Happy Hour [5/6/20]

5/6/20 Hannibal 35

You don’t have to drink alone.

Summertime and the livin’ is easy… er, well, not exactly. The Racist in Chief rants from the White House, cities are burning and a pandemic still rages across the land. Sounds like the perfect time for a STAYCATION!

We just added an awning to our patio which I’m hoping will allow me to spend more time outdoors in spite of the hellish global warming temperatures. I’m gonna load up the Yeti with canned wine, and watch Netflix from the comfort of my chaise. Got any plans for the weekend?

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  1. eh….if the weathers not too shitty tomorow i think ill go visit me mum
    its been a while…. and a 70km bike ride would probably help offset some of the calories im getting from currently drinking too much again…
    hard staying sober lately…and even more boring than it was before

    • It’s so hot here. If I don’t walk Fanny before 9 am it’s not happening. I am considering inviting a couple of her pals over for a play date if their people aren’t too worried about the virus to come. I can supply hand sanitizer and doggie wipes.

      • temperatures took a nosedive over here…was pushing 30c wednesday…14c and thunderstorms today…. i really dont like it when the weathers this scitzophrenic
        spent most of today in bed with a book…only really getting up for the occassional drink or a smoke
        wierdly enough all that bedding has left me exhausted….think i might need…more bed

  2. When I read the word “Yeti”, at first I was thinking “Yurt”, at which point I thought to myself, “you could put a shitload of canned wine in a yurt.”

    Mostly planning to keep working in the garden. Those veggie plants need lots of attention. I’m also planning to try Throbbin’s Mediterranean meatballs on Saturday, but with ground beef because that’s what I have.

    We were planning to take a vacation during 4th of July weekend, but that obviously hit the skids. Now we have to decide if we’re taking the time off anyway.

    • We’ve cancelled two vacations and it’s only the beginning of June! So instead we used the money to replace our upper deck and added the awning to the patio. I’d like a yurt though but I think it’s too late to make a change.

  3. Since I’m working nights right now… working the weekend because I learned it is best to keep my sleep schedule intact… and saving up for some house repairs (immediately after I just paid off the last major upgrades–10 year loan!)

    Exciting eh? Not really.

    • I feel your pain regarding the house repairs. We dropped 14k last year on a repair that was not planned so we had to take out a line of credit for it. We’ve got planned repairs/upgrades, but it’s pretty clear it will be a very long process of spending money for one project, then taking several years to pay it off before spending money on the next project. At this rate, I’ll be 70 before we overhaul the kitchen.

      • I left a lot of things dangling housewise because of stupid decisions/rough patch in life got in the way. For several years I didn’t have the money thanks to paying off a lot of debt I made when I was unemployed for over a year and a half, now paying for a new car thanks to an accident over a year ago, and dealing with the mess that a cokehead narcissist that is gone from my life left me.

        This year’s list:
        Garage floor primed and repainted, replacement Windows, new toilets and sliding door this year.

        Hopefully in two years a new driveway.

      • Finally doing the kitchen this summer (if virus allows).We’ve lived here 20 years, and it was last done 20 years before that.I figured we had to do it before I was too old to enjoy it.

    • I was thinking of heading downtown tomorrow to see if that “protest” (and skids of bricks and boarded up stores and white people from Quebec???) is actualy a peaceful protest like today or a riot. Do you have a feel as to what is going on down there?

  4. I got a single, beautiful blueberry on my young plants. It only turned blue yesterday so it feels too soon to pluck it but I worry a squirrel will get it before I do.

    I had Starbucks today for the first time in forever and it felt good.

    And maybe Mint Julep, a.k.a Lindsey Graham, a.k.a Lady G might be exposed soon…a girl can hope. It’s going to a be a long summer since I’m laid off until September 1st (a total of five months) so I need to hang my hat on something. Here’s to the simple joys of bad people getting what they deserve!

    • You enjoy that blueberry! It’s important to find joy in literally ANYTHING these days.

      I enjoyed watching Lindsey get all defensive after taking it over and over and over from all sides and every direction the past few days.

      • I’m happy about this blueberry! I love blueberries!

        My plants are young so I don’t know how many I’ll get so I’ll cherish it

        I do have to make plans for getting bigger containers for them because they’ve grown exponentially.That’s for the fall though.

    • I have blackberry and raspberry bushes so I understand you’re excitement! And we all need Lindsay to be exposed, along with his creepy pal Mitch McConnell.

      • It’s too hot to grow raspberries here but I love raspberries too. They’re really expensive and I try to buy produce when it’s in season in the US. There’s something exciting about watching flowers come in, but the anticipation of getting to eat produce from a plant is just a little extra happening, emotionally.

        Lindsey needs to get got because of his feigned morality and Southern charm act; I don’t think Mitch ever pretended to be anything other than evil.

        • The best part of the past few days regarding Lindsey is how quickly he loses that “southern charm” in his defensiveness every time he realises that he might be the last man standing on that committee who wants this “Obamagate” thing to happen. He knows how stupid he looks, but he went too far in to turn backwards so he will gnarl and bark and protect his master as the chair until he runs out of batteries.

          • That’s the thing with him: he’s gone so far out of his way to please Trump by being vocally and publicly a fool that there’s no turning back. If this is indeed the “kompromat” that they have on him, that he’s gay and has paid gay sex, it will be a hilarious.

            The only way I could see him saving face (this is all hypothetical) is if he admitted that yes, he is gay, and he was being blackmailed by Russia/Trump. If he blew the whole thing open he’d be the “hero” of the story.

            He won’t choose the smart option.

        • There have been rumours in Louisville for years about Mitch being gay. He at least did some expirimenting in his youth, look into his brief military service, and why he got booted.

          • I had no idea until just now. He’s lucky that Googling “Mitch Mcconnell gay” or “Mitch Mcconnell cooper” doesn’t immediately bring up any useful gossip pages.

            Unfortunately, it would seem that the turtle has been the GOP’s leader for 12 years. Hopefully, this election will be the end for him. I cast it out into the universe.

  8. I think I invented a drink, gonna call it the Mad Monk, Vodka, tonic, a splash of benedictine and a twist. Tomorrow my city has a march planned, so I’m going to that.
    The roses are blooming, been spending alot of time enjoying that.

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