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If you didn’t want to, you shouldn’t have come.
Caption this photo.
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I’ll start…
“But dad, the spider was really big!”
Or maybe…
“It’s not my fault. They told me you hid the Milkbones up here.”
Now you –
Give me a caption.
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Let’s play.
A toilet paper orgasm.
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These pictures popped up in my Facebook memories the other day and I just have to share.
Years ago we took in a stray cat and named him Huffington. He was a beautiful boy,… loving, gentle but spirited and boy, did he love to play.
Sadly he was only with us two years before he was run over by a car and killed in front of our house. It completely wreaked me and is why our current royal feline walks on a leash.
But back to the pictures…
One day I heard a noise in the house. It was intermittent scratching and thuds. Tracing it back to our spare bathroom, I flipped on the lights and found this –
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Huffington had found an open toilet paper package.
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And yes, he enjoyed it.
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A little too much.
When I tried to clean up the mess and take it away from him?
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He didn’t want to let go.
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Man, I miss that little guy.
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A vial of vile…
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As many of you know, I blew out my right knee 5 years ago (deep root radial meniscal tear and ACL damage) and have been dealing with constant pain ever since.
I’ve seen three orthopedists, had multiple cortisone shots and done weeks of physical therapy with little to no effect. The only treatment that did give me some relief? Acupuncture, which my insurance refuses to cover.
Considered “alternative”, though it’s been practiced for over 2,500 years, I did it for a four month period back in 2022 and saw a dramatic reduction in swelling and stiffness. But at $125 per session and 2-3 sessions a week…. I also saw a dramatic reduction to my bank account and reluctantly gave it up.
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Until last week when some seriously debilitating pain drove me (and my checkbook) back to the office.
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Looking like a porcupine again…
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I’m hoping for a similar level of pain reduction this time around.
Part of being treated with acupuncture involves a total body holistic approach. And since menopause has wreaked so many parts of my life, my practitioner recommended an all natural herbal remedy for my hot flashes.
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She warned me the liquid was pungent, and quite bitter…. but I was willing to give it a try.
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Good thing we don’t have any crow steaks in the freezer this month.
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The bottle came with a small dropper and I was instructed to take 3 full ones, three times a day.
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Oh. My. Freaking God.
I’ve swigged some awful stuff in my life and lived to tell the tale, but this?
Nope. Uh uh.
I couldn’t do it.
The smell was bad enough, but the minute it hit my tongue? Instant gag. There aren’t enough words in the English language to describe how absolutely horrendous this vile black liquid is.
Repulsive. Abhorrent. Ghastly. Foul, and revolting barely touch the surface.
Stick me with a hundred needles from head to toe, I won’t flinch. But that little black bottle?
Reduced me to a quivering mass of jelly.
The tiny bottle tested my resolve… and won.
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On Veterans Day…
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This.
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https://youtu.be/oiYLg4RnwE0?si=3gEK0sXw8qMWCx8S
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My husband wasn’t welcomed home in 1968.
Say thank you. It means a lot.
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What trees are for.
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Lord Dudley Mountcatten is a fair weather cat. He doesn’t like heat, humidity, wind, rain, cold, fog or snow. Summer is too hot for backyard walkies, winter is too cold.
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But fall? When the leaves are turning and the air is crisp and cool?
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He’s totally down with that.
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And gets so frisky he thinks he can climb trees.
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Which he really can’t. Most of the time he just sits in them looking puzzled.
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Oh, he tries.
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But more often than not, he gets stuck.
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And requires careful plucking from between the branches.
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He’s awfully cute when he does it though.
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News you can’t use.
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The definition of useless – having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully.
I think that sums up my posts quite well.
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Finally, something to do with it other than sitting.
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Clearly he wasn’t butt breathing often enough.
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A Musk robot army?
WTF!
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Oh sure. Nothing to worry about there.
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I hear you Willie. If I have to eat kale and quinoa? I’d rather drop dead right now.
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Never trust a Corpse Reviver.
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The other day my daily viewing stats exploded for no apparent reason.
500 views with no comments made me wonder why.
I mean… let’s be honest, I’m not that interesting.
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Though clearly Patricia thought so.
The fact that she never interacted and liked mostly old posts made me realize she was probably a bot, but it was kind of fun to reread things I hadn’t seen in a while. And since most of us weren’t connected then, please take a walk down memory lane with me and heed my advice about Corpse Revivers.
They’re dangerous.
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https://riversworld.live/2018/08/23/never-trust-a-corpse-reviver/
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Autumn leaves and antiques.
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Another beautiful fall day called for another scenic drive.
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I’m sorry, but autumn in New England is hard to beat.
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The air is crisp and the trees give us a splendid tableau of color.
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It also means the last gasp of yard sales and antique store sales that my husband can’t drive by. This particular shop had auxiliary rooms made out of tractor trailer boxes and were filled with vintage horrors.
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Ack!
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Wow.
Please note the base table of this lamp lights up as well.
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Inside, my husband combed the shelves for treasure but thankfully came out empty handed.
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I’d much rather view foliage.
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Statue of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain at Bowdoin College. Hero of Gettysburg, he taught rhetoric and modern languages as a professor and later served as the college’s president. His home is across the street.
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Let’s play.
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Don’t stress, it’s an easy one today.
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I’m beautiful.
And I found this on the Internet so it must be true.
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What are you?
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Maps that don’t take you anywhere.
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In case you can’t see it, this is Maine’s.
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Not too disturbing when drawn, but a bit creepy when experienced in person.
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I’m right in the middle, which is where I want to be.
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I thought my state would rank higher.
Disappointing, that.
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Looks like I’m not doing enough drinking.
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Electronics seem to win the prize.
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Mark and Shelly, where do your towns stand on the cow to human scale?
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Don’t laugh. Moose will flat take you out…
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These numbers astound me. My husband and I bought our first house, a 3 bedroom 2 bath ranch, for $45,000. Granted that was in 1985 but the income to mortgage ratio was much smaller then. How many young couples starting out today can afford a half a million dollars home? It’s crazy.
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