Well,this sure wasn't your best day was it? Too bad you can't crawl under the porch with Dicken and have a few like in the olden days. Did the wren yell at you? They sure are noisy little suckers.Nice seeing you post,BF.

Thank you for sharing your day

Hitchhiking......wow. I never hitchhiked solo. When I was in second grade, I was adamant my mom attend parent/teacher conferences even though her car wasn't running. She couldn't talk me out of going and we ended up hitchhiking to the school. My teacher picked us up. I was too young to understand what the problem was.

I heard it is good luck for a bird to poo on you

Greetings dear one and good to see your face at the forum. Krista if a bird pooing on you is good luck, I'm 'in a good place'.

I still am intrigued with earth sheltered dwellings. I have a south facing hill on the property and have the back of one g'house rammed into it up to the windows on the north end. It's my kindest one for utility bills and the most comfortable in both winter and summer. Building a cob house is still on my bucket list and it would happen if I had water access handy on the new acreage. God knows I have the clay, hay and manure. LOL.

Do you have any canine companions yet?

An unmistakable style...

Life at the Garden Party continues :)

Although you describe a difficult day, I was glad to read this, as I caught your style and had been wondering what you were up to.

As calliope said, what the wren did is considered good luck, so today should be better for you.

I just had lunch---I ate every word you wrote.

Sorry for the unfortunate circumstances today, please just talk all you want---about anything, anything at all.

Bugfood, big smile here. :0) :0) :0)

Good to see the bugs haven't finished you off!!

Good to hear from you.

I really enjoyed this post! :) Made me smile!

Oh! I wondered why there was a post that looked like it was meant to bait someone into a food fight. Be careful BF, there are those who would love to see you banned.

Hey Buggy. Good to see you as usual. What a day!! You must be hurtin' pretty good after that adventure. Glad you made it back home despite all the.... setbacks.. smiles.

I don't get it plantphreak. How this post looks like bait... guess I'm missing something.. ah well. Not the first time. I think ignorance is desirable in this instance.

Good to see you, Bugfood! It's always a pleasure to have you drop in.

Not this post coconut, another one elsewhere begging for a food fight.

welcome back bugfood, always good to read your posts.

Bugfood, from what I've seen over the years, you've been provocative in your posts here at GP and trying to push the envelope to the max. Someone is talking "banning" again.
I enjoy your posts and I'd like to see more of them. Anyway to keep posting w/o getting banned and changing your ISP?

Huh? Clearly I missed something: after months of hardly any real conversation here (or so it seemed to me), suddenly an old friend reappears and is immediately dumped on? Over what? Evidently I wasn't reading that day . . .

Hi BF!

Bug Food,
Post more often 'cause we need the agile verbal banter that a synergistic combination of charismatics can produce. Might be nice to recreate the Mad Hatters. Would that it were John would come back, too.

What? "sysynergistic combination of charismatics can produce". What are you guys talking about?

West Gardener,you registered a couple of months ago but in an earlier post you said you've been reading BFs posts for years. If that's the case then you know you aren't going to always understand some of the conversations between him and Dorph. It goes with the territory...a very nice territory.Put a shortcut on your desktop to one of those online dictionaries. They are invaluable. I used mine yesterday to find out what a mammothrept was.

I wasn't dumping on him. I was warning him that there was a post that seemed to me to be baiting him to say something that would make the person who would love to see him banned for all eternity could report him for.

Is there anyone here who didn't totally misinterpret my post? I'll admit that I sometimes communicate with complex concepts, but I really don't think that this was so complex to be beyond the grasp of those with average intelligence.

I didn't. I totally knew you meant the other post Marilyn.

Bugfood! Good to see ya! Liked your post. It's so you.

Wow, it's like we're still in 1999 or thereabouts. Same folks have the same issues, speaking with the same cryptic vocabularies and hints of impending doom and gloom! lol

Good grief! Anybody who has the ingenuity and motivation to change ISPs and user names just to converse at the party is certainly welcome to ramble on, imho, without any cautionary comments. A good meandering through someone else's day is a much-welcomed part of what this forum is all about.

So anyway BF, are there doggie companions? Any good stories about the current pack?

Um.... sorry to tell you....

You now have about 50 - 60 housemates... we will hang onto every word you have, suggest easy to prepare foods you can fix, insist that you get a dog that will keep you busy and to talk to when we're not around, and in general, make sure you
don't get much peace and quiet in the near future...

Now and again, you may even get a hug.

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Good to see you, BugFood

Ohhh plantphreak... I thought that seemed odd coming from you. That's what I get for coming in and hit and run reading... smiles..

Think I need to park myself in my Party recliner and catch up for real.

Waves to the buggy one...

Me too. OK, now it makes sense, sorta.

OK; Buddy---you see how much you've been missed---don't be coy.

When I pick up beer bottles along the roadside while walking my daughter's dog, I've often thought of you.

When Bicycle Charlie comes and hangs out down by the river for the day, with his knapsack stuffed with food and beer, camoflauge jacket and wide brimmed, beat-up hat, I've wondered how you're doing.
I see him leave in the afternoon and wonder about you again. Solitary life, but happy enough and content with himself.
Your individual paths find their own routes when I remember the galaxies of separation in your thought processes and your particular ability to take any given day and turn it into an excerpt from a battered novel, which when opened, allows weathered pages of life-lived-on-the-edge to fall where they may. One has the choice to pick up a page or two and read them, or to leave them as they lay and continue on their way.
I have to chase them as they're blown about and catch what I can.
So much of this world is worded pablum, contrived situations passing for reality, cocooned lives rolling over those who have nothing between hurt and their vunerable skin.
You remind the reader life is to be lived and endured, to be celebrated and once again, endured.
And you never, ever sugar-coat it.

That is why I remember you.
That is why I will never, ever forget you.
You remind me of Richard Abbey---he got out before you did---not that he wanted to. I'll never forget him, either.

mwoods, OK.

mjmercer said "Good grief! Anybody who has the ingenuity and motivation to change ISPs and user names just to converse at the party is certainly welcome to ramble on, imho, without any cautionary comments."

It seems like so much work just to go to a garden party.

Bugfood, did you get the old Plymouth back to the swamp?

Kathy, How do you do that? "So much of this world is worded pablum, contrived situations passing for reality, cocooned lives rolling over those who have nothing between hurt and their vunerable skin." How? It's so intrinsically, indelibly etched and we may or may not see it, dare not say it. But you say it in a way that acknowledges it, soothes it, and washes it away. We're understood. You really get us, the human race.

Sorry to hijack.

I'm ready for a garden party, with my dictionary, synergistic,charismatics. Bring it on. :-)

Here is a link that might be useful: dictionary

west gardener, thanks for the dictionary link. I added it to my Favorites. I have an old Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (copyright 1963) on the bottom shelf of my computer table, but it's always got stuff on top of it. Having one on line will be much easier.

(That makes me sound rather lazy, doesn't it?) Oh well, sometimes, the truth hurts. :>)