Beautiful pictures!  And they’re so fluffy -- both chickens and flowers! :D

100000%! It makes for good stories, but -never again-. We literally had a split in the group that persists to this day called “team tiara” and “team no tiara”. Team Tiara literally spent two hours looking at tiaras at a store at Disney World (and generally spends hours on makeup anytime we go anywhere and forgets to…

AMEN

Right??? My dad is blissfully ignorant and refuses to believe that our enforced fun family vacations with my dad’s side are not fun despite my mom directly telling him “they are not fun, I never want to do this again”. Dad + his side have now decided a family cruise around Europe/the Mediterranean is a great idea.…

Oh god, I never had anything quite that horrific myself.... but my dad chose a cabin of someone their family knew for my parents’ honeymoon in like... April, in Durango, Colorado (where it’s fucking cold until middle summer)... and the person wouldn’t turn on the heat for them, barely turned on the water, and it was…

Why Florida??? If someone wants a million tourists and hot weather, come to Southern California... at least it’s a dry heat! Hahaha. But really, I cannot for the life of me figure out who enjoys humdity and daily rainstorms.  And -especially- why they wouldn’t go in the winter.  It’s at least pleasant in the winter!

Yes!!! Seacamp! Oh man. We found out about it because our area has this insane event the equivalent of a job fair but for summer opportunities like camps all over the US. It’s.... kinda weird if I think about it too much. Anyway — yes, holy cow! Trial by sweaty fire.  They made us play hide and seek in a mangrove…

My parents generously treated me to a marine biology summer camp the summer before 9th grade in the Florida Keys, and I’m from dry Southern California. I’d only been to Iowa maybe once before that, so I don’t think I really understood how to deal with humidity (and Florida-level humidity) and what it was even like. We…

Nope, sounds like a terrible guy. I have zero relationship experience, but it doesn’t seem remotely balanced for you to use your savings to help him, and he just gets to be controlling in return. In the immortal words of Dan Savage — DTMFA.  (And you seem motivated enough to figure out how to make your own savings…

Whew, glad you’re doing a little bit better, but frustrating that it’s nothing concrete.  (Not sure you want something concrete, but it would be better than a mystery ailment!)  Snuggle the kitties.

Absolutely check every single thing you can, even if you have an inspector do a walkthrough. They’re not obligated to check everything if it’s hard to get to (sigh), and in my case, my dad distracted the inspector by following him around and blathering. (This is how the former owner got around pretending the…

I was still off the wagon for cooking food because it had been so hot... Monday and Tuesday I was both physically at work, and working for 12 hours straight (stupid project we got roped into that looks amazing but was definitely not worth 24 hours of my time and 30+ of my coworker’s). So I had In’n’Out Monday and…

Rufus Wainwright “Hallelujah” and Pearl Jam “Last Kiss”. (I didn’t realize either were covers when I first heard them, but.... when I heard the 60's version of Last Kiss, I was like wtf this is jaunty, totally inappropriate! lol.)

Happy Father’s Day Krispy, thanks for sharing as always and glad the home kitties are doing better!

Wow, that’s incredible. That’s a buttload of driving, and what a memory! (though I’m sure your mom was tired of the crying, lol. poor you!!!)

I’m the same way with things getting ‘damaged’ and I have a pound puppy too!  That’s such a great story of your dad, so carefully fixing Walnut.  I find they’re just the right size to hug.  <3

Also, my grandboss at work (boss’s boss) isn’t quite my parent age, but he treats us all like his surrogate kids. (And not in a weirdo “we’re all family here!” way.) I appreciate it so much. He’s taught me about how electrical load works for my breaker box on my condo and to figure out how much each appliance draws,…

Your dad sounds awesome, and the story about the Philippines is a great feeling of support and that he believed in you.  (Not that my parents wouldn’t, but I don’t think they’d articulate it.)  Aww. And the Nutella thing sounds like something my dad would do. Good old dads. <3

My dad has done a LOT for me, and has grown a lot and learned to share feelings more, and apologize for things. (We still drive each other nuts!) Sometimes he doesn’t hit the mark when he’s trying to be thoughtful (he almost accepted a job in Minnesota vs SoCal after my parents got married, without telling mom,…

Yeah, idk. I tried (lazily) to look it up, and it sounds like at some point in Michigan they tried to enforce it being against the rules to shop for non-essentials so there were some pictures of various aisles in Targets and Walmarts blocked off. “Michigan is forcing large stores such as Walmart, Costco, and Target…