The last few shakes of the coffee bag garnered just enough beans to make half a pot. Fortunately the Café never runs out of virtual coffee! How’s everyon’e Sunday so far?
It is a glorious day here in SE PA, with all of the cabinfolk basking in the afterglow of a wonderful day together yesterday. We’re just now deciding the burning question of: Hike, run, or bike ride this afternoon?
I miss hiking. I can hike here probably next month. The woods are terrific here but mucho snakes in the summer and warm months. I may be Buddhist but I sent a 5 foot rattler back to start this summer……shudder……goose flesh!
We went to Eastern PA for Thanksgiving a few years ago and took Toto 1 and Toto 2 with us. My cousin warned me about hunting season in the rural area where she lives. I made special coats for the two Totos but we never let them off leash, nor did we walk in dangerous areas any way. Click to enlarge.
and so is the picture (though it isn’t linked to a larger version). I’ve often thought of putting a temporary orange dye on their tails (especially the malamutt who has a white-tipped tail).
Orange on your malemute’s tail is a really good idea. In my cousin’s neighborhood, a man got shot when he pulled out a white hanky to blow his nose. Land of the White Tailed Deer.
Couldn’t have a larger version. This is a scan of a really crummy film print. It’s good for historical purposes only.
The Toto’s were very proud of themselves when they wore those little coats. I’m thinking I need to make a snuggly warm on for Toto 2 now as he’s 13.5 years old and gets chilled easily.
An older view but reasonably accurate for today. We’ll shoot up into the 50’s and no matter how much it fogs and rains, it won’t be hard enough for umbrellas or raincoats.
Thank heavens the Sunday Talking Stenographer shows have ended. Sheesh!
It is pretty fine out, isn’t it? I may try to get out myself, if I can trust the natives not to break out last night’s keg again or loot the pastry case 😉 My vote would be for “hike,” if it were to count.
My bro-in-law has a rule about going on hikes: “Don’t go on a hike where you’ll be driving longer than you’ll be hiking.” That may or may not apply to your situation, depending on how far away Valley Forge is. Did you ever get down to HF to do that hike on the Maryland Heights? That looked like a great hike.
this is one is made to be broken. I’ve been on some two or three mile hikes that are not only worth the drive to get to them, they’re worth the plane fare.
VF is about 15 minutes from here, so it’s do-able. Another place we love is the Lehigh Gorge, From Whitehall to Jim Thorpe, and that’s less than an hour and a half away.
The Maryland Heights trail is probably going to have to wait until spring, because the boys had a week-long run stomach problems and bronchitis when we wanted to go. Of course, if the weather holds out the way it has, next week is always a possibility (especially now that fall lacrosse is over-yippee). I’m dying to check out the view from up there.
Hi Brother and others, we meet again on a Sunday, how nice…
Hey I am watching Meet the Press and you know I do love to here hearing Ken Melhman, he just makes my day, but in all honesty Russert has been making some goooooood points, to which Melhman says the Rep. talking points.
So….what up with everyone today, plans, hopes, dreams…
Those guys are all so entertaining, frankly, when you can spot the lies & spin. Sort of like watching a magician when you know how the trick works. Tho I still can’t figure Russert out.
Does anyone know do you actually get a hold of a human being to talk to at Google? I need to report some abuse on a google news group, their abuse report form doesn’t work, and I get an endless-spiral menu if I try to call the phone number that appears on whois.com. If anyone has any suggestions, I would be grateful. 🙂
in the project avalanche….I am feeling like a Will O’ The Wisp here.
Lunch downtown with my oldest daughter today in celebration of Father’s Day (otherwise know as ‘Flash-the-plastic, daddy Day’. Excellent food at a little Nepalese restaurant called, somewhat obviously, ‘Himalaya’. You can see my daughter at the Frappr map site.
She is now in love with France (and French boys) and will be going back at Christmas. Oh to be 16 again…
My younger daughter is far less adventurous physically, but far more introspected, though empathic – about her music and her band especially. Though I have considerable reknown in Finland in this area, I am not allowed to interfere. I am merely referred to as ‘being cool’ for my chequered history – I have no other status, except as a source of finance for overpriced must-have goods.
But sometimes I am allowed to talk about drugs and alcohol as I am considered a rare adult who a) has actually tried everything and b) tells the truth about their effects and dangers and c) insists there are many types of happiness, but real happiness never involves the unhappiness of anyone else.
I also get attention when I talk about ‘How Things Work’ whether it is copyright, software, global weather or any other system. There are many concepts, it seems, in which they are interested but do not get in their formal education.
Good to see you here again, compadre. Come to think of it, there’s a Nepalese restaurant down from the street from me named Himalaya. No wait, I’m wrong: it’s called Mt. Everest. But they’ve got an excellent lunch buffet!
Just got back from a nice long walk myself ’round the neighborhood, enjoying a very fine warm Sunday afternoon. It’ll probably be the last beautiful weekend of the year, but I did say that very same thing last weekend.
I seem to have a similar relationship to my (much younger) sister (half-sister, techinically) as you do to your daughters. I get asked all the questions she wouldn’t want to ask her parents, and hear all the confidences she wants to tell to a family member. Oh, to be a college freshman again.
Thank you – the Himalaya in Helsinki has a sister restaurant called Mount Everest!!
Yes – though sometimes it is like being a Mafia consigliere – you know they are doing terrible things, you just have to offer the best confidential advice in the circumstances 😉
That is the best description of being a parent of a teenager I have ever heard!
Recently, my 18-year-old son and a couple of his buddies who I know really well were reminiscing about their days in high school (they graduated last June) and all the mischief — some of it bordering on criminality — that they’d gotten up to. Most of it was news to me.
When I remarked on this, they told me that I probably only ever heard about twenty percent of what they were doing. But then they assured me that 20 percent was great — most parents, they said, only learned about maybe 2 or 3 percent of what their kids did. I considered myself complimented.
I was here earlier but never posted my Good Morning — well, it’s actually Good Afternoon now.
Slow day here — spouse and I have both worked out, going to work on laundry and other domestic duties. Had a great time at the Sharks game last night, even though they lost. 🙁 Discussing holiday plans; we’re having Thanksgiving at my sister’s, but I may actually do a mini-holiday dinner next Sunday; local grocery chain put out a catalog of holiday ideas, and the Cornish game hens looked goooood…mmmmm. Found a Wild Rice and Cranberry dressing recipe that looks good (it’s an Emeril recipe — bam!), and can just steam up a veggie or two. Hope to find maybe some sort of pumpkin tart recipe, so I can just make one for each of us instead of having leftover pie staring us in the face.
It has been a quiet day at the Café — perhaps like me people decided to get outta the house for a while. But is hungriness contagious? Those recipes are making me ravenous too, but there’s something telling me it’s too early for dinner just yet.
Don’t know where you are, but it’s probably spreading fast. Down here in SoFla, Spouse has the charcoal goin’ and the chicken is on the grill. Closing out a perfect day: low 80s, easterly trades, nothing but sun. Some butternut squash and smashed garlic spuds will assist in keeping the wolf from the door.
But for now. . . .Ahhhooowwwwooooohhhhhh! (That’s my stomach, aka the wolf IS at the door.)
Can I recommend Teacher Toni’s apple butter bars from the Friday am cafe? One of the boys made them today, and they are YUMMY!
Apple Butter Bars – makes about 3 doz
1/2 c. butter
1.5 c. all-purpose flour
1/2c. packed brown sugar
1/4 c. white sugar
1 egg
3/4 c. apple butter
1.2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon apple pie spice
1 c. raisins
1. c. confectioner’s sugar
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
2 tablespoons milk (I use skim milk)
1. Pre heat the oven to 350 degrees and grease a 13x9x2 baking pan.
2. Beat the butter until creamy. Add in half of the flour, all the br. sugar, reg. sugar, egg, apple butter, baking soda, and apple pie spice. Beat together until well-blended. Beat in remaining flour and stir in raisins. Spread evenly in the pan.
3. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick in the center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack.
4. Drizzle with icing to taste.
5. To make the icing. Mix the confectioner’s sugar with the vanilla and the milk until desired consistency.
Hi all. Just wanted to recommend the movie Good Night and Good Luck. Saw it last night, and it’s brilliant. The use of real footage of McCarthy works really well, and David Strathairn plays Edward R. Murrow like he was born to it. The parallels to today are wincingly clear, but Clooney doesn’t hit you over the head with it; he lets the material speak for itself. It’s certainly a scathing indictment of today’s media.
I think this is wonderful for modern historical works.
I was especially disappointed to learn that Ron Howard had expressly insisted against using any historical footage for Apollo 13. I can’t conceive what would have been the problem with launch footage for instance, where there isn’t even a historic face in conflict with an actor’s, unless Howard was obsessing over image quality consistency.
Definitely on my “must buy” list if/when it comes out on DVD.
Spouse and I were going to have dinner at Sweet Tomatoes tonight — but when we got there the line was stretching out the frickin’ door! We said in unison, “No way!” and ended up at Hometown Buffet; not quite as healthy, but not too bad (they had three vegetables that I like, green beans, corn and carrots, so I did get my veggies in for the day!).
The spouse has a four day work week; he starts vacation on Friday for two weeks (we can tell his seniority is improving; first time he’s been able to get anything near Thanksgiving week off!). Plan to do some major cleaning, get our new bed in and installed, and hopefully find the time for some holiday activities especially the day after Thanksgiving (that’s typically when they do some of the Christmas tree lightings up in San Francisco). And since we have a working vehicle of our own this year, we plan to check out assorted light displays during December — that’s something we haven’t been able to do for a while.
The last few shakes of the coffee bag garnered just enough beans to make half a pot. Fortunately the Café never runs out of virtual coffee! How’s everyon’e Sunday so far?
It is a glorious day here in SE PA, with all of the cabinfolk basking in the afterglow of a wonderful day together yesterday. We’re just now deciding the burning question of: Hike, run, or bike ride this afternoon?
I miss hiking. I can hike here probably next month. The woods are terrific here but mucho snakes in the summer and warm months. I may be Buddhist but I sent a 5 foot rattler back to start this summer……shudder……goose flesh!
opened yesterday. The dogs and I are on a strictly limited hiking diet so naturally I think you should go somewhere and have a great hike.
We went to Eastern PA for Thanksgiving a few years ago and took Toto 1 and Toto 2 with us. My cousin warned me about hunting season in the rural area where she lives. I made special coats for the two Totos but we never let them off leash, nor did we walk in dangerous areas any way. Click to enlarge.
Apologies for poor quality of image.
and so is the picture (though it isn’t linked to a larger version). I’ve often thought of putting a temporary orange dye on their tails (especially the malamutt who has a white-tipped tail).
Orange on your malemute’s tail is a really good idea. In my cousin’s neighborhood, a man got shot when he pulled out a white hanky to blow his nose. Land of the White Tailed Deer.
Couldn’t have a larger version. This is a scan of a really crummy film print. It’s good for historical purposes only.
The Toto’s were very proud of themselves when they wore those little coats. I’m thinking I need to make a snuggly warm on for Toto 2 now as he’s 13.5 years old and gets chilled easily.
but whew…..I got a full pot. It is hard to split half a pot with the one you love on a Sunday morning in this house.
An older view but reasonably accurate for today. We’ll shoot up into the 50’s and no matter how much it fogs and rains, it won’t be hard enough for umbrellas or raincoats.
Thank heavens the Sunday Talking Stenographer shows have ended. Sheesh!
Love the photo, where is this?
One of a brazillion little bays and inlets in an area where we walk our two toto doggies.
Today we encountered cows, migrating ducks & geese, an osprey, and possibly-courting bald eagles.
It is pretty fine out, isn’t it? I may try to get out myself, if I can trust the natives not to break out last night’s keg again or loot the pastry case 😉 My vote would be for “hike,” if it were to count.
I’m thinking that sounds like the winner too. I’d like to pack up the boys and dogs and head over to the River Trail by Valley Forge this afternoon.
Of course, home is just as pretty and doesn’t require a drive…maybe we’ll just hike “around the block”.
My bro-in-law has a rule about going on hikes: “Don’t go on a hike where you’ll be driving longer than you’ll be hiking.” That may or may not apply to your situation, depending on how far away Valley Forge is. Did you ever get down to HF to do that hike on the Maryland Heights? That looked like a great hike.
this is one is made to be broken. I’ve been on some two or three mile hikes that are not only worth the drive to get to them, they’re worth the plane fare.
VF is about 15 minutes from here, so it’s do-able. Another place we love is the Lehigh Gorge, From Whitehall to Jim Thorpe, and that’s less than an hour and a half away.
The Maryland Heights trail is probably going to have to wait until spring, because the boys had a week-long run stomach problems and bronchitis when we wanted to go. Of course, if the weather holds out the way it has, next week is always a possibility (especially now that fall lacrosse is over-yippee). I’m dying to check out the view from up there.
Hi Brother and others, we meet again on a Sunday, how nice…
Hey I am watching Meet the Press and you know I do love to here hearing Ken Melhman, he just makes my day, but in all honesty Russert has been making some goooooood points, to which Melhman says the Rep. talking points.
So….what up with everyone today, plans, hopes, dreams…
Those guys are all so entertaining, frankly, when you can spot the lies & spin. Sort of like watching a magician when you know how the trick works. Tho I still can’t figure Russert out.
Suspension cables, Golden Gate Bridge
This image is the perfect companion for my foggy head this AM…just can’t get going, only one thing to do…
More…Coffee…AAAHhhhhhhhh!
Later
Peace
That’s one of the coolest images I’ve seen in a long while. Thanks!
Does anyone know do you actually get a hold of a human being to talk to at Google? I need to report some abuse on a google news group, their abuse report form doesn’t work, and I get an endless-spiral menu if I try to call the phone number that appears on whois.com. If anyone has any suggestions, I would be grateful. 🙂
Try Google. Click on ‘About Google’ and go to ‘Help Center’, there should be an email contact form in there
Peace
already tried it. no response.
Here’s the phone number for the main headquarters:
(650) 318-0270
Two other numbers:
(650) 330-0100
(650) 930-3500
Straight out of the local phone book… 🙂
thanks… appreciate it muchly, but these are the numbers i already tried and couldn’t reach a human being.
Hi y’all! Back to the leaves, see ya later!
in the project avalanche….I am feeling like a Will O’ The Wisp here.
Lunch downtown with my oldest daughter today in celebration of Father’s Day (otherwise know as ‘Flash-the-plastic, daddy Day’. Excellent food at a little Nepalese restaurant called, somewhat obviously, ‘Himalaya’. You can see my daughter at the Frappr map site.
She is now in love with France (and French boys) and will be going back at Christmas. Oh to be 16 again…
My younger daughter is far less adventurous physically, but far more introspected, though empathic – about her music and her band especially. Though I have considerable reknown in Finland in this area, I am not allowed to interfere. I am merely referred to as ‘being cool’ for my chequered history – I have no other status, except as a source of finance for overpriced must-have goods.
But sometimes I am allowed to talk about drugs and alcohol as I am considered a rare adult who a) has actually tried everything and b) tells the truth about their effects and dangers and c) insists there are many types of happiness, but real happiness never involves the unhappiness of anyone else.
I also get attention when I talk about ‘How Things Work’ whether it is copyright, software, global weather or any other system. There are many concepts, it seems, in which they are interested but do not get in their formal education.
Sorry, I’m rambling…
Good to see you here again, compadre. Come to think of it, there’s a Nepalese restaurant down from the street from me named Himalaya. No wait, I’m wrong: it’s called Mt. Everest. But they’ve got an excellent lunch buffet!
Just got back from a nice long walk myself ’round the neighborhood, enjoying a very fine warm Sunday afternoon. It’ll probably be the last beautiful weekend of the year, but I did say that very same thing last weekend.
I seem to have a similar relationship to my (much younger) sister (half-sister, techinically) as you do to your daughters. I get asked all the questions she wouldn’t want to ask her parents, and hear all the confidences she wants to tell to a family member. Oh, to be a college freshman again.
Thank you – the Himalaya in Helsinki has a sister restaurant called Mount Everest!!
Yes – though sometimes it is like being a Mafia consigliere – you know they are doing terrible things, you just have to offer the best confidential advice in the circumstances 😉
That is the best description of being a parent of a teenager I have ever heard!
Recently, my 18-year-old son and a couple of his buddies who I know really well were reminiscing about their days in high school (they graduated last June) and all the mischief — some of it bordering on criminality — that they’d gotten up to. Most of it was news to me.
When I remarked on this, they told me that I probably only ever heard about twenty percent of what they were doing. But then they assured me that 20 percent was great — most parents, they said, only learned about maybe 2 or 3 percent of what their kids did. I considered myself complimented.
I was here earlier but never posted my Good Morning — well, it’s actually Good Afternoon now.
Slow day here — spouse and I have both worked out, going to work on laundry and other domestic duties. Had a great time at the Sharks game last night, even though they lost. 🙁 Discussing holiday plans; we’re having Thanksgiving at my sister’s, but I may actually do a mini-holiday dinner next Sunday; local grocery chain put out a catalog of holiday ideas, and the Cornish game hens looked goooood…mmmmm. Found a Wild Rice and Cranberry dressing recipe that looks good (it’s an Emeril recipe — bam!), and can just steam up a veggie or two. Hope to find maybe some sort of pumpkin tart recipe, so I can just make one for each of us instead of having leftover pie staring us in the face.
Great, now I’m getting hungry…
It has been a quiet day at the Café — perhaps like me people decided to get outta the house for a while. But is hungriness contagious? Those recipes are making me ravenous too, but there’s something telling me it’s too early for dinner just yet.
Don’t know where you are, but it’s probably spreading fast. Down here in SoFla, Spouse has the charcoal goin’ and the chicken is on the grill. Closing out a perfect day: low 80s, easterly trades, nothing but sun. Some butternut squash and smashed garlic spuds will assist in keeping the wolf from the door.
But for now. . . .Ahhhooowwwwooooohhhhhh! (That’s my stomach, aka the wolf IS at the door.)
Can I recommend Teacher Toni’s apple butter bars from the Friday am cafe? One of the boys made them today, and they are YUMMY!
Apple Butter Bars – makes about 3 doz
1/2 c. butter
1.5 c. all-purpose flour
1/2c. packed brown sugar
1/4 c. white sugar
1 egg
3/4 c. apple butter
1.2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon apple pie spice
1 c. raisins
1. c. confectioner’s sugar
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
2 tablespoons milk (I use skim milk)
1. Pre heat the oven to 350 degrees and grease a 13x9x2 baking pan.
2. Beat the butter until creamy. Add in half of the flour, all the br. sugar, reg. sugar, egg, apple butter, baking soda, and apple pie spice. Beat together until well-blended. Beat in remaining flour and stir in raisins. Spread evenly in the pan.
3. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick in the center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack.
4. Drizzle with icing to taste.
5. To make the icing. Mix the confectioner’s sugar with the vanilla and the milk until desired consistency.
Hi all. Just wanted to recommend the movie Good Night and Good Luck. Saw it last night, and it’s brilliant. The use of real footage of McCarthy works really well, and David Strathairn plays Edward R. Murrow like he was born to it. The parallels to today are wincingly clear, but Clooney doesn’t hit you over the head with it; he lets the material speak for itself. It’s certainly a scathing indictment of today’s media.
in the adverts.
I think this is wonderful for modern historical works.
I was especially disappointed to learn that Ron Howard had expressly insisted against using any historical footage for Apollo 13. I can’t conceive what would have been the problem with launch footage for instance, where there isn’t even a historic face in conflict with an actor’s, unless Howard was obsessing over image quality consistency.
Definitely on my “must buy” list if/when it comes out on DVD.
Spouse and I were going to have dinner at Sweet Tomatoes tonight — but when we got there the line was stretching out the frickin’ door! We said in unison, “No way!” and ended up at Hometown Buffet; not quite as healthy, but not too bad (they had three vegetables that I like, green beans, corn and carrots, so I did get my veggies in for the day!).
The spouse has a four day work week; he starts vacation on Friday for two weeks (we can tell his seniority is improving; first time he’s been able to get anything near Thanksgiving week off!). Plan to do some major cleaning, get our new bed in and installed, and hopefully find the time for some holiday activities especially the day after Thanksgiving (that’s typically when they do some of the Christmas tree lightings up in San Francisco). And since we have a working vehicle of our own this year, we plan to check out assorted light displays during December — that’s something we haven’t been able to do for a while.