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Sun is shining, Finny is still sleeping, and CBtY will be wearing his new sweater today, because it is fricking cold out this morning! I have to confess a little jealousy of ask, with his warmer weather and Paris trip in the works. 🙂
What are you all doing?
link to old cafe
Good morning, CG.
Trying my best not to gloat…
Actually, our mornings are still cool – 36 and 39 deg. the last two mornings.
Good morning! thanks for link- some key things I’d missed in the previous cafe. As far as plan for the day – panic about upcoming deadlines is on the agenda. Could think about a trip to Paris instead.
Yep, cold now but we’re supposted to hit the high 50s later on. Don’t put away the coats just yet.
We’re keeping an eye on the town street dept. The workers have been busily engaged in ripping up part of the surface that was put down in front of our house last summer. Not quite sure what they’re up to yet – Jimmy Hoffa, maybe.
well maybe they’re moving him now. He doesn’t want to be in the same state as Chris Christie
Maybe they’re making the Look! There’s A Parking Place tourist attraction.
I spoke to the project super later on and found they’re actually narrowing the street! Interesting.
Was Marlo on the news?
Narrowing the street? Unheard of in these parts…they have to keep widening the bridges to accommodate the SUVs.
Wow, it’s already Thursday. One more day after today, and it’s ufettered family time! 🙂
same in these parts. never heard of narrowing a street.
Well, after all, Indiana is in retrograde, politically speaking. Guess that applies to streets as well. Next we’ll be traveling the creek bottoms like they used to do when the roads got too muddy. As long as they don’t mess with our maple tree, we’ll be happy.
I guess they’re figuring that when Repugs finish destroying the middle class, we’ll all be driving horses and carriages. Wide streets will no longer be necessary.
I’m guessing there are no plans to distribute 40 acres and a mule, either.
What?!? Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps mister. </Repug imitation>
same in these parts. never heard of narrowing a street.
Well Republicans are big fans of narrow minds so it’s not surprising they’d like their entire milieu to follow that example.
Oops — doting aunt failure. I forgot to watch.
Doh!
She is going to be on the-no-way-I’ll-watch-that-show Fox’s Fox and Friends — which proves that there are some things that are above and beyond the call of doting-auntitude.
Oh absolutely! I don’t watch any TV except for the occasional video clip on the tubz (Louis Black’s recent rant on Donald Trump via The Daily Show) and haven’t for several years. Don’t miss it at all.
I have to watch tv because I couldn’t live without Doctor Who and Mythbusters but I can definitely live without watching any Fox news show.
I discovered that Netflix has the good doctor, as well as my favorite obscure Brit mystery characters. Saw a Jonathan Creek last night. An Inspector Morse it wasn’t. Don’t know about Mythbusters availability there, but I think I’ll look.
My addiction to both shows is too deep to wait for them to be available on DVD (and streaming isn’t possible with satellite internet). So I need my Directv.
I love Mythbusters. Those guys have the best job…
But then there’s poor Tory and his much beaten and battered body.
The theme is Random and the diary is here.
Good morning and thanks!
Ran across this April Fool joke on a Faux news anchor while surfing geek sites this morning.
Good morning! Finny woke me up and immediately started putting daddy’s Yankees hat on me this morning. I guess he has plans today. 🙂
He’s cruising around the coffee table like a champ now. He’s running Thomas and James (choo-choos for the uninitiated) along the top at the moment. So darned cute!
And CbtY has his first job interview today, at Wegmans (everybody’s favorite grocery store). Hope he gets the job!
What are you all up to today? We’ve been promised 70 degree weather for our trip to knitting group to see the triplets today. Think it will actually happen?
We’ve been “promised” temps in the upper 80s! Yuck. But fortunately it’s only today day and then it cools back down to the pleasurable 60s and 70s. Also promised (not surprisingly), thunderstorms.
Its been a lovely morning for porch sitting/tourist watching. I think we’ll leave the house closed up and try to retain some of the early morning coolness.
Lots of errands here. It was gloomy here but fairly warm. The b2 boy has already managed to start destroying his week and a half old shoes. Sigh.
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Good morning Andi! I’ll have to check this later on.
Maybe I should stay home to make sure that doesn’t happen. Any delicious cakes being baked in the Cabin household for me to think about today to take my mind off the things I’m unprepared for at work today?
At this point, I’d really like to just fade into the background where that awful four letter word “work” is concerned. Unfortunately, personal finances and the need to buy groceries interferes.
Good morning all!
Listen to that wind! The Decorah eagle nest is the best place to visit online. We share the same weather, it looks like rain soon.
http://www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles
It will be fun watching the action there, thanks for the link!
I’ve been helping an 80 yr old friend monitor his pumps the last couple of days. We had the sand bags
in place by Thursday night. The river crested Sat-Sun nights. Barring any huge rainstorms the area appears to have survived the 4th biggest flood on record. Three of which were within the last one and a half decades, ’97, ’09, ’11. Both lanes of I-29 are closed for some 30+ miles N of Fargo.
Art’s House on the Red River, rural Fargo, 04 10 2011
Art’s Back Yard 04 10 2011
The only road “open” from Art’s place back to the city.
Max speed 15 mph.
Driving over flooded roads not recommended, of course, but…
That’s just awful. But what a good friend you are to be there to help him.
Wow, I hope that things continue to recede.
April has decided to be a cliche. Lots of rain and the woods are full of anemone and toothwort flowers (can spring beauties be far behind).
Thankfully not nearly as soggy as out NDD’s way! The red trillium are up & blooming here.
They’re up here but no signs of the flowers yet so I guess you’re about a week ahead of us. Must be all that difference in elevation. 😉
We’ve got forsythia now, just visible today.
They’ve been blooming here for about two weeks so we’re way ahead of you. The trees are beginning to seriously leaf out so being truly green isn’t too far off.
It may look a little distant but the path to it is a so nicely decorated.
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purty.
I’m betting there’s lots more purty flowers where you are. They’re just getting started around here.
Drive by hi!
where do you get those things? what are they? I saw a small ice hill by the supermarket a couple days ago. Nothing bright yellow like that!
Next time you’re in the neighborhood we’ll give you some bulbs. They’re very easy to grow. Just put ’em in the ground and forget ’em.
Thank you!!
Those are white and yellow daffodils but I didn’t get them — they pop up every year at several old homesites in the woods around us. The homes are long gone but the daffs (and yucca plants and cisterns) remain.
How wonderful! where that sort of clearing is there was once a house?!
Yep. And the old barn was still standing until a few years ago when a big storm hurried the slow process of it falling over. We’ve found several of these sites on our property and the neighboring camp because there was a pretty large abandonment (especially during the depression) because it made for very bad farm land (clay soil overlaying rock does not make for either good crops or good grazing).
Several years ago, a woman in her 80s stopped by and asked if she could visit where the house she grew up in stood. She wasn’t quite sure where it was after all these years but we knew exactly it was because we had long ago found the cistern and the remnants of the stone foundation.
I’ve had that experience here at the farm too. One time they even gave me a photo that showed the whole farmstead in its heyday. It’s fascinating listening to their reminiscences.
During the depression the vast majority of those who left moved to the West Coast, but I’m lucky to have a couple of old timers who are still here to tell me stories of those days.
How cool to get to see photos. There was a photographer who spent a lot of time documenting the area at that time but he didn’t seem to spend any time in this part of the county.
I think I’ll peruse that photographer’s site at more length later, based the first one I opened, Reflections in the Plow Share. What a great eye he had for that one. It took me a while to figure out he was bending over the top of it, so the plow share comes out upside down in the photo. That alone intrigued me enough to come back for more later.
How wonderful! I’m sure she loved being there.
Beautiful day here. I’ll be able to go walking (sans unbrella) later on. Woohoo!