The NFC B-Day Chat Thread

[Blooie]

If it’s anything like I just found under the shower door frame when we got it off, I don’t want to know!

 

[ShrekDawg]

If it’s anything like I just found under the shower door frame when we got it off, I don’t want to know!

I bet that was but thankfully, no. My license that I thought I lost and ordered a new one just over 2 weeks ago. I knew I would find it but figured having one now was important and the car and house was such a mess, figured there was no way I would find it. Well, apparently it was easy to find. Oh well.

 

[DigMyChicks]

DH is my hero

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I want one of them cute little tractors.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I had a root canal with no Novacaine but the dentist said the nerve was dead. He was right.

I think when the tooth is infected they usually want that cleared up before extracting or root canal.

This guy was mean and money hungry. Never went back to him.

 

[007Sean]

Kelsey, gotta showyou what happened to me (for me?) when we were attending Utah’s Grand Lodge last month.

They had a tour planned for the ladies, followed by the ladies’ luncheon at the place they were going to be visiting. But there would be a ton of walking and a long stairway involved, and I just can’t do that anymore. So we didn’t buy me a ticket, and I figured I’d just go to the restaurant at the hotel when I finally got hungry, then go back up to our room, take a long bath, and be ready for the evening’s formal event when the Masons were done with their afternoon session. I sat in the beautiful lobby and read for awhile then decided it must be about lunchtime and I headed for the restaurant.

I was seated at a table that overlooked the outer court. To be quite honest I felt the beginnings of a bit of a pity party coming on. There I was at an event with hundreds of people, and I was sitting at a beautiful table for two all by myself. It’s times like that when I start getting a little down about physical limitations that my mind says should be decades down the road yet. My meal was served, but by then I’d spotted a deer at the end of the treeline and started watching her with interest. I’d ordered a Cobb salad so I wasn’t worried about my lunch getting cold, I was on no timetable, and needed the distraction. She wandered around for a bit, then she decided that she really didn’t want to eat alone and joined me for lunch. I did see a few others at the tree line, but my new friend either wasn’t aware of them yet or preferred my company. So we sat together - actually she stood - I ate my greens, and she ate hers.

We chatted about nothing for a bit. The conversation turned to men-folk leaving us to our own devices for extended periods, the constant wandering around to be with others of our own kind - other Masonic folks for me and other deer for her. We discussed kids and grandkids and just generally shared our own thoughts on solving the world’s issues. Obviously we disagreed on gun control, but were pretty much in sync otherwise. The waitress came over to refill my iced tea and she smiled at me, then at my lunch companion. “Hi, Munchie.” She said. Oh, so her name is Munchie...I’d forgotten to ask, or tell her my name, so when the waitress moved off I apologized to my new friend for my oversight in introducing myself. I was immediately forgiven.

All too soon she saw her other friends waiting for her, so she said goodbye and wandered off to join them. I was finished with my salad, and that hot bath beckoned, so I paid my check and I wandered off too. But Munchie taught me something important - that you’re only as alone in this world as you think you are, and friends can be found in some of the most unlikely places. But you have to turn your eyes from looking inward to looking outward and up to find them.

As I was walking out, the waitress told me that the glass windows are super dark so the deer can’t see people moving around inside the restaurant. Munchie especially likes the shrubbery right around the table where I was seated. Ha! I much prefer to think that just at a time when I was falling into a “poor me” trap, Munchie decided to join me to see if she could help. And she absolutely did.

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As usual, your eloquate story telling has also brought a thought provoking revelation to the story.
Thanks for sharing that moment you and Munchie had together. And who really knows, maybe she could see you....or at least 'feel' your presence.

 

[drumstick diva]

I could really use a "Munchie," when I eat out - she could have all the veggies on my plate while I concentrate on the good stuff bloody steak, maybe ribs . I'd even let her have the stemmed cherry on my ice cream sundae dessert.

 

[DigMyChicks]

I thought of you at supper tonight Blooie. I made steak cubes and my son said a girl he met from SD ordered Chislic one night they went out. Isn’t that what you like?

 

[Blooie]

As usual, your eloquate story telling has also brought a thought provoking revelation to the story.
Thanks for sharing that moment you and Munchie had together. And who really knows, maybe she could see you....or at least 'feel' your presence.

Thanks. I just kinda let my heart come through my fingertips sometimes and end up having to read what I wrote because I don’t remember it all!

I could really use a "Munchie," when I eat out - she could have all the veggies on my plate while I concentrate on the good stuff bloody steak, maybe ribs . I'd even let her have the stemmed cherry on my ice cream sundae dessert.

She’d love that, I’m sure! And so would you!

I thought of you at supper tonight Blooie. I made steak cubes and my son said a girl he met from SD ordered Chislic one night they went out. Isn’t that what you like?
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No, I don’t like Chislic......I LOVE it!!!! No offense to Munchie, but I like it best made from venison! I’m tickled that you remembered that!

 

[CapricornFarm]

Finally cleaning my car out for the first time in forever and guess what I found under the seat....

A giant dust bunny?

 

[bruceha2000]

so we've learned to listen to the car but never lose sight of the fact that we are responsible for driving smarter than the car.

Sadly a lot of cars are smarter than the people who drive them. Of course those people shouldn't have been given licenses or should have them taken away.

Tam was hoping the old 98 Plymouth Breeze would get her through until next year, after she'd had the house for a year, but that doggone Breeze was falling apart, and the transmission is going out again.

I'd say 20 years out of that car is a good 10 years longer than most of its "siblings" held out!

I have an Outback now and I like it but idk, I don’t really LOVE it.

You need to sit in EVERY car you think you might want. And when you've narrowed it down to a few, rent one for a week if possible. Do regular around town trips, take a trip that is several hundred miles.

We’ve found that although Toyota makes weatherproof floor mats, they don’t protect nearly as well.

The ones that came in my new car are really good. High sided and even the driver's footrest is covered. Should not have salt stains on the carpet like with every other "winter mat" I've had.

She rushed her the ER, I followed a few minutes later, and that’s where we’ve been from 2:30 until just a few minutes ago.

Now you don't expect me to "like" THAT post do you??? Sure hope she rebounds fast.

Hi Sean! Yesterday I was driving on a gravel road(think slushy or snow cone)codes starting going off in my new vehicle, all wheel drive kicked out. Hope that doesn’t happen every time it gets wet under there. That was anxiety provoking.

Take it in and have the dealer check the codes. Of course by now they may have cleared. I would think that in those conditions the AWD (if not full time) should kick IN not OUT.

yes, we're not going to sell,at least not yet, when we get where husband can't drive then we will sell , but hoping thats a long way off

Mostly when people can't drive the snowbird route anymore, they sell the northern house and live in the "never snows here" house.

i just had an infection on the tooth i had to have the root canal

Had the same thing, dentist had to take out some bone to get to where the infection was and irrigate. Hurt way worse than the actual root canal.

Where the heck is Bruce???

Kelsey, gotta show you what happened to me (for me?) when we were attending Utah’s Grand Lodge last month.

Is Wacky Weed legal in Utah?
Lovely story as usual my friend.