CoTT 2 House of Cards

[Marty]

3 minutes ago, clochette said:

Bright side my tomatoes are getting some nice colorings.

I'm sure that, like Albert, you'll get millions of tomatoes this year, clo!  

Mine haven't even begun to set fruit yet...

[Marty]

1 minute ago, clochette said:

But I see you're also sneaky and just want the eye candie back

Spoiler

 

[clochette]

1 minute ago, Marty said:

I'm sure that, like Albert, you'll get millions of tomatoes this year, clo!  

Mine haven't even begun to set fruit yet...

Wow my ambition are much smaller than Albert's. I'd rather quality over quantity. One big straight zucchini is better than 10 small crooked ones  If I get, let say, 10 fruits on each plants (8) I'd be very happy. Only dad eats tomatoes in this house. The rest we'll give to grandma, my uncle, my aunt and the neighbors. And if I really have that much I'll try preserving.

[Headstall]

6 minutes ago, clochette said:

Wow my ambition are much smaller than Albert's. I'd rather quality over quantity. One big straight zucchini is better than 10 small crooked ones  If I get, let say, 10 fruits on each plants (8) I'd be very happy. Only dad eats tomatoes in this house. The rest we'll give to grandma, my uncle, my aunt and the neighbors. And if I really have that much I'll try preserving.

Quality not quantity.    

[Marty]

Just now, Headstall said:

Quality not quantity.    

"Never mind the quality, feel the width."  

(That was actually the title of a British TV sitcom from around the end of the 1960's, based around a tailor shop jointly run by two friends, one Jewish and the other Catholic.)

[Valkyrie]

2 hours ago, Marty said:

G'day, Albert and Val (and everyone else).   

Showery sort of day here, and the temperature's a degree or so lower than yesterday. Might do a spot of wallpaper removal shortly, as it doesn't look like I'll get much garden work done today (but the weather could improve later).  

It's dark and rainy here.  Perfect writing weather   

[Headstall]

31 minutes ago, Valkyrie said:

It's dark and rainy here.  Perfect writing weather   

Same here.  

[Bucket1]

On 8/1/2020 at 9:33 AM, Headstall said:

Would look good larger and on a wall.

On a restaurant or Cooking School wall

[Bucket1]

On 8/1/2020 at 9:14 PM, dughlas said:

 

I can envision it enlarged and hanging on the wall of a garden center or farm market.

That would work too  

I agree with your comments about the “everyday”, there is beauty there and it is good to be reminded of that

[Bucket1]

On 8/1/2020 at 9:39 PM, Marty said:

That's actually what made me decide to take the photograph - the commonplace - and the fact that its beauty can often be overlooked, just because it's common; so common that it's often not even seen.

That’s what I said

[Page Scrawler]

5 hours ago, Headstall said:

It's in the mail.  

You didn't use an envelope, did you? Those have a tendency to leak.    

[Page Scrawler]

5 hours ago, Marty said:

I'm sure that, like Albert, you'll get millions of tomatoes this year, clo!  

Mine haven't even begun to set fruit yet...

I'm already canning Marinara sauce.   

[Marty]

26 minutes ago, Page Scrawler said:

I'm already canning Marinara sauce.   

Cool.  

We don't can it this side of the pond.

We bottle it.  

[Page Scrawler]

3 minutes ago, Marty said:

Cool.  

We don't can it this side of the pond.

We bottle it.  

Canning, preserving. Tomayto, Tomahto.   

[Marty]

3 minutes ago, Page Scrawler said:

Canning, preserving. Tomayto, Tomahto.   

No. 

Canning, bottling. Potato, Pudada.  

(Or maybe that should have been: Potato, Spud. )

Edited August 2, 2020 by Marty
Missing parenthesis

[clochette]

9 minutes ago, Page Scrawler said:

Canning, preserving. Tomayto, Tomahto.   

 

6 minutes ago, Marty said:

No. 

Canning, bottling. Potato, Pudada.  

(Or maybe that should have been: Potato, Spud. )

You both make me laugh.

As a french in school we learn UK english but growing up watching series/movie/shows in American English so I understand both and don't get confused, I just get it. So yeah when you "bicker" I'm like yeah duh it's the same thing 🤷🏻‍♀️  

[Marty]

Just now, clochette said:

 

You both make me laugh.

As a french in school we learn UK english but growing up watching series/movie/shows in American English so I understand both and don't get confused, I just get it. So yeah when you "bicker" I'm like yeah duh it's the same thing 🤷🏻‍♀️  

Bicker !! ???  

We weren't bickering!

Well, I wasn't.

Not my fault they don't know how to talk proper t'other side o' pond. Like us does on this side.

 

[Page Scrawler]

 

[Headstall]

30 minutes ago, clochette said:

 

You both make me laugh.

As a french in school we learn UK english but growing up watching series/movie/shows in American English so I understand both and don't get confused, I just get it. So yeah when you "bicker" I'm like yeah duh it's the same thing 🤷🏻‍♀️  

 

26 minutes ago, Marty said:

Bicker !! ???  

We weren't bickering!

Well, I wasn't.

Not my fault they don't know how to talk proper t'other side o' pond. Like us does on this side.

 

 

10 minutes ago, Page Scrawler said:

 

If you all spoke Canadian, it would solve the problem, eh?   

[clochette]

6 minutes ago, Headstall said:

If you all spoke Canadian, it would solve the problem, eh?   

Tabernacle! 

[Marty]

1 minute ago, Headstall said:

If you all spoke Canadian, it would solve the problem, eh?   

Erm....

 

Although if we spoke Canadian French...

•  

[Marty]

3 minutes ago, clochette said:

Tabernacle! 

Spoiler

 

 

[dughlas]

6 hours ago, Valkyrie said:

It's dark and rainy here.  Perfect writing weather   

 

6 hours ago, Headstall said:

Same here.  

Here we woke up to t-storms but those passed quickly. It stopped raining by the time we left for our morning walk. Showers started up on the drive to the park. A gentle rain was falling when we arrived. While the temp was warm, 77/25°, we would have been thoroughly drenched making for a soggy drive home. We returned home only for the showers to end. The sun did come out and the temp reached it's current 91/33° with the humidity it feels like 99/37°. We sat out for a bit this afternoon but another passing shower sent us back indoors. It's become very breezy. There is the potential for more storms as another front moves through providing a respite from the heat.

[Marty]

1 minute ago, dughlas said:

Here we woke up to t-storms but those passed quickly. It stopped raining by the time we left for our morning walk. Showers started up on the drive to the park. A gentle rain was falling when we arrived. While the temp was warm, 77/25°, we would have been thoroughly drenched making for a soggy drive home. We returned home only for the showers to end. The sun did come out and the temp reached it's current 91/33° with the humidity it feels like 99/37°. We sat out for a bit this afternoon but another passing shower sent us back indoors. It's become very breezy. There is the potential for more storms as another front moves through providing a respite from the heat.

Hey, bro!

Not sure how your head got on with all that changeable weather...

But it sure hurt mine trying to read about it.  

[dughlas]

Just now, Marty said:

Hey, bro!

Not sure how your head got on with all that changeable weather...

But it sure hurt mine trying to read about it.  

Greetings! It aches terribly. I'd like to take my meds but if we are to have strong storms I don't want to be sedated. I'm trying the quiet restful approach and less strong medication.