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If we’ve missed you on this serendipitous who’s who list of active Sporars and #CHECKIN visitors, just yell! 💕

Checking in on another busy day, and looking forward to that cup of afternoon coffee with two-legged friends and four-legged Zach! waves

Good afternoon, still ill, but feeling better. Justus is relaxing next to me. Greets to all other doggos

Those who know me probably know I love trees. This frangipanni, with kindergartener me hanging off it, was one of my favourites. It was a tree house for Vancouver Sis and me. We spent hours up there just hanging out, reading books, munching snacks, making frangipanni garlands, head wreaths or balls…

Hiyas @Carsten Raddatz (劉愷恩) @Christoph S @Jeff Sexton!

Oopsies, previously posted the comment in the wrong post-thread! I’m still feeling wonky too @Christoph.

good morning, I get flashbacks more times than I'd like the freezing temp have risen 10 degrees above freezing an may get warmer today. I seem to have a mild reaction to the booster vaccine I had on Wed. my arm hurts but she administered it painlessly so it must be the venom vaccine. Sunny start with decorative clouds.

@Su Ann Lim I had a great tree to climb as well - may have been an alder tree. Mine had favourite spots for two friends, and we could look out over the lake from it (any height).

...Plumeria are incredible flowers...a dear friend has a tree of this in their yard..you don't see this trees very often on the East Coast.....

Good evening. I remember cold country where snow fell in the winter and I'm so glad to be far, far away from it. Those were the bad old days, before I found this wonderful country with my darling wife. We have a love to last forever and the price of living here is so low that my SS check is a middle class income. I've often said that I'm a lucky boy and I truly am.

Hello, FRIDAY! Heavy rain this a.m. in the south Puget Sound region. My project for today is dry under the parking canopy, so, with a smile on my face and a song in my heart I shall kick ass on any and all challenges I encounter.
Oh, and with the aid of some strong coffee, as well.

👍 @greggtaylor@pluspora.com

@Violante de Rojas I can smell their fragrance! I didn't know plumeria grew at all along the East Coast! Your friend is so lucky! I've only seen them in the tropics where they were so prolific and blossomed non-stop that we kids could pluck as many flowers as we liked whenever we wanted.

Source: Wikipedia

@Whuffo I'm very happy for you and your wife! 😊

Another flashback for me! Canoeing to find Tom Thomson's Cairn at Canoe Lake, Ontario.

Friday Flashbacks, eh? Strongest one is probably to when I wasn't self-employed, so Friday at about 1700 was properly the end of the work week rather than a time the point I divided things into whether or not they could be left until Monday.

i dunno about flashbacks, but i know of #fidofriday

morning all since I haven't said hi in while

Flashback? Oh, right. I had this Pink Floyd - yt in my head when I got to work today, it brought with it memories of a concert, the one concert I saw in 1994 - and I went, then, expensive ticket and all, without the due enthusiasm but because I thought once in a lifetime, a cultural mass phenomenon that maybe I can understand only when I go.
So yeah, loud guitars, bombast, a Pink Floyd show ffs - some love for it came years later, but then I had already read too much of wien: heldenplatz (poem) and Crowds and Power (Canetti) to plainly accept some other 60k people were there to submit themselves, which I couldn't. The night of wonder? Nah, however 🎶🎵🎶 read as participative study in mass psychology. Everything else took time to develop.

Flashbacks? Hell, I'm pushing 60. I spend my days reminiscing about my misspent youth. ;)

@Eoraptor Hello! Most glad to see you when you have a chance to drop by.

@greggtaylor@pluspora.com Just north of you so it's a rainy day tool. What's your most recent project? I've forgotten...

👋 hey everyone. Going bowling this evening. Should be fun!

@Su Ann Lim
I have sawmilled some cedar siding for the north gable end of my house. Long story, suffice to say, it's a task that's been on the list for a while, awaiting it's turn.
@Cass M
Bowling, gosh, it's been decades since I've been. That, the roller rink and miniature golf. Now you've inadvertently placed "take the skinheads bowling, take them bowling..." ear worm. Happy catchy tune!
Have fun!

Hi o/

Oy!
Today into the weekend are ~
Going thru/post-processing Wednesday's Bodie photos
Going thru/post-processing yesterday's Yosemite photos
Assembling the networking gear I no longer need and listing on eBay

I'm a few years older than @V. T. Eric Layton. What he said.

@Su Ann Lim I love that pi6of you in a tree. I was also a climber. I not only had a tree outside my door; I had a mountain close by.

Ok. Flashback. I came running in to tell Mom about the pretty lizard I found on the mountain and was playing with. It looked like it had bright colored beads in rows all over it. It only had a short stubby tail.
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img credit: asu.edu

It isn't quite as colorful as in my young memory, but my description of it sure scared mom.

@UnclePirate (Stan McCann) said,

I’m a few years older than @V. T. Eric Layton. What he said.

It wouldn't be near as much fun reminiscing if it hadn't been so misspent. ;)

#FinallyFriday 😎🎶🎸🥁🎤🎉🔊

Friday On My Mind ~ The Easybeats

Waves to all.... been away from things today... trying to avoid too much media saturation already as I want to be in a good mood for tonight and date night with my wife.

@David Calderon TY! 🎶 ❤️ 😄

@UnclePirate (Stan McCann) Eeek - A gila monster! I'd be horrified to come across this creature. Mind you, spending early childhood in the tropics ensured I have a healthy fear of reptiles.

Your pic triggered all sorts of reptile related flashbacks. From toddler onward we were allowed to roam unsupervised throughout the tropical gardens despite dangerous critters being commonplace. I didn't realize until recollecting these memories as an adult how much faith my parents had in the pack of dogs that were our constant guardians, indoors and outdoors. As a very active kid, I came across many deadly animals e.g. cobras, one of a long list of poisonous creatures, but those 4 legged guardians worked as a team to make sure my sisters and I were never in harm's way.

@V. T. Eric Layton ...waiting with bated breath for a tale from your misspent youth. 😜

@Joseph Teller 😉 hello and shoo! Have a wonderful date
night!

YW @Su Ann Lim. On the other hand, in my early days in Phoenix, I ran into one of these abominations. Talk about a flashback, I just had o_O

🦂🦂🦂

#FlashBackFriday o_O

@Su Ann Lim said...

waiting with bated breath for a tale from your misspent youth. 😜

HAHAHA! Those stories are not Rated PG, I'm afraid. ;)

#FinallyFriday 😎🎶🎸🥁🎤🎉🔊

Working For The Weekend ~ Loverboy

flashbacks? trippin' balls and thinking this is a great investment in the future bc one day i'll have flashbacks! 30-40years on and so far: nothing. -_-

@Clarice Boomshakalaka Bouvier Hahahahahahahahaha! Talk about tripping... I was prescribed some CRAZY strong post (day) surgery meds yesterday. Max wonkiness, side effects and I still felt da pain! Per advice of friends with chronic pain problems, decided to try a very low dosage of diluted CBD oil (which is perfectly legal here now). Amazing difference - pain is gone, mind is clearing up and no side effects! Not making conclusions. Just very relieved.

@David Calderon TY for the flashback trigger!

Tee-Hee! @Su Ann Lim, glad I could help 😁🎶

Tomorrow, tomorow, is only a day away.

I actually left Sacramento this week :P

So glad the CBD oil helped :D it truly is good stuff, isn't it? It's a Schedule 4 drug (prescription-only) here but i dont know if anyone's paying much attention to that futile attempt at usage-control. i invested in a litre of hemp seed oil, not so much for pain relief although that was what it was sold to me for (my inner jury is still out on that aspect) but for the Omegas and phytosterol. Latest blood tests show it's working :) Additional pluses: my hair and skin look fucking wonderful!
https://cannabiscompany.com.au/blogs/news/hemp-oil-what-and-why

@Olav ᚢᛚᚹ. I recognize Half Dome in this photograph. (I've also been to The Yosemite Valley :-)

Every day is Flashback Friday for me.

Funny thing.

I don’t know if this happens to anyone else... When I am doing certain things, I have specific memories/thoughts that I always do...

When I was on my computer (almost never, now and I don’t do this on my laptop) my mind always went to the commute into Manhattan on the Express bus from City Island. I think it first happened when I was working at the bookstore and my ex was in New York on business. I would be doing ordering of stock and I would be be imagining waiting for the bus, getting on it, the drive in to Manhattan, certain places I loved to go or placed I passed and never got the chance to go to, then the trip home...

If I am in the shower I think about something else, totally unrelated to showering.

At the kitchen sink, I think of a friend I know from Facebook...

Every chore has a specific event that my mind goes when I am doing it.

👍 @Clarice Boomshakalaka Bouvier

@Su Ann Lim Canoe Lake! I’ve been there. In high-school, after the Grade 13 course I took at (late lamented) The Haven, on Lac Lapeche, we went on a canoe trip through Algonquin Park. We ended the trip on Canoe Lake.

My favourite lake, however, was I think Green Lake (though I cannot remember exactly which it was) where the lake was clear as crystal and you could see to the bottom. There were HUGE logs, most likely from the logging days, looking like great marble columns fallen over each other, this way and that. There must have been a high copper content in the lake because everything was green (probably why I think it was Green Lake). The lake looked ten feet deep but was WAY deeper than that.

You literally felt that you could reach down and touch the logs. And beams of sunlight fell between the logs and filtered far down. It was etherial!

@mudhooks@pluspora.com The Algonquin is an impressive historical park with many special places for camping, canoeing, kayaking and hiking. I missed seeing Green Lake! The Algonquin loons were the most engaging throughout the day (not only mornings and evenings.) Ok, I'll admit others thought I was a little daft yodeling in response to them but they were always very curious and came by to swim alongside the kayaks and continue the singfest. (In contrast, westcoast loons are near mute. You see them around but it's rare to hear them.)

Ontario loon call Only a single voice. Imagine singing with a very responsive small chorus... 😍

#DiscoFridayNight 🕺💃🎶🎸🥁🎤🔊

The Groove line ~ Heatwave

@mudhooks@pluspora.com the one that gets me is when I go somewhere and am surprised ir doesn't look the same af it did years ago even when I've seen the place recently.

👍 @David Calderon

Some good news on a Friday: John M. Ford's books to be re-issued, including the unfinished one. https://slate.com/culture/2019/11/john-ford-science-fiction-fantasy-books.html?fbclid=IwAR1SK2zLKh4h_iwFO5uE_BG8fPQwzZHrSbo8K8EUPTMzE5aZGfHb9XVgibQ

(The above is a serious flashback for me, reminding me of friendships long lost or interrupted, acquaintances much mourned, more than 25 years ago.)

waves
#FidoFriday... We've been kinda busy shuttling Grandma Dog back and forth to the university for radiation treatment. They squeezed us in on a semi-emergency basis last week (details omitted because they are gross). 2 treatments out of 4 are done, and it is helping already. We don't dare leave her unattended for a full night's sleep, but we can at least let our naps overlap a bit now. We've been tag-team sleeping since about the first week of August, and it's exhausting. You'd think in a 24-hour day it wouldn't be a problem for 2 people to get something resembling 8 hrs' sleep. Nope.

Tangent: The randomness of dividing days into 24 parts just struck me. I'm suddenly wondering if anybody ever tried to metric-fy the measurement of time?

Maybe I just need a nap.

@Olav ᚢᛚᚹ, woah. Beautiful! Polarized filter sky, or some digital autosomething HDR improvement? I heard it is not a given you get such a clear view - you may have foggy weather so you can only guess the half dome location.

@Su Ann Lim, quite a rant there, and spot on in all the parts.

Heh, and with loons I initially thought of Kristin Hersh - yt.

Since this is #caturday, and I missed #fidofriday, I'll have this snuggly specimen seeking attention for you:

@Carsten Raddatz (劉愷恩) OYG that puddle on the floor? that's my melted heart :D what a honey!
@Lisa Stranger "If you can think it, it's already on the Web"
A metric clock for you: https://www.myfavoritegadgets.info/other/MetricClock/MetricClock.html

@lisachabot@pluspora.com Tx for the great news re re-issuance of John Ford's books. Painful flashbacks suck. But aren't some of them connected to wonderful flashbacks? IMO, they wouldn't hurt as much if they weren't.

@lisastranger you two are angels in your 7x24 loving care for Grandma dog. I have no doubt GD is greatly appreciating every second of love she feels from you. Very glad the treatment is working.

@Carsten Raddatz (劉愷恩) Ooooooooooooo it's heart snatching Holiday Dog! How long will HD be visiting this
time?

It's time to continue #checkin over at today's post-thread -> https://pluspora.com/posts/a7faa3e0eaa0013761ef005056264835 See you there!