Ribh's D'Coopage

[BY Bob]

Miserable enough for a small treat to be appreciated.​

View attachment 1932140 Lottie is not happy.
She's a sunshine girl.​

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Poor baby, You need to remind Lottie that she has had days and days of no rain. The worms and bugs need water so she can eat them.

 

[Ribh]

Well I can type an essay on my day and so I will share my misery. It all started Tuesday. I had rented a house on the outer banks of North Carolina, a small set of barrier islands on the Atlantic Ocean. I get it very year for the family and we all join together to try and hang onto summer for 1 more week.

I was informed that i must be a corporate on Wednesday for a big meeting and so Tuesday night i drove 2.5 hours to the nearest airport and flew to corporate 6:00 am Wednesday morning. (I was not needed in any way shape or form for the meeting but it made my boss happy).

I had a flight to bring me back to the airport at 5:00 pm on Thursday so I could be home home for dinner Thursday night. American Airlines could not get me to the “local” airport until Midnight Thursday night/Friday morning. In fact i completed the Egg Song article yesterday while waiting 12 hours for American to fly me 2 hours in the air. Facing a 2.5 hour drive i got a hotel room and planned to get up early and head to the beach house.

Up at 6:30 and on the road I got 2 hours of trip behind me when the road was blocked by police cars. These barrier islands are connected by a single road and series of bridges. The tide along with winds off the Atlantic had forced the ocean through the sand dunes and onto the road forcing them to close it. High tide was scheduled for ~9:00 am so I figured that by 1:00 the tide would be down and i would be able to get to the house and join my family. The rental was up Sunday and I wanted to at least hang with everyone on Saturday.

I turned around and pulled into a National Park, Bodie Lighthouse. They had bathrooms and I had water bottles in the car. I sat down to wait it out. Here is my car at the Lighthouse. Later in the day i would start posing it out of boredom.
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At 1:00 pm the road was not open and online the NC DOT was saying 6:00 pm for an opening. Knowing that the tide would be rising again by then I was concerned and my instincts told me to bail on it and simply turn around and drive the 7 hours home.

My family convinced me to wait it out. At 6:00 pm the road did not open, instead the NC DOT is now saying noon on Saturday for an opening. I am now headed home. I should get home around 1:00 am. Family vacation completely ruined by my boss.

A least I know the girls will be glad to see me. I did find a good restaurant to eat at called Roosters as well.
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Oh No! The lighthouse is lovely though.

 

[BY Bob]

Oh No! The lighthouse is lovely though.

It was a lovely place to be stuck.

 

[Ribh]

It was a lovely place to be stuck.

I do get it. It's not often our boats stop running but when they do it's chaos!

 

[Ribh]

Last time I had to ring the lad's college & tell them to send him home NOW!!! Or they would have to bed him down for the duration. They didn't get it but once the boats stop no~one is going anywhere!

 

[MaryJanet]

Ok. @BY Bob I'm taking a moment to make this face

And now, like an Aussie may I say, WTF to your boss who disrupted your holiday for a meeting you didn't need to be at (I can't facepalm hard enough for that lil chestnut) and also to the "airline" that gave you 5x more time in the airport than in the air (can we make that a performance indicator, plz).

I'm sorry your one week of family holiday was trashed by unethical decision makers.

 

[MaryJanet]

And I stand up and salute your resilience.

And I salute that roosters restaurant because that's awesome.

 

[WhoDatChick]

We have rain ! We have rain! We have rain!

Oh ma ga!! Us too!!

 

[WhoDatChick]

I need all of my awesome Aussie peeps to help me out... as yall know I have built the big outdoor bird cage... well, we are FINALLY getting a cool front so I covered it with clear shower curtains.. they work perfectly! What I need to know is.. what are the lowest temps can the budgies handle...? I will also need one of my brudda Bobs to translate that temp for me ...

 

[Ribh]

I need all of my awesome Aussie peeps to help me out... as yall know I have built the big outdoor bird cage... well, we are FINALLY getting a cool front so I covered it with clear shower curtains.. they work perfectly! What I need to know is.. what are the lowest temps can the budgies handle...? I will also need one of my brudda Bobs to translate that temp for me ... View attachment 1932360

I don't know much about budgies. I figure, like chooks, drafts would be more of a killer than actual cold but there aren't that many places here where we get snow & extreme cold but sudden climate changes aren't good. @MaryJanet @Aussie-Chookmum ???