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Bananas Foster, a healthy fruit-based dessert.

I don’t need it delivered as much as I need it postmarked 😀

Gotta mail a couple checks tomorrow. I wonder if these stamps are still accepted?😀 @Gavin??

Ah, the old "wind knot".

There’s a documentary on Netflix currently about the 2011 Joplin tornado called ‘The Twister’. Lots of interviews with people that went through it, footage and news coverage from it. It’s pretty interesting but, in my humble opinion, not really a well-crafted documentary. Regardless, it documents a really tragic event that’s pretty close to home for a lot of us. Certainly worth a watch.

I’m gonna sit this one out.

3 and 9 are dead to me 😀

Pasta with a vodka cream sauce Grandma Vi’s pancakes

Or a retired person😀

I just noticed we've passed the 10-year mark with this thread last month. Almost 1400 pages at 10 posts per page. That's kinda crazy!

We did a quick drive up to a town we like north of KC. I was encouraged by the number of red and white buds I saw once well outside the suburbs.

Homemade pizza! I’m sure people will ask so I’ll provide the recipe: Ingredients 1 Totino’s Hamburger Party Pizza 1/2 glob grated cheese, chef’s choice Directions 1. Place pizza on a cooking thing. 2. Add cheese. 3. Cook according to package directions but add 5 minutes. Seriously: the missus and I both had a busy week and are tired of cooking and eating out too. We saw those pizzas at the store, chuckled and thought what the heck?? 🤪

They already have here largely. I will say they seem to be out in the open fields, along roadsides or forest edges, not so much penetrating into the woods.

The problem is, in my experience, the root systems will send up suckers long after the tree is down. I've been spraying the suckers that come up from the ones I took out for a few years. It's getting to be less and less and maybe none this year, but they're a bugger to get rid of.

The area around me was developed 20+ years ago. I haven't been by any newer developments this week to see if they're still planting them. I hope not. It does seem like a lost cause here.

Each year there are more and more of these things around here. This year seems to be the worst I've ever seen by a bunch. The office park where I work has them planted around the campus, and they have expanded to the frontage road, highway edges and undeveloped areas nearby like crazy. There are several spots I drive past regularly near where I live that are currently white forests. Crazy, and it will only get worse. Does anybody else think this year is the worst ever by a large margin?

Myself, of course🤪 It was almost forgotten about a week ago. Then I walked into the lunchroom at the office and I hear this guy say, ‘It’s like that song ‘It’s hard to be humble.’’ I kid you not. Thanks a lot Jerry C!

Here’s what I’m listening to, and I’m not happy about it. It’s been running through my head, uninvited, for at least two weeks. Press play, if you dare😀

Enjoy your telephone!

I really love my Fujifilms but I bought both before in-body image stabilization was available. Being an old-school photographer, I’m wired to hold it steady, use something around me to stabilize or a mono/tripod. But I’m kinda tempted to upgrade for IBIS, more mp, better battery, film sims and other stuff. Let’s talk about something else please 😀

I’m not your man for that.

Let me see if I can explain this in terms you might understand 🤪 Enhanced image stabilization is achieved through coordinated control when Canon's RF lenses with optical IS are combined with the EOS R5 C camera's electronic IS when shooting XF-AVC or MP4 formats. With an RF lens that has optical IS and the electronic IS in the EOS R5 C camera, coordinated control helps achieve the optimum hand-shake correction effects. This helps achieve better anti-vibration performance than with conventional IS-equipped EF lenses (using optional Mount Adapter EF-EOS R) and electronic IS together. Back to me talking now: what the he77 is all that about?😀

Better than the excuse given by that scoundrel @ColdWaterFshr and his phony friend!🤪

Just got back from lunch with broom-wielding former bank president not 15 minutes ago! We've been friends for 40 years and counting. Get the work done, do some extra, have some fun too.

Dog? Cat?