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How’s the vacation going?
In terms of doing nothing, pretty good; sleeping late — not so good.
Doesn’t it really make you mad when you want to sleep late, but the body clock or other things wakes you up.
Glad to hear you’re slacking away during the vacation.
I think my sleeping late is pretty hopeless anymore. On the bright side, I enjoy the quiet of mornings.
I’m pretty much the same way. I’m always the first up in the house, so I like the quiet time and no being rushed.
Speaking of quiet — are you getting descended upon by relatives for New Years?
Nope. That’s one occasion they don’t come home. If it’s anything like the last couple of years I’ll be fast asleep before the new year gets here.
Ya’ll got any plans for new years night?
We do the same thing every year — have dinner, drink a bunch of wine with my sister, her husband, and another couple. And every year I struggle to stay awake until midnight.
Sounds like fun except for the struggling to stay awake. This year to change things up, you should drink enough wine to get to the lamp shade on your head stage. Give em something to talk about. 🙂
It’ll never happen. I have always been a quiet drunk and drink enough and I just fall asleep even earlier.
When I used to drink, I was a cuddly drunk. Always happy and everyone was my friend. I have to admit, I never did put a lampshade on my head though.
You’ve been holding out on us … I love that photo! 🙂
Happy Saturday! How is everyone this fine morning?
I’m hoping to enjoy some time outdoors before the rain comes tomorrow.
Hope the rain holds off for you to have some quality outdoors time.
It’s not supposed to rain here until tonight but once it arrives it’s going to rain a lot which is exactly what we don’t need.
I feel like it’s been an extra rainy year this year…but since I’m not quite ready for snow yet, I’ll take the rain.
I can’t believe I’m already up today. What was I thinking?
It’s your mommy hindbrain thinking it has to spend as much time as possible with CBtE before he goes.
I like snow (as long as it stays under a foot) and I’m very, very tired of rain (and muck).
I agree with what Andi said about spending as much time.
I guess. I’ve been thinking about some fun things I’d like to do with everybody today/tomorrow, and then I thought, “Oh, but there will be all that grumbling the entire time…”
I think we’ll wind up running some errands after my walk today instead, since we still have a few things to get for CBtE’s trip.
Yeesh.
A journal?
Good idea, and a camera, whether disposable or not.
My mom had offered up her digital camera for him to take, although I’m not sure if she was serious.
He needs long underwear too. How exciting! 😉
Even with a little cheap disposable one, you’ll get a few pictre though.
I think the school might require him to do a project on his experiences as part of missing all that school, so if he does digital photos, he can make a powerpoint presentation. I’m still working out the details on the missed school part.
Shows you how long it has been since I had kids in school. I didn’t even think about that.
I was going to get him a cool one when we hit the Barnes and Noble with one of CBtY’s gift returns today. nd then I have to figure out how we’re going to pack all this stuff up in my carry-on sized luggage…
Morning CG.
Were supposed to get some rain today too. So I expect somemore quality indoor time today. 🙂
Miss Andi That picture is beautiful!!!!! I am at work already. I will check in as I can today. Right now it is slow but I do not expect it to stay that way. LOL
Morning Refinish.
I don’t know whether to wish you a slack or busy day. Busy days usually go faster, but with a slack day, you can spend more time with us. 🙂
I”m still trying to figure out the cuddly drunk statement.
You’ve never seen a cuddly drunk?
I guess my dad was one. But I think cuddly drunks only think they’re cuddly – others think they’re annoying.
I’ve been called that before, but it didn’t matter if I was drunk or not. 😉
How can you be annoying? Just 7 feet tall hovering over everyone with a feather duster and a tray of cookies.
I’ve wondered that myself. I’m still amazed when people don’t think I’m the greatest thing since sliced bread. 🙂
ANd you look simply smashing in an apron.
I must admit I do. 🙂
In our youths, Jim and I were randy drunks. That didn’t last long but I still have fond feelings about Boone’s Farm and Ripple Red (though not fond enough to ever drink the swill again).
So you weren’t always the second most boring couple in the world!
That kind of achievement takes years of effort.
Has all that effort paid off?
as realizing our innate talents.
Ah yes, just the same way I am with slacking. 🙂
LOL I would rather be home working on designs and things but hey…. you do what you got to do. I will say I am hoping we do not have over 100 calls holding like we did part of yeasterday. LOL They seem to get testy after they have been on hold for awhile.
Now why would anyone get testy about having a phone to their ear for hours. I thought that was the national past time.
I’m sorry you are at work, especially since you are working on Monday. I’ll work on wishing that you have a very slow day all day long.
Hi Misss Andi and thanks!!!
Morning cafe regulars. Andi – did you get on your belly to get that shot? It looks like it’s surface ice of a little puddle or something.
Yup, it’s belly photography. It was a shelf of ice but the original puddle on which it had formed had already receded (it was about 6 inches below the ice). The ice had started to melt and flow down toward the water.
I got it right!
Your images are getting better and better. They’re always fascinating and make you stop and really look at them.
::swelled head::
Yeah, so stop posting them. I don’t like thinking so hard in the morning. 🙂
I know and love.
Being nice is exhausting.
One more week of vacation. What are the plans? Is Jim still in a bad mood?
No plans, except for the maybe trip to Dayton to see Rembrandt and Indy (maybe maybe).
His mood improves with each ice skating session. I think we need to build a rink.
Tell him Kristi Yamaguchi lives about a half mile from me. Maybe she’d agree to lend him some spandex and twirl around the ice with him.
I used to love to ice skate when I was a kid but my first time on skates as an adult was humiliating.
I only learned to ice skate as an adult. I would call it more ice falling than skating.
So could we say you had to get down into the mud to take this one. 🙂
Don’t get any perverted ideas. She was fully clothed.
Would I ever do that? 🙂
We will never really know.
I have toned it down quite a bit, haven’t I? I wonder if it’s the effexor?
We may never really know. 🙂
I have to see if I can find to old raunchy FM. 🙂
I think he’s lurking just below the surface – effexor or not.
You might be right. 🙂
After all, we all worked very hard to get you to set it free.
We did, didn’t we? Well done.
Yep ya’ll did put a lot of work in that. 🙂
Mud wrestling? LOL
I didn’t say a thing about mud wrestling. 🙂
It is really cool. I wish I could take pictures like that. :::sigh:::
It`s like a miniature ice flow. It`s amazing what we can see when we look, especially in the most wonderfully mundane places. {I know you live in your paradise]. Thanks for bringing me there.
Morning Second nature!!!
Morning, dear! Did you and the dogs come through the storms ok?
We survived. I finally covered Bette with the blanklet so she could not see the lightning and she calmed down. LOL
Gotta go, George is whinning to go out.
Back in awhile.
see ya later
but is it legal to wish “good morning” when one never slept? Made the mistake of turning on the news, and caught the Saddam Hussein snuff film execution video. Okay, they didn’t show the actual hanging, but just seeing them put a black cloth around the neck then the noose was enough to make me afraid of nightmares…so I pulled an all-nighter. 🙁 FM, I’ll try to emulate you and catch a nap sometime today.
We’re hanging local on New Year’s Eve — since I can’t drink anyway, wouldn’t make much sense to go out; since I don’t drive I can’t even be the “designated driver”. So I’ll be a cuddly non-drunk. 😉 Plus the spouse wants to be up early for the Rose Parade; I’ll probably do something special for breakfast, maybe French toast, and I’ve got some Canadian bacon in the freezer I could thaw and heat up. One of these years we’re going to book a package tour to see it in person — AAA Travel had a great package that included hotel, grandstand seats and a box lunch.
Plans for 2007 include finally getting this place cleaned up (once I get him back to work and out from underfoot 24/7!), working on my writing, and getting my spud butt in motion again…I’ve been losing weight just from cutting back on starches (and I think cutting out the booze has helped as well), but I know that exercise is important too.
Okay, heading off to the shower, then might catch that nap I was just mentioning…
Hi Cali.
Sounds like you’ll have a great time at the parade. You can emulate away. Naps are a good thing. 🙂
Good morning all. Every year I watched the Rose Parade on TV I told myself I wanted to see it in person. I finally had the chance two years ago. It was great. I visited my best friend who had moved to LA a few years before. The only drawback was the higher than normal rainfall that year. I would do it again in a second. And will consider it seriously if the Badgers ever win another spot in the game. This year, the Pulaski High School Band is marching in the parade. That is the school my children attended. Hope everyone has a great day. Not sure what today’s plan is yet – i am precoffee.
Good morning BR. Sounds like it would be even more fun since you have a vested interest (Pulaski High School Band) in the parade.
Hope you have a good day and get that coffee.
thanks FM. Now that I have had coffee (and chocolate) I decided to stick with the stay home and read plan.
Sounds like an excellent plan to me.
Lying on the couch reading is my idea of the epitome of luxurious living.
Hello & happy Saturday, pondlings! Good to see you, as always.
Andi, today’s image is simply magnificent. Quite a perceptual mind-blower — amazing.
I hope you realize that your photos help me remember how very much the natural world holds for me, in its simple existence. A tremendous help to me in recent months. Thank you!
As for today, I’ll say this: two of my least favorite things are head congestion & hot weather. Naturally, then, it seems I’ll greet the New Year with head congestion in hot weather. Can’t help recalling Richard Hell’s ‘please kill me’ T-shirt.
(Note to the kids: Hell wrote & sang for the Voidoids, a highly recommended NYC punk band in existence long before ‘punk’ became a marketing angle. So sayeth the formerly canary-haired geezer.)
Hello WW. Happy Saturday to you too. Although with head congestion and hot weather I don’t think it will be.
Sending some good thoughts your way.
Thanks, FM! With all the kind, good wishes you & my other beloved pond-mates offer me I’m heading into serious karmic debt!
😉
How are you? Any snowflakes on your spectacles yet?
Way to warm for snow, but we are expecting thunder storms pretty soon. I was worried earlier in the year about the pond out back being so low. We’ve had more than enough rain to refill it now. It’s always either to little or to much.
Good karma is always good to pass around. 🙂
Agreed on good karma, FM!
About the pond: I’m guessing you have some type of spillway to handle the overflow?
I’ve seen an image here & there of your pond view. It sure looks pretty back there! Ponds are wonderful to have nearby — I’ll miss mine at the old home place very much, especially when the peepers are set to call.
When the weather is nice and there are no mosquitoes it’s really very peaceful out back. I’m looking forward to you getting back to yours.
Thanks again, FM. As I tend to say lately, it’s down to the practical stuff right now. I’ve been offered temporary digs close to where I lived before, but I need to secure a vehicle to get there & then to get around. I don’t wish to rely on my host unduly, for many reasons.
This is the main concern right now. Otherwise I’m good to go.
Transportation is always such a problem when you on a short budget. Plus with me, I don’t know anything about car repair, so when I’ve bought a used one, I never know what I’m getting.
I’d definitely rather not have a car at all, but it’s a necessity in the country. I’ve been fairly lucky with my cars, considering I never pay much; I’ve also got a couple of reliable mechanics up there who know that year-round country folks generally aren’t rich.
The cars I’ve bought usually do require some maintenance, alas; then it becomes a matter of diminishing returns & you call out the salvage man.
🙂
When I was in Europe we used to call them disposable cars. You would pay just a little bit for it and run it until it was beyond repair and then pay a little for another one. I had a friend that paid $400 for an old Mercedes, ran it for a year and then sold it for $300 when he left.
Yep — that’s the story of my automotive life.
We can do ok that way if we pick out a basically good car & it’s easy enough to find out what those are (see Consumer Reports).
Yep we do. We’re sort of on a rise, but the people across the stree by the spill have been flooded once before. It has to be pouring steadily for a couple of day for that to happen though.
That’s too bad about the flooding. I’m glad it doesn’t happen that often — not the best thing for neighborly relations.
We were lucky with our pond — the spillway dropped water straight into the woods & created a very nice little stream that eventually fed the river. Before it crossed the river road it ran through a culvert underneath. This was sort of necessary because the pond was fed by two streams, on top of the rain water. In general, the Catskills roadways have been built to account for continual water-flow from the mountains. Even then there’s plenty of flooding & then it’s just a matter of repair, give or take a few horrendous regional disasters.
Is your pond fed by natural water-flow too?
Nope it’s rain fed. It was only one neighbor who got flooded and she had built her house close to the spillway. It floods here from time to time, but I wasn’t living here during the last bad one.
It amazes me that many folks don’t seem to really check out the ‘lay of the land’ around them before they build. They don’t seem to think that the surrounding view isn’t just scenery.
🙂
I’m glad I can offer you a bit of a proxy for the real thing till you can get yourself back home.
The upside of the head cold — it’ll distract you from thinking about being in FL (I have discovered I have an aversion to spelling out the full name of the state — perhaps I think that constant abbreviating of the state will help abbreviate your stay.)
Frankly, I’ve got the same aversion. The state ain’t worth the trouble.
How’s your weather today? Did y’all have a good walk?
The walk was fine but the weather is blah, dull gray sky and temps in the low 40s.
Enough to look pretty. And the sun is out for a change. 🙂
Sounds lovely, Miss O! I’ve always liked the sunlight on new snow.
Hope you’re having a fine time with your guests.
I’d definitely prefer a little gloom to what we’ve got here. As you know.
😉
I’m going to run over and put up a new cafe.
Back in a second.
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