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Let us gather 'round the Coffee Cart
Oh, yeah
Oh yeah
Let us gather 'round the Coffee Cart
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Let us gather 'round for coffee and tea
As one big cafe family
Let us gather 'round the Coffee Cart
Oh yeah
Oh yeah

(Sung to some vaguely gospel-sounding tune)

:giggle:

Good morning! Read Red's intro and felt inspired.
 
Mendalla said:
Let us gather 'round the Coffee Cart
Oh, yeah
Oh yeah
Let us gather 'round the Coffee Cart
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Let us gather 'round for coffee and tea
As one big cafe family
Let us gather 'round the Coffee Cart
Oh yeah
Oh yeah

(Sung to some vaguely gospel-sounding tune)

:giggle:

Good morning! Read Red's intro and felt inspired.
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Ode here?
 
If one searches for simple in a complex environment ... will one find little or near nothing?

May explain nihilism ... a great dark smear! may stand out as a dark abyss ... heaven being when you loose all intelligence, knowledge and sentient matter in some insubstantial way that you might miss ... minor voids? Some may be deep as an underground activity ... partisan as -ism? A rare few are all over it ... mad hatters!

Those beyond it are mad hares ... Ares it is ...
 
Redbaron said:
(are there any stories about grooms doing something similar?)
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I did know a lovely couple who married when in their 50s, after a decade long courtship. Second marriage for both. Sensible people. Accountant and a farmer. The groom insisted that the males in the wedding party wear custom-made John Deere T-shirts, in the appropriate colours, with the logo, and a bow-tie and suspenders and shirt ruffles printed on the front. Wedding pictures were framed around an antique JD tractor on the property. It was a LOT of fun.

It's a gorgeous morning here, and I actually got up early enough to listen to the East Coast Music Hour on CBC, which I enjoy.

And, this may not sound momentous, but I finished two things yesterday: i) cleared the house of the final cache of empties stashed during pandemic/depression, ii) sorted through one of many, many, many bookcases for culling (the resultant cull was only about 8 books, but it was an easily accessible one in the main part of the house, and only a half-height case - 3 shelves).
 
Great wedding story @BetteTheRed

Congrats on getting rid of the empties. The decluttering gurus often talk about starting with obvious trash, recycling and empties.

Sentimental items are the toughest category. Books and clothes are hard for some people.

Just remember decluttering is first. Organizing is second.
 
In a possibly interesting observation of choices, I chose to keep the very first book of poetry I was ever gifted, but culled the first cookbook I was ever given...
 
Sentimental items and stuff received as gifts were my hardest categories.

For clothes I got ruthless and donated every single thing that no longer fit. I still need to go shopping which I dislike.

We have one set of three bookshelves in the basement. We have always culled it when it got close to overflowing. About a year ago we turfed everything that we never looked at.

The room is now a combination book and toy library. Lots of space for the important things on the shelves
 
Books are going to be my downfall, is my current prediction. Which is a bit of a problem, as there are bookshelves, plural, in most rooms. I could start a very wyrd library. All you've ever wanted to know about 20th century ships and ship-building, every Time-Life series ever published, cookbooks everywhere, theology books and bibles every elsewhere and I was a Lit major and godchild of a high school librarian.
 
-10 here this morning which quickly got above zero with sunny blue sky. Just back from a walk to the store (Winners) to check if they have pink flamingo apron, but they didn’t have any aprons at all. Will check another store this afternoon before deciding to get fabric.
Do we need to reopen the decluttering and exercise threads- after all, it’s about spring?
I am working on looking at five to seven books a week to judge if I want to keep them or not. So there is a pile of books in front of my new bookshelf and they will not gain entry without approval.

Tomorrow, “Women talking” is in the local movie theatre to which I am planning to go with a friend.
 
Mrs.Anteater said:
-10 here this morning which quickly got above zero with sunny blue sky.
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Similar to here, but we are only supposed to get up to -1, though with the sun I imagine it will feel warmer. There was a bit of a wind chill when I was out shoveling after breakfast, though.

My personal book collection got pretty heavily pruned years ago. We have some nice book shelves in our den (a neighbour who did workworking built them) and they are full, but not much of it is mine anymore. We still have stuff from when Little M was small that could probably go to someone else with kids. Then again, with him in a stable relationship, maybe we should be hanging on to them for future use :whistle: .
 
BetteTheRed said:
Books are going to be my downfall, is my current prediction. Which is a bit of a problem, as there are bookshelves, plural, in most rooms. I could start a very wyrd library. All you've ever wanted to know about 20th century ships and ship-building, every Time-Life series ever published, cookbooks everywhere, theology books and bibles every elsewhere and I was a Lit major and godchild of a high school librarian.
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Books have a way of multiplying, that's for sure. I don't see anything wrong with a big collection if you like the vibe in your home. I personally would want to get it all organized and displayed nicely.

Don't pay any attention to the gurus who say we should chuck everything we haven't used in a year.
 
Hang on for future use @Mendalla. My four-year-old grandson has a favourite story book that was his mom's, given to her by her Grandma who died in 1999. When we read it, it is a beautiful connection with a Great-Grandma he doesn't know.
 
Mrs.Anteater said:
-10 here this morning which quickly got above zero with sunny blue sky. Just back from a walk to the store (Winners) to check if they have pink flamingo apron, but they didn’t have any aprons at all. Will check another store this afternoon before deciding to get fabric.
Do we need to reopen the decluttering and exercise threads- after all, it’s about spring?
I am working on looking at five to seven books a week to judge if I want to keep them or not. So there is a pile of books in front of my new bookshelf and they will not gain entry without approval.

Tomorrow, “Women talking” is in the local movie theatre to which I am planning to go with a friend.
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I thought "Women Talking" was the best movie I've seen seen in some time. I saw it last week, and I'm still thinking about it. I'll be interested in knowing what you think about it.
 
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