That’s cool! I always like it when the smaller countries’ teams win, because it seems like the Olympics is just the US vs China (and maybe Australia) when you see the teevee coverage.
Glad you enjoyed it too. I just love to see high school kids being curious and then acting on their ideas….it gives me hope for the next generation, I guess.
I haven’t abandoned the News Bucket, just put it on hiatus for the summer. I think it will be ready to return after Labor Day. 🙂
Yes I’m having a good summer. I wrote you a long and detailed report which has somehow disappeared into the ether – thank FSM I’m too lazy to recreate it. Did I say thanks for sharing your trip to Italy? That helped a lot.
Did you ever read “The Fourth Turning” by Strauss & Howe? I thought it was a wonderful perspective on human history and evolution. It will give you more hope for the Cabin Boys’ generation. Here’s a link to a page explaining it better than I can. (posting without checking the link, so good luck with that)
Not really. I’m looking forward to a more mellow weekend, puttering around at home. I have a friend who is thinning out her overgrown perennials, so I’m hoping we can finish filling up my front beds and get some mulch for them.
And I have to figure out a way to use up a ton of vegetables and peaches too. I’m thinking peach cobbler might be the way to go.
I’d swap a bunch of lavender iris plants for some peach cobbler! The iris blooms have a lovely grapeish odor too, unlike most of the varieties I’ve smell tested.
Nothing doing here this weekend. Jim, poor thing, has been back at school since the 13th.
The main action here is the dogs pestering me to go for a walk. I’m about to give in — plus I want to get going before the heat and humidity get too ugly.
That’s a really different landscape from what we have here (see AndiF’s enchanted forest photos), but certainly interesting. My favorite part of the west is Gunnison National Forest, in Colorado. Have a great time out there!
Sniff has given in and now they wrestle and chase each other all the time (and I do mean all — they started playing as soon as I got up this morning). Giddy is still doing her dowager queen thing and being above all that — though yesterday she shocked me by joining a game of chase.
That sounds so familiar…when we got Phoebe, Dumbledore took to her immediately, lying down on his back to gentle wrestle with her (she was the size of a guinea pig and he weighs 50+ pounds) – he was her buddy. Gracie was the dowager queen, and made it clear that she would have no parts of “that thing” we had brought into her home. After about a month, I would catch her softening up and playing with Feebs, but as soon as she realized she had been seen consorting with “that thing”, she’d put her nose in the air and walk away.
Now they’re all buddies, and I can’t imagine what they would do without each other. We call Phoebe the Emissary, because she seems to be in charge of letting us know when the water bowl is empty or they’ve discovered the new bag of chew bones and need someone with opposable digits to distribute them.
We’ve had 4 sets of three dogs and the group dynamics have been different with each one of them. It’s always fascinating to watch.
I wish Sniff would take to Bebo like Dumbledore did to Phoebe — it’s not BFF but he hardly growls at her anymore and the playing is reasonably friendly. I doubt Giddy will ever soften up — she never has with Sniff and it’s been 6 years. She loved Hopeful, though (but then everybody loved Hopeful).
Good morning!
Monday it is in a busy week.
The asklets return today; the elder is off to college on Thursday and is still very casual about getting prepared. I foresee busy shopping tomorrow and Wednesday…
And how! Every nut bag in the county was in my office today to whine. Oh well, that’s the old public service biz for you. Hope all of you had a better start to the week.
I guess that’s the trade-off for being a politician — you get all that massive power but you have to put up with being a servant to that very irritating public. 😉
Ah, yes and those heady, ego inflating election night parties with nubile young interns peeling grapes, fighting for the chance… snork! wha! hmmm, must have nodded off there for a sec.
yeah, we had severe thunderstorm/flash flood warnings all day today. Supposed to be like this tomorrow, too, so watch out if you’re visiting any vortexes 😉
i wish i could call in sick. unfortunately, i’m holding down the fort with co-workers and supervisors out due to actual sicknesses. say hi to madame and the b2-boy for me.
Well I’m glad you’re getting rain to help with the drought (so long as you don’t get flooding too). We’re having a bit of a drought here (about a month with no rain) and I’m really ready for a soaker.
Good morning, all!
Well, we’re off for college. Driving to just north of Boston today. Then a short trip to Brunswick tomorrow to drop swimmer off before curly and I continue on a Maine mini-vacation.
(Link to old cafe and Andi’s early am comments to boran…)
I am so ready for the school year to begin…like I have never been ready before.
Lovely photo.
I was never so unready for a school year to begin.
Thanks.
Maybe if the CBs came to visit you for a week, you’d be feeling the longing for the start of school? I’m sure I could arrange something…
Nice try.
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The Dutch won’t collect much gold, this one was unexpected: USA-Netherlands 8-9
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."That’s cool! I always like it when the smaller countries’ teams win, because it seems like the Olympics is just the US vs China (and maybe Australia) when you see the teevee coverage.
Thank you, oh great FSM! (I needed a change.)
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Why does that picture make me think “beam me up, Scotty?” 🙂
Ready for the weekend?
Almost perfect isn’t it — I tried to get one of the dogs to stay in there while I took a picture but they wouldn’t cooperate.
I’m ready for the weekend on Monday.
Yeah, I feel that way on Monday sometimes too.
Any fun plans this weekend? I think we’re pretty just hanging around the house. I have to get ready for CBtE’s 16th birthday, which is next Thursday.
Of course not, silly. They didn’t want to be beamed away from their food dishes.
Who is buried there?
She could tell you, but then she’d have to kill ya.
who isn’t?
Any crop circles down around Happy Hollow lately?
but this story is pretty cool, don’t you think?
is just bizarre.
Would have made one helluva sculpture, eh?
Love it! Cabin, I think deep down we are soul-geeks.
I did all my adult research in “shopping and eating.” Just gotta admire the relentless search for truth, especially when it comes to ‘buyer beware.’
Have you abandoned the daily News Bucket? I miss that.
Glad you enjoyed it too. I just love to see high school kids being curious and then acting on their ideas….it gives me hope for the next generation, I guess.
I haven’t abandoned the News Bucket, just put it on hiatus for the summer. I think it will be ready to return after Labor Day. 🙂
Have you had a good summer?
Yes I’m having a good summer. I wrote you a long and detailed report which has somehow disappeared into the ether – thank FSM I’m too lazy to recreate it. Did I say thanks for sharing your trip to Italy? That helped a lot.
Did you ever read “The Fourth Turning” by Strauss & Howe? I thought it was a wonderful perspective on human history and evolution. It will give you more hope for the Cabin Boys’ generation. Here’s a link to a page explaining it better than I can. (posting without checking the link, so good luck with that)
That looks interesting, and I’m hoping they have it at the library.
Greetings from travels in Utah.
I hope that everyone is well.
Ah the wide, wide open spaces of Utah. Is that the overlook at La Verkin?
Hope you are having a great time.
Good morning!
And at the stroke of midnight, well timed.
Good morning!
Good morning!
curly tells me there may be some knitting happening here in NY in a few weeks.
That sounds portentous … except that I’m guessing is not the usual knitting portent. 🙂
Good morning.
It must be really early, because it took me a long time to “get” this comment…where’s my coffee?
Yep, I need to give her a call today.
You boys will be able to entertain yourselves for a few hours that day, won’t you? 🙂
Hi boran! Lovely view.
Anthing exciting doing at the Cabin this weekend?
Not really. I’m looking forward to a more mellow weekend, puttering around at home. I have a friend who is thinning out her overgrown perennials, so I’m hoping we can finish filling up my front beds and get some mulch for them.
And I have to figure out a way to use up a ton of vegetables and peaches too. I’m thinking peach cobbler might be the way to go.
I’d swap a bunch of lavender iris plants for some peach cobbler! The iris blooms have a lovely grapeish odor too, unlike most of the varieties I’ve smell tested.
Beautiful.
I’ll be back after I make the cobbler. 🙂
What are you and Jim up to today? Is he back at school this week?
Nothing doing here this weekend. Jim, poor thing, has been back at school since the 13th.
The main action here is the dogs pestering me to go for a walk. I’m about to give in — plus I want to get going before the heat and humidity get too ugly.
See ya later.
We’re opening the Campaign For Change office in town this afternoon, so I’ll be out there in the heat for awhile. Maybe I’ll get rid of a few pounds!
My sincere condolences to Jim;-)
That’s a really different landscape from what we have here (see AndiF’s enchanted forest photos), but certainly interesting. My favorite part of the west is Gunnison National Forest, in Colorado. Have a great time out there!
Why does the weekend go so fast?
Hmm, maybe it’s because I’m living with a perpetual motion machine.
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The weekends do fly by, don’t they?
Is Bebo driving everyone semi-crazy with her antics?
Sniff has given in and now they wrestle and chase each other all the time (and I do mean all — they started playing as soon as I got up this morning). Giddy is still doing her dowager queen thing and being above all that — though yesterday she shocked me by joining a game of chase.
That sounds so familiar…when we got Phoebe, Dumbledore took to her immediately, lying down on his back to gentle wrestle with her (she was the size of a guinea pig and he weighs 50+ pounds) – he was her buddy. Gracie was the dowager queen, and made it clear that she would have no parts of “that thing” we had brought into her home. After about a month, I would catch her softening up and playing with Feebs, but as soon as she realized she had been seen consorting with “that thing”, she’d put her nose in the air and walk away.
Now they’re all buddies, and I can’t imagine what they would do without each other. We call Phoebe the Emissary, because she seems to be in charge of letting us know when the water bowl is empty or they’ve discovered the new bag of chew bones and need someone with opposable digits to distribute them.
We’ve had 4 sets of three dogs and the group dynamics have been different with each one of them. It’s always fascinating to watch.
I wish Sniff would take to Bebo like Dumbledore did to Phoebe — it’s not BFF but he hardly growls at her anymore and the playing is reasonably friendly. I doubt Giddy will ever soften up — she never has with Sniff and it’s been 6 years. She loved Hopeful, though (but then everybody loved Hopeful).
I guess I failed to appreciate Sunday enough. Oh well, I guess the week is on its way whether I like it or not.
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Good morning!
Monday it is in a busy week.
The asklets return today; the elder is off to college on Thursday and is still very casual about getting prepared. I foresee busy shopping tomorrow and Wednesday…
Ah, going off to college … what a wonderful and terrifying day that was. I hope swimmer has a great year.
Her mother and curly seem much more antsy about her departure than she.
She’s probably thinking about her Swedish boy…and after all her world traveling, why should a trip a little bit north of home be all that scary? 🙂
I think you’re all going to need a box of kleenex in the car for when you drive away and leave her there…
And how! Every nut bag in the county was in my office today to whine. Oh well, that’s the old public service biz for you. Hope all of you had a better start to the week.
I guess that’s the trade-off for being a politician — you get all that massive power but you have to put up with being a servant to that very irritating public. 😉
Ah, yes and those heady, ego inflating election night parties with nubile young interns peeling grapes, fighting for the chance… snork! wha! hmmm, must have nodded off there for a sec.
Oh no, you can’t fool me. It’s just as suspected … all those county offices are full of wild parties that they immediately stop the second I walk in.
Hi from Sedona, Az, looking very much like a scene from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
heh, i wondered if you would be hitting some nasty weather. the sky has been insane all over the state today.
hope you’re having a great trip! i’d much rather be hanging out with you and the b2 family than stuck at my desk 🙁
Thanks, are you getting it also?
As for the desk, you could always call in, umm, sick. 😉
yeah, we had severe thunderstorm/flash flood warnings all day today. Supposed to be like this tomorrow, too, so watch out if you’re visiting any vortexes 😉
i wish i could call in sick. unfortunately, i’m holding down the fort with co-workers and supervisors out due to actual sicknesses. say hi to madame and the b2-boy for me.
I will. Good luck with the “fort”.
and I do love storms — so long as they don’t last too long. Hope yours didn’t.
Thanks, the monsoon, as they call it, lasted several hours. There has been a lot of rain this year.
That happened to us the first time we went to Zion. A bummer for us but I did feel happy for the locals (especially the local flora and fauna).
… Day.
Some of us have the right attitude, some haven’t.
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Good morning Andi.
We’re getting over 3 days of rain down here from Fay. Now it looks like there’s another Tropical Storm coming. It’s definitely soggy everywhere.
How’s your newly fixed ‘puter been treating ya?
Well I’m glad you’re getting rain to help with the drought (so long as you don’t get flooding too). We’re having a bit of a drought here (about a month with no rain) and I’m really ready for a soaker.
The ‘puter seems to be doing ok.
It’s like I said earlier in the year. Hurricanes were the only thing that would help the droughts. I just hate to see all that destruction.
I hadn’t realized ya’ll had gone so long without rain. I remember telling you to send me some of storms ya’ll had been getting. 🙂
Yep it’s been a summer of extremes. First we have flooding, then constant storms, then drought. Not fun.
I’m heading out with the dogs. See ya later.
See ya Andi. Enjoy the walk.
Good morning, Andi and FM!
A cool 60 this morning and a great day ahead.
Good to see you back, FM.
Good morning Ask.
Good to see you too. I’m like Andi, and I have to get outta here. FMom has an appointment, and we’ve got to get there early.
Have a good day!
Don’t get too stressed!
Have a good one.
Hi all. One more full day in Sedona, then we head to sin city to fly home. Then I’ll be posting on a more regular schedule. 🙂
post some red rocks before you’re back on dial-up! 🙂
Hope everybody had a great time.
Oh we ditched the dial up a couple months back. We’ve got DSL now, cheaper than broadband but slightly less quick.
I’ll have to dig up some photos.
Good last night to you Boran and good morning Andi.
Glad ya’ll are having a good time Boran. I agree with Andi – pictures.
Andi the w/e is almost here. I think we’ll be getting ready for some more soaking down here from Gustav.
Thanks and take care of yourself, FM.
Good morning, all!
Well, we’re off for college. Driving to just north of Boston today. Then a short trip to Brunswick tomorrow to drop swimmer off before curly and I continue on a Maine mini-vacation.
ooh, that sounds fun. What are your mini-vacation plans?
Just a couple of days in Bar Harbor/Acadia National Park. A bit of hiking.
Good morning Ask and CG.
Ask, Bar Harbor is really nice. Cadillac Mountain for sunrises is something to see. Hope you and Curly have a great time.
Hey FM! You getting ready for Gustav?
Ooh, you have to do the Beehive trail! And Precipice! And Asticou Gardens!
And a bike ride on the carriage trails near Jordan pond is nice too.
Thuya garden is the one I really love…it’s across the road and up the Hill from Asticou, IIRC.