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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Saturday, October 31, 2026 - 5:05 pm 
RN - I didn't get any. Again.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Saturday, October 31, 2026 - 5:53 pm
RN It stopped at 23.
The neighbors to the south of me are having a front yard Halloween shindig! I wish I knew them.
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Saturday, October 31, 2026 - 6:05 pm
RN tonight was a bust. Perfect weather by any definition and only 15 kids. A couple of toddler aged cuties before sunset and then a few groups of two or three after that. Our cul de sac that used to set up a joint table with all sorts of goodies and almost a party atmosphere was shut down and dark by 8:30PM. We are thinking we might stay dark next year and not participate at all. Sad. 😟
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-06-2000
| Saturday, October 31, 2026 - 6:06 pm
Since I am back home this year, I won't open the door.. I refuse to take Halloween from my black cat by locking her in a bedroom.
But I bought some individual bags of pretzels.. Gluten free .. And gave them to my neighbor who has 2 kids and a mellow dog. They belong to an accepting church and she supports the LGBTQ kids there. I gave her some really cool shirts that she handed out to young people to wear for the Pride parade.
She told me about all this after she saw my car with certain bumper magnets.
So I gave them the 20 packets of pretzels.
No one rang or knocked after I got home from voting and the grocery but there were definitely kids. I do think it lightly rained.
Naja did your visitors like your decorations?
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Saturday, October 31, 2026 - 6:43 pm
RN oh yes, they were a hit! The line I heard most was "that's so creepy!"
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Sugar
Member
08-14-2000
| Saturday, October 31, 2026 - 8:05 pm
I voted this morning, as I was leaving I saw they had a voting table for little kids. I believe it was 3 questions and 2 options. 1 was voting between waffles and pancakes.
I thought it was sweet and charming, when I worked elections before going back to work, we didn't have that.
I would much rather be bombarded with commercials for pancakes and waffles than the increasingly nasty and inaccurate bile of political candidates. Living in border states makes it twice as awful.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Saturday, October 31, 2026 - 11:15 pm
Sugar, I love that idea of the kids voting for waffles vs pancakes. Very original.
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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Sunday, November 01, 2026 - 9:29 am
RN, I love standard time. I wake up and it's only 9am!!! yeah, still have time to enjoy the day.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Sunday, November 01, 2026 - 10:38 am
RN Well, I thought I was being smart and changed the 4 clocks that needed it before I went to bed. I got up at what I thought was 7:30 AM and I wondered why it was so dark outside. I looked at my phone and it was 5:30 AM. I set my clocks forward instead of back. hahaha!
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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Sunday, November 01, 2026 - 11:38 am
Hahahahahahaha, Naja that is so funny. My phone changed but for some reason my new smart watch didn't. Took me a few minutes to get it to figure out the time change.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Sunday, November 01, 2026 - 12:05 pm
RN Here is me trying to get old Sally in the house. At night it's a lot harder. I am trying waving a flashlight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjGlb7Xf_7A
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Sunday, November 01, 2026 - 2:38 pm
Maybe try leaving a long line on her that you can pick up to guide her in?
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Sunday, November 01, 2026 - 2:42 pm
RN I'll probably do that at night since she's here for 6 more nights. I do have a nice long line now that I do daycare for the fence jumper.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-06-2000
| Monday, November 02, 2026 - 12:50 pm
She actually did pretty well!
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Jimmer
Board Administrator
08-29-2000
| Monday, November 02, 2026 - 2:39 pm
She’s very sweet!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-26-2000
| Monday, November 02, 2026 - 9:55 pm
God job, Naja. You are the best lover of dogs who need loving boarding.
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Friday, November 06, 2026 - 5:17 am
RN: Holy Cow!
I was leaving to go to work and it was starting to rain. I texted my boss if he was opening late because of the rain. He texted back that I had the day off because its nasty out there.
5 minutes later and we are having the worst thunderstorm I have ever seen since I moved back from Miami. The thunder is rattling the new windows when its exploding. And the house is almost pitch black without the lights on.
Good thing I texted because he never would have contacted me and I would have been standing out in the rain by the gate waiting for him to get to work (if he even would come to work today.)
Something inside me warned me to text him.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-06-2000
| Friday, November 06, 2026 - 5:29 am
Good job anticipating!
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Friday, November 06, 2026 - 5:30 am
RN That's insane that they wouldn't call you!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-06-2000
| Sunday, November 08, 2026 - 4:45 pm
I think the owner has cognitive issues, so Grooch was smart and called him.
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Monday, November 09, 2026 - 4:22 am
RN: I just almost had a heart attack.
I emptied out the dishwasher and I had a few empty dishes in the sink I was going to put in the dishwasher.
The first plate I picked up was the dog plate I had stuck in the sink last night because I've had a few mice because winter is coming and they are trying to move into my house because its cold outside.
I'm half asleep and I noticed a few black things on the plate. I thought to myself "is that mouse poop? I don't remember think there was any on the plate last night when I put in the sink. And it looks to small. (I had completely forgotten that there was a few pieces of chicken left on the plate last night and that's why I stuck it in the sink last minute before going to bed.
Then I looked at the bottom of the sink and I saw what might be more mouse poop on the bottom of the sink. I went to pick up a bowl (the only other thing in the sink and I had just placed it in there because the dishwasher didnt do a good job cleaning it.)
As I put my face closer to the sink to look better at the black things in the sink and picking up the bowl at the same time, a MOUSE jumped out at me!
I almost died from fright! I haven't had my coffee yet! I don't need this!
RN I have a small cardboard box in the sink and I hope he runs and hides in it so I can through him out into the woods.
Aye Yi Aye!!!
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Monday, November 09, 2026 - 4:25 am
Sea, it was the son not the father who I called. I don't understand his problem. He's a very bad communicator. Never tells me anything. He often just leaves the store when its just me and him there without even saying goodbye and I have no idea when he's coming back. Sometimes I think he's in the back office for hours, but he's slipped out the back door.
I don't like it, but I guess he trusts me to handle things. Who knows?
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Monday, November 09, 2026 - 4:27 am
RN the box isn't working. He's hiding beneath it.
I wonder how long I can make it without needing to use the sink. A day? A week?
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Monday, November 09, 2026 - 4:32 am
RN HAHA Grooch! I just set 2 traps yesterday. I'll go copy my texts about my mice that I sent to my Mom and Aunt Nancy yesterday. brb
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Monday, November 09, 2026 - 4:36 am
RM This mouse story happened Saturday night.
I was sleeping on the couch surrounded by a room full of sleeping dogs. In the middle of the night my leg and hip were hurting too much from sleeping on the couch for too many nights so I got up to move to the bedroom and I let Dolly come with me.
I turned on the bedroom light and started situating the bed, and there was one single tiny mouse turd right on the middle of my pillow. I brushed it off, got in bed, and Dolly went to sleep under the bed. She usually starts there, and then ends up in bed with me later.
I finally get to sleep when I am suddenly woken up by my bed jumping in the air and the sound of Dolly frantically scrambling to get out from under bed! She got out and then jumped in bed with me.
She situated her self with her front paws hanging off the edge of the bed and staring at the floor. I kept watching her, and her head was following something around the room. Sometimes to the closet, back under the bed, all around. I kept watching her. She finally stopped looking around and fell asleep, and then I did too.
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