August 8, 2022
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bo8
sp7
boot
hello everyone
Hi
nbt, nbs
nbt/nbs
struggling with the top e and the bottom i -- this is going to be tough
ep 5 nan
ty rose
yw honey
Clues are up
id4.6 for one of the i's
just found it - ty lynxxx
1st col done
need 4 o's from there
make that 2
off to bed -- will do battle with this tomorrow
am7
mo7
and me7 - not a common one
FWs
I learn fresh words every day here. Trouble is next day I,ve forgotten them
Agreed.
Lord Sidcup
Good morning, HH. What are the kids doing this summer?
this and that...lifeguarding, camps, lab work...
we're all going to cape cod next week though
I love Cape Cod.
We stayed in Chatham twice, in September when it was quiet.
hope we have good weather. and few sharks.
Yes, both are important.
you going anywhere?
gotta run. 60 to go! bbl
In the Adirondack Mtns this week.
I think Harry's gonna need a bigger boat
anyone else try oopses?
Nope
there are usually a lot of oopses in the chat
True
I passed halfway and must get ready for a hike. Enjoy the day.
well done, enjoy the hike
well, I thought I was doing pretty well on first pass but still have 42 left.
did get HOET
good morning all. help with right O pls.
well, I just gave one away at 7:29
nm
bbl
The other one is oo6
Guess that proper noun...famous Jethro
bodine
oh snap, I don't have HOET. missed that upper E.
Ding ding! Carla wins a coonskin hat
I always forget there is a P in front of tomaine
now HOET!
that always makes me think of hello muddah
hello faddah
Poor Leonard Skinner
name that proper noun! famed Oxford library
oh yes, he's the one who got ptomaine poisoning last night after dinner
Bodleian
ding ding ding!!!
Listening to that song as a child, I used to think the unfortunate Leonard Skinner got toenail poisoning.
Gorgeous architecture in all the Oxford libraries
ptoenail
I guess topsy has to have turvy with it
and yet yo5 guys counts lol
stupid
Topsy always makes me think of Uncle Tom's Cabin (how un PC of me to bring that one up)
we have part of a famous youtuber here
There are famous utubers?
oh yeah
thankfully i don't know them, unless you count Adrienne from Yoga with Adrienne
well, I've never heard of her
Hurshy, go look at the list of "top ten YouTubers". It will make you laugh.
she does have 11.3 million subscribers though
I know Adrienne.
I just typed yoga and she was the first one that came up
the one in the grid has 111 million subscribers
ok i HAVE heard of that one, i just didn't know what the name was famous for, that it was YouTube
I think he started with minecraft related stuff
I have never seen any of his stuff, just know the name
left col grey!!
still need 1 O there
they are pretty normal, more so than the other O tiles
Betting it is the ou5
me too
well aren't you all smart 😜
thank you
phantom: wood
hello all...
pen!
Oh here we go
carla!
molly's sad we never greet her that way. molly!
why wood you say that molly?
she doesn't like exclamation points...
phantom seldom
she's an anti-exclamatite?
Not really. I just feel sorry for overused punctuation. And the use of "!" is right up there with the use of LOL
(Waits for someone to type LOL!)
how do feel about the interrobang!?
*you
One of the dumbest things I have ever seen
LOL!
how can you say that?! it's so useful!
â‰ï¸
personally i prefer to use it with the question mark FIRST though
it does communicate a meaning and isn't that what language is all about?...
I agree on that
(? should be first) but I also agree with pen
Oh Pen, I'm going to use that defense next time people start bitching about the c word
I always want meds to work
booman = one who plays a ghost
what's the 8?
bo
found it myself! always a good feeling.
Not a difficult one, for once
a normal word...gotta love it....
thx hokie, got it with that stat
but I am stuck now with 32 left. have 4 tiles with 5 left!
winston is nudging me, so I guess we'll go walk. TTFN.
76 here...
bye carla...
stats for the lone E at the top? so i can get NBT
ep5.14
thx bzzn, so much easier with help LOL
yw
just made up a new word: tariffy: to frighten with import taxes
i like it...
Ha!
soodle almost wins the tiara..
hi ru...
left column grey in a flash, encouraging start today!
There's 9 out of 181
but I got them all in a row! it's the little things, molly
i have the first two columns done does that mean anything?
it means...yay, ru....
i would have used an exclamation point, but i wasn't that excited... ;o)
i found the 8 right on top
i found it at the other end... :oD
at the crack of dawn?
not going down that pun road...
you don't want to be the butt of any jokes, pen? :)
i was that last week....
oh I forgot about that.. how'd that turn out?
let's just say that the dust hasn't settled on that yet...
oh.. damn... hope it turns out to be nothing
ty, ru...
my hiking buddy just went through that and it turned out ok.. I'll stick to that for you
oh no, fingers crossed that everything is a-okay
glad to hear it...
ty, mael...
sorry about the joke, I didn't know :(
no problem...
I'll be thinking about you, pen
ty, ori...
i am down to 40....need a break....bye all...
later pen
i found a funky cold word
toeman: fellow with a foot fetish
Here's to good news for Pen
Medina
*marks calendar*
that wasn't a NTPN...
It was a blurt.
The "Lola" of the 1980's
ru, I just finished my breakfast. homemade egg mcmuffin. I do sometimes eat breakfast food.
I finished off a loaf of zucchini bread...
well.. that's progress.. cold meat in the morning kind of sounds awful to me.. especially chicken
I have cold chicken, but am saving it for dinner :D
weird that i have four fours that i can't find
oh there is one!
I found two small filets reduced to half price last week. They are nicely aged for tonight's dinner.
Sounds good. I haven't had filets for a long time.
do you grill them, bea?
Yes.
nice. what are you planning for sides?
baked potato, corn on the cob and marinated tomatoes
that all sounds delicious!
what do you marinate the tomatoes in?
oles
oops...sorry
a good olive oil and white balsamic
clue blurt
oh.. that sounds kind of like what i do. I use lemon balsamic and olive oil and fresh sage
I have fresh sage. I'll add that tonight.
I'm the only one that eats them.
my tomatoes have been awesome this year. I have tons of them too.
I go easy on the salt in the marinade too bea.. not sure what you do
mine haven't ripened yet
and it's a battle with the woodchucks this year
but the poor things are thirsty, we're in a bad drought
how much does a woodchuck drink?
I have been using less salt for some time now since I live in an old folks home.
probably as much as it chucks
Put some water out for them. Maybe they will leave your tomatoes alone
ha... :D
I'm going to try that
they could have a woodchuck pool party
Or cage the tomatoes
sounds like a tomato zoo
I'd need a lot of fencing, molly. I have a lot of tomatoes, mainly paste tomatoes
do you use roma, mael?
I'm back - was 79F but 82% humidity so felt like 1000
yeah, roma and san marzanos
ori recommended a tomato to me for paste besides the Roma.. that's supposed to be good
It is disgustingly humid here
I would like to plant veggies next year at my new house but don't want to attract bears.
how do you guys take the humidity.. it would kill me
san marzano or delish.
are delish
san marzano.. that's it
I had so much sweat running off my face and into my eyes I couldn't see .
I can't handle the humidity at all
San Marzano are the best
the san marzanos make a great sauce!
i'm hoping you went for a run or something hokie
I grew them from seed this year so they're a little late to the party
I walk around with one of grandma's hankies and stay in the house as much as possible.
Well, you either shelter in place with the air conditioning or you deal with it
just walked winston, ruru
Grandma's hanky, how Southern and delicate of you. Do you have a parasol too?
oh..
I need to make some sweat hankies with thinner fabric scraps
(and pearls?)
She had to have something to clutch
no, parasols are hokie. sorry carla.
I was imagining something more fun hokie :D
bea is a midwesterner, I bet her grandma is not a southerner
Sweat hankies?
you are correct.
that's what bea just said she uses hankies for, sweat
sometimes i use a bandana
at least Bea's home state got the abortion thing right good on you Kansas
We keep spray bottles of water in the fridge in the summer. My son douses himself with the cold water when he comes in from his walks.
it was a very heartening result, ru!
yes, i'm proud of them for that.
freaked out a bunch of republicans that's for sure
and it was such a wide margin.
there were a lot of first time voters that hit the polls and a lot of them were young women
I hope the country wakes up to this devastating change in law and the implications of several others that can fall
I really really hope so
bea, and in a primary too!
and I hope that Clarence Thomas' wife has to testify before the Jan 6th committee
that will be fun
I can't believe they didn't pass the cap on insulin. all those old men have their hands in the big pharmas pocket
I wonder how Bush feels about nominating that asshole now
you got that right bea
money talks
that is astounding to me, how is it possible that such a no brainer was taken out of the bill
I'm very happy the bill passed, don't get me wrong, but geez
and the monarch has joined the endangered list that breaks my heart
geez most of my extended family is on insulin
<---has several butterfly bushes
there are only three companies that manufacture/sell insulin in the US, someone should have a good look at their donations...
you'd think a bit of the old men would be too but I guess they can afford whatever
plant milkweed
exactly mael
ru, butterfly bushes unfortunately don't help! you need to plant native plants and milkweed :)
milkweed?
I thought milkweed was a weed, you can plant it?
it doesn't just come up on its own?
yes you can plant it
yes! there are many species, plant whichever is native in your area. You can get seeds or plants
the monarch likes that?
and plant more than one variety
it's the only species monarchs can lay eggs on
without milkweed we will have no monarchs
why aren't they planting milkweed in the wild?
I just saw a caterpillar on my walk that I thought was a monarch, but google search says it wasn't.
was it a swallowtail?
Be careful with millkweed. It's poisonous
because planting milkweed requires field management. Most towns/states are OBSESSED with mowing every scrap field the own, along highways, between fields, medians, everything
we aren't going to eat it.
it's only poisonous if you drizzle the sap down your throat. It's an irritant, but it
but it's not dangerous
I will check. just googled caterpillars in NC and it looks like maybe the moth or eastern tent. whatever it is was in VA where I grew up too,
ok, was definitely not a swallowtail
swallowtail and monarch cats look very much alike
Google says it is poisonous to animals
they aren't going to eat it
even cattle leaves it alone
i can't have poisonous stuff in my yard.. I don't trust my dogs
can you plant it on the outside of your fence?
that's why monarchs lay their eggs on it. The caterpillars have evolved to eat it and become slightly toxic themselves, so birds don't prefer them
Yeah, and considering Carla's dog eats mulch, I wouldn't have it around house pets
i have to pick up plums every morning during the season
so they don't try to eat them
actually, dogs eating the caterpillars is probably more of a concern than the plant itself
there is a trail behind my house I can plant some bea
I might look into that
yuo can support the monarchs without milkweed, they still need all the nectar plants for the adults :)
yeah, he eats some kind of weed out in our yard, not milkweed, but no idea what it is. I always yell at him when he starts. we also have some morning glory that apparently the seeds are poisonous to dogs.
i have nectar plants
I would never plant anything poisonous in a yard where pets will be. No sense taking a chance.
especially one of my dogs will eat anything
natives though? because butterfly bush is the equivalent of a twinkie, no nutritional value
you can also plant bronze fennel and parsley for the swallowtails
natives I believe.
i'd have to research
well, apparently I have maxed out at 149 words today. have not found one word since my walk. still have 4 tiles with 5 left.
I don't think we have swallowtails here
excellent ru! It's such an important thing we can do for the environment! (It's my soapbox, I'll come off it)
I don't get humming birds though.. it's weird
at least I've not seen them
maybe you just can't see them
we get so many hummingbirds these days, they mostly feed around dawn though
The Smithsonian has a pollinator garden that has a butterfly sanctuary. So do a lot of other large gardens around the country.
Hummingbirds are really fast
the best thing we could do is turn parts of all yards into wildlife habitats, it would truly change things for the better
my master gardener group has a large pollinator garden. I work there every Friday.
I built one for our elementary school
I'm going to hand out flyers to woodchucks in mael's area
our new neighborhood has a butterfly garden too
good job bea :)
I also have a pollinator garden in my yard and am going to clean out another bed this fall.
ori puts out a lot of stuff for pollinators
finally found a word!
the woodchucks are a pain, but they gotta eat too. We have 12 acres, they could leave my veggies alone though
we have voles or moles tunneling the crap out of our yard
we also had a lot of chipmunks but haven't seen them lately. do they tunnel? maybe they are the havoc wreakers.
Wow, twelve acres in taxachusetts?
yeah
not in town :)
you know she's not in town with her chickens
are you farmers mael?
unless the cities up there allow that
some cities do!
we have a small homestead, just chickens, an orchard, veggie garden, and a hayfield
the orchard is in rough shape this year, they drought is TERRIBLE
ah..
I keep the rest for the pollinators :)
and the woodchucks
I've never seen a woodchuck in person
They are big!
I've seen... many. They're cute and chunky but love to decapitate plants
oh
are they related to beavers?
is a woodchuck a groundhog? you've never seen one?
or gophers
I believe both are rodents
I've not seen a groundhog in person either
a woodchuck is just another name for a groundhog
gosh, I see them standing by the roads all the time
it's bigger than a gopher but looks just like one
That is because they all hang out at mael's estate
are they hitching a ride to Mael's place?
I've also heard them called whistlepigs
whistlepigs are bottles of bourbon to me
looks like it's also a marmot
they're a type of marmot, yes. They tunnel like jerks
whistlepig the bourbon is named after woodchucks :)
and it is excellent
the whiskey, I mean
groundhogs are crucial habitat engineers per wiki
it's a bit fiery to me ..
I prefer Elmer T Lee, and WH Weller, and Jefferson Ocean
I wonder where they get their engineering degrees. Woodchuck U?
well, I can sit around here all day not finding words, but I guess I'll do some things.
Tunnel State molly
I'd best get to work and get something accomplished today
So that how much wood could a woodchuck chuck thing is really an engineering problem. Calling Good Will/Woodchuck Hunting.
have fun everyone interesting chat today
FW! enjoy the day everyone
well, my stats people are gone, but here they are... 1-8-7-3 T P O DDD L WW MMMM SSS AAA
time to make lunch
For all you people who don't understand their made up stats language
I'll give you the hurshian number notation is a little confusing if you don't know, but it's a little baffling that the letters confuse people so much. seems very self-explanatory.
Wow, lunch express
ME 6/7 combo?
nvrmind
65 left and slowing down
i listed a few minutes ago....15 left now...
go pen!!
60 left woot!!
you are picking up steam.... ;o)
albeit slowly, will go to list before I get to 15 tho
I need one more O to gray first column
oh i went at 30, i think...
ok
down to one now...
waiting for pen to finish
can't find am 7...
don't have it but will look
found it....i am done...
wtg pen!!
ty!
help with am7 pls
is it a plural?
no...
I have some am5 and an am6 but that one is a pl
starts like the test a pregnant woman takes....
got it thanks
57 left. bbl to finish
yw...
heading out....need anything else before i go?...
good afternoon everyone :)
hi nan...
heading out....bye, nan....*waving to the lurkers*....
have an me 5-6 combo, but don't see a 6-7
Ends with a word that means to drink heavily
if that was for the me, MOlly, ty but I found it a long time ago. I do need help with the su's though, please
found the 6-7
and the 5
first me 6 please?
hi all
hey moo
de6 please
hey peri
looking
okay, it's a "plural" wuthout a singular
meaning the singular isn't in the grid
and it looks like a typo for a death or an ending
ty
yw
20 to go
50 left here
getting there peri
ty moo
yvw peri
14 left bbs to finish
Olivia Newton-John has died
12 left here
I saw that
Sad news Peri. Thanks for letting people know.
oh no!
She fought breast cancer long and hard....
to 6/21
nvrmind i already have it duh
oh no the second one
omg i swear i tried that earlier. aargh!
FIREWORXXX!!!
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