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BethL · 12:12AM

Lorita, I saw this on X (Twitter). I saw video of the buses too. They are blue and say Oklahoma City Thunder on the back and 2025 Champions on the side. Pacers Coach Rick Carlisle opens his pregame presser: “I just saw a video with open-top buses presumably for the parade, already painted with them as champions. So that’s what I’m thinking about right now.”

Iris L. · 5:22AM

Yes, I donated it to a charity. I had donated my Toyota Sipra years prior. They take care of everything, even if you have misplaced the car title. I also got a $500 charitable deduction for my income taxes.

Iris

GothicGremlin · 5:27AM

Oh wow, Ron! That's great news. Fingers crossed that the sale all goes smoothly.

JeriLynn - I love your photos - everything looks so serene.

HB - what a great photo!! Do you remember Liddle Kiddles? With your matching outfits, you kind of remind me of that in that photo. I love the car.

jfkoc — that's great! It sounds like it was really fun.

Iris - what are Red Hat Ladies? I'm sorry about your car. I had that happen with a car once, but they were able to fix it. (whew)

Lorita - be careful with that heat.

It was a lazy day here. I talked to Peggy's kindergarten friend D on the phone today — 2 1/2 hours! We covered a lot of ground. Its' funny, now that it's been a little more than a year since Peggy passed away, our phone calls are a bit different. We focus more on the good things now. She did admit something to me though today — she said that during the last couple of years of Peggy's life, she and M (Peggy's very best friend) would talk on the phone about how to best shield me from some of the stress. I thought that was very sweet of them.

I've been enjoying the long days here. The sun comes up around 5:10am, which means it's pretty bright outside by 4:30am, and the sun sets around 9:10pm, which means there's light in the sky past 10pm.

For those of you who like spicy food - we made chili-garlic tofu with lime rice. We started with this recipe from the chili pepper madness website. It's really good. We've changed the recipe substantially. Instead of shrimp, we use tofu, we make our own lime rice using brown rice, lime juice and lime zest. And finally we add vegetables to it. Today we used broccoli, snap peas, and green beans. Fresno peppers are amazing. Tasty, and about the same heat level as a jalapeno.

Carl46 · 8:55AM

My favorite aunt was a Red Hatter and had a lot of fun with it. I'm glad to hear it is still a thing.

JeriLynn66 · 10:55AM

The 4 fledged barn swallows returned to their nest last evening and Mama is feeding them this morning.

And: Thunder for the Win! 🥇 Congratulations 🎉

harshedbuzz · 11:29AM

Good morning.

I was probably up as early as Jerilynn this morning. I wasn't sleeping well and around 3 noticed DS was awake because there was a light on. He does this some time. I dozed off and awoke about 30 minutes later to a series of rapid clicking sounds. I came downstairs and asked what the noise was— expletives may have been involved. There were scads of flying insects and DS was zapping them with his trusty electric racket. Ick. I sprayed with an organic essential oil-based spray and they seem gone, but I'll need to pick up some traps. DH was exposed to organophosphates as a bench chemist and doesn't do well around such things— like he can't even walk down that aisle at the hardware store without feeling twitchy.

Lorita— Congratulations on that win! 🏀

Carl— That is a scary car. I still have a dent in my forehead from an accident when someone ran a red light and dad t-boned it. FTR, while dad didn't develop dementia until his 70s, his judgement was always questionable. He bought that car the day after they found out my mother was pregnant with my sister, and it served as the "family car" for a couple years. What were they thinking?

Gothic G— I do remember Liddle Kiddles. My sister was very into them. She got the Romeo and Juliet set that came with a story about them living happily ever after which got a serious eye-roll from 10-year-old me. I was more into Barbie.

I wonder if that recipe would work with chicken? The boys like hot and spicy and I'm allergic to soy and shrimp.

I need to shower. Mom's got the cardiologist at 11 and the road between her house and the office is closed through the start of school and I imagine the detour will be ugly. This is not convenient at all. She wants me to take her new pants to the seamstress for hemming but she's closed Mondays which means 2 more trips to get that done. She needs to stop buying things that don't fit. she got at least 20 pair of nice summer pants. Enough already.

HB

Mint · 11:36AM

good morning

hope everyone can stay cool enough today

BethL · 11:58AM

https://alzconnected.org/discussion/comment/246417#Comment_246417

JeriLynn, I didn't know that baby birds would return to the nest after they had fledged. Your swallows are cute. Ours have fledged as well. Only two of them that I am aware of.

Nerve wracking BB game last night. Bad injury for Hali. Thunder with a lead of 23 slipped down to 10. Glad they pulled it off. I saw that before the game, the Thunder already had open top buses, their color of blue, painted with their name, the Larry O' Brien trophy and "2025 Champions." They knew. 😊

You know how the winning team always put on Champion hats and t shirts after the game? What happens to the winner hats and t shirts the non winning team had printed up in the event they won???

And did you know - bet Lorita did - the Thunder have two players with the same name (spelled differently though): Jalen Williams and Jaylin Williams. (Correct me if I'm wrong…I saw this online.)

Lorita · 1:28PM

Morning, big day in OKC with the buses and.big parade. Really good game but sorry about the Pacers player who got hurt. Kind of felt sorry for their team..

Beth, I did not know about those two players. I hadn't really seen many of their games until the finals.

JeriLynne, those little swallows are so cute. I feel so bad about our little ones. I had never seen them fall out of the nest before and no idea what happened to the third one. So, mom is still taking care of her babies?- so sweet.

I feel like banishing my cats. I ordered lantana and they were doing okay on the porch but Rusty ate them down to the ground. I nursed them along and all three were doing well, one even had a little bloom. I was almost ready to transplant them outside. Brought them in last night to keep Rusty away and the cats ate almost all the leaves. Ate one down to the ground. So, will try again.

Need to call and make an appt. For the car, maybe for tomorrow. The refrigerator freezer is icing up again and the icemaker isn't working so will have to get that fixed. Then, there's the lights on the PU dash. I feel like staying in bed with my head covered. Things always seem to come in threes.

Hope all of you have a really good Monday. Back later.

eaglemom · 1:43PM

Good morning

Congratulations to my Thunder friends. Love the color of the buses. I know the answer about the Champion hats & shirts for the losing team. They are donated to a organization (homeless shelter, etc) many states away from where they are from.

It's going to be a hot tamale outside today. Off to pick up a Sam's order, come home & off load it then pick up grocery order. Let's be safe everyone.

ronald71111 · 2:30PM

Good morning!

I'm definitely moving the weekend of July 4th. The buyer had a VA pre-approved loan so his part is ok. For me, I need a couple of things fixed and need inspection letters. If everything isn't taken care of by July 4th, I plan on giving my realtor power if attorney to sign for me where I don't have to come back.

Ron

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