Froggy Bottom Hookah Lounge
Man Eegee is your host.
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Keep the white peach tobacco away from the marmot.
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Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier) |
May the 4’s be with you
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Keep the white peach tobacco away from the marmot.
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Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier) |
What’s wrong does the host have smelly feet??
the cinnamon apple shisha has the ability to mask the stench. Hola a4l!
It’s good to be reminded what that fifth amendment is there for every now and again, eh ManEe? 😉
froggybottom answer the accusation but I didn’t want to get into another fight with myself.
sounds like a plan…it is just real quite around here
Don’t worry, that’s about to change.
violin music.
New drink?
I’ll leave it up to the bartenders’ imagination.
I’m not the bartender, but I can offer you a Flaming Moe.
I think I’ll wait for a non-cartoon drink. The regular bartender has been taking such GOOD care of me tonight. He must think I’m a good tipper 😉
it that wide open, you might get a Dead Dog Vomit someday. Since I’m a nice guy, have a Sex on the Beach.
Now that was a fun google search.
I can always rely on you. If only because you enjoy googling for suggestive drinks and seeing what else comes up 😉
And Bud would NEVER let you serve me a drink called Dead Dog Vomit.
That is one scary ass sounding drink Manny! I’ll remember to leave you a very good tip, so I can continue to get those tasty margaritas you shake up!
Here you guys are having too much fun while I am posting a terribly boring entry on the failures within DHS.
I’ll have one of whatever ManE recommends.
Is that a hint that we’re supposed to run over, read it and give you a “4”?
Shit, my attempt at subtlety totally failed…
No, I am not looking for alms, only some attention to a topic I believe is important.
But we’re here to celebrate something, no. Or at least have a drink. Cheers to you, mary!
salud!
cold Franziskaner for you, ask, I know how you like the Hefies.
Man – always on top of it! Thanks.
Doesn’t that one look good?!
works a lot better if you link to your diary.
I know, Andi.
Truth is; I was so tired of typing code when doing the entry that I figured f… it, not one more link.
It is a ‘bland’ topic and I don’t expect many comments, but the issue is very important, I believe. What happened in DHS may very well be happening many other places within the government. Let’s keep an open eye.
Sorry about going all serious here at this hour (and I’m actually having a beer – skål).
I’ve been to read it but I’ll admit it’s too late for me to feel like absorbing it — I’ll give it another read through tomorrow.
Thanks Andi,
It’s a bit heavy if you follow beyond the quotes.
Booman had an intriguing link on Chertoff in the earliest entry.
If you can’t pimp your diary in the cafe, then what good is the cafe I say … And yes, it’s an important issue.
Thanks olivia,
and only one among so many.
I have to admit that my spousal unit and it were dissolved in laughter again about anyone at DHS actually using his middle name if that made him Clark KentSnaffoozle. The Superman images just. . .sorry, we’ve had a bad bad week, in a bad month, in a bad year, and we were at the point of utterly losing it.
Your fine diary just set us off in total opposition to what you intended.
There. I’ve confessed. And I will read it when reality returns.
Hey all,
I’m heading out for the night. I may stop back in later if I have some time, otherwise I should be around tomorrow night.
Here’s a heavy metal salute from me to everyone in the FBC!
rock on
see ya!
so … now what Manny? Party games?
a game of checkers?
it has special rules?
rules only apply if you’re bad at checkers.
if you are bad at checkers? When I take your piece, instead of taking it off the table you drink it? What happens when I say “king me”?
asks too many questions. Drink up!
passive-aggressive imagination.
I really am amazing, aren’t I?
when you meet kansas, you’ll have to tone it down some so she won’t feel completely overwhelmed.
In real life I’m shy and demure. I won’t have to tone anything down.
ask E if the arch was on the route between Michigan and New Orleans, since he’s planning to go to the south™ meetup. 🙂
sizeable detour. Andi’s probably closer to his route.
I’d like to go to the South meetup, but I’m not sure it will work out. It would let me meet even MORE bootribbers in May!
I certainly believe that — at least I do so long as Manny keeps the hookah going.
I am fairly quiet in person with people I don’t know well. Don’t worry, I won’t embarrass kansas.
Not only because I cannot, even with my rather healthy imagination, conceive of you doing something embarrassing (unless you wanted to) but also because I suspect the kansas is pretty damn hard to embarrass.
Weighing in with another denizen of Descanso Gardens. (Up from my nap and watching Jon and Stephen.)
Hey, olivia! Glad to see you’ve been keeping an eye on things in my absence. Hope they haven’t been giving you too much trouble.
Beautiful shot MM! Now that is not an iris this time… passiflora perhaps? You know, I realize now that without seeing leaves, I am often at a loss to identify some flowers, unless they’re real obvious.
I can see I’m going to have to get a flower book and start carrying it around with me. I only know the basic flowers, and pretty anything that grows in upstate New York, where I grew up.
Sure got quiet and demure in here…what sort of herbal delight‘d ya put in the hookah, Manny?
Couple hits of that and I’ll be catatonic…not that that’s a bad thing, mind you.
doing the trick, so is this
I’m too tired to even sit outside tonight, let alone spark up some sage. It’s beautiful out there…60° +-, calm…hard to beat weather like today’s.
And how do you plan on getting rid of it?
the city’s spring pick up is this week in my area, M-F, just hoping they don’t do my street till Friday…my tax dollars at work. It’s organics only and they turn it into mulch that, used to be, free to city res…not sure this year about the free part.
You really need to check out getting one of these http://www.unbelievablesaw.com … I tell ya, it will make hard work a lot easier! And easy on the environment too!
biggest thing I cut today was 1-1/2″ caliper. Pruning 101, plus a bunch of suckers and volunteers.
I’m keepin’ the link btw…cool tool…:{)
What’s that catnip doing there?
(sorry, catnip)
Sweet woodruff, taken tonight in the garden — click for larger
and pretty much past time for me to go to bed.
Night.
need to get another photo fair in the works. Wow, all over again to everyone’s pix.
(G’night Andi!)
🙂
a daily photo gallery diary where people can post pictures to their heart’s content. It would probably attract people to it that don’t want to hang out in the cafe.
People on dialup might have a hard time with it, but then they probably have a hard time with the cafes when the picture posting gets voluminous.
What’s a wet belly for a lovely shot like that!
The question is, does mm practice wbp when taking pix at the Descanso Gardens? At some point, you just have to let go of your inhibitions right? (I’m gearing up for my first public photog experience this w/e … 🙂
Pretty much made a spectacle of myself at Descanso Gardens.
That sounds excellent in a ‘you were so into taking photos that you didn’t care what anyone thought’ kind of way. 🙂
I was a little nervous that someone in authority would tell me that I couldn’t step into the flowerbeds, but no one did. I was careful not to trample anything!
Wow! I guess I thought you were taking the ones near the edges or something. I’m more impressed now!
I mostly took the ones on the edges, but there weren’t very many roses in bloom for some reason, so I had to be a little more adventurous (and naughty)!
somehow it fits you O…:{)
SW here is just budding, and mine don’t have the pointy leaf and bluish color, all white with rounded, elongated multi-leaf structure…dif. variety I guess. Where’s IVG when ya need him.
Not sure that’s a good thing you’re sayin’ dada … although, I’m sure the neighbours must think I’m crazy.
Take a look at this one — it has six petals! Do you think that mean it’s good luck (a la four leaf clover)?
Crazy works too, especially if they’re kooks…keeps em at bay…:{)
I’ll have to count petals when my blooms, never really noticed before. 6 is gotta be good for Karma if nothing else.
I’ve fallen in love w/ a camera lens dada … 🙂
versatile, generally pretty fast and approximates the field of view of the human eye…minutia I know…still my fav.
Can you use your film lenses on the xt?
I’ve heard rumors of an adaptor, but have not been able to locate one…I’d really like to be able to use the 50 as it’s f1.2 glass and extremely sharp.
That particular liaison ought to produce interesting offspring…
Looks like most of the blossoms have 5 petals. . . were they all 5, I’d guess it was a primula
I’ll have to look more closely tomorrow though. These flowers are really, really small each one is about 1/4inch dia.
lol dada … look above, then look below… make sure nothing’s hurtling toward your head!
But I did promise Olivia a progress shot of IT so here’s one from tonight… sorry, but had to use flash since it got all cloudy and overcast by the time I could get out.
It’s already about 16″ tall or a little over… really shooting out of the ground, so to speak. ah-hem
Hiya IVG — I read earlier that your presentation went well. Good stuff!
So, it’s looking quite substantial now. Do you think you’ll need to stake it? The bottom 6-8″ look quite different — thicker, spotted etc. — is that the plant or have you wrapped it?
At this point I don’t think we’ll need to stake it… the base is pretty solid looking, and no, that’s the natural colouring… if you look at the first pics, that was the first part to emerge from the ground. Then the green pointy part came out next … we’ll see what happens as time goes on!
Yes, presentation of the damned report went very well, and clients were complimentary of our work. At least that means I won’t be writing any more reports for at least a week or two (yay). Have some minor revisions and follow up work to do, but essentially I have finally emerged from the realm of diarrhea relatively unscathed!
… but it just looks so different from the green that I wasn’t sure.
… emerged from the realm of diarrhea … That really doesn’t sound like the most fun topic to write about … although, it is just writing — as an RN I have some past experiences where writing would have been 1000x better! LOL
Well the base is very different looking, and I’m wondering if it will change as it grows… up close it looks like leopard spots sort of… I can’t really say at this point because this is as new to us as it is to you, so we’ll have to find out together! And yes, I’ll let you know when the odours start arriving, hehe.
As to the diarrhea, this was just Phase II of a study, confirmatory concept and name testing. Really pretty boring stuff, but sometimes it does get um, well, interesting. But I’ve done so much pharma market research that nothing much astounds me anymore. lol
… or whatever the proper term is. 🙂 And how fast it grows etc.
You two keep posting flowers – so I feel like posting flowers. Which means I have to crop and resize them and web host them and then post them here before this tread has gone off topic.
Hardenbergia Comptoniana, australian native.
Keep posting — they’re beautiful. These remind me of a sweet pea crossed w/ an orchid!
Tall Tailflower
Yellow Leschenaultia
The Hardenbergia above is also called Lilac Vine – which should give you a sense of its growing habits.
Melaleuca Filifolia Wiry Honey Mrytle
Another shot of a Red Kangaroo Paw
Keres, I really love this one! Do you know the latinate name by any chance? If there’s any way I could grow this up here, I would love to get my paws on one. But I suspect it wouldn’t be hardy around here. It’s fantastic though!
Aboriginal name: No-la-mara
Genus: Anigozanthos
Species: manglessi
Sorry, it hates frosts.
We brought back kangaroo paw seeds from our trip and a good friend of Imogen’s mother is growing them into plants (‘cuz even Imogen’s mother’s place down in the valley is too cold). We’re up a bit higher, and we just got a smidge of snow today. We’ll have to have a courtyard before we could consider one.
Thanks for the info there. I’ve made a note of it, and will research it a bit more. We could possibly grow it as an annual or potted plant to bring inside if it grows fast enough. We are growing some vines native to the Amazon successfully… they go outside during summer and winter indoors. So if I could find this one, we could give it a shot! Many thanks again!
Any pix? lol … 🙂
You’ll have to consult Chris on the vines… they are part of the ayahuasca ritual of a tribe from South America. I’m not up on all that.. that’s more his domain. As are most of the herbal thingies we have growing around here as well. But, he did take a picture of our Wolfbane (aconitum) tonight… you know, the one of werewolf lore? (It’s actually a delphinium relative.) Here it is as of today… when it blooms you will be astounded if you’ve never seen it before…
And yes, yet another deadly poisonous plant in our garden LOL.
After raising goats for almost a decade I’m deathly afraid of having poisionous plants in my yard. Granted, goats can eat almost anything (mine were fond of poision oak) without getting much of a tummy ache, but some things, like Rhododendrons, will kill them in even a small amount.
Well then you don’t want any aconitum species anywhere near the lil goaties. We are rather notorious in our neighborhood for having many toxic plants, not that we do it on purpose, we just like a lot of them for their flowers or herbal properties. In fact, one of Olivia’s favorite flowers, “Moonflower,” (aka datura meteloides) is a very poisonous plant known commonly as “Jimson Weed” here in the States, as it’s been known to drive cows insane if they eat it. Fortunately, there are no cows grazing in our part of town. And the deer around here are crazy enought (for living in the middle of the city) that it probably wouldn’t even affect them.
I’ve lived several places it grew wild.
It’s very pretty, but I still wouldn’t have it in my garden.
It’s still pissing down rain here. Luna keeps wanting in and out, and out and in, and has to have the rain and mud wipped off each time – and I’m running out of towels!
who always does the same thing when it’s raining (which it did all last weekend!), though she hates getting wet, she seems to think she just has to go out and patrol. At least her excuse is that she’s a terrier! Btw, she’s the iconized face in the sig line, though I have posted pics of her on the dog blog, so you’ve seen her before. Maybe we can get some good ones of the pups soon to put up on your next edition. We have lots of them inside, but they all tend to have those “demon eyes” caused by the flash, 🙁
Ah yes. Looking forward to those pix! 🙂
(Does Chris post here?)
No, he doesn’t yet… I’m trying to get him to get into BT, as there are many around here w/whom he would really connect for the spiritual, pagan type stuff he’s into. He loves hearing about the stuff I learn from you folks, so I think it’s just a matter of time. I think his real block is that he thinks everyone talks all politics all the time and he hears way too much of that from me, LOL.
… if/when he decides to log on. 🙂
I’ll pass that along… he’s already heard way too much about Olivia, NDD, dada and all the regulars he probably thinks I’m nuts. Well he should know that by now after nearly 9 years!
Yeah — the whole concept of ‘blog friends’ is difficult to explain w/out sounding a little kooky to those offline.
I’m fading fast here, so I’m going to go down and check out keres’ latest pix — aren’t they something!!!
So I’ll say good night and sweet dreams IVG.
And keres, and mm too!!! Thanks for the great photos tonight/today everyone.
That is so neat!
Wiry Honey Myrtle — sounds like the name of truckstop waitress!
Doesn’t it just!
It looks like a pine tree w/ tulip petals!
I can’t remember if the Hardenbergias have a smell or not. I took these photos about six months ago, on a trip to West Australia.
The trees of the melaleuca family (tea trees – the ones they make all the medicinals out of) are usually sharpe leaved and often prickly.
I knew I should know what melaleuca was! That particular scent is an acquired taste at best, but the oil is so useful for so many skin conditions. Thx for tipping me off on that one. Now I know what they really look like!
Another wowzer from down under, Keres! That’s gorgeous … almost reminds me of our Baptisia australis, but wrong shade of flower. Is this a shrubby type plant or is that shoots of a more tree like form?
aka, False indigo, which first time we ever saw it thought it was some kind of bush sweet pea. It is a legume of sorts, but a real show stopper come mid-late May. Couldn’t find any super close ups of this from last year, but this gives you the general idea.
… that you have at least one of every plant that can grow in your zone (and probably dozens that aren’t zone hardy that you baby) … 🙂
Well, not quite, lol. But we’re working on it, bit by bit. We have high hopes for that little Wisteria we planted last year. But we are working on getting veritable groves of these going, since though they are classified as perennials, they don’t seem to last more than 2-3 years…
Double dog dare you to figure out what my favorite flower color is… hehe.
Or driving by, or asking for advice right?
Whatever gave you that idea? LOL… Yes, we do. Especially when the Bee Balm monarda blooms, since it is so fiery red you can see it from the end of the block. The False Indigo also impresses people, as do the hibiscus when they bloom. But we love yapping about flowers (in case you hadn’t noticed by now!), so we consider it a compliment.
I think I tried growing real indigo when I lived in New Mexico and had a spinning and weaving supply business. I don’t remeber what happened so I doubt it survived.
Dying with real indigo is fun, if you ever get the chance. It’s this really sickly green until it reacts with air.
I’d have to go back to one of my references on this, but I do recall that it was once used to dye things. I suppose they used the flowers, as the foliage, even when cut, doesn’t display such a color. It’s a really cool plant, even after it’s done blooming… it puts on these pods full of seeds that ripen to a purplish black by summer’s end. We usually are so burned out at that point we don’t cut them, so they drop tons of seeds and we always have lots of little ones coming up in the spring, which we adopt out to loving homes. 🙂 Our little way of spreading it around, as it’s a relatively unusual plant in local gardens.
But I did take this picture of a Spiny Devil while on the same trip to West Australia. I figured the WA fauna should get some semblance equal time.
They are very tame, easy to pick up, and actually soft to the touch.
What a cutie!
That is a really cool looking lil guy! I love lizards and that one is really impressive. Too bad the Japanese never made him into a big screen monster… I bet he could rock Tokyo with the best of them. In fact, one of the few things I really liked about Florida when I lived there were the little skinks that were all over the place… they looked like little dinosaurs and provided hours of entertainment for my dog, who would sit transfixed by the patio doors watching them run around all over the place. And despite their diminutive size, those little guys were great at eating those nasty “palmetto bugs” (aka, flying roaches), so I always appreciated having lots of them around!
This one isn’t as brightly colored. Color variation is very common in australian plants and animals.
I have no idea what the “pineapple” on the back of the head does.
This is a Snappy Gum tree and Spinifex grass from the Pilbarra region. And yes, the soil has so much iron in it that it is really that red. As was much of our clothes and the soles of my feet for weeks after.
He is amazing!
I need to get some reading done before bed, so I’m gonna say goodnight to all you funky frogs in the lounge. I’ll see yawl tomorrow.
I’m outa here too. Carry on picture people.
This picture person sends all his best and hope you have fun meeting Kansas tomorrow night… make sure it’s a great dinner. Seeya soon Belle.
maryb…say Hi! to Kansas for us.
Peace
Take it easy Manny, and many thanks, as always for being such a fun host of the lounge! That virtual margarita you made me this afternoon helped get me through the last 2 hours of work with a smile on my face!
Give Bud our best and a whole bag of virtual Puperonis!
more manual labour come the morrow.
Be well.
Peace
Hope I didn’t miss your exit yet, dada. Great to see you as always, and about that laboUr, if it gets too bad, just ask for an epidural. That’ll take care of ya.
Night dada! Don’t let the bedbugs bite.
so to speak… the most recent view of the Fritillaria persica I posted a few days ago. I hope to get better, sunnier shots of it soon, before it’s done for this year.
I think it looks more chocolaty than black or purple in this shot, but in any case, we’ve come to think that Fritillarias ROCK!
And the return volley.
Is this more what the color should be?
oh wizard of Tasmania? Thanks for the color correction. You must tell me sometime how you did that.
A hearty good night from the midwest to the down under crowd!
I must head on out, as Queen Pepa is behind me boring a hole in my back, telling me it’s (way past) time for bed. A fond goodnight to all, Olivia (thx for the note up thread), Keres, MM, and NDD if you’re still lurking around here. And for anyone not named, and omitted, my appy polly logies (thx, Anthony Burgess)!
This was a great night for excellent pics from all… it was a blast, and kept me up too late (as usual)! Tell you all what… late night lounge ROCKS!
Ok, on to another day…