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Just got back. Had to make an ice cream run.
Is anybody around or do I have this whole cafe to myself?
Or did you get something crazy?
I’m reading/lurking. What kind of ice cream?
Did you bring enough ice cream for everyone???
Sure it’s right here. Just drop on by and it will be waiting. 🙂
should I knock first or just walk on in??
Just walk on in. There’s no formality here and just forget George’s barking. He might think you’re trying to take his ice cream. 🙂
I’ll be right over do I take a right or left at Albuquerque??
I don’t know about Albuquerque, but once you get to Greasy Corners, AR ask for directions. 🙂
Great. Am I the only one old enough here to have that Partridge Family song ringing in my head now?
Point meeee in the direction of Al-bu-quer-queeee…
I was think more of bugs bunny..”I knew I should have taken a left at Alburqueque.”
nope, I think I had EVERY Partridge Family album.
I actually think my younger sister still has them somewhere.
I just KNEW we were kindred spirits!
David Cassidy. <sigh> Life was so simple then 🙂
Yes <sigh>… and my stupid cousin liked Donny Osmond! Ironically, I later married a musician and she married a Mormon. Wait… I think she was the stupid one…
Donny was too cute. But I DID like the Donny and Marie show <she says hoping that nobody besides Izzy reads this>
(the dvd is just coming out, but you didn’t hear it from me)
A DVD of the Donny and Marie show? No way …
I’m a little bit country …
Actually Izzy I can’t remember that song, but when I was just a little baby I remember my family speaking of the Family Partridge.
Lets see, I’m 53 and you are…….. 🙂
Puh-leeze with the insinuations already. The show ain’t that old, bub. You don’t remember it because you were drinking age when it came out!
I knew I lost some years once I achieved drinking age, but a decade? Yes it’s possible. 🙂
Hey, it was the 70s. Who among us remembers that whole decade?
Certainly not me. I’ll have to put on my thinking hat and try to see if I can peer through the haze that was the 70’s. 🙂
And don’t forget the disco balls. Between the haze and the flashing lights, hardly a memory remains.
My Mom wanted a chocolate/fudge sundae from one of the fast food places. So I ran to get her one. I’m bypassing ice cream tonight. I’m still eating on a pineapple/maraschino cherry mixed I did yesterday.
You’re such a good son. For a slacker 😉
That’s what I keep telling myself, but it usually benefits us both. Usually you’ll never see me turn down ice cream. 🙂
Do you ever make it? I have this idea that making ice cream is a big southern past time even though the only time I’ve done it has been in the north.
Yes I’ve made it before, but can’t remember the recipe. One of my fond memories is at my grandparents house making ice cream on the old hand crank ice cream makers.
I’ve seen on tv about all the new ice cream makers and they make it look so easy.
You guys have been so good to me today. First the soup, now ice cream — I couldn’t ask for better!
Should you be having ice cream with the way you feel today?
As he’s thinking to himself, talk her out of it and there’s more for me. 🙂
{{{{Izzy}}}}
I think you’re right — people with colds are supposed to stay away from milky products.
So no ice cream for Manny either. (We know you’re lurking M).
Hang on — my throat’s slightly sore. Doesn’t that put more weight in the ice-cream Good column? Besides, I’ve seen that phlegm study debunked somewhere. I know I have.
Popsicles for you, no ice cream.
Boy, you’re harsh! Can I have root beer ones?
HI!
hi katiebird, what’s up?
Hi, I’ve been fiddling with our laptop. I want to take it to work to use for the Live Eat4Today. Also, I think I’m sick with terror.
Why are you sick with terror?
I have this vision of 3 or 4 of us sitting in a circle and staring at each other for an hour. I’ve got a brain freeze.
It will be fine. People will talk. I doubt you’ll have to do anything to get them to participate.
I hope. Thanks for the encouragement. I think I’ll go to bed and read. Maybe that’ll calm me down.
3 people have said they’ll be there. So, I know I won’t be alone!
(good night, and thanks again)
Hi KB. How’re doing today?
Hi Family Man! I’m freaking out and going to sleep.
George Stroumboulopoulous‘s show … !
What an awful name for a news person.
Love George …
Wow FM’s still up…must be some kinda time warp.
Hi! O, maryb, izzy, Manny if yer lurkin’, A4L…et al.
¡Hola, dada! ¿Como esta?
how do you do that with the punctuation?
I’m so glad you asked! I’ve just been waiting for a chance to show off my mad punctuation skillz!
I’m on a Mac, so I don’t know how on PC. On the Mac, for the exclamation point, press option/1. For the question mark, option/shift/?.
¡
Wow, you get all kinds of cool stuff by hitting “opt-#”…I’ll never remember tho…gotta write it down…then lose it…:{)
Hey dada. I’m not up for to much longer. I think the little bit of mowing/work I did today, so shocked my system that it’s confused on when to go to sleep.
your system’s searching for a more amenable time zone.
Time warp. Yes and very easily explained. 🙂
Storms come (and go)?
cooled everything down really nicely…dropped about 15° in 15 mins. Worst of it went N of me, which is nice, as there was marble sized hail reported.
Did you get them picked up and planted?
friend of mine brought over the working mix for his next album and we sat around most of the afternoon.
Plus I pulled the Lat on my right side pretty good messin’ w/ the big ladder in the AM and wasn’t/still not movin’ real well…:{(
You didn’t have an NDD experience w/ your ladder, did you … 😉
That’s not good — you better take it easy and get better! Are you taking/doing anything for it?
And it sounds like your afternoon was spent in more (or alternative) delightful pursuits.
Not sure what NDD did w/ his…but I didn’t fall off…it’s a 24′ extension ladder and it got away from me…don’t ask.
Just stretching, heat and lots of ibuprofen…today’s a bit better, last night it spasmed…not fun. It’ll be sore for a good while I expect.
You can’t leave a comment like that without me wanting to to ask …
It got away from me?
Like while you were hanging on it? :-O
repositioning w/out shortening it…stupid…I know better.
And NO, I don’t crank ice cream any more…NDD’s soloin’ on that gig…:{)
Thank you, Olivia. It’s about time someone stuck up for me getting some ice cream around here.
lift, one bundle got caught, and the end result was I twisted and wrenched my back really really bad. ‘Course, BNF that I am I “rested” and then unload another 6 sqr worth. Should not have done that.
A month later, not much improvement. Found $15 dollar off coupon for a massage person just starting in business. 1 hour later it’s almost all gone. I found it hard to believe. MS NDD could tell the diff just in my voice over the phone minutes afterwards.
So, I highly recommend massage people for that wrenched back business, and next time I won’t be waiting a month to see if it’s getting any better.
but ii’s way too soon for this one…give it a week, then maybe.
Back when I was making money I tried to treat myself to about one a month…been a while.
Well I hope you heal up soon. {{{{d}}}}
And at least you’re not as bad off as this dude.
(LOL, I’m loving this fast lane stuff. 😉
tonight, and stuck to just wrangling the garden hose. Yikes!
Looks like I missed some fun earlier, but hey … at least I finally ate and the new areas got watered well.
Who all’s still alive at this point? Or has everyone except dada and me gone into ice cream comas?
You mean you don’t have some fancy irrigation system in place? 🙂
Are you kidding? Fancy irrigation here is putting the little attachment that lies on the ground –oh yeah it’s called a sprinkler– and going off for a while to let it soak in. I was just targeting closely the new areas with all the seeds and new plants to make sure they stay moist for germination. Tomorrow I must get more weeding done after work, sigh.
But, my Mountain Bleuet Centaurea started blooming, the Blue Butterfly Delphinium is close, as is the sundrop, and some early CA poppies are blooming too. Along with the other stuff… was out on the north side tonight and the fragrance of the peonies was really lovely. We cut some and brought them in… 🙂
Anyway, way too lengthy a reply…
… and not too lengthy for me — I could read more …
::hint hint blog hint hint::
🙂
I know, I need a very swift and hard kick to da butt on that. But right now I’m still feeling overwhelmed with all the work that has to be done to get everything in and spots weeded. C told me tonight that I’m like a garden soccer mom, pushing harder all the time for putting on the best show. He had a good point. But it won’t stop me, hehe.
I swear this will be the banner year that gets us on the garden walk map if it kills me! lol
Are you really trying to get on the map? I guess I can see how you’d enjoy having people come by to talk about your garden. What do you have to do to qualify — someone must have to nominate?
Let me move down to the bottom left and I’ll try to elaborate.
Oh and dada, my mom has a secret recipe for killer home made chocolate ice cream. I will actually eat that stuff, though have never made it by myself.
You got here just in time to help NDD ‘crank’…hope one of ya know’s how to make chocolate…:{)
What?! You givin’ up chocolate? Just tryin’ to be helpful…:{)
I couldn’t live w/out chocolate.
Although I’ve probably had double my share this week so far … wk stress ya know. 🙂
OT ?: How is it that you write a report or whatever, and then do ‘fact check’…seems to me to be backwards, at least from the perspective of my profession…just curious.
These reports involve a group of people b/c topic is broad, and each writer/analyst uses literature and data analysis to write report. They are responsible for doing lit reviews and referencing their individual sections.
This fact check is of the combined pieces, close to the end of the project. Added quality assurance if you will. And b/c I wasn’t actively involved in writing this one, I come in now in the later stages with ‘fresh’ eyes.
What I am doing is editing for grammar, flow, etc., and fact checking literature and data. That means I take every sentence that is referenced and pull the original journal article or book to make sure that the ref is appropriate, correct, ref correctly (so not copied etc.).
For the data, I have to go over each statistical test that was done, the variables and statistic used, the SAS coding and output, and their analysis of the results.
I have to document each ref as yay or nay. If nay, why and what is my recommendation for resolution.
It’s extremely tedious. I’ve fact checked some of the data already, and one statistical test can take a whole day to review.
So — ya, LOTS OF CHOCOLATE has been consumed … 🙂
I like both proofing and editing, but what you’re doing seems very detailed to the extreme. Also seems that you must have a great of respect from your peers with regards to this area of expertise to be allowed the leeway for your judgement and editing suggestions.
Choc in your case ought to be one of the fringe benefits!!
Some really good stuff too! I don’t know if my clothes will fit at the end of these three weeks. 🙂
Textbook definition of tedium. Good luck w/ it, we’ll do our best to keep you smiling!
Night O.
Peace
Well froggy boys and girls it time for FM to snooze off into geezerhood.
FM has left the building, that is if he can squeeze his head through the door. 🙂
I’ll see ya’ll tomorrow and have a good night in the pond.
survived a T-storm here today also. Only got .25″, but that’ll be enough to get the garden seeds going.
So, am I missing any big news items today here on the FBC or elsewhere on BT?
Hi NDD!
In recent years I’ve used a little Waring brand “Frozen Dessert Maker” It’s got the coolant self-contained. You put the whole kettle part in the freezer for a day or two ahead of time, then attach the motor and just pour the mixture in as the paddles rotate.
If ya pour it in first and then try to start the motor nothing happens ’cause the liquid is already froze to the inside of the container.
We’ve still got a handcrank one to, if anyone wants to build muscle. You need two 16-26 year-olds tag teaming for about 25 minutes to do that one, ha!
Somehow I would have guessed that you’d still have an old handcrank one somewhere 🙂
Hey, we’re thinking of organizing a midwest meetup in Chicago the weekend of October 7. Any chance you and Mss. NDD could come?
Well, miracles have happened before (made it to Christo and Jean-Claude’s Gates in Central Park, NY, Feb of ’05, my first time to NY) so I wouldn’t rule it out.
Mss NDD still has a fall semester (CSU-online), so it’s highly unlikely that she’d be free to go.
See if there’s any big time classical music going on that weekend. My Prius driving buddy has wanted to go there for the Ch Symphony. Have they got a website? Might be I could do the two on the same trip.
October 5-7 you get Mahler and Shostakovich
Great! Tusen tuk (a thousand thanks) for the detective work.
I have wanted very much to hear Mahler ever since I heard Zubin Meta (sp) conducting the LA Symph on TV playing Mahler, some decades ago. I have a cassette somewhere of Mahler’s Symphony in D (major minor, I forget now) Seems I bought some CDs too. I’ll have to see find them again.
Anyway, I’ll have to have a chat with the principles involved and see how the scheduling might work.
Dang that would be fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, NDD… I’m seriously very seriously considering it if that’s the date we pick. I could probably swing it $$ wise if I book far in advance and start saving up. I like the idea of the Shostakovich, though that’s not my favorite Mahler, but who’s to quibble?
I think you and dada both should seriously consider joining the crowd. We could make him an honorary midwesterner for the occasion, hehe.
Still out in the toolies or back in the city?
no deck prog today due to family related errand, and T-storms.
regards ladder? don’t recall no ladder episode, but I did have a scaffold plank drop out from under me once, which resulted in serious ankel injury, 6/29/83, which I discussed in regards to the benefits of a glucosamine product one night.
ice cream when I have cheesecake-on-a-stick over at my pad. 😉 I feel alot better this evening, although my blood is burning hot for another reason at the moment.
… but that is pretty vile Manny. I posted a comment on a journal art I found that might be of interest to you.
I replied, I would love the resource. I’m sure Duke would too if he hasn’t already come across it in his research.
these idiots are dangerous. There’s unfortunately, no shortage of assholes anywhere, Manny.
…my mood is improving already. So much centering needed, so little time.
Oh Manny, sorry to hear you’re still feeling crappy there, man. Maybe the sight of this will cheer you up, but don’t you dare go nibbling at the petals, ok?
those the foxgloves from a different angle? (omfsm, you’re all turning me into a botanist!!) Does that mean I’m turning you all into hookah addicts? heh
… for non-culinary purposes 😉
Thx, Manny, but C took this one on Monday too… good thing because they are already losing their flowers. Did you try the firefox right click on image, view thingie?
And glad to have gotten close to luring you over to the green side heheh!
Hookahs? I think I experienced one of those first back in about 1978? Not white peach, either.
This Pandora’s box of bigotry, ethnic hatred, that the Rs have unleashed seems like a cancer festering in people’s minds. What’s really scary is it seems we’re on the edge of some sort of “ethnic cleansing” crusade.
And I’m beginning to see not only how the Nazis came to power, but the origins of how “ethnic cleansing” could have been generated in other countries.
I have yet to see any abatement to the current insanity.
I feel I should visit your blog one of these days and express myself at greater length.
always welcome, NDD. Plenty of outrage to share with the crowd gathered 🙂
I’m not sure who organizes these things but Frank always gets on the walks (justifiably so!), and with all the comments we get from people, we’re (thanks to me, soccer mom) also trying to get into the running. But I think our place is such a semi-chaotic work in progress that only the neighborhood folks have noticed that much. But feedback is great when we get it … a woman from the Neighborhood Ass’n stopped on Monday to tell us how much she liked our place and offered free plants for the corner beautification project. They were petunias and impatiens.
3 Guesses as to what I said, lol.
You’d think the neigh ass’n lady would have some sway, right?
I cannot pass by impatiens w/out thinking of you now, you know. 🙂
I was very polite, and told her we had way too much to get done w/out them and that others would probably benefit more from them. better than pee-ewww, I hate impatiens! hehe
Just as bad?
Sort of… but I always think we should find a nice deep purple one to have around for the sphinx moths and butterflies. But yeah, they’re too old ladyish for our tastes most of the time.
I guess if you live in the world of arums petunias must seem downright prudish. 😉
Go ahead, you can say it, I’m a horrible plant snob. Petunias just aren’t part of the bigger vision thing. Though I do like the wild ones that C hates. Your b today reminded me though, that we haven’t picked up any fuschia yet this year… usually do a hanging basket of that, and your pics were amazing, as always!
Naw, you just have your own sense of plant style. Cool one too. 🙂
Fuschia is so neat — I love how all that ‘stuff’ is shoved inside those little buds. It’s crazy isn’t it, when you see the open flowers w/ the hanging bits next to the little buds?
Okay, I’m off to bed. Sleep well IVG!
Looks like we’re heading off to lalaland according to descending age… so I’m next after dada, ha!
Actually need to get something done tomorrow so I can return to the big city and put in some time on projects there too.
And download the digital too, for my fellow BTrs entertainment.
Looking forward to your digital delights … 🙂
Get your sorry Norweigian butt to bed, NDD.
And I can say that since I’m pretty much half that and half swede with some other BS thrown in, according to family lore.
Keep that Oct. 7 date in mind, will ya? Mary and Andi have done a lot of footwork on that. My take is right now, that if that’s the date, I’m there. Anyway, see you soon, bud.
Warp factor 5, Mr. Chekoff…Aye! Captain.
The back’s starting to hurt and I think going horizontal would be a good idea. Catch ya’ll on the flip.
Be well, sleep sound, G’Night O, IVG, Manny, NDD and our friends an EnEssAy.
Peace
Yo dada, nice to have sage brushed w/ya a bit at least. You do have to go reminding me that I must slink off very soon here myself.
MM highly recommends arnica for such sorts of aches and pains. I’m going to check into that myself. Just an FYI.
Relax… open your book to page six and repeat after me, as we learn our next three phrases in Turkish…bath… towel … border. May I see your passport, please?
else “foolish” until you’re fully healed, which might take a few weeks.
I’m going to head up to bed.
Good night IVG, NDD! Sweet dreams to you both!
so sleep well… catch you on dada’s mythical flip side.
Not if I have anything to say about it.