@QMS I think deer remind us of how wonderful it is to live in the countryside. It has been 40 years since I lived in the Houston area, listening to sirens every couple of minutes 24/7, few or no birds, no howling coyotes...Like deer, I love pastures, not lawns. The birds are back, the squirrels are tucked away with acorns and pecans to get them through the winter...it's just all good, ain't it?
Dad farmed acres of corn for us, the cattle, and instead of high fencing, he just planted extra rows for the deer.
Enjoy your weekend, my friend!

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Just saw a deer galloping past the window outside.
We have 4 or 5 that frequent the yard back by the woods.
Fun to watch them graze. The other day a squirrel surprised
me by jumping onto the screen and stared inside. Crazy critters.

Enjoy your R & R and thanks for the OT!

@Lookout We have rains coming today and hard rains and near freezing weather Monday. That's fine with me. I do not have to go anywhere but that 3 minute drive to the office Monday.
So, I am getting ready to start cooking the roast. We will have a traditional (sort of) meal this evening, with mashed potatoes and gravy, steamed broccoli. I can have pecan pie a la mode, but Dear One must avoid sugar. I figure after one piece, I will give the rest of the pie away. It is a luxury many of my neighbors can't afford.
The trees around our home are far enough away that leaf blowing isn't a thing, but sometimes we have to attend to the office roof because the office is rimmed with pecan trees.
I have some disposable hand warmers, but those rechargeable ones are something Dear One should consider. The toxic chemicals in him cause his hands to be super sensitive to cold.
We are enjoying a relaxing weekend here, and wish the same for you and yours, dear friend!

It was a chilly 28F this AM. About five deer were browsing near the garden when I left for Trade Day.
I bought a pair of rechargeable hand warmers a while back, and they sure make being out in the cold more comfortable.

Yesterday I finally got the leaves on the roof and yard blown into the woods. Nice to have the green yard back.

Rain is due tonight and tomorrow, and off and on next week. It's okay, we need it.

Hope everyone has a great weekend. Thanks for the OT!

@usefewersyllables and tonight's low is 13 deg. Couple inches of snow tomorrow and Monday. Meanwhile, here at home, I went outside to clip a few green briars, poison a few ant beds, and regretted wearing a sweatshirt.
I hope your socks are loose and hardly noticeable beyond extra warmth.

last night, 10degF this AM.

First snow of the year, finally. Guess I’m gonna haveta start wearing socks again. Sigh…

Time to roll over and go back to sleep, until the sun is high and warm.

@enhydra lutris Well, I do not have a family beyond a brother who does his own thing, and Dear One's family is 5 states away, so a phone call does the trick. Not much of an interruptions here.
Like you, an appliance or tool on sale is the only temptations of Black Friday for us. Our only appliance replacement needed was an air fryer, and we replaced it with one that happened to be on sale at Walmart a couple of months ago.
When a holiday celebration becomes hard work, it kills the mood for me. One of my clients and her family gathered for a giant family meal at a Golden Corral restaurant. Not a bad idea for more than a dozen folks of all ages. Let the wait staff do the clean up!
FWIW, Campbell's fired the exec who told about fake chicken in their soup. He was fired! Yes! But there was no official denial, no assurances that the food was natural...and with the firing, the scandal went away. Campbell's stockholders can rest easy.
What an economy!
Enjoy your weekend, my friend!

is a serious interruption; excessive cleaning, rearranging the house and patio, planning psecial menu and procuring ingredients, and then prepping same M-T-W and then cook, celebrate talk and such until well after bed time, then clean, put away, and rearrange shit to the way it normally is on Friday and a chunk or Saturday, plus farmers' market.

We seldon do the shopping frenzy thing, but do sometimes take advantage of some of the sales. This follows a normal pattern, Sometime in July or August it is either discovered that thing x is on the fritz, or that its glitches and malfunctions are beginning to get intolerable. After failed attempts to repair or determination that it cannot be repaired or isn't worth it to try a decision is made to replace, usage is minimised while esearch on replacement is undertaken until mid October. Black Friday we go get the chosen replacement at the vender with the best price or order for later delivery.

I can't really tell aboout the deer. They show up on the driveway cam now and then. We have fenced them out of the back yard, but they are visible in the various yards facing the court and out in the court fairly often and we often have deer scat in the front yard. They are mostly dusk til dawn visitors and we generally aren't night people so we don't have a really good handle on their presence, but they are still out and about these evenings.

be well and have a good one

@soryang How shitty of the airline to categorize your wife at a damn glance!
Well, sitting in an airport 3 hours, boarding for an 11 flight, 3 hour layover, boarding for another 11 hr flight did not seem to me to require clothing I would wear to court!
I always wore loose slacks, sometimes flannel lounge wear, but nice enough to be seen in public. I won't sit upright with a button or zipper or belt gouging me for a day!
Insofar as safe touring, I studied up on what the locals wore so that I would fit in. I never wore jeans, tennis shoes,sweat shirts or sweat pants, or exercise clothes. Americans do that, the Europeans and Asians do not. Central and South Americans do not. It makes you stand out as an American target in a crowd for thieves. Slippers are easy to take off and put on when going through security, and if you ever suffered from edema after hours in a plane, you will know first hand, your nice shoes won't fit back onto your swollen feet.
I have several $5 watches I wore when traveling. Sometimes I wear them when traveling in the US. And some small, cheap earrings. Rio de Genaro is where I didn't take out my camera for photos unless I had a guy close by.
Enjoy your weekend and dress appropriately, friend!

The airport obsession with clothes is part of stereotyping I think. A corporate type that we know well does a lot of traveling by air. In so doing, he collects a lot of mileage, and has the status special perks thing going on. Once he upgraded a flight for Ms. So to an overseas destination, once the very top first class or whatever just to impress her, I guess. Don't get me wrong, he's a great guy. He's got a wonderful sense of humor too, and I think that's part of it.

If she's going to be five to twelve times zones out, lugging bags, etc. Ms. So dresses informally in jeans and whatever else is comfortable. We often joke about a South Korean youtuber who wears the most expensive attire, paraphernalia, bag, sunglasses, hat, etc., all myungpoon, Italian and French designer brands, etc. She doesn't. Definitely not her style. (Ms. So told me despite her effort to maintain an ordinary appearance in Vatican City last, she was being stalked by a thief, who had an eye on her handphone; some young guy chased the thief off, after she had taken it out for pictures). At the airport VIP priority boarding or whatever, she was stopped, checked and interrogated in the first class. while others dressed the part, or the right race, just breezed through. She didn't have the Crazy Rich Asian look, I guess.

"Are you sure you're in the right place? This is first class you know...you're not in the right line. Go over there," pointing in the imperative voice. Then Ms. So has to go into the indignant role, raise her voice. She says things like, "do you even know what you're doing? Get your supervisor over here, now. How long have you worked here? You say that without checking my boarding pass, yadan yadan." Then as the airline employee tries to maintain their superior position and authority because they wear a spiffy uniform, the raised voices attract other employees in the area, who get rid of the idiot who makes judgements based upon stupid assumptions.

There are a fair number of youtube videos about this sort of thing. It's a joke between us, because in the Kdramas they always say, in an indignant tone, Nugoo inji ara? (gap jil- berating subordinates) Do you know who I am? In the youtube videos it's a canned plot gimmick. When the poorly dressed passenger is mistreated by the flight crew, the guy sitting across the aisle in economy watching the whole humiliating episode turns out to be the airline CEO, who comes to the rescue. Sometimes it doesn't actually work that way.

It must be going around.

Glad to hear the good medical news OTC. Thanks for the holiday weekend O&E.

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@Cassiodorus I couldn't read this without giving them my email, but I sort of get the point.
Who'd a thunk that the anti-woke crowd had a hero? Lol!
I look back upon the pre-Musk times fondly.
I hope your weather is good, and that your weekend plans include some fun and frolic, friend!

The Intercept tells us:

Elon Musk’s Anti-Woke Wikipedia Is Calling Hitler “The Führer”

Here is the page in question itself. As the character "Linda Richman" used to say, talk amongst yourselves.

@usefewersyllables I bought a can of Reddi Whip for the first time in maybe 25 years. I used it on my coffee cake, just so you know. I forgot all about the better use! Lol!
People are nuts, friend! And not just in Denver!
Enjoy your weekend!

And very Denver.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/1p8hff4/funniest_thing_ive_seen...

Hey, how do you get a link to auto-open embed? This image is in .webp format, and won’t upload from my iPad- and I’ll be damned if I’ll go do the conversion on my laptop in the office on a Saturday… (;-)