Hi Andi (none / 1)
I’m still half asleep. I thought you were walking out into the morning with the pack.
I’m doing fine and another hot day down here. How are you doing today?
Mundane Doesn’t Describe It
by Family Man (FamilyMan1atbellsouthdotnet) on Tue May 8th, 2007 at 08:14:24 AM EST [Edit User]
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We were out walking. It was lovely.
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit – Edward Abbey
by AndiF (andi-ng at earthlink dot net) on Tue May 8th, 2007 at 08:24:55 AM EST [Edit User]
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It’s still lovely down here, but I can see July coming and I’m not looking forward to it.
Mundane Doesn’t Describe It
by Family Man (FamilyMan1atbellsouthdotnet) on Tue May 8th, 2007 at 08:28:00 AM EST [Edit User]
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Back from your walk already and I just got up. I’m huddled a the kitchen table with a blanket over my shoulders like an old lady. It’s 50 outside. Damn, I’m southernized.
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Well I have to admit, it was only when I was a lot younger that had we fresh milk from the cows. My Grandmother used to have fresh milk, make her own butter and fresh eggs from the hen house.
I was just thinking. If I wanted some eggs now, I’d have to get in the car, go the the grocery store, get in a line at the check out and drive back. Grandma had to walk about 30 feet from the back door and grab what was there.
I think with the milk situation, you need to get a cow.
I’m not sure on the diagnosis. I do know I haven’t had anything like that in about 5 years and I can vividly remember the month of itching. I tried everything and I forget what finally worked.
I think tonight here for dinner it will be a sandwich night, or at least the most slackerly method of getting everyone fed. 🙂
Artist: The Coasters (peak Billboard position # 7 in 1959)
Words and Music by Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller
(Thought by some to not be about a plant at all, but rather a young lady with a social disease)
She comes on like a rose but everybody knows
She’ll get you in Dutch
You can look but you better not touch
Poison iv-y-y-y-y, poison iv-y-y-y-y
Late at night while you’re sleepin’ poison ivy comes a’creepin’
Arou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ound
She’s pretty as a daisy but look out man she’s crazy
She’ll really do you in
If you let her under your skin
Poison iv-y-y-y-y, poison iv-y-y-y-y
Late at night while you’re sleepin’ poison ivy comes a’creepin’
Arou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ound
Measles make you bumpy
And mumps’ll make you lumpy
And chicken pox’ll make you jump and twitch
A common cold’ll fool ya
And whooping cough can cool ya
But poison ivy, Lord’ll make you itch!!
You’re gonna need an ocean of calamine lotion
You’ll be scratchin’ like a hound
The minute you start to mess around
Poison iv-y-y-y-y, poison iv-y-y-y-y
Late at night while you’re sleepin’ poison ivy comes a’creepin’
Arou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ound
Measles make you bumpy
And mumps’ll make you lumpy
And chicken pox’ll make you jump and twitch
A common cold’ll fool ya
And whooping cough can cool ya
But poison ivy, Lord’ll make you itch!!
You’re gonna need an ocean of calamine lotion
You’ll be scratchin’ like a hound
The minute you start to mess around
Poison iv-y-y-y-y, poison iv-y-y-y-y
Late at night while you’re sleepin’ poison ivy comes a’creepin’
Arou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ound
la da la da la da
la da la da la da
la da la da la da
la da la da la da
Forgot about the cats. Maybe George and the cats could get to barking and hissing and run around and manage to spill something all over the papers and you wouldn’t have to grade them. See you have to think positive about these things.
The computer woes aren’t completely over, but it’s getting better.
Actually, some of Australia’s finest wines come in screw cap these days – unfortunately, this is not one of them (though it’s still a very drinkable Cab/Sav).
Germany is where I learned to like beer. American beers, other than micro-brews, are tragic. Of course, Australian beers are worse – so I’m back brewing my own again.
It wasn’t until about ten years ago that I could drink red wine. Before that the tannins always upset my stomach too much.
Yep after living in Germany, coming back home and drinking a beer was a big let down. I never have acquired a taste for red wines. I wonder, does that make me a cultural hayseed. 🙂
Ahhhhhhh. Nothing like a steamy bath on a chilly evening.
Red wine is definately an acquired taste. I like it more now than I ever did earlier in my life. I still prefer whites, but sometimes a red seems the better option.
I like solitude, just not at night. At night I like a warm snuggly girlfriend to fall asleep with and wake up to.
Luna is outside still. She came in last night at just after 11pm. Then she started barking sometime around 3am (I think she was asleep, but it’s no less annoying), and after that she asked to go out about 5am. Needless to say, we were not happy with her this morning when neither of us had gotten enough sleep.
Thanks, that jogs my memory. YAHD makes it sound like, “Ho-hum Wednesday is here.” I’ve always thought it should be GGMHDIH (Great Googly Moogly Hump Day Is Here)
I think you’re right, it’s all in the attitude. To me after Monday it was always a good day because it was one less day of the work week. I don’t care who you are or where you work, Monday has to be the worst day of the week.
Thanks SN,
Just over 99 this morning. She has a history test and left for school (comparative analysis of the League of Nations and the United Nations).
I was just talking to my daughter at college this morning and she’s 7 pages into a 30 page paper on the collapse of civilization in Pompeii, due this evening, to which I stupidly replied ‘um didn’t it pretty much collapse when everyone was covered in molten lava?’…apparently she’s writing about what would have happened to them without the volcano. I love that she started this paper last night….thereby proving that procrastination is hereditary.
..thereby proving that procrastination is hereditary.
Both of mine got that trait…
The young one had an essay due today (claims he only found out deadline yesterday) – though half was drafted Monday, the rest and typing took all evening yesterday.
Interesting topic for your daughter, but producing >20 quality pages in a day may be rough.
Good morning, Andi, FM and CG.
Looks like another beautiful day. Kids are here, young asklet is already long up, big sister still in ‘coma’ (and possibly feverish – 101 last night).
Good morning!
I felt sorry for her this morning, but she was determined to do the test this morning, then go to the nurse’s office to take a nap (they have a facility) during a 2-hr break before afternoon classes.
I’m a wuss, staying home today.
George is whining to go out and my brother and s-i-l are up and getting ready to leave. Gotta get George out and cook some breakfast for them before they leave.
I wish I could walk Luna off-lead. “With” would have absolutely no context without the leash. I’m sure she’d come home eventually, but I’m not willing to risk her having run-in with a car (she has zero car sense).
Albert’s wide awake and trying to break into the bedrooms (all of our interior doors have lots of scratch marks at Albert height), so it must be close to my bed time.
We’ve had to train all our dogs to not go too far and to come back when called. Hopeful (in his younger days) did have a tendency to go off for long runs but he always knew where the food was so he was never gone for long.
ps For those of youse who have noticed the change in my punctuation and attributed it to my dyslexia, it’s actually me adjusting to Australian norms, which, amongst other conventions, put periods and commas outside of quotation marks. I refuse, however to put in extranious u’s (colour, etc.) unless I’m writing for the magazine.
Great colors. The sun hasn’t made an appearance here yet, and with the possibility of dense fog and rain today, it may have trouble making the sky anything but light gray.
It’s another windy night here. I could sure stand to be becalmed for a few days. I can see a few stars, so it’s likely to be a very cold night as well.
I though maybe those pictures of our firewood stacks had encouraged you to start ahead of time. (Of course, the picture of the one that fell over after a couple of winter storms and ground freezing/thawing would probably convince you that you’ve got the right approach.)
Nah. Since we’ve been cutting down trees that are several years dry, it’s easiest to store them upright and cut as needed. It also makes us stingier in using it if it means cutting more the coming weekend.
BTW, in case anyone is getting a bit lax about proper safety proceedures, there was a story in yesterday’s Australian online paper about a guy who decapitated himself with a chainsaw. I didn’t follow the link.
We’ve got a lot of logging in Tasmania, and mostly it’s heavy machinery vs. human, with human losing big-time.
Unfortunately, in Australia young people can legally leave school at after year 10. In Tasmania, less than half the state’s students go past year 10 in their education, and most of the teenage males end up in manual labor type jobs operating power tools or machinery. Recently, a 16yo male was killed by tipping a forklift and it’s a wonder that doesn’t happen more often.
Hi Andi (none / 1)
I’m still half asleep. I thought you were walking out into the morning with the pack.
I’m doing fine and another hot day down here. How are you doing today?
Mundane Doesn’t Describe It
by Family Man (FamilyMan1atbellsouthdotnet) on Tue May 8th, 2007 at 08:14:24 AM EST [Edit User]
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We were out walking. It was lovely.
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit – Edward Abbey
by AndiF (andi-ng at earthlink dot net) on Tue May 8th, 2007 at 08:24:55 AM EST [Edit User]
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It’s still lovely down here, but I can see July coming and I’m not looking forward to it.
Mundane Doesn’t Describe It
by Family Man (FamilyMan1atbellsouthdotnet) on Tue May 8th, 2007 at 08:28:00 AM EST [Edit User]
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Back from your walk already and I just got up. I’m huddled a the kitchen table with a blanket over my shoulders like an old lady. It’s 50 outside. Damn, I’m southernized.
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Just didn’t want to cut anyone off mid-sentence or anything….
Morning CG and SN.
Thanks for the new cafe CG.
SN, I’m not sure, but do you have a heater in your house. 🙂
My heater is in Sweden. And I refuse to use both the heat and AC in the same 24 hour period.
The 24 hour thing makes sense. No need in being comfortable. 😉
Funny little guy, as usual. 😛
I’m hungry and we’re out of milk. And I should be cleaning…and making phone calls…but I’m not doing either.
Sounds like the start of a slackerly day. I’m proud of you. 🙂
Hey, I’m hungry and out of milk too. Is it late enough to eat cold pizza for breakfast yet?
Never too late for pizza. What is it with everybody out of milk. Is there a shortage going on now?
Ever since I moved down South™ the cows are really prudish and don’t let me milk them.
Well I have to admit, it was only when I was a lot younger that had we fresh milk from the cows. My Grandmother used to have fresh milk, make her own butter and fresh eggs from the hen house.
I was just thinking. If I wanted some eggs now, I’d have to get in the car, go the the grocery store, get in a line at the check out and drive back. Grandma had to walk about 30 feet from the back door and grab what was there.
I think with the milk situation, you need to get a cow.
for cold pizza. Or so i’ve heard – I’m not much of a pizza eater.
Well, it barbecue chicken pizza…maybe that makes it more appropriate for breakfast?
Well FMom is up and I’ve got to take her to an appointment today, so I’ve got to get outta here.
Everyone have a good day in the pond.
Afternoon Andi.
Green isn’t the word for that picture. Maybe Extreme Green. It’s beautiful though.
I just got back from taking FMom to an appointment. That’s the only drag of living so far from everything. An 80 round trip tired both of us out.
How are you doing this pm and is Jim’s poison oak any better?
Did jim’s itchies get diagnosed at poison oak last night?
Anyway, I don’t know because he had a meeting after school and he isn’t home yet.
Ugh on the long drive.
I’m not sure on the diagnosis. I do know I haven’t had anything like that in about 5 years and I can vividly remember the month of itching. I tried everything and I forget what finally worked.
I think tonight here for dinner it will be a sandwich night, or at least the most slackerly method of getting everyone fed. 🙂
Jim’s home and he says he thinks it’s poison ivy but that it doesn’t itch so bad now.
That’s good to hear. I kept wondering if ya’ll were going to get that mud or clay keres was talking about. 🙂
couldn’t help myself…:{)
ITMF’sA
and raise you some blue…as in skies…as in haven’t seen any for a while…as in YAY!!!!
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ITMF’sA
I had blue skies too today — it’s just hidden behind all that green.
Hi dada,
Yay for blue skies – we have a beauty today, as well.
Were you whoring/pimping your own diary there a bit earlier? 😉
was /pimping/strormbears’ shameless self-promotion…l’m not much of a diarist.
do have something kinda in the works tho….we shall see.
ITMF’sA
hehe, I was a bit obscure.
I was riffing you for your link…
But looking forward to whatever you have in store.
Great looking blue and greens dada.
Good afternoon, all!
Both asklets heading this way (unusual for a weekday).
Busy night ahead.
Hi ask.
After this week, you might need to go through some remedial slacking classes. 🙂
I can always make them do the chores while here. Not!
So, you’re right.
Yep I use to spend as much time trying to figure out how to get my kids to do the chores as just going ahead and doing them.
Busy but enjoyable, I expect.
Busy already, but swimmer seems to be coming down with something – so early bed for her is the remedy.
Evening folks. Don’t mind me while I take up this table and grade papers.
Evening Toni.
Grade away and I’ll even send George over to help if ya need. 🙂
Thank you sir. I’m sure the cats would hate that. Are your computer woes over?
Forgot about the cats. Maybe George and the cats could get to barking and hissing and run around and manage to spill something all over the papers and you wouldn’t have to grade them. See you have to think positive about these things.
The computer woes aren’t completely over, but it’s getting better.
and good whatever-time-of-day it is.
Good morning Andi.
It’s still dark-time-of-day here.
Good morning, AndiF and FM!
Nice here again today. I am loving being able to go for a morning walk again.
How are you and FMom?
Morning walks are great; I especially like to watch the light change.
Morning CG,
FMom is still asleep, brother and s-i-l are leaving this morning and I’m alright except for no sleep.
It appears it will be a nice day here today also.
Hi FM.
I like to be wordly in my greetings in recognition of cafe’s world-wide clientèle (aka keres). 🙂
And I thank you for that consideration.
I’m on my own again tonight and tomorrow night, so y’all are going to have to entertain me.
Good evening keres.
Let me pour some beer in my cereal and I’ll be up to entertaining mode after a few bowls. 🙂
I just openned a bottle of our finest screw-cap red so I you won’t be drinking (or is that eating? I’m so confused by the cereal bit) alone.
With the cereal I don’t think it matters. Screw-cap red huh. 🙂
Actually, some of Australia’s finest wines come in screw cap these days – unfortunately, this is not one of them (though it’s still a very drinkable Cab/Sav).
I never have been a wine drinker until I lived in Germany. There we used to go to winefest and visit all the little wine villages on the Rhine.
Germany is where I learned to like beer. American beers, other than micro-brews, are tragic. Of course, Australian beers are worse – so I’m back brewing my own again.
It wasn’t until about ten years ago that I could drink red wine. Before that the tannins always upset my stomach too much.
Oh, and I’m very fond of Rhein wines and Mosel wines from my time in Germany as well.
I’ve drawn myself a hot bath to soak in. Be back afterwards.
See ya.
Yep after living in Germany, coming back home and drinking a beer was a big let down. I never have acquired a taste for red wines. I wonder, does that make me a cultural hayseed. 🙂
Ahhhhhhh. Nothing like a steamy bath on a chilly evening.
Red wine is definately an acquired taste. I like it more now than I ever did earlier in my life. I still prefer whites, but sometimes a red seems the better option.
Liking Bud Beer makes you a cultural hayseed.
keres I was a cultural hayseed long before I ever started drinking beer. 😉
Me too. 😉
Good evening, keres!
I enjoy occasional solitude – and Luna is with you?
I like solitude, just not at night. At night I like a warm snuggly girlfriend to fall asleep with and wake up to.
Luna is outside still. She came in last night at just after 11pm. Then she started barking sometime around 3am (I think she was asleep, but it’s no less annoying), and after that she asked to go out about 5am. Needless to say, we were not happy with her this morning when neither of us had gotten enough sleep.
Well, yes I agree on the snuggly part w/girlfriend 🙂
Well actually I’m still trying to figure out what YADH means. I was thinking the HD is hump day, but forgot what YA is for.
Yet Another Hump Day
Thanks, that jogs my memory. YAHD makes it sound like, “Ho-hum Wednesday is here.” I’ve always thought it should be GGMHDIH (Great Googly Moogly Hump Day Is Here)
I guess some people have to get over the hump (noon?)in Hump Day before it feels that way to them.
I think you’re right, it’s all in the attitude. To me after Monday it was always a good day because it was one less day of the work week. I don’t care who you are or where you work, Monday has to be the worst day of the week.
I pretty sure Monday always comes in seventh place for favorite day of the week.
Always befuddles me too, until I groggily remember; ‘Yet Another..’
Have I missed everyone again?
Good evening and hope you enjoyed your wine and hot bath, keres, sorry about no snuggly girlfriend.
Hi CG, ask and FM – welcome to your wednesday.
Andi, Andi? Andi? Gone off with the dogs, I assume.
Morning SN.
Got your cup of French pressed coffee yet? 🙂
Yes, indeed, FM – and I was just enjoying reading about Granny Clampett’s beauty regimen. 🙂
I just saw your comment on that. I thought everybody knew that down here in the South that is a normal grooming regimen.
So what are the plans for the day?
Errands, physical therapy and hopefully a surprise or two. 🙂
Yep I have a ton of errands today too. Hope your surprises are good ones.
And I forgot to add – hope swimmer feels better soonest, ask. Fevers are tough on older kids.
Thanks SN,
Just over 99 this morning. She has a history test and left for school (comparative analysis of the League of Nations and the United Nations).
I was just talking to my daughter at college this morning and she’s 7 pages into a 30 page paper on the collapse of civilization in Pompeii, due this evening, to which I stupidly replied ‘um didn’t it pretty much collapse when everyone was covered in molten lava?’…apparently she’s writing about what would have happened to them without the volcano. I love that she started this paper last night….thereby proving that procrastination is hereditary.
..thereby proving that procrastination is hereditary.
Both of mine got that trait…
The young one had an essay due today (claims he only found out deadline yesterday) – though half was drafted Monday, the rest and typing took all evening yesterday.
Interesting topic for your daughter, but producing >20 quality pages in a day may be rough.
She claims she didn’t procrastinate, she just had a bunch of big papers due at the same time. I’m sure her ADD had a lot to do with it.
Hi!
I’m sure now that I’ve gotten back from my walk, you’ve headed off on your errands already. 🙂
Good morning, Andi, FM and CG.
Looks like another beautiful day. Kids are here, young asklet is already long up, big sister still in ‘coma’ (and possibly feverish – 101 last night).
Morning ask,
I’d say 101 was feverish. I hope she gets to feeling better.
Hi ask! Glad swimmer was feeling well enough to head off to school and everyone got their work done! 🙂
Good morning!
I felt sorry for her this morning, but she was determined to do the test this morning, then go to the nurse’s office to take a nap (they have a facility) during a 2-hr break before afternoon classes.
I’m a wuss, staying home today.
George is whining to go out and my brother and s-i-l are up and getting ready to leave. Gotta get George out and cook some breakfast for them before they leave.
See ya’ll later and have a good day in the pond.
explained.
(Hi SN, yes I was off walking with the dogs — using the term “with” very loosely.)
I wish I could walk Luna off-lead. “With” would have absolutely no context without the leash. I’m sure she’d come home eventually, but I’m not willing to risk her having run-in with a car (she has zero car sense).
Albert’s wide awake and trying to break into the bedrooms (all of our interior doors have lots of scratch marks at Albert height), so it must be close to my bed time.
We’ve had to train all our dogs to not go too far and to come back when called. Hopeful (in his younger days) did have a tendency to go off for long runs but he always knew where the food was so he was never gone for long.
My Hopeful catches a scent on the ground and would follow it for miles and miles if I let him.
Has Hopeful Jr been deceiving you all this time?
Heh – slip of the tongue….er, typing finger. But don’t you think all hounds look like boys?
are you saying that having a sad-eyed, pathetic look is particularly boyish?
LOL!
Yet Another Ho Hum Sunset.
I thought I’d start of your Thursday with the last bit of light from mine.
Yeah, it’s rough living here.
That should read “start off”.
ps For those of youse who have noticed the change in my punctuation and attributed it to my dyslexia, it’s actually me adjusting to Australian norms, which, amongst other conventions, put periods and commas outside of quotation marks. I refuse, however to put in extranious u’s (colour, etc.) unless I’m writing for the magazine.
Great colors. The sun hasn’t made an appearance here yet, and with the possibility of dense fog and rain today, it may have trouble making the sky anything but light gray.
“ho hum susnet” all right!
Thanks for the nice start off/of my Thursday.
Gorgeous.
And good evening to you.
And good morning to NDD.
Hi Jim, andi, and NDD.
It’s another windy night here. I could sure stand to be becalmed for a few days. I can see a few stars, so it’s likely to be a very cold night as well.
Got the stove going or are you just in the extra blankets stage?
I’ve been lighting the stove in the evenings. If I don’t light the stove by then Albert hangs out underneath it and makes accusitory body language.
We’re still using up the old fence posts, but we’ll have to start cutting and spliting soon.
I though maybe those pictures of our firewood stacks had encouraged you to start ahead of time. (Of course, the picture of the one that fell over after a couple of winter storms and ground freezing/thawing would probably convince you that you’ve got the right approach.)
Nah. Since we’ve been cutting down trees that are several years dry, it’s easiest to store them upright and cut as needed. It also makes us stingier in using it if it means cutting more the coming weekend.
BTW, in case anyone is getting a bit lax about proper safety proceedures, there was a story in yesterday’s Australian online paper about a guy who decapitated himself with a chainsaw. I didn’t follow the link.
The more common story around here is someone killed or injured by the tree they were felling. We are hyper-careful.
We’ve got a lot of logging in Tasmania, and mostly it’s heavy machinery vs. human, with human losing big-time.
Unfortunately, in Australia young people can legally leave school at after year 10. In Tasmania, less than half the state’s students go past year 10 in their education, and most of the teenage males end up in manual labor type jobs operating power tools or machinery. Recently, a 16yo male was killed by tipping a forklift and it’s a wonder that doesn’t happen more often.
I’ve been looking to catch up with you some time as I have some bird photos for ya to take a “gander” at.
I’ve enjoyed your great variety of bird photos, so I thought I ought to come up with some of my own.
So… I hope to do that one of these days/nights. But right now I could use a little shut-eye.
I’d like to see your bird photos, but not at the expense of your shut-eye.
Go to bed sleepy-head. Catch you later.
A little flock of snow geese on the way to Canada, taken around the end of March 2007. What you see is about 1/4 of the flock.
larger
Way cool. I love snow geese.
Yeah, they were makin’ one ‘ell of a racket, and settling in for the night about a half mile east of me.
I estimated maybe a total of 50,000 of them… who knows, but more than I’d ever seen at one time before.
Well, I’d best save the rest for another time.
Stay warm!
but, ah, technically speaking… it’s “good night” for me, as I’ve yet to turn in.
I’ve got to get back out in the boonies so I can resume normal people sleeping habits once again.