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The computer gods (and Finny) have allowed me to post a new cafe – yippee!
How is everyone this week? We have a new high school graduate in the family (go CBtE!), and lovely cool, clear weather (a nice change from last week). I’m wfh today, and the little guy is sleeping in while I post this. Ah, how nice.
As Andi noted in the old cafe, our rain yesterday politely ceased when needed and today looks to be a pleasant one. Congrats to CBtE! What’s he up to next? We got news a couple of days ago that we would be great aunt & uncle soon – ack!
Hi Cabin. What a gorgeous cafe. Congratulations to CBtE.
I’m looking forward to a rock and roll weekend beginning with a concert by John Fogerty. Hope yours is perfect.
Hello Cabin residents and others. Congratulations to CBtE!
Howdy Errol. Hope your summer is going well.
A big congrats to CBtE and a big sympathy hug to those who will be paying for his college. 😉
Hi CabinGirl，
My family has a high school graduate, a junior high school graduates. I wish they test well.
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I’m sure CBtE is interested in fake handbags.
I’m here at NN2011 at laughing liberally. Markos is sitting behind me. The comics are soso. I’ve met several well known kossacks. Is this considered live blogging?
I think for live blogging you’d have to blog each joke so maybe we’ll just call this not-zombie blogging. 🙂
I couldn’t do that on a family friendly blog. 😉
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"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."Thanks for that, Oui.
Watching right now. In a few minutes we should be able to see one of the most famous stops on the journey – Geiranger.
Wiki on Geiranger.
How long do you stay there? I so want to do that cruise!
guess I’m looking too late – couldn’t find anything on the link
No, it is still there. It started last night as the ship left Bergen for the long voyage far north. It will go on for 134 hours. There is a function that lets you join the stream at any previous time (on the google map – click any place on the red line that maps the journey so far) – or just follow live.
The ship is in port, so it is lying still at the moment. Also, I just saw a banner across the screen that they have trouble with the sound at the moment.
Just click on the video (upper right section of the screen) and also click the link ‘on the bridge’ for the live radar screen.
That’s really a cool idea. Bet it’s good for future business too.
And will you give us the perfect companion piece by live streaming your trip to Norway this year? 🙂
How long do you stay there? ??
I am in Geneva, watching online. But the scenery is quite familiar; my mother was born and raised in ‘fjordland’ and I spent every summer as a kid there.
And my university days were in Bergen – the starting point of this trip.
thought you were in Geneva (delayed vacation) but hoping to visualize you et al. on that ship
Alas, still in Geneva. OTOH, I hear the weather has been crappy in that part of the country the last few days.
curly and I have talked of doing a few days on that liner, once the needed budget can be achieved. Dilemma: winter cruise for northern lights or summer cruise for midnight sun?
There are some truly stunning scenes in this promo video:
Fantastic! I so want to do that cruise!
Some background on this project:
Hurtigruten: 5 day TV marathon in the midnight sun
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One hour from midnight … an amazing journey with many followers by boat and on the waterfront. Traveling the fjords was pretty amazing. I suppose majestic is the right word!
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."Very nice.I hope I have the opportunity to go.
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Good morning all! Our “Dr. Seuss” flowers are back for a visit.
Looks like flowers from space. Have you received visits from otherworldly folks?
Sometimes there are unusual lights in the night sky in the northeastern corner of the county, but so far no crop circles on the lawn here.
well, maybe they are studying the flowers first before creating the crop circles
I dunno. We’ve had some pretty alien folks as neighbors during our 32 years in this county (sure don’t miss the guy that used to take his coonhounds out for runs at 3:00 a.m.).
beautiful
We lost Clarence Clemons.
Damn it.
Happy Father’s Day all you frog pond dads!
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Thanks ID, counts for a granddad too, doesn’t it? Everyone at the pond enjoy your day with your loved ones.
Young Trailblazer: I’ll be following the US Open and 22 year old Rory McIlroy.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."Oh, absolutely re: the granddad! My brother just heard a couple of days ago that he was (finally) going to be one;-)
We’re off to dinner a bit later with #1 son, d-i-l & our 3.
Hope you all had a great time!
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Some nice scenes as the cruise nears the port city of Svolvær.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."We’ve had an interesting day…
Went for a nice 2- mile walk in the early afternoon, then stopped at the grocery store and got the stuff to make shrimp with snap peas on the grill and a mexican 3 bean salad. Finny even got to try out his new silverware. 🙂
Hope everyone else is having a wonderful day.
It’s good to be home again.
I bet. I was just sitting here thinking we should plan a summer BT meetup, on a much less grand scale than NN, of course. 🙂
How was the DK party last night?
I didn’t go. I was up at before 4:30 to make the plane. And the the connection from Detroit was an hour late. Sigh.
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Hopping along through Monday… 🙂 How is life with a retiree in the house?
It’s my mom’s birthday, and I was up late last night finishing her birthday present…it’s a lace shawlette, and when I washed it and blocked it, the fibers (it’s a milk and cotton yarn) seem to have gotten a little stiffer rather than the usual softer and more relaxed. oy. Now to figure out what to do. Tempted to try a spin in the dryer with no heat but a fabric softener sheet, but it could be dangerous.
I better get ready to head out to work. Mr. Finny has a cold (adding to my sleep deprivation), so I’d like to come home early.
Hopping along through Monday… 🙂 How is life with a retiree in the house?
It’s my mom’s birthday, and I was up late last night finishing her birthday present…it’s a lace shawlette, and when I washed it and blocked it, the fibers (it’s a milk and cotton yarn) seem to have gotten a little stiffer rather than the usual softer and more relaxed. oy. Now to figure out what to do. Tempted to try a spin in the dryer with no heat but a fabric softener sheet, but it could be dangerous.
I better get ready to head out to work. Mr. Finny has a cold (adding to my sleep deprivation), so I’d like to come home early.
Sounds beautiful! no ideas re: softening, except the no heat with fabric softening sheet.
Good luck with the shawlette and happy bday to your mom! I hope that Finny is feeling better soon! Colds are hard on the little ones.
Did you take a picture of the b’day present — I would love to see it.
Can’t tell what life with a retiree is like yet because it’s no different than any previous summer — he stay up later than me, he sleeps later than me, and he rides his bike a lot.
My mother’s birthday is coming and I have to prepare. Really want to go home with her birthday.
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what a cute and lively pic!
Pure serendipity — I was just getting ready to take a picture of her where all you could see was her white tail in the weeds when she suddenly took off.
Hello all, I greet you from these distant lands of Peru.
Blessings.
Happy winter solstice tomorrow.
Summer arrives looking just like spring — chance of thunderstorms everyday. We got lucky yesterday and missed the huge storms that went north of us and dumped over 6 inches in some places (of course all that water will be coming our way in the form of flooded rivers).
Glad that it missed you. We’re getting some similar weather in the next couple of days. Stay dry!
Staying dry doesn’t seem to be possible these days so I’m shooting for not getting too wet. 🙂
Send some of your rain down here. We’re in a drought (again) and it’s hot, humid and smoky from wildfires. I call that, the Triple Crown of Miserable.
I would love to share our rain with you (and Texas and Arizona). I have the perfect sacrifice to the weather gods … but I don’t suppose they’d take Mike Pence as an offering.
Sounds like a plan.
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wonderful picture! good morning, all!
Good morning to you. Hope summer has started off well for you.
“The woods are lovely, dark and deep…”
Its certainly not a winter evening, but your photo somehow evoked Frost in my mind.
That spot is interesting because trees keep toppling (or nearly toppling) over in it. First it was a big beech, then a couple of small trees, and now the hung-up tree. The dogs love to go hang out there — all kinds of stuff to try to find in the tangle of tops.
Waves to all. Rain and gloom here. Funnel clods in New Jersey. Film at 11:00. 😀
Hmmm… funnel clods… are they anything like funnel cakes?
Yep. Just not as tasty.
I feel an intense urge to go buy fake handbags.
But seriously — sort of — I really find it hard to believe that peppering spam comments on blogs makes anyone go “oh yes, I really must click on that link and see what wonders await me”.
Perhaps it’s the possibilities of the unknown.