tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post7704896319285422576..comments2024-03-26T10:02:32.848-04:00Comments on The Adventures of Roberta X: It's SundayRoberta Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-12332391414308461812011-10-31T21:54:33.956-04:002011-10-31T21:54:33.956-04:00Matthew: Low-flying power drop: Zzzap!
I...Matthew: Low-flying power drop: Zzzap!<br /><br /> I'll stick with doing it the hard way.Roberta Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-43297559490003935972011-10-31T17:17:25.095-04:002011-10-31T17:17:25.095-04:00Gutter cleaning?
Ladder, hose, high-pressure nozz...Gutter cleaning?<br /><br />Ladder, hose, high-pressure nozzle.<br /><br />Fire away.Matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05414687981098467556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-46771857084122468932011-10-30T20:44:43.533-04:002011-10-30T20:44:43.533-04:00I think cats are secretly suspicious of gravity --...I think cats are secretly suspicious of gravity -- after all, birds defy it! -- and thrilled when it appears to fail.Roberta Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-25649899792237676962011-10-30T20:05:18.689-04:002011-10-30T20:05:18.689-04:00My cat just experienced antigravity a few days ago...My cat just experienced antigravity a few days ago. He was fishing for something under a cabinet in the bathroom and knocked a dust bunny over the top of the heating vent in the floor. The air from the vent took the bunny airborne, and the cat sat enrapt as he watched it float about 3 feet off the floor. I snagged it out of the air and put it in the trash, but he spent the next ten minutes gazing upward, pupils fully dilated, looking for more. He looked stoned, frankly.Dave Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04813274491601970838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-67178917743538971322011-10-30T13:10:02.430-04:002011-10-30T13:10:02.430-04:00I wasn't going to say anything, but, yeah, the...I wasn't going to say anything, but, yeah, the bed skirt thing bothered me, too.<br /><br />At <i>Alte Schloss Drang</i> cleaning gutters wasn't particularly important, no broadleaf trees to clog them. Here at <i>Neue Schloss Drang</i>, I'm considering inserting a line item into next year's budget for one of these leaf filturrrs they're advertising, if only because I like the way the guy says "Leaf. Filturrrr" in the ads.Dranghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08082177597135236652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-65625941266726803862011-10-30T13:09:59.016-04:002011-10-30T13:09:59.016-04:00(I mean, we moved the older bedskirt to the bed in...(I mean, we moved the older bedskirt to the bed in the *guest* bedroom.)<br /><br /> My own bed is a platform type I built. The mattress or futon sits in a very shallow box, a bit like a bed on a boat. It has no box springs and you couldn't even get a bedskirt on it.Roberta Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-76621566760067338132011-10-30T13:05:58.409-04:002011-10-30T13:05:58.409-04:00I should never have doubted you. :)I should never have doubted you. :)Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00034752526895428019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-89107086039685724032011-10-30T12:56:32.834-04:002011-10-30T12:56:32.834-04:00Jim, I was helping out a Mom's. She wanted th...Jim, I was helping out a Mom's. She wanted the one from her bed put on the bed in the bedroom and a new one ironed and put on hers -- reverse box pleats, it's got, in five places. (I also got to turn two mattresses, reattach a headboard in the guest bedroom and make that bed -- see how domestic I can be?).<br /><br /> I wore pleated skirts a lot when I was younger and had more of an office-y job. I took them to dry cleaners. Pleats are the devil's work.Roberta Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-85158725996464881642011-10-30T11:35:56.707-04:002011-10-30T11:35:56.707-04:00I hate bed skirts. Unfortunately I married a woma...I hate bed skirts. Unfortunately I married a woman who likes them.Fuzzy Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03802539927743643041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-63887296301675817272011-10-30T11:25:16.363-04:002011-10-30T11:25:16.363-04:00Anitgravitation is always fun, but I'm more pe...Anitgravitation is always fun, but I'm more perplexed with the ironing.<br /><br />How can a young woman who collects old Colt wheelers, who accumulates classic tools, who can do hours of unrehearsed testimony on filament voltages in vacuum tubes even own a bed skirt? Pleated, plain, wrinkled, or otherwise.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00034752526895428019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-29637981132081133822011-10-30T11:24:05.647-04:002011-10-30T11:24:05.647-04:00Try a fabric steamer. They run about $30, and wrin...Try a fabric steamer. They run about $30, and wrinkles fall out. I don't iron anymore.Divemedichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14583007051962299381noreply@blogger.com