“This morning, ICE agents came to Dodger Stadium and requested permission to access the parking lots. They were denied entry to the grounds by the organization,” the Dodgers said in a statement posted on X.

Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public affairs for the Department of Homeland Security, said the agents were not trying to enter the stadium.

“This had nothing to do with the Dodgers. [Customs and Border Protection] vehicles were in the stadium parking lot very briefly, unrelated to any operation or enforcement,” McLaughlin said in an email.

This happened to me when I was a kid. My family was having a picnic which included the rare treat of fried chicken. A wasp buzzed down, landed on my chicken and sawed away a chunk of it. Then it took off, faltered because the chunk was so heavy, then buzzed away. Your comparison to a helicopter is spot on! We all just sat there and watched it, not knowing what to do. We still talk about how weird that was.

Oh good, I hope you have fun with them! Looking forward to the updates :)

So cute! Congrats and well done!

I’ll suggest that to the neighbors. Maybe they’ll trying one-upping each other and the rest of us can just walk down the block like it’s a buffet.

So cute! And so well done, congrats!

“Some is better than none.” -My motto throughout college.

Usually I was stressed by the number of chapters I had to read, or pages I had to write. Instead of shutting down and not doing anything, I would tell myself to just read a single page or write a paragraph because any amount of work done is better than nothing.

Now I apply it to work and chores.

This is great, thanks so much for sharing!

Too many times did I have them jumping from all directions…

Yikes. Well, at least is was mostly just a fun holiday tradition 😬

Holy moly, that sounds like a very unpleasant basement to have to deal with.

“Whelp, time to do laundry. The fun part is when the creepy mutant spider cricket launches itself at my face, yay!”

Clearly I was very lucky. I highly doubt the tenants ever used the place either. It just belonged to the crickets.

Oof, that sucks.

I kept expecting one to jump from the walls above me as I went downstairs, get into the back of my shirt, and get squished as I try to get it out. It’s happened with house centipedes, and it’s not fun. Especially when their legs keep moving after their dead.

Well, probably not what you’re looking for but I used to work yard maintenance for a property management company.

I was sent to rake and tidy up the back yard of some house. In the back, there was an entrance to a root cellar that was separate from the house and had crappy wooden doors covering it. I was told to open it up and sweep the steps leading down to the cellar.

I don’t have a problem with dark places, or bugs. But that was the first time I’d seen camel crickets. They were big, hump backed and striped. And there were dozens of them. I dutifully swept the steps, from the dead center of them, my eyes darting around constantly trying to gauge whether or not the weird ass bugs were about to launch themselves onto me. They didn’t. They were super chill.

I told my dad about it later and he laughed at me for not knowing what the crickets were because they were so common. I’ve only seen a few more since then, and they still kinda weird me out.

Congrats on your hard work, it looks great!

Haha, yeah that’s pretty accurate!

Thank you! Hopefully I’ll have some progress to show next week.

Thank you!

Yes! I just popped in my VHS copy of “The slobbery hound” a few weeks ago when I was having a hard day. Hadn’t seen it in years, and forgot how short those episodes are, haha. I remember them being a bit more epic. Still fun tho.

Also I really enjoy the ‘making of’ afterwards.

I loved fishing in oot. My sister and I played the game together, I was at the controls, she often told me how to solve puzzles and how to navigate. I had no sense of direction and never knew how to get from a to b. But I loved fishing at that pond so much that no matter where in the game I was, I could get back to the pond, and often did when my sister was too busy to play. Spent hours there. Thanks for the reminder OP!

I’ve really enjoyed watching this come along on Wednesdays! You’ve clearly added quite a bit to the original pattern. It looks great!

Your mother sounds like an amazing woman. I’m sorry to hear everything she (and you and your siblings) had to go through. It takes incredible resolve to survive all that.

As someone who’s had poor health their entire life, I can absolutely agree that the ‘tender moments’ really make life what it is.

Thanks for sharing.