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- Fri May 24, 2024 1:15 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Meanwhile on the North Fork...........
- Replies: 1450
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Meanwhile on the North Fork...........
So, nice day after a day of rain and the Friday beginning a holiday weekend. You know what that means. Yes, gasoline-powered lawn care! :mad: Our neighbor's (to the right) daughter is doing his lawn now. She is a lovely lady but not being a commercial lawn care person with large equipment it will ta...
- Fri May 24, 2024 10:45 am
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Meanwhile on the North Fork...........
- Replies: 1450
- Views: 146473
Meanwhile on the North Fork...........
Mrs. V is about to leave to catch the ferry to Connecticut for her early music workshop. Getting an early start to avoid holiday weekend traffic. . Warmest day yet. High will be 80F. Then things will cool down just a bit for the weekend. Large crowds expected on the North Fork due to forecast of nic...
- Fri May 24, 2024 10:26 am
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Meanwhile on the North Fork...........
- Replies: 1450
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Meanwhile on the North Fork...........
Our pollen is mostly oak pollen. The LI pine barrens are mostly west and south of the North Fork.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Isla ... ne_Barrens
- Thu May 23, 2024 7:50 pm
- Forum: The Big Lie & Aftermath of The Former Guy
- Topic: Crazy Trumpers
- Replies: 886
- Views: 290531
Crazy Trumpers
Sadly it is a very pleasant evening to be outside in NYC. Too bad today's rain couldn't have lasted longer.
- Thu May 23, 2024 7:31 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Meanwhile on the North Fork...........
- Replies: 1450
- Views: 146473
Meanwhile on the North Fork...........
Warm enough to sit out this evening.
Eight turkeys in the Circle just now.
Turkeys are social birds. Always come in groups.
When the Circle gets busier we won't see so much of them.
Eight turkeys in the Circle just now.
Turkeys are social birds. Always come in groups.
When the Circle gets busier we won't see so much of them.
- Thu May 23, 2024 4:21 pm
- Forum: Foreign Countries and Culture
- Topic: UK - England, Wales, N.Ireland, Scotland
- Replies: 1082
- Views: 105242
UK - England, Wales, N.Ireland, Scotland
Paula Vennels, former CEO of the Post Office, has been testifying this week about her part in the scandal.
She is piece of work.
She is piece of work.
- Thu May 23, 2024 4:05 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Meanwhile on the North Fork...........
- Replies: 1450
- Views: 146473
Meanwhile on the North Fork...........
Pollen! Green dust on everything!
- Thu May 23, 2024 2:17 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Bill_G, retired, affluence of effluent, and errata
- Replies: 719
- Views: 494701
Bill_G, retired, affluence of effluent, and errata
It rained on Tuesday (2+") so all the lawn care folks were out in force yesterday. I can't complain though... my yard guy was one of them. I will say, though, that the commercial cutters can mow so much faster with their large machines that the noise doesn't last as long as the homeowners with...
- Thu May 23, 2024 9:13 am
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Meanwhile on the North Fork...........
- Replies: 1450
- Views: 146473
Meanwhile on the North Fork...........
Rain! Thunder!
Messy morning on the North Fork.
Messy morning on the North Fork.
- Wed May 22, 2024 4:49 pm
- Forum: Foreign Countries and Culture
- Topic: UK - England, Wales, N.Ireland, Scotland
- Replies: 1082
- Views: 105242
UK - England, Wales, N.Ireland, Scotland
Rishi Sunak calls UK national election for July 4 https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/rishi-sunak-calls-uk-national-election-july-4-2024-05-22/ British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called a national election on Wednesday for July 4, saying Britons would be able to choose their future in a vote his Conse...
- Wed May 22, 2024 1:19 pm
- Forum: The Big Lie & Aftermath of The Former Guy
- Topic: Alina Habba
- Replies: 235
- Views: 30656
Alina Habba
Alina Habba doesn't understand how random selection works.
- Wed May 22, 2024 12:36 pm
- Forum: Worst of the Right-Wing Pieholes
- Topic: Rudy Giuliani
- Replies: 1722
- Views: 462077
Rudy Giuliani
Judge threatens to mute Giuliani during arraignment in Arizona fake electors case https://abcnews.go.com/US/rudy-giuliani-expected-arraigned-arizona-election-interference-probe/story?id=110436094 Giuliani appeared virtually after being served with notice of his indictment after his 80th birthday pa...
- Wed May 22, 2024 8:34 am
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Meanwhile on the North Fork...........
- Replies: 1450
- Views: 146473
Meanwhile on the North Fork...........
Beautiful day today, high in the low 70s.
Then rain tomorrow.
Then a gorgeous Memorial Day weekend which means TRAFFIC!
Then rain tomorrow.
Then a gorgeous Memorial Day weekend which means TRAFFIC!
- Wed May 22, 2024 8:15 am
- Forum: Worst of the Right-Wing Pieholes
- Topic: Rudy Giuliani
- Replies: 1722
- Views: 462077
Rudy Giuliani
Here on the North Fork we have those little coffee shops.
- Wed May 22, 2024 12:08 am
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: It's Jez
- Replies: 36
- Views: 3832
It's Jez
:bighug: When I relocated from Long Island to New Jersey many years ago I thought that Long Island girl Mrs. V might divorce me. ;) That move was voluntary. A few years later I was relocated involuntarily to Texas right after doing significant renovations to our NJ house. Then back to New Jersey. Th...
- Tue May 21, 2024 11:54 pm
- Forum: Worst of the Right-Wing Pieholes
- Topic: Marjorie Taylor Greene [R - Deliverance Country]
- Replies: 3465
- Views: 695011
- Tue May 21, 2024 4:16 pm
- Forum: Current Politics
- Topic: They're coming for our birth control
- Replies: 29
- Views: 902
They're coming for our birth control
Trump says he will ‘never advocate’ for contraception restrictions after earlier saying he’s ‘looking at’ them https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/21/trump-contraception-abortion-00159118 Donald Trump insisted in a social media post Tuesday that he has “never, and will never advocate imposing res...
- Tue May 21, 2024 4:07 pm
- Forum: Worst of the Right-Wing Pieholes
- Topic: Rudy Giuliani
- Replies: 1722
- Views: 462077
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani pleads not guilty to charges in Arizona fake electors case Former New York mayor one of 12 defendants charged with illegally trying to keep Trump in power after 2020 election defeat https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/21/rudy-giuliani-pleads-not-guilty-fake-electors-c...
- Mon May 20, 2024 5:08 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Meanwhile in Texoma........
- Replies: 1189
- Views: 254483
Meanwhile in Texoma........
City of Wichita Falls, Texas Government · Wichita Falls, for the first time since September 12, 2022 the combined level for Lakes Arrowhead and Kickapoo have exceeded 70%. This past week the combined level rose 6.3% for a total of 74%. Water customers remain in the Stage 1 Drought Watch restrictions...
- Mon May 20, 2024 10:20 am
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Meanwhile on the North Fork...........
- Replies: 1450
- Views: 146473
Meanwhile on the North Fork...........
We are summer+ people.
- Mon May 20, 2024 9:59 am
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Meanwhile on the North Fork...........
- Replies: 1450
- Views: 146473
Meanwhile on the North Fork...........
It is the last quiet week before the Memorial Day weekend when the North Fork will be inundated with weekenders, day trippers and summer people until Labor Day.
- Sun May 19, 2024 3:26 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Meanwhile on the North Fork...........
- Replies: 1450
- Views: 146473
Meanwhile on the North Fork...........
Quiet Sunday afternoon on the Circle. Mrs.V's cousins have headed home. Our neighbor's to the right daughters have left after mowing his lawn. Mrs. V and her remaining cousins are at a performance of the 1731 Meeting House Chorus. Our cats are napping upstairs. LIRR trains are on reduced weekend sch...
- Sun May 19, 2024 9:01 am
- Forum: Whatever Doesn't Fit Elsewhere
- Topic: It sucks growing old
- Replies: 1208
- Views: 547683
It sucks growing old
Yes.
- Sat May 18, 2024 11:36 pm
- Forum: Whatever Doesn't Fit Elsewhere
- Topic: It sucks growing old
- Replies: 1208
- Views: 547683
It sucks growing old
Feeling old now. :( When I started college in Boston in 1969 Erich Leinsdorf had just left as conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The BSO brought in William Steinberg, then conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony, part-time to replace him while they looked for a new permanent conductor. Steinbe...
- Sat May 18, 2024 10:43 pm
- Forum: General Stuff
- Topic: Weather Alerts
- Replies: 2495
- Views: 518636
Weather Alerts
Hot weather poses new risk as thousands remain without power after deadly Houston storm https://apnews.com/article/houston-texas-storms-power-outages-86643a6d7decd28e971774e03b52e51d 77 Houston ISD campuses still without power, still hoping to reopen Monday https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/...