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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-06-2000
| Monday, October 19, 2026 - 11:10 am 
Lovely wedding pics, Naja.
Mack.. You never know what will sell!
My Dad walked 5 miles a day and his route went through and apartment complex down the hill and he would bring stuff home that he couldn't imagine being thrown away.. Some items he used, some he fixed up, like bicycles. He gathered lumber..
Sold bikes and other items at garage sale. People really wanted that lumber, which wasn't even in the sale area, but seen through afence.
And there was a box of agave pups and yucca pups and people wanted some of those. I think he got a quarter each.
I was there helping that day.
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Monday, October 19, 2026 - 11:43 am
RN a crew…well actually two guys…are removing the more difficult window treatments, ones that are too heavy or too high. Some drapes we’re keeping and will be rehung once the windows are replaced. Some old blinds and sheers they are hauling away.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-26-2000
| Monday, October 19, 2026 - 9:32 pm
Seamonkey. was your Daddy a mailman? If so, or even if not, mine was. He sometimes walked the three miles to work (probably so my mother could have the car), then walked miles a day on his route. I suppose he took the bus home. Oh! Probably because the return walk was uphill all the way.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-06-2000
| Tuesday, October 20, 2026 - 1:15 am
Oh no. This walking was after he retired. He was a contract administrator in his last job out here. But he probably walked some even earlier, to walk the dog.
But he was doing the walk down the hill, across coast highway and down to the beach for years, sometimes also hitting their senior center for pancake breakfast days, or the bank.. And it was quite an uphill walk coming home.
Before WWII he was an auditor for Arthur Anderson based in NYC.. he enlisted in the Navy after Pearl Harbor. And then after that he was an auditor for the GAO in Washington DC. One audit he did was of the Tennessee Valley Authority, so I imagine he was moving around a lot. My parents did play golf before golf carts, so they were quite active.
Mack, you are really knocking off the projects!
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Tuesday, October 20, 2026 - 6:35 am
RN all the credit goes to Carey AKA Mrs Mack for doing the majority of the bigger projects. Of course much of this wouldn’t happen, at least in the short span of time, if Carey wasn’t retired. There’s no way we could have accomplished this much just on weekends and some of the projects like the pantry were really one-person efforts with a little support from the other. The next 5 to 6 weeks is still going to be quite busy with window replacement, window treatments, and the bathroom remodels.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Wednesday, October 21, 2026 - 9:25 am
RN UGGG! I am such a horrible person! My mom left this morning from Chicago back to Florida, after staying with her sister, my Aunt Nancy for my nephew's wedding. My Moms grandson. My mom's husband passed in January. They had been together since I was 7. He was always cruel and mean to us kids.
And thinking I was in my private text with my Aunt, I texted "How much nicer was it being able to spend time with mom without Joe around?", but I was really in our group text! OMG. I feel so bad.
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Wednesday, October 21, 2026 - 2:24 pm
Naja, Im so sorry that happened to you. Did your aunt reply on the group text?
You're not horrible. And you didn't say anything bad. I would just apologize to your mother and just say something like, that they are getting older and you were referring to how nice it must have been that they could be together and spend sister time together.
When my sister comes and visits, neither one of us want our significant other around. We want to be greedy with the little time/few days we have together. Nobody else gets the inside jokes, etc, and want to talk about memories from our past that the others can't really relate to.
So, just try phrasing your apology around that.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Wednesday, October 21, 2026 - 3:16 pm
RN Here's how it went, Grooch. Within a few minutes I added "Don't answer that. It wasn't nice of me".
And about 10 minutes later while at the airport waiting for her flight, mom says in the group text "Well, I'm going to answer. It was less stressful. I'm thinking of getting a coffee"
and then I said "If you can easily get to a place to pee, go for it".
And that's it....Until 1 minute ago while I was typing, she texted she made home and the cat is happy to see her. 
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Wednesday, October 21, 2026 - 3:27 pm
<exhales>
That was a close one. Glad it worked out. 
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Thursday, October 22, 2026 - 6:06 am
RN off to vote this morning. Reports are a high turnout at our consolidated early voting location. Hard to say what that means as the Texas governor is up for election/reelection and a highly contested US Senate seat so a lot of interest for a midterm. Also our consolidated polling location is in a heavily Republican part of the city and county.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Thursday, October 22, 2026 - 6:13 am
RN Hoping for short lines for you, Mack! I am going to get up at 4 AM and be the first in line on election day. Since I moved across town over the winter, I have a new polling place, so I'm not sure how things work there. It's a church and I drove past to see, but there's so many entrances. I hope it's clear where to go on election day.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Thursday, October 22, 2026 - 7:04 am
RN It's Dolly's 5th birthday. We are having a little party with mini vanilla cupcakes later. Tucker and Marny are here so it should be interesting.🥳🧁🐕🐩🐕🦺🦮
I am going to try to get video and photos.
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Thursday, October 22, 2026 - 7:09 am
RN our polling place for early voting is a city/county public library. Last time we waited until Election Day to vote was years ago and we had to go to a church for our precinct. I can’t remember when the state instituted early voting or if it was because we both were working back then and couldn’t get off.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Thursday, October 22, 2026 - 10:20 am
RN Well so much for a party on video. Apparently I had stopped instead of started the video. So all I have is this picture from after they ate the cupcakes. Everyone but Dolly had dispersed and took off their hats already.
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Thursday, October 22, 2026 - 10:47 am
Awwww....
Happy Birthday, Dolly!!! 
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Thursday, October 22, 2026 - 11:22 am
Cutiepatootie!
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Thursday, October 22, 2026 - 11:32 am
RN all voted and total time including driving time was only 50 minutes. Ten minutes to get there, 30 minutes in line to vote, and 10 minutes home. Now we both wish we could stop the almost endless phone calls, TV ads, and text messages.
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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Thursday, October 22, 2026 - 1:06 pm
RN, LOL Mack I have been looking for the button on the remote that I can push to say ... I voted; I don't need to see these ads anymore!
I have been reporting spam for the phone text messages.
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Jimmer
Board Administrator
08-29-2000
| Thursday, October 22, 2026 - 1:14 pm
Despite its failings, I remain astonished at the amount of effort and resources Americans put into their electoral process.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Thursday, October 22, 2026 - 1:19 pm
RN HAHA Jimmer! I really thought when I got to the end of reading your post it was going say "Despite its failings, I remain astonished at the amount of effort and resources Americans put into their pets" LOL
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Jimmer
Board Administrator
08-29-2000
| Thursday, October 22, 2026 - 1:27 pm
RN, LOL well that too. 
Happy Birthday Dolly!!!
(LOL I also forgot this is the RN thread)
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