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It looks like you had a great garden this year! We can grow flowers, but in order to grow vegetables we'd have to put up a fence and hire security guards. The deer are absolute gangsters here.

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When my wife was sick, I was barred from watching Friday Night Lights with her. She loved that show, but I'm incapable of not snarking at TV dialog, so I was banished from the TV room. Nevertheless, this show holds a special place in my heart. It brought joy to a woman in great pain.

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That looks great! Well done! :)

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Happy Sunday Nubian Queen Bee and everyone! More rain here, but I'm bound and determined to play with my boat and make Misty a breakfast she'll appreciate. I hope everyone has a great and restful Sunday! :)

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Thanks Herre. Trying to find help is actually a minor joy compared to carrying a 90 year old albatross around my neck. I think that if my dad has someone to talk to besides me, everybody wins. Wish me luck!

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I am to em-dashes what Misty is to semicolons. My brain wants to write run-on sentences, and the em-dash is just my literary ghilli suit.

We're staggering through the maze. I found a person I have high hopes for. With luck we'll get three hours a day out of her for transportation and companionship. That's really all he needs, but he's driving me nuts and it is time to call in the cavalry. And I'll be able to travel again.

Happy market day Nubian Queen Bee and everyone! I'm struggling with trying to get some auxiliary care for my father at the moment. I seem to be making progress, but keep your fingers crossed for me. I need a break from eldercare. Have a great day everyone!

Doc Savage @docsavage88.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I spent 45 minutes trying to figure out how to get help for my father. I swear I have done topology problems (that's very difficult mathematics) that were more straightforward. This is how old men die. That was the worst online system I've ever used.

You might have, but I couldn't drive yesterday because of that damned song. I had to take a fistful of benzodiazepines and put on my straight jacket. when you least expect it, expect it.

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Happy Thursday Nubian Queen Bee and everyone! It looks like we have good weather today here, and so today is the day I put the boat in the water and see if it actually floats. Am I excited? Yes. I am excited. It will be good to be on the water again. Have a great day everyone! :)

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It's also how you know beyond doubt that I didn't write it.

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It was a dark and stormy night, yet it was quiet. Too quiet. Suddenly there came a tap-tap-tapping at my cellar door. I opened that door once. Nevermore. A heartbeat from under the floorboards made me nervous, as the police were looking for a missing person named Lenore. Then spiderman showed up.

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Okay, now I'm imagining a netflix series about a bunch of knuckleheads trying to figure out how to off themselves, but keep screwing up. Done correctly, it could be morbidly hilarious.

Carbon monoxide is the way to go if that's your jam. All you need is a tent and a hibachi. Leave it to the Japanese to sort out such details with exacting precision. Those guys don't mess around. (It's a in a story I wrote -- stop looking at me like that.) ;-)

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Fun fact -- if you look up the band Suicidal Tendencies online to verify a lyric, the web will divert you to a suicide prevention hotline. Dude, all I wanted was a pepsi. :)

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This reminds me of my back. Burnt toast. They really should make a pez dispenser for advil.

A cocktail bar that specializes in tea? Shouldn't that be on Long Island?

What could possibly go wrong! ;-)

In America we tend to go sweet rather than savoury with pumpkins. We have something called a sugar pumpkin here, which is spectacular for pumpkin pie. But you never know until you try. I do love winter squash.

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One more -- These two are Boris and Natasha (aka Bobo the large and Tash the murderess). Misty found them as kittens in an abandoned apartment house. She called me, and I said, "bring 'em home." They are spectacular.

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Here's one for you. Benny the wonderdog and me. She was initially very man-shy when we adopted her. She got over it pretty quickly. ;-)

There are good days, like when you buy flowers for your wife for no reason and she loves them. There bad days, when the phone won't stop ringing because everyone wants something. Then there are _really_ bad days, when the ear worm that won't quit is "yummy yummy yummy I've got love in my tummy."

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We'll get it back. I think we have a pretty strong side this year.

I have maybe 2-3 TONS (no joke) of books that I simply must cull. Our local library gets most of the good stuff, but I wonder if there is another place where they can do some good. Any ideas?

Circumstances kept me from listening to as much of the show as I wanted to, but I loved the parts I caught. Great show!

We have a cricket in our courtyard that has a serious Pavarotti problem. Oh man is that dude loud and loquacious. He does a mean Barber of Seville though, I have to admit. ;-)

The Scots need to release their inner hooligan. It seems like the Swiss would be easy to intimidate.

Do you remember the Monty Python bit where philosophers play soccer? It sounds similar. ;-)

In the immortal words of Suicidal Tendencies, "All I wanted was a Pepsi!" ;-)

I want it just to freak out my cats. ;-)

I have a real love for Denver. The surgeon that literally saved my son's life was at St. Luke's there, and I spent a _lot_ of time there. Denver is easy to pull for for me.

I wish I was in a 50s movie so some doctor could hand me a handful of pills and say, "here, these will help you sleep." I'm ready for it to be tomorrow.

I got the most halloween looking pumpkin they had. This one fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down. It's perfect.

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And to you. The Avs will be my second favourite team this year. ;-)

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So an elephant walks into a bar and says, "Man, this is a really big bar."

It's been that kind of day for me. Can't get anything right.

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It's 4:41am here, and for reasons I cannot fathom, I want cheetos. Can you even get cheetos at 4:41am on a Tuesday?

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Tricky one. Scuff, scull, sculk?

Under those rules, this is an opinion. ;-)

"Sometimes I'm stuck doing shit I despise." In my world, that's called Tuesday. ;-)

Doc Savage @docsavage88.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you don't care for your veterans, you won't get a military worth having. This is dumb beyond dumb. The VA is already underfunded. Slicing and dicing it further is both unethical and strategically foolish.

Doc Savage @docsavage88.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My childhood in a nutshell -- I wasn't allowed to play football, and I was simultaneously criticized for not being the captain of the football team. This is a true story. "I won the math contest at Duke this weekend." "You were supposed to. What do you want, a cookie?"