A2K time zones: What's the time where you are & what are you up to?

9:28 am, Wednesday 2nd June, Melbourne:

Fell asleep on the couch again last night (Gotta stop doing that!) & woke up around 3:30 am. A quick peak at A2k. (I hadn't turned my computer off, thinking I'd be awake for a while yet.) Followed by a couple of posts around 4:45 am. Sometimes you've gotta wonder about yourself! It all seems a bleary recollection now. Today: I think a good, long walk sounds a good idea. Weather permitting.

Good to hear from Walter in Austria.

It's looking like this thread is almost at it's end. Thank you to everyone who participated. It's been terrific. I've loved reading about your doings & when you're doing them!

Oh, no, Msolga. I suspect that this is going to be one of those threads that goes and goes.

You think so, RJB?
Maybe we're going through a bit of a slow period?

So, whatcha up to then? What's the time?

5:40 p.m. 84 degrees F. we just finished off a pizza. starting to get baby tomatoes in the garden. Lady Diane spent the afternoon getting eye exam, other than beginnings of cataracts no problems. I need to do the same. really need to get the cooling system turned on.

nearly a quarter to eight, Tuesday evening, Toronto

listening to As It Happens on the radio, relaxing, getting ready to call hamburger/hamburgboy on the phone

eating some corn bread crackers with a piece of Emmenthaler

temp's about 24 celsius. not bad, but I prefer the evenings to be cooler.

7:53 pm on Tuesday, June 1st. A heavy downpour just as I started to gas up my van. $2.69 per gallon. Down from $2.78 a week ago.
A flurry of emails yesterday - which was a holiday - between real estate agents and me and a buyer for my house property. It looks like it is done. But my agent failed to come in with the contract today as promised. It could fall apart, I guess.

7:03 in warm, sunny Tulsa, OK...

Fed SonofEva early so he could go to a leadership seminar at 6 p.m. Hubby got home about a half-hour ago and is resting. We'll throw together a dinner for ourselves in a little bit. There's some leftover grilled chicken, pesto sauce, and boiled new potatoes in the fridge. Maybe some fresh tomatoes and kalamata olives on the side. Yeah, I think I'll do that.

86 degrees F here west of the Rio Grande River in Albuquerque, 83 in the house, at 6:14 pm.
I need to go out and water some plants..
dinner will be salad of lettuces, thin sliced raw brussels sprouts, some previously cooked broccoli spears, a bit of left over cooked potato, with blue cheese dressing, some kalamata olives, some pumpkin seeds. And then back to my Bertolucci movie.

GUESS WHAT TIME IT IS?
It's story time. Feel free to scroll to the next post.
I bought my house at 600 West Rio (long "i") in 1976. $26k as I recall. Cool place. One story wood frame built in around 1930 on half an acre. Wood stove heat. Tin roof.
Rio Road was a mere two lanes. It was the Charlottesville-Harrisonburg plank road back in the mid 1800's, crossing the Blue Ridge Mountains at Swift Run Gap, connecting the east side of the mountains to the settlements to the west, in the Shenandoah Valley.
Just a mile to the north, along the Rivanna River, was the Rio Mill. There, at some point in the Civil War, there was a "skirmish" where Union troops under General Custer accidentally ran into some Confederate troops. Some shooting. A mule died.
Charlottesville surrendered to whichever force came through.
At some point in the war, a large number of Hessian soldiers were captured in, I believe, PA. They were marched south and then, with provisions but no guards, were told to keep going until they got to my back yard where they lived out the war and married the daughters of their "enemies."
I digress. I do that a lot.
Rio Road was a sleepy two-lane road. Ching The Wonder Dog would go out in the morning with no tether and would hang out all day with Shep who lived next door. He was a really, really stupid dog
I bought the "cottage" where Shep lived. It had actually been a country store at some point from 1930-1950, with my house being the store owner's place.
And then, over a period of time, I bought another parcel and another. Some 5 acres in total on what is now a 5 lane Rio Road.
Technically, I have a couple of kinfolk partners. They have been very patient with me as I break every pledge to unwind this.
We have split the property into a few pieces to put on the market. The part with the big house was, in my mind, the toughest sell. Zoned now for offices, the land was too large for the potential income from the existing structure and, due to code, nothing more can be built because of parking.
Anyone still reading?
And then there are the oaks. Two of them. 8 feet apart. Huge trees. Two people hugging either can't come close to touching fingers.
I like to say that there is an old indian saying (or at least there ought to be) "An oak tree takes 100 years to grow, 100 years to live and 100 years to die."
I have spent a lot of money over the last 30+ years making sure that those trees were well cared for under my watch.
So I got an offer that was very fair from a sole practitioner dentist. They seem to share my vision.
If it works out, I can still live elsewhere on the property for as long as I want.

10 PM ET Tuesday

Sounds good..

Yes, it does. And I enjoyed reading the story. Every word of it.

09:30 Austrian Summer Time. Raining cats and dogs. Leaving the hotel soon, going with a 'reaction ferry' from here across the Danube (just some yards away) to the other side, meeting my cousin there, and then 'explore' local cafés and restaurants, castles and museums, or whatever ..

It sounds very a very romantic setting & a very wet one, Walter!
Enjoy your explorations!

6:10 pm, Wednesday 2nd June, Melbourne:

Got home from a 5 km walk about an hour ago. I think I should have organized myself better today, so a longer walk was possible. But never mind, 5 km is better than no walk at all. I noticed yesterday that my jeans belt is taking an extra notch to do up. Hmmm ... & it's only day 2 of winter. Do I want to become a Super Roly Poly Person this winter? Not really. Better keep walking on a fairly regular basis then.

Bought a tuna steak at my local market in the last stages of my walk home. I'm just about to cook it for dinner, along with potatoes (& either broccoli, or beans, I'll see) in just a moment.

No falling asleep on the couch (nicely curled up under a warm rug) tonight! Work tomorrow. Gotta have a proper night's sleep! So early to bed tonight.

10:00 AM in the Northern California paradise. A glass of fresh orange juice & a cup of strong coffee fortified me for a couple of business calls. Then 40 minutes on the elliptical machine & a shower. Now off to the airport to pick up my sons flying in from Miami and Washington respectively; afternoon and dinner at home then up early tomorrow for a long weekend with them at the Bohemian Grove.

really George I would have never figured you for a Bohemian.

More irony from Dys. I've been one for almost 30 years now.

yeah George I've read about the bohemian club, that's where men go to drink beer and piss in the woods.

That's part of the story. Add great food, wine, entertainment (music, lectures, discussions) and fellowship - all in beautiful surroundings.