Kevin's Watch

I always complain about having to go, but once there I do enjoy it. (It's mostly because it's like an hour & a half drive to get to that particular one that I complain.)

--A

mmm .. you sound like an obstinate child whining till your realise .. oh yeah this IS good

Not much different...

--A

No rock climbing lately, Av?

Hes an old, old, old man now Menolly and kicks up a stink if he has to get in the car for an hour and a half drive .. just to go hiking

Skyweir wrote:

Sorus wrote:He was a licker, not a biter, and his sandpaper tongue was no joke. He wore down the arm of his favorite chair to the point where it was very noticeable, and you could hear him licking it from the other side of the house. Rasp, rasp, rasp. Try to get him to stop, and he'd just lean away a little in annoyance - can't you see I'm busy here? Tried that bitter apple stuff, and it took him about an hour to acquire a taste for it. Rasp, rasp, rasp, yuck, rasp, rasp, hey this stuff isn't bad. The only thing he didn't like was black pepper, so I'd be sprinkling pepper on the chair a couple of times a day. The things that become normal when you have pets. That worked for a few weeks, then he started eviscerating the cushions and eating the tasty foam filling.

That is hilarious Sorus .. brilliant description LOL

I second ^that!

skyweir wrote:Oddly enough my eldest daughter used to bit her wooden bunk beds too .. literally left bit marks in the wood .. sooooo weird Its not like we didnt feed her geez .. buy your own furniture kid

When my younger son was probably about 4, I received, as a Christmas gift, a beautiful-to-my-aesthetic raspberry-colored spatula.
(rubber scraper? one side of my fam calls them that... things you use to scrape out the last bit of cake batter out of the bowl.)
Not 24 hours later, I looked at it and there was a chunk bitten out of it!
I questioned the culprit, and he immediately explained, "Well, I saw it... and I thought I would like to take a bite of it - and so I did!"

That must have taken some effort - those things tend to be rather tough.

Menolly wrote:No rock climbing lately, Av?

Lazy and unfit. Also, my local crag is currently closed.

--A

.... and old

I'll always be younger than you...

--A

You will, you baby .. but I ... LOVE being old

Ive fully embraced it and live despite it

Skyweir wrote:

You will, you baby .. but I ... LOVE being old

Ive fully embraced it and live despite it

Kids....
remember life can end after 60...
but I'm not going to help it along.

If I make 60, I'll be doing well. (Not that I don't intend to, but my family has a nasty habit of dying young...)

--A

Yes well dont do that .. lol

Im soo close to 60 .. and life can end after 20yo .. hasnt yet .. so keeping on keeping on

Ha, I'm going to live forever.

Or die trying.

--A

Hahahaha .. right there with you matey right there

Avatar wrote:my local crag is currently closed.

--A

Thank GOD nobody ran with that one.

I had surgery and a biopsy somewhere in the area of my personal crag and am now recovering at home. Yes, folks, I had surgery in Nigeria (but the surgeon was Korean).

A couple of months ago, I was probably the most fit and healthy I've been, ever. Then a bad migraine, them malaria, malaria part 2, and now this. Gahh.

For summer break from school, I am learning to play piano from books, writing lesson plans for teaching elementary music in the Fall, and weaving a hammock. I would have been done by now but I had to have Fawn of the Dawn send me more rope because somehow I underestimated.

We've had no electricity for 6 or 7 weeks unless we run a generator. For other highlights on life in Nigeria, watch the viral "This is Nigeria" video by Falz, a takeoff on "This is America" by Childish Gambino (and even more dense with references to current issues, and not obtuse as Gambino's video is).

Haha, I didn't figure out what you meant until you mentioned your own.

Sheesh Deer, sorry to hear it, hope you make a speedy recovery. As for malaria...the disease that keeps on giving. That really sucks.

--A