One Day in the Life of a Wolf - Memorial 7-25-20

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

Aaarrgghh somebody turn off the heat. I want winter back.

Twas 97 F. outside today and 81 F. in my room.

Send me rain, snow, sleet, hail, slush, drizzle, downpour. At this point I'd take a monsoon if it wasn't so humid.

[Riverwind (imported)]

Poor wolfie,

It is a bit cooler here but I know you have lived your whole life in southern California and I don't think your ready for a Wisconsin winter, it has been known to get well below zero for days on end.

Things MacWolf does not know,

What is a snow shovel,

What a parka looks like,

What long johns are,

What Ice Fishing is,

What wind chill is,

What is a Pasty,

The true meaning of the frozen tundra.

The wolf man does live under a mushroom.

River

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

Poor wolfie,

It is a bit cooler here but I know you have lived your whole life in southern California and I don't think your ready for a Wisconsin winter, it has been known to get well below zero for days on end.

Things MacWolf does not know,

What is a snow shovel,

What a parka looks like,

What long johns are,

What Ice Fishing is,

What wind chill is,

What is a Pasty,

The true meaning of the frozen tundra.

The wolf man does live under a mushroom.

River

About twenty years ago, my mom and I traveled by train from here to Detroit. I believe it was in the dead of winter so I was wearing my long johns and a parka..and I still froze my parts off just walking from the commuter aircraft to Flint airport terminal.

What the frack is a Pasty?

[Uncle Flo (imported)]

Anyone from Michigan care to enlighten Mr. Wolf? --FLO--

[kristoff]

Anyone from Michigan care to enlighten Mr. Wolf? --FLO--

Is that possible?

[JesusA]

A "pasty" is the Cornish version of a filled pastry, other versions of which include the calzone, empanada, knish, samosa, and pirozhki. There aren't enough Cornishmen in Southern California for pasty culture to have properly formed. There were quite a number of them involved in hard rock mining in the northern part of the state, though, and pasties are part of the local culture in many areas.

My POLISH grandmother even made them for my Scotch/Irish/German/Who-knows-what-else grandfather to take to work. Somehow pasty-making was not handed down in my mother's line, despite having Cornish immigrants in it. I grew up with my grandmother's Polish-American pasty/pierogi combination version, supplemented by some from local Cornish descendants. I was disappointed with what I could find in the UK. Maybe we need to make certain that we have some proper pasties at the next MoM.

There's an excellent Wikipedia article that tells you more than you may want to know:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasty

[Paolo]

We had some at the last MOM, at Talula's. I ate one...with red wine.

[Riverwind (imported)]

I am sure only we who live in this area know what a pasty is and have had one or more as the case may be.

There is a part of Michigan that is called the UP, its that no mans land attached to Wisconsin, it is there that you will find the Polka and the Pasty, I like one and not the other, go figure.

DD:D River

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

Pasty...I wonder why those nipple ornaments came to mind

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

Come one, come all to sunny Southern California. It was 113 F. at 3:00pm today aarrggh

Send me rain, snow, cool air anything.

[bobbie (imported)]

Take a trip to my area. We just made it past 70 today. Be in the low 50's tonight. Will not even hit 80 this week.

[tugon (imported)]

Ohio has been cool at night. Much cooler than normal. Still need the AC during the day. Will try to send some cool your way.

[Riverwind (imported)]

Here in overcast western Wisconsin it was almost time to get a jacket if you went outside. It was just damn right cold out and its the middle of July, :(:( .

However I would much rather have a day like we had then a day like you had. DD:D 113deg. argh.

River

[Paolo]

ALMOST time?

First thing I did was buy another hoodie up there!

And we didn't have any pastys this year!

BAH!

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

Well, the wolf pulled a boner this month. I overspent on groceries and eating out and was unable to pay anything on my utilities. I called all five: Verizon, Time Warner, Southern Calif Gas, Edison and the City Water company and they all agreed to wait till September 2.

What nice creditors.

My house guests say they would leave anytime I asked them. On the plus side, I'd save on my food bill. On the minus, I'd have to do my own cooking, dishes, vacuuming, clean my own bathrooms, the laundry, yard work and set the trash out each week.

I think I'll keep them a while longer. I don't have to pay them much. The mom wants two cans of beer a week and the daughter wants "all my change."

[Riverwind (imported)]

It must be nice, the Poorest person I know has a maid, butler, cook, gardener and house pet that gets change.

River

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

It must be nice, the Poorest person I know has a maid, butler, cook, gardener and house pet that gets change.

River

Twas easy: the maid is a Colombian, the butler is a Czech, the cook is from Zacatecas, the gardner is from Honduras

The house pet is my toy.

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

Liz, the mom staying at my house, went by ambulance to the hospital at 2:01 this morning with chest pain.

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

Hospital released her three hours later. They gave her new meds. She had to walk home one mile from hospital in wee hours of morning. That sux.

Hospital said she had "chest wall damage."

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

Yesterday was wonderful.

Two friends, Tugon and Plix, dropped by and took me to feast - woo hoo

[Riverwind (imported)]

Hospital released her three hours later. They gave her new meds. She had to walk home one mile from hospital in wee hours of morning. That sux.

Hospital said she had "chest wall damage."

They let her walk home? What kind of hospital is that, I would put in a written complaint. They should have called her a cab at the hospital expense.

River

[Riverwind (imported)]

What are togon and Plix doing in Southern Cal. That is a long way from Ohio.

River

[tugon (imported)]

Yesterday was wonderful.

Two friends, Tugon and Plix, dropped by and took me to feast - woo hoo

Mac it was great to finally meet you after all these years. I wish we could have spent more time together. Next time I am in the neighborhood I will call. Now I understand about the hot weather. It was nice to come home to a cool rain and 66 at night.

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

i think the time has come to ask my staff to find another place to live. Things aren't working out after all. It all came to a head today.

Liz, my cook/housekeeper, blew up at me with the following rhetoric:

1. She said I was not a clean person and I leave too many messes. All vewry true but I had thought that was the job of Liz and her daughter to clean the house.

2. She said the reason my wife left me (27 years ago) was because I was a pig. I seem to recall being cleaner then but with age, so goes the memory.

3. Liz said all I do all day is look at porn and that's probably why I'm no longer a teacher. She said as far as she was concerned, I was probably a child molester. Thankfully, she didn't accuse me of touching her daughter.

4. She berated me for yelling at Jeanette, her daughter, lately. I had jumped on her for wasting water, wasting food and sharing our food with the neighbors.

I don't know what brought all this on except maybe the 110 degree heat lately. I didn't raise my voice in anger to her back. In fact, I wasn't angry, I was hurt.

Oh well, I'm recovered from the burn so I can go back to living on my own again.

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

Monty, the hobo who lives in my garage, made himself useful today. The AA batteries in my mouse had died. Monty handed me a coffee can filled with AA's. I found two that worked