When we landed here you said you needed a few days to get space worthy again and is there somethin' wrong with your bunk?

Mal ,'Out Of Gas'


Spike's Bitches 49: As usual, I'm here to help you, and I... are you naked under there?

Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Steph L. - May 29, 2020 10:40:44 am PDT #7030 of 8208
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Paying Tim's nephew to overhaul our backyard is worth every penny. (Largely because Tim and I are old and decrepit and would not be able to pull ivy and cut down The Honeysuckle Bush That Ate Northside.) When it's all finished, we're getting some comfy lawn-furniture chairs and a fire pit (because it is every Beckmeyer's birthright to have a fire in their backyard [lest we forget, we did in fact have a fire pit at our wedding reception, courtesy of his brother]). And I'm low-key obsessed right now with picking out a good hammock with a frame (I don't want to attach it to a tree) that has appropriate Big Fat Panda weight limit.

Even before the coronavirus, we weren't going to be able to take a vacation this year, because Tim used all his vacation time on his luxurious stay in the cardiac ICU, and then recuperating at home. So might as well turn our hellscape of a backyard (it was so bad that I'm ashamed to share "before" pictures) into a nice place to while away the summer.


esse - May 29, 2020 1:39:17 pm PDT #7031 of 8208
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

That sounds like a solid project, Teppy, and pretty rewarding too!


beth b - May 30, 2020 7:32:01 am PDT #7032 of 8208
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

We have a hammock on a frame that fits the two of us easily. And when there were 3 of us at somewhere in the 550 range it was fine. I think any double hammock should do. And yay for backyard transformation!


Jessica - Jun 15, 2020 11:28:48 am PDT #7033 of 8208
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Found out today that what we thought was a clogged trap in the laundry room is actually a cracked sewer line below the garage, which has filled up with plants growing in it. We have been advised not to do laundry until they can dig out the pipe and replace it, which will take more or less two weeks. I don't know how to explain to the plumbing company that this is *really* not a great time of the month for me to not do laundry for two weeks. (Not that I have a choice, BUT OH MY FUCKING GOD 2020.)


Laura - Jun 15, 2020 11:52:35 am PDT #7034 of 8208
Our wings are not tired.

Ugh, not fun at all. Do you have drop off laundry service nearby?


-t - Jun 15, 2020 12:13:16 pm PDT #7035 of 8208
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Ugh, Jess! Most unfortunate.


Jessica - Jun 15, 2020 12:18:34 pm PDT #7036 of 8208
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Do you have drop off laundry service nearby?

Probably? I've never had to look!


meara - Jun 15, 2020 12:19:30 pm PDT #7037 of 8208

Oh yikes Jess! What a pain.

Question for y'all: I have carpet in my house. I do not want carpet. What is the best/easiest way to change that? I think about the options and they all seem incredibly onerous since I am currently living, with my furniture, in the house. Do people move out? Rent a storage unit? Does anyone have recs or dis-recommendations for flooring? I have no idea what I want other than "some kind of wood situation that is not carpet"


Dana - Jun 15, 2020 12:23:51 pm PDT #7038 of 8208
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

When we had wood flooring put in our first house ages ago, they moved everything in the kitchen to one side of the room to do half, and then once it cured or whatever, they moved everything again and did the other half.


sj - Jun 15, 2020 12:38:27 pm PDT #7039 of 8208
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Meara, probably a prefinished wood floor.