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I’m finally really on vacation — I didn’t get up until 6:30.
Good Morning Andi.
You won’t believe it, but I was just fixin to hit submit on a coffee cart and came back to check recent comments and saw this. I figured, she’ll be asleep until 10 or 11 since it vacation. 🙂
I woke up at 5:00 but I told myself to fall back to sleep and wonder of wonders, I did.
Have you cleared out the relatives yet?
I’m glad you got back to sleep. I hate it when you want to go back to sleep and can’t.
All the rels left yesterday afternoon and I think I might be able to get back to a normal routine. Oh glorious naps. 🙂
Enjoy the naps and I guess the next major invaion of family will be easter?
I think they pretty well invade whenever they feel like it. 🙁
LOL So do I.
You’re both right. 🙂
No Easter is not a big family get together for us. The next will be FMom’s B’day. Now I’ve just got to get back to a normal nights sleep and my nap routine and all will be well with the world.
so that measn 12 hours of sleep and at least three 2-hour naps? LOL
Yep if I can pull it off. Most of the time, FMom and George won’t let me.
You could solve the George problem with a fenced dog run and a dog house (yes, he’d never forgive but the problem would be solved). The FMom issue might be a little a trickier.
I sure George would never forgive, but I’m more sure the neighbors would be even worse. Once George starts a high pitched whine it can be heard for a long ways and he doesn’t stop. With FMom I figured I don’t need a pissed off old lady around the house, so….. 🙂
that you’ll get your napping back to your high standards in no time.
Thank you Andi. 🙂
LOL you sound like me. The latest I ever sleep(thanks to the Diva Dogs) is 7 am and that is is I have been up most of the night. LOL
Morning Folks. I am going in late today as I didn’t sleep well and am totally exhausted. I will make up the hours on Saturday morning. LOL
The bad news I got yesterday was that a dear friend’s husband died on Christmas Day. I knew Berny but not as well as I knew his wife. They were an incredible couple and very much in love and had a daughter after trying for 7 years to have a baby and almost giving up. Their daughter is only 4 or 5 years old. I wish there was some rhyme or reason to this but medical incompetence is the only answer for why this young man died. He had the flu in the early fall and seemed not to be able to kick it or get his strength back. He died of an infection of the heart which means the doctors kept assuming he still had a cold or did not run the right test till it was too late. Sorry to be such a downer this am but I needed to share I guess.
and thoughts go out to all who loved and cherished him.
Thank you Andi.
Good morning Refinish.
I’m so sorry to hear this. I’ve always thought even the best doctors can only give an educated guess at what is happening to someone. My family has some personal experience at what we think was incompetence, so I know the feeling.
My thoughts and prayers are with the family.
Thank you. Now you know why I did not want to share this last night. I did not want to put a damper on the birthday celebration.
Yes I fully understand, still it’s hard to keep it in sometimes.
That is why I called an evening early last night.
With things on your mind it’s hard to keep up the banter in the cafe.
I did my best to distract by keeping the conversation firmly in the gutter.
And you did a wonderful job of it as usual. 🙂
I’m sure your predictability was a comfort, Andi. 🙂
Good morning everyone! It’s sunny and gorgeous and there 97 different kinds of birds at the feeding station, of which I will photograph exactly zero clearly.
Sun is out here too (though it’s only 23 right now).
As for the birds at the feeder, you need your slr and 400 meter lens (or at least that’s what Jim keeps telling me)
My computer widget says it’s 38 here but I think it’s warmer. We’re supposed to be near 70 the next few day. This is the time of year that I tend to think I made the right decision to move down here.
The SLR will have to wait until I win the lottery. For now my cheapo cam will have to suffice.
Been on your trek yet?
Been on your trek yet?
You sound just like giddy. And the answer is still ‘no, wait till it warms up a bit’. 😉
I’ll probably go around 9.
Morning, SN. We have one lonely finch at ours 🙁
I did a head count and came up with Carolina chickadees, Carolina wrens, tufted titmice, a pair of cardinals and at least two different types of woodpeckers who love the suet plugs. My favorites are the wrens who are just silly and have the happiest song.
Right now, we’ve chickadees, finches, titmice, and downy woodpeckers. Oh and cardinals.
My cats think the kitchen window, which is about 6 feet from the feeders, is a big screen TV just for them. They sit there for hours, eyes wide, tails swishing, making that little chattering noise that means ‘boy if I could only….’
Well, I guess it’s off to the dog park for me. Maybe I’ll take HJ too.
now giddy is going ‘HJ gets to go, why can’t we? Huh, huh?’
Have a good play. I guess I’ll go get dressed and make giddy happy.
I’m glad my birthday weather wish came true for you, SN!
I’m so sorry, refinish.
(((refinish)))
You have my sympathies. Life can be a real kick in the head sometimes. Hang in there.
I’m so sorry to hear about this, refinish. This is a terrible loss.
For some reason, as well, it’s so much more difficult to absorb a loss that was certainly preventable.
I’m also further convinced that the quality of our health care nationally is far, far less than our citizens deserve.
I’ve got to get some stuff done. George is calling and FMom is up.
See ya’ll later.
Morning Andi, Family Man, refinish69. I’m very sorry to hear about the loss of your friend, refinish.
Sure is nice to be able to see the sun rise instead of just gray blah, isn’t it.
Yes, it is! I’m not a creature of the early morning. My favorite working hours are 11 am to 11 pm. Less when I can get away with it. Sadly, that’s a negative to the new job that starts next week. We open at 8 am.
Hey, you are an elected official — no one expects you do actually do anything. 🙂
And now you are officially his boss.
I like Andi’s job description above. A boss like that I can enjoy working for. Mrs. Dem is a very tough supervisor.
I’m waiting for my intern to show up. Mrs. Dem says she gets a pool boy, but we don’t have a pool.
Is anybody still here?
Good morning CabinGirl! Its looking like a sunshiny day in the midwest. Chilly though at 23. I think Andi may have gone on her morning trek with the pack.
Hi Indianadem! 23 degrees sounds pretty chilly to me…we’ve been having the 50-60 degree stuff for most of December. And i think I’m due for a walk with the pack (and the elder CabinBoy, who needs to break in his new hiking boots).
How are you enjoying the holiday week?
The chilly but less soggy weather is probably headed your way. We had a nice Christmas eve with all the family at my brother’s farmhouse a few miles from ours. They have the only space large enough for us all. Since Mrs. Dem and I are self-employed, we’re forced to work a little this week. Blech! I start my new job next Tues. See Andi’s job description upthread 😉
This will be my first regular paycheck in a little over 30 years! Guess its time to abandon my hippie existence and be responsible in my geezerhood.
Good morning all. About 36 degrees here now in the Hudson Valley, but it will be mid 40’s tomorrow. I’m not even bothering with snow tires yet.
Morning, B2. Are you working this week, or do you have time off?
Working. How about you?
I have a project I need to finish up today/tomorrow, and something else I should get a start on, but it’s really pretty low key. A couple hours here, a couple of hours there, kind of thing.
It’s too hard to fit much more than that in with the boys off from school. (I’m still trying to figure out why it was easier to work with them home when they were younger, but now it’s too distracting. Maybe they’re just louder?)
I guess it’s probably a quiet week for you at work anyway?
Yeah, it’s quiet. Yesterday the b2boy was here with me. He cleared out my office. “Daddy, can I have this?”
Morning boran2. Hope there are better days ahead soon for you and your sister.
Thank you, ID.
Sorry to read about your loss, refinish.
It has not been a very festive season here with the loss of my brother in law, 49 years old, just over a week ago. Which reminds me that I need to call my sister again to see if she’s ok.
I have been (barely) in and out of the cafe this week, and missed that boran. I’m sorry to hear about it; how is your sister doing?
She’s been okay. I suppose that she will lose it at some point, but stiff upper lip for now.
Do they have kids?
Not together. It was not the first marriage for each.
Very sorry to hear that Boran. I’ve barely been around, so I missed it the first time.
Thanks, K.
My sympathies to your family, boran2. I’m sorry for your loss.
Thanks, WW.
Please be sure to let us know how your sister’s making out. She’s just at the beginning of a very long process & a permanent change to her being.
She’s very, very fortunate to have your caring support.
Well, now that I’ve finished my cappuccino (still have to get that milk-frothing thing down…), I guess it’s time to get the CabinBoys rolling and outside for a while so they don’t become complete couch potatoes.
Later!
Just stopping in briefly. Between ongoing family crises and deadlines, I’m pretty much non-existant at the moment. I spent much of the last few days moving my mom’s stuff from temporary storage at the front of my basement to long term in the back where I won’t have to look at it and stress all the time. Since there’s about ten cubic yards of the stuff it means that I’ll have moved almost everything in the whole basement by the time I’m finished. Right now it looks like a hurricane hit the main rooms, and I don’t even want to think about my workroom.
Morning Kelly! My work space always looks like a hurricane just left the area. I think I have too many things going on 😉
Starting at now … puck drop 1:30 EST … in Sweden.
USA lost it’s first game to Germany.
Canada won it’s first game against Sweden.
via Hockey Canada … World Juniors
Go, Canada!!
Are you not cheering for the home team, or do you think team CAN is more in need of cheering … 😉
How was your holiday?
The holiday was fine, thank you, Miss O. I’d much have preferred being with you up on those lovely country roads, however.
As for the home team, quite frankly, I’d like seeing the USA taken down a peg on as many frontiers as possible. I do believe our citizens need a little wake-up call.
I’d have loved to walked down — or up in this case 😉 — w/ you.
It’s 2-0 for CAN … think your cheering has helped so far. 🙂
That looks like a fine hiking road, Miss O — just enough rise to give a nice little workout, but pleasant to travel.
Amazingly enough, I can read the sign there, too:
I truly love seeing these images. Miss O! The spot seems delightful. Thank you.
Go, Canada!!
to read that … 🙂
CAN won 6-3 … 😀
Excellent! Please give the team a good Canadian shout-out for me, since I doubt they’d hear me at this distance.
🙂
When you’ve returned from today’s crisp trek with the Pack, please accept grateful compliments for yet another very, very pretty, painterly image.
I truly love the musical forms of those humps! There’s quite a nice delicacy in this one, in the rhythm the shadows & muted colors create together.
Wag wag wag! and rowf!
(Yes, I’m probably the type of pup who’d say ‘rowf’.)
I should really thank you — all the wonderful compliments you give me over these photos is an ego trip bigger than any I’ve ever been on. It’s very enjoyable.
It was very crisp, literally as there was a heavy frost on everything and so the leaf litter provided a very satisfying crunch to the walk.
Wow! Heavy frost at mid-day. So the rumors about winter are true ..?
I truly love that crunching sound, myself. I’ll bet the Pack enjoy it as well.
As for compliments, I’m entirely happy to nourish your ego. For the feeling your photos give me I’d generally have to pay cash.
😉
It wasn’t mid-day — it was between 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. — and now it’s 45 so dispel those rumors.
Aha — should’ve kept your early-bird schedule in mind.
In any event, I’m happy to dispel the rumors, too. The longer it takes for true winter to arrive, the better the chance that my wandering Catskills mama-cat is still alive. I truly hope to track her down (even literally) on my return. Thankfully, she’s a demon at hunting.
I hope you find her very fat and very happy.
Thanks, Andi. I doubt she’ll be fat, after all her exercise, but I do hope she’ll be happy.
You might remember her — the Esther Williams of snow:
Just got back from going to the recycling center to be greeted by this nice picture — I’ll take it as my reward for being a good citizen.
Naturally — as well as my constant supplier of woodland whoopee-juice.
For me, a visit to the town recycling center up in Denning was its own reward: multiple leftover goods from wealthy downstaters, plenty of community gossip & the occasional dose of C-SPAN with strong coffee at the caretaker’s hut. Plus the tree swallows.
No such fun at our center which is just a bunch of bins next to a school but it is a very pretty drive.
Definitely a plus!
I’m so looking forward those pretty drives up north. All I need are the wheels.
I expect an engine would be nice too. 😉
Not if I have those sled-dogs!
But you never did get them. 🙁
I guess you’ll have to stick with horsepower — or sled cats.
for the heartfelt wishes and sympathy. It does help some. Boran2, I am so sorry for your loss also. It takes time to get pass the initial pain and anger and actually be able to remember the good things about the loved ones we lose but it can be done.
Absolutely!
I hope you’ve been able to spend the day in relative serenity, refinish.
Happy hour lounge is open.