The Ark

And now for a recap of the day, my Loch now has rockets and mini-guns, ycd is going accross the border to buy herbs, Shep is building androids, Rob and Angie have a Colonel coming over for dinner, Skye plays the flute, Pottery is smoking basil, Shep has a receipe for guaky moles, and Shore is a pirate, well, she did sound like a pirate: AAARRRGGG.

Gee, I never had moles for dinner, I guess they are
easy to catch being blind and all. :)

There are some very strange people that hang out here you know.

Goodnight Gracie!

Snake walks quietly around checking the Ark, all secure.

Dog looks up, snake flips him a big hunk of cheese.

Dog loves the ghost who brings him cheese.

Owl watches the ghost fade back into the shadows.

Snake flips the owl a white lab mouse.

Owl loves the ghost who brings him mice.:)

That mouse wasn't being used for experiments, was it, ghost snake? That poor owl could wind up hooting in Spanish or stealing apple fritters! :)

What are you 2 doing up this early on a Sunday morning?

Me, I'm here at work; not actually working at the moment, mind you! :)

Morning Ylee, morning Pottery!

Woke up at 0430 hours, been wandering around since.

Mice are fine, just use them to catch snakes. :)

Put one in the landscape area around the house and
follow them around until one of the Copperheads gets them,
then take the Copperhead way out into the woods.

Sort of a catch and release program. Little tough on the mice though. :)

grrrr.

Stupid embed codes.


Oh yeah...mornin whatnots
:)

Great tunes. All of them.

Just sticking my head in here for a moment..
I have the "hang the X-mas lights" duty today..
I'd rather not but 'tis the season..
Oh well..off to the attic I go..
Later all.. :)

Quoting RobDaHood:
That's the spirit Pcola!
Don't bump your head up there.

A couple years ago, Angie bought some of those little grocery store mini Christmas trees after Christmas. Re-potted them.

So this year we're having a live 4 ft Norfolk Island pine as our tree. She'll probably hang a few decorations in the living room.

The cat and fancy Christmas decoration seem incompatible.

LOL, we had a cat that climbed to the top, and the entire caboodle came crashing down.
Broke most of everything

Aren't cats sweet ?

They say that dogs have masters.
And cats have staff.

The solution to cat vs tree: about 25' of 3/4" galvanized chain, neatly wrapped around the bottom of the tree and tree stand and covered with a tree skirt.

Able to withstand up to a ten-pound bundle of curiosity running at or near full speed (although ornaments remain a problem). Used successfully for ten years. ;)

Quoting shoreacres:
The solution to cat vs tree: about 25' of 3/4" galvanized chain, neatly wrapped around the bottom of the tree and tree stand and covered with a tree skirt.

Able to withstand up to a ten-pound bundle of curiosity running at or near full speed (although ornaments remain a problem). Used successfully for ten years. ;)

I suppose.


And there's also a boot and the front door.

j/k :):)))

auuugggghhhh!!!!


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Quoting RobDaHood:
Hmmm...interesting idea Shore. I suppose one could epoxy the ornaments to the tree. Of course, then storage would be a problem.

Maybe if I hooked 25 ft of 3/4 inch chain to the cat and secured the other end 26 ft from the tree.

Brilliant !

My sisterinlaw used to do Macrame (Lots of chicks used to do macrame, while listening to Grateful Ded and stuff).
Anyway, she built a macrame tree, using 6 or so steel rings progressively smaller as they went up.
Put a pulley in the ceiling, you put the tree in place and pulled it up til the bottom ring was 12" off the floor.

She used to just let it down flat and stuff it in a big bag til next year. Decos and all.

Quoting RobDaHood:
Yeah, I knew girls that used to do that stuff too, Pottery.
Even tried it once. All I got was a big ol' knot!

You got it all wrong....
You were supposed to try the Girls, not the Knots

heheheheheh

Its scary how I always know my name is being taken in vain isn't it?
Having a little trouble with a cat are we?
I solved that problem but I refuse to mention how I did it.
OK, OK, but I want all the cat lovers out there to know
that I read about it in a book about Cats and their behavior problems.

You go to one of the big toy stores and buy one of those
new giant water guns that the kids use today.
Looks like a space gun from the Men In Black movies.
Holds about a gallon of water, and shoots water across
the room.

Warning - Warning - if you have hard wood floors put
a sheet down under the tree first.

One of you has to then sit within shooting distance
of the tree for about a week. Everytime the cat gets near the tree you shoot water on it. After about a week the cat is so paranoid it will walk around the room on the outside just to avoid the tree that wets it. LOL

OK, now about those worms, I don't have them, my yard
seems to have been invaded with what SugarBear thinks
are Nematode Worms. Little skinny worms about two inches long. Millions of them. She thinks that is what
has been killing all of her plants and veggies.

I'm having a bug killing company come out here this week
and take a look and go Sparta on their little selves. :)

Quoting RobDaHood:

Why and where do you suppose that I tied the big ol' knot?
Hehhehheh!
(that Macrame yarn is pretty strong stuff!)

What could I possibly think ???
Painful stuff, knots......

I see that Snakeymon is is being pestered by a pestilence again.
Worms, eh ?
You need yard-fowls, my dear fellow.
Yard-fowls are those feathered things that ultimately become KFC. In case you were'nt sure....
They also make good target practice. Small bore, of course. And they provide Guano. But mostly on your front step, driveway, wherever you are going to be stepping.
I highly recommend them. Especially in the KFC format.

By the way.
It dripped all night and early this morning it was quite heavy.
The map shows that it could go away at any minute, and stay 'away' until June.

I have a busy day ahead.
So I better have another coffee.
Would be nice to have an apple fritter with that.
But all we have are Bananas.

Quoting RobDaHood:
I keep asking for a supersoaker for Christmas.
Angie keeps forgetting...
Oh, well...Night Folks!

shut up shep

Quoting RobDaHood:
Good Morning Shep!
Okay...Pottery's last post gave you more to work with than that.
Of course, I avoided going in that direction too.

No worries mate.
Had to stop and pop a bagel in the toaster between Adobe tutorials.

:)))

Quoting pottery:
By the way.
It dripped all night and early this morning it was quite heavy.
The map shows that it could go away at any minute, and stay 'away' until June.

I have a busy day ahead.
So I better have another coffee.
Would be nice to have an apple fritter with that.
But all we have are Bananas.

You do realize of course that once it drops off the map, that puppy is done for???

Just ask snakerdoodles. He's having nematode problems also.

Have you tried Clorox?

Pottery my dear fellow, if you have bananas, you can make banana fritters. For those of you who are not familiar with fritters, there are hundreds of types of fritters. The apple fritters that the grocery store called Publix sells are baked. However, fritters can also be broiled, fried, micro-waved, and so on and so on.

I am not known for enjoying seafood, however, conch fritters are one of the things I will eat. Yes, I do know they crawl on the ocean floor, don't remind me.

Back to the fritters. You can use a variety of batter to make fritters with, one of the simple ways is to use pancake batter. Pottery, see if the Lady Pott has some pancake batter in the pantry somewhere. Make the batter a little thicker than normal, slice up the bananas in little coin looking pieces about a half inch thick, toss them in the batter and stir until all of them are well coated, then fry them in butter like you would a pancake. WAL LAA = banana fritters!

For those of you who like corn bread, you can make corn bread fritters the same way only make the batter very thin using extra liquid. You can make a stack of them to go with breakfast and the crowd will go wild!

Add a butter/honey topping or maple syrup side dish to go with them. :)

BTW el cappymon...have you joined Adobe Cloud yet?

I'm waiting until I get down to Orlando for Christmas week to grab a new laptop for that purpose.
All they sell around here is barbed wire, groceries and chicken feed.

:)

Holy Cow Batman, look what is coming our way today.
Maybe those little nematoads will drown.:)

739. RTLSNK

I'm partial to fried myself.

Afterall, a fritter is just a big ol' fat doughnut ball thingie without a hole.

Can't have a dripping fritter oozing goody out of the hole, ya know...just saying...pottery might be watching...his...

shut up shep.

:)

Quoting RTLSNK:
Holy Cow Batman, look what is coming our way today.
Maybe those little nematoads will drown.:)

Looks like I'll get the skinny end of the squall line stick on that one...as usual :)
And the temps will probably drop 20F on the backside.

Let er' rip.
I've got dry firewood, rum and stuff, plenty of groceries and storm proof internet access.

mornin rob

Quoting RTLSNK:
Pottery my dear fellow, if you have bananas, you can make banana fritters. For those of you who are not familiar with fritters, there are hundreds of types of fritters. The apple fritters that the grocery store called Publix sells are baked. However, fritters can also be broiled, fried, micro-waved, and so on and so on.

I am not known for enjoying seafood, however, conch fritters are one of the things I will eat. Yes, I do know they crawl on the ocean floor, don't remind me.

Back to the fritters. You can use a variety of batter to make fritters with, one of the simple ways is to use pancake batter. Pottery, see if the Lady Pott has some pancake batter in the pantry somewhere. Make the batter a little thicker than normal, slice up the bananas in little coin looking pieces about a half inch thick, toss them in the batter and stir until all of them are well coated, then fry them in butter like you would a pancake. WAL LAA = banana fritters!

For those of you who like corn bread, you can make corn bread fritters the same way only make the batter very thin using extra liquid. You can make a stack of them to go with breakfast and the crowd will go wild!

Add a butter/honey topping or maple syrup side dish to go with them. :)

Noted, and Understood.
Daughter Nan, when she was still here, was the Banana Queen in this yard. Made everything with bananas.
This morning, I harvested 2 bunches. About 75 lbs in all.
I'm going to be eating them non-stop for a week at least.
You know that they ALL get ripe at the same time, right?

Burp.....

Thunder and heavy rain this morning.
I'm off to the City.
Whatnot to do, Stuff to drop-off and pick-up, Ancient Person to visit, and so on.

The pace is Increasing, as Friday is our Departure date to the UK.
It's below freezing there, dont you know ? Ice, snow, gloom, dread.

I'll be picking up some anti-freeze from the duty free on the way out. Oh Yeah !

Quoting RobDaHood:


Yeah, uhm...didn't you learn your lesson last time around?
Can't believe you fell for that again!

Have a good afternoon.

I certainly did !
This time I will Insist that Lady Pott takes her Maximum Allowable Portion of Rum through the duty-free.
You cant drink Perfume, man.

:):))