I thought I was setting up Robert to close out the previous 500 but ultimately, he was setting me up! 🤦

Thanks RF! =d>

Psych!
I don't really care about winning, just killing the thread when we get close.

Well well congratulations Palama on the new 500 win.=d>

[ram27bat]

Is this da new 500..?? 😕

Ram said so... 😟

Did the dog walk, sat around for a couple hours while my wife's friend had a storm door installed on her house. She's out of town and wife has her keys. Lives in our neighborhood.

Went to the gym, ate some food... still need to shower and shave and it's after 5pm already. *cough* dirtbag *cough*

Retirement has it perks MAC 🤔

[ram27bat] Evening

NEIN 🇨🇮

Ram..!! 🤣

X.....be in the house 😰

Yeah, I rarely get a shower before noon. lol

It's too hot and humid here and I prefer to get all the activities I have to do for the day finished before I wash my bits n pieces.

They are predicting rain here in most of MA and the New England area for most of the weekend. Sounds like a good weekend to stay inside and knock off some of the things on my to do list.

First thing in the morning is to get a batch of chili going in the crock pot. Well... not the actual first thing in the morning as there are bodily functions that need to be tended to first.

But early in the morning I'll brown some ground beef and stew meat for the meat portion of the chili. Sweat some onion, garlic, and toss that into the crock pot. Add some crushed tomatoes and tomato sauce. Add a can of Rotell diced tomatoes with jalapenos. As for chili seasonings that would be chili powder, paprika, coriander, cumin, coca powder, basil, oregano, salt and pepper at different amounts then let slow cooker it do it's job. I sample it along the way. Usually add a pinch or two of sugar too.

A couple hours close to the end I'll add some black beans and kidney beans. Some folks out there would scold me for adding beans but I still add use both meat and beans in my chili. It works for me and those that have had like it too so I have no urge to change the basics (although I do tweak it now and again to make it more spicy... I like food that makes your head sweat).

I haven't made a nice and spicy curry dish in a few months. I love me some spicy curry. I'll have to add that to the "Gotta Do" list. I really wish we had a Thai place in town.

Add a bottle of dark beer... 🍺

Littlest one's birthday party tomorrow. Yay, I love cold pizza and juice boxes.

The smiles and laughter make it all worthwhile, though. She's a great kid and I know she will love it.

Happy Birthday Stogie's little girl ! =d>

Good morning & welcome to Saturday peeps...........

Pretty overcast this morning here in north central MA. Rain is scheduled to come late afternoon. It's still a good day rain or no rain.

I predict that I'll be doing domestic stuff around the house, weekend cleaning, pay some bills and stuff. Prollly dig out an old laptop and an old desktop to see if they are still alive. I think they are running Windows 7 or Windows XP. Might fire up an old Mac that I put Linux on many months ago. I know, I know... you are asking why? Answer is just because.

I also predict a nap at sometime.

Hope everyone has a happy, healthy and safe weekend.

Been raining ☔ here all morning.

Welcome to the first "official" day of Fall folks. Autumn officially began at 2:50 a.m. EDT on Saturday (Sept. 23).

No rain yet but as I look at the sky horizon it'll prolly start here in and hour or so. Hopefully the wet weather we've had this spring, summer, and now fall will lead to a winter without blizzards and stuff. I'm fine with 3 inches here, 6 inches there but the 2 or 3 feet stuff in a day or two pretty much sucks.