Countrymouse Posted November 2018
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Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.
I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.
I have "cut the cord" and have no cable or satellite service, just 26+ local channels of over the air TV and streaming services. I like that you can take a service or premium channel for just a month or two. I keep Amazon Prime with Noggin (for the 4 yo) and Hulu (only $6/month) all the time and rotate adding DirecTv Now, Netflix, Starz, Showtime, HBO, and CBS All Access. DirecTv Now and Showtime during football season; Netflix and Starz during the summer when the kids are here; others during the winter and spring when there's a "sale" price to catch up on a favorite series. Still so much cheaper than cable!
After I loaded up ImDbTv I started watching the original Dallas, a show I used to watch on Friday nights with my parents. I didn't remember any of the first couple of seasons and was wondering why when it suddenly occurred to me that I wasn't allowed to watch Dallas when it first came on. Daddy didn't allow me to watch "filth" (just about anything with sex scenes) until I was 15.
The next time the enemy reminds you of your past, remind him of his future.
Due to Tropical System in Gulf of Mexico NOLA has already been affected by flooding.
Whether this system intensifies rapidly as predicted before landfall the rainfall alone is so troublesome for NOLA.
From across the Gulf I am sending a prayer and 🤞🏻to you and your city.
Stay Safe Iggi.
Roflol.....
Noooo! Say it ain’t so!
Do you need to install a seat belt on your toilet?!?
All kidding aside, are the tremors, aftershocks, whatever they are, getting stronger?
I was tracking them yesterday because some were felt above a 3 on the scale.
So yes, yesterday they were getting stronger, and then this morning a 4.9.
It is important to note:
1) Technology has increased so more earthquakes are being recorded.
2) Nothing has fallen from shelves yet, no damages, as we are 150 miles from the epicenter.
3) People pay hundreds of dollars to get an "E" ticket to Disneyland to get a ride this thrilling.
4) For me, facts are comforting so I know how to survive this. Others just go on with their daily activities. Some others are more afraid with facts.
5) earthquakes/uses.gov click on latest earthquakes above 2.5
Gotta go take things off the bathroom shelves now.....
Whatever one calls them, quakes, tremors, swarms, clusters, shakes, aftershocks, preshocks....the earth is moving.
Hubs and I reviewed how to relieve stress last night which included keeping self clean and belongings organized. Use of humor. Being brave.
Here in Missouri,it's so hot it makes you sick to be outside very long and it's hard to breathe.
I just pray everyone's power stays on for the AC and there's no power outages anywhere.
It’s hot, dry wind. But having a good time.
LOL! I don’t know but if you need one I will research that.
Maybe Amazon? You can find anything on Amazon.
We actually like that they’ve started parking their car in front of the house because we are 2 houses down from the neighborhood park and lots of people from outside the neighborhood park in front of our house which doesn’t bother us but they often leave trash and dirty diapers on the lawn.
maybe sit on the loo facing towards it so if you fall asleep you can rest your head on the tank 🚽
However, my now neighbor called the police on us for parking our travel trailer in front of our house once and he still had plenty of room to park a car in front of his house, although he only has one car and no family or friends visit him.
I guess some people just like calling the police!
Some people take street parking very seriously! I can not believe you’ve had 2 neighbors call the police on you for parking in front of your own house. That is just ridiculous! Out here, people get tired of others parking in front of their house. Every other week I swear someone is in the neighborhood watch Facebook groups complaining about not being able to park in front of their own house, or someone is complaining because a neighbor has put trash cans or cones on the street in front of their house to keep people from parking there. The problem is neighborhoods are getting overrun with people cramming 10-15 people in to a small single family home and there isn’t enough parking for all their cars so they park in front of the neighbors houses. I don’t blame people for getting fed up but it’s something you Just have to deal with because it’s a public street. I do think that the homeowner should have first dibs in front of their own house. It’s common courtesy but not everyone agrees with that. My neighborhood went to permit only parking because the neighborhood was tired of the employees from all the surrounding doctors offices parking here. There’s too many doctors offices and not enough parking for their patients and staff so the staff parks elsewhere. It solved the problem alright but now we have to pay for annual permit in order to park in front of our own house! We bought one the first year but haven’t since. We haven’t gotten a ticket yet (hubby parks his truck in front of the house. We are *those* neighbors with 4 cars for 2 people. Classic car is in the garage. Hubbys old beater is in the driveway with mine, truck is on the street).
I’m really surprised that a church is locking up so people can’t sleep on the pews! We’ve got one here that has become a hub for homeless addicts. It’s great what the pastor does for these people but what they do to the area is not great. It’s next to the library and they urinate and deficate on the lawn....and do drugs in the presence of children.
I am seeing the same thing in my city as far as 2 to 3 generations living in one small house with tons of cars. Of cause, we are 2 people with 3 cars. I always park my Jeep on the street but my sig other parks his truck in the driveway with my Sidekick. Our travel trailer stays in storage and we bring it home to clean it and pack it when we get ready to go camping. However, now we have to park the trailer in the driveway.
It is crazy what people will call the cops on; don't they realize that they are wasting resources on petty things...resources that could be used to save somebody's life! And the really crazy part is--those same people usually won't call the cops when a real crime is happening that was the case with my neighbor who called the cops on me in my last neighborhood. Some guy was severely beaten in front of her house and she didn't call the police and she was home and awake, (but man she would call the cops on us for whatever she could think of). I called the cops because I seen it with my outdoor cameras; four guys beating one guy and he was on the ground. It is all just crazy!!!
I would knock on the door and ask him to move his car when I got home from work each evening until finally he stopped answering his door. So I called the police and had his car towed. He really lost it when the city posted signs saying not to block either driveway (his or mine) and stopped talking to me. I guess I made it worse when I agreed to allow the apartment's guests to park in my driveway (blocking me in) when they had company over. If I wasn't going anywhere, being blocked in wasn't a problem and I had the neighbor's phone number if I needed out.
So one morning I came out to go to work and there was the jerk's car parked in my driveway blocking me in while his driveway was empty. He told the police he couldn't be towed because he was in the driveway, not blocking it from the street. Wrong. One final tow before he decided to leave me alone. I think the police must have lost the paperwork on his car or something because it was more than 3 days before it was back.
My neighbour is a dweeb in a much less irritating way - after I complained that he was blowing his grass clippings all over my entry way when he cut his lawn he began to leave an increasingly wider section of grass along the driveway uncut. The boundary is probably 1' along the drive and I willingly mow 2' but I refuse to go beyond that so there is a jagged strip of unmowed grass - anywhere from 1" to 6" - along the front of HIS property. It doesn't bother me at all (well, not much🙄), IMO it makes him look like a fool.
Funny thing about Bruce is, he makes sure everyone is following the law and the park rules yet he takes his dog in to the park despite the fact they aren’t allowed there. And he never has the dog (a friendly collie) in its leash. I wasn’t present to witness this but one afternoon when he was making his rounds the park, his dog bit a motorcycle cop on the leg as he drove by the park! The cop must not have been driving that fast. The cop gave him a ticket!
Shell you just reminded me about the brawl I saw in front of the park a few years ago! It was during the day so Bruce wasn’t around to break up the fight LOL! I was the one who called the cops. I was sitting out front reading a book while the kids played with the kids who lived next door at the time. I heard loud yelling all of a sudden & looked toward the park...I don’t know how to express this without being offensive but....I saw a junky old van and a man & 2 women I can best describe as looking like trailer trash, in a very heated argument. They were not from the neighborhood. I had never seen them or the van here before. One of the women was in the driver’s seat of the van with the door open. All 3 were screaming at each other and screaming obscenities and a racial slur (N word even though they were all white). The blonde woman outside the van started grabbing the brunette woman in the van by the hair & trying to drag her out. They were in the middle of street swinging at each other and screaming. Then an older woman who appeared to be the mom of the woman in the van got out and hobbled over to them with a cane! She wasn’t even old, maybe early 50s? Cue all 4 out there hitting each other. Best I could tell, the 2 women were fighting over the man. They left just before the cops arrived. We found some broken jewelry and a phone in the street where they had been parked. Interestingly, I only saw the blonde woman from behind, never saw the front of her during the brawl. A few hours later, I saw her and the man walking towards the park and she was visibly pregnant! Then the van came back and they were all talking civilly. The blonde woman got in the van and the man and the brunette went and sat on the park bench & were talking. It was the craziest thing!