Something About Nothing............ #14

[Lynne G]

Um here, if you buy a car, unless you show you have insurance. That’s awful Charade. I hope she pays for buffing that mark she made to your car. Never a dull moment I have to say.

 

[Lynne G]

Had a great time with the kids. First, we went down the shore, at one of the most Northern ones, the one that Nor’Eastern storm Sandy knocked down and took out to sea the amusement pier, including the Ferris wheel. Tore down most of the boardwalk too. Now. - decade later, new boardwalk and amusement pier, and business back to normal.

Beach was soft, and nice enough day for a stroll along the water.


Then we travelled to a mall, and what did I see in the distance?

Yes, that is the Manhattan skyline taken from the car window.

Went to the mall, that has some really neat things to do, and see, like a amusement park:


Hehe, nickelodeon charactered one. Water park next to it, also had the characters.

Back home from there was uneventful, though stop and go traffic until we were closer to home. Lots of traffic wanting to go around the mall, as next to a huge stadium, where concert was playing there tonight. Glad we got out of there, before concert goers were starting to be arriving early. And, saw much more traffic heading into the bridge into NYC.

Wahoo! Weekend tomorrow. And yay, sister called this morning, pool guy was there, so as of today, pool open. We will be visiting, and have a heated pool swim. Hope all have a most relaxing and wonderful weekend.

 

[Lynne G]

The weekend. Little one, are you moving? Not yet, though will be asking to go errand running with me soon.

Nothing like a Saturday where women only for a bit. DH is doing errands, and mowing grass, as old mower bit the dust the dust Thursday afternoon. Hence, last night, I walked into that garden store and bought him a new one. Made him get me a milkshake. Did make him get it off his truck, which I had borrowed, to pick it up. Store guy was nice enough to wheel it out and put it in the back for me. And older one works. But glad he is on an earlier time schedule for the weekend.

May try to poke the bear.

 

[Robo56]

Good Saturday morning everyone

Sadly - it may be another smoke filled summer

Pumpkin sorry to hear the fires are burning again. Sending rain dance wishes your way that the rains will come and put out the fires.

Lot of appts & feeding of family going on here, including tomorrow. Wanted to share the bling the ‘lil won in middle school state competition. Received emails to the invitationals meets this side of state. Won’t be seeing her (or coach, Dad/Son lol) for a few weekends

Congratulations to your granddaughter on her medals. Looks like a proud dad and his daughter.

Hey all, another day of being poked and prodded for me. Well worth it. 2nd opinion, like this specialist better and she’s in my regular health system. going to keep her as of more conservative working her way thru treatment options before going for the gold.

Always good to get second opinion. Glad to hear you like the doc.

Nope, not going to work. We paid for three “adults”, i want three beds of some sort. They actually asked if we considered bunking together.

Who the heck is piloting that ship? I expect better from RCCL SHM

Sorry to hear you having such issues with RCCL. I hope they get your room situation settled for you all.

Oh my, after boarding 3 hours after we should have, sat 45 minutes on the tarmac because no runway open, as so many other planes coming and going. Then we circled when we got back, so instead of arriving at 7:30pm, arrived at 11:45 pm. By the time our luggage came out, funny that our cases came out one right next to the next one coming. So two grabs at same time. Fast enough ride home, though known detour near home was still in use. So no pumpkin ride I had. Sigh. And that alarm went off fast.

Lynne thank you for sharing your photos from vacation. Sorry to hear of the delays on your flight getting home. It seems some of the airlines are just doing what they want regardless of what the flight times are.

Fortunately she was going very slow and only left a smudge of white paint on the front of my car. She apologized and then told me it was a new car and she was going to get it insured. Seriously??? I swear my car has become a magnet for uninsured drivers.

Sorry to hear you have had another hit to your car. She is responsible for the damage to your car weather she has insurance or not. I hope you called the police and got a police report and all her information.

I thought you had to show proof of insurance to get cars licensed in any state.

Not fun to deal with. Sending good thoughts your way that you get everything settled easily.




Sun is shining this morning after a few days of rain. I’am looking forward to getting out in the yard today.

I had a wonderful Mother’s Day. Son and family brought over a delicious barbecue dinner with all the trimmings. The food was so good and it was so nice to see everyone.

I had my appt with the Moh’s dermatology surgeon Tuesday. It was nice to get to meet the person who I’am trusting to preserve my face. I found him kind, professional and caring. He answered all my questions and said he would do his best to make sure he did not have to remove anymore tissue then he needed to. I told him I’am grandma and I’am never going to run for geriatric beauty queen, but I do care what scars I’am left with.

I did see a younger woman in the office that I would guess to be in her late 20’s to early 30’s with what appeared to be extensive surgery to her nose with all the bandages and my heart went out to her.


A friend of ours mom passed away last night. He was someone who was in Fencing club that we were in many years ago. He and his brother cared for their mom at home. She was 91 and was up walking and doing well until she became ill Mother’s Day. It is hard to say goodbye to a parent no matter how old they are.

Our great-grandson grandson graduated from High school yesterday evening. We are so proud of C. He has already been accepted to the University he wants to attend. His major will be Chemical Engineering. He is a smart young man and we know he will do well.

I was able to watch little J for two half days this week. Yesterday morning it was wet and rainy so going to the park was not an option. So I took him to an indoor play area called Deep Blue. It is an underwater themed play area. He loved it and had a good time.

I’am trying to plan a trip in June for some Happy time at Universal. I have almost settled on a date. Now I need to look at flight times and rental car.

Mac hope you are doing well and your eyes are healing.

Carole hope you and the family are doing well. You are missed.

I’am heading outside.

Have a wonderful Saturday everyone doing whatever makes you happy.

 

[keishashadow]

Yesterday, we broke our # of tornados per year record in PITT. Creepy afternoon, repeated tornado warnings blaring on the devices. Had four of them all in. Closest set down 15 min from us @ the zoo, no animals or people harmed. Lots of big trees and property damage yet, only a F-1. However, they were moving so slowly, caused issues

Pic others have taken…

First: the shelf clouds we had with tornadic thunderstorms…little rain, tons of wind. Literally, looked like a huge shelf in the sky with big boomers. The air felt “funny”


Next: the one that touched down at zoo, a high-level bridge and then major road. Amazing nobody hurt



thought this one interesting, never really touched all the way down to ground

It would have been higher but I wouldn’t let him buy the 75 in TV he saw

Lol wait for it to go on sale. Another round of them starting 6/2. I stocked up on dog food, prime drinks, paper plates and dish soap…the glamorous life

She apologized and then told me it was a new car and she was going to get it insured

Umm, even if she paid cash and didn’t have a lien holder demanding proof of insurance before she was given the keys; that is ridiculous. Bet she just didn’t want to have incident reported to see her rates sky rocket.

Now. - decade later, new boardwalk and amusement pier, and business back to normal.

I had wondered if they ever did fully rebuild

Yes, that is the Manhattan skyline taken from the car window.

Very nice

And yay, sister called this morning, pool guy was there, so as of today, pool open. We will be visiting, and have a heated pool swim. Hope all have a most relaxing and wonderful weekend.

My “pool guy” did the deed a couple of days ago. The sun is our heater lol, as i tell the fam…sink or swim. Ours is small, a couple of 80 degree days this coming week and it will be comfortable.

had my appt with the Moh’s dermatology surgeon Tuesday. It was nice to get to meet the person who I’am trusting to preserve my face. I found him kind, professional and caring. He answered all my questions and said he would do his best to make sure he did not have to remove anymore tissue then he needed to. I told him I’am grandma and I’am never going to run for geriatric beauty queen, but I do care what scars I’am left with.

You have the best attitude, oh to have such a calming nature. Good for you, so important to trust the surgeon. Here’s to clean margins for you and a quick recovery.

 

[Charade67]

Happy Saturday. It’s gray and cloudy here. A good day to stay home and be lazy.

The car situation - the girl’s car wasn’t brand new. My guess is that she purchased it privately and didn’t need to show proof of insurance. The white line in this picture is the extent of the damage done to my car.

Not worth filing a claim.

Beach was soft, and nice enough day for a stroll along the water.

Looks very peaceful.

Went to the mall, that has some really neat things to do, and see, like a amusement park:

Wow. You could probably put most of our mall in that space.

I had my appt with the Moh’s dermatology surgeon Tuesday. It was nice to get to meet the person who I’am trusting to preserve my face. I found him kind, professional and caring.

Good to know that you are comfortable with the surgeon. That makes a world of difference.

It is hard to say goodbye to a parent no matter how old they are.

So true.

Our great-grandson grandson graduated from High school yesterday evening. We are so proud of C. He has already been accepted to the University he wants to attend. His major will be Chemical Engineering. He is a smart young man and we know he will do well.

Congratulations to him.

Yesterday, we broke our # of tornados per year record in PITT.

Pic others have taken…

Wow, that looks scary. So glad there wasn’t any major damage.

Lol wait for it to go on sale.

It was actually on clearance, but still more than I was willing to pay. We also don’t have room for a TV that large. There is only one place in the living room where we can put a TV. If we go larger than the current screen it will block the window. I guess we just need to get a bigger house.