12:15 am
rowlie45
a big sea
12:17 am
licketySplitAUS
Clues are up
12:23 am
Rainiqui
nbt, nbs
12:33 am
sprite
thanks Lickety! Morning babblers
12:57 am
sprite
I must have tried re + look at least 10 times. It really does not take. Hmphhhh
12:58 am
rebelsass
morning, sprite! *husg*
12:59 am
sprite
hiya rebel
1:00 am
sprite
a quick babble before we leave to see the house and have our talk with the tenant committee. Fingers crossed.
1:01 am
grannyrose
* praying for sprite and hubby *
1:01 am
rebelsass
it is 54 degrees in this hotel room right now! it's freezing! good luck on the house huntig!
1:01 am
grannyrose
* hugs * sprite, * hugs * rebel
1:02 am
sprite
hiya sweetie *hugs* and thanks so much. We will travel on the wings of your prayers today, and all the good wishes, thoughts and intention candles from friends. If it is to be...
1:02 am
sprite
thanks rebel
1:02 am
grannyrose
good luck for tomorrow rebel.
1:03 am
rebelsass
thank you grannyrose!
1:03 am
grannyrose
sprite, what time is your viewing of the house? your time?
1:04 am
sprite
bbs, nature is calling. Urgently. 10.45 for the viewing, rose, and the committee right after
1:26 am
sprite
okay, back but just to say bye, see you on the other side :)
1:45 am
mattygroves
Wrong box, Bethn!
1:50 am
ursh
anybody have a clue for the ec 7 please
2:07 am
grannyrose
ec 7, murder of the environment?
2:28 am
ursh
great clue thanks rose
3:36 am
Atalante
oops my turn
6:51 am
Sugrraleona
gm, i'm stumped on the we4? my monkeys are exhausted I jsut can't get it help?
6:53 am
mael
it's a babblet, go down the column
7:19 am
ursh
similar to what you get from touching frogs just different vowel
8:11 am
crosshair
Good morning, Babblers. :)
8:15 am
Scrabbler
Good morning, Crossy!
8:16 am
Scrabbler
Hahaha, I am so sorry about that.
8:16 am
phaeton
hello...it seems to be happening a lot today :)
8:18 am
Scrabbler
Hi phaeton
8:30 am
rururocks
no shit
8:30 am
Scrabbler
Haha, not the best wo4 to leave in the chat.
8:45 am
rururocks
saanich wears the tiara today
8:45 am
sprite
good afternoon, babblers
8:45 am
rururocks
wow a late arrival sprite?
8:46 am
sprite
very much so. Did a bit this morning, then we went to look at a possible home. Then the car died halfway there... tomorrow again a chance to look at the home.
8:46 am
rururocks
a new home?
8:46 am
rururocks
didn't you just build one?
8:47 am
sprite
yes. At the moment we are living in the home that our daughter is renting here. She has gone back to her partner. We need our own home... :D
8:48 am
sprite
nope. The tiny house could not be built, Rob has heart issues and the doctor forbids him to do any heavy work.
8:49 am
rururocks
isn't he young for heart issues?
8:49 am
sprite
he is 68. So yeah. But there you are. Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
8:49 am
rururocks
wow.. i though you were a lot younger than me
8:50 am
rururocks
oh you just married an older guy Got it
8:52 am
rururocks
my wife was older than me too
8:53 am
sprite
I have never paid much attention to age, tbh. Although the difference between 59 and 68 is different from the difference between, say, 30 and 39.
8:54 am
rururocks
yeah.. I didn't until now either.
8:54 am
rururocks
my ex is having a hard time in life right now.. lots of things are failing for her.
8:55 am
sprite
that is a struggle. Rob has trouble accepting that his age is starting to catch up with him. Are you and your ex still in eachother's lives?
8:55 am
rururocks
yeah.. I do lots of things for her
8:56 am
sprite
that is beautiful
8:56 am
rururocks
we're good friends again.. although I must admit it was a little rough going through the divorce
8:57 am
sprite
sounds like a very challenging thing to go through. I think it is beautiful you are friends again.
8:57 am
rururocks
it's awful... I'm never going through that again I tell you
8:58 am
phaeton
The town I used to live in is in the grid
8:58 am
sprite
sounds like a plan! I cannot imagine how that must be, to separate from someone you once loved enough to marry and then have to struggle through such a painful process.
9:01 am
phaeton
hi sprite
9:11 am
sprite
the car died because my love put screen cleaner fluid in the cool fluid tank... I keep seeing him do stuff like this, and it worries me.
9:12 am
rururocks
oh god. that's not good news
9:12 am
rururocks
have you had him tested and a work up?
9:12 am
sprite
a few weeks back I looked at him and he had put his shirt on backwards. With the buttons on the back.
9:13 am
sprite
he has been through the mill a lot lately, ru, for his heart, his lungs, his knees, oedema, it doesn't stop. But yes, he needs to be checked for this too. I am gently preparing him for it.
9:16 am
rururocks
those are alarming signs sprite
9:16 am
rururocks
it'd be best to do something about it now so they can help
9:16 am
sprite
they are. I am truly worried.
9:17 am
rururocks
delaying might cause some real problems .. just went through this with a good friend
9:18 am
sprite
yes, I agree. The gp is going to call him this week about the blood pressure test results, and I will let him make an appointment to talk this over with her.
9:18 am
sprite
am so sorry to hear that, ru. Must have been hard.
9:19 am
rururocks
it was hard and yet eerily beautiful to go through the process.
9:21 am
rururocks
as weird at that sounds
9:21 am
rururocks
good luck with Rob.. I hope it's nothing
9:21 am
sprite
I know. We lost a very dear friend of mine to early onset Alzheimer. It was just as you said.
9:22 am
sprite
thank you!
9:35 am
hokie carla
oh sprite, I'm sorry
9:36 am
sprite
thanks carla. Let's hope it won't go too fast.
9:38 am
hokie carla
I came outside on the porch because mr. homie is sick and was coughing right across from me at the table.
9:40 am
hokie carla
it is super humid out here and first drink of my juice I saw a bug swimming in it. these are all minor complaints though in the grand scheme of things.
9:40 am
sprite
still unpleasant though
9:40 am
hokie carla
checking my coffee before each sip!
9:42 am
sprite
just ordered dinner to be delivered. Am pooped.
9:42 am
hokie carla
that's nice you can do that!
9:43 am
sprite
very nice :)
9:45 am
sprite
wow, all those Cs
9:45 am
hokie carla
I know, it's craptacular
9:46 am
hokie carla
I think 56 over 4 c's
9:49 am
hokie carla
but I can't manage to find an E on the left
9:50 am
hokie carla
oh, I see 2
9:50 am
sprite
vowel words. Always hard.
9:52 am
sprite
fireflies. Poofing with hugs.
9:52 am
hokie carla
well done, good night
9:56 am
hokie carla
of course now the other E is elusive
10:04 am
ursh
rose clued the ec7 earlier as "enviromental murder" which I thought was very clever
10:04 am
hokie carla
thanks, ursh. I think I have seen that one other time here but forgot about it.
10:11 am
hokie carla
HOET but 62 left. not easy peasy no matter what ruru says.
10:23 am
hokie carla
NTPN - actress who played debbie downer on SNL
10:38 am
Atalante
but the ec7 really is defined as that :)
10:40 am
hokie carla
so it was a very clever clue :D
10:43 am
rururocks
I didn't say this one was easy peasy
10:43 am
rururocks
but it wasn't super difficult either
10:44 am
hokie carla
it was a preemptive post
10:44 am
rururocks
oh shit. i gotta deal with that now too?
10:45 am
hokie carla
yep. as we have to deal with your phantom word gatekeeping. :D
10:45 am
rururocks
well someone has too
10:45 am
rururocks
has to that is
10:47 am
hokie carla
I am still finding words but they aren't coming fast so I do not think this one is easy.
10:49 am
MollyL
Carla, I rarely think these grids are easy. But there are all kinds here. Sometimes when a grid only has 45 words, people are asking for clues all day long.
10:49 am
jmcnrick
Hi all.
10:49 am
hokie carla
sometimes the really small ones are the hardest though
10:50 am
hokie carla
hey jmc
10:55 am
hokie carla
well, stalled at 30. 6-14-9-1 C3 E C3 S3 D2 E C3 i R4 T4 A3 F2
10:55 am
hokie carla
later
10:55 am
jmcnrick
bye hokie
11:03 am
MollyL
Good Lord, look what the cat dragged in
11:13 am
ChampFit
jmc! Glad to see you and hope you're doing well!
11:15 am
jmcnrick
hey Champ. Doing as well as one can knowing the military has taken over your colony. How's it going with you
11:16 am
ChampFit
All good here, thanks.
11:16 am
jmcnrick
Glad to hear it. I was just thinking that all the time I have spent on this chog gave me a good skill set for remote work! hahaha
11:18 am
ChampFit
Are you still working a lot?
11:20 am
jmcnrick
right now I am. It comes and goes. Later this month I will be traveling to Maine to do a workshop on communication.
11:21 am
ChampFit
Oooh...nice, cool, Maine! Lovely.
11:24 am
jmcnrick
haha so I hear. I went there on my honeymoon in 1984 and had ro buy a sweater.
11:24 am
penquis
where in Maine will you be going?
11:25 am
bichon
I was in Maine for 4th of July. It was wicked hot
11:25 am
penquis
where were you?
11:25 am
penquis
it's 78 and humid right now where I am....warmer inland....
11:25 am
bichon
central maine
11:26 am
jmcnrick
Deer Island. Oddly my B-I-L moved next do4 to a friend of mine there
11:26 am
penquis
ah inland does get hotter...
11:26 am
ChampFit
Wow...that's wild!
11:26 am
penquis
cool....Deer Isle is a nice place....shouldn't be too hot....
11:26 am
jmcnrick
My friends says it has been hot but I think my consceot of hot is probably different
11:26 am
penquis
probably...
11:26 am
jmcnrick
The oddest part is that they have yet to meet.
11:27 am
ChampFit
You're about to change that!
11:27 am
penquis
our summers have been warmer in recent years...
11:27 am
jmcnrick
yes. we are having lunch together.
11:28 am
penquis
should be fun...
11:28 am
jmcnrick
I hope so. NTL interesting since 1984 was the last time I was in Maine
11:29 am
jmcnrick
but thanks penq for reminding me to pack a sweater!
11:30 am
penquis
hah...you may not need one...
11:30 am
jmcnrick
well still better to have it! Especially if there is a.c which I rarely use
11:31 am
penquis
and the weather here can change pretty quickly...
11:52 am
jmcnrick
I am getting nowhere with environmental murder. probably too long a word for my little brain
11:53 am
jmcnrick
haha if that were only in the grid bichon
11:54 am
penquis
um, it is...
11:55 am
jmcnrick
Should have followed the standard practice of typing in words I don't see!
11:55 am
penquis
good plan...
11:56 am
jmcnrick
still missing the left Eand left top n and the center o but now it is time for me to go try to save my collards from the dreaded larnternfly.!
11:57 am
jmcnrick
bye all!
12:18 pm
hurshy
top A has ac4 and...?
12:19 pm
hurshy
ah thanks
12:19 pm
hurshy
i was looking for that kinda but wasn't going the right direction
12:21 pm
periwinkle
not seeing that as5 hello all
12:21 pm
penquis
a kind of tie...
12:21 pm
hurshy
or horse race place
12:21 pm
penquis
or a race track in England...
12:22 pm
periwinkle
ty pen
12:23 pm
hurshy
man, trying to get to talk to someone at the USPS for a question about a shipment is waaaaaaay too hard
12:23 pm
penquis
always is....everywhere with call routing....
12:24 pm
periwinkle
it is way toooo hard to get to speak to a human being in many places . very frustrating
12:24 pm
penquis
agreed...
12:24 pm
hurshy
i have a package that they've been sending back and forth around the country and i want to know why, what's the problem, is the problem solved now
12:25 pm
hurshy
first it was hard to figure out how to even get it to let me in line for a person, and now i've been on hold for like... 40 minutes? idk
12:25 pm
penquis
my great nephew ordered a laptop last summer....the box was delivered empty...
12:25 pm
hurshy
lol fun times
12:25 pm
periwinkle
oh no
12:25 pm
penquis
it had been weirdly routed, too....
12:25 pm
periwinkle
stuck with 92 left bbl
12:25 pm
penquis
bye, peri...
12:29 pm
penquis
well i am stalled at 40....taking a break....bye all...
12:29 pm
hurshy
any weird C words? esp if they start in an unexpected way like CW or even CY
12:30 pm
hurshy
i only need five more of those, altogther, so that's not bad, eh?
12:31 pm
hurshy
they don't have "scooch" !!
12:33 pm
ChampFit
Totally tried it, and even trued scootch.
12:33 pm
hurshy
crazy enable
12:35 pm
hurshy
these Ss are really hard, or else i'm missing a whole direction or something, still need 5
12:36 pm
ChampFit
I still need 2...so far nothing weird.
12:36 pm
hurshy
oh, found an sy
12:39 pm
hurshy
how about the i? i have in4 and in6
12:39 pm
hurshy
oh duh thanks
12:39 pm
ChampFit
And yes, I missed it at first too! took me a second look
12:39 pm
hurshy
this hold music must be driving me crazier than i thought
12:42 pm
hurshy
i wonder if there even are any customer service people at all or if they just leave you on hold forever
12:42 pm
ChampFit
I believe in you hursh. You can outlast 'em!
12:43 pm
hurshy
i found a flower
12:46 pm
MollyL
I swear, there was never a better cheerleader than Champ. Go fight win!
12:46 pm
ChampFit
I'm a bright shining light, and you're welcome!
12:50 pm
hurshy
i managed to remember the alt sp of the cowboy event
12:51 pm
ChampFit
I'm 1000% missing that....
12:51 pm
hurshy
well now that i said that, it should help
12:53 pm
ChampFit
Is it actually an alternate? How do I not know this word?
12:54 pm
ChampFit
Can't just click next to it anymore...which I'll say again, I miss!
12:54 pm
hurshy
apparently it's really a portmanteau
12:54 pm
hurshy
involves handling motor vehicles through various obstacles in the smallest time
12:55 pm
ChampFit
Ahhhhh...I feel less stupid now.
12:57 pm
hurshy
any rh words today?
12:58 pm
ChampFit
I don't have any, but still need 2
12:59 pm
hurshy
so it's funny, they gave me a choice of five genres of hold music when i went on hold in the first place
1:00 pm
hurshy
but then it seems whatever you pick you are stuck with
1:00 pm
hurshy
they don't come back and say "would you like to switch it up?"
1:00 pm
hurshy
even if you are on hold for over an hour
1:01 pm
ChampFit
Torture.
1:02 pm
ChampFit
The nail salon I go to has HORRIBLE music. It's some kind of instrumental, weird background stuff. Can't even explain it. If they weren't so good and fast, I'd go elsewhere.
1:03 pm
hurshy
i have an easy solution to that problem
1:03 pm
hurshy
i just don't go to nail salons
1:04 pm
ChampFit
I think it looks more professional. It's a pain in the butt, because I have very little patience, but am always glad when it's done.
1:04 pm
hurshy
i don't really paint my nails either
1:04 pm
hurshy
just let 'em be
1:04 pm
hurshy
but then i have noticed a funny thing
1:04 pm
hurshy
in terms of their length
1:05 pm
hurshy
they go fine fine fine fine fine for days and then suddenly one day WAY TOO LONG AND DRIVING ME CRAZY
1:05 pm
ChampFit
Ha! It's the same with the stuff I get. I have mine dipped And sometimes they don't trim as much. Then one day it's impossible to type!
1:06 pm
hurshy
idk what those people with the uber-long fake ones do
1:06 pm
hurshy
how do you eat, even? seems like it would make everything in life very hard
1:06 pm
ChampFit
I always wonder how they take care of bathroom business.
1:07 pm
ChampFit
Apparently having your nails done is now a 'back to school' thing. When I was at the salon last week, kids were everywhere.
1:11 pm
ChampFit
Oooh...just found co5/16...similar to the sc you tried earlier
1:11 pm
ChampFit
Closed out that far right C
1:17 pm
MollyL
First of all, since when is the middle of August back to school time? Second, anyone over 40 who remembers getting your nails done to go back to school, raise your hand. *Hand down
1:19 pm
hokie carla
in a lot of places, since forever
1:19 pm
ChampFit
In Texas, the earliest they can start is the 3rd week in August. This is typical. And still too crazy hot. IDK about the nails. Just regretted being there mid-day. Next year I'll time it better!
1:19 pm
hokie carla
they overdo everything these days. see: promposals
1:19 pm
ChampFit
Heck yeah they do...and homecoming, and everything else.
1:20 pm
ChampFit
Also not a fan of gender reveals.
1:20 pm
hokie carla
me either. and everything to do with weddings just keeps getting bigger and bigger.
1:22 pm
ChampFit
Agreed. The one I'm planning now isn't, but that's because we aren't crazy. :)
1:22 pm
hokie carla
nc schools are like the monday closest to aug 26, va schools where I grew up are early august. tn schools next to where I grew up are aug 1, which is crazy to me.
1:23 pm
hokie carla
I think school has started here in sc too. I've never lived anywhere that's after labor day. I think that's a northern thing.
1:23 pm
ChampFit
It seems weird to start them, then immediately get Labor Day off.
1:24 pm
ChampFit
Today there was a kid and his grandma sitting on the driveway waiting for the bus at 9 a.m. They absolutely missed it and had no clue, because I didn't see another kid anywhere in the neighborhood.
1:24 pm
hokie carla
for some reason I have like r/weddingshaming and r/bridezilla show up in my reddit feed and those posts are crazy
1:24 pm
ChampFit
But they're funny as hell!
1:26 pm
hokie carla
one was like the anti bridezilla and she was worried she would upset her bridesmaids. everyone was like, uh no, you sound very reasonable.
1:26 pm
ChampFit
We picked up the dress over the weekend, and she chose a wedding veil. The bride in the room next to us had an entourage of about 7 people. Cray-cray.
1:27 pm
MollyL
When I was a kid school always started after Labor Day.
1:28 pm
ChampFit
Found another 7! Still need 3.
1:29 pm
hokie carla
I just need one 7
1:30 pm
MollyL
Wedding Shaming?
1:30 pm
ChampFit
I have a,e, e, f, o
1:31 pm
ChampFit
The sideways picture in my profile is from a wedding. They paid $3000 to have an artist do watercolors of all the guests. Lovely, but NOT DOING IT AT OURS.
1:34 pm
hokie carla
the worst one I read on wedding shaming, molly, was a 19yo college student saying her sister was having an adults only wedding and didn't invite her because she was not 21. but then she sent a link to the registry and argued with the sister that she expected a gift from her.
1:35 pm
hokie carla
of note: the wedding was dry so why would a 19 yo family member not be invited? since when are people not invited expected to give a gift? since when are children expected to give a gift?
1:36 pm
ChampFit
I saw several like that. And the parents always think that surely no one means THEIR children should be excluded.
1:37 pm
MollyL
Okay, I just took a quick look at wedding shaming on Reddit and I am appalled at the number of posts about mothers of the groom wearing white to the wedding.
1:37 pm
hokie carla
yes, that's most of the posts
1:37 pm
ChampFit
And stepmoms, and other related people. How dim ARE people?
1:37 pm
hokie carla
yes, crazy
1:38 pm
MollyL
And they are not just white dresses. They are lacy, bridal look-a-like dresses. Creepy.
1:39 pm
MollyL
My daughter in law would have said NFW to that quick in a hurry.
1:39 pm
ChampFit
although, I don't understand why the brides get so upset. No one can upstage a bride. They just look ridiculous trying.
1:39 pm
hokie carla
good point
1:40 pm
hurshy
finally got a person after like 1.5 hours on hold
1:41 pm
MollyL
My daughter in law asked the Moms (there were four of us, both sets of parents remarried) to wear a certain color blue to go with her color scheme. I was the only Mom who did.
1:41 pm
hurshy
and they started a "case" to find out what's up
1:41 pm
ChampFit
Let the investigation begin!
1:42 pm
hurshy
used a word
1:42 pm
hurshy
ooops there's another one
1:42 pm
ChampFit
off with your head!
1:42 pm
hokie carla
but then there are also the brides who send out dress codes and attendees are like, can I wear this floral dress or is there too much white in it? like, how can that be confused with white?
1:43 pm
ChampFit
Molly...while I understand the whole 'color scheme' concept, I'm not a fan. Carla...yes!!! Try-hards!
1:43 pm
hurshy
i didn't even think about what other people would wear at my wedding. whatever they wore was ok by me.
1:43 pm
ChampFit
Yes, just please be fully clothed.
1:44 pm
hurshy
well i didn't have anyone weird in my life who might not be, lol
1:45 pm
hurshy
imma switch games for a bit, brain is a little fried for the last 20 here
1:48 pm
ChampFit
carla did you find your last 7? I need one more...
1:58 pm
hokie carla
no, on the phone now with my BFF
2:00 pm
BzznBea
I just found ec7
2:01 pm
ChampFit
I just found the flower hursh found forever ago. :)
2:02 pm
ChampFit
CRAP....sorry!
2:04 pm
cybernan
not seeing any of these 7
2:04 pm
cybernan
but that
2:04 pm
cybernan
but that's nothing new :(
2:04 pm
hokie carla
ar7 - like a mcdonald's sign?
2:05 pm
ChampFit
A couple are pt, a couple are plural
2:05 pm
hokie carla
ec7 - murder to the environment
2:05 pm
hokie carla
en7, plural
2:05 pm
hokie carla
fo7, plural of a 5
2:05 pm
cybernan
have the o the a one
2:06 pm
hokie carla
oc7 - like a large body of water
2:06 pm
hokie carla
re7 - past tense
2:06 pm
hokie carla
so7 - similar to tinned fish
2:07 pm
hokie carla
but is a music term
2:09 pm
cybernan
that ec could just go in so many directions!
2:09 pm
hokie carla
go NW
2:09 pm
hokie carla
NW, SW
2:10 pm
BzznBea
ends like murder homo****
2:11 pm
ChampFit
Exactly nan...took me forever.
2:13 pm
cybernan
so need the re and the fo now
2:13 pm
cybernan
have an fo 5, but not the right one I guess
2:14 pm
cybernan
looking for the re pt
2:15 pm
hokie carla
re pt is from re6/21. maybe fixing a chair?
2:15 pm
ChampFit
I think it's re- beating with a stick! Bwahahahahahaaa!
2:16 pm
hokie carla
maybe that
2:16 pm
ChampFit
FW! Last word was a C...no surprise there.
2:17 pm
hokie carla
well done!
2:17 pm
hokie carla
29 here
2:17 pm
cybernan
ty for the re
2:17 pm
ChampFit
Did you find your last 7?
2:19 pm
ChampFit
C u tomorrow!
2:19 pm
cybernan
the fo 5/18 I have can't have an ed added to it
2:25 pm
hokie carla
I said plural
2:26 pm
hokie carla
but it's really a verb so it's present tense
3:16 pm
cybernan
can't have a plural added to it either
3:17 pm
cybernan
found the right one though - ty
3:18 pm
cybernan
off for lunch
3:57 pm
72 Temple Owl
phantom: echidna
3:59 pm
72 Temple Owl
no idea why
9:27 pm
hurshy
free clue: ce5/14 rhymes with french for "thank you"
9:31 pm
hurshy
and fa5/18 is similar
9:35 pm
hurshy
so7 changes one vowel from a squished fish
11:33 pm
harpjane
only got 30 words with my first pass