Something About Nothing ... #12

[macraven]

no jack or crown royal??

 

[pcstang]

I think county fairs have moonshine

 

[Squirlz]

We decided not to go after all. Plan was to pocke a small Pepsi bottle full of bourbon, but the weather isn't looking good.

 

[marciemi]

Well, you can all breathe a huge sign of relief. My son FINALLY got a job offer in the St. Louis area, so he will be joining his GF there. Priorities, ya know? Mac, you're an expert on St. Louis, right? They'll be living more on the west side as GF is working well NW (St. Charles area?) and he'll actually be working in Illinois right across the river (a bit SE). He & I will drive up with his stuff on Aug 22/23 and then I'll fly back the 24th. Guess how much my flight from St. Louis to Orlando cost (booking 2ish weeks out)? $21.55!! Total, including all taxes and fees. Frontier obviously. Luckily I had a $12 credit from them as well to help offset that heavy cost.

 

[macraven]

I know St. Louis and the Illinois side like the back of my hand


I would have moved to that area in a flash if they did not have snow

SE Illinois, hope you don't mean estlouis area

Which city on the other side
Belleville, Fairview Height, or more south than that

The airport in St. Louis is easy

I'm excited for you and any one that moves to the st louie area!

 

[marciemi]

I know St. Louis and the Illinois side like the back of my hand


I would have moved to that area in a flash if they did not have snow

SE Illinois, hope you don't mean estlouis area

Which city on the other side
Belleville, Fairview Height, or more south than that

The airport in St. Louis is easy

I'm excited for you and any one that moves to the st louie area!

He'll actually work in Belleville. Hope that's an okay place!

 

[macraven]

We will have to talk
I lived in that city up into my 20's

Moved to Chicago once I left Belleville

My parents still lived there until I moved them to be with me in northern Illinois

If you have questions send me email or pm

 

[macraven]

There are parts of Belleville that are not okay
And parts that are wonderful

 

[marciemi]

There are parts of Belleville that are not okay
And parts that are wonderful

I'll shoot you a PM, Mac - thanks!

 

[Monykalyn]

Mac-did you go to high school in stl? I am a eureka grad and DH is Lindbergh.
Marci-congrats to your son on the job!
Schumi-dinner does sound lush! We LOVE the cheddar biscuits in our house.
Squirlz-my oldest is at our regional fair right now-she went with a bunch of her friends-storms threatening but they went for fair food not rides LOL! She is trying to pack in as much time with her friends as possible before they all scatter for college in next few days.
With the middle at band camp-was just down to 3 of us for dinner tonite! I hadn't actually planned on cooking - my glass wine (and a snack later) would have been fine for me but my lil guy came and asked for spaghetti-at 6 pm. So I whipped together some spaghetti (not from a jar sauce either). Probably a good thing I did cook as the locusts...er I mean teenagers...cleaned out leftovers last night.

Watching Olympic opening ceremonies but think I am gonna head to bed soon with a book. Got several books from Powells books when we were in Portland and I have one I have been saving til I had a block of time to read. I only came out of that store with 4 books (could easily have stayed for hours and spent a small fortune!)
Need to get my garden in shape this weekend so I can get some fall produce. Summer didn't do as well as I'd wanted.

 

[Lynne G]

Muggy night, all is washed, thankfully a small sleep late before road trip.


Glad to hear DS got a job Marcie. Only visited St. Louis as a teen. Was a stop on a cross country trip.

Time to put on a pot of tea, herbal this time of night.

 

[macraven]

Mony I know exactly where those places are
Son and I spent 4 nights in eureka late October last fall
Went to six flags fright fest
Only did two nights of that and the rest hanging out there

I went to HS on the other side of the river but worked in St. Louis

Now I have the taste for spaghetti

 

[schumigirl]

Congrats Marcie on DS job..........and wow for the extremely low flight costs!!!!

MonyK.........attempting some gardening is our plan this weekend too.......we are useless though......maybe better leaving it to the experts in our case.......do like to potter around though........I adore books too........


Sitting in gazebo sounds nice........it`s gorgeous here today and supposed to be the same tomorrow....yay!!! BBQ and sunshine........

 

[schumigirl]

 

[macraven]

Cute pics schumi



Coffee drinking time for awhile

On my area, school started this past Monday

 

[schumigirl]

Well, spent whole day in garden.........didn't do much gardening. None at all actually........

It was so nice and peaceful just sitting chatting and enjoying the sun........had gorgeous steak and shrimps off BBQ for dinner......nice!

Just having a coffee with Baileys added.......my kinda coffee.......

Quiet night tonight......

 

[Squirlz]

We worked for a while today, trying to catch up from the days off. Got 37 orders out. Now I have to mow.

 

[Monykalyn]

Now I have to mow

started raining before mowing got done.Got weeds pulled and DH got all the trim done...
Did spend the morning (several hours) getting the horrendous weeds out of unused beds (spades were involved!). Dug up some of my purple carrots. gonna have a bunch of tomatoes soon-the plants are now as tall as me - these are volunteers from last year-all kinds of heirloom variety. Have sage and parsley enough for neighborhood! Found my snake too-was a lil guy that liked to hang out under the lettuce plants-he is a bit bigger now-think he was confused as to why all his cover was gone. Just a garden snake-think he's keeping the other rodents away.

Then came inside and kids assisted in cleaning house. Laundry in progress. Too tired to eat or cook now...

Rain stopped for now-chickens are loving all the worms/bugs coming up with the rain.

23rd anniversary tomorrow. Not sure I want to go out-already out to eat this week for DH birthday.

Hope everyone is enjoying their saturday!

 

[tink1957]

It was hotter than 3 levels of H-e double hockey sticks in the garden center today when I got off at 3 my car said it was 105.

Now I'm laying down in my nice air conditioned bedroom trying to talk myself into getting up to finish cooking dinner. BBQ pork chops are on...still need to do the sweet potato fries and roasted asparagus with lemon-dijon vinaigrette.

Happy anniversary to MonyK and hubby.
Go out and celebrate...you deserve it after all that hard work

Have a great weekend homies

 

[macraven]

Happy anniversary to monyk and mr monyk!!



Eat out again this week

You can diet next week