Tim: "I will go over and work on the mudding at Wayne St. (The renovation). I need you to stay home and get some laundry done. I don't have clean work pants."
I normally do laundry on Friday or Saturday. This week, I'd done it on Thursday, before we left for my son's house. He didn't wear work pants over the weekend, so Tim should have had work pants. So I went to look. I gave him a pair of his work pants, and headed into the bathroom to sort laundry.
It wasn't long, and he was in the bathroom. "I blew out the knees of these pants. These need thrown out," he said.
I looked. "Well, if you consider those pants shot, these ones are in even worse shape," and I pulled out another pair of work pants. "
"Yep," he said. I suggested that he discard the pants he no longer wanted to wear instead of throwing them in the hamper.
"So how many pants do you have? You have one pair on, two pair to be tossed, and you really didn't have many work pants to begin with."
Long pause. "I don't know."
A quick check shows that I do NOT need to do laundry. Tim needs to buy a couple more pair of work pants.
5 more days until we vote. I live in a swing state, which means that it could go either way...Democratic or Republican. Things will probably get pretty heated before it is said and done.
Several other counties are being investigated for voter fraud.
Trump is claiming that Pennsylvania has been caught in widespread cheating, already.
Not far from us, in Erie, a group of 53 retired nuns even found themselves publicly accused of voter fraud.
The fellow making this claim is Cliff Maloney. I think that it's kind of handy that Maloney and baloney rhyme. From the sounds of it, the nuns been having a fine time refuting these allegations, getting calls coming in from all over the world and reporting back on their "new friends".
Last night during the evening news, I saw an ad that stopped me dead in my tracks. It was a advertisement for Trump. The soundtrack was "How Great Thou Art", which was sung by Christopher Macchio at the Butler Rally. The second one, where he made his triumphant re-entry after the assassination attempt. The advertisement showed clips of him walking in front of adoring crowds, raising his fist high. I could not believe what I was seeing. I tried to get to the television to read the fine print on who paid for that ad, but didn't get there in time. I have been trying in vain to find it online ever since. No luck.
LATE EDIT: The ad was on again tonight, and it is the MAHA alliance, which was formerly backing Kennedy, but has now thrown its support behind trump.
If you are a praying person, I hope that you're not praying to Trump. If you are, you're not a praying person. Not really.
5 more days.
Sheesh. From over here it all seems quite unbelievable, if not surreal.
ReplyDeleteI can hardly believe it myself.
DeleteI live in Ohio. We have a horrible person running against Sherrod Brown, our senator. His ads are total lies and he knows it. His whole campaign is funded by his millionaire self and his out of state millionaire friends. All I can do is scream at the television because this is not illegal.
ReplyDeleteWorst, he could end up as senator even if he loses. Our other senator is running for vice president. If he wins, this moron will be appointed.
You all might have heard of this despicable person. He is the one who said women over 50 should not have opinions on issues.
This whole election is making me so sick to my stomach.
I loved your Halloween pictures! I've been getting e-mails from Sherrod Brown, and I know that things are looking dire. I'm hoping that JD finds himself unemployed shortly.
DeleteMy husband is pretty good about sorting his clothing between work, normal, and throw away. Well.... he might be reluctant to throw away certain tees, but I try to help with that. They always make good rags.
ReplyDeleteTim does not throw things away, unless I start making noises that I'm going to throw things away. Then he does it, a pre-emptive strike so that I don't ruthlessly take on the task myself.
DeleteThrift stores usually have some good work pants. My granddaughter needed a pair of welding pants for her welding class in college, she went to a thrift store and bought a pair cheap, they were for a big man, she went home took them apart and cut them down to fit her and resewed them. She is in an agriculture college. Last year she skinned and cleaned a deer so her clothes need to be durable and cheap.
ReplyDeleteTim and I are big thrifters. He's always bought his workpants from goodwill.
DeleteAbout a year or two ago I stopped doing my husband's laundry and he pouted for a few days. I no longer buy his clothes either, tough love:) Now I have one less thing to worry about which is nice.
ReplyDeleteI told him a few weeks ago that if I died he wouldn't be able to take care of himself and he was offended. I asked him if he has ever cleaned a toilet and he said no. When did you last buy toilet paper, he didn't know. It just goes on and on. He is a 6'5" child that I have become much more stern with since menopause and raising a five year old child.
And trump and his ilk, my god, somebody should have been more stern with them when they were growing up. Every single thing the trump accuses others of doing, is what he does. It's shocking to hear it come out of his mouth and causes so much chaos. The even more shocking thing is that people just shrug their shoulders and say, that's just him. That is just plain wrong. And of course Harris is a woman of colour, so she is held to a much higher standard (welcome to the modern world where women still get shoved done harder). I can't wait until this is over.
Tim batched on his own for about 8 years. He could take care of himself, but he doesn't really see the need. I figure it is like a trade off. He does stuff that I can't do. I do things he doesn't want to do. It sounds very 'trad wife', but it is not like that. It works for us, for the most part.
DeleteWe know the orange one is unbelievable and a liar and a criminal but every time he manages to shock us again. How can intelligent people vote for him?
ReplyDeleteI love 'Bohemian Trump' - the Marsh family is so talented.
I've stopped being shocked by him. I am just too tired to be outraged by every stupid thing they say. They need to be blocked from ever having power again.
DeleteAnd I fear that the next few days, weeks, and even months are going to be filled with these baseless stories, aka lies.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it will be months, but I do think we'll have a week of waiting.
DeleteHappy Halloween, Debby! 🎃👻🎃👻
ReplyDeleteI hope things go smoothly next week but based on him already claiming cheating and fraud it is going to be a hot mess.
Yeah. I'm afraid you're right, but we simply have to focus on the election first, and then we'll worry about the rest of it.
DeleteHappy Halloween, Debby! Only 5 more days? Now I'm really scared. That Bohemian Rhapsody piece is amazing. And they're all in one family. What amazing singers!
ReplyDeleteWe all need a laugh right now, I think.
DeleteLove that video ... Randy Rainbow has a new one out, too!
ReplyDeleteI saw that. I did not have time to watch it, but I saw that he had one out.
DeleteMundane conversations about work pants!
ReplyDeleteWhy the man simply doesn't get rid of his pants when they are shot is beyond me. He will wait for me to wash them and then decide that they are not worth saving.
DeleteTimmy, where's your troosers.
ReplyDeleteThe Marsh Family song was excellent.
Wasn't it? I laughed.
DeleteTim wears the knees and pockets right out of his 'troosers'. It is because he's always putting nails and screws and drill bits in his pants pockets and they simply wear the lining of the pockets right out.
I'm waiting to see how awful it will be to get Trump to concede.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.cnn.com/2024/10/31/politics/maga-activists-preparing-undermine-election-if-trump-loses/index.html
DeleteRemember the McCarthy era? (I don't, but I remember hearing and reading about it.) People probably thought that craziness would never die down, and yet it did. I keep telling myself that this crazy has to die down too.
It's going to be close. I honestly would rather not vote for either candidate; Harris is considerably more left wing that I like, but anything is better than Trump. My husband has decided not to vote for president at all. I wouldn't mind having Barack Obama back. He has real class.
ReplyDeleteHe did. Like you, I believe that when everyone who ever worked with the guy is saying that he is a danger to democracy, I believe that they know better than me. I mean they were there. So given a choice between that and someone that I don't necessarily 100% agree with, the choice is pretty plain to see. I wish that Cliff would vote.
DeleteIt seems to me that it is almost always the conservatives who are guilty of voter fraud.
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