I'm crossing my fingers too,
for my DD's sake.
She's already having an... interesting time
at school already.
Oh dear...I hope her year goes okay..."interesting" is probably a fair word for it, if not a little understated.
"a little hectic"
I suspect you have a flair for understatement.
Yeah....exactly....kind of like "an interesting time." It's been...okay...a little more than hectic. It doesn't help that I'm in a new job this year. And when I say a new job, I don't just mean new to me (though it also is,) but entirely brand new to everyone. My position was just created by the province for this year...and they didn't exactly figure out what it was gonna be before the year started... That's leading to a lot of confusion for me and for everyone I work with. I'm sure we'll figure it out in time, but it's been a stressful couple of week for sure! I'm thinking Elle and I would have some "interesting" stories to swap if we ever crossed paths!
So how was your summer?
Kids back in school? Grandkids? You???
Yep. Me.
For better or worse.
Summer was nice, but too short. But I'm liking the crisp autumn air that's starting to settle into the evenings/mornings once in a while now.
How’d they get so old???
Thank goodness
I haven’t aged a day.
Right!
I obviously didn't know you in 2012, but I'm glad you stuck around long enough for me to make it to the DIS and your reports
Technically, I could travel by air into the US,
but the problem is, if I test positive in the US,
they wouldn’t let me on a plane to come home.
And having to stay an extra two weeks
in a hotel, or worse… hospital, would
have a slightly negative impact on my finances.
Yes. This is also where my brain goes. An an anxiety-prone germaphobe-type, I'm pretty covid-cautious anyway. But even aside from that, I do think about what would happen if I got down there and then got the dreaded bug and couldn't come back.
I will say, however, that she sure knows
how to pick… and get a nice campsite.
Not the worst view you can wake up to.
Wow! Nice one, Kay! What a beautiful view
Question for the reader
(Readers? Plural?
Is that being too presumptuous?)
Hot Dogs… ketchup. Yes or no???
Okay, I almost didn't quote this out of sheer embarrassment...but I really don't get along with most condiments. Not even related to dietary restrictions, can't even use that as an excuse! I was always a picky eater growing up, and I've gotten much better over time and will eat most things. If you gave me a hotdog with ketchup on it, or anything else for that matter, and I absolutely had to eat it, I would. But I dislike most vinegary-tasting things, and I can taste the vinegar in ketchup, so I prefer most things without it. I would eat a dry, sad, naked hotdog, before I would make the choice to put ketchup on it. Even weirder? At home I'd typically dress it up with cheese whiz, or a slice of cheese, or a garlic aoili or something. I would do a chilli dog though. That works for me.
My husband would say yes, ketchup, for sure. He's a big three kinda guy though: ketchup, mustard, relish. But he'd eat most things aside from raw onions.
Beautiful!
One odd effect from the big C.
Wait… that’s Cancer, isn’t it?
Does Covid have a catchy slogan yet?
Did this TR suddenly take a morbid turn?
Sorry. The last 18 months have been… un-fun.
Maybe a little, but such is life these days. What else is there to do but muse about the current [morbid?] state of things and appreciate the little moments of [dark?] humour?
I waved to a passing family.
How polite of them to greet you this morning! (Side note: I wish I could teach 5 and 6 year olds to stay in line so neatly!)
Who’s thinking of wrinkled prune butts???
Anyone?
If you weren’t, you are now.
Well NOW I am.
This wasn’t a domesticated deer, but a wild animal.
Even though it might be used to people,
I was pretty surprised when it let Kay pet it.
If Kay takes joy in wild deer turned domesticated, she ought to make a pit stop in Truro, NS, next time she takes an east coast trip! The deer regularly cross our lawn and when I come out on the patio they don't run
away, they run
toward, in hopes that I'll have a banana to feed them. (Not sure where they'd ever get that idea. Not that I'd
ever do that! hehehe)
In all seriousness though, it's become quite a problem here. They destroy gardens, poop on lawns, and cause accidents. (Though we often see them quite literally look both ways before crossing the street, so not as many accidents as you might think!) They also carry ticks, obviously, which is a big problem in a province where we've already been having an increasing problem with the tick population. They're talking about the need for another cull in future to help manage the population (culling the deer, not the ticks.)
At first, I thought it might be some dried seaweed.
Kay went to poke it with a stick.
Ooooh that looks to me an awful lot like a....
She reached forward and I said,
“It’s a…”
<POKE!>
...wasp nest...
...yep.
Oops is right!
Glad it turned out the way it did, and not with further swarming and chasing and stinging and whatnot. Wasps tend to be fairly attached to their nests, so that could have gone worse all things considered!