In the garden, and RAIN!!!!

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
lol... yeah. My buddy was telling me he was watching some MMA fights the other night and it was one of the strangest things he'd ever seen. With nobody cheering in the audience you heard every noise, every grunt, every punch and slam like you were right in the room with them.



How you doing up there, BTW Brenda? You got everything you need?


I know it's driving my little brother a bit nuts right now that his church shuttered their doors and ended all the social gatherings they did. After his sobriety, the church has become an important part of his life.

I told him that if he ever needs to talk to somebody just to give me a call.


I assume that your Mah Jong games and other social gatherings that you can't do right now are just as important to you. Just remember this isn't going to last forever and we'll all get back to normal soon.

It might not feel like it quite yet, but spring is here.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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It was strange but they put on a fair show for the people watching at home. So, it wasn't too bad as I said. You could hear the grunting and stuff. And of course you had the "Heel" or "bad guy" wrestlers and the "baby faces" or "good guy" wrestlers in separate groups but they were still snipping at each other and of course when someone was thrown out of the ring and landed by them, there was the usual shouting and jeering. Antagonizing everyone all part of the show.

I think I'm in pretty good shape supply wise and if I do go out. I'm not out more than an hour and back. I keep my distance from people, mind I always do when I am out walking.

I can sympathize with your brother. If I didn't have this thing or internet, don't know what I would do. Hoping to hear from friends in Alberta next week.

My games do and even my work. My work was cancelled first as my boss who is a doctor was in contact with someone the day after I worked that had the virus. She did the right thing and had a test done then called me and asked me how I was. I'm fine just dealing with my allergies.

Got one game of mah jong in on Monday then got a call in the evening that the senior centre I got to was closed through all of this. The lady who runs the mah jong group was thinking about cancelling it anyways as a precaution.

I know that just reminds me of some odd books I've read over the years like through high school.

Sundays my one day at least that I don't go anywhere. Couple of things to do tomorrow but after that we shall see.

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Weather calling for rain down in the US. And for rain where I am.

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YAY rain for here!

I myself am puttering. I *should* be doing more, but I've been mostly just cooking, cleaning up old computer files, and so on.

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That is great news for you Kiki.

Myself it is just cards on the computer and some tv along with some music right now. Got a tape on that has different songs on it. Started with Elton John and "Crocodile Rock" then on to a couple of Bay City Roller songs now a little Bryan Adams "Straight from the Heart." A good Canadian guy.

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Now that I'm retired "going out" was never high on my agenda. I walk the dog, sometimes with DD. Does that count?

I DO miss Friday lunches with dear daughter and our monthly "all girls" get-togethers with sis, dd and me, tho. It's good to get out of the house and go somplace else once in a while.


Seeing as we didn't go out a whole lot anyway, it's not like I suddenly have a whole lot of time freed up. We've been pushing forward on home projects ... hubby now has all of his (birch plywood) shelving oiled and installed; it looks quite useful and handsome, I must say.

I took about an hour-and-a-half today to use my flame thrower on the backyard weeds!



This was the first time I actually used it, aside from testing. I'll be interested to see how the weeds look tomorrow ... you have to give them time to wilt and die. Back to other stuff ... life is an undending treadmill, I think!


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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

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Originally posted by Brenda:
It was strange but they put on a fair show for the people watching at home. So, it wasn't too bad as I said. You could hear the grunting and stuff. And of course you had the "Heel" or "bad guy" wrestlers and the "baby faces" or "good guy" wrestlers in separate groups but they were still snipping at each other and of course when someone was thrown out of the ring and landed by them, there was the usual shouting and jeering. Antagonizing everyone all part of the show.

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I'm not a fan of real fighting (MMA/Boxing) or fake fighting (WWE and is WCW even still a thing anymore even???), but I really have to check on youtube to see if some of this footage is up. I have a pretty good imagination, but I don't know if it's doing the actual situation justice. This sounds bonkers.

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I think I'm in pretty good shape supply wise and if I do go out. I'm not out more than an hour and back. I keep my distance from people, mind I always do when I am out walking.

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That's good. I am, and I'm not at the same time. I've always had a reasonable supply of stuff on hand. But when it comes to food I'm not going to change up my eating habits and/or stock up on a bunch of canned goods that I'm never going to eat. Most of the stuff I buy is fresh or frozen and doesn't have a long shelf life, so I can't stock up on any of it if I don't want it to go bad. I've got enough food in here to last maybe a month, with another few months of rice if things ever really got bad (which I don't think is going to happen at all). 1 of the 2 gallons of milk I bought the other day is already gone, so I'll have to go back then.

I'm actually interested in seeing what the places look like when I do. I was actually really surprised how much stock of nearly everything the other store had when I got the milk, despite the lines being over an hour long to check out.

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I can sympathize with your brother. If I didn't have this thing or internet, don't know what I would do. Hoping to hear from friends in Alberta next week.

My games do and even my work. My work was cancelled first as my boss who is a doctor was in contact with someone the day after I worked that had the virus. She did the right thing and had a test done then called me and asked me how I was. I'm fine just dealing with my allergies.

Got one game of mah jong in on Monday then got a call in the evening that the senior centre I got to was closed through all of this. The lady who runs the mah jong group was thinking about cancelling it anyways as a precaution.

I know that just reminds me of some odd books I've read over the years like through high school.

Sundays my one day at least that I don't go anywhere. Couple of things to do tomorrow but after that we shall see.

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We really are quite lucky that something like this happened at the time it did, with all the cheap entertainment on the internet that makes it easier to stay inside.

To be honest, even though I chose to do it myself nearly all the time before this went on, I'm really starting to feel a bit clostrophobic, now that everybody else is being ordered to live like I already did.

So the timing as far as eras is excellent. As far as the time of year around here? Not so much...


It snowed a few inches yesterday here, and I woke up this morning to white covering everything. Gross.

I just want to get outside and start working out there again and keep my mind off of this stuff.



Sounds like you're okay up there. Good to hear.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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I'm not even sure if the place I want to get my gutters made is open or not now, but I really need to call them for another quote.

The price of aluminum had gone up quite drastically in between the time I got my 2nd quote (Somewhere around 2014/2015) and summer of last year, but has been sharply falling since and is now lower than it was when I got that quote.


I don't think it will actually be any cheaper than the last quote I got, but I was surprised last time I got a quote that the price hadn't gone up since 2013 either and that's because the price of aluminum had gone down.

I think I know what I'm spending my stimulus money on... well... if the place is open anyhow. I'm not buying the piece of shit gutters they have at the big box stores with seams that are going to leak a few years later.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

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Originally posted by Brenda:
It was strange but they put on a fair show for the people watching at home. So, it wasn't too bad as I said. You could hear the grunting and stuff. And of course you had the "Heel" or "bad guy" wrestlers and the "baby faces" or "good guy" wrestlers in separate groups but they were still snipping at each other and of course when someone was thrown out of the ring and landed by them, there was the usual shouting and jeering. Antagonizing everyone all part of the show.

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I'm not a fan of real fighting (MMA/Boxing) or fake fighting (WWE and is WCW even still a thing anymore even???), but I really have to check on youtube to see if some of this footage is up. I have a pretty good imagination, but I don't know if it's doing the actual situation justice. This sounds bonkers. [/b quote]

WWE is still around but WCW was bought up by the WWE a good number of years ago and was folded in to them. What I was watching is a new company on the block started by Cody Rhodes son of the late Dusty Rhodes and it called AEW.I get what you are saying Jack. But the company has a contract with the cable network to fill a 2 hour block of time. If they don't then AEW will be in breach of its contract and so on and so on and so on.

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I think I'm in pretty good shape supply wise and if I do go out. I'm not out more than an hour and back. I keep my distance from people, mind I always do when I am out walking.

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That's good. I am, and I'm not at the same time. I've always had a reasonable supply of stuff on hand. But when it comes to food I'm not going to change up my eating habits and/or stock up on a bunch of canned goods that I'm never going to eat. Most of the stuff I buy is fresh or frozen and doesn't have a long shelf life, so I can't stock up on any of it if I don't want it to go bad. I've got enough food in here to last maybe a month, with another few months of rice if things ever really got bad (which I don't think is going to happen at all). 1 of the 2 gallons of milk I bought the other day is already gone, so I'll have to go back then.[/b quote]

I'm sort of the same way. Keep enough on hand for a few days. I eat very little canned goods just because of the salt and sugar levels that used to be in them. Don't know about now. My problem is that I have a blood sugar problem which means that I must always have something around to be able to nibble on. Low blood sugar is my problem which is the other end of the scale from a diabetic.

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I'm actually interested in seeing what the places look like when I do. I was actually really surprised how much stock of nearly everything the other store had when I got the milk, despite the lines being over an hour long to check out.[/b quote]

I'm guilty of that up here. Have to take a look around and see what is and isn't available. Local Walmart that I deal at had paper towels in for the first time in over a week. Lots of eggs there and at another grocery story that I deal with. Too bad I can't eat them. I am allergic to them. But I got the cous cous and pasta and frozen veg that I wanted. I dropped almost an entire container of cous cous last night on the kitchen floor. Vacuumed up what I could get at but the good thing was that I still had enough for my supper.

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I can sympathize with your brother. If I didn't have this thing or internet, don't know what I would do. Hoping to hear from friends in Alberta next week.

My games do and even my work. My work was cancelled first as my boss who is a doctor was in contact with someone the day after I worked that had the virus. She did the right thing and had a test done then called me and asked me how I was. I'm fine just dealing with my allergies.

Got one game of mah jong in on Monday then got a call in the evening that the senior centre

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