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ei34

Wishing everyone a quick workday and enjoyable weekend!

ei34

Gave the kitchen, bathroom and living room good scrubs this morning. They didn’t really need it but felt like it was a strong reason to put off what I actually need to do (the kids’ bedroom, the front coat/board game closet) for at least another few days.

Just back from the library so we could each take out a new book, and we’ll hit the pool soon.  It’s actually supposed to be a very quiet weekend which is awesome.

MyNameIsNot

Nothing much going on here. I ended up getting H's covid, so I cancelled all our plans. I'm feeling way better today, so I should probably try to tackle my office closet that I've been putting off all summer this weekend. (My office is on the first floor and is a dumping ground for hobbies and activities.) 

I don't actually know what to do with myself stuck at home. I'll probably watch the Olympics and do too much online shopping. 

CharmedPam

Umm I had no idea the Olympics started today! I heard they were in August so I assumed they started sometime in Aug. No word from the friend crew, so I better not get a text “what’s your address again?” at 4. 

I also filled in the hole in my car myself.  Is it the best looking? No. Is the hole gone? Yes. Does it blend well? Surprisingly yes. Will it rust? I dunno. I’m not a car person. 

Edit; and sorry @MyNameIsNot! I hope it goes away quickly.  Your night sounds like something I’d do.

knottiecc4789331cc8a727

Thanks for the good wishes! I hope your weekend is just as enjoyable. Any fun plans for the weekend?

VarunaTT

I am so irritated.  Both my Amazon delivery yesterday and my grocery delivery toay just left my stuff outside.  There are clear instructions IN both apps and i know there are because literally DOZENS of other deliveries have been delivered here, no issue  I knocked down the grocery delivery tip and gave them a ones star.  Leaving my groceries OUTSIDE when I live downtown? I'm really lucky they weren't stolen.  And no call from the driver, so they knew what they were doing.  I tip well, usually 20% and I knocked it down to 5%.  There weren't even that many bags or heavy items, I carried all of them upstairs with no issue.

No big plans for the weekend.  I'm trying a new cooking schedule so I"ll be prep cooking tonight.  I think it'll actually be good for me, b/c I'll get a weekend day back and it'll keep me from feeling bored this evening.  Seeing Inside Out 2 and Mom.  Doing some stuff around the apartment.  Very boring adult. 

short+sassy

I don't know why this has become "major problems with neighbors" week!

This is a different neighbor, not the one with the dogs.  Though this neighbor also lives on that perpendicular street and is next door to dog guy.

We don't have any lights in our backyard.  When I went to bed last night, I was surprised to see my back deck lit up with an orange flickering light.  It took me a sec to figure it out and then I started looking for a fire nearby.  

I never noticed it, but our neighbor has a fire pit in their backyard that adjoins ours.  WTF?  I'll have to look more closely in daylight, but I think it's less than 6' from our wood fence, smh.  The flames were 4 ft high!  JFC!  I run into the living room to get my H.  He non-chalantly tells me yeah, the neighbor has been burning tree limbs.  It's a lot of leaves so it might briefly send the fire high.  Me:  Uh, no!  You need to come see because it looks REALLY dangerous.  As my H came into the bedroom, we could see the neighbor was near the fire pit hosing it down.

My H said he would talk to him in the morning.  He also reassured me the neighbor usually stays in the backyard when he has something in the fire pit.  I assume the neighbor was at least there this time, which is why he was there with a hose.  But I am pissed about all of it!!!  It's one giant, idiotic mistake after another!

Don't put a fire pit so close to a wooden fence, in the first place.  Do people not understand that a fire can start from just sparks?

But if you are going to be that STUPID, don't burn anything but marshmallows in it, ffs.  Most certainly not so big that you almost lose control of it and have to get a hose.

We like this neighbor.  He seems like a good and reasonable guy.  At first I was debating about just asking him to never let a fire get bigger than 1' high again.  But I think I need to take a harder line (sigh).

Something like, "Look, your fire pit is too close to our fence.  We've been letting it go, because you've been responsible with it.  But last night was dangerous and a good lesson in how fast things can go wrong.  We need you to remove the fire pit or at least move it to the middle of your yard."

And if he doesn't do that, notify the fire department and put his landlord on notice about the liability.

Edit:  Oh yeah.  There is also a tree in that neighbor's yard with branches that arc over our roof and back deck.  The fire was close to some branches from the same tree, albeit not directly under it.  

MyNameIsNot

@short+sassy Do you have burn restrictions? We're only allowed to burn October - April because summer is greater risk for starting a wildfire etc. I mean, I'd think in the city you wouldn't be able to burn at all, but at least not in the summer months. It's hotter there than here!

banana468

@short+sassy just last week it wasn't a burn pit but a golf cart caught on fire in a nearby town and it set the house near it ablaze.  Too often people are not really practicing the greatest fire safety.

I am in the throws of finishing the week of work after an AM off today to take Chiquita for an infusion.  She's freshly 'topped off' and ready for another 5 weeks! 

Tomorrow we see old friends including their adopted son we haven't had an opportunity to meet since they brought him home from Korea 3 years ago.  The weather looks great and it's kind of exactly what I need.   Sunday is back to camp for Chiquita and I hope maybe DH will take Chiquito and me out on the boat. 

short+sassy

@VarunaTT, Was it at least into your complex's mailroom? Or just packages sitting on a sidewalk for a hundred random people to pass by?

One of my coworkers lives in the French Quarter, which are typically houses that open right to the sidewalk.  No place for a package for to be safe.  She has everything delivered to our offices.  Though I realize you don't have an office building to go to.  But a small "con" next to the huge perks, lol.

It's technically frowned upon, but doesn't go past an annual e-mail warning as Christmas approaches that "employees should not have packages delivered to the building and we are not responsible for them."

@MyNameIsNot, I looked it up because I wasn't sure.  People in the city can have fire pits, but can't burn vegetation or trash in them.   In parishes (counties) with less than 300K people, they can.  That includes pretty much the whole state, except the New Orleans area and a part of Baton Rouge, lol.  There is not time of year with a burn restriction, though the Louisiana Dept. of Forestry will call for one if it is needed.

It is hot!  But we are also not a dry place.  There's always a lot of moisture in the air from the humidity and it frequently rains.

charlotte989875

Getting my hair done then out to dinner with my friends for my birthday! (It was Wednesday) J finally slept a little better last night so hoping we’re righting the sleep ship finally!! 

levioosa

Ugh @VarunaTT I hate when they do that. We have notes in the apps AND on our front porch door (says to put packages on the porch behind the door). And yet people will still leave them on the front steps for the whole world to see. It was really bad after Prime Day because I think they were just trying to make deliveries in general. But I snagged a great deal on a waterproof Bose speaker which was not cheap, and they left it outside! I was annoyed. Also FedEx almost never follows the instructions. 

Day is going. I had to get involved with a parental issue that's more just annoying than anything. My dad had a fall two months ago and ever since he's had really bad back pain. I'm worried about a compression fracture and mentioned it to my mom, but she didn't do anything and scheduled him a massage and a chiropractor appointment instead. So I had to be stern with her. "Do you want him to get paralyzed? Because refusing to get an x-ray and then going to a chiropractor is exactly how that happens." 

H went to Costco and got a Chicken Pot Pie and I'm pretty excited about it. It might be 104 degrees out but I can't wait. I hope he got two so we can freeze one for later. Otherwise SSDD. I have a goal to finish a book this weekend. I'm reading Truman's Capote's In Cold Blood. It's been around forever, and I've always heard about it, but this is my first time reading it. 

ei34

@charlotte989875 happy belated birthday!
@VarunaTT that’s so annoying about the deliveries! Enjoy inside out 2 we really liked it 
@MyNameIsNot  hope you begin to feel better soon 
@levioosa  vibes your way 

VarunaTT

The complex is a secured building (so all apartments are inside, don't open to air which is a big selling point for me) and we all have our own security codes to get in.  We have both a front and back entrance.  My code is in both apps with clear instructions on how to use it.  Amazon was just ridicuous and left them on top of our mailboxes in front.  It was more than one order too.  I had gone out to get them and another resident was walking in with them and was delivering them around.  We all kinda watch out for each other for things like this because we all seem to be Amazon patrons.  My groceries were left out by the back entrance.