Hey Lounge! How's it going tonight for ya???

[Denninmi]

Good, bad, in between. Anything interesting happening?

[HopeHoops]

1. I've got tempeh and veggies marinating and have to cook them now. While we eat...

... we'll watch the second half of a James Bond movie on LaserDisc (forget which one - has a hot chick in it).

[Denninmi]

2. Dinner sounds good, HopeHoops.

James Bond movie with an attractive woman. Well, that narrows it down to ... all of them.

Which actor did you like best as James Bond?

[HopeHoops]

3. Bronson - no contest. Moore was like Clooney as Batman - didn't work.

[Denninmi]

4. Yeah, I agree. Pierce Brosnan was pretty much the living image of James Bond.

And he would have done the movies much sooner, I read, except he was under contract for 'Remington Steele' and some other stuff that prevented him from being James Bond for a number of years.

Moore, well, for one thing, he was kind of old towards the last of them. Can I say that without sounding "ageist"?

[HopeHoops]

7. Pardon the language, but Moore was a pussyfart. He just didn't fit the role at all.

And seriously, "Octopussy"? I've never seen it, but WTF? And "Moonraker" sucked.

[pinboy3niner]

5. Tonight? It's almost 3:45pm Pacific, dude. Open your blinds!

[Denninmi]

6. Well, not here.

It's practically dark out already. You left coasters are just soooooo behind us!

OK, so I exaggerated just a bit, sunset is about 2 hours away, give or take a few minutes.

[pinboy3niner]

8. You can't fool us

We know your garden is still in full sunlight and looking beautiful, as always.

But getting up for those early AM walks may be shortening your day...

[Denninmi]

9. Actually, my garden mostly looks like crap.

This was one of the worst years I ever remember due to weather. 90s in MARCH, 20s in late April, things froze. Then we baked in June and July with almost zero rain.

August has been a little more kind and moderate. But the damage has been done.

Of the biggest indirect problems was that the heat and drought caused a tremendous spider mite bloom, and those afflicted many plant species I've not seen them on. So a lot of ugly looking things.

[pinboy3niner]

10. Sorry to hear that

Your garden pics were beautiful, and much appreciated by many of us here.

Count your blessings, though--you don't EVEN wanna hear about all my dead houseplants. When the heat hit, it was like a massacree!

[Kali]

11. you think your garden looks like crap?

first we got some rain last month and the pigweed grew like crazy, then we had a hot dry spell and a biblical invasion of grasshoppers

this was a couple days into it - a small peach tree that had 7 peaches a week or so from ripe:





here is a few more days - not even a whole week - took them about 5 days to completely defoliate the tree and consume 7 peaches.




bastards left me 2 seeds




they took EVERYTHING in the garden except a watermelon vine