⭐Live Allure TA 🚢 March 1, 2020 - Time to rub the lamp 🧞

[MalteseMama2]

On 3/21/2020 at 1:45 PM, island lady said:

 

Indeed, lately we seem to spend our before dinner time cocktails out there more and more....versus going to the lounges.  😉 

We love “balcony time”. On Freedom, was that really just a week or so ago?, I would sit out there while John caught up on work. So nice!

FWIW, we were asked by our hair stylist to postpone our appointments for 2 weeks as we had been “out of the country.” San Juan, St. Thomas and the ABC Islands. The groomer agreed to take Jana but met us in the parking lot with a leash, didn’t want her to be wearing her own. I passed Jana through the window and they took her straight to the tub.  I do understand the groomer because she has lung issues already and can’t take any chances. But it is a weird feeling. 

[John&LaLa]

30 minutes ago, goldfish65 said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfKHBB4vt4c

 

Hope you don't mind, but commercials today don't grab your attention like this one. Ricardo Montalban said that he happened to be in a play in Detroit and a Chrysler executive's wife I believe saw him when they were coming out with the new "small Chrysler" Cordoba. He wanted to pronounce it COR-doba as it is Spain, not Cor-DOBA.

 

I tried to say it the Spanish way all week

[John&LaLa]

5 minutes ago, MalteseMama2 said:

We love “balcony time”. On Freedom, was that really just a week or so ago?, I would sit out there while John caught up on work. So nice!

FWIW, we were asked by our hair stylist to postpone our appointments for 2 weeks as we had been “out of the country.” San Juan, St. Thomas and the ABC Islands. The groomer agreed to take Jana but met us in the parking lot with a leash, didn’t want her to be wearing her own. I passed Jana through the window and they took her straight to the tub.  I do understand the groomer because she has lung issues already and can’t take any chances. But it is a weird feeling. 

 

Bell getting sanitized. We cancelled her grooming until next month

 

 

[ATG]

I remember that look.  We had a cairn terrier.  It’s amazing how much less dog there is when they’re wet.

[John&LaLa]

14 minutes ago, ATG said:

I remember that look.  We had a cairn terrier.  It’s amazing how much less dog there is when they’re wet.

 

Westies are pretty much just white Cairns.

[Pratique]

1 hour ago, marci22 said:

"Rich". 

He did say "rich leather" but I don't think he ever said "rich Corinthian leather." He did say "soft Corinthian leather." But thanks anyway?

[marci22]

33 minutes ago, Pratique said:

He did say "rich leather" but I don't think he ever said "rich Corinthian leather." He did say "soft Corinthian leather." But thanks anyway?

John sorry for clogging up your thread with Ricardo Montalban.

Edited March 23, 2020 by marci22

[Sunshine3601]

5 hours ago, Bradison said:

 

And here I thought Cordoba was just an ugly Chrysler.  I can still here Ricardo say "Cordoba"

I had a Cordoba with crushed Corinthian leather!  That car had some great power with its 400 4 barrel.  Was a very good car that lasted me many years.

[Sunshine3601]

3 hours ago, John&LaLa said:

 

That's why I said I could have spent the whole day in there. Plus there were a ton of people, and you really couldn't tell.

 

Lighting was the biggest challenge

Thank you for sharing your photos and stories.  We are really enjoying and excited to cruise there someday soon!

Stay well!

[Bradison]

1 hour ago, Sunshine3601 said:

I had a Cordoba with crushed Corinthian leather!  That car had some great power with its 400 4 barrel.  Was a very good car that lasted me many years.

 What was "crushed" about the leather?  Did it come from the factory all weathered and cracked?  Seemed to remember cars like that in the 70s

[beerme1]

I seem to remember Fine Corinthian Leather lol

[Sea Dog]

Great photos John! I'm sure Twangster would approve!

[Bailey & Sophie]

4 hours ago, ATG said:

I remember that look.  We had a cairn terrier.  It’s amazing how much less dog there is when they’re wet.

Yup. That's what we have. They're like a loaf of bread on toothpicks.

[Ocean Boy]

20 minutes ago, beerme1 said:

I seem to remember Fine Corinthian Leather lol

Fine sounds a lot better than crushed.

[emeraldcity]

5 hours ago, John&LaLa said:

 

Bell getting sanitized. We cancelled her grooming until next month

 

 

OH my … looks so much like my Meggin when she was wet … Of course, I had a black cairn. People would see me out walking her and they'd call out "And your little dog too!"

 

Dorothy

[bobmacliberty]

38 minutes ago, beerme1 said:

I seem to remember Fine Corinthian Leather lol

I would have bet on fine corinthian leather also.  Yet another example of how I can't trust my memory. 😵

[bobmacliberty]

16 minutes ago, emeraldcity said:

OH my … looks so much like my Meggin when she was wet … Of course, I had a black cairn. People would see me out walking her and they'd call out "And your little dog too!"

 

Dorothy

 

I guess that explains your screen name.

[beerme1]

John thanks for continuing to post. It's been nice to read something to take my mind off some of our issues.

[Milwaukee Eight]

Great photos. Lots of quoted photos but since I say that, really good DOF. Picture quoted for effect only. 
 

[emeraldcity]

2 hours ago, bobmacliberty said:

 

I guess that explains your screen name.

It's dogged me all my life … if you can't fight it - embrace it.

 

[John&LaLa]

5 hours ago, Sunshine3601 said:

I had a Cordoba with crushed Corinthian leather!  That car had some great power with its 400 4 barrel.  Was a very good car that lasted me many years.

 

A lot had velour.😉

My mom's had maroon velour

[John&LaLa]

1 hour ago, Milwaukee Eight said:

Great photos. Lots of quoted photos but since I say that, really good DOF. Picture quoted for effect only. 
 

 

I was using one of the enhanced landscape modes. 

[Sunshine3601]

2 hours ago, bobmacliberty said:

I would have bet on fine corinthian leather also.  Yet another example of how I can't trust my memory. 😵

Your memory is just fine.

It was something I used to say to friends.  I have crushed Corinthian leather.  Just silly!

[Bradison]

29 minutes ago, Sunshine3601 said:

Your memory is just fine.

It was something I used to say to friends.  I have crushed Corinthian leather.  Just silly!

 

My best friends parents had a Chrysler with crushed red velvet seats.  On the trunk it had the word "CHRYYLER" in individual letters.  Quality was so bad in the 70s that they couldn't even get the company name right and it made it all the way to a driveway in Ohio.

[John&LaLa]

Let's make some cupcakes

 

First up, the infamous puppy

Keep in mind, this is my first time ever piping, and Laura has already done it once

 

Just the three of us. Laura, myself, and the instructor Maricel

 

Level off the chocolate cupcake, cut the vanilla cupcake in half and trim the sides so it looks like a pyramid

 

Pipe the top of the chocolate cake, place vanilla on top, affix candy lime to the front (this is the snout)

 

pipe the top, use stars on the back side and long strokes at the front

 

Laura is using to much frosting in my opinion

She's already starting to list

There may have been wine involved

 

Instructors work, note the tail as well

 

add 4 swooping strokes to cover the candy lime and then place chocolate dot on the top of it

 

add M&M's

 

Add eyebrows and remaining two chocolate drops for the ears. 

Mine are to close

 

Pipe around the ears making points

See what I mean about to close now

 

Well, Laura got the ears right.

Hers weighed twice as much as mine did

 

All three at the end, I held my own

 

My biggest takeaway from the piping is this.

Don't hold the bag to much, it gets soft fast

 

Next up, Pat and I make cheeseburgers.🍔

 

Edited March 24, 2020 by John&LaLa