Morning Coffee Round-up - October 10

 Some good chuckles to share while having that morning sip...

 

 

 

 

...and finally... 

 

 

 

 

Your Daily Meme... and MEN!

 

 

 

Perhaps some booty will take you mind off the existential threat... 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Jason Momoa  

 

 

 

(sigh)... that's better. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today in "SHIT! HIDE THE KETCHUP!!!" news.

 Today in History: October 9, Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize.

AP News: On Oct. 9, 2009, President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for what the Norwegian Nobel Committee called “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”

Oh, SCROTUS is going to pop a gasket when THAT headline hits!!!! Ketchup will be flung tonight!!!

There is also this...

As I mentioned before, they should invent the "Noble Piece Prize" for "the most outrageous, whiny temper tantrums by a geriatric adult".  

"But LOOK!  I even made TODAY NATIONAL LEIF ERIKSON DAY!!!  Gimme my God Damned medal!!!

 This is just... writing itself. 

Your Daily Meme

 

Your Daily Meme

 

 

Thank you, Wiley. 

Your Daily Meme

 

DAMN RIGHT!!!!!

I don't know about you folks, but I have been getting SLAMMED with Email and texts over the past week from ALL parties in seemingly all states, all threatening that "...unless I act RIGHT NOW, this is the END of [democracy / the courts / blah, blah, blah]!  Send... MONEY NOW!!!!"

To everyone out there, yes, it will be all my fault if America ceases to exist because I did not send $5 to whatever this hour.  As they say in Moscow, "Toughski shitski" (SCROTUS will get that!).  I've been busy either clicking on "Unsubscribe" or replying "STOP" to the robo-texts.    

But one ask came in that I just gave me a good chuckle... from the DNC:

Damn right, I am NOT an ATM, but I appreciate you finally acknowledging that!  Yes... I still hit "Unsubscribe", but at least got a chuckle out of it.  

Rade

 

I WANT IT GONE! NOW!!

Okay, I DID get to watch two Monarch butterflies dancing around the buddleia over the weekend; that was nice (the hummingbirds have left for the season), but I’m SO over Summer. I want it GONE – NOW! We topped 80 degrees with HUMIDITY here in Southern New England over the weekend. I fucking hate HEAT and HUMIDITY. I know a lot of folks just LOVE summer and hate to see it go, but not me – hated every moment of it. Hate the sweat. Hate feeling like every drop of energy in my body has been sucked out just by walking across the lawn or even just by sitting on the deck and watching the butterflies. It's now OCTOBER!  I want the COLD!  I thrive below 60 degrees! Give me a 40 degree day and I am ALIVE! We had a touch of that last week and it was GLORIOUS to be working in the yard! 

I love Autumn. Absolute favorite season. Flannel lined shirts, light fog on a chilly morning. The briny smell of the North Atlantic wafting over the farm lands south of here, intermingling with scrub pine and the scent from a fireplace along the way. Throw in the peaty smell of falling leaves... There is nothing finer! It's like ingrained in my DNA; I need THAT!  NOW! Right NOW! 

Two more days of this inferno and then Autumn returns.  Also... 

 

(Thank you, Debra, for those last two) 

I did manage to put up a dozen or so jars of Ginger Pear preserve this weekend.  After the paw paw's that was the next harvest to come in. 

 

(pear carving...)

 

 

(preserves cooking) 

All the is left now are the oranges.  A couple more weeks on those ...

 

 

(Trifoliate - Hardy Orange) 

 

Makes what I call "Marmalade Not For The Feint Of Heart", that and INCREDIBLY martini bitters.   

R

 

Monday

 

Sunday Morning Sip

 And a good Sunday to all of you! 

 

Me, drawing the line every day.  

 

 

Mmmm! RAINBOW swirls! 

Hope some MAGA loses their shit over it! 

 

Well... it's a coin toss.  

 

You're a welcome. 

 

 

Pretty much spot on. 

 

A day out at the Massachusetts Horticultural Society annual 

New England Fall Flower Show.

This was the second year for the show since Covid-19 shut down

these types of functions.  The show was held outdoors and the SPECTACULAR

Garden at Elm Bank in Wellesley, MA 

I appreciate age more every day. 

 

Arrested while being black.  Huh... go figure. 

 

Oh, for fucks sake, come on KARMA; do SOMETHING!!!! 

 

Thank you, Wiley!

 

Let's end this Sunday taking a little spin...

the very first EV!! 

 

 

 

 

Saturday Morning Sip

 Happy Saturday, everyone! 

A cry for coffee...

 

 

If I ever had to wait that long for ONE cup of coffee...

 

Though back in the 1960's, my mom had a stainless steel 

version of a coffee siphon.

Photo approximate / from the Internet 

I remember it was her "special conversation piece" for when

company would drop by. 

 

 

Indeed, it is! 

Love using checks and CASH!  

 

 

I've known rectal thermometers with better personalities. 

Forever a 32-inch waist. 

Not... soon... enough... 

 

I tried to make lists for my husband.

(sigh)

He's not the listing type. 

 

It's so hard... come on, karma bus. DO something, already! 

What is Autumn without a trip to the "The Big E!" 

and this years Butter Cow! 

Fun. annual trip to Springfield, MA. 

 

 Let's end our first Saturday in October with this trio...

 

Get well, Dolly!!! Speedy recovery!!! Love you lots!!! 

 

A bunch of years ago, the husband and I ventured to Pigeon Forge, TN and to

Dollywood!  It was... exceptional!  Dolly's hand was on everything.

She saved a dilapidated scenic railroad and turned it into a fully functioning

amusement park that helped lift this community, where she came from, up 

out of the ashes. In the gates, there was nothing but whole-hearted love and acceptance. 

It was incredible. And they offered "Doggywood" for kenneling our pup while we were there.