Well, one nice thing you can say about this weather is that you can't beat it for getting your laundry dry on the line! By the time you get a load hung out, the first things up are just about ready to be brought in. So that's pretty great- right?
Said Pollyanna. The mosquitoes are certainly enjoying the weather. All that rain for them to lay their eggs in and hatch and now all this heat to urge them on in their bloodsucking thirst is ideal for them. Not so much for us. At least I haven't been bitten by yellow flies yet. That will happen though. We know it will.
So the other day Mr. Moon saw Maurice chase either a large mouse or a small rat across the kitchen and the critter made its way somehow under? beside? the dishwasher.
Mmmm....
We both said.
Well at least Maurice was trying. And it now appears that she had damaged the rodent to the point of unlivable abilities because there is, without a doubt, something dead, dead, dead in that area.
This is not good. That is my kitchen. It's supposed to smell delicious in my kitchen, not like a dead animal. Glen said that he'd take care of it but he's had other priorities today, one of which involved this.
That, my friends, is what your flat screen TV looks like on the inside. I know this because it is our flatscreen TV, laid out on the new table with a good thick towel under it. Last night the dang thing just quit working and Mr. Moon googled the problem as one does, and then this morning, he did more googling but nothing that he tried worked. Then he found a Youtube about how to supposedly fix this specific problem and that involved taking the TV apart.
Well, that didn't fix it either but I think he had a really good time trying.
So when I got home from doing my shopping this afternoon, he was gone, and I assumed he was off buying a new TV. And picking up Owen who is spending the night because he is going fishing early, early tomorrow morning with his Boppy.
And now- this is happening in the Glen Den.
They are putting the old set back together so that they can replace it with this.
Oh Lord. Well, at least Owen's here to help. I'm certainly useless when it comes to things like that.
Meanwhile, because they will be fishing tomorrow, the dead thing will only get deader in the kitchen.
Priorities, people. Priorities.
Look what came in the mail today!
Those of you who know Joanne at Cup On The Bus will instantly recognize her handiwork. I recently ordered two of her newly woven scarlet towels and I have been so excited to get them. I immediately put that one to use to cover my rising pizza dough. It makes me so happy. Thank you, Joanne! And I recommend these incredibly well-made towels with all of my heart. I have two that I've been using for years and they are just as good as ever. Click on the link above to go to Joanne's site where you can get information about buying towels of your own.
Another thing came in the mail today- the bathing costume!
And guess what? I do not hate it. I do not hate it a lot more than my old bathing suit. It is fairly comfortable. Here's what the darling model looks like from the Land's End site.
Of course I look like a little round cherry tomato in it but whatever. It has a shelf bra which is the least bra-like of bras you can wear and I've already taken the cup pads out so that will make it even more comfortable.
I'll be styling at the Wacissa! "Look!" people will say. "It's the cherry tomato granny!" And I will beam and smile and say, "Howdy! Can you turn off your fucking music?"
So that's been another Friday and I suppose I should go into that stinky kitchen and make our pizza. Owen wanted white chicken pizza which sounds excellent to me. It's about time for Mr. Moon to make us our martinis. And those line-dried sheets are on the bed.
Seems like I had something else to report but I sure can't think of what it was.
Happy Friday, y'all.
Love...Ms. Moon
Yeah! A new TV (I believe).....And Owen.......And a new bathing suit? All in one day? The suit *model* looks like she's only wearing the top part and that the bottoms are underwear? Am I missing something? But...the *top* does look comfortable...minus the bra part, of course! Happy Owen, Martini, clean sheet Friday! And......sorry about the *dead* smell......but as you know LOL.......it *only* takes about 4-5 days to go away ROFL!
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Yes! All of that in one day!
DeleteThe bathing suit is what they call a "tankini" meaning there are two pieces. What looks like underwear is really a bottom half of the whole suit. The two pieces, I think, will make it all more comfortable.
I have a feeling this dead smell is going to last longer than four to five days as it's inside and air conditioned so cooler. Yuck.
I love how fast the new beautiful table became a work top! And how it took priority, fishing too, over the Body in the Kitchen.
ReplyDeleteWhen we laid the beach towel down on the table and then laid the TV down on it, I felt like we had a patient etherized upon a table...
DeleteJoanne's towels. I love them and they stay intact no matter what you do to them. New TV. These big huge plastic things with god knows what inside of them, lithium? probably not, what do I know. I have one that I have been nursing along because I hate to throw away that much plastic and in fact I think that I am supposed to dispose of it in a special way.
ReplyDeleteWe're so trashy around here that old TV's probably just go to the landfill and leak all their poison into the water table, eventually. I do feel guilty which does not help one damn bit.
DeleteI forgot to say when you were talking about kitchen towels the other day I wondered if you'd shop chez Cup on the Bus. I'm glad to see you did.
ReplyDeleteI did! But I was talking about hand towels for the bathroom in that post. Like miniature towels you hang by the sink.
DeleteWhere do you dispose of the dead HUGE TV? How much does it cost you ... or Glen ... to unload it?
ReplyDeleteA dead rodent in the kitchen! OMG In the heat and all, it will be crawling with maggots! Note to Glen: please dispose of the body!!
Your new red ♥️ swimsuit 👙 is pretty doggone cute! The model is just too damned skinny ... You're just a cute little tomato!🍅
I have a Joann towel, too! I got 3 of them the end of last year, two of them were a Christmas gift to my friend, Mary, and one for me! I love them, but they are pricey!
DeleteI see TV's at the dump all the time so I assume there is no charge. If there were, people around here would just dump them on the side of the road. Trust me.
DeleteSince the kitchen is in the air conditioned house, the dead thing will take longer to rot. But rotting it is. I assume that Glen will get around to that tomorrow as he will be home.
Joanne's towels cost what they're worth in my opinion!
I am so sorry you and Joanne missed the "I love them" part! For me, and no one else, the cost per towel was high for me, but not for the opportunity to gift two of them to a dear friend for Christmas. She absolutely loves them, as well! I do recognize and appreciate all that goes into making them and I am sorry I didn't elaborate on that part of my comment!
DeleteI hope I am forgiven!
Thanks for the mention, Mary. Kind of you, as always. Have a grand weekend with the young man who looks like his mama!
ReplyDeleteOh, you are so welcome. My extreme pleasure! Doesn't Owen look like his mother?
DeleteDitto on Joanne's towels. They're also fabulous wedding gifts.
ReplyDeleteMen and their priorities...Having missed the last couple of days, may I add that the coffee/dining table is a wonder! Trust Glenn to use it for a workbench too...And belated happy birthday to your wonderful guy!
Chris from Boise
Those towels would indeed be fabulous wedding gifts.
DeleteWell of course a working TV is far more important than taking the dishwasher out to get to a dead rat. Ay-yi-yi.
I think we could do surgery on that table. It's pretty cool.
Oh dear. Dead things in the kitchen are never a good thing.
ReplyDeleteYour towels are just divine. Joanne is a very talented lady.
Pray tell, what is a white chicken pizza?
Since we live in the country, dead things in the house are not that uncommon but it's been awhile since the last one.
DeleteSo gross.
A white chicken pizza is a pizza with alfredo sauce rather than a red, tomato based sauce. I put cooked chicken and spinach in this one and topped it with red onions, artichoke hearts, mushrooms, and black olives. Delicious!
On the positive side, looking like a cherry tomato is infinitely preferable to looking like a circus marquee!
ReplyDeleteI probably look more like the circus marquee than I do the tomato to be honest.
DeleteWhat a chilled out wife and grandma you are Mary! Some women would have been firing verbal bullets at their spouses - "Stop buggering about with the TV set and get that rotting rat out of my kitchen!" I know what the carcass of a dead rat smells like and it is not nice, not nice at all. Especially with your Floridian heat, that deceased creature will be stinking to high heavens while Glen is telling fishing stories to Owen in the boat as they dangle their hooks in the water.
ReplyDeleteI've mostly avoided the kitchen today and it's not really hot in there because of the AC but it does really stink. The man is going to have to deal with that tomorrow.
DeleteCherry tomato grandma made me chuckle. I bet that tv project was fun for Mr Moon. And just seeing a picture of Owen all grown up makes me happy.
ReplyDeleteJill- can you believe how big Owen is now? God. He's going to be FOURTEEN in September!
DeleteOwen is most handsome and TALL and looks athletic in a good way! I too ordered red towels from CUP! We tend to trash towels around here , because they are not particularly nice having come from the thrift store...I do not allow use of Joanne towels by just anybody , if you know what I mean..
ReplyDeleteOh that gorgeous towel! it's so bright it's almost orange, a fiery sunset red. I like the swimsuit too, but I'd prefer those loose panels to be about four inches longer, my days of showing off my doodah are long gone. Cover-ups for me now.
ReplyDeleteI do like new TVs, mine still feels new although it must be five years old by now.
Nothing smells worse than Death, it is a pungent odor. Hope you can remedy it soon, and it hasn't died in a Wall or something where you have to do any demolition to rid yourselves of it's carcass?
ReplyDeleteI have heard that modern televisions are virtually unfixable. They're made to be discarded when they break, as wrong as that is. I want to laugh about the fact that the television is the priority over the dead animal, but I am not quite understanding how that could possibly be!
ReplyDeleteI do like the top on that swimsuit but for me I would rather the bottom part be more like short shorts or 'boy' shorts as it is currently described. we don't have a large wall mounted flat screen TV because if we got one we'd have to completely rearrange the sitting room.
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