I see what appears to be a butterfly. The picture looks scrunched. (is that even a word?)

 

You might need to refresh to see the new avatar? Yeah, I've seen scrunched avatars before.

 

I cleared the browser cache and there are your autumn leaves!

 

Glad you can see them. They won't last long. I get bored easily with avatar pics.

 

Thought I was beginning to have a "Dave" day today. My water dispenser on the fridge stopped working. Last week the ice dispenser wasn't properly dispensing and I thought I'd solved the problem by cleaning everything and replacing the filter. Well, Poo! (thankfully I did not step in that!). SOOOO, I pulled out all the veggie and snack drawers and checked the water tank -- frozen! Easy fix! I got out a hair dryer and let it warm it up for a few minutes and then VOILA', water! Woohoo! Turns out someone (who shall remain nameless) had turned the fridge down a few notches and it was on too cold a setting. Hopefully, that problem has been resolved as well.

 

I title this post "When Men Want Cold Beer."

 

^ And exactly how did you address that second problem with the person who shall remain nameless?

 

Well, no one in this house will admit moving the setting, however, only two people live in this house and I know one who did NOT move the setting. I have informed the other person who lives in this house if HE wishes to continue enjoying the meals cooked in MY kitchen, he shall leave the temperature settings on the fridge where I have placed them. You have to pick your battles.

 

Get right to the heart of things....the stomach!

 

OMG, where do I start? Today was going to be better - right? Yah, right.

Remember the dog crap that I stepped in? Well, it was all over the wheels of the riding mower, sooooo before working on replacing the positive battery cable I wanted to clean off the mower. I'm not sure what +1 is feeding our dog but believe me it's brown paste, so, forget using a regular hose off. I get the pressure washer.

Essentially new. Bought May 2010 and used 5 times. I'm just finishing up when the water gun makes one hell of noise and water blows all over the place. Hummmmm. I go back to Sears where I bought it. What, no we can't take it back. No we don't have parts.

Enough. I'm going for a ride in the MG, top down. This may be the last 70 degree day this year and the hell with leaves, mower, yard mowing, etc.

The MG won't start.

Crank, crank, crank, crank..... nothing.

Can't stop me. I have 'starting fluid'. Go to shoot it in the carbs. The can is 1/2 full but nothing comes out. Nothing. I've never had this happen before. I try removing the plastic spray nozzle and finally get enough liquid to drip it into the carbs. Waaa Laaaa. It starts. And, no fire!

I'm really wired, so I pretend I'm at LeMans on the back roads. OMG. A cop. Never. Never. Never, is there a cop on this road. I can't believe he didn't stop me. Luck is changing.

Two turns later. OMG. A black cat. Now what. Honestly, I am not making any of this up. The sky turns dark. The temperature drops likes 15 degrees in 15 minutes. I'm heading home. So much for top down relaxing.

It's not my fault the Tigers got rained out tonight. Or is it?

So I top off the night with an antibiotic, a Claritin, a Mucinex, a couple hits from a new NetiPot, and several Jim Beams. Tomorrow will be better.