Well, I'm back.

The kids are making up for lost time. Already this morning the Dervish has had a tea party with my china (from Grandma), and is still walking around with a dead baby garter snake he swears he did not kill. He says it was a black widow. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> Well, he showed me the two little punctures that are definitely not black widow bites, but probably not Dervish bites, either.

At least burying it ought to keep him busy for a few minutes.

PS I see my doppelganger has been posting whilst I've been away.

[color:"red"]Since she can type and post.......send her over to fix my a/c. It's 91 degrees INSIDE. I think we will go spend night w/ mom. [/color]

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I will call x and see if he will come take a look at it.

Burying the snake kept him busy for only slightly longer than it took him to dig it up again. I found him eating his lunch in Grandpa's study (highly forbidden, due to Grandpa and his TV both), with the little pet snakey stretched out on the floor next to him.

I made him perform the reinterrment immediately, before even finishing his mac and cheese. When I went outside, it was buried by my blackberry bush with a tiny cross and little white flag to mark its resting place. ("Until tomorrow," as Neaksis said.)

By 9am he had found the snakey the first time, had a tea party with my good china, and tried to use the toilet plunger as a black widow catcher.

By lunch he had carried out the exhumation, prepared instant ootmeal in a cup after twice being told not to, fought over the hoo-loop and a book, and gotten in a fight with his brother.

By supper, he had visited his father (briefly), told the bank lady every story he could think of (fortunately not all the ones I could think of), including dissertations about "Flancy" and "frasshoppers", fought with both his brother and his sister while riding in the car, and gotten an early bedtime for punching his brother in the nose, and drunk most of a 2-liter of rootbeer and spilled some of it on the kitchen floor.

By bedtime, he had fought some more, whined some more, watered the plants, and mopped the kitchen. And when I say mopped, I really mean mopped. I still have the fan blowing on it.

Despite being very tired, and my making a concerted effort to keep him in bed (again and again and again and again), he didn't go to sleep till a couple of minutes ago, so now that I can, I ought to go to sleep myself.

Anyway, it's nice to be back. {{{{{{{{{Goodnight to all.}}}}}}}}

PS - Mikey is sooooooooooo fyoot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Neak, believe me when I say they grow up into lovely young men. Unfortunately, you have a couple of (oh, lots of) years to go yet.

and I have to go through all this type of thing again?

arrrrrrgggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I'm out of tranquilizers !!!!!

However, Nanna's retiring soon ..hehehehehehe 'where are you mum?' <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

Mom will send you some. She's a lifesaver!

I have a limp snakey I can sell you, real cheap.

Jen, are you positive they turn out ok? I get more worried every day. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

It is 97 degrees in my house. Parts for the heat pump are on the way. I have a headache. I have a powerpoint presentation to do. someone kick me off this site. But, just for tonight.

Believe me, I feel your pain. Hope it gets fixed fast.

x drove 30 miles there and 30 miles back - roughly, to get parts. He put them in. The thing is cooling - two capacitors - and the house is now down to 87 degrees. It was about 96 earlier.

Now, when you do yardwork in the 95 degree heat because it is cooler outside than inside, you are talking serious hot.

I am surrounded by large fans (the electrical kind) so I can finish my presentations.

By time to get up in the morning, the house should feel good. There is 60 degree air coming out the vents. It just takes a while to cool the house down and dry it out.

rella

I guess the heat is usual for us here in Oz but even so when you get those hot days just one after another and it doesn't go down much during the night so the house doesn't cool down its just miserable. You can only outlast it and drink water take cold showers or baths etc.

I am so glad we have air cond this last year. I feel spoiled now. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

try something strange, drink a hot cup of black tea, strong as or weak as you want and I swear it helps cool your body down.

Hows neaksis neak after the trip? How are you after your trip lol <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
and I do promise the little devils grow up into ok adults its true!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

well while you have been roasting we have been getting soaked in heavy rains.... I had a stand alone hexagonal garden patio with a canvas roof over steel beams .. it collapsed due to the weight of water bending the steel like spagetti. Another job for me to fix up and I didn't even touch this one!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />
But I've got the steel panels for the enclosure arriving next week as they couldn't get it out of the factory this weekend <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />
and I was so looking forward to using Aussies new tools from 'HIS' shed. The tec screw gun and the nibbler ..they aren't even unpackaged!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

but back to W O R K tomorrow <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

on a far less happy note for many service families tonight
soldiers from the 1st Combat Engineer Regiment, 2nd Cavalry Regiment and 5th/7th Battalion, and the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment left tonight for Afghanistan ... but remember .. its not a war <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />
I pray they spend all their time building infrastructure and never see a shot fired in anger. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

Requesting any and all prayers as I go to my dispositional hearing for the stupid dog-killing-chicken thing. I really don't want a mark against my criminal record, even if I am technically guilty.

The DA's office, public defender's office, and the court clerk all seemed to agree that nothing much would happen at the first hearing. God willing, I just hope the DA will drop the charges or reduce them, all on their own, and without the need to keep going to court.

I'm too young to be arrested!!!!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

The hearing is at 1 pm CA time, so I'll be around for a little in the morning before returning to my secondary career as a criminal. Guess everyone needs a hobby. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

well I hope the prayers did some good Neak!!

However the visiting hours are ........ <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />
I can bake cakes with files in them! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

I really hope I'm joking!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

I'm sure it won't be more than a slap on the wrist at the most! A misdemeaner surely! A medal for proactive behaviour?

Now I'm nervous ..... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

I'll let you know about the visiting hours. Cakes with files welcomed.

I'm just getting my ppw together to take up there, and will leave in a couple hours.

I have gotten 2 speeding tickets in my wild youth, and stole a gumball from a store when I was 3 or 4. That is the sum total of my criminal behavior (till now).

Be back later to let y'all know what happened.

I'm sure it will be a naughty naughty pay this bye bye!!

Just a few more prayers - never hurt ! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

and bring up all the neighbours threats etc etc & how you did everything to try and stop the chickens and dog interacting ... dont you love that word? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

why isn't the dog in the dock ?

Hi Mom,
It's me, Neaksis, your only daughter.


Now that Neak is in the slammer I am sure that we'll be disowning her.

Can I have the camphor chest now?

Prayers continue.

HI Neaksis, good try. Now you can tell us about your trip.

Hi AW. You sound good considering.

Cinders, sounds like X still has some good in him. What does his now W think about this? She must be a decent person too?

Don't worry so much Neak, worse they could do is lock you up for a while. Couldn't you use the vacation?

Hi T&L.
I can see life is busy.
Keeps you out of trouble - you should be glad for that.

If it's getting to you TOO MUCH, I bet you can spend a little vacation time with Neak. Just find a patrol car, and break out the window while the driver is still sitting in it. I'm sure they could make the reservations for a nice room for you too.

SS

I thought when you mentioned the word "disown" you were talking about what your sister was going to do to the Dervish when she found out that while she was in court, he'd broken her ceramic mask from New Orleans...and thought it was a rather mild consequence when murder was actually more likely! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> (Not from her--from me. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />) After all, you don't have to disown somebody if they're expired. Why "expired", you may ask? Let me tell you. He shattered a window in my van on Friday when he threw a rock at someone, the very same window I just spent a couple hundred bucks to get fixed. And then today...gr-r-r-r-r-r. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> Bad-aim Butterfingers, that kid is. I think he should be called BAB.

Now that I see what you mean, though, I have this to say to you, my dear Neaksis, and your idea about my camphor chest. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> Your sister may be incarcerated, but I am NOT dead. And until I shuffle off this mortal coil, that camphor chest is mine.

t&l

I meant when you are dead....now that I don't have to worry about sharing anything with Inmate 5449956.

You have NO idea how attractive that suggestion is right now. But what with my anger, bitterness, and resentment, I'm not sure I'd fit in a single cell...even all by myself! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

t&l