Nope. Second one is down with it now, which is a mixed blessing. Hard to have 2 sick kids at once, but glad that it will be over sooner rather than later.
We only got about 5 inches so the melt isn’t going to take long. Our forecast is for upper 40’s to low 50’s through Thursday so assuming that is about to arrive at your place, you ought to be seeing some serious melting.
Sorry to hear the kids are sick, I had a 2-year old up half the night so I’m with you. We’re having chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast – which is a first for our two kids – so it’s a good day here.
If she doesn’t know about it already, your wife may be interested to learn that the Namaste company makes all kinds of baking mixes containing no wheat, gluten, corn, soy, potato, dairy, or nuts, in a facility also free of these ingredients. My roommate has some severe allergies but she loves the Namaste products. Here’s a link to some of them on sale at Harvest Moon (I don’t know anything about this online retailer, they were just an early google hit for Namaste products.)
My kids love carrots, they eat four or five baby carrots a day – oh boy the pro-birthers are going to get me now. I have a fondue pot and a chocolate bar at home, hmm….
Only about 2 inches. We sent this nor’easter off to Philly and New York this time. We often get nailed in storms like that. It won’t take much to see the ground here. The sun is starting to have melting power before the thermometer even hits 32. It’s going to hit the mid 30’s today and 40’s tomorrow, so hot damn!
Speaking of ground (and to satisfy my nosiness) — when you commented on how much acreage I had, I had asked how much you had but I don’t think you ever saw that comment. The pictures of the pasture make it look good-sized and I can see that there are woods around it that I had assumed were part of the property.
Thanks, Family Man. I do love them to pieces. We go through about 15lbs of carrots a week, but the bulk of that is fed with meals, not treats. Oh, sure I say that after I admitted to Andi that I had a carrot in my pocket when I took this shot. 😉
I grew up a farm and we had horses and shetland ponies. I loved the horses, but the shetland ponies were mean little dickens. Any chance they got they would try and bite you.
When ponies are mean they can take you by surprise. I was once bitten on the arm by a baby Shetland and I had a hematoma for a month and a half… very nasty bite. I once had a saint of a pony named Joni the Pony… she was old when I took her, and gentle as a kitten. But she was the exception.
It was a good place for me to grow up. When I got a little older my parents would let us take the horses and go camping in the woods overnight. I kind of remember the first time as I felt grown up, but a little afriad being out in the woods at night.
I was thinking about you last night. I was reading a comment by somebody who was shocked by the use of political maneuvering over idealogy and seemed to think that Jefferson and Franklin would also be shocked.
How are Adams, Franklin and Jefferson? At what point are you in the always idealistic, never practical, struggle for the American state?
He is still in Holland and trying to get backing. Comte de Vergennes is trying to get him taken out of his position.
I have to admit, I admire his tenacity.
It was surprising to me how much political maneuvering was done back then. But then I’ve heard the term “Man is a political animal”, so it shouldn’t be a surpirse.
That’s exactly the phrase that always comes to my mind when I think about him after reading that book. His tenacity. In a way, reading that book was almost like reading a novel for me because I became so attached to him as a main character. He could be so irritating to those around him and yet he was so loveable in so many ways. But it was his tenacity that I so admired. He could have retired to the farm in Braintree and left the fight to the others. But he didn’t. And the whole time he knew that Franklin and Jefferson were going to get all the credit because they were more likeable.
Mr. Nature has yet to grasp the idea that simplicity has it’s charms…especially for me. While I get him a tiny card with perhaps a heart on the front and ‘i love you’ on the inside, the ones he gets me could easily provide shelter for a family of four if they were caught in a sudden rainstorm.
I got them for 5.5 years. LOL Maybe again in the future. I also believe in being romantic all year. It is always fun doing sweet things for someone you love.
I buy myself fresh flowers from the market 2 or 3 times a month; more in the winter. My husband says he wishes I would stop so that it would have more impact when he brings flowers to me.
Hot tea today, Darjeeling with a great big paper heart stuck to the mug. I gave her her roses a week ago so they’d actually be a surprise. And tonight we’re going to play Lego Star Wars, a PS2 game with cooperative mode so you can hit your sweetie with a light saber. We’re working on seventeen years this year. Oldieweds now, but mushy ones.
I can barely count all the ways to make something delightfully dirty-minded out of that comment. It must be Indy’s valentine’s present to you to have let it go by.
I thought you were fully open to all opportunities to make dirty remarks. I’m disappointed to hear that you have a prejudice about commenting on such things as male power failures and the virtues of battery-operated vibrators. Where’s your female chauvanism?
I am fully open to all opportunities to make dirty remarks. My brain just doesn’t process the penis-theme as well as other themes. It’s not a prejudice, it’s just that my skills aren’t evenly distributed across the naughty board.
And I am always working on eliminating any remaining shred of any kind of chauvinism from my personality, so you’ll probably only rarely hear any jokes from me on that theme. Thematically, I strongly prefer pleasure oriented jokes that skate up and/or over the edge of people’s senses of propriety.
Hey, all — just peepin’ in ultra-briefly to wish everyone a lovely day. May we all be surrounded by the people & things we love best on this Valentine’s Day.
Also: a hearty birthday shout-out to our own Supersoling! Many blessings to you on another journey ’round the sun & may your birthday, too, be filled with love & joy.
Quickie comment today — got to hit the road in about half an hour.
First Valentine’s stop is to buy socks for the homeless; at church on Sunday one of the parishioners who volunteers at the drop-in center said the sock drawer is bare (they keep socks on hand in case someone comes in seeking clean/dry pair). Then I’ll head to church to drop them off at the office so they can be picked up tomorrow and taken to the center. Then going to my in-laws to take mom-in-law the nightgown I exchanged for her yesterday, then finally returning home to try and get stuff done. Dinner tonight is Sweet Tomatoes — not exactly romantic, but hell, after 15 years of marriage (19 years together including dating years) we don’t go too overboard…and I’ve got a birthday in a couple of weeks so we’ll do the romance bit then.
Okay, need to finish getting dressed…have a great day, folks…
Hi everyone, greetings, Happy Day and Valentines day to all.
I know it’s Supersolings birthday today and I am having a party for him at Village Blue, so you are all invited to express your sentiments to him over there, just click the link below (Party is the top of the page) and add your good wishes.
Looks like another lovely Socal day…
Good morning, AndiF!
Morning CG. Are the boys back in school?
Thanks for asking.
Nope. Second one is down with it now, which is a mixed blessing. Hard to have 2 sick kids at once, but glad that it will be over sooner rather than later.
Ready for the snow to melt today?
We only got about 5 inches so the melt isn’t going to take long. Our forecast is for upper 40’s to low 50’s through Thursday so assuming that is about to arrive at your place, you ought to be seeing some serious melting.
Hope the boys feel better soon.
Morning everyone. Happy Valentine’s Day!
Sorry to hear the kids are sick, I had a 2-year old up half the night so I’m with you. We’re having chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast – which is a first for our two kids – so it’s a good day here.
Mmm…chocolate-chip pancakes sound great.
We’ve got a million food allergies, so it has taken awhile to find a pancake recipe and chips we can use. Today was the payoff 🙂
Awww, you are such a good Daddy! Would you adopt me… maybe just on pancake day?
Hats go off to my wife, who tracks all this stuff down, I’m just the hash chef.
If she doesn’t know about it already, your wife may be interested to learn that the Namaste company makes all kinds of baking mixes containing no wheat, gluten, corn, soy, potato, dairy, or nuts, in a facility also free of these ingredients. My roommate has some severe allergies but she loves the Namaste products. Here’s a link to some of them on sale at Harvest Moon (I don’t know anything about this online retailer, they were just an early google hit for Namaste products.)
Thanks, I know we’ve found similar ones, but I will have to check this out.
Good Morning Everyone.
Good morning FM.
And you can relax because the coffee cart only uses recycled cardboard cups and dishes so there’s nothing to wash up.
Good morning Andi.
Oh for joy no more dishes to wash. But now I have to carry a ton of trash out to the recycle bin.
Ya just can’t please some people.
Maybe chocolate covered carrots for Valentine’s Day?
uuuhhhhh…chocolate covered carrots…. uhhhhhhmmm
Hey, it could happen.
I ate a chocolate covered grasshopper once.
My kids love carrots, they eat four or five baby carrots a day – oh boy the pro-birthers are going to get me now. I have a fondue pot and a chocolate bar at home, hmm….
Good morning to you and the horses.
Hope you are feeling as fine as the horses look.
Good morning, Andi. Yes, thanks… I’m pretty chipper this morning, especially after your snowmelt prediction. How about yourself?
Yesterday afternoon the horses were in a real posing sort of mood and I got a few good shots. (OK, I admit, I had a carrot in my pocket just in case.)
How much snow did you get?
Only about 2 inches. We sent this nor’easter off to Philly and New York this time. We often get nailed in storms like that. It won’t take much to see the ground here. The sun is starting to have melting power before the thermometer even hits 32. It’s going to hit the mid 30’s today and 40’s tomorrow, so hot damn!
Speaking of ground (and to satisfy my nosiness) — when you commented on how much acreage I had, I had asked how much you had but I don’t think you ever saw that comment. The pictures of the pasture make it look good-sized and I can see that there are woods around it that I had assumed were part of the property.
Beautiful horses Nag. Looking like that, they could probably get anything they wanted from me.
Thanks, Family Man. I do love them to pieces. We go through about 15lbs of carrots a week, but the bulk of that is fed with meals, not treats. Oh, sure I say that after I admitted to Andi that I had a carrot in my pocket when I took this shot. 😉
I grew up a farm and we had horses and shetland ponies. I loved the horses, but the shetland ponies were mean little dickens. Any chance they got they would try and bite you.
all ponies are mean — it’s the napolean complex.
LOL I think you are right :).
When ponies are mean they can take you by surprise. I was once bitten on the arm by a baby Shetland and I had a hematoma for a month and a half… very nasty bite. I once had a saint of a pony named Joni the Pony… she was old when I took her, and gentle as a kitten. But she was the exception.
What a great place for a kid to grow up!
It was a good place for me to grow up. When I got a little older my parents would let us take the horses and go camping in the woods overnight. I kind of remember the first time as I felt grown up, but a little afriad being out in the woods at night.
Good Morning everyone. It’s sunny! So rare.
It’s also supposed to be almost 60 degrees today — ho hum just a usual day in globally warmed Missouri.
Good morning maryb. How are you today?
So far so good.
I was thinking about you last night. I was reading a comment by somebody who was shocked by the use of political maneuvering over idealogy and seemed to think that Jefferson and Franklin would also be shocked.
How are Adams, Franklin and Jefferson? At what point are you in the always idealistic, never practical, struggle for the American state?
Curling is on tonight at 5:00 p.m. your time on CNBC. Curling – Women’s: United States against Japan
Thanks. I don’t know if I’ll be able to get to a cable station though. Did you see the story last night on bemidji MN — the US capital of curling?
I thought you said you had cable at work.
Didn’t see the story but I’m not surprised that somewhere in Minnesota would be “US capital of curling”.
I meant to check that out yesterday and never had time. Maybe you can post a reminder for me this afternoon. 🙂 You’re SO nice.
Minnesota is also the home of the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame. Anything cold — you can count on Minnesota to capitalize on it.
is this the ice sweeping stuff?
You got it.
Uh huh. Although I’m not as wild about women’s curling. Seeing women sweep just isn’t has much of a novelty as seeing men sweep.
LOL I use the vacume instead of a broom.
Glad to hear it’s going good so far.
He is still in Holland and trying to get backing. Comte de Vergennes is trying to get him taken out of his position.
I have to admit, I admire his tenacity.
It was surprising to me how much political maneuvering was done back then. But then I’ve heard the term “Man is a political animal”, so it shouldn’t be a surpirse.
That’s exactly the phrase that always comes to my mind when I think about him after reading that book. His tenacity. In a way, reading that book was almost like reading a novel for me because I became so attached to him as a main character. He could be so irritating to those around him and yet he was so loveable in so many ways. But it was his tenacity that I so admired. He could have retired to the farm in Braintree and left the fight to the others. But he didn’t. And the whole time he knew that Franklin and Jefferson were going to get all the credit because they were more likeable.
Hopefully this will inspire my morning. 🙂
Alice’s Valentine diary today…got anything to add to it?
I’ve just made my contribution.
I just spoiled the mood.
I liked yours. It was mushy without being mushy, a hard trick to do.
I’m liking everybody’s contributions over there. A wide spectrum is good. 🙂
Mr. Nature has yet to grasp the idea that simplicity has it’s charms…especially for me. While I get him a tiny card with perhaps a heart on the front and ‘i love you’ on the inside, the ones he gets me could easily provide shelter for a family of four if they were caught in a sudden rainstorm.
That great big card represents his great big love for you and the whole family — he is a man, bigger is better.
You’re right. When you understand his thinking you have to feel honored!
I added my part to her diary also.
On the one hand, I think of VD as a Hallmark Holiday. On the other hand … is she giving out chocolates to those of us who come by?
I dislike these manufactured holidays. I want flowers all year.
I got them for 5.5 years. LOL Maybe again in the future. I also believe in being romantic all year. It is always fun doing sweet things for someone you love.
I buy myself fresh flowers from the market 2 or 3 times a month; more in the winter. My husband says he wishes I would stop so that it would have more impact when he brings flowers to me.
M’lady were that I could give you a flower for every minute, for every day, and for every year.
But then again, you’ve got to factor in cost of flowers, delivery, and tip.
So, here one for you SN.
How sweet – I love yellow roses! Thanks, FamilyMan.
You are very welcome.
awwwww
Yellow Roses are my favorite. I’m glad he deliverd them to you here in the cafe so we could all enjoy!
Family Man you are a gem.
okay, I am jealous. LOL Beautiful rose.
well it is a good way to get those who are romanticly challenged to step up to the plate at least once a year. LOL
I hope alice doesn’t mind but I started something simillar over at MLW.
Happy Valentine’s Day
I also added a link to her dairy here over there so people at both sites can share.
People really did choose a variety of poems. I liked it, even though she had run out of chocolates by the time I got there.
The world would be better if we started every day with poetry.
Going to lurk for a while, see ya later.
Morning Folks!!!! Hope everyone has a fabulous day and a Happy Valentine’s!!!! Being single Valentine’s doesn’t mean much too me. LOL
I got to get ready to go to the city today and get some stuff. I love George Carlin’s routine on STUFF. Just can’t get enough.
Everyone have a good day in the pond.
Hot tea today, Darjeeling with a great big paper heart stuck to the mug. I gave her her roses a week ago so they’d actually be a surprise. And tonight we’re going to play Lego Star Wars, a PS2 game with cooperative mode so you can hit your sweetie with a light saber. We’re working on seventeen years this year. Oldieweds now, but mushy ones.
Ahh, nothing says ‘thanks for sticking with me all these years’ like whacking your honey with a light saber.
I can barely count all the ways to make something delightfully dirty-minded out of that comment. It must be Indy’s valentine’s present to you to have let it go by.
Either that, or she just hasn’t gotten this far down the page yet.
I’m shocked and appalled that you would think, even for a second, Mr. KMc, that I do not always and already go all the way down.
Well it sure is low-hanging fruit. In fact, “low-hanging fruit” is also ripe for exploitation.
Low-hanging fruit = light saber category.
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!
Light saber jokes don’t have a whole lot of natural appeal for me.
I thought you were fully open to all opportunities to make dirty remarks. I’m disappointed to hear that you have a prejudice about commenting on such things as male power failures and the virtues of battery-operated vibrators. Where’s your female chauvanism?
well you can always get viagra or use the power units in case of failure. LOL
I am fully open to all opportunities to make dirty remarks. My brain just doesn’t process the penis-theme as well as other themes. It’s not a prejudice, it’s just that my skills aren’t evenly distributed across the naughty board.
And I am always working on eliminating any remaining shred of any kind of chauvinism from my personality, so you’ll probably only rarely hear any jokes from me on that theme. Thematically, I strongly prefer pleasure oriented jokes that skate up and/or over the edge of people’s senses of propriety.
Why lookie there, it’s time for me to take the dogs for a walk.
have fun with the puppies!!!
Hey, all — just peepin’ in ultra-briefly to wish everyone a lovely day. May we all be surrounded by the people & things we love best on this Valentine’s Day.
Also: a hearty birthday shout-out to our own Supersoling! Many blessings to you on another journey ’round the sun & may your birthday, too, be filled with love & joy.
Enjoy, all. See you soon.
Off to hear John Edwards, I’ll take my computer but doubt I can live-blog.
Quickie comment today — got to hit the road in about half an hour.
First Valentine’s stop is to buy socks for the homeless; at church on Sunday one of the parishioners who volunteers at the drop-in center said the sock drawer is bare (they keep socks on hand in case someone comes in seeking clean/dry pair). Then I’ll head to church to drop them off at the office so they can be picked up tomorrow and taken to the center. Then going to my in-laws to take mom-in-law the nightgown I exchanged for her yesterday, then finally returning home to try and get stuff done. Dinner tonight is Sweet Tomatoes — not exactly romantic, but hell, after 15 years of marriage (19 years together including dating years) we don’t go too overboard…and I’ve got a birthday in a couple of weeks so we’ll do the romance bit then.
Okay, need to finish getting dressed…have a great day, folks…
Mmmmmm quickies : )
Hi everyone, greetings, Happy Day and Valentines day to all.
I know it’s Supersolings birthday today and I am having a party for him at Village Blue, so you are all invited to express your sentiments to him over there, just click the link below (Party is the top of the page) and add your good wishes.
Looks like another lovely Socal day…