I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

bluedahlia

It was on one of the "Dimwit's" feeds.  Guess it was just put out there!   hahahahhahaha!

IllinoisLady

Yawning and waving good morning.  Starting to have cool morning which I really like.  BIL would like me to watch the movie 2016 before I "decide" about the election.  Some smart people can always be counted on to be nuts.....  I saw the thing when it first peeked out --- yawn !!!

Jackie

1Athena1

Jackie, I am LOVING the coolness. Fall is really here, thank goodness.

duckyb1

Hi ladies.................back for a quick "hello".............it is gorgeous here in Pa. too............so nice to have the windows open...........although the allergies are kicking in somewhat.............but the fresh air is so nice............hope you all have a great day...............and according to the weather person, we will have this weather most of the week................hugs.

YramAL

First rain here in Seattle in 50 days. Who would have thought after such a wet spring that we'd have such a dry summer??

Also the first day of school for kids around here. I've been back to work for a week, but the kids come today. I always have that nervous feeling in the pit of my stomach. "What if the kids don't like me??"

Mary 

gardengumby

Morning all.  Had a wonderful weekend.  We are getting our first rain in 49 days this morning - it's just a smattering and then is supposed to dry up again - but it feels more Seattleish this morning that it has for awhile. Meanwhile, there are some new fires on the eastern side of the state...

I had a long weekend as I took part of Thursday and all of Friday off.  Hubby and I had a relaxing time - well, mostly relaxing.  I've been removing wallpaper from my sewing room (which is really the dressing room for the biggest (HUGE) bedroom in the house), and he was doing something with the chimney.  All part of getting ready to put the place on the market one of these months.  I hope it sells without too much problem, but cannot expect that it will do so, as disappointment is not my friend.

I was glad to see that Obama out-raised Mittens in August - hope the ball keeps rolling in the right (by that I mean left ) direction.

Anonymous

Yeah, rain.  I too can attest to the arrival, soon, of Official Fall, it was about 45 here this am.  Don't love the temps as much as I love the COLOR ( COLOUR) of the leaves, and the pumpkins ripening in the fields, and the gold finches coming in for seeds on all the weeds, they do these wonderful dances on the very tall jerusalem artichokes, and sunflowers, notice the night sounds seem louder now that skies are so clear & crisp...

Happy today all - LOVING those poll numbers

Anonymous

gardengumby

was just reading an article in our local paper, about how IMPORTANT pictures are in selling a house.  Notice it myself - always amazed when someone puts up pictures of a house for sale, with so much junk/clutter/dirty dishes/unmade beds, all the rooms - just amazes me.

Am sure your house looks wonderful - but even bad pictures can hurt.  I've been looking to buy a house for ages, so I've really begun to notice this too.

Where are you moving, to?

gardengumby

I'm nervous about this sale, as I probably cannot retire until it has gone bye-bye, and I'd really really REALLY like to retire.  I've been taking yard pictures and pictures of the mountain, to play on our TV when people come through - thought it would be a good idea to have a slide show of how it looks when everything is sunny and bright (and the clouds don't cover the mountain). 

I also have been absolutely AMAZED sometimes at pictures of a house that looks like a typhoon hit it - or with 20 gazillion knick knacks scattered about and/or hung on the walls.  I've got to admit that when I see that, all I can think of is all the holes in the wall that will have to be patched and painted.....

To be completely honest, we aren't sure where we're going to move to.  We are hoping for the big island of Hawaii, but neither of us is completely sure that we want to be that long of a plane ride from the mainland, and so many things we like to do.  My husband is a fishing nut (salt water) so that means we cannot be inland (but I don't think I could take that either...) also the further inland one goes, the redder it seems to get, we're both pretty blue.  I'm tired of cold, and this is the first summer that has actually been a good summer for too many years here in the Seattle area - so I haven't been too high on the idea of staying in this area - but....  if the move to Hawaii doesn't work out, I believe that we'll probably land somewhere on Whidbey which is an island here in the northwest.  You can drive off the island to the north or ferry off to the south.  We considered a move to the southeast for awhile - a fairly short while to be honest - between the storms and the redness of the inhabitants, we decided it wouldn't be a good match.   California is a state we've both always enjoyed, but retirement there is probably not in the cards as fishing has pretty much disappeared.

Anyway, we're going to Hawaii for a month in December so we can hopefully come to a resolution.   Once the house sells, though, (depending upon exactly when it sells), we're pretty much planning on putting everything in storage, getting in our truck and starting to drive.  There are so many places I've not seen in the U.S. and Canada, that we both just want to drive around for awhile and see stuff.  We're both a couple years shy of medicare, though, so I'll probably work until I've 18 months to go, so that I can get Cobra - it's not wise for cancer patients to be without insurance..... and the health care plan didn't include the single payer I was hoping for.  But at least, if we do need to change insurance (picking up the one my company provides will be quite costly until we have medicare) my pre-existing condition won't preclude getting insurance.

Wabbit

So true about pictures ... make sure you check out what your realtor posts.  We looked at one house just because they did an Open House and it is in an excellent location.  Would not have made an appointment because the online pictures did not impress at all.  Then got in and it was in reality very nice.  I actually told the listing agent that the pictures made it look small and dingy.  Don't know if he changed them or not.

Nice coolness here too and enough rain that our little lake doesn't look like just a giant mud puddle any more.

So now Romney says on NBC that he will keep the pre-existing coverage and young people's coverage part of Obamacare ... then runs instantly to a conversative group and says no he didn't mean he would mandate any such thing.  (just gonna ask the insurance companies pretty please I guess )  Just say what you mean and mean what you say.  When are they going to catch on that with the internet they can no longer say one thing to one group and just the opposite to another without getting caught at it?  Yeeesh.

Mary ... LOL.  As students who of us would have ever thought the teachers were nervous too about their new class?!  I told my daughter the same about job interviewers when she was looking for a job ... been there, done that.  She did not believe me until a few weeks ago when she was the nervous interviewer herself.      

Anonymous

gardengumby, know Whidbey - also, there are so many, MANY wonderful little towns on islands around you.  Don't know about the quality of the fishing anymore.  But the ferry rides seem to be able to get you anyplace.  MUCH closer than Hawaii.  Know what you mean about a Blue State.  If it weren't for the winter in MA, I'd suggest the Cape Cod for fishing, and Blue Friends!  Makes such a difference, it really does.   I love driving around and seeing Elizabeth Warren signs all over, and having people ask me "where did you get the button, I want one."  Yes, indeedy, Blue is a nice place to be.

BTW - HI, BLUE

rosemary-b

Isn't it ironic that posters here are told in public that people should be corrected in private? Am I missing something? I know those posts were done in good will so they gave me a chuckle.

QuinnCat

Good point Rosemary.  She may be a mom, but she's not my mom, but since we are being monitored, I've always wanted to say, just because you change the name of the thing from "survey" to "poll" doesn't make it so.

alexandria58

Loving the temps, too, and the quality of the light.  The first touch of fall always is glorious to me.

Put aside my last novel for a novel for a bit.  Trying to get new mystery done in six months.  I outlined it during my surgery - and I'm aiming to have 50 pages written before the end of September.  

Love the polls, too.  Hoping for a big victory that will sweep in a Dem Congress as well - so something can get done on the new jobs bill and on the environment.  What's happening to the weather scares me for my children - and the children of the world.

Enjoyful

Here's a mystery plot:



"The Case of the Name-Changing Scold"



Who is she? Does she still live in her mom's basement? Why must she insert her giant Republican fascist dictator-like nose into others' conversations? Does she cut in super market lines?



Just sayin. Good mystery/horror novel, no?

kad2kar

I think I read that last bit, Scoot, in privacy, though-----------kad2kar

1Athena1

Good mystery novel. If I wrote it my villain would be malevolent, but with a smile. And, yes, I'd have her cut lines - that would make sense.

But people write their own story, don't they. I mean, we can't imagine things from scratch. There is always a real-world trope that serves as inspiration.

gardengumby

Just read the new CNN survey/poll has President Obama up 4 points after the convention.  So fun to see the Republican spin of it being a "sugar high".  Where as their 1 point bounce was indicative of ....  what exactly???

pupmom

It was indicative of: THUD.

QuinnCat

What a great African saying Cory Booker said yesterday on This Week:  "If you want to go fast, go alone.  If you want to go far, go together."   (I'll forgive his recent faux pas for this tidbit.)  Grown ups aren't generally inspired by Ayn Rand...explaining our bounce and their deflation.

alexandria58

Just watched on Chris Matthew as a Republican spokesman tried to explain that Romney would keep the provision where you can't be denied insurance if you have a pre-existing condition - but only if you had insurance already.  So, in other words, if you have insurance and you get a pre-existing condition, you get to keep your insurance.  What a deal!  Conversely, if you lose your job, COBRA runs out, and you have a pre-existing condition, well, tough. 

alexandria58

Also, considered Scoot's idea for a mystery, but I think it's probably a different genre:  horror, comedy,  maybe even fantasy.

gardengumby

Oh whoopie - so Mittens would make it so they can't DROP you...  well, isn't that just peachy keen. 

QuinnCat

And the "only if you keep your insurance part" was inserted after he got backlash from "his base."  It's all a guessing game, anyway, what he plans for us...though I'm not sure he even knows.

gardengumby

Who ARE these idiots who don't want us to have insurance that we pay for, anyway?

1Athena1

Probably subsidized red staters and corporate welfare kings.

Wabbit

Most likely their 'plans' are the same as what they did when Bush got in office after they killed Bill and Hillary's attempt at reform.  Nothing.  Which explains why they cannot articulate a plan.  It does not exist and will not exist.

Hope you all had a good Monday!  For a bunch of 'lazy libturds' who supposedly want everything just handed to them there sure are a lot of women going to work every day here.

We took the doggies to the park for a walk today.  Tired dogs are good dogs. 

Waving 'hi' to Scoot ... and everybody else!   

CLC

Hi, everybody!  I guess I am now sort of a "lurker" here.  I am reading up (mostly) on what I am missing, but I cannot possibly keep up...  busy busy busy I am.

I hope you all are well...:)

QuinnCat

And talk about "uncertainty!"  He won't reveal what tax loopholes he'd eliminate in his grand plan to reduce the highest marginal rate to 28 from 35%.  That would affect the planning for the future of nearly every middle class household when you talk about home mortgage, charity and state/local tax deductions/"loopholes."  Let's be honest, who is the one creating uncertainty?!

1Athena1

Keep posting, CLC!