Tuesday the 9th

[kenlarsson]

Good morning. Up extra early to go birding with the Audubon folks at Honeymoon Island in Dunedin. Shore birds are on the agenda. Hopefully they'll cooperate and I'll get some good pictures. After that I'll be watching Arsenal vs. Bayern Munich this afternoon. Have a great day folks.

[Cornflake]

Good morning from the desert. Today I'll make an overnight trip to a favorite destination that has trees and running water. I suspect the trees are just leafing out. I'll take my camera but photos are just an excuse for being where I like to be.

Enjoy your day.

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[paleo]

Good morning from the Prairie. It's a beautiful sunny morning here, a great day for music practice this afternoon.

Had a great "Easter" celebration last weekend in Wisconsin that included hunting, and finding, 3 native American artifacts and buying a boat for my grandson.

[Village Idiot]

Good bright and sunny morning. I'm feeling feeling pretty good these days.

[Marty]

Good morning.

39F-60F mostly cloudy.

Productive day in the shop yesterday hope do repeat that today.

[John B]

Yesterday was a full eclipse here, so here are some obligatory pictures of an eclipse that look like most other pictures you've seen, but not as nice is a picture looking down over the railing inside the Statue of Liberty, from my recent trip to the Big Apple. I haven't come up with a good title for it. Actually I have, but it's disrespectful.

[Marshall]

Apr 9, 2024 8:06:51 GMT -5 Village Idiot said:

Good bright and sunny morning. I'm feeling feeling pretty good these days.

How old are you now, Todd? Working down from 90?

[drlj]

Even though the survivalists from the Yukon beat Purdue, probably unfairly, the morning has dawned bright and cheerfully over the 9th tee. Things look spring-like and hopeful. Probably a ruse, but so far so good.
13 more days in this cast. I don’t know whether to be giddy or depressed.
Anyway, 13 more days. Yay!

[Marshall]

Tough hombre.

[TKennedy]

My wife’s bracket won her family pool last night! There were 30 entries at $10 a pop so she’ll make quite a haul.

I was 21st

[Hobson]

As far as I know, the only thing on today's agenda is a trip to Home Depot to get things to fix broken stuff around the house and to buy some plants and potting soil. Oh, yeah, also on the agenda is using those things.

The day didn't start out well because the power went out just after 5:30 AM. It was only off for about 10 minutes but I couldn't get back to sleep. The UPSs on our computers beep when power goes off. The refrigerator beeps and the radar watchdog barks when it comes back on.

[Cosmic Wonder]

Morning. Sun is just coming up over the bay and it looks pretty. Birds are chirping, loudly. Yesterday we hit up Costco, and the farmers market, and we are loaded. Strawberry papayas, apple bananas, limes, greens… and sushi from Costco, which wasn’t as good as the sushi we got from the Dolphin, but was about half the price. Today I’ll go for a swim, and poke around Hanalei town.

Mike


This mornings view:

[dradtke]

Apr 9, 2024 9:53:44 GMT -5 Hobson said:

As far as I know, the only thing on today's agenda is a trip to Home Depot to get things to fix broken stuff around the house and to buy some plants and potting soil. Oh, yeah, also on the agenda is using those things.

My retirement rule of only doing one thing at a time requires that going to the store and getting things is today's thing. Actually using them would be tomorrow's thing.

[Marty]

Been at it for a few hours and time for a break. Riley is in my lap as I type and it looks like he wants to settle in, sorry buddy I'm going to make some lunch.

[Marty]

Apr 9, 2024 9:53:44 GMT -5 Hobson said:

As far as I know, the only thing on today's agenda is a trip to Home Depot to get things to fix broken stuff around the house and to buy some plants and potting soil. Oh, yeah, also on the agenda is using those things.

The day didn't start out well because the power went out just after 5:30 AM. It was only off for about 10 minutes but I couldn't get back to sleep. The UPSs on our computers beep when power goes off. The refrigerator beeps and the radar watchdog barks when it comes back on.

Ordered this from Home Depot last night. It is in stock but way too heavy for us to to get into the truck. DaWife will assemble it, without my help and with my mouth kept shut if I know what's good for me.

[t-bob]

Attract Stealth

“May you be happy. May you be peaceful. May you be safe and protected. May you live with ease and well-being. And may we all awaken and be free.”

By Tricycle Magazine

[paleo]

Apr 9, 2024 11:41:35 GMT -5 Cosmic Wonder said:

Morning. Sun is just coming up over the bay and it looks pretty. Birds are chirping, loudly. Yesterday we hit up Costco, and the farmers market, and we are loaded. Strawberry papayas, apple bananas, limes, greens… and sushi from Costco, which wasn’t as good as the sushi we got from the Dolphin, but was about half the price. Today I’ll go for a swim, and poke around Hanalei town.

Mike


This mornings view:

Beautiful area, we used to have a couple timeshares in Princeville and spent time there every winter. Sold the timeshares about 10 years ago.

[millring]

A facebook friend sent me this supposing that I might be interested in the story.

If you could sum up what was unique about John Prine’s work, you might look to what inspired him to write "Angel From Montgomery": a vision of a woman who feels older than she is, "standing over the dishwater with soap in her hands.” He so often found other people more interesting than himself - which only serves to make him more interesting.

Probably most John Prine fans know how he got started, how Roger Ebert walked out of a Chicago movie theatre because the popcorn was too salty — true or not, I love that detail, because it sounds like it came from a John Prine song — and into a little club where he saw this young guy with a scratchy voice and a steady picking hand, three years out of the Army and working as a mailman, singing songs that he wrote. Ebert went home and rushed out a rave review that, among other things, pointed out that Prine's work was notable for its complete lack of narcissism. Shortly after, Kristofferson showed up to marvel at him, strings were pulled ... and within a year, the mailman was a star.

It’s one of music’s most authentic Cinderella stories, but there is something more to be gleaned from it than the fact that sometimes the good guy wins and the poor boy gets lucky. I think often about the fact that Prine was a soldier, a mailman. In fact he wrote most of his first album — a perfect album — on his mail route. This should serve to makes us mindful of how the mail carrier passing by the yard, the woman pushing the shopping cart with three kids in tow, the guy that fixes your car, the kid on the corner in the cheap shoes … any of these people could be geniuses, filled with strange beauty, wisdom, striking images and shards of poetry.

But there will never be another John Prine: someone who's idea of an inspiring figure, worthy of an immortal song, was a tired woman washing dishes.

-Will Stenberg

[howard lee]

Apr 9, 2024 15:40:09 GMT -5 millring said:

A facebook friend sent me this supposing that I might be interested in the story.

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Any thoughts on what make of guitar he is playing in this photo? That bridge looks like a Washburn, but not the rest of it, to me.

[Marty]

Guild style bridge but Martin style headstock and a segmented rosette. ?