The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[StarWarsGirl]

Well, the primary system I use in my job is completely not working. So there's a bunch of stuff I have to do, but I can't.

It's Monday.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Yep they bite. My 2 oldest got bit. We had one of those Liitle Tykes swingsets. Oldest dd was on the swings when a bunch of wasps flew to her and bit her on the shoulder. She ran to the house screaming. Dh grabbed ds who was in the baby swing. Apparently they had made a next in the overhead tube. There was a small screw size hole. That was how we found out she was not allergic. Then a few years later, same swingset, at some point wasps had built a nest in the little play house. That was when ds got bit. I had enough. Threw out that swingset.

Google says wasps have stingers, so they do in fact sting.

When I was 7, I got stung on my first trip to Hilton Head. I screamed and was hysterical. My mom had to slap me to get me to stop screaming.

Hence why I am wasp-phobic now.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

What I do for wasps is get a stiff paper like a post card and use another piece of paper to sweep it onto it. Then I will flush it.

Nope. Too much for me.

Yesterday I used the vacuum's wand so I could stand as far away from it as possible. The only reason I was even able to get that done was because I didn't want to be stung, and I certainly didn't want Jasmine going after it and getting stung.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

 

[Goofyernmost]

One thing that struck me about the sand, was the color of the sand. It wasn’t the white I am used to seeing. It had more of a light brown color and was more coarse. The hotel was near the big Neptune statue.

I don't remember any Neptune statue and it was years ago that I made that trip, but, I cannot imagine that after all these years the sand that was pumped up there was still there. Maybe, but, way out of line with my area of expertise. However, the entire beach was basically washed away. If I remember correctly they pumped sand every day and it took the whole day to replenish about a 40 foot wide section of the beach and the pipes were moved daily or close to it.

 

[DryerLintFan]

Today my family of three will head to "The Pine Barrens" region in western NJ to see an air show. McGuire Air Force Base is hosting it.. My wife always tries to make me feel jealous and mentions how she loves the handsome young men in their uniforms.
Anyway..............tonight I'll try to post a couple of Air Show photos

I may have missed it.... but it looks like you forgot to post pictures of all the handsome young men in their uniforms....

Representing Disney at FCC!

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You look really relaxed in that one. Normally when I read your TRs and you say you look like a stressed out spazz I'm like, nawwww. you look beautiful in those pictures. But I can see it now. You still look beautiful in your Disney pictures, but even on your stressful busy day you don't have your Disney Face on.

Looks like a really fun time!!

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

There’s a lot of rocks there too. We used to surf near the pier. One time I borrowed a friend’s brand new surf board.. paddled out., got a wave.. wiped out.. broke the board. Afterwards, I went and purchased a surf board..and it wasn’t even for myself.

There was an awesome restaurant in VA Beach called The Jewish Mother, one of my favorites ever.. casual, great food, you were encouraged to write on the tables.. just super neat place. I think it closed down a few years ago though..not sure if it reopened. It was near where you stayed, did you happen to see it?

There was no real time to go sight seeing. I went with 2 other moms and their girls for dinner. We wanted to go to a place called Dough Boys which was a short walk from the hotel. When we got there, they said they had booked out for a party. It was after 6 and kids were cranky for dinner, so we went to a place we had passed. I didn't care where I went. I knew I was just getting a salad. It was nothing I would write home about for sure. Aside from the really nice convention center, I will not be begging to go back there for a beach vacation. I will stick to Hilton Head for that.

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

Google says wasps have stingers, so they do in fact sting.

When I was 7, I got stung on my first trip to Hilton Head. I screamed and was hysterical. My mom had to slap me to get me to stop screaming.

Hence why I am wasp-phobic now.

Huh. I always thought they bit. I just looked it up also. Maybe because they don't leave a stinger behind we were under the impression that they bit. They are horrible insects. Just plain mean. At least for the most part, normal bees will not attack unless provoked, wasps don't care.

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

Nope. Too much for me.

Yesterday I used the vacuum's wand so I could stand as far away from it as possible. The only reason I was even able to get that done was because I didn't want to be stung, and I certainly didn't want Jasmine going after it and getting stung.

Who will dump out the vacuum canister? That is one reason I don't use a vacuum anymore. I don't want to risk the chance of touching a vacuumed insect. Blech.

 

[DryerLintFan]

Okay, now I found a live wasp when Jasmine was trying to kill it...I yanked her off of that and got out the vacuum; by the time the vacuum was on, the wasp had disappeared.

I now lie in wait for it to come back...

Going to tell my parents that they need to do something about this. I don't need a bunch of vet bills because one of the cats got stung. And I certainly don't need to get stung either.

All the nope. Nope Nope Nope. Burn the house down. You can't live there.

 

[DryerLintFan]

Oh my gosh. What an exciting day for dd, her team, and us crazy parents. There were 17 teams actually. The announcer kept announcing teams and there’s hadn’t gotten announced. When they got to 10, we all started looking at each other. Then 9, then8, then 7, 6. When he got to 5 and they still were not called we held our breaths. Four got called and it wasn’t them. All the other teams clear the stage and only the top 3 are left. Remember that team from Tom’s River, NJ that had beaten them twice? Yep, they were one of the 3. Well the announcer says there was a tie for second. Then he announces first and it was not Toms River and not dd’s. They actually tied for 2nd. They lost first by only .09. We were so proud of them. It was their first time at this competition and it was the first season of cheer for many of the girls. Here are some pics. In the photo with the 3 groups, her team is on the left. The middle team got first. So cheer season is now over, except for The Summit at Disney. That is next weekend.
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AMAZING JOB!!! And adorable tiny cheerleader!!

 

[Cesar R M]

Norwegian Cruise Line has a new, one billion dollar ship. It has a fun race track on two levels.


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It seems NCL, Carnival and Royal are on a fight to see who makes the most outrageous upgrades to their ships.

First it was RCCL with their indoor bump cars and ice rink.
now this..

 

[MOXOMUMD]

Sympathy like. What is the next step for your hip?

Possible arthroscopic surgery depending on the tear's location.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

Google says wasps have stingers, so they do in fact sting.

When I was 7, I got stung on my first trip to Hilton Head. I screamed and was hysterical. My mom had to slap me to get me to stop screaming.

Hence why I am wasp-phobic now.

We had a wasp nest behind a shutter on my living room window last year. I got stung good twice.

 

[Cesar R M]

Ok, so we spent the weekend in Germany visiting a friend of mine. She's from Sri Lanka and met her husband when he went there for work once. Niwanthi and I met at the Dutch Language school. We have a group of friends from that school and we all married Dutch men and moved here, and had families. So Niwanthi and her husband moved to Germany about 2 years ago and I hadn't seen her since, and I really missed her. I'm sad that we only had basically 2 days there with her. My husband didn't want to drive down on the Wednesday night after work...it's a 4 hour drive there without stops. So we drove over on Thursday and got there in the early afternoon and she had to take her kids to music lessons, so we didn't have time to go anywhere that day, Friday the poor girl ended up working more than 12 hours. She manages a vacation park there and they had gotten a huge shipment of couches for all of the cabins. 94 couches that needed to be removed and then the new ones moved in. So she didn't get home until almost 8 p.m....glad I was there to make dinner so she didn't have to do it when she got home!! Her husband was home around 3 or so, so we went hiking a few minutes from their house. We basically made a big circle....we followed a stream up to the edge of the town and climbed this big hill. From the top, you look one way and you can see the whole area down below. You turn around the other way and you can see where the border sat between East and West Germany. I didn't see the watch tower...I don't know if it still exists, but you could see the line where the wall was, and you can see the roofs of the houses from the town just across that line in the East German part. When they opened the border, people from that town flooded into Bad Sachsa to get jobs and homes. And these homes are all really big because several generations would live in one house. My friend's neighbors have 3 different families living there....a man with his new wife, his son and the son's family, and then I think she said it was a daughter and her family. Anyway, pictures:
The view from the top of the hill:

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Facing the other direction. You can't see the wall line in this picture. But it's basically in a line from the windmill to the right of center, and then that clump of trees to the left of that, and all the way across:
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The area is known for that white stone you see there in the first picture. It's used to make plaster, and apparently all the houses in the area have these rocks in their walls. My friend's husband said you can't really remodel because the walls are like....dry wall over a wooden frame with rocks in between and they are sturdy as they are, but as soon as you break into the wall, the structure loses its integrety. You don't know what you'll find behind each wall, so you can redecorate, but not rebuild. Here's the big kiln where the stone was baked.
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The kids climbed all over the place.
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There was a bunker in the wooded area, but I didn't get a picture. Niwanthi's oldest came running out of the trees shouting "Daddy, come look!!" and I was a bit afraid of what an 11 year old boy found worthy of this kind of excitement. I was expecting maybe a snake or something. But it was a bunker that Marc said was from WWII for ammunition. I tried to google it and there WAS a picture that looked like it could be it, and it said it was now repurposed as a

Spoiler: possible phobia trigger. ajrwdwgirl, DON'T LOOK.

refuge for bats.

Just a little way down the path from there is the Priest hole or priest cave?
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On the other side of the path is the pond:
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And then you follow the path around and end up at the bottom of the cliff from where we had the first view.
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Its gorgeous!

Interesting that the mountains do not seem very high and the soil seems so white!

 

[Cesar R M]

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FEAR THE FLUFF! INDEED.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

@donaldtoo Are you sailing on the Dream? What a fluke for that pipe to break. My best friends are cruising on it next spring.

 

[93boomer]

Yep they bite. My 2 oldest got bit. We had one of those Liitle Tykes swingsets. Oldest dd was on the swings when a bunch of wasps flew to her and bit her on the shoulder. She ran to the house screaming. Dh grabbed ds who was in the baby swing. Apparently they had made a next in the overhead tube. There was a small screw size hole. That was how we found out she was not allergic. Then a few years later, same swingset, at some point wasps had built a nest in the little play house. That was when ds got bit. I had enough. Threw out that swingset.

I would have too!

 

[Cesar R M]

That is unbelievable. What won't they put on a cruise ship?

How long until.. gaasp, they put a cruise ship INSIDE a cruise ship!

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Who will dump out the vacuum canister? That is one reason I don't use a vacuum anymore. I don't want to risk the chance of touching a vacuumed insect. Blech.

Mom will. Straight into the trash.