NYC_George
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Curt, I'm sorry to hear about these problems.
What scam? I must have missed the post.
Swal
Running Bear's May 2024 Coffee Shop
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What scam? I must have missed the post.
Swal
Scammers are the scum of the earth and should be dealt with by (fill in the rest of the sentence) to make an example!
This is the Voice of Experience here...
Oh how I love Mother Nature showing her best.
Such gorgeous flowers. An array of colours
Then look at the '50 shades of green'. The different shapes and sizes.
Seeing what you see and not what you thought you saw.
Nothing 'perfect' yet a perfect scene.
Thanks for posting
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What scam? I must have missed the post.
Swal
migalyto
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Thankfully you were in time to get the money back, most are not!
Scammers are the scum of the earth and should be dealt with by (fill in the rest of the sentence) to make an example!
troyphoto
Snarky Old Fart (in training)
Thanks for all the well-wishes for Mom.
Sis #1 was able to take her down to see her new room today. It's a double occupancy, but that hall is lightly populated for now. Which means no immediate roomie. Mom was miffed she never got to go to college. Now she does. Dorm life with a shared bathroom (with the next room only).
Other good news is she gets the window bed.
She will have room for her recliner and not much else from her current apartment. But, she shouldn't be cooking. She's on Oxygen all the time now.
Funny story (and serious) but funny about my Dad's mother. My parents divorced in 1985. About 12 years later, my father died of a massive heart attack. And my mother wound up being chief family contact with her former Mother-in-law. My grandmother was always a character, and very stern. WWII generation, and you did things right the first time with her. Or you did them again and again.
But she was still a caring person. Mom liked her, and was glad that she was still treated as a daughter despite my parents' divorce. So mom had been watching dementia slowly sink into Grandmother. (Gramps was passed for about 15 years at this point). The last straw before mom exercised her Medical Power of Attorney on Grams, and called the doctor to get orders for a nursing home occurred when Grams called mom, complaining that something was beeping.
"Mom, that's your smoke detector," my mother told her. "Is your house on fire?"
"It's kind of smoky in here," Grams told her.
"Do you have anything on the stove?"
"No... oh, wait I put in roast in..."
"Well, grab some hot pads and take it out. Turn the oven off. I'll be right over. And open your windows. I'll be right over."
Twenty minutes later mom is beating on Grams' door. Who should answer, but Grams. Butt Nekkid. All the way. In her birthday suit.
"Mom, where are your clothes?"
"Oh I was napping before that beeping started. It wouldn't stop."
"Go put clothes on Mom..." She pushed Grams toward the bedroom and spied the oven still smoking. After opening the door she yelled at my grandmother:
"Mom, when did you put this roast in?"
"I dunno? Yesterday maybe? I had a burger for dinner last night. It sounded better than the roast."
"Well, you should have turned the oven off." Mom grabbed oven mitts, pulled the charred carcass outside and let it finish smouldering there.
Two weeks later she had Grams in a nursing home, with a diagnosis of late onset Alzheimers.
Fortunately, my mother hasn't tried to burn her apartment down, nor gone streaking through the hallways. We still laugh about nekkid grandma and her VERY WELL DONE chuck roast.
Sis #1 was able to take her down to see her new room today. It's a double occupancy, but that hall is lightly populated for now. Which means no immediate roomie. Mom was miffed she never got to go to college. Now she does. Dorm life with a shared bathroom (with the next room only).
Other good news is she gets the window bed.
She will have room for her recliner and not much else from her current apartment. But, she shouldn't be cooking. She's on Oxygen all the time now.
Funny story (and serious) but funny about my Dad's mother. My parents divorced in 1985. About 12 years later, my father died of a massive heart attack. And my mother wound up being chief family contact with her former Mother-in-law. My grandmother was always a character, and very stern. WWII generation, and you did things right the first time with her. Or you did them again and again.
But she was still a caring person. Mom liked her, and was glad that she was still treated as a daughter despite my parents' divorce. So mom had been watching dementia slowly sink into Grandmother. (Gramps was passed for about 15 years at this point). The last straw before mom exercised her Medical Power of Attorney on Grams, and called the doctor to get orders for a nursing home occurred when Grams called mom, complaining that something was beeping.
"Mom, that's your smoke detector," my mother told her. "Is your house on fire?"
"It's kind of smoky in here," Grams told her.
"Do you have anything on the stove?"
"No... oh, wait I put in roast in..."
"Well, grab some hot pads and take it out. Turn the oven off. I'll be right over. And open your windows. I'll be right over."
Twenty minutes later mom is beating on Grams' door. Who should answer, but Grams. Butt Nekkid. All the way. In her birthday suit.
"Mom, where are your clothes?"
"Oh I was napping before that beeping started. It wouldn't stop."
"Go put clothes on Mom..." She pushed Grams toward the bedroom and spied the oven still smoking. After opening the door she yelled at my grandmother:
"Mom, when did you put this roast in?"
"I dunno? Yesterday maybe? I had a burger for dinner last night. It sounded better than the roast."
"Well, you should have turned the oven off." Mom grabbed oven mitts, pulled the charred carcass outside and let it finish smouldering there.
Two weeks later she had Grams in a nursing home, with a diagnosis of late onset Alzheimers.
Fortunately, my mother hasn't tried to burn her apartment down, nor gone streaking through the hallways. We still laugh about nekkid grandma and her VERY WELL DONE chuck roast.
Looks like your mom has room for a small-ish tv, as well. If she wants one. If she does, make sure you put her info on the back of it, so one of the other residents doesn't help it walk away. And they will, though it's usually because they think it's theirs. Also, mark her clothes, so she gets them back from the laundry.
santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
Here's a soothing post for this evening. If you're a regular here in the Coffee Shop, you know that I have been lamenting all of the rain that I have received in the past 30 days. Also many of you who have been frequenting this place for a few years might remember that I do let a part of my land grow wildflowers every year. Well, the rain has been such that we have not been able to mow my hayfield in advance of planting this year, and the wildflowers took over a major portion of it.
One in particular has really proliferated this spring, one known as a Cornflower. I have at least 9 acres of this wildflower right now.
Interspersed with them is a purplish one that I have never been able to identify, so maybe it's just a weed.
Then of course there are the Indian Blankets, not Indian Paintbrushes which have already come and gone. Here they are fending off the Cornflowers.
The Bluebonnets are already gone as well, as they are earlier in the season like the Paintbrushes.
I have a few others in the area around my pond that I haven't gotten to yet, I'll get pictures later this month.
I hope that you enjoy these pictures that Mother Nature has provided me.
One in particular has really proliferated this spring, one known as a Cornflower. I have at least 9 acres of this wildflower right now.
Interspersed with them is a purplish one that I have never been able to identify, so maybe it's just a weed.
Then of course there are the Indian Blankets, not Indian Paintbrushes which have already come and gone. Here they are fending off the Cornflowers.
The Bluebonnets are already gone as well, as they are earlier in the season like the Paintbrushes.
I have a few others in the area around my pond that I haven't gotten to yet, I'll get pictures later this month.
I hope that you enjoy these pictures that Mother Nature has provided me.
I'd suggest wall-mount, if the facility will allow it. Less chance of it getting knocked off a table and smashed.
This is the Voice of Experience here...
migalyto
Well-Known Member
Probably a huge space saver as well.
CambriaArea51
Well-Known Member
Hi all, been busy with work, home and my parents. I'll get caught up this weekend. Our solar lights we have in the front are multi colored. So the normal white are changed to red and blue with white for Memorial Day weekend.
Boris
Beach Bum
I imagine he doesn't realize that he was scammed. Frequently,they don't, or they wouldn't do it. Good thing y'all caught this early enough to prevent irreversible harm.
Boris
Beach Bum
Made my evening...Than you for posting them.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Retired N&W/NS Signalman
Good morning!
Alaska Railroad in Nenana Alaska pulling oil cars through town. (Match 2006)
Photo: Carl Chapman (Wikipedia)
Alaska Railroad in Nenana Alaska pulling oil cars through town. (Match 2006)
Photo: Carl Chapman (Wikipedia)
traiNscale
Well-Known Member
Good morning folks
- i would like to have a coffee and a sandwich maybe
- ZRH Airport is up and running fine
- light clouds outside
- today: home office
- its 11am (CEST) and around 13 celcius
- my gf out for the weekend, so i have the whole house for me. that means, more time for the model railroad
Wish you all a great weekend!
woopsie I accidentally bought this locomotive at auction
Rivet Counter HO Scale GE ES44AC
BNSF/25th Anniversary
DCC +Sound
Scaletrains
- i would like to have a coffee and a sandwich maybe
- ZRH Airport is up and running fine
- light clouds outside
- today: home office
- its 11am (CEST) and around 13 celcius
- my gf out for the weekend, so i have the whole house for me. that means, more time for the model railroad
Wish you all a great weekend!
woopsie I accidentally bought this locomotive at auction
Rivet Counter HO Scale GE ES44AC
BNSF/25th Anniversary
DCC +Sound
Scaletrains
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Bill Tidler Jr.
Retired N&W/NS Signalman
santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
They are similar to them, but Black-eyed Susans just don't grow on my land. Black-eyed Susans center is not bulbous as Cornflowers. I've never had a patch as big as this years patch before. I have had bigger patches of the Indian Blankets though.They remind me of Black-eyed Susans.
NorthBrit
Well-Known Member
Oh how I love Mother Nature showing her best.
Such gorgeous flowers. An array of colours
Then look at the '50 shades of green'. The different shapes and sizes.
Seeing what you see and not what you thought you saw.
Nothing 'perfect' yet a perfect scene.
Thanks for posting
troyphoto
Snarky Old Fart (in training)
Well, howdy there internet people.
A friendly reminder (not that you all needs it, but non-Americans might), this is our Memorial Day weekend (the day is actually Monday). That is the day we honour those who wore the uniform of our country, all branches of the military, who died while wearing the uniform.
Unfortunately, the day coincides on the calendar with the kickoff to summer. Down in Indianapolis, where I spent 20 years living, they have people fly in from all over the world to watch it rain on the 2.5 mile oval piece of asphalt known as the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Evidently the race around making left turns, in between the raindrops.
Back to reality. In our neck of the woods, likes like rainy weekend. But today is a good day for patio sitting:
The fore-guessing for Race Day looks much the same (Indianapolis is 2 hours south of where I am). If there are any race fans on here, you might see the race cut short, but it looks favourable for some left-turning on that oval.
As for me, after the flurry of phone calling and organizing getting Sis #2 and her boyfriend to come over Saturday and help clean out Mom's apartment, and move her recliner over.
I did manage to finish the gaming shelves:
Here's what on them, for now... Dwarves on the top, Night Stalkers on the middle, and Goblins and Orcs on the lower.
To answer your unspoken question, yes, I do have enough painted minis to fill the shelves. But most of the WW2 are going to stay in their travel cases
A friendly reminder (not that you all needs it, but non-Americans might), this is our Memorial Day weekend (the day is actually Monday). That is the day we honour those who wore the uniform of our country, all branches of the military, who died while wearing the uniform.
Unfortunately, the day coincides on the calendar with the kickoff to summer. Down in Indianapolis, where I spent 20 years living, they have people fly in from all over the world to watch it rain on the 2.5 mile oval piece of asphalt known as the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Evidently the race around making left turns, in between the raindrops.
Back to reality. In our neck of the woods, likes like rainy weekend. But today is a good day for patio sitting:
The fore-guessing for Race Day looks much the same (Indianapolis is 2 hours south of where I am). If there are any race fans on here, you might see the race cut short, but it looks favourable for some left-turning on that oval.
As for me, after the flurry of phone calling and organizing getting Sis #2 and her boyfriend to come over Saturday and help clean out Mom's apartment, and move her recliner over.
I did manage to finish the gaming shelves:
Here's what on them, for now... Dwarves on the top, Night Stalkers on the middle, and Goblins and Orcs on the lower.
To answer your unspoken question, yes, I do have enough painted minis to fill the shelves. But most of the WW2 are going to stay in their travel cases
NorthBrit
Well-Known Member
Good morning all. A coffee please, Flo.
Up early this morning to go and have a chest x-ray. It only took less than 10 minutes. Results in two weeks?
The journey to the hospital wasn't too bad, but the return journey was horrendous. The last two miles took 45 minutes because of road works. Those road works have been going on for the past eleven years. Yes eleven years on the same stretch of road. Still another year to go until completion.
Not listening to politicians on the forthcoming election. All parties promising the earth and knowing they cannot do so. The same with the media; twisting stories to suit.
We will vote though. Not saying who for.
Up early this morning to go and have a chest x-ray. It only took less than 10 minutes. Results in two weeks?
The journey to the hospital wasn't too bad, but the return journey was horrendous. The last two miles took 45 minutes because of road works. Those road works have been going on for the past eleven years. Yes eleven years on the same stretch of road. Still another year to go until completion.
Not listening to politicians on the forthcoming election. All parties promising the earth and knowing they cannot do so. The same with the media; twisting stories to suit.
We will vote though. Not saying who for.
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