The Coffee House

[waday]

Got back from Omaha, Nebraska last night. Wish I had the opportunity to see more of the city, but what I walked of it to grab lunch the one day, seemed pretty nice.

 

[vintagesnaps]

Odds are, you'll have fun!! I think that was the saying from our state lottery on our former team's scoreboard. I ought to know, I took enough pictures of the damn thing! lol I had fun at the games, I don't know how much fun it is to buy lottery tickets. Odds are, I enjoy hockey much more.

 

[davidharmier60]

Nite y'all.

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[Gary A.]

It has been a long long day. There was a good walk with Miss Maggie. She and Max really mixed it up today. Some paperwork then off to the yards for mowing and trimming, cleaned out a filter on the pond, installed some stepping stones, demo-ed the old soaker hose system (it was buried 1.5 feet in spots) and installed a new soaker hose system. Then ... some wine and a dip in the hot tub with Mary Lou. It was sooooooooo nice, lounging in the bubbles, sipping our wine, so relaxing having the jets massage Gary’s aching muscles ... we should have done the hot tub years ago.

 

[jcdeboever]

It has been a long long day. There was a good walk with Miss Maggie. She and Max really mixed it up today. Some paperwork then off to the yards for mowing and trimming, cleaned out a filter on the pond, installed some stepping stones, demo-ed the old soaker hose system (it was buried 1.5 feet in spots) and installed a new soaker hose system. Then ... some wine and a dip in the hot tub with Mary Lou. It was sooooooooo nice, lounging in the bubbles, sipping our wine, so relaxing having the jets massage Gary’s aching muscles ... we should have done the hot tub years ago.

Last time I was in a hot tub, I woke up in urgent care with a headache and 14 stitches in my head. No more hot tubs for the round guy.

 

[smoke665]

Last time I was in a hot tub

Last time for me was at a hotel in Indy. Had to crawl the last 20 feet back to the room, and felt horrible the next morning. Apparently drinking double vodka martinis while in a hot tub is not a good idea

 

[SquarePeg51]

It has been a long long day. There was a good walk with Miss Maggie. She and Max really mixed it up today. Some paperwork then off to the yards for mowing and trimming, cleaned out a filter on the pond, installed some stepping stones, demo-ed the old soaker hose system (it was buried 1.5 feet in spots) and installed a new soaker hose system. Then ... some wine and a dip in the hot tub with Mary Lou. It was sooooooooo nice, lounging in the bubbles, sipping our wine, so relaxing having the jets massage Gary’s aching muscles ... we should have done the hot tub years ago.

Gary - You've been working hard this fall on your outdoor space. Glad you're enjoying the hot tub. I love a nice soak, so relaxing. I've been threatening the family for a few years that I want to get rid of the pool and just get a hot tub. But, my mom loves the pool so every spring we open it up and every fall while we're closing it I complain and say this is the last year! I'd like a nice patio and hot tub with maybe a pergola over it in place of the pool.

Happy Friday to All! No work for me today, just kicking back getting some things done around the house. Need to come up with a theme for this week's challenge. Time to look back at some of the suggestions people have sent me to find something we haven't done yet.

 

[JonA_CT]

It has been a long long day. There was a good walk with Miss Maggie. She and Max really mixed it up today. Some paperwork then off to the yards for mowing and trimming, cleaned out a filter on the pond, installed some stepping stones, demo-ed the old soaker hose system (it was buried 1.5 feet in spots) and installed a new soaker hose system. Then ... some wine and a dip in the hot tub with Mary Lou. It was sooooooooo nice, lounging in the bubbles, sipping our wine, so relaxing having the jets massage Gary’s aching muscles ... we should have done the hot tub years ago.

Gary - You've been working hard this fall on your outdoor space. Glad you're enjoying the hot tub. I love a nice soak, so relaxing. I've been threatening the family for a few years that I want to get rid of the pool and just get a hot tub. But, my mom loves the pool so every spring we open it up and every fall while we're closing it I complain and say this is the last year! I'd like a nice patio and hot tub with maybe a pergola over it in place of the pool.

Happy Friday to All! No work for me today, just kicking back getting some things done around the house. Need to come up with a theme for this week's challenge. Time to look back at some of the suggestions people have sent me to find something we haven't done yet.

Do you have space on your pool deck? Our friends for an inflatable one from BJs I think...I thought it was kind of ridiculous at first, but it was cheap and super functional. This is their first winter with it though...it’ll be interesting to see how that goes.

 

[waday]

Happy Friday!

Last time I was in a hot tub, it ended up being a time machine that malfunctioned and took me back to 1986 with my two friends and nephew.

 

[smoke665]

@SquarePeg We had a pool at the old house. While the kids were younger, it got a lot of use, but as they grew up and went off to college it became an albatross. The last year we were there I think it got used at most a half dozen times. When we built the house, a pool was never in our plans. We've thought about a hot tub, but I suspect we'd get more use from a whirlpool tub.

 

[SquarePeg51]

It has been a long long day. There was a good walk with Miss Maggie. She and Max really mixed it up today. Some paperwork then off to the yards for mowing and trimming, cleaned out a filter on the pond, installed some stepping stones, demo-ed the old soaker hose system (it was buried 1.5 feet in spots) and installed a new soaker hose system. Then ... some wine and a dip in the hot tub with Mary Lou. It was sooooooooo nice, lounging in the bubbles, sipping our wine, so relaxing having the jets massage Gary’s aching muscles ... we should have done the hot tub years ago.

Gary - You've been working hard this fall on your outdoor space. Glad you're enjoying the hot tub. I love a nice soak, so relaxing. I've been threatening the family for a few years that I want to get rid of the pool and just get a hot tub. But, my mom loves the pool so every spring we open it up and every fall while we're closing it I complain and say this is the last year! I'd like a nice patio and hot tub with maybe a pergola over it in place of the pool.

Happy Friday to All! No work for me today, just kicking back getting some things done around the house. Need to come up with a theme for this week's challenge. Time to look back at some of the suggestions people have sent me to find something we haven't done yet.

Do you have space on your pool deck? Our friends for an inflatable one from BJs I think...I thought it was kind of ridiculous at first, but it was cheap and super functional. This is their first winter with it though...it’ll be interesting to see how that goes.

We had a couple of those inflatable ring pools when the kids were younger and they were great. The only issue in this region is storage over the winter. You can't leave it up because the temps get too low so you have to store it over the winter. It can't sit in a shed or unheated garage because the material will get small cracks from the cold. Learned our lesson after the first one when I had to patch it a dozen times. Once we started storing them in the basement which is heated, it was great. We don't have a pool deck. It's an above ground. We currently have one of the Intex ultra frame pools that looks just like this:

it's big (12 X 22, 4.5 ft deep) and fairly easy to put up/take down. This year Princess and 2 of her pals put the pool up without my help in about 2 hours. I have a company that comes over with a tanker truck full of water and fills it up in about 20 minutes. It costs me less to fill this pool every year than most of our friends with permanent pools pay to have their pools professionally opened/closed every year.

We do have friends who have one of the inflatable hot tubs but haven't really discussed with her how they liked it. They call it the Hillbilly Hot Tub (apologies to any TPF hillbillies). I really would like a nice 6-8 person tub that I can just flip open and use without a lot of other work.

@SquarePeg We had a pool at the old house. While the kids were younger, it got a lot of use, but as they grew up and went off to college it became an albatross. The last year we were there I think it got used at most a half dozen times. When we built the house, a pool was never in our plans. We've thought about a hot tub, but I suspect we'd get more use from a whirlpool tub.

The first couple of weeks after the pool is opened, while school is still in session, the yard is full of kids using the pool after school. After about 3 weeks, the thrill of swimming after a long winter fades and then the beaches will call them away once school is out. Then it is either my mom in there for a quick swim or my cousin will stop by with his little ones if it's super hot out. I think he went in the pool more than I did this year. When I'm in the pool I'm usually vacuuming it!

 

[Gary A.]

It has been a long long day. There was a good walk with Miss Maggie. She and Max really mixed it up today. Some paperwork then off to the yards for mowing and trimming, cleaned out a filter on the pond, installed some stepping stones, demo-ed the old soaker hose system (it was buried 1.5 feet in spots) and installed a new soaker hose system. Then ... some wine and a dip in the hot tub with Mary Lou. It was sooooooooo nice, lounging in the bubbles, sipping our wine, so relaxing having the jets massage Gary’s aching muscles ... we should have done the hot tub years ago.

Last time I was in a hot tub, I woke up in urgent care with a headache and 14 stitches in my head. No more hot tubs for the round guy.

You must have looked like Frankenstein...

 

[smoke665]

Out in the woods, if we want a hot tub, all it takes is borrowing the stock tank, stack a few cinder blocks, and build a fire in an old oil drum (helps if you burn the oil out first LOL), you slide the drum closer or farther away depending on what you want the water temp to be.

 

[terri53 1]

Happy Friday, hosers! It's rainy and chilly here - I love it, after all the dry heat of September. This is yummy. Wine and .... something for dinner tonight.

I love the idea of a hot tub, but not the maintenance. If the hubby liked them better, it would help, but he's largely indifferent.

 

[vintagesnaps]

Or... use a water trough?? lol Used to see them out along country roads but don't see them anymore.

Have never been in a hot tub, and I like showers better than taking baths so not interested in one. In a cool pool when it's hot out was fine for me (but never interested in owning/cleaning one). I have sat on a water bed, and that was all I did in it or on it, might as well be in a canoe. Which I've done with kids on the river, and not doing that ever again either! lol I'm a landlubber.

Kind of engrossing being home during the day and seeing news as it's happening, been watching them load up a van apparently belonging to the person who has been arrested for the bomb mailings. Disturbing they still found more. Probably will still be at a Dr. appt. when there's a press conference at 2:30.