Had a few of laughs/eye rolls over some Facebook comments yesterday. Two were on posts made by DD while they were visiting here. She had shared pics of the snow here and their dogs playing in the snow. Her first post said "some Fall's fall leaves, some fall snow 😄". Her Dh's aunt in CA comments "I don't see any of the leaves you are talking about, I only see fir trees, but pretty though". ok....Then on another picture of her corgi with the snow as tall as he is, the aunt says "hope you are keeping him warm. Maybe get him a snow suit or snow shoes?" OMG, LOL. I so wanted to comment just about everyone here in MT has dogs and no snow suits or snow shoes needed, they all are fine, LOL. (of course I didn't). Like Dh said - her dogs were the first ones to the door and didn't want to come back in when we'd take them outside. DD just replied that she thinks he was running around playing in it too much to get cold. Our neighbors dogs have the doggy door so could stay inside as much as they want. They still spend most of their time outside, even in the snow and cold.
Then my side job boss shared a picture of their prop tax bill with a part circled and says ya, guess who's paying for the destruction and chaos in Portland? One of her friends (also from CA) says what is your property value? I want to see if CA or OR prop taxes are higher. Friend just replied, CA is higher for sure. Then friend says "well, your tax due is 4x more than mine". Well, duh.....of course friend isn't going to say on Facebook how much her property is worth - geez! I'm sure this is the tax statement for the office building they bought, their home is in a different county. Obviously it would be much higher value than most homes, even in CA, and obviously she isn't going to share that. Yet her friend kept pushing it and posted a copy of her own tax assessment in CA where her home is valued at $285k. Well duh.......obviously my friends property must be valued at way more than that to owe $13k in property taxes, LOL and most people aren't going to share that kind of personal info on Facebook.
My new sheets got washed and on the bed yesterday. They are definitely much thicker, heavier weight. Old style cotton sheets. Hopefully the last king sized set I have to buy for a long time. The only thing I really liked about my old sheets is they had a tag on the edge that said "side" LOL. It's hard to figure out on a king sized fitted sheet, when the difference between side and top/bottom is only 4 inches.
DH just nickels and dimes me to death. Every time I turn around he needs something. A couple of picture frames, more screws, filters for this or that...I'm going to put in a little bit in my budget for "dh stuff", so at least I have some of it budgeted for.
He said he has a couple of Christmas gift ideas for me he will need to order online. But, he knows, of course, I'll see the charge amount and who it's to. I said how about I get him a Visa gift card for whatever total he needs and then he can make the purchases charged to that and then I won't see it. That's the only thing I can think of to do.
Warming up to 50 today and that should melt the snow some more. Most of it on the trees melted yesterday, but it is still on the ground and roofs. I'm glad though. I need to go to the city and stock up on groceries on Saturday. I can't remember if I said I did get 2 plastic bins with handles to help organize my freezer better. They are a huge help. I put meats in one and bags of frozen food (veggies, etc) in another, I also took a soft sided reusable grocery bag with handles and put breads in it. I'm getting more stocked up with freezer stuff, gradually. We had decided not to buy any meat from the local meat cutting place. It's a few miles down the road from us, so we drive by it all the time. The only one in the area and does do good business. But, we just can't. The place looks like a dump. The outside is not cared for one little bit. I mean c'mon, at least throw some gravel down in your parking area and actually make a parking area. DH and I both said if the owner can't even take care to make the outside look at least a little bit presentable what does the inside look like, where meat is cut and wrapped? Ugh. So, I'll just keep stocking up from the grocery store. That meat probably comes from someplace that looks just like it, but at least I don't have to actually see it for my own eyes, LOL.
When I had to buy regular sheets, they had elastic all the way around and I could barely tell top from side. So, when I figured it out, I took a black marker and made a mark where the top was. Now, I know this is on the right top, so I can put it at left bottom when I change the bed. The mark is about a foot under the mattress, so I really don't care as long as I don't have to try to figure out from the wadded up sheet where the top is located.
ReplyDeleteI think dogs in the Iditarod have snowshoes, but who else would? lol
I was thinking of doing something like that with the fitted sheet. Even sewing a little x on the edge. I can see the iditarod dogs needing shoes to protect their feet, but I have never ever seen a Montana dog with shoes or a coat, haha.OH wait, I take that back - our young neighbors down at end of street who have the one year old goofball dog, did put an orange hunting vest on him the other day. He sometimes runs off and there are hunters around us now.
DeleteI think it would be worth checking out the inside of the meat place. Perhaps they are putting their money in the inside where it counts. You can't always judge a book by it's civer!
ReplyDeleteI've thought that too...when I'm driving by, but then I can't get past where to even park, LOL. It's all haphazard vehicles everywhere (mostly workers I assume) and pot holes and you can hardly even tell where the entrance is. There is like this big piece of plywood leaned up, appearing to be saying it's the entrance, but looks like a 5 year old wrote it, haha.
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