40 thoughts on “June 30, 2018: Lucky Number Seven”
HBD!
Watching FRA vs. ARG on Fox and listening on France Bleu Alsace. The radio seems to be 10 seconds in the future. Pro tip to the punters.
France totally frenched up my work bracket, but what a shooting match. I watched the end at my favorite bagel joint round the corner from DPWY's outlaws place.
The equalizer was one of the most beautiful goals I have ever seen.
Yard report: damn hot out. Bad year for spurge and crabgrass. The crab grass I can deal with, but when spurge gets bad only General Sherman can defeat it. Also noticed bagworms in the back arbor vitae, so picked all of them I could reach. Hopefully the summer pass with weed & feed deals with the rest of the broadleaves. Happy to report several leopard frog sightings, which is good; conversely, there's a lack of the usual snake population.
I lost last year's blueberry plant to the heat, and this year's is suffering but holding steady. The established one from two years ago is coping fine.
I also hosed off the cottonwood seeds from the air conditioner grills, and put down the last of the mulch. Bad news is that I still need more. I've put down 28-2 cu ft bags, and probaby need 6 more :/
And today's earworm? Supertramp's "Its Raining Again"
I wish.
there's a lack of the usual snake population.
Which is good.
Disagree, but whatever.
I know, most do. My problem with snakes is phobia level, but I do recognize their importance to the ecosystem.
But if they're poisonous, the ecosystem be damned
spurge is evil. That stuff puts rabbits to shame.
The year I lived in Tulsa (1985) I must have killed a dozen garter snakes with the lawnmower in one summer.
A year ago I went out biking in So. CT with a buddy. It had been raining a lot, and something must have caused the snakes to be on the move. We must have come across 7 big black-snakes(orange-ish bellies) scootering across the road. Some made it, some didn't. But they were easily 16-24".
Our black rat snakes can reach twice that length. Also not bad to have around.
I was hoping I could put off mowing the lawn until tomorrow when it will be merely uncomfortably hot, but there's an 80% chance it will rain all day so I have to do it in today's scorching hellscape. I wish I had trees in my yard.
"scorching landscape...."
It is expected to hit 104 here today.
Hellscape. It'll be about 94, but there's a reason I'm still happy to live in this part of the country because I only have to whine like a baby about the heat for three months of the year.
... It's been crazy unbearable this summer in the big easy. Tomorrow I get to move a new couch into the house, and then I get to hang siding on a shed for a friend. I love this friend dearly, but I'm rethinking my friendship...
Any 24 hour arguments you can strike up?
The last two days, my mantra has been "it's not as bad as New Orleans." Unfortunately, this mantra is no help to you...
Just finished mine. Should have taken some water breaks
I took many and had to take an extended lunch break because I nearly started dry heaving. I can't wait for winter.
Twins designate Felix Jorge for assignment. He's coming back from injury, but come on. Everyone on the forty-man roster is such a stud that this is the move you had to make? That's ridiculous.
seen in a WaPo Wonkblog article about a record-high government stockpile of cheese, purchased in partial support of milk prices:
“quantitative cheesing.”
Somehow I doubt we’ll see a Big Block of Cheese Day for the regular folk with this administration.
I remember gubmint cheese and gubmint peanut butter in grade school. A two-room school house in Hubbard, MN. Two teachers for 6 grades. There were 3 in my class in 2nd grade, then 2 in 3rd grade (one got held back). Year after that they consolidated all the little schools and we went to the area schools in Park Rapids.
Mrs. Runner was on a mission trip to Samoa in her teens. The folks there were given government cheese, and they don't have dairy in their diets. D'oh
Yumm... I'll have s'moah dat!
Okay, I'll allow this one because hilarious.
goddamn ungrateful foreigners!
Wrigley is beautiful. I really enjoyed the way it lays out. It's a lot less gimmicky than Fenway (which, to he clear, is a park I also really love), but has plenty of quirk to make it visually interesting, beyond the ivy wall. It was VERY hot out, but they did a good job of making coolers of water and ice available (and I took advantage of that multiple times).
The fans were actually quite a bit of fun to interact with, even before the slam. I was telling one of them that this game was a full 65 degrees hotter than the coldest game I'd been to (the 2013 season opener).
Later in the game, a fan a few rows behind us started loudly heckling Hunter Wendelstedt. At first, he was yelling "you SUUUCK Hunter!!" and no one could tell what he was talking about. Later, he was sarcastically cheering him on for "great positioning" and great calls on obvious plays. The whole thing was pretty entertaining.
Brutal drive (got back home around 4:45, having left home at 5am the previous morning), but I found the whole thing to be well worth it.
StL is only 8hrs, and there places with overnight capabilities
My major impression of both Fenway and Wrigley: the bathroom troughs.
I did not actually hit up the bathrooms. Probably for the best. Wasn't a fan of them at Fenway.
I imagine they were poorly visited yesterday with all the water exiting via everywhere else.
Saw Sears had a holiday discount code, so the dishwasher we were looking at dropped another $80. Pulled the trigger and ordered one, then uninstalled the old one and gave it a new temporary home in the corner of the garage. More sweat equity
HBD!
Watching FRA vs. ARG on Fox and listening on France Bleu Alsace. The radio seems to be 10 seconds in the future. Pro tip to the punters.
France totally frenched up my work bracket, but what a shooting match. I watched the end at my favorite bagel joint round the corner from DPWY's outlaws place.
The equalizer was one of the most beautiful goals I have ever seen.
In all its glory.
Yard report: damn hot out. Bad year for spurge and crabgrass. The crab grass I can deal with, but when spurge gets bad only General Sherman can defeat it. Also noticed bagworms in the back arbor vitae, so picked all of them I could reach. Hopefully the summer pass with weed & feed deals with the rest of the broadleaves. Happy to report several leopard frog sightings, which is good; conversely, there's a lack of the usual snake population.
I lost last year's blueberry plant to the heat, and this year's is suffering but holding steady. The established one from two years ago is coping fine.
I also hosed off the cottonwood seeds from the air conditioner grills, and put down the last of the mulch. Bad news is that I still need more. I've put down 28-2 cu ft bags, and probaby need 6 more :/
And today's earworm? Supertramp's "Its Raining Again"
I wish.
there's a lack of the usual snake population.
Which is good.
Disagree, but whatever.
I know, most do. My problem with snakes is phobia level, but I do recognize their importance to the ecosystem.
But if they're poisonous, the ecosystem be damned
spurge is evil. That stuff puts rabbits to shame.
The year I lived in Tulsa (1985) I must have killed a dozen garter snakes with the lawnmower in one summer.
A year ago I went out biking in So. CT with a buddy. It had been raining a lot, and something must have caused the snakes to be on the move. We must have come across 7 big black-snakes(orange-ish bellies) scootering across the road. Some made it, some didn't. But they were easily 16-24".
Our black rat snakes can reach twice that length. Also not bad to have around.
I was hoping I could put off mowing the lawn until tomorrow when it will be merely uncomfortably hot, but there's an 80% chance it will rain all day so I have to do it in today's scorching hellscape. I wish I had trees in my yard.
"scorching landscape...."
It is expected to hit 104 here today.
Hellscape. It'll be about 94, but there's a reason I'm still happy to live in this part of the country because I only have to whine like a baby about the heat for three months of the year.
... It's been crazy unbearable this summer in the big easy. Tomorrow I get to move a new couch into the house, and then I get to hang siding on a shed for a friend. I love this friend dearly, but I'm rethinking my friendship...
Any 24 hour arguments you can strike up?
The last two days, my mantra has been "it's not as bad as New Orleans." Unfortunately, this mantra is no help to you...
Psh, still no Quriyat, Oman.
Just finished mine. Should have taken some water breaks
I took many and had to take an extended lunch break because I nearly started dry heaving. I can't wait for winter.
Twins designate Felix Jorge for assignment. He's coming back from injury, but come on. Everyone on the forty-man roster is such a stud that this is the move you had to make? That's ridiculous.
seen in a WaPo Wonkblog article about a record-high government stockpile of cheese, purchased in partial support of milk prices:
“quantitative cheesing.”
Somehow I doubt we’ll see a Big Block of Cheese Day for the regular folk with this administration.
I remember gubmint cheese and gubmint peanut butter in grade school. A two-room school house in Hubbard, MN. Two teachers for 6 grades. There were 3 in my class in 2nd grade, then 2 in 3rd grade (one got held back). Year after that they consolidated all the little schools and we went to the area schools in Park Rapids.
Mrs. Runner was on a mission trip to Samoa in her teens. The folks there were given government cheese, and they don't have dairy in their diets. D'oh
Yumm... I'll have s'moah dat!
Okay, I'll allow this one because hilarious.
goddamn ungrateful foreigners!
Wrigley is beautiful. I really enjoyed the way it lays out. It's a lot less gimmicky than Fenway (which, to he clear, is a park I also really love), but has plenty of quirk to make it visually interesting, beyond the ivy wall. It was VERY hot out, but they did a good job of making coolers of water and ice available (and I took advantage of that multiple times).
The fans were actually quite a bit of fun to interact with, even before the slam. I was telling one of them that this game was a full 65 degrees hotter than the coldest game I'd been to (the 2013 season opener).
Later in the game, a fan a few rows behind us started loudly heckling Hunter Wendelstedt. At first, he was yelling "you SUUUCK Hunter!!" and no one could tell what he was talking about. Later, he was sarcastically cheering him on for "great positioning" and great calls on obvious plays. The whole thing was pretty entertaining.
Brutal drive (got back home around 4:45, having left home at 5am the previous morning), but I found the whole thing to be well worth it.
StL is only 8hrs, and there places with overnight capabilities
My major impression of both Fenway and Wrigley: the bathroom troughs.
I did not actually hit up the bathrooms. Probably for the best. Wasn't a fan of them at Fenway.
I imagine they were poorly visited yesterday with all the water exiting via everywhere else.
Saw Sears had a holiday discount code, so the dishwasher we were looking at dropped another $80. Pulled the trigger and ordered one, then uninstalled the old one and gave it a new temporary home in the corner of the garage. More sweat
equityan important read for you astronomical types who want to plan ahead.
Me, I'll just stick my head in the sand.
If by planning ahead you mean getting put a lawn chair and a wine cooler, not a problem