Newcomer Check-In Time
at the Froggy Bottom Café
at the Froggy Bottom Café
Grab a cup of coffee from the coffee cart.
Your host today is Maryb.
Your host today is Maryb.
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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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Those 4’s are Appreciated
If you’ve joined BT in the last month and haven’t introduced yourself yet … well, today is your lucky day!
All penalties for unseemly quietness are waived for today only! Tell us your life story or just one thing about yourself.
BTW, the picture above is A Lilac Year a color woodblock print by Gustav Baumann done in 1951..
Beautifull Picture!!!! I guess it is okay for us old timers to check in to? I hope everyone is having a great day!!!!!
Be sure to put on your name tag. Old timer name tags are in the shape of froggies. Newcomers are plain with a green border. The table’s over there under the picture.
Cann’t I just be loud and energetic and let them quess? LOL
we want to lure them into the fold, not scare them away.
Maybe if I tell them that the famous celebrity blogger Second Nature does all her writing in the Froggy Bottom Cafe …
ROTFLMAO!!!!!! So I guess I shouldn’t talk about Luke?
Let’s prepare for the hoards of newcomers (and de-lurkers) AND HIT RECOMMEND.
Hi Miss Mary!!!
Time for me to get back busy again. I see an art festival across the street I want to check out. I will check in later today. Of course I remembered to bring everything but the dang camera.
can I pretend to be new?
but you need to tell us your life story. Hold on, I’d better put on a fresh pot of coffee.
Huh? I am not a bum. I’m a jerk. I once had wealth, power, and the love of a beautiful woman. Now I only have two things: my friends and… uh… my thermos. Huh? My story? Okay. It was never easy for me. I was born a poor black child. I remember the days, sittin’ on the porch with my family, singin’ and dancin’ down in Mississippi.
Do you have to pay royalties to Steve Martin for your material?
Well I’m gonna to go then. And I don’t need any of this. I don’t need this stuff, and I don’t need you. I don’t need anything except this.
[picks up an ashtray]
Mr. Johnson …
I’m gonna bounce back and when I do I’m gonna buy you a diamond so big it’s gonna make you puke.
I don’t wanna puke!
Morning All and Welcome Lurkers and Newbies!
This is our “other cat” Banjo posing for animal crackers in the back yard. His mother was a feral, but he is pretty socialized, and has always been a good cat. He stayed in LA to help around the house when Shadow and I went to Monterey. He might be glad to have us back, no one is sure. His best friend is our dog, Muffy the Barking Brat.
A feral mother is not always a disadvantage. He’s probably glad you’re back, but it’s too much effort to show it.
My mother has a whole community of feral cats that live in her back yard. She feeds them and let’s them have litters in her laundry basket, then she tries to foist the kittens off on me. I’m a softie and have adopted three, but two of them just weren’t pet material. Shadow hated and was terrified of them and they totally disrupted the house. I am ashamed to admit it, since it sounds so heartless, but I finally had to have them put to sleep, or “destroyed” as the true animal lovers say, just to make you feel like a total creep.
Banjo jumped out of the laundry basket and followed me around the first time I ever saw him, so I think there’s some kind of karmic connection. He is truly great with our dog, and when Shadow gets into one of her moods and spits at him, he totally refuses to dignify it with a response.
My mother never does anything to socialize the kittens, just let’s them run wild. I know she thinks she’s being compassionate, but for me there is no half way point when you take responsibiity for an animal’s life.
Dr. Evil’s life much more interesting than mine. Sorry to post and run, but I’m on my way out. Saw the newcomer check-in and thought I ought to at least say good morning.
and in case I don’t see you for a while, I’ve really enjoyed the poetry you’ve chosen to post for April.
thanks.
aka Pussy McFlabbington and Fatty McButterpants.
I enjoy napping, eating, thinking about napping, thinking about eating, waiting for my next meal, and waiting for my next nap.
at the Froggy Bottom Cafe where all we do is nap, think about napping, eat, and think about eating. Welcome. Don’t chew off your name tag.
Hey, Isabelle, you should fit right in here at Slacker/Napper Central!!
for me… 😉
Got to get back to work, but wanted to make an announcement. After reading Supersolings heartwrenching diary, and seeing how many of us have been there, done that, and got the f-ing T-shirt with depression and mental illness, I’m looking into taking the plunge into blogland. The title of my blog (tentatively) is Walking in Darkness, inspired by an experimental Prayers of the People that contained a prayer for those who suffer from mental illness, depression, and “all those who walk in darkness”. Also inspired by SN’s comment that when she finally found the right medications, it was like she “put on glasses that suddenly cleared my vision and made me see things that I didn’t even know existed.” I’m hoping it’ll be a place where I can put info and links to treatments, medications, and resources. Still doing a bit of brainstorming, and will probably have to do a lot of research, but if I can help at least a couple of folks, it would be worth it.
Okay, need to get back to work — putting away laundry, then get dressed; spouse and I are going out for soup/salad late afternoon…
OK, I’m checking in.
(notices everyone looking at him)
What??
What time is the game today? I hope ours isn’t rained out.
1:35 PM Pacific time.
This is starting to get depressing. They are on the road to a losing April, which means they’re on the road to a losing season. Literally — every year since 1991, the way they play in April has been indicative of how the year will turn out.
Bleah.
maybe this year they will break that cycle.
Hope springs eternal in the heart of a true fan. 🙂
Sunrise over Glacial Lake Agassiz
larger
View is looking E NE over Glacial Lake Agassiz,
in ND about halfway from SD to Canada borders,
more wiki info here
uh, but today it would be the NORTH window.
for the weekend?
this weekend. At least not intentionally. If it stops raining tomorrow I’m thinking of going to an art fair and they’ll probably have local bands.
You?
We’ve got a three day street fair in July that has several blocks worth of venders, and three or four music locations, which if it ain’t 100F and 90% hum can be a whole lot of fun.
That is a really neat picture. How did you keep the sun from making the shades of color in the sky?
Do we get free drinks if we’re new?
Not until Happy Hour. And don’t be crabbin about that either.
Well, I just hope you serve some good vodka when happy hour gets here, not some cheap Smirnoff crap.
How old is the coffee in that pot, anyway?
I never did make a fresh pot today, BooMan distracted me. But I’m sure its fine 🙂 Just warm it up in the microwave.
I’ve been a lurker and more recently an occasional poster…and I’m a Diet Coke addict. Is that enough info to get in with the in crowd? 😉
Absolutely. I’ve enjoyed your posts. I’ve seen you over at the Orange place too.
Stop by the cafe anytime to get to know people and let them get to know you. It’s not too crowded on Saturday mornings, but about 5:00 more people check in.
I’ll have to pop in this evening. First I’m going to take my girls to a baseball game…where they’ll root for the Orioles while I root for the Mariners. Hmmm…they can forget peanuts and Cracker Jack…and a ride home.
Omir the Storyteller is a big Mariners fan. He’ll be happy you are rooting for them too.
Sorry, all the cool people here drink Fresca. Well….at least I do and I’m cool. :0)
Whatcha been doin?
Watching the boy cut the grass. And I got an email from some guy with the Brad Miller campaign who wants to see the mailing I wrote about.
And the weather is perfect perfect perfect and the bugs aren’t really out yet and a skink just let me pet him on the deck and he stuck his tongue out and sniffed my hand. So all in all it’s a good morning.
You and Brad are going to be close now. Hope Mr. Nature doesn’t get jealous.
What’s a skink? A skunk that doesn’t stink?
Good one! It’s a little salamander type thing.
eeewww. I’m glad I don’t live further south.
but skinks are pretty cute, especially five-line skinks.
I remember that picture. How did he get into your bathtub?
all the time, having chased dinner into the tub with no idea how to get out — having learn to plan from Rumsfield, apparently.
we have them too.
OK I’m glad I live in the city. Their special needs aren’t met here.
Fresca? I didn’t even know they still made that! When I’m feeling un-cola-ish, I go for a Sprite.
It’s enjoying a much-deserved resurgence in popularity as people come to their senses about it’s wonderfulness.
oh yeah, a resurgence in popularity …
Hey, I picked up some Italian Lemon Soda at Target and it was REALLY good. (I avoided the giant Kit Kats).
You will be pleased to know that I have not had any sugar in 3 whole days. No candy, cookies, cakes, donuts…nothing.
Is that what’s wrong?
It’s weird, I’m not as tired and I’m not having cravings. Once I start eating candy or sweet junk it’s a constant battle with my willpower to stop.
I had a a college roommate once who was taking nutrition classes and she told me it takes something like 90 days for sugar to work its way completely out of the system, we eat so much of it.
Ack, so by the end of July maybe.
I shrunk the dog!
It’s a jungle out there!
But he’d fight his way through for you.
It’s good to know that somebody would.
you forgittin’ ’bout me???
Sniff to fight his way through the jungle to you, too?
good one!
been dogless way to long…
and what’s stopping you is ….?
in procrastination!
Off to buy scones, see you all in the next FBC
what’s the best way to get wax off of a table cloth?
Won’t it just harden and crack off if you put it in the freezer?
I tried and most of it cracked off, but there’s still a thin layer.
I’m troubled that I know this – I guess I’ve watched Heloise one too many times.
First, what Cabin Girl said. Then if there’s any left you iron it on low with a couple of paper towels below the fabric and a couple on top of the fabric to soak up the liquified wax.
I was just about to add that…we are being WAY too domestic today, SN…time for martinis and a pedicure.
Good God save me! Pretty soon I’ll be wearing a A-line dress and pumps while I scrub the toilets.
and pearls. Never forget the pearls.
Pearls are for vacuuming, right?
I think you can wear them while dusting as long as you use a feather duster.
if I mention that I don’t own any tablecloths?
I don’t either. Or placemats. Or actual cloth napkins.
well then I think you are safe from being trapped in domestication hell.
and I’m not trapped in domestication hell. My tablecloth has been in the freezer for a month because I forgot about it after my last dinner party. Obviously I don’t worry about the finer points.
I admit that it never crossed my mind that you would be in domestication purgatory, let alone hell.
I’m definitely in limbo – even though it doesn’t exist anymore.
if that’s a compliment or a slam …
I like tablecloths better than placemats because they are quicker and easier to clean up. I’m basically lazy.
You leave them on the table for a week and then shake them out over the sink and throw them in the wash.
Which ought to make it clear that it was a compliment.
The ironing part sounds good. But not today!
Checking in. Longtime lurker who set up an account a while ago. Decided to get more active yesterday. Since the Steve Martin and Austin Powers lines are already spoken for, that’s all I’ve got.
Welcome. What part of the country are you from?
Hmm, that depends. 🙂
Northeast originally. Upper midwest currently.
And ypu/
I meant now. I’m in St. Louis. I figured you were either Minnesota or North Dakota, or maybe the UP.
We’re all over in the new Lounge if you want to join us.
and have a few drinks. The Beachfront Lounge is now open.