Coffee and grub

Scattered Thumbs · April 19, 2005, 07:10:01 AM

Quote from: AnnieLee on April 19, 2005, 06:59:23 AM
Morning, folks! The coffee is hot and Scattered Thumbs is fresh!

AnnieLee

Hey! What's that all about?

Hmm! Thanks for the coffee.

Joyce (AnnieLee) · April 19, 2005, 07:28:22 AM

That is about the smile you got when you read it. < laughing>

Most welcome for the coffee, now I am on my way to verk!

AnnieLee

Scattered Thumbs · April 19, 2005, 07:53:00 AM

Have fun at verk

Silver Creek Slim · April 19, 2005, 08:30:21 AM

Thanks fer the coffee, Cuz.
It seems like all our fruit trees survived, but the deer nibbled on some of the branches.

Slim

Joyce (AnnieLee) · April 19, 2005, 10:22:08 AM

Scattered Thumbs, do you know how to grow pomegranates? I have a bush but it isn't doing anything.

Morning, Slim! No deer in there yet, but I'll have to treat the area very soon now that I have leaves.

AnnieLee

Scattered Thumbs · April 19, 2005, 11:09:06 AM

Quote from: AnnieLee on April 19, 2005, 10:22:08 AM
Scattered Thumbs, do you know how to grow pomegranates? I have a bush but it isn't doing anything.

AnnieLee

I have no ideia.

When I was a kid my uncle had them in his farm, but the only thing I knew about them was how to eat them

The trees I have in my backyard pretty much grow by themselves. But there are no pommegranates in the lot. (2 orange trees, 1 tangerine tree, 1 lemmon tree, 1 apple tree, and 1 prune tree)

Afterthought. Weather where I stand is similar to Southern California. Where I understand pommegranates are grown. Is the weather in Virginia anywhere near that?

Joyce (AnnieLee) · April 19, 2005, 11:50:49 AM

Completely off topic, the Vatican has announced that Pope Benedict XVI is the new Pope. He was formerly known as Cardinal Ratzinger from Germany. Is this a surprise?

AnnieLee

Silver Creek Slim · April 19, 2005, 12:45:15 PM

Quote from: Scattered Thumbs on April 19, 2005, 11:09:06 AM
Quote from: AnnieLee on April 19, 2005, 10:22:08 AM
Scattered Thumbs, do you know how to grow pomegranates? I have a bush but it isn't doing anything.

AnnieLee

I have no ideia. When I was a kid my uncle had them in his farm, but the only thing I knew about them was how to eat them

The trees I have in my backyard pretty much grow by themselves. But there are no pommegranates in the lot. (2 orange trees, 1 tangerine tree, 1 lemmon tree, 1 apple tree, and 1 prune tree)

Prune tree?

Slim

Joyce (AnnieLee) · April 19, 2005, 12:46:56 PM

Quote from: Silver Creek Slim on April 19, 2005, 12:45:15 PM
Quote from: Scattered Thumbs on April 19, 2005, 11:09:06 AM
Quote from: AnnieLee on April 19, 2005, 10:22:08 AM
Scattered Thumbs, do you know how to grow pomegranates? I have a bush but it isn't doing anything.

AnnieLee

I have no ideia. When I was a kid my uncle had them in his farm, but the only thing I knew about them was how to eat them

The trees I have in my backyard pretty much grow by themselves. But there are no pommegranates in the lot. (2 orange trees, 1 tangerine tree, 1 lemmon tree, 1 apple tree, and 1 prune tree)

Prune tree?

Slim

I think plums and prunes are the same word in other languages, Slim.

AnnieLee

Trinity · April 19, 2005, 06:47:56 PM

Quote from: Silver Creek Slim on April 19, 2005, 12:45:15 PM
Quote from: Scattered Thumbs on April 19, 2005, 11:09:06 AM
Quote from: AnnieLee on April 19, 2005, 10:22:08 AM
Scattered Thumbs, do you know how to grow pomegranates? I have a bush but it isn't doing anything.

AnnieLee

I have no ideia. When I was a kid my uncle had them in his farm, but the only thing I knew about them was how to eat them

The trees I have in my backyard pretty much grow by themselves. But there are no pommegranates in the lot. (2 orange trees, 1 tangerine tree, 1 lemmon tree, 1 apple tree, and 1 prune tree)

Prune tree?

Slim

That means that he lets 'em age before harvesting them.

Delmonico · April 19, 2005, 07:31:37 PM

Prunes are generally a smaller plum with less water than the big tasteless ones that are hybrid. The good ones often come in about late Sept or early OCT around here and are often called Italian Prune Plums.

Yes that is what they make dried prunes out of.

An English Plum Pudding used dried prunes, not fresh plubm, not easy to get at the time of Dickens , or rather fresh prunes at Christmas time.

So Phhhhht, ST knows the language better than you do, Phhhhht.

Joyce (AnnieLee) · April 19, 2005, 07:57:40 PM

<Smacks Del with her hat>

Criminy, there you go, lecturing and saying the same thing I said! The plum trees used to make prunes are called prune trees. It's the same word in other languages.

<Mumbles> I wonder about that man.

Scattered Thumbs · April 20, 2005, 03:07:52 AM

Quote from: AnnieLee on April 19, 2005, 11:50:49 AM
Completely off topic, the Vatican has announced that Pope Benedict XVI is the new Pope. He was formerly known as Cardinal Ratzinger from Germany. Is this a surprise?

AnnieLee

I'm beyond being surprised by the Vatican

Joyce (AnnieLee) · April 20, 2005, 06:24:33 AM

Quote from: Scattered Thumbs on April 20, 2005, 03:07:52 AM
Quote from: AnnieLee on April 19, 2005, 11:50:49 AM
Completely off topic, the Vatican has announced that Pope Benedict XVI is the new Pope. He was formerly known as Cardinal Ratzinger from Germany. Is this a surprise?

AnnieLee

I'm beyond being surprised by the Vatican

Morning, Scattered Thumbs!

I tried to watch the events over the web on MSNBC, so of course the streaming audio and video wasn't working when they made the announcement.

One thing that struck me in a negative way: One of the broadcasters referred to John Paul II as "JayPee two"

ARGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

AnnieLee

Scattered Thumbs · April 20, 2005, 07:09:30 AM

Quote from: AnnieLee on April 20, 2005, 06:24:33 AM
Quote from: Scattered Thumbs on April 20, 2005, 03:07:52 AM
Quote from: AnnieLee on April 19, 2005, 11:50:49 AM
Completely off topic, the Vatican has announced that Pope Benedict XVI is the new Pope. He was formerly known as Cardinal Ratzinger from Germany. Is this a surprise?

AnnieLee

I'm beyond being surprised by the Vatican

Morning, Scattered Thumbs!

I tried to watch the events over the web on MSNBC, so of course the streaming audio and video wasn't working when they made the announcement.

One thing that struck me in a negative way: One of the broadcasters referred to John Paul II as "JayPee two"

ARGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

AnnieLee

Morning, Annie Lee!

Could be worse, he could have called him JEEP II

Word of caution. Though I'm from a Catholic country, I'm not a Catholic myself. I could be described as Christian.

At least I try to act like one.

Silver Creek Slim · April 20, 2005, 10:22:23 AM

Morning y'all. Coffee's hot.

Slim

Scattered Thumbs · April 20, 2005, 10:30:46 AM

Mornin', Slim! <looks at his watch and shakes his head

>

I'll have some of that coffee thank you.

Joyce (AnnieLee) · April 20, 2005, 11:03:51 AM

Howdy again!

Is it too soon to make an incredibly non-politically correct comment/joke about the new Pope?

< Chomping at the bit>

AnnieLee

Silver Creek Slim · April 20, 2005, 12:10:27 PM

Quote from: AnnieLee on April 20, 2005, 11:03:51 AM
Howdy again!

Is it too soon to make an incredibly non-politically correct comment/joke about the new Pope?

< Chomping at the bit>

AnnieLee

Probably not, but be careful not to offend our Catholic pards.

Slim

Joyce (AnnieLee) · April 20, 2005, 12:17:50 PM

Quote from: Silver Creek Slim on April 20, 2005, 12:10:27 PM
Quote from: AnnieLee on April 20, 2005, 11:03:51 AM
Howdy again!

Is it too soon to make an incredibly non-politically correct comment/joke about the new Pope?

< Chomping at the bit>

AnnieLee
Probably not, but be careful not to offend our Catholic pards.

Slim

It's more on the scale of "one of those random thoughts."

When it was announced that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was Pope Benedict XVI, the thought ocurred to me:

Cardinal Ratzinger's family opposed the Nazis and paid for it, but he accomplished that which Hitler dreamed of doing: A German is now the most powerful man in the world.

AnnieLee