- Painting and drawing on a big cardboard box with Boo was almost as much fun as it was when I was 4.
- If you leave the cover off of the sand box overnight in a neighborhood with a lot of stray cats, you don’t get to be angry with your husband when you find the inevitable results.
- A sign of parental love: Volunteering to use the minivan to transport multiple teenage girls to the mall and back.
- Teenage girls, when grouped together in an enclosed space such as a minivan, become just as goofy as teenage boys.
- Not quite as obnoxious, but much more talkative.
- I got in touch with my inner hipster this afternoon and checked out Trader Joes.
- Not bad. Kind of a lower-cost Whole Foods
- Trader Joe’s Cookie Butter on a sliced granny smith apple is an outstanding snack. I must be careful.
- This stuff is almost as addictive as Nutella.
- So is extra spicy ginger beer.
- While sitting on a bench at a nexus of the mall and waiting for the girls to meet me at the appointed time to be transported home, I noted that I could smell Starbucks, Cinnabon, a perfume store, and Abercrombie & Fitch. That is not a combination that I ever thought I would encounter, and one that I hope I never encounter again.
- Sitting and people watching at the mall for half an hour will remind you why you consider yourself a misanthrope.
- When going up to the feed store to get a new water dish for the dogs, Boo was fascinated with the prods and crops used for training and controlling horses. I’m not sure what that portends, but it’s probably not something I want to think about.
- I don’t know if it’s in the Guy Code, but “Thou shalt not make a suggestion about home improvements to another man’s wife that will make that man spend three times as much money, time, and sweat to get to a satisfactory end state” sure as heck ought to be listed in there somewhere.
- Mental note – Universal ceiling fan remotes aren’t.
Thoughts on the Day
Posted by daddybear71 on May 19, 2012
https://daddybearsden.com/2012/05/19/thoughts-on-the-day-29/
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Drang
/ May 19, 2012TJs is, in deed, pretty good. “Two Buck Chuck” is damned good wine, for the price.
And it could be worse: The one with the interest in prods and whips and things could be Girlie Bear…
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LabRat
/ May 20, 2012He’s a small boy and they’re tools for controlling animals vastly larger and stronger than he is.
Kind of the same root as the dinosaur and construction equipment fixations small boys are also prone to.
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Mad Jack
/ May 20, 2012I’m with Drang and the Two Buck Chuck.
I don’t make suggestions about do-it-yourself home improvement projects, as I feel such things can only lead to trouble. What never occurred to me is (until I read your post) is to make those suggestions to another man’s wife. I’ll have to think up something suitable to suggest to my Pastor’s wife as a kind of ‘eye for an eye’ concerning Church work day assignments.
I, too, have hauled teenage girls to the mall. It’s a real experience. When I got back home I gave Main Lady some carefully worded Hell about fashion trends, undergarments and too much information.
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