All Night and into the Morning at the Froggy Bottom Diner
This is an Unhosted Cafe.
The bar is fully stocked, but it is self-serve tonight.
Don’t forget to feed the meter, this is a tow-zone.
(4s accepted in place of quarters)
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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 earlier)
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May the 4’s be with you
I just found something I thought I’d lost. (I’m totally relieved)
how sweet the smell….
Oh boy – where is my buddy Mark-or cheryl or tony or any of those –errm’amazing’ people I know? Nowhere to be found this weekend,dammit.
I just got back from the movies and started putting 4’s into the juke box at the other cafe and when I turned around everyone had left for the new cafe.
Anybody here?
Sort of. I mean I am — but things keep coming up over here.
Would you like some Drambuie?
I’d love some (actually I don’t think I’ve ever really tried Drambuie — what does it taste like?)
Like extremely sweet licorice. I can only drink a little less than an ounce at a time & it takes an hour or more. I like it, but it’s weird.
I like licorice in small amounts — it sounds like this would be a sipping drink, which would work fine
Yes, it’s a nice slow sipping drink. But, very expensive. Which is probably another reason why I’ve made the bottle last a month.
Aguardiente Cristal, from Colombia.
Licorice…. with fangs.
Another one of those cheap common drinks I somewhere seem to have picked up a taste for. (Note: I also have a taste (if not a budget) for 18 year old MacAllan and 12 year Dalmore, so I’m not a COMPLETE barbarian…)
Can’t really handle them — give me a hangover. Brandy, too. So I end up drinking more wine or whiskey (some nights it’s whisky; depends on what kind).
KB….I like it too, but weird?? It’s 80% alcohol!! It can be as weird as it wants to be. 🙂 Yes, it is definitely a sipping liquor. Your rate of sipping is just about right.
🙂
Mix it with scotch and you have a Rusty Nail-now there is a recipe for disaster- or tetanus.
Ex-bartender here. 🙂
That’s what I’ve heard, but the Drambuie is enough to overset me. So I haven’t tried it.
Drambuie (wunnerful stuff) is like a brandy made from Scotch ingredients rather than wine grapes.. think of it as REdistilled Single Malt and you’re not far off.
Yes. It’s wonderful.
Try also Grand Marnier if you like Drambuie.
Me, I’m gonna sit here with my little flask of Flor de Caña 7 year old sipping rum and be VERY mellow for an hour or two…
a fan of Nicaraguan rum?
This stuff, anyway. Tried some of the island rums but they don’t suit me so well straight. My second favorite is San Miguel Siete, an Ecuadoran rum, but that’s sentiment speaking… it’s really not that great as rums go, but one of the best days of my life was celebrated with shots of the stuff and I like the memories that come back, so.
Just got back from a hockey game — 5-0 for the home team. Woo hoo! I really like being able to yell and scream my frustrations out at the end of the week at a hockey game. It’s very cathartic.
When I go to the hockey game this year I’m screaming — but that’s because THE BLUES ARE SO DAMN BAD!!!! The team is up for sale and they aren’t winning at all. It’s very disheartening. In fact I’ve stopped listening to the scores even.
Hmmm yes. The Blues are in a bit of a pickle. To be honest, I didn’t think they had a hope with Lalime as goalie (who came from Ottawa Sens). It seems like things went from bad to worse to hopeless.
Where are Jacques Plante and Glenn Hall when you need them (oops! showing my age again!)
Bad to worse to hopeless — yes that pretty much sums it up.
But pitchers and catchers report to spring training in just a few short weeks!
Ain’t nobody here at all.
Checkin’ in…Wat up?
Peace
how’s it going for you?
It just keeps on…kinda like the hammers from hell…
Know what I mean?
Peace
…I do. Unfortunately.
I’m always late to the party 🙁
Hope our DC contingent has a great weekend,this weekend!
is that a painting up top from the ‘trashcan school’?I have always loved them.
Sort of
in the PAC Northwet.
We had a beautiful sunny day today…a perfect example of the light at 48 degrees N. Lat.
Here’s a special Thank-you to Katybird:
I found some baby iris blooming in a couple planters by the driveway.
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Here’s one dedicated to Olivia for her photo inspirations. (Thinking Olivia, thinking Olivia, thinking…)
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A primrose from my neighbor’s yard.
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And finally, white heather from neighbor’s yard also.
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Hope you enjoy this breath of spring.
Thank you Puget4, I’m blown away.
Puget4 … these are beautiful!
I love the water droplets catching the sun on the Iris photos. The second photo makes me think of a dragon’s head. Very majestic looking. And the petals looks so delicate.
The colours in nature are so vibrant. The bright pink primrose is really something…
And the white heather is stunning. Really unique.
It’s hard to pick, but I think I like the iris photos best!
🙂
The Iris is my favorite also.
Thank you both. The iris are only about 3-4 inches tall. They are the real short early ones. Can’t think of the name of them.
VERY nice.
Can we have a little more info? Lens, camera, speed, that stuff?
(Okay, I’m a technoweenie about things like this…)
You’re going to laugh.
My camera is Nikon CoolPix 2500 digital about 3 years old. It has a setting for closeup which I used. The most help was no wind and bright sun and something to rest my elbows on to keep steady.
Now, in my defense….I used to do macro photography with a Nikon 35mm with a good macro lens so I know what they are at least.
If you try something stupid and it works, it wasn’t stupid.
That’s a good little camera with a SWEET lens and you’re getting top-notch work out of it. I shoot with several different kinds of equipment hella more expensive and “professional” than that and have a very hard time getting images with that degree of clarity and crispness on the computer.
It’s only the photographers that care about the equipment, the image doesn’t.
Carry on.
Gee Whiz…thank you very much. I really appreciate that. I love photgraphing small things and seeing the beauty there. But remember, you haven’t seen the ones I don’t publish. 🙂
3200 which must be fairly similar. I’ve had some great luck so far with it. Being male, I have yet to read the directions… and so I’m amazed at these macros.
I suppose now I’ll have to see if I can figure out which setting to use. Got any hints? (so I can avoid those nasty directions [I did try once, but I don’t understand Espanol all that well])
which has been a dead duck since the rewind button got stuck. I was not happy when two Velvia 50 slide films rewound themselves immediately on installation.
The only camera repair guy left in town got it fixed in 5 minutes for $ 5.00, so tonight I’m a very happy camper-photographer. (The little button was just stuck slightly indented.)
that was composed in Mandarin.
yeah, well, I went looking for the enya for the n but couldn’t find it
On mine, just below the lcd viewer are 3 buttons. the one on the right is Menu, the one in the middle is Scene. You really must experiment with different settings in Scene. There are all kinds of goodies there.
Then when you’ve tried all of those, take a look in Menu. It’s fun! 🙂
My daffs and crocuses are up already-this is really kind of ominous-it’s way too early for this.
But that’s normal for us (SF Bay Area). Flowering plum trees are a week or two away; usually end of January.
There’s a tree viburnum down the street that’s been in full bloom since early December. Most folks are saying that things are about a month early this year. The alders started showing purple buds in December and are past full bloom now. Their catkins are browning.
Global Warming. Climates are all mixed up.
We just moved in August-and we had til December til the other house finally changed hands- so we kept going down there and digging up more of my perennials- and shrubs and herbs and damn chrysanthemums! and peonies and azaleas and and and and……I thought we had maybe waited too long for some of them- but this appears to be a winterless winter–famous last words.
My usual first sign of spring is the daffs,but last week I saw a bunch of robins- and they are usually later than the daffs-hmmmm.
I think I’ll put out my hummingbird food.
Just kidding. It’s still early for that. 🙂
Here’s a pileated woodpecker that Gooserock captured (on camera)
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and another shot that shows a true pounding headache
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Do these guys migrate?
OKey doke I did my ‘4’ duty.
Gooserock,if you are still there have you ever seen a kit boat company called Shell Boats out of Vermont? Hub keeps looking at them- and I don’t know that I want one- they look kinda halfass to me.
I got my start in kit boats building a sailing Mirror Dinghy at school.
So long ago, the sail number was only 4 digits!
The world of kit boats and frankly niche-application boats of every imaginable variety has really exploded since the early 70’s when I got out of it to pursue the lucrative haggis music market.
Well I looked at that site and it doesn’t inspire me. I’d say it’s the rear half of the ass.
Look into Pelican or Great Pelican boats if you want semi crude looking boats that have big followings and therefore support & resale value. Mirror Dinghy, El Toro at the tiny to small end and Optimist Pram are other classics with large presence by now.
“Stitch and glue” is the category of boats that, like the mirror dinghy and Fireball racer, are built from carefully shaped flat, thin panels, stitched together along their edges with copper wire, then the seams epoxied to make rigid shells from dinghy to small cruiser types.
A pretty famous guy out here in the stitch-n-glue realm is Sam Devlin. Worked up one for Cliff Claven I guess.
Here’s a link to a midsize trailerable boat of his called called “Nancy’s China DC.”
It’s called Nancy’s China to refer to Nancy Reagan’s extravagant purchase of china for the White House during a recession when the middle class first started having trouble buying boats. The design was cheap to build.
Enjoy!
WOW thanks- Gooserock!
Come to the newly opened Roadside Diner