I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

jancie

Whoa....I just noticed that all of those religious forums disappeared.

jancie

3monst - I takes me about 3 hours to brew a batch of beer counting the time you need to put it in the fermenting bucket - let it sit for 10 days and then bottle it - let it sit for 10 days.

Anonymous

3monst -  I too have totally given up on the 'review' site.  If BCO, with it's well paid staff, can't deal with it, there is nothing that coninually posting "defends" will do. The WHOLE review section on BCO has to be removed.  The 'final straw' too, was seeing someone twist your intentions so viciously. Evil.  I wish you wonderful metta practice - and remember always, my hearing HH The Dalai Lama, when asked to "define" his religion said :"My religion is kindness."  My kinda religion.

Ritaz, I'll pm you if I ever get up your way.  Haven't ventured much off the 26 acres surrounding my little rented cabin.  Just cut back the swiss chard, forgot to pick it when it was 'mellow' - and you know a gardener is lazy, when she picks her sugar snap peas, and has to "treat" them like regular ole peas cuz the pods are so dry...still, I love it here.  Think NE is the best!

1Athena1

That web site can also be reviewed, BTW (added this back in - honestly, those people deserve what they get - shoddy operation they run, IMO, and a nonprofit's prestige should not rest on it).CS - I am sorry that you are restricted. And the twisting of 3monst's words is really quite diabolical.

bluedahlia

Can you pm me the link Athena,

3monstmama

Jancie, i hear you.  When DH was telling me how it was only going to take an hour to get the stuff going, I laughed and laughed. . . .it was about 3-4 hours like you said.

The fun part will be round two, the bottling stage which will be happening at the same time as a big sailing regatta AND right as we leave for France. . . .me, I'm packing myself and the kids this weekend. . . . .

otter

ritaz, the neat thing about the BCO Bar & Grill is that the drinks our bartender mixes have absolutely no impact on our risk of BC recurrence.  They won't give us liver damage or cause us to drive while under the influence or argue with our spouses and kids.  So, we can "enjoy" our favorite gin & tonics or margaritas or Kahlua drinks here, and it won't hurt us even a little bit.

Glad you've been lurking -- welcome!

otter

apple

so make me a double margarita with GOLD

bluedahlia

I'm so glad I downgraded my investments.  The markets took a beating today.

Bren-2007

I'm getting hungry .. I hope the chef is ready at the Grill!

I saw another snake today.  I couldn't figure out what had Tank so upset outside earlier.  Turns out it was a little green grass snake.  Harmless, but I still wish the snakes would stay in the fields and not come up near the house. 

Bren

ritaz

Yum! Did someone say Margarita? Silver Patron and Patron Orang with just a touch of lime juice?



Thank you for all your welcomes! Love this thread...you girls are always so cheery...well, except yesterday when it seemed CS was thrown out of BCO...and yes, CS, I'm a born, raised, will mostly die here New Englander...and I love it here...I travel a lot, but then I get homesick and need to be home In New England...

Yeah, talking about gardens- I didn't get mine in until the end of June because I was having rads at the end of the Spring and I was just too d@mn tired to do any weeding and planting before then...so far I've harvested two cucumbers...with any kind of luck, I'll be around next year to plant earlier for our very short growing season... :-)

1Athena1

Bren, 98 degrees in your neck of the woods?? It was in the 80's here in the swamp.

The BCO B&G is open and I am going in for a drink! Wonderful bartender we have.

3monstmama

I think I will refrain from sharing the temp here (YramAL SHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!)  But the sky is blue and clear and I can see a big honking mountain way off to the south....

perfect weather for gin bubbles!

now if it will only hold so I can go on my blueberry expedition this weekend, I shall be a happy happy camper!

Anonymous

ritaz

"growing" season - I moved here from Washington DC - and was amazed to find we can get a FROST until the last weekend in May - and then again by mid October.  Yet, we have lots of farms - everybody seems to have a hoop house, but me ;(

riley702

We tied the record today for most consecutive days above 90° (32.2° for you Canadians - Canadiens?), but it's only supposed to be 88° tomorrow. But then again, that's what they said about today, so maybe we'll break the record tomorrow.

And if the bar's open, I'll take a frozen Mudslide. *tips the bartender*

apple

a little cooler today.. like 15 degrees.. YAY.  Went to look at the garden and it looks like the deer have eaten it.. all of it.. they left some tomatoe and pepper stems.. they must not have been tender enough for their sensitive teeth.

otter

apple, I was really enthusiastic at the approach of the first growing season at our new house.  We had acres and acres of land, and I could plant *anything*!!!  So, I bought a dozen strong, healthy tomato plants and set them out in an open area I'd been tending with mulch, compost, etc. since the previous fall.

Those plants grew like crazy, and put out lots of flowers, which led to teensy little tomatoes -- dozens on each plant.  Was I ever going to have tomatoes! I calculated the length of time it would take those baby tomatoes to mature and ripen, and it came out to be exactly when we would be getting back home after a trip to visit family.

I was so excited as we drove in the driveway on our way back from that trip.  I figured I would have enough tomatoes to make sweet tomato sauce, spaghetti sauce, BLT's, fresh garden salads, etc., and there would be even more to give away at work.

When I got to the tomato patch, something was obviously very wrong.  All that was left were coarse stalks where each plant had been.  No tomatoes, no flowers, no leaves, not even any small stems.  DEER!, I thought, imagining a freezer full of venison after the next hunting season.  (Mr. otter hunts.  I just eat.) 

But it turned out not to be deer.  It was tomato hornworms. Like this one (pic courtesy of the University of Minnesota Extension System website):

Each sorry-looking stalk had at least 4 worms on it, crawling up and down, desperately searching for more leaves.  I took great pleasure in picking off each one of those worms and tossing them into our fish pond, which was filled with hungry bass and bluegill.

There will be no more tomato-growing at my house, I'm afraid.  The End.

otter

lewing

How very aggravating, Otter!   It's amazing, isn't it, how much damage a few creepy crawly creatures can cause? 

I only have to deal with squirrels that like to take bites out of tomatos at the not-quite-ready-to-pick-but-should-be-by-tomorrow stage of ripeness. 

L

YramAL

I won't say what the temp is here today in Seattle, but it is lovely. I'll leave it at that.

Edited to add: 3monstmomma-I think the weather will hold for your blueberry expedition. Summer has FINALLY arrived! 

Mary 

1Athena1

Those G&Ts they serve here are wonderful. Another tip for the bartender....and I wonder who the bartender is??

lewing

Having spent last weekend in Seattle, I want to thank Mary and 3mm for not gloating excessively over how amazingly beautiful it's been for -- what, the better part of a week?  (I wouldn't know, as I'm back in the sweltering Midwest.)

Dinner tonight was penne with eggplant, cherry tomatos from the garden, anchovies and lots of fresh basil. 

For those who think this food talk is really code for something else . . . you are absolutely right!  Tomatos = red = Marxist revolution.  Eggplant = popular in the Middle East = imposition of Sharia law.  Anchovies = fish = something about this post is a little fishy.

And the basil?  Basil is so delicious, it doesn't need to stand for anything else.

With tongue planted firmly in cheek,

L

River_Rat

Lewing, LMAO.

lewing

"The skin on the eggplant was a little tough, but the tomatos were juicy and flavorful."

Decode THAT!

L

riley702

What is chicken code for again? I forgot.

And the bartender is the first to ID themselves as such and snatch up the tips.

rosemary-b

Pizza. Code for yummy!

riley702

Damn it, now I'm hungry again.

CherrylH

Mine!. Let's fill the tip jar

bluedahlia

Well I don't want to give away any of our secrets but I took out my coding book and, simply translated, what you're saying is:

"The skin on the eggplant was a little tough, but the tomatos were juicy and flavorful." 

Now I've said too much!

RetiredLibby

So what does G&T stand for? Oops, wrong side! OH! I just developed a serious craving for a margarita! What's my line?



I had cheese pizza for lunch, obviously code for ... Well... You know. I had a Trader Joe's granola bar and a glass of milk for dinner. How crunchy of me!



Can't do emoticons on my iPad, so insert smiley sunglasses here.



L

1Athena1

G&T = ??

Galapagos and Tunisia?

So that means this thread is going to join the army.

Now you have all the code you need to know just what we are up to here....