BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Oct 22 - 10:54 AM

Here's hoping that xxxxxxxxx and Stilly River Sage get to meet after all these years of online friendship.

Still smiling over Munich little-friend joshing from post weeks ago.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: MudGuard
Date: 18 Oct 22 - 02:11 PM

glad I made you smile ... :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Oct 22 - 02:50 PM

That's you all over, Keb. I didn't name names and you did. So I edited it.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Oct 22 - 11:10 AM

and refresh again


(I just typed refresch, how Teutonic of me ... )

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Oct 22 - 12:55 PM

Visit didn't happen, but I have a box to send one of these days to mark an occasion.

Fall is here, lovely weather, and we had some rain this week so the yard work is easier with the soil somewhat friable now.

This year I've made a point of eating more seasonal fruits and vegetables (partly for the cost, but mostly for the better flavor) and it is apple season in the US right now. That said, I have made a mental note to not buy Ambrosia apples again. Yuck. Way too sour, almost like eating a Jonathan apple raw. Not actually that bad, but it is one that I will reserve for cooking only.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Oct 22 - 03:41 PM

Happy Halloween / All Souls Night .

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: skarpi
Date: 08 Nov 22 - 11:27 AM

Hallo all, how are you ? I am fine still thought the Covid is uprising again :( , so watch out its not over yet.
still playing music, starting a new folk band here in the east, with a Scottish fiddle woman :)
also playing some country and bluegrass :)
along with my own music .

so live your live, it´s too short to not live it.

lot´s of love and kindness to you all.
all the best Skarpi Iceland .

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Nov 22 - 02:27 PM

Great to hear about the music in people's lives.
Maybe there will be music in mine next calendar year,
right now I have to do without.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: rich-joy
Date: 10 Nov 22 - 07:09 PM

Just wundrin what happened to PunkFolkRocker (and Little Hawk, for that matter) - I used to enjoy both their posts!!!

Cheers from Down Under :)
R-J

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: pattyClink
Date: 16 Nov 22 - 11:35 AM

Glad to hear an upbeat update from Skarpi! Let us hope the worst of the plague years are behind us very soon.

I continue to be an irresponsible traveler and adventurer in my old age, though a home base for a few months of the year is starting to look like a really good idea.

The mudcat singaround continues to be a lifeline that I am grateful to grab onto, when I am not stuck with bad signal strength or forced into traveling on Mondays. Did stumble onto a kindred soul in Missouri and we had a memorable campfire sing. Maybe there will be more of those as the pandemic subsides.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Nov 22 - 04:50 PM

I have several friends who travelled to Iceland last year and this, even with the COVID protocols. They shared great photos and they arrived home healthy. (I helped one friend shorten a pair of bib rain pants that she was taking along for hikes to waterfalls.) Good to hear from Skarpi every so often!

The seasons are changing and while it's snowing along the US northern tier, it's raining and occasionally freezing overnight in the south. There are two vehicle-housed sets of folks I follow - I'm interested in where Patty is ending up for the winter, and two other friends who fled Florida ahead of the most recent hurricane, headed this way.

After two years of progress our government is about to hit a standstill; the new Congress has no intention of doing anything useful so it feels like a dark time is descending (except that much of what Biden got passed was long term stuff and there will be work advancing on various infrastructure projects and cost reductions in health care.) It sounds like the climate talks that are concluding haven't done enough, as usual, but are doing better than they were during when the other guy was in office. It didn't help that our main representative caught COVID a few days ago.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Mrrzy
Date: 24 Nov 22 - 02:58 PM

Happy Thanksgiving! Remember to respect Indigenous Peple's Day while celebrating!

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: MudGuard
Date: 25 Nov 22 - 12:29 PM

still alive ...

The Munich representative of Mudcat
a/k/a MudGuard

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Nov 22 - 10:24 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Nov 22 - 09:21 AM

and refresh again

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Dec 22 - 11:05 AM

The 'Cat is back!

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Charmion
Date: 16 Dec 22 - 11:14 AM

From damp, grey Stratford, Ontario: After two and a half years of masks, vaccinations, hand-washing and general bullet-dodging, I finally caught COVID-19. It could be a hell of a lot worse, and definitely would be if I had not eagerly lined up for every needle on offer, but it’s been 12 days and I’m still a sneezing, sniffling, coughing mess with no relief in sight.

On the other hand, I am finally getting my money’s worth out of the fancy “smart” telly I bought when the old Sony bit the dust, and the cats are loving the many hours I spend in the comfy chair when I should be at the gym or choir practice, or taking a walk or just getting the groceries in.

The minimalist lifestyle currently in fashion has a certain appeal, especially when I contemplate dusting all the bookcases, but I’d hate to be quarantined in it!

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: JennieG
Date: 17 Dec 22 - 12:13 AM

That's a bummer, Charmion.

Neither Himself nor I have caught the covid bug, but there is so much around that I suspect we won't escape it forever.

Playing with the ukulele group tonight, our last gig for the year.....our gems include "I want a ukulele for Christmas" and "Santa never brings me a banjo"!

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Dec 22 - 07:13 PM

Refresh for the holidays
(from snowy New England)

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Dec 22 - 10:05 AM

Happy Christmas and keep those check-ins coming!

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Dec 22 - 10:36 AM

refresh for the New Year

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: MudGuard
Date: 29 Dec 22 - 04:37 PM

quite warm here in Munich for end of December.
I sat in the sun on my balcony for lunch ...
New Year's Eve is forecast to be the warmest New Year's Eve since they started recording the weather (about and even above 20°C) ...

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: MudGuard
Date: 29 Dec 22 - 04:41 PM

Strange UFO or nuclear cloud over Munich yesterday evening:
click to view

or is it just a cloud? ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Jan 23 - 09:55 AM

Beautiful sunset picture, MudGuard!

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Jan 23 - 12:35 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Mrrzy
Date: 10 Jan 23 - 09:35 PM

I still haven't caught it! Charmion, feel better!

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: pattyClink
Date: 10 Jan 23 - 11:04 PM

keb, I think a lot of us feel like, "well I'm not 'worldwide', who wants to hear from me'. But, we do, and I wish all the people in 'ordinary' spots would check in and tell us how it's going.

Doing well in the SW of the US, a place called Yuma, Arizona, where they grow all the romaine lettuce and lots of other salad-y things, and used to mine gold and things from the desert in days gone by. A refuge from colder climes, though the desert wind and dust storms can be fierce. But right now, a nice almost-perfect winter climate, where northern Yanks and Canadians can hide out til spring. Lucky and/or blessed to be able to do so.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Jan 23 - 12:13 AM

Some of our California Mudcatters should check in - it sounds like parts of the state are going to wash out to sea.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Jan 23 - 12:46 PM

By all means, let's hear from the California Mudcatters.
This Western Massachusetts Mudcatter is contented today
because the sun is shining, even though it's freezing outside.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Jan 23 - 01:07 PM

keep 'em coming.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Jan 23 - 07:59 PM

Most people here are pretending that Covid is gone but its not, its only more infectious but just as deadly. Sometimes I think that Covid was not sufficiently deadly so people acted in strange ways from the politically bizarre to the deadly denialism. However strange it has been a bad rehearsal for the next worse pandemic should it occur.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Mrrzy
Date: 25 Jan 23 - 02:49 PM

Aaaaand... I finally got Covid. So far it is like a head cold, only crappier.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jan 23 - 04:25 PM

Get well soon. The hospitals are at 80% capacity and vaccine deniers are bearing the brunt of the virus.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 25 Jan 23 - 04:55 PM

To quote a card I gave someone in the in the 70s & wished I'd kept -

words on the front GET WELL SOON/ words inside YOU'LL FEEL BETTER.

Hoping your crappy cold is not as bad as my worse-sore-throat-ever in Sept, when my entire diet for 2 days were painful sips of water & slurping on very mild sugary menthol lozenges!

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Charmion
Date: 26 Jan 23 - 09:48 AM

It’s snowing again in Stratford, after a weirdly warm January. In Ontario, winter without snow is

Get well, Mrrzy! I needed all of December to recover from COVID. The version you describe sounds like what I had — a messy head-cold that just won’t go the fuck away, plus tiredness and achy joints. Christmas with no sense of taste or smell was not very joyous, but I’m now back to normal (whatever that is). I hope you’re as fortunate.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Charmion
Date: 26 Jan 23 - 09:50 AM

I meant to say, in Ontario winter without snow means drought in spring and a lousy growing season.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Jan 23 - 10:02 AM

No snow here but plenty of rain. Drought is easier to cope with than flood like what happened in B.C. last year.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Charmion
Date: 26 Jan 23 - 10:49 AM

In the short term, drought leads to farm bankruptcies, Donuel. Long-term drought leads to wildfire.

Of the two, I’d rather have neither.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Mrrzy
Date: 26 Jan 23 - 03:01 PM

Ucky weather. Perfect for staying in quarantine.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Jan 23 - 03:15 PM

It's above freezing today, unless you factor in the wind chill --
and that wind is nasty today. Brrrrr.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Jan 23 - 11:17 PM

The swath of cold weather across the US has dribbled down into Texas after a few balmy days last week.

We didn't hear from any of the California folks in the last couple of weeks - I hope they are all ok.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Mrrzy
Date: 31 Jan 23 - 05:07 PM

Woot! Adult child is finally affiancé-ed!

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 31 Jan 23 - 08:07 PM

definitely worth cheering

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Jack Campin
Date: 01 Feb 23 - 08:05 PM

Anybody reading this in Auckland who is still above water with a working phone?

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Feb 23 - 10:29 AM

Anybody else in the deep freeze (sub-zero Fahrenheit)?

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Feb 23 - 02:59 PM

Hey, Mudcatters, we're back! That was a scary couple of days.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Mar 23 - 05:37 PM

Don't let this thread wither away. There's plenty of people whose check-in would be welcomed by all.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: MudGuard
Date: 03 Mar 23 - 03:39 PM

Munich outpost is still manned ...

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: C-flat
Date: 07 Mar 23 - 09:35 AM

A rare visitor these days but still here in the wintry North East UK

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Charmion
Date: 10 Mar 23 - 08:57 AM

It’s snowing again in southwestern Ontario.

Nothing unusual about that. We have shovels. We’re fine.