CoTT 2 House of Cards

[Marty]

Just now, Headstall said:

Hey, all!  

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Hi, bro! 

(Still no plaid.... duggie is going to be disappointed once again )

[Albert1434]

4 minutes ago, Headstall said:

Hey, all!  

[Drew Espinosa]

9 minutes ago, Marty said:

If you say you're not a kid often enough, you might even make it come true.

So....

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[CassieQ]

3 hours ago, Drew Espinosa said:

Howdy y'all! Today's my sister's birthday and while she may be 28, she asked that her birthday be celebrated with a tea party. I'm sure my seven year old niece will be happy about that too, lol.

I think a tea party sounds awesome.  

[Valkyrie]

1 hour ago, Headstall said:

Hey, all!  

[Marty]

1 hour ago, Albert1434 said:

You're in great danger of coming down with a severe case of dehydration with all the drooling you're doing these days, young Albert...  

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Edited December 6, 2020 by Marty
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[Marty]

Clo's earlier indecision when answering the question from Drew as to whether she considered him to still be a kid made me think of the following song from my teenage years....

 

[Sherye Story Reader]

Well, when you are younger than us then we think the younger ones as kids cause the age difference never changes. I think of all my kids are kids because they will all be kids to me even when they are in their middle ages! lol

[Sherye Story Reader]

6 minutes ago, Marty said:

Clo's earlier indecision when answering the question from Drew as to whether she considered him to still be a kid made me think of the following song from my teenage years....

 

Oh wow, haven't heard that in awhile! Oops I am telling on my age again! I need to stop doing that since women never tell their age! lol 

[Marty]

6 minutes ago, Sherye said:

Oh wow, haven't heard that in awhile! Oops I am telling on my age again! I need to stop doing that since women never tell their age! lol 

Till the day she died my mam always claimed to be "Twenty-one plus V.A.T."

(V.A.T. is Value Added Tax. I think America has a similar tax that they call Sales Tax)

Edited December 6, 2020 by Marty
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[dughlas]

8 hours ago, Marty said:

When I was a child, my eldest brother (5 years my senior) almost always took a book with him when he went for a bath, especially in the winter months when it would be too cold in the unheated upstairs bedroom for reading. We were a big family, and I think he was just using the bathroom as somewhere he could read in peace and quiet. However, he couldn't stay too long, as the hot water tank depended upon the back boiler from the living room fire, and the bath water would cool down eventually.

Some time in the mid-1950's mam found the money to have an electric immersion heater installed. Worried about running up a huge bill for the electricity, she warned us all that we weren't to use it unnecessarily, or leave it switched on too long. Suddenly my brother's time spent in the bath tub started to become much, much longer. Indeed, once or twice I even spotted him taking two books in with him.

When the electricity bills suddenly started to get a good bit higher than expected, mam realised that he was simply leaving the immersion heater turned on whenever he went for a bath. And, if the bath water cooled down too much, he would simply pull the plug to let some of it drain away, and then top up with more hot water.

Mam finished up paying an electrician to move the switch for the immersion heater from inside the bathroom to the living room!

I've been known to take a book into the tub. I have an old cast iron clawfoot tub in the upstairs bath. It's a wonderful place to have a hot soak and a read on a cold winter's night. Warms the old bones.

[dughlas]

8 hours ago, Marty said:

 

5 hours ago, Drew Espinosa said:

Howdy y'all! Today's my sister's birthday and while she may be 28, she asked that her birthday be celebrated with a tea party. I'm sure my seven year old niece will be happy about that too, lol.

Admit it Drew you're just as excited.

[Headstall]

Today was the first time the cats cleaned up all the food I gave them by the time I left the barn. I feed them twice a day... and I guess I have to get a bigger bowl to mix their food, pumpkin seeds and canola oil in. This is crazy... I am feeding fourteen cats and a bloody raccoon(he won't be getting any leftover cat-food supper tonight) every day. Plus, I feed them extra on the back veranda... healthy leftover scraps like beef, chicken, tuna, salmon, and ham that I can't eat up... and fats I collect in a tin. The big male that drove off all the other males has gotten gigantic... he leaves Falkor alone because he's neutered... and nasty.   

[dughlas]

2 hours ago, Drew Espinosa said:

I'm 25, by definition I'm an adult, not a kid!  

You'll always be a kid. Just ask your mother.

[Headstall]

8 minutes ago, dughlas said:

I've been known to take a book into the tub. I have an old cast iron clawfoot tub in the upstairs bath. It's a wonderful place to have a hot soak and a read on a cold winter's night. Warms the old bones.

I used to do that too. Now I seldom take a bath... easier to shower every morning when I get up. If I take a hot bath I get sweaty afterwards.  

[dughlas]

2 hours ago, Marty said:

If you say you're not a kid often enough, you might even make it come true.

So....

That's the MO of another would be despot.

[Headstall]

1 minute ago, dughlas said:

You'll always be a kid. Just ask your mother.

I was my mom's baby boy until the end. So were my brothers.

[Marty]

1 minute ago, dughlas said:

That's the MO of another would be despot.

 

[dughlas]

2 hours ago, Headstall said:

Hey, all!  

Oh good he's wearing the plaid boxers I gave him last Christmas ...

[Marty]

3 minutes ago, Headstall said:

I used to do that too. Now I seldom take a bath... easier to shower every morning when I get up. If I take a hot bath I get sweaty afterwards.  

Careful about mentioning sweaty men in here, bro...

Not good for clo or Val's blood pressure.

 

[Marty]

Just now, dughlas said:

Oh good he's wearing the plaid boxers I gave him last Christmas ...

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[dughlas]

2 hours ago, Marty said:

Hi, bro! 

(Still no plaid.... duggie is going to be disappointed once again )

Boxers bro ...

[Marty]

2 minutes ago, dughlas said:

Boxers bro ...

My very last comment still stands...

[dughlas]

6 minutes ago, Marty said:

Careful about mentioning sweaty men in here, bro...

Not good for clo or Val's blood pressure.

 

You know Val will go ewww 'cause Gary's one of the Wonder bros.

[dughlas]

2 minutes ago, Marty said:

My very last comment still stands...

If I believe it, it's true ...