Froggy Bottom Holiday Happy Hour
Hi. I’m Maryb and I’ll be your host tonight. Help yourself to the fully stocked bar. Make yourself at home. Enjoy Yourselves!
Newcomers and Lurkers are welcome!.
Just jump right in and introduce yourself.
Just jump right in and introduce yourself.
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Holiday Egg Nog in the Refrigerator; Snacks are available. Help yourselves!
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Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier)
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Hey! That 4 looks good on you!
I thought some really tacky decorations would liven up the lounge for Happy Hour.
That wreath is making me dizzy.
have another drink and you won’t notice it.
and I love a man in a kilt 🙂
Both my husbands have been Scots. Stubborn, passive aggressive, white pasty skin.
so, you also love a man in a kilt?
Scots aren’t as pasty as the English. Or maybe the scotch makes their faces ruddy 🙂
I have been blessed (?) with marrying two husbands who are exactly the opposite of what I traditionally find sexy and attractive.
I wonder why that is?
At least you weren’t taken in by their allure 🙂
Ain’t that the truth? 🙂
To be totally honest I think it was my attempt to pretend that looks don’t really matter and that I’m not as superficial as I fear that I am.
Problem is – time proves that I indeed am as superficial as I fear.
now, now. There’s nothing wrong with being superficial is there? Life MUST be easier for superficial people who just go with their superficialness and don’t fight it. Now that you’ve stopped fighting your true nature, think of the mindless joy your life will be filled with.
or they were assholes no matter what they looked like
There’s nothing wrong with being superficial. OK, maybe there is, but I’m not going to bother my beautiful mind about it.
I go out of town for one day and the Scots insults start. I am a proud grandson of Scottish immigrants and am easy-going, agressive, when called for, and non-pasty (gluey?). I do however look great in a kilt.
Oh, Hello all, from the Bluegrass state. KS & I made it with no problems other than no sleep at all last night. Everyone having a festive time?
Your MIL upgraded her computer?
How far are you from Monkey’s Eyebrow?
Yeah, it’s not too bad. I been tweaking it a bit to speed it up, but it’ll work. The problem is that my brother in law is sleeping in this room, so I’ve got to go. WE’ll try to come back later, but he’s sick, so I don’t know.
Check y’all later.
I’ll be back in a second, I’m being called away. Seems the world can’t run without me. 🙂
Feel free to download and print out as cards, or a framed photo for your desk.
I love how, when you click to enlarge it, you can really see how he is glaring at the photographer 🙂
What a cuddly christmas curmudgeon 🙂
Nobody can glare like Albert. Unfortunately, it’s so cute when he glares that he invites giving him a reason to do so.
I see a line of greeting card in your future featuring Albert, Inti, Luna et al.
Amongst my many skills, is sewing, and I’ve frequently treatened to make outfits for Albert and Luna and do calendars.
It worked for Weigman.
That would be a hoot!!!!
That poor baby!!!! He looks mighty6 pissed off. I think you should start a line of card and prints and things at cqafe press with the animals.
Thanks for the advice; I’ll check them out.
if you do it, let them know I referred you.
to you, Imogen, and all the members of your menagerie.
May you have a downpour that fills the pond.
We had a lovely fifth-of-an-inch of rain on Friday. Real rain, not just drizzle. Which was just enough to get all of the fires under control and send many of the firefighters home for xmas.
And we have more rain, not merely showers, predicted for tonight and tomorrow – which will put the kabash on the traditional Aussie Xmas Barbie (bbq) for many families, but given the drought I doubt they’ll be complaining (actually Aussies are world class complainers – not as bad as whinging Poms, mind you, but close).
That’s great — for you and the firefighters.
I am glad to hear it and glad you have been safe through all this!!!!
Albert is still the cutest in the world!
Merry Christmas, Albert, and I apologize in behalf of bipedes everywhere.
Here is my mini holiday rant!!! As you all know I design t-shirts, bumper stickers and the like. I belong to a designer yahoo group and we did a gift exchange this year. I designed something for my person and shipped it so they would have it way before Christmas. The names of who we were to design for were handed out 11/23. I set here on Saturday before christmas at 5:30 with zilch, nada from my secret santa. This happens every damn time I do one of these things no matter if it is at work, a social group or what. I should have learned my lesson after all these years but I am still pissed!!! I am thrilled that the person I designed the cup for recieved it and loved it and I hope the person who forgot me has a fucking horrible holiday season!!!
Mostly because it’s just a pain in the neck. I’m sorry your ss present didn’t get here though.
shouldn’t be mad but I am. It just pisses me off that people sign up for it and then do not follow through.
I got shafted last year, too. We should start a SS victim theraphy group.
Hi Teach.
I only did ss in the office. That way if mine didn’t come through I could eventually find out who it was and give them hell the rest of the year. Plus in a small office you’re going to know who it is. 🙂
LOL Well, here is more history and why I should never have tried again.
Many years ago a woman at work didn’t get mine because she didn’t think homsexuals celebrated christmas.
At a bank I worked at, my secret santa handed me a 20 on christmas eve and said she didn’t like me anyway and refused to spend time shopping for me.
At another work place, my secret santa gave me a present that was under her tree I am sure because it was a pair of women’s christmas socks.
Yet another one gave me 4 boxes of the chocolate covered cordial cherries even though anyone who knows me knows I hate them.
With this type of history, I know you wonder why I would believe this time would be different. I am a sucker and alwqays want to believe the bext of people instead of the worst unless they are Republicans of course.
I can understand the hesitancy.
olivia has done my requested request garden post.
it’s gorgeous! Oh, to live in a cooler climate where flowers LIKED to grow.
Stunning is the word!!!!
Wonderful garden and pictures.
dada suggested adding the legend to show what all the plant materials are, so I’ve done that if you’re interested. I posted it w/ an earlier time so that it sits just under Andi’s post.
I’m even more impressed.
Since the plan is marked 2005 — was that the year you put in all the landscaping?
Just the year the plan was drawn … A lot of it was inherited from the previous owner who was a master gardener … I’ve been toying w/ a complete redesign though … w/ less rosebuses and I really want to add a pergola …
over the patio?
If I found a house with an owner who was a master gardener — I wouldn’t buy it! I would feel too guilty.
some days it’s overwhelming … He was retired too, so spent all his time tinkering out there … hence all the roses and plants that need daily tending … but b/c I work all day, there aren’t enough hours in the day, so the need for a new plan.
at the moment, yes over the patio … w/ something growing on it — like grapes, and then we could pluck them to eat as we sat outside — but I’m not sure yet.
Very Italian. Will grapes grow that far north?
I completely support any plans you have to make it lower maintenance. When I moved into my house the only flowers in the yard were roses. After a few years I had them all dug up and replaced with grass (they were really old and didn’t bloom much anyway).
You don’t have to go to that extreme!
I’ve never looked into it here … My mom grows them … she’s about 5hr west tho … but w/ this warm climate you never know … I’ve got herbs growing out in the garden that I’m using to cook w/ on Dec 23.
And the roses will probably be the first to go … I might keep the explorer series ones b/c they’re hardy … we’ll see. 🙂
Here`s more of the tribbers ornaments from yesterday.
There`s Teach
and Boran2
then Omir
I’ve never met OMIR in person, but I have met Teach and boran2 and those ornaments certainly capture them!
Maryb
I`m only assigning pix with names according to how I feel the pix charactorize them. I`ve never met anybody from the tribe.
Here`s you again, jus rockin`
I’m glad you picked her for me Knucklehead. I like her.
Okay, I am a dingbat. I didn’t even notice the names for the ornamenys last night. I jyst went and checked and see I am either an old elf or a gnome. LOL
It was appropriate because elfs are creative.
Thank you!!!! Itis pouring rain right now here. I know we need it and I had no plans for going out anyway but I still think rain is depressing in the winter and especially on christmas weekend. LOL
Yeah, nothing like a cold December rain for getting the spirits down. Make youself something hot to drink and pull a chair up to the fire — I mean the computer 🙂
A hot mulled wine would be good RF.
Yes but that calls for red wine and I would have to go out in the rain to get it. LOL
some kind of hot toddy using whiskey?
I will make some coffee in a bit and have a nice snifter of B&B on the side.
I wish I had the ingredients for this
Hot Brandy and Rum Punch.
(For a party of fifteen.)
Take 1 quart of Jamaica rum.
1 quart of Cognac brandy.
1 pound of white loaf-sugar.
4 lemons.
3 quarts of boiling water.
1 tea-spoonful of nutmeg.
Rub the sugar over the lemons until it has absorbed all the yellow part of the skins, then put the sugar into a punch-bowl; add the ingredients well together, pour over them the boiling water, stir well together; add the rum, brandy and nutmeg; mix thoroughly, and the punch will be ready to serve.
It is very important, in making good punch, that all the ingredients are thoroughly incorporated ; and, to insure success, the process of mixing must be diligently attended to.
I would probably substitute spiced jamaicam rum for the regular rum. LOL
All of that would be good for me, but what would you have to drink RF. 🙂
LOL You must have a hollow leg if you can drink all that.
Nope just learned how to bypass my liver. 🙂
like the wise old gnome in my garden … 🙂
who you calling old? Wait but I am blanche, I am. LOL
but my gnome is old … and who is blanche?
Sorry just a line from a movie you are way too young to remember or even know.
Who is talking about who?
we’re all talking about each other it seems … 🙂
ROTFLMAO!!!!
Hi Olivia.
Are you just sitting back in all that wonderful Cdn weather? 🙂
and other similar chores …
how’s your weather?
Actually very nice today. 60’s with a few clouds. I think Xmas day it turns cold again, but no rain or anything. I want SNOW!
Thanks. I wish I looked that good.
I’d love to have a long gray beard like that, but I’ll have to settle for bushy muttonchop whiskers.
I’m back and in a much better mood after blowing up chickens on the computer. LOL
Blowing up chickens will ALWAYS make you feel better. If only we had some real chickens to blow up …
LOL, I hate chickens except cooked but I still wouldn’t actually blow them up.
party pooper
LOL I didn’t say I wouldn’t watch and cheer as someone else did it.
I can’t remember whether I ever mentioned that I once wanted to create a video game where you go squirrel hunting.
In a tank.
And some of the wildlife shoots back.
That would make me feel better. Never got around to it, though.
LOL Sounds good to me.
It`s not that bad. Your friend Sandpaper just showed up.
I’ll leave the eggnog to others, though, unless it tastes better in the virtual world than it does in the real world.
We finished up the shopping this afternoon and are furiously wrapping presents while the daughter and granddaughter are otherwise occupied (out of the house babysitting their favorite two-year-old). There are a few things we didn’t manage to find, and a couple of great pickups — a big ol’ boneless turkey breast we bought at the local food service supply store for $1.29 a pound, for instance, that will keep us in turkey for a few days, and I bought myself a very nice present while I was there — a 5# bag of frozen potstickers. Potsticker soup tonight!
wrap fast!
You seem to have amazing luck finding good turkey specials. It’s that tryptophan addiction of yours 😉
I hope it tastes as good as it seems like it ought to. My wife is adamant about one thing about Christmas: she doesn’t want to spend all day in the kitchen. So I’m thinking I’ll help whip up some waffles for breakfast, then follow it up with the turkey, fake (a/k/a StoveTop) stuffing, cranberry sauce, and we’ll spend the rest of the day sitting around doing nothin’.
if you make a white russian using eggnog it is much better than bourbon and eggnog. LOL
Hi Omir.
I say don’t wrap then and hide them around the house. That way no wrapping and they’ll be preoccupied all day looking for them.
Hey! It’s like Christmas and Easter! I like this idea.
The computer might be a little hard to do that with, though. I’m putting together a computer for my granddaughter, and I’m not sure whether the problem would be that it’s too big to hide, or whether there are already so many computers around she wouldn’t notice an extra one.
check out the photos at this link
http://www.dpchallenge.com/challenge_results.php?CHALLENGE_ID=174
I like the red ribbon winner better than the blue ribbon winner.
I think the fornicating reigndeer are a hoot,
I like em all.
and there are some houses around here and on my way to work that rival the ones in the pictures.
I haven’t seen any around here like that. I think one guy the next town over goes overboard like that.
well, we have some that are a lot tackier around here. 1 house has at least 15 different types of lights. I think they add new ones each year and buy whatever is on sale.
Did you ditch the family for the night? Or are you just escaping “for some important computer work”?
We went from 5 to 12 here and now back down to 5. So it’s quite again.
did you give them knock drops? 5 people from my family are never quiet unless they are asleep and then they still snore loud enough to wake the neighbors.
Everybody is calling it a early night. We were out late last night and my brother and s-i-l and nephew where up at 5 am and didn’t get back until about 6:30 pm. So I’ve locked the doors and turned off the lights.
hopefully with them inside. LOL
So you won’t let them in?
Nope not a one. If they haven’t already got a place to stay, then get a hotel for the night.
My daughter looked at the grand prize winner and said she liked it. It probably loses something when you can’t see the lights flashing on and off.
The neon snowman, though, she thought that was tacky.
Anyone still around?
Nope, how about you?
I”m not around either. DArn.
Check your e/m.
Me either, so if you see me around, would you tell me I was looking for myself?
who, what where?
Quick! Everybody run to the new lounge and maybe SN won’t find us!