The Bar, Volume #4

[magicmarty]

Morning, YG & LCN. Never got to glazing the pottery yesterday. Instead, took advantage of having a grown teenaged grandson here to help me with a dry run on setting up my Playa tent. Need a couple of new side poles. I shoveled, yes literally shoveled, out three quarters of a 5 gallon bucket of Playa dust from the tent floor. Obviously, but nonetheless surprising, how much weight that added to the rolled up tent. Otherwise my plan to pitch my tent under a Monkey Hut will work just fine. Will use sun screen fabric to serve as both a sun and wind screen.

Gonna be a warm one here today. Get out the shorts and short sleeve shirts. Summer is really here!!!

Carpe Diem!

(((LF)))

[helitack]

What in the blue fuck does someone have to do to get some service here?

[AntiM]

Yesterday was lovely, Larry got a lot done before he had to head to Idaho. My flowerbeds are slowing getting edging so the grass won't try to invade quite so successfully.

[ygmir]

What in the blue fuck does someone have to do to get some service here?

*slides bottle of Bushmills to Helitack*

hey there!! long, long time no see!!!
how ya doin?
still in texmexifornia?

[helitack]

No, not in Kalifornistan. On the Coahuila-Texas border

[ygmir]

ah yes...........well, it's been a long time!!
you makin it to the Burn this year?

[helitack]

By some miracle, maybe. With all the shit going on just across the river, it's likely I won't be granted leave

[ygmir]

well, that statement opens many questions..................

you were in Oregon, originally? IIRC?

[helitack]

Oregon? No, Kalifornistan

[ygmir]

damn my memory. ha!
well anyway good to seeya!

gotta run for a while and try to be somewhat productive..........hahaa

[theCryptofishist]

It's gonna be hard with that reindeer hide chaffing...

[trilobyte]

Hiya, LeChatNoir, good to see you. Thanks for the kind words, and I share those sentiments exactly. I've seen some people with pets put their companions through all kinds of ordeals in the name of holding onto them for as long as medically possible. We try to take great care to focus on his quality of life. That said, sorry if those updates put a bit too much doom and gloom in the room, things around our place really aren't tragically somber. His current state is actually pretty good, he's energetic (when not napping in the sun, as he is now), playful, and enjoys jumping and exploring our new place (we've arranged furniture, bookcases, and shelving so as to give them lots of space). He's also determined to be helpful on as many playa projects as he can.

I'm a bit sorry that we didn't make our way to the How Weird Street Faire yesterday, but got a lot done around the loft, and then enjoyed the quality time around here too. Meanwhile, we're on our way to another great weather day in SF. I've already gotten the first coat of sealer onto a couple connectors from the test-build, and in between a few other things I'll try to get over to the lumber yard later this afternoon. I hope everyone else's day is productive and fun and has a little sunshine in it. Busy busy, where's my caffeine and leftover donuts?

[ygmir]

It's gonna be hard with that reindeer hide chaffing...

right there!!

Fishy, though you portray innocence and naivete you don't fool me with your left handed double entendre puns and off color innuendo!!

[knowmad]

busy, Busy, busy.

[Elliot]

Gonna be a warm one here today. Get out the shorts and short sleeve shirts. Summer is really here!

Ah, I knew I made a mistake, jetting off to Norway. Most days still require long underwear. But very little rain -- they are "crediting me" for bringing clear skies from California.

Several of the animals who spent the winter in the barn have been set out "to summer pasture". That is, the fields and woods where the public can see them. I can watch the camels from this office window -- a weird sight among Norwegian birch trees. The tiny but friendly "white eared silk apes" seem to be staying in their display building -- a bit cold outside for them. The display building is more like the warm room in the barn.

This place needs an unspeakable amount of work. Fences are falling down, non-code electric cords are frying, some of the foot paths are mud holes. But if anybody can bring the place up to snuff, I guess my brother can. And there is competent help as far as business expertise goes; just not enough manpower to rebuild fences and so forth a fast as desired. (My brother is the "animal expert" of the team.)

The new dam for the duck pond was built in a rush -- -- it leaks like a sieve, so we "officially" have no duck pond. Haste makes waste. The ducks and larger weird birds will have to stay cooped up a bit longer.

There are several kinds of mountain sheep and goats. Some that are called Mufflon (might be a nickname -- no idea of English name) are verrry pretty. A small kind of goat (African?) are escape artists. Those big horns feel almost magical to the touch -- very smooth. Of course, you have a bit of a wrestling match on your hands.

Big buck deer of some sort wants to fence with me, but I have no antlers to match him. A moment later he eats out of my hand again. Good fun.

A few more days of this circus and I'll be home in Clearlake again.

[ygmir]

Gonna be a warm one here today. Get out the shorts and short sleeve shirts. Summer is really here!

Ah, I knew I made a mistake, jetting off to Norway. Most days still require long underwear. But very little rain -- they are "crediting me" for bringing clear skies from California.

Several of the animals who spent the winter in the barn have been set out "to summer pasture". That is, the fields and woods where the public can see them. I can watch the camels from this office window -- a weird sight among Norwegian birch trees. The tiny but friendly "white eared silk apes" seem to be staying in their display building -- a bit cold outside for them. The display building is more like the warm room in the barn.

This place needs an unspeakable amount of work. Fences are falling down, non-code electric cords are frying, some of the foot paths are mud holes. But if anybody can bring the place up to snuff, I guess my brother can. And there is competent help as far as business expertise goes; just not enough manpower to rebuild fences and so forth a fast as desired. (My brother is the "animal expert" of the team.)

The new dam for the duck pond was built in a rush -- -- it leaks like a sieve, so we "officially" have no duck pond. Haste makes waste. The ducks and larger weird birds will have to stay cooped up a bit longer.

There are several kinds of mountain sheep and goats. Some that are called Mufflon (might be a nickname -- no idea of English name) are verrry pretty. A small kind of goat (African?) are escape artists. Those big horns feel almost magical to the touch -- very smooth. Of course, you have a bit of a wrestling match on your hands.

Big buck deer of some sort wants to fence with me, but I have no antlers to match him. A moment later he eats out of my hand again. Good fun.

A few more days of this circus and I'll be home in Clearlake again.

can you get bentonite there? I've had luck sealing ponds with it, even when they have water in them.

[AntiM]

Ah man, let's all jet off to Norway!

Wheezing and sneezing after weeding and seeding. Damn nice day outside.

I need to get sewing if I'm going to have a new muumuu for Kauai.

[FIGJAM]

Pictures please, Elliot!

[Patsh]

Pictures please, Elliot!

Ya, Elliot...
pictures would be so cool!!

[Ugly Dougly]

It's gonna be hard with that reindeer hide chaffing...

right there!!

Fishy, though you portray innocence and naivete you don't fool me with your left handed double entendre puns and off color innuendo!!

How do you think the reindeer feels?

Hi Yggy!
(who probably knows how to feel a reindeer.)

[theCryptofishist]

This is for you, Savannah.

[theCryptofishist]

Pago-Pago Octopus

[Elorrum]

It's gonna be hard with that reindeer hide chaffing...

right there!!

Fishy, though you portray innocence and naivete you don't fool me with your left handed double entendre puns and off color innuendo!!

How do you think the reindeer feels?

Hi Yggy!
(who probably knows how to feel a reindeer.)

... and I thought they smelled bad on the outside.

[ygmir]

*saunters in, makes CCC, shuffles over to ROS*

[MyDearFriend]

... and I thought they smelled bad on the outside.

Bwahahahahahahahahaha

Thanks for that laugh, I really needed it. Been hectically busy these past few days... noticed how close we are (Man burns in 123 days!!!) and started to panic! Feeling better now. Let's have some



Still quite chilly here this morning.

*throws NEB over the ROS*

[ygmir]

HI MDF, comeon stay warm with me!
coffee and friends in the NEB.


*runs back in*

it's Fuffa's birthday!!

Happy Birthday, Fuffa!!

[media]

[Dr. Pyro]

I'm going to miss Fufa and Freesponge this year. Hope all is well in Edminton.

[Simon of the Playa]

they are filming the amazing spiderman II in downtown rochester for the next week.


it is the only time all 3000 hotel rooms in this town will be filled...


it's too bad it's all LA people.


it's like being invaded by snotty, Tan & Beautiful cultural elitists spending money.


actually, it's probably just what we needed....

[ygmir]

well, Simon, the money will be good.
tans may be real, boobs, not so much.

[Simon of the Playa]

its easy to make to make a podunk town star-struck.

everybody wants to be an extra.

The American Dream of being "Discovered" is alive and well....