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Morning All.
Must be a bunch of sleepy heads this AM.

Morning Randall, You beat me today. I'm so disgusted with myself. Should have come in here first this morning. Have a great Saturday everyone!

Good Morning..Looks like a beautiful day today. Have a great weekend everyone.

Mornin'

Good Morning

A funny thing happened this a.m. I was standing by the sink looking out the window and noticed our neighbors cat on a patio table.Three feet a way there was a squirrel sitting on my whiskey barrel fountain.They were sitting there looking directly at each other-neither moving and all of a sudden this dumb squirrel decided to dash directly at the cats face.(only an inch or 2 apart) of course Fluffy hopped up and the squirrel qickly put it in reverse and made a mad dash up the tree. Iwish I had had my camcorder on.

Good morning everyone :) Margaret, that is so funny about the squirrel and the cat...animals can be so funny :)

I am being highly entertained this morning, by another species of animal: man. Hubby has to empty my pool...reset it...and then refill it, because he made a mistake when he set it up last week. It's really quite entertaining since he threw away the instructions and the plugs to the filter holes, when he packed it up last fall :)

I will not laugh at my hubby...I will not laugh at my hubby...I will not laugh at my hubby...

Countdown until I am home in Michigan: 36 days :)
Woooooooooooooooooo Hoooooooooooo! I wonder if hubby will have my pool up by then...the right way, this time?

Ok, now this pool thing is getting interesting. Hubby came in the house...stood in foyer for a second...took off his hat...scratched his head..thought for a minute...turned back around and went into the garage. I now hear power tools starting up. Hmmm...now what's he up to? Things are really heating up...electricity and water. Should be a real interesting day at our household ...wonder if I should get my daughter up, so she can watch :)

Hi from jAPEi..this my link today;

http://www.ylitalot.net/photos/public/2005.html

Sur5er, Nice to have you back. You make my day with your wit. Guess what we have in common? Hubby is going to fill the pool today. Ought to be a laugh a minute. The first year we just got a cheap pool like they sell at Wallyworld only cheaper. Well, that was hilarious! He got it all up and nearly 3000 gallons of water in it when one side gave out. Oh my did we hear some language! And to make matters worse it emptied out and rolled down on our neighbor's newly poured cement driveway. OOOOPPPPPSSSSS!!!! By the time he got it emptied, set it out to dry, took a shower, he was calmed down (somewhat). Then he went down to the basement and got his diet pepsi for work the next day. He got half way up the stairs and dropped one which proceeded to spray all over his freshly showered body. I can not tell you how much I laughed at him. He was screaming and asking if anybody had a nice rusty nail he could step on or a nice balcony he could fall over, etc., etc. He didn't say it quite as nicely as I did but you get the idea. He rattled on and on for ones and ones of minutes. I was laughing so hard I nearly wet myself and he proceeded to tell me (and not very nicely) that I was NOT helping matters. Husbands. They are so good for comic relief. And now I have to go and watch what's going on for fear I may miss out on some comedy. It happens every year so I don't see why it won't this year. Then I'm going to plant the rest of my flowers and come back to see if YOUR hubby has things done yet.

Hey Sur5er,it was me who had the cat/squirrel incident not Magaret. You are too young for a senior moment:)

I just heard from my oldest sister so now all 3 of my sisters will be at the pasty fest!!!! I think I will have them all wear signs saying "I am Fran from Ga's sister"(Chuckle) Iam going to tell them to face the camera when they get in line for psties. Last yr I got a rear view of my youngest sister and I recognized her right off. LOL

I think maybe Sur5er just got a little too much sun when she disappeared for 4 days. Or maybe Capt. Paul was right about the iced tea. Just kidding Sur5er. I know you were working. Get some sleep while you wait for the pool.

ROFL...my slips must be the sign of too much work, eh. How I wish they were the result of too much sun and booze :)

Usedtobeayooper: The pool is up...correctly this time. Of course, I had to keep running outside, and pulling up on the liner, so it would settle right this time...and hubby kept muttering to me, "quit micro-managing me!" (his new phrase).

I hope your hubby has better luck this year setting up your pool. My oh my, are we the most demanding Pasty Cammers or what...making our hubbies put up pools on the weekend...and for a second and third time, if they don't do it right the first time ;)

Next week Usedtobeayooper, we hit our hubbies up with assembling the new bikes...and for grins we will misplace the instructions and a few parts :)

Instructions, who needs instructions? A real he man can fix anything or assemble what ever has to be assembled without any instructions. I know because I don't ever ask for directions either. I always end up with the job done or whatever destination that I had. So what if it takes a little longer then Precious thinks it should. Hire someone to fix a leak, no way. If I can't fix it, it doesn't have to work.

sur5er: When it's time for the bike project try putting in a few extra parts. Make sure they're really weird ones, not just a nut or bolt.

My hubby spent the afternoon doing water work, too. He cleaned out our small, two level fish pond by removing the water (yes, he moved the fish first), scrubbing out the algae and refilling it. I was sure he'd slip on the algae or get electrocuted when standing in the water and plugging and unplugging the filter. I told him I didn't have a broomstick handy to break the connection if he was being electrocuted, so I'd just throw one of the 50 lb. pond rocks (from Lake Superior) at him. That's why we're all such good pasty friends. We know how to husband bash with the best of them and they are the objects of our quick wit. Now let's see how long it takes before my hubby's bro reads this and calls to narc on me!

Sur5er, You crack me up. You don't do much for my husband though. lol Anyway, our pool is in the process of being filled. He hooked everything up right the first time. Yeah I know, I was shocked too! We have a 24' round splash pool. Lots of fun but lots of work (for Mr. Deb of course). I have the fun, he has the work. I like it that way.

That's hilarious about the bikes because I've been looking for a new one. That's a great idea. I'll be sure to lose the instructions accidentally on purpose and a few parts to boot. Sounds like fun to me. We'll see how he likes it.

Glad to have you back and quit working so hard. You need more sleep. You made that obvious today. Now it's time to a shower and off to bed to read for a while. I have to finish this book I'm reading so I can start on my new James Patterson one. So many books, so little time.

Marsha, Happy to hear your husband made it through all the work without any mishaps. Wouldn't want him to get electrocuted without his wife standing by with her broomstick. My husband would probably tell me to get on it and fly home. lol Good luck once you get reported. My husband already knows what I've done cuz he came in to check on me. Creep!

11:52 p.m. See above.

Marsha, You are a hoot...throwing in extra parts for the bike. Tee hee..this could be fun. And what is it about mixing electricity and water that men find so fascinating?

Husband bashing? We're just being truthful ;)

Usedtobeayooper, Remember when you go and purchase the bike, to say the magical words, "I'll take that bike unassembled". Then run over to the plumbing aisle and get some really funny looking parts to throw in that box, once you get it home.

About getting busted...become friends with the minimizing button on the screen...you have to with those over the shoulder readers :)

Thumbgardner: Sleep? What's that? Why I will miss out on sleep tonight: 1) Hubby's kiddies are camping outside tonight; 2) Hubby's kiddies are camping outside; 3) Hubby's kiddies are camping outside. These are the same precious kiddies that snuck out of the house this past winter, with a large 18 package roll of toilet paper, and did some t.p'ing.

Mikie, Mapquest: How real men ask for directions.
When hubby went onto those day routes, a few months ago, he refused to ask for directions from work...because real men don't do that, you know. So hubby would call me up, and ask me to check Mapquest for him and read him the directions...which got to be a real pain. I guess it's okay for a man to ask his wife for directions, but not okay for a man to let on to anyone else, that they don't know where the heck they are going.
Well I fixed hubby one day. I emailed the directions to hubby's work...and requested that they fax them to hubby's next stop. Now everyone and thier brother knew hubby was lost and had asked for directions. And suddenly, I stopped getting those phone calls in the middle of the day and night, which started with, "Honey, can you look something up for me on Mapquest...I'm lost".

Sur5er, That is great! My husband never asks for directions either until I guilt him into it. All you have to do is tell them to get the heck out of the car and get directions. He usually does it then cuz he knows I'm getting mad. He doesn't like that.

Usedtobeayooper, Oh my gosh, I hate going on road trips with hubby...OMG. He won't take a map with him...or directions. I guess he figures that eventually, he will find what he is looking for, I guess.

When we were headed up to the UP one summer, to go camping, he got this bright idea that we just had to stop before we crossed the Big Mac, to find a campground he had stayed at with his parents, like a million years ago. But he swore up and down, that although it wasn't on the map, he knew exactly where it was.

So at his urging, I got off of I-75 so we could look for this campground. Now mind you, I was driving my truck and towing a camper...similar to manuevering a tank...and hubby has me going down all these dirt roads...which of course turn out to be 'oops, wrong road, but I could swear it looked familiar roads...and numerous dead end roads that I had to try and do a U-turn on or back up on.

I swear, I drove around in circles for hours and put more than 100 miles on my truck looking for that darn campground. By the second hour, when hubby would state, "yeah, now this is all starting to look real familiar now...we're getting closer to the campground" I would remind him, "yeah, well it should, we just drove down this road ten minutes ago."

But I have figured out why men don't ask for directions or carry maps...because they are so stubborn, that eventually, after hours of searching they will find what they are looking for. Never mind how long it took them to find the place...they are now convinced that they don't have to ask for directions, because they found it without asking for directions. Sigh.