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FBC Bulletin Board
The Froggy Bottom Photography Fair organizing committee will be meeting intermittently throughout the next couple of weeks If you are interested in participating and haven’t joined the yahoo group please email me at katiebird@everestkc.net for more information. I will be going through the past Fair Diaries to compile suggestions from the comments as a starting point for our discussions.
Anyone going to the march in DC on Sept 24th should give a holler! A few of us
attending are planning on getting together over the weekend, as well as marching together. Those who can’t come to DC should keep an eye or ear open for corresponding local events that day. And news from kansas (see the comments below): BooTrib/Powell’s Book Club is reading BAYOU FAREWELL by Mike Tidwell. Meeting date TB determined soon. |
It’s a simple day at the Froggy Bottom Cafe. We’ve got: Coffee, Tea, toast and cheese (but any kind of bread or cheese you like — we’ve got it all!)
This has been an exciting week, and I know there are a lot of newcomers. So, if you see someone you don’t recognise, invite them to sit at your table.
And if your new — Welcome! We’re glad to see you. Please pull up a chair and introduce yourself.
I turned off autoformatting for the diary (if you don’t the diary stretches out for miles!).
And all my paragraphs disappeared. I’m very sorry for the run-on comment above!
Hi all! Please recommend Blogsheroes opposes the nomination of John Roberts. We need to keep that diary as visible as possible. Although the appointment of Roberts is probably a done deal, its WRONG to acquiece. we must not CONSENT we must DISSENT. and no matter how tired we get, how burned out, how down or how depressed we must resist in any way we can for the women that follow us.
Thanks!
Good morning Katiebird.
I think I’ll grab another cup of coffee and try to wake up some more. Cats got me up early, darn them! Now that they’ve been fed, they are happily sleeping again.
Hi mlk!
I’ll go for a walk while you drink that coffee. Things seem to be starting slow here, so it’s probably best that I do it now….
I thought you and I were the only ones up tll mlk got dragged in by the cats. I thought I’d bring you a song I remember Rod Stewart singing, but I guess everybody else did it too:
Walk me out in the morning dew my friend
Walk me out in the morning dew today
Can’t walk you out in the morning dew my friend
Can’t walk you out in the morning dew today
I thought I heard a baby cry this morning
I thought I heard a baby cry today
You didn’t hear no baby cry this morning
You didn’t hear no baby cry today
Where have all the people gone this morning
Where have all the people gone today
You’ll never find no people here this morning
You didn’t need those people anyway
I thought I heard a young male call this morning
I thought I heard a young male call today
You didn’t hear no young girl call this morning
You didn’t hear no young girl call today
And now I can’t walk you out in the morning dew my friend
I guess it doesn’t matter anyway
The best way to walk out in the morning dew is on a horse, I’m just gonna sit here in the cafe and imagine it.
Thanks Alice, I thought about the song while I walked (It’s nice to have a song in mind while you walk).
Great song. I miss Jerry…
Hi Tribbles! Sorry I haven’t stopped in at the cafe lately – things have been very busy around here lately. But I wanted to make sure anyone who missed it visits Othniel’s great diary A Place to Lay My Head.
He’s added a wonderful comment this morning that gives you an idea of what’s going on now with the Katrina survivors, some of the current challenges they face, and how you can help.
And if you didn’t go look at the photos from adastra of Liz retrieving her dogs from the Humane Society yesterday, you gotta do it. They’ll give you major warm fuzzies.
Good morning Katiebird, Mlk, Alice, and Janet Strange.
Got any blueberry muffins up in here? I just love blueberry muffins :o)
I have to say that I’m still sad that Infidel is leaving us, even if it’s temporary. He gives/gave so much character to this place. Yeah well…..looking forward to his return.
Also looking forward to the 24th. I’ve got some butterflies but they’re good ones and I’m definetily looking forward to meeting all the other Froggies that’ll be there. Did you all see Cabingirl’s photo diary of Cindy Sheehan’s rally in Philadelphia yesterday? It’s awesome.
Anyhow, it’s off to work. Wishing all the best for you all today and every day :o)
I’m sorry, supersoling, today it’s bread and cheese day — any kind of bread and cheese that you want.
Our shipments of other supplies got stuck in Minneapolis. I hope something shows up in time for the lounge tonight!
Since I can’t make my local Dunn County Dems monthly pancake breakfast this morning, I’ll have to have my morning meal here. Pass the jam. Syrup is to sweet for me.
Sorry. Not a morning person. Never have been. If only I could convince my body that sleeping in would make us both much happier it wouldn’t be an issue and I wouldn’t so often forget to say:
Good Morning!
Kelly
Hi, Katiebird, isn’t the weather wonderful? I won’t be around much–going to a meeting in Manhattan (Ks) today. What a glorious day for a drive in the Flint Hills!
Want another bulletin? BooTrib/Powell’s Book Club is reading BAYOU FAREWELL by Mike Tidwell. Meeting date TB determined soon.
Thanks, KB.
Inspiring photos all over the site today.
Beautiful day in store for the front range, nary a cloud in sight
Also, a reminder to those who may have not seen it in the Jazz Jam last night, The Higher Ground Hurricane relief Benefit Concert is tonight on PBS. Info on broadcast time and streaming info at PBS.org. It will also be streamed and broadcast live on KUVO-Jazz 89 for those of you in the CO and WYO front range.
Later
Peace
Dada,
Thanks for the heads about about the concert. BF is a big jazz fan and I’ve just let him know who’s in the lineup. Sounds like a great concert and an interesting group of presenters/musicians.
Beautiful day in store here around the Sound, nary a blue in sight.
All that mercifully ended summer sun reminds me of eating brownies years ago. After a few hours people would say “I’m so-o-o-o tired of smiling!”
Goose…I gotta have 300+ days of sun a year or I get really weird…much worse than normal weird…Ha!
I love the NW when I visit, but man!, it’s good to come home and dry-out…all that humidity makes the brownie’s soggy…:{)
Peace
on a boat with no name,
it felt good to be back in the rain.
On the Puget, you can remember your name
cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain.
After two months in the Puget mist
My skin began to turn white….
==Surely in the last 30 years some locals have done a full parody of this!
I wonder if Stevie Wonder will be there? If not, I hope somebody covers this song of his:
People keep on learnin’
Soldiers keep on warrin’
World keep on turnin’
Cause it won’t be too long
Powers keep on lyin’
While your people keep on dyin’
World keep on turnin’
Cause it won’t be too long
I’m so darn glad he let me try it again
Cause my last time on earth I lived a whole world of sin
I’m so glad that I know more than I knew then
Gonna keep on tryin’
Till I reach the highest ground
Teachers keep on teachin’
Preachers keep on preachin’
World keep on turnin’
Cause it won’t be too long
Oh no
Lovers keep on lovin’
Believers keep on believin’
Sleepers just stop sleepin’
Cause it won’t be too long
Oh no
I’m so glad that he let me try it again
Cause my last time on earth I lived a whole world of sin
I’m so glad that I know more than I knew then
Gonna keep on tryin’
Till I reach my highest ground…Whew!
Till I reach my highest ground
No one’s gonna bring me down
Oh no
Till I reach my highest ground
Don’t you let nobody bring you down (they’ll sho ’nuff try)
God is gonna show you higher ground
I cry just typing out those lyrics. I love that song.
Fruedian slip?
I forgot the last line (probably because I don’t believe it…but here it is)
He’s the only friend you have around
This is on itunes–if you don’t know it you should hear it. The tonality fits the lyrics.
Lyrics and music by Stevie Wonder
We are amazed but not amused
By all the things you say that you’ll do
Though much concerned but not involved
With decisions that are made by you
But we are sick and tired of hearing your song
Telling how you are gonna change right from wrong
‘Cause if you really want to hear our views
“You haven’t done nothing”!
It’s not too cool to be ridiculed
But you brought this upon yourself
The world is tired of pacifiers
We want the truth and nothing else
And we are sick and tired of hearing your song
Telling how you are gonna change right from wrong
‘Cause if you really want to hear our views
“You haven’t done nothing”!
(Jackson 5 join along with me say)
Doo doo wop – hey hey hey
Doo doo wop – wow wow wow
Doo doo wop – co co co
Doo doo wop – naw naw naw
Doo doo wop – bum bum bum
Doo doo wop
We would not care to wake up to the nightmare
That’s becoming real life
But when mislead who knows a person’s mind
Can turn as cold as ice un hum
Why do you keep on making us hear your song
Telling us how you are changing right from wrong
‘Cause if you really want to hear our views
“You haven’t done nothing”!
Yeah
(Jackson 5 sing along again say)
Doo doo wop
Doo doo wop – oh
Doo doo wop – co co co
Doo doo wop – sing it baby
Doo doo wop – bum bum bum
Doo doo wop – um
Sing it loud for your people say
Doo doo wop – um um um
Doo doo wop – stand up be counted, say
Doo doo wop – co co co
I hum this tune while in staff meetings. It fits my boss.
I wish everybody would to to this LINK: diary and read Oui’s comment there. The diary itself is worth reading on its own, but please read what Oui says. It’s remarkable to me that our own Oui keeps coming here, bringing us information and remaining sane and steady. Oui, I hope I don’t embarrass you by this. I admire you very much and hope for the best for you and your family, whatever “best” may turn out to be in the world my country has turned upsidedown.
I’m an idiot. I still hope you’ll read that diary and Oui’s comment, but I am completely wrong about reading into it that it is Oui’s own story! I wondered how I had completely missed the news that Oui was an Iraqi. Thank god you’re not, Oui. 🙂 But, p.s., I still think you’re an oasis of sanity and invaluable information here.
Is everybody adequately confused now?
I think I’ll tiptoe off to Manhattan now.
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Thanks for the correction kansas …
The BooTribbers were about to head over and form a posse to save me from the Americans!
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Yes we sure would have, except for the fact that most of us ‘do know’ Oui lives in the Netherlands.
I thought it was pretty funny when I read Kansas’ comments and then clicked the link. If you didn’t know the Oui story then you might think it was his story!
Hi Oui, how ya doing!
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and html codes!
I’ve been recovering from the Golf Coast calamity, compounded by Shrub and his cronies.
Health will only be restored by 2006, when fellow Americans throw the bums out of Washington DC and the new democrats conquer the hill.
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I know what you mean Oui, I am in recovery too, but waiting with baited breath for the next body blow, which is sure to come. Manmade or natural, sure to come.
Good opportunity to remind everyone to begin today to prepare for disaster and I have a lot of info on my site, link on sig. line.. see the upper right hand corner on site for Emergency Preparation!
And I want the bums thrown out of Wash. now ASAP, not 2006.
Impeach the whole admin.!!!!!
Lol!! I love it! Forming posses and riding off to save people, that’s what BooTribbers do. Glad I could head them off at the pass.
Helloooo all…not much to say today but here’s a pic of my patio plants before the ‘great dying off’, sure glad I have these pics to remember how much better they looked just a few months ago.
Howdy, y’all! Been up early, done the lacrosse game (they won again), went to the local farmers’ market, stuffed myself with Asian pears, and I thought I’d pop in and say hi while the guys are playing catch outside!
Hope everyone’s having a wonderful Saturday!
Hi CabinGirl!
I’ve had a good morning — I’ve already walked my 6 miles for the day!
Now, I’m sitting on the patio with the laptop in the breezy shade. It’s a beautiful day here.
(Soon, very soon, I have to make myself work on the Froggy Bottom Fair).
I just sent hubbo off to get a manual can opener for my ‘kitchen box’– which will be coming Brinnainne’s way- send on Mon.Anybody got any ideas about some sort of soul-restoring things I can add? It’s pretty utilitarian right now.
Actually,it will be two boxes,kitchen stuff gets Heavy!
. posters or pictures that could be hung on a wall
. recipes for comfort food or desserts
. a kid’s picture book (there doesn’t have to be a kid — I can be cheered up by looking at goodnight moon or good dog carl).
. a poem
I love ‘goodnight moon’but since I have no kidlets i am kinda short on kid books.My mother gave away(dammit) all my winnie-the pooh books–the real ones– not that Disney crap.GRRRRRRR
I don’t have any kids either. My mom, however, is a pack rat and kept all my books for me until I could take them off her hands. Now all of them are at my husband’s school execpt for one (which happens to be the first book I bought with my own money), Wind in the Willows with the Arthur Rackham illustrations.
Those illustrations were so charming!Ernest Shepard is still my fave though, along with (of course Beatrix Potter)
and good morning. Or afternoon, to those in an easterly direction. I’m human. First posted here a couple of weeks ago. If you want to know more about me, I just posted some bio in SallyCat’s "what it means to be marginalized" diary on the recommended list. For whatever it’s worth. Thanks for having me. Have a good Saturday.
Welcome Human, and may I request that you copy and paste your bio over here so we can give you a proper welcome!
I went over and read your intro in SallyCat’s diary. I said hello to you over there as well. Thanks for joining us and I really look forward to hearing more from you. You have a perspective on the world that will add a lot to our conversations. I hope you experience the validation and support that I have felt here.
Nice to see you in the Cafe human.
I read your comment in SallyCat’s diary. Thank you so much for sharing.
I thought I was human. I’m so confused. What else is new?
I know that most of us are hurting a bit financially from giving to various charities for the Katrina efforts.
Americans across the country have, and people around the world, have responded with the kind of spirit that makes me smile a little bit in trying times.
There is one minor problem about major disasters like this:
Our local food bank has felt the pinch BIG TIME in the last few weeks as many resources have been diverted. Please! Don’t forget about the locals that need your help as well.
Our Cub Scout pack will be going up and down the streets of our town in the next couple of weeks getting whatever we can to help. We always seem to be the first people our local “Loaves and Fishes” calls when they are low on supplies. For this reason we never really set a date for these collections.
They call, we respond.
Don’t be surprised if they have given out the call in your neighborhood as well.
If you are unsure what they may need, call them yourselves. We usually do before we buy things for them, because they do know what they need the most at any given time.
Heck, our local grocers seem to always have exactly what the food bank needs ON SALE when they need it! (Yes, I think they co-ordinate this a bit. Which is a great thing!)
Anyways, I just hope you don’t completely forget your favourite local charities. They count on everyone’s support.
Local charities felt the same pinch last December when everyone directed their charitable donations to tsunami relief, especially since the end of the year is when a lot of folks up their donations because (a) it’s the holidays, and (b) they want to get them in before the tax year ends.
It’s easy to focus on the “big stuff” across the country or across the world…but noticing what’s going on just around the corner is a little tougher.
Our local library usually has a barrel out for Second Harvest donations at all times; I need to start adding extra items to the grocery list to donate. Many stores will have “buy one, get one free” specials, esepecially on items like cereals, canned tuna, canned chili and other staples — in a case like this, it’s easy to add some extra items to the shopping cart and set them aside for the food banks. (And if you’re too lazy to grocery shop, food banks can always use money to buy things like fresh meats and produce…)
The local grocery stores in our area usually have drop boxes for the food bank… BUT right now they have had one for Katrina supplies for the last week.
I found out that not only are the “most needed supplies” usually on sale at our nearest store, but they actually keep a list, to hand out to shoppers, of what the food bank needs that is updated every few days. All I had to do was ask for it at the customer service.
As someone who runs a small hometown non-profit organization that has nothing to do with disaster relief, I thank you for this. I HATE the feeling I get at times like this when I worry that the work I feel so passionately about will struggle because of everyone’s compassion for the people in the Gulf Coast area. We will need to do our best to be efficient with what we have over the next few months – and that’s part of the contribution we make as an organization to the effort. But we do also have to hope that people will not forget about our work for too long.
I imagine it is tough for some of the charities and most of the people that work for them must get a bit stressed out at times. Especially the times that they are looking at a thin budget and still having to serve the same needs in their community.
Posted an update on my brother in yesterday’s Cafe — for those who missed it, the news is good and bad; he won’t need a bypass right now, but will have to go back in about three weeks for more procedures (stent installations and more angioplasties). Blockage was worse than thought; one artery 95% blocked, others about 75%, and part of his heart was only getting 45-50$ of needed blood flow.
[Think I’ll hit the treadmill shortly… ;)]
I’m coping okay with the news so far…thanks again to everyone for all your good thoughts etc. yesterday.
Today’s plans — do some more cleaning (if I can get the spouse moving), then decide if I’m going to cook tonight or if we’ll go out for dinner…
It sounds like he’ll be okay.
Ah…, it’s nap time again and I have had some time to play on the computer. Here is a picture of mom and Andrew, mere minutes after we first met. It was love at first sight, at least for me!
Awww, he’s so cute! How’s he adjusting to the new routine? It sounds like he’s a good napper (I sometimes wish my boys still napped).
He seems to be adjusting pretty well. He has slept through the night for the last two nights. He will eat just about anything. Plus, he is getting ready to stand. All in all, it has been good.
Now, how am I adjusting to the amount of laundry? That is an entirely different subject!!!!!!!!!!
He is adorable!!
As for the laundry — my youngest is 2, oldest 4 and I still haven’t adjusted to the amount laundry!
😉
I started teaching the guys to do the laundry this summer…I figure it’s their turn!
What a cutie Andrew is … and mom too! Thanks for giving us an update.
I was cranky yesterday. Today, I’m just sad. Where’s the cheesecake?
thankyouthankyouthankyou
I think I’m a bit late for brunch, but I brought some brie and crackers for the before-dinner drinks and munchies crowd…
Could someone shoot me the info on the Sept. 24th yahoo group? I think CabinGirl tried, but my email addie displayed below is a bit weird (and my spam filter is voracious). Try this one: jltraut (at) verizon (dot) net. Thanks so much! I’m local to DC, and am looking forward to seeing the Mall teeming with people opposing this stupid, unjust and unnecessary war!
Check your email again-I just sent you the rundown…
Question, I have always wondered why people use the term “after the flip” or some such thing in their diaries, when it doesn’t really have any use unless you are on front page…
I know it is used commonly on DK but still the same thing applies, it serves no purpose and I find it rather strange when scrolling down a diary, seeing that line and wondering, where’s the ‘flip’.- 🙂 Any explanations!!!!!!!
Hey Diane, if you look up at the top of the page, there’s a tab marked Diaries. If you click on that tab, you get a list of diaries with the text that the diarist put in their introduction textbox showing instead of just titles like in the sidebar. So if a user is browsing diaries in this fashion, the text about clicking or flipping or whatever indicates that the diarist included more text in the main textbox, and that clicking in will show the whole diary (plus comments of course).
We’re back from the Great Move-Out of Atlanta Disaster. Hubby’s son was supposed to do a lot of prep work prior to our arrival on Tuesday; he didn’t. And he didn’t help very much so Hubby worked himself — and me — into such a state of exhaustion that we were barely functional during the 8 hour drive back to Lynchburg. On top of that the buyer postponed the closing until Tuesday and Hubby was stressed to the max. Drove thru down-pours of rain and he had some scary moments with the U-Haul hypro-planing.
Then, we get to the storage facility to stow our stuff, the rain stops and a beautiful rainbow appears over our very own unit. Hubby is frantic about unloading but I call him over to look at the wondrous rainbow. He tells me I’m a flake and that he “despises” me. Later, he tells me that we’re not going to do a farm together, our marriage is over and that he’ll set me up wherever I want to go as long as it’s not close to him. My first thought (no kidding)was: Can I move to Oregon and live next door to Susan Hu? But, I told him that he was tired, in pain and brain-fried and that he’d regret what he said in the morning.
So far no expressions of regret; he’s acting like the whole episode never happened. This is like the fourth time in our five-year marriage that he’s pulled this kind of shit. The first time I actually fainted. This time I didn’t even cry. I’ve come to realize that it’s some kind of defensive wounded bear behavior and and I shouldn’t take it personally so, I let him vent and don’t feed it by protesting too much.
One of these times tho, I just might shock him by saying, “Okay, pack your bag and get out. I’m keeping all of the stuff.” LOL!
Give the Bear a chance :{)
Peace
Him or me?
Um…I don’t think you’re the cold one.
I owe you pictures of logs and chinking…I haven’t forgotten…but it’s Ophelia-ing here right now…
Part of his rant last night was about the log home providers being scam artists and how he now wants to build a concrete bunker. Like I said, he was in extreme back pain and stressed and, clearly, wasn’t getting enough blood to his brain. Am I too understanding, do you think? I’m not a perfect person by any standard and so I tend to go easy on other people blowing up and being self-destructive.
Eventually, I’d like to see images of your abode just for my own curiousity… and to fuel my envy, I suppose. You’ve already got what I want: a log cabin in the country and Easter Egg Chickens. Wow! Do you know how lucky you are?
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with being understanding, as long he’s not being destructive to you.
With my place, I actually do feel really lucky…every time I pull in my driveway. Hey, did I tell you we’re getting silver-laced Wyandotte chicks in about 10 days? I’m so excited! My buff brahmas and blue cochin are living at our CSA with some production reds now.
sounds a lot like me when I’m in one of my “cranky puss” moods; my own spouse does a lot of listening when I’m in one of my “everything is going to hell” modes, and is there to comfort me because he knows it won’t last.
As someone else said, as long as he’s not violent towards you it’s okay — some of us just need to vent occasionally. Give him a few days, then break out the log home plans and he’ll probably be right on track. 🙂
He’s not a Pisces, by any chance? Sometimes those fish swimming in opposite directions make us seem a little split personality at times….
So……are you a flake? :o)
Do you talk sports in this here social establishment? Because it has been over an hour since my Spartans beat Notre Dame, and I am still glowing.
Nothing like watching Notre Dame lose, I always say…
Finally!
I’ve posted a message to get the planning discussion started for the Froggy Bottom Photography Fair to the Yahoo Group.
If you are interested in helping with the planning, please join the Yahoo group (email me if you have questions about how to join).
It’s coming soon!