The Coffee House

[terri]

Haven't gotten a weird ad in awhile, but did get a porn invite email from a forum member over the weekend.

Not a real forum member - persistent spam bots! We're deleting them routinely.

Our techs are aware of this issue. The captured spam outweighs this batch, it's ticked up a lot lately.

 

[Original katomi]

Hi all. here for just a few mins and i get one of those spam posts ( reported)
Out for the morning with the camera, sat people watching, just two from the morning.

 

[Original katomi]

This one, well the face says it all.

 

[terri]

Great to see you, katomi. Looks like lovely weather in your part of the world.

In similar news:

Happy First Day of Fall, hosers!! My favorite time of year.

We still have a few hummingbirds around, fighting over the feeders. Our temps are supposed to plummet over the next couple of days, and it will likely drive them off. *sniffle* I love watching them.

 

[snowbear]

Good afternoon, hosers. I only have a minute to check in - MLW and her oldest full sister are clearing out middle full sister's trailer; I'm making landfill and donation box runs, and need to get back before time to turn the truck in. Mid sister had a couple of her toes amputated and has developed heart disease, but didn't want to go through the heart surgery. She will be living with the older sis once she is out of rehab. We're hoping she'll change her mind about the surgery.

We've reclaimed our former dining room table from Sherry's (Mom was using it for a while when the place was hers), and a rocking chair Ada was storing for us. Pics after everything is cleaned up and put into place. We also have all of the old photos and MLW's late brother's drawings. We still have another rocker that Lazy Lobster wants, so that goes on our next trip north.

 

[terri]

Whew, @snowbear - you've been busy!!

Absolutely want to see the pics when it's all done!

Sorry to hear about your sister-in-law.

 

[JonA_CT]

I still use a camera occasionally -- hope all are well!

 

[snowbear]

How have you been, Jon? Hope all is going well.

 

[terri]

Great to see you, Jon! The kids look great. You're missed around here.

 

[limr]

I still use a camera occasionally -- hope all are well!

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JON!!!

 

[JonA_CT]

Funny story about I how I posted here yesterday...

I was transferred to the high school from the middle school in my district this year, and I have quite a few old students on my roster. One of the girls I had 4 years ago asked if I was still doing photography since my room was decorated in prints at the middle school, and got me to look for some recent photos on my computer. It turns out that one of my other student's in that class has some photography/youtube/tutorial celebrities as parents, which explains why her step-dad looked familiar . Anyways, I posted here after digging through the archives a bit.

Life is pretty solid here. Things at school are pretty good. Last school year was super rough with a variety of teaching models, teaching kids in the classroom and at home simultaneously, etc etc... but our only restrictions at this point is that we wear masks inside the building, and that's a super small price to pay in comparison.

We moved last summer, and are finally feeling settled in the new house at this point. The brewery survived/thrived during the pandemic. Initial debt and expansion are almost paid off, and we're looking for a new, larger brewhouse and taproom space now. We've also hooked up with distributor that is getting our product out to an ever increasing number of states, so definitely look for Tox Brewing in the Northeast at your favorite package store, haha.

I feel a lot of motivation to take the camera out these days, just not much time. I keep thinking if I carry it around, I might use it...but no success so far.

 

[limr]

It's good to hear from you, Jon! Glad to hear things are good with the brewery, and you can bet I will start looking for some 6-packs

Hosers.

The closing for my mother's house was on Monday. It is sold. It belongs to someone else after more than 50 years. It was a herculean effort to get everything packed or donated or thrown away. The process started months ago but it still took four of us at least a month to finish the last of it all. My mother has never been organized, but she has also been fairly traumatized by the whole process that it was basically up to us siblings (except for my 5th sibling who stayed in Florida.) I will admit that we went through a LOT Of bourbon

It is going to take her some time to feel better, but we know this is the best decision for her and for us. In the meantime, she is staying wit my brother and sister-in-law in North Carolina until we figure out where her next home will be.

It was a very stressful, emotional process for all of us and I am going to be recovering for a little while. Exhausted and drained doesn't even begin to describe how I feel. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go sleep for 3 days.

@snowbear Sounds like you've been dealing with some similar stuff, though I'm sorry to hear that it's because of mid-sister's health troubles. I hope you can talk her into getting the surgery. I have also somehow ended up with a lot more stuff from my mother's house than I expected to have, so now it's time to go through my own house to donate or toss things to make room for new stuff and prevent my house from getting too cluttered. If I learned anything from this whole process, it's that as much as I have pared down, I need to pare down even more!

 

[terri]

@JonA_CT: Sounds like good news all the way through. I'm so glad to hear the brewery stayed solid through the pandemic. Congrats on the deal with the distributor!!!

@limr: I'm happy for you that it's over and the house is actually sold - that's a BFD! Very emotional and exhausting situation for your family. Now you do get to sleep!

And get back to some photography in some form or fashion, both of y'all.

 

[snowbear]

Thanks, Leonore; we're really hoping she change's her mind. She has a more of her father in her than her mom, so she leans a bit to the stubborn side. MLW had to run to the rehab center a while ago for some issue with her - don't know what, yet.

Glad to hear the old place is sold.

Oooo - volcano on TV (they fascinate me).

 

[Original katomi]

Lima
Hiya, I know what it’s like, I am still sorting my Mrs”s as well as helping mum sort dads. One flat bed truck and two skips later for mum we are just making inroads.
My next challenge is to clear the shear of junk and convert it to a workshop, the plan is to run the workshop on solar power if I can.
Already I am charging batteries for tools and my cameras on the solar panels.