Babble: Archived Puzzle for Tuesday, September 2, 2025

12:05 am

Rainiqui

no 7

12:06 am

rbud

mo 7

12:12 am

hokie carla

pa7

12:13 am

grannyrose

ch 8

12:17 am

Rainiqui

nbt, nbs, thank you Rose

12:17 am

licketySplitAUS

Clues are up

12:20 am

0471

ty lickety

12:21 am

grannyrose

yw rain

12:40 am

sprite

good morning babblers

12:41 am

grannyrose

en ook voor jou een goedemorgen, lieve vriend.

12:42 am

sprite

aw sweetie, how beautiful, a dutch morning greeting! Lovely to see you. How are you feeling?

12:42 am

grannyrose

at the moment pretty good. have just eaten a small tub of yoghurt. staying down, and no nausea.

12:43 am

sprite

wow, progress! Glad to hear it. You had me worried for a bit.

12:43 am

grannyrose

AND Don ate his lunch next to me, without me gagging..lol

12:43 am

sprite

roflolol

12:44 am

grannyrose

how's the packing and sorting going?

12:45 am

grannyrose

that yoghurt is the first solid food since Saturday night's dinner.

12:46 am

sprite

we are going strong. I sold all my nail salon stuff yesterday, and caya came and picked up most of my yarn stack. We have a good planning. And today, Tim comes to help us bring stuff to the thriftstore and the... whatitcalled... where the waste is dumped

12:46 am

grannyrose

tip? garbage dump?

12:46 am

sprite

ugh darling, what an ordeal. Glad you are starting to climb up the other side of the abyss

12:47 am

sprite

tip, I think. It is complicated here. You have to sort out your garbage before handing it in.

12:47 am

grannyrose

are you having to hire a truck for the rubbish?

12:48 am

sprite

we have a little trailer that we can pull ourselves with the car, that should suffice

12:48 am

grannyrose

yeah. pretty much what we have to do here as well. makes me wonder just what do we get for the money for council rates.

12:49 am

grannyrose

if ever anything happens here, we will have to hire a skip... extra large. lol

12:49 am

sprite

I am gonna leave the sorting to Tim and Rob. One thing I have learned over the years is to stop trying to control it all and spend my energy on every aspect. THey will let me know if they need my input. I will just point :D

12:50 am

grannyrose

* giggle * like point to a room, and say that's your job. sort and empty that please

12:50 am

sprite

almost, lolol. I will point and say: that is for the thriftstore, and that is for the tip. ENjoy, boys.

12:51 am

grannyrose

i am pleased to see this. i have to admit being a tad anxious for you. it's a big job.

12:52 am

sprite

Tim has booked the hotel for us for the moving weekend. And he has rented the moving truck. Rob is working on getting us cars to stack the moving boxes onto, to make it easier for the kids to get them in place

12:52 am

sprite

it is huge, honey. But we are managing pretty okay. Step by step, and allowing Tim to take a bit of a leading role. He likes that, grinnnnn

12:53 am

grannyrose

well done. forward planning is such a good idea. saves a lot of fretting.

12:54 am

grannyrose

it's good for Tim to feel that his input is important. bless him. if you remember please give him a hug from me as my thanks for helping you.

12:55 am

sprite

we are all thinking ahead and brainstorming on how to do it most wisely. The kids are taking on responsibilty for us, the old folks, and apart from thinking how very sweet it is, I have to admit it is kind necessary too. We are not in our twenties anymore.

12:55 am

grannyrose

and a great idea to move into a hotel for that weekend.you will have some where quiet, and comfortable to head for after a long day.

12:56 am

sprite

it is even better, Rose. The kids don't want us underfoot during the move. We are to leave for the hotel, stay there and only come to the new home after everything has been put in

12:56 am

sprite

as Tim put it: it is the only way to keep the two of us from carrying stuff too heavy for us

12:56 am

grannyrose

are any of us? in our 20's still? well bits of me might be, but the kit and kaboodle is well used.

12:57 am

sprite

our spirit is unbroken and always young,lolol. The rest... well... let's sau well used is putting it midly

12:57 am

sprite

say* and mildly*. Back in da days, I could even spell

12:58 am

grannyrose

yep. passed a lot of water over the years... roflol

12:59 am

grannyrose

hmmmm i wonder just how much ? would be amusing to work the numbers...

12:59 am

sprite

I am very happy with the kids and how much they are willing to help us. They are taking good careof us.

1:01 am

sprite

I once read a fascinating article on holy water. It was about how much water must have passed through Jesus during his life and how the cycle of water through the world means that we all have at least a drop of that water in us now. And if you add all the other holy persons and saints etc, it is pretty amazing

1:01 am

grannyrose

oh, and btw, the human bowel seems to hold 3 1/2 kgs of weighty matter. i found that out the hard way. weighed myself Saturday morning, then after that night, weighed myself again. 3 1/2 kgs gone.

1:01 am

sprite

*giggles* well thanks for passing on that tidbit. All 7 pounds of it.

1:02 am

grannyrose

yeah, must remember to tell my doc to take off 3 1/2 kgs the next time she weighs me. *snort * like that's gonna happen.

1:03 am

sprite

lol of course not. You earned the right to claim that loss, honey. You suffered for it.

1:03 am

sprite

oh btw, I have finished translating the first part of my book. Wanna read it?

1:04 am

grannyrose

ooohhhh. yes please.

1:04 am

sprite

which format would work best for you?

1:05 am

grannyrose

hmmm, a pdf if via gmail.

1:05 am

sprite

no problem

1:06 am

grannyrose

thanks

1:08 am

sprite

okay, on its way

1:08 am

ursh

wish you well with your move Sprite - we lived in the same house for 46 years and the amount of junk we had to get rid of was mind boggling - took me weeks and weeks before the move to sift through

1:09 am

sprite

hiya ursh! Oh i know! We went through all that when we moved out of our home into the caravan 5 years ago. Threw away about 95% of what we owned. Things are not half as bad now. Still a lot of work though.

1:10 am

sprite

btw, if there are any babblers here who like to read fantasy and would enjoy being beta readers, send me an email. My addy is near the bottom of my profile.

1:14 am

grannyrose

it's arrived sprite. am going to enjoy reading this very much.

1:14 am

sprite

makes me very very happy to be able to share it with you.

1:15 am

sprite

it is weird, I use my downtime in between doing all the moving chores for translating. You'd think that is work too. But it gives me so much energy.

1:17 am

grannyrose

that makes sense. you are actually switching off the stress of moving totally when you start translating.

1:17 am

sprite

very true.

1:18 am

sprite

oh roflolllll Rob is reading a column. A teacher asks his class what is the function of the beeping sounds that some crossing lights sport. Answer from a student: that is for when you are on your phone, you don't have to look up then to see it is safe to cross

1:19 am

grannyrose

oh good grief !

1:20 am

sprite

I swear, the next generation will be born with the communication devices as part of their flesh :D

1:20 am

sprite

nature calls, bbs

1:30 am

sprite

back

1:37 am

grannyrose

wb sprite

1:37 am

sprite

thanks ho5.

1:42 am

grannyrose

uh oh. need to go lie down sweetie. FM spasms starting up. this thing has whiskers on it. so tired of having to cave in to it.

1:44 am

sprite

go lie down. At least you have something to read ;)

1:44 am

sprite

hugs and kisses

1:47 am

grannyrose

* hugs and kisses * hope your day treats you kindly honey.

1:57 am

sprite

fireflies and poofing

5:44 am

mattygroves

Hi all. Can anyone clue the ye6 for me, please?

5:46 am

frogface

It's a guard.

5:46 am

mattygroves

Ah hah! Thank you!

7:26 am

Norma

d

8:39 am

hokie carla

well I am at a loss on the C. only found 2.

8:45 am

rururocks

most of them are babblets of sorts there's a ch7/8 too

8:45 am

hokie carla

yeah, I saw that last night but didn't find them

8:46 am

rururocks

ends with catholic ritual with ash

8:46 am

hokie carla

will have to ask mr homie that

8:47 am

hokie carla

geography NTPN - city in FL

8:48 am

rururocks

ash on the forehead kind of thing

8:48 am

hokie carla

yeah, I know that do that on ash wednesday but didn't know it had a name

8:49 am

hokie carla

*they do that

8:51 am

rururocks

seems silly to me.. but what do I know

8:53 am

hokie carla

phantom enemy

8:53 am

hokie carla

and enema for that matter

8:56 am

hokie carla

phantom needle

9:01 am

hokie carla

oh well, gotta start the housecleaning. 19 left for later. 6-7-4-1-1

9:02 am

rururocks

i cleaned house yesterday.. i have it off today.. just a few errands

9:03 am

hokie carla

nice. I'm going to play padel this afternoon. yesterday I played tennis, pickleball, and golf, and did a golf clinic in there.

9:04 am

rururocks

wish i had your life of luxury hokie

9:05 am

hokie carla

exhausting

9:06 am

hokie carla

but hey, I'm cleaning my own house

9:06 am

rururocks

done.. interesting grid..

9:06 am

hokie carla

congrats

9:06 am

hokie carla

take it easy

9:06 am

rururocks

I clean mine too but i do have a house cleaner on fridays I love her

9:08 am

welki

good morning, folks

9:08 am

Book Doctor Gwen

greetings my buds, diving in

9:10 am

periwinkle

hi all. help with pa7 or no7 please

9:10 am

periwinkle

wish I could afford a housekeeper

9:10 am

periwinkle

or house cleaner

9:10 am

Book Doctor Gwen

nbt woot

9:11 am

welki

just started, peri

9:11 am

periwinkle

ok

9:17 am

rururocks

you might say a wood wall is pa7

9:17 am

rururocks

you would sat if it has nicks in it it's no7

9:20 am

rururocks

you would say that is

9:21 am

Book Doctor Gwen

HOET woot

9:28 am

Book Doctor Gwen

phantom mantle

9:28 am

MollyL

NoFleetwoodMac

9:29 am

Book Doctor Gwen

30 to go, gotta run, later y'alls

9:29 am

MollyL

Darn

9:33 am

MollyL

The end of ch7/8 is not a word for ashes on the forehead. It is a word for the season before Easter.

9:35 am

hokie carla

oh, glad I peeked in. I know what that is. not catholic specific.

9:36 am

hokie carla

HOET!

9:36 am

hokie carla

back to work

9:50 am

mkg

not finding ch 7 or 8...........hmmm

9:50 am

mkg

would love some more hints. looked up syn for lent and didnt get it.

9:51 am

welki

mkg - sabbath stew

9:52 am

BzznBea

the ch ends with the season you just put in the chat, mkg

9:52 am

BzznBea

All you need is a vowel between

9:53 am

welki

*sits with bea*

9:56 am

mkg

ooooh that is a jewish word for a stew like meal you have on shabbat..........ty.

9:57 am

mkg

there is no plural S in yiddish and it is a yiddish word but oh well. the liberties taken are amazing. ty for the clue.

9:57 am

mkg

got the sevenand 8.

9:57 am

mkg

ty welki.

9:57 am

welki

'welcome

9:59 am

mkg

still missing both y words. any help welcome

10:02 am

mkg

peri,

10:02 am

mkg

peri, i rent out part of my house to afford a house cleaner once a week! it is worth it.

10:04 am

mkg

she cleans and does all laundry

10:04 am

mkg

and the basement is used by renters.

10:05 am

mkg

she cleans their space as well. i dont like dust and dirt!

10:08 am

mkg

got a Y word. ty anyway

10:18 am

swmbo

I was not aware that the English language had adopted the french ch4/11, but then, what do I know?

10:18 am

Dorens

it's not the English language here, swmbo, it's enable

10:20 am

swmbo

LOL yes, I realize that. I was just surprised to try the ch4 and have it accepted.

10:23 am

akazev

lone

11:30 am

momof5

Last word ye6 = enlisted navy who does admin work

12:11 pm

fish223

good afternoon all

12:28 pm

hurshy

howdy folks

12:28 pm

hurshy

top row grey!

12:33 pm

hurshy

need one more H to grey 2nd row

12:38 pm

hokie carla

well I need 3 and an E

12:39 pm

hurshy

e has all fours

12:39 pm

hurshy

there is an HE5 & 6 combo you might have missed?

12:40 pm

hokie carla

well I don't have either so probably

12:40 pm

hokie carla

thanks

12:40 pm

BzznBea

Carla, did you see my passionflower pictures on FB.

12:41 pm

hokie carla

I didn't. Will look. I have gotten a million friend requests and haven't accepted any. I don't have any FB friends or post anything outside of the sewing groups. I should just accept them all and tell everyone how they will never see anything interesting.

12:42 pm

hurshy

lol

12:42 pm

hurshy

the more you interact with FB the more it will spy on you

12:42 pm

hurshy

if i weren't socially enmeshed in it already i wouldn't start now

12:43 pm

BzznBea

I have no problem with that. I just saw your name and clicked.

12:43 pm

BzznBea

You ae exactly right, hurshy.

12:43 pm

hokie carla

BTW, I mentioned to you before these weird things I had growing that looked like single rose shoots with no blooms. Mr. homie cut a bunch of them down and said they were growing all in these bushes. Google tells me it is smilax.

12:44 pm

hurshy

smilax sounds like it should be the name of an alien race on doctor who

12:44 pm

hurshy

phantom: myeloma

12:44 pm

BzznBea

While mom was in hospital, a doctor came in and introduced himself. Before long, I got a FB note that said I might want to friend him.

12:45 pm

hokie carla

For sure, I watched and read a ton of stuff last year about hurricane helene and now my feed is all doom and gloom from all over the country. Like I get a lot of TV stations show up with local articles that are nowhere near me but when I look closer they are places I traveled this summer.

12:47 pm

hokie carla

yeah, I've had too many creepy things like that happen. I absolutely believe that is true. I even deleted the app from my phone for a while but reinstalled because I was doing a sewing pattern test and needed to see posts from the pattern maker while I was out. anyhoo, deleting app from phone again right now.

12:47 pm

hokie carla

oh, found my last H

12:48 pm

hokie carla

and my E. thought that was a phantom because it goes two ways.

12:48 pm

hurshy

what was the H

12:48 pm

hokie carla

now just 3rd row and 4th row

12:48 pm

hokie carla

it was a 4. I think of a chopper but not sure what it is exactly.

12:49 pm

hurshy

the one where you cut off the end of the 5 6 combo?

12:49 pm

hokie carla

yes

12:49 pm

BzznBea

Got to close my eyes...

12:49 pm

hurshy

i have that already

12:49 pm

hokie carla

to sleep or miss our clues?

12:50 pm

hurshy

what else do you think i might have missed

12:50 pm

hokie carla

you might need the 4 that is alt sp of what I call the mr

12:50 pm

hurshy

ah yes, thanks!

12:51 pm

hokie carla

I'm looking for 4s. think I've exhausted all possibilities on the C.

12:51 pm

hurshy

1-2-3-1-1

12:51 pm

hokie carla

2-5-3 left

12:51 pm

fish223

does anyone have ch5 14

12:51 pm

hokie carla

oh, found a c set finally

12:51 pm

fish223

my lasst c

12:52 pm

hokie carla

that's what I just found but it has a plural, so can't be your last. must be another.

12:52 pm

nrkii

Fun story peeps! About 11 days ago my dog stepped on a bee and was stung (that's not the fun part, I'm not a sadist). He was insulted and in pain, but otherwise no reaction. We had a half-mile walk home, but we ran into a woman who happened to work in an animal hospital, and she told me to give him 25mg of benadryl when we got home and to watch him for signs of a delayed reaction to the sting. I gave him the benadryl wrapped in cheese, and he was fine and dandy within a few hours.

Flash forward to yesterday, when I was out for a solo walk and saw a man trying to figure out a problem with his dog. I asked him if the dog was sick and he said she had been stung by a bee in her mouth a couple of blocks away. I started giving him my wise benadryl advice and he looked at her and said, "She's going down." She was panting heavily and sagging onto the sidewalk. I ran home (a block and a half, but I am not a runner), grabbed 2 benadryl and a slice of cheese, and ran back. By this time the dog was on her side. The man had to force the cheese and benadryl in (probably because she was stung inside her mouth so she didn't want anything in there) and then his wife pulled up and they rushed her off to urgent care (25 minutes away).

Long long story short. The dog was able to walk into the pet hospital on her own by the time they got there, they gave her more benadryl and sent her home on a 5 day benadryl regimen, and she should be okay.

I told Ricky (my dog) what a brave and good thing he did by getting stung, because if he hadn't, I would never have known how to help.

12:53 pm

fish223

the other ch5 14

12:53 pm

hurshy

wow

12:53 pm

leighprefect

that's a wonderful outcome, nrkii. well done

12:53 pm

fish223

i have the one youre referring to

12:53 pm

hurshy

poor doggos, who knew bees were so bad for them

12:54 pm

hurshy

so what is the 8?

12:54 pm

fish223

u want a clue for the 8?

12:54 pm

hurshy

just what it starts with, unless it's weird

12:54 pm

fish223

ch8

12:54 pm

fish223

plural of a ch7

12:54 pm

hurshy

ah well then those are MY missing c words! lol

12:55 pm

fish223

you may not get it, its a pretty weird word

12:55 pm

hurshy

ah but you don't know my wanderoos

12:55 pm

hurshy

they found it for me

12:56 pm

fish223

ch8 is pretty delicious

12:56 pm

hurshy

never would have guessed that would be a food

12:57 pm

fish223

yeah we make it every week

1:01 pm

hurshy

well i feel pretty stuckish for the last 5

1:01 pm

hurshy

MMANT

1:02 pm

nrkii

I'm stuck at 7: HTMMAAS

1:02 pm

hurshy

there are two ways to spell rocky for the S

1:03 pm

nrkii

have them both

1:03 pm

hurshy

and you can past tense the burgling word in its normal irregular way but also in an unexpected regular way

1:03 pm

nrkii

yep, got those too

1:03 pm

hurshy

well maybe st5/12 then

1:04 pm

nrkii

On the N's, there are 5 NO-4 words in a row

1:04 pm

hurshy

ah thanks

1:04 pm

hurshy

have you got am5

1:04 pm

nrkii

I think I missed a more obvious S word

1:05 pm

nrkii

ooh, no

1:05 pm

nrkii

got it!

1:05 pm

hurshy

1 se, 1 sn, the rest st

1:06 pm

hurshy

aHA, my last A was an5/16

1:06 pm

nrkii

oof, I was missing an ST5 that I thought I had already entered

1:06 pm

nrkii

needed that too!

1:07 pm

nrkii

4 left, 1 5 and 3 6

1:08 pm

hurshy

just one H, eh? there are 2 H6 words, he6 is a plural, ho6 is normal

1:09 pm

nrkii

heh, ever look at a word that ends that way like Ho6 and think, no, you can't make a superlative out of that

1:09 pm

nrkii

I do that a LOT

1:09 pm

hurshy

if the person who runs the town is the mayor then couldn't the rest of the townspeople be called mayees

1:11 pm

hurshy

i usually type in the normal word like ho6, and then later think of it as a superlative and be like heck, might as well try it, and it's like "hey you already have that"

1:11 pm

nrkii

mo6 - a bunch of different things

1:11 pm

hurshy

ah thanks

1:11 pm

hurshy

gtg

1:22 pm

72 Temple Owl

hi nrk

1:29 pm

hokie carla

just read your story, nellie. thanks for sharing - that's a good one.

1:30 pm

hokie carla

and I have CC T O N MM A

1:30 pm

hokie carla

2-4-2

1:39 pm

BzznBea

Got a little snooze in.

1:48 pm

cybernan

hello everyone :)

5:58 pm

jbp

hi all.

6:04 pm

cybernan

hi again

6:05 pm

jbp

hi nan.

6:05 pm

jbp

o

6:05 pm

jbp

i'm working away at the annoying ones

6:06 pm

cybernan

at the "trying everything and anything" stage

6:06 pm

cybernan

there is a ch 8 apparently, but I haven't found it yet

6:06 pm

cybernan

don't know what the point are

6:07 pm

jbp

me too meither

6:07 pm

jbp

ch 8/50

6:11 pm

jbp

I'm looking for the (**^ dh word.

6:11 pm

cybernan

my missing d!

6:11 pm

jbp

dh 5/14, allegedly

6:12 pm

cybernan

sounds like someone on social assistance -- on the d****

6:12 pm

jbp

tyvm!

6:13 pm

cybernan

you can return the favour with the ch - lol

6:13 pm

jbp

i'm werkin it

6:18 pm

jbp

got it... Comedian Margaret Ch* + season of fasting pre Easter (pl)

6:19 pm

cybernan

don't know the comedian

6:19 pm

jbp

hmmm. ummm. well ch + vowel then

6:20 pm

jbp

with 39 left, I'm off for a bit. hope to be back to finish it off

6:21 pm

cybernan

ty -- didn't know it was a plural

6:21 pm

cybernan

bye jbp

6:44 pm

cybernan

done :)

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