Welcome newcomers! Please introduce yourself!
Come on in!
|
Newspapers are in their regular spot next to the door
|
Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier)
|
May the 4’s be with you!
Froggy Bottom Cafe – Gotta have Coffee edition [CLOSED]
Come on in!
Good morning everyone? How many resolutions have you broken already?
Good morning SN,
where is that fantastic sunset/rise?
Sunrise along the North Carolina shoreline, in late August. I’m pretending I’m there because it’s gray and cloudy here, though nice and warm.
Have you ever put it before because I don’t remember seeing it? It would have been great for one of he ejmw-fueled beach photo fests.
How far from your home is that beach?
I think I’ve posted it before, probably right when it was taken. We live in Raleigh, about a 2 hour drive from this little cottage that my in-laws have owned for 45 years.
Depending on when it was taken it might have BAAB (before AndiF Arrives at Boo).
Two hours is close enough that I would probably be inclined to drive there over so often just to spend a hour or two improving my attitude toward life.
(Fortunately for me, the woods are visible from where I sit at the computer.)
Was there really a BAAB? I’ve never thought of the possibility that you weren’t an oldtimer.
My MIL is weird about the cottage, she closes it up tight in October and won’t have her handyman open it again until May. It it were up to me I’d spend some weekends there in the winter, just to walk the deserted beach.
Wow! I just checked and we must have joined on the same day.
that there is a strong karmic link between the two of us.
10 user ids might not be the same day but it’s certainly in the ‘twins separated at birth’ range.
Yes, I was the twin who stole all the nutrition from you in the womb, judging by our recent photos.
I like both our pictures and think they have ying and yang moods. So more of a case of each twin providing what’s needed.
Mmmm…NC beach. My favorite.
Need coffee. Now. Will return when no longer monosyllabic.
or you can spell a hell of lot better than I can when my brain is shut.
Will return when no longer monosyllabic
umm, 5.
I was thinking the same thing. Monosyllabic is a big word to spell or say when one is feeling that way. Usually I just grunt.
Here’s a belated New Year’s link for you all. (I posted it last night in the cafe that was, of course, closed a minute later….)
because I never make them. I love having a perfect record.
Here’s another record — first picture from 2006 posted in 2006.
Gorgeous picture. Is it odd that the river isn’t icy this time of year?
It’s actually the inlet to a lake (which is the slightly more distant body of water). It had some ice until a few days ago but it’s been above freezing and raining here since Tuesday so that was enough to thaw everything.
When I lived in Cleveland I just relished any little sign of life; like moving water when everything else was frozen, or the sound of rain when it had been snowing for weeks and weeks. And don’t get me started on the first smell of mud in the spring…
Good morning everyone. I’m just starting my second cup of coffee. I hope not everyone had bad weather last night. It passed through our area, but with no consequence. Then again, we only had a few storms. Nothing compared to the mid-west and west coast.
Where are you located, Family Man? I know about all the rain in CA, but the midwest got storms overnight? Must watch news before opening cafe.
I’m located in central west Alabama. The few that passed through are on the eastern side now going into Georgia.
Have you seen the Booman Tribune map at Frappr?
All users encouraged to go over and plot themselves in.
Yes I found it the other day. I think I will go ahead and put myself in.
Maryb said in the ‘all night’ cafe that she was woken up at 5 a.m. by hail. She’s in St. Louis. Hail was predicted for us but we didn’t get it.
We’re just overcast now. I think Military Tracy lives on the Eastern side and maybe getting some bad weather now.
This has been such a warm winter here. I keep hoping we’ll get a cold snap and maybe even some snow. I know people up north hate it, but to us it just turns everything into a wonderland. That is except for the stupid ones that get out on the road.
Storms have now moved out of eastern Missouri into Illinois. We did have hail and tornado warnings about 5:00 am but as far as I can tell no actual tornados.
Although the TV news (wow morning television is bad — I had no idea) is reporting that a county south of here had worse weather and somebody’s roof was blown off. The temperature here is dropping fast — it was 61 degrees at 5:00 this morning and now its in the low 50’s.
This is the last day of my freedom before I go back to work tomorrow. I can’t decide if I’m pissed that I couldn’t sleep in or happy that I’m not wasting the day.
I think I would be more pissed I couldn’t sleep. I’m one of those habitual morning people who wishes I could sleep late, but can’t.
Me too. The older I get the earlier I wake up and to tell you the truth, I really enjoy being by myself in the early morning, just to collect my thoughts and take an inventory of what kind of mood I woke up in, before I actually have to interact with my family.
I don’t think I could have phrased it better. It’s always been a time for me to get my thoughts together and just enjoy some time before the rest of the day turns crazy.
My natural inclination (not being a morning person at all!) is to be pissed. But the older I get the more I try to not sweat the small stuff. I’m up. I’ve already gotten a bunch of things done. I’ll try to live with it. And since I DON’T have to work today — I can always take a nap later!
That’s the spirit! I am a great believer in 10-minute power naps. If I sleep longer than that during the day I just never want to get back up.
I agree that is the spirit! The small stuff takes away so much time and effort – it just not worth it.
My husband has been off since Dec. 10th (!) and I am sooooo looking forward to him going back tomorrow. Too. much. togetherness.
So I guess you are looking forward to your retirement years? 🙂
To quote Mr. Bill: Oh Noooooooooooooo!
I made it easy for myself this year, no resolutions.
Enjoying the last day off, though there is plenty of housekeeping issues to deal with.
Have a great day, all!
I don’t make any either. But every Sunday night I vow to really take care of myself starting the next day and usually I last until about noon on Monday. sigh…
No coffee for me, I had to break that addiction years ago. When I was young and around water like your photos, I kept dropping things into the water. This was my attempt to create a magic moment of signifigance beyond which all would change for the better. When it didn’t work, I abandoned all resolutions; every day became a moment of resolve.
Except cookie baking day.
I am a shameless consumer of raw cookie dough…salmonella be damned. The baked cookies rapidly lose their appeal for me, so the danger time is when I’m baking them. So I rarely do.
My resolution is just for today, I just want to stick to my signature, just today. One day at a time.
good morning katiebird! Are you having rough weather?
No! It just now got light enought to see what’s what: it looks overcast, but the ground is totally dry.
The sun came out for 30 seconds yesterday and then it was gone for good. I’m afraid that Jan. 1 is something like groundhogs day and now it won’t be back for 6 weeks.
Hey everybody, recommend this cafe and unrecommend the old ones. We’ve got two closed cafes on the rec list.
Still being such a newbie I’m not certain how to unrecommend? All I see is recommend and who has recommended. Do I recommend and then unrecommend?
I think only the people who originally recommended the diary would have to unrecommend.
I understand now. Thanks.
Hi FM,
The button you used to ‘recommend’ changes to an ‘unrecommend’ button if you make a recommendation.
Often used for exactly this purpose.
Thanks ask. I’m trying to get into the habit of going through with all the fours, but the recommend and unrecommend slipped by me.
{{{{Second Nature}}}
You’re a perfect host — I’m very glad to be awake and here this morning.
I guess since I’m always here slumped over a table I was a natural choice to be host. Now if I can just stay awake.
Are you back at work today?
So, the question is will I get stuff done on those projects?
Or just play here all day?
I’m the wrong one to ask because I’d say play here all day!
Yeh? I know what you’re saying. But then I think, maybe goof off by trying to get something going on that blog? Something simple?
If you work on the ones you are getting paid to do then that’s work. If you work on the ones, you’re doing because you want to, then that’s fun.
— Work philosophy by AndiF.
pay? what is this pay?
I thought you were doing a couple of websites for pay . (Don’t I remember that you went to meet someone to discuss doing his website and agreed to take it on?)
I have to follow my husband to the repair shop so I’ll be gone for a little bit. See everyone in a while.
Ah, yes — that one is for pay. But, luckily I was smart enough to tell him that I couldn’t start until I finished these other things. In February.
Projects-shmajects….play is more fun. You’ve got the rest of the year to work.
Morning to all the early birds here. I got up around 4 which is worse than it sounds as I usually don’t get to bed until 2 or 3 most of the time…and kept thinking I’d go back to bed but it seems I’m up for awhile so may as well make some coffee and see what else is happening around the Cafe.
I did see that Buzzflash linked a Tribbers article today..cedwyn’s -Impeachment: Not Just For Blowjobs Anymore(which was posted on dec. 29th and excellent).
That’s great! It was an excellent diary, and a most excellent title.
I agree, think there should be some sort of award for best titles of the year.
Like Katiebird, I like quiet in the morning. But since I was rudely awakened by the sound of tornado sirens quiet wasn’t an option this morning. So I’ve had the TV on, first for the weather news and later just in the background. I think if I was forced to listen to Katie Couric every morning I would become a serial killer. Jabber jabber jabber — oh look, she put her glasses on so it must be serious, no, now we’re with Matt testing carbon monoxide monitors. Oh. my. god. I had no idea.
I can’t stand her. She’s so giggly and then she puts on a false earnestness that just drives me nuts. When I heard the rumor that CBS wanted her to anchor the evening news I couldn’t believe it.
Katie Couric: Fifty going on fourteen. And is she suffering from female baldness? Her hair sure looks thin on top…
Just seeing her name here has triggered a mini-panic attack. My heart started racing.
Her smugness as she frames her interviews according to Bushco’s most recent directives infuriates me. Like she’s so smart, we’ll never be able to see through her deviousness.
(shudder)
She thinks that “cuteness” will disarm us & we’ll trust her.
Instead we’re missing most of her evil intrigue because we’ve had to duck into the bathroom to throw up.
But first…this is Today.
Let’s get a real debate going here.
Are you trying to start a Monday morning flame war?
mentions Kyra Phillips. You know the rule about any internet discussion eventually leading to Hitler?
Well Kyra is the Hitler of discussions of annoying TV news heads.
I’m really glad I don’t have cable.
But she has a much cooler name. And a raunchy sense of humor, so she’s okay in my book. And she rarely giggles…
the Soledad O’Brien on CNN. She giggles every 7 minutes. OK, maybe Katie giggles every 3 minutes. But she has more experience.
Katie Couric has more experience….giggling?
Don’t be fooled. Katie did not get to the level of giggly perkiness you see today overnight. It took years of hard work and tedious practice. And it has paid off.
But give Soledad another twenty years and she will put Katie in the shade. She already shows so much promise.
I think she’s suffering from ‘Single Mom with two Teenage Daughters Syndrome’….you know, that mini skirt looks so cute on my 13 year old, it’s bound to look good on me.
and
“I’m so thin, I can wear my daughter’s clothes! Don’t you wish you could too?”
You two crack me up! It’s so true.
Evening news? duuuuuuuuuuuuu I’m speechless. thank god I’m never home in time for the evening news. I haven’t watched the evening news regularly since the days of John Chancellor on NBC. But Katie Couric?
On posting photos. I gone to photobucket and which is the best to use the tag or img. Does photobucket automatically size them for blog or do I have to add the <img width=”400″?
I’m probably the wrong one to ask, but I use photobucket too and I just insert the width=”400″ etc. and it works fine for me. Just be sure to hit preview first.
You have to use the the ‘img’ for posting in comments (or diaries). Photobucket doesn’t do any resizing so if your images aren’t already 400 pixels or less in width then you definitely need to add the ‘width”400″ to it the img tag.
Thanks to both of ya’ll. I’ve seen such beautiful images here that I thought one or two I have, I would like to post.
I think I’ve tried to post before, but I’m not sure if I posted George. I figure a face like that should get your new year started very well.
Snaggletooth Louie?
You couldn’t be more right! I put him in the catagory of so ugly he’s cute. I’ve never seen a more loving little creature in my life though.
A face an orthodontist would love.
Got those great you-gotta-love-me brown eyes.
I’ve actually had family members tell me I should have a vet fix his teeth. I tell them I need a few dental things done before George.
Anyway I had him 10 years and couldn’t imagine him looking anyother way. Sorta grows on you.
in a sort of radical anti-orthodontia kind of way.
What a great dog! The eyes are so gentle but the snaggleteeth are trying to look vicious. Kind of like a kid at Halloween in those dracula teeth. You need to get George into the Thursday dog blogging play group.
I’ve got to get up and start getting things done around here. Thanks for the help on picture posting.
Have a good day to all
And clean tables Over here!