Guess I ain’t making it to NJ for Halloween. Just resigned to my life being #$*#&$&# up right now.
Dealing with a production issue this morning, the whole team. Of course this falls in the purview of the colleague we lost, so it’s a major issue right now. Also may be our ISP is involved, weird situation we’re all trying to diagnose.
Running out of coffee - I pre-ground a bunch before I came down, but wasn’t expecting to be here this long. Gonna have to see if I can find a place that sells beans that I can get ground. Also ran out of the type of sugar I like in my coffee (demerara), need to see if I can find some.
Since I moderate the 247 sports board for Rutgers, I get a comp subscription to Paramount+, CBS’s streaming platform. Unfortunately it appears it’s just limited to live sports and their online shows. Too bad, I was hoping to be able to watch my favorite show on Friday, Blue Bloods. I am also getting into the reboot of Magnum which is shown before that. Ah, well, another casualty of my lovely stay in Virginia.
Good Morning and Happy Friday to those that have the weekend off
Finished off the Halloween decor at Mom’s, then headed to Taco Bell to meet Jenni for dinner.
Called it an early night, I’m exhausted.
After work, will be heading to Harbor Freight to pick up some tarps to fix the feral cat’s house. Need to pressure wash the back patio and get that done.
I’m thinking of cutting up a pallet to get the cats off the ground. Mom has a heated pad to keep them warm, Just trying to figure a way to get them off the concrete. Maybe get some hay under it. We’re down to 3 from 13 ferals and 2 that are left are very affectionate. Mom’s cat wouldn’t tolerate 2 new cats in the house and I can’t move them, they’ll disappear.
Windy and cool right now, rain later and tomorrow morning. Should be nice for Hallowe’en, but chilly.
Not much else - we’re declining an invite to a party tomorrow night, just been to busy, we need a breath.
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Hi, been gone most the last week, Wife and I had our 39th from meeting on Sunday and 35th of marriage on Monday. So been doing things with her. I picked up a very nice wine barrel. $80.00 Cut it in half to make her two new planters to replace two that are about 12 years and have given up the ghost. So is very happy with her surprise Anniversary gift. Two 29.5 gallon wine barrel planter halves. So I decided to stain them so they would last a bit longer.
Finished the barrels yesterday. Both are stained and I clear coated the metal rings. Should hold up for a good long time. That is about it from The North Bluff!
I have a MTH Alco type, I have records but don’t want to look up just what it is, A-B Reo Grande and passenger cars to go with it. Bought at least 10 years ago and for no particular reason just never ran it. Absolutely new no marks on the wheels.
I made the post anout Covid, sorry I didn’t think.
Boo y’all!Finally have a couple days off, after being on the train forever. Had all three grandsons here Friday night, and the youngest princess was home for the weekend, so we got to celebrate her 21st birthday. To put things in perspective, she was FIVE when I joined the Coffee Pot… All that I want to accomplish today is watch the Martinsville race. And go trick-or-treating later…[oX)]
I had a big tree at the rear of my yard. It seemed to die off about half of the year and would have a tangle of dead branches, kind of a messy tree. It doesn’t hang over my neighbors yard but stuff fell over there. He wanted to get it cut down enough to pay half and he made the arrangements. They cut it down today while I was in church and did a good job, cleaning everything up.
I had to have my high strung Border Collie in the house the whole time I was gone, something she is not used to but that was OK. She may have barked at the workers a lot.
Stump is 45” across. I have a tin yard building right behind it and I did fear a big branch breaking off and crushing my building.
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