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

Today went better than expected. Hubs got up early and went fishing; the giant dumpster was delivered at 8 o'clock sharp; sis and I did not speak cross words even once. She worked her butt off almost all day long, and then ordered and paid for the pizza we had for supper. I am mostly deferring to her, and she, in turn, has started listening to me.

Still no chocolate in the house, but that butter pecan ice cream is looking pretty good right now.

otter

Please keep the mention of other boards out of the BCO boards. Thank you.

Otter .. glad to hear everything went so well today.  My sis is my best friend and I'm the oldest!

The ice cream sounds wonderful and I wish I had some now.

Bren

Thanks, Athena. I'm looking forward to spending the next few months in the basement so I can prove to my children that I don't have a hoarding problem. I detest basements. Remind me of Mammoth Cave, which I also detest. I grew up 30 mins. from there and had to take way too many visitors there. At least my basement doesn't have bats!!!  Or, blind fish.

Alpal, my dh and I visited your wonderful Mammoth Cave just last year. We didn't see any bats. I think they lived at the other end or something, or maybe they were being protected by keeping the crowds away (white nose syndrome being such a problem these days). It was steamy hot outside that day -- probably near 100 or so -- and, once inside the cave, I didn't want to leave.

We went through Carlsbad Caverns a few years earlier.  Mammoth Cave was a very different type of cave. It was interesting to see the contrast.  Sorry -- I just like nature, and geology, and stuff like that.

OTOH, the only time I like basements is when it is hot outside or when there's a tornado coming.

otter

We could also shout:

"ROGUE WAVE!" the way they do in fishing boats. Everybody ducks until the disturbance passes.

or we could shout CHARGE!!! - Hah - I would love to see people get in a tizzy over that one.

Anybody watch the Casey Anthony trial today?

No.....I am not looking for responses - just changing the subject.  Can't talk about dinner because I already posted about that one

Hear hear!

 Janice, just to clarify. There are basements and then there are BASEMENTS. BASEMENTS have tiny little windows up near the ceiling. BASEMENTS do not have sliding glass doors. BASEMENTS might have some sort of critters in them. There are (is? are doesn't sound right, but neither does is) light years of difference between basements and BASEMENTS. Trust me on this.

Otter - where were the bats? I went to summer camp for 8 years. Bats were in the cabins nearly every night. We slept in our bathing caps. It's that bat and hair thing. Maybe not even true, but we were believers. I am now aware that bats are wonderful creatures and supposed to eat tons of insects. I'll take an insect over a bat any day.

I have a dear camp friend who lives in Austin TX. One of their biggest tourist attractions is millions of bats flying out from under some bridge every night at dusk. She never takes friends there because she'd look so strange in a bathing cap. LOL

AL - We have a BASEMENT   No sliding glass doors - tiny windows at the top so we have window wells outside those windows so we can crawl out in case of a fire - only problem is that they are at least 5' off the floor and I am only 5' tall so not sure I could crawl up to there to get out.

Now the house in Dallas that I rented out the top floor in had a basement where you could walk out to the back yard through a sliding glass door.  Nope, not in this house!  Most of our BASEMENT is actually underground - 5' underground to be exact and 5' above ground.

Yes, I do have creepy crawlers - mostly little mice that are so adorable.

Allison .. I've got one of THOSE kind of basements too.  Everytime there is a bad storm, Tim tells me to go get in the basement in the back corner.  Yea right.  I hate it down there.  It has an outside entrance only, so I avoid going down there unless I absolutely have to. 

Barbara .. I'm terrified there might be a snake down there.  I had Tim check down there last week just to make sure.

Hope everyone has a great day,

Bren

Before our basement got walls, a dropped ceiling to cover the beams and pipes, and a nice floor, the children had wonderful Hallowe'en parties down there.  They used to bring down the picture of my great great grandmother because they said her eyes followed them. The laundry tub was for bobbing apples. Now the basement is nice and the children grew up.