How are you spending your time

[Monica]

1 minute ago, ReptileTooth said:

Cool! Tiramisù is from my region!

 

Mine, too!  (Sort of - my parents are originally from Treviso )

[Monica]

4 hours ago, White Feather said:

I love coming over and reading every post. Boy Monica you just made me HUNGRY with your post.

 

Photos of tonight's dinner...

 

Thai coconut shrimp noodle soup:

 

Chocolate-butterscotch chip cookies:

 

BTW - In response to your funny above - I wore my nighttime PJs all day today! 

[Ruger9a]

36 minutes ago, Monica said:

 

Photos of tonight's dinner...

 

Thai coconut shrimp noodle soup:

 

Chocolate-butterscotch chip cookies:

 

BTW - In response to your funny above - I wore my nighttime PJs all day today! 

OMG!  Any leftovers?  Drooling...…..

[caldigger]

Darn, I missed the flight!  Tonight's dinner looks like a definite second helping spread.   YUMMERS!!!

[Monica]

36 minutes ago, Ruger9a said:

OMG!  Any leftovers?  Drooling...…..

 

31 minutes ago, caldigger said:

Darn, I missed the flight!  Tonight's dinner looks like a definite second helping spread.   YUMMERS!!!

 

No soup leftovers - my husband LOVES soup, and he LOVES shrimp, so he finished it off (I think he had 3 big bowls!!!) 

 

There are only 40 cookies left (the four of us ate 11 so far), so unless you can get here in the next 4 days, you'll be out of luck 

[Ruger9a]

Just my luck...  With the mandatory lock downs I can't even sneak out for a quick draft at my local pub:-(  Looks like your family will get to enjoy the remaining cookies as well....

[White Feather]

Monica We are coming to your house for a feast when we are allowed to socialize again

[Mike from North Queensland]

Things have been changing down under but I am still working at the moment.

Had been holding out for months so that now as it gets cooler I could go fossicking, not a hope now.

Queensland Australia has closed its border to the other States so unless you have a valid reason to enter you will now be turned back.

Among the banned activities are fishing from boats and in groups larger than two and fossicking, must be to encourage the last of the tourists to go home.

The outback regions where the fossicking is done have basically said don't visit as they do not want the virus in there region.

Still need to be among the first in the door of the supermarkets when they open to get toilet paper ( there must be people who have stockpiles hoarded that will last for years).

Prepping is looking good when I get shut down so I have been collecting supplies, but not specimens so hoping for some nice specimens among what I have in the shed.

Should not be too bad as there are a couple of specimens I have been putting off due to time that is needed.

 

Mike

 

[marguy]

On ‎30‎/‎03‎/‎2020 at 12:56 AM, Coco said:

What a pity ! It doesn't work !

 

 

too bad it doesn't work...

I'm looking to buy an exercise bike to go to my telework.

 

seriously i hope you were able to improve the system and that it works now

[Coco]

For now I have given up. I watch "Le Bon Coin" to buy a used one"...

Good luck going to work with your equipment, it might take you a little time ! Use a trip meter so you don’t drive more than you need to, at the risk of going beyond your workplace

 

Coco

[Monica]

7 hours ago, White Feather said:

Monica We are coming to your house for a feast when we are allowed to socialize again

 

Sounds good to me! 

[Notidanodon]

I have been cooking my family their dinners and in the time before that, i wake up quite late, sanding and re-coating our wooden garden furniture

[Bobby Rico]

1 hour ago, will stevenson said:

have been cooking my family their dinners

Nice one, keep safe and busy is the key to riding this storm . Do some more drawing too.  . I may by the end of the week do a quiz.

all the best Bobby 

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Trying to learn how to prep using my toes as my fingers are quite sore. 

[Notidanodon]

8 minutes ago, Bobby Rico said:

Nice one, keep safe and busy is the key to riding this storm . Do some more drawing too.  . I may by the end of the week do a quiz.

all the best Bobby 

 

oh yes forgot to mention, i started an A0 landscape painting for my GCSE  art, its difficult though as im not sure whether the exams are going ahead, anway ill  makes ure to do some fossil drawings too

 

2 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Trying to learn how to prep using my toes as my fingers are quite sore. 

 i have a solution! get tidgy to do it for you

[Bobby Rico]

38 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Trying to learn how to prep using my toes as my fingers are quite sore. 

Haha that a skill to learn, anything to stop the boredom. I sometimes do the washing of the dishes , with my arms tucked in to my body. It makes me smile because it is like been a TRex washing the pots. 

[Bobby Rico]

6 minutes ago, will stevenson said:

oh yes forgot to mention, i started an A0 landscape painting for my GCSE  art, its difficult though as im not sure whether the exams are going ahead, anway ill  makes ure to do some fossil drawings too

 

 i have a solution! get tidgy to do it for you

Will feel free to ask for any advice. I am an landscape artist myself. I work in digital but have studied and tort fine Art. Good luck with your painting 
One of mine

[Notidanodon]

great painting, thanks for the luck, ill be sure come to you with any questions ( i will probably have many as it is quite a complex reflective scene) , ill send you a pic of one i nearly finished but i cant finish as it as at my teacher's, he is at risk if he catches covid-19 so he stopped lessons a few weeks ago and we couldnt pick it up understandably

[Tidgy's Dad]

1 hour ago, will stevenson said:

 

 i have a solution! get tidgy to do it for you

1 hour ago, Bobby Rico said:

Haha that a skill to learn, anything to stop the boredom. I sometimes do the washing of the dishes , with my arms tucked in to my body. It makes my smile because it is like been a TRex washing the pots. 

I've done that! 

[Spoons]

@Tidgy's Dad How old is Tidgy?

 

Edit: Im guessing 10 years old? I counted the growth rings on one of the inside scales then divided by two. 

[Spoons]

I’ve been spending my time primarily reading, hiking and browsing TFF. Here are a couple pictures I’ve taken from trail I like to hike near my house the last couple of days.

 

Sequoia sempervirens (Not sure how to rotate pic on my phone, sorry guys, this is what one looks like when it has fallen down )

 

Next up is a Pacific Trillium,Trillium ovatum, these were popping off like crazy in the understory.

 

Clover! This is Redwood Sorel, Oxalis oregana, it might sound weird but I really enjoy eating this stuff raw, you just gotta makes sure that you pick it off the beaten path. A lot of people walk their dogs around here if you catch my drift.

 

Some cool ferns. 
 

Lady Fern Athyrium filix-femina.

Western Maidenhair Fern Adiantum aleuticum.

 

And to cap it all off... a cool unidentified mushroom. Maybe a Crimson Waxcap?

[Tidgy's Dad]

1 hour ago, Spoons said:

@Tidgy's Dad How old is Tidgy?

 

Edit: Im guessing 10 years old? I counted the growth rings on one of the inside scales then divided by two. 

Almost! 

She's 9 this spring.

[Spoons]

Just now, Tidgy's Dad said:

Almost! 

She's 9 this spring.

Must be well fed!

[Tidgy's Dad]

1 hour ago, Spoons said:

Must be well fed!

She seems to eat more than is possible to fit inside her. 

I'm pretty sure she's dimensionally transcendental. 

[Spoons]

17 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

She seems to eat more than is possible to fit inside her. 

I'm pretty sure she's dimensionally transcendental. 

Well whatever she’s got going on it seems to be working for her. She sure is a cute lil bugger.