I’m surprised they allow the NYTimes to be home delivered in your state. Or even if it isn’t illegal, I’m surprised the locals don’t force the deliveryman out of town.
It’s my puny little protest. All of the neighbors have their Raleigh papers in white bags and my NYT comes in blue. I swear that’s the only reason I still have it delivered instead of reading it online.
My favorite part of the home town paper is reading about the next door neighbors visiting the other neighbors acrros the street and what a good time they had.
I always thought if I had a site of my own, the name would be – Mundane Doesn’t Describe It.
I used to love to read the little weekly suburban paper where I grew up just for the police blotter. It was filled with funny little things about a squirrel stuck in someone’s attic, or someone getting drunk and locking himself out of the house.
Now when I go back and read it it’s not such little stuff anymore. Just armed robberies and sexual assaults like the rest of the world.
That’s one thing about living in a very small town. Everybody knows everybody and the last thing you would want to see is your name in the paper for something wrong. Once that happens then all the telephones in town are off the hook and a thousand tongues are wagging.
A fast question. Andi told me to cut out the lines when you post a new cafe, to take it off auto-format. For some reason I couldn’t find it.
I’m really starting to get excited about coming back east to proper civilization. I was at the local Safeway yesterday desperately searching for onion bagels but the only options I had were plain, or everything. (There were some cinnamon raisin ones but they were past the sell-by date already.) Dude, come on.
You got that right, sister. The bakeries out here are no better than the grocery stores, but they actually have an excuse for that. We’re over a mile high and everything cooks different up here, even egg boiling, so baking is a challenge even if you know what you’re doing. You know the ‘high altitude directions’ on things like Betty Crocker cake mixes? We are actually higher than the highest altitudes usually listed, so we always have to make it up on the fly. I ain’t gonna miss that.
I agree. Even when we get the ‘Giant New York Style’ ones from the store they’re not even really enough like a bagel. There’s no crispiness to it unless you over-toast the things.
Hey Family Man. How ya feelin’? All healed up by now, I hope.
I’ve been out here in Flagstaff for just over a decade and it’s grown quite a bit while I’ve been here. We’ve pretty much watched it go from a quiet and quaint little mountain/college/ski town to Just Another Motel 6 Burg Off I-40. It’s sad; I really liked it here with all of its charm before the Wal-Mart came to town.
But hell, if I’m gonna live 1/2 mile from a damn Wal-Mart then I figure I might as well live 1/2 mile from everything else, too, so, Cincinnati Ho!
We had a similar problem in Pensacola once Wal Mart started muscling it’s way in. Pensacola was a lot of sprawl but all of the local businesses; grocery stores, family markets and such had to go under because just about everywhere that there was a concentration there was a Super Wal Mart there within months. and not just close either…right next door. So a lot of the smaller business went out of, erm, business. Made for a lot of empty properties that got snatched up by big business and before long we had nothing but rows of cheap hotels and Walmart as the center of the cancer.
I grew up in Miami and, no offense, but you could not have paid me enough to live in Pensacola even before the Wal-Martization of the place. Maybe ’cause I was a city kid, the northern part of Florida always scared the crap outta me.
But yeah, you nailed it, that’s the same process that’s killing Flagstaff right now. Death by a thousand Stone Cold Creameries & Quizzno’s & Office Depots.
I sure wish the Dems would take up an issue like this and run with it — it’d resonate just about anywhere they tried it, I think. Whenever some GOP mouthpiece starts yapping bullshit about the economy and jobs, the nearest Dem should shout about this problem and how the GOP has caused it with corporate welfare and encouraging reckless irresponsibility among the CEO class, which is why Grandpa’s pension is gone, and why Aunt Sally can’t afford healthcare, and why Mom and Pop had to close their store last year…
No worries…I was a transplant to P’cola anyway. Originally from Maine. But you could pay me to live there, only because the pay scale was so bad up there, that would be the only way you could manage to live there
I’d be happy if i could just find a sourdough bagel up here. The only place that has a chance of having them is this one Dunkin Donuts up the road…and that place is just kinda ewww
Heh, sourdough’s a whole ‘nother thing in Flagstaff. Again, due to the altitude, it’s really hard to make good bread up here and apparently extra hard to make sourdough. In college I had some friends who were working as bakers for some of the local coffee & health food joints and they’d all sit around and have massive debates about whether it was, in fact, impossible to make proper sourdough up here.
Hope you’re able to get your bagel without having to resort to some dirty Dark Elder God methodology. 😉
Our local paper is so radical for the republican side of view, I do not read it anymore, let alone subscribe to it.
Good Morning, Folks. I have been up early sad to say. The critters, feline of nature, were restless and they just had to have me up. They were not nice to me this morning….:o( Anyhow, got up to find it overcast and does look like rain. My son in Memphis said it has rained there all night long.
It has been rather cool here the past few days or so.
Can you believe it is in the mid of March already??!! Time is a flying! Anyhow. Good morning…wishing ya all a great day…hugs
Not a happy camper this morning — had to get up and wash the slow cooker that the spouse was supposed to wash several days ago — I’m using it for tonight’s dinner so it was a necessity.
All this talk about bagels is making me hungry; wonder if I can talk the spouse into a bagel run today. Let’s see, there’s Noah’s…and The Bagel Baker…and if we make it to church in Palo Alto today there’s Izzy’s Brooklyn Bagels (which is so kosher they actually close during Passover)…and probably a bunch of other places I can’t even think of. Living in Silly Con Valley totally rocks sometimes… 🙂
Got to go stick some laundry in the dryer (so I have something to wear if we make it to church)…back in a few…
Well, went down to take care of the laundry, and found the machine stopped while still full of water. Had to restart in in a new machine, and sent the spouse down to keep an eye on the load to make sure it doesn’t happen again. Also my hands are freezing — it was a cold water load I was doing!
Hey there, all! Greetings from the lovely, snowy Catskills, on an exceptionally dark day in our history.
Hope everyone’s faring well. Me, I’m quite pleased to see light at the end of the wintry tunnel. Tomorrow’s the Equinox: daylight & darkness are completely balanced, on the way to the longest day of the year at Solstice — a cause for great yips of glee from yours truly.
As of now, however, time to hustle out, wipe the snow from the car & head to ‘town’ for groceries.
Morning everyone, I see you have a cafe going, so I will not post a new one. Problem is I am going to a birthday party for my grandson today and so I will be out from 12:00 to 5:00 pdt…so will be unable to post a new one if needed, so could froggybottom post one for me. Thanks so much.
Hope everyone is having a great day, it is chilly but sunny here after a night of rain.
Dinner is cooking — it’s a recipe that I came across in a magazine that uses kielbasa/Polish sausage (I’m using a chicken/turkey sausage with garlic and herbs), frozen Potatoes O’Brien, shredded Cheddar cheese, and mushroom soup. Mix everything together and cook for about 7 hours. I’m also trying out the new slow cooker liners that Reynolds Wrap (the foil people) came out with — they’re supposed to make cleanup really easy. That’s important in a household where pans tend to sit in the sink for a couple of eons… 😉
Spouse just decided that we’re not going to church today; we’ve got too much crap to get done around here. He wants to go out to breakfast though, so I’d best hop in the shower…
Mornin’, all. Kids and baseball today — GR’s famous homemade waffles this morning (the secret to teaching kids to separate eggs is to start them before they can find out that it’s hard) for our two, plus a friend that stayed over last night. Costco makes it possible to put real maple syrup on them. Then it’s baseball practice this afternoon (the little league season starts in less than a week).
Enjoying the first sunny weekend in a while. What a treat!
Friend’s mom just called to do pickup. Now the cleanup begins.
Hey, Family Man. Whew, quiet day around here! If you’re here you must watch this video and remember it’s not scripted. It’s only 20 seconds long and you need to watch it 2 or 3 times to get the full effect of what an asshole this guy is.
The problem with the slow cooker is that dinner smells soooo freakin’ good hours before it’s ready — still got a couple of hours to go. I’ll toss up a Caesar salad (found a light Caesar dressing with garlic that’s delicious) to go with it. And if these slow-cooker liners work well, I’ll probably start using the slow-cooker twice a week at least; I love putting everything together and then not worrying about watching it.
Actually been napping most of the day, since I was up at 7am. Now I’m going to try and get some work done…
Howdy!!! Grab a mug and a seat and watch the snoozer sport of the year….CURLING. LOL
Ah, a fresh cafe and hopefully the bagels have been replenished. I’m in the mood for an everything bagel with plain cream cheese.
I’ve already read the local paper and my hometown paper online, now I have to go get the NYT from my driveway and read that.
I’m surprised they allow the NYTimes to be home delivered in your state. Or even if it isn’t illegal, I’m surprised the locals don’t force the deliveryman out of town.
It’s my puny little protest. All of the neighbors have their Raleigh papers in white bags and my NYT comes in blue. I swear that’s the only reason I still have it delivered instead of reading it online.
Are you reading David Brooks? Telling us what men want?
My favorite part of the home town paper is reading about the next door neighbors visiting the other neighbors acrros the street and what a good time they had.
I always thought if I had a site of my own, the name would be – Mundane Doesn’t Describe It.
I used to love to read the little weekly suburban paper where I grew up just for the police blotter. It was filled with funny little things about a squirrel stuck in someone’s attic, or someone getting drunk and locking himself out of the house.
Now when I go back and read it it’s not such little stuff anymore. Just armed robberies and sexual assaults like the rest of the world.
That’s one thing about living in a very small town. Everybody knows everybody and the last thing you would want to see is your name in the paper for something wrong. Once that happens then all the telephones in town are off the hook and a thousand tongues are wagging.
A fast question. Andi told me to cut out the lines when you post a new cafe, to take it off auto-format. For some reason I couldn’t find it.
You can’t switch to HTML format after you’ve already posted it. The option disappears.
Oh Well. I’ll just have to slow down next time. Thanks SN.
It’s fine, FM…thanks for putting it up. Times like this I sure miss our Andi. 🙁
You aren’t the only one!
George is starting to whine to go outside and I’ve got to get started myself.
See everyone later.
“Mundane Doesn’t Describe It”
Lol! I wish I had something more intelligent to say, but this is my brain on mundane.
fwiw, Kansas, you always crack me up.
It’s worth quite a lot! (I’d like to have an emoticon of a Laughing Buddha with his belly shaking.)
I’m really starting to get excited about coming back east to proper civilization. I was at the local Safeway yesterday desperately searching for onion bagels but the only options I had were plain, or everything. (There were some cinnamon raisin ones but they were past the sell-by date already.) Dude, come on.
I hate those grocery store bagels. I swear they’re just bread shaped like a bagel. Doesn’t cut it.
You got that right, sister. The bakeries out here are no better than the grocery stores, but they actually have an excuse for that. We’re over a mile high and everything cooks different up here, even egg boiling, so baking is a challenge even if you know what you’re doing. You know the ‘high altitude directions’ on things like Betty Crocker cake mixes? We are actually higher than the highest altitudes usually listed, so we always have to make it up on the fly. I ain’t gonna miss that.
I agree. Even when we get the ‘Giant New York Style’ ones from the store they’re not even really enough like a bagel. There’s no crispiness to it unless you over-toast the things.
Hi Indy. That’s one thing I miss about not living in a larger place. No choices.
Hey Family Man. How ya feelin’? All healed up by now, I hope.
I’ve been out here in Flagstaff for just over a decade and it’s grown quite a bit while I’ve been here. We’ve pretty much watched it go from a quiet and quaint little mountain/college/ski town to Just Another Motel 6 Burg Off I-40. It’s sad; I really liked it here with all of its charm before the Wal-Mart came to town.
But hell, if I’m gonna live 1/2 mile from a damn Wal-Mart then I figure I might as well live 1/2 mile from everything else, too, so, Cincinnati Ho!
We had a similar problem in Pensacola once Wal Mart started muscling it’s way in. Pensacola was a lot of sprawl but all of the local businesses; grocery stores, family markets and such had to go under because just about everywhere that there was a concentration there was a Super Wal Mart there within months. and not just close either…right next door. So a lot of the smaller business went out of, erm, business. Made for a lot of empty properties that got snatched up by big business and before long we had nothing but rows of cheap hotels and Walmart as the center of the cancer.
I grew up in Miami and, no offense, but you could not have paid me enough to live in Pensacola even before the Wal-Martization of the place. Maybe ’cause I was a city kid, the northern part of Florida always scared the crap outta me.
But yeah, you nailed it, that’s the same process that’s killing Flagstaff right now. Death by a thousand Stone Cold Creameries & Quizzno’s & Office Depots.
I sure wish the Dems would take up an issue like this and run with it — it’d resonate just about anywhere they tried it, I think. Whenever some GOP mouthpiece starts yapping bullshit about the economy and jobs, the nearest Dem should shout about this problem and how the GOP has caused it with corporate welfare and encouraging reckless irresponsibility among the CEO class, which is why Grandpa’s pension is gone, and why Aunt Sally can’t afford healthcare, and why Mom and Pop had to close their store last year…
No worries…I was a transplant to P’cola anyway. Originally from Maine. But you could pay me to live there, only because the pay scale was so bad up there, that would be the only way you could manage to live there
I’d be happy if i could just find a sourdough bagel up here. The only place that has a chance of having them is this one Dunkin Donuts up the road…and that place is just kinda ewww
Heh, sourdough’s a whole ‘nother thing in Flagstaff. Again, due to the altitude, it’s really hard to make good bread up here and apparently extra hard to make sourdough. In college I had some friends who were working as bakers for some of the local coffee & health food joints and they’d all sit around and have massive debates about whether it was, in fact, impossible to make proper sourdough up here.
Hope you’re able to get your bagel without having to resort to some dirty Dark Elder God methodology. 😉
Naw…there’s no way we’re summoning the elder ones for a bagel…they’d eat em all up anyway so would be kind of counter-productive
Throw in some lox and capers for my bagel, and I am so there…
How is everybody this morning?
Hi CG. I didn’t get to tell you Friday how great your bookcases look! It’s making me think seriously again about getting some built in for myself.
I am totally loving them…just need to finish putting my stuff away in them.
Hey, CG — thanks for word on ‘Logjam’ the other day. I hit the cafe’ a bit late to express appreciation.
Glad to see you’re enjoying your new bookcases! I sure would 😉
I was hoping you’d catch that-you’re welcome.
Was worried but apparently you were just getting coffeed up.
I think I’ve been in and out all weekend…
isn’t it too late for coffee?
It is. I’ll put up a new one.
Thanks, maryb…I’ll see ya there!
OK I’m back I think.
Our local paper is so radical for the republican side of view, I do not read it anymore, let alone subscribe to it.
Good Morning, Folks. I have been up early sad to say. The critters, feline of nature, were restless and they just had to have me up. They were not nice to me this morning….:o( Anyhow, got up to find it overcast and does look like rain. My son in Memphis said it has rained there all night long.
It has been rather cool here the past few days or so.
Can you believe it is in the mid of March already??!! Time is a flying! Anyhow. Good morning…wishing ya all a great day…hugs
Not a happy camper this morning — had to get up and wash the slow cooker that the spouse was supposed to wash several days ago — I’m using it for tonight’s dinner so it was a necessity.
All this talk about bagels is making me hungry; wonder if I can talk the spouse into a bagel run today. Let’s see, there’s Noah’s…and The Bagel Baker…and if we make it to church in Palo Alto today there’s Izzy’s Brooklyn Bagels (which is so kosher they actually close during Passover)…and probably a bunch of other places I can’t even think of. Living in Silly Con Valley totally rocks sometimes… 🙂
Got to go stick some laundry in the dryer (so I have something to wear if we make it to church)…back in a few…
Well, went down to take care of the laundry, and found the machine stopped while still full of water. Had to restart in in a new machine, and sent the spouse down to keep an eye on the load to make sure it doesn’t happen again. Also my hands are freezing — it was a cold water load I was doing!
Got to thaw out now…
Hey there, all! Greetings from the lovely, snowy Catskills, on an exceptionally dark day in our history.
Hope everyone’s faring well. Me, I’m quite pleased to see light at the end of the wintry tunnel. Tomorrow’s the Equinox: daylight & darkness are completely balanced, on the way to the longest day of the year at Solstice — a cause for great yips of glee from yours truly.
As of now, however, time to hustle out, wipe the snow from the car & head to ‘town’ for groceries.
Happy Sunday, folks! Hope to see you soon.
Morning everyone, I see you have a cafe going, so I will not post a new one. Problem is I am going to a birthday party for my grandson today and so I will be out from 12:00 to 5:00 pdt…so will be unable to post a new one if needed, so could froggybottom post one for me. Thanks so much.
Hope everyone is having a great day, it is chilly but sunny here after a night of rain.
I’m just popping in and out. But, Mary I wished you had cable. On Discovery the show is:
“Squirrels”
Squirrels show their ingenuity on an obstacle course.
Enjoy
Thanks for thinking of me like that.
But I’m entertained enough reading about Florence, Alabama, the fashion capital of the deep south, in the NYTimes.
“”Squirrels”
Squirrels show their ingenuity on an obstacle course.”
I saw that one several years ago and laughed like crazy. It’s well worth taping for future viewing.
Dinner is cooking — it’s a recipe that I came across in a magazine that uses kielbasa/Polish sausage (I’m using a chicken/turkey sausage with garlic and herbs), frozen Potatoes O’Brien, shredded Cheddar cheese, and mushroom soup. Mix everything together and cook for about 7 hours. I’m also trying out the new slow cooker liners that Reynolds Wrap (the foil people) came out with — they’re supposed to make cleanup really easy. That’s important in a household where pans tend to sit in the sink for a couple of eons… 😉
Spouse just decided that we’re not going to church today; we’ve got too much crap to get done around here. He wants to go out to breakfast though, so I’d best hop in the shower…
Had a great time at the hockey game last night. Huge fight and there were like 8 or so ejections. We won!!!
Heading out to do this stuff
http://codepinkportland.org/pop6.html
I think one of my reasons to be here is to help Katie with CodePink 🙂
Resist Dispair!!!
I love you all! Be safe, be true and be peaceful and passionate… Be PINK 🙂
Be careful Janet!
Mornin’, all. Kids and baseball today — GR’s famous homemade waffles this morning (the secret to teaching kids to separate eggs is to start them before they can find out that it’s hard) for our two, plus a friend that stayed over last night. Costco makes it possible to put real maple syrup on them. Then it’s baseball practice this afternoon (the little league season starts in less than a week).
Enjoying the first sunny weekend in a while. What a treat!
Friend’s mom just called to do pickup. Now the cleanup begins.
baseball practice 🙂
oh, you mean for the KIDS. too bad.
Well, practice for the kids isn’t too bad, but it’s a beautiful day here, so I’m a little sad to have to miss our pickup game in SF.
Here’s my cat Shadow (and her Imaginary Friend) on the shelves I made for her so she can catch the sun when it climbs up the wall.
Anybody hanging around the cafe?
Hey, Family Man. Whew, quiet day around here! If you’re here you must watch this video and remember it’s not scripted. It’s only 20 seconds long and you need to watch it 2 or 3 times to get the full effect of what an asshole this guy is.
The Power of Old People.
OMG, that’s funny! You ought to take that over to E4T,too, because kb’s talking about laughter today.
The problem with the slow cooker is that dinner smells soooo freakin’ good hours before it’s ready — still got a couple of hours to go. I’ll toss up a Caesar salad (found a light Caesar dressing with garlic that’s delicious) to go with it. And if these slow-cooker liners work well, I’ll probably start using the slow-cooker twice a week at least; I love putting everything together and then not worrying about watching it.
Actually been napping most of the day, since I was up at 7am. Now I’m going to try and get some work done…
Lounge is now open.