The New Coffee Room

@blondie Hello, blondie!!

I know all about stress and a busy schedule. Still dealing with that here, too. So glad t hear from you, and I wish you well with your projects. Hope you still have time to sew!

Enough to make bubby look good? 😜😜😋😋

@89th No, I don't suppose the squirrel would be happy. LOL

Hey, I caught another mole!

The neighbor and I are joking that we need little stickers of the various critters to show how many kills of each kind. He might put his on his riding lawn mower. I haven't decided where to put mine yet.

The neighbor shot a second or third woodchuck, which went over to the other neighbor's garage to die. It's warm weather here, and very humid. Since the woodchuck came from the other neighbor's garage, it seems fitting it returned there to die and get stinky.

Is that critter-karma?

To your question of frogs and emotion, I think it's entirely possible they have some level of emotional expression. They definitely like being together, and they go out of their way to sit together quite often. Sometimes they'll sit nose to nose. 💚
Perhaps there are other reasons for choosing to be close to each other, such as sharing a sunny spot to get warm, yet there doesn't always appear to be a reason other than companionship.

I've also noticed over the years of having pet frogs, that some are more social than others, and that a frog may go through a period of preferring solitude, then switch to wanting companionship for an extended period. When there are multiple frogs living together, they will select the same companion repeatedly during that time. That part I found very interesting. Their seeming preference for several days, even weeks, for a steady companion, sitting together in various locations, but always together.
Jane Goodall should have studied frogs, too. Just sayin'.

@George-K
George, you're looking at many crickets there. You can't see them directly, because they're inside the frog, but they can be seen nonetheless.

That’s really funny.

We will put ours out 4/16.

Sadly our bluebirds continued their migration. but we had them for several days, a first.

@George-K said in 89th watches the snow storm coming his way:

Why are his ankles blue?

He has very young children, ankle-biters.

I approve of this post.

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@Catseye3 said in Get something special for Valentines Day:

@Mik It's not like you can eat them.

Oh thank you. Just as I was getting up to go fix breakfast.

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Oh. We're back to stinkbugs. I was thinking what Jolly had said about girlfriends.

Very cool! It will be interesting to watch it "come to life"

@brenda :snort:

Hummers like sheets of water, not deep fountains. That's why we designed this fountain with cut bluestone flat tiers. It's not easy to happen to have the phone camera ready, but this one has been coming to bathe often enough to catch him in the act.

We have other small birds that like the flat stones, too. There's a sparrow that has been a frequent visitor, and a very energetic bather!

@blondie said in Byzantine floor mosaic found on the farm:

@brenda ....... I understand now what you are saying of the varying strip widths. That might look remarkably like broken mosaic.

Yes, I think it definitely would be successful as a technique to mimic the background tiles. That's what made my mind say 'RUG!' 😂

@brenda The froggies could have their own IG page, lol. They’d make friends. What I do like of IG are the pics & videos. And I’ve sure ‘met’ people with similar interests from all over this world. And gained new skills.

@Catseye3 said in Hello, Rainman:

Me, too. 👏

An elusive son, ain't he?

Indeed!

@Mik said in Bond and Lynch:

That's my kind of dinner. Fresh walleye and salad? Yum.

I will have to look up Dorothy Lynch dressing.

It's almost like visiting Minnesoooooota. You can picture yourself in Grandma's kitchen, having dinner at the table with her. The walls have paneling with gold and yellow flowers. The recipe box is red and hand painted. On the wall next to the table is a painting of an old barn next to a country dirt road and tree. Grandma painted all these items, and she developed her own folksy style that was very sweet.

@George-K

I'm putting an egg, shell and all, into my coffee grounds . I've had egg coffee, and it's very good.

God bless the generations of church ladies who have been making church basement coffee for all these years, keeping the tradition alive.

Pre-COVID, Staples used to sell reams of photocopy paper at some ridiculous loss leader price of 1¢ per 200-sheet pack around around school resupply time. Not seeing anything like that anymore since COVID hit.