April 29th

[Cornflake]

Good morning. It's just getting light here. It'll be 60s-90s here.

Nothing exciting planned. Enjoy your day.



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[drlj]

Sunny now but rain moving in later.
It’s so lush & green outside that it’s amazing.
Enjoy the day.

[james]

Bike ride and snooker on telly today.

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[Marty]

Good morning

36F-51F cloudy maybe some rain.

Worked on a strange guitar the other day and took some photos. I'll try to do that post tonight. Need more coffee first.

[jdd2]

Ford 429 was a good engine.

Bike ride earlier, rainy now. One thing I saw on the ride:

[howard lee]

Rained all night last night. Forecast calls for rain from now until the Monday morning commute. 🧐

Taking a long-time family friend to lunch today for her birthday, at a recently opened Burmese (Myanmarese?) restaurant that made the NY Times list of 100 best restaurants in New York just last week.

I scanned the menu online last night and, oddly, they don't serve a thousand-layer pancake, really a type of bread (great for sopping up sauces).

I'm sure we'll survive.

[billhammond]

Apr 29, 2023 8:47:15 GMT -5 howard lee said:

Rained all night last night. Forecast calls for rain from now until the Monday morning commute. 🧐

Taking a long-time family friend to lunch today for her birthday, at a recently opened Burmese (Myanmarese?) restaurant that made the NY Times list of 100 best restaurants in New York just last week.

I scanned the menu online last night and, oddly, they don't serve a thousand-layer pancake, really a type of bread (great for sopping up sauces).

We have quite few Burmese places here -- I especially enjoy Boat Noodle Soup.

[drlj]

I strongly recommend the Python Burger with cheese.

[Tamarack]

Sunny now, rainy later.

Might go for a bike ride before the rain starts. Just got new tires on my gravel bike and will seek gravel to ride it on. Vinton, Iowa would be a good choice, but it's a bit far for a day trip.

Today is Willie Nelson's 90th birthday. It is also my sister's birthday. She is older than me but considerably younger than Willie.

[david]

Some morning office work and afternoon yard work. My evening will be work-free. Nice 80 F, clear sky weather today.

[Dan McLaughlin]

We have a great Vietnamese restaurant here, Mamasan's.

I always get the Vietnam Pho with beef.

Have good ones.

[theevan]

Pretty much all of the restaurants here are Bernese.

It's been incredible here. Tomorrow evening we'll fly back to Bucharest. Thursday we'll head home.

[Cosmic Wonder]

I just got home. OMG, the grass is like ten inches high. I’m mowing the front then it’s nap time.

Mike

[TKennedy]

A little open water today -

[RickW]

We were away for a week in Parksville, staying with friends for a few days, then in a waterfront resort, right on the beach. (Not a sun bathing/body surfing sort of beach. It’s beautiful, but the water is freezing, even in the summer.)

I got to play my buddy’s new Lowden S25J nylon string. What a fabulous guitar. The fingerboard has a bit of a radius to it, and it’s 1 7/8” nut width. Sounds gorgeous, plays fantastic. He’s got a lot of really nice guitars, decided to clear a few out to buy the Lowden, so he sold a Taylor Nanci Griffith, a Lowden F25c, a 2008 American Standard John Mayer Strat, a 1995 Telecaster Classical a la Steve Winwood, a Santa Cruz Tony Rice Professional, a Froggy Bottom Baritone, and a Ray Kraut OMc. He still has lots more.

The F25C he sold was probably my fav guitar I ever played. I’m sad I’ll never get to hands on it again.

[Cornflake]

"We were away for a week in Parksville, staying with friends for a few days, then in a waterfront resort, right on the beach. (Not a sun bathing/body surfing sort of beach. It’s beautiful, but the water is freezing, even in the summer.)"

Rick, I've spent about six months in and around Parksville, starting in 1989 when it was a pretty small place. I feel like I raised it from a baby.

[billhammond]

This morning at the local hardware store, I held the door open for an old-timer who was walking very slowly with a cane as he left the building. He thanked me, and I noticed that his ballcap said NAVY on it, so I said, "We Navy vets need to stick together." We chatted a bit in the parking lot; turns out he served in the Korean War. I love those sorts of chance encounters.

[RickW]

Apr 29, 2023 14:06:12 GMT -5 Cornflake said:

"We were away for a week in Parksville, staying with friends for a few days, then in a waterfront resort, right on the beach. (Not a sun bathing/body surfing sort of beach. It’s beautiful, but the water is freezing, even in the summer.)"

Rick, I've spent about six months in and around Parksville, starting in 1989 when it was a pretty small place. I feel like I raised it from a baby.

Not exactly huge now, though it’s developed, and it and Qualicum are now pretty much a continuous town. But the real estate prices went crazy. Lots of people in Vancouver and in other major urban centers where the weather’s not so nice cashed in a moved here. Almost as expensive as Vancouver now.

[Cornflake]

Yeah. We have some friends with a house between Parksville and Qualicum that overlooks the Strait of Georgia. They bought it long ago and could never afford it today.

[howard lee]

Apr 29, 2023 9:02:52 GMT -5 billhammond said:

Apr 29, 2023 8:47:15 GMT -5 howard lee said:

Rained all night last night. Forecast calls for rain from now until the Monday morning commute. 🧐

Taking a long-time family friend to lunch today for her birthday, at a recently opened Burmese (Myanmarese?) restaurant that made the NY Times list of 100 best restaurants in New York just last week.

I scanned the menu online last night and, oddly, they don't serve a thousand-layer pancake, really a type of bread (great for sopping up sauces).

We have quite few Burmese places here -- I especially enjoy Boat Noodle Soup.

The food at this place was very good. We enjoyed it.