Anybody want to take odds

[Neonred 3,446]

Funny, I got away down to the Keys this weekend and the weather isn't great...off and on rain so I'm not getting out on the water to boat or fish.  Instead I am doing maintenance, mostly painting.  And I have more free time than usual.  So, what am I watching??

 

THE WEATHER CHANNEL

 

I need professional help.

[Cyberfx1024 7,978]

2 hours ago, Neonred said:

I like doing the yard work...all 2 1/2 acres of it.  It's my "gym membership"  Guess I need to pay someone to make my wife's dinner, clean up the dishes, do the laundry and take the dog for a walk.

 

I'm up by 5:30 to get ready for work and make something for the wife and I to eat.  Usually get home by 6:00 and make dinner and take the dog out and I always need to call my elderly mother to be sure she is still alive.  With the little time left I can do paperwork, pay bills online and fix something around the house.  Maybe squeeze in some pool time or talk to one of my kids.  Try to get away down to the house in the FL Keys (where I am now) for the weekend every three weeks or so.

 

Several years ago, before the new wife, we were racing every other weekend and spending several nights a week preparing.  Don't know how I managed.  Well being single made it easier... And I was younger then!

I wish I had just 2 1/2 acres. I have 6 acres total but only up keep about 3 1/2 overall, which about 2 of it is considered pasture. So 1 1/2 is my yard that I maintain. That means I go out every day and check the entire yard to make sure there are no new fire ant mounds. 

[Cyberfx1024 7,978]

2 hours ago, laylalex said:

Well, I don't have a yard to keep, that helps. I live in a little A-frame studio that's in the backyard of another house (i.e. a back house) and my landlord does all the gardening. I used to keep a vegetable garden in Pasadena and I miss that. 

 

So funny-- hand on heart, after we watched 2 episodes of Stranger Things last night, I told my fiancé to just put something on I could fall asleep to, and he chose season 19 of SVU, and the episodes where Liv is being accused of abusing her son, just like @Cyberfx1024 and I were talking about last night. You could not make this up!  

We had a very small yard in Pasadena that the gardener maintained. But I do miss being only 2 miles away from Caltech or a short walk from Chikfila or the Indonesian restaurant. 

 

That is the last complete season that I watched of SVU tbh. I just couldn't bother watching anymore past that.

[laylalex 7,247]

1 hour ago, ALFKAD said:

I find it in poor taste that Laylalex did not like your post.

Hey, I missed it!!!!

[Boiler 43,434]

2 hours ago, ALFKAD said:

I find it in poor taste that Laylalex did not like your post.

We are birds of a feather, well I was actually asked if I wanted to so I guess a difference.

1 hour ago, laylalex said:

Hey, I missed it!!!!

Still missing my like, appreciate it can not be an up arrow but there are other options.

[Dashinka 23,245]

21 hours ago, Boiler said:

Poland

Are the Poles now a defined and protected race?

[Dashinka 23,245]

4 hours ago, Neonred said:

I like doing the yard work...all 2 1/2 acres of it.  It's my "gym membership"  Guess I need to pay someone to make my wife's dinner, clean up the dishes, do the laundry and take the dog for a walk.

 

I'm up by 5:30 to get ready for work and make something for the wife and I to eat.  Usually get home by 6:00 and make dinner and take the dog out and I always need to call my elderly mother to be sure she is still alive.  With the little time left I can do paperwork, pay bills online and fix something around the house.  Maybe squeeze in some pool time or talk to one of my kids.  Try to get away down to the house in the FL Keys (where I am now) for the weekend every three weeks or so.

 

Several years ago, before the new wife, we were racing every other weekend and spending several nights a week preparing.  Don't know how I managed.  Well being single made it easier... And I was younger then!

Any good Russian recipes?

[Dashinka 23,245]

From the hurricane swirling I the mid-Atlantic, To entertainment/television potentials, to yard care.  Very interesting thread.  I also am curious as to where the “up arrow” went.

[laylalex 7,247]

1 hour ago, Boiler said:

We are birds of a feather, well I was actually asked if I wanted to so I guess a difference.

Still missing my like, appreciate it can not be an up arrow but there are other options.

 Okay, double checked.  I DEFINITELY gave a blue heart.☹

Edited August 31, 2019 by laylalex
Correction

[Neonred 3,446]

1 hour ago, Bill & Katya said:

Any good Russian recipes?

Sure.  When her parents were here visiting I cooked them a hamburger on the grill.  Served it on a bun.  They knocked it off the bun, ate the bun as a dinner roll, and ate the hamburger with a fork and knife and told me I made a great cutletky.

 

When the wife cooks she throws the leftovers in a pan and fries it and calls it caca malacca.  Something "special" in Russian!

 

 

[TBoneTX 43,058]

2 hours ago, Bill & Katya said:

I also am curious as to where the “up arrow” went.

All youse guys need to bottom-feed even further in the lower forums.

[Dashinka 23,245]

1 hour ago, Neonred said:

Sure.  When her parents were here visiting I cooked them a hamburger on the grill.  Served it on a bun.  They knocked it off the bun, ate the bun as a dinner roll, and ate the hamburger with a fork and knife and told me I made a great cutletky.

 

When the wife cooks she throws the leftovers in a pan and fries it and calls it caca malacca.  Something "special" in Russian!

 

 

Like when my wife makes solanka, I never know what will be in it.  I do love the herring under a blanket, salted herring, potatoes, beet root and sour cream.

[Dashinka 23,245]

6 minutes ago, TBoneTX said:

All youse guys need to bottom-feed even further in the lower forums.

So someone suggests a congratulations emoji and the upvote goes away?

[TBoneTX 43,058]

Beets are banned from Casa T-B.

Cilantro is also banned, but this ban is (sadly) routinely ignored.

3 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

So someone suggests a congratulations emoji and the upvote goes away?

Such is the awesome power of Captain Ewok.

I always disliked having to slide all the way left to hit the up-vote.

[Neonred 3,446]

13 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

Like when my wife makes solanka, I never know what will be in it.  I do love the herring under a blanket, salted herring, potatoes, beet root and sour cream.

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