chattius 2,666 Share Posted October 9 Chains of cranes flying south... Collected 30pounds of mushrooms while doing a short walk with the dog... Cranes fly because there is an open time window for them. Rain is gone for few days, clear sky. And they want to fly before the last remains of hurricane Kirk are hitting Germany. The mushroom: wet ground after all the rain and now a few hot days. Potatoe done now quinces are ripe for harvesting. 1 Link to comment
gogoblender 3,338 Share Posted October 9 9 hours ago, chattius said: Chains of cranes flying south... Collected 30pounds of mushrooms while doing a short walk with the dog... Cranes fly because there is an open time window for them. Rain is gone for few days, clear sky. And they want to fly before the last remains of hurricane Kirk are hitting Germany. The mushroom: wet ground after all the rain and now a few hot days. Potatoe done now quinces are ripe for harvesting. Chattius every time i see you write about the cranes im a year older the vision you capture is is beautiful and, i guess, this connection to our understanding of mortality gogo Link to comment
chattius 2,666 Share Posted October 10 15 hours ago, gogoblender said: Chattius every time I see you write about the cranes im a year older the vision you capture is is beautiful and, I guess, this connection to our understanding of mortality gogo Actually only a half year.. They fly to the south and in the spring they fly back. The migration goes normally for two weeks. It is halloween which maks you older. Itis just one day in a year. 1 Link to comment
gogoblender 3,338 Share Posted October 10 3 hours ago, chattius said: Actually only a half year.. They fly to the south and in the spring they fly back. The migration goes normally for two weeks. It is halloween which maks you older. Itis just one day in a year. ahha! so thats it ! the cranes have conquered time traveling and im getting older twice as fast as them! gogo Link to comment
gogoblender 3,338 Share Posted November 9 Friday and 4 degrees... you got to love Montreal weather when its like this. Crispy and cool. I got a half day off from work yesterday Dang... early Fridays off... irresistible! We had to get clothes and party items for Ammamma's up coming birthday on next Saturday, and this glorious afternoon weather is an additional blessing look at that sky gogo Link to comment
chattius 2,666 Share Posted November 21 -1 to +1 C, heavy winds, snow school phoned no busses, parents should bring Twins got a special countryside car license recently so they could drive their Yamaha side by side squad on public roads. Speed limited to 45km/h 1 Link to comment
gogoblender 3,338 Share Posted November 28 On 11/21/2024 at 7:31 AM, chattius said: -1 to +1 C, heavy winds, snow school phoned no busses, parents should bring Twins got a special countryside car license recently so they could drive their Yamaha side by side squad on public roads. Speed limited to 45km/h Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat... Chattius, the winters come forth for you quickly... flee you fool...flee! fleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee... to here in Montreal.. our hot sloshy maple syrup baths await friend! gogo Link to comment
pevil 58 Share Posted November 28 Our weather has been downright weird this past week or two. Quite aside from how much it has changed in the last 5 years anyway, we've gone from -2 degrees and snow last wednesday, to 15 degrees and heavy rain last Friday, a huge storm with fast winds and even heavier rain on Saturday, levelled out around 10 degrees at the start of the week and a mix of rain and sun, and today it's back to -2 but blue skies (so far). I'm visiting my parents in France in a week. Their weather is just as unpredictable. They're in central France and quite high up with valleys and mountains around so their weather is usually comparable to here in England, it just gets a bit hotter in summer and a bit colder in winter, but a couple of years ago in October it was 30 degrees! 1 Link to comment
gogoblender 3,338 Share Posted November 28 7 hours ago, pevil said: Our weather has been downright weird this past week or two. Quite aside from how much it has changed in the last 5 years anyway, we've gone from -2 degrees and snow last wednesday, to 15 degrees and heavy rain last Friday, a huge storm with fast winds and even heavier rain on Saturday, levelled out around 10 degrees at the start of the week and a mix of rain and sun, and today it's back to -2 but blue skies (so far). I'm visiting my parents in France in a week. Their weather is just as unpredictable. They're in central France and quite high up with valleys and mountains around so their weather is usually comparable to here in England, it just gets a bit hotter in summer and a bit colder in winter, but a couple of years ago in October it was 30 degrees! aieeeeeeeeeeeee...i forgot how easy it is to just visit countries like crossing streets in EU we've been having some slushy, slurry weather here, in fact... doom cast dark skies....aieeeeeeeeeee...i dont usually talk like that but this time I gave in... And visiting your parents.... deeeeeeeeelightful! Do they cook your favorite meals? Do you have a lot of memories from where they are living now? I usually get down to my Mom's two or three times a year, shes down in Maryland, so the weathers temperate, not much like here in Montreal ...but eveyrtime I go down, my Mom ( even though I ask her not to keep cooking, too old! :P) makes my faves, all you can eat curried shrimp buffet !! and ribs that she asks her friend at her work to cook for her...all partitioned into small packages of two to three ribs in a tupper wear, which we then defrost and bounce about on her bed in her bedroom while eating... wooooooooooo gogo @DocHoff Link to comment
pevil 58 Share Posted November 29 Lol Gogo, I suppose it does seem that easy to you! But it isn't really, we may be much smaller and more connected but it's still not the easiest, at least from the UK. Especially thanks to Brexit; luckily not many restrictions have yet come in but they do keep talking about giving us extra hoops to jump through. Mind you, if my parents were still up in Yorkshire it would be 4 hours on the train to them. The journey is longer to visit them in France, but mainly due to having to get to an airport that flies near to them (they're in a very isolated area), so it's 2 hours on a train or 1 hour in a taxi to get to the airport here, then 1 hour 30 mins on the plane, and they meet me at the airport for the 2 hour drive to theirs. So the timing is similar despite the distance being much more! Your mum's cooking looks delicious! I think mothers sign a contract when giving birth to promise they'll always provide their kids favourite meals. Mine spoils me rotten when I'm there. It's quite amusing, she used to tell Grandma off for spoiling me with sweets and buying me things when I'd visit her, but Mum is just as bad now. I'll get there and they'll have done a special shop just to get lots of tasty treats in for me I do have a lot of memories there. They've been at that house for 14 years now. We make less memories as they're slowing down (though still in far better shape than most 80 year olds) so visits tend to be mostly just lazing around the house enjoying each others company. We used to go out hiking a lot though, or visiting nearby towns and cities to see the sights. Has your mom always lived in Maryland or has she moved there? Did you ever live there? 1 Link to comment
gogoblender 3,338 Share Posted December 1 On 11/29/2024 at 1:05 PM, pevil said: Lol Gogo, I suppose it does seem that easy to you! But it isn't really, we may be much smaller and more connected but it's still not the easiest, at least from the UK. Especially thanks to Brexit; luckily not many restrictions have yet come in but they do keep talking about giving us extra hoops to jump through. Mind you, if my parents were still up in Yorkshire it would be 4 hours on the train to them. The journey is longer to visit them in France, but mainly due to having to get to an airport that flies near to them (they're in a very isolated area), so it's 2 hours on a train or 1 hour in a taxi to get to the airport here, then 1 hour 30 mins on the plane, and they meet me at the airport for the 2 hour drive to theirs. So the timing is similar despite the distance being much more! Your mum's cooking looks delicious! I think mothers sign a contract when giving birth to promise they'll always provide their kids favourite meals. Mine spoils me rotten when I'm there. It's quite amusing, she used to tell Grandma off for spoiling me with sweets and buying me things when I'd visit her, but Mum is just as bad now. I'll get there and they'll have done a special shop just to get lots of tasty treats in for me I do have a lot of memories there. They've been at that house for 14 years now. We make less memories as they're slowing down (though still in far better shape than most 80 year olds) so visits tend to be mostly just lazing around the house enjoying each others company. We used to go out hiking a lot though, or visiting nearby towns and cities to see the sights. Has your mom always lived in Maryland or has she moved there? Did you ever live there? ahhaaaaaaaaaaaaa... thats always the *thing* right... oh, in the EU they can just "walk over" to the next country and do some skiing and... whaaaaaaaaaa.. you have the gall to say how delicious your mom's cooking is and... not even a mention of your top three faves your mom makes! What like...yorkshire pudding, sticky toffee caramel cups, huge, lazy english breakfasts! I was in Ireland for a month with a buddy of mine yeeeeeeeeeeeeesrs ago, we camped from pub to pup across the country side from east Dublin all the way to the west and then to central to a cow ranch to meet this girls family we met on the airplane on the way to Ireland... fab vacation... and .. those breakfasts...just a good breakfast alone, like you were mentioning about fam just hanging together... I get it... Even us, eveyrone is not kids and teens anymore, so when a group of us get together, it turns into a hang out and eveyrone just squashes down onto a couch and starts to revisit nostalgia Re our connection to states, some of my fam members is with foreign services, and they'd always be in States working there, for a while, my cousin's Dad was the foreign secretary of Sri Lanka so him and Auntie had homes there while they were moving around and he was *closing deals* with other countries It was actually the best Christmas Party... yeeeeeeeeeers ago... this hair dresser straighted out all my hair, and gave me a bob... like Mary Tyler Moore! LOL...the things we did when young... but yah, my Mom went down to NYC years ago, lived and worked there, and then went to New Jersey and was hanging with family there and was actually working in a bank called Chevy Chase, in guess where...Chevy Chase! (strange place I think it was one of America's first *suburbs* and then from settled in oh so sweet Bethesda MD. She still works there at a residence down the street in Potomac... when me or my brother go to visit we usually just walk down to where she works from her home there and hang out. those pix are from a christmas 5 years ago at her work... Mom loves being festive You know one of the best parts of my My Ammamma's bday was not just the party itself which was two hours long, but .. the after party at the hotel where we just hung out, not even a not of loud music playing but just everyone over and over again coming up with memories ... this was a sweet part of the evening... and a bit a alky makes all the dif! gogo oh gosh, almost forgot the weather... reporting in! -2 ... wooooooooooooo! Aaaand... its the first of the month and were getting ready to go to the shopping mall to check out brad's new work place.. they moved from old montreal to westmount... he wants to show off all the glass walls, then hes treating us both to breakfast and were gonna set up our laptops in the solarium by the plaza and do our monthly beinning of the month finances ... woooooooooooooooooo... ewwwwwwwwwwwwww ... have a great day y,all!! Link to comment
pevil 58 Share Posted December 4 On 12/1/2024 at 2:19 PM, gogoblender said: ahhaaaaaaaaaaaaa... thats always the *thing* right... oh, in the EU they can just "walk over" to the next country and do some skiing and... whaaaaaaaaaa.. you have the gall to say how delicious your mom's cooking is and... not even a mention of your top three faves your mom makes! What like...yorkshire pudding, sticky toffee caramel cups, huge, lazy english breakfasts! I was in Ireland for a month with a buddy of mine yeeeeeeeeeeeeesrs ago, we camped from pub to pup across the country side from east Dublin all the way to the west and then to central to a cow ranch to meet this girls family we met on the airplane on the way to Ireland... fab vacation... and .. those breakfasts...just a good breakfast alone, like you were mentioning about fam just hanging together... I get it... Even us, eveyrone is not kids and teens anymore, so when a group of us get together, it turns into a hang out and eveyrone just squashes down onto a couch and starts to revisit nostalgia Re our connection to states, some of my fam members is with foreign services, and they'd always be in States working there, for a while, my cousin's Dad was the foreign secretary of Sri Lanka so him and Auntie had homes there while they were moving around and he was *closing deals* with other countries It was actually the best Christmas Party... yeeeeeeeeeers ago... this hair dresser straighted out all my hair, and gave me a bob... like Mary Tyler Moore! LOL...the things we did when young... but yah, my Mom went down to NYC years ago, lived and worked there, and then went to New Jersey and was hanging with family there and was actually working in a bank called Chevy Chase, in guess where...Chevy Chase! (strange place I think it was one of America's first *suburbs* and then from settled in oh so sweet Bethesda MD. She still works there at a residence down the street in Potomac... when me or my brother go to visit we usually just walk down to where she works from her home there and hang out. Sorry Gogo, I'll hang my head in shame *hangs head* I'm not sure what my favourites are really, I just love Mum's cooking. She does a mean stirfry, that's for sure. And a great shepherd's/cottage pie. While full English breakfasts are great, we don't actually tend to eat many of them here, they're more of a treat, and you really can't do them properly in France because their sausages are awful! (Sorry France but they are). Actually her roast dinners too. Delicious. She has never been one to really do Yorkshire puddings unfortunately. I, however, do make great ones ;) That's an awful lot of places! You must have all sorts of memories and stories from each and every one. The world of large families is a strange mystery to me; it's always just been me, my parents, and my mum's parents. There are people on my dad's side but aside from my aunt we never really had anything to do with them. Errr weather... well ours is still weird. 14 degrees a couple of days ago and now just 4. Who knows what's going on? And it's no better in France so I have no idea what I'm going to be going over to. I'll pray for snow but it'll probably just be cold and wet, much like being at home 1 Link to comment
gogoblender 3,338 Share Posted December 5 18 hours ago, pevil said: Sorry Gogo, I'll hang my head in shame *hangs head* I'm not sure what my favourites are really, I just love Mum's cooking. She does a mean stirfry, that's for sure. And a great shepherd's/cottage pie. While full English breakfasts are great, we don't actually tend to eat many of them here, they're more of a treat, and you really can't do them properly in France because their sausages are awful! (Sorry France but they are). Actually her roast dinners too. Delicious. She has never been one to really do Yorkshire puddings unfortunately. I, however, do make great ones ;) That's an awful lot of places! You must have all sorts of memories and stories from each and every one. The world of large families is a strange mystery to me; it's always just been me, my parents, and my mum's parents. There are people on my dad's side but aside from my aunt we never really had anything to do with them. Errr weather... well ours is still weird. 14 degrees a couple of days ago and now just 4. Who knows what's going on? And it's no better in France so I have no idea what I'm going to be going over to. I'll pray for snow but it'll probably just be cold and wet, much like being at home awwwww, wet and soggy at home? noooooooooooooo *hugs* ...come hang out here with me Ammammma! I'm sure just means that al you ahve to do is poke or tickle your mom a bit and SHE'LL tell you what your favorites are...thats what fam is for right? it was -2 last night and I went to Ammamma quickly for supper after work... had to drag out all me heavy clothes... looks like like old winter big coat is done for after ten years, and well need some emergency christmas shopping to get it in order. Dang... my Ammamma's plate of food looked pretty ghastly when i walked in ... a saggy mess of grey colored potatoe something and vegetable pressed patty..hahhhaah i walked in and said "Ammamma I dont blame you for not eating ..your dinner looks like S&*&t!! she and i just loled...and thats when I pulled out my all purpose bag of Bacon and cream chips... nothings soothes the soul like crisps gogo Link to comment
gogoblender 3,338 Share Posted Sunday at 09:42 PM zero degrees everything on my street is melting still cool to look at right sometimes so much snow drops so quickly cars get snowed in, and then we hear the loud sirens/klaxxons of snow removing trucks showing up to tow cars away gogo Link to comment
