Monthly Archives: February 2023

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We call it ripping.

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Or rippin’ for short.

I’ve heard people call it the zoomies, but I can’t quite wrap my tongue around that.

Whatever the nomenclature, it’s when your pet goes spastic and starts tearing around the house like a whirling dervish. For Lord Dudley Mountcatten it happens every evening around 7:00. He starts to twitch, gets a wild look in his eye and he’s off. Sprinting across the living room, down the hall, bouncing off a wall to the second hall, up and over the bed, across the top of a chair, back down the halls, through the kitchen, ending under the dining room table with a toy.

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Last night it was the blue feathered whale and as you can see, he was having a grand old time.

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Wish I was that limber.

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I’m not sure why he has a fascination with furniture legs…

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But when he’s in rippin’ mode he always wraps around them to play.

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Cats.

They be crazy.

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Because it’s good for the planet that’s why.

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I hate to say it, but this article made me think.

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Once you get past the ick factor, you have to admit it does make sense.

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“An average flush for a modern, Western-style toilet
uses 6 liters (1.6 gallons) of water, and the average
adult pees about seven times every 24 hours. That
means that each day of weeing takes 42 liters (11.1
gallons) of toilet water to flush away. Assuming
that people urinate the same way every single day,
this means in just one year, the average person
uses 15,330 liters (4,050 gallons) of toilet water.
There are 319 million people in the US, so
assuming they all pee the same, which they don’t,
but we’re making broadly accurate assumptions
here that’s about 4.9 trillion liters (1.3 trillion
gallons) of water flushed away in the name of
urine every 365 days. For comparison, that’s like
flushing away 1.97 million Olympic-sized
swimming pools’ worth per annum.”

“Now, if you peed in the shower, you’d massively
reduce this figure. Say that this means that you
only pee in a toilet six, not seven times, per day.
This means that in just one year, you’d save 2,190
liters (579 gallons) of toilet water. Extrapolating
this to the entire US population, that’s 699 billion
liters (185 billion gallons) of water saved.”

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Thoughts?

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I never thought I’d say it, but it’s true.

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Yes, I hate to admit it…. but I do.

I like a Miley Cyrus song.

The annoying, immature, in your face, twerking, sexpot daughter of the Achy Breaky Heart guy. Ugh.

I never thought it would be possible but her new song “Flowers” has burrowed its way into my head and is happily stuck there.

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Guess I’m not the only one.

Is she telling her ex husband Liam Hemsworth she’s finally over him and ready to move on? Definitely.

Is it turning into a monster women’s anthem of independence and empowerment? No doubt about it.

I still don’t like her… but it’s an ear worm that might be with me for a while.

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https://youtu.be/G7KNmW9a75Y

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Necessity is the mother of invention.

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Since we’ve established my husband doesn’t want me to lend a hand in the basement, alternative helpmates must be employed.

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Meet the Dead Man.. otherwise known as my husband’s personal assistant. Since my spouse can’t lift, position and hold a piece of plywood over his head while screwing it into the floor joists, he built himself a friend. One who doesn’t offer advice or disagree with him like I do.

And speaking of holding things in place….

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When the old insulation is ripped and starts to sag?

Grab a broom.

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And balance that broom on a box, which is balanced on a few old books, which are top of another box which is on a table not meant to support that much weight.

Good times.

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