CoTT 2 House of Cards

[Page Scrawler]

7 minutes ago, Drew Espinosa said:

Your strippers? This isn't your birthday party!  

Paint strippers. A couple of young lads who live in Marty's neighborhood. 

 

7 minutes ago, Drew Espinosa said:

Howdy y'all!

Hey, Drew! 

[Valkyrie]

19 minutes ago, Marty said:

That's if any of you are still alive in 2097.

Could end up just myself and young @Drew Espinosa at the garden party.

[EDIT] Oh, and my two young male strippers, of course!

 

I'll be a spry 126, so I'll be there   

[Drew Espinosa]

4 minutes ago, Page Scrawler said:

Paint strippers. A couple of young lads who live in Marty's neighborhood. 

 

Hey, Drew! 

Why would you bring paint strippers to a birthday party?  

Hey, Pagey!  

[clochette]

1 hour ago, Drew Espinosa said:

Howdy y'all!  

2097: My eldest sister would be 110, my second eldest sister would be 105, I would be 102, and my brother would be 100.

And you'd still be our baby  

Edited January 29, 2021 by clochette

[Marty]

5 minutes ago, Drew Espinosa said:

Why would you bring paint strippers to a birthday party?  

Hey, Pagey!  

They're actually wallpaper strippers, Drew.

I had them in my bedroom a few months back.  

Spoiler

 

[clochette]

1 minute ago, Marty said:

They're actually wallpaper strippers, Drew.

I had them in my bedroom a few months back.  

  Hide contents

 

Naughty naughty Marty

[Headstall]

I brought my mare inside for the night. There is a cold weather alert, although it doesn't feel that cold out. Better that I don't have to spend the night worrying. Every morning I worry that she might have passed away in the night.   She'll soon be in her twenty-ninth year.

[Marty]

1 minute ago, clochette said:

Naughty naughty Marty

 

[Marty]

Okay...

Time for week 44 of my attempt to take and upload a new monochrome photograph every week for 52 weeks...

I've gone for something a little different this time.

It's one of the door hinges from the right hand one of the two stone cottages in my lower garden...

[Marty]

33 minutes ago, Headstall said:

I brought my mare inside for the night. There is a cold weather alert, although it doesn't feel that cold out. Better that I don't have to spend the night worrying. Every morning I worry that she might have passed away in the night.   She'll soon be in her twenty-ninth year.

Reckon you made the right decision,  bro.

❤️

[Marty]

I mentioned yesterday that there's a mat, maybe a centimetre or two (half to one inch) thick of decayed leaves, etc, formed on top of the boundary wall, that the ivy has sent aerial roots into, and some of the thinner branches are embedded in...

Today, I actually managed to strip about a six foot (two metre) length of it by carefully using the garden trowel to work under it and loosen it enough to roll it off the top of the wall. Here's a photo of it on the ground, which should give you some idea of just what I was talking about:

You can see a few of the ivy branches embedded in it, and that I had to saw through whilst perched near the top of the ladder, before I could persuade it all to be moved off the top of the wall.

Edited January 29, 2021 by Marty

[Marty]

And (final photo of mine for the night) here's what the two sheds and the boundary wall looked like from my side as it was coming on to dusk this evening:

The branches on top of the right hand shed are really all that need removing now. They're proving a bit difficult because (a) some of them are growing under the slates, and (b) the roof doesn't look as though it would take my weight should I try to climb onto it. I'm thinking I'll remove the (unmortared) concrete blocks that are blocking the doorway, and see what the roof looks like from the underside, before I go any further...

Edited January 29, 2021 by Marty
Correcting another of my inevitable typos.

[dughlas]

2 hours ago, Marty said:

That's if any of you are still alive in 2097.

Could end up just myself and young @Drew Espinosa at the garden party.

[EDIT] Oh, and my two young male strippers, of course!

 

Went to a garden party to reminisce with my old friends ...

[dughlas]

2 hours ago, Valkyrie said:

I'll be a spry 126, so I'll be there   

I will be 139, a rather unfortunate age, too old to be spry, too young to be decrepit.  

[dughlas]

2 hours ago, Marty said:

Okay...

Time for week 44 of my attempt to take and upload a new monochrome photograph every week for 52 weeks...

I've gone for something a little different this time.

It's one of the door hinges from the right hand one of the two stone cottages in my lower garden...

Looks to be in need of some lubrication before it'll move freely.

[Marty]

2 minutes ago, dughlas said:

Looks to be in need of some lubrication before it'll move freely.

Definitely!  

*Marty waits for clo to make a comment about lube...*

 

[dughlas]

29 minutes ago, Marty said:

And (final photo of mine for the night) here's what the two sheds and the boundary wall looked like from my side as it was coming on to dusk this evening:

The branches on top of the right hand shed are really all that need removing now. They're proving a bit difficult because (a) some of them are growing under the slates, and (b) the roof doesn't look as though it would take my weight should I try to climb onto it. I'm thinking I'll remove the (unmortared) concrete blocks that are blocking the doorway, and see what the roof looks like from the underside, before I go any further...

You've got your own archeological dig going. Perhaps you'll find a pot of medieval gold and silver coins and trinkets buried behind a loose stone in the back corner.

[dughlas]

Just now, Marty said:

Definitely!  

*Marty waits for clo to make a comment about lube...*

 

I wouldn't mind her, she's a bit unhinged 

[clochette]

3 minutes ago, Marty said:

Definitely!  

*Marty waits for clo to make a comment about lube...*

Oh I'm sure you know way more than me about using lube to make your tool move more freely in a tight space   

Edited January 29, 2021 by clochette

[Marty]

8 minutes ago, dughlas said:

I will be 139, a rather unfortunate age, too old to be spry, too young to be decrepit.  

That made me think of this Jethro Tull track from their album of the same name, released back in 1976:

 🎶 No he was too old to rock and roll  🎶
 🎶 And he was too young to die  🎶
 🎶 No, you're never too old to rock and roll  🎶
 🎶 If you're too young to die  🎶

[Albert1434]

God Marty Jethro Tull is my favorite Band I have seen every us tour since 1976. Last one I saw was Homo Erraticus!

 

Edited January 30, 2021 by Albert1434

[Marty]

23 minutes ago, Albert1434 said:

God Marty Jethro Tull is my favorite Band I have seen every us tour since 1976. Last one I saw was Homo Erraticus!

 

They're high up on my favourite list as well, Albert!

They are particularly famous as having been the first rock band to use the flute as a lead instrument.

I only ever saw them the once. At the (in)famous Isle of Wight Festival, back in 1970

Anyway, I'm off to bed now.

So goodnight all

I'll leave you with this track from that Isle of Wight festival:

 

 

Edited January 30, 2021 by Marty

[Bucket1]

5 hours ago, Marty said:

You might not like this piece of news, @clochette...

Apparently there's a new storm heading from the Atlantic towards Western Europe - Storm Justine...

Forecast here is very different 

Sat 36 Sunny

Sun 38 Sunny

Mon 38 Sunny

Tue 38 Sunny

Wed 38 Sunny

Someone in BOM got bored and did a cut and paste 

[Bucket1]

3 hours ago, clochette said:

And you'd still be our baby  

  no escaping that

[Albert1434]

This was the one you saw Marty

Nothing Is Easy: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970