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Total score 0 pts.
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90 5,302
91 5,302
92 5,302
93 5,302
94 5,302
95 5,302
96 5,302
97 5,302
98 5,302
99 5,302
100 5,302
101 5,302
102 5,302
103 5,302
104 5,261
105 5,247
106 5,245
107 4,994
108 4,970
109 4,956
110 4,902
111 4,743
112 4,725
113 4,694
114 4,408
115 4,403
116 4,318
117 4,260
118 4,185
119 4,128
120 4,102
121 4,051
122 4,049
123 4,042
124 4,026
125 3,973
126 3,970
127 3,944
128 3,921
129 3,921
130 3,900
131 3,858
132 3,833
133 3,800
134 3,794
135 3,780
136 3,711
137 3,631
138 3,624
139 3,614
140 3,590
141 3,571
142 3,551
143 3,551
144 3,541
145 3,521
146 3,460
147 3,457
148 3,386
149 3,351
150 3,336
151 3,335
152 3,331
153 3,312
154 3,259
155 3,245
156 3,207
157 3,176
158 3,160
159 3,154
160 3,154
161 3,099
162 3,086
163 3,047
164 3,038
165 3,036
166 3,034
167 3,019
168 3,002
169 2,997
170 2,995
171 2,986
172 2,983
173 2,972
174 2,952
175 2,936
176 2,927
177 2,922
178 2,907
179 2,902
180 2,873
181 2,850
182 2,850
183 2,824
184 2,818
185 2,803
186 2,799
187 2,785
188 2,774
189 2,768
190 2,756
191 2,750
192 2,749
193 2,745
194 2,736
195 2,732
196 2,712
197 2,692
198 2,685
199 2,683
200 2,678
201 2,675
202 2,657
203 2,653
204 2,643
205 2,637
206 2,630
207 2,624
208 2,623
209 2,608
210 2,607
211 2,604
212 2,582
213 2,578
214 2,573
215 2,571
216 2,561
217 2,551
218 2,551
219 2,548
220 2,526
221 2,526
222 2,524
223 2,520
224 2,517
225 2,502
226 2,496
227 2,493
228 2,488
229 2,484
230 2,471
231 2,466
232 2,464
233 2,447
234 2,445
235 2,440
236 2,437
237 2,435
238 2,435
239 2,422
240 2,407
241 2,405
242 2,395
243 2,395
244 2,382
245 2,382
246 2,378
247 2,378
248 2,372
249 2,368
250 2,363
251 2,358
252 2,354
253 2,353
254 2,344
255 2,325
256 2,318
257 2,311
258 2,309
259 2,308
260 2,305
261 2,299
262 2,297
263 2,295
264 2,291
265 2,281
266 2,280
267 2,267
268 2,245
269 2,239
270 2,235
271 2,227
272 2,212
273 2,210
274 2,202
275 2,197
276 2,196
277 2,190
278 2,184
279 2,177
280 2,173
281 2,173
282 2,167
283 2,165
284 2,161
285 2,158
286 2,157
287 2,153
288 2,139
289 2,137
290 2,137
291 2,136
292 2,129
293 2,103
294 2,097
295 2,097
296 2,096
297 2,078
298 2,069
299 2,065
300 2,058
301 2,046
302 2,045
303 2,039
304 2,035
305 2,030
306 2,030
307 2,028
308 2,019
309 2,010
310 2,006
311 2,004
312 1,998
313 1,994
314 1,993
315 1,989
316 1,986
317 1,980
318 1,972
319 1,965
320 1,965
321 1,959
322 1,953
323 1,938
324 1,937
325 1,929
326 1,923
327 1,918
328 1,912
329 1,903
330 1,902
331 1,897
332 1,892
333 1,886
334 1,879
335 1,874
336 1,873
337 1,859
338 1,855
339 1,853
340 1,844
341 1,842
342 1,837
343 1,817
344 1,817
345 1,801
346 1,796
347 1,792
348 1,773
349 1,752
350 1,751
351 1,749
352 1,745
353 1,740
354 1,727
355 1,718
356 1,708
357 1,680
358 1,670
359 1,667
360 1,659
361 1,654
362 1,648
363 1,647
364 1,645
365 1,637
366 1,633
367 1,626
368 1,614
369 1,611
370 1,609
371 1,595
372 1,594
373 1,594
374 1,576
375 1,574
376 1,565
377 1,565
378 1,555
379 1,542
380 1,542
381 1,537
382 1,533
383 1,524
384 1,524
385 1,521
386 1,520
387 1,511
388 1,502
389 1,491
390 1,490
391 1,484
392 1,483
393 1,479
394 1,469
395 1,460
396 1,457
397 1,456
398 1,452
399 1,431
400 1,416
401 1,416
402 1,411
403 1,407
404 1,406
405 1,395
406 1,386
407 1,383
408 1,371
409 1,365
410 1,359
411 1,358
412 1,356
413 1,349
414 1,349
415 1,344
416 1,342
417 1,337
418 1,332
419 1,327
420 1,315
421 1,311
422 1,300
423 1,297
424 1,289
425 1,274
426 1,268
427 1,253
428 1,253
429 1,248
430 1,248
431 1,235
432 1,233
433 1,225
434 1,224
435 1,223
436 1,217
437 1,205
438 1,180
439 1,176
440 1,174
441 1,170
442 1,166
443 1,147
444 1,140
445 1,120
446 1,113
447 1,112
448 1,112
449 1,098
450 1,091
451 1,090
452 1,082
453 1,081
454 1,072
455 1,057
456 1,047
457 1,044
458 1,043
459 1,041
460 1,034
461 1,030
462 1,028
463 983
464 976
465 975
466 975
467 972
468 967
469 963
470 942
471 937
472 919
473 918
474 916
475 915
476 888
477 885
478 884
479 882
480 874
481 873
482 872
483 865
484 858
485 833
486 827
487 818
488 811
489 807
490 803
491 786
492 771
493 763
494 763
495 760
496 758
497 758
498 748
499 740
500 725
501 712
502 707
503 697
504 690
505 682
506 677
507 671
508 669
509 644
510 641
511 640
512 638
513 633
514 632
515 628
516 625
517 592
518 585
519 584
520 576
521 557
522 556
523 555
524 552
525 547
526 546
527 545
528 543
529 542
530 542
531 541
532 535
533 531
534 528
535 521
536 519
537 518
538 518
539 514
540 510
541 498
542 483
543 472
544 464
545 462
546 460
547 458
548 457
549 456
550 455
551 454
552 454
553 439
554 438
555 424
556 404
557 403
558 401
559 399
560 394
561 393
562 387
563 383
564 380
565 369
566 366
567 359
568 346
569 329
570 312
571 310
572 308
573 301
574 295
575 281
576 280
577 265
578 244
579 236
580 220
581 219
582 207
583 206
584 204
585 182
586 174
587 174
588 171
589 162
590 146
591 136
592 121
593 111
594 110
595 103
596 88
597 88
598 76
599 51
600 27
601 20
602 18
603 10
604 9
605 5

329 total words

12:01 am

Flip!

12:02 am

ru 7

12:02 am

pa 7

12:03 am

te7

12:03 am

un8

12:05 am

un7

12:07 am

un7x2

12:07 am

hello everyone :) bl 7

12:08 am

ae7

12:09 am

Tu8

12:09 am

Tu8 -x 2

12:10 am

pa7 x 3

12:10 am

de9

12:10 am

hi8

12:10 am

pa7 x 4

12:10 am

bl 7 x2

12:12 am

I'm always amazed at all of the people that find long words (>7 letters so soon after the flip!

12:15 am

al 7

12:17 am

al7 x 2

12:18 am

bl9

12:18 am

bl7 x 3

12:18 am

bl7 x 4

12:19 am

in7

12:19 am

Whoops - in6

12:19 am

bl7 x 5

Clues are up

12:21 am

bl7 x 6

12:24 am

en8 x 2

12:28 am

hi 8

12:29 am

al7 x 3

12:39 am

it 9 and 10

ty rain

12:41 am

you're welcome

I've got 4 out of 23 u's. 23? 23?

12:47 am

bl 9

12:48 am

good grief. i've just greyed my first tile

12:49 am

unless there's two, already called nan

12:49 am

sorry - missed the call

12:50 am

okay... lots of calls tonight

12:52 am

not seeing that it -- maybe tomorrow -- good night everyone

12:53 am

it9. ir5, another word for anger, put the fork prong in the middle

12:54 am

found :)

12:54 am

woot. well done nan

found the zombies, that puts me up to 8 u's, I'm calling it a night. nbt, nbs, 4 letters greyed, not counting the zeros, 114 left. See y'all in the morning.

12:59 am

sweet dreams rasta

12:59 am

i have found 11 u words

1:14 am

un8x2

1:31 am

whew! 6 tiles greyed. 61 to go

1:39 am

the ru6 after the measuring stick plz

1:40 am

more so ruru

1:40 am

I finallt found a 13th U word; so over half way (just on the letter "U" though) & 210 to go; so good night

1:43 am

sweet dreams nef. i'm going to battle on here.

1:44 am

Good Night & good luck granny & all.

2:09 am

May I please have a clue for de7-40? Thanks

2:10 am

tell a joke without a smile. not alive + pot

2:12 am

maybe someone who took a potshot?

2:14 am

Thanks for the 7 Rose.

2:16 am

np's peach

2:17 am

Does the 8 come from that? The dizzieness is back and I can't see all that well.

2:18 am

no honey. de8. to take the air out

2:31 am

mwah. missing un8/55. please help...comes after un5,below. does the un8 build from that?

2:34 am

hadn't imagined or thought of that

2:35 am

I don't have it, Rose....have the 5 above it.

2:38 am

is that a clue lyn? i'm really at a loss.

2:38 am

It is

2:38 am

no ****

2:39 am

get the middle word and put suffix and prefix on it - foolish word but there you go

2:39 am

aha...thanx. got it

2:40 am

happy little vegemite here. loll. FW's. apart from that silly word the rest flowed well.

2:41 am

congrats

2:41 am

half way BBL

2:41 am

Congrats, Rose.

2:58 am

can i help you peach?

3:01 am

I cannot find the darned de8-45m hon.

3:19 am

too many words for a tired person

3:19 am

Will come back later today.

3:43 am

sorry i was AWOL peach. will check in tomorrow and see if you are here. de8. means to remove air or gas from. start with upper d tile, go up to make the de, then meander down to create the rest of the word.

4:19 am

sometimes you get words that are just ugly!! And that is one of them!

Does the word mean ugly or is it just an ugly word?

4:21 am

Rose gave me clues but I still can't find it. Darn!

after entering 205 words I finally grayed a tile! Yippee!

4:25 am

Yea! for you, Luv. How are you? Staying safe, I hope.

Thanks peach :-) Yes managing to stay safe but it's scary. I'm about 50 miles NW of Detroit where's its really bad. How are you doing?

4:26 am

Peach it's de + ae 6/7

4:28 am

Oh, Thank you Kateq, but I don't have the ae 6 or 7.

4:29 am

meaning put air into

4:29 am

Oh, wait, I just got the ae 6-7.

4:30 am

Oh thanks, Kateq and Luv.

4:32 am

Luv, I'm hanging on here. I don't go outside anyway but I would like to be able to. I have a friend that brings food and meds when I need them. My furbaby keeps me going.

5:17 am

hello, all. It has been quite a long time since I played. But it looks like I will have a lot of time in the near future. I have developed a fever. The nursing home I work in has had 2 staff members test positive. Hoping to get tested today.

5:22 am

Oh, golly, phandmd. I remember you from a long time ago. Do let us know how things are going. Sending good thoughts your way.

5:22 am

Sorry to hear that. And thanks to you, and all the health care workers who are bravely taking care of those in need.

5:23 am

Thank you, Molly. And all the store employees too!

5:23 am

unter

5:23 am

opps

5:24 am

God bless the grocery store workers. They are working long hours to keep us all supplied with the basics. Pharmacy workers as well.

5:25 am

Yes indeed!

5:36 am

amazing how many people are sloping back to babble :)

5:38 am

well. with the stay at home orders...

5:38 am

tent

5:38 am

opps

5:42 am

A massive grid and I must work all day.

5:43 am

hi scrabbler :D

5:43 am

Hi Atalante. And Loki and Sily.

5:44 am

Be safe, Scrabbler.

5:44 am

It's scary. Kids with Coronavirus can be symptom-free or have mild symptoms so I never know if a kid is infected.

5:46 am

:( yes, be safe x

5:47 am

Mask + frequent handwashing.

5:48 am

I have a question. I have to go out food shopping and I have to take a cab. Should I wear a mask, the virus is not as bad here as in the US right now.

5:49 am

Yes. Assume you are infected and that everyone else is infected.

5:49 am

Only a fabric mask of course

5:49 am

Sending armloads of positive thoughts your way, Scrabs! X0

5:49 am

I also need to ride in the front seat of the cab so yes, probably the best choice.

5:50 am

Thanks, Une. My greatest fear is getting my 88-year old mother ill.

5:50 am

I can imagine :-(

5:56 am

I would wear a mask anytime you are outside. and WAsh, Wash, WAsh And don't touch your face

5:56 am

I don't wear one when I hike, but at work and in stores.

5:56 am

Part of me wanting to wear a mask is so I don't touch my face, I have sinus congestion so my nose runs once in a while.

5:57 am

I have been in the house for a month, other than taking out garbage and checking mail.

5:57 am

Good plan.

5:59 am

I just realized that this grid is lacking an S.

6:05 am

195 left for later. Off to work. Enjoy the day.

6:06 am

take care, Scrabbler

6:06 am

TY, ph.

6:33 am

We've all been waiting for this one!

6:34 am

Good Morning, friends.

6:39 am

hi Bea, hi all

7:13 am

can anyone help me with the en 7/36?

7:14 am

to make4 someone a knight

7:15 am

Hi all and thanks Kallia

7:15 am

your welcome

7:16 am

also 2 8s from the same word

7:16 am

So there are! Again, thanks.

7:16 am

thank you..

7:17 am

yw ru

7:21 am

Help with un 8 pls?

7:21 am

Either of them

7:22 am

dont have those Liz

7:22 am

Found the un 8/50 - peri effect :)

7:22 am

Perhaps I'll have more luck in the morning. Good night from here - stay safe everyone.

7:23 am

bye

7:50 am

this is a bruiser of a grid for once

7:51 am

hi, ru

7:51 am

Sucks you in, for sure. Morning, ru and welki.

7:52 am

'morning, bea

7:52 am

hi welki

I should probably get busy drinking my coffee

7:52 am

Morning, Carla.

morning y'all

7:53 am

hi carla

7:53 am

hey hokie

just checking the earthquake website. I swear I felt my house shake about 30 min ago.

7:55 am

Could it have been an explosion somewhere near?

7:55 am

tuesday, and it's already been a tough week here - the long term care facility around the corner has had 11 covid deaths, nearly half the building is infected. and we learned that a friend's wife (who had underlying issues) passed away from the virus.

7:56 am

Oh, welki. I'm so sorry.

7:56 am

wow.. the nursing homes have no chance.. that's awful

that's what I'm wondering, nothing on the earthquake map.

sorry welki

7:56 am

Just awful Welki, so sorry

7:57 am

You are right, ru. My daughter is in admin at one and they are just waiting for the first employeed to come in and infect all the residents.

7:57 am

no sorries for me - i'm okay. the whole mess just wraps itself around everyone. now, do i go to the grocery store that their staff may have been in? the pharmacy across the street?

7:58 am

my daughter is a hospital nurse (and her husband a paramedic) and, although their 'peak' hasn't happened yet, they're beginning to experience the wrath of covid

7:59 am

I'm such a worrier. This entire thing about has me undone.

my friend that has it is a speech pathologist and one of her patients had it

me too, bea

7:59 am

how can you not worry, bea? this is your kid at risk

8:00 am

And my mom and my husband...

good morning, welk

8:00 am

we're all on edge, nobody is sleeping well (nobody i know of, anyway) - guess now is the time to try to cut yourself, and everyone else, some slack

8:01 am

hi owl

8:01 am

Hokie where are you in the US?

NC

8:02 am

I need to go get ready for ZOOM meeting. Can't wait to see if Playtex Cindy is dressed this week.

8:02 am

and then, sunday, i couldn't believe my eyes - my neighbors, a "smart" and up to date older couple - their daughter and grand-daughter (teenager) pulled up in front of their house, got out with a birthday cake and went inside

there were small earthquakes in OK City and Cleveland but that's too far away and not at the right time. (if that's why you were asking)

LOL, bea. good luck with that today

8:03 am

heh - you should have arranged everyone to show up in their underwear this week

8:03 am

not such 'smart' neighbours then

8:03 am

keep us abreast of the situation bea :D

8:03 am

Just wondering - my family is in CA - the had one the other day. Have a Brother in VA and some cousins in NC

8:03 am

no, lyn - dumb as dirt

must've been some kind of explosion or something

8:04 am

gone are the days when folks had police scanners in their kitchens :)

we do live next to an incredibly large greenhouse

8:10 am

Good morning, all. Maybe just the trash truck driving by. Sometimes ours sounds like the incredible hulk stomping around out there.

8:10 am

en 5/12 - an apt word for these times

yeah, but that was yesterday. I will say my husband did not feel or hear anything but that's not saying much.

finally the correct sp. of en12 and not that made up one with a y

8:13 am

You live in NC, but he lives in the state of oblivion.

so true

inline is not a word. pshaw. inline skating was very big in the 90s before the enable list was made.

8:17 am

I think it used a hyphen

8:17 am

In-line

I've never seen it that way, plus my spell check in the chat did not underline it, which means it is accepted now.

8:18 am

Yeah , i keep trying it too

8:20 am

Giving up pulling wisteria out of the front "grass"

I had to give up pulling bermuda grass out of the front grass

8:21 am

I got two wheel barros full of roots.

8:21 am

*BARROWS"

great, now I'm singing that song "I got no roots!"

8:22 am

Didn't mean to shout

8:22 am

Oh i still have pkenty. Of nothing

on my message board that I've posted on for like 20 years, one of our biggest arguments was over wheelbarrows. this younger guy is convinced it's wheelbarrels and no one could change his mind.

8:23 am

now we can all sing, 'i got plenty of nothin' --- and nothin's plenty for meeee'

8:23 am

Yup

these b's are as annoying as yesterday

8:24 am

Must go grocery shopping today

be careful out there

8:25 am

Mask and gloves.

name that proper noun - mountain and NP in Alaska

8:25 am

Inuit

8:25 am

denali :)

ding ding, welki wins it all!

8:26 am

hello

sup mlfan

8:26 am

hiya hokie

8:26 am

hiya hokie

8:26 am

hi folks

8:27 am

No inline, but in 6/21? Bullcrap!

howdy peri

8:27 am

i read about a couple from quebec who fled to alaska, to get away from covid19. they landed in some remote area, where the chief of the area promptly told them he would not let them endanger the lives of his residents, so good-bye

8:27 am

I have bl9, de9 and it9 which one am I missing

8:27 am

hmmm - maybe it was the yukon

8:27 am

de9

IDK< I don't have nay

any

8:28 am

I have de9, Ata is there another one

8:28 am

Aw, we have geese nesting on one of the window ledges at my office.

8:28 am

yes

8:28 am

ok looking

I am actually watching SpaceX Dragon on NASA channel right now. It disconnected from the ISS and will splash down later today.

8:30 am

i found a 8:)

oh, they're launching 3 astronauts this Thur

8:30 am

not seeing the 2nd de9

I'm guessing those guys have been in deep quarantine

I'm just trying to make halfway on each tile and struggling

8:35 am

hokie i don't have nbt yes

8:35 am

yet

I'm still on 2nd row, working methodically, so I definitely don't

8:40 am

hokie have you found many word for the e's on the 2nd column?

about half on each

8:41 am

can you give me stats for the top row e pls?

8:42 am

En7 make royal

en5/12, el4/4, el5/10x2

8:42 am

And pt

8:42 am

And one who

8:42 am

make royal?

well those are my missing 3 from that one. looking...

not encrown

8:43 am

okay ty found en 5/10

8:43 am

Not enthrone

8:43 am

Not enthrone

8:44 am

the 2nd e stats pls?

finally found 2 8's

8:44 am

i only have one 8

en5/10, 6/18, ea5/12

8:44 am

I have none

8:45 am

got the eat duh

tu8x2 - related to tu7 - an underground path

8:45 am

nbt

8:46 am

Ty carla

actually I meant tu6

8:47 am

does the it 10 have something to do with plans or a schedule?

haven't seen anything about it

8:47 am

ty:)

8:48 am

not really

8:48 am

It9 to go from place to place.....like a circuit preacher.....

8:48 am

Like John Wesley

8:49 am

It10 is pt

is that an i? guess so since there isn't an L next to a t and that would just be weird

8:49 am

Yes, an i

got em, thx

8:49 am

Yw

8:50 am

te8 or un8 pls

8:50 am

i googled him but still no idea

8:50 am

i gtg will be back

8:50 am

Nbs, nbt ty

I somehow missed the u there in the middle of the grid. that's a lot of u's!

The UN8 I have is to be not fastened via a hammer and the thing you hammer into wood :)

8:55 am

ty matty looking

got it thx

8:55 am

got it ty

wondering how de+li4 is not a word

ooh, found hi8

and finished the h's!

9:03 am

i think 299 is as far as i go without the list

impressive as usual

I have made it to 209. got at least halfway on all the tiles. think I will get some things done and come back later.

9:07 am

i have to list for the l's and b's.. just can't find anything now

found 5 more before leaving. I still need 14 Ls and 13 Bs. def felt like I reached the end of my vocab

ooh, just found a b4 :D

and a 5

I just need to type I'm leaving and I see things

9:10 am

i can't believe the easy b's i missed

that happened to me yesterday when I went to the list

I'm sure I'm missing a lot of easy ones today

name that proper noun - my favorite anti-motion sickness med

9:12 am

vodka

lol

9:13 am

oops, not proper

does that work?

9:13 am

prolly not but you won't mind throwing up as much, lol

oh, I was wrong about being halfway on each tile. I can only find 1 n in the 2nd row.

found 2 more so now it is halfway

9:16 am

are the u's mainly un's?

9:16 am

no

9:16 am

other than ul's i think they have to be

9:16 am

huh

I have one ut and 13 un's right now

9:16 am

ty for the un8

9:16 am

quite a few ul's and one ut

one is a bone I broke a few years ago

thx

9:18 am

Ouch!

9:19 am

may I have a clue for the hi8 pls?

yep, 40 some years of clumsiness and finally broke a bone playing goalie in a pickup soccer game

mlfan, pt of hi6 - to keep someone from doing something

9:20 am

hi 8, to have made difficult

9:20 am

ty hokie

9:21 am

Or pt of a specific rock band, if you follow...

oh, bonine was the answer earlier

still haven't found the en8 - to make royal

9:24 am

stick up to the top right hokie

9:24 am

which en is it from?

9:24 am

it is very very twisty hokie

9:24 am

en8 - not just royal, to elevate to the peerage

9:24 am

VIIIIIIIIIIII

9:24 am

I've (knock on something for continuing good luck) only broken digits... at the knuckles... if you can call that broken... I did separate my shoulder which is something I'd wish on no one.

9:25 am

or, if you don't want to be classist, to make something into its highest version

9:25 am

Ataaaaaaaaa!!! =) How are you these days?

9:25 am

or add or subtract some electrons and gassify it

9:25 am

better for seeing you! how are you????

last fall I took a guy to the ER who had separated his shoulder for the 5th time! the ER doc was giving him a lecture on getting it fixed since it just keeps sliding out but I don't think he has.

9:26 am

en+no5

9:26 am

Doing very well, considering we're on Day 26 of pandemic stay-at-home!

got the en's, thx to ru's twisty clue!

9:27 am

26! goodness. thats an achievement

and ata's top right clue

made it to 99 left. now I can get some things done. TTFN

9:28 am

ty for the en 7/8

9:28 am

help with the first de8?

9:28 am

took some gas out

9:29 am

All my spring and summer art shows and events have been cancelled, which is a major bummer, but husband's job is still fine and paying the bills, and we're all healthy, so can't complain. (It's not total quarantine. We're allowed to go out for groceries and to take a walk.) How about you?

9:30 am

person or automobile?

9:30 am

Ta ta, hokie.

9:30 am

I only have de7/9

9:32 am

Boo :( but I'm the same, just about healthy, just about paying bills, have a beyond delighted dog and cat because I'm WAH :D

9:34 am

WAH = Working at home

9:35 am

Yeah, I bet the pets are thrilled to have you around all day. I've been working from home for almost 18 years, but now I have the rest of the family at home all day, too. Which is actually kind of nice in its own strange way.

9:36 am

Hope you can be more than "just about."

9:36 am

just about only because I have a headache and spend too much on dive kit and cat food :D

9:36 am

I shredded the tendon and waited too long to have it repaired so my clavicle (which was then trying to meet my ear) is held together with cadaver tissue. lol, a friend was a surgical tech on that procedure and she said they had to 'break out the old school tools and dust them off' to fix me.

9:37 am

Ata, I hope the headache fades quickly. Amelu, that sounds dreadful!

9:39 am

Do you have any cool art projects in progress?

9:40 am

abra cadaver and you're fixed i guess

9:40 am

I wish - I seem to have so little time recently. I made a really lovely painting based on canal barge art a few months ago, that was fun. Otherwise just doodles really

9:41 am

Of corpse she is, ruru.

9:42 am

Ah well, just doodles can be awesome too, and keep you from going all rusty.

9:43 am

ru, it's been 15 years and still going but I can't prop up on left arm for any length of time because it hurts/feels stressed after about 30 seconds, lol. The things we teach ourselves to avoid discomfort.

9:43 am

I'm hoping to draw or pa5 or something over easter. Would love a few hours of just playing with colour

9:44 am

That would be lovely, Ata.

9:46 am

Loki seems to think I exist for him to sit on though, which isn't v productive

9:47 am

lol. Teach him to sit on the cat instead. I'm sure that would work fine.

9:47 am

he does anyway :)

9:47 am

Good morning/afternoon.

hello ata, hello vi, hello haz

9:48 am

Curses, my brilliant scheme is foiled.

9:48 am

oh my goodness :D

9:48 am

Haz!!! How are you?

9:48 am

I noticed Atalante and Vicuna and had to say hello. And to TO as well.

9:48 am

I'm grand, haven't been putting the chat log up for a while so it's lucky I spotted you.

and i owe you a hello and more.

9:49 am

We're getting the band back together! (Raise a glass to FM.)

ah, all we need is a tenrec. or a tanrec.

9:49 am

I miss FM so much at the moment

9:49 am

Yeah, I almost never chat anymore these days, but it's lovely to see you all.

9:49 am

cup raised!

lovely to see yo uand be seen' :)

9:50 am

It's an awful thing to say but I'm glad my older generation aren't around because it would only add to the general anxiety. As it is, my younger generation is worried about us.

9:50 am

I'm just taking advantage of working at home so noone can see me having babble up on a monitor :)

9:51 am

Ah, the old stealth babbling.

9:51 am

and your IT can't monitor

9:51 am

LOL Atlante - me too!

ah, i said the same to my brother the other day

9:51 am

I'm worried about my parents for sure. But so far they're doing well. Heh, I've got less privacy at work than usual, now everyone else is at home, too.

9:52 am

hi all; does anyone know what happened to The Byzantine?

9:52 am

Hello Aloy, sorry can't answer that one.

9:52 am

how are you and Mr Haz and Canine Haz?

9:52 am

i'm guessing he passed away aloy.. he's been gone a long time

i stopped watching the news. it gave me major anxiety attacks.

9:53 am

Hello, Aloy and Dorens, too!

9:53 am

Mr Haz is fine, retired now, and doggy Dempsey is fine. He's about to have an amateur hair cut once the clippers arrive. It could be carnage.

9:53 am

welki is about to try the same on her cocker!

9:53 am

Yes, I limit my news watching and stopped chat log because it was making me anxious as well.

lol poor pup! welki was mulling that over just the other day

9:54 am

We have watched youtube videos on how to accomplish canine beauty. I think it's harder than it looks.

9:54 am

hi Haz (-:

9:55 am

Canine beauty is probably a lot harder than it looks - but on the other hand, the canine probably doesn't care too much how it turns out. (=

just back from AM walk. not feeling well and hoping it's allergies and sweeping out the shed and garage. dusty.

9:55 am

Hobbit was so easy to groom. Loki throws a diva-esque fit if you even wave scissors at him

9:55 am

I hope you're right, Vi. He's just at that shaggy stage and it's getting warmer.

9:55 am

Pollen is kicking my sinuses hard

9:56 am

Hopefully it's just the dust, TO.

9:56 am

owl in penn I guess they don't have the stay at home policy

9:56 am

Oh, I hope it's nothing serious and over soon, TO. It's a bad allergy season here, I think.

9:57 am

Our usual groomer says Dempsey stands well for her. We'll see what happens, he's good about getting bathed, fingers crossed he behaves himself for the crew cut.

au contraire, we were the genesis of the outbreak in the state. three miles from home.

9:57 am

When you finish with Dempsey you can move right on to Mr Haz.

will we see before and after photos?

9:58 am

as Vi said, just get as much off as quickly as possible and presume you're creating a new fashion of nouveau punk

oh my lol, vi!

of dempsey., i meant.mr. haz may be harder to get to stand

9:58 am

I'm scared to take any photos if it's bad, our daughter in London will have a fit. She'll see for herself when we video call.

9:59 am

Mr Haz has so little hair left I don't think I'd do much damage...

9:59 am

just found pe8

9:59 am

The thing about hair is that it grows back. (Except Mr Haz's, I guess.) No matter how bad it is, it won't be permanent.

9:59 am

welki is going to attempt mr welki's hair

:D

10:00 am

He's gone almost bald on top. Almost, just a few tufts clinging tenaciously on.

10:00 am

If Jeff (Mr mattygroves) keeps going as he is, he'll look like Forrest Gump after his run before too long

10:00 am

can someone clue the 10 pls?

10:00 am

hi matty

10:00 am

I'm dreading when I have to trim my fringe.

10:01 am

I did a tiny trim at the back of Mr Vicuna's hair. But I always do my own bangs/fringe and both my kids, so no problem with those.

10:01 am

Apparently the secret is to (a) cut it dry and (b) less is more.

10:01 am

And (c) preferably be married to a hairdresser.

10:01 am

I trimmed the back of my husband's hair

10:02 am

it10/77 - past tense of it9, which is verb form of travelling around, as of a preacher

10:02 am

Yes, c would be the secret for sure. But it's too late for that in our house!

10:02 am

a traveling preacher?

10:02 am

Hi Fan! It's it10, past tense - i + chemical element (three letters) plus similar to the ae7 but without the a

10:02 am

The back is okay. Fringe is up close and in your face.

10:03 am

not if you cut it short enough!

10:03 am

Tee Hee - cleared the H's. Less than 200 to go

10:03 am

i don't have the ae7

10:03 am

Or you could decide that now is the time to grow it all the way out.

10:03 am

Go, CadFan, go! =)

10:04 am

Think to make things, say, bubbly by injecting what we breathe into it

10:04 am

For the ae

10:04 am

or the start of Haz's best mint cheesecake

10:05 am

i want some cheesake!

10:05 am

ae7 - something you do(did) to your lawn

10:05 am

The peculiar thing is that my once dead straight hair has now decided to become curly. It's a source of amazement to me.

foes fringe mean bangs?

10:05 am

Yes, bangs = fringe.

10:06 am

my hairdresser keeps telling me my hair is quite curly, which is also a source of amazement to me as it looks 100% striaght

my very wavy hair seems to have gone straight. i always wanted straigh thair; now i wonder why.

10:06 am

lain

10:06 am

Jeff's is very curly, so it goes out rather than down

10:06 am

Damnit

i saw how to cut them. hold tiny bit with comb- at the very tips nearly- then cut up into them. vertically.

10:06 am

My hair is getting curlier, too. I think it's because the grey hair is curlier than the blonde.

10:07 am

For a man of pushing 60, he has a good head of dark hair - a thin patch on top (which weirdly looks thinner when the hair is long) and some grey at the temples and beard, but all in all, doing ok

however, my haridresser told me she will kill me if i cut them myself.before i saw this how to, i cut across.

10:08 am

The curl does make it easier to style, much more body than I'm used to.

10:08 am

My hair is baby fine and getting thinner as I get older. It makes me sad

10:08 am

Yes, the cutting across is dangerous, but it does seem counter intuitive to cut up.

i agree.

10:09 am

got it

10:10 am

I use pinking shears. Then I can cut across and still have a little softness. But before anyone follows my example, I should add in full disclosure that I'm not too picky!

10:10 am

I have this vision of hairdressers and beauticians doing sharp intakes of breath when they see us again.

10:10 am

Pinking shears. Not in my sewing box, alas.

i thought about touch up kit- workd well- but now i will not go out for anything.

10:10 am

But then, there's not much in my sewing box.

10:11 am

lol. I inherited my pinking shears.

10:11 am

I cut my husband's hair. His is still brown. Mine is mostly white. Got my hair cut in october, becase one too many people called me his mother.

10:11 am

Touch up kit for colour, TO?

10:12 am

Did that one two many person get a sharp look, mixi?

yrd. oppd, my secret is out. ;)

10:12 am

Before i let my sister trim it once a year, now it is short it need attention.

oopd

oops

10:12 am

do you still make mint aero cheesecakes?

10:13 am

I growlled at hubby.

10:13 am

It's been a while, Ata, I must admit.

10:13 am

outrageous :)

10:13 am

I do still use the basic recipe which adapts to Mint aero, or Bailey's, or lemon etc.

10:14 am

mmm Baileys sounds good

10:14 am

We are both supposed to be on a low fat diet, we're martyrs to cholesterol. I still say the test was rigged.

10:14 am

... I lived in an undergraduate university residence ... "pennied"is too a word! ... it is a very nasty, sneaky and inexpensive way of locking a guy into his room by jamming three or four pennies into the space between the door and the jamb so that the pressure on the knob is so great that someone inside the room can't turn the knob and open the door ... ... alright I know it's stupid and dangerous but it was a college residence ... and it was really funny when the guy came in late for dinner and had to beg for food ... ... ... my goodness but the sixties were a long time ago

10:15 am

did you ever come across Mimi's Bakehouse in Edinburgh? Google them and their cakes - amaznig - but they have mint aero cupcakes

baileys. mmmm

10:15 am

h'mm, "turion" is listed a word, but not accepted, sigh

10:15 am

<----- holds out empty glass....

10:16 am

No, Mimi's was probably after my time, Ata. We had intended to meet up with our younger daughter in Edinburgh this spring. Another plan bit the dust.

10:16 am

We will definitely look it up if we ever get the trip organised.

10:16 am

I never heard of that one, dos. Which I guess is just as well, lol. But if one can be nickel-and-dimed, why not nickel-and-pennied?

i have only a bottle of godiva liquer and a bottle of yards growler champion ale, but i will contribute

10:17 am

... we were thrifty in those days ... five cents for a nasty juvenile trick would have been far too much to spend

hi car

10:17 am

you taught me something, dos

10:17 am

Hello everyone ((hugs)) from 6' away

10:17 am

Hello, car.

10:17 am

Hello, car.

10:18 am

they have a cafe in leith and do amazing afternoon teas and before-noon teas

10:18 am

I was out for my walk this afternoon and saw two men shaking hands. I was startled, shows how quickly we've been conditioned.

10:18 am

Well, I hope they washed with soap for 20 seconds afterwards!

10:19 am

I will put it on our list of places to go. It's funny that Leith has become much more gentrified and yuppy.

10:19 am

I was just shocked, they were youngish (20s) and Eastern European, I think.

i have seen two documentaries on scotland in the last couple of days. i want to visit.

10:19 am

Oh dear.

10:20 am

Leith is just gorgeous now!

10:20 am

Godiva liquor and Screwball whisky as a shot tastes like a Reese's cup, lol. Takes a couple of tries to get the ratio right but it's worth it.

10:20 am

I know, it always used to be the place you didn't want to go. Just shows what a bit of money can do.

10:20 am

<----- holds out another empty glass

10:21 am

Car is on tasting duty.

10:21 am

in6,,,,clue please

10:21 am

its still "interesting" as soon as you walk up the water of leith, but the harbourside is gorgeous

10:22 am

Yes, 'interesting' is a very nice description.

10:22 am

nvm

um...peanut butter flavored whiskey?

10:22 am

in6 - diabetic med minus a letter.

10:22 am

yes, TO.

o.0

10:23 am

Um... yuck. I like peanut butter, but I don't like whiskey. Sounds like a Crossy conconction.

10:23 am

I must go for a while as the dog apparently needs evacuating. It's made my day to see you all, especially Haz and Vi :)

10:24 am

that's what I thought until I tried it. can't do straight but it makes a good shot

10:24 am

See you again, Ata.

ooh, i have some one drink sample bottles. including hack daniels honey. and pear vodka.

10:24 am

bye Ata, and bye all.. must go too. Have a good day !

bye, ata.

10:24 am

Bye, Aloy.

jack daniels. sheesh.

bye, aloy.

10:25 am

Ahh, I so want to visit Scotland. Ancestry there- Midlothian & Galashiels. One o"f my long ago Uncles was William Skirving - one of the 5 Scottish Martyrs for Liberty

10:26 am

It's definitely worth a visit or two.

10:26 am

FREEDOM!!! Oh wait, wrong Scottish William.

10:26 am

JD honey is good, so is Jim Beam. straight on rocks. I think my most fave of that is Wild Turkey American honey.

10:26 am

Now's a good time to don a kilt and stomp through the streets shouting "freedom" at the top of your lungs, Cad.

10:28 am

have not tried the pear vodka but sounds good. I like Deep Eddy's variations. Not so much on the cranberry or lemon (easier to mix your own and tastes better) but do like the red grapefruit and plain.

10:29 am

I love Grey Goose pear vodka...makes the BEST pear maritinis!

10:29 am

hi car

10:29 am

hi amel

10:29 am

haz are you still here?

10:30 am

Hi

10:30 am

I'm about to leave, MLF.

10:30 am

Ooo Pear Martini!.. Alas closest I have is some Peach Brandy

10:30 am

oh ok nothing important enjoy:)

10:31 am

Okay, bye MLF.

10:31 am

bey haz

10:31 am

It is DIVINE! When made properly, it smells like a fresh cut pear

10:31 am

bey haz

10:31 am

bey haz

10:31 am

bye

10:31 am

Bye ML

10:31 am

i am staying

10:32 am

oops, Bye Haz, mis-read

grapefuit martini. yum

bye , haz.

10:33 am

ok...need to get some work done. Back later. Have a great day everyone

10:35 am

Oops, I missed syaing farewell to Ata and Aloy. And Haz! But nice seeing you all!

10:36 am

And car. In fact, I'm off, as well, so goodbye, everyone!

10:39 am

Tough A's today!

10:41 am

hi bzz i agree

10:42 am

the r's are also getting me

10:44 am

NA 5 clue pls?

10:46 am

Like the na6 with out a vowel

past tense?

10:46 am

yes

10:46 am

ty bzz

10:49 am

good morning everyone :)

10:50 am

good morning cyber

10:52 am

stuck on un 8/55 ??

10:52 am

no6 clue pls?

10:52 am

Sammy un na4 and pt

10:53 am

hammer and na8**

10:54 am

thanks ml.. needed that , but also the 8/55

10:56 am

no 6- more full of good intentions

10:56 am

oh sorry its the only one i have but

10:57 am

maybe I should have said more like a knight, or earl, or duke or duchess or cout

10:57 am

ty

Archie Bunker's wife is in the grid

10:59 am

in 6 she is

thanks nan I need that one

needed

10:59 am

:)

11:00 am

did you ne 4 that one too?

lol PB for me

hope it's been sanitized

11:01 am

lol thought you meant the her name not the in 6 which i didn't have hank you:)

11:02 am

as I read someehere the other day "I've washed my hands and disinfected everything so often that now when I pee, the toilet bowl gets cleaned"

yes, I did mean her name but it's not on the list, just mentioning it was inthe grid

lol nan I saw that joke too. Have to make jokes or you'll go crazy (or crazier in my case :-) )

11:03 am

Don't spread it around, but I hear there is yeast and toilet paper in the PB. *Waits for the stampede

that reminds me of another joke I saw it shows a roll of duct tape on a toilet paper roll and says: Contrary to popular belief duct tape is not the solution to every problem LOL

11:05 am

not asking for clues but are the two ni 5 words common?

11:05 am

I hope everyone remembers that there is a danger in washing your hands too much.

11:05 am

I don't understand the yeast shortage. What is that about?

11:06 am

... one is

11:06 am

luv rotfl

11:06 am

more people at home baking.

11:06 am

I have one ML - it's not uncommon

11:06 am

There are areas where people can't get bread. So now they are all becoming bread bakers.

11:06 am

... ooops sorry ... I was looking at ni4

MLF one is common, we've had the other in the grid many times

11:06 am

ty both

11:06 am

What I want to know is why is there no rush on buying hens for all those without eggs? : D

11:07 am

maybe everyone though wonderbread was going to start making glue for masks :D

11:07 am

... ah yes ... one still certainly is

11:07 am

i have been wanting to learn to bake for the longest time. i know my husband wouldn't help me to try it. We recently took out the mixer from one of the kitchen cabinets. we never use it so i guess we are getting rid of it

11:07 am

Ah. Pffth. We live without bread.

11:08 am

I could live with out bread, but I'm not sure about cheese kaisers and cinnamon rolls

11:08 am

Apparently bread machines are hard to find as well.

11:09 am

i love cinnamon rolls

11:09 am

don't know why -- they are pretty useless

11:09 am

hubby found some bread yesterday and they are two we love

11:09 am

Bread machines? They aren't useless. I use mine all the time.

11:10 am

molly i was wondering about those i thought maybe the stores would be sold out of those as well?

11:10 am

I had one years ago -- it took longer to make one loaf of bread than it took me to make 5

11:10 am

I have been baking for so long I don't remember when I "learned how". I guess when I was a kid.

11:11 am

and it left 2 big holes in the bottom of the loaf

11:11 am

I kind of absorbed learning to bake from my mother and grandmothers. Lucky, I guess.

11:11 am

I like making bread both by hand and in the bread machine. Someone took my bread machine and I miss it.

11:11 am

Making bread is a long process no matter how you do it. And I don't bake in mine. I use it for kneading the dough. Then I take it out and bake it in loaf pans. Or make rolls.

11:11 am

me too, judi

11:13 am

I gave mine away

11:14 am

missing one 9 still -- have the it and the bl

11:14 am

orgami how did someone manage to take it?

11:15 am

hello friends

11:15 am

Did anyone clue the Un8/55 yet?

11:15 am

TRIF!

11:16 am

MLF!

11:16 am

cyber de9

11:16 am

un + used a hammer

11:16 am

NM. Just found it.

11:16 am

isn't that 8/50?

11:16 am

ty mlf - will look for it

11:17 am

yw cyber

11:17 am

There's a Un8/50 AND a UN8/55. Oh joy and happiness abounds.

11:17 am

clue the un you just found pls judi??

11:17 am

oh - yes --don't have the 8/55 either

11:18 am

im ready for a nap.. later all

11:20 am

fond the de -- silly word

11:20 am

and it actually is a word

11:20 am

but still missing a 9 -- see there are 4, not 3

I think the un 8/55 begins with not over but I haven't found it yet

11:21 am

Un8/55 sounds like the Un6/27 - Zombie. Singular prefix + zombie with a little latin flare in the middle.

11:21 am

i don't have the un 6/27

11:21 am

morning all, getting started on this one

11:22 am

morning mool!

11:22 am

happy tuesday ML

11:22 am

don't have the zombie one -- are you referring to some weird movie?

un plus not alive

11:22 am

un+ not alive

11:22 am

yeah not getting the zombie thing either

11:23 am

Think about what zombies are

11:23 am

oh -- ok - get the zombie part now

11:23 am

another silly word

11:23 am

... description of a zombie ... un6/27

11:23 am

Think about the TV show. The Walking ****

11:24 am

trying to figure out what the latin flare is

11:24 am

MLF - my son's friend was living with me and he took it when he moved out. I think he thought it had been his grandmother's.

11:24 am

un6...the zombie one...is a legitimate word that has been used since the 1800's

11:25 am

Oooh thanks Judi!

11:26 am

thought it was in use only in sci fi novels

11:26 am

origami ohhh

11:26 am

200 to go

11:26 am

I think normal people talk about the living not the un6

11:26 am

Finished the U's. * faints *

11:26 am

so are we adding some ending to the un6 zombie word?

11:26 am

only have half of them

11:27 am

trying to figure out the un 8/55

11:28 am

same here cyber

11:30 am

i should be outside gardening.....but oh, the joy of big grids!

11:30 am

We have sun today! I should get out in the garden also. I have seeds to plant.

11:31 am

you have seeds!? I would love some of those about now, particularly lettuce, which is GONE from all the stores

11:32 am

Too early to plant seeds here [other than lettuce, peas]

trif: have you ever grown lettuce? I have seeds. i want to try it in a container?

11:34 am

is there another clue for the un 8 besides a latin flare in the middle of expired?

11:34 am

Extra vowels, nan.

11:34 am

I had a lot of old seed packets that were partially used. I did germination tests on them last week and they are all still viable. Some were 6 years old.

11:35 am

un8.55 goes up not down.

11:35 am

it does not start with below

11:35 am

... I cheated ... used more words ... never seen it before ... nope to never see it again ... any clueing of it implies spelling it

11:35 am

un8...first three of college place...first three of not alive + two letters that past tense

11:36 am

Sorry, it does not go up...

11:36 am

What goes up must come down : D

11:36 am

sheez - no wonder nobody could clue it - thanks molly!

11:36 am

... let's see ... a prefix which implies "one" ... followed by not alive ... but in the middle of that stick in a vowel so that the ending is a past tense ... ... I hope it helps ... I take no credit for it

11:37 am

Tx molly!

11:37 am

TO, you can grow lettuce in pots.

11:37 am

e, a and i are the only extra vowels -- nothing working

11:38 am

i could if I had seeds, yup

11:38 am

Howzabout a clue for the Al7/36, please?

11:38 am

I have a brilliant (another word for thought)!! Now let's take that and un it. Now let's past tense that un word.

11:38 am

i swear, we are all going to get scurvy soon

11:38 am

It means the past tense of not having any of the four letter i word in the middle

11:38 am

Nan...un + light bulb moment, past tense

11:39 am

... better clue

11:39 am

al7 Boxer Muhhamad + most of below

11:40 am

thanks molly -- I kept trying to put the extra vowels in the middle of expired

11:40 am

maybe that un8/55 word means "unencumbered by the thought process"! lol!

11:40 am

Ty.

11:40 am

There is an extra vowel in the middle of expired

11:40 am

That is exactly what it means

11:41 am

Like I said, It means the past tense of not having any of the four letter i word in the middle

11:41 am

why does Babble do this on a weekday? So would have loved to attack this on Sunday...

11:41 am

know of a few people like that pastor j

11:42 am

whoo this is a biggie, whish i logged in this morning.

11:42 am

Because Babble thinks everyone that plays is retired.

11:42 am

clueless would be another way to put it! After looking it up, I think i love that word!

11:42 am

i think so molly lol

11:42 am

adeline should be a word -- 4 of them sing sweetly :)

11:44 am

Ha! Let's all have another quarantini and contemplate being further unencumbered by the thought process. Sounds like an afternoon plan to me.

11:44 am

So, it is okay do drinkm during quarantine before 5:00?

11:45 am

I hope so. I had a big glass of wine yesterday at 4 pm :D

11:45 am

Oh, Bea... It's always 5:00 somewhere. Have you learned nothing from Jimmy Buffet?

11:45 am

absolutely - alcohol is a sanitizer

11:46 am

... my wife's work group has a 4:00 p.m. conference call on Thursdays which involves the consumption of much too much wine

11:46 am

... so it musst be okay

11:46 am

Hmmm. Conference call. Another euphemism for happy hour. I like it.

11:47 am

whadja drink ori?

11:47 am

Okay...I'm having a glass of wine for lunch...

11:48 am

I would join you other than it would put me to sleep for the rest of the day

11:48 am

LOL! Babble is SUCH a bad influence.

11:50 am

Speaking of conference call, the Chief is on one and my lunch is late. Stomach is growling.

11:51 am

I drank the last of a bottle of TarraWarra Chardonnay that my neighbor gave me.

11:53 am

i had a martini. :D

11:53 am

tonight i'm having cigarettes and coffee from Angele

11:55 am

You are a smoker, ru?

11:56 am

Cigarettes? I thought that was my gig.

11:56 am

200 down - breakfast :)

11:56 am

no.. it's a drink

11:56 am

For the last week or so my father, mother & I have had a southern Comfort and lemonade (for me) coke (for them). We have decided it is going to keep the corona virus away lol

11:56 am

bourbon, amaro, tobacco tincture and shaved espresso bean on top

11:57 am

zoom, i thinks its been proven now :)

11:57 am

it is awesome and to die for

11:57 am

That sounds interesting

11:57 am

I gave up tobacco...not the best time to do it...

11:57 am

I think Zooz is Janis Joplin reborn :D

11:58 am

ori's giving up tobacco too... i'm her official nag

11:58 am

have never developed a taste for bourbon -- always tastes really raw to me -- maybe there is a better quality bourbon, just like there are better rums and scotch?

11:58 am

And, boy, can he nag

11:59 am

oh absolutely nan.. there are some great ones..but likely you wouldn't be able to find them in BC

11:59 am

It is at least something for us to look forward to. And may I say cloudy lemonade with southern Comfort is so much better flavour than regular lemonade. I was amazed at the difference. So yummy.

11:59 am

<--nag expert

11:59 am

have only had jack daniel - didn't like it

11:59 am

jack daniels is horse piss

12:00 pm

agreed

12:00 pm

🤣🤣

12:00 pm

I'm gagging already

12:00 pm

I like Bailys emmmmm

12:00 pm

I don't think it is actually a bourbon.

12:01 pm

Bailys chocolate liqours are nice too!

12:01 pm

they do have a lot of horses around the distillery ori.. that's our first clue

12:01 pm

I like Baileys also.

12:01 pm

FATTENING

12:01 pm

A bit o' Baileys never hurts. Grownup milkshake

12:01 pm

Ha! I agree. It's disgusting.

12:02 pm

Baileys is fattening. I consider it a desert.

12:02 pm

its actually a sourmash. Like bourbon but not pure bourbon

12:02 pm

Not much of a tippler... my late ex used to say, "A sniff of the cork and she's under the table"

12:02 pm

And all I have here is a cup of tea and a mars bars :-(

12:03 pm

it is!!! oh well. im not goint out any time soo, hopfully everyone will have put a stome on lol

12:03 pm

Haha! Must confess, Natasha I too am a bit like that!

12:04 pm

<---- pondering what putting a stome on is :D

12:04 pm

Runs in my family. No hollow legs.

12:04 pm

Stone, sorry, measure of weight

12:05 pm

Ah ... :D

12:05 pm

how much IS a stone, actually? More than a kilo?

12:05 pm

1 stone = 6.35029

12:05 pm

Have I ever told you all I do not put weight on no matter what I eat or drink? : D

12:06 pm

You can leave now zooz

12:06 pm

6.35029 kilo? lb? oz? gm?

12:06 pm

if it's kilo, that's one heckuva stone

12:06 pm

🤣🤣😜

12:06 pm

wow.. what's your secret zooz.. i'm trying to drop my shelter weight right now.. ugh

12:06 pm

It's about 15 lb Natasha

12:07 pm

yikes! I've gained 3 so far but am trying to hold it there

12:07 pm

Shelter weight, thats a thing now, i like it lol

12:07 pm

I have been 9 stones since I was around 14 years old and it has not changed. I am like a ruddy stick insect.

12:08 pm

what's 9 stones in a real world?

12:08 pm

zooz you sound like my son. 6'2" and 135 lb on a good day with the wind behind him. Cannot find a pair of pants to stay up on his bod.

12:09 pm

my right thigh weighs 135 pounds

12:09 pm

9 stone is kg 57.1526

12:09 pm

Very skinny, Ruru

12:09 pm

i'd love to be skinnier

12:10 pm

But it involves self denial ru.

12:10 pm

i could use some denial :D

12:10 pm

My son is genuinely uninterested in food. Eating is a chore and a bore. Lucky he.

12:11 pm

i'm kind of built like a football player zooz. i weigh 240 pounds twice what you do

12:11 pm

We think you are great no matter what size you are, Ruru :-)

12:11 pm

Unless, of course, we go to a really good Mexican restaurant... then he dives in and doesn't come up for air.

12:11 pm

Half of that must be your brains, ruru

12:13 pm

I have football player legs.. I think they weigh 135 pounds

12:14 pm

My sisters childrens legs are bigger than mine haha!

12:14 pm

urinal

12:14 pm

wow.. that's amazing zooz

12:14 pm

sorry

12:14 pm

Not a word anyway phew.

12:15 pm

thought you'd be bideting your time zooz

12:15 pm

😂

12:16 pm

only a wee joke ru

12:16 pm

stop takin' the piss outta zooz ru

12:16 pm

ha deeha.. urine good company here

12:16 pm

Just don't be a bladder head aout it though.

12:17 pm

About*

12:17 pm

deeha is a whizz at puns

12:17 pm

talk about live streamintg

12:18 pm

Oh, them golden showers... oh, them golden showers...

12:18 pm

(Rewrite of gospel song)

12:18 pm

lol

12:18 pm

I can have a potty mouth sometimes.

12:18 pm

that was pants natasha

12:18 pm

:-)

12:19 pm

see you guys later.. thank you for the laughs

12:19 pm

Which is underwear here not trousers :-)

12:19 pm

Take care, Ruru! Nice to see you!

12:20 pm

used to be married to a Yorkshireman so I know what pants signifies :-0

12:20 pm

Ah that was just incase :-)

12:20 pm

He showed up to my vocal ensemble rehearsal and asked brightly, "Anybody got a rubber?" We all collapsed.

12:21 pm

good grief -- voting in Wisconsin? are they nuts? they've had 6 weeks to organize a mail-in vote!

12:21 pm

Oh! Haha!

12:21 pm

See ya' Ru.

12:21 pm

Maybe there is no lockdown there?

12:22 pm

they say we speak the same language but do we??!!

12:22 pm

It just reinforces for me the astonishment of our returning snowbirds -- they had no idea of how serious this situation is -- they just weren't getting the info in the states.

12:24 pm

Boris was tested Prince Charles was tested but so far most of the frontline health workers havent been tested. Priorities??

12:25 pm

Exactly!

12:25 pm

I heard he is in intensive care now.

12:25 pm

they are coming home and being told at the border thay can't make any stops -- go straight home and stay there, no further than their backyard - no stops at a grocery store - find a family member or an agency to do your grocery shopping for you -- 2 week mandatory isolation. Most of them don't pay any attention until they start getting dirty looks from their neighbours.

12:26 pm

Think its just non-news to make us forget Brexit!!

12:29 pm

I have friend from Nova Scotia who spend time in Florida. I know at least 2 weeks ago they decided to forgo flight and rented a car and drove home. Guess they found a news channel that was not faux.

12:32 pm

it's not that they don't know about the pandemic it's that they don't understand the importance of distancing and isolating - especially when you've been living somewhere where there have been no lock downs and partying as usual.

12:33 pm

I have found good information on the news channels - not listening to the fool on the hill.

12:33 pm

it's an I'm not sick - I don't have to comply mentality

12:34 pm

yes - but you are looking for it, ori

12:34 pm

True.

12:37 pm

we organize a group of volunteers to run errands for returning snowbirds in our gated community. Not one person has taken adntage - some have family that do their errands for them, but we see a lot of them going out in their cars or walking around the neighbourhood.

12:37 pm

De9/72?

12:37 pm

*please excuse the typos - fingers not working this am

12:38 pm

de + finished applying oils to canvas....

12:41 pm

I don't see how people were not getting information on the pandemic in the States. It has been all over the news for a month.

12:41 pm

it's almost hard not to hear the news ....

12:42 pm

i think people (and at least one governor) thinks that if you are not symptomatic, you can't spread the virus....

12:42 pm

And Florida and Arizona, the two big states for elders to visit in winter are both in a state of emergency.

12:43 pm

as I said molly - they heard about it in the states, but not about the importance of self-distancing and self-isolation even when you are asymptomatic

12:45 pm

and everyone knows that golf is an essential activity, right?....

12:45 pm

When the President can stand up on the podium and speak every day - and NOT social distance from everyone up there with him... hard to get some people to feel it's essential.

12:45 pm

our home are in isolation here - nobody but residents inside - not even kids, siblings or grandkids, or conversely, grandparents.

12:46 pm

I live in the first state to find covid19. When doctors were trying to figure out what was causing the illness they were told not to look. My state had to develop its own test against orders from the top. Our governor closed schools and many other businesses. We are in our 2nd month of distancing and in isolation.

12:47 pm

The first we heard of it being on this continent was the nursing home in Seattle and shortly thereafter a person newly returned from China in BC

12:48 pm

all the snowbirds i know where acutely, and some painfully, aware of the necessity of self-isolating on the way home and when they got home.

12:48 pm

en 7/36 ?? going bonkers here.....

12:48 pm

where=were

12:49 pm

same here,,,we have been in our home for 3 weeks,,, only out to get food and medicine once. But we are pretty rural,,, although there are cases in the counties around us

12:49 pm

to make someone something like an earl or duke, sammy

12:50 pm

yes, - they were given the same instructions at our border crossings - they just didn't seem to think they had to pay attention because they didn't feel sick.

12:50 pm

thank you ewlki

12:51 pm

welki

12:51 pm

Vancouver has hefty fines now and a snitch line.

12:52 pm

it's strange, then, that bc has flattened its curve so substantially, compared to other provinces

12:53 pm

Speaking as an American who visited Canada the first week in March, (passing through Seattle) I'd say that there has been a gradually increasing awareness, almost like shock or grief, that has come through the entire continent. While we were at Whistler, the staff were doing things that would have been unthinkable in Seattle. When we drove home, we noticed Central Washington towns under lockdown. They had been open a week before. Two days after we left Whistler the ski area switched to take-out only, and related groups on gondolas. Two days later Whistler closed completely and we found out that we shared a dining room--twice--with some women from Hong Kong who tested positive when they got home.

12:54 pm

Our health minister, Dr. Bonnie Henry, jumped on this right away -- demanded controls be put in place, has done everything in her power to find equipment to increase testing and is on TV every single day giving us the numbers, new restrictions and telling us the only way this will be beaten is if all non-essential workers stay home and do their part.

12:56 pm

Dr. Henry is a superstar - has lots of experience with SARS adn H1N1

12:57 pm

* meant to say minister and Dr. Henry (who is leading the fight for the ministry of health)

12:58 pm

I was in Wuhan till the first week in November, just before all this hit there. But I was in contact with my friends and colleagues, and recognized that in the modern world, it probably couldn't be contained. SInce my husband is immunocompromised, we began a shelter in place as soon as the first case was seen here in the metro Seattle area. So we have been at home since late February. It is getting hard, though; the veggies from last year from the freezer will be gone soon, and we'll have to do some ordering online for groceries and medicine.

12:58 pm

Is that the BD Health minister or Canada?

12:58 pm

wow, Jan. blessings

12:59 pm

order well ahead jan - if seattle is like here there will be a 10 day delay before you can get a pick-up date for your online order

12:59 pm

Dr. Hadju is the Minister of Health for Canada

1:00 pm

Yes definitely order ahead. Online orders are running a week to two weeks behind. What you used to be able to get in 5 hours is no more. And that applies to Amazon too. The days of two day delivery are over.

1:00 pm

Yes, we are ordering meds this week, though we won't be out for another month, and groceries soon, too. I did a test order (didn't go through with it) a few days ago, and lots of things were still out of stock like rice, dreid beans, etc. Oh, and toilet paper, of course!

1:01 pm

i heard someone on the radio this morning who said, "We need a leader who's all in, with no spin." Thought that might be the best quote i've heard in some time - credited to Daniel Tisch

1:01 pm

oh that's right.

1:01 pm

Adrian Dix is the healt minister for BC -- Dr. Henry is the provincial health officer.

1:01 pm

I was in Australia & New Zealand until the first week of January. Came home an picked up a friend at the hospital that was having kidney failure. She is having successful home delivery with Whole Foods (amazon), and I have order coffee and other items through Costco. Just don't wait until last minute.

1:01 pm

Seriously? A snitch line?

1:02 pm

yes --- I think there is one in Ontario as well

1:02 pm

Jan, Instacart here is now delivery only but our experience with them has been good.

1:02 pm

I hadn't been Babbling for a couple of years, but this enforced isolation makes Babble a real lifeline. After all, it's supposed to be physical distancing, not social distancing.

1:02 pm

How are the snitch stories enforced?

1:02 pm

We need a snitch line in Montana.

1:02 pm

what are the stats for the lone E and the lone i please?

1:03 pm

Molly -- this is potentially deadly for all of us - I would certainly call a snitch line if I knew someone was blatantly disregarding shelter in place laws.

1:03 pm

No, I mean what do they do about the snitch stories that are reported?

1:03 pm

.... in4/4

1:04 pm

My daughter picked up the last bag of dried beans and an online heirloom bean outlet in California has sold out. My grandson lives in Texas and just got married, they ran out of tp. My daughter and I mailed them some - I told my husband that was a cr**y wedding gift.

1:04 pm

tabby hubby an I have gotten things from using that as has my mother

1:04 pm

We have ordered non perishable through Amazon and the wait was longer than usual.

1:04 pm

in Maine you can be fined $1000 and/or jailed for up to 6 mos. for violating the stay-at-home order....

1:05 pm

ed 4/5

1:05 pm

instacart

1:05 pm

Yes the wait is longer. Dry items I ordered that usually take 2 days were delivered 10 days later - but we have coffee! Morning coffee with Babble!

1:06 pm

te8 please

1:06 pm

I saw an item in the New York Times that seed companies are running out of seeds due to increased orders. I'm glad we ordered our seeds early! Though all we have been able to plant are radishes, peas, and lettuce. Too cold and damp...

1:06 pm

i don't have it sorry peri

1:06 pm

ok

1:06 pm

i found a te 7 just now

1:07 pm

that's my missing 9 !

1:07 pm

... I don't think that there is a te8 .... there are two tu8

1:07 pm

Seeds and live chicks. There are shortages in Montana. I fear for the chicks. They will go to people who don't know how to raise them.

1:07 pm

stats for the 10 please?

1:08 pm

Anxiety through the roof. Just got notified - my husband's work is instituting a 20% pay cut ...

1:08 pm

wow Cad. What sort of work does he do?

it10/77 related to it9

1:08 pm

oh - thought you said te 9

1:09 pm

Sorry Cad, but it doesn't surprise me. Thousands of people are being laid off.

1:09 pm

I have tu8x2

1:09 pm

so do i peri

1:09 pm

Sorry, that was wrong. Millions have been laid off.

1:10 pm

Yup, my daughter and son-in-law are laid off. Husband is retired and I am on half pay. But we're lucky to have my income plus social security coming in.

1:10 pm

... lost my paycheque a month ago .... wife and daughters all anticipate loosing their's next week

1:11 pm

jan who is that in your photo?

1:12 pm

I'm sorry Dose. That is a very difficult situation to be in.

1:12 pm

Thank goodness we are retired. Half the people I used to work with are furloughed and the remainder are being transitioned to working from home. Our son has been laid off but is OK for now. Our daughter is between jobs and our son in law is working from home.

1:12 pm

Dave Neihaus, who was the voice of the Seattle Mariners till his death a few years ago. He was a prince among men; when my daughter attempted suicide quite a few years back, I wrote him a letter about how his comforting voice was helpful in her recovery. He took the time to write her a personal letter every few days for weeks after that. Such a fine man, sorely missed.

1:13 pm

grateful for my husband who has done a stellar job of managing our portfolios for 57 years :)

1:13 pm

jan that is so wonderful! he was very handsome too. Happy for your daughter too:)

1:14 pm

... oh my wife and I are fine ... but the kids are scared and so we're scared for them

1:14 pm

dose who old are they?

1:14 pm

I never chat but lurk a lot. This today is such an interesting microcosm of what is going on in the world.

1:15 pm

... 32 is a senior manager in waste management and planning for the city of Toronto ... 27 year old is a project manager for a Financial company

1:15 pm

welcome to the chat reg

1:16 pm

wonderful dose:)

1:17 pm

Thanks. My tip for getting an grocery delivery date from Whole Foods or Amazon Fresh is to check just after midnight -- at least here. They seem to open up new slots then. It's still a couple days out but at least there are some.

1:17 pm

... yeah ... but they're both big time Type A personalities who got where they are by worrying about everything and being able to deal ... but they've lost control here (as everyone else has) and they're not coping well with that

1:18 pm

Oh, these are not good times for control freaks.

1:18 pm

uggh that is not good dose.. Isnt much anyone can do

1:19 pm

... too true to both comments

1:19 pm

al 7/36 please?

1:20 pm

As is the case with most things, the wealthy will remain buffeted and the middle and lower classes will take the brunt of all this.

1:21 pm

So true MollyL

no idea nan, but it helped me find an al6

1:21 pm

al7 Boxer Muhhamad + most of below

1:22 pm

Sigh ... just got off the phone with my best friend who lives about 40 miles away. She was going to let her cousin and her boyfriend stay the night on their annual migration from Arizona to Washington. I talked her out of it.

1:22 pm

ty Bea new word for me

thx bea, did you already know that a?

1:22 pm

good idea ori

1:22 pm

Yes, I knew it. =)

1:22 pm

Yes, ori, good idea.

1:22 pm

I think that those of us who can should at least triple their donations to the local food banks -- buying more of those $2 donation coupons at the check out now.

I also didn't have the word for below

1:22 pm

a friend who is flying home from Arizona on Thursday wanted me to pick her up at the airport, I said no

it was a twofer

1:23 pm

actually it is she and her husband flying home

1:23 pm

Not everybody is understanding the severity of the situation.

1:23 pm

My mom's sister and bil were going to stop by on their way from FL and I said, uh no!

where are they coming home from?

1:24 pm

Arizona

1:24 pm

unbelievable ori..

1:24 pm

How many masks do you have done, Carla?

I guess I mean, what were they doing not at home already

1:24 pm

ty for the al 7 bea

bea I still need 7 + 1 a's

1:24 pm

yw, nan.

1:25 pm

She is 75, her daughter who lives with her is in her 50's and has diabetes and a host of medical problems. She seems to have a very cavalier attitude towards this pandemic.

just put 23 in the washer. made 8 last week.

1:25 pm

Do you have three ae's?

1:25 pm

In my area, which has a lot of immigrant families alongside middle-class folks, a neighbor started a great initiative whereby about 10 local restaurants (NOT chains) are prepping food (thereby keeping folks employed) which is then donated to families in need. We've raised over $58K in a few days.

I have ae6/7

1:26 pm

that is awesome natasha

1:26 pm

That is wonerful, Natasha.

1:26 pm

That's wonderful, Natasha. Things like this give me hope for the future of our country.

1:26 pm

I wish I could find the foot pedal for my sewing machine.

1:26 pm

I thought it was wonderful, helping both resto employees and our poorest neighbors

1:26 pm

there is another ae6.21

1:26 pm

maybe it's in the PB ori :D

what kind of machine do you have, ori?

1:26 pm

lol ru

1:27 pm

LOL!

1:27 pm

LOL Origami. All my friends are digging out their old sewing machines and rifling through boxes looking for fabric.

1:27 pm

with this grid, almost any word you use will probably land you in the PB

1:27 pm

That's great, Natasha. People around here are sharing food, materials for making masks, yeast, etc.

1:27 pm

My mom and I are tag teaming on making them.

my youngest has been helping me. I told him he could put it on his college resume.

1:28 pm

It's a Kenmore hokie. I suppose I could manually turn the wheel.

1:28 pm

I'm hopeful wearing a mask in public will become normalized like it is in Asia. It could really help us keep the numbers down going forward.

1:28 pm

So I bless all of you who know how to do this (make masks).

1:29 pm

There is no sharing going on around here as all my neighbors are out running around in the streets.

1:29 pm

We left a plastic tub of sourdough starter in our neighbor's open mailbox. Did you know it's against the law to put anything in a mailbox without a stamp? I'm gonna take my chances with a jury on this one.

oh lord, that would take a long time! I wonder if you can order a replacement.

1:29 pm

I don't have anything good to use for ties. Had plenty of fabric. Going to to a curbside pickup at Michael's later for some cord.

1:29 pm

... just say that it was sent postage due

1:29 pm

lune

1:29 pm

Around here we have these little library boxes on columns. People are putting yeast, sourdough, etc. in the boxes. Avoids the USPS getting upset

1:29 pm

as long as people don't get the idea that they don't have to social distance if they wear a mask -- the masks only prevent you from spreading your germs.

I did know that jan. also illegal when people tape stuff to the outside. I always want to turn those people in.

1:29 pm

I'll check it out hokie.

1:30 pm

OK off the the PB, and no yeast there...

1:30 pm

I'm making my my own binding for the ties instead of using elastic.

1:30 pm

Bzzn what is is your method for the ties?

1:30 pm

Good thing there's no snitch line for mailbox violations in my neighborhood!

1:30 pm

I'm a terrible seamstress.

1:31 pm

True Nan, but at some point, we are going to have to come out of our mole holes... wearing masks will help lower transmission rates particularly for the asymptomatic positives, till the far-off day when testing is universal and instant

1:31 pm

I can't sew a straight line for the life of me. I have always wanted to quilt, but ...

I just hate the advertisers that put stuff on it and also stuff in the paperbox. I don't mind if friends put stuff in.

1:31 pm

One of my neighbors made a Costco run and divided up flour between a few families.

1:31 pm

i wonder if the material from men's ties would make decent masks

1:31 pm

Can't sew either. Runs in my family. 3 generations of women who barely sew buttons on.

1:32 pm

I'm using 1/4 " elastic

1:32 pm

I have a Costco order coming tomorrow. I hope it has the flour I ordered.

1:32 pm

I cut fabric 1.5"x40", run through the binding tool and then attach.

1:32 pm

A lot of my Jewish friends are using yarmulkes (kippot) to make masks

1:32 pm

why knot welki?

you just need to see if you can breathe easily through it, welki

1:32 pm

^5 reg! i can't sew worth a lick - tried to make my oldest a doll almost 40 years ago, came out looking like Mr. Bill

1:32 pm

LOL welki

1:32 pm

ooooooooooooh noooooooooooooooo

1:32 pm

I actually FLUNKED home ec in 8th grade because my dress came out all wrong

1:33 pm

Ooooooh noooooo Welki

1:33 pm

Great idea Natasha, I never thougt of that!

1:33 pm

Everything I've heard (Dr. Tam) or read, cotton is the best fabric to use - preferably a high thread count and as many layers as possible.

CDC website has 2 no-sew versions. one is cutting out an old t-shirt, and they show you how to do it. the other is using a bandanna with hair ties

1:33 pm

My sewing machine was mainly used for making Halloween costumes for my kids who are now 30ish.

1:33 pm

Glad to pass it on!

1:33 pm

My mom said she saw where they are making masks out of socks...

1:33 pm

pedal

1:33 pm

sorry!

1:34 pm

The sock ones would need a liner since they're so porous.

1:34 pm

yeah, tried that, too - with safety pins and staples after the fact, they came out pretty decent :)

1:34 pm

Cotton is good, but knit is not. Too many holes. Knit t-shirt not as good as more tightly woven fabrics.

I saw a pic of a kid in Asia with half of an orange over his mouth and nose

1:34 pm

that's because he had a zest for life hokie

1:34 pm

I saw someone online asking if cheesecloth would be good! Uh, no.

1:35 pm

orange ya glad it wasn't an avocado?

most older t-shirts are cotton or a cotton/poly mix. if that's what you have, just do like 3 layers.

1:35 pm

I've made the mask with bandanas and hair ties. But I had to get the big, thick hair ties to get them to stay around my ears.

or look in your closet for 100% cotton t's

1:35 pm

Can you breathe through 3 layers carla?

1:35 pm

I'm making 4 layer masks old t-shirts cut up for the layer next to the face, flannelette (old pjs cut up) in the middle and a double layer of high thread count cotton sheet for the outer layer.

hold whatever you have up to light and see how much gets through

1:36 pm

*sings, that's how the light gets in"

1:36 pm

I'm finding the bandana ones hard to breath through

the first batch I made were 3 layers, latest batch is just 2. mine is 3. I can breathe through it but it's hot. part against my face is flannel.

1:37 pm

Love that song, welki

1:37 pm

*running out of the flannelette and plan to use old tea towels instead -- I think it is a good idea to have something absorbent in the middle

my biggest problem with multiple layers is sewing through the pleats. I tried 4 layers at first and broke needles on 2 different machines, one of which is industrial.

1:37 pm

I did cotton on both sides, Carla and it is still hot.

tea towels are actually the best at home fabric from the studies I've read

I do have some old ones I was going to use the next time I cut out fabric

1:39 pm

just using single knit t-shirts, carla - think I would have the same problem with double knit. I'm also using a #16 needle (meant for denim)

1:39 pm

arene

1:39 pm

you sure are creative reg :D

1:39 pm

Sorry.

1:39 pm

It didn't work!

all this talk of sewing made me see treadle in the grid, and it's not

1:40 pm

Carla. are you using a denim needle?

1:40 pm

I learned to sew on a treadle.

nope, just universal. don't rem. what size. I think I have one or two denim needles

my grandmother had a treadle

1:41 pm

Try using a denim needle to get through those layers.

1:42 pm

Right tools for the right job...

1:42 pm

thought I said that :)

1:42 pm

The treadle I learned on is in Mom's bedroom. =)

I switched to one layer quilting cotton and one layer of flannel and haven't had an issue. also was fine with 3 layers, just4 was too much, because with the pleats it's like you're sewing through 8 (or something)

1:43 pm

Masks using only scissors and sock on FB: https://www.facebook.com/watchparty/21\n6618749408356/?entry_source=FEED

1:43 pm

11:42 and still in my pj's -- better go and do something about that. BAck later

1:44 pm

I'm heading back up to spend more time with Janie Janome. Probably not going to finish today...

1:44 pm

Please use tinyurl.com to post links.

1:44 pm

One of my neighbors is making masks with a pocket to insert a coffee filter or one of the other types of fabric that will make it better

down to 86 left. sitting on my deck. it's so nice I don't want to go back in.

1:45 pm

Sorry - usually just a lurker . . . should I repost, MollyL?

1:46 pm

Also, I don't think links to Facebook work for people who don't belong to Facebook.

won't really help to repost, it just expands the box and people have to scroll to read everything.

1:47 pm

bea, the zoom meeting - underwear?

1:47 pm

or is that later today?

1:47 pm

Yeah - I couldn't find the same easy video on any regular site

I think she already left. darnit! I should've asked

1:48 pm

Sorry- shock and awe.. had to run around like a chicken with my head cut off for a bit.

1:48 pm

Husband is in printing.

1:52 pm

help with an 5 /12 please.. i am being invaded by scams which will not let me use morewords

1:53 pm

to cancel something like a marriage

1:54 pm

thanks natasha

1:57 pm

I just saw that people are selling home-made masks on Etsy for hundreds of dollars. Have they no shame?

I looked the other day and they were $9-13

1:58 pm

al 7/36??

bea clued it just a bit ago but it's probably scrolled off - muhammed +most of below

2:01 pm

thanks hokie

yw

well, stuck at 80 left. back to the sweatshop!

2:06 pm

off for a nap- thanks for all the help being 80 is a bitch

2:14 pm

sstats for the lone i?

2:14 pm

iD 4/5

2:16 pm

id4/5 a thought

2:21 pm

thanks

2:22 pm

stats for the 10?

2:22 pm

IT 10/77

2:29 pm

As is the case with a certain percentage of humanity, people are already finding ways to make a profit from these circumstances. Sad but true.

2:32 pm

However, price gouging is illegal.

2:34 pm

... is it? ... immoral certainly ... and there was talk ... but has anyting been enacted?

2:35 pm

It's disgusting. I don't know how they live with themselves.

well, our friend wanted to hire me to make some for his restaurant employees and then everyone started asking me for them. My husband wanted me to charge $20, and I said they were $9-13 on etsy. My BFF said she'd give me $25 per without me even asking. My husband said today he thinks maybe $10 is more reasonable.

But he was literally freaking out about us not having any $$ and looked at this as a form of income, which is what my BFF said.

2:37 pm

I know that price gouging is illegal during a disaster such as a hurricane. The law probably does not specify "pandemic."

2:37 pm

apparently there will be fines and confiscations in Canada for anyone selling things a t 5x their normal value in Canada -- there was a guy fined in Vancouver last week for selling N95 masks out of is trunk. I don't think it was what whe was charging as much as what he had hoarded and was selling -- the masks were confiscating and the charge was operating a business without a license.

and FTR, I had a friend who works at the hospital reach out to the lady in charge of donations of homemade masks and she never got back to me

2:38 pm

... yeah but ... the more you charge the higher the quality people expect and what does your liability insurance say about what they cover when someone with one of your masks gets the disease anyways and they sue ...

when I looked at etsy the other day (which I wouldn't be selling on BTW), they had a statement saying the makers offered no guarantees on remaining virus free from wearing them. I mean, no one can guarantee that.

my plan is to give them to friends and family that have requested them and if they want to pay for my time, then that's up to them.

2:40 pm

there is a de 7-8-9 following more expired -- any clues please?

2:40 pm

... most generous of you

2:41 pm

de 7 - straight faced

2:41 pm

ty dipp

2:42 pm

de 8 take the ait out / de9 pt

ooh, thx dipp

also saw a pa6 I didn't have

2:42 pm

don't have the de 9

2:43 pm

De9/72 please?

I'm not getting the 8 either

2:44 pm

Have the de9/66

she said the 9 was pt of the 8, or are there 2?

2:44 pm

De Pt of using a brush on canvas.

2:44 pm

it has to be something that has expired, une

I think une has that one

2:45 pm

.... I didn

2:45 pm

Oh sorry.

2:45 pm

Tx zoom

2:45 pm

.... I had been looking for that one for some time ... so thanks

wait, can't be expired and pt because that would be 3 d's

2:46 pm

amost welcome.

2:46 pm

de 9/66 please?

2:46 pm

De9 removed acrylic :-)

2:47 pm

mmm - not deplastic

2:47 pm

Nan that's the de ae6/18

2:47 pm

Dipnall gave that clue already. To take the air out as deflate. PT for the 9

got em, thx!

2:47 pm

de 9/66 .... de + to have poked holes in your lawn in the spring

yeah, but I didn't get the remove air clue.

2:48 pm

ah - ty dipp and zoom

that de 9/66 is a stupid word IMO

2:49 pm

... that one will work for the de9/66 too

2:49 pm

there are a lot of stupid words in this one

2:50 pm

... frankly ... with the amount of effor tI'm having to make ... there may be 329 dumb words in this one ... and I've still got 47 to find

74 left here

2:50 pm

Bl9?

and I heard the dryer quit

2:50 pm

PT of to make a mistake.

2:51 pm

My dryer died :-(

2:51 pm

BL7 then PT

thx, did not have the 7

2:51 pm

... bl 7/9 ... to make a silly mistake and continue to plod along ... and past tense

sure makes it easier when you have the root word

ugh, that stinks, une

BBL

2:51 pm

Tx!!!!

2:52 pm

What like a carrot, Hokie : D

2:53 pm

It really stinks when you have a senior dog that goes through tons of towels in her crate every day

2:54 pm

Neighbors dried a load yesterday..

2:54 pm

... ahhh .. the d's are done ... must be off to something that isn't struggling to find more words for a while ... .. luck to all who continue the struggle

2:54 pm

..hate to ask again....

2:54 pm

Bye dos!

2:55 pm

want t finish the d's before I take a break

2:55 pm

de 7/32 please?

2:56 pm

Just to put things in perspective, eBay who is now not accepting listings for masks, sanitizer or disinfecting wipes has taken down 5 million listings. And is still taking them down as they are reported.

2:56 pm

DE + draw a straight ------ but with an extra vowel in there.

2:57 pm

Tx!!!

2:57 pm

That information came from this article: https://tinyurl.com/s9f27zf

2:58 pm

ty zoom

3:03 pm

Time for me to go. New word for me was the UN 8/55...DEF Lacking in originality of thought.

3:16 pm

this is a lot easier with the list and once past the d's (hope I'm not speaking too soon!)

3:24 pm

pa 7/36 - last one, please? (spoke too soon)

3:26 pm

What Van Gogh used to do on a canvas?

3:27 pm

or perhaps what you do with a jury (without the im prefix)

3:27 pm

have that, ty -- pa 7/36 after the pa 5 that he pa7 on

3:27 pm

and before the basket on the donkey that he carried it iin

3:28 pm

You have the one I clued nan?

3:28 pm

the pt of the pa5

3:30 pm

ty -- thought that had a double l

3:30 pm

in america, a lot of those double consonants are dropped

3:30 pm

but when did that stop enable?

3:30 pm

like getable versus gettable from yesterday's grid

3:31 pm

there was a gentleman in the not too distant history of the US, who decided to fix the spellings of the english language...and he succeeded in the US

3:31 pm

the rest of the commonwealth adhered to more traditional spellings

3:31 pm

yes -- correct spelling tied to phonics has gone out the window

3:32 pm

in6 :)

3:33 pm

maybe, but if you want the short vowel pronunciation in cases like this, you need to double the consonant before adding the suffix

3:33 pm

yes, although language is an interesting thing, especially in English

3:33 pm

lots of examples of adjustments over time

3:35 pm

enormous used to be mean tiny...for example

3:37 pm

read

3:37 pm

denial

3:37 pm

sorry guys!

3:37 pm

although it still bothers me when people say "mute point"

well that's just wrong

3:37 pm

pe 8 please?

do you say canceled or cancelled? I do the former but see the latter a lot in US

3:38 pm

just the wrong homonym

3:38 pm

cancelled -- the e after the c is short

3:39 pm

FWs

3:39 pm

nice one diz

well done

3:40 pm

ty

I also do buses but see busses a lot. that one just makes me cringe.

3:40 pm

grats diz -- off to get lunch before I finish

anyone else keep seeing zenith even though there's no z?

3:40 pm

one should not abuse busses

3:41 pm

yes - one of the many exceptions to our rules -- more than one bus and kisses

3:41 pm

I am not thanks hoke

3:41 pm

not=now

sure thing!

3:42 pm

English has so many outlaws ... it amazes me that anyone learns this language.

I know, it's kinda ridiculous

3:43 pm

Of tough and bough and cough and dough? Others may stumble, but not you, On hiccough, thorough, lough and through. Well done! And now you wish, perhaps, To learn of less familiar traps..

3:44 pm

:-)

3:45 pm

and it gets worse when you shift countries...even when english is the "common language"

3:45 pm

not sure I know how to spell or pronounce anything at this point

3:46 pm

Not to mention the i before e craziness. I should seize this moment to have some caffeine and protein. Time for lunch.

guess I will try to exercise

3:48 pm

yeah, think I've walked 10k or so today

going to try what my son is doing - the murph. 1 mi run, 100 pull-ups (I can't even do 1 unassisted so will have to find a band or something to assist), 200 push-ups, 300 squats, and then run another mile.

before you all get impressed I'm pretty sure there's no way I'll finish this.

3:54 pm

It's impressive you will even attempt it.

I have to give him a little head start since we only have one pull up bar

he said the pull-ups took him forever the other day

4:07 pm

pe 8 please?

4:11 pm

lol. lol. lol - just had the funniest cartoon sent to me (I apologize ahead of time if you take umbrage, but it is too funny not to share)

4:14 pm

The caption goes: (Trump) I don't want to brag, but I've just finished a jigsaw puzzle in 1week (wait for it)

4:14 pm

The box said 2-4 years.

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

4:15 pm

LOL

4:15 pm

his press conferences last more than a week...

4:20 pm

nan, very funny. need all the laughs I can get as does everyone.

4:23 pm

Nan - the pe8 is more of the pe 5/14. Makes no sense to me.

4:24 pm

ty ori - makes no sense to me either

4:28 pm

You're welcome.

4:29 pm

ty for pe8

4:30 pm

help with either en8 did not get earlier clue: to make royal

4:30 pm

the people who surround the royal family are *****men

4:31 pm

nm found one of them

4:31 pm

ty Doren

4:31 pm

differ by last letter, peri

4:31 pm

got them both

4:32 pm

can anyone offer a clue for the 10 please?

4:32 pm

ok the def here and in my scrabble dictionary did not say anything about royal

4:33 pm

I a missing one 8 but do not know what it is

4:33 pm

past tense of the it9/54

4:33 pm

126 words left to find

4:33 pm

19 here

4:33 pm

go nan!

4:35 pm

thanks Dorens, but i havent found the 9 yet, but at least i know what it begins with :)

4:36 pm

it 9-10 = make (made) al list of things to do

4:37 pm

or places to go

4:37 pm

58 left here

4:37 pm

traveling preacher, judge on a circuit

4:37 pm

I got them both now nan, thank you

4:39 pm

thanks, nan

4:40 pm

thanks also nan, didn't have those two

4:40 pm

can I get a clue for the un8/55 plz?

4:41 pm

good grief - de 7 and 9

4:41 pm

that is my last 8

4:41 pm

prefix and suffix on a bright ****

4:41 pm

un + light bulb moment pt (molly's excellent clue)

4:41 pm

ty Molly and nan

4:42 pm

ty lyn

4:42 pm

that is a pretty lame word :)

4:42 pm

it is and no def.

4:43 pm

ti 6/21 following smaller, please?

4:44 pm

in a small metal can

4:44 pm

i must have broken bulbs, nothing coming to me.

4:45 pm

... to have come in a metal can

4:46 pm

not getting clues for ti6/21

4:46 pm

duh - ty lynxxx

4:46 pm

and dos

4:47 pm

... I should have looked and seen that lynxx had already said it

4:47 pm

I have several of those every game nan if it's any consolation

4:47 pm

duh here too, ty dose and lyn

4:49 pm

that un8 is stupid! finally found it grr

4:50 pm

it is indeed

4:50 pm

tadone

4:50 pm

last tr 7 please? -- been trying to extend the 6, but nothing so far - maybe it isn't three x something

4:50 pm

stay safe everyone! and thank you for the clues

4:51 pm

I have no tr7 words

4:51 pm

congrats Dawg

4:51 pm

Nan, the light at the end but add a tr

4:51 pm

tr - like the opening through a hill/mountain

4:51 pm

ty

4:51 pm

how many tr7 words are there?

4:51 pm

ty lynxxx

4:52 pm

10

4:52 pm

just one peri

4:52 pm

Just one Peri

4:52 pm

ok ty

4:53 pm

I'm just going to echo Dawg here

hello, lyn

4:54 pm

hi Owl

4:55 pm

oops - sorry - thought you asked how many tr words

4:57 pm

*!*~*!* --- just in time for Dr. Henry's daily report - stay safe everyone :)

4:57 pm

Congrats Nan

4:59 pm

yay nan

5:01 pm

Help with the al 7/36 - please,

5:02 pm

actress McGraw & most of not on top

5:02 pm

... boxer Mohammed XXX + below without the final r

5:04 pm

Thank you both.

5:04 pm

help with the last 52 words I have please

5:04 pm

not a problem Moo

5:04 pm

heh

5:04 pm

just jokes

5:04 pm

I only have 51 left (now)

5:05 pm

ty doseffing

5:05 pm

... oh you won't be joking long once you start on the last 50 .... I've been there

5:06 pm

.... most welcome pinkhatlil

5:08 pm

i know the un8 has been clued, but im still not getting it, can anyone shed light on it please

5:10 pm

... the best previously given clue for the un8/55 ... I believe came from Molly ... ... un + a thought or notion + put it in the past tense

5:10 pm

Its a foolish word, find the 4 letter word first - as some-one said a light bulb moment

5:11 pm

... by the way pinkhat ... checking your profile ... are your family Spurs fans, Gunners fans, or Hammers fans?

5:11 pm

oh my gosh! i got it, thank you everyone... what kind of word is that?!

5:12 pm

... a silly onbe

5:12 pm

like onbe ... or one

5:12 pm

dose i was a red devil fan (man utd) but i dont follow footy that much nowadays

5:13 pm

.... oooh ... well we'll talk to you anyways .... COYS

5:14 pm

lool are spurs known as yid army? im so out of touch!

5:15 pm

... that would be rude and get you hauled up before the EPL and FA disciplinary commissions ... ... but some idiot did write that this year

5:16 pm

oh really? I had no idea. Why is it offensive Dose?

5:18 pm

dined

5:18 pm

sorry guys

5:19 pm

... yid is no longer an acceptable word to use to describe a Jewish person ... I'm not sure if it was a Spurs fan who used the expression or some yobo in a Spurs jersey or someone from another team who used the expression earlier this year and there were multiple protests raised

5:20 pm

oh wow! yea i see why that would be banned... cant stand racists or racist language. Did you live in England before Dose?

5:22 pm

... no not at all ... I turned into a Spurs fan long ago when they got me out of doing more Saturday morning chores entirely by accident and one the 1961 FA Cup final and the CBC broadcast the game in Canada for some unknown reason

5:23 pm

... and won day I'll learn how to type ...

5:26 pm

... ah well ... dinner will not get cooked if I keep doing this ... must be off ... luck to all who continue the struggle

5:27 pm

bye Dos

5:27 pm

Good evening to you and yours Dose!

5:30 pm

at 184 left, i'll be back later on. good luck everyone!

5:31 pm

My traditional goal is to get 80 percent of the grid before turning to Lickety. Today I amended that to 75 percent, and now to 50 percent. Good thing I have some time on my hands...though I have a feeling this grid isn't going to get even close to done!

5:47 pm

Everyone has their own way of playing. I amended mine to fit the suggestion in the HELP section. Find as many words as YOU can. Not from clues, not from the list, but just what I can find. I don't often finish, but it reminds me that I found what I found on my own.

5:51 pm

.... then there are those of us who are completely ocd about finishing ....

5:51 pm

Actually, my way of playing really depends on the day and what else i have to do. Sometimes I would play what I will now call Molly-style, sometimes I would play to try to get NBS NBTs, sometimes I would try to finish the grid, and sometimes I wouldn't play at all...

5:59 pm

OCD about finishing is why there are rankings. : D

6:00 pm

the nice thing is that this is the only thing in my life i'm Ocd about....

6:00 pm

What is great about Babble is that there isn't one way to play, but lots of ways to play in a way that is satisfying.

6:01 pm

Not about puns, ruru?

6:02 pm

no... that's just a pun tourettes syndome :D

6:02 pm

believe me I spare you guys from hundreds of bad jokes monthly

6:10 pm

an old roman soldier? denturion

6:15 pm

Darn, I have been picturing Ru as OCD Jack Nicholson in "As Good As It Gets" : D

6:18 pm

2Bit, what is the significance of your profile picture?

6:23 pm

miss2bit wrote "Thank you delivery people" on our front steps

6:24 pm

a reminder to me about gratitude

we have a lot of chalk sidewalk notes in my 'hood

6:25 pm

we did, but a storm rolled through about 3pm

also very big is chalk stained glass windows

6:28 pm

Very nice 2Bit, gratitude is important.

6:29 pm

I have been humbled and impressed about how my little extrovert is coping with being stuck with just her lame introvert parents

6:30 pm

I have been tipping as high as I can to my delivery folks and writing good reviews for them.

6:30 pm

I'm thinking of trying Uber Eats, anyone have experience with them?

6:30 pm

Kids will do that to you...remind you of how to be a better person.

6:31 pm

Sukee, I just use the straight delivery food places like Grub Hub.

6:32 pm

It's just I don't have a credit card and Uber Eats takes Paypal

6:33 pm

Due to all this I have had to apply for a credit card but haven't heard anything yet.

6:36 pm

I am craving some fast food and I don't drive :(

6:37 pm

Well, Uber Eats does the same thing. Just drives to your destination and gets and deliver your food. Go for it.

6:38 pm

What are you craving?

6:39 pm

A & W. I also crave McDonalds but I know I always feel lousy after I eat their food. A & W is better.

6:40 pm

So, burgers, fries, onion rings...

al7/36 pls?

nm

7:10 pm

I would rather make a hamburger at home

7:20 pm

I am pulling out some of my old, trusted cookbooks from our younger days and making comfort food. Sometimes a cup of tea is just the thing.

7:23 pm

Thinking about making cheesy asparagus soup (speaking of comfort foods, lol) w/bacon. Or a brussel sprout alfredo casserole... *ponders*

7:25 pm

Either one would be super. One today, one tomorrow. I am making a sweet potato baked dish with lemon slices on top. Brown rice is cooking. Ground meat is going to be quickly sautéed.

7:26 pm

both are better the next day after they've had time to 'get happy' as my hubs claims, lol.

7:29 pm

Yes, soup is better the next day. I need to move ahead with dinner, so will say good bye until tomorrow.

7:29 pm

enjoy!

Anyone know why this dumb game will not accept the word REINDEER, which begins with the R at lower right in the fourth row? That is stupid.

8:12 pm

because you cannot use the same E twice

SAme with RADAR

8:12 pm

or the same R

dumb rules. I'm done

8:13 pm

it's not an airport - you don't need to announce your departure

wait until he finds out that certain common words aren't accepted because they are not part of the ENABLE dictionary..... ;)

8:22 pm

good morning/afternoon/evening fellow babblers. i hope you all are well.

8:23 pm

i am tipping we are going to have a huge influx of trolls soon if not already. if that happens i will be turning chat off.

8:24 pm

rose! I trust you are safe and well?

8:26 pm

i am for the time being, thanx Dan. arrived home last Monday evening. exhausting trip home with a three hour stopover in Sydney airport. just last vestiges of nausea to deal with. no CV symptoms. and you and yours?

8:27 pm

loved little miss's drawings on the driveway. very creative. and the stairs of gratitude too.

8:27 pm

hi, folks. I'm one of the "Lurkers" I guess. Just wanted to say how much I enjoy reading the chat, and that I appreciate all the clues that are given. Thanks!

8:28 pm

you are most welcome Mrs T. nice to "see" you. xox

8:28 pm

we are well, if bored. returned from trip of a lifetime to Ethiopia and Egypt juuuuuust before it got so hard to cross borders, and have been holed up since. blessed that we can both work

8:29 pm

hiya Mrs. T!

8:29 pm

Hello, Dan and Rose!

8:30 pm

yeah i saw you just made it home.

I'm a lurker too. Have been for 12 years. Sometimes I chat but usually just play.

8:31 pm

one of our favourite lurkers too, toadandtoadette

8:31 pm

yeah me too sorry I tend to lurk

8:31 pm

no symptoms here, but have missed 2 niece and 2 nephew birthdays. facetime is just not the same

:) Yep, I started playing when I was pregnant with my oldest. I actually talked a lot back then and was in labor while playing this game. Its fun to go back and look at that chat sometimes. He's 12 and a 6th grader now.

8:31 pm

hi ya cheryl. you okay honey? all well with you and yours?

8:33 pm

wow t'n't...that's gonna be you new moniker...TNT or dynamite...loll

lol

8:34 pm

It's not a bad thing to be a lurker in Babble. If everyone chatted all the time, it could be very confusing.

8:34 pm

I am waiting for a test result I have the cough hope its just a cold though

8:34 pm

are you doing better then Rose?

8:34 pm

nothing wrong with a 30 way conversation. could be amusing... but as you say, also confusing...loll

8:35 pm

yes i am thanx cheryl. still worried for sprite. she has had CV and now has the pneumonia.

8:36 pm

oh no, tell I am praying for her

8:36 pm

prayers for you cheryl. holding onto you tightly, with love

8:37 pm

i will pass on your message cheryl

8:37 pm

thanks I appreciate that

8:38 pm

I mostly lurk, too, and echo Mrs. T. I enjoy reading the conversations, appreciate the tips and clues, and pray for those who need it here. Even though I don't participate much, I've come to enjoy your company. (prayers for Cherlyq and Sprite right now)

8:38 pm

thanks all

8:40 pm

Absolutely praying for all our wonderful fellow Babblers! Praying for safety and health and peace of mind.

8:41 pm

thanx java, on behalf of sprite. i know she appreciates your prayers.

8:42 pm

and thanx Mrs T. gillie, not ignoring you...hugs and keep safe.

8:49 pm

good riddance R's

8:54 pm

yay dan!!

anyone have a clue for the 10 letter word?

8:56 pm

de + finished putting oil on canvas....

thank you. I will work on that for a while.

8:57 pm

it10/77. past tense of it9/54. i + fork prong + past tense of to eat

8:57 pm

it's a dumb word....

8:57 pm

sorry....i clued the de 9....

8:58 pm

pen, dear, that is de9

8:58 pm

lol... snap pen

8:58 pm

yes...

I'm not getting the codes here; please interpret slang

8:59 pm

and my clue doesn't add up either. i + fork prong + speed is it9. past tense for it10

first three letters. anyone?

9:00 pm

stella, i'm not using slang.

9:01 pm

I think it means plan a trip if that helps

I found ITINERATE, so it must be there somewhere

9:02 pm

well done stella. that is it9. now make it past tense by adding a consonant

dumb word, very arcane

9:04 pm

welcome to babble... ;o)

9:04 pm

well it isn't in common use that's for sure. well done you for finding it.

123 words in just over an hour...

mostly four letters

9:06 pm

Just read the chat log ... have to admit I am a closet lurker too and enjoy your conversations and help with clues. Hope everyone musters thru this crazy time.

9:07 pm

stella, it was like this for all of us when we first started. i was the absolute worst newbie ever to join. everyone who were regulars were very tolerant and helped me. as we will quite happily do for you too.

9:07 pm

thanks, maggie....nice to see you....hang in there....

Thank you for the clue. I had the nine letter word but it never occurred to me that ITINERATED was even a word until I looked it up.

9:08 pm

um....stellar, it's best not to put grid words in the chat... ;o)

I'll give myself 50 lashes with a wet noodle.

9:09 pm

you can just go to the PB....penalty box....there are snacks and drinks there...

9:09 pm

stella, there are some of the babble community who are intolerant and straight up nasty. please ignore them and do not rise to their baits. pen is not one of them btw.

9:09 pm

ty, rose...was worried there for a moment... ;o)

I don't care how nasty they get, frankly. I ignore it.

9:10 pm

Pen gets nasty??? What???

9:10 pm

I think we have all done it at one time or another mostly by accident

Some of us don't take this stuff seriously. We old fogies know what a sense of humor is.

9:10 pm

we try to not post words in the chat. but accidents happen, and we are very forgiving. besides the penalty box is always packed with your favourite snacks and drinks. just let us know your preferred tipple.

Duly noted.

9:11 pm

*waving to ru*...

9:11 pm

down ruru....back to your bone....loll

9:12 pm

Grrrrr

9:12 pm

I am not particularly enjoying this grid....at least the last 70 words or so....

9:13 pm

lolll....*pats ruru's hackles* at least i think they're hackles....rur ? did you roll over when i wasn't looking?

9:14 pm

pen, my last word was un8. now that's a very silly word.

9:15 pm

yes, a very dumb word....

9:18 pm

bbs. nausea settled so time for a shower methinks. don't worry everyone. it's nothing serious. the nausea i mean. just my body's response to hurtling through the air at excessive speeds. (flew on two planes last Monday in order to come home)

9:19 pm

glad you are feeling a bit better, rose...

9:37 pm

hi all. arriving late.

9:37 pm

any clues for the 10, 9s, 8s or 7s? wow.

9:37 pm

great grid.......where was this grid sunday when i had time?

9:38 pm

mkg,clue 8:59 for it9

9:40 pm

bl7 becomes bl9. bl + below is bl7. past tense bl9

9:42 pm

got a 9 and the 10. ty.

9:43 pm

looking for bl 7 and 9 but not seeing it. hmmm

9:43 pm

blunt

9:43 pm

oops sorry

9:44 pm

got bl. ty

9:44 pm

got the 7 and 9 bl. ty. missing 8s still ty

9:45 pm

de8 becomes de9. de + 2 vowels + speed. past tense for de9

9:45 pm

hello 229 to go

9:46 pm

start with upper d tile and go up for the de start, then meander down

9:47 pm

ae 6/21?

9:47 pm

speed? not getting it.

9:47 pm

de8. de*, where the lion is + floor covering + consonant

9:48 pm

I posted a question today in my NextDoor app asking where one of those little curbside lending libraries was located here and somebody dropped off 6 books on my doorstep. :D

9:49 pm

okay. de + 2 vowels + rodent + top newspaper worker(abbreviated)

9:49 pm

cool...

9:49 pm

sweet, origami

9:49 pm

got de. ty

9:49 pm

my neighbor left a jigsaw puzzle by my door...

9:49 pm

ae 6/21 anyone?

9:49 pm

I wish someone would drop some yeast at my door!

9:50 pm

de7 becomes de 9. de + apply oil or water colour to canvas. then past tense for de9

9:50 pm

I would trade toilet paper for a jigsaw puzzle right now. Tried to buy one online and they are all sold out!

9:50 pm

not getting that de........granny, de and then two vowels. the vowels are many choices.

9:50 pm

ae and di4

9:50 pm

wow....bummer....

9:50 pm

sorry pen, add gas or air to fluid.

9:50 pm

ty, cherlyq....

9:50 pm

I did trade (on the same app) some kumquats for some yeast yesterday. Socially distant trading, of course.

9:51 pm

got a de 8. ty

9:51 pm

but not the 7 or 9. sorry

9:51 pm

mkg, if you go up to form the de, not too many options for the two vowels

9:52 pm

ie, ea, ae, ai, etc.

9:52 pm

none of them work.

9:52 pm

ends in the large rodent right?

9:53 pm

mkg, GO UPWARDS to form the DE, then come down

9:53 pm

from the top d tile

9:53 pm

deearat not in dict.

9:53 pm

deierat not a word either

9:54 pm

ends in rodent?

9:54 pm

mkg, let's start again. from the UPPER d tile go up to form the de start. then move downwards

9:55 pm

the de 8/9 means to take the air out of something....

9:56 pm

Nice clue, pen

9:56 pm

so it doesnt end in rodent? wow. so confused. what is ending?

9:56 pm

so you have d + three vowels starting with e * * then add the rodent then another vowel

9:57 pm

It does NOT end in a rodent. At least the one I have doesn't.

9:58 pm

i guess i dont know the rodent. i assumed large mouse.

9:58 pm

yes large mouse + vowel

9:59 pm

my de+ two vowels ends on top ro. how do you get from there to an R?????

9:59 pm

last te 6/21?...it's the last TE word....

9:59 pm

go down not up

10:00 pm

never mind, i already had the word. last part is hour heart beat is your heart ****........had it already. sorry

10:00 pm

or rather, your de should be the top row e

10:00 pm

MKG. look at my clue. you START with the upper d tile and go UP to form the de... then come down to the a tile

10:00 pm

don't have it either pen

10:00 pm

i have it as 8 and 9. i was looking for a 7! so that is why i was so lost.

10:00 pm

sorry

10:00 pm

okay, mkg.

10:01 pm

help with in6/24 pls my last word

10:01 pm

in + you take your **** in a game....

10:01 pm

te6/21. number after nine + urinary tract infection, abbreviation using first letters

10:02 pm

you will be relieved in6/24 when you find it

10:02 pm

ty, rose...

10:02 pm

in6/24. in + will document

10:02 pm

that is not in6/24 pen

10:03 pm

sorry....in**** you are correct...

10:03 pm

i am too tired to clue, i think....

10:03 pm

not getting the clues

10:03 pm

I am tired too

10:03 pm

still missing top row e words. any clues? stats too please. ty

10:03 pm

in + house document

10:04 pm

in + accomplishment

10:04 pm

thank you all, done

10:05 pm

mkg, en8 becomes en9. e + double consonant + vowel + ***at, sheep sound. add past tense consonant for en8.

10:05 pm

yw...i am done, too....

10:05 pm

Well done, peri and pen

10:06 pm

also el4/4

10:06 pm

woo hoo peri & pen

10:06 pm

ty....the end was a slog....heading out...goodnight all....

10:06 pm

WTG PENGUIS!! WTG PERIWINKLE!!

10:06 pm

tyvm!...bye....

10:07 pm

sheep sound? dont see A near the B.......confused.

10:07 pm

oops got the sheep sound clue

10:08 pm

hi6 becomes hi8. hi**, another word for female deer + h**, not him. add past tense for hi8

10:09 pm

great clues. ty.

10:09 pm

got two en words. ty

10:09 pm

25 words to half way. dont think i will make it.

10:10 pm

well I am not going to finish have a goodnight all

10:10 pm

tu6 becomes tu8 x 2. tu6 what a train goes through. add past tense. for one tu8. add h**,not him for the other tu8

10:11 pm

looking for the de7/32 that comes before the sandwich shop and after its anagram

10:11 pm

un8. un + i have an ****, thought+ past tense letters.

10:11 pm

great clues.

10:11 pm

ty

10:12 pm

un6 becomes un8. un + metal spike which you hit with a hammer. then past tense for the un8

10:12 pm

ty ty dan and granny. ty

10:13 pm

de7/32. de + past tense of to lie down + vowel

10:13 pm

ty granny!

10:13 pm

got them. ty.

10:14 pm

need 10 more for half way. any more super clues granny?

10:14 pm

so mkg. is that all the 8's, 9's and the 10 now?

10:15 pm

got 3 9s and 8 8s. i am happy. i need 5 more for half way now.

10:15 pm

al6. an animal white is all white, with pink eyes is called this

10:15 pm

ok down to 3 left.

10:15 pm

sorry...an animal which is white....

10:15 pm

ty. got al. super.

10:15 pm

a person as well. ty. got it.

10:16 pm

do you have de7. not alive + cooking pot?

10:16 pm

un7 the last one? I have not wrinkled

10:16 pm

un wrinkled. hmmmm

10:16 pm

unaged.......no g in grid.

10:17 pm

un7. un + what makes your tie stick to the road

10:17 pm

got de 7! great clue.

10:17 pm

aaagghhh...

10:17 pm

made half way!!!!!!!!!THANKS SO MUCH GUYS. OFF TO SLEEP.

10:17 pm

makes your tire stick to the road

10:17 pm

I got it anyway granny, thanks :-)

10:17 pm

sweet dreams mkg. you earned them.

10:18 pm

YES. BABYSITTING FOR 3 GRANDS: AGES 2, 5 AND 7.MY DAUGHTER HAD ANOTHER BABY TODAY. SO I AM TIRED.

10:18 pm

TA.

10:19 pm

congrats on the new grandchild. boy or girl? name?

hi, all! A pleasant thunderstorm here. Crackly but not scary

there's 27 B words? Boy am I evernot seeing that.

oh. . . now I do! I shoulda turned left at Albuquerque!

10:45 pm

If you turn left at Albuquerque you get to the Singing Highway. Google it.

eh. Tired. hitting the hay.goodnight all.

11:18 pm

anyone here? got some long ones from clues below

11:18 pm

but could use more

11:28 pm

oh well

11:40 pm

hurshy. i am here honey.

11:53 pm

en 8 please both, thanks

11:54 pm

both en7 - to make great, superior

11:56 pm

Thanks Gillie. I don't know what I'm doing.

11:56 pm

np :)

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