Bruce's Journal

[Bruce]

I hope she only does laundry for you and her.

Um, sure if you say so
DD2 does her own sheets. I'm allowed to do my white socks 'cause I can't screw that up. Pretty much everything is put in the various hampers and the dark colds get washed as a unit, and the dark warms, etc.

 

[greybeard]

Yall do things differently than around my house when the boys were still here...and certainly differently than when I was young and still at my parents.
No help-no eat.

"You gonna help or just sit around like a bucket of stale urine all day?"
(only he didn't say 'urine')

 

[greybeard]

Um, sure if you say so
DD2 does her own sheets. I'm allowed to do my white socks 'cause I can't screw that up. Pretty much everything is put in the various hampers and the dark colds get washed as a unit, and the dark warms, etc.

I've done all my own laundry since age 17. Being 'not a slave to fashion' means I don't worry too much about color matching (being color blind makes it impossible anyway).

 

[Bruce]

DD2 had to do her own laundry at college for 4 years. She CAN do it but I guess DW figures there are so many combinations of colors and water temps, it is basically one load of each whether the girls' clothes are in there or not. I think DD1 does some of her stuff sometimes. I don't pay a lot of attention. However she will be doing her own when we drop her at college in 2 weeks. Of course DD1 "sat around like a bucket of stale urine all day?" most of the summer, could have been doing all the laundry as far as I'm concerned. I leave that to DW.

 

[Bruce]

Changed the water for the pond fish this morning. I put them in a clear container so I could take pictures
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No idea what kind of fish they are. I bet if I ask Google to find it, I will be told they are probably fish.

ETA

Best guess for this image: common yabby

Which is a freshwater Australian crayfish

Yeah, thanks for that helpful info Google


Split a run of wood yesterday to fill the rack I had emptied in the morning. Took nearly 2 hours. The "help" had gone the grocery store, then got "lost" at the game store. Of course I hadn't asked for help either.

 

[Latestarter]

Well hell Bruce... there ya go! It's all your own fault! Can't expect them kids to read your mind and volunteer themselves to help you do any work. If you don't ask, they have to assume that you don't WANT them to help...

 

[Bruce]

At least they went to the grocery store. The night before DD1 said she was going to be out of milk. Who was going to the store to buy more? I told her she has a car and knows where the stores are.

 

[CntryBoy777]

They look like yellow perch...if not, they are of the sunfish family....they are kin to bream and bass....but are mainly found in colder water and bream and bass prefer warmer water...except for the small mouth bass....they prefer cooler temps and current....whether stream, creek, river, or a large body of water where currents are produced by the wind....

 

[Bruce]

I wonder how much they change from juveniles to adults. These seem to have a continuous dorsal fin which wouldn't match the perch or bass but would match Pumpkinseeds/Bluegills/Crappie. But they don't have that tall body.

 

[Latestarter]

Well, if there's open water access to the pond, why not put them back? I would imagine it's pretty much filled by this point with the rain and snow you've had. I'm sure there are plenty of nutrients there to carry them through the winter as well with everything you stirred up. Unless of course you've had them long enough to consider them house pets...