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Joe...
We have a mudroom. It is a small porch that sold the house to me. I guess that, way back in the day, it was called a summer kitchen. There is a small, covered square hole in the concrete that I am thinking was a place to put a water pump. When one steps outside from our side kitchen door, to the right is my garage/workshop/gym/getaway. But to the immediate left is a closet where we keep our shoes - and, let me tell you, in the summer time - when the two boys are playing outside - you can almost see the funk seeping out of this closet like you can see the shimmers of heat on the road. Nasty!
But, between you and me, the wife does not know that I keep another 12pack of beer out there in that closet when the temperature starts dropping.
posted by
bwFrampton
on December 2, 2006 at 9:54 PM
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Joe
You know what happens when you hang around refrigerators too long...I can see it now..we will have to form another posse..Last time it wasn't pretty...
posted by
Offy
on November 28, 2006 at 12:25 PM
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I got a shiver of past woes at the mention of the word 'refrigerator'.
Joe, it is truly lovely to have you back. I hope it won't be another 10 months before your next post.
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on November 28, 2006 at 10:22 AM
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I'm not going there.
posted by
Jenasis
on November 27, 2006 at 7:35 PM
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Did you abandon us again already Joe???
Come back...please....LOL!
posted by
Passionflower
on November 27, 2006 at 6:37 PM
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Hiya
Hiya to you too :) I'm glad I could pull a chuckle from someone today!!
posted by
quarterlifecrisis
on November 27, 2006 at 6:34 PM
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Still waiting
and not patiently.
posted by
bel_1965
on November 27, 2006 at 4:27 PM
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You and your cliffhanger endings....
Welcome back, Joe! As always, a terrific read.
posted by
strat
on November 27, 2006 at 12:29 PM
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This is so kewl! Joe Love is back.
If I were able, I'd slip into my tutu, pull in my dancing shoes and do a graceful jete across my living room. But unfortunately, the tutu no longer covers the territory and the jete would probably look more like an old fashioned pratfall. Like the others, I'm dying to know what experiments are going on in your fridge. :)
posted by
Pat_B
on November 27, 2006 at 12:01 PM
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Joe_Love
hey, welcome back, we've missed you!
posted by
Nanaroo
on November 27, 2006 at 11:54 AM
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Joe, your appliances tend to take on a life of their own. I reemember your
refrigerator. Scary.
posted by
Blanche.
on November 27, 2006 at 11:22 AM
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Joe
Fun read - right up to the end. It's good to have you back.
Be well,
-smartdog
posted by
smartdog_670
on November 27, 2006 at 7:21 AM
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Now I also know the purpose
of what I call the "entrance hallway". With the amount of rain we get a "mudroom" is a very apt name.
posted by
Tanga
on November 27, 2006 at 2:09 AM
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Hi Joe Love... I saw your name on some of the blogs I read and
your name was quite striking to me so I thought that you were a new writer and wanted to have a look and saw you were here already and just went on a period of absence. Well, ... welcome back! I'm just wondering what is in the refrigerator? 
Mrs Tanga
posted by
Tanga
on November 27, 2006 at 12:05 AM
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Well, as I live and breathe...welcome home, Joe Love! Now darlin', I am
lookin' forward to lots of new stories...
posted by
muser
on November 26, 2006 at 11:22 PM
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Too funny, Holy Grail
I was just reading you. LOL Nice to see you, also.
posted by
Joe_Love
on November 26, 2006 at 8:14 PM
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Hi Joe Love
my first thought was , why would anyone be daft enough to carpet a mudroom.. talk about making work for yourself. My second was... what was The Monster's experiment lurking in the refrigerator door?
- I enjoyed reading this very much, it's the kind of writing that makes you want to know what comes next.
posted by
mneme
on November 26, 2006 at 8:14 PM
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Oh my god you're back! Yay! And I had just deleted you from favorites, assuming you'd never come back. (Not that I'm ever really here!) Welcome back.
posted by
Holy_Grail
on November 26, 2006 at 8:06 PM
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posted by
star4sky5
on November 26, 2006 at 7:34 PM
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Who you tellin', Wiley!!
Mine is not heated, too!! I guess that's why there's just the dryer out there and not a washer, too. LOL
posted by
Joe_Love
on November 26, 2006 at 7:03 PM
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Joe Love
Good to read you again my friend. I have a mudroom too, I'm a country boy, and you'd freeze in my mudroom in the winter. It isn't heated.
posted by
WileyJohn
on November 26, 2006 at 7:02 PM
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Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Damn men none of youdo as you are told!
posted by
bel_1965
on November 26, 2006 at 4:45 PM
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hahahaha, Wifey!
You know how I blog!!! You EVEN know how long before I'm going to tell you what was in the refrigerator. LOL
posted by
Joe_Love
on November 26, 2006 at 4:44 PM
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You made us wait much too long to hear from you
so I want more NOW!!!!
*tapping foot impatiently*
posted by
bel_1965
on November 26, 2006 at 4:37 PM
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Hey Joe
Nice to see you back!!!
posted by
Offy
on November 26, 2006 at 4:35 PM
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Welcome back...
I always enjoyed reading your humor......
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on November 26, 2006 at 3:58 PM
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I don't have a mud room. Or do I?
posted by
babe_rocks
on November 26, 2006 at 3:56 PM
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I'll be watching for your "tales"...
Now that you're back, I may put you back in the 'story'..."Frustrated Unpublished Writers Support Group."
I'm sorry you missed out on the last of our journey. It was quite alot of fun and is still posted in that blog if you get some reading time. Our plane went down in the Tyrhennian Sea and we were all killed so we got to go to heaven and see God.
That was a cool adventure. For a finale, we got swallowed by a whale and had to cut our way out.
Now the school building has been rebuilt so we're all back in class driving our teacher, the dear Ms. L, completely insane...LOL--
posted by
Passionflower
on November 26, 2006 at 12:59 PM
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this mainer girl loves mudrooms, they rock! "how do you keep your house
so clean?" "mudroom!" ummmmmmm, and dare i ask what was in the fridge?
posted by
fourcats
on November 26, 2006 at 12:27 PM
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Joe
I'm all too familiar with "mud rooms" and they were almost a necessity in ensuring the outdoors didn't completely penetrate the indoors. But fill you boots (no pun intended) in thinking of it as your charming breakfast nook. Great read.....
posted by
Troosha
on November 26, 2006 at 11:58 AM
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Joe Love, Did you clean your feet before you entered here? Welcome back. We always called ours the utility room. My dad called it "the utilee room" (lol). But, we all knew that it was for wet things, muddy shoes, and stuff like that. It had windows on three sides and I had my hubby build shelves on the other side for extra quick storage but I don't ever remember eating in there.
posted by
TAPS.
on November 26, 2006 at 11:42 AM
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Passion, thank you sweetness.
One thing's for sure, I've got a bank of things to chat about now. *grin*
posted by
Joe_Love
on November 26, 2006 at 9:51 AM
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Holy Cow Joe!!!
You need to be writing about where you've been and what has taken you away from us for so long.
So????
Anyway, welcome back to Blogit...we've all missed you and wondered if you were okay and stuff.
posted by
Passionflower
on November 26, 2006 at 9:49 AM
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Joe, I went back and actually read your post, lol. I'm sure mudrooms
are very useful. Here in the drenching NW, in our tiny third-floor walkup, I think I could use one, because of all the wet geat. I can't picture myself oohing and ahing over someone else's, though.
(and thank you!)
posted by
Blanche.
on November 26, 2006 at 8:16 AM
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Awwww! Thank you so much, Blanche
I see you're keeping butt right now on Blogit! Congrats!
posted by
Joe_Love
on November 26, 2006 at 7:50 AM
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OMG!!!! Joe Love is back!!!! We were devastated when you left, Joe, the
whole site has been asking "What happened to Joe Love" for months....Yay!
posted by
Blanche.
on November 26, 2006 at 7:35 AM
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Welcome back!
I missed you!
I guess you could call it the mudnook. Then hope it isn't blown up by any of the experiments.
posted by
Whacky
on November 25, 2006 at 8:43 PM
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posted by
star4sky5
on November 25, 2006 at 8:23 PM
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Since you coined the phrase Wifey
You don't have to change a thing. Bel is a nickname that Carl gave me many years ago and it's what he normally calls me. Yeah, there is that sappy sentiment again.
I was trying to remove myself from the entire military thing only to discover that getitng away is not quite that easy.
posted by
bel_1965
on November 25, 2006 at 7:14 PM
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Ohmy, Wifey!
It's going to be hard to remember calling you Bel. Hmmmm. What made you decide upon that name??
posted by
Joe_Love
on November 25, 2006 at 6:44 PM
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You are back!!!!!
(insert visions of wifey jumping up and down here). I have missed you so much!
I changed my name but I am guessing you can figure out who I am LOL! I am so happy to see you again that I can't say that I actually absorbed one word you wrote. Guess I better go back and read again.
Welcome back!!!
posted by
bel_1965
on November 25, 2006 at 6:29 PM
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Thank you, Katray
I guess it was time to come back.
posted by
Joe_Love
on November 25, 2006 at 6:16 PM
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My mudroom boasts bathroom facilities also
matching toilet and sink, lol. Strange builders in this part of the country. Sounds like the monster gives new meaning to the room; can't wait to see what it is.
Hey, I did a double take when I noticed this posting. Great to see you back Joe Love!
posted by
Katray2
on November 25, 2006 at 6:13 PM
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