<p>haha, wbow, sure! The flowershop lady said that it’s supposed to get to 35 degrees tonight or tomorrow night? I remember from my Chicago-living gardening years that the rule of thumb was to wait until after Mothers’ Day to plant flowers… I knew I was going to like living in Charlotte when my next door neighbor was out planting pansies in November…I was surprised when she told me that they’d be good until it got too hot for them in June!
On the Weather Channel today, I saw pics of the snow in Minnesota today. Yuk!!!</p>
<p>90 in So Cal today.</p>
<p>Please don’t throw peanuts at me!</p>
<p>jeezus- It was hot when I went into Fred Meyer to go to the bank and get plants and mulch.
By the time I came out it was cloudy and tomorrow it is supposed to rain.</p>
<p>I really wanted to go out tonight and play pool too. Oh well, my H is in a mood cause he was polishing his car and he is depressed it is getting older.
So I am having a yummy La Rossa beer and then I am going to watch Feast of love that I downloaded a month ago from itunes and they are going to take it back soon. ( they filmed it at Reed so I wanted to see it)</p>
<p>BTW could someone give ATANA a few drinks, she is a newish poster who supposedly is a college professor, but really I hope she doesn’t teach English.</p>
<p>ooooh. That is not nice, SBmom!
Can we throw cheese doodles?</p>
<p>My sister said they got 19 inches of snow near where she lives in South Dakota :eek:</p>
<p>Slugg – the 10 months adventure in Copenhagen sounds fun, even if returning sounds somewhat complicated? Good luck tying up all the loose ends. Go slugs!!!</p>
<p>OK, we have the return of the Sluggprincess under complicated circumstances, lots of snow and gardening, parents, cheese doodles! My head is spinning!</p>
<p>Here is a cat story for your entertainment (mostly because it is Monday morning; is the bar open?):</p>
<p>So, we have as house guests two kitties which belong to my good friend who is busy caring for her elderly mother. These cats, Abigail and Rebecca, have fit in well with Suzette-the-wonderdog and Spot, the Jack Russell, and have been very polite with no accidents, except shedding, which we have restricted to tweed- and vinyl-covered furniture.</p>
<p>Anyway, last night, the cats are STARING at the heat register grill which is near the floor in the spare room (spareroom, I remember that from the Lion, Witch & Wardrobe). They refuse to exit the room and will not take their attention from this stupid grill/cover. </p>
<p>Then, just as I have given up on these cats, thinking them suffering from a particular and peculiar feline subset of autism, I heard it: SQUEAK! from inside the grill. Then, I SAW it… a tail swished through the grill! A mouse had fallen through the vertical shaft of the duct work and was trapped in the bottom of the shaft with no escape possible, running around in circles and swishing its nasty tail through those tiny holes.</p>
<p>Not one to panic over a mouse - hey, it can’t survive forever in there! - I left the cats to their form of tv and moved on. An hour later, I heard an ominous bang. Now, EVERYONE in my house knows there is no food allowed upstairs (alive or dead) so I was ready to reprimand those two rebels. Running into the room, I found that Abigail had snared the mouse’s tail, pulled its soft body through these incredibly small holes, and was frustrated because Lil Mousy’s bony head couldn’t make it through the vent holes. Well, now I had to shoo the cats away and take action. Seeing that the mousy had clearly “gone to glory,” I unscrewed the grill and went outside to the back yard where Lil M had a kindly burial under the flowering lilacs.</p>
<p>This morning, the cats are still somewhat haunted by their recent foray into hunting and are staring, fixated, on that newly bleached heat-grill. I wish they’d turn the channel.</p>
<p>Anyone know what’s in “fuzzy nipple?” I swear it is a drink they serve only at “Club Erotica” but I’m game (which is not to say “gamy.”). ;)</p>
<p>^^^fencersmother ha surely been expelled from the various local pet shops, so now she has created her own version of Animal Planet in the SpareRoom.</p>
<p>Resourceful, she :D.</p>
<p>jmmom, exactly!</p>
<p>Someday, I would like to see fencersmom, sluggbugg & BeHappyMom on the same page.</p>
<p>SBmom, yes, the last we heard from BHappyMom was that her Harvard-bound daughter had compelled her to lose a lot of weight to wear a bikini on a cruise. Right? God knows what they are up to now!</p>
<p>Slugg, daaaaaahling, how are you? Is Sluggson taking YouTube by storm yet? iTunes? Some other digital environs?</p>
<p>Aluson turned 18 yesterday. I want all the marmots to dress up like Pokemons and come out and play basketball to celebrate. While some hiphop beat or other plays for the cheerleaders.</p>
<p>Over and out.</p>
<p>fencersmom–I am laughing out loud over those cats, esp. as they continue to watch the grill…hope springs eternal, right?</p>
<p>Send the cats over to our place to chase moles. We’ve got plenty.</p>
<p>Instead of trying to find something even moderately amusing after one of <em>those</em> days at work, I propose a toast to the following thread:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/501191-meta-thread-save-us-all-time.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/501191-meta-thread-save-us-all-time.html</a></p>
<p>Yes, it is a winner. Worthy of a College Confidential Writing Award. I will nominate it once I have a suitable speech prepared.</p>
<p>Meanwhile a toast to garland.</p>
<p>Salud!</p>
<p>Prosit! .</p>
<p>mafool, that thread is hilarious. When I refill my glass, I’m headed back there. Lots of fast action - and so far, few animals (pinky and the Brain, excluded).</p>
<p>fencersmother, LOL at your visiting cats! You seem to have the best pet stories. Ever. Keep 'em coming. Cheers!</p>
<p>I’m glad you enjoyed the last installment, BB. I have so many animal stories… someday I will tell you about the people who lived next door to us who let their 2 great danes eat at the dinner table with them. They had an aligator in the basement and a boa in a glass enclosure in their living room. Bizarro world, that house! (I don’t remember them having any ferrets!)</p>
<p>Cats leaving tomorrow. Spot will be in gloomy-ville.</p>
<p>For the moms, to lift any gloom (fencersmother can wait until tomorrow’s Cat Departure Day to view it). WARNING: sipping your morning coffee while viewing could be hazardous to your keyboard or your ensemble (unless the latter includes a rain slicker).</p>
<pre><code>YouTube - Mrs. Hughes Live at the Ice House
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<p>It takes a minute to get to the mom part.</p>
<p>fencersmother…I’m SURE they must have had ferrets for some amount of time before the boa and alligator discovered them! Jmmom, I have to take my laptop somewhere else to connect to your youtube… I currently have 2 female soccer players (living with us for the summer…it’s a long story), who are sitting behind me in the kitchen, reading/studying the Bible in Portugese. I’m suspecting my foolish laughing may be inappropriate… !</p>
<p>To ferrets and meta-thread!</p>
<p>jmmom, I loved “we didn’t know it would be YOU”</p>