Chat, week of 8-4-14

This thread is now sticky! So excited to hear that you have taken Oscar into your home! Cannot wait to see pictures!

Lucky Oscar. :)  Now it's my turn to be jealous of your tomatoes. Ours are done but if we wanted we could plant new plants for a fall crop. It's hard to keep them alive though in the heat.

We had a bid opening this morning. It went well. Only one other bidder and we seem to be the low bidder.

Yay for low bids, Jackie!

Congratulations, Tina on your new furry family member.  I love the name Oscar for a cat. Looking forward to some photos!

Weekend flew by, as usual.  I've got a VERY busy week ahead.  Along with my usual early month deadlines at work, I have two evening commitments that are stressing me out.  Both should be enjoyable, but I have to do some food prep for both, and house prep for one.  I'll be zooming around with the dustpan and broom at the last minute, I just know it.

Another 90+ day here, but the weather guy this AM said a "cooling trend" due tomorrow. I want our 50-degree nights back so we can give our A/C a break.  First world problem, I know.  

We had a good weekend, both the boys got bathed :)  They were not terribly keen on the idea until they realized how nice it was to be the center of attention and Mom will rub all that soapy stuff on you as long as you stand still , lol.  The rinsing off part is something that Hot does not care for at all.  He was needing it though and they both slept so good that night.  We went to a wedding at the Prairie Grove Battlefield Park, one of the boys that grew up with our son. 

I don't think I got to tell you guys about my "Moon Flower"  it has been awesome will have to  post some pics.

Tough day today at work, lots going on....will not go into detail just suffice it to say I don't want to relive this day

Take care all .... BTW .... loving the new chat thread sticky :) 

Gin, sorry you had such a crummy work day. The dogs will make it better when you get home. :)

Belle got a bath yesterday too. We start the K9 Nose Work class tomorrow and I didn't want her to look anything but gorgeous. lol She looks like a plush toy right after her bath. Like most dogs her favorite part is the towel drying. She pushes her way in if I'm drying off another dog. Silly Belle.  

Congrats Tina and Jackie!

Kate those are lovely - one of the NC Nature sites just posted some flowers similar to those I will try to find that photo - found it

https://www.facebook.com/178953345468575/photos/a.189807714383138.43332.178953345468575/805833412780562/?type=1&theater

Doug so glad Sky is doing well and it sounds like a fabulous wedding

My mini-staycation was very wet - I tried to make the most of it and today I started a diet. The first time I can ever recall that I am truly going to diet.  I feel fatter than I have ever been and I don't really have the time to add much exercise so reduced food intake seems to be my only option.

Cue the crying because I am total wimp!

Gin I could have sent B for a bath too! I keep saying I will give him one and then I forget. I figure he gets washed in the lake LOL

Speaking of which, I took this photo the other day and I love it

LOL Jackie - silly Belle :)

Bugsy loves the toweling off too - although his version he usually attempt to steal the towel, run off with it and give it as many death shakes as he can, insert eye roll

Karen, that's the flower! It's a Turk's-cap and there are a few different color options.

Steal the towel? Oh, we know nothing about that here! :-)

Welcome, Oscar! Can't wait to see pictures.

Ginger, I hope work is better tomorrow.

Yeah for the low bid Jackie! Do keep us posted about Nose Work--neither of mine would do well unless there was a dead critter they could use for rolling purposes.

LOL, Kate, about the dead critter rolling. Belle loves nothing better. I'm sure she'll love doing the finding part but will be disappointed at the "find".  :)

Bugsy does love his towels. hahahaha!

Don't talk about feeling fat. I am in the same damn boat. I watch American Ninja Warrior now to make myself feel even worse. lol  I love that show and had never seen it until recently. Silly sometimes, but they are amazing athletes, even the people who wear costumes. One guy wore a diaper. Yeah.  

Lol a diaper?

My dogs need baths too but a general brush and blow dry is all they are getting for now. They love that blow dryer. Especially Neiko. He is like a dog that sticks its head out the car window just to feel the wind. He goes nuts for the air stream jetting out of the nozzle. Silly dog.

I broke down and turned my air on last night. Summer decided to return for a little while. It's still not as hot as most of you all are getting but last night the 80 degrees that it was in the house plus 90% humidity broke me. I couldn't sleep. Not to mention there must have been a critter walking around because the girls were barking and patrolling the house every 20 mins until I shut everything up and turned on the ac. Thank God for ac!

I sunk $800 into my car today. Ouch., it has 101k miles on it and I have barely had to do anything to it until now so I shouldn't complain. It still hurts the savings account though!

Work was a Rollercoaster today. Tomorrow will be more of the same.

Belle pushing  everyone out of the way made me laugh, that is what Hot does to Rocky.   They both love the toweling off but Rocky is too busy to stay long.  Hot will push Rocky out of the way and would stay forever if he thought he could.

Well our  "Pay phone booth" has been repaired.  It is very famous you know, we will be setting it back up across from the Battlefield ParK where it has been since forever.  The press and city dignitaries will do a little ceremony :).  Rumor has it that the surprise guest speaker will be "Superman"    It has been quite the talk of the town.  We even had a reporter and photographer from the New York Times come do a story.  

Gotta run, have a great day all.

Oh Karen I forgot to tell you how much I love the picture of Bugsy.

Did anyone else notice that Karen's first post in the thread had the words cut off on the right margin? It's like text wrap wasn't working.

Nice shot of Bugsy - we all love his muscled butt!

Good luck with Belle at nose work class tonight, Jackie!

Not much else happening except rain and frizz here. We needed the rain, though.

ETA: is this a working phone booth, Ginger?

sharismom, thanks for pointing that out! We are looking into it!