Froggy Bottom Cafe

Posted by Man Eegee | Jan 9, 2015 | 89 |

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Winter Sunrise, courtesy of the photography skills of Don Durito’s daughter

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30-something Xicano Democrat in Tucson, Arizona. I have a passion for social justice issues as well as seeking to help ignite a productive dialog regarding immigration reform. Lately I spend most of my time on Tw

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AndiF on January 9, 2015 at 7:45 am

For the new cafe with its beautiful decor.
- Man Eegee on January 9, 2015 at 3:22 pm
  
  You’re most welcome. Happy 2015, everyone!
  - Indianadem on January 9, 2015 at 6:50 pm
    
    Happy 2015 to you and yes, the decorating is lovely indeed.
  - Don Durito on January 10, 2015 at 1:26 pm
    
    Happy 2015 for you as well.
- Don Durito on January 10, 2015 at 1:25 pm
  
  We needed some winter decor. 🙂
boran2 on January 9, 2015 at 9:07 pm

That old cafe was just getting worn in. Now we’ll have to start all over again.
- JimF on January 10, 2015 at 7:08 pm
  
  We can trash this place in no time.
  - boran2 on January 10, 2015 at 8:34 pm
    
    Food fight!
    - Indianadem on January 10, 2015 at 8:51 pm
      
      Hey b2, were you a Delta Tau Chi?
      - boran2 on January 11, 2015 at 11:57 am
        
        It’s all Greek to me.
Don Durito on January 10, 2015 at 1:24 pm

Muchas gracias, Manny.
AndiF on January 12, 2015 at 5:40 am

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- boran2 on January 12, 2015 at 9:20 am
  
  Heh. That’s totally appropriate to my week.
  - AndiF on January 14, 2015 at 5:51 am
    
    Sorry to have been so prescient. 😉
AndiF on January 14, 2015 at 5:50 am

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- boran2 on January 14, 2015 at 9:40 am
  
  Very nice interplay of verticals and diagonals. That fallen tree really leads one’s eye.
  - AndiF on January 16, 2015 at 5:56 am
    
    Thanks. I liked the way the foreground fallen tree and the background one both seem to almost intersect with the fallen trees in the bottom of the hollow.
JimF on January 17, 2015 at 5:08 pm

It was a great day trail building at the Sycamore Land Trust’s Laura Hare Nature Preserve at Downey Hill http://sycamorelandtrust.org/downey-hill with the Hoosier Hikers Council
http://www.hoosierhikerscouncil.org .
AndiF on January 19, 2015 at 2:02 pm

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- boran2 on January 19, 2015 at 6:27 pm
  
  Covered isn’t the word.
  - AndiF on January 21, 2015 at 5:56 am
    
    Buried?
AndiF on January 21, 2015 at 5:57 am

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- boran2 on January 21, 2015 at 10:21 am
  
  Is that mushrooms with hollandaise sauce?
  - Indianadem on January 22, 2015 at 9:27 pm
    
    Mushsicles.
Indianadem on January 24, 2015 at 11:17 am

Uh oh – look out all you east coasters.
- boran2 on January 25, 2015 at 2:07 pm
  
  And today it’s almost 40 degrees.
  - JimF on January 25, 2015 at 11:11 pm
    
    We have 0.2 inch of snow now. Sorry for the 100X+ snow headed your way.
  - AndiF on January 26, 2015 at 6:30 am
    
    Hope you stay warm, safe, and electrified.
AndiF on January 26, 2015 at 6:35 am

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- boran2 on January 26, 2015 at 9:55 am
  
  Cute photo.
boran2 on January 27, 2015 at 8:14 am

Several inches of snow here but the big blizzard wasn’t.
- AndiF on January 27, 2015 at 4:15 pm
  
  Couldn’t be happier for an incorrect forecast. Unfortunately my friends in the Boston area weren’t as lucky.
  - boran2 on January 27, 2015 at 5:16 pm
    
    Yeah, they got hit badly. Thankfully for us, the storm made a turn to the east.
    - AndiF on January 28, 2015 at 5:46 am
      
      They can handle it, though. Once I flew into Boston the day after a 23-inch snow and everywhere I went the streets were completely cleared (OTOH the parking lots could be quite an adventure — all that snow had to go somewhere).
Oui on January 27, 2015 at 9:26 am

○ Anger management
○ Invoking ISIS

Well, one can say fans keep up with world events …
Having a gruesome day?
BooMan on January 28, 2015 at 2:47 am

Ouch.
AndiF on January 28, 2015 at 9:54 am

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AndiF on February 2, 2015 at 7:55 am

(obviously I am)

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- boran2 on February 2, 2015 at 12:28 pm
  
  Beautiful photo. It’s actually rather white here.
  - AndiF on February 3, 2015 at 7:02 am
    
    We are having a snowless winter here. I guess all our snow went east.
    - boran2 on February 3, 2015 at 9:50 am
      
      Take it back!
- Indianadem on February 2, 2015 at 1:24 pm
  
  Ooooooh!
  - AndiF on February 3, 2015 at 7:04 am
    
    Getting to see (and photograph) sunsets and sunrises is my winter main pleasure.
    - Indianadem on February 3, 2015 at 10:40 am
      
      That one was especially beautiful and a great capture!
      - AndiF on February 4, 2015 at 5:51 am
        
        Thanks.
AndiF on February 4, 2015 at 5:52 am

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- boran2 on February 4, 2015 at 10:32 am
  
  We won’t be seeing that kind of scene for some time.
  - AndiF on February 5, 2015 at 7:03 am
    
    Now it’s covered by a great big 1/2 inch of snow. 😉
    - boran2 on February 6, 2015 at 9:52 am
      
      We’ve got about a foot with more coming Sunday. Sigh.
      - AndiF on February 6, 2015 at 11:28 am
        
        Yuck. My sympathies.
BooMan on February 6, 2015 at 3:09 am

If you’d like to play in the new Froggy Bottom Cafe, send me an email and I’ll help you get a password so you can sign in.
- AndiF on February 7, 2015 at 6:00 am
  
  I still had a password so I went over. The Cafe post says it has two comments but I don’t seem them and there’s no comment box. I looked another post that says it has comments but I don’t see those either.
  - BooMan on February 7, 2015 at 7:30 am
    
    Okay, thanks.
    
    You had no problem signing in, though?
    - AndiF on February 7, 2015 at 8:50 am
      
      No problem with that.
      - BooMan on February 7, 2015 at 12:13 pm
        
        Okay, please try again.
      - AndiF on February 7, 2015 at 4:51 pm
        
        Commenting works now. I don’t if you intended to allow the posting of images in comments or not but I tried it and it didn’t work.
      - BooMan on February 9, 2015 at 12:08 pm
        
        It should work now, but we’re looking into how to make it easier. Right now, it works like here. You need to paste the code in and do the html.
    - boran2 on February 7, 2015 at 9:21 am
      
      Can I get a password pretty please?
      - BooMan on February 7, 2015 at 12:14 pm
        
        are you still using the same old Audi email?
      - boran2 on February 7, 2015 at 12:38 pm
        
        You could send it there. Thanks.
      - Indianadem on February 7, 2015 at 9:36 pm
        
        Me too, me too! (There should be an email from me in your inbox)
      - BooMan on February 7, 2015 at 10:23 pm
        
        I don’t see the email.
        
        Can I use the one you used to set up your Booman account?
      - Indianadem on February 8, 2015 at 3:43 pm
        
        Yes, that’s still active ~ thanks.
      - BooMan on February 9, 2015 at 12:07 pm
        
        Okay, check that old email account and I’ll meet you over at the new pond.
- JimF on February 8, 2015 at 8:23 pm
  
  Why?
  - BooMan on February 9, 2015 at 12:01 pm
    
    Why, what, Jim?
    
    Do you want a password?
    - JimF on February 9, 2015 at 12:26 pm
      
      Is Booman Tribune closing?
      - BooMan on February 9, 2015 at 1:01 pm
        
        sometime soon, yes.
      - JimF on February 9, 2015 at 1:39 pm
        
        Yes. then definitely I’d like an account there.
        
        Thanks, Boo
      - BooMan on February 9, 2015 at 2:00 pm
        
        Check your email. I sent it to Andi, too, just to make sure you get it.
AndiF on February 9, 2015 at 6:16 am

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- boran2 on February 9, 2015 at 10:11 am
  
  Very cool!
  - AndiF on February 9, 2015 at 1:36 pm
    
    I am fascinated by the weird and inexplicable (to me) patterns in the of frozen creeks.
    - Indianadem on February 10, 2015 at 12:07 pm
      
      Mesmerizing, aren’t they?
      - boran2 on February 10, 2015 at 2:43 pm
        
        If you like frozen water, I can send you piles of it. 😉
      - JimF on February 10, 2015 at 10:40 pm
        
        Please do. It would break up this interminable gray-brown of an Indiana winter.
      - Indianadem on February 12, 2015 at 12:25 am
        
        Hah! Be careful what you wish for. I recall a particularly wet and heavy snow in March some years ago, having been trapped with my engine company by a huge fallen tree enshrouded by power lines at 5 am at the east end of Four Mile Ridge Road. Had to wait a couple of hours for the power crew to come de-energize the lines before we could cut our way out. Good thing we were returning from the fire scene instead of trying to arrive.
BooMan on February 9, 2015 at 6:56 pm

New members are filtering in to the new cafe.
- Indianadem on February 12, 2015 at 12:26 am
  
  I’m getting this on that link. “Error establishing a database connection”
  - BooMan on February 12, 2015 at 9:35 am
    
    Thanks for the tip. Should be fixed now. Start up hiccups.
AndiF on February 11, 2015 at 7:37 am

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- boran2 on February 11, 2015 at 9:44 am
  
  A daunting slope, apparently.
  - AndiF on February 12, 2015 at 6:51 am
    
    Nah — four paw drive can get up that easy-peasy. 🙂
    
    (Actually she’s watching Sniff who for some reason had parked his butt further up the hill and was surveying the scenery — I guess Bebo was hoping he’d spotted something worth chasing).
BooMan on February 11, 2015 at 9:14 am

Can we get a volunteer to put together a new cafe at the new place? I can help with the logistics.
BooMan on February 12, 2015 at 5:39 pm

How the hell did coyotes get to Princeton?
- boran2 on February 12, 2015 at 9:03 pm
  
  I hit a coyote on the Palisades parkway. It took off most of the front of my car.
- JimF on February 12, 2015 at 11:03 pm
  
  Coyotes are eminently adaptable critters. They live in the woods around us and serenade us frequently. This is the birthing season. We had an especially fine coyote concerto a couple on nights ago. Have you read The Daily Coyote ?
AndiF on February 16, 2015 at 5:41 am

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- boran2 on February 16, 2015 at 12:41 pm
  
  Our ice is actually pretty thick given our below zero wind chills.

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