Last spring I threw a bunch of wildflower seeds in the front beds, and they have re-emerged with a vengeance this summer. I love it.
Spent the whole day outside doing things, and then cooked a big spaghetti dinner for Dom, Taylor, and Breyana, because they are over for movie night while his mom and dad go out on a date. Ice cream sandwiches with vanilla ice cream and chocolate cookies for dessert.
Dad had a bad day yesterday- just in a lot of pain and not recovering the way he wanted to, but today he was much stronger and in great spirits, and it looks like he will be heading to rehab on Monday.
Has the BJ Pr0n crisis of 2019 ended or are you all still being served XXX content?
Baud
Fixed.
SiubhanDuinne
Your house looks wonderful, John! Sorry your dad had been in pain; glad he’s doing better.
A couple of hours ago I had two consecutive attacks of extremely graphic and explicit images of female genitalia (nothing since then, thanks dog). This was the first time in 24+ hours, and I guess I had allowed myself to be lulled into a false sense of security. Whatever you and the team can do to put an end to this will be very much appreciated!
HinTN
Completely missed the XXX content. Dayum. Best wishes for Dad Cole.
HinTN
@SiubhanDuinne: So, what’s your search history, eh? ;^)
mattH
Sounds like a great day.
Chris T.
I haven’t seen any of the pr0n. I feel like I’m missing out! //s
John Cole
@SiubhanDuinne: Y’all should be thanking me, honestly, I have to search a long time for the good stuff and here you are getting it for free.
SiubhanDuinne
@HinTN:
Heh. Apparently identical to the search history of about half the jackaltariat!
Baud
@John Cole:
It’s different when you’re eating or using the loo.
SiubhanDuinne
@John Cole:
If you were actually to read Balloon Juice now and then, you would have as much fun as the rest of us.
dww444
I’ve sorta always heard that the third day after a surgery is often the worst. Was his surgery Tuesday or Wednesday? Anyways, he will get better, and remember, my then 87 year old Mom was back up on her feet (thanks to rehab) within 3 weeks of her mostly similar hip replacement.
Enjoy your wildflowers. They don’t do well here in the heat. Mostly they end up looking ratty. Late Fall and early winter are the best times for flowers in these parts.I’m always amazed to see violas in Spring in Anne Laura’s garden. They are long gone by Spring here.
Ohio Mom
I hope they aren’t skimping on pain meds for Dad Cole, being in pain slows down healing.
I was still getting redirected to the XXX site as of a few hours ago. Put my phone down and attended to real life, now I’m back and so far, so good. But I won’t be surprised if I am redirected again.
HumboldtBlue
Come have a dance everyone.
Liverpool are European champions!
Ken
Idle curiosity: Why is the left window above the porch grey above and white below, and all others are the reverse?
dmsilev
Hope your Dad continues to improve. Rehab can a real huge help in recovering from these sorts of operations. After my father’s hip operation two years ago, he was in rehab for about a week followed by outpatient physiotherapy for a while. He graduated from a walker to a cane in weeks rather than months and now mostly doesn’t need any support and walks several miles a day.
Another Scott
@Ken: Screens positioned differently.
Cheers,
Scott.
Patricia Kayden
Sending healing thoughts your father’s way. Your house always looks lovely. You have a green thumb.
Suzanne
I’m sorry that ColeDad was having a hard time, but am glad to hear that things are on the upswing.
I missed the, uh, adult content entirely. But that’s what private browsing is for!
I read Patrick Radden Keefe’s book “Say Nothing” this week. It was fabulous. I’m sad it’s over.
Three weeks (ish) to go. Super sore and stuffy and pissy AF.
Amir Khalid
I haven’t been exposed to any porn. Probably just as well since it’s Ramadhan.
John Cole
@SiubhanDuinne: I only read it on a laptop or desktop- I can’t stand reading things on my phone.
jl
Thanks for house pix. Looks very nice and comfy.
” are you all still being served XXX content? ”
Yeesh. Dammitall Cole, some of us never got XXX content at all. Full service blog my fat ass. (though, if fat asses were part of the graphic content delivered to mobile users, my apologies, I didn’t mean to trigger anyone.)
Edit: But, on to new complaints, I thought Cole was going to plant a damn pawpaw tree. I want a pic of that. Thanks in advance.
Amir Khalid
@HumboldtBlue:
“When you walk through a storm, hold your head up high …”
John Cole
@Ken: That is my bedroom window and I often open it at night- I open the upper window, so the screen is up to keep bugs out.
HumboldtBlue
“And don’t be afraid of the dark” …
“At the end of the storm, is a golden sky”
Yutsano
@Suzanne: Any chance you can evict the spawn the third prematurely yet safely?
Also: for anyone who is interested, I’m in Seattle until Tuesday afternoon. And save my doctor appointment I have nothing planned.
jl
I didn’t know it was still OK for nitpick every trivial detail of a Cole house or interior decor pic.
I have half a dozen trivial nitpicks, but will leave them for the next house pic. Then I can also complain that the minor details were not taken care of in a timely manner.
rikyrah
Your house looks beautiful ?
Positive thoughts for Papa Cole ??
Leto
@SiubhanDuinne: “Hello, yes, 911? I’d like to report a murder…”
Sorry your dad had a shit day yesterday. I’m very glad today was better. Had a rough morning myself, but the second half of the day Avalune and I went out with friends and saw The Hustle and Rocketman. Both were really good so closing out the day on a good note. Your garden is really lovely.
CaseyL
@Yutsano: Hi, guy. Would you like to get together sometime tomorrow? Maybe for lunch? I don’t think there’s time for a real meetup, but I’d love to see you!
John, I just love seeing the latest on your house. Is nesting season over or do you still have any feathered tenants?
seefleur
Very sorry to hear that yesterday was a crap day for Dad Cole. In dealing with my husband’s 2 full hip replacements and one knee replacement, it seems that there’s about a 3-4 day cycle of good-ok-crap-so/so- better in the healing process. Keeping on top of pain issues is probably the biggest concern. My husband tried to cut back on his pain meds (he’s a recovering alcoholic and is super concerned about relapses with other substances) and found that it didn’t work at all – keeping his comfort level decent was the best thing in shortening recovery time. Best wishes to everyone involved with Dad Cole’s recuperation!
hells littlest angel
OK, this is pretty fucking great:
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/2020-democrat-booed-after-claiming-socialism-is-not-the-answer-at-california-party-convention/
Keith P.
Obligatory rehab joke
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
The house looks great and clearly flowers are thriving. I’m glad to hear your dad is better today, but make sure to keep after his medical team to stay on top on pain meds. Staying ahead of the pain is important. In good spirits today is great news.
Mary G
Papa Cole has been through a ton of shit this year. Hope he has better days ahead. Your house is gorgeous.
I never got any pr0n either.
lamh36
ya’ll know Cory B ain’t much of a fighter, but I think even he woulda been willing throw hands on ole dude for coming at Kamala like he did.
J R in WV
We have a crank out window in our bedroom, opens onto the woods above the house. The cool air rolls down the cove we live in, and when it’s cooler than the A/C is set for, we open that window to let the fresh wooded scents into the bedroom.
So far, that’s nearly every night. It won’t be every night in July and August, but so far, so good! Our ferns are all up, and we’ve had some “Tree of Heaven” sprout in the fern beds, somehow. This is an invasive bushy tree-like weed that many people are violently allergic to. Not from “Heaven” at all.
I read that a Forest Service worker spent most of a day cutting Ailanthus AKA Tree of Heaven died in the afternoon from exposure to the sap flung around him by his chainsaw. Little sprouts can be pulled up by hand, but unless you get most of the roots, it just comes up again.
Today I chainsawed some Russian Olive, a different invasive plant, more brushy than Tree of Heaven. It comes back faster than the Ailanthus, even after being sprayed with violently active brush killer. This time I chainsawed the Russian olive bushes and then sprayed the stumps and butts with the brushkiller, so wish me luck. Wife hates the stuff, I’m pretty close behind in that. We both hate the ailanthus, aka stink weed.
Wishing Dad Cole the best of luck getting over his joint replacement surgery!
JaySinWA
@Yutsano: I understand there are still tickets for the Sunday show if you are desperate for community choir performances. http://www.choirofthesound.org/shows/ Viva La Divas. :)
JaySinWA
@John Cole: Signal received.
J R in WV
@seefleur:
When I had my first shoulder replacement, we didn’t know what to expect, so we asked a friend who is an RN with trauma experience as well as rehab experience to stay with us at first. She told us that you need to stay ahead of the pain all the way through. If the pain gets ahead, it’s really hard to get back on top of it.
I have chronic pain (obviously, or I wouldn’t have had both shoulder joints replaced!) and so I was a little leery of taking the post-op meds. I found that taking the pain killers as scheduled and as our expert RN friend recommended was really important. Then, at the end when I was well into the PT rehab, I tapered off over about a week — stopping abruptly was also not a good plan.
Best of luck to Dad Cole as he gets into rehab. So DO what the PT folks tell you to do — they’re expert at what they do!
trollhattan
No pron, not now, not then, never.
Worstest subscription evah.
Calendar rolls to June and summer arrives with a bang. Hot, with heat promised. Sometime in October we’ll get a break.
Wishing dad a quick and complete rally!
Nicole
Sorry your dad had a rough day; glad he’s feeling better and rehab will be starting soon!
The 8-year-old had an extra piano lesson today, in preparation for the end-of-year recital. We had a argument over what he was going to play- he really, really, really wanted to play a pop song, and because he is 8-years-old and it’s the year of our Lord 2019, he likes dance music, which is mind-bogglingly boring on piano (I know because he played something by Alan Walker at the last recital and the audience didn’t know when it was over because it’s really repetitive). I finally told him he had 3 options: “Your Song,” “Daydream Believer” or anything by The Carpenters. He opted for “Your Song,” (a somewhat simplified and very abridged version) and I’ll say this, at least I’m still not sick of it after a month of him working on it.
While looking for sheet music for him, I discovered someone transcribed Meatloaf’s “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad” for piano in the style of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and it makes me happy that the internet exists so that I can find things like that because it made me laugh.
lamh36
OMG… It’s been so long since I watched the first Mission Impossible film…how could I forget Emilio Estevez, Kristen Scott Thomas and John Voight (ugh) were all in it, in the beginning! Oh and this franchise is almost 25 years old!!!
look how young Cruise was…makes you even more aware of how well he’s aged compared to others in his group of contemporaries
dnfree
Funny you should mention Balloon-Juice redirecting. I had a problem last week (that I notified you of) on my iPhone, not salacious, but redirecting to those fake “lucky” ads immediately. That did go away. I did not have the more recent problem, but just as I switched to this tab tonight on my Windows 10 computer (Firefox), Balloon-Juice immediately overwrote with a big page telling me my McAfee subscription had just expired, click here.
Pete Mack
So finally tried smoking meat in a bare-bones $75 Weber kettle. Used some spare ribs, because I didn’t want it to take forever on a test cook. It worked surprisingly well. Used very perhaps 50 pieces of charcoal, and chopped up a bit of cherry firewood cut last year. At 200-250, an ordinary meat thermometer inserted through the vent and resting on some thin scrapwood was all the temperature control needed. It was a little dry, but not tough, and got a proper pink smoke ring. Very pleasantly surprised for a first ever attempt.
The ‘charcoal snake’ method is dead simple, and fairly easy to control, with just a youtube primer as instructions. Took ~3 hours at 200-225F, and 45 minutes setup and warmup.
Suzanne
@Yutsano:
I am trying to convince my doctor of that. He is on board, but apparently there’s some hospital bureaucracy that won’t let him deliver me before 39 weeks unless there’s a more specific reason than “patient sanity”. So I am doing my best to deal. Mr. Suzanne and I went to trivia at the bar around the corner last night. Just looking for distractions at this point. It’s getting hot.
Suzanne
@jl:
It is always time to remind Cole that his end tables are terrible.
mrmoshpotato
@HumboldtBlue: Meh. Get the rain out of St. Louis.
Ohio Mom
@Suzanne: Aren’t those pointy-footed metal end and coffee tables long gone (at least I have not seen them in the new house), thank god.
If I don’t see you on the threads again before your three weeks are up, wishing you all the best in the delivery room. I’ll be cheering when your sinuses open up.
J R in WV
@Suzanne:
We are not parents, so have zero experience with your issues — but I have a good imagination! So best wishes on your next few weeks. You must love current spawn very much to do it all over again!
Keep us posted, we care about how you do going forward.
Another Scott
@J R in WV: +1
Best wishes.
Cheers,
Scott.
Suzanne
@Ohio Mom: Are they gone? Thank FSM. Those were wretched.
I am so sick of my fucking sinuses. It is getting really difficult to cope with it.
CaseyL
@Suzanne: Hang in there – just 3 more weeks to go! When NewSpawn is born and your sinuses are functioning properly again, you definitely deserve a special treat. A spa visit, or a vacation (though difficult with a newborn).
Redshift
Best wishes to your dad, JC. My mom is getting a hip replacement in Tuesday (her second, both non-emergency.) Her first one went pretty smoothly, so I’m hopeful this one will too.
laura
@Suzanne: I had it on audible. Had to listen twice it was so good.
Cole, did your dad’s physician recommend an ice water circulator for pain and swelling? It is amazing. Also, if he had a nerve block and it’s now completely worn off, that could explain the pain. Hope hes on the back porch with rosie soon.
Yutsano
@CaseyL: Hang on test e-mail incoming.
CaseyL
@Yutsano: rec’d & replied to.
CaseyL
This is an open thread, right? Good!
Hey, all y’all! Yutsano is in Seattle this weekend so he and I plan to meet for brunch tomorrow. Venue: The Maple, at 8929 Roosevelt, in Seattle. Time: 11:00.
Any Seattle area jackals are welcome, welcome, welcome to join us!
I know this is REALLY short notice, but we just made the plans five minutes ago.
Yutsano
@CaseyL: We’ll drop this in a couple more threads just to be sure we get some visibility here. Plus it will be fun to see if anyone else can show up!
The planned meeting spot.
NotMax
@dnfree
McAfee? Really? Let it go. And once it has well and truly expired, uninstall it.
Built-in Windows Defender is one of those things Microsoft got right.
My Side of Town
What’s that big crack between the second story and third story window all about?
Pete Mack
@My Side of Town: @My Side of Town:
Unpainted antenna wire, not a crack.
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?
Regrettably this site never directed me to free pr0n so it’s fixed, I guess?