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Hiya happy froggies.
The native birds are taking their fledglings out for a test drive, and we’ve got a three-day weekend. Woohoo!
What’s the holiday?
Regatta day. Can you believe it? The boat festival gets a day off, as does the State Fair (called a “Show” here). Then there’s the Queen’s birthday, and a bunch of other things that no one really cares about but takes the day off anyway.
any relation to the chess player?
Hello, Mr/Ms Froggybottom. I don’t think martinis go with spaghetti and salad, do they?
I’m sort of inclined to think that hard liquor doesn’t go with any meal. And besides, what does with spaghetti and salad is bread.
Did the bread with the butter. Though I love me a crusty bread, sometimes it is just an excuse to have butter.
Now I guess I’m ready to hear what healthy thing you guys had. Hit me.
Pasta, salad, bread, and red wine, of course.
I’d send the leftovers to Luna, but there’s onions. Darn, guess it’s spaghetti for sunday lunch tomorrow. 🙂
Or, you can take your left over spaghetti and scramble it with the eggs for breakfast tomorrow. It’s an Italian tradition – and yummy.
Tuna steaks marinated in soy sauce, ginger, lemon juice, and white wine. Quinoa black bean, tomato, and corn salad. Bread.
I give up. I guess we can see which one had to feed four kids on $6 a day.
That’s how we eat when we’re dinks, says she.
When are you NOT dinks?
Are you guys still able to skate on the lake?
I didn’t skate on it at all because I don’t skate. Jim stopped because the ice melted on top and refroze and his zamboni imitation didn’t include smoothing ice.
BTW, the phrasing of the ‘dink’ line was a because of my love for this poem.
sounds good!
How was the hockey game last night?
They won … so good 🙂
The sens are playing the habs right now … they’re up 3-2.
what’s their won-lost record?
Go Sens!
Their record:
W 24
L 24
OTL 0
SL 3
They just seem to win their Friday night home games. Very considerate of them, eh? 😉
The Sens just went up 5-2.
Undoubtedly a sign of how much they like you.
woo hoo.
Toronto is playing Pittsburgh — they’re tied 5-5 an in OT right now.
I know how thrilled you all are to learn this. 🙂
Now Buffalo is in a SO w/ Calgary …
Atlanta vs Vancouver up next.
🙂
but Jim found a college hockey game between Maine and Vermont and he’s watching that.
No, they go before spaghetti and salad. Generally well before, since one of the effects of the martinis — and often, one of the points of their being served — is to postpone the dining indefinitely.
Which may or may not be a good idea, depending on the spaghetti and the salad.
My spaghetti rocks – and it clears your sinuses too.
No doubt; but after all those martinis everything starts to rock, the spaghetti included.
Those of us currently experiencing the Indiana climate could use some of that.
would suggest a nice red wine to me, but…
de gustibus
There’s always this Indiana beer, named for the local metropolis.
I’m not a big pale ale fan, but that lable would likely send me stout-ward anyway.
Give me a hefeweitzen or a good nut-brown ale (which I need to brew, btw, before I run out of the Orange
Tabby Ale [my own recipe] that was the last batch we bottled).
Neither am I (Samuel Smith’s Oatmeal Stout is my favorite beer) but I love the label and the fact that the beer is named for the town nearest me.
If you come across Flying Horse IPA (India Pale Ale), be sure to make an exception. It’s the finest IPA I’ve ever had and almost champagne like.
I prefer mixed drinks to beer or ale. Wine is nice once in a while but prefer the whites,
Most beer is crap. You have to find a good micro-brew or make your own.
I don’t care for “real” alcohol, and I figure if I’m going to mix it with something sweet just to make it drinkable I might as well just drink the juice or the soda by itself.
I don’t like champagne so that’s not the best endorsement. Never run into the Flying Horse label though.
You don’t like champagne!?! Never mind.
Flying Horse is brewed in India (not to be confused with Indiana).
I like really good champagne but can seldom afford it. LOL
So is it distributed in the states? My actual favorite beer, Leffe Bruin, isn’t distributed in the states so I’ve only been able to get it when my company has sent me to Europe for work.
I’ve only found Flying Horse available at your finer Indian resturants, both here and in the States.
I’ll have to ask my son the bartender if he has that on tap. Here’s my favorite (you can drive safely after indulging).
My BIL really likes the Gnaw Bone Pale Ale so I drink it there every now and again. It’s a decent beer.
something to make you laugh toight.
after 6 weeks my BIRTHDAY present is finally being installed by the Nature boys and men.
Happy birthday to me! 😉
birthday present link
Very, very cool. Where’s it being installed?
It’s in my living/reading room. I’ll take a picture of it tomorrow. It looks very cool and shimmery and it’s quiet and a little splashy.
It would have to be quiet for me — the sound of running water is my ultimate lullaby. I’d never be awake.
It is sort of hypnotic. I have a thing for fountains – that’s my third and nicest one.
I guess I’ll have to get off the computer now and sit down and read a book in there. Maybe I’ll be able to concentrate. But I need ice cream in the worst way right now and it’s hard to think of anything else.
ice cream is not high on my list of wants but as you are in much balmier environs, I say go for it.
It involves sending someone to the store. But one of the cooler aspects of the position I’m now in is that I can get the H to do just about anything I want him to. 🙂
I just read that Thomas Hardy poem above. I like it.
Never look a gift schlep in the mouth … or something.
Words of wisdom from old man Finkelstein, no doubt.
and who are you to argue with old man finkelstein — send the schlep for ice cream.
After all, “schlep” is really an acronym for “So Considerate He’ll Leave Everything to Please.” Or so I’ve heard.
told me and she was never wrong — she wouldn’t allow it.
it’s what my wife told me and she assured me that any other explanations that implied negative connotations were purely erroneous.
you should always listen to your wife. But the accepting spousal declarations as truth is a benefit of marriage that has no validity outside the bounds of matrimony.
I would respond, but I’ve gotta go schlep.
very nice!!!!
Can’t some of you snow-lovin’, powder-playin’, ice-outta-glass lounge lizrds get drunk enough here then go outside and make a Froggy the Snowman?
so that I can’t spellcheck “lizards.”
no
Hi, came over to see who’s around. Gawd, you guys go to bed early! Haven’t been around much lately – busy!
Wandered in – I’m a professional lurker! Nobody here. Oh well, I’ll go back to lurking now. Yes, had a few drinks……
Later……….
As long as you had a few drinks, that`s cool. Some times just getting out by yourself & having a drink or two, helps balance ones thoughts. That`s exactly why this place is open. You never know, the next time, you might have an interesting meeting with someone, so, do come back soon.
Good night