TOTALLY GEEKED!

Mellow Momma wrote:

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Enjoying the last day at my parents' house. Having burgers and hot dogs on the grill with sweet corn! Can't wait to have the corn! Then tomorrow it's in the car and back home.

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Sounds like you are having a wonderful time at your parents home.

Safe travels for tomorrow! 

flan327 wrote:

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I want sweet corn!!

Okay: I removed DH's dressing...incision looks good. He took a shower. Pizza in the oven for lunch.

flan

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It sounds like his recovery is going well!

That's great news, flan.

Drive safely, MM.

I'm glad you had a nice visit with your parents. 

I know what to do_sometimes wrote:

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House cleaned, lawn mowed, dog at the groomers. Do I dare crash my neighbor's pool party?

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 I double dog dare you!

Fort Worth Mom wrote:

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I know what to do_sometimes wrote:

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House cleaned, lawn mowed, dog at the groomers. Do I dare crash my neighbor's pool party?

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 I double dog dare you!

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 Ha!  DD went over.  We are going back after I pick the dog up from the groomers. It will be nearly 100 today, so perfect for swimming.

Fort Worth Mom wrote:

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Looks great, SB!

How fun!

My cold has turned into the summer cold from hell.

I cooked up a storm yesterday. Our dinner party was a blast!

But, I'm going to take it easy today.

And watch the golf.

And Geek around, a little bit.

I hope everyone has a nice Sunday.

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 Feel better soon!

Mellow Momma wrote:

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Enjoying the last day at my parents' house. Having burgers and hot dogs on the grill with sweet corn! Can't wait to have the corn! Then tomorrow it's in the car and back home.

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 Loveee fresh corn!

flan327 wrote:

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I want sweet corn!!

Okay: I removed DH's dressing...incision looks good. He took a shower. Pizza in the oven for lunch.

flan

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 Be sure to keep his incision clean!

Southern_Belle wrote:

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Nobody Just Nobody wrote:

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Good afternoon all. Hope everyone is having a good day. Today is the first day in a week we haven't had to get up early and be somewhere and had a day full of things to do. Unfortunately, we have to clean out the pantry today. We have discovered a mouse. We just spent $50 on rubbermaid containers to put stuff in so the mouse won't smell it and come in. I hate cleaning the pantry.

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 You want to borrow my label maker? OMG I'm giddy just thinking of cleaning and organizing a pantry!

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 YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS  We are seriously overhauling our pantry today.  Not even kidding.  Half of our pantry is already is already in labeled containers.  The problem is that we live surrounded by fields and on one side of us there is a horse farm and a dairy.  There are ponds and stuff in the fields.  We go in spells.  We'll have no mice for a long time and then all of a sudden we start seeing them or finding evidence of them.  We have four shelves in our pantry plus the floor.  The floor is filled with my canning stuff so that's all okay.  And we also have some bottles of oil and ketchup and stuff there.  The first bottom shelf we have things like spices and a few bought canned things like sliced olives.  It's the second and third shelves that the mice attack.  That's where we keep dry goods.  The very top they never get to.  We already have containers for sugar and flour and some other things.  I think we're just going to try putting EVERYTHING in a container.  It's going to be a challenge.

just Czech wrote:

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DH is home from fishing. He shared all of his catch with others at the river. I don't eat fish, and DS is extremely allergic so we give our catches away.

SIL usually gets what we catch but they aren't home from vacation yet.

DH just made us a breakfast for lunch meal. Gosh, he's a keeper.

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 I want some!!!!!

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:

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Southern_Belle wrote:

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Nobody Just Nobody wrote:

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Good afternoon all. Hope everyone is having a good day. Today is the first day in a week we haven't had to get up early and be somewhere and had a day full of things to do. Unfortunately, we have to clean out the pantry today. We have discovered a mouse. We just spent $50 on rubbermaid containers to put stuff in so the mouse won't smell it and come in. I hate cleaning the pantry.

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 You want to borrow my label maker? OMG I'm giddy just thinking of cleaning and organizing a pantry!

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 YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS  We are seriously overhauling our pantry today.  Not even kidding.  Half of our pantry is already is already in labeled containers.  The problem is that we live surrounded by fields and on one side of us there is a horse farm and a dairy.  There are ponds and stuff in the fields.  We go in spells.  We'll have no mice for a long time and then all of a sudden we start seeing them or finding evidence of them.  We have four shelves in our pantry plus the floor.  The floor is filled with my canning stuff so that's all okay.  And we also have some bottles of oil and ketchup and stuff there.  The first bottom shelf we have things like spices and a few bought canned things like sliced olives.  It's the second and third shelves that the mice attack.  That's where we keep dry goods.  The very top they never get to.  We already have containers for sugar and flour and some other things.  I think we're just going to try putting EVERYTHING in a container.  It's going to be a challenge.

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 Peppermint.  Dilute some peppermint oil in a spray bottle and spray everywhere.  Leave some cotton balls soaked in peppermint oil around.  Mice hate peppermint.

ladyloonatic wrote:

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Peppermint oil-is that different from peppermint extract?

I'll have to keep that in mind. I usually see a mouse or two in the fall when the weather starts turning cold.

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 Yes it is!  We get those pesky critters periodically.  I'm taking a break from pantry cleaning.  We've been at it for hours.  I was really pissed off because there were three unopened bags of chips/pretzels that they had gotten into.

Ohfour wrote:

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We went shopping today and I got a pair of Chacos!!!! I'm so excited. I've been looking for a pair I really like and I finally found them!

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 What are they?  Too lazy to google...

ladyloonatic wrote:

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Peppermint oil-is that different from peppermint extract?

I'll have to keep that in mind. I usually see a mouse or two in the fall when the weather starts turning cold.

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 Yes.  Peppermint extract will be alcohol based - oil is not.

Divine Geek wrote:

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I have made it home! I learned a lot and had a lot of fun. I will share, later. Right now, I am exhausted and my couch has missed me. Night all!

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 Yay! Glad you had a good trip!

Tignanello wrote:

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Ugh. Sounds like laundry can wait until morning!!

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 I have the second load in.  I may or may not get another one done.  The pantry was a feat.  I'm a bit of a hoarder so we pulled every single thing out, threw out anything the mice had gotten into, and checked all the expiration dates and tossed stuff.  Then we wiped everything down with hot soapy water and then again with bleach.  DH filled the hole in there with some Raid Max fill foam expansion.  We're going to get some peppermint oil to put out too.  Right now we have glue traps.  Judge away.  We catch them and then employ the brick to the head method.  Don't care.  Mice are nasty.  Even nastier in my pantry.

A large majority of the time was spent arguing about how to put things back.  DH had his ideas and I had mine.  He had a BRILLIANT idea to put all the sugar, flour, baking mixes, and things like that that we have put into big massive containers with handles and put them on the top shelf.  Sounds great right?  I can't reach the top shelf and I use that stuff almost daily.  Since I do 99% of the cooking I felt like my opinion should have more weight.  We went round and round until he gave up and went and watched tv for awhile.  When he finished pouting he came back and helped.