The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 03: Come On In

[MelissaBaby]

Does this mean yours will be really long?

Yes, that's why I set it in the winter, when nights are longer.



No, not really, it's looking like about 7,000-8,000 words.

 

[TxRad]

I think we may have to do a study and determine the correlation between how old an author is and how short their "One Night In XXX" story is.

Age has nothing to do with it. It's how many words do you need to tell the story. When dealing with anal probes, the less said, the better.

 

[beachbum1958]

Hope your wife is recovered!
That's such a sweet and sad story about your dogs!

Thank you, she's well enough to steal the lasagna I made yesterday for dinner tonight (not for her, though; I made her a nice interesting salad, pity she slung it in the recycling bin...), and hide in the pool house stuffing it in her face, then gorging on the lobster, crab, and langoustines I picked up this morning for lunch, so it looks like bacon and eggs and hash browns for lunch for me, that's all there is in the fridge and I'm not risking the coast road hairpins to Point De L'Arpillon just to buy shellfish at this time of day.

The Spanador is back from the vet, sutures out and idiot personality restored, so my three labs are happy again; he's currently asleep somewhere under the three of them in the sun on the pool apron.

 

[JanusGoneAwry]

I think we may have to do a study and determine the correlation between how old an author is and how short their "One Night In XXX" story is.

I'll probably skew the stat since at 57yo mine's looking like it'll come in at 17 to 20k. It'll take place at a masquerade ball during the Mardi Gras festival so lots of pomp and circumstance in play.

I've got it fermenting right now and will pick it back up sometime next weekend for round 2 of edits, in the meantime I'll put the finishing touches on my April Fools Day story so I can get that in early in the submission window.

Gonna skip the coffee and go straight to the Red Bull today Tex but I hope you have a great day...

 

[NotWise]

I took a couple more cubic feet of sand out of my new garden and added a couple cubic feet of peat moss. Now it's turned in and raked out again, and I've had my exercise for the day.

The peas and spinach I planted two weeks ago today are still not up, but it's been a very cool two weeks.

 

[Hypoxia]

Snow is still deep, the car is still stuck, we're out of milk and low on Kahlúa, and snow-dissolving rains aren't due till tomorrow (Monday) afternoon. We *might* be able to escape Wednesday. I really do need to see the retinologist.

Till then, I'll brew more stews, chilis, and trouble. And try to kick-start the damn muses to write write write. Hey, all the pieces of One Night in Bisbee are lying about, needing only to be glued together. No, don't sniff the glue. Wouldn't be prudent. [/me snorts]

One more cuppa Joe from Mr Coffee and I'm set for the day. In mid-afternoon.

 

[Handley_Page]

The peas and spinach I planted two weeks ago today are still not up, but it's been a very cool two weeks.

My new Roses have started sprouting and have gained a few small,red, leaves. Elsewhere on the stalks are buds of differing size, each looking quite encouraging.
But I have to wonder what makes a new Rose lead, 'curl' ?

Time for Tea, I reckon

 

[NotWise]

My new Roses have started sprouting and have gained a few small,red, leaves. Elsewhere on the stalks are buds of differing size, each looking quite encouraging.
But I have to wonder what makes a new Rose lead, 'curl' ?

Time for Tea, I reckon

Check the leaves for damage. If you don't see marks on the leaves, or aphids on the plant, then they might curl just because of the weather.

 

[ChloeTzang]

You guys are talking about roses and here, it's, well, it's minus 19C and add quite a few more minus numbers for windchill (to about minus 27) because it's, well, it's windy. Snow. Lots of snow. Winter storming warning in effect until Tuesday morning. Periods of heavy snow. Total snow accumulations of 6 to 12 inches. Travel will be very difficult due to snowy roads and poor visibility. Expect wind chills of 10 to 20 below zero. Recommended actions: stay at home!

I gotta go to work but not until Tuesday so I am taking this advice.

My big wuss has decided to work from home tomorrow. Me, I've got the fire on, making Thai chicken-coconut curry and rice for dinner, writing and listening to my Bryan Ferry playlist and writing an assassination attempt, mayhem, wild sex and human sacrifice scene to conclude "One Night in Xanadu" with. It's been wonderful fun writing this one, can't wait to see what I can do with Voboy's reject ("One Night on Arrakis"). But first I gotta finish Xanadu. One more fight scene, a banquet and the obligatory 500k word defloration scene to finish off and it's done...

 

[TxRad]

Uh, I made chili and took a nap. i also ate a big bowl of the chili. I love the stuff. It doesn't love me so much. I see an antacid before bed tonight in my future.

Fresh coffee for the night crew.

 

[srosa]

Roses? I like roses.
Floration and defloration. The circle of life.

 

[Hypoxia]

Roses? I like roses.
Floration and defloration. The circle of life.

Q: Why are vineyards (out here in left-coast Vinland) surrounded by roses?
A: Fungal early detection system. Roses show leaf rust before grapes do. When the roses look rusty, it's time to treat neighboring vines. Clever, hey?

After the Taft-era SCOTUS broke up the Standard Oil monopoly, the SO chair told his board, "Well boys, it's just one damned thing after another." A year later their portfolios had doubled in value, so he was only whining. But here and now it's one damn thing after another. We're going from snowed-in to flash-flood and high wind warnings. Everything could swamp or blow down on us. Have mercy.

Today the Instant Pot, with my help, emitted perfect brown rice and terribly tasty chili. Chill outside, chili inside, that's how to go. But that's for tomorrow. Tonight was only organic mac-n-cheeze-n-crab, washed down with Eufloria rosé.

Y'all may drool now.

 

[Handley_Page]

The ashes of my late wife lie at about 3ft down in what became a Rose bed.
She wanted a Yellow Rose on the top so that's what I planted.
After a while of relative success, it got got bad and I'm now on the Rose plant, Mark 3.

But we've had a generous dusting of ground frost and the sun is now riz and damned bright. Time, I think, for some real coffee.

 

[ChloeTzang]

I love my weather this morning. "Blizzard conditions. Extremely dangerous or impossible travel." Minus 21C, feels like Minus 31C. A bit more than a slight dusting of white this morning! And the extreme weather thingie has now been extended thru to Tuesday evening and I gotta work tomorrow so I better stop smiling about staying at home and do my winter survival training. Actually, the plows have kept things pretty clear but the wind is really blowing....

Anyhow, I have my coffee and the fire's lovely, my laptop is all warmed up and I've got all day with nothing to do but write......

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ed/88/62/ed8862d890082ade9c7107d952dd061b.jpg

 

[TxRad]

I see it is a Moanday. 46 here, going up to 64 and partly cloudy.

Fresh coffee for everyone.

I'm nibbling on a brown sugar and cinnamon Pop Tart. Something to force that handful of pills I take twice a day past the bottle neck in my throat.

My plans do not extend past the Pop Tart.

 

[ChloeTzang]

I see it is a Moanday. 46 here, going up to 64 and partly cloudy.

Sadist!

 

[Hypoxia]

Today's medical date is already canceled because snowed-in.
Today's window vista is awe-ful, or awe-some, with horror.
(Terror is anticipation; horror is reaction. They're relative.)
Today's coffee is yet unmade because going back to bed.
Today's instrument is a concert 'uke in standard tuning.
Today's goals are repletion, intoxication, and laziness.
Coffee will appear eventually. When time is right...

 

[NotWise]

The ashes of my late wife lie at about 3ft down in what became a Rose bed.
She wanted a Yellow Rose on the top so that's what I planted.
After a while of relative success, it got got bad and I'm now on the Rose plant, Mark 3.

Growing roses around here is about as easy as falling off a log. When I first visited the area (the last time I travelled with my parents) the roses were one of the most remarkable things I remember. The small homes along the road into town all had big rose bushes covered with flowers. It's dry, so there are few problems with fungus and diseases, there's little of no winter die-back, which is commonly a third of the plant every winter, and roses don't require a lot of water.

When we bought our house there were six rose bushes around the perimeter of the large yard, half of them over six feet high. I don't know how old those plants were, but they were old. Since then they've died off one at a time -- mostly when the rootstock died, which is odd. I still have one of the original six and it seems to flower less every year.

I have two that I've planted since. One (white) was given to us to memorialise my sister-in-law. The other (Tropicana) was given to us to memorialise my mother-in-law. The in-laws are dropping like flies.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I love my weather this morning. "Blizzard conditions. Extremely dangerous or impossible travel." Minus 21C, feels like Minus 31C. A bit more than a slight dusting of white this morning! And the extreme weather thingie has now been extended thru to Tuesday evening and I gotta work tomorrow so I better stop smiling about staying at home and do my winter survival training. Actually, the plows have kept things pretty clear but the wind is really blowing....

Anyhow, I have my coffee and the fire's lovely, my laptop is all warmed up and I've got all day with nothing to do but write......

Good morning. I have coffee thanks, slept in this morning.

Chloe, just think how cold it would be up there if climate change hadn't warmed it up for you.

Roses by any other name still smell and make me sneeze.

Ah well, got some writing done yesterday. My at work story has taken a turn. Don't know where it will be going, but I let it go another day before deciding.

Y'all have a great day.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

So, I was pursing the world wide web when I ran into a advert for the this...

https://cdn.mynamenecklace.com/images/products/Russian-Ring-Necklace-with-Engraving_jumbo_5.jpg

A Russian Ring Necklace. I looked at it and though hmmm, that looks like a husband, his wife, and her lover. Or maybe his. I don't know.

I guess that's just the loving wives category I write in most of the time jogging my mind.

 

[TxRad]

Zeb, years ago, I was having dinner in a fancy restaurant. Yeah, I know, hard to believe, right. At a table ear by, I noticed a woman wearing a five point star on a chain around her neck. There were five names on it. I never got to ask but at the time I assumed it was her, her husband, and the three kids.

Now you have me thinking maybe i wasn't right.

Coffee for the cold nooners.

 

[Handley_Page]

We've had some really bright weather (up to +14C) with a blue sky of impossible brilliance. Sadly my fitness wasn't up to much . . . .

Time for a nice coffee.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Zeb, years ago, I was having dinner in a fancy restaurant. Yeah, I know, hard to believe, right. At a table ear by, I noticed a woman wearing a five point star on a chain around her neck. There were five names on it. I never got to ask but at the time I assumed it was her, her husband, and the three kids.

Now you have me thinking maybe i wasn't right.

Coffee for the cold nooners.

There's a plot bunny in there somewhere... maybe I can dig it out some how.

It was thundering a little while back and the sky was getting dark and cloudy, now the sky is still cloudy, but bright and no rain or thunder.

 

[oggbashan]

Who's going to start the new thread when this one reaches 5,000 posts?

We can't be deprived of coffee.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Who's going to start the new thread when this one reaches 5,000 posts?

We can't be deprived of coffee.

It's Tex's house, I should think he will start the 4th iteration.