CoTT 2 House of Cards

[Marty]

1 minute ago, clochette said:

Me and the brother went to the Italian restaurant for dinner. It was delicious. I had a pizza with prosciutto crudo. I was so full I didn't have room for dessert! 

Wow!

Clo turning down desserts!

[clochette]

2 minutes ago, Marty said:

Wow!

Clo turning down desserts!

Actually I'm not a big big fan of dessert, I don't really like pie/tart, fruits... 

I'm more into juicy meats

[Valkyrie]

Today was a busy day.  I spent the morning cleaning the house.  I had my new gutters installed this afternoon and my mom came over.  We worked on sorting through stuff in my spare room and also hung some pictures.  The work in the basement will be done next Friday.    I also called a mobile vet to come see Joker.  He's started biting, and they're not love bites.  I've got a nasty long bite mark from yesterday that broke the skin.  I want to make sure there's nothing physically wrong with him.  I was really happy to find a mobile vet, since now I don't have the stress of trying to get him into a carrier.  Unfortunately, the appointment isn't until August, so I'll call and see if I can get on a waitlist.  

And the biggest news... is work finally has some guidance from the state about reopening! So I'm hoping for news soon about when I might be able to return to work.    

It's raining now.  The gutters work great!    

[dughlas]

2 hours ago, Drew Espinosa said:

You'll meet the same fate as that spider, Sexy.  

Ohhh ... you gonna wiggle your toes in my chest hair and then squeal ... 

[Drew Espinosa]

3 minutes ago, dughlas said:

Ohhh ... you gonna wiggle your toes in my chest hair and then squeal ... 

Nope. Dying.  

[dughlas]

Just now, Drew Espinosa said:

Nope. Dying.  

Mean, just mean.

[Headstall]

2 hours ago, Marty said:

Reminds me of one of my teachers from primary school. He would often tap us on the top of the head and then say "Empty vessels make most sound," suggesting we had no brains inside our skulls. (He never physically hurt us when he tapped our heads, nor did he do it in a nasty way.)  

I'm assuming you got tapped a lot.  

[Headstall]

53 minutes ago, Drew Espinosa said:

Nope. Dying.  

... 666...

[Marty]

13 hours ago, Marty said:

Reminds me of one of my teachers from primary school. He would often tap us on the top of the head and then say "Empty vessels make most sound," suggesting we had no brains inside our skulls. (He never physically hurt us when he tapped our heads, nor did he do it in a nasty way.)  

 

11 hours ago, Headstall said:

I'm assuming you got tapped a lot.  

You might very well think that, Gary, but I couldn't possibly comment...  

 

[Albert1434]

Aloha All

[Albert1434]

The coastline at Baler in the Philippines

Francis Ford Coppola filmed a famous surfing scene at a Baler beach for ‘Apocalypse Now.’

[Headstall]

1 hour ago, Albert1434 said:

Aloha All

Hi, Albert.    

[Headstall]

4 hours ago, Marty said:

 

You might very well think that, Gary, but I couldn't possibly comment...  

 

Lol. Hey, Marty.  

[Marty]

1 hour ago, Headstall said:

Lol. Hey, Marty.  

Hi, Gary!

Hope all's well.  

[Marty]

2 hours ago, Albert1434 said:

Aloha All

Hi, young Albert.

[Albert1434]

Aloha Marty

[Albert1434]

How are you doing Gary

[Headstall]

1 hour ago, Albert1434 said:

How are you doing Gary

Okay... just got in from mowing the lawns... wanted to do the paddock too, but it was too hot in the sun.   I can hear kittens under my grain box, which is elevated on concrete blocks... and I heard another kitten in my work room but I can't find it... think I'm going to have a kitten explosion.

Eye is the same... 

How are you?

[clochette]

1 hour ago, Headstall said:

Okay... just got in from mowing the lawns... wanted to do the paddock too, but it was too hot in the sun.   I can hear kittens under my grain box, which is elevated on concrete blocks... and I heard another kitten in my work room but I can't find it... think I'm going to have a kitten explosion.

Eye is the same... 

How are you?

Everywhere Gary's looking 👇

[Albert1434]

I am good Gary but its hot here were having an Zucchini explosion Did you know that the Zucchini is from Mesoamerica And can get up to 6 feet long! That last bit is for Clo

Edited July 14, 2020 by Albert1434

[Marty]

1 hour ago, clochette said:

Everywhere Gary's looking 👇

That reminded me of the following bedtime story I used to read to the son of two of my friends when he was about 3 or 4 years old...

I actually found the book of it in a pile of other books that were in a number of black bin bags in the outhouse of a house in the Lake District  in England that one of my sisters and her husband were renting whilst their own house was being renovated. They had been told to take any of the books they wanted, as the bin bags were going to be donated to charity. That particular edition of the Millions of Cats book had been printed in 1939.

It quickly became a story that I would read it to him as one of his bedtime stories any evening I went round for dinner (or supper, as it was called at the time, because after it he was expected to get into his pajamas). Whenever we got to the 'hundreds of cats, thousands of cats, millions and billions and trillions of cats!' parts he would join in all excitedly. Of course, he had no idea at the time what a thousand meant, let alone million or billion or trillion. Indeed, he couldn't even count up to a hundred....

It became his go-to bedtime story until he was about six years old, when he discovered the Harry Potter books. I think only the third or fourth Harry book had been written at the time, but he became that engrossed by them that he was annoyed at the fact that we couldn't read them fast enough for him, and so it actually accelerated his learning to read for himself. As his mother said one time, when I commented on his sudden improvement in reading: "We can thank J.K. Rowling for that."

I actually still have a photograph on my mantelpiece, that his dad took one evening, of him in his pajamas sitting on my knee, and me sitting in an armchair with that book open as I was reading it to him.

He's twenty-one years old now. Next time I'm round I must ask him if he still remembers Millions of Cats being his favourite bedtime story...

Edited July 14, 2020 by Marty
Misplaced comma

[Page Scrawler]

1 hour ago, Marty said:

He's twenty-one years old now. Next time I'm round I must ask him if he still remembers Millions of Cats being his favourite bedtime story...

One of my favorites growing up was called the A to Z Mysteries, by Ron Roy. The Absent Author, The Bald Bandit, The Canary Caper, etc...those really improved my retention ability. Another one was The Boxcar Children mysteries. Four children are orphaned, and live in an abandoned boxcar because they believe that their grandfather is a cruel old man. After one of the kids falls sick, they seek help from a doctor, which leads to a chance meeting with their estranged relative. As I recall, there were at least 200 books in that series, not including "Special Edition" stories. But then I stopped reading after I found out that the author, Gertrude Warner, had passed away after writing Book #19. Every book published after that was penned by a "collective" of writers using her name.    

Edited July 15, 2020 by Page Scrawler

[Marty]

Good day, everyone.

[Albert1434]

Aloha All

[Page Scrawler]

3 hours ago, Marty said:

Good day, everyone.

Hey, Marty!   

 

2 hours ago, Albert1434 said:

Aloha All

Hey, Albert!