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[Tead]

Hahaha! She never reads your stuff Tead? Dale never once opened the iPad to 420 Magazine. He left it all to me.

She has little interest in my greenery. More for me!
She does haunt forums... some related to financial affairs, others related to personal relations. I can't imagine more tortuous forums, but she sure enjoys them. We often share humorous snippets between us verbally... but I'll not be checking up on her forums and I assume the idea of checking up on mine would be 'snoozerific' in her eyes.
We have a beautiful online relationship... and an amazing relationship all around.
Took me a try or two, but it sure is awesome to find such a good fit.
No more Chalmations for the Tead!

 

[Tead]

Straight up stealing words from one of SS's thread 'cause I'm just too damn lazy to write it myself....

TorturedSoul made a good point today that those of us with journals should post monthly to encourage voting in the contests. I agree that , given the numbers of our membership we should be able to inspire more than about 100 members in a month to participate in voting. So here are the links to the three monthly contests.

Plant of the Month - September 2016

Nug of the Month - September 2016

Member of the Month - September 2016

We have a week before the polls close, so you have plenty of time to get over there and try to make a decision. Most months the choices are really hard to make, but it sure is fun. The Nug and Plant Of The Month contests let you droll over the presentation of plants and nugs you wish were yours. The Member Of The Month contest gives you the opportunity to vote for the member you believe contributed above and beyond in the past months.

Every nominee is worthy of your attention. I hope you find time to join the voting and let your voice be heard too. Also, be alert for activity on site by helpful members that would make them good nominees for MOTM in the future and recommend them to the mods for consideration.

 

[Tead]

This Sunday will be just a turn around. Helping My BIL pick up a trailer he bought at auction. but my friend we Will have that cup one day and you can tell Ole Rooster all about your ( should I say Running Days ). Of course over a few

If you happen to be a Jazzfest visitor, I'm a block away and will hold parking spots for my friends. Plus, the pup will lick you up as we burn some on the back deck.

 

[Tead]

Man... I've really been digging Boston. I just eat up history always trying to get into the minds of those long past. Trying to understand the real atmosphere and feelings of important periods and events.
Boston is just great for that... even better than NOLA.
Today I've been enjoying Sam Adams and his propaganda campaigns. Yet again, those that can control the press can have such a huge impact.
Wouldn't it be nice to do a little time travel tourism? Just climb right into coffee houses and meeting halls to get the straight scoop.
We did one of the cheesy walking tours with actors/actresses dressing in period garb and speaking as one of the early Bostonians. Our tour was led by 'Lydia Mullikan'. She was basically Prescott's 'houchie mamma' and was having 'late night tea' with him at 1:30am when he got the call to participate in the 'Midnight Ride'. Awesome little insights like these just make it feel so real to me. Plus, the actress was very engaging and fun.
Added bonus, the whole area is full of actual Park Rangers. These folks are all sharp as tacks. The competition for their jobs is incredible and only the real cream rise to the top. I feel the need to engage every one of them just to exercise my tax dollars a bit and these folks are always so wonderful. My hat is off to those folks and the public park system for providing such wonderful sources of information to the masses.
Diggin Boston hard!

 

[SweetSue]

This is the type of history that intrigues me - the day-to-day action on the streets, the talk in taverns, where people shopped, what they wore and ate and rode on. The daily struggles of average citizens always caught more of my fancy than the listing of war campaigns and presidential elections. And I want the stories behind the stories.

Soak it up for me too Tead.

 

[JuanCarlos]

Tead man, good catching up on the trip details. Feel like I am living it through you. Funny you mention Jazz Fest, I have never gone, but my parents have been a few times. I am either a hermit, or my parents are cooler than me, I just haven't figured out which.

 

[Billyjack]

Sounds like fun

 

[Radogast]

Man... I've really been digging Boston. I just eat up history always trying to get into the minds of those long past. Trying to understand the real atmosphere and feelings of important periods and events.
Boston is just great for that... even better than NOLA.
Today I've been enjoying Sam Adams and his propaganda campaigns. Yet again, those that can control the press can have such a huge impact.
Wouldn't it be nice to do a little time travel tourism? Just climb right into coffee houses and meeting halls to get the straight scoop.
We did one of the cheesy walking tours with actors/actresses dressing in period garb and speaking as one of the early Bostonians. Our tour was led by 'Lydia Mullikan'. She was basically Prescott's 'houchie mamma' and was having 'late night tea' with him at 1:30am when he got the call to participate in the 'Midnight Ride'. Awesome little insights like these just make it feel so real to me. Plus, the actress was very engaging and fun.
Added bonus, the whole area is full of actual Park Rangers. These folks are all sharp as tacks. The competition for their jobs is incredible and only the real cream rise to the top. I feel the need to engage every one of them just to exercise my tax dollars a bit and these folks are always so wonderful. My hat is off to those folks and the public park system for providing such wonderful sources of information to the masses.
Diggin Boston hard!

I'm glad you are enjoying the food and history. Massachusetts LOVES their revolutionary era history with a lot to show off. I especially enjoyed Plymouth Plantation - a darn good recreation of the original village near Plimouth Rock- complete with actors doing their tasks - and a historic native wampanoag family compound nearby staffed by Wampanoag actors) was great.

Good job on squeezing your tax dolllars - Massachusetts is also very good at creative taxation

 

[Tead]

This is the type of history that intrigues me - the day-to-day action on the streets, the talk in taverns, where people shopped, what they wore and ate and rode on. The daily struggles of average citizens always caught more of my fancy than the listing of war campaigns and presidential elections. And I want the stories behind the stories.

Soak it up for me too Tead.

I'm that way too. I want to know all the little bits behind what drove all those historical events. I'm sucking it all down for ya Sue... like a local colonial slacker hangin out in the venues of the day way back then.

 

[Tead]

Tead man, good catching up on the trip details. Feel like I am living it through you. Funny you mention Jazz Fest, I have never gone, but my parents have been a few times. I am either a hermit, or my parents are cooler than me, I just haven't figured out which.

I stay on the periphery myself these days. It's just become a monster music fest like all the others. It was cool many years ago when tickets could be had for free and the big crowds only descended on the most famous acts. Still... it sure can be fun to listen from my front porch while enjoying a beer and a bowl.

 

[Tead]

I'm glad you are enjoying the food and history. Massachusetts LOVES their revolutionary era history with a lot to show off. I especially enjoyed Plymouth Plantation - a darn good recreation of the original village near Plimouth Rock- complete with actors doing their tasks - and a historic native wampanoag family compound nearby staffed by Wampanoag actors) was great.

Good job on squeezing your tax dolllars - Massachusetts is also very good at creative taxation

A nod to the taxation quip.... very nice Rad.
I think you may have just changed my destination for tomorrow. I think a step further back in history might make a very nice change of pace. Plymouth sounds like a winner.

 

[Tead]

Sounds like fun

So fun. If you've got a historic nerd bone anywhere in your body, I would highly recommend it. Hell... I thought NOLA had some history... but we seem to focus much more on drinkin and debauchery rather than actual history.

 

[Tead]

Hmmmmm....
A grow journal.... what a silly thought! These days it's a travelogue.

 

[JuanCarlos]

I stay on the periphery myself these days. It's just become a monster music fest like all the others. It was cool many years ago when tickets could be had for free and the big crowds only descended on the most famous acts. Still... it sure can be fun to listen from my front porch while enjoying a beer and a bowl.

Yeah, I volunteered to work a festival out here a few years ago for a local non-profit and it was fun, but to fight the crowds to see music, I will have to pass. But some porch time has always been my kind of deal! When I lived on the east coast I had a nice porch in a historic area that I shared with the guy across the way who was about 40 years my senior and we had some amazing times on the porch. I think the two of you would really get along, he was a very cool dude who loved all life had to offer.

 

[Radogast]

So fun. If you've got a historic nerd bone anywhere in your body, I would highly recommend it. Hell... I thought NOLA had some history... but we seem to focus much more on drinkin and debauchery rather than actual history.

Drunk history is still history !

NoLa debauhery is the stuff of legends. We had a settee I lost in the move that looked exactly like one photographed in a NoLa whorehouse in the 1880s. The Original fabric falling apart made it more fitting for a haunted housethan daily use - but I swear I was keeping it to do a reapholstery this winter. Life had other plans. - If the fabric could talk, I'm not sure I'd want to hear the details.

Yeah, I volunteered to work a festival out here a few years ago for a local non-profit and it was fun, but to fight the crowds to see music, I will have to pass. But some porch time has always been my kind of deal! When I lived on the east coast I had a nice porch in a historic area that I shared with the guy across the way who was about 40 years my senior and we had some amazing times on the porch. I think the two of you would really get along, he was a very cool dude who loved all life had to offer.

I love my porch time. I can faintly hear bands playing in the street fairs from my porch. About once a month so far.

I put the massage table out on the front porch, but so far it's only been used for sitting and holding drink trays.

 

[Tead]

Drunk history is still history !

Usually, the history one makes when drunk is recorded in police blotter reports rather than historical works.... but I've been learning over the past few days that our forefathers found a way to make it work for them none the less.

The missus vetoed my Rhode Island ideas and instead we headed north to Portsmouth. She was shooting for some changing leaves action. Hot summer tho, so not much to be seen so far. Still, plenty of history to be had.
I may have hit my limit tho. Tomorrow will be a tour of the museums at Harvard. They appear to have a few very interesting ones. Might even shoot over to MIT for the nerd museums.

So pooped. So much walking, eating, and drinking.

 

[JuanCarlos]

Gotta stuff it all in while you are there. I know the feeling! Always too much to do and not enough time. Speaking of vacations, I will be out your way in November if you want to meet up for a smoke or a brew somewhere.

 

[Tead]

Home again, home again. Jiggety jig!
So happy to be home of course. Peeked in on the garden.... not only was all well, but having not seen it for almost a week it sure seems like some dramatic growth has been going on. Perhaps I need to stop peeking in on them every day. It's just so hard to resist.
Feeding and photos scheduled for the morning.

Speaking of vacations, I will be out your way in November if you want to meet up for a smoke or a brew somewhere.

AWESOME! I should be swimming in fresh greenery and I'm always up for a brew... be it caffeinated or rum based... or both!

 

[Radogast]

Welcome back. New England is about to get cold

 

[JuanCarlos]

Home again, home again. Jiggety jig!
So happy to be home of course. Peeked in on the garden.... not only was all well, but having not seen it for almost a week it sure seems like some dramatic growth has been going on. Perhaps I need to stop peeking in on them every day. It's just so hard to resist.
Feeding and photos scheduled for the morning.


AWESOME! I should be swimming in fresh greenery and I'm always up for a brew... be it caffeinated or rum based... or both!

LOL peeking in too much! I am sure everyone has been guilty of that. I bet it was a hell of a sight after being gone though. I dropped you a PM.