Wednesday 26th of June 2024 Er-lie in the morning!

[drlj]

PT beat me senseless yesterday. I was in bed at 9:30, asleep by 9:01.
Those sweet looking young ladies are monsters!!👹
I am fairly ok today.
My swelling is improving. My foot is starting to look like a foot again.
I have an Echo later this afternoon.
The day looks funky.
Coffee, where art thou?

[Cornflake]

Coffee art in my cup, on the way to my lips.

Good morning. I have a lunch meeting and later a meeting of the church vestry. These days the vestry and the clergy are primarily focused on air conditioning. A power surge a few weeks back fried some of the units. It also fried some snazzy new system of HVAC controls that had been installed.

A few weeks ago I changed my starting guess in Wordle. On some days it works worse than the old one. Today it worked better.

Enjoy your day.

Wordle 1,103 2/6*

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[John B]

I changed my Wordle word, too. Not as successful as you, but that has more to do with me than the word.

Wordle 1,103 3/6*

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Still feeling really urpy. Taking another day off.

[Cornflake]

"I changed my Wordle word, too. Not as successful as you, but that has more to do with me than the word."

No, it doesn't. My opening word left only two possibilities. I had a fifty-fifty chance and guessed right. Sorry about the urpiness.

[howard lee]

Good morning. Today is the very last day of the school year. Her Grace is fueled up and ready to go to her school and bid her classmates and teachers a good summer and pick up her final report card (about which I have no worries).

I have an afternoon appointment with my dermatologist, whose office is a block away from the Ed Sullivan Theater.
It occurred to me this morning that since I retired in April, I loathe getting on the subway and
traveling into Manhattan. Fancy that! I lived downtown for 17 years.

 

Partial view of the living room in my old Greenwich Village apartment.
That was a working fireplace. The only piece of furniture I still have is
that rolling wooden counter opposite the front door, my oak desk,
and a wood file cabinet that was in the bedroom.

 

Opposite the fireplace.

 

Partial of the bedroom and the open door to my old 7 x 4' darkroom. Sure do miss that.
You can see a corner of the archival print washer through the open door.

[PaulKay]

Nothing special going today.
Walk the dogs before the heat gets started and a stop at the gym.

[Marty]

Good morning.

64F-79F sunny.

Been waiting for this day, the day I wake up and don't know what day it is. Since my day no longer coincides with DaWife's work day I have no immediate need to know the day. Now that I do know what day it is we have nothing that we must to do but may choose to do if we feel like it. Going to be a nice day.

EDIT: I forgot, I can now actually start booking flights and reservations for Kauai and Key West. I may play with that today. 

[epaul]

Morning!

Cool and cloudy morning. Good weather for my peas. And wheat. Took a drive up to the farm yesterday, and Holy Molly does the wheat look good. The whole drive up. The best I have ever seen. You could not design a better year for wheat. Row crops could use some heat, but, come July and August, I expect they will get it.

[paleo]

The storms yesterday were south of me. This morning there is a north wind blowing, blowing in cooler, dryer air.

Big plan for today is to get the lawn mowed, I've been putting it off because of the heat.

I think I'll load the truck up this afternoon. We are having a family get together this weekend at the cabin and there are a bunch of things I want to preposition there. Plan is to take stuff up tomorrow.

[Cosmic Wonder]

Marty, when Kauai gets close, let me know and I’ll send you a list of restaurants, and things that are cool to see and do. There is a Costco right by the airport. And for rental cars we use the TURO app which saves a few bucks.

Wednesday morning in the Trailer. A bit overcast and cool. Got some yummy coffee cake to go with our morning coffee from a bakery in Silverton. Today we are going to the State park to see the falls and then take a tour of the only Frank Loyd Wright house in Oregon. Then to a brew pub for a farewell dinner before 20 Airstreams head home tomorrow.

Mike

[kenlarsson]

Good afternoon. The Florida Scrub Jay Survey is complete and I can sleep in tomorrow! Now the FWC workers will analyze the data and next month go out to tag the juveniles. We had a mishap yesterday. I mentioned that we play jay calls after we survey for predators to call them in. We don't want to call in the predators. One of the groups (not mine) surveyed for preds, saw none so they played the recording and called in the jays. Out of nowhere a hawk swooped in and got one of the jays. Everyone was extra careful today with their predator checks.

Now I've got to mow the lawn. Well, I don't have to but the longer I put it off the harder it will be....... Have a great rest of your day.

[millring]

My route has what seems to be an inordinate amount of fields planted in wheat. They're all bright gold right now -- especially the one I have been photographing through the series from the day the crop duster flew over my Jeep and oversprayed my windshield. It took almost exactly three weeks to go from green to gold.

May 17


June 20


One day two weeks ago we were having 25-30 mph winds and I got some really great video of the wind patterns waving the wheat.

I was very surprised to see about 80 acres (I'm guessing -- the field is a mile in length and maybe 1/2 mile wide) of wheat being harvested while it was green. I was told by a coworker who was raised on a farm that dairy farmers will chop green wheat for silage.

Very few bean fields this year. Most of the corn fields are looking great -- probably 4' tall in most places now. The ones pushing up through killed down grass are pretty far behind the rest.

[John B]

I thought I was looking at wheatfields on the CR over to 31, but apparently it was hay? Both sides of the road had been... umm, harvested? And there was a stack of large rectangular bales off in the distance. I really need to do better on my crop identification. I only know beans and corn for sure. I thought I knew wheat, but apparently I don't.

I mean, seriously - I grew up in Kansas (granted, I was a city kid). How can I miss on wheat?

[John B]

Jun 26, 2024 7:16:27 GMT -5 howard lee said:

Good morning. Today is the very last day of the school year. Her Grace is fueled up and ready to go to her school and bid her classmates and teachers a good summer and pick up her final report card (about which I have no worries).

I have an afternoon appointment with my dermatologist, whose office is a block away from the Ed Sullivan Theater.
It occurred to me this morning that since I retired in April, I loathe getting on the subway and
traveling into Manhattan. Fancy that! I lived downtown for 17 years.

Partial view of the living room in my old Greenwich Village apartment.
That was a working fireplace. The only piece of furniture I still have is
that rolling wooden counter opposite the front door, my oak desk,
and a wood file cabinet that was in the bedroom.

Opposite the fireplace.

Partial of the bedroom and the open door to my old 7 x 4' darkroom. Sure do miss that.
You can see a corner of the archival print washer through the open door.

Congratulations to Hope, and I hope the report card comes out well (not that I'm worried, either). As an infrequent visitor to the NYC metro area, I enjoy the subway. But I am not required to use it; it's a choice for me.

Did you ever get those Patsy songs down pat (so to speak)?

[Dub]

Jun 26, 2024 13:13:34 GMT -5 millring said:

I was very surprised to see about 80 acres (I'm guessing -- the field is a mile in length and maybe 1/2 mile wide) of wheat being harvested while it was green.

A section (1 sq mi) is 640 acres so you’re looking at 320 acres.

[david]

Our wheat is at a similar stage - ready for harvest.

Work and dog park are done. I went 1.7 miles and 18 flights at the dog park per my phone pedometer. Not great, but a month ago I could only walk a couple blocks on flat ground due to tight hip flexors and back pain.

[Marty]

Flights and rooms all booked for Key West. The girls are excited as I've told them they are old enough to enjoy the place so it will be better than Disneyworld.

I booked the same room at the Speakeasy we had last visit and their largest room for the girls. Zaria will be turning 17 while we are there and I will arrange for a fresh seafood dinner for her. Along with an embarrassing moment of cupcake with candle and a silly hat while we and the staff sing Happy Birthday. 

[howard lee]

Jun 26, 2024 13:50:32 GMT -5 John B said:

Jun 26, 2024 7:16:27 GMT -5 howard lee said:

Good morning. Today is the very last day of the school year. Her Grace is fueled up and ready to go to her school and bid her classmates and teachers a good summer and pick up her final report card (about which I have no worries).

[...]

Congratulations to Hope, and I hope the report card comes out well (not that I'm worried, either). As an infrequent visitor to the NYC metro area, I enjoy the subway. But I am not required to use it; it's a choice for me.

Did you ever get those Patsy songs down pat (so to speak)?

I'll pass your good wishes on to her.

It's just that I have been riding mass transit, and especially the subway, daily, for the last 50 or so years. It gets old. I like trains that ride on the surface, with vistas and landscapes to watch as you travel toward your destination. I have kind of had my fill of the underground.

I have inserted a couple of those Patsy songs into my repertoire over the years: "Crazy," "So Wrong," "I Love You So Much It Hurts."

Have you ever heard John Prine's cover of that last tune? 

As Her Grace would say, "He eats it and leaves no crumbs!"

 

[millring]

From one of the greatest albums ever pressed to vinyl.

[TKennedy]

So Wrong was one of my favorites in the Patsy Band. Loved the changes.

We had a great trumpet player sit in on our usual wine bar job last night. There was a table of twenty-something girls that hung around listening for quite a while and then came up and told us how much they enjoyed the music. Even left a tip.

When kids that age like thirties and forties show tunes maybe there is hope for humanity.