Maxwell 20: Fun just dies

[catlady]

Oh i think it's a safe bet that they have blocked words like atheist and agnostic, along with words relating to other religions.  Steve can't have the family thinking about anything other than the faith he pounds into their heads, lest they figure out how much bullshit he's been giving them all this time.

[pandora]

Was looking up exactly how their old software Covenant Eyes, works (they said one of the reasons they chose a new one was it blocked lots of websites arbitrarily) and found this lol-worthy example of naughty searches:

Especially ridiculous considering some of the real searches coming out of Maxhell probably look more like:

sinful to love dog more than parents yes or no

unappetizing meals to make so people will stop asking me to cook

if I buy a house with debt will my dad know? cause I feel like he'll KNOW

 

 

[Piper]

When Teri reads Steve’s internet reports, I wonder if she ever questions him about the amount of time he  spends reading Free Jinger. 

[LilMissMetaphor]

On Saturday, the family mulched at GiGi's.  GiGi is a sweet widow.  If a widow isn't sweet, you're not obligated to mulch for her.  Mary was kind to open the bags.  Bricks sometimes get buried due to weeds and dirt and such.  It is important to count because you don't want to have more mulch on one spot than another.  

That's Sarah for the rest of them.  I just came here to say that "wheelbarrow" is not a verb.     

[anachronistic]

Steve definitely made the controls so that he can browse here or at other, less respectable, sites without anyone knowing. He probably also manipulated the computer so that any query starting with ‘is it a sin to’ comes up with a flaming, 88-pt-font YES!

[nomoxian]

After mulching, they had pizza. I assume it was limited to one slice per person, with two pepperoni pieces on each slice.

 

[freethemall]

How is it that one boring family with one blog about stuff like mulching has like 7 active threads going? I don't even know where to check when there's posts all over the place. None of the other forums (Bates,Duggars, Rodrigues) have a new thread for every blog post, why is that happening here? Is it for some deliberate reason im missing? And if not, can we like, stop?

[Coconut Flan]

Per direction from our fearless leader Curious, we are trying to move away from mega-threads to more threads with new content.  Part of this is to generate more revenue from Google Ads which we need to keep the forum free.  See the notice about not using ad blockers and I'll have to go look for the please create new thread announcement.  If you want to have a discussion about new threads vs mega-threads, please take that up in community discussion.  Thanks!

As for locating new discussions about any family, you could see what is unread for you in Maxhell or the desired family's section, use the unread option, or create a personalized activity stream (I think that works again.  If not, my apologies.)

The announcement from the Fluffy Bunny:

 

[Black Aliss]

This is at least the second year that the mulching post shows siding hanging off GiGi's back porch. Cmon, Steve, marshal your extended family to fix that before next year. Because even if Jesse plans to tear that back porch off when he takes over the place for him and his bride, you shouldn't be that obvious. And GiGi may very well be there for a few more mulching seasons.

[MamaJunebug]

31 minutes ago, Black Aliss said:

This is at least the second year that the mulching post shows siding hanging off GiGi's back porch. Cmon, Steve, marshal your extended family to fix that before next year. Because even if Jesse plans to tear that back porch off when he takes over the place for him and his bride, you shouldn't be that obvious. And GiGi may very well be there for a few more mulching seasons.

I noticed that too! And it’s not recent damage? Why do I think of a variation on the old log & mote verse?....”fix thine mother-in-law’s home’s structural damage before thou counteth out bags of decorative mulch-eth...” Or something.

[freethemall]

@Coconut Flan that is very helpful, thank you! The Maxwells just seem like the last family to have multiple threads about when there's whole threads devoted to a coffee drip method or for random blog posts with Bible quotes.

[HoneyBunny]

The mulching post was most timely for me.  My husband and I just put down 20 bags of mulch, which, frankly, seemed like quite a lot for the two of us (late 50s and late 60s, so everything seems a bit...more than it used to). But I’m not certain why the Maxwells need to put down 100 bags every darn year. What happens to it?  Granted, we live where it is quite dry, and things don’t break down and compost, but our mulch easily lasts 4 or 5 years. And even then we replace it only because it starts to fade and looks grotty with leaves. And we do actually replace it...we pick up the old stuff (which, frankly, is the hardest part), put down new landscape fabric if necessary and then put down the new mulch.  Otherwise, it would be heaped a foot or more high after 25 years of doing this. 

Just like the Maxwell refrigerator cleaning that takes something like four hours, I am forced to wonder why. Why 100 bags of mulch every.single.year?

[MamaJunebug]

@HoneyBunny, my wish for you is that you & Mr.Bun can hire it done sometime soon. It’s so wonderful to bask in how nice the place looks — without breaking a sweat!!

Southern Illinois here & our mulch is usually dunzo by New Years as far as looking sharp. We have extremes of heat and cold, winds and a goodly amount of rain when we aren’t in a drought. IOW new mulch is a yearly thing for us. 

Why Stephen The All Knowing doesn’t just have a truckload of mulch delivered for all his properties, I can’t fathom. It would be a bit cheaper and there wouldn’t be all the solid waste of the plastic baggery for the store-bought stuff. 

The inanities Of Maxhell.  

[Bethella]

On 4/27/2018 at 10:04 AM, MamaJunebug said:

Then 2 others, half-mile away, accessible in no time at all for these mountain trekkers I’m sure. I wonder if the half-miles to Joe’s & to John’s are in the same direction. 

Yes, their houses are two block apart.

[Red Hair, Black Dress]

Here's the thing -- how are all the boys finding these cheap, affordable houses within the Stevehovah-approved neighborhood? Not just in the neighborhood, but within 2 or 3 blocks from the fathership.

Where does Stevehovah live that there are that many homes for sale?  Is it a 'hood of old people that the Maxhells "befriend" so that they can swoop in and buy the home when the old person(s) dies?  Are they (Stevehovah) unscrupulous enough to influence (coerce) the  old people so they leave their houses to the Max sons?

Inheriting a house is certainly a way to "buy" a house debt free.

Sorry not sorry, but I wouldn't trust Stevehovah as far as I can spit.

[MamaJunebug]

They do seem to find fixer uppers and that part of town doesn’t look like it’s the most desirable. Not a bad ‘Hood, just lots of “starter home” stock that’s aged enough it doesn’t have that panache anymore. 

When I was little, three of my aunts & uncles lived in 3 of 4 homes next to each other. I asked BMJB if we could buy House #3 and make it “Junebug Row.”  Less than a mile away, the other two cousin-families co-owned a two-Family building.  I thought it was great, everybody being so close. 

Which is to say that it’s not the living close by that bothers me. It’s that Steve and Teri have most likely attached living close by to eternal salvation vs. eternal torment.

I’ve only read the words of Jesus several times, but I’m CERTAIN neither He nor His apostles said anything about that, on the topic.

 

[Bethella]

3 minutes ago, MamaJunebug said:

They do seem to find fixer uppers and that part of town doesn’t look like it’s the most desirable. Not a bad ‘Hood, just lots of “starter home” stock that’s aged enough it doesn’t have that panache anymore. 

I agree. Plus they aren't finding all these homes in one summer, this has been spread out over several years. Also they might have known that one or more of the neighbors was planning on moving and was able to make an offer as soon as it went on the market. I have a friend whose parents did that, they knew the next door neighbor was planning on moving and she let them buy it without even putting it on the market.

[catlady]

13 hours ago, HoneyBunny said:

Just like the Maxwell refrigerator cleaning that takes something like four hours, I am forced to wonder why. Why 100 bags of mulch every.single.year?

Sarah doesn't know either, as evidenced by this quote from last year's MulchFest:

"It’s now become a yearly tradition to have a mulch work party at GiGi’s. For some reason, mulch has to be replenished. It’s a little bit of a mystery to me how the mulch vanishes, but it does."

[VodouDoll]

On 4/23/2018 at 2:56 PM, pandora said:

Same, but I'm sure that's because you and I are not holy enough to have Satan mercilessly targeting our searches, not any other reason like someone intentionally looking. 

Same. I have never looked at porn on the internet, because I don't want to. I didn't view porn yesterday, I won't view it today, and I'm 100% positive I won't tomorrow either. Because I don't want to. Nobody needs to spy on me to keep me from doing it. I keep myself from doing it and it's not even a little bit difficult. Why do they make things so creepy and complicated?

[kpmom]

We get very heavy rains in the summer and autumn months so we do need to replenish mulch every year.  Generally more than once a year.  But 100 bags does seem like an awful lot of mulch.

Is her yard really that big?  And isn't most of it grass?

3 hours ago, catlady said:

Sarah doesn't know either, as evidenced by this quote from last year's MulchFest:

"It’s now become a yearly tradition to have a mulch work party at GiGi’s. For some reason, mulch has to be replenished. It’s a little bit of a mystery to me how the mulch vanishes, but it does."

They're always in a battle with Satan, so maybe he takes it?

[Lady Grass Lake]

I verified this on the custom's web page, you can bring back 3 months worth of OTC medicines per person in your family.  I was just in Ontario again this weekend, picking up my son who has been living and working in Ontario on a graduate student work permit.   I've never been asked about medications.   One of my other sons drive into Canada more than my husband and I do, and for some reason, he is routinely asked to pull over and they check his car, and have called my son who lives there, to verify he is expecting his brother, and is always allowed to enter.  We all understand we could be asked to stop for inspections and do so willingly if asked, since we have nothing to hide nor bad intent.

   

[HoneyBunny]

20 hours ago, MamaJunebug said:

@HoneyBunny, my wish for you is that you & Mr.Bun can hire it done sometime soon. It’s so wonderful to bask in how nice the place looks — without breaking a sweat!!

Southern Illinois here & our mulch is usually dunzo by New Years as far as looking sharp. We have extremes of heat and cold, winds and a goodly amount of rain when we aren’t in a drought. IOW new mulch is a yearly thing for us. 

Why Stephen The All Knowing doesn’t just have a truckload of mulch delivered for all his properties, I can’t fathom. It would be a bit cheaper and there wouldn’t be all the solid waste of the plastic baggery for the store-bought stuff. 

The inanities Of Maxhell.  

From your mouth to Mr. Bun’s ears (about hiring things done). That’s not what we’re about -yet- but knowing it will eventually be necessary to do that is a bright spot about growing older. Plus I can skip my workouts the days I do yardwork (always a plus).

And, in looking at the photos, it appears they have no landscape edging of any type to contain the mulch, and I doubt there was ever landscape fabric under that mulch. So it decomposes and gets sucked up in the lawnmower and I can see where some of it does disappear from year to year. But 100 bags!  Every year!  I think I’d find a better and/or easier way...but then the Maxwells are all about busy work to bless the elderly (even if the elderly is their own grandmother and not a lonely neighbor). 

[Coconut Flan]

Sarah said there are some bricks for edging but they get buried by the weeds and probably the mulch.

[VooDooChild]

Poor Sarah: "If you observe this photo and then scroll down to Sunday’s post, you’ll see what I’m talking about."

 

Okay.  I did just that.  So what the hell is she talking about?

[nelliebelle1197]

On 4/28/2018 at 8:59 AM, LilMissMetaphor said:

On Saturday, the family mulched at GiGi's.  GiGi is a sweet widow.  If a widow isn't sweet, you're not obligated to mulch for her.  Mary was kind to open the bags.  Bricks sometimes get buried due to weeds and dirt and such.  It is important to count because you don't want to have more mulch on one spot than another.  

That's Sarah for the rest of them.  I just came here to say that "wheelbarrow" is not a verb.     

Thanks. I guess there is no need to read the post now since you spoiled it!