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Post by Dan McLaughlin on Nov 17, 2019 5:43:11 GMT -5
Church with healing service this morning. Football and guitar playing this afternoon.
Have good ones.
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Post by jdd2 on Nov 17, 2019 6:44:47 GMT -5
A couple crops from some phone shots while out for a walk:
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Post by brucemacneill on Nov 17, 2019 7:55:28 GMT -5
Good morning.
Apparently the coastal storm is going out South of us so they've upgraded our weather forecast. No rain and 50F now which is still 10 degrees below normal but I'll take it. If I get some ambition I can maybe go pick up the fallen branches to kill time until the game at 4:00.
Pats play the Eagles so Doc and I will have to have mixed emotions but I hope the Pats win after which I'll take some crap from my friends in Philly. Actually either way I'll take some crap from my friends in Philly.
Happy Sunday.
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Post by Cornflake on Nov 17, 2019 8:08:18 GMT -5
"Church with healing service this morning. Football and guitar playing this afternoon."
Are you sure you're up to playing football?
This morning we'll celebrate Seabury Sunday, a peculiarly Episcopal event that involves bagpipes and drums. A friend wants to go along so I'll give him a ride. This afternoon it'll be coffee with friends in the backyard. All's well. Enjoy your day.
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Post by drlj on Nov 17, 2019 8:27:26 GMT -5
The weather seems to be improving a bit. We should be in the 50s this week. The snow is mostly gone and what’s left should disappear today. That makes me feel better. Enjoy whatever it is you enjoy today.
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Post by Hobson on Nov 17, 2019 9:03:52 GMT -5
A down and back trip to our old house today to inspect the interior painting and pay the painter. Our next door neighbor already looked at it and thought it was great. He even got the guy to give him a quote on his house. He's a lot pickier than we are, so if the cleanup looks good, we're done. We'll also bring back a load of larger stuff that doesn't need to be put in boxes. Planning on going out for pizza after we get home.
Gonna be 85 in Tucson today, 10 degrees cooler in the foothills of the Huachucas. A good day to make this trip, as rain moves in on Tuesday and we drop 20 degrees by Thursday.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Nov 17, 2019 9:33:09 GMT -5
I’m up. Well, one eye is open. Sort of. Stayed up too late last night visiting friends who invited us for dinner. Pizza on their barbecue and lots of wine. A good time but now I need coffee. I have a stiff neck this am probably due to all the boxes we have been loading into the pod. More of that today, plus another load and a half for Goodwill. Moving is pain.
Mike
Ps, for some strange reason, I had had Will The Circle...circling through my brain last night and had to play it. In G. Todd would be proud.
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Post by Marshall on Nov 17, 2019 10:10:19 GMT -5
Church in a little bit.
There's a new family in church. From Tanzania. The son, Jefferson, got a Goodwill Store guitar from his mother. $10. He's excited. It had a broken string. Me and another guy replaced the string last Thursday. Today I've got some goodies for him; an old Styrofoam guitar case, an intellitouch tuner, some picks, and his choice of one of 3 colorful guitar straps.
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Post by billhammond on Nov 17, 2019 10:29:18 GMT -5
It's all Marty's fault, but I have schemed out a little road trip in a bit that will take me to the 5-8 Club in the St. Paul suburb of Maplewood, where I will order a Bloody Mary cup of coffee, a garlic cheeseburger (the pride of Greencastle, Ind.) and a takeout order of broasted chicken, which Marty says is the bomb. All of this timed so I am back home by noon for the Vikes game.
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Post by mnhermit on Nov 17, 2019 10:35:30 GMT -5
My favorite Sunday of the month.
Raining, but the donkeys still need to be picked up after.
Better days y'all
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Post by coachdoc on Nov 17, 2019 11:21:19 GMT -5
Pats-Iggles. Hope the Pats win so I can brag on my sibs, but either way is fine with me. Mostly I just care for the Sawx. Beautiful sunny cold Sunday. Guess we're getting into winter.
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Post by TKennedy on Nov 17, 2019 12:04:05 GMT -5
Went to see my buddy David Stoddard in a nearby town last night. He shared the stage with the great Chuck Suchy. Both were wonderful although the crowd was small.
I posted David’s great song Three Quarter Time in the waltz time thread earlier but last night he also did my all time favorite of his, Winter. Good time of year for a listen of this masterpiece. Put on your headphones for this one.
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Post by t-bob on Nov 17, 2019 12:05:45 GMT -5
Just a quickie good morning Pickers Strummers I need to walk talk people and maybe some music Sunday Solitude Peace etc etc (right arm)
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Post by Marty on Nov 17, 2019 12:14:35 GMT -5
Good morning.
38F/3C Cloudy.
So Billy Bob is going to the 5-8. They don't do breakfast (I wish) but he will find the Garlic Burger divine as is the chicken. So far every meal we've had there has been wonderful.
I have shop time to do.
Pine Island 70F.
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Post by billhammond on Nov 17, 2019 12:30:23 GMT -5
Good morning. 38F/3C Cloudy. So Billy Bob is going to the 5-8. They don't do breakfast (I wish) but he will find the Garlic Burger divine as is the chicken. So far every meal we've had there has been wonderful. I have shop time to do. Pine Island 70F. Back from 5-8. The GCB was terrific and the chicken looks and smells great. Place was pretty crowded, lots of folks EATING BREAKFAST, Marty!
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Post by paleo on Nov 17, 2019 12:56:24 GMT -5
Thought I'd see some comments on the GREAT Iowa, Minnesnowta football game yesterday, from the minnesnowta gang. Maybe they haven't got the news yet! Iowa 23, Minnesnowta 19.
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Post by billhammond on Nov 17, 2019 12:59:32 GMT -5
Thought I'd see some comments on the GREAT Iowa, Minnesnowta football game yesterday, from the minnesnowta gang. Maybe they haven't got the news yet! Iowa 23, Minnesnowta 19. Yup, we looked terrible, you looked great. And so far today, the Vikings look even stinkier.
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Post by david on Nov 17, 2019 13:28:27 GMT -5
Cough crud is holding on. I have been staring out the window this morning at my leafless cherry tree. The lack of leaves makes obvious the vertical branches that need to be trimmed. My pruning work was cut in half by the thoughtful person who threw a cigarette butt into my yard, eventually burning out the roots and killing one of my two trees.
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Post by millring on Nov 17, 2019 13:45:56 GMT -5
When the curtain falls that means the show is over. Unless you hike the woods. There when the curtain falls, and the leaves cover the ground instead of the sky, a new show has just begun. The colors in the winter woods are an education in understatement. Like no other season. A drive-by view from the distance of the highway doesn't reveal these colors. You have to walk into the woods to see that winter isn't just brown. Walk one direction up the trails and you'll find that every large trunk that faces you appears to have roadside signage in shapes made of moss green. In the summer you may never notice that moss because the more vivid shades of leaf green draw your eyes away. But in late November those moss-signs stand out as though every tree trunk was carefully patina-ed with oxidized verdigris copper. There are two trees right now that have bright red berries. Actually, one is a small tree and the other a thorn covered bramble interspersed wherever the woods thins a bit to allow more light. The winged euonymus is still holding on to the last of its now dangling, dusty rose colored leaves -- though their almond shape is now facing up and down rather than horizontally. And there's still one tree out there that is as green as springtime. I don't know what it is. Sure, there's lots of brown out there too. But when you're in the woods it's not brown. When you're in the woods it's sepia, and umber, and sienna, and chocolate, and buckskin, and tan, and everybrown in between. Look up and now the white sycamores lace impossibly azure winter skies. The oaks still hold a thinned umbrella of leaves they will drop in waves with each dip in temperature. Up against the sky, though, they look as though Seurat painted them. The sun peeks through in pinpoints.
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Post by Marty on Nov 17, 2019 14:17:13 GMT -5
Good morning. 38F/3C Cloudy. So Billy Bob is going to the 5-8. They don't do breakfast (I wish) but he will find the Garlic Burger divine as is the chicken. So far every meal we've had there has been wonderful. I have shop time to do. Pine Island 70F. Back from 5-8. The GCB was terrific and the chicken looks and smells great. Place was pretty crowded, lots of folks EATING BREAKFAST, Marty! But there are no breakfast items on the menu! I'll be passing there today or tomorrow, I'll stop in and ask if they have a breakfast menu on the weekends. Another local place, Obb's, does that with breakfast only on Sat-Sunday.
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