Finn just fell back to sleep…and here I was trying to talk everyone into going out for breakfast. Ooops.
On a funnier note, this story features one of my brother’s high school friends. We’d heard about the ultralight in the tree in Valley Forge, but were surprised to find out it was someone we knew.
Apparently, he hasn’t changed much over the years 😉
Glad the guy is OK. There used to be ultralight fly-ins here until the host had difficulty getting insurance for the thing. Too bad, it was colorful and fun to watch. Since I was lucky enough to have a friend with a hot air balloon, I just went with him instead. We never wound up in any trees, but came very close a few times.
Spring is definitely here, since the pesky little ants have arrived for their annual sojourn in our kitchen. Anyone know any good ant-be-gone remedies?
Meant to add: it should be available at your local health food store, in the personal care dept. Alternately, you can actually find it at Amazon. I’d suggest as big a bottle as you can buy, since it will need to be applied repeatedly, especially at the places where the ants enter & exit. Good luck!
Thanks! We have a health food store a couple of block from us, so no problem. I see the little buggers are coming and going from one of the electrical outlet plates near the sink. Probably have a whole wall full of eggs, bleh.
If you can get some boric acid, mix it into peanut butter and place where ants can find it. They’ll carry the borax laced peanut butter back to the colony and feed it to the queen. Poof! no more ants.
I used boric acid in working silver, so I always have some on hand.
Boric acid powder sprinkled along their trails. Does the trick if you have karma points to squander. Minimally toxic, but keep out of reach of kids or pets. You can get a lb of the stuff for cheap at Walgreens — pesticide section.
I’d take ants any time over the big hairy black flies that emerge from somewhere as soon as the weather changes. Buzzing around the windows, lights, tv…. Happens every year, but this one is spectacular. The other half suggests I may be the Antichrist. Just in time for Easter.
Maybe she could compromise by taking up fencing. If I wasn’t a major kltuz with no depth perception, that’s a sport that I’d find almost impossible to resist.
She actually did fence years ago (back in school). Maybe we can find a club for her to join. Although I’d probably prefer if we joined the local darts team. Which does involve pointy things.
We actually have our own (very spendy) darts, but they are soft tips, which hasn’t taken off here. I used to play a lot in CA, where the bars all had the soft tip machines that self-score.
I suspect that it was just that hazardous combination of beer and sharply pointed darts that spurred the change to the newfangled machines and the darts with soft tips.
Photobucket is/are a bunch of infantile asses and didn’t appreciate it being pointed out. Either that or the Chippendales Nursery School, Las Vegas, NV, complained.
I saw a sword cane I really liked but any blade over 5 inches is illegal to carry. The last thing I need is to go to jail. I might need a BF but that is not how I want to meet one. LOL
Hope everyone has a great Easter. Very little planned for today as I over did it yesterday. I might go out for Easter Brunch later. Here is the type of Easter Basket I would like. LOL
Good morning all and Happy Easter (or Spring if you prefer)! Mrs. ID and I sneaked away from her office full of work yesterday to attend a live stage performance of Fiddler On The Roof at the local high school. For this production, instead of just having the students perform, the cast and crew were a mix of high, junior high & college students, with some adults from the community and professional musicians thrown in. The result was really amazing!
Good morning!
That looks encouraging. Similar vistas here in Geneve these days. BTW – Easter is serious business here – today is a day off as well. Time for a stroll and some brunch…
Went for a walk in the forest on Saturday. We had planned to go up to Saleve, but the weather was iffy.
Possible trip to Mt Blanc coming weekend for skiing. We’ll see.
Well Butler put up one heck of a scrappy fight but that cold shooting did them up. Still, nice job, Dawgs. (for those people who aren’t basketball fans or weren’t born in Indiana where they won’t sign the birth certificate unless your parents promise to inculcate you in the sport, that’s the NCAAA men’s basketball tourney I’m talking about)
They were so close! We were rooting for them, you know. 😉
I’m headed back to work this morning after a glorious 4 days at home with the family. I think I need a 4-day weekend every month – I’m feeling refreshed and energized for a change. Or maybe it’s that I’ve gotten to the gym a few times, been able to take early evening walks with Finn in the stroller, and not worry about my job for a bit. Whatever it is, I’ll take it.
How are you enjoying the blast of summer this week?
The warm weather has been lovely and it’s really gotten things started greening up. Of course being spring, our record highs are about to be followed by drop into the upper thirties Thursday night. It’s supposed to bounce back up pretty quickly so I can deal with it.
We’ve been almost 20 degrees warmer than usual, high 80s instead of 70 or so…and that awful choking green pine pollen coating everything and blowing around in clouds. Cooler temps on the way for the weekend, yay! and hopefully some rain to wash away this mess.
We’re also having warming than usual temps (about 10 degrees lower than yours) but no pollen here — instead the leaves have started showing way early, which is fine with me.
Ain’t it great. And yesterday the mayapples started popping up and the redbuds and the dogwoods blossomed — I’m a little worried by how early things are happening since we could still get a freeze … but that isn’t stopping me from loving it.
I even found a serviceberry that had blossomed yesterday. And there are violets, rue anemones and spring beauties up keeping the toothwort company. It’s really delightful.
We had already moved some of the houseplants outdoors to give them a little rain. Guess we’d better move them to shelter before tonight, from what I’m hearing about low temps.
Let’s celebrate with a new cafe! 🙂
Finn just fell back to sleep…and here I was trying to talk everyone into going out for breakfast. Ooops.
On a funnier note, this story features one of my brother’s high school friends. We’d heard about the ultralight in the tree in Valley Forge, but were surprised to find out it was someone we knew.
Apparently, he hasn’t changed much over the years 😉
Love the Easter babies. LOL The story about the pilot is a hoot!!!
Glad the guy is OK. There used to be ultralight fly-ins here until the host had difficulty getting insurance for the thing. Too bad, it was colorful and fun to watch. Since I was lucky enough to have a friend with a hot air balloon, I just went with him instead. We never wound up in any trees, but came very close a few times.
Buttastic!
Here’s another one for you, CG:
The Ultimate Peep Show.
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Spring is definitely here, since the pesky little ants have arrived for their annual sojourn in our kitchen. Anyone know any good ant-be-gone remedies?
ID, try peppermint oil. It’s been known to work where all else fails. Plus, it’s non-toxic & won’t harm your companion critters. Use liberally.
Meant to add: it should be available at your local health food store, in the personal care dept. Alternately, you can actually find it at Amazon. I’d suggest as big a bottle as you can buy, since it will need to be applied repeatedly, especially at the places where the ants enter & exit. Good luck!
Thanks! We have a health food store a couple of block from us, so no problem. I see the little buggers are coming and going from one of the electrical outlet plates near the sink. Probably have a whole wall full of eggs, bleh.
If you can get some boric acid, mix it into peanut butter and place where ants can find it. They’ll carry the borax laced peanut butter back to the colony and feed it to the queen. Poof! no more ants.
I used boric acid in working silver, so I always have some on hand.
That sounds good too. I’ll try that if ww’s peppermint oil doesn’t do the trick.
Boric acid powder sprinkled along their trails. Does the trick if you have karma points to squander. Minimally toxic, but keep out of reach of kids or pets. You can get a lb of the stuff for cheap at Walgreens — pesticide section.
I’d take ants any time over the big hairy black flies that emerge from somewhere as soon as the weather changes. Buzzing around the windows, lights, tv…. Happens every year, but this one is spectacular. The other half suggests I may be the Antichrist. Just in time for Easter.
I’ll have to agree with you on the ants v. big fly question.
I went cane shopping and got 2 new ones.
Labrador Cane
Fitted handle cane
Detail of Horse cane I already had.
Detail of Dragon cane I already have.
Cool beans! it’s fun to look at your collection.
Imogen really wants a sword cane. I keep reminding her that those are illegal.
Maybe she could compromise by taking up fencing. If I wasn’t a major kltuz with no depth perception, that’s a sport that I’d find almost impossible to resist.
She actually did fence years ago (back in school). Maybe we can find a club for her to join. Although I’d probably prefer if we joined the local darts team. Which does involve pointy things.
Umm, I think the cache of darts might be a tad below that of fencing — better opportunity for eating beer nuts while competing though.
Beernuts and beer.
We actually have our own (very spendy) darts, but they are soft tips, which hasn’t taken off here. I used to play a lot in CA, where the bars all had the soft tip machines that self-score.
I prefer if the people throwing dart around me are much more into the beernuts than the beer.
I don’t go to that many bars any more so I’m not up on the new stuff.
I suspect that it was just that hazardous combination of beer and sharply pointed darts that spurred the change to the newfangled machines and the darts with soft tips.
I’ve always wanted to take that up too. So much so that the CBs did fencing at summer camp one year.
Finn’s the only CB home this morning…I guess he’ll have to wait for the Easter bunny to come later when his brothers are home.
So now it’s way later — taken Finn for an Easter Egg hunt yet? 🙂
Pooh — I just noticed that photobucket took away your adorable cafe picture. 🙁
Photobucket is/are a bunch of infantile asses and didn’t appreciate it being pointed out. Either that or the Chippendales Nursery School, Las Vegas, NV, complained.
They must have mistaken it for pr0n…idiots.
I took two semesters of fencing in high school. Loooooved it!
Oh I am jealous. You need to come back and visit again so you can give me lessons. 🙂
Maybe we need to have a froggy bottom fencing workshop… 🙂
I saw a sword cane I really liked but any blade over 5 inches is illegal to carry. The last thing I need is to go to jail. I might need a BF but that is not how I want to meet one. LOL
Thanks!!! I am having fun finding unusual ones for me. I am still on the hunt for more. LOL
Hope everyone has a great Easter. Very little planned for today as I over did it yesterday. I might go out for Easter Brunch later. Here is the type of Easter Basket I would like. LOL
Happy Easter, rf! I hope the Easter Bunny brings you your wish!
Oh! He spilled all his eggs! I hate when that happens.
Good morning all and Happy Easter (or Spring if you prefer)! Mrs. ID and I sneaked away from her office full of work yesterday to attend a live stage performance of Fiddler On The Roof at the local high school. For this production, instead of just having the students perform, the cast and crew were a mix of high, junior high & college students, with some adults from the community and professional musicians thrown in. The result was really amazing!
Happy Whatever Day You Want it To Be. And sounds like you’all had a grand time.
Leafing out has to start somewhere.
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Good morning!
That looks encouraging. Similar vistas here in Geneve these days. BTW – Easter is serious business here – today is a day off as well. Time for a stroll and some brunch…
It’s lovely to see spring starting to pop out, isn’t it. I’m really, really tired of gray and brown.
Sounds like a fine way to spend the day. Are you planning any trips up into mountains?
Went for a walk in the forest on Saturday. We had planned to go up to Saleve, but the weather was iffy.
Possible trip to Mt Blanc coming weekend for skiing. We’ll see.
Salève looks gorgeous; I hope the weather is more cooperative next time.
I will bookmark and continue reading your blog in the future! Thanks alot for the informative post!
Same here, Ask. We we Friday and Monday off around Easter, and some people get Tuesday as well.
Enjoy your stroll.
That should read “we have”, not “we we”.
Well, back to the grinder tomorrow…
I found a small sublet at the outskirts of Carouge – nice area. Time to get going now!
Oh, how pretty! I envy you your day off in such a wonderful place- stroll and enjoy!
Permawinter has finally ended here in NY. It’s beautiful!
Yay! There’s nothing like a week of summer in the beginning of April to chase away the endless winter blues.
Yes indeed!
& by the weekend our daytime highs should drop by about 30 degrees, according to the little weather elves at NOAA.
🙁
Make that about 20 degrees, not 30.
I’ve always found it hard to type & weep simultaneously.
Ugh. Enjoy the breath of summer while it lasts.
The same to you, CG.
At least we’ve got a little color now.
Well Butler put up one heck of a scrappy fight but that cold shooting did them up. Still, nice job, Dawgs. (for those people who aren’t basketball fans or weren’t born in Indiana where they won’t sign the birth certificate unless your parents promise to inculcate you in the sport, that’s the NCAAA men’s basketball tourney I’m talking about)
They were so close! We were rooting for them, you know. 😉
I’m headed back to work this morning after a glorious 4 days at home with the family. I think I need a 4-day weekend every month – I’m feeling refreshed and energized for a change. Or maybe it’s that I’ve gotten to the gym a few times, been able to take early evening walks with Finn in the stroller, and not worry about my job for a bit. Whatever it is, I’ll take it.
How are you enjoying the blast of summer this week?
The warm weather has been lovely and it’s really gotten things started greening up. Of course being spring, our record highs are about to be followed by drop into the upper thirties Thursday night. It’s supposed to bounce back up pretty quickly so I can deal with it.
We’ve been almost 20 degrees warmer than usual, high 80s instead of 70 or so…and that awful choking green pine pollen coating everything and blowing around in clouds. Cooler temps on the way for the weekend, yay! and hopefully some rain to wash away this mess.
We’re also having warming than usual temps (about 10 degrees lower than yours) but no pollen here — instead the leaves have started showing way early, which is fine with me.
Thought I saw some green pine slime on the car after work today. I’m sure its not far away, but I’ll take it considering the alternative;-)
Oh most definitely will take all the signs of spring — including removing ticks from the dogs and myself.
Plus, the leaves just starting coming out here. We went from buds to leaves between Monday and Tuesday.
We may hit 90 degrees today. We’ve apparently skipped spring and are going right to summer.
I hate hot weather so that sound just awful to me. We didn’t get temps anything like that and right now we’re in a cool down with a low of 35 tonight.
That’s how it was here. No spring, right from heating and snow to air conditioning and sweating. ugh.
Am I the only one who doesn’t care to hear anything more about Tiger Woods?
No.
Although I think it would be a great time to bring back the word “philanderer”.
Yep, just you … and several billion other people. 🙂
Heh – Tiger who?
We got over the hump from brown to green. And about a week or two early at that. w00t!
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Love that green!
Ain’t it great. And yesterday the mayapples started popping up and the redbuds and the dogwoods blossomed — I’m a little worried by how early things are happening since we could still get a freeze … but that isn’t stopping me from loving it.
Things have gotten dramatically greener here this week. It almost looks like early May instead of April.
No dogwood blossoms just yet, though.
It’s looking more like the third week in April here. We’re well beyond tiny leaves by May. I’m loving it.
Last week’s rain popped the Bradford Pear blossoms out virtually overnight. They’re gorgeous this year.
I even found a serviceberry that had blossomed yesterday. And there are violets, rue anemones and spring beauties up keeping the toothwort company. It’s really delightful.
We had already moved some of the houseplants outdoors to give them a little rain. Guess we’d better move them to shelter before tonight, from what I’m hearing about low temps.
Lows in the 30s the next two nights does bum me out but so long as it doesn’t get below freezing, I guess that won’t hurt anything.
It’s supposed to cool a bit here, back to the 60s. But the 30s?!! Yikes!
Click here for the diary. This week’s theme is Power.
Morning Miss Andie!!! Posted some photos and will share on facebook later. In the diary it says the theme is beginnings and endings. LOL
Yeah, I should have probably left it like that as a shining monument to the quality of olivia’s and my proof-reading skills. But it’s fixed now.
That’s an interesting theme.
Looking forward to seeing what you have for us.
How obnoxious is Detroit Mark? Very.
Either a 15 year-old or emotionally a 15 year-old.
I’ll go with the latter.
So CG what photo that photobucket won’t let you post are you going to use for the next diary? 🙂
Yeah! Time for another one of those unsavory photos.
Good morning/afternoon!
The sun is coming out here, I’m heading for Bains des Pâquis
That does look enticing. Have a great time.