Another run to Kennesaw and yuckies

Today was another run to Kennesaw....and a bit of grossness.
So Liz was going through stuff in the garage in prep to move and found an almost FULL pack of cookies. How LONG have those cookies been out there? A YEAR and the are not buggy OR moldy. Does that tell you we should t be eating them or what? Talk about a TON of preservatives in those things. YUCK...but they taste sooo good. 😜


The other thing was a package of Hillshire farms sausages.


The only thing really gross in there was the sausage....the rest was scarily intact. Even the cheese is without mold. Again scary!!


Moldy spots!! Yuckie!!

Then off to Kennesaw!


Angela’s roommate Chuck picked up a washer and a dryer in our town so having a truck we nicely drove them north for them.





I got the easy part and supervised and was only talked into lifting the dryer off the truck. They are super light and I kept screaming in my head “lift with legs ONLY”. Success. Thank goodness Chuck and Butch lifted the washer out!! I was NOT going to try that. Nope, nope, nope!

We then went to get a new plug for it with them at Home Depot then took them out for a great lunch at Tin Lizzys. Great tacos and even better guacamole! We went back to the apartment and Butch helped Chuck out the new plug onto the dryer, then we headed out.

In the way home we HAD to stop and grab pizza from Antico’s on the way home. Of course. We hit a few rainy spots on the way home but made decent time all in all. That trip and odds and ends takes a WHOLE day. But that’s OK the kids have a washer and dryer in the apartment - yay for them.

Flower updates

My poor avocado. Not doing so hot but it’s still alive...and the next one that is just now sprouting so I put him outside to make sure it’s acklimated to the hot weather so it won’t die like this one did!  Maybe it will work and the “dead” twig isn’t really totally dead, so I keep hoping he will come back...but maybe not...

 The lemon is doing well. Lots of new leaves and blooms came and went...I have hope for a lemon this year. I had two last year!

 Sneaky late blooming amaryllis hiding in there!

 Wisteria is coming back well after overzealous trimming last year and cutting the wrong lower limb. Whoops!

 Note the pop of red in the corner ..those are my dollar tree gladiolus!

 The daylilies are blooming nicely now as well.  

 Volunteer snapdragons

 There are some of my Dahlias are sprouting, but not enough to zoom in on them. They are only 3” tall.

Close up of my pansies and purple lilies. They’re doing so well with all the rain we’ve gotten and I swapped away from the natural grass liners as the birds kept stealing it all for nests.

Life in the poop lane (skip if you're grossed out by poop talk)

I had a horrible diarrhea experience yesterday. glossed over with the "used my spare pants today" comment on Facebook..
I had a purging day yesterday, which usually just entails multiple trips to the potty doing a lovely "cluster" of pooping (aka the clustering that is referenced a bit in literature). . but yesterday was a bit different. I had a few clusters (5+ (should count one day)) that eventually turned to diarrhea. OK, that's different, but "do-able" I only had one slight accident (I always wear protection), so I just changed the pad and went on with life. and some butt cream, the HORRIBLE side to clustering in a raw bum.
Anyway, I'm used to this (sadly). so I just trundle on and make quite a few hurried trips to the bathroom in the afternoon - again, not that horrible, not too out of the ordinary. The diarrhea makes me think "OK, I'm done now.there's NOTHING left in there!". I went to the potty a little bit before leaving work "just in case" . nope, nada.
I get my stuff packed up to head on out to get my hair cut.
I get out of the building, get my phone (lock box at floor level - yeah not sure anyone told them I was TALL when they assigned me that particular box!).
I get all the way out the door and 1/3 of the way to my car when the urge hits.. As I was un-forwarding my phone, I paused and stepped off the sidewalk. knew I didn't have full control as it was still way too loose to control.
OK, it's just a little bit. I debate going back into the building and all the way back to the bathroom with all my crap (large purse and a carry bag. The nearest building with a bathroom that is unlocked is WAY farther away than my actual building. Nawh, I'm feeling confident that that was just a little "residue" of prior issues, so I start to walk to the car. 2/3 of the way to the car and WAY too far away from ANY building to make a hoot of difference and my body decides NO it is not done with this issue and I can just TELL this is way worse with ZERO control. I walk the last 10 yards to my car and just pray that my pads are truly as absorbent as they say they are and opt to drive off base to a fast food restaurant. Sigh. nothing right off base, the nearest is about ½ mile away, BUT it's not convenient and it's NOT on the right side of the road and it's parking is weird. so I drive on down a little further because, you know - hey, the deed is done and I go to Arbys. I didn't FEEL like I was leaking everywhere. and I really wasn't - thank goodness.
I ended up with just a small spot on my pants, but enough to make me clean up and change into my emergency pants (gray sweat carpi's) and go on with life.