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Froggy Bottom Cafe
Welcome newcomers! Please introduce yourself
Come on in!
Coffee & Tea under the window, platters of treats on every table
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Newspapers are in their regular spot next to the door
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Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from yesterday)
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May the 4’s be with you
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Good Morning!
Just poppin’ in for a cup after an early lacrosse game! (We won, 6-4!) After that, it’s time to go clean the henhouse…new chicks arriving next week!
Good morning!
Here are some more:
The oldest asklet with new cousin adopted from China – my sister’s chicken coop.
What cuties!! And how really really nice to see a smiling face.
Morning, Katiebird and cafe dwellers.
If you think you might like to join our eventual book club discussion of BAYOU FAREWELL, it’s available at Powell’s even though they say it’s out of stock. (They shipped mine yesterday.) They may tell you it’s on back order, but they’ll still get it to you soonish.
All those chicks are so cute…asklets and hens alike!
Mmmm, croissants. My favorite with coffee. Thanks!
Are pets allowed? Some of my dogs want to come hang out.
We’re just starting to move around. I think we’ll sit here in this corner under an umbrella in our double robes since it’s 53F and mizzling (the meteorological state between mist and drizzle that passes for rain in the Pac NW).
I located an interesting scene to shoot for the photography fair, but it needs a sunny day. It’s time-sensitive, but hopefully it won’t pass its peak before the sun makes a scheduled reappearance tomorrow or Monday.
Hmm, there must be some smoked salmon and rye crackers around here somewhere.
Hi everyone, cafe is looking good today and I want to offer this pic. I long ago lifted from Janet Strange,
How is everyone today, I think I am beginning to come out of the fog of the last few weeks.
Hugs to you all!
Good Morning ya’ll from the great state of Tennessee. It is a hot and sun is out for yet another day of late summer. I am home for the w/e from working out of my enviroment. Am taking a day off to get myself back on track to living my life once again.
I am go glad to see you all here today. How has things been with you all this week? Are you all getting settled back into normalcy from Katrina?
My grass is not needing mowing as often now as the summer fades into fall.
I really have been our of the loop for a week and need some updates on things. How many have we lost in Iraq this week? Do you think we will have a new chief justice soon? I find it stragnge that bush has asked sandra day oconner to stay on for a bit longer and now we really did not need roberts in her spot after all! bush really must be in a hard spot!….<<snark>>>
How is everyone this morning?
Just getting stirring here in the Scribe household — stayed up waaaay too damn late last night checking the Net and doing software updates. Usually do them once a week, but vacation interrupted the schedule; Apple had 7 new items to install! Jury still out on new version of iTunes; seems to be working okay, but looks clunky to me for some reason.
Today is major cleaning day; I’ve promised myself to be off the computer by 10:30am PDT so I can get some work done. We’ve both got to finish unpacking (actually, I’m done but I need to put the small suitcase in the big one so we can stow them in the storage room), do another load or ten of laundry, and now that the vacation cold seems to be getting better, I want to actually plan some meals and go grocery shopping. We also need to go see his folks and pick up the stuff we sent home from LA (brochures, transit schedules, and all the Tut books the spouse bought). Definitely will do that in the future…
I’d like to get to IKEA on Monday to pick up a few more pieces of furniture (our apartment is basically furnished in early American IKEA lol), mainly a computer desk for our new desktop system, a couple of drawer units, and maybe a couple of bookcases…definitely need a corner bookcase in the dining room, would like to maybe get a bookcase in the bedroom for all the spouse’s train/transit books.
Well, only got 15 minutes to check other stuff — will check back in this evening…
If anyone is interested:
Parker’s diary at Booman Tribune is linked out at C&L in Mikes Blog Roundup today:
Fo’shizzle G.Wizzle. Booman Tribune has some excellent rappin’ up
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Leave the caffeine in the cup and … travel while snoozing to ::
Canada
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Holland
perhaps even Spain
Besides learning a foreign language, we need some charts of the Mediterranean and …
rowers –
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I haven’t been visiting the Cafe as often as I was accustomed. I’ve been in contractor spreadsheet hell wherein I spend a lot of time talking to Bubba’s extracting their essential estimates. We’ve also spent considerable time interviewing log home “package” providers. This is extremely frustrating and confusing because you end up comparing apples to oranges to cherries.
Today we went to a seminar hosted by one such provider and one of the few solid things we came away knowing is: we need a Rough Terrain Forklift with an Extendable Arm capable of lifting 3-4 tons off a flat bed brought in by a semi. One of the attendees told us during a break, “Well, that blows my dream. My 20 acres is on top of a mountain.” We suggested staging at a local lumber yard and shipping up the bundles on smaller trucks.
We had our own little bubble-bursting moment when the sales rep explained that log homes need to be at least 24″ off the ground. Whoa. We’d planned on building on a slab and hadn’t thought about “ground splash” messing up our logs.
Driving back, we discussed a solution to that problem that added to the structural integrity of the house. We also both noted an extreme flaw in their system that is being used to cope with log shrinkage and tonight I’ve encouraged Hubby to apply for a friggin’ patent on his solution that that problem.
Otherwise, I’ve been so enraged over Katrina that I couldn’t say anything positive about anything.
I live in an old log house, sjct…what DIYs are you looking at? Lok’n Logs is one that I know of…
(mine was built by a stone mason of all things…so we have our base of fieldstone!)
A fieldstone base is exactly the solution we were considering!
We have been going to the “local” log manufacturers, that are within 300 miles: Appalachian Log Structures in WV, Log Homes of America in NC, Southland Log Homes in SC and Honest Abe in TN.
Now, I’ll go check out Lok’n Logs to bring the chaos factor up to five…
Hubby would really appreciate it if you could post an image of one of the exterior walls of your log home. And, how are the electrical outlets arranged? Are they embedded in the stone work?
I’ll take a couple of pictures and show you…but I should mention that mine was built in 1947 from scratch. I cob-blasted and stained the exterior when I bought the place 5 or 6 years ago, but haven’t messed with the chinking yet.
The electrical is generally run between the logs and chinked over. When I’ve added electrical, we’ve made creative use of the radio frequency switches, roof beams and basement access.
I’ll look for the images as a reply to this comment. You know on an “old” thread in an unrecommended diary is almost like a private conversation. 😉
They’re letting people patent almost everything these days. Roman-empire era oral hygiene devices, numbers, online shopping, Basmati rice, genes of course, and more.