FRIDAY YAHOOOO chatter

MMMMkay it's Friday????  Good!

I have no clue what is going on with everyone, cept if I remember this is Tina's get a way weekend :)

Hugs to everyone!!!!  Missing all of you!!!!

Have a great weekend!!!!!

((Ann))

((Amanda)) 

I'm just annoyed today.  About a month ago our shower faucet  broke.  Well it just started dripping.  Long story short, it can't be fixed because they don't make the innards any more.  I'm annoyed because I only got this new faucet about 2-3 years ago.  It shouldn't be broken so soon & no I can't even replace the style because the type I have is being phased out.  So as the nice (insert sarcasim here) gentleman @ one of the plumbing supply places I went to today said I'm 'going to have to change a little'.  Now I can't just even buy a new faucet with a hot & cold handle & the plunger thingie on the spout.  I need to either find a 3 handle set up which means cutting another hole in the shower wall & adding more plumbing (= cost) OR getting a totally new surround, new plumbing and a new faucet set.  Just what I want to do.  Grumble.

Congrats Joyce!

Annie, I feel your pain with the plumbing.  My house was built in 1967 so the shower handle is 43 years old.  I couldn't get a new one because the new ones don't fit the old plumbing, so I'm holding my breath hoping the stoopid handle never snaps.  I don't really want to replumb the entire bathroom just replace a shower handle.  Check around and see if there's a place that just deals in older plumbing.  I know there's a place somewhere in Sacramento that does.

Joyce

Joyce, geez, my house is only 25 years old.  At this point we're turning off & on the water at the access panel.  It's a huge PITA.  *pathetic whine* ~L~

 Goodness, have you tried Lowe's for your shower faucet?  My 34 yr old faucet was leaking, and my son was able to special order the exact same replacement pieces.

I am up to my eyeballs in homework, blah.

Marty, I got the current faucet at Lowes.  I'll just keep looking.  Thanks for letting me kvetch a bit.

Congrats on the new granddaughter, Joyce.  I love her name. :)  Yes, Shwan's bread is delish and I plan on having some this weekend.

Annie, I HATE plumbing problems like that.  We had a leak in one of the shower faucets a while back and I swear I was ready to move before we finally got if figured out and fixed. Good luck.

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fuzzy_dogs_mom

And .... I saved the best news for last.  I have a brand new granddaughter, Alyssa Rose, born yesterday afternoon ... 20-1/2" and 8 lbs. 9 oz. It will be nice to have a little girl since I've been suffering from testosterone poisoning for quite a while.

You nut! lol  CONGRATULATIONS!!!!  This really is the season for new babies!!!!  Hope momma and baby are doing well.

I'm feeling very lucky.  Where I'm staying, in addition to having huge segmented fields for the dogs to run, indoor/outdoor heated/AC'd kennels, there's also a large training room which is, oh, about 20' from my room.  Appropriate heavy "rubber" flooring, mirrors, tie-backs, everything.  I can train G or B any time I want!  Only downside is I just vac'd it from the previous user... and the room is so big that it took forever. lol  Whaa whaa, complain complain.

Congratulations on the new grandbaby Joyce. I love the name too and you are going to have so much fun buying stuff for a baby girl.

I took and hour+ nap and it felt so good. I woke up with some nice pillow creases on my face, so I know I slept soundly. Now I need a post-nap snack :)

Amy, thanks for sharing that. I have heard that song before, live, & knew what it was about, but it was really cool to get to hear the commentary of the writers.

Congrats on the new granddaughter Joyce!

Annie, before you give up & replace plumbing, check overstock.com. We bought our sink/shower fixtures from them for a fraction of the price that traditional stores charge. They had a huge selection when we were shopping, so it might be worth a try.

The houseguest is with his dad for the weekend, & the boys are at their grandmother's so DH & I have a weekend alone. Well except for the fact that DH has to be at a Meet the Artist thingy tomorrow, & Cher & I have schutzhund training.

Anyway, we decided to go out to eat tonight. We were sitting on the patio at one of our favorite bbq places, when I see a guy holding a sign that says "Hungry. Please Help." I have a weak spot for people who are hungry, & I frequently as a homeless person to have lunch with me. I know that I can't fix their situation, but at least I can see to it that they have one good meal that day. DH hates that I do this, & it almost always causes an arguement, but I still do it. Tonight was no different.

We had just arrived, when I saw that guy, so Cher & I walked over to ask him to join us for a meal. His reply was "I don't want a meal. Just give me some money." I told him that I didn't give money, but that my husband & I were eating on the patio, 10 foot away, & that he was welcome to join us. He called me a bitch, & told me that if I really wanted to help him, I would just give him money. At that point, I was annoyed, so I pointed out the fact that he had track marks all over his hands & arms, his teeth were rotting out of his head & that he looked like death warmed over because of him being about 40 pounds underweight. I told him that his sign indicated that he needed a meal, & that I was willing to provide that but I was not willing to pay for him to get high yet again. I went on to tell him that, by the way he looked, I might just be feeding him his last meal because he looked like he was about to drop dead at any moment.

Cher & I turned around to go back to our table, & I realized that I must have gotten a little louder than I had thought because everyone on the patio was staring. About 30 seconds after I sat back down, the guy walked over & sat down with us. He asked if I really thought that he was going to die soon, & asked if my offer still stood. We fed him, talked with him, & took him to a homeless shelter that will help drug addicts.

I can't get him out of my head. I really hope that he gets the help that he needs.

BEVOLASVEGAS

I really hope that he gets the help that he needs.

Me too.  You are an angel for helping him in the way you did.  More ways than one.

Amanda -- it might just have been the wake-up that guy needed.  Some of them never DO listen -- and sometimes some of them do. 

Hummingbird update:  (I hope no one is bored)

I was at my homeopath appt after work so I had to miss "dusk" at home -- but DAVID came home early.  We had 5-6 hummingbirds tonight (and yep these were the real deal) -- now David's intrigued by the hummingbird moths as well.  Last year I only had like 3 hummingbirds so I'm tickled to pieces they came back in force this year!!

BEVOLASVEGAS

He asked if I really thought that he was going to die soon, & asked if my offer still stood. We fed him, talked with him, & took him to a homeless shelter that will help drug addicts.

I can't get him out of my head. I really hope that he gets the help that he needs.

(and, um, thankful you own enough guns to protect yourself from the unknown quantities you interact with!)

 LOVE hummingbirds! I have several feeders during migration... several spend the summer with us. We have a butterfly garden too to draw all sorts of visitors into our yard.

This is one of the hummingbird moths on the butterfly bush...

This one I was trying to get a pic of the Baltimore oriole on the shepherds hook and didn't notice the hummingbird on the feeder...