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She’s still here, and still teasing my boy.
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Her presence on the deck drives His Lordship positively bonkers.
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She knows he can’t reach her and seems to take perverse pleasure at his agitation.
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What a witch.
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Is it me, or does she look ready to breed again?
🥴
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Since we’ve been emotionally overwhelmed and beyond busy with my SIL’s situation over the past month… other things have taken a back seat. And though I hate to admit it, that included visits to my husband’s elderly uncle. We’d been going once a week to visit, bring groceries and run errands but hadn’t done anything other than call in three. And then the other day, we found that his phone had been disconnected.
A visit to his house found it locked up tight, blinds drawn and truck missing.
A few frantic phone calls later….
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We arrived at the V.A. hospice facility.
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A huge campus with a pond and strolling flocks of Canada Geese. And unlike a lot of Veterans Affairs hospitals, a complex with an excellent reputation and amazing care.
It was here that we found my husband’s soon to be 91 year old uncle.
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A recent trip to the emergency room revealed he is riddled with bone cancer and has a mass on his lung.
He won’t be going home.
But honestly? He’s alright.. and has made his peace. He was in good spirits, joking, telling old stories and flirting with the hot and cold running nurses who are catering to his every whim.
This place is amazing.
Private rooms with a fridge, microwave and Bose sound system.
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A large menu. Room service food whenever you want it. An ice cream and dessert cart that goes door to door like the Good Humor truck.
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The high tech bed has Wi-Fi and a USB port.
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With multi colored light reflections on the floor.
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They even hooked up a DVD player and brought him John Wayne movies.
The staff is kind, compassionate and go out of their way to make him as comfortable as possible.
Losing a loved one is never easy, but he’s in a wonderful place and being well looked after. He’s a widower with one son who lives in Florida… so we’re going to do our best to visit as often as we can.
❤️
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Then the world’s largest lobster roll must be even better.
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The Taste of Maine is a family owned and operated coastal restaurant that’s been a staple for tourists for the past 45 years.
You might recognize it’s giant lobster from my previous posts.
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Yes, it really is that big.
What’s also big is the price tag for that super sized crustacean sandwich.
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You read correctly. $160 for what amounts to two pounds of lobster on a roll.
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No self respecting Maine native would ever order one or pay such a ridiculous price, but a week after they opened for the season they’d already sold quite a few….
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For that price you should get it any damn way you please.
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And even if you could, why would you want to?
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No.
It is most definitely is not.
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What the…
Nope. I refuse to explore that headline any further.
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I’ve ridden with my husband on the Jersey Turnpike. I know we can travel faster.
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To hell with O.J. … that’s a police chase worth watching.
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Yes.
That’s what it is. Not my lazy fat *ss unwilling to get up off the couch. No.
It’s my microbiome.
Yup. That’s it exactly.
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I spent 5 hours following my husband from store to store looking for a new weed whacker last week.
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Don’t believe the people who tell you men hate to shop. When he’s looking for a new toy for himself? My guy will shop until I drop. We hit at least 7 different lawn and garden sections and then went back to the very first place we stopped so he could buy the very first one he saw.
And then?
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The man who owns a giant zero turn tractor and four push mowers… yes, four. Two of them self propelled. … started looking at new push mowers.
For me.
The person who doesn’t want one.
It was at that point I said enough… and made him take me for a nice late lunch.
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A fresh blueberry mojito was a good way to start.
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Every time I see this old tool art installation I want my husband to do something like it in the man cave.
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And every time, he says no.
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To start… it was butternut squash soup for the husband and some fabulous dry rub barbecue shrimp for moi.
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A basil limeade later?
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An amazing Bolognese with fresh pasta and a lamb, beef and pork ragu. It was so good I didn’t even notice what the husband ate.
Well worth 5 hours of tool shopping.
😉
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Time for the required dose of His Lordship.
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Who steals your warm spot on the couch every time you get up.
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And with those Dracula fangs, who’s going to argue?
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Yup.
That’s my boy.
❤️
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As I was reading in the living room the other day, Lord Dudley Mountcatten went running to the window.
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It seems we had a visitor on the deck railing.
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A Sharp Shinned Hawk.
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He’s a beauty and hunts our backyard quite often.
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Though sadly never when Momma Red is scurrying around.
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❤️
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Lord Dudley Mountcatten has some strange sleeping positions.
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Face plant seems to be a favorite.
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And then the grocery store turned into a Chinese restaurant. If I’d known this, I would have bypassed the beef lo mien and brought an axe.
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I found this old family document recently and was stymied by what to do with it. Yes, it’s from 1875 which is interesting… but it’s a receipt for rental of a house, which is not. I tried researching the company and came up empty so I did the only logical thing I could think of. Put it in a file in a drawer to be rediscovered at a later date.
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I’ll never forgot a sad story told by my late BIL who was wheelchair bound. They had a small kiddie pool in their yard and he had to watch helplessly as a chipmunk fell in and drowned. He was unable to rescue it and slowly watched it die. This is a brilliant product.
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My new normal. Every night at 8:00pm His Lordship sits and stares at me until I go to bed.
Yes, I was wearing owls in sweaters and hats pajamas. Don’t judge, they’re very comfortable.
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This week’s game should be fun.
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Here are a few of mine –
Justin Bieber is playing on an endless loop.
All the floors are wet and you’re only wearing socks.
There’s television, but only one program … The Apprentice.
All the cocktails are alcohol free.
The only book in the library is 50 Shades of Grey.
There’s an all you can eat buffet… but the only thing on it is kale.
How about you?
What’s happening in your version of Heck….
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Lord Dudley Mountcatten flew off the couch the other day and positioned himself at the back door.
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Reason?
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The red menace was scampering around on the deck.
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I swear she knows he’s there, cackling like mad and most importantly… unable to reach her.
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She’s a regular rodent tease.
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