WHAT MADE YOU GRIMACE & GRIT YOUR TEETH TODAY?

I'm so terribly sorry Eva! You have my deepest sympathies. I lost my very best friend of 25 years to breast cancer a year and a half ago and she was the same age as your friend. Way too young!
(((((Hug))))

I came here to have a bit of a whinge, then read Eva's post & forgot what I was going to say.
I'm so sorry about your friend, Eva.

Thanks, gals. Life is not fair. That's worth at least a GRRRRRRRRRRR.....

It certainly is, Eva. And a deep sigh ...

a little grrrrrrrrrrrr


it's been raining a lot lately, so i haven't really been able to get into the garden.

i'm not really a fan of cutesy little garden ornaments, but i found a very sweet little terracotta cherub at Goodwill the other weekend. i couldn't really garden - so putting the cherub on top of a tiny brick wall edging a path, i felt like i was almost gardening. i realized yesterday morning that someone stole it overnight. on top of the series of shed and porch arsons in the neighbourhood over the last 2 weeks, it's making me feel quite suspicious of my neighbours. grrrrrrrrrrr

Not a good feeling is it, ehBeth, being suspicious of the neighbours.

I'm quite angry at whoever has been doing these bad things. I like my neighbours, but I know that someone very close by is doing bad bad things. Having to be suspicious and cautious - and waking up each time the dogs bark - it's making me very angry.

Two weeks of garden arsons. I'm wondering what the thief would do with the stolen stuff. They could hardly display the goodies in their own garden, could they?

Could it be neighborhood kids?

Possibly, eoe, but wouldn't their parents notice that the shed was getting cluttered with strange garden ornaments, etc?

I'm fairly sure it's not kids. Which makes me even more annoyed.
When I first moved into this house, hamburger gave me some hosta cuttings - most of which I put in the front. I got up on a couple of mornings to discover they'd been dug up! I moved the survivors to the backyard, so I could have a hosta nursery - and moved them out front when they were bigger and more difficult to dig up and walk around with.

The gardeners can be pretty aggressive around here.

One of the reasons I'm sure the cherub theft is a gardener is that you had to look very carefully behind the squills, and in front of the lungwort, to see the little character sitting on a 2-brick high mini wall. You'd have had to be very interested in the plants, and looking at the garden itself.

ehBeth

Erk! You'd have to be rather nasty to steal someone's CUTTINGS!
Yep is sounds like a gardener, alright ... A lazy & immoral one!

How's this for grimace inspiring material?: I was wandering through a shop in a bit of a daze this afternoon & almost collided with my ex & his latest love interest! I don't know who was more shocked - him or me!
But, boy, he got outa there fast!

I had to let a band member go today.....only two types of musicians in my band...team players and ex members...I don't give a damn how good they are......I've now been in a shitty mood all day........

Sorry BPB, but yah gotta do what yah gotta do! Don't feel bad, it was written .... so be it!

The solution is clear.

Show him your buttox.

Then, start sticking a fork in it, over and over and over again, and scream the following:

"Cheese, cheese, cheese, on my knees, knees, knees. Eat a small, small boy, fart on my Mom, Mom, Mom."

This has worked 17 times for me in a variety of circumstances far worse than your current predicament.

How do you define "worked"?

australians tend to make me grimace and grit my teeth.

Garn, feather features, ya really love us!

locked the keys in the car