The Coffee House

[Gary A.]

Mary Lou has been looking forward to the upcoming Nothing Planned weekend. No soccer, no guests (so far), no day trips, nada, zilch, gornischt. Mary Lou is speaking of trimming the persimmon tree. Gary should vacuum.

 

[SquarePeg37 8]

Walmart

Is that what you're doing this weekend or is that inspiration for my shooting?

I'm working a 36 hour shift

Ugh. Stay safe!

Working overtime on Saturday morning, and then changing the oil in Alice. As for Sunday? Who the hell knows

Spending the money that you made on Saturday!

I found a video of me putting out fires at work this morning...

Our company gives us these to put out fires:

Mary Lou has been looking forward to the upcoming Nothing Planned weekend. No soccer, no guests (so far), no day trips, nada, zilch, gornischt. Mary Lou is speaking of trimming the persimmon tree. Gary should vacuum

I both love and hate a "nothing planned" weekend. Love it while it's happening but when it's over I always feel like I wasted my weekend...

 

[Gary A.]

Buenas Dias Coffee Hosers. 'Tis a thin paper this overcast and cool morning. Things are drying up and cooling off ... getting back to a more normal and reasonable clime. Speaking of a slow news day, above the fold, three column with photo, the headline reads "Disneyland can't work its magic on wait times" with a corresponding story w/ graphs describing the average wait time. What a waste of the front page.

@wade: Under the Disneyland story is a real story with potentially a huge fallout. Inyo County (Owens Valley) turns to eminent domain in bid for LADWP land. In the early 1900's, the City of Los Angeles, swooped into the Owens Valley (eastern Sierra Nevada), and bought up land and water rights. Over the decades, the lush Owens Valley dried up and the Owens Lake turned into a dust bowl, as the water was drained to Los Angeles. (see the movie 'Chinatown') Gary has never heard of one public jurisdiction playing the eminent domain card on another public jurisdiction. In any event this will be interesting. According to Mark Twain, Whiskey's for drinking ... Water's for fighting.

 

[terri35 7]

I am getting bad vibes from this forum lately. Is it me?

Morning Hosers. What's everyone doing this weekend? I'm determined to get out and shoot looking for some inspiration.

I'm working a 36 hour shift

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mmm, sounds like we'd better watch out, then. Jason gets cranky during those last 6 hours.

I like an unplanned weekend, especially with lovely weather. You can lounge around and enjoy it, or get inspired to do something spontaneous with nothing scheduled to stop you.

 

[Gary A.]

@ Peg: Trimming the persimmon tree and vacuuming the house are both significant accomplishments.

 

[SquarePeg37 8]

@ Peg: Trimming the persimmon tree and vacuuming the house are both significant accomplishments.

Yes but not "fun" to do. After working all week I want to have a little fun on the weekends.

 

[Gary A.]

@ Peg: What lenses do you have?

 

[Gary A.]

@ Peg: Trimming the persimmon tree and vacuuming the house are both significant accomplishments.

Yes but not "fun" to do. After working all week I want to have a little fun on the weekends.

The fun comes in when Gary vacuums out the wine cellar.

 

[Gary A.]

Gary has been giving some thought to a "Hot Pot" dinner over this weekend. Maybe setting up the projection in the patio for an outdoor movie.

 

[SquarePeg37 8]

@ Peg: What lenses do you have?

For the XT2 I have the 18-55, the 50-230 and the 60

For the 7100 I still have Nikon 35, 50, 105, Sigma 17-70 and Tamron 70-300

 

[terri35 7]

I am getting bad vibes from this forum lately. Is it me?

Of course not.

There are members here whose main objective seems to be floating through and dropping bits of napalm in threads, offering no value to this forum. If any of that has been directed your way, I'm sorry. If you're just noticing it and commenting in general, all I can say is shrug and ignore it, and don't feed a troll. The vast majority of our members rock it. You're one of them!

 

[terri35 7]

Gary has been giving some thought to a "Hot Pot" dinner over this weekend. Maybe setting up the projection in the patio for an outdoor movie.

Now that sounds fun - I couldn't get away with that in our neck of the woods right now. Way too humid! September is when things start to get lovely here.

 

[table1349]

I am getting bad vibes from this forum lately. Is it me?

Morning Hosers. What's everyone doing this weekend? I'm determined to get out and shoot looking for some inspiration.

Getting rid of the wife for two whole weeks.

Sending her to West Virginia to sleep in a tent and show a bunch of "VIP's" around for a couple of weeks. Me, I am going party likes it's 1999. Do what I want when I want, scratch where it itches and just enjoy a little peace and quiet.

 

[Gary A.]

Gary has been giving some thought to a "Hot Pot" dinner over this weekend. Maybe setting up the projection in the patio for an outdoor movie.

Now that sounds fun - I couldn't get away with that in our neck of the woods right now. Way too humid! September is when things start to get lovely here.

That how it was on Sunday, a real shvitz, the dinner party was forced into the safety of the house and it's A/C. But now it is getting back to normal.

 

[Gary A.]

@ Peg: What lenses do you have?

For the XT2 I have the 18-55, the 50-230 and the 60

For the 7100 I still have Nikon 35, 50, 105, Sigma 17-70 and Tamron 70-300

Slap the 60mm on the XT2 and hit an arboretum. Toss some vino in a thermos and a packable folding chair and do the flowers. Every now and then, set up the chair, sip some wine, listen to some classical on the headset and chimp your images. (take the 50-230 for some creamy bokeh, shoot at 230)