produced high-pressure suits and helmets for the Air Force before winning a contract to design suits for NASA. In addition to displaying spacesuits used on the Space Shuttle and International Space Station programs, the company brought to the White House its DoverPac Flexible Isolator System used by pharmaceutical companies in their manufacturing processes; its Sentinel respirator used in the health care industry; and its SCape escape respirator used to protect U.S. government officials around the world from carbon monoxide, chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear contaminants.
Could Trump and his family's own companies do better in hiring American and manufacturing in America? Sure.
To nastily deride the makers and job creators proudly showing off their wares in the nation's capital at the invitation of our commander in chief takes a special level of anti-Trump lunacy and arrogance.
"Maybe it's just me," Kristol snarked as he heaped scorn on "Made in America" week.
Yes, it is just you, Kristol, and the rest of your Beltway Swamp "schmendricks" who turn their noses at the "tchotchkes" that help save lives, move mountains and break barriers across the galaxy.
The rest of us give praise and thanks.
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I did some walking , The temperature this morning was 78 on the news channel and 78 degrees on the front porch. Warmer than yesterday The humidity is up in what they are calling Tropical once again
Day two of a three day heat wave
I harvested some Blackberries this morning on my return.
Here is what I was watching Yesterday during Lunch and Dinner. One on YouTube and the other from Dailymotion. Both serve up videos and are IMO safe to use.
I watched more 'Allo 'Allo! and Hi-de-Hi! today. Lots of laughs and who does not need a good laugh. In the Que to watch,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_the_Manor_Born
To the Manor Born is a BBC television sitcom that first aired on BBC1 from 1979 to 1981. A special edition appeared in 2007.Snipped
In 1979, the last episode of the first series received 23.95 million viewers, the fourth-highest figures for any programme in the UK in the 1970s, and the highest for a non-live event.[33] The following year, 21.55 million people watched the last episode of series two, the fifth-highest viewing figure for the 1980s.[34] The final episode in 1981, when Audrey and Richard marry, received 17.80 million viewers.[13][35] The 2007 Christmas special garnered 10.25 million viewers and ranked as the 6th most watched programme in the UK for that week.[36]
I also watched the Pilot episode of Eureka
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_(U.S._TV_series)
Eureka is an American science fiction television series that premiered on Syfy on July 18, 2006. The fifth and final season ended on July 16, 2012. The show was set in a fictional town of Eureka, Oregon (although, in the pilot episode, Eureka was located in Washington State
Have a Great Thursday
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A Good Question
Luckily I do not have to eat Gluten Free, This looks really tasty to me
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