The New Coffee Room

Mik, pics are always welcome.

@Horace
Thank you, Horace! You are also a man of good taste. Your opinion is to be respected, too. It's good to be in your company.

@jon-nyc What an awesome picture!!!

Have a fantastic time. These are great memories being made right now.

@Mik Thank you! You are a man of good taste, so your opinion matters more than some others we won't name.

Most importantly, my hubby is also a man of good taste, and with 40 years of marriage, and an additional 4 years beforehand, he still thinks it's good to be with his older woman.

Funny/sad story: When hubby's dad was in the hospital for the last time with esophageal cancer, I called to ask for my hubby. I couldn't be there because we didn't know it would be the end, and I had bronchitis that FIL definitely didn't need.

I was so surprised that FIL answered the phone, and after we had talked, I asked him if "my man" was there to take a call. FIL handed the phone to my husband, and hubby asked him, "Is that my woman?"

Despite how ill he was, FIL laughed so hard he had trouble breathing, and he said, "My man ... my woman!"

I'm so glad we gave him something to laugh about during his last days. That's one of my favorite things about my FIL. He would laugh so hard he could barely talk. He would laugh until tears came from his eyes.

Sometime I'll share the first time I met my future FIL, and how I knew his son was worth a shot at a long term relationship. That's a story for another time.

@Axtremus

Thank you, Ax! As Jon notes, this could be a fleeting moment, so I had best enjoy it while I can.

@jon-nyc

Shhhh ... I'm busy savoring the moment.

A Mayo medical professional made the call. She looked at my health chart and at hubby's, then slowly turned toward me and said, 'You're a cougar."

I was about to tell her which high school mascot we had in our city, but she then also noted that my hubby is younger than I am. "You're a cougar!"

I'm no longer just a cradle robber. I've been upgraded to cougar status.

Love this story! May Murphy have more babies to raise. Great dad!

You have an awesome froggo, too, 89th! Very handsome.

I LOVE this, 89th!!!

Hubby likes it, too, and we are already planning on making one of these green arbors in the backyard. I think even more than one!

Bless his memory. What a hero!

Welcome home, Horace! Good to have you back again.

Proud of you for doing this, Jon. Best wishes for success.

Had to share this with hubby. This is genius. Time well spent to enlighten the world.

@jon-nyc
Are those the same as Karens?

@Mik That's what friends are for!

We don't do bail, but we will repost your mugshot and any other fun things that are available.

We love our Minnesooooota wrens. I make or buy birdhouses specifically for them. We have four or more nesting pairs around our property, and I added three more birdhouses for them this summer. They're great bug eaters, so they earn the right to have free housing. Our number of bugs has decreased significantly, and I will continue to keep a supply of birdhouses available for these sweet songbirds.

Where does dickless fall on the spectrum of allowable insults?

Asking for a friend.

Looks like a chicken coop made into a cat coop.