The Coffee House

[snowbear]

The sky is falling! Really.

 

[nerwin]

Cat litter boxes...why are they Soo stout?



Okay okay maybe I was just having some fun.

 

[jeffashman]

Hey ho folks! It's getting hot here. Not quite hot enough to slow cook a brisket in the mailbox, but it's getting there. Off to take the granddaughter and one of her friends to see the Lion King musical. Should be fun!

 

[smoke665]

All kinds of news this week, we just had a bear sighting close to us (I can see the spot where he was seen from our bedroom window). Guess I'll need to start carrying again when walking the fire lanes.

 

[cgw]

All kinds of news this week, we just had a bear sighting close to us (I can see the spot where he was seen from our bedroom window). Guess I'll need to start carrying again when walking the fire lanes.

Wonder whether critter ranges are changing along with long-term climate shifts. Coyote sightings around rural S. Ontario, once notable, are common now.

 

[smoke665]

Wonder whether critter ranges are changing along with long-term climate shifts. Coyote sightings around rural S. Ontario, once notable, are common now.

We've had bear, cougars, panthers, and coyotes for a few years now. Our yard is party central for all kinds of wildlife.

 

[nerwin]

We had a couple bears the other night.

 

[VidThreeNorth]

"Bumpy weather". We had a sudden cool-down w/shower about 1- 2 hours ago but tomorrow is hot again, and staying hot. I would have preferred to have it stay cool. I saw lightning fill the sky, but no thunder. That had to be very far away, maybe New York State.

 

[smoke665]

@nerwin supposedly our black bears moved down from TN a few years back, during a drought, in search of food, and didn't go back. Residents believe (though the state denies), that the cougars and panthers were imported by the state to control the rapidly expanding coyote population. Deer and wild turkey are also abundant. Not sure how or when the alligators showed up in our waterways but the number of sightings is rising.

 

[jeffashman]

Guten Morgen Alle! The Lion King Broadway musical was amazing! The visuals were incredible, and the music was a mix of the Disney soundtrack and African Folk, and the latter was absolutely mesmerizing. If I had to choose between the cartoon, the live action movie, and the Broadway Musical, I'll take Broadway over the other two every time. It was well worth the nightmarish Dallas traffic to get to the Music Hall at Fair Park.

 

[jeffashman]

@nerwin supposedly our black bears moved down from TN a few years back, during a drought, in search of food, and didn't go back. Residents believe (though the state denies), that the cougars and panthers were imported by the state to control the rapidly expanding coyote population. Deer and wild turkey are also abundant. Not sure how or when the alligators showed up in our waterways but the number of sightings is rising.

We haven't had any black bear sightings locally, but not far north from here they are showing up. There has been one cougar sighting IN the city (suburban not urban) just blocks north of here, but it has since moved on. The State was going to trap and relocate it, but lost track of it.

 

[terri]

Guten Morgen Alle! The Lion King Broadway musical was amazing! The visuals were incredible, and the music was a mix of the Disney soundtrack and African Folk, and the latter was absolutely mesmerizing. If I had to choose between the cartoon, the live action movie, and the Broadway Musical, I'll take Broadway over the other two every time. It was well worth the nightmarish Dallas traffic to get to the Music Hall at Fair Park.

Sounds awesome! Hard to go wrong with a Broadway version of just about anything.

I'm generally just fine paying more for excellent quality, and yes - you have to steel yourself for the traffic headaches from like-minded folks. It's usually worth it once the curtain rises. Glad it was so good.

 

[VidThreeNorth]

I messed up this time. I wanted to record the stars (1 sec/frame time lapse) from about 22:00 yesterday to 2:00 today. That would give me 4 hrs. of reasonably pure stars. The weather was clearing and tomorrow is supposed to be clear. But I was watching a girl building an airplane and I fell asleep. I set up the camera at about 2:24-ish. Terrible. Sun will light the sky from around 5:00. Only a couple of hours of stars. Then clear sky in the morning. Not much more boring than that for a sunrise, so mostly waste. Oh, well. . . .

 

[nerwin]

When I was taking pictures yesterday, someone showed me their new iPhone that has a dedicated slider to change the depth of field in photos and claimed cameras like that mine are no longer needed.

 

[cgw]

Best wishes to all for a safe, sane and soberish Canada Day July 1 tomorrow. Slow spareribs hit the charcoal BBQ early tomorrow whose cook gets refreshed with Hacker-Pschorr and an occasional Absolut shot from the freezer. Soundtrack? New old jazz shipment from Japan--Coltrane, Golson Jazztet, Horace Silver Quintet. If you know it, you get it...