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Saturday Morning Open Thread

by Soonergrunt|  July 6, 20138:47 am| 39 Comments

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We are experiencing something here called a “cool front.”  I’m not sure what to make of it, except to take as much advantage as possible.  Going to try to finish getting the last of the stuff out of the storage unit, put away more stuff, hang some pictures, and go for a walk.

What all have you guys got going on?

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  1. 1.

    c u n d gulag

    July 6, 2013 at 8:52 am

    I plan to do as little as humanly possible, because here in Upstate NY, we’re looking at another 90+ degree day, with high humidity.
    YUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I feel like the weather from Fayetteville, NC, has decided to follow me north, almost 5 years after I left there.

    But, no global warming, no climate change – right, Conservatives? It’s snowing somewhere…

    I plan to spend the day sipping cold hoppyy/happy adult beverages, and watching the Yankee game on TV this afternoon.

    Oh, and enjoy your cool front, Soonergrunt, because I’m sure there ain’t many of them in your neck of the prairie in July and August – among other months..

  2. 2.

    HinTN

    July 6, 2013 at 8:54 am

    Rain, steady beyond a drizzle rain, and 70 degrees for a July high for the whole holiday weekend. Hoping the sweet corn down the street is ready.

  3. 3.

    NotMax

    July 6, 2013 at 8:57 am

    May your pictures be well hung.

  4. 4.

    Randy P

    July 6, 2013 at 8:59 am

    Spur of the moment getaway to New Hope, PA, where we were planning to get our July 4 fireworks but they were cancelled because of high water in the river. We had a very wet June and apparently the currents were too fast for the barge to be anchored safely or something.

    Hot and humid around here but the river makes it bearable.

    Second time high water has screwed up our plans. We were in Bavaria for our actual summer vacation and had to change some of our plans due to the floods in southern Germany.

  5. 5.

    Sibling Nonspecific Firearm of Random Adjective Followed by a Noun That Describes a Mental State (fka AWS)

    July 6, 2013 at 9:03 am

    Trying to pick up the pieces.

  6. 6.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    July 6, 2013 at 9:07 am

    I’ll be helping my neighbor with installing part of his new trailer floor (rebuilding a 30′ trailer) and later today taking a motorcycle ride up to Humbug Mountain (up by Port Orford) for the hell of it. Then it’s under the hood of the Olds to perform a compression test see if the engine can be salvaged (looks like the head gasket blew) or if we will shitcan the car and get another.

  7. 7.

    PurpleGirl

    July 6, 2013 at 9:10 am

    I put the living room A/C on at about 7AM. I have to go food shopping soon so I can be home in the A/C this afternoon.

    Enjoy the cold front, Sooner.

  8. 8.

    Maude

    July 6, 2013 at 9:11 am

    @c u n d gulag:
    Same in NJ. We are stuck in this hot humid system. It will only be 85 on Monday. No end in sight.
    93 today and tomorrow.

  9. 9.

    MattF

    July 6, 2013 at 9:11 am

    Pulled muscle in my leg slowing me down… just waiting for the ibuprofen to take hold, then maybe go shopping, get the expensive garlic press that reportedly outperforms all the others.

  10. 10.

    Eric

    July 6, 2013 at 9:12 am

    Three briefs to write this weekend. Livin da dream

  11. 11.

    jeffreyw

    July 6, 2013 at 9:18 am

    We are heading for the farmer’s market, looking for cotija cheese for elote. Either there or at a nearby International Grocery that caters to the foreign population of the local university. Fun store to browse if you are a foodie, or foodie-ish as the case may be.

  12. 12.

    Maude

    July 6, 2013 at 9:18 am

    @Sibling Nonspecific Firearm of Random Adjective Followed by a Noun That Describes a Mental State (fka AWS):
    And oh, how it hurts. It does go away, it just feels like forever. I screamed in the car going to work for 6 months. It helped.

  13. 13.

    gene108

    July 6, 2013 at 9:20 am

    My cousin’s son graduated high school this year. They had a party for family and friends. His sister and another cousin’ s daughter are in their early 20’s. I’m 39 and damn those 20-somethings make me feel old.

    I swear I was just their age a short while ago, and they were little girls in pig- tails running around happily tossing balloons in the air at a dinner party.

    Where the hell did the time go?

    Why do 20-somethimgs look sooooo youmg to me now?

    Wish I had the money for the onlrly appropriate way to deal with this and get a good flashy mid-life crisis car, but I blew my wad of cash on grad school, alas.

  14. 14.

    Linda Featheringill

    July 6, 2013 at 9:25 am

    Sooner:

    Dunno how “cool” your day will be. Weather Underground says you’ll hit 100 today.

    How do you take your iced tea?

  15. 15.

    NickT

    July 6, 2013 at 9:25 am

    @c u n d gulag:

    You want the conservative case against global warming? Why, sir, it’s asnowin’ globally as we speak:

    http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://focusonthe615.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/15671332_BG1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://focusonthe615.com/2011/12/11/a-must-see-human-snow-globe-at-jingle-ball-in-nashville/&h=340&w=246&sz=76&tbnid=XHhSD3JDZ2EaVM:&tbnh=108&tbnw=78&zoom=1&usg=__UVGhFoVtzII66NsEj7TqVCEQP_8=&docid=G-lRfdPK7Y910M&sa=X&ei=iBrYUYm2O8bn0QHXbQ&ved=0CIMBEPUBMAU&dur=1876#imgdii=XHhSD3JDZ2EaVM%3A%3Bd2i4ffgvnuio0M%3BXHhSD3JDZ2EaVM%3A

  16. 16.

    c u n d gulag

    July 6, 2013 at 9:29 am

    @NickT:
    Only we Russians would have snow-globes wishing someone a happy birthday!

  17. 17.

    NickT

    July 6, 2013 at 9:31 am

    @c u n d gulag:

    I did wonder who Natasha was and which birthday she was celebrating. There ought to be a story in there somewhere.

  18. 18.

    c u n d gulag

    July 6, 2013 at 9:32 am

    @Maude:
    When I was younger, these are the days I used to drive to NJ, just to go to the beach.
    Or, if I didn’t feel like traveling that far, go to one of the nearby lakes.

    Now, a lot of those lakes in what were once public places, have been privatized – and I refuse to pay money, to sit around and schwitz all day.

    I’m so old, I hate summer!

  19. 19.

    maya

    July 6, 2013 at 9:35 am

    Another early AM spent screwing around with a MS update that won’t install – since June 13th – over 22 FAILS. MS Help, no help at all. Troubleshoot…..wait..wait. OK fixed. No. Not fixed. Effing POS. Why did I ever get a computer in the first place. Oh right, to come here.

    Whatever, in a little bit, soon as it warms up – we had the Tejas jalapeno bubble over us for 7 days, but it broke on the 4th – down to the garden and feed the maters. Looking good. First fruits starting after pinching back for a couple weeks. Was worried there for a while. Nice healthy plants augmented with coffee grounds every week. Maybe caffeinated maters? Had to put scarecrow up yesterday to keep birds off plum tree. Will see if it worked.
    @Randy P: Know New Hope well. Parents used to live in Lahaska and spent many a youthful summer further up the Delaware in Narrowsburg.

  20. 20.

    Mustang Bobby

    July 6, 2013 at 9:42 am

    It’s a typical summer morning here in South Florida: chance of rain, humidity out the wazoo, and warm.

    Last night I went to the Miami 1-Acts Festival at the New Theatre where I saw eight short plays including my own, “Ask Me Anything,” directed by William Roudebush. I know I’m not the most objective person around, but it was amazing. And it gets a second showing tomorrow afternoon. Finally getting close to the big time.

  21. 21.

    NickT

    July 6, 2013 at 9:43 am

    @Mustang Bobby:

    Could you tell us a bit about your play? Congratulations on the performances!

  22. 22.

    Mustang Bobby

    July 6, 2013 at 9:49 am

    @NickT: It’s a ten-minute play with two characters (and one with a one-line walk on) about a job interview that starts out normally but goes horribly wrong. I wrote it for a master class with Tina Howe; cranked it out in about as long as it takes to perform. This is its second production in three months. Got a great director and it took off.

  23. 23.

    c u n d gulag

    July 6, 2013 at 9:53 am

    @Mustang Bobby:
    WOW!
    That IS exciting!

    Best of luck with it!

  24. 24.

    NickT

    July 6, 2013 at 9:53 am

    @Mustang Bobby:

    Excellent. Would it be asking for too much information to inquire how the job interview goes wrong?

  25. 25.

    Mustang Bobby

    July 6, 2013 at 9:57 am

    @NickT: Well, that would give the plot twist away. :) Someone compared it to O. Henry, but that’s for others to say.

  26. 26.

    Betty Cracker

    July 6, 2013 at 9:59 am

    Due to a scheduling error made by a bonehead (me), I have to work part of today. Oh well. It’s a thousand degrees outside anyway.

  27. 27.

    NickT

    July 6, 2013 at 10:01 am

    @Mustang Bobby:

    Well, so long as the hero doesn’t sell his beloved watch to buy his wife a set of combs…

    Anyway, congratulations again and I hope you have celebrated your success.

  28. 28.

    NickT

    July 6, 2013 at 10:02 am

    @Betty Cracker:

    Those auto-bonehead moments are the worst.

  29. 29.

    ranchandsyrup

    July 6, 2013 at 10:06 am

    Our daughter has been doing great with potty training so we are going to the watermark at Legoland, as promised. Outstanding people watching there.

  30. 30.

    ranchandsyrup

    July 6, 2013 at 10:08 am

    Yeah that would be water park not watermark.

  31. 31.

    Soonergrunt

    July 6, 2013 at 10:58 am

    @Linda Featheringill: NO sugar. If God had wanted the tea to be sweet, he’d have put sugar in the leaves in the first place.

  32. 32.

    NickT

    July 6, 2013 at 11:00 am

    @Soonergrunt:

    If God had wanted tea to be drunk, he’d have put hot water in the leaves in the first place.

  33. 33.

    trollhattan

    July 6, 2013 at 12:27 pm

    We had a very welcome twenty-one degree plunge from the fourth to the fifth and can again be outside without the threat of spontaneous thermal death. So there’s that.

    Hard to see the point of “gardening” when everything seems either dead or dying. ‘Cept the weeds, of course.

  34. 34.

    StringOnAStick

    July 6, 2013 at 1:05 pm

    We had a bobcat saunter up the flagstone path in the back yard (backs to open space here in the Front Range foothills), then head south under the neighbors deck to continue his appointed rounds. My husband ran to the front yard to tell me what he’d seen from the kitchen, so I caught a glimpse of an impressive set of hind paws and a tail to die for as he continued on his way.

    Two weeks ago my husband saw a rabbit dash the same general direction with a coyote hot on his trail, and a few months ago I saw a golden eagle in the cottonwood tree down in the gulch behind us. Thanks to the wet spring we had, there is obviously a lot more wildlife/prey around this year, more than we’ve seen in the 8 years we’ve been in this house. We’re behind on precip now, but the monsoonal flow started like clockwork on July 4 so maybe we’ll get caught up. Or maybe we’ll get another screaming hail storm/new roof frenzy (we’re known for that around here).

    Wildlife = one more reason why the kitty is an indoor-only kitty no matter how much she complains about it. Cats simply don’t last around here if they go out into the predator-rich outdoors.

  35. 35.

    donnah

    July 6, 2013 at 1:35 pm

    My sis and I are celebrating a massive accomplishment: cleaning out my late father’s garage. Two giant dumpsters filled, three trips to the hazardous waste dump with his collections of TV and radio paraphenalia, his wood working varnishes, paints, thinners, and thousands of other things he could never part with.

    It was a fucking nightmare: silverfish, spiders, and other bugs I don’t even know what they were. The sad part is that my mom insisted we do it so she could park her car in the garage, but she won’t be able to back her car out by herself. sigh.

    I’m glad it’s done.

  36. 36.

    Esme's Mom

    July 6, 2013 at 1:37 pm

    Slept in with a bull terrier.

  37. 37.

    Mnemosyne

    July 6, 2013 at 1:38 pm

    We’re meeting up with some old friends at a local place (BJers who went to the LA meetup a few months ago know where). The husband of the pair had to switch to a vegan diet this year because of serious hereditary cardiac issues, so he was super-excited to find out that there’s a microbrewery with vegan food on the menu.

    I’m trying to convince G we should ride our bikes over there like the real hipsters do since it’s only 2 miles away and parking is pain the in ass, but he’s still debating it. It’ll depend on how hot it gets by this afternoon, but things do seem to have cooled off for us a bit.

  38. 38.

    Mnemosyne

    July 6, 2013 at 1:45 pm

    @Sibling Nonspecific Firearm of Random Adjective Followed by a Noun That Describes a Mental State (fka AWS):

    For God’s sake, don’t listen to any Violent Femmes for at least a few months. The only time I started feeling like I might want to end it all after a breakup was after I made the mistake of putting Violent Femmes on a loop.

    Sometimes gory horror movies can help, if you’re into that sort of thing. I watched Twitch of the Death Nerve aka Bay of Blood after one breakup and it made me feel better since it was about the most horrible family in the world all killing each other off so they could inherit lakefront property.

    Do you still have Lady Smudge? We haven’t heard about her in a while.

  39. 39.

    KmCO

    July 6, 2013 at 3:58 pm

    A cool, wet front to the northwest of you, Soonergrunt, as well–good god, I’m loving it.

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