The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 02: A Comma (is a Restful Pause)

[TarnishedPenny]

Rain! Glorious rain!

Our Britannic friends may decry the stuff, but a week ago, it would have been white and fluffy rain, so it's a distinct improvement.

And we can practically watch the accumulation of snow melting.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Cancel that elation...

The temp dropped a tenth of a degree and we're back to snow.

On the other hand, a phenomenon I have never seen before. Our area is suddenly flooded with dozens (hundreds?) of (male-only) robins. For those not in N America, T. migratorius is a large thrush with a brilliant red-orange belly. It's a traditional harbinger of spring and people will call each other to boast of seeing the first of the year. To see this many is most unusual, at least to me.

 

[Handley_Page]

Rain! Glorious rain!

Our Britannic friends may decry the stuff, but a week ago, it would have been white and fluffy rain, so it's a distinct improvement.

And we can practically watch the accumulation of snow melting.

Personally, the rain is welcome to go elsewhere. . .

Coffee. . . .

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Suckers are a family of North American native fish distantly related to carp and minnows. They're bony and not especially good to eat.

I'd post a picture but the picture app on this site doesn't cooperate. All I get is the stupid little blue 'p' square. So just click on the link.

 

[oggbashan]

I'd post a http://www.roughfish.com/sites/default/files/user-lifelist-images/Sucker%20%28Largescale%29.JPG but the picture app on this site doesn't cooperate. All I get is the stupid little blue 'p' square. So just click on the link.

Or see above.

 

[Handley_Page]

I'd post a picture but the picture app on this site doesn't cooperate. All I get is the stupid little blue 'p' square. So just click on the link.

Thank you, Bear & Ogg.
We don't get that sort of thing as far as I know.

It's wet and gloomy. I think I need a lot of coffee while I enjoy the XXI games.
(Well, not all that ballet dancing on a mat).

 

[TxRad]

Cheese and crackers for lunch. Fresh coffee.

Sunny, bright, 80, windy. We'll get that storm front NW is expecting tomorrow afternoon/night.

I need to go mow the hay field that is my yard is before the next rain.

 

[sharingfantasies]

80 yesterday, 60 and super windy today. But it isn't raining or snowing so it is all good.

 

[Handley_Page]

Guess what ?
It's raining - again.
and very cool.

Time for a cup of hot Tea.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Still *&%$!@! snowing. Banana bread to be made; I will save a loaf for the usual suspects.

 

[TxRad]

Banana bread sounds good. Sorry about the snow.

Yard more or less done. I mulched up as much of the hay as i could. The next rain will clean off what is left, I'm sure.

Fresh coffee and kettle for the evening crew. Ya'll have fun.

I'm grilling hamburgers for the crew here.

 

[NotWise]

Come Monday I'll be driving north. Why did the weary traveler drive through Denver? To get to the other side, of course. I'm tired of Denver, so I'm going to drive up the plains in eastern Colorado.

I have to make a play list that goes with a countryside once populated by the Kiowa and the Cheyenne and the bison they hunted, but which now has more wind turbines than buffalo. I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one who finds that landscape so breathtaking.

I'm thinking of writing a neo-western for the Summer Luvin' contest. Maybe there will be some inspiration in those miles.

 

[sharingfantasies]

I remember driving up that route. Up ahead was a wall of rain. We drove through it and it was clear. But up ahead was another wall. I had never seen anything like it. We went through five walls like that. It is VERY flat terrain. I wasn't used to anything that flat either. LOL But it has its own beauty.

 

[NotWise]

I remember driving up that route. Up ahead was a wall of rain. We drove through it and it was clear. But up ahead was another wall. I had never seen anything like it. We went through five walls like that. It is VERY flat terrain. I wasn't used to anything that flat either. LOL But it has its own beauty.

Those walls of rain can come with a lot of head wind. I drove an old VW bus through weather like that in NE New Mexico. The grass beside the road was flattened in the wind, and sometime I had the old van floored to make forty miles an hour. Those things didn't have great aerodynamics.

Five years ago (time flies) on May Day, I drove a rented truck south to Limon, then over to Colorado Springs. I caught a freak spring storm and spent most of the drive from Chadron, Nebraska to Colorado Springs in fog and snow. There were flat spots and areas that weren't at all flat.

One of the most memorable views I've had while driving was in a wind farm just north of Limon. I had just a few yards of visibility, and everywhere I could see there were those huge white turbine blades swinging out of the fog right beside the road then disappearing into the fog again.

 

[ishtat]

I was in Toronto last Northern Summer. Your favourite toy was paddling around the lake.

Might have made more sense with the attachment which I have added below.

http://torontoguardian.com/2017/06/rubber-duck-arrived-toronto/

Apologies to Ms Tsang.

 

[Hypoxia]

I had enough freak storms in Kansas and Nebraska to last me, thanks. I preferred the monster rains of my childhood outside Los Angeles where sloping rural streets with 20in / 50cm curbs filled with water and we plastic-pool rafted downstream. Ah, the days...

Flickers of snow and rain and sun. No bears yet. I'm much better today, thanks, and so is my partner. Yesterday's run up to Lake Tahoe for a bloated birthday brunch helped and we made it back across the avalanche zone okay. Whew.

Tomorrow will require personal energy. I'm planning a Mad Max: 12oz of fine drip coffee and 8oz of good espresso. That's almost nuclear.

 

[Handley_Page]

I had enough freak storms in Kansas and Nebraska to last me, thanks. I preferred the monster rains of my childhood outside Los Angeles where sloping rural streets with 20in / 50cm curbs filled with water and we plastic-pool rafted downstream. Ah, the days...

Flickers of snow and rain and sun. No bears yet. I'm much better today, thanks, and so is my partner. Yesterday's run up to Lake Tahoe for a bloated birthday brunch helped and we made it back across the avalanche zone okay. Whew.

Tomorrow will require personal energy. I'm planning a Mad Max: 12oz of fine drip coffee and 8oz of good espresso. That's almost nuclear.

That's a coffee that even Chloe might balk at. . . .
Love that Duck.
Time for my coffee I think.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Might have made more sense with the attachment which I have added below.

http://torontoguardian.com/2017/06/rubber-duck-arrived-toronto/

Apologies to Ms Tsang.

Now THAT rubber duck wouldn't fit in my bath tub. Maybe in the lake we camp by now and then .....

That's a coffee that even Chloe might balk at. . . .

You are soooooo right. There are limits and I know mine

And here its the last of the winter weather according to the forecast. Rain and snow. flurries right now, 3-5 inches of snow and it's falling now. Rain later today and sunny on Saturday. Love snow, but not mixed with rain!

And now ... writing. My editing went well, almost done the first run through and then it's the second run to concentrate on cutting some of that repetition down. I got carried away - my editing is adding about 500 words to each chapter and its 24 chapters. Need to sit down and do some ruthless trimming. My volunteer editor is not ruthless enough with me. He likes my wordiness.

 

[TxRad]

Some stories need wordiness. Trimming too much fat can change the flow and style. Do so with care.

The rubber ducky I showed might not be all that big but it does have a vibrator in the tail.

Happy Friday the 13th. I'm headed back to bed shortly.

Fresh coffee is now available.

 

[NotWise]

And here its the last of the winter weather according to the forecast. Rain and snow. flurries right now, 3-5 inches of snow and it's falling now. Rain later today and sunny on Saturday. Love snow, but not mixed with rain!

What!? It's not even May yet.

Here it's 35F outside with a 20+MPH breeze, and there's just enough new snow on the mountain to see. I dropped my truck off at the shop and walked about a mile to work with my travel mug in hand. Now the coffee is almost cold.

A few more minutes and I'll walk another half mile or so the barber shop. I haven't had my hair cut since last July. It's almost reached the point where I could put it in a pony tail.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Morning, all. Banana bread for those in the mood.

Supercharged black coffee, please. Long day ahead, but reinforcements en route.

 

[SolarRay]

Morning, all. Banana bread for those in the mood.

Supercharged black coffee, please. Long day ahead, but reinforcements en route.

Can never get too much banana bread. Happy Friday the 13th everyone! Good luck slashing your way through the rest of the work week...

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Thank you, Bear & Ogg.
We don't get that sort of thing as far as I know.

It's wet and gloomy. I think I need a lot of coffee while I enjoy the XXI games.
(Well, not all that ballet dancing on a mat).

The gudgeon would probably be the closest species in appearance and habit, though suckers can grow larger, much larger in the case of the Colorado River razorback species. They can grow to 3' in length.

 

[Handley_Page]

The gudgeon would probably be the closest species in appearance and habit, though suckers can grow larger, much larger in the case of the Colorado River razorback species. They can grow to 3' in length.

Ah, well then, I'll not bother with that too much - when I find a day warm & pleasant enough to go fishing. Come to think of it, I might try out my flay rod sometime this spring.

Meanwhile, it's time for a Coffee.

 

[TxRad]

Flay rod, Fly rod, is there really a difference. Since i fly fish a lot of docks and brush lines, I roll cast most of the time. Otherwise I would be a flay fisherman.