Thought there'd be at least five responses by the time I went
through the last five pages. Everybody watching the Olympics or just fiddling with their TC?
TJ - Anybody seen or heard from him? Anybody know if he's okay?
Learned a valuable
vaping lesson recently I thought I'd pass on.
Two nights ago we went on our usual nightly walk. Saw an awesome meteor and just as we got to one of the darkest corners coming home, El Whacko takes off like a bat straight outta hell. When he hears/sees something, he usually stops at the end of his retractable lead and hops up and down like a drama queen making little squeaky noises. Not this time.
Princess kept going at a dead run, snapped the lead out of my hand which bruised my knuckles and I thought briefly broke my ring finger. (Turned out it just turned it a lovely shade of black and blue and doesn't hurt at all now.) I yelled, "
Leave it!" his universal command to instantly leave alone whatever is his current object of intense interest.
He immediately turned around and came back, slinking the the last couple of steps. Should have known something was up, he doesn't slink for anything or anyone. Put my
mod in my other hand and fumbled around his collar to find the lead while asking, "what is that
smell?"
El Whacko had lost magnificently to a skunk. Luckily he was so close to it only he got aromatized but he did manage to maintain his upwind lead all the way home.
Moral of the story? Never, ever,
ever touch your freshly skunked dog and then grab your mod with the same hand.
It was below freezing out so had to bring him inside and have him lie on his bed while my husband went into town to get "cleaning supplies." We spent the rest of the night scrubbing him off (lot of vape breaks for me during that time) and wiping dog hair out of the tub and off the bathroom walls. He smelled great, living room not so much.
Skunk 1 - El Whacko 0
Yummmmmmm I did have fresh Beignets one time at Cafe Du Monde. My friend said another place actually had better beignets, but cafe du monde is such a famous place, I wanted to go there first, then thought another day we could hit up the other place, but we never made it to the other one. I did get a muffaletta at Central Deli. And of course we had the obligatory powdered sugar fight with the beignets!
I need to see if she has those photos now that I think about it, since mine are on hard drive that broke down. I still have the hard drive, just dunno if they are retrievable or not.
I never heard about another place but it's possible it wasn't open so soon after Katrina. Cafe Du Monde's are to die for so if there's one better than that, might be worth going back for. The beignet juice has sort of grown on me, now that it's half gone. Probably order another one next year for Mardi Gras again.
Hey don't feel like the lone stranger, I haven't looked at new vape stuff except for the Sirens and Prime for a year.
Haven't at new stuff for a year except for...
Me too!
Latest order for spare coils, drip tips, etc. (you know, spare
) instead of a hard case it this.
Seemed fitting.
Still here, nuttin much to say. Did not know a missile was coming until it was all over. No alerts on my old flip fone.
My son works at the naval shipyard and they all went down to the docks to watch the missile as it came in. No sense evacuating on an island, especially one that practically shuts down after a big rain.
I have a flip phone too and I'm not giving it up!
Glad you missed the whole thing, better not to know when there's nothing you can do. If I was your son, I'd have gone to to the waterfront too. Sounds like the better part of the islands are chugging along like normal then.
Good to hear from you!