@QMS

Coffee's brewing, just added a morning poem; going to be a good day.

Cheers!

thank you for giving us a way
to start another Saturday
winds are wailing here today

@QMS
the mountain, what i got to lose? It's all downhill anyway. Thanks to you for being here.

Have a great day.

Saw a deer grousing when opening the shade in the office this morning. Good sign. May be a good day. Muscling thru records of yesterday's ventures. Heading out to do more repairman stuff. Demands never end. Guess that's why we are alive? Fix what's broken.

Hope your day finds positive energy. And thanks for being here.

@Lookout

It was a chilly stroll through trade day. Thin on traders with the wind whipping. Bought some nice looking avocados and did my grocery shopping while in town.

The color has faded and most of the leaves fell this week. Still some more to go. Raked the yard twice this week and it needs it again. We plant winter ryegrass to keep a bit of green all winter.

My old buddy the judge passed this week. Died of pancreatic cancer. Seems to be a very virulent form of cancer. I've only known one person to eek out a year with it. The judge lasted a few month. I'll miss our political discussions/debates we had when we met a trade day.

The cycle rolls on and it is our ride...make of it what you can...there's only one trip.

Thanks for the poem and OT smiley. Wishing all of you a lovely fulfilling day!

@lotlizard
wonderful weekend in Europe.

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And:
How South Dakota legalized perpetual trusts — and created what sounds to me like a financial singularity — a “black hole” for assets that turns back the clock to feudalism and aristocracy:

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@randtntx

Hum, making me hungry, just returned home from a good day, skied for two hours on easy street, a gentle, long, intermediate slope, the first step up the mountain after folks learn to turn and control speed. Loved it, hope the back and hip hold, going to take this very slowly and thank goodness my friend, the director, understands.

Cooking calf's liver, turnip greens, and two potatoes, one sweet, one Idaho. Can't wait, need food.

Thanks, as always for being here. Stay warm and listen to the good music you enjoy.

I zipped through your OT last week without stopping to say hello...there were a number of things demanding my attention...so I had to rush off. Because of that though, I did end up with Sharon Olds on my reading list and a butternut squash in my larder. So thank you and a belated hello.

We finally have some soup weather here, it dipped down into freezing temperatures a couple of times last week and was cold and rainy. It's a sparkling day today though and roasted butternut squash soup is on the menu.

Hope you have a beautiful simple day, I am looking forward to the same.

@enhydra lutris @enhydra lutris

Sounds wonderful, the soup, and all. A c99 cookbook may sell of the shelves.

Hoping you've a wonderful weekend.

running well.

My week to cook, and farmers' market is today so off for veggies. Its been cool to cold (for us) and is that time of year, so I'm gonna take it easy and make some soups a chicken mole and do some grilling with an arrabiata tossed in. Last week they had some great leeks, so I'm hoping for a repeat so I can make a nice leek and potato soup as well as some sort of veggie medley soup.

Have a good one, stay safe and enjoy.

@Anja Geitz

date, the when and where to be decided.

Have a lovely California weekend.

You included. It makes me want to walk inside, sit down and listen to the wind blow. Maybe we can arrange that? I'll bring the snacks and you bring the wine?

@janis b

I did make it, skied two hours with a break in between, beautiful day and great to see ski buddies.

Forgot to hat-tip you for the music; thanks for today's music.

Talk soon, dinner time and off to bed.

Hugs.

I hope you made it to the mountain and enjoyed the pleasure you have always found there.

I love your poem. It’s so simple, yet so full. Each brief line generates a deeply affecting feeling, and all together is reflective of the sense of introspection winter brings. I especially like this line …

open cans preserved for time

All the best to you and all

@magiamma

Bookmarking Maya for later, thank you, never seen that work of hers.

Good day for me and hoping for you as well.

Enjoy the beauty.

All is well on the western front. No rain in the foreseeable future. Pulled some curries out of the freezer for dinner so that's off the list. Chopped yet another bit of limb off the willow so the squirrels cannot get at the birdfeeder. I hope. Went to another recall meeting this Saturday morning. Politics never sleeps. Rocky roads go thither. Money loves power loves money.

Lovely poem. Thank you. "Don't slip, be kind"

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Be well...

@on the cusp

A second to your executive decision, traveling with you in spirit. Never been to Guatemala, looking forward to a trip report.

Aren't those special places to stay we are acquainted and enjoyed a jewel. Sometimes i find their draw almost irresistible in planning a new trip. So many i'd love to return to.

Wishing you fantastic travels, will be thinking of you.

on Thanksgiving. If I stay, I will work. And I will do all the cooking. If I go, I might just have fun.
I have booked a 3 night stay in Guatemala City.
I love the hotel, have been there twice before.
I wanted somewhere fun to go with short flight, flirted with Trinidad, but settled on my tried and true Guatemala.
I knew you could bundle air/hotel/car with the discount sites, such as Expedia and KAYAK, but didn't realize you could book airport shuttle to and from the airport/hotel, or that you could book guided tours with tour agencies, as opposed to local, independent guides. I have had some bad experience with independent local guides.
I will go to Antigua, Iximche Mayan ruins, market at Chichicastenanga, Lake Atitlan,for $707.00, which includes "cancel for any reason" insurance.
I have been to all those places twice, but did not purchase Che Guevara tees when I had the chance.
I will this time!
I will be alone on transit, and in my fave hotel room, but virtually every time I step outside the property, I will have the safety of a group, a tour company guide, so I feel pretty safe about it all.
The flight is 3 hours. From Houston, which sucks, to Guatemala, which is one of the most wonderful places I have ever been.