Thirty nine days and thirty nine nights and counting

[robinmckinley]

 
GODS, DEMIGODS, AND SMALL THINGS THAT LIVE UNDER TOADSTOOLS, I AM SO SICK OF THIS FRICKING WEATHER.  Last night walking, or rather sloshing, home from tower practice-which takes all of about a minute and a half-I was thinking, if I had any food in the house I’d ring Peter and say I wasn’t coming.  Levering somnolent hellhounds out of their warm

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[anonymous]

I just got here again in the wee hours--my husband is sleeping, the dog is sleeping, and with luck neither of them will wake up and wonder why I am on the computer instead of asleep or packing. I'm going to Mass. primarily to see my 98-year-old aunt. But I have reserved one day to go see the Alpha Bitch's breeder and talk about a very potential puppy. And I'll get to Baltimore to see a good friend on my way home, so if the weather doesn't give me too much grief, it should be a good trip. My husband is staying home to dogsit, which means I can have opera and audiobooks on the road

[robinmckinley]

I was HOPING there might be a puppy involved. :)

Baking stones--yes. Suddenly I was making real pizza again (even tomato- and cheese-free) when I did it on a stone.

There are routines of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore that I know by heart and still don't want to play in the car because I laugh so hard I can't see.

********** Yes. [suppressing quote a few . . . ] :)

[southdowner]

*** I have reserved one day to go see the Alpha Bitch's breeder and talk about a very potential puppy.***

Ooohh! How exciting! What sort of dog is alpha bitch?

[robinmckinley]

Great Dane. (Sorry, Diane, I think you're out of contact for a few days?)

[ajl_r]

"There was no suspension possible, of disbelief or anything else, from the conditions underfoot"

Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud? :)

Perhaps you could translate 'The Gas Man Cometh' song into one for contemporary times that involved architects, structural engineers, builders...?

[robinmckinley]

Snork! You imagine my talent much greater than it is! :)

[ajl_r]

"You imagine my talent much greater than it is! :)"

No, I don't think I do. :) However, if you don't fancy updating the Gas Man song, how about a new version of Design for Living (http://www.iankitching.me.uk/humour/hippo/design.html), with all three houses in it...?

(Wonderful as the words are, reading it without hearing the music - except in one's head - makes one realise how totally the two elements complemented each other.)

[robinmckinley]

However, if you don't fancy updating the Gas Man song, how about a new version of Design for Living (http://www.iankitching.me.uk/humour/hippo/design.html), with all three houses in it...?

************* Oh dear . . . they were *so incredibly good.* I'm sitting here laughing. I stop laughing, and then I start again. And then I stop and then I start again. . . .

(Wonderful as the words are, reading it without hearing the music - except in one's head - makes one realise how totally the two elements complemented each other.)

************ Yes, but doesn't it BURST off/out of the page/screen at you? *I* can hear it. :)

[waystone]

Flanders and Swann! Yes! For a long time I thought I was the only person who actually knew they existed - the folks in my circle tend to have never heard of them (a fact that is followed swiftly by the delivery of a CD from yours truly).

If it's humanly possible to someone who actually has to deal with the wet and mud, take a moment for those of us living in the desert, to appreciate the fact that you have water that falls naturally from the sky. As opposed to 120°F weather (for which we have a phrase made up by the same madmen ... 'but it's a /dry/ heat'...) and a plummeting water table.

Six weeks to the New England move and counting...

[robinmckinley]

to appreciate the fact that you have water that falls naturally from the sky.

********** Well, yes, and blows out the storm drains, yanks the topsoil off, and floods the sewage plants. . . .

[southdowner]

*** British weather. Yes. Notorious on six continents. I guess we’re getting a head start on April: ***
Last year April WAS our summer; I'm getting the sun screen ready this weekend LOL

*** I assume there are other passionate Flanders and Swann aficionados out there? ***
I thought Mud, Mud was a lullaby! I grew up with Flanders and Swann, which maybe explains my warped sense of humour :)

Bob Newhart was very funny too - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7313jJENZnc&feature=related

Re: this isn’t really wet rain

[robinmckinley]

You and waystone have nice chats over your back fence, right?

Yes, okay, it's true, I'll take the mud to temperatures of 112. And granted when we get heat it's DAMP heat but I start fading when it hits 90.

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[danceswithpahis]

"Yes, okay, it's true, I'll take the mud to temperatures of 112. And granted when we get heat it's DAMP heat but I start fading when it hits 90."

-- Most definitely!! I grew up in a desert, which I hated, and then for college moved to Tacoma. Within a week my brain was already saying, "Did we REALLY live in a desert once, or are you making that up?" Temperate is so happy (every now and then I miss having more defined seasons, but not enough to move!). Then while living in Romania (which has a Minnesota-type climate), I wished with all my heart for Tacoma again. 104 degrees in the summer is miserable, and ice storms... Let's not even mention those. Take me back to a place where people start losing it because of the annual heat wave that reaches 85 degrees (sometimes 90) for a few days.