The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 09

[sirhugs]

Vocabulary question.

What's the correct verb to use to describe what a plot bunny is doing when it's firmly got a hold of you and has wrestled you into submission?

gnawing

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

A Monty Python plot bunny!

Bunny Slapping Dance?

 

[Statius]

Bunny Slapping Dance?

Psycho bunny grabs you by the throat and won't let go

 

[NotWise]

C found a balloon launch pic taken from our backyard, two years after the one with the trains. Not Albuquerque by any stretch, but our own personal up-and-close:

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Nice photo and video, @MrPixel. The number of balloons isn't the biggest difference I see between your event and the Balloon Fiesta. The biggest difference is the number of people. The first-ever balloon fiesta was a small event in a shopping mall parking lot, but pictures of that event show the balloons surrounded by a crowd of spectators. Now the event averages 100,000 spectators a day. It's like filling a large stadium nine days in a row.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

Having been stationed at Kirtland AFB in the late '70s and early '80s, each year there were hot air balloons that threatened to drift over the runways and once, one almost drifted over the Nuclear Weapon Storage facility at Monzano. If the operator hadn't dumped his hot air and practically crashed just outside the fences, he would have been shot down. There was an audience as several armored vehicles were waiting behind the fences and the loud speakers were telling them what would happen if they didn't land immediately.

I've got a fresh pot of coffee brewing and the teapot is hot. There are donuts and cornbread and apple crisp on the counter (I was a busy cook yesterday).

I'll be over in the corner working on my story. Hopefully I'll complete another scene today.

 

[TheRedLantern]

Kudos on the smash cut from a tense military standoff at a place with nuclear weapons to coffee and donuts.

 

[MrPixel]

The biggest difference is the number of people.

But of course. We have some draw; crowds at the festival site are in the hundreds over the three days. The chasers used to clog the streets pre-COVID, but that's not been the case since. It has reduced in size, and we don't attract the special shapes any more.

Our small town is too far off of the interstates to support much of an audience, so our "balloon fest" is a regional event at best. I related last year's solar eclipse doings on the forum. Everybody here was bracing for big, big crowds because we were in the center of the path of greatest totality at the peak of totality. It was a Monday, and normally several of our restaurants would be closed. The Chamber of Commerce was apoplectic, going "No no no! We can't roll up the sidewalks like that!" In the end it was a big snooze, but it was certainly pleasant to experience a once-in-a-lifetime event... well, twice-in-a-lifetime (A Sudden Darkness)... in our front yard, only having to drag the lawn chairs out of the barn.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

Kudos on the smash cut from a tense military standoff at a place with nuclear weapons to coffee and donuts.

It does raise the suspense, doesn't it?

I just happened to be visiting the Sandia Optical Range at the time, and got to see the vehicles converging on the crashed cupola. The actual balloon part draped over the outer fence.

It looks like my apple crisp is a big hit so get some before it's gone.

 

[NotWise]

It does raise the suspense, doesn't it?

I just happened to be visiting the Sandia Optical Range at the time, and got to see the vehicles converging on the crashed cupola. The actual balloon part draped over the outer fence.

It looks like my apple crisp is a big hit so get some before it's gone.

They've shut down the airport a few times, too. Never for very long. The pilots are told where they can and can't fly, but sometimes I guess they don't realize where they are. But how can they not see a busy commercial airport and realize the implications?

There was one event, now a long time ago, when a balloon of Russian registration violated Kirtland's air space. I believe there was a thorough debriefing.

 

[iwatchus]

Sitting in the waiting room while my SO has a colonoscopy. Under general, so I get to drive home, the farthest I have driven in the last five+ months. My knee is going to throb tomorrow I suspect. Should be nothing but BIL had colon cancer, so they check regularly

My SO gets to eat tonight!

 

[NuclearFairy]

Sitting in the waiting room while my SO has a colonoscopy. Under general, so I get to drive home, the farthest I have driven in the last five+ months. My knee is going to throb tomorrow I suspect. Should be nothing but BIL had colon cancer, so they check regularly

My SO gets to eat tonight!

If you ice as soon as you get home, it should help some.

 

[iwatchus]

If you ice as soon as you get home, it should help some.

Unfortunately, icing hurts. The swelling is the only thing holding my knee in place. It's just recovering from the bone on bone grinding I get while driving.

But I made it.

 

[NuclearFairy]

Unfortunately, icing hurts. The swelling is the only thing holding my knee in place. It's just recovering from the bone on bone grinding I get while driving.

But I made it.

It usually does for my face at first too. I just keep it in place till the numbness kicks in. However, if it hurts at first then you should definitely talk with your doctor before trying.

 

[sirhugs]

*makes coffee, goes into a corner in search of a muse*

 

[Duleigh]

Good morning

My English Cocker Spaniel woke me up the sweet way that Cockers are known for. He got up on the bed (Mrs D has a staircase for the smaller dogs) and curled up between us. About 6:00 AM he got tangled in my CPAP hose and yanked the CPAP off the headboard and it clonked him on the head and he sat there crying in my ear.

Anybody want a used dog?

 

[iwatchus]

I owe another writer feedback on their WIP and then I should probably do some work for school, which starts back up Monday. To be honest, I will really miss seeing the students, but I will not miss the drudgery of the job. And certainly not the grading. I did get a little writing done yesterday, maybe I can knock out a bunch of grading today and get back to writing.

After four days in a row in the 80'saround last weekend, the last few days have felt more autumnal. A lot of chilly drizzly days in the forcecast. My time writing on the screen porch is probably mostly over for five or six months. Some of you are even farther north and understand the dark days coming. Of course, some of you are much further south and the bright, warm days have just started for you.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

@sirhugs - Muse hides out in the corner which is why I'm always over there when I write ...

It's another cool morning with highs expected in the 70's this afternoon. I'm into the fourth day of no pain anywhere and I'm starting to wonder if I'm still alive or am like Bruce Willis in 'The Sixth Sense.'

There's a pot of coffee brewing and the teapot is hot. There are donuts and snickerdoodles on the counter. I boiled down a ham bone yesterday to make some stock. Once I make stew out of it, I'll bring some in to share.

I'll be over in the corner working on my story. I need my Muse today because I'm staring at the keyboard and nothing is coming to mind ...

 

[sirhugs]

@sirhugs - Muse hides out in the corner which is why I'm always over there when I write ...

It's another cool morning with highs expected in the 70's this afternoon. I'm into the fourth day of no pain anywhere and I'm starting to wonder if I'm still alive or am like Bruce Willis in 'The Sixth Sense.'

There's a pot of coffee brewing and the teapot is hot. There are donuts and snickerdoodles on the counter. I boiled down a ham bone yesterday to make some stock. Once I make stew out of it, I'll bring some in to share.

I'll be over in the corner working on my story. I need my Muse today because I'm staring at the keyboard and nothing is coming to mind ...

Time to feed the MC some snickerdoodles?

 

[Candy_Kane54]

Time to feed the MC some snickerdoodles?

Absolutely ...

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Ahh, another $30/mo kick in the wallet teeth.

 

[sirhugs]

Absolutely ...

I dare you to, next time you stall, write "And then they reached for a snickerdoodle". Just to see if that kicks the muse's butt into gear.

 

[Omenainen]

Howdy, friends! It’s the time of year to start thinking about women again. (Ha - like we stop for the rest of the year, right?)

You’re all very welcome to participate in the next round of Pink Orchid.

And I’ll have a cup of coffee. With cream as thick as it comes.

 

[iwatchus]

There are donuts and snickerdoodles on the counter.

You just melted my heart with snickerdoodles, CK.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Thanks for taking that on.

You’re all very welcome to participate in the next round of Pink Orchid.

 

[sirhugs]

If anybody spots my muse lurking about in a corner, please sweep it my way.