BYC Café

[DobieLover]

Good morning Cafe. Coffee is ready.

I took my niece with me to the granite yard that I like to use as they are a little over 1 hr away. We picked out a cultured quartz slab. My countertops will be cut from a different remnant slab that looks like this.

On the way home from dropping off my templates I watched a jumping bug/spittlebug crawl around on my windshield. It jumped off and landed on my finger. I held it out NEAR my niece and said "look at my little friend!"
Right then it sprang off my finger to jump over to her car door and sailed past her face. That girl let out the longest, shrillest scream which instantly threw me into a laughing fit so hard my cheeks and abs started to ache. After the scream ended the panic to get said teeny tiny harmless bug OUT of the car ensued. She put the window down and missed it at least 5 times trying to flick it out the window.
I had no earthly idea she was terrified of all manner of insects and I obviously, am not. I haven't laughed that hard in months!

 

[Offshoreorca]

Good morning Cafe! Thanks for the coffee DL!

I slept in a bit today, which is very uncharacteristic of me. Was a long week. Woken up by the garbage truck beeping loudly out the window as it backed up - I didn’t even know can come on Saturday (pick up here in the city is usually Monday). Missing DH, the chooks, and the pups this weekend, but I’ll be back up in Cape Breton on Wednesday.

 

[Mtn Margie]

Pine pollen and WIND!

 

[sourland]

Good afternoon, Cafe' - coffee is ready.

Pine pollen and WIND!

I dislike both.

 

[LaFleche]

Good morning everyone!

Coffee is ready and some freshly baked rolls as well, enjoy!

http://atreatsaffair.com/chocolate-rolls-with-coffee-icing-recipe/

 

[DobieLover]

Good morning Cafe. Thanks for the goodies LF. There's still plenty of coffee left...

 

[DobieLover]

Those little tree frogs are LOUD. I had just gone to bed and was reading when he started in and I would have sworn he was inside the bedroom with us it was so loud!!

I went outside to find him and the little booger was sitting right in the window frame. I gave him a poke and he jumped down to the ground. Hearing him from the ground was much quieter. I think he was vibrating his throat directly on the window glass as an amplifier!

 

[aart]

Those little tree frogs are LOUD.

It's amazing the volume of vocalization from frog/toads and insects.


Woke to the soothing sound of rain...it's been a couple weeks since hearing that.
Supposed to get more later today and tomorrow.

 

[DobieLover]

It's amazing the volume of vocalization from frog/toads and insects.

There is entirely too much amphibian sex going on in my pond! I swear I heard Marvin Gaye coming from the waterfall last night.

I scooped out two more toad spawns yesterday. There was about 1.5 cups worth of eggs. I put them in the little natural pond just up the road past my property.

 

[Offshoreorca]

Good morning Cafe! Thanks for the coffee and the sweet treat LaFleche!

I'm not sure why my upstairs neighbour here in the city insists on vacuuming Sunday mornings from 7-8am (sometimes even longer). They're still going right now and there's something just slightly irking about it! City life is so not for me

I'm busy again - remotely this time - as a mass stranding of pilot whales looms in Iceland. There are a bunch of whales trapped outside a harbour and showing signs of confusion/panic. Unfortunately it is a whale trap where they are likely too confused to move out of. A larger boat with a biologist I know went to try to move them out, but the whales were too close to shore for them to attempt a rescue and they didn't want to risk causing more problems. The rescue team has been alerted and a zodiac is on the way to see if they can get them out of there before they end up in the harbour or on the beach. What a great way to wake up....