Yeah, driving home from the overly crowded outlets, saw lightning hit an electric pole as we drove by. Was weird as it looked like a beeline to that pole. Yeah, we are used to storms so most have lightning rods on the top of them. But not much show of rain, and funny wet on one side of street and not other.
Burgers on grill wanted, so even with rain, AC cracking. Muggy and a bit cooler. Paired it with some tater tots and green beans, and wah la, dinner is served.
Yeah, I was annoyed, with our state requiring face masks, at the outlets saw many without wearing them, some with one in their hands, some no sight of one, and some had it hanging open or pushed down below chin. And this was mainly adults. You can bet, we had ours on, and washed our hands at every place we could. And we did not eat inside the food court. No way would we be drinking while shopping either. At least the stores were in an open mall, no inside hallway store doors. There were lines outside the door for almost every store. Significantly the huge line was for Nike. Eh, no need to stand in that crazy line, so we said we’d go back on a hopefully not as crowded day. I will say, the ones carrying much were not the majority. We had two small bags, one of which was one of the smallest that nearly held the sneaker box. I did find shorts that I like at a decent enough price, and woot, with a 10 dollar off any 10 or more purchase, very nice price for the pair I liked the color of, and which I did not have.
Looks like DisneyLife scored for Father’s Day. Always nice to get a new car and vacuum. Fancy one, LOL
With that, a nice enough first day of Summer, so have a super beautiful night. Time for my little bit if grey goose. Refreshing this time of year. And had to look up that wine that Schumi mentioned. Sounded quite nice wine. I am a white wine more than red fan.
I was reading of several people being fined on public transport for not wearing a mask, or not wearing it correctly....yes, there was picture of a man, not doctored of him snoozing with the mask over his eyes!!
Food sounds good......well except green beans!!! Veg of the devil.....lol......hope you had a lovely night.......
LOL!
Oogie Boogie is a creep. I used to hate him. Now I think he's funny.
When we were wearing rubber gloves out to the stores, my youngest and I would squeak them at each other closing our hands like Johnny Depp did as Wonka. We have a weird sense of humor. People probably thought we were nuts.
Oh, that's scary!
You braved the outlets? I've been eyeing the Stroudsburg ones after seeing Kate Spade was having a big sale. I'm not quite ready yet, as I can imagine the crowds.
What's your address again?
Weird sense of humours are good. With you all the way there......
Good Saturday evening Sans family
They are setting off fireworks around here again tonight for the 7th night in a row. This is normal occurrence until couple days after the 4th.
It’s on the next street. All I can say is they are impressive. The size and the continued onslaught means someone spent a few grand on them. They will usually quit by 10. I’am sure people with pets are not very happy. There have been complaints on the Nextdoor neighbor boards.
I always watch it again around Halloween. It’s a fun one to watch.
Guess there were no druids when you went?
I`m sure I`ve mentioned before how much I hate fireworks being handled by most folks who have no clue what they are dealing with....being in the explosives industry for many years, it never ceases to amaze me how little folks know of how much damage a small amount of anyhting can do.
Even organised dispalys we never stood too close to anything.
Yes, for pets and folks who are disturbed by the explosions it`s not nice.
I must give that movie a try....maybe at Halloween this year.
To be honest I was around 6 when we last went down there to visit those relatives......yes, we`re very close.....lol.....I don`t hav emuch of a memory of the place except for apparently being very underwhelmed! We had just come from London where I was seeing Big Ben, Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace.....
Hope you have a lovely Sunday and enjoy chatting to your dad today Robo......
I meant to post earlier today but the day got away from me. I woke up at 4:00 this morning and had trouble getting back to sleep. A couple of times I had just dozed off and the cat came up to me and rubbed his head on my hand. That startled me awake.
I took a short nap after breakfast and then did some house cleaning. B and I had a late lunch and then went to the mall. My favorite clothing store was having a 50% off everything sale, and I had a coupon for $15 off. I got myself a new pair of jeans and 3 shirts.
I came home and sat in my recliner for a "moment" and then I was going to do more house cleaning. I ended up falling asleep and taking a 3 hour nap. Guess I'll be awake for a while now.
I have an amusing vision of a Barney themed HHN house. I hated that dinosaur.
We are a little more relaxed here. I had to sign a form, but was given the option to wait int he waiting room or my car. No special mouthwash.
B is the same. I miss the days when I could buy clothes and she would wear them without argument. She actually hates to shop now. I practically have to force her to shop when she needs new clothes.
The main reason I don't miss living there.
You said a dirty word - insurance. The worst one being Medicare.
Cool! Congrats!
I'm with you there.
Okay, we have you, me, and Sue in the chicken club. Who else is joking in us? Roll call!
That drives me crazy too. I say wear it correctly or don't wear it at all.
I hate wearing the mask, but will comply with the rules.
Save a place at the table for me.
Not a fan of fireworks unless the professionals handle them.
We loved Barney in this house!!!!!
At one point when Kyle was very little he was either going to be a trash man or Barney when he grew up!!! Glad he set his sights a lot higher!!!
Schumi thanks. It’s never fun canceling a vacation. It’s the first time I’ve ever had to. I’m telling myself it’s not canceled just postponed. Sounds better.
With our borders I’m just not sure they’ll open by Aug1. Latest opening is supposed to be 7/21. But each time it gets close they extend the date. Then the mess with wdw bookings and virus I think I made the right decision. Added to the complication that travel medical may not cover Covid. Yup.
I am holding out hope that we’ll be able to go for late Nov. trip. Fingers crossed. May switch to Uni and RPH.
I’ve never had much luck with Dyson. Had an upright and a cordless. Maybe it’s just us! But dd was thrilled to get it!
I’m going to have to look up what a Moscow Mule is!
I’ll have to ask the govt store if they can order that wine. Or hunt online.
Love the fizzy ginger beer. I didn’t know there’s non fizz! The Jamaican stuff is good! Strong ginger flavour. It’s not for everyone, my family doesn’t like it. More for me!
Have a good night all! I hope tonight I’ll be able to get some sleep!
I don`t actually like Moscow Mules. Rum Mule is just the rum version. StrongWater do the freshly made ginger beer with no fizz.....Lenny gave me his recipe as they do make it all fresh in house......I always add more ginger. I like Idris fiery which is Jamaican......we can get that anywhere which is good.
There should be a merchant carry the wine to be ordered. We didn`t order direct from them as the delivery cost would be horrendous.....but a couple of merchants have it for sale in the UK, not too many though.
Hope you had a good sleep.......
I just saw pictures of the new paint job for Cinderella’s castle for the 50th anniversary of MK. SO much better than what they did for the 25th.
I think it looked better the way it was. Still too gaudy looking for me.......but, yes, nothing could be as bad as the 25th!!!
Just stopping in to wish everyone a Happy Summer Soltice!!! It's the longest day of the year. I am just going to enjoy the warm beautiful weather we are having right now.
@schumigirl I hope you hear more about your trip soon. The boarder here is now closed yet until July 24. We are being " advised " not to travel to different provinces. Guess we will see what happens in the next 2 months here.
We got to enjoy the warm beautiful weather today. I warm day with no wind is rare...so we loaded the boat and went fishing! The one ds and I caught quite a few fish compared to the other two
I lost count after 18 fish. We have a very strict size limit and I caught the only one. We ended up taking it out of the livewell and releasing it back into the lake to grow a little bigger for me to catch again! That same ds caught 2 VERY large fish that we actually trophy size. We had to release those ones too, as we are not allowed to keep any of that one. But we have NOT seen anything even close to the size of the two fish ( nothern pike if you were wondering ) he caught in this lake for over 10 years. It's nice to know that there are some big ones cruising around the lake and will breed more of them!
Well, it's late, and I should hit the shower and get all this sunscreen off me and hit the hay!!!!
To everyone who is spending or thinking about their Dads tomorrow...enjoy the time spent them with them or savor the memories you have of them.
Good night to everyone else I missed. I seems to get to read but not post lately.
Good to see you Pumpkin!!!
Yes, Happy Summer Solstice.......glad to hear you have such lovely weather finally.....
With borders being closed it`s a no win situation. Here we are just being told to not cross over into the other countries like Scotland and Wales and vice versa. Our borders aren`t manned the way Canada/USA is though, but we still follow the rules. Yes, the following weeks will be revealing.
Fishing sounds fun! Nice your DS caught such a whopper!!!
Hope you had a good nights sleep too!
We had some heavy winds during the night and rain, but it`s to be gone in an hour or so. I can already see the blue skies emerging over the hills behind us......it must be heading out to sea as the skies over the ocean are very very dark.
Bacon and scrambled egg whites for breakfast......not too unhealthy and very filling. And means we have room for a nice lunch too......
Steaks will be cooked outside today as by that time, it`ll be lovely outside and we have two friends coming over as we can sit outside. I`m looking forward to seeing them....distantly of course!
Tom was delighted with his gifts.....his face lit up like a Christmas tree when he saw the Cognac......and Kyle had ordered him a few other little bits and pieces I didn`t know about. So, he has felt very spoiled today.....and he deserves it!!!
No real plans till later.......friends will only be here for an hour or so...before visiting their son who lives close to us, but we`ll be glad to see them.
Have a great Sunday.......
Happy Sunday.........................