Something About Nothing............ #14

[macraven]

Very nice!

 

[Lynne G]

Thanks Mac. It was kinda creepy with a skeleton and others. From a real place. Was a gift from my mom long ago. So was digging out my closet, as I doubt I would have bought it. Onto an easier one I found. But not until at least later. This is relaxing time, trash out, dinner done, alarm on, and a cup of tea, as the night is dark. Hope all is well with you.

 

[macraven]

Wow Lynne, in less than 3 weeks, you’ll be in Orlando!
That’s exciting !

 

[Pumpkin1172]

Making a late night stop in!!!

The weekend went way too fast. I really do not want to head into work tomorrow. I could use one more day at home here to get a few more things done, and the kiddo ready for his first day of classes. Even though he is in Gr 12 this year...it is NOT like classes pre-covid. But if anything comes out of all of this, it will teach us to be patient, learn to adapt to fluid situations, and how to move forward, even though we are unsure of what is the right next move - if that makes sense. With so much uncertainty and situations changing almost daily, it is hard to step into those changes. To not let fear overtake us.

We said goodbye to our beloved dog earlier in the week, and I keep looking at his favorite spots, and he is not there. We were getting ready to leave the house, and I almost called him to do a last bathroom visit outside before we left, when I remembered that he wasn't here anymore. He would not go into the youngest Ds's room until I went to bed ( while patiently waiting for him to lift him up onto it the past couple years ) so I am missing him tucking all of us into bed. It will be an adjustment without him around.

I got an email from Busch Gardens today. For September they are doing an event called Taste of Busch Gardens. Dh wants to go, so I have made a reservation for September 12. I really hope it doesn't rain this time.

That sounds like it would be a great time. I loved your last puzzle!!!! I also hope that the number of cases at B's campus doesn't spike too high. It sounds like she is settling in.

He never had an issue until we vacationed with eldest DSs family. Had them bring down their dog (nervous little chillaula sp). Another DS watched the house as the norm. Several storms blew threw and our dog started to mimic the other’s response. Now, every time it rains ugh

Luckily our dd never did that, even though other furry members have. He was not a big barker either, only to alert us when someone was at the door, or walking into our yard. If they stayed on the sidewalk, he wouldn't do anything...but the minute they stepped onto our lawn or driveway, he would go bezerk!!! lol Crazy dog.

So.......yes, back home after a fabulous trip home. Spent a lot of time with mum and family members, saw a few friends too. Hotel was lovely and we felt really happy with everything they were doing regarding Covid.

That is great you had a great trip back! It is always great to visit, but also great to get home. Our last couple of trips have been too short hopefully the next time we go, we will get to spend a little more time.

Morning all. Today is BD party proper at pool for kiddo. I’m not planning on dipping, just schmoozing. Actually, I’ll be the one in far corner trying to avoid people without masks ugh

Sounds exactly like what I would do!!! Hopefully you had a great party!

Ah yes, the weekend flew by. Kids want pizza, so that is good with me. Glorious Sunday, took a walk, as was so nice out

Yes, the weekend went way tooooooooo fast. It is great you have glorious weather longer than we do in the north. It is not cold, but we can tell Fall weather on in the way. Our mornings are cool, and the winds are not nearly warm like they were. Hopefully we get a few chinooks and Indian summer usually hits the second week of September.

Well, I should probably get my butt to bed. Morning seems to come way too fast. I do not remember who posted the picture of the northern lights, but that is how they look in my neck of the woods. Once the labor day weekend is over, we start to see them! That is one of the nice things about Autumn.

Good night everyone!!!! Tink, Bobbie, Mac, MacRose, Disneylife, Realfoods, Sue and anyone else I missed!!!!

 

[macraven]

I stubbed my toe getting here.
The porch light wasn’t on ......

And I just missed pumpkin

double phooey!

 

[Realfoodfans]

@Pumpkin1172 oh I am so sorry to read of your loss. Such a hole in the family when they leave us. The price we pay for loving them. I remember carrying our old lad up to bed for a long while - and he was big. Last few nights I slept downstairs with him as Kev had to go to a meeting at our home (now sold) in Devon and my son was away on holiday. They both arrived home the Sunday night and the Monday morning our dear vet of many years came to our home to be with us as he passed. Took us 7 years to choose to have another.

Yes our weather is definitely turning to Autumn and not long before the colours will change. Though out with Louie first thing in my night things definitely still warm air around.

Off to our favourite local restaurant again with Em and the children for lunch - last of the Eat Out support days today but the owner told us he’s going to do other offers through September to keep numbers up. We will go whatever as it’s our “local”.

Time for my next coffee.

 

[Realfoodfans]

 

[Lynne G]

Thanks for the light, Julie. Just before dawn, another 1/2 or so. Very dark out, as cloud cover, Enjoy your lunch out, nice to support a local restaurant you all like.

Pumpkin, I am so sorry to hear of dog’s passing. Never easy, and sending lots of hugs, We are still not ready to have another. And yeah, there are times still miss having one.

Ah, you know it’s a Monday, when laptop is not responding. Sigh.



And yes, Pumpkin, cooler start in some time today, 61 out, but will be 80 this afternoon, with some chances of that pesky, haha, rain loser times. Seems those rain chances continue through the week, but the 7 day forecast this morning said a full sunny days weekend! Woot! Now that is a forecast I can live with, not so nice weather during week, absolutely beautiful weekend, yay!

And so,

Ah, 30 days has September, April, June, and November. The rest have 31, except short February, with 28 or leaping 29.

So, as the 31st of August is here, and the last day of August, fittingly it is a Monday.

With that, laptop seems to have responded now, back to that early routine, including another cup of tea.

Don’t think my family has any British in us, but both my mom and I enjoyed a good cup of tea. And so, while coffee I will drink, most of the time, you will see me with a cup of tea. Including this morning.

So, Good Morning homies. A Marvelous Monday to you all.

And that talk of Fall. Sigh. End of summer means back to school routine for many too. But it also means Halloween is coming.

 

[schumigirl]

Wow Lynne, in less than 3 weeks, you’ll be in Orlando!
That’s exciting !

You`re not far behind that yourself mac.......

Making a late night stop in!!!

The weekend went way too fast. I really do not want to head into work tomorrow. I could use one more day at home here to get a few more things done, and the kiddo ready for his first day of classes. Even though he is in Gr 12 this year...it is NOT like classes pre-covid. But if anything comes out of all of this, it will teach us to be patient, learn to adapt to fluid situations, and how to move forward, even though we are unsure of what is the right next move - if that makes sense. With so much uncertainty and situations changing almost daily, it is hard to step into those changes. To not let fear overtake us.

We said goodbye to our beloved dog earlier in the week, and I keep looking at his favorite spots, and he is not there. We were getting ready to leave the house, and I almost called him to do a last bathroom visit outside before we left, when I remembered that he wasn't here anymore. He would not go into the youngest Ds's room until I went to bed ( while patiently waiting for him to lift him up onto it the past couple years ) so I am missing him tucking all of us into bed. It will be an adjustment without him around.


That sounds like it would be a great time. I loved your last puzzle!!!! I also hope that the number of cases at B's campus doesn't spike too high. It sounds like she is settling in.


Luckily our dd never did that, even though other furry members have. He was not a big barker either, only to alert us when someone was at the door, or walking into our yard. If they stayed on the sidewalk, he wouldn't do anything...but the minute they stepped onto our lawn or driveway, he would go bezerk!!! lol Crazy dog.

That is great you had a great trip back! It is always great to visit, but also great to get home. Our last couple of trips have been too short hopefully the next time we go, we will get to spend a little more time.

Sounds exactly like what I would do!!! Hopefully you had a great party!

Yes, the weekend went way tooooooooo fast. It is great you have glorious weather longer than we do in the north. It is not cold, but we can tell Fall weather on in the way. Our mornings are cool, and the winds are not nearly warm like they were. Hopefully we get a few chinooks and Indian summer usually hits the second week of September.

Well, I should probably get my butt to bed. Morning seems to come way too fast. I do not remember who posted the picture of the northern lights, but that is how they look in my neck of the woods. Once the labor day weekend is over, we start to see them! That is one of the nice things about Autumn.

Good night everyone!!!! Tink, Bobbie, Mac, MacRose, Disneylife, Realfoods, Sue and anyone else I missed!!!!

Sounds like a nice weekend pumpkin, but sorry about your dog.

Yes, trips do pass all too quickly, but we had a wonderful visit all round. I`m sure you see a massive difference in the baby every time you visit her.....

Getting chilly here too.....we had 50F this morning, but with the sun shining it felt nicer, but that chill is definitely in the air, we felt it last week too in the early evenings and mornings.

I love autumn though, the changing of the trees is very pretty, although not so pretty when they are completely bare. We have a lot of evergreen types round here, lots of high leylandii around us which is lovely.

Hope your week goes quickly pumpkin......

I stubbed my toe getting here.
The porch light wasn’t on ......

And I just missed pumpkin

double phooey!

lol....that is a sore thing to do!!!! Charade must have had an early night........




Beautiful, but chilly morning today. We barely have 9c (48F) this morning.....but as the sun was shining, we had breakfast and headed, well, drove the few minutes to the beach and had a lovely walk along.

They`ll be busy today as it`s Bank Holiday, and even yesterday despite the colder temps they were all busy. Not fun for me sitting on a beach when it`s cooler. But each to their own......

Today we`ll get in the garden to do a few bits, not warm enough to sit out unless you had a jacket on.....Tom wants to try his "limb lopper" (thanks keisha) although our gardener wasn`t happy.....lol.....I told him I wouldn`t let him go crazy on the trees.

Barbecue tonight, although we`ll be eating inside.......have a few speciality sausages and will make chicken kebabs and the usual sides......open sandwich for lunch......will find something.

Hope you have a lovely Monday......and the last day in August.......where has the year gone!!!!



Lynne......just saw you pop in there.......enjoy that tea! You don`t need to be British to enjoy a nice pot of tea........hope the computer stays in good shape!

Have a wonderful Monday.........​

 

[mckennarose]

We said goodbye to our beloved dog earlier in the week

I'm so sorry. It's heartbreaking when we have to say goodbye to our furry babies.

Early start today, as I had to get blood work. Back now and drinking coffee. It is chilly this morning. As much as I love Fall, I will miss the warmth. We like to go to Florida in May and Sept/Oct which is a nice warm break from the weather here. We'll miss it this Fall so I'll have to live vicariously through all of you going.

 

[Lynne G]

Schumi. Yeah, true, and English tea is kinda iconic. No matter, I do like a good tea. And will always be happy to enjoy a cuppa with you some day. Eek, you do have cooler weather. Nice a Bank Holiday, as means Kyle can relax today too. Funny, we have Federal Holidays, but we have never called then Bank ones, though our banks are closed during those holidays. Nice you had a walk on the beach, and good sounding dinner. Not sure what our dinner will be, yet

And this year, our Labor Day is late. Not until next Monday is our start of the woot!, a holiday a month starts this month coming up. Ends in February, but nice to have a short work week when you can get it with a free day.

Good morning McK, hope your blood test goes fast. News said little one’s university is closed for two weeks. Seems they are concerned about virus numbers. I cannot see why they would want to reopen after closing for two weeks. But I guess we will see. Either way, little one is not going to do an in person class.

Ah, the nice thing about telework is, mom alarm works in person. Little one has an 8 o’clock class, and I was not sure I heard her up.

Later homies. Smile, I got a sunny sunrise, and still sunny now. Eh, will check the phone to see the percentage chances of rain.

 

[Elsaspiritanimal]

Good morning fam! Had a busy weekend here the family was in town again for some boating and hanging out at the lake. I didn't want it to end it is likely going to be the last one of the summer.

Sunset from this weekend:


Oh well like Lynne said just means it is almost Halloween! Will have to start thinking about decorating the house for fall soon but I will probably wait until after Labor Day - I just can't bear the thought of summer almost being over! But I was very excited to read this weekend that WDW will be decorated for fall and have themed snacks while I'm there so that should start the season off right! Countdown is at 17 days!

Got my coffee in hand this morning too @mckennarose. Switched to a latte this morning - my iced coffee was a hit this weekend so I will have to make some more today. Feeling pretty tired as well so may have to have a cup of tea after that!

@Pumpkin1172 so sorry to hear about the furry baby.

@schumigirl Glad you are back and had a nice trip! Yes they do go by way too fast. Sounds like a chilly morning by you! It is going to stay pretty nice by us this week for the most part like @Lynne G, but it looks like we will have a chill down starting next Sunday. But yes if the sun is shining that helps a ton!

Anybody have any good ideas for dinner tonight? Might just do some garlic sesame noodles and salmon if I can't think of anything else. Schumi's kebabs sound good a little might have to run to the store to have something like that later in the week.

Have a great day everyone!

 

[Lynne G]

Yay Elsa’s vacation coming up soon! Yeah, I tend to figure out dinner, close to dinner. Enjoy your coffee and beautiful picture from the lake.

 

[Realfoodfans]

Lovely meal out - and they are thankful to be so busy. All full after our main meals not needing dessert so we came home and Em took L to the local Italian ice cream store and I’ve whipped a chocolate cake into and out the oven - chilling it in the fridge as suddenly everyone is now ready for dessert. Thankfully some ready made chocolate fudge icing so it will be easy to finish off.

Hoping then everyone will flop in front of the tv!

 

[Elsaspiritanimal]

Lovely meal out - and they are thankful to be so busy. All full after our main meals not needing dessert so we came home and Em took L to the local Italian ice cream store and I’ve whipped a chocolate cake into and out the oven - chilling it in the fridge as suddenly everyone is now ready for dessert. Thankfully some ready made chocolate fudge icing so it will be easy to finish off.

Hoping then everyone will flop in front of the tv!

Save me a piece I love chocolate fudge frosting!

 

[mckennarose]

News said little one’s university is closed for two weeks. Seems they are concerned about virus numbers. I cannot see why they would want to reopen after closing for two weeks. But I guess we will see. Either way, little one is not going to do an in person class.

Ugh! I'm glad she's home. My dd's university updated their numbers on Friday and the count was up 29 students since Wednesday for a total of 119 in the past two weeks since they opened. They haven't updated the numbers today yet, but today is the first day of all online classes for everyone.

Oh well like Lynne said just means it is almost Halloween!

Yay!! We've been pulling some decorations out, I've been making some, and dd has started to put on Halloween movies. We've watched Sleepy Hollow, several of the Halloweentown movies, and she tried to put Beetlejuice on, but we decided to wait a while.

Thankfully some ready made chocolate fudge icing so it will be easy to finish off.

Oh yum!! Send some this way please!

 

[Elsaspiritanimal]

Yay!! We've been pulling some decorations out, I've been making some

How fun what have you been making? My mom cut up a log into slices so I think we are going to paint them like pumpkins with various colors and designs to put out this year. But I'd love to see what you are doing to get some fresh ideas for this year too!

 

[Lynne G]

Halloween

 

[schumigirl]

Schumi. Yeah, true, and English tea is kinda iconic. No matter, I do like a good tea. And will always be happy to enjoy a cuppa with you some day. Eek, you do have cooler weather. Nice a Bank Holiday, as means Kyle can relax today too. Funny, we have Federal Holidays, but we have never called then Bank ones, though our banks are closed during those holidays. Nice you had a walk on the beach, and good sounding dinner. Not sure what our dinner will be, yet

And this year, our Labor Day is late. Not until next Monday is our start of the woot!, a holiday a month starts this month coming up. Ends in February, but nice to have a short work week when you can get it with a free day.

Good morning McK, hope your blood test goes fast. News said little one’s university is closed for two weeks. Seems they are concerned about virus numbers. I cannot see why they would want to reopen after closing for two weeks. But I guess we will see. Either way, little one is not going to do an in person class.

Ah, the nice thing about telework is, mom alarm works in person. Little one has an 8 o’clock class, and I was not sure I heard her up.

Later homies. Smile, I got a sunny sunrise, and still sunny now. Eh, will check the phone to see the percentage chances of rain.

Yep, not sure if this cooler weather is here for a while, but it’s definitely changed this weekend......we got up to 60F today, lovely in the sunshine, but in the shade much cooler.

Always just been called a Bank Holiday, stores for the most part have shorter hours today and places popular like beaches and parks are always busy.....little towns too are nice to visit, but so busy.

Hope you get something nice for dinner........

Good morning fam! Had a busy weekend here the family was in town again for some boating and hanging out at the lake. I didn't want it to end it is likely going to be the last one of the summer.

Sunset from this weekend:
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Oh well like Lynne said just means it is almost Halloween! Will have to start thinking about decorating the house for fall soon but I will probably wait until after Labor Day - I just can't bear the thought of summer almost being over! But I was very excited to read this weekend that WDW will be decorated for fall and have themed snacks while I'm there so that should start the season off right! Countdown is at 17 days!

Got my coffee in hand this morning too @mckennarose. Switched to a latte this morning - my iced coffee was a hit this weekend so I will have to make some more today. Feeling pretty tired as well so may have to have a cup of tea after that!

@Pumpkin1172 so sorry to hear about the furry baby.

@schumigirl Glad you are back and had a nice trip! Yes they do go by way too fast. Sounds like a chilly morning by you! It is going to stay pretty nice by us this week for the most part like @Lynne G, but it looks like we will have a chill down starting next Sunday. But yes if the sun is shining that helps a ton!

Anybody have any good ideas for dinner tonight? Might just do some garlic sesame noodles and salmon if I can't think of anything else. Schumi's kebabs sound good a little might have to run to the store to have something like that later in the week.

Have a great day everyone!

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Beautiful picture Elsa.......

And a 17 day countdown.........woohooo......something to celebrate for sure!!

Kebabs were lovely! So easy and so tasty.......




Yep, dinner was lovely.......but my goodness, there‘s a nip in the air already tonight even though the sun is still shining.....

Back inside with a pot of tea.......

Wondering whether to watch tv tonight......or go through and watch a movie........decisions.

 

[Elsaspiritanimal]

Wondering whether to watch tv tonight......or go through and watch a movie........decisions.

If you have a glass of wine with it you can't make a wrong decision.