The Friday Afternoon Cafe Is Now Open!
What are you doing this weekend?
Got your random 10s ready for happy hour? (Yes, FM, I mean you…)
Kindly recommend this cafe and
unrecommend the previous one.
Friday Afternoon at the Froggy Bottom Cafe
What are you doing this weekend?
Got your random 10s ready for happy hour? (Yes, FM, I mean you…)
Kindly recommend this cafe and
unrecommend the previous one.
So, what’s everyone got planned for the long weekend? Food, fun, alcohol?
Baltimore?
My weekend includes AC, brief forays outdoors to retrieve the mail and newspaper, some brats on the grill, and at least one trip to California Pizza Kitchen for their waldorf chicken salad with grapes, granny smith apples and candied walnuts.
What’s ick? Sound nice to me.
Ick be hot and humid. And ick be beachfront cottage occupied by others.
Well, you just go be your bad self and throw them out of there (let’s see, do I recall right that it’s your m-i-l who is the likely tosee).
I think I could handle the MIL since she’s 82 and has osteoporosis and congenital heart disease – the problem is my SIL and her husband are there and together they weigh like 700 lbs.
in that case, I’ll just useless stuff of how crappy it would be to put up with all the traffic heading that way over a holiday weekend.
Or you can think about people sitting on hard seats in the bright sun and 87° weather watching cars go in circles for 500 miles and feel that whatever you are doing will be much, much better.
MMM…CPK sounds good! I’m trying to figure out what to throw on the grill for dinner…
Ask FM, he’s good with the critter du jour suggestions.
featuring: ‘Yellow Line Yummies’ especially tasty when grilled.
A must for any gourmand….:{)
Whazup dada. Depends on what the roadkill is.
Deer or squirrel – OK
Skunk, possum or armadillo – Nope 🙂
just psyching up for the wkend…still have to go to the market today, and cruise the back roads for dinner…ya left out rabbit, bison, elk, bears and assorted upland game birds…yummy!
If you’ve never read any of this guy’s stuff, it’s hilarious, here’s a link to his site:
Buck’s Outdoor World.
Not many bison, elk and bears here. I left out rabbits because of Albert and keres. 🙂
No plans here for the weekend, hope yours is good.
Omaha.
From Kansas to Nebraska — well at least you won’t have to worry about altitude sickness.
Wow, you really have some exotic plans, don’t you? 🙂
Ah, yes, the glamorous life of the author.
Hi Kansas. Big plans I see.
Big, indeed. I’ll look for ingredients for your roadkill recipes. You like venison?
Not mine. dadas. His link above is pretty good.
Northwest Folklife Festival
The Theater
Cooking out on the deck (if the weather permits)
Slacking
Hello Omir. You’re going to the theater tonight isn’t it?
Yep. Off to dinner at the restaurant across the street and then to Les Mis. Gonna be a fun weekend.
I don’t have to hope it, because I know you’ll have a great weekend. Enjoy.
It’s quiet in here. Anybody around?
I’m round Family Man.
Good. How’s the day been going?
Doing some cleaning and I had fun playing hide and seek with one of the cats. It freaks her out when I crawl around like she does and spring out at her from around a corner.
My day has been pretty much inside. Talking care of Mom and every 5 seconds it feels like cleaning up dog/cat hair.
Too bad they won’t let you vacuum them. I had a cat once who let me do that with the hose attachment. She loved it and you can suck the hair off before it’s even ready to fall out!
Anything noisy and mechanical they’re out of here. Just showing the brush is enough. 🙁
So your vibrator scares them off…?
They closest way they would ever come to something like that is when I get the clippers out. Which will probably happen this weekend. Poor George.
I am, but I think nobody wants to talk to me… 🙁
Only because you get to go to Baltimore and Vegas and we don’t.
CG I can’t believe no one will talk with you?
Ya got me now. 🙂
Oh, FM, my hero!
Thank you.
My heady mailbox plans for the weekend have been dampened. The police just came to the door and asked me if I knew when my mailbox was knocked off it’s post similar to like 15 of my neighbors. I hadn’t even noticed even though I’ve been in and out of the drive 3 or 4 times today. I really am oblivious.
And just how bored do you have to be to drive around knocking down mailboxes?
Pretty bored.
It’s the chief activity of teenagers around here. After our 4th one, we got a steel mailbox ‘stand’ made in machine shop (the actual mailbox slides inside) — Jim loves the idea of how someone’s arm would feel after their bat connected with it.
I love that idea too. Did you see on the news about a week ago about some guy that had a 900 gnome in his front yard. Obviously the guy loves them and had one made and placed there.
It got stolen and he said it was the second time.
But then I hardly watch any tv news.
Is it happy hour yet?
I don’t have any special weekend plans except to try to get down to Hollywood to see An Inconvenient Truth, finish writing a long-promised article about a friend who is a painter, unpack some more boxes, and slack off as much as possible while I get myself psyched up to return to the Work Force on May 31.
Meantime, while flaking on my poor neglected novel, which needs seriously cleaning up (no not that kind of cleaning up!) I suddenly wrote a little children’s story called How to Take Your Turtle for a Walk… if you would like to take a look. Comments welcome!
Hi MM. I’m proud of your slacking.
Thanks, FM. You will always be my role model!
Nice story MM. Now you just need the illustrations (I won’t offer up my turtles picture).
Thanks, AndiF, an illustrator or photos would be great, although I’m not sure I know how to get them in the story!
I hear JimF is finishing up and will be home for the summer… This is not a funny story but I used to work in a psyche hospital and most of the geriatric patients were elderly women who went into a severe depression when their husband retired because they couldn’t stand having him around the house 24/7.
I don’t get depressed, I get cranky — much more satisfying.
Well, you know what they say: depression is anger turned inward. I’m much more likely to be depressed. Luckily with my husband’s horrible divorce agreement, he’ll have to work to be able to pay alimony until he’s at least 70.
but it doesn’t help me — I get to look forward to a bunch more years of Jim not working in the summer followed by Jim not working in the summer, spring, fall, and winter.
Good luck to, er, both of you.
I like the story, plus it teaches a lesson.
Nice going MM.
Thanks for taking a look!
Hope the napping and slacking is going well today and that you didn’t go overboard on the “errands.”
As well as can be expected. There’s always something. 🙂
Yes, I’m beginning to see that half the battle is fending off those pesky life-responsibilties.
Attitude is Everything!
I just love it when people quote me (quoting someone else probably)!
Wasn’t there a song, Everything Old Is New Again?
Still been thinking about the FBC Musical Theater.
I’m trying to get my mind around this concept. Will there be dancers and singers on the website? Are you going to write something original? Sounds exciting!
Dancers! FM you need to write MM into this one because she dances.
It’ll be great. Better than Buffy the musical.
Hi Mary. Ready for the long weekend?
I am. It’s been a long couple of weeks. It’ll be nice to have that extra day. And I’m not doing a lick of work this weekend — even though I should.
I agree — no licking work!
I’ll leave all the licking to Sniff.
Did our heat get to you? It’s been in the 90’s here. I’ve had a slight headache for three days that’s probably change-of-weather related.
mid 80s so far but a high of 89 is predicted for Sunday.
MM is a main character and so are you and everyone. I’m still trying to figure out a swimming pool for Andi/Esther William.
Andi-Esther is a web-footed hoofer! LOL
I’m ready for the line up of the froggies in their tap shoes!
This morning I was talking mega 30’s – 40’s musical with froggies dancing on the talbles.
What I’d like to do is give a premise and go from there.
I’m Ok with some improv as long as you’re in there improvising too. I’m NOT into doing all the entertainment work while you slack 🙂
Of course I’ll be there. But I think it would be more fun to give a premise and for everybody to throw out ideas. We see which idea takes off and go with that.
I don’t know, would that be brainstorming to have a good time?
High-kicking tap-dancing froggies on the tables!
RL is calling. I’ll try and be back for the random ten.
…my mellow day with just a sprinkle of EDD stress has really tired me out so see you back at the Random 10!
Hello, is anyone here? Hello?
By the way I love the “You say lazy like it’s a bad word.” card. I tracked down the artists website a while back. She is wonderful at turning Donna Reed / June & Ward Cleaver on their W-world perverted heads.
Hi, Jim.
An aside, by way of greeting: recently re-read one of Joan Didion’s essays in the great collection ‘Slouching Toward Bethlehem’ & she made mention of the Donner-Reed party — which cast the apple-pie actress’ name in a rather sinister new light for me.
Hey there, folks. Good to see you.
It seems to have gotten dark here in the mountains. It’s raining, as well; we’ve had some intense thunderstorms pass through today, with more to come.
So you’ll know what’s happened if I drop off suddenly.
Not much happening this weekend that isn’t already happening. May have guests, may not. My landlord’s due to arrive at his vacation home & be welcomed by lotsa bird poop.
you go over there and empty the litter box on the bird droppings.
LOL!
It’s a shame they haven’t used it in weeks. They now prefer to fertilize the greenery.
Too bad. Well, I hope the birds have included a large number of Canada geese — they do leave behind an impressive mess.
Hello anybody home?
Hi Olivia. I figured everybody is leaving on holiday.
How was your day?
or wait for CG?
Glad it’s over … I’m consoling myself w/ some Mayan Chocolate ice cream (chocolate with thread of cinnamon).
Do you have any special plans for the w/e? What do ya’ll do to celebrate down there?
sorry you had a rough day.
I had to do my performance evaluation … you know, why I’m great and all that jazz. Makes for a crummy day. Plus it’s raining again.
How was yours?
the fact that Jim is off for the summer, just fine.
Sorry to jump in, but you had to do your PE and it made a crummy day?
Geez, I can sit for days and tell ya how great I am.
I always had a rule. Never be pushy about it, but let your employers how what a good job you’re doing. 🙂
Everybody goes somewhere. It’s pretty much just another weekend for me.
I didn’t get a chance to ask last night, when you leave for retreat?
I forgot to add.
Uhmmmmmm chocolate. 🙂
The retreat is in two weeks.
Blech.
🙁
You’ll enjoy it. Attitude!
The thing I was thinking about is, are we going to be missing our Olivia around here.
A day without Olivia or a picture fix. I don’t know. 🙂
It’s only for a few days — but I’m going to be bringing my laptop and the hotel should have internet connection. I plan on escaping back to my hotel room at the soonest possible moment each day, and hiding out ’til the next planned event. 🙂
LOL it sounds like you plan to enjoy it. 🙂
I truly sympathize, Miss O.
Your plans sound remarkably like my life in general, actually.
May the time fly by ’til your return home.
Just substitute home for hotel and everything for planned event. 🙂
Thank you for the well wishes — I’m gonna need all the positive vibes I can get to get through it.
Since you put it that way, FM, I’m not looking forward to Olivia’s retreat either.
Thank goodness a day is nothing compared to an eternity.
Which is why we should not sin.
😉
A second can be an eternity, just as a year can slip away.
They are starting to go by way to fast for me.
Howdy, FM. Am I invisible? (At long last!)
🙂
How are you?
Hi WW. Of course you’re not invisible.
I’ve been busy today.
How’s your day gone. I saw you’re staying in for the holiday. Smart woman.
The day’s gone fine — more culling.
Yes, I’m definitely staying at home. Let my fans come to me.
😉
Gee, I think the landlord’s arrived — heard the car door slam. The night is dark & sloppy ..
I’m glad your day has gone good, sorry about the culling.
Very smart let them come to you.
With your landlord, you almost make it sound like the beginning of a horror novel. 🙂
It could be. His vision is poor & he tends to drag his luggage.
Lock the doors WW. Get the garlic out and stay put. 🙂
be right back.
over here.