The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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chocolate i.c. with sprinkles. Bach. Vivaldi. Sarah MachLachan. Vince Guaraldi Trio. Stephan Grappeli. Erwin Helfer. Van Morrison. Iz. The Police.Tao Ruspoli. Stile Antico. Chanticleer. Pantha Du Prince. swings and rocking yes, yay.

Waaah! Hartz of Space has a porch swing and I don't! I wanna porch swing! Can we have an outside shady spot, maybe around back of the not-cafe, where we can have a porch swing? And a big wicker peacock chair for Lau, if he comes by. I wonder if he'll be impressed by our decorating and culinary accomplishments, or if he will feel it al compares unfavorably with the original establishment...did y'all have ferns? A fireplace? Sylkat (who wonders where the light goes when you turn off the lamp)

Hi guys. Music from me=Pixies, Black keys, Bach, Tom Waits, Mozart and L. Cohen. And a whole lot more...yeah, radiohead and some of the less derivative Muse. Furniture=how about a bouncy "Mom and Pop" type chair? Food=some nuts, I can supply a lot.

well, i was having a lousey week and wanted a day off. which i've gotten thanks to some fool technician in arizona. but all the power was off for so long i now have to restock my fridge. and boil the water. something about the sewage treatment plant going berserk.

eh, worth it.

the kid and i sat in the no-longer-hot-tub last night and she got to see stars like i used to see as a kid. no city lights to blind us, you see. just a nice breeze, the palm trees waving, very quiet, and lots and lots of stars. too bad about the full moon, but we'd have broken our necks getting over to the pool/tub area without one to see by, so it all worked out.

they called me last night and said to not come in. her work didn't and they got the power back on at like 4:00am this morning, so she had to go in and is bummed.

all i want is a bowl of corn flakes and milk and there's no milk. hmmmm

postie, you floating away up there yet?

I was a little concerned last night, as the creeks are up pretty high, because the trees that had gone down on the banks, during that last wind, haven't been cleaned out of them. The bridge near here is well known for backing up with such things and where my house is, is where the creek wants to run. It use to sit on the bank before they moved the stream, so ya, gotta watch it once in a while. I have a map about 1860 something that shows the house and where the streams were, they still try to go back.

no idiots at the switch box, no flooding in the creeks, no vast 100 year drought here, just wild fires on the East side of the Cascades funneling the smoke through the Columbia Gorge and making a late summer heat wave (rare in the PNW) smoggy and dangerous to be caught breathing.
back when the huge ice dams finally gave way, the water behind them spilled through the back country so fast and so long it ran up over the Cascade Mountains and wore a gorge through to the sea on the other side. The mighty Columbia still flows through that gorge but at a 10th of its old self on the bottom of the canyon. The air pressure from sea level on the west side and the air pressure on the eastern side is always blowing through the Gorge trying to equalize the barometric pressure. And can it ever whoop up a gale through there! - that is why the wind surfers come from all over the world to surf there. However it is also a sideways chimney , (coff, coff, gasp gasp) took me 30 minutes to walk a usual 10 minute walk yesterday and today b/c frankly, I couldn't get much oxygen into my body.

Supposed to blow the other way Monday and have a nice spell of Oregon rain - put out the fires and clear the air.

One time I will tell you when I had no milk for cereal and painstakingly ripped open individual Coffee-Mate packs I had horded in my office desk drawer and put in a "fired" box in a closet for a couple of years, to get a half cup of . . . ugh, I shiver even now, thinking about it.

Yikes, boldly, we will have to provide this ex-cafe with an old-fashioned ice box and ice and unreality cream (both also necessary for the choc IC with sprinkies). So much to do, luckily we have all the imaginary time we need.

Um, maybe moving the stream wasn't such a good idea, like building Venice in a swamp, building Mexico city in/on a lake, building New Orleans below sea level! SOME people (NTs) might think having a post-apocaloptic ex-cafe' is not terribly good planning! We, however, haven't been flooded. Please pass the popovers, and isn't the new chandelier just lovely? I'm glad we went with the crystal one, after all, and not the Tiffany stained glass one, y'all were right about that. Sylkat

Hi. I put pumpkin ginger muffins on the table this morning.

Oh, Mtn 13, pumpkin ginger muffins?? We LIKE you! We really, really like you! May I put on some David Lanz for us? Secret Garden? May I steep some Earl Grey or Lady Grey for us, or would you prefer cafe au lait? Oh, and Nan, you are so right, the stars were lovely, and I actually enjoyed the silence..up and down the streets the houses were dark or there was flickering candlelight, and some families were in their yards around their barbecues and fire bowls. I do feel bad about all the food wasted, and here (Southern California) numerous people lost their aquarium fish. I was headed to the bus for work @ 9pm, and the quiet dark city was like it used to be 20 years ago, I miss when things were smaller, simpler, quieter. Anyhow, I work at a hospital, and spent my first 2 hours at work wearing a headlamp; the facility has emergency power, of course, but there were 'non-essential' areas with no working lights, so I thought I was terribly clever! Actually got a few compliments on my light from various people in the dim hallways! Sylkat

I was out in the forest night, in a huge three day country fair sans electricity, generators, everything was (silent battery) or firelight. I was wearing a lovely diaphanous long ball gown of silk and rayon petticoats and walking with a small battery powered lantern. When using the port-a-potty I just happened to stick the lantern into my petticoat elastic and marveled at the lamp shade like effect it had. Once outside, I twirled and I was an illuminated bell skirt wafting from place to place.

I had comments from all sides - and countered either with 'I've been enlightened' or 'I got the fire down below" since that was popular at that time. Strangest things happen serendipitously.

and I just love pumpkin-ginger muffins! Thanks, mntn13!

ah, quiet. ain't quiet just the most amazing thing? the sound of wind in the trees. no cars, no boom-boxes, no arguments.....