Your granddaughter came over to spend time with you and go out to dinner on your birthday despite having a big project due tomorrow that she is stressed about (yeah, her choosing to go to her friends house all morning is another issue, but anyway). She understood that you would need help moving the patio umbrella and covering your patio furniture. She did not expect to have to move 72 other little pots and doodads into your garage. Considering that you can no longer take care of this stuff on your own (the condo takes care of her lawn, this is all her “extras”), stop adding to it every year. Six months from now, you’ll have her move it all back and then have her take you to the garden center where you will proceed to buy even more of this stuff. Enough already. Two loungers, a table and chairs and a few plants is plenty. You had gardeners that did all of this stuff for you when I was growing up because you hated it. I swear I expect a call every day that you’ve impaled yourself on your rusty garden shears walking on the uneven ground. By the way, most of your pots don’t even have anything but old crusty soil in them.
I hope this coming week is better than the last has been.
I am glad I was wrong about the dog. She is a sweetheart and that initial meeting was just too soon after you adopted her.
Well I guess the good news related to having a waste water leak in basement is apparently they will now replace all of our carpet and baseboards, and paint all of the walls.
ETA AND take all the “stuff” we have out and then back in when replacing flooring. We have SO MUCH STUFF in our basement.
Dude, you can’t dance. 
Yay for my digital ID/digital driver’s license!
I was able to go thru TSA TWICE last week (at different airports) using it and just now it was accepted when I went to vote.
(Of course, I’d taken my physical ID with me when I flew and when I went to vote. Just in case. Next time, I probably won’t.)
If I gave you a Swedish Death Cleaning book, I’m thinking you’ll take it the wrong way. I swear the last two times you moved, I weeded out some of these useless doo-dads, but you found them and repacked them. But at least it doesn’t have Jewish in the name. In which case you would add it to your decore and never part with it much like the 30+ year old Jewish cooking, Jewish humor, Jewish folklore, Jewish art and Jewish anything you can imagine books you refuse to part with. Which wouldn’t be bad, but as my DH jokes, if there is a book on three-legged Jewish dogs, you’d be sure to have it and it would be on display.
(Note: DM is not a hoarder, but has downsized and just doesn’t need so much stuff. Especially stuff with no use. I am an extreme purger and minimalist, so would like her to take care of some of this stuff before I am saddled with the task. I’d like to know what is actually important to her, because if I have to deal with everything that is there now, it’s probably all going in a dumpster).
My SIL’s sister’s grandchild was abused at her daycare last week (it’s on tape and in the hands of the police). It’s every family’s worst nightmare. 
It’s only October, and I just saw my first xmas commercial on TV AAGGHHH!!
I don;t care about either team, yet I find myself watching the World series!
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This is a great idea!
Attention Little Free Library Stands, for the month of November and December can you please empty your book shelves so we can replace books with food and help our neighbors out with temporary Little Free Food Pantry Stands??? I’m sure it will make a difference for struggling families. 
I can’t figure out if someone is neurodivergent or completely unaware of how they are coming across
I think I’m hoping it’s neurodivergent because some of your decisions…
So, dad, you let me know that you have already started moving back to the house from the assisted living place my brother and I arranged for you and your wife when we were called to fly across the county to rescue you both from a dual health crisis in June. You and your wife (whose heart is failing and has been in the hospital more than she has been out with CHF, A-fib, kidney disease, and blocked carotids) just want to go home regardless of what that looks like or how unsafe it is. My brother and I have told you that this is a suicide decision as it will hasten the inevitable, especially for her, but you’re both OK with that. So, I guess we have to be, too. Best of luck.
I’m done.
At some point I blinked and all the medical recommendations changed - mammograms every two years, pap smears every 5 years, etc.