Tuesday has arrived yet again – well, I suppose it does every week, but still. The kids had spring break last week, and of course the weather wasn’t all that cooperative for any adventures outdoors, so we just kept things pretty low key. Mostly, though, because the hubby ended up home most of the week last week stricken with the plague that’s been going around. Both he and Princess Nagger got hit with it, both Little Dude and myself remained plague free. Hopefully it won’t sneak up on us when we least expect it!
I’m starting to get caught up on stuff, though I really missed my golden opportunity to finally get the stacks of Christmas boxes out of the living room and dining room during our one day of sun yesterday – this is the one time I really miss having an ‘attached’ garage vs. detached garage, because that 100 feet or so between the front door and the garage doors is prohibitive of schlepping boxes out to the garage when it’s been raining or snowing on the days I finally would have the chance to make a mad dash with the overabundance of Christmas decor boxes.
So yesterday we had 64 degree and sunny weather, so it would have been prime time to schlep boxes, but I ended up being too busy with work, and dealing with some crazy woman trying to break in to the outbuilding at the neighboring house behind us. We’ve been having issues ever since that cool 1920 house was sold in July – the people that bought the house fixed it up to a limited degree (lived there during that time), then moved out and rented the house out.
Of course there’s an outbuilding that is literally on our property line at the end of our panhandle in the backyard, and there’s no fence separating the properties (yet!), so people that have been living in the outbuilding (even though no one is supposed to be living there, as it’s not in ‘livable’ condition) have been dumping trash in our backyard, trespassing in our next door neighbors yard, and some dudes have been standing outside the doorway and peeing into our yard, so the police have been called on multiple occasions.
The renter of the main house had the brilliant idea to rent out the outbuilding and their detached garage, and all the extra bedrooms in the main house, so there’s multitudes of squirrely people now living in the property behind us. Happy happy joy joy. The police are keeping an eye on things, though, and we were told that the renter was given an eviction notice, so we’ll see how long the riffraff last back there.
The police have been wonderful at responding to issues, and apparently a ‘compound’ was recently shut down of drug users, so it’s possible they’ve relocated to the house and outbuildings behind us. The renter told the police that he doesn’t know any of the people he’s renting the rooms and buildings to, he just collects the rent. Niiiiiice. Since the house is zoned ‘single family’, I’m pretty sure the excess renters will not last long. At least I hope that’s the case.
OK, enough of that, let’s get on to some funnies! This cracked me up – because it’s so true!
This is hilarious – I know someone who is so into conspiracy theories I joke that the next time I see her, I’ll be bringing a fashionable tin foil hat!
It’s baseball season, so this is particularly funny:
Speaking of baseball… So last Thursday, when our Mariners were in Minneapolis, a bald eagle landed on our pitcher during the national anthem:
Could you even imagine? Here’s what the news source said about it:
“With Mariners pitcher James Paxton holding his hat over his heart, an eagle landed on his shoulder during the national anthem.
Paxton, a Canadian with the nickname Big Maple, played it cool as talons clung to his shoulder – even standing up straight with the bird at one point before it flew away.
The patriotic scene in Minneapolis sparked awe across Twitter before the Minnesota Twins game.
The eagle’s name is Challenger. Usually, the eagle does the pre-game fly-in ceremony, but it decided to go rogue when landing on Paxton.
Challenger is apparently an esteemed member of the American Eagle Foundation and has taken his talents to five World Series, plenty of other huge sporting events and even Disney’s Animal Kingdom), so Thursday’s slip-up was pretty out of the ordinary for him.”
This is a hilarious quilt:
I thought this was hilarious, too:
And this had me cracking up, too:
And finally, I’m going to leave this right here for you:
That’s a wrap for this week – you know the drill, link up and join in the fun, everyone is welcome, random or not. And that means even if you don’t have a specific Random Tuesday Thoughts Rebel post posted, you can still link up, I’m not picky. You don’t even have to add the badge, just link up so I can come harass you on your blog. I promise to play nice.
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I felt so sorry for the eagle! It thought the guy was one of his handlers. I think the player handled it well, even if he isn’t a handler! Wiretaps and bassists, oh my! Hilarious! And the quilt! Pretty clever, I think. We are also having crazy weather. It should be 80, but it was about 61 today. Come on, Spring!
I laughed way too hard at that church meme!
The wintry weather is still hanging out here in the Midwest too.
Hope the plague goes away soon.
Stacy,
WOW, sorry to hear about your neighbor problem. I hope that issue is resolved quickly. Definitely get that fence in place to keep the riffraff out of your backyard. Thanks for the giggles with your random humor. 🙂
Curious as a Cathy
A2Z iPad Art Sketch ‘Indians’
I hope everyone gets well in your world. Neighbors are always interesting and sorry that you are having a problem. The fence will help. Thanks for hosting and I hope that you have a wonderful rest of the week.
WordPress has decided, even though i have an account, that i cannot comment on wordpress blogs!
Anyway, that Pew Pew got me, thanks for the funnies and for hosting!
Hello Baby Girl, first of all I want to apologize for last week and first say is I’M A DUMMY AND I HAVE NO BRAINS NOT TO MENTION “NO MEMORY”!!!! You know I luvs ya girlfriend & I forgot about our conversation about what you’re going through right now!!! SOOOOOOOOOOOOO I’m here personally to say WHO LUVS YA GIRLFRIEND & whenever you have time to do any comments & you can leave me out if you don’t have the time… or just leave me out I don’t want to take your time… or even just a HI! is good!!! I will tell you if we have someone new so if you could put a mandatory on them that would be so cool & anyone else right now is up to you… just grab a couple to say hi is fine or whatever you have time for & if anyone says anything to you tell them I GAVE MY OKAY & I’m duh boss… hehehehehe well, kinda hehehehe HEY YOU WHERE’S MY KULA… I’m still waiting, but I much prefer you wrap yourself up & send it. hehehehe BIG HUGS & PLEASE SAY YOU’LL FORGIVE ME CUZ I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU SAY YOU’LL ALWAYS BE A CONDUCTOR ON MY MUSIC TRAIN! BIG HUGS & HUGE HUGS ALWAYS… If you wanna ever do giveaways let me know & I’ll forward what I have… luv ya girl…. and truly I do understand. Hugs to the Lil’ Dude & Princess Nagger… hehehehe love that name.. she use to such a card… remember… ? bwahahahahaha Any time you wanna talk too let me know I’m always at your beckon call… I mean hell ya want my phone number I’ll send it to ya! BIG HUGS WOO HOO BOOGIE FEVER IS COMIN’!!!