Weekly Chat, Sunday September 13, 2009

Whenever I post something, it seems to be end of a page so is not seen by people going to "latest", so I am repeating my message for Soosin:

Have put a note on your page about Roy Dennis coming to Wigtown 28th September - hope you find it.

Goldfinch: I always go back to my most recent post so do see all and think perhaps others might do the same.

Lindybird! You did it AGAIN. Thanks!!

Gary: Unfinished concrete is beginning to look very appealing. Oh and Diane: Thanks for that link - and equally appealing advice on dealing with contractor. :-)

Goldfinch: Just "saw" Soosin on latest main blog, so you might want to post your Roy Dennis info there.

Just watched Lost Land of the Volcano. Absolutely love the enthusiasm of this team and Gordon Buchanan's determination tonight to film the birds of paradise. It must be fantastic to gain such satisfaction from your 'job'.

Enjoyed last week's episode of the Land of the Volcano, but have had to video tonight's (as I'm also following the Choir prog.) but am looking forward to seeing the second part, later.  Just loved the little tiny parrots last week! The whole team are just so enthusiastic, as you say, and loving every minute of their work.

Now Annette, you have me agog as to how the drama of the mismatched tiles is going to end- will you have to scrap them all & start again with something else? It's so horrible when the floor is not finished, the dirt seems to be trailed everywhere & it all looks so incomplete (You can gather that I've done this a couple of times). Good Luck with it!

Great to see our girls are doing normal osprey things and not writing dramatic scripts every day. And lovely to still get daily fixes by Alice.

Annette, stay with it. When dealing with recalcitrant businesses, it is s/he who lasts longest who wins. I remember, we had concrete floor in a new family room for 6 months - until winter came - we soon found we could afford to cover it! (But our ancestors managed with dirt floors.)

Looking forward to a promised program on Yellowstone next weekend. Last Monday's promised Leopard program was replaced by an obesity one. <sigh>

"Volcano" program sounds fascinating. Will have to keep an eye out for it here - probably later this year or next.  Love stuff like that. Disconcerted to find Yellowstone National Park is in fact sitting on top of a super volcano that has exploded, with dramatic global ramifications, three times. Hope it is okay for next 20 years or so since don't want to have to redo kitchen floor again. :-)

Lindybird: Will advise (briefly) of tile saga resolution in future posts or will have to start a separate "Tile" thread. :-)

aquilareen: Did you see all of the "Mushroom Week" photos on the Looduskalender site (http://www.looduskalender.ee/en/node/2926)? Aren't you the one who reads the flora pages there? Apparently, those folks are very serious about their fungi. But I can understand why: The pics were wonderful! I loved the Coral Tooth mushroom. We have a lot of stunning fungus on this property. I just wish I could identify which is edible and which is deadly!

Hey AQ:  Enjoy the Yellowstone documentary! Hope the weather is behaving itself down under.

Diane: Mushrooms are extremely tricky. One of our rose-garden volunteers at the Santa Barbara Mission recently died after eating some deadly mushrooms he'd mistaken for the edible kind.  It was shocking given that he had a reputation as being something of an expert in that field (he was in his 80s).

Wattle: Keep missing you, but thanks for suggestions re the hopscotch option!  :-)