Blue Skies Breaking Out
Mid day Cafe
Brunch is served.
Brunch is served.
FM is hosting.
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Enjoying you Thursday yet?
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Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier)
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May the 4’s be with you
Mid-Day Brunch Closed ~ Happy Hour Opened
Come on in and put your feet up. Lots to eat and drink.
Yea I knew it. I put up a new cafe and everybody has gone to take a nap.
No, but now I will have to go have a snack!
I’m here but I’m about to run some errands. Good thing I found time for a 1.5 hour nap this morning. I’m beginning to think I have narcolepsy (common name: Family Man syndrome.)
I knew I would have something named after me one day. Just didn’t think it would be so nice. 🙂
And I’m here but have to run to court. See ya all later!
Hi/bye. See ya later.
but work is showing a nasty tendency to interfere with my life.
The dogs want to know if you’d like to go swimming with them.
That nasty work always getting in the way. I’d love to throw George out there with them.
looks like a fawn?
with the long legs reflecting in the water. My first thought when I saw the photo… how’d she catch the fawn in the same photo as the swimming dog.
Might be a DT thing, I’m sittin’ about 3′ back from the screen so the EM rays don’t git me.
Time to get your eyes checked.
The pic of the dogs in the water was there earlier but now it’s gone. Just a little red x. Hmmm
Whew – at least it’s nothing to worry about.
BT kindly gives my “trusted user” status, which is very gracious in view of my spotty and infrequent posting, but I can’t say I’ve ever seen a hidden comment. Are there any? I’d hate to be shirking my duties. 🙂
I don’t know. I’ve never really looked myself, but I don’t think so. 😉
A comment has to have a rating lower than 1 for it to be hidden. I’ve seen a few, but less than a dozen and maybe less than five. The people who post them seldom stay long, whether that’s their intention or not.
Booman Tribune is remarkably free of the kind of trolling that produces your average hidden comment. One of the many things I like about it.
sure looks great. Wouldn’t mind starting my day with that selection.
Oh that’s just our usual brunch here at home.
Can’t do that or we’d be overrun.
dat’ll t’in out the crowds, ya know, den.
Lutefisk down here? Nah, we just mention chittlins. Has the same effect.
Those are WADs (Weapons of Appetite Destruction). Something so awful you can only mention it, not actually create it.
fawn, or so I hear.
She once brought us a just born fawn (a day at most), carrying it in her mouth and putting it down at our feet. We thought she had killed it but in fact there wasn’t so much as tooth mark on it. We could hear the mother huffing in the woods so we just picked up the fawn and put it under a bush.
I’ve seen them that young and they’re really smaller than one would expect. I wonder what they weigh at birth.
I just came up with the million dollar idea. Lutefisk stuffed chittlins. We could open drive thrus and call it the golden intestines.
Yea, but we need a catchy title. Like only the best goes through our chitlins.
lye about it eeder!
or fiskchits?
We’d have to put something in there about restoring virility, stopping PMS and curing the common cold. But, we couldn’t lie about it. Could we?
lutefisk will certainly do all of the above, and then some!!!
We’ll have lutefisk stuffed chitlins and pickeled pigs feet on the side and who could resist.
right now I’m off to buy some cooked chicken and spud salad. Hasta el primo FBC.
See ya later.
Had a little accident just down the road…
Later
Peace
dada my heart is breaking. Oh if I could have only been there to help save the few.
Good to see you!
Hi Olivia. How’re you doing?
I’m eating a chocolate bar … mmmm!
Nutrition, that’s the word.
Be back in a little while.
I’ve got to go an run and errand. I’ll be back in a minute.
I must… I have resisted… but here goes:
SHARKS VERSUS OILERS this sunday!!! OH MY GAWSH!!!!
I have wanted this series for a very very very long time!!!!
Okay… whew… I feel better after letting that out 🙂
The Sharks are going to play a defunct football team?
Maybe they’ll play a team of executives from ExxonMobil and ConocoPhilips and BP, with oiler legend Dick “Dick” Cheney coaching. Boy, would I love to see the bodychecking that would go on in that game.
where high sticking is pick one 1) an art form, 2) the bats on the ceiling, or 3) something that happens if you have a few too many of DJ’s pastel drinks.
High sticking is frowned on big time. Players are responsible for their sticks. Even if accidental – high sticking gets you a penatly of two mins in the penalty box aka the sin bin. If the high sticking results in some blood… it’s 4 mins
High sticking in this household is major league frowned on. Almost as bad as kneeing. Guys who go for knee on knee.. are bastards.
Hockey really isn’t all that awful.
I was pissed off the other morning when CNN was on. The stupid &^^%%ing (*&&^^% fuckhead who reports the sports said after some baseball fight – that a hockey game broke out.
Whatever :8
got it — no joking about high sticking (but not my fault that it’s very punny).
I wasn’t mad at you 🙂 Or anyone here. That sports guy in the morning on CNN (which my husband puts on) ticks me off to no end.
I make jokes about high-sticking for gawdsake 🙂
well it sure felt like you were mad at me. ::whimper some more::
But I figured it wasn’t really the high sticking — it was because I made fun of your funny-colored cocktails. 🙂
OH no!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m sorry!!!
I’m passionate – not angry. 🙂
Want me to make you some Zentinis?? 🙂
Aha! Got DJ on the defensive so now I can have anything I want. ::smarmy grin::
Now I have to live with guilt! LOL
I was taught by the best. Thanks Mom.
by giggling when a “holding the stick” penalty gets called…but then again, he knows me (and my filthy mind) too well… 😉
I don’t even know what his name is. I’ve been silently calling him “Fuckhead”. Today he “reported” on Kobe Bryant and some other guy’s fight and verbal bashing… and then they had to bring up hockey as a joke about fighting. They didn’t mention the Ducks taking out Calgary or the Stanely cup playoff… just spun more negative shit about hockey…. while showing scenes from… baseball and the basketball fights.
If you think the news has blood on their hands with Bush… us hockey fans are rather tired and upset about the coverage hockey gets.
It’s infuriating.
Well its been really sad here in Hockeytown – Detroit, at least our Pistons are moving on. We had the best record in the NHL, won the Presidents Cup and got knocked out by an eighth place team, but they beat us…..Best of luck to you, I’m assuming you’re a Shark fan, great club, Thornton is a great acquistion. Boston was NUTS!!! I can’t bitch too much, we witnessed three Stanley Cup championships here since ’97. Hockey here in Detroit is deeply woven into our fabric, much as it is in Canada. Hey, we’re part of the Original Six, and this is the land of Gordie Howe. Good luck again!
Sorry about your Red Wings. Truly. Nice to meet a Red Wing’s fan who actually follows their team 🙂 So many that meet are… they don’t seem to follow hockey or their team. But the ones that do… they’re great.
Odd how in the Western Conf, all the lower seeds made it past the top four seeds. I expect the Shark v Oilers series to be extremely challenging for both teams.
I know!!! I thie Thornton trade was un-believe-able!!! It was like Christmas for us here 🙂 My BOston inlaws hate us though now LOL.
Yup a Sharks fan, but I love the Bruins and Senators. It’s gonna be a wild Stanley Cup Final.
The party can start now!
http://www.kboo.fm/ for some incredible anti-Bush music!!! right now!
OK I’m back, did ya miss me?
Janet what’s this about high sticking. Weren’t you talking about that and your husband in this mornings cafe?
He shoots!… He misses the toilet!
I guess you need to be in the pro league.
CBtY would like to slap a big old chunk of ductape on the head of his nemesis as a thank you present for the loss of his eyebrows. Am I a bad parent for thinking it might be worth whatever trouble he got into for doing it? Not that I would encourage it, but I sure wouldn’t punish him for doing it…
Mind you, he had a 10 minute flop-down on the bed and sob when he got home from school, because the teasing was merciless all day long.
CabinGirl, I missed something. I went back through some of the cafes but can’t find the leader to this all. What happened?
Here’s the thread.
I didn’t know Lil Dude CB rode the bus home with Rumsfield’s kid.
I have no advice… just mean ass Scorpio revenge plots… which aren’t conduscive to healing or peace.
But let me know if he wants evil ideas 🙂
May I suggest hats over bandanas look? oh wait.. most schools frown on that. Maybe his friends will adopt the look with him?? I see that look alot amongst the 20 somethings. Male and female.
(((((((((((to the both of you))))))))))))
Well if he’s like me at that age, he’ll hold the grudge forever if he doesn’t get some kind of satisfactory payback. But it would cool if he could find something that wasn’t destructive.
As for the teasing — I always went for fight fire with fire (I’m guessing these comments might suggest some things about my childhood). You need to get him (or help him make) a pair of grouch marx glasses with the big eyebrows.
hot pepper gum that used to get advertised on the back page of comic books still get made? Sort of bury the hatchet…in the other guy’s skull… 😉
Ah, shifting sands in the unemployment zone. Scary job offer that includes submitting to a full criminal background check and drug test. Not that I have anything to worry about on either score, but not used to meeting Big Brother face to face on such a scale.
It’s only 30 hours a week at a fairly decent salary, less than I was making at the-job-from-hell, but hey life ain’t perfect, is it? Plus only ten miles from home so not such a bad commute, especially by LA standards.
It seems like a nice organization, but not one I’m crazy about, and I don’t feel 100% gung ho about going back to work quite so soon. (My wannabee new boss is now checking with his higher ups on whether he can make me an offer that’s just a little bit above their scale.)
Well if you take it, I hope it’s what you want and turns out good.
Thanks, FM! Nice to have you back!
Thanks MM. You know I was thinking. You’re in LA, the land of dreams. Become a movie star.
I already am a movie star. In my dreams. [[snark snark]]
How much of a commitment do you have to make? It’s nice having a job because then you can make a more relaxed effort in looking for a ‘perfect’ one.
That’s true, except that my resume already looks like a patchwork quilt and I don’t know how many more job changes it can take before it comes apart at the seams. So I really want to take something that I know I can stick with. But, the transmission just blew up in my car, fun fun fun! This is the first time we’ve gotten a tax refund in years, so I guess it was just about time for my car to go belly up. Sigh.
I can understand that worry but job hopping is certainly much more common now and I think people aren’t that put off by it.
So does it scare you more to let it go or to take it?
Great Googily Moogily Andi! You are so smart!!!!
Yep, what with all the outsourcing, layoffs… plus they aren’t that put off by “Mommy holes” when some of us had babies or went to school.
Good question, AndiF! Scares me just about the same either way. Plus I have some feelers out that could result in consulting and grant writing work to do at home, though it’s all pretty iffy right now and it will take time to play out. Don’t you just hate decisions?
to fall thru the cracks.
One of the highest achievements of a devoted slacker is the ability to not make decisions, especially regarding ‘WORK’ <channelling Manerd G. Crebbs> until absolutely necessary.
Be cool…
Peace
Yes, Manerd G. Crebbs was one of the founders of slackdom.
if it really is only 30 hours/wk, you could work on developing your consulting work gradually and quit the other job when you had built up a customer base.
True, true! Lots to think about.
Well, let’s see what they come up with. He didn’t even remember, or didn’t know, that the position had been listed at 30 hours a week, plus went above the salary range, so it may all fall through.
And as dada says, lots can change through the negotiation cycle. I told him I need to sleep on things, so that buys me some time whatever happens.
It would be hard to have to give up my newly acquired slacker-in-training status!
You have potential. But having food on the table does have its good points too.
Could be! But…. I can always put food on the table. I can’t believe what we used to live on when we first got married. But we always ate well! It’s just all those other things. A car that runs! That new camera! Urgent home repairs! A couple tanks of gas a week! All that good stuff!
I moved out on my own at 17 and the onlything I could afford and could cook was kraft mac & cheese. I won’t ever touch that stuff again.
ACK to the car troubles that coincide with tax returns, drug tests, and not the perfect job.
As you know my spouse just fled a job from hell, he has a rather mundane one now – although same field – but it’s nice for him to now focus on other matters, like US rather than his “career”. He really needed to slow down.
But this is different scenario from yours I know. He may not have the perfect job, but we have benefits now and he has more time with the kids on days and less time being a stress monkey.
He had to take a drug test. I wish there was a test for competence, a test for “I don’t beat my wife and kids”
Too bad the NSA didn’t have one for child molestors.
But… one thing I’m sure of: You are so much better off than in that hellhole up North. We were all so worried for you. (((MM xoxox)))
$1500 estimate for the car, but my husband thinks he can get a better deal. He is running out to buy recycle magazine. Well, I guess I’ll just leave it up to him, what a luxury after being on my own up north.
That’s a great story about your husband. Anything is better than being a stress monkey, IMHO. Especially when it takes it’s toll on your family life. Not worth it. LIfe is too short!
I just got done telling yet another person just this morning about the really top-notch moral support I got in the FBL throughout that wierd experience!
{{{{{{{{{{{{I just love you guys!}}}}}}}}}}}}}}
Bank loan lady called and we’re totally approved!!!! She said it was a “delight and the easiest” loan she ever handled 🙂 And she wants to take me out for Vietnamese bistro food when all of this is over 🙂
AND… Danni is going right after school to get her haircut. She wants it as short as mine. Zoinks! It’s her hair she’s always been able to do what she wants with it… Including at age 8ish – dying the ends of it METALLIC TEAl for a Sharks/Bruins game she attended. 🙂 Then the high schoolers started doing it and it wasn’t as “unique” so she scrapped it. 🙂
Mazel Tov! Huzzah! Hooray! Yay!
Now all you need is the house.
Congrats on the loan!!! Your daughter sounds like fun. (Kids these days! Shew.) I’ve always wished for a daughter, though can’t complain with such a wonderful son! We are truly blessed!
Buster has a tumor on his heart that has bled and its causing heart failure as well as discomfort in other organs. There’s nothing I can do for him. He has maybe 10 days to live.
I had hoped that even if he cancer that we might be able to treat it. Or that we would have more time together. I just wasn’t prepared for such bad news and that I would be powerless to relieve his pain.
I am pretty upset about this. But I’ll make the most of the little time I have left with him.
I’m so sorry to hear this Booman.
Poor sweet Buster! I am truly sorry, Booman. How hard to say goodbye to your beautiful, brave companion! I have always wondered if animals have a foreboding about their own mortality, or if they are spared that? At least he has you to give him as much comfort as possible! {{{{{Booman and Buster}}}}}} Hugs and love!
Ditto.
This is a terrible thing to have to go through, but something every pet owner has to face. I have, with great sadness and heavy heart, had to make one of the most difficult decisions with two beloved companions.
The bonds of love, respect, trust and joy that you shared will remain with you long after the sorrow has been dealt with. May his end days be full of peace, and may you find the strength to do what is required to assist him in his journey.
I will hold you both in my thoughts.
Peace and Blessings.
Damn. I am so sorry that the news was so terrible. I have been through this several times and it’s very hard and very sad. But I’ve come to accept it because I wouldn’t want to give up what I’ve gained by sharing my life with them.
I don’t think he knows what’s happening to him. Just that he loves you and you’re with him and what more could he want.
I had to put my 8 year old cat to sleep last year and the vet had me get real close and look her in the eyes so that my face was the last thing she saw. She was purring even though she was in tremendous pain.
Wish there was something comforting to say.
Hugs to you both. Enjoy your time together. Now is the time to be happy he is still with you, ok?
Oh Booman and Buster, I’m so sorry. Love ’em while you can, and send him off gently.
Oh BooMan I am so sorry. It is a hard thing to say goodbye to a beloved animal friend. Best wishes.
{{{Hugs to you both}}}
Hey Booman, I am so sad to hear about Boo.
I have lost several buddies, and know how hard it is.
My first one, Yagan, lived to about 14 years. It really broke my heart when he left. Two weeks after he died, someone called me and told me that there were two Rotties for adoption. When I went to see them, I approached this 10 months feamale, got down to pet her, and she sat on her butt with both paws in the air, and placed one of her paws on my shoulder. Right then and there I decided to adopt her. She really helped me with the pain after Yagan.
After I adopted Sasha, I adopted Romeo. He was six when I got him. We only had him for a year. He had Auto Inmune Disorder (wuold not produce plaitlits)He had pretty much the same symptoms that Boo has. He fought to the end, and with the vet telling us that she could save him. Theday I went to put him down, I was glad to end his suffering. Now, I wished I had done it a bit earlier.
I will be thinking of both of you
Booman, I don’t know what to say, it tears me up, too. What a fine looking fellow your Buster is. Much of my wife & I’s world is built around our furry ones. Every day we have with them is a blessing. When we lost Max, our oldest German Shepherd, a year and a half ago, the hurt was the same as when I lost my dad – who was my best friend on two legs…a month ago we lost Bullet, our other dog ( we had her for fourteen wonderful years, I didn’t think she was gonna make it after Max, they were really attached )and Pinkie, the statesman of our family – he laid with Max when he wasn’t well. He was our oldest cat and he & Bullet went within a week of each other. All of them died in our arms. We’ve adopted another shepherd since Max, her name is Geigen and another cat, Louie. I love ’em up every day. I am so sorry about Buster. You’re in my thoughts and prayers.
Kind Regards During A Most Trying Time,
Bobby Murray
I was so hoping for a better outcome.
Although not in recent years, I’ve had dogs my whole life. They were the best of friends, and they helped me through some hard times.
I remember well their last days. And during those days each one had an insight to leave with me, which became even more important to me later.
My thoughts are with you during this hard time.
oh I’m so sorry. the suddeness of it happening, and the fact that you can’t do anything for him .. I’m just so sorry for you and for him. Pets are such mixed blessings. Unconditional love; heartbreaking mortality. All of us who’ve had pets have gone through this and know that the happiness is worth the sadness at the end. Hang in there.
Booman,
I am so sorry to hear this. I hope this prayer will comfort you and your family at this time:
This we know: every living thing is yours and returns to you. As we ponder this mystery we give you thanks for the life of Buster and we now commit him into your loving hands.
Gentle God: fragile is your world, delicate are your creatures, and costly is your love which bears and redeems us all.
Holy Creator, give us eyes to see and ears to hear how every living thing speaks to us of your love. Let us be awestruck at your creation and daily sing your praises.
Especially, create within us a spirit of gratitude for the life of this beloved pet who has lived among
us and given us freely of his love. Even in our sorrow we have cause for joy for we know that all creatures who died on earth shall live again in your new creation.
Amen.
I have taken solace in difficult times that my special companions did not have to face life and death without me there to care for them. Being there for them at the end can be heartbreaking, but I hope that I will outlive all the animals I ever own. I want to make sure that they are well cared for in their last days and hours. It is the least I can do for a good and faithful companion.
As you will do for yours. I hope he has as easy a time of it as is possible, and that you do too.
that I feel just having read your update. I’ve already tried a few times yesterday to come up with something meaningful to try to assuage the pain I know you feel in your heart right now. And others in this thread have said many more eloquent things than I can summon up right now. So I’ll just say that you and Buster will remain in my thoughts for quite some time as you go through this most difficult of times.
Yes, time is limited, but the love between a dog and his human is, I think, immortal. Even when they’re not with us anymore. They do come back to visit and watch over us, of that I am certain. And I’m far from a religious man. But each dog’s spirit is as unique as our own, and the fact we do get some precious time together is perhaps one of the greatest rewards we can achieve in life.
I know you will selflessly devote yourself during the rest of his time to loving him, caring for him, and making his passage as easy as possible. That is all you can do, and he will know this, believe me.
Peace will come to both of you in good time. Then you can move beyond the sorrow, and know he will live forever within your heart.
It does take time, but it does happen. I’ve been there, as have others who commented here before me, and it’s never easy. But the pain does pass, if only eventually.
Peace and love to you, our friend, you will remain in our thoughts.
Oh Booman! I am so late to this news and I apologize. You are definitely are in my thoughts. I wish I just could give you both a big warm fuzzy hug.
My heart goes out to you two. Literary.
I have two dogs. One is a 14.5 yo Alaskan Malamute who’s getting very long in the tooth, and will not be with us much longer. She’s had tumors come and go and return again, sometimes with cancer and sometimes not. In the past six months, her arthritis has worsened while her hips and back legs have suffered from a rapidly progressing nerve degeneration. Yesterday, when I first saw the news about Buster, she was having more trouble than usual. She used to “shake it off” by mid-morning and walk fairly stably; yesterday, it wasn’t until later in the afternoon, and the instability kept nudging back into place before we all went to bed.
:/
I understand how hard it can be for a warm & fuzzy family member to be suffering, beyond the ability for us to help save for providing comfort and love.
Peace to you both. We’ll keep you in our thoughts, our hearts and prayers.
New Café here
Having just gone through this two weeks ago, I am so sorry to hear this Boo. Booman the Dog is a big part of our community. Know that my heart goes out to you. Enjoy the time you have left. Again, I am so very sorry. Give Booman a big hug for me and you can have one too. Love you Booman!
Dear Booman,
I lost two of my old cats last year, one in October, one a month later in November. My heart goes out to you. I know how you feel.