Rare mysty Posted January 7, 2022 #12676 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Greetings Coolers! Today's funny..... Have a great safe fun day all! 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare drron29 Posted January 8, 2022 #12677 Share Posted January 8, 2022 We are having a bit of fun here down under. 2 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Fletcher Posted January 8, 2022 #12678 Share Posted January 8, 2022 We had Jamie Oliver for dinner last night. One of our favourites. Squid served with a stuffing of onion, thyme, black pudding, chopped tentacles and breadcrumbs. Browned in garlicky, slightly chillified olive oil with a medley of tomatoes and broad beans. Serve with ciabatta or crispy spuds or both. I think it calls for a red wine. (I cooked this in a new pan, a Scanpan from Denmark, which is just fabulous. Will get more of this range.) 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare mysty Posted January 8, 2022 #12679 Share Posted January 8, 2022 Greetings Coolers! Today's funny..... Have a great safe fun day all! 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare jpalbny Posted January 8, 2022 #12680 Share Posted January 8, 2022 (edited) Well, Thursday afternoon with a little more than 24h to go, we decided to cancel the Finland trip and reschedule. The travel regulations were changing by the minute, Finland's restaurants are now prohibited from selling alcohol after 5PM, and it was becoming a hassle to even take the ferry from Helsinki to Tallinn. So we bailed. We have tentatively moved it to November of this year. It was a frantic couple of hours but the Transatlantic flights are converted to an e-credit, the Finnair flights to/from Ivalo are rescheduled, and the Northern Lights Village stay is rescheduled. Lots of hold time but that was done. I canceled the Helsinki hotel stays as they were not prepaid, and I'll reschedule those later once the Transatlantic flights are rebooked. Yesterday morning I started working on Plan B and finished that yesterday evening. New Mexico sure isn't Finland, but it is a new state for us and the weather looks much more pleasant than the 8 degrees F which is currently outside our front door. Plus we get to visit Carlsbad Caverns and the landscapes in the Southwest US always amaze me with their beauty. We'll drive down to JFK tomorrow afternoon and fly out to Albuquerque. I couldn't get decent flights out of Albany on 2 days notice so JFK it is. No Northern Lights but it will be a week without work, and we'll have fun wherever we are. Edited January 8, 2022 by jpalbny 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Lois R Posted January 8, 2022 #12681 Share Posted January 8, 2022 Good morning to all of you and hope everyone had a Happy New Year. JP, sorry about that cancellation of Finland but New Mexico sounds pretty neat! Have a fun and safe trip. Hope everyone is doing well..........Hi Mysty, DW, TB and whoever else I missed. And those Novak jokes are spot on👍 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare mysty Posted January 8, 2022 #12682 Share Posted January 8, 2022 23 minutes ago, jpalbny said: Well, Thursday afternoon with a little more than 24h to go, we decided to cancel the Finland trip and reschedule. The travel regulations were changing by the minute, Finland's restaurants are now prohibited from selling alcohol after 5PM, and it was becoming a hassle to even take the ferry from Helsinki to Tallinn. So we bailed. We have tentatively moved it to November of this year. It was a frantic couple of hours but the Transatlantic flights are converted to an e-credit, the Finnair flights to/from Ivalo are rescheduled, and the Northern Lights Village stay is rescheduled. Lots of hold time but that was done. I canceled the Helsinki hotel stays as they were not prepaid, and I'll reschedule those later once the Transatlantic flights are rebooked. Yesterday morning I started working on Plan B and finished that yesterday evening. New Mexico sure isn't Finland, but it is a new state for us and the weather looks much more pleasant than the 8 degrees F which is currently outside our front door. Plus we get to visit Carlsbad Caverns and the landscapes in the Southwest US always amaze me with their beauty. We'll drive down to JFK tomorrow afternoon and fly out to Albuquerque. I couldn't get decent flights out of Albany on 2 days notice so JFK it is. No Northern Lights but it will be a week without work, and we'll have fun wherever we are. Safe travels JP and Chris! Seize the day! 🥰 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare spinnaker2 Posted January 8, 2022 #12683 Share Posted January 8, 2022 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare spinnaker2 Posted January 8, 2022 #12684 Share Posted January 8, 2022 For those who are challenged to pronounce that board of miniature meats and sausages… 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare jpalbny Posted January 8, 2022 #12685 Share Posted January 8, 2022 (edited) 26 minutes ago, spinnaker2 said: For those who are challenged to pronounce that board of miniature meats and sausages… Now I'm craving a cornichon. Or a jar of them! Made the last of the pierogi for lunch today. We didn't make them for Christmas as we were traveling so we made a bunch of potato-cheese filling and dough last weekend, and enjoyed them on New Year's Day. We had leftover dough and filling so I made some more for lunch on Monday. And I made the last of them for lunch today. Extra dough so I used blueberries to fill those, so we got a bonus dessert! Chris has taught me well. Or maybe it's the Ukrainian genes coming out 35 generations later? 😉 Time to do a quick water change in the little aquarium, then think about packing. Wednesday we went as far as to lay out warm winter clothing in case we went ahead with Finland. Now, to put that away and change strategy entirely for New Mexico... I'm getting whiplash! And of course there is a winter weather advisory which may affect flights here in the Northeast region tomorrow. Are we going to go anywhere? Edited January 8, 2022 by jpalbny 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrulyBlonde Posted January 8, 2022 #12686 Share Posted January 8, 2022 23 minutes ago, jpalbny said: Now I'm craving a cornichon. Or a jar of them! Made the last of the pierogi for lunch today. We didn't make them for Christmas as we were traveling so we made a bunch of potato-cheese filling and dough last weekend, and enjoyed them on New Year's Day. We had leftover dough and filling so I made some more for lunch on Monday. And I made the last of them for lunch today. Extra dough so I used blueberries to fill those, so we got a bonus dessert! Chris has taught me well. Or maybe it's the Ukrainian genes coming out 35 generations later? 😉 Time to do a quick water change in the little aquarium, then think about packing. Wednesday we went as far as to lay out warm winter clothing in case we went ahead with Finland. Now, to put that away and change strategy entirely for New Mexico... I'm getting whiplash! And of course there is a winter weather advisory which may affect flights here in the Northeast region tomorrow. Are we going to go anywhere? It is snowing quite heavily here in CO, too. Safe travels. Who is watching the cat? 😉 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare jpalbny Posted January 9, 2022 #12687 Share Posted January 9, 2022 4 hours ago, TrulyBlonde said: It is snowing quite heavily here in CO, too. Safe travels. Who is watching the cat? 😉 Better work on that... Jazzbeau, can we drop her off with you on the way down? Just kidding. Our usual cat sitter. We had her reserved for Finland so it was a simple matter of tweaking the dates a bit. Packing done. Only needed one glass of packing wine. All carry-on of course. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lirio Posted January 9, 2022 #12688 Share Posted January 9, 2022 11 hours ago, jpalbny said: Well, Thursday afternoon with a little more than 24h to go, we decided to cancel the Finland trip and reschedule. The travel regulations were changing by the minute, Finland's restaurants are now prohibited from selling alcohol after 5PM, and it was becoming a hassle to even take the ferry from Helsinki to Tallinn. So we bailed. We have tentatively moved it to November of this year. It was a frantic couple of hours but the Transatlantic flights are converted to an e-credit, the Finnair flights to/from Ivalo are rescheduled, and the Northern Lights Village stay is rescheduled. Lots of hold time but that was done. I canceled the Helsinki hotel stays as they were not prepaid, and I'll reschedule those later once the Transatlantic flights are rebooked. Yesterday morning I started working on Plan B and finished that yesterday evening. New Mexico sure isn't Finland, but it is a new state for us and the weather looks much more pleasant than the 8 degrees F which is currently outside our front door. Plus we get to visit Carlsbad Caverns and the landscapes in the Southwest US always amaze me with their beauty. We'll drive down to JFK tomorrow afternoon and fly out to Albuquerque. I couldn't get decent flights out of Albany on 2 days notice so JFK it is. No Northern Lights but it will be a week without work, and we'll have fun wherever we are. Are you going to provide us with a trip journal? i would love to see. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rojaan19 Posted January 9, 2022 #12689 Share Posted January 9, 2022 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Fletcher Posted January 9, 2022 #12690 Share Posted January 9, 2022 Two photos from our Lake District Christmas break. Back in the 1980s we used to stay on Lake Ullswater at the iconic Sharrow Bay. That hotel invented two things - the concept of the country house hotel, which meant warm, cosy and cosseting - and also sticky toffee pudding. The 80s were perhaps that hotel's last great decade. The original owners died and other hotels in the area seemed more attuned to the times while Sharrow Bay went into a chintzy time warp and declined rather rapidly. Covid was the final nail in its coffin and it closed permanently in September 2020. It had perhaps the finest location of any hotel in the Lake District and because of that I can forsee a time when someone buys it and maybe knocks the whole thing down and builds a gleaming new Sharrow Bay. 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare mysty Posted January 9, 2022 #12691 Share Posted January 9, 2022 Greetings Coolers! Today's funny..... Have a great safe fun day all! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daveywavey70 Posted January 9, 2022 #12692 Share Posted January 9, 2022 I’m sorry to hear you had to bail JP. I Hope your rescheduled trip is amazing. I Never thought I’d be seen dead in the Caribbean but I’m happily sailing away so when needs must. I Am doing a live from over on the Crystal boards. Have a great trip! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare highplanesdrifters Posted January 9, 2022 #12693 Share Posted January 9, 2022 On 1/8/2022 at 8:41 AM, jpalbny said: Well, Thursday afternoon with a little more than 24h to go, we decided to cancel the Finland trip and reschedule. The travel regulations were changing by the minute, Finland's restaurants are now prohibited from selling alcohol after 5PM, and it was becoming a hassle to even take the ferry from Helsinki to Tallinn. So we bailed. We have tentatively moved it to November of this year. It was a frantic couple of hours but the Transatlantic flights are converted to an e-credit, the Finnair flights to/from Ivalo are rescheduled, and the Northern Lights Village stay is rescheduled. Lots of hold time but that was done. I canceled the Helsinki hotel stays as they were not prepaid, and I'll reschedule those later once the Transatlantic flights are rebooked. Yesterday morning I started working on Plan B and finished that yesterday evening. New Mexico sure isn't Finland, but it is a new state for us and the weather looks much more pleasant than the 8 degrees F which is currently outside our front door. Plus we get to visit Carlsbad Caverns and the landscapes in the Southwest US always amaze me with their beauty. We'll drive down to JFK tomorrow afternoon and fly out to Albuquerque. I couldn't get decent flights out of Albany on 2 days notice so JFK it is. No Northern Lights but it will be a week without work, and we'll have fun wherever we are. Sorry about the canceled Finland trip. Sounds like you are familiar with New Mexico land of enchantment. FYI, we live in Santa Fe, just yell if you need any tips. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare spinnaker2 Posted January 9, 2022 #12694 Share Posted January 9, 2022 Happy Sunday all. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daveywavey70 Posted January 9, 2022 #12695 Share Posted January 9, 2022 7 minutes ago, spinnaker2 said: Happy Sunday all. Happy Sunday Spinns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Host Jazzbeau Posted January 9, 2022 #12696 Share Posted January 9, 2022 3 hours ago, spinnaker2 said: Happy Sunday all. That's my breakfast this Tuesday. We have to get as far south as Richmond to find 'the light on.' 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lirio Posted January 9, 2022 #12697 Share Posted January 9, 2022 15 hours ago, Fletcher said: Two photos from our Lake District Christmas break. Back in the 1980s we used to stay on Lake Ullswater at the iconic Sharrow Bay. That hotel invented two things - the concept of the country house hotel, which meant warm, cosy and cosseting - and also sticky toffee pudding. The 80s were perhaps that hotel's last great decade. The original owners died and other hotels in the area seemed more attuned to the times while Sharrow Bay went into a chintzy time warp and declined rather rapidly. Covid was the final nail in its coffin and it closed permanently in September 2020. It had perhaps the finest location of any hotel in the Lake District and because of that I can forsee a time when someone buys it and maybe knocks the whole thing down and builds a gleaming new Sharrow Bay. Beautiful. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare mysty Posted January 10, 2022 #12698 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Greetings Coolers! Today's funny..... Have a great safe fun day all! 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare mysty Posted January 11, 2022 #12699 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Greetings Coolers! Today's funny..... Have a great safe fun day all! 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QueSeraSera Posted January 11, 2022 #12700 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Saw this on the local news today Southern sea otters play in tubs of water - Bing video Has anyone ever seen these critters in the wild? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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