The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 09

[TarnishedPenny]

Warnings: May contain NUTS, ALMONDS, HAZELNUTS and WHEAT

I think that this sort of warning is thrown out on a 'shotgun' basis. In one sense, it's good to warn people, but IRL, cross-contamination is always theoretically possible, so companies are putting such warnings on everything they sell, which means that somebody with serious allergies has entire aisles in the supermarket red-flagged for no real reason.

I remember being a child at my grandfather's cottage. The local drug store sold slab chocolate, by which I mean a one big slab maybe 18" x 24", sitting out in the open on a tray. One took a knife they kept there, carved off a chunk and they weighed it on the spot. They'd be padlocked now for half-a-dozen reasons, but I haven't tasted such good chocolate in decades. Sigh - nostalgia just ain't what it used to be!

 

[Duleigh]

I remember being a child at my grandfather's cottage. The local drug store sold slab chocolate, by which I mean a one big slab maybe 18" x 24", sitting out in the open on a tray.

Sounds like the fudge and candy stores in Georgetown CO.

What's life without the thrill of a risk?

 

[Candy_Kane54]

Keep talking about chocolate -- mmmmmm. It was foggy earlier but now it's just a gray cloudy morning. More rain expected but it'll be in the sixties today. After whinging about my BP yesterday morning, my BP suddenly moderated and I had three consecutive readings in the normal range (one at 107/74) so I'm starting the Meloxicam again. The new medicine must have finally kicked in.

There's a fresh pot of coffee brewing and the teapot is boiling. Help yourself to the snacks on the counter. I spied some Hostess cupcakes among the offerings today. How many of you remember being able to buy the two-pack for a dime? Now it's a $1.75 for the same.

I'll be over in the corner working on my story. Switching from 1P to 3P is turning out to be more work than I thought it would be. Now if I can only keep the plot bunnies away from my ankles ....

 

[NotWise]

One phone conversation has been blocking my progress on The Girl in the Photograph. I got through it this morning, and that moves me forward through already-written parts of the story to a monologue the ghost delivers to explain herself. I have to break that up with some give-and-take.

It feels good. I've always worried that the story might be too slow, but reading through it again reminds me that it actually moves very quickly.

I should finish with the heavy work on the 8-foot raised garden bed this afternoon. I need to get on with some other spring gardening chores, like pruning the roses.

 

[NuclearFairy]

I should finish with the heavy work on the 8-foot raised garden bed this afternoon. I need to get on with some other spring gardening chores, like pruning the roses.

That's 8-foot long or wide, not high, right?

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

@Omenainen

I'm curious about your take on Stratovarius which as Finn you may be aware of being a power metal band from your home country.

 

[Duleigh]

Power outage in the middle of the morning? Asplundh is out there trimming back the forests, something that has to be done every other year or so. They probably dropped a tree branch across a power line. Knocked out power from Waycross GA to Callahan FL and guess who was 1000 words into a April Fools story and didn't turn on Auto Save.

 

[MrPixel]

Power outage in the middle of the morning? Asplundh is out there trimming back the forests, something that has to be done every other year or so. They probably dropped a tree branch across a power line. Knocked out power from Waycross GA to Callahan FL and guess who was 1000 words into a April Fools story and didn't turn on Auto Save.

And you're powerless to do anything about it.

Bah dump dump tshshsh.

 

[NuclearFairy]

And you're powerless to do anything about it.

Bah dump dump tshshsh.

That one actually got a groan out of me.

 

[NotWise]

That's 8-foot long or wide, not high, right?

8-feet long, 4-feet wide and about 15 inches deep.

 

[NuclearFairy]

I broke down and turned on the AC. I just can't sleep in 80+ temps. Function in it sure, but not sleep. I'm going to try and get some writing done while it cools off in here.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

First 80 of the year.

Only lasted a short time and back in the 60s now.