#ooc

Oh yeah

I'm just LOLLIN at "two toilet"

I am from Appalachia and of Irish and Scottish extraction

...

how many toilets you got there, girlie?

4 at Mom's

At home, 1 regular and 1 Pittsburgh potty

One at Mom's is also a Pittsburgh potty

Now I'm curious

What's the difference between regular and Pittsburgh?

A Pittsburgh potty sits out on its lonesome in the basement, usually near the water heater or the laundry

Ah!

Houses have a side door direct to basement steps for mill workers to go down and strip. Showers are pretty common too

In a steel or coal town, a Pittsburgh potty is less a sign of luxury

I learn something new every day.

Mom's house has a little room built around it

Mine is literally in the middle of the unfinished basement

Enjoy the terror

Pittsburgh is kind of a Nocker Sluagh and Dougal sidhe city isn't it?

Yep

Alas, I am off to pick up a friend. Thank you for the gaming and the company

Meatloaf, roasted potatoes, and green beans.

And a chicken pot pie in the oven for tomorrow.

I don’t know how you eat so early!!

We seldom are at the table before 7, 8

It's 5 here now and DH was hungry.

Gyrf would eat at 9 or 10 if I let him

I’m the one scrounging at 5 for snacks

When our family got going (kids born) I'd get home around 5 and it made sense to eat then b/c the babies would be hungry 'round then too and then they'd be in bed around 7 so DH and I could have a few minutes to ourselves before bed around 9 or maybe 10 b/c the babies'd be up wanting to nurse in the night, so.....

The Things now have a 9pm bedtime (school year has them up at 5 a.m. for a 6 a.m. bus....) so if we eat around 5 or 6, we can get things cleaned up and have a little downtime before screens off at 8 and lights off at 9.

In theory.

In theory

Yes. Thing2 is particularly notorious for 'going to bed' and reading for an hour or more, on the nights he hasn't smuggled an electronic device to his room. I -think- I've managed to cut the devices off at the pass.

How is he then in the morning?

Flashlight and traditional book?

He leaves the damn overhead on to read, traditional book, yes. Unless he's got a device and then who knows?

How is he in the morning? Craptastic, a real PitA to have around.

Teenagers wheeee

Yeah. When he's short on sleep it's even worse....

I'm looking forward to the chicken pot pie tomorrow; fresh onion, celery, carrot... I rehydrated Italian mushrooms in white wine and chicken stock for 24+hours and then blitzed it in the food processor so the kids won't bite into a mushroom. They'll eat mushrooms if they don't feel them. Made a cream sauce in the skillet with all that. Added shredded chicken that Thing1 brought back from camp. I used a store bought pie crust and I'm not even a little sorry.

Fancy

I made the Things come help me, thanks to my busted knee.

Good lads

Well, for the help

They really were pretty good but I know for a fact they didn't TOUCH the list I asked them to do upstairs. And I didn't go up to hound them because, knee.

Gotcha.