armstand back double somersault, tuck position, no splash (‘natch)

g’evening pups – how ya doing tonight?

evening, Suzzzz — flashing a 10

hey ppd — thanks — how was your day?

pretty good, thanks — listening to Monterey Jazz Festival on KUSP tonight

Hiya Firedogs!
Have you seen this? We laughed until we cried.

hiya CE

I does love me some Bullwinkle.

A kids show with brains, like Schoolhouse Rock.

sweet…. i spent the day getting the house ready for when mom arrives mid-week. i had the girl who used to bring up my wood come over and she put in a couple hours of hard work doing the stuff i find difficult, like cleaning the bathroom and did all the floors. totally worth the cost (much more savings to my already aching back, shoulder and knee)

hey ce — how’s ohio tonight?

hey janeane — i love intelligent cartoons that appeal to both adults and kids — how ya doing tonight?

conjunction junction

Good show — as you’re taking care of everyone else, don’t forget yourself, Suzzz

That is a riot!

Not too bad. I do like cartoons/kids shows that can bridge the gap between adults and children. Not many come to mind, though, other than Bullwinkle and Schoolhouse.

Say hey! Beautiful day here for us.

taking care of myself is why i hired her :) i’ve been working on the house this week and left the big stuff that always forks me up to her

hey robert — how’s soPA tonight? isn’t it!!!

Suzanne!
I bow to your dive. I used to dive in real life, once.

Honestly, we viewed this at the dinner table tonight, and I almost fell down I laughed so much.

a lot of the old warner brothers had a mix like the jay wards did — gags for the kids and dialogue for the grownups

Joshua Redmond with his group are playing now — Herbie Hancock & crew are up next

i did too :) back when i was young and limber and my internal temperature control worked (laughing)

sweet… it is streaming online?

Tex Avery’s stuff comes to mind as well.

Chilly.

Come across this video the other day of boys just being boys:

Boys Do the Crazy Frog Dance

Not at all the same, but we LOVED “In Living Color” because it was so edgy. We adults laughed harder than the innocent kids, but we all loved to watch this show.

yup. gotta remember the stuff that was originally made for movie houses had to appeal to both populations — whereas a lot of the later made for tv cartoons were directed only at the kiddies

nary a zombie in sight…

Hi Suz, just stopping by to say that Jujube is growing so fast, gosh, she will be walking before we know it. So enjoy every minute, I know you are. Thanks for posting the pictures to keep us up to date! She’s 5 months already, right?? Wow.

muppet show was the same — they tackled a lotta stuff under the guise of a kids show – like this one

hey bg — will be 6 months on 10/9… hard to believe she’s that old already! how ya doing tonight?

Evenin’, Lakers,

Well, Sept 17 marks Constitution Day and my birthday. Spent the evening at Sapphire Hotel Restaurant, with a dinner of Risotto Cakes, Prawns and Wild Mushroom sauce.

Dynamite!

Started off with a Moscow Mule, finished withe Creme Brulee’.

Fabulous, and all my companions were women!

Sigh….

Our zombies are all grumpy old men. They all have 9PM bedtimes….since Johnny Carson gave it up.

hippo birdies two ewes
hippo birdies two ewes
hippo birdies deer starbuck
hippo birdies two ewes
….. and mini s’mores …..

Not me!

And you’re helping the employment numbers!!

I’m OK Suz, long week, tired. Take care, sorry to miss the party. I can tell it is going to be a fun one.

zombie story time

:-)

Thanks, Suz!

We were in Manzanita last Saturday, but didn’t get out of Manzanita until Sunday, when we went to Wheeler and Nehalem and messed around. Nehalem had a Sunday night jam session which was a delight.

Sorry not to get to Netarts to see you.

hey mauimom — how’s your island tonight?

it will be waiting for ya with your morning cuppa coffee

Good evening Suz. And a good evening to all you firedogs.

How was your day, Suz?

its been crazy this past week — next time dood :)

I doubt it — trying clicking to KUSP.org. I don’t think that they have broadcast rights over the intertubes.

hey past — how ya doing tonight? it was rainy and windy and cold and damp and perfect for housework (yuck). have had almost 1/4″ of rain so far and the storms not supposed to really hit until tomorrow

Hi, Christine. Talking dog video is a crackup, LMAO!

they are streaming live! thanks ppd

I’m surprised — go for it, Suzzz

Well, our temperatures dipped down to the 50′s whict put me in the mood to cook! I made beef chili and orange marmalade chicken.

Doin’ good. Just been listening to some Dylan & dylan covers. Love Minus Zero/No Limit, one of my faves (brings tears to my eyes); many good covers of this on youtube.

Rained heavy last night until early this morn, then cleared up. Got up to about 72 today, nice.

I don’t even have a dog, but that YouTube clip just yanked our funny bone… and it has had 61 million viewers!

OK firegods — 54th annual Monterey Jazz Festival is streaming video live on local NPR station tonight and tomorrow at http://web.kusp.org/

Herbie Hancock & group is tonight’s last act.

i’ve been thinking of fall comfort food recipes for when mom is here. i know i’m gonna make her a pot of pintos with hamhocks and i’m thinking maybe a shepherds pie or meatloaf. gonna have to ask her what she prefers. her husband doesn’t like the pintos so she rarely gets them — tis a little treat for her.

i love how clean everything is after a good heavy rain… and the air smells so good too

susan tedeschi nails this dylan cover

That’s hilarious! Wiping laughter tears…….
Thank you, ChristineEdmondson, I needed that laugh.

hey openhope — how’s the sound tonight?

I did an Italian meatloaf last week — all beef with chopped bacon (put in raw) and 1 cup parmesan. Topped with red sauce. Am thinking choucroute garnie — hey Kelly where are you?

That’s a shame they don’t do that anymore. The older cartoons were much better IMO.

and larue… where’s larue? we are talking food here and there’s no larue *hands on hips*

Isn’t it amazing what one minute of foolishness can bring?

Agreed, and hands flipping off — where are you Larue?

they really were. amazing how much i have learned when researching the sat night cartoon… and how many memories of my childhood return while watching them. sitting in the movie house for the sat afternoon matinee with a cartoon, newsreel, feature film, another cartoon, another newsreel, and then another feature film.

Aloha, Suz and lln pups…!

She does a good job on Don’t Think Twice. Funny, listening to her soft speaking voice, you’d never expect that husky singing voice. Her singing voice is much like Bonnie Raitt.

aloha tut — how’s paradise tonight?

Yeah, I’m already feeling kinder to my dogs that have been driving me crazy this week. :)

Good evening, CTuttle.

i’ve been a fan of hers for a while… her voice just draws me in

Awesome day today, especially after Jane had called me today…! 8-)

hiya CT

rock me right

Aloha, open and PPD…!

sweet dood :) i still get all excited when she calls

Suz!
Would that someone could stand in for you for the Mom visit, you’d be set!

And Suz, EPIC ‘toon.

Hiya, CT. and belated congrats to you on your grandson, hope the expanded family is doing well. Welcome to granpa-dom. It’s great, isn’t it?

newton! thanks dood — glad ya like it. once she gets here, i’ll stop tweaking but i gotta admit, my nerves are not as frazzled about this visit has they have been in the past…

It definitely made my day week…! ;-)

Very cool. It’s strangely reassuring to know there are actual voices/people attached to the energy power source of FDL.

Mahalo, pastfedup…! It is great being a grandpa…! ;-)

I got pumpkins to decorate (with paint), a knitting spool, and am looking up crock pot recipes right now. It definitely is autumn!
Hi Suz, everyone:)

I’m hoping to be next, not soon but after the wedding last weekend, maybe in the near future…

when i finally got to meet her last year at the norml conference in portland, i was on cloud 9 dood! there she was, sitting in the next chair. dang, i felt all tongue tied and shy and wow pinching myself and trying to maintain and be cool and not come across as a groupie or something.

hey margot — getting all crafty! whatcha thinking of making in that crock pot?

Hiya, pups!

Just starting to recover from a slamming fall cold. Had an awful, awful night last night, but am much better now. Putting up more food – tomato sauce, preserved beets and green beans tonight. And more dried tomatoes. Gotta get or make a food dryer for next year.

Rocky and Bullwinkle started right when I got into junior high – 1959. We never missed an episode unless we had to.

Hey Margot!

Driving through southeast PA we saw lots of fall decorations and fall things. Many pumpkins out, even in the wedding garden. I LOVE fall, and all the holidays.

I had to laugh when the Better Half asked me if she is a nice as she seems on teevee…! ;-)

Some recipe I saw and can’t find now that called for chicken legs or thighs, cannelini beans, tomatoes, etc. And some red wine.

hey et — yuck — so good that you are feeling better. i’ve been following your garden over at your place and am thinking that drying may be the way to store besides freezing. how hard is it?

glad you liked the toon.

I know that feeling, I was tongue-tied just talking on the phone to her…!

Get a netti pot for colds and every day. Really cured our allergies and general cold malaise.

oh yum — that sounds soooo good

Crossing my fingers for you. Our grandchild came about 11 months after my son got married (was his second marriage, he was 26 and I guess decided he was ready to see a kid brought into the world).

Amazing, eh Suzzz?

Well the funny thing is that they had to decide what surname, when born, their child would have. In a world full of hyphonated names, this is a problem!!!

gonna have to try to remember to listen tomorrow night…

Helloooooo, Margot!

Loved the toon, though the animation is sketchy. That was one of the show’s hallmarks. The music caught my ear just as I was starting to get interested in music.

Drying tomatoes in an oven is really easy. Cut them in half or quarter, lay ‘em out on a cookie sheet, sprinkle a little salt, maybe a spice you like. Bake at about 190 until they aren’t very moist. I’ve probably dried over 600 so far, mostly little Black Cherry and small Stupice.

What’s a netti pot?

just like when roasting but lower temp and slower and longer? how do you store them after they are roasted?

Our son is 30, the same age that MrCE became a dad. We shall see. We married very young, I was 24.

et — from the rocky and bullwinkle link up top is this bill scott quote about the outsourcing of the animation to a studio in mexico:

We found out very quickly that we could not depend on Mexican studios to produce anything of quality. They were turning out the work very quickly and there were all kinds of mistakes and flaws and boo-boos … They would never check … Mustaches popped on and off Boris, Bullwinkle’s antlers would change, colors would change, costumes would disappear … By the time we finally saw it, it was on the air.[13]

I am in love with my dehydrater with the 8 racks. Nesco. But, I’m cheating on the side with my new smoker. Man, do beets taste great smoked then pickled.

fork i did it again

Yes, netti pots are the bomb! Especially for allergy sufferers, like me.

Ya got a talent there, woman!

Oh that’s good. It’s like eating dessert, that song. Thanks, Newton.

A nasal cleanser with water and kosher salt. It cleanses the sinuses, and is a part of yoga. We use it every morning, using 1/4 tsp. kosher salt (and NOT table salt — no couagulants) and a pot of water. I bought ours at Whole Foods. And gave up prescription medicine.

sigh — the only reason i hit it is because i don’t want to hit it

three ways:

in kerr jars, soaking in olive oil
in vacuum sealed bags in the freezer
in our stomachs – they are a lot like raisins or craisins (cranberry raisins), so we just nibble.

Thanks. I might just try that. It gets so dehumidified here in the winter, anyway.

We use sea salt. And never use warm water from the hot water heater.

sweet. thanks et — the first two ways are totally within my skill set as long as the third doesn’t hog all the goodies

Sounds like a few of my relationships!

It will change your life. Really.

i’ve been there too… there is a reason i live alone

Smoked, dried beets? I cant’t tell you how interesting that sounds.

It keeps your sinuses clear. I watched my husband use his netti pot for 2 years before I finally got the courage. Like waterboarding yourself, only different. At first, now it’s easy.

Smoked beets. They’re awesome.

netti

30 is a good age to become a dad. Lots of ‘kids’ these days are having children in late twenties and early thirties. Seems to be a trend, they want to get established and more settled (and mature) before starting families.

MrCE just used it now, after a day of dust and fighting grime. So much better. As long as the salt doesn’t have any coagulatives, it will be fine.

I went to a Whole Foods for the first time, in Albuquerque last week. And a Best Buy and a casino north of Santa Fe (high school reunion).

just check out tomorrow’s scheduled artists at the web site, then tune in on KUSP.org

http://www.montereyjazzfestival.org/2011/

thanks dood

Okay, Open, you hauled me in from lurk mode. I love beets done any way. Can you give a brief recipe of smoked and pickled beets? Sounds yummy to me.

hey dearie — how ya doing tonight? so glad ya de-lurked and asked that question

smoked and pickled — sounds like high times that can’t be beet!

MrCE became a dad at 30. So did his dad. Oh heck, I will be 60 next June. And you know what? I’m happy about that. And I must go to bed soon. I have a public program about Impressionism to do tomorrow at our local library.

I’ve got a couple of 5 tray dehydrators. They work great. When my daughter was hiking the Appalachian Trail many years ago, I dehydrated everything that couldn’t outrun me. She and her hiking partners still laugh about the pimiento stuffed olives that made them long for a martini.

how late can ya sleep in til?

Hey Suzanne
With my luck (and the temps are to dive to 40′s) about 10 ish…will keep laptop on..

10ish isn’t too bad.. its not like a five forking thirty wakeup

tut — plutokiller is up at keck right now… tweeted that he’s gonna post pics of neptune if he can process and observe at the same time

5:30? Not possible. Anyway. Goodnight, good luck, big kisses and giant hugs. I feel honored to be home after a dream wedding. And I love you all. Nighers.

Worthy of punaise

g’nite ce

high praise :)

My son gave me an electric smoker. It’s a very cool porch- cooking piece of equipment. I smoke the beets with cherry wood approx. 2 1/2 hours [ medium size beets. times very by density/volume]
I leave 4″ of stem on, oil beets.
When they’re still firm but receive a fork puncture without too much resistance, they’re done. Cool in ice. Peel.
Make a simple apple cider vinegar/minimum sugar, pinch sea salt hot brine to raw pack. I add a couple cardamon seeds per pint.
I like to hot water bath can them so I can store them.
The next batch of beets in the garden I’m going to pressure can so I don’t have to have everything pickled. That piece of equipment has me walking around it in nervous anticipation!

*heh* He’s not up at the Summit, he’s in the Waimea base control room…!

Sweet dreams, ChristineEdmonson.

It gets worse, ET — I was replying to a friend about the current state of disenfranchisement last week, and the Matrix landed in the middle of the discussion.

“The Founders intended politics & governance based on Ome Man, One Volt.”

night, CE — I’m sure that you’ll make a great impressionism

crap.. i thought he was actually up there

Thanks! Sounds so good. I’m going to have to try smoking some beets.

Good night, all. Time to hit the sack. Oh, which reminds me…..it’s so nice to see that the sad sack Scott Walker might get hit with an FBI investigation.
I fucking KNEW there were ponies in there somewhere !!!!
Sweet dreams

That’s sick, funny, and I could never think of that stuff unless I was bored, stoned, and well . . . . bored.

Where do these people find and create this stuff!

LOL

ha!

g’nite openhope

larue! dood, where ya been?

About 1,000 cranes flying over right now, in the dark, guided by the moon, headed south.

I Got One.

*G*

wow — from the description of the time lapse film What does it feel like to fly over planet earth:

A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica. Visible cities, countries and landmarks include (in order) Vancouver Island, Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Fransisco, Los Angeles. Phoenix. Multiple cities in Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. Mexico City, the Gulf of Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula, Lightning in the Pacific Ocean, Guatemala, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and the Amazon. Also visible is the earths ionosphere (thin yellow line) and the stars of our galaxy

Hidin, Mozartin, stuff.

Like that.

You?

*blinks*

*G*

wow…..I can only imagine.

that sounds amazing et. i’ve got geese in the bay — tis a stop on their migration

The Dawg’s Work . . . incredible.

*bows*

Wow, that must be quite a sight…!

we were talking food and you were not here…

Oh my, bad.

Dang.

Need phud?

*G*

Gotta sleep, bless all Pups N Suz . . . Wall St was interesting as all hayall today . . .

Do we the people got a Jasmine Spring goin on?

Dawg help us we do!

Shut up n pic till then.

*gone*

g’nite larue

tis about time for me to turn back into a pumpkin peeps. thanks for letting me hang out with ya and i’m looking forward to seeing what tut has in store for us sun and monday. hope to see ya there.

g’nite all

night, Larue

Can’t see them – the moon is off to the east and they flew a bit toward the west. Happened the other evening too, right at sunset, but I had no camera or sound recorder. Just glad to be able to witness this aural wonder.

I’ve been making up a new Chopin Liszt….

night all – be well

That was great! Great topic. great laughs and reminded me of my youth…I was 10 in 1963…thanks for a good laugh!

Not only did you pick from my favorite show, but you chose an episode that was so right on. Think about how long ago this was produced and how well it fits today!!!

hey bearman — glad ya liked it. i was 9 when it aired…

hey jrubin — so glad you noticed just how topical this 1963 cartoon is today :) is why i chose this one…