CoTT 2 House of Cards

[Albert1434]

Aloha Dughlas hope you are well today

[dughlas]

9 hours ago, Drew Espinosa said:

I actually lost several images of Guero, the drilling docs are unimportant.

Oh, that's sad.

[Headstall]

This heat sucks the fun out of doing anything.   

[dughlas]

So instead of my cooking dinner last evening mum decided we should go out. As a result we are having last evenings meal tonight. Truth be told I am more worn out today than yesterday. It was raining this morning when I woke so I thought "Oh good, no work in the yard today." Well, instead we went out for brekkie, stopped by the office of her telephone/internet/cable co-op and then went grocery shopping. After all that I went outside to check something and decided since there was a light overcast I might do a bit of weeding. I was out there 2 hrs and after the first 30 minutes the sky cleared and there was bright sunshine. I perspired a bit, to the point I was a dirty, drippy, sweaty mess. However, I did accomplish a lot. The lawns here are mostly made up of an insidious weed called centipede grass. The name comes from it's habit of spreading by throwing long runners that have leaves sticking off the sides resembling the legs on a centipede. The damn stuff is invasive and once it gets into a flower bed the only recourse is to dig it out because by nature it is very hardy stuff. I am fighting it in a couple of places. Sadly, it's in among mum's azalea bushes where I can't dig it up without damage to their roots. There I pull it as best I can. Another spot was among some pencil hollies. That's where I was working today. Two if the hollies are dying so I've removed one and was able to dig most of the weed from around it. The other will have to wait until I get back here the winter. I will eventually win but it can be discouraging as I cleared most of that area before we went to PA in April. Ah well, could be worse, it's not poison ivy and there weren't any snakes, we have copperheads here, hiding amongst the shrubs this time.

 

[Page Scrawler]

1 hour ago, dughlas said:

The damn stuff is invasive and once it gets into a flower bed the only recourse is to dig it out because by nature it is very hardy stuff.

Glad to hear you were able to get a little work done, Dugh. 

[Albert1434]

Tonight, we had for dinner

Chicken Sausage Rigatoni in a Creamy Pink Sauce with Bell Pepper & Parmesan 😁

[Headstall]

Still stinking hot outside. I could only throw the ball for Cookie twice... she was panting non stop.

[Mancunian]

4 minutes ago, Headstall said:

Still stinking hot outside. I could only throw the ball for Cookie twice... she was panting non stop.

I'm hoping to get some sleep tonight, but it's a warm and sticky 27c in my apartment and it's after two in the morning here.

[clochette]

1 hour ago, Mancunian said:

I'm hoping to get some sleep tonight, but it's a warm and sticky 27c in my apartment and it's after two in the morning here.

Same here. The drop in temperatures expected last night didn't happened. Summer took its damm sweet time to arrived so now it feels like too much all at once. 

[Headstall]

1 hour ago, Mancunian said:

I'm hoping to get some sleep tonight, but it's a warm and sticky 27c in my apartment and it's after two in the morning here.

 

16 minutes ago, clochette said:

Same here. The drop in temperatures expected last night didn't happened. Summer took its damm sweet time to arrived so now it feels like too much all at once. 

Not to rub it in but it's 69 F inside my house.  

[clochette]

8 minutes ago, Headstall said:

 

Not to rub it in but it's 69 F inside my house.  

Do you have AC? Cause that would be cheating

My place is in the ground floor and surrounded by concret walls with the 2 parking spaces in the middle so I get all the heat from them... 

Edited August 1 by clochette

[Headstall]

11 minutes ago, clochette said:

Do you have AC? Cause that would be cheating

My place is in the ground floor and surrounded by concret walls with the 2 parking spaces in the middle so I get all the heat from them... 

Yep. Central air. Could not survive without it.  

[Albert1434]

We have a swamp cooler we get to 68 degrees for all ya suffering it was 98f.

[Albert1434]

Aloha All

[Headstall]

Hello, all!  

[clochette]

Hey gang

[spike382]

Sahwahdee khrap everyone!

[Albert1434]

13 minutes ago, spike382 said:

Sahwahdee khrap everyone!

I didn't know you spoke Thai!

[spike382]

2 minutes ago, Albert1434 said:

I didn't know you spoke Thai!

I don’t. 

But I’ve watched enough Thai dramas that I can basically recognize the language by sound.

Also I know how to say “Hi.” 

[Page Scrawler]

@raven1 Hey, Terry.  I hope we can chat soon.

[clochette]

52 minutes ago, spike382 said:

Sahwahdee khrap everyone!

Terry, is that you?!

Oh it's you Spikeman, hi!

[clochette]

Let's go for another evening in front of the swimming competition. Promised to be exciting! Mewen Tomac is training in Amiens btw

Edited August 1 by clochette

[spike382]

24 minutes ago, clochette said:

Let's go for another evening in front of the swimming competition. Promised to be exciting! Mewen Tomac is training in Amiens btw

Okay, I need to get this out of my system…

Clo, stop perving out. 
 

…okay that’s better.  

[clochette]

23 minutes ago, spike382 said:

Okay, I need to get this out of my system…

Clo, stop perving out. 
 

…okay that’s better.  

I'm not!

They actually wear long shorts  and they're swimming so fast not much to ogle

I'm seriously amazed by the performances. Yesterday Leon Marchand did 2 races in less than 2 hours! And won

Edited August 1 by clochette

[Headstall]

48 minutes ago, clochette said:

Let's go for another evening in front of the swimming competition. Promised to be exciting! Mewen Tomac is training in Amiens btw

In tennis, Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime has made it into the semis. He will play my favorite tennis player, Carlos Alcaraz.  He (Felix) is playing mixed doubles right now.