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Coffee & Tea under the window, platters of treats on every table
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Newspapers are in their regular spot next to the door
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Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from yesterday)
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May the 4’s be with you
How long must we wait?
Fingers crossed for the Fitzgerald hurricane to blow a mighty wind that sweeps those sinners from their temples!
Fingers crossed for everybody in Wilma’s path.
What are your fingers crossed for today?
My fingers are crossed that I might get something done today other than reading the third book in your series, kansas!!
I kinda doubt it though — I’m one of those people who just DEVOURS books!
😉
I’ve gottent hrough the first two already — MOST awesome! I love the back and forth between Marie’s first person narration and her books!! And every detail is there for a reason…
I am wondering: are Marie’s writerly traits in any way auto-biographical? Are we going to lose you for three weeks straight right before the next book? At least I’ll know what happened to you! lol
I love the way that the books deal with the issue of the death penalty without being overly pedantic,, but really, really thought provoking!
And the dedication in the third book just made me all goose-bumpy — I can’t wait to read it (and probably won’t! heh heh)
So now all of you know where I’ve been this week — immersed in a world of kansas’ making!!
You’ve just made me feel so good. Thank you!
There’s a scene in the one you just read. . .Ring. . .where Marie describes what her house looks like, etc., toward the end of a book. All too true.
I’m glad you liked my approach to the death penalty. This was my anti-death penalty series. As for the dedication to the third book, civil rights activists have always been my heroes. I was writing that book while Bush was courting the bigots in his first presidential campaign and I was so upset about it, esp. that speaking engagement at Bob Jones “University.” I have to say, though I shouldn’t before you read it, that I wish I could do the third book over. My beloved editor had moved to another publishing house and I think that book shows the lack of her. I was trying to do too many things and didn’t do any of them to my own satisfaction. Sigh. C’est la book. I hope you end up disagreeing with me!
I’m taking Ring of Truth with me on my business trip next week and I hate spoilers.
No worries, Andi — we were mostly talking about The Truth Hurts here — but no spoilers, promise!
I’ve got it and the short story collection coming from Powell’s.
If we keep this up, kansas will have such an increase in royalties she’ll be able to treat herself to a bagel and coffee.
I am sorry to admit that I have not contributed ANYthing to kansas’ royalties….she sent me the three books.
Not having $$ so sucks. I went to get BJ’s book today and saw the price and there’s no WAY… that’s kiddo’s school lunch for two weeks, or 1/3 a tank of gas, or….
Ah, ok, I’m going to shut up about this now. I just HATE this!!
I really hate it that I made you feel bad about something so nice.
Anyway, you are making kansas happy by being a discerning reader which is I’m sure worth a whole hell of lot more to her.
And please don’t ever feel like you have to shut up about what bothers you. Part of the pleasure of the cafe is the freedom to bitch as much as we want to people who we know will listen.
But the even bigger pleasure is getting to be a bitch.
NO WORRIES, ANDI!!!
I don’t feel bad about it — just wish that things were different right now, they aren’t, and that’s ok. I know things will be different not-now, whenever that comes along, tomorrow, next week, next year — just have to keep on doing.
And thanks for the confirmation of the open ears — I know they’re there, I just sometimes don’t like to hear MYSELF whining!
😉
And with THAT, I am going back to my book!
hugs to all!
It is so awesome to me to be able to read a book and then talk with the author (I’ve been able to with academic books, of course, as professors just LOVE to get their students to purchase their books — sometimes this is a great thing…), but never before have I had this opportunity with fiction.
My admiration of you knows no bounds!! Welp, I must off to read!!
Have a great day everyone!
Maybe we should have a “Whole Truth” book club discussion.
I thought way she developed the character and story of Ray was just about brilliant. And I also was fascinated with the way she did the subtle interplay between what the “truth” looks like as it happens and in reflection.
(delurks)
This is a great idea!
Funny, but I was just thinking about the nature of TRUTH and truths as I was reading through all of the discussion on Paul R’s thread about framing….
I think this series of kansas’ would make EXCELLENT fodder for the book club!
Oh forget it. I’ll go look it up.
My definition?
Lecture-y and pompous.
Your definitions may vary!
😉
How are you woman?
I wouldn’t want you to get all pedantic about it. 😉
You got it!
Love the new sig!
Uh-oh – lecture-y and pompous. Sounds like what some of my diaries have been accused of…
Sven called me pedantic once, now that you mention it…
Sven? Ha! He doesn’t even realize that 150 years from now, the Booman Frog Logo coffee cup is going to be enshrined in the National Gallery of Art as a piece of folk art with a pedantic label explaining that it represents the human will’s indomitable fight against oppression, or some such thing. And he could have bought one now for his descendants to cherish and place with honor on the dinner table for national and international holidays, as the family gathers around, clasping hands and singing whatever is the Finnish version of Edelweiss. Commercial emblem? LOL.
BMT items make great holiday gifts for all the progressives in your life – and you know the supply is going to sell out fast once the indictments come down and all your friends who have been giving you sideways glances for the last five years see that the wind has changed…
…Wow, somehow that all sounds like I was channeling Garrison Keillor or something.
Of course, for all you know maybe I AM Garrison Kellior, just pretending to be an environmental scientist interested in jazz and living in Knoxville! Bwahahahaha!
Carnacki? He’s really Stephen King. Catnip? Margaret Atwood. BostonJoe? Edward Kennedy.
The leaks are flying now, and not just in DC – C’mon people, who else around here has a secret identity? And who is Ductape Fatwa really???
Me? Margaret Atwood? I’d have to shoot myself if I was that boring in person.
May I call you Marge? You can call me Gary. No need to be shy here. We know you secretly let out all your inner madness here so you can maintain that composed exterior for the literary public. 😀
P.S. Too bad about that Nobel prize for literature. I was pulling for you. Maybe next year.
P.P.S. Want to appear on my radio show? We’ve got a terrific left-wing-leading audience that would be delighted to have you on as a guest. Do you sing? Play a musical instrument? No? That’s OK, we’ll just script you into a Guy Noir segment.
Just popping in to say hi! Thanks to everyone’s great suggestions last week, I’m off to lunch today with my friend-and we’re both looking forward to it!
I’ve put my indictment anticipation on the shelf until the beginning of next week, which is the earliest I think I’ll need to get it out again. Instead I’m going to try to finish Bayou Farewell for the book discussion this Saturday!
I hope your lunch goes nicely, CG.
As you read, if you get any ideas for good questions for me to ask at the book club, let me know, okay? It’s going to be. . .interesting. . .to be discussing this just when Wilma may be hitting Florida.
CG: hope you have a great time.
kansas: I was thinking about the book and the book club and it seems to me that Bayou Farewell has three main themes:
Perhaps one way to do the discussion would be to do separate diaries that focus on these three themes. And maybe a fourth one to talk about how we think katrina will/should affect all three.
You may have just helped me solve the problem of how to deal with all those themes AND the unusual extra matter of Before Katrina/After Katrina. I’m also thinking it may require more than one diary. I’ll have to get a special Froggy dispensation. Or maybe two diaries on Sat. and another one or two on Sunday. Or maybe you guys could post a couple for me.
(Do you want Andi & me to tell you just how many diaries you can do in one day?)
🙂
KB: How are you feeling? I hope much better.
kansas: you might want to email susan or martin to find out if there is a way to avoid the evil submit button disappears syndrome.
I feel much better!
It turns out kansas has the magic prescription (just ask her, I’m sure she’ll share)
After all that blue dot talk on Tuesday, it occurred to me that you might like to have a high resolution version of the ur-blue-dot photo so here it is.
And here’s a new blue dot for you. This one is from our favorite place to hike, the Needles district of Canyonlands National Park.
Oh, wow, AndiF, thank you!
The one above looks like hiking on the moon.
is just one spectacular, gorgeous, and bizarre landscape after another. I love it and want everyone else to love it, too.
How beautiful is that! (rhetorical question I realize)
Marvellous pictures this morning AndiF!
Stealing more for my screensaver rotations!
I have been to Canyonlands several times. The scenery was spectacular. We hope to do the off road driving loop at some point in time. Problem, I have found that by the time you get into the park you’ve used a fair amount of gas and are forced to buy it from the overpriced seller inside the park.
for hiking instead of driving 😀
Are you talking about doing the White Rim Trail or the 4×4 “roads” in the Needles district?
We did some of the White Rim Trail and it was rough but not too bad but I’ve hiked parts of several of those 4×4 roads in Needles and there’s no way you’d get me in a vehicle on any of them.
It’s the one we saw while lookin down from the Needles district. I’m assuming that to be the rougher road you describe. The vehicles were driving near the edge of the canyon, the view was one of the best I’ve seen in the southwest.
then it was the White Rim Trail. This is the road that is below Island in the Sky and Deadhorse point.
I believe that’s it, thanks.
My shelf w/coat hooks and bench with cubbies that I had someone make for me will be finished this week (bench shown below with only one coat of paint on it):
THat looks great. I imagine it’s going in an entry hall for boots and coats and backpacks? That’s a great way to contain clutter and it looks nice.
Well, it’s actually going to be in a corner of our great room; being in a real cabin, we don’t have an entry hall…Although I dream of a mud room! I am REALLY looking forward to having a spot to tell everyone to put their school stuff in so I don’t keep tripping over it in the kitchen (you know how people open the door and begin discarding shoes, bookbags, coats, socks, etc on their way to the computer/tv…)
I’ll have to post pictures after I get it here.
Puget4 is “off” today meaning she’s “on” for working at home with me.
With that in mind, this is the kind of furniture development that gets us excited hereabouts–
A 4 for organization! I wish my work area were that neatly arranged…
Hi to P4!
But it’s nice knowing that we’ve technically established an “away” to put things, if I should choose to do so.
We’re still well behind in organizing. There are many fairly unrelated kinds of work we have to do and therefore to organize, which would be enough of a challenge in a house and shop building that we might own and customize for the use. But to try to fit it into sequential rental housing–yikes!
Puget4’s area, presently limited to fine work on small parts, is much better organized and tidy. Of course she’s “consulting” extensively on my areas. Rule 1: keep the living room looking like a home!
and made in America too. Ya just can’t beat it!
Hey, I try to spread what little cash I have locally! (It’s actually a copy of pottery barn piece, but of course, mine is better because of the color…)
I’m off to take friends to airport.
Fingers crossed y’all have a lovely morning. I originally typed “lovey,” and that’s okay, too. 🙂
Waiting pretty quietly here….each new story on the news makes me grin. Repeated discussions of Delay with a “warrant” outstanding makes me grin from ear to ear.
Trying to get caught up at work after a week off….pffffffffftttt!
In the mood for Halloween…and for those with a little irreverence….I found this while surfing at lunch yesterday. This witch in training tends to dress a little nicer! :^D
For those of you who are not yet Terry Pratchett fans (the only people who don’t like Pratchett haven’t read Pratchett), that’s the only word used by librarian of Unseen University (transformed into an orangutan in one of the first books) and it describes perfectly how I feel this morning. Ook. Ook. Ook! Or loosely translated:
Why haven’t the indictments come down yet? When are Bush and company going to go away? Why am I catless this morning? And, where’s the tea? Or, more succicntly: Caffeine, I need caffeine.
Had my second to last day of class yesterday. One day left and I’m already missing it. I’ve got such a good bunch of aspiring writers, it’s going to be hard to say goodbye. On the other hand, I won’t miss the drive.
Today’s tea, a Jiangxi: China Red.
We have an entire SHELF of Terry Pratchet — anyone who needs a good place to start, I recommend “Small Gods” and/or “Soul Music” if you aren’t hooked after that, there’s no helping you!
So, Kelly, when are you going to offer an online version of your writing course?
I just placed a hold on it at my library — thanks!
Which one? Oh, you’ll love them katiebird!! Be prepared to laugh out loud, shake your head knowingly, and laugh out loud again, and pester people by reading passages aloud to them at inconvenient times!!
😉
After those two, I suggest “Reaper Man” — actually, might be best to read “reaper Man” before “soul Music” come to think of it — “Small Gods” is one of my all time favorite books!
Enjoy!
I like a lot of pratchett but not everything (I think that sometimes he sacrifices the book for the joke). But I would unconditionally recommend the Granny Weatherwax books. I think this is most of them:
Equal Rites.
Wyrd Sisters.
Witches Abroad.
Lords and Ladies.
Maskerade.
Carpe Jugulum.
I’m totally with you on Small Gods, as being one of his very best. I’m partial to his Guards Guards grouping as well as the Weatherwax stuff. I’d say that after Small Gods, Feet of Clay, Jingo, Hogfather, and Interesting Times are among the best of the best.
I don’t know about an online version of the course. I tend to have extensive class notes, and a ton of handouts which might be useful to the aspiring writer, but my actual classroom style is notes-based stream-of-conciousness and I don’t type anywhere near fast enough to keep up with myself. Sometime after class finishes up next Wednesday I’ll put everything in order. I’ve got my students set up with a Yahoo group where they can download the various files I’ve put together on things like plot, character, learning through critique, and the pro and cons of being a pro at a con. If anyone here wants to look at my rambles on writing I’d be happy to send them along. Just drop me a line via the form linked in my sig, and I’ll share.
Or, if the form is down, which it looks like it might be, I can be emailed at my first name @kellymccullough.com.
Yep, love Terry Pratchett.
As to where to start: not at the beginning. He has gotten better and better as a writer over the years, and his first few books are a bit confusing and wandering. They have their pleasures, but start with the newer ones.
To get my mom hooked I gave her Night Watch and then Small Gods. And now she is so hooked. 🙂
Terry Pratchett pretty plainly agrees with us politically, at least about this war. If that’s not coming too close to on-topic. 🙂
Seen here shivering on our small porch at the height of Puget Sound summer. She’s in Ft. Myers which had been the tentative Ground Zero yesterdayish. The storm has slowed so much that they’ve pushed FL landfall back 2 days to Monday.
We’re keeping fingers crossed that it may “decide” to pass between FL and Cuba, or go somewhere else, though it’s hard to wish for special favors at the expense of anyone else.
Indictments
Nope.
A few high names will be indicted, fewer than 4, and penalties will be slight enough or set aside such that all the actors will simply shift to new positions probably within the private government complex, as has happened in the past.
It’s evident that we’re dealing with a conspiratorial web that goes back a generation and probably longer, and reaches out into the miltary/intelligence-economic complex far and high enough that I’m convinced it can’t be dismantled.
We may however be in a curious point in history where we may become able to learn most of what it is and involves. I can see a scenario in which it becomes publicly acknowledged that America is led by a coalition of democratic government and military-corporate rule.
And everybody simply has to deal with it.
She is certainly welcome at my house if she needs it. I am out of the path so far, yet still close enough that she could get to me if need be.
Yes, she does. She is active in a decent sized nearby church and has a number of friends with transportation in her condo area.
As long as evacuation is not ordered, she’s probably in the best place she could be, given the construction of the buildings. They’re like missile blockhouses. The Punta Gorda hurricane passed just a few miles from her–on the worst side–and only ripped up a few peoples’ storm shutters.
Thanks for that offer!
Why on earth does president peahead always sound like he’s fucking condescending people when he is the idiot and we aren’t??
The stupid inflection… the assine smirk… blech.
Okay, I gotta turn off the tv, this is making me ill. Can’t he go back to not holding press conferences?
(sorry for raining in the cafe but I just couldn’t take it anymore… hi everybody!)
God, he’s such an arrogant annoying sonova…did he give a press confrence today and I missed it?
No loss if I did, I guess. DJ can just give me the summary version.
with Abbas in front of the WH… reporters asked him about all the scandals and I think he said something like “9/11 changed everything” and then ducked under the podium.
Course I check on the Fitz situation at least twice a day. I am back to working on my bedroom again since Crawford is over and we marched on D.C. and I’m just sick as hell waiting for Fitz. The ragging off thing worked totally swell, my bedroom kind of looks like it is on fire (I’m hoping ya know, a nightly fire!) The woodwork painted red and then stained over looks like wood too. I was a little worried at first because it took the stain awhile to dry, but it did. Then I saw a wall that had the ragging off thing done to it and had two gold stipes painted as a border and I am painting one around the ceiling under the crown molding today, but it is silver. My husband changed all the switch plates to a burnished silver. When I was in D.C. he decided to take on the popcorn ceiling. We don’t like popcorn but the whole house is popcorn. He took it all off when I was gone but the dust was horrible. He sanded some of it off. I promptly had an asthma attack and it took a week to get all the popcorn dust out of the house. Next room we’ll just scrape, no sanding……don’t care how smooth it makes anything! After I’m done with the stripe I will Kilz the ceiling and paint it. The bedroom grew into a gargantuan project though!
Your bedroom sounds wonderful, do you have pictures? Maybe I can scan in my bookcase plans for the living room…
I’m tired of waiting for Fitz too…maybe we should be planning some sort of BooTrib Philly (or Alabama?) action or something?
and I will take some final photos too with the ceiling and the silver. I started doing it when things around here were really depressing. It took my mind off of it all and I thought it would be inspiring to share and then Crawford happened and I shelved it all for awhile. I will put up all the photos though when I’m done with the ceiling. The ceiling color is my husband’s choice, I’m hoping it works……I think it will work. Sometimes it is hard to imagine things and the finished product is needed to tie it all together in my brain.
Some stuff you may have missed yesterday:
Feel free to add your recommendations as a reply to this comment.
Good mornoonevenight!
Good morning!
I thought Progressive Platform: Strength Through Community by k9disc deserved more attention than it got – only 7 comments, and when you take out 3 or so for k9disk that’s not much input. (S)he obviously put a lot of time and thought into the diary and I thought it deserved better from this community. We might as well do something more productive than wring our hands and pace the floor while waiting for indictments – and developing the coherent message we’re going to take to the public and try to implement once BushCo. implodes is about as productive as it gets. </rant> </nag>
funny !@#$%& story!
http://cedwyn.blogspot.com/2005/10/god-i-love-kids.html
She sounds like a totally cool kid!
she is! we always have a ton of fun together.
Great story Cedwyn 🙂
P.S. Thanks for the recommend at DKos yesterday, I was thisclose to making it on the famed list. Oh well, another day and another Bushista to hunt.
aww! so close! it was a good diary.
A hopeful sky reflected in the water on this mild, springlike Puget Sound morning.
Good Morning Boo Tribbers,
I’ve been lurking for a while and even have ventured a few comments, but it was the photo fair that proved irresistible. It was great fun and it was wonderful to see all the beautiful photos contributed. Oh, yes, by name is Puget4 aka Mrs. Gooserock. My extracurricular interests are photography, watercolor painting, pen & ink drawing, gardening, horses, dogs, Canada, finding beauty all around and my best friend, Gooserock (not necessarily in that order). I am also an old time web designer. I started with hand coding of html. Imagine that. “< (left pointy bracket) b > (right pointy bracket)” is the terminology I used to teach html to faculty and staff at a major mid-west university. 8 years makes me an oldtimer in that venue. Anyway, it’s great being here and I look forward to many interesting, informative, and fun exchanges.
Hey, don’t tell anyone but I thought your photo fair diary was the best one. Your shot choices, composition, and sense of color were all so interesting and so well executed.
Imagine that. “< (left pointy bracket) b > (right pointy bracket)” is the terminology I used to teach html to faculty and staff at a major mid-west university.
At last the difference bewteen post-secondary ed and elementary ed explicated: my husband uses “left alligator mouth open” and “right alligator mouth open” for his sixth graders.
Gee, Andi, coming from you that means a great deal. Thank you very much. I just poke around at photography but I keep seeing these pretty things that I want to share with someone and Poof! there’s the photo.
I liked the “left alligator mouth open” idea. My pointy brackets have been surpassed. 😉
Welcome officially to the pond! I’ve been trying to get my better half to jump in for months now, and she’s still resisting… 🙁 …If anyone has suggestions to make to help this noble effort succeed, I’m all ears.
I’ve already told her that over 50% of the membership is made up of strong-willed, left-wing, opinionated women with a low tolerance for BS, just like herself, LOL. I’ve told her how the news hits here 24-48 hours ahead of TV, in more detail and less BS. I invited her to the photo fair. I think maybe she just doesn’t like sitting in front of a computer and typing for an extended period of time…
Well, Jim was just trying to revise my comment about him as I wrote it and I told him that this was the tyranny of the commenter — I get to write whatever I want.
Soooo — start doing comments that include your wife so she’ll want to rewrite them and then tell her if she wants to say what she wants to say, there’s a really simple solution.
And as a bonus, we’ll let her rag on about you as much as she wants. And we’ll always tell her that she’s absolutely right.
“…And we’ll always tell her that she’s absolutely right.”
She’ll say “I don’t need BMT to tell me that!” 😀
She’ll say “I don’t need BMT to tell me that!”
No doubt but she’d be missing the unequaled pleasure of having her excellent judgments applauded by a group of smart(ass) women.
Ahem. I personally love bullshit. I thrive on it. 🙂
seriously tho’, tell her to spend a few hours lurking over the weekend and just reading diaries — give her a summary of the ones to look out for… FBC, Susan, Me… you know, all the important ones 🙂 and just to get a feel for the characters that make up our community of misfits… and if she likes us enough to want to come back then she should register and jump on in to the fray 😉
Those 2 stories on the front page right now, should be enough to convince anyone that this is the place to be.
I think. (emailing the link to mr. katiebird)
Ooooh, I remember hand-coding… actually I still do it, usually when writing blog comments. (For work I have an editor that does most of that for me…) But there’s still nothing to beat being able to read the raw code.
Welcome to the pond!
Been getting lazy lately with all these new-fangled WYSIWYG programs, but I love going into the source screen and “tweaking” tags as needed.
Can’t remember how my instructor described the “pointy brackets” though…
Welcome!
I used WordPerfect 4.2 and then the 5.x for DOS semi-wsywig WP as my editor!
My wysiwyg coder was Netscape Gold, which alas had a bad habit of making too many decisions for me.
But I was never a designer. That’s Puget4’s field. I just did quickie functional stuff for work and an early hobby site for myself.
Thank you all for the warm welcome. This is really a fun group and everyone is so nice. It’s a safe place to live.
I know this cafe’s officially closed but I wanted to add my now somewhat belated greetings. Welcome overboard (into the pond that is). Glad to have you here.
I’m trying to see the delay in the indictments as a good thing; maybe it means that more folks are coming out of the woodwork and singing for Fitz in the hopes of cutting a deal.
In the meantime, there’s golf this afternoon on ESPN, meaning I can actually get out of the apartment and do all the stuff I’ve been putting off. 🙂 (The problems of being a sports fan…) Oh, congratulations to the Houston Astros for making their first ever World Series! I was originally rooting for St. Louis (mainly because Tony LaRussa, the manager, is a great guy), but when everyone started saying that Houston was done after that single Pujols home run, I had to adopt the Astros! Now I’m hoping they’ll win it all…nothing against the White Sox, but I’m more of a National League fan anyway.
Main plan for today is grocery shopping via bus, which means I have to get the dust off my wheeled daypack; I can usually squeeze 2 or 3 plastic bags worth of groceries in there, as long as there’s nothing easily crushable like bread. Middays are a decent time to shop around here; most of the moms are home waiting for the kids to come home from school before they venture out. Worst time to shop: Sunday evenings — that’s when everyone’s getting all the stuff for weekday lunches.
Okay, spouse out of shower so time to get stirring — have a great day, folks…
Hi everyone. Figured I would introduce myself, I’m new to Boo Trib, and have only been active on blogs and stuff since the spring. I live in Pittsburgh, PA, and I work as an organizer, currently with a great environmental non-profit and write in my spare time. I look forward to posting my first diary here sometime soon. I’ve been lurking for a short while and can tell that you all have a great sense of community here.
I’ a little bummed that I missed the photo fair, so here’s one of my favorite pictures, of a hundred year old ruins of a paper mill, at Harper’s Ferry, WV:
Hey Newbie Lurker…Welcome! I know you’ll like it here and I look forward to your first diary.
Welcome NeilDB, pull up your keyboard, we’ll look forward to your diary…will it have to do with environmental issues? I know that’s something I’m extremely interested in as I think are most people here.
Great picture.
Thanks. yep, I’ll probably post some version of an article I’ve been working on that ties the Tom DeLay scandal in with some of the worst pollution sources in my neck of the woods. I posted a version already elsewhere, but am improving and expanding it to be more relevant beyond western PA.
Welcome to the frog pond…glad you delurked and joined us in the Cafe today….
Welcome! (and I love your Hapers Ferry photo).
I know this cafe’s officially closed but I wanted to add my greetings to the others from the pond. Welcome overboard (into the pond that is). Cool pic!
snow sucks.
Early snow is still kind of cool, though, isn’t it? I remember making snow ice cream when we were kids, certainly today it would be “vanilla salmonella, with acid rain” because we used eggs and sugar and then ate it with spoons right in the back yard. Honestly, I don’t know how we lived to be adults. Maybe bacteria hadn’t been invented yet.
“vanilla salmonella, with acid rain”
lol
Maybe bacteria hadn’t been invented yet.
No kidding. My daughter is expecting in Dec/Jan and when we talk about how things were “back in the day” compared to how cautious people are now, it’s amazing I even lived this long!
Sidebar: she showed me the stroller they got and I swear it’s like a fully-loaded Humvee. You could go 4 wheel driving with the damn thing and the baby wouldn’t feel one thing. It has all kinds of detachable accessories and is huge. I don’t know how the hell the thing would collapse if they ever had to take it on public transit.
I think back to the little aluminum framed thing with the flimsy plastic seat I carted her around in for so long on endless walks and almost feel guilty. But, she survived, so it couldn’t have been all that bad!
Wasn’t being anti-social, just was trying to catch up on all the great diaries. Prolific people. Which is makes it a real shitcase for me when I try to read all of them 🙂
Shhhhhhhhh I’m procrastinating from having to go back and do more door trim painting. I was hoping it would be a one coat job… DOH! No such thing my friends as a one coat job!
hey kansas, I mentioned on boston joes diary that I thought you’re books were must reads….I was so excited because I hadn’t realized that ‘kansas’ was one of my all time favorite authors..anyway the reason I’m gushing here is because I then tried to send you and email saying what your books meant to me and I got that notification failure.
Funny because I was just thinking of the Jenny Cain series and asking my sister to start maybe buying them for me(for a christmas/birthday present etc)so I have the whole collection along with Marie Lightfoot also.
The humanity in those books raises them far, far beyond mere mystery/suspense stories, simply the best.
Didn’t really want to hijack this thread but since I couldn’t do the email I just had to write some of what was in my email here.
I normally don’t read mysteries, but seeing as our dear kansas is some sort of high-falutin mystery writer I just may have to start.
I know she always hosts a helluva fine cafe.
See me smile!
I’m sorry you couldn’t get through.If you ever want to reach me again, try this:
Npickardatkc.rr.com
That is so cool!