TU Rob

A few years ago I decided to let the crew doing two of my neighbors yards take care of the front yard. We got a group discount. They park the truck in front of my neighbors house and one guy gets on the mower while the other two are doing the edging and weedeating. When they’re all done they each get a backpack blower and each hits one of the three houses.

I still do the backyard but that is the best money I spend every month. The front yard at my house is small, but there’s a tree with a brick border around the bed, the sidewalk, driveway, and along the road to edge. I used to take care of it all but the front took me twice as long as the back with all the beds and edge work. Wife likes the fact that the front always looks great and I like that I can get around to mowing the back at my own pace.

I'll use sour cream, cottage cheese, mayo, or cream cheese when making chicken salad. They all do roughly the same job. Wife prefers cream cheese and adds grapes and walnuts to hers. I prefer mayo or cottage cheese and add boiled eggs.

Back when I ran more, I loved the heat. It was a weird feeling of actually enjoying the rampant humidity, but it would energize me for the rest of the day. I was working in downtown Birmingham at the time, and the building next to ours had a gym I was a member of. A couple lunch breaks a week I would jog 3-5 miles around downtown, get absolutely drenched in sweat, and shower off and head back to work. At first it took me longer to recover, but as the summer went on, I was cooling off quicker. Just getting used to the heat.

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I refuse to share my Tillamook ice cream with the wife. Because she will eat it all up. While her expensive diet crap just sits there.

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About once a month, the wife will want me to grab some bagged salads on my weekend grocery run. The conversation is the same every time, me asking her if she's really going to eat two bagged salads this week or should I spend that $10 on Bagel bites or ice cream instead. Then she says she is really going to eat them this time. And the next Saturday when I'm unloading groceries again I have to throw away the two untouched and now expired salads to make room for what she will actually eats.

Depends entirely on who all is on the trip. Whole family plus the dog, probably 3 times. Just me, probably once for gas.

Several years ago, my wife and at the time young daughter were at the beach with my Mom. They rode down with her, and I was working most of the week, and was going to join them for a long weekend. I shot her a text when I was leaving work. She was surprised I was there 3 hours later, said they weren't expecting me before 10:00. Yeah, when you don't have to stop and deal with multiple restroom breaks, changing diapers, dinner etc you can get places fast.

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pretty sure they bought Zoës Kitchen. not sure how much the menu changed but I liked ZK

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They did. Zoe's was founded in Homewood (suburb of Birmingham) and we had a few of them around the suburbs. I forget when the acquisition happened, but I don't think there are any Zoe's left now.

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How about a weight bench: Pasyou

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I went with the KomSurf one. Has held up well for over two years.

Yeah I get that but the snorkeling part is supposedly separate from the kayaking. There’s an ok civil war shipwreck about 50 yards offshore that is in shallow water. The kayaking will be at a nearby state park when some will be on kayaks and others fishing.

Not this play, that's for sure.

I had several over the years, and finally got a corded Wahl haircut set. Guards 1-8, and some other little attachments. I was halfway through trimming with a cordless version and it died on me, despite being on the charger for an hour or so. The little dial up guards I never liked. They always seemed to slip out of what setting I was on.