It’s crabbing season! Yesterday we went out for the first time this year and got 9 nice crabs, one shy of our limit.
When we were bringing our boat in we were talking to a nice couple who had gone out in kayaks. Crabbing in kayaks is hard work, and they had bad luck, with zero crabs.
So we gave them a couple, then gave a few to the neighbors, and…
The remaining two were delicious.
For those traveling (back) to the US with their pooches… an FYI about the new rules:
Twitter suspended my account a few days ago. I don’t quite understand it, because I mainly lurk and don’t accept followers and never comment. I did get notifications about people in Brazil and other places trying to log in but ignored those.
Anyway, I haven’t rushed to fix the problem, but I absolutely have noticed that my other social media feeds are less nasty and absolutely have trended toward the positive. I think that I’ll leave my account closed. 
I’m really trying to care but I’m just … indifferent. I’m well past the point of having any flocks to give.
If I have to listen to this hold music for another minute I will not be responsible for my actions.
He got the job! (It’s a little more complicated than that, but great news).
Life can be so fleeting. My D’s old boss from when she was a sommelier, chef Naomi Pomeroy, drown this weekend in a freak tubing accident. Our family is in shock - our D was just up in Portland and spent time with Naomi who has always been outrageously supportive of our D. May her memory be for a blessing. Please - tell those you love that you love them!
The level of inefficiency at this job is staggering. Please, dear sweet Lord, do not ask me to fill out yet another excel sheet to report on a particular activity if 1) no one is ever going to look at it 2) even if they look at it, no one will ever report back findings or implications 3) the same information is tracked in two other systems if anyone would actually look.
I am saying this here because if I said it directly I wouldn’t be “a team player”.
Which would cause me to say “this team doesn’t seem to be one worth playing on lately”.
Which would not end well.
And a job and health insurance matter.
(ahhhhh…I feel so much better!–here I come excel spreadsheet!)
Two say it here’s today
I know dear husband you don’t want to tell your dad what to do. But you patiently explain to him the issues (thankfully they aren’t that important) for him to make a decision. He doesn’t understand and so will say no he doesn’t want to do that. These last few years have been so frustrating. One of these days, that thing you do patiently explain will be important.
Dealing with these parents makes me understand what happens with aging and that important decisions need to be made with those who do understand the implications.
Also how can someone so bright like my husband have such a terrible sense of direction. We’ve literally been to these places a bunch of times. You still are surprised. Boggles the mind.
Dear Facebook crowd:
Which part of “Which is better: X or Y?” do you not understand?
The question wasn’t subjective: Z is not an option. “Better” implies a comparison of two, and only two, things.
(I appreciate the reading comprehension and logic skills of the posters on this site…)
REALLY?? Amazon delivery! You couldn’t have taken one or 2 more steps and put the package under the covered part of the landing instead of in the rain on the steps??? Heck, you could have tossed it. Its not breakable (which is apparent by the feel of the package).
Words I never thought I’d say: “There’s a totally naked man walking down the street towards us.” I will note that he was very well behaved and groomed; just happened to have no clothes on.
FedEx needs to fire the lazy bum driver who leaves our packages on the top of the mailbox at the entrance of our driveway completely out of our sight! Everybody else, even the USPS mailmen who can legitimately put stuff in said mailbox, take a couple of extra minutes to go up the long drive to the front door and place the packages by it. 
I’m very thankful the last package was not stolen because I need the deck wash this weekend.
Learn.To.Summarize.
After vacationing in Hawaii, I now understand why Hei Hei is a character in the movie Moana. 
Because the chickens are everywhere. Even at the airport.
UPS: Your driver dropped the rug pad on the grass in the ditch next to our mailbox. It was not heavy; even I could hoist it on my shoulder and carry it into the house. The ironic part is that the driver proudly took a photo of proof of delivery – it attached to the email we received saying it had been delivered.
Watch your young children when you are at someone else’s home. It’s not ok to let them stomp all over someone’s flower beds, not ok to let them play with garden sculptures when the host ask you to stop, not ok to kick other children, and most certainly not ok to urinate in the yard!!! Ya’ll are raising children, not wolves, although you wouldn’t know it from the behavior last night.
I feel old but I’m completely over free range parenting.
If it was an actual cyberattack, do you really believe they’d admit it? We’ve had a few “software update glitches” lately.
My IT team rocks. (I did say it directly, but they get so little praise, that I wanted to put it out into the universe.) They’ve done a great job problem solving and dealing with stressed out clients.
