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

[sharingfantasies]

It's our wedding anniversary today. 46 years. We've survived that long of each other and are still friends.

It's also the morning after the clocks went forward. We spent an hour changing the collection of clocks and finding how much dust can accumulate on a clock in six months.

Now to make more coffee and get back to writing smut.

Happy Anniversary. 46 years is a long time.

 

[oggbashan]

Happy Anniversary. 46 years is a long time.

Thank you.

I've just delivered an anniversary card to my wife's oldest friend. They are celebrating 52 years today...

 

[oggbashan]

46 years! That means, you could have been my father (if my mother only... sorry, bad joke...)

Congratulations! Funny to be reminded, on your wedding anniversary, that time is relative... It is the friendship that matters. Friendship and coffee, of course!

Thanks. And as my later post shows, we married later than many of our contemporaries.

One of my female cousins married on her 16th birthday (with parental consent and support). This year they will have been married sixty years and are still very happy together.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

It's our wedding anniversary today. 46 years. We've survived that long of each other and are still friends.

Congratulations to you, sir.

For your lady -

 

[MagicaPractica]

It's our wedding anniversary today. 46 years. We've survived that long of each other and are still friends.

It's also the morning after the clocks went forward. We spent an hour changing the collection of clocks and finding how much dust can accumulate on a clock in six months.

Now to make more coffee and get back to writing smut.

Happy Anniversary

 

[NotWise]

Congratulations, Ogg. You and your wife have us beaten by fifteen years.

I think my wife forgot that today is Easter, and that we have family things to do. I'm not sure how to go about breaking the news to her. It might be better if I don't.

 

[NotWise]

Huh? Isn't Easter next week, or are Americans on a different time schedule?

Well hell. You're right. I'm the one who's confused. It's Palm Sunday.

That leaves me with a lot more of the day then I thought I'd get. There's a dirty little ghost story calling my name; two dead prostitutes and a wannabe playwright in an old theater after hours. With a happy ending.

 

[TxRad]

Happy Palm Sinday.

A Thank you to NW for reminding me.

Congrats Ogg. Keeping a friend for that long is a major accomplishment.

It was major foggy early and the sun came out for a few minutes. Now it's back to cloudy. No rain expected until the middle of next week.

Fresh coffee for the nooner crowd and then I'm back to writing.

 

[rutger5]

Grats Og! 46 years is impressive. You two must be doing something right. Keep doing it.

 

[Handley_Page]

Congratulations to Ogg & Mrs Ogg.

It's now time for another coffee in the descending Sunlight

 

[Gentleman_G]

It's our wedding anniversary today. 46 years. We've survived that long of each other and are still friends.

Happy anniversary, Mr. and Mrs. Ogg. 46 years is a fair time these days. Even better when it's all still friendly. I'm taking my hat off for you.
Although I should've done that when I came in, I'd suppose ...

I'm gonna brew some pot of tea for a change ... being sick kind of messes up my taste for coffee ...

 

[oggbashan]

Thanks all for the congratulations. Shortly we're going out for a celebratory meal - just us two. We've had the grandchildren for part of today. We're looking forward to someone else doing the cooking and washing up.

My wife has had a viral infection for a couple of weeks. We've been surviving on my shopping, cooking and washing up. Even after 46 years she thinks I don't do any of those correctly - competently, but not how she would. She's relieved that she feels up to cooking again, but not this evening.

I'll leave a large coffee pot...

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Congratulations, Ogg. We had forty-six years, too. Would that it had been longer . . .

 

[Hypoxia]

Congrats, Ogg! We'll hit 40 in a couple months. "40 days of happiness," we mutter sarcastically. Sure, I'm utterly dependent, but we manage to do well together. We both endured semi-disastrous trial runs before meeting in a parking lot, getting intimate, setting the bed on fire (the candle was too close), et al. My partner must be nutz to want my worthless self. No accounting for taste, hey?

Cold patches of yesterday's snow remain on our little meadow and throughout the surrounding cedar forest. The gopher holes have ided over. Time for more coffee.

 

[clistenovena]

It's our wedding anniversary today. 46 years. We've survived that long of each other and are still friends.

Now to make more coffee and get back to writing smut.

All that...just lovely.

Funny to be reminded, on your wedding anniversary, that time is relative...

I was going to say that! Except I was going to use 'Ironic' instead of 'Funny.'

I was...

Well hell. You're right. I'm the one who's confused. It's Palm Sunday.

I am so glad I swallowed my drink before I read this.

Congratulations, Ogg. We had forty-six years, too. Would that it had been longer . . .

 

[Handley_Page]

Good Evening one and all.
I think a nice cup of tea is indicated.

 

[NotWise]

I got almost 3K words into my ghost story. A few hundred more and I'll hit something of a challenge, or maybe I'll extend that and make the readers happier before I get to the challenging part.

 

[TxRad]

I put a brisket on this morning. It took a spatula and two forks to get it off the pit. It was falling apart. I love it when I find a good brisket. It melts in your mouth.

HM & HG are sitting in the living room groaning and sighing. They stuffed themselves. So did i but I quit before the groaning point.

There is enough left for sandwiches the next couple of days. *Drool*

Fresh coffee for those in need. A fresh kettle for those looking for something a little softer.

 

[Handley_Page]

Fresh coffee ?
Oh wondrous fellow ! With oodles of thankypoohs.

I'm (hoping) to visit a young friend in the local Hospice; Her cancer is at stage 4. She hasn't made it to 40 years old yet.
And it's no good taking a "get well soon" card ,is it !

 

[Hypoxia]

I'm (hoping) to visit a young friend in the local Hospice; Her caner is at stage 4. She hasn't made it to 40 years old yet.
And it's no good taking a "get well soon" card ,is it !

Fuck, I hate tragedy. And anything I say would sound trite. I'll resort to black humor: Give her a Bon Voyage! card. Shit, are there hospice greeting cards?

Damn, now I'll think of sick going-away card messages and won't get any sleep. I was going to post that my upcoming day would be weirder than usual, but that can wait. Along with the coffee.

 

[oggbashan]

Fresh coffee ?
Oh wondrous fellow ! With oodles of thankypoohs.

I'm (hoping) to visit a young friend in the local Hospice; Her caner is at stage 4. She hasn't made it to 40 years old yet.
And it's no good taking a "get well soon" card ,is it !

My youngest daughter is a palliative care doctor in a Hospice. She sometimes has hayfever from the masses of flowers brought for the patients. The overall impression she gives us of the atmosphere of the Hospice is that it is a place for smiling, laughter, and yes, memories, but mainly for making the best of the few days/weeks of life that are left. The patients are usually more cheerful than the visitors.

She was known as 'Doctor Cake' because she expressed pleasure at being given a cake by one of the patients' families. It was so large that she shared it with many of her patients. Their families reciprocated with more cake...

But that was then. She isn't Doctor Cake anymore. The patients who called her that are long gone. But she still enjoys her work except for the very few patients and patients' families who can be arseholes. A dying arsehole is still an arsehole.

 

[TxRad]

Moanday, Moanday,

HP, I'm of the same mind as Hypoxia, which is a fucking scary thought. Dark humor would be my style. Of course, I fit in the arsehole category on regular occasions.

I'm up way too early this morning. The burning itch in my feet isn't letting me sleep. Walking helps but my legs tire far to easily.

A fresh pot of coffee can't hurt.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Large black, please, sir.

May I ask how long have your feet been giving you this problem?

 

[Handley_Page]

Fuck, I hate tragedy. And anything I say would sound trite. I'll resort to black humor: Give her a Bon Voyage! card. Shit, are there hospice greeting cards?

Damn, now I'll think of sick going-away card messages and won't get any sleep. I was going to post that my upcoming day would be weirder than usual, but that can wait. Along with the coffee.

Moanday, Moanday,

HP, I'm of the same mind as Hypoxia, which is a fucking scary thought. Dark humor would be my style. Of course, I fit in the arsehole category on regular occasions.

I'm up way too early this morning. The burning itch in my feet isn't letting me sleep. Walking helps but my legs tire far to easily.

A fresh pot of coffee can't hurt.

Thanks chaps.
Amazon has ONE "Bon Voyage" card.
To be honest, she might appreciate it; after all, she's decided to have a "one foot in the grave" party.

 

[TxRad]

Large black, please, sir.

May I ask how long have your feet been giving you this problem?

I'm way too late with the coffee.

Diabetic nerve pain. It's gotten worse over the last three or four months. I don't walk as much during the winter so... I have pain pills for it but I'm too stubborn at times to take them. Now that the weather is warmer, I'll be out in the yard and in the shop. It'll get better.

Fresh coffee and a kettle for the evening crew.