Monday at the Froggy Bottom Cafe
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May the 4’s be with you
Good almost-noon everyone!
My cats have the right idea ~ find your place in the sun!
Wow! That’s one clean carpet!!! Great photo!! š
Didja ever name your pussy??? š
Didja ever name your pussy?
That was the first thing I read in the Recent Comments list. LMAO!
They have names?!!
No, Dj, I’m still taking suggestions.
Mine is nicknamed “Little Twit” – ’cause he is usually just a little pain…mostly sweet…but
How about “Eman” it’s “Name” spelled backwards and I met Eman yesterday. š
Both very good choices. I’m afraid I’m not very good at names. All of my pets have had people names in the past.
I also like Katsina which means Warrior Maiden and is the same as the Kachina dolls….
Native American:
LEOTIE: flower of the prairie
LOMASI: pretty flower
MISAE: Osage name meaning “white sun.”
NOVA: Hopi name meaning “chases butterfly.”
More names here..
I kind of like Nova. We were thinking of Luna as well, but everyone still calls her kitty. It’s getting kind of ridiculous because she’s 5 months old now.
That’s a neat site, all those native american names for flowers, rivers, spirits. The Algonquin one meaning “she has large breasts” seemed out of place. š
I heartily endorse the name “Katchina,” which was my sister’s cat’s name (heavily influenced by a vacation to southern Utah just before we got her).
Of course we always just called her “Kitty.” A feature? A drawback? You decide.
i feel like that cat on the left today.
I feel like the one on the right, awake, but with a cold tail.
Wouldn’t one of those Japanese heated toilet seats come in handy right about now?
Excellent photo, SN — & so very typical!
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I could use some of that luscious sunshine myself (& I’m sure my house-felines could, too). It seems heavenly.
Thankfully, we’re now at Equinox — won’t be long before we can all relax in some good rays.
Hope everyone’s enjoying a good morning.
Such fun comments about the cats! Makes me wish I hadn’t taken a big nap instead of hanging out here in the Cafe.
I just went in to make the bed and gather up some laundry and the bed looked sooo inviting I just laid down for a minute…
Hey, SN — there’s nothing like a good midday nap. Just ask any cat!
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Frankly, I could use one as well — but I’m headed outside to saw wood.
Right after another cup of coffee.
You are much more woman than I am, WW. š
Highly doubt it, SN. I haven’t named my pussy yet either!
Maybe we can take suggestions for that, too. š
Busy day today….
The boss is out of town, my pain in the butt assistant is home sick, weather is yucky…sounds like a good day to get seriously efficient!
I wish I was one of those people who can get seriously efficient on gloomy days, but I usually opt for a nap instead.
Portland protests… can be downright freezing and cold. Yesterday we had some sunshine š But… even if my feet are soaked from the rain and walking in it has made the water splash up to my calves… it still feels sunny… when you look around and see PINK and people who are trying to stop the dying and the lying.
So many know we are trying to take back the color pink from Mattel and the … idiots… and reclaim it and let it shine. š
Locate a pink scarf or a… pink mouse pad or pen… and you can’t help but feel some connection to peace and the people who are trying to brign it about.
I hope you find your sunny spot š
You make me feel like joining my local chapter of Code Pink, and I’m not a “joiner.”
Hey Janet, did you get a chance to check out the Pull the String I sent you?
I saw the Oregonian’s picture of the protest. You were the blonde wearing pink, right? š
OMIR I only have the Oregonian print here I’ll check out online.
Haven’t ahd a chance to check out the Pull the String yet, but I will š
I suspect whatever they ran online is probably whatever they used for a lead photo in yesterday’s paper (or maybe today’s). It’s the big crowd with the guy in the foreground holding the sign DROP BUSH.
Have you seen this guy’s Chalk Drawings
NDD, HERE’s his website…pretty amazing art…perspective drawing as performance art.
Here’s another piece of Drawing as a performance art…Drawing of a Woman…I may have linked to this one previously, if so, apologies.
We now return to our regularly scheduled programming.
Enjoy
Peace
I was a little short on google time. I do remember the 2nd one… long time back though, so it was fun to see it again.
Good afternoon all! I hope that others had a better weekend than I did. I had to do my taxes twice. (and I’m not done yet.) The computer lost all the information from the first go-round. š
Eek, it could hardly be worse than yours! I worked on taxes, too, but at least I didn’t have a computer crash . . .
Our “huge snow storm” in Colorado turned out to be a normal snow storm, much to our ten-year-old’s disappointment.
My refund has already been assimilated into the Deficit Collective. š
first ever extension — some of the estate stuff got screwed up with the distribution of Mom’s IRAs, so I’m going to have to wait till I get a corrected 1099 from one financial institution. I know we’re going to be stuck paying anyway, so I’ll do a preliminary estimate and send a check along with the extension… š
A cutie that I met walking along the coast this weekend…
My father used to see herons on the drive to work along the Delaware River in south New Jersey. At the time we were living in eastern Washington state, 3000 miles away, so he would write letters and postcards. My sister, age 8 at the time, would get stories about the heron and various other wildlife he would see on the drive. In these stories the heron was always asking him how my sister was doing and telling him to pass along messages about things like the number of fish he’d caught today.
How adorable! That must be where you got your story telling gene!
I posted this in the cafe last night but apparently it was after everyone had gone to bed:
Of course as I said earlier the happiness of the birthday is somewhat tempered by the fact that the naked emperor decided to occupy Iraq on my birthday three years ago, but I guess I can’t have everything. (If I did, where would I put it? Everywhere, I suppose.)
And I did forget one other present I have yet to receive: Since they can’t find it anyplace in Seattle, my sister-in-law and her husband ordered me a copy of the Patriot Act Game (a Monopoly hack). I just read about it the other day. Apparently the designer’s friends kept telling him nobody ever won, and he just looked at them and said, “Dude, that’s the point.“
Thank you all again for the birthday wishes.
Hmmm….I take a day off to play in the garden and missed the birthday party! sulks….no cake for me….sulks….
Glad you had a great 39th birthday!
LOL . . . yeah, I was telling people yesterday “Boy, it sucks turning 30.”
“How many times have you done it?”
“Oh, about 21 . . . “
To honor your day, yesterday I went out for a LOOOONNNGGG walk š and shared the day with about 30 thousand people š
I think that’s a fine present. And I don’t have to store it or anything. š
30,000 huh? The Oregonian article said something like 9,000, but those numbers are never accurate.
That Patriot Act game sounds cool! I can’t stand playing Monopoly, after a couple of hours I just stand up and start screaming out of boredom.
When I worked at a game company we would often liven up off-the-shelf games by making up our own rules. For instance one day we decided we were going to play Alternative Scrabble, where we had to place words we made up on the spot and then tell everyone what they meant.
I think one of our Monopoly variants somehow involved Godzilla, but I’m somewhat fuzzy on the details. š
The Patriot Act Game
Get several really good friends (that know at least half of your secrets!), add one bottle of cognac or two bottles of good wine, add snacks….
Pour and play….
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My husband had all the money and a friend and I “filed bankruptcy” with each other, then “went on welfare” and was going to force him to “evict” us. Threatened to expose his deepest secrets to the ‘press’ if he took action against us! Giggled for hours!
That sounds like “real life” Monopoly. Much more fun.
My favorite Monopoly story concerns a guy who had just landed on some expensive property and was $20 short on the rent. He was in an otherwise good position and begged the landlord to reduce his rent. When his opponent refused, he changed tactics and asked if he could pay him $50 out of his own wallet as part of the rent so he could continue playing.
Well, the creditor, sensing some easy moola, agreed to the request, whereupon the canny player gathered up all of the necessary cash off the table, except for about $30 or so, then reached into his pocket, pulled out his wallet, reached inside, and drew up a faded, crumpled, blue $50 Monopoly money bill he carried around for just such a purpose.
What could the other guy do? He had, after all, agreed.
Monte Yellow Bird Sr.– better know in the Art world as Black Pinto Horse, website; here
Buffalo-1, larger
Buffalo-2, larger
Buffalo Closeup, larger
Wow, that one came out cool! Thanks for sharing.
surf his site when you’ve got some extra time.
I want one! Mr. Yellow Bird has used some of my favorite colors. Just looking at it makes me feel good.
Thanks for sharing it!
I tried to get a shot of his right side, but the overhead skylights just seem to “blind” the digitial, so those turned out too dark. I’ll have to try that at night see how that goes.