So let’s do it again!
Martinis are in the shaker, chilled and ready to pour.
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Snacks are on the bar
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Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier)
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May the 4’s be with you
Froggy Bottom Lounge CLOSED
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Snacks are on the bar
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Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier)
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Who’s up for another round?
Not me. I’ve had a long day and I’m worn out. Now to find a dry place to sleep and no dreaming of Depends.
Night all.
Good night FM, dry dreams!
AW, you’re no fun!
Just thinking of his welfare!
If I stay up late every night, will the cubs win the pennant?
but we could try it as an experiment. Knowing the cubs they’d take you right up to the brink and then lose, and all your late nights will have been for naught.
and went to bed early one night, then their losing would be all my fault. Yeah, definitely a bad plan.
It would be ALL your fault.
ROTFLMAO!!!! Don’t flood the couch.
Despite my accidental nappage today, I’m still ready for bed before 11:00 pm. Night froggies.
Night SN!
is right behind him and I can’t guarantee a cubs pennant by staying up so I might as well go for a threesome.
Night all.
Looks like it’s you and me and Olivia, Andi. Time to plan more embarrassment for Family Man?
…maryb? I went off to read a diary and when I get back the place is empty!
no,I;m still here.
I went off a read a quick short story before bed and then just came back to take a peak at the cafe and now I feel like I should stick around because the cafe is too empty.
That’s the weirdest guilt trip you’ve yet had. What if you wake up at 3:00 in the morning? Do you think the cafe is too empty?
Actually I assume that all the insomniacs in the world are in there having brilliant conversations and don’t need a sleep-befuddled ninny showing up and ruining the quality of the talk. So I just roll over and try to go back to sleep.
LOL Andi, if you did pop in here at 3:00 on the right night, you might catch me posting my latest pics. Actually, when I’m here that late I’m usually reading diaries and pop back in the cafe after I finish one … no crowds in the diaries at that hour. hehe
I’ve been going through Jim’s photos. I like how you put notecards together as gifts. That’s a lovely personal gift.
We have to give the moms two sets every year because otherwise they won’t use them at all.
so they can use one and keep one?
Yup. It drove Jim crazy — he kept going ‘but they’re notecards, they’re supposed to be used’. And the moms would just look at us with their sweet, doe-like mom-eyes and say ‘but they’re your pictures and they’re so pretty.’
But I can understand their not wanting to mark them. Have you ever provided a framed print as a gift?
for the moms.
Have you done that with your flowers.
And, btw, what wonderful notecards they would make.
would make fantastic note cards!
…for anyone except for Family Man! I’ve sent the Bee and Pollen pic off.
I’m definitely interested in the notecard idea. If I do go that way, I’ll have to remember to double up on the moms. 🙂
my sister your website. She’s the photographer of the three of us (she and my dad). She’s never used the macro function on her digital though. I was so excited to be able to tell her something and then show her your photos.
Is macro something she’d be interested in … What kind of photos does she take — is it more for fun or serious?
She’s in marketing in real life. But she’s always been interested in photography and drags a number of cameras around with her when she travels. And she likes to zero in on details (not only of plants) so that’s why I thought she’d like to figure out the macro function. I’ll let you know how she does.
I’d be interested in hearing how she makes out and what subject matter she selects. How great that you were able to teach her about it! 😉
tell her, not teach her. I just told her to RTFM.
I’ve had good luck printing my sunset photos on Avery # 3379, folding cards sized 4.25″ X 5.5″. I can send anyone who’s interested a Word.doc file with the template setup for use with that. All you’d have to do is paste your photo in place of mine. Save and print. One at a time recommended due to thick paper.
[Sorry to hear your news from the last FBC {{{olivia}}}]
two cards per sheet.
[I appreciate your {{{}}}s and return them.]
That sounds nifty. I’d love to try it out! My email is oliviainottawa at yahoo dot ca (no spaces etc.)
I see it’s just short of 5mb. I sent it to my yahoo address we’ll see if it handles it.
If you still want it, and yahoo can handle it, you may want to be sure to download it to your computer immediately so you free up the space.
I may try an experiment and send myself just the template without photos imbedded, see if that’s a smaller file.
My poor dialup won’t handle that well — could you take the photo out and see if that makes it smaller? I don’t want you to go to too much bother, so it that’s too much don’t worry about it!
my yahoo account. NSA has to process the 5mb I send first ya know, so it could take a few minutes.
I already have suspicions that my cable server is screening mail for political content. I just haven’t figured out how to set up a good test to catch them at it, as what’s happening is not yet consistent, just puzzling.
only 24Kb, so hopefully that will work without the photos begin embedded. Just copy and paste into the boxes, and hopeully that will work.
Thanks NDD! I’ll give it a try and let you know. 🙂
Sort of. LOL I will be heading to bed shortly myslef. I guess it is too late to eat dinner so I will wait for breakfast. LOL
Great stuff on the website!
Thank you!!!!!
Hi there RF, sorry I missed you. I too checked out your website a few days ago and really liked a lot of your designs. There’s a lot of humor in there, ya know?? :-0 That sure does take a lot of work to produce that many designs, so no wonder you’re always busy off doing something! Wish I had that kind of artistic talent, but I’m even stick figure impaired when it comes to drawing and making up designs. Know a great one when I see it though!
Thank you!!!! I love what I do and am having fun with it. Now with the new websites it will be even more work but also more fun.
did I leave anybody out?
Hellooo o o o o
Maryb?…Olivia?…Spidey still lurking?
I’m here, waiting for you to be bartender for late night? You up for it?
I’ve got to load a bunch of software for the new toy I got today in a bit and have to shut down everything else so I can throw the whole cpu at it.
(sigh)
Did you get your pkg today?!
Yes! Came late afternoon and I think I’m going to try and load the program discs tonight…unless things pick up a bit here. :{)
I feel like this is a present for all of us.
Maybe we should let you go play…? 😉
I hope the learning curve isn’t too steep…it’s going to be a treat being able to scan negs and slides…maybe I’ll find some nice ones. :{)
If I might be so bold as to ask. Do to discussion at hand it would seem to be noncensorable material, right?
a dedicated film scanner for negative film, B&W and color, and slides.
Assuming I can make it work I’ll be able to digitize my film from the past 30+ years…a formidable task, one at a time, since the batch scanners with similar resolution were about 4X the $’s.
I’m kinda excited about it.
Oh oh — we might never see you again! 😉
But after reading what you told NDD — that bit about doing it one at a time — it’s got me worried! We’d miss you. 🙂
It’ll be interesting to find out how long it takes…I’m afraid my laptop may not be powerful enough to deal with it…we shall see.
Peace
If you need more juice?
Let us know how it goes. NDD and I are both interested.
but that’s negative speculation…don’t want to dwell there. I used a friends scanner last fall that didn’t have as much resolution and the load times weren’t excessive…slow but livable…this one, hopefully, will be faster.
And we will know that each photo you display has been lovingly selected w/ greatest attention paid! 🙂
I they’ve said up above here there’d be some concern you’d drift off into the nebulae and never be seen again.
I’ll be interested to see how that goes, your critiques on the equip, as that is something I’d be interested in down the trail a ways.
And I imagine it’ll be fun going through some of your past photos.
I’m really going to bed.
Night all, again.
good night!
See ya tomorrow — sweet dreams.
I am going to bed. I wish you wonderful sleep and even better dreams!!!! Check you folks in the AM.
And since I’ll probably miss you in the am (you’re up way too early for me ;): Good morning! 🙂
And I see that everyone else has drunk all the beer and eaten all the snacks! That’ll serve me right for showing up late.
Hey there Mary, NDD, Olivia, Dada and anyone who’s still around, after that last round of Nighty, nights. Mary, did you catch the garden clean up photos I posted last night (albeit rather late)? If not, I can post a few others, and have one close up I think I’ll shoot over here in a minute.
I did see the photos and I have a much better picture of what you’ve been describing. I can’t wait for the beds to start filling in with late spring and summer growth.
Saw the pics…like your house…although I’ve had my fill of living in, and working on, old houses…it’s a young man’s sport…:{)
LOL @”young man’s sport!” I didn’t just fall off the potato cart last year either, my friend! Or as the French would say: “Je ne suis pas né de la dernière pluie.” (I wasn’t born the last time it rained.)
We do have lots of work still to do, so I agree w/your basic sentiment there. Obviously, our focus has been the garden areas over other things the past 3 years since the new bed went up, though we were doing quite a bit before then. Yes, an awful lot of work, but it keeps us sane!
I saved you a cold one — premium Cdn brew no less:
I missed your Sunday garden photos — I turned in early Sunday night.
Olivia is serving beer!
I see I neglected to copyright, HC!
Olivia! You’re such a sweetheart to offer Canadian beer! I like it! Hardly ever buy it anymore, but once in a while I like to treat myself to some Moosehead, though I know there are probably much better local brews that don’t make it down here.
Sorry you missed the photos, but you can catch up at your leisure if you like, and I should add, for anyone in the cafe/lounge crowd … if you ever really like something and want the original size/resolution of the photo, all you need to do is email me and ask, and I’ll be happy to send you a copy.
<cracks open brew>
You want one maryb:
(I’ve got a sixpack. One for everyone! 😉
Thanks Olivia, I’d love one.
For rather obvious reasons! One of our favorite of the huge mother lode of boulders and rocks we got a few years ago (was it really 2003?). We have a few favorites, but this one rose to the top, so to speak.
Though it doesn’t look like much right now, there is actually a lot planted around it … you can see some of the alliums I put in last fall, a few wood hyacinths, and some Glory of the snow there right now. As well as some new volunteer Sea Holly babies in need of a new home, and a few other things. In summer, it is very surrounded by such plants as Silver Mound Artemisia, Meadow Sage, Russian sage, a Campanula, Blue Salvia and behind it is some porcupine grass… and then there are always the rogue Coneflowers who crowd in to steal part of the show. Stay tuned over the next few months and I’ll show you the changing views.
Finger Rock is cool too. 🙂
Actually, they’re not notes, but rather one of the city compost bags that we use for the stuff we don’t put in our own compost pile… but you’re right, it does kind of look like a few pages of papers all folded up like that. And the gloves, I took them off too soon and ended up gouging myself in a few places anyway … the whole idea of wearing the gloves. LOL
Here I thought you had a master plan you were working off — and maybe you do, it’s all in your head right? LOL.
Okay, yes I do have notes – hence my immediate conclusion <chagrined>. But I also have garden bags! And gloves! Want another beer? 😉
There is some sort of master plan in my head, and on my better days I can actually find it in there amongst all the clutter! When doing big plantings such as the bulbs along the newly worked up plot on the North side of the house, we did work from a rough sketch where we had planned where all the colors and types of bulbs would go. Then we promptly forgot what went where for a lot of things, even though we coded the spots with colored popsicle sticks. Nice idea, but they faded over the winter and random dogs knocked them out, so we just have to figure it out as stuff comes up!
Now where did I put that bottle opener?
I thought my Holy Chihuahua would bring you in, but you were already on your way!
vocabulary expansion, maryb, it’s inspiring 🙂
Everyone should head over and see the pictures you posted on your site. Great job capturing the day.
I was so thankful that we had an overcast day, it was hotter than Hades on Sunday and I was worried that it would be too much for the crowd. Thankfully the weather was on our side and bottled water was in abundance, there was such a great spirit of friendship in the air (aside from the freaks who burned the Mexican flag).
How ya doin’? {{{Manny}}}
I’m doing good, exhausted from a long weekend and today’s march, but my spirit is soaring from all the fellowship. How goes it in Canada?
It makes a person feel good just watching, so I can imagine the live version. Things are going well in my part of Canada — spring is here. 🙂
clik for info
Good day today, mi amigo!
Peace
I collect bottle openers from all my various travels, and this looks like a great addition to my collection. Now I can enjoy that Hefeweisen. mmmmmm
i’m headed to google to find the real mccoy
Hey there Maneegee! Good to see you, and I should say I’ve been visiting your blog semi-regularly lately and like what you’re doing there! Don’t know how you do all that with everything you juggle …
Here’s something Mary just reminded me of … Once, when I lived in FL, I was at this Ecuadoran restaurant I liked, and there was an obnoxious big hair, dyed blond gringa in the booth next to me and my friend. She asked the waitress about a certain item that had chihuahua cheese in it. The waitress tried to explain that it came from the region, when the woman interrupted and asked: “Chi Whoa Whoa cheese? Is it made from the dogs?”
Needless to say, that was a definite almost choking moment from the outburst of laughter from our booth. The waitress, to her credit, was entirely nonplussed.
at my blog? And never a comment? [sniff]
🙂
Chihuahua cheese, eh? I wonder if it has a small/mild taste with a big bite, that would be appropriate 😀
Next time, I’ll make a point of dropping a comment or two around the site … I really don’t post much elsewhere from here aside from an occasional comment on Carpetbagger Report. I feel properly chastened, so look for me to at least say hello sometime soon!
Here’s a recipe using Chihuahua cheese that would go really good with a few beers:
sooooo good. I made a salsa earlier tonight and overdid it with the habanero chiles, I had to add another two tomatoes so I could eat the stuff without experiencing a lava flow in my stomach. (nice imagery, eh?) heehee
bad bad imagery!
Manny, you’re one brave guy there, and a bit foolish too. I used to try those in my salsa, but I made one batch once that was so hot it was inedible (and it also had serranos and jalapeños in it as well). I learned my lesson, kept growing the Habaneros and trying to find a use for them, but they’re just too much to handle for me. Now I stick to serranos (my faves) and jalapeños, with an occasional “cherry bomb” thrown in for fun. Come tomato season, we’ll have to compare salsa recipes… I don’t really have a fixed one, but always more or less the same ingredients with minor variations. It’s always salsa fresca for me these days and cooked versions just don’t taste the same.
I am a glutton for punishment, I’m usually good with my ingredient balances, but this batch of chili was full of fire.
I’m going to surprise some people and try that one.
it’s mostly BT alumni and regulars hanging out so consider it an extension of the cafe over at my place. Which reminds me, I haven’t served cheesecake in awhile, perhaps tomorrow. 😉
End of a long day and then guests from out of town leaving just in time for KO. Be back soon!
Hello Froggies. I’m probably here just in time for the shift change again.
yep, I’m just gettting ready. I’ll be back …
so head on over to the new lounge.
Hi all! I brought some night-time snacks for my fellow froggys’. Dig in!
…I might have to post a unicorn now, to make up for this pic…
Now that’s a way to clear the room! See you on the flip side!