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Araucaria Appreciation Thread

Happy Thursday Loner, Thad, Gary, and Frankie! (*8*) :kiss:

Thad, I'm glad that you had a good time in Ohio, with the lovely weather. It sounds like you're going to be busy, with that Yankees game and that trip to Boston. I'd love to go up there some day, as that is a whole section of the country that I've never visited.

Gary, 💋 you're Irish! I'm glad you finally got some good rains out in the desert. I hear you on the teeth issue. We hate to think about it, but after a certain age, our inevitable mortality is a given.

I'm up a bit early this morning because I'm scheduled for the first of three dental appointments, where I believe the dentist will work on three molars, and I'll have to be there all morning. But if I remember from having crowns done in the past, they put soft covers on your teeth while you have to wait a couple of weeks for the permanent crowns to be made. In the meantime, you can't chew on those teeth. And then there's the huge bill for all that. And get this-- this is only the first of THREE times they'll do this. I suspect that this whole process will take several months. And to be honest, I think anxiety over the huge expenses is keeping me up.

As if that isn't enough, I need to get two new tires for my car. The old mechanic I had trusted to keep a car maintenance schedule never kept up the tire rotation, wheel balance and wheel alignment schedule up, and so the tread is going on a couple of my tires. And also, I'm going to have to call the tree removal people to come take out the three leftover Australian pine trees from an old hedge. I always cut them back once a year to keep them from growing into full-fledged trees, but this year I just felt like I didn't have the strength to do that, so it's time for them to go. And also, I have a pencil plant, which is a weird-looking succulent which has lots of green stems but no leaves. A friend gave it to me some years ago. I thought it would remain shrub size, but it has grown over 10 feet high, and has spread to where it is already grown a couple of feet over the property line. I checked up on it, and found out it has the potential to grow up to 30 feet. And what's worse, it has a poisonous sap which causes blindness if it gets in your eyes, and can cause a severe rash if it gets on the skin of sensitive people. I read horror stories of people suffering in agony in the hospital for several days. :eek: I've made the decision that it's time to get rid of it. See why I'm getting money worries?
 
Hello Johnnie , it sounds like you've got lots of tasks to be completed aside from your dental work

First focus on getting your dental treatment , time flies , may it be as less aggravating as possible and I do hope you get good results in the end , take your time to get your car tires fixed and , when youre more liberated , get rid of the pencil tree , have the other tree trimmed , and so forth

I do wish everything flows fine My Friend
Take care , I wish you the best of luck
 
(*8*):kiss: Good morning, John

We may hit 100F today. It has been close for a few days.

I'm going to the City of the Havasus this morning to get new glasses. Get a good price at Walmart there. Our Walmart does not have do glasses and where I had the eye exam massively over charges.
Hope there are not many slow snowbirds on the road
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Good Wednesday morning, Gary and Frankie! (*8*) :kiss:

Gary, I hope you got your new set of glasses yesterday. Isn't Havasu where they moved the London Bridge? Wow, it's way too early for you to be hitting 100 degrees out there. We finally got a thunderstorm and some rain last night. It didn't happen here, but there were severe thunderstorm warnings and flood advisories for places near here. It's good to finally get some rain, since they say we're in a developing drought.

I went ahead and got the two new tires for my car on Monday, I figured that it was a "just get it done" project. As for the dental appointment, they worked on my teeth, and I got two temporary crowns. I was supposed to get a third, but the dentist said that tooth was in an area that suffered "trauma," which meant that a previous infection had damaged the gum around it, and she wanted to do a treatment and see how that works before deciding what to do with that tooth. I'm supposed to get the permanent crowns back on April 15, and then pay the balance.

The local Pridefest is scheduled for this weekend. I volunteered to be at the MCC booth for a couple of hours on Saturday, and the parade will be on Sunday. They're predicting rain on Sunday, but it looks like they're saying the highest chances will be after 2 PM, at least for right now, after the parade. I'm sort of thinking it might be best to check out the Pridefest on Saturday, watch the parade on Sunday, and not bother to go into the Pridefest area after the parade, since it is always very crowded. Locally they have the Pride activities in March instead of June, because it is ungodly hot and humid in Florida in the month of June.
 
Hello Johnnie , life hits progressively harder since late 2024 , anyway what matters most is that I'm alive and I've got a home to habit
Fortunately your car issues were easily solved . I was a few days without internet service as we switched to a better company because the former one wasn't delivering what they had promised and we were pissed off because of that
I hope your dental work turns out alright , just be patient

Thanks for taking time to write to me My Friend
Have a pleasant Thursday and a Fun Friday later Buddy
 
Hi John! Hope your weekend goes well and you enjoy Pride.
I was at the NY Islanders game Wednesday night. They lost to Vancouver 5-2. Not a great game but at least I did get to UBS Arena this season.
 
Good Wednesday morning Paul, Thad, and Frankie! (*8*) :kiss:

Frankie, I hope your new internet company works out well for you, and that your life isn't too hard for you.

And Thad, I see that you've been taking in a couple of NHL hockey games, with the NY Islanders and the NJ Devils.

It was great to get out for the Pride celebrations this past weekend. Just being in a crowd of thousands watching the parade provided a great feeling of camaraderie-- we're here, we're queer, and we're not going anywhere! I volunteered at the MCC booth on Saturday, and checked out all the organizations and merchants that were there. On Sunday there was an early church service in a 100 year old movie theater, ancient by Florida standards, with MCC and and couple of other LGBTQ+ friendly churches participating. The parade was great, and the weather held off. I decided not to go into the Pridefest area again on Sunday, because it's always super crowded right after the parade, and bad weather was in the forecast. The thunderstorms rolled in, and I got messages that the Pridefest activities were suspended, danger of lightning and all, and then I got emails late in the day that the festivities had resumed, with admission now free.

On Monday afternoon something happened that I rarely see here. Small hail fell here, and kept up for over 20 minutes. Which was funny, because hardly any rain was falling with it, though I could tell a thunderstorm was nearby. Though when it finally did decide to rain, I got a deluge, which I'm thankful for, because it has been very dry here. And it has suddenly become quite warm, humid with highs in the upper 80s, and lows only going down into the mid 70s. I'm afraid the hot tropical air has arrived a bit early this year.
 
Hi Johnnie . great to know you had a good time at the Pride Parade !
The hail incident sounds so unusual as there was barely any rain along with it
The weather seems to be altered worldwide
Take care My Friend
 
--%--:wheee::wow:(*8*):kiss: Hi, John. Your basketball lads did good. gator.gifGobbling up another title. Let's hope the football team does as well. this year.
 
Good Wednesday morning Gary, RM, and Frankie! (*8*) :kiss:

How about the Gator basketball team, winning the NCAA Championship! :wheee:(!):kevbo:

Well, the weather has become slightly cooler, with highs only going to the upper 70s to near 80 for the next couple of days, and lows into the mid 60s. They're even saying we'll have a low in the upper 50s on Monday morning. So at least the heat season will be delayed for a little while, for which I'm thankful.
 
46°F at 5 pm here.

I'm going to a Porkroll party in Philadelphia tonight. I have low expectations, so it's likely I'll have a really good time. They've imported a DJ from Chicago.
 
Hello Johnnie thanks for writing
I also hope you are doing well and that you have a pleasant and enjoyable weekend My Friend
Take care
 
Good Saturday morning Frankie, Thad, Gary, and Loner! (*8*) :kiss:

Thanks for saying hello, Frankie.

Thad, I hope you had a good time at the Porkroll party last night. Wow, 46 as a daytime temp? Sounds awfully cold! I hope it warms up for you.

Gary, you've got the other extreme. 104 degrees? That's way too hot, way too early. I hope you're keeping cool.

Well, right now it's a pleasant 62 degrees, with the high going up to 80, with low humidity. It's actually supposed to go down to 59 tomorrow morning, and the weather is supposed to be nice through next week.

I'm having a busy weekend. Last night I went to the Rare Fruit Council meeting, and I totally forgot they're having their plant sale this morning. I'm not sure I'll have time to go. Besides, I really don't have any space in my yard to buy any more fruit trees. I'm thinking that I might buy some papaya plants, they've been doing very well for me the last few years, but they don't live too long, so you have to replace them every couple of years. Papayas grow like palms, so they don't take up a lot of space. But they come in male and female plants, so you have to buy several to make sure you have at least one female to bear fruit. With the young plants, you can't really tell.

And I also have a meeting of the local genealogical society this afternoon. They're going to elect officers and vote on bylaw changes, which I haven't read up on yet. Probably nothing too major.
 
It's warming a little, so my baseball game Monday in the Bronx should be a "go.:"

Porkroll was kinda fun but they need better music. The scenery was fine. And there were places to sit and the dance floor was packed.
 
Good Friday morning, Thad! (*8*) :kiss: I see that you got to the Yankees game the other night. Sounds exciting to have a home run derby like that.

I got the two crowns on my teeth at the dentist on Tuesday morning. Actually I was getting a bit annoyed with them the way they were handling it. They kept doing stuff, first taking out the temporary crowns and then putting them back in, then taking boku X-rays, and then putting in the permanent crowns, taking more goddamn X-rays, taking them out. First, every time they took out and put in the crowns, there was a fair bit of pain, which you're not supposed to have with dental procedures. Then it seems that the number of X-rays was excessive, 20 or more overall. It seemed they kept having to do them over. What that tells me is either the technician was doing it wrong, or there was something wrong with the machine. From what I understand, each X-ray comes with a possible cancer risk, which is probably negligible when only a couple are taken. But I'm concerned that if you take too many, the risk can become cumulative. And then they referred me to a periodontist, to have the gums around that one tooth they wanted to crown, but held off because apparently something happened there that made the bedrock connection of that tooth to the underlying bone a bit tenuous.

All this would be bad enough, but this is only the first of three areas in which they want to go in and crown several teeth. I'm not looking forward to having more huge expenses to get all this done, not to mention having to go through fooling with the crowns and the X-rays several more times, not to mention all the initial drilling and fitting for the crowns. Ugh! *%%*

Right now my mulberry tree is bearing fruit. It's like they say, the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice. You really can't save the fruit for very long, so I've been eating it right off the tree. A lot of the fruit is very high, so I get on a ladder to pick them off and snack on them. And I did buy a new papaya tree at the plant sale. Good thing too, because although the papaya tree I already have bore wonderfully for me the last couple of months, it looks like it's at the end of its life and dying.
 
(*S*) It's Good Friday and I have not done a single Easter Egg :spank: Bad Bunny.
 
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