The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 04: Come On In

[TxRad]

Happy Fryday, where catfish are king.

The coffee is hot, black, and fresh. Se careful or it might smack you on the butt as you pass. Uh, or is that me? In any case, donuts aew also available.

Nothing planned for the day but the weekend is jammed full.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

I'll have a cup, please.

Too many people en route. Need the calmness of caffeine.

 

[NightSailor]

I'll have a cup, please.

Too many people en route. Need the calmness of caffeine.

Done coffee for the day. Too much caffeine and I mass produce tipos....

 

[Javahead]

Done coffee for the day. Too much caffeine and I mass produce tipos....

I thought it needed alcohol to produce tipos.

Though I produce typos all on my own with embarrassing regularity.

I’ll take coffee, though. And one of those doughnuts wouldn’t go amiss.

 

[Handley_Page]

My wonky Bird Table Mk 1 is up.
Not impressed the local birds though. . . .

Any coffee left please ?

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Bird table? To me that involves large-scale topo maps. What is that in Not-English?

 

[NotWise]

Bird table? To me that involves large-scale topo maps. What is that in Not-English?

I'm thinking it's a small tabletop for feeding birds, usually mounted on a post.

 

[TxRad]

I'm thinking it's a small tabletop for feeding birds, usually mounted on a post.

Those don't work around here. The squirrels gobble the seeds up faster than you can put them out.

I have a bird feeder with a door that closes if anything larger than a big bird sits on the perch. The squirrels figured out they can hang from the roof and bypass the door closer.

 

[ThisNameIsntTakenYet]

Those don't work around here. The squirrels gobble the seeds up faster than you can put them out.

I have a bird feeder with a door that closes if anything larger than a big bird sits on the perch. The squirrels figured out they can hang from the roof and bypass the door closer.

I've seen some funny videos of people who applied something slippery to the post, which made the squirrels keep sliding down as they tried to climb up. It won't bother the birds, who can just land on the top no problem.

 

[NightSailor]

I thought it needed alcohol to produce tipos.

Surprisingly, I actually have less typos - I just miss words because my brain is firing way ahead of my body!

 

[ThisNameIsntTakenYet]

Surprisingly, I actually have less typos - I just miss words because my brain is firing way ahead of my body!

You mean that's not the normal state for most writers? Huh...

 

[NightSailor]

You mean that's not the normal state for most writers? Huh...

Probably true - but not for me in my normal state. I'm slow.

 

[ThisNameIsntTakenYet]

Probably true - but not for me in my normal state. I'm slow.

I mean, my brain is basically always ahead of my body, and sometimes of itself. It's exhausting, lol.

 

[Handley_Page]

That happens to me when I'm making breakfast, usually.

Any Tea left, please ?

 

[NotWise]

The visiting daughter left this afternoon and the wife had an early shift, so I had dinner on my own.

A third+ of a pound of beef (85% lean) grilled high and served with American cheese, bacon, green chile, sliced avocado and tomato. All on a large toasted bun. Rosemary roast potatoes on the side.

I "had" to sit at the table under the shelter of our patio umbrella while a light rain fell and the meat cooked on the grill.

The only thing missing were the bats. Where did the bats go?

 

[TarnishedPenny]

The only thing missing were the bats. Where did the bats go?

Wish we had bats here. We put up a bat house but no luck. That fungus, maybe?

 

[sharingfantasies]

The visiting daughter left this afternoon and the wife had an early shift, so I had dinner on my own.

A third+ of a pound of beef (85% lean) grilled high and served with American cheese, bacon, green chile, sliced avocado and tomato. All on a large toasted bun. Rosemary roast potatoes on the side.

I "had" to sit at the table under the shelter of our patio umbrella while a light rain fell and the meat cooked on the grill.

The only thing missing were the bats. Where did the bats go?

I have seen bats at Four Corners and Carlsbad Caverns. My guess is that your bats are somewhere between those places.

 

[Handley_Page]

The only thing missing were the bats. Where did the bats go?

We have some on what is called "the Chase" [a wooded area not far from me].
It was once a Royal Hunting forrest.

Any coffee please?

 

[TxRad]

There used to be a few bats around here but I've not seen any lately but then again, I haven't really looked for them.

Okay, I'll make fresh coffee before I launch my day.

Once I'm awake well enough, it is a four hour drive. After that.... Anything could and will happen.

 

[NightSailor]

Wish we had bats here. We put up a bat house but no luck. That fungus, maybe?

Could be. They are picky about where they hang out. As I recall, bat houses should be on south facing walls where the sun can warm them. They also like quiet.

We have them here but not as many as we used to. I know our bat population has been hit hard with the fungus. As have our bees. Wish it would strike the mosquitoes instead.

Oh, and good morning! Coffee?

 

[TarnishedPenny]

I’ll have a cup, thanks.

Three days of rain forecast. No watering of gardens required.

 

[NotWise]

I’ll have a cup, thanks.

Three days of rain forecast. No watering of gardens required.

If I delayed watering because the weather service predicted rain, then my gardens would all be dead.

We had a lot of bats last year -- they even got written into my Summer Lovin' contest -- but this year I haven't seen one.

 

[MagicaPractica]

We've always had bats, but I haven't seen any lately either. Luckily the swallows eat lots of bugs too.

 

[ishtat]

We get (Grey Headed) Fruit Bats in Sydney. Big, about 1Kg (2.2 pounds) with a 1 metre (3'6") wingspan. They roost in trees 100's if not 1000's to a tree. And they smell awful and poop over everything. They're protected because their numbers have dropped from almost 1 million in the city to 300,000 but I sympathize with anyone who has a colony set up home in their backyard.

 

[NotWise]

We get (Grey Headed) Fruit Bats in Sydney. Big, about 1Kg (2.2 pounds) with a 1 metre (3'6") wingspan.

Our bats are more like insectivorous flying mice with big ears. They're migratory.