The Coffee House

table1349 · Sep 8, 2016

terri said:
All this food discussion and pics is making me hungry. I don't have anything special ready for dinner, either - veggie burgers and salad. I mean, it's okay, but the NFL starts tonight and I may want a glass of wine to celebrate. I usually validate my wine consumption with a good food pairing, and veggie burgers + CdP seems...contraindicated.

Ok, if you are drinking Chateauneuf du Pape with football then I would hate to invite you over to watch something like a concert. I can't afford a 1996 Boerl & Kroff Champagne just to satisfy your tastes. :laughing:

Sorry, around this house football and BEER go together. Good beer, but still just beer. :biggrin-93:

jcdeboever · Sep 8, 2016

I like football and Terri's confusion on wine selection

table1349 · Sep 8, 2016

jcdeboever said:
I like football and Terri's confusion on wine selection

What next, pate Foie gras at NASCAR???

Violence or continual left turns and beer just naturally go together. It is the American Way. Kind of like you can divorce you wife in Louisiana, but she will still be your sister. :lol:

limr · Sep 8, 2016

Saturday is my football day, and nothing says college football like pizza

You'd think the natural pairing would be beer, and many times that would be correct, but I'm not really in a beer mood at the moment. Might change by Saturday, of course, and I suppose it depends on the beer selection, but for now, I'm thinking wine will be the beverage of choice.

Go Gators!!

terri · Sep 8, 2016

Hey! I like beer. Occasionally. But I have to have a taste for it. And tonight, I didn't. I have a taste for a very nice 2010 Cote Rotie.

So, you know, nyahh.

Plus, the Panthers lost in the final seconds. Ha!

jcdeboever · Sep 8, 2016

Anderson scored me some points in one of my FFL leagues! YES!

table1349 · Sep 8, 2016

terri said:
Hey! I like beer. Occasionally. But I have to have a taste for it. And tonight, I didn't. I have a taste for a very nice 2010 Cote Rotie.

So, you know, nyahh.

Plus, the Panthers lost in the final seconds. Ha!

Funny, I never pictured you as a boxer person.

table1349 · Sep 9, 2016

Pęhévevóonä'o hóvahéhasęstse,

Cool, soggy morning on the plains. Rain gage says we have over 5" of rain overnight. You Baja Californio's could have kept your Newton, but NOOOOOooooooooooo. You had to send him our way. This has been one wet summer on the plains. One of the wettest in history. Shouldn't complain though, we averaged 62 bushels to the acre on the wheat. The beans, corn and sorghum has really profited from all the rain and we are looking at near record if not record harvests for all three.

The girls are sensing that something is amiss with the packing going on. They will be satisfied campers though once they get to the doggysitters this afternoon. They love the dog sitter, her family and dogs. Besides little Maggie is in heaven when there as they have a doggie door. Since retiring my schedule has looked something like this...........

And repeat often.

Unfortunately we have no place to put a doggie door and little Maggie is the Queen of the back yard. She goes out, checks the back yard, then trots up onto the deck and sits on the landing for the steps and surveys her kingdom. She can see all the back yards in the neighborhood from her throne. Sometimes she naps in the sun, but mostly she is holding court. She also loves to go to the doggie sitters because of their son Wesley. Apparently they are fast friends when she is there as he will give her lots of belly rubs.

Well there is much to do to get off early in the morning, pack, get the girls to the sitter, take the wife out for dinner tonight for her birthday, get to bed early and none of it gets done while I'm talking to you hosers.

KenC · Sep 9, 2016

Morning, hosers! Haven't been on here much, since the weather makes me want to hibernate and not do anything until it is cooler. We are supposed to set another record today. I was home yesterday, which helped, but dragged myself in to work today. It was in the low 80's at 7 AM. I hope you're all staying cool, wherever you are.

Gary A. · Sep 9, 2016

Buenas Dias Coffee Hosers. Another gray, cool, overcast morning ... (what a surprise, right). Already a busy morning, making coffee for Gary, tea for Mary Lou, giving the Cook her "Good Morniong Rubdown", filling up the dry dog food dish, filling up a Hummingbird feeder, feeding the bread starter, emptying Mary Lou's shower bucket, downloading and printing a bunch of paperwork that needs to get done today.

Interesting article in the Los Angeles Times under the headline of "That's not a novel, it's the voter guide". And Gary quotes, " ... The biggest surprise in the mailbox this fall may be the size of the Nov. 8 statewide voter guide, a record-setting 224 pages." That guide only covers statewide ballot propositions, it does not cover local elections and ballot measures. $15,000,000 to print and mail a guide to each of our 18,000,000 voters. Democracy isn't cheap.

Gary A. · Sep 9, 2016

@gryphonslair99: Gary suspects the lack of suitable dog door space is due to sliding glass door(s). Under that assumption, they do make glass panels with built-in dog doors that just slip into the rails of the existing glass sliders. It takes about a minute to install.