Good morning hagatha, Draclvr, soot, connie and everyone.

Instant coffee and locally baked knäckebröd is available for emergency use until the DDB & DDWAB arrives.

Over here somewhat chilly, 12 degrees celsius and mr Rain visits now and then. Probably good for the gardening and farming.

Since the knäckebröd is well known here I'll write a line about Knäckebröd Blues in the Music section.

Happy Sunday Gameboomers

Good Morning everyone and Welcome to Sunday...perhaps a day of rest for you Draclvr and hagatha!

Soot have fun at the lake! Fogfighter I will have to see if knäckebröd is available anywhere locally...

Hope you are all enjoy your day!

Gerry

Good morning, Danish, Donuts and Bagels in the Break Room. Shopping is on the agenda today. Enjoy the day and hug someone.

Good Sunday morning! A little thunder and light rain this morning. Definitely cooled things off. I ended up turning the AC on yesterday because it was so muggy and hot, but I'm turning it off today. I'd much rather have the windows open.

NOW, it's time for me to start getting everything ready for summer guests. We are picking up the Germans from the airport in St. Louis on Wednesday, but they are staying with other family for a week as my son and his family from Denver will be arriving on Thursday. My house will never be ready for a magazine photo shoot, but I do at least like to make sure the bedrooms and bathrooms are clean. The Germans are family members of my husband's first wife who passed away in 1999. He met her while in the Army and stationed in Gerrmany in the 1960's. They will be here until the third week in July.

Hello, anybody here? Well, I'll leave some Folgers and bananas anyway.

I hope you are all enjoying your Sunday!

Edit: What the Heck?? There were no posts when I first looked . I must be losing it!

Don't worry. Just a glitch in the matrix. Happens to me all the time.

Oldbroad- that is out breakfast every day except we use Maxwell House. We go through a lot of bananas in our house. the doctor told hubby that he had to eat one every day as his potassium was low and I guess that helps. so, I always have breakfast figured out.

Good afternoon MBDay630, Fogfighter, OldBroad, Draclvr, Connie, Gerry and everyone else who gets the chance to pop in. The lake get together was enjoyed by all as we concluded the fun today and everyone headed home. Yes indeed MBDay630, bananas are a great source of potassium...and I usually have one a day--I love them and WOM can't eat them once they get too ripe. Yes indeed OldBroad and Fogfighter...the matrix does glitch on occasion. Gerry, I used to get knäckebröd at our local World Market which carries international food products...but alas they closed our store. Hope shopping was fun Connie. We hit the feels-like 101 degrees temperature mark this afternoon...quite toasty! Wishing you all a wonderful Sunday afternoon.

We actually had late afternoon temperatures of 25 yesterday. Today was cooler, but I'm finally at the point where I don't get cold sitting in the house.

Didn't do much today, just went to Canadian Tire to buy some spray for the two wasp nests that have appeared on my eaves. The more active of the two is right over my outdoor furniture. I'll give them a good shot of the spray when it's dark and the flying menaces have gone to bed.

LOL! I would have to leave the break room without my coffee if there were bananas! I literally cannot be in the same room with a banana. 77 years ago, there was no such thing as baby food, so the first thing mothers would feed their babies when they were introducing solid foods was mashed bananas with some milk and sugar. Mom said I spit it out and refused to eat it. My sister did the same thing and she loathes bananas to this day as much as I do!

Good Morning Connie, Draclvr, oldbroad, Fogfighter, mbday630, soot, hagatha and everyone. Wide Awake Double Dark brew awaits you all!

Have a Happy Monday!

Gerry

Wow, some interesting banana talk! I eat one every day at lunch and my wife Linda has two, hers being mashed with a drop of cream and a pinch of brown sugar, but for both of us the problem is to have them just ripe enough so that we have to buy some while they are still green for a few days ahead...

The other thing I always remember about bananas is that banana trees often house some very big SPIDERS

I hope the week is getting off to a good start for all of you, without too much bananaphobia or arachnophobia!

Good morning everyone. I'll throw in some emergency use knäckebröd in the break room. No bananas, no spiders. Promise.

Dracvlr: maybe you can ask the Germans if they are familiar with knäckebröd? Is possible they know it under the name Knäckebrot.

Finally Monday again. Still chilly and rainy. Time to be somewhat productive over here.

Happy Monday Gameboomers

Good morning, Danish, Donuts and Bagels in the Break Room. Meeting at the Eagles tonight. The contract for the new building will be read, voted on, and signed tonight. It's just a formality as everyone is in agreement we need the expansion. We will be taking the wall between the 2 buildings down after state conference this weekend. Enjoy the day and hug someone.

Good morning all.

Willow has had a relapse and was howling full-tilt this morning. I have company coming in July and I had hoped she would have been re-trained by then, but I guess we'll just have to go to bed early.

We grew up on bananas, living in Sri Lanka. One of my first memories is getting carsick and being fed a banana. It always settled my stomach.

Another funny banana story: in Columbo, the zoo had a compound of chimps. Every day at tea-time the baby chimps would be gathered up into a viewing room and fed afternoon tea, with cups. It also included bananas, of course, but there was actual liquid in tea cups like a proper tea. My sister had been bad, having tried to murder me by pushing me off the highest diving board at the beach club, so I t was just me and my mother that day and I was allowed to take my afternoon tea and bananas with the baby chimps. To this day my mother kicks herself for not having her camera.

Good morning Hagatha, Connie, Gerry, Lex, Fogfighter, Draclvr and all other visitors. Hagatha, what an incredible story about you having afternoon tea and bananas with the baby chimps. I wonder if Willow saw something out the window which sparked the full-tilt howling? Connie, the new building sounds wonderful...what timeframe for completion? Today is a glazed donut day! Gerry, the wide awake double dark brew has kept me going this morning...thanks! Fogfighter, the knäckebröd is a great addition to Connie's treats! We hit 101 (38C) yesterday ... it's official, summer has arrived in our neck of the woods. Were you a banana picker at one time Lex ... or on vacation and gave it a shot? A favorite sandwich of mine is banana, peanut butter and mayonaise! The wife prefers partially green bananas and thinks my banana sandwich sounds horrible. Draclvr, you have a banana memory for sure...to this day even! I imagine you avoid banana pudding too.
Wishing you all a wonderful day!

Happy Monday all!

As a kid, I ate bananas smooshed up with peanut butter but somewhere along the way I stopped being able to eat food with that type of consistency, so now I just have the pb jar in front of me and put a pat on the banana before I bite in.

OMG, the very thought of banana pudding makes me want to hurl! Banana cream pie? Urp...

Final load of bedding in the dryer and sleeping arrangements settled. Bring on the summer guests!

Best wishes Draclvr!

I suppose I shouldn't post this but, our last little cat (the one who is afraid of me) is having serious health issues. My brother found an emergency animal hospital nearby and was told to bring her in after 4:30 today. She is sick enough that he was able to pick her up and put her in the carrier but once inside she went crazy. The carrier has a top opening and a front opening. I had been looking out my window and wondering why I didn't see them going towards the garage. Then the door opened and he came in and was leaning against the door gasping for breath. I thought he was having a heart attack and kept asking what happened. She had busted out the front opening (and yes it was shut tight). She ran into the gangway and my brother chased her and fortunately, in front of the house she went in the grass and turned around and my brother was able to grab her. This was about 3 hours ago. She has been hiding under a bed since then. My brother was in tears and feels horrible and both of those things are making me feel horrible. I am hoping and praying that she will come out and go by him without fear so they can comfort each other. He is the most cat loving man on earth and I have been worried for some time about what will happen to him when he loses this cat. I know he needs to know that she still loves and trusts him.

Oh, my goodness, oldbroad, that is so heartbreaking. I had one like that - loving, but psycho when confined. I feel so bad for your brother. I wonder if you could call the vet to see if you could get something to put in some food to calm her?

My vet gave me liquid gabapentin for when one of my cats gets antsy. Willow fights me when I try to cage her and it can be very stressful for both of us. It works well to calm her. Perhaps that would be a good solution.

I don't know. We don't have a vet who is familiar with us or the cat so I don't know if they would give us anything or not. I also don't know if my brother would want to try it again (putting her or himself through it). Thankfully, she did come out of hiding anyway.

Good Morning everyone! Wide Awake Double Dark brew is almost ready...smells really good!

So many stories shared about bananas! I have half a banana every morning. I prefer them slightly green and firm.

Hope you all have a great day!

Gerry

Good morning everyone. The WADDB smells great. Can't wait for the first cup of the day.

I'll provide some emergency knäckebröd while we wait for the DDB.

Mrs Sun and Mr Sunshine got company from Ms Cloud. So far Mr Rain hasn't shown up. He's probably exhausted after raving yesterday.

Happy Tuesday Gameboomers