This is an Unhosted Cafe.
Self-serve food and drinks.
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Carousing and tumultuous merriment encouraged.
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Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier)
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May the 4’s be with you
24/7 Cafe Closed. Wednesday Cafe Open
<crickets chirping>
Whew. What a day. Leaving for New York tomorrow, too. Should be fun.
Say, maryb, looks like the Cards have a great new yard there. Any early reviews?
What time is your flight? Early morning?
I’m going to see it in person on Thursday but so far most of the reviews are rave. The concourses are wide, the field is beautiful, the food is good. The scoreboard is awesome. The players like it.
The downside: The upper deck seats are really high and the lower level seats don’t have the rise they did at old Bush so if you have someone tall in front of you it’s not as clean a view.
Flight’s at 7:40 Pacific. Change at Ohare, then on to New York, arriving at 6. Family trip.
Ms GR says it’s time to finish packing. . .
Can’t wait to see the new park. Probably be there in mid-May.
The post has some pictures — there’s a media slide show you can choose.
How are you both?
Hi Olivia. I’m trying to convince myself that I’m tired and should call it a night early. But its not working.
Maybe this will help, squirrel damage
I’ll sleep better knowing that my opinion of squirrels has been corroborated.
Squirrel Fishing…fun for the whole family.
Peace
That’s crazy! 🙂
that I trade miscellany with…you’d be amazed at some of the weird shit we come up with. Not all of it is suitable for mixed company…:{)
Come on, this is the cafe. We don’t care.
Well we don’t want to get boo in trouble either.
🙂
perhaps some time I’ll dig up some of the really good ones. Tonight my cognizance is a bit dissonant…to my dismay.
Peace
Hereby, requesting permission to use that quote in perpetuity without attibution -NDD.
I’d be curious as to what syllable you emphasize in the pronunciation of “cognizance” if any.
assuming a suitable royalty is provided in lieu of attribution…
Peace
you’ll have to wait until morning.
Remind me one of these days to look up a song I have in m collection called “Fishin’ for Chickens.”
Thanks for opening up a new cafe.
to find one so full. Guess all the other Froggy Bottoms went to bed?
🙂
or do I want to know?
here
for the evening we’ll have to resort to extraneous measures.
but it didn’t do much for me. Maybe you had to be there when she posted it.
there was a whole lot of discussion pertaining to leioafjlkajoeahlk which would explain it all.
Bless you! (that was a sneeze wasn’t it?)
This pic made me think of yours, for some reason…
pretty flower overload. Can’t somebody post some pictures of weeds for a little balance?
You just need to look harder, Mary. They’re there! How’s this for a change of pace?
Not as shocking as DJ’s pic, but it always makes me laugh.
Morning glories!!!
Shhh Olivia, don’t tell anyone, but I’ve got a great ladybug pic for later. 🙂
B/c IVG, MGs are pretty much one of my absolute favourite flowers. I love them. I adore them. I plant them everywhere. I have 3 pkgs of MG seeds waiting to be planted! That is wild. Are you supernatural?
Don’t think I’m supernatural, but somehow the perspective and close up view made me think of some of your pics. But glad to hear you like them too… we never re-plant them anymore… we just let them go to seed and they come back with a vengeance every year… last year they crawled down the sidewalk bed and strangled some of my zinnias, so I had to go at them with the clippers… but since you like them so much, have another! They won’t get you drunk, but don’t go chewing on the seeds!
ya — I know about the poisonous aspects of the seeds. 🙂
I once had a back fence covered in them — not my house here, when we lived in Waterloo — and it was a solid colour of pinks (:P), purples, blues, whites. It was beautiful. I also had moonflower, not vine, but bush. So, the MGs would be out in day, the moonflower at night.
Hey, olivia, things are good.
Well, except the part about figuring our taxes. But it’s that time of year.
Off to pack, I think…
Well, off to bed, night night all!
Good night, MM… hope you catch that latest post I just put up … I had you and SallyCat in mind. Sleep well!
Glad to see the others are still holding down the fort.
This is my ONE catty remark for the day…
How y’all doing? I left the room to take the dogs out and when I came back they closed the cafe on me! And I was behaving, too.
the documentary on squirrels.
I have no clue! I think squirrel watching would be more exciting for dogs… maybe this was TV aquarium or the Mouse Capades….
Queen Pepa guarding tomatoes on the porch in 2004.
Actually she was fixated on a squinny…
Nice tomatoes too. What’s a squinny?
I knew someone would ask… it may be a regional Iowa thing, but they’re those little chipmunky ground squirrels with the stripes… very very fast, and for squirrels, they’re cute. I hate the other ones, they are digging all over the place again, and disturbing some of the bulbs. Pepa nailed one last fall (big squirrel) but I made her let it go because I relented at the last second.
Per Olivia’s invitation…
clik to enlarge
Real Data from NOAA-CIRES for MM’s peace of mind…
How yawl?
Peace
hey dada!
Almost snorted my beer out at that one… priceless. Is that somewhere near you?
It compliments your wind events data perfectly!
There’s times here in ND I do believe that block and chain would be horizontal.
every year or so during Chinook season the local paper goes out and interviews the guy and posts new pics…guess it’s a rite-of-passage sorta thing for the newbies.
For real, huh? That’s very cool. As is that Squirrel Fishing link you posted (thx!). We might want to try that.
And off topic, but oops I broke the margins up thread. Sorry! I will behave now… and I should have seen that coming.
Don’t you people ever sleep.
I told you the couch would get old …
No it’s getting old that George doesn’t have enough room. He’s either on my feet or my head.
and miss the best part of the day?
You mean it isn’t 5:00 am? What the hell am I doing awake?
how can I register at your site, as that seems to be a requirement?
I didn’t think it was. I had it put down open to everyone. I’ve found one thing I don’t like though. When you write something, there’s no place for comments after what you’ve written. You have to go into message board. I’m going to have to figure something out for that.
NDD I think I saw what you were talking about. It has something about a member list. It has something to do with sending emails to people inviting them to become members of the site.
I figure since it’s an open site that’s sort of useless and I can’t get rid of the damn thing.
If you have trouble getting on let me know.
all I can say is she must have been quite a lady, a real thoughtful, caring person.
I had the good fortune to have one of my grandfathers as a person friend. He was a die-hard lefty. Even voted for Norman Thomas way back when.
Both my grandparents were die hard democrats. They would be rolling in their graves now if they knew what most of the family was.
I’ve been know to say my grandpa is spinning at the speed of light. I just hope he’s throwing off some energy in my direction… seems I’m a tad short on most days since 11-03-04.
NDD just a question. Do you live in the town where all your family is from?
When I’m at the farmstead I’m only six miles from the hometown, (pop. winter time 79, summer time 117.) So I’m still connected to the home community, and expect to spend this coming weekend there with family.
I have not lived in my hometown in over 35 years. I do live intermittently at the farmstead. However, the past several years I have spent mostly in the Fargo area.
I do see the hometown/community folk on a fairly regular, or maybe irregular basis; weddings, funerals, holidays, auctions (there’s a big one of one of the landed-gentry families tomorrow, with no family members continuing in farming, they go back 100 years plus.)
It would seem life in these aspects may be similar to yours?
It was a beautiful letter FM, as was your story about your first home.
Thanks Olivia. It’s my attempts at writing, so you can see why I hardly do any diaries.
And the stories you’re telling are as well. 🙂
I got locked up there somehow when I tried the first time, but this time it worked fine.
My, oh my, FM we’ve got a whole lot of stories we could swap on growing up in farm country. That might be great fun to do right on your site.
I’ll have to make another attempt at registering and let you know how that goes.
Nah, I’m not giving in to geezerhood just yet… besides, I dozed off in the recliner for an hour earlier after Keith.
There’s a lot to be said for Geezerhood. If Andi was here she could tell you all the good points.
Just took a quick look around your place and it’s looking good! Love the lake photo on the home page and the pic of the cotton was awesome. George looks like a real sweetie… what breed is he? Almost looks like a Papillon, but I know that’s not right.
Thanks IVG. I just did it today and I’m still learning. George is half wire terrier and half Pekingese. He’s a total yapper though.
Are you taking that Ambien again? 😉
No I haven’t taken that stuff in years. Although a good shot of something might get me to sleep, but alas, I don’t drink either.
Just the periodic insomnia.
Isn’t it great that you can pass some of that time w/ us? 🙂
Yea I always feel like I’m loosing out after 9:00 pm.
But you should get up at 5:00 am to spend some quality time with us early people. One of which I won’t be in the morning.
coming at it from the night before, except for rare occasions.
I’m usually pretty good about going to bed at a regular time, but every now and then forget it.
Jumping in here to get your attention — Thanks for the nice things you said about me in the last cafe. I appreciate it.
and I’m very much hoping that when I get a few extra dollars I can persuade you to part with a few of my favorites.
And from the reaction you’ve gotten so far at my household you’d have two votes for that.
Sleep is for wusses.
To quote the immortal Warren Zevon, “I’ll sleep when I’m dead.”
OTOH I’m gonna be dead in about 20 minutes here . . .
Got this before it popped open… you know, those Sphinx moths just adore these! They’re Datura meteloides aka, Jimson Weed. Extremely toxic, and I read last year that stupid kids are trying to make tea from them to get high. Just. Plain. Dumb.
Amazing the number of toxic plants we have here that we just love to death… Wolfbane, Castor bean trees, these, and many others.
That’s the bush-type — not the vine. I can’t find the seeds anywhere! Where did you get them originally–can you recall? The seeds I had were from my grandmother’s plants, but she has passed away and I didn’t keep any seeds. Now, I can’t find anything up here but the vine-type.
We have tons of seeds, and never plant them anymore. They are a bit of a pest if you don’t cut the ‘thorn apples’ off before they pop, and we never manage to get them all. I could send you some seeds if you want, but I’m not sure about how Canada handles that sort of thing coming through the mail. A lot of people call them “Angel’s Trumpet” as well, but that is actually another species called Brugmansia. I can hunt around and see if any of my online sources have them, but as I said, if there’s no problems with customs and seeds of foreign origin, I could send you a whole jar full!
That would be so awesome! Yes, my Grandmother would have margarine containers full of those seed heads. I’ll look into it w/ Canada Post and see what they have to say. In the meantime if you do know of a link, that would be an excellent starting point. Thanks!
(And I had a brugmansia once, but it was hard to care for — the leaves would all fall off it regularly so it would be this ugly stick think, and just when you thought it was done in, little leaf buds would appear. It did eventually die though.)
I’ll look around a bit and see what I can find for you. But if there’s no problem getting them to you through the post, I would be thrilled to send you some. Gardening is sharing remember? 🙂 At least that’s our philosophy. You could try Richter’s b/c they’re in Canada, but I think they’re primarily herbs, though they do have a few ornamentals. We’ve ordered from them in the past, and they have wonderful service… quick too.
Funny thing about these daturas … the leaves have such a nice fuzzy texture, but they smell awful. But the flowers have a wonderful scent to them. We think it’s an essential for night gardens, along with Four O’Clocks, which never bloom at that time, but later and attract all the pretty moths.
We’ve never tried the brugmansia ourselves, but we saw a gorgeous deep deep purple one at the state fair gardens a couple of years ago that if we could find that exact one, we’d give it a shot.
Let me know what you find out re: post and seeds.
I’ll look into it as well. Thanks for all your help to date — this is the closest I’ve been to those moonflowers in so long! {{{IVG}}}
Awww, how kind of you. That’s just who I am and what I do… remember my meander last week about Frank. He has influenced my way of gardening thinking more than I’ll probably ever realize.
And about the vine moonflower… we plant those every so often, but you have to get them in so early or have a very long season to get any flowers from them, so we just kind of gave up on them.
Don’t take my word for it without checking, because my memory is admittedly faulty, but it seems to me that when we bought a bunch of seeds from Butchart Gardens north of Victoria, they told us it was OK to transport seeds across the border as long as they were commercially sealed and unopened. If you opened them they were subject to confiscation. I’ll leave it to you to guess why.
There might be a way you can prepare seed to travel via the post, so check it out. But ask first just so nobody gets in trouble.
I’ll look into it. All things x-border are hairy these days.
I’m off to bed. Goodnight!
Good night everyone.
Good night Mary! Wishing you pleasant dreams full of weeds. 🙂
Night Mary. Geezerhood is approaching.
anybody else awake? yah right…
I don’t know whose still around, but I’m here for a little while.
You need a swift kick NDD?
<grumble grumble> Must be that frickin cogNITi’ve diss o nance kickin in.
Sorry FM.
Don’t mind me. I’m half asleep anyway.
and Omir’s got some kinda surreptitious plan for that.
Omir has added a new height to my slackdom. The robo-rater has me not even hitting just one rate button. It’s straight to the robo-rater.
Now if he could just make it to where I could think it and it would happen, I’d never have to move again.
Who? Me?
<bats eyelids innocently and smiles cherubically>
Omir you’ve got to come up with something where I can hook something to my head and just think fours.
The robo-rater had gotten me half way up the mountain of laziness, but to think fours would be the apex.
I don’t think I want to do that. I’d start using it myself, and then when my code came up for peer review I’d have to explain what all the corny jokes and banjo tabs were doing in there. And that’s just if I happen to be thinking clean thoughts at the time.
chicken and squirrel fisher’s…I be done.
Catch ya on the flip…
Night
Peace
Yeah, what Olivia said! Watch out for the wind, Dada.
And good night, Olivia… I’m going off too, to see if I can locate you some of those seeds you want.
I know some of you turkeys are still awake, and I just posted an open thread on the front page with a panda. Get out there and let the world know about your love of frogs, or whatever the hell you cats are in to.
What a fowl comment that was. Hehe. Thx for the notice Chris… I’ll pop in on my way out, which should be soon. Nice to see ya slummin with us low lifers once in a while. 🙂
I’m going to try to get to sleep. I expect to see each and everyone of ya’ll at 5:30 am. Ya sure. 🙂
Sure thing, FM… hope you get some rest. But as for me being up at 5:30, well just look for the pigs flying over your house, and you’ll know I’m there. Good night!
Thanks for all the MG pix — you’re very talented gardener!
Guess I’ll hit the hay too.
Hey Olivia!
I found them! Thompson-Morgan.com has exactly the species we grow, and most likely the one you remember from your grandmother’s garden. Here’s the page on their site where they have them listed:
http://seeds.thompson-morgan.com/us/en/list/full-index/d/2
I know, it’s not a hyperlink, but I haven’t figured out how to do those yet. You may also want to just go to the main site page and log in for Canada and just search “border plants, 36″ and higher.” They may even have a distribution point in Canada for all I know… they do in the US.
Still worth checking out postal regulations, as mine would be free, but I thought Omir’s comment up thread was probably sensible about that issue. If I find other sources, I’ll pass those along too. I’m pretty sure we got some of those from a seed company in Colorado once too, but that was a few years ago.
Ok, time to check in on Chris’ thread, and then I’m off to bed. Great making those little “discoveries” with you tonight. GMTA
Thought I’d post one more for ya, Olivia. Hope you’ll see them in the morning and they’ll give you a good start to the day….
but a little worried — there’s some heavy weather up in Marin County, with flash flood warnings. That’s SallyCat’s neck of the woods; not sure if she’s in any of the flood-prone areas, but send her some good thoughts just in case, will ya???
Good night hugs and kisses to all!
Sorry I missed you Cali! Yes, let’s all send our best vibes up SallyCat’s way … I hadn’t heard about that weather, but we had our own brief excitement here tonight when a rogue thunderstorm blew through quickly and apparently caused some damage. Nothing in our neighborhood though… whew. Hope to catch you again soon.
Wsan’t Keith awesome tonight? But I sure wish he’d bump Dana Milbank for someone else… Milbank makes my flesh crawl, even when I do agree with his snarky little ass.