The Official Good morning thread!

[jen]

Good Morning ..Aaahhh!  To Nova Scotia Bay of Fundy ...Highest Tides in the world..53 feet tidal water...and wonderful friendly people!

I love driving there. 

[Gwbarm]

Thats a big one! I wanted to tell those guys, good luck getting that in your van.

[jen]

The Burmese Python is huge.  However, the African Rock Constrictor is smaller but very aggressive.  It is somewhat common in semi urban areas around Miami.     Dade Fire dept used to have ..probably still do ..have a special response team for constrictor attacks.

The big constrictors have a high mercury level and it is not recommended that they be eaten. The Nile Monito lizzard  gets up to 8 ft long. Its main attack is to sweep you with its tail breaking your legs with one swipe. Those were in some James Bond movies.  They are as far north as Kissimmee, FL 

THere is a winter ...January snake Rodeo also.

BTW there are no snakes on the Island of Bermuda and they keep it that way. 

[jen]

GOOOOD  MOOOORRRRING  Space Coast Florida!!!  New Smyrna Beach  No.1 shark attack beach in the world.  Space coast Lightning strike deaths another just this week  OMG

Undertow drownings  ...we have all been there got caught in undertows.  But we love  the spaces Coast  Banana River Phosphorescent night tour ! Paddle board and count the sting rays swimming underneath your board.

Or just enjoy the surf

[jen]

Good Mooorrrning  Saskatoon, Canada  Saskatchewan is beautiful at night with Great Resturantants.  The evaporative salt mining is an interesting process But Saskatoon is No. 1 in world potash producer and No. 2 in uranium production.   Beautiful countryside farms. Great friendly people.

Oh yes...could be minus 50 F in winter. 

[jen]

Good morning to the Island Shaped like a woman....Maui

Take a ride along the west coast and swim with the locals...Great bunch of Guys at Kaanpali beach (hope i spelled that correctly).  But the bike ride down from the 9000 ft volcano is a bomb>!!!  Take extra clothes ...I started out in my swim suit... OMG but some girls loaned me a jacket.

[jen]

GOOOOD Morinnnng Y'all in South Indiana.  Great fishing in the strip mine ponds. And the nights in Little Nashville...OMG A girl can get in trouble there with all those handsome guys!!  I think Hosier came from "Whose's your Daddy Now....LOL.....

[Gwbarm]

Just got back from Florida also, Pensecola, home of the Blue Angels, you dont even want to know how many people were down there for the show. Five hrs to go 20 miles to the Perdido Key where we had a condo. Great time didnt see any sharks but many dolphins.

[jen]

GOOOOD MOrning  Gander Newfoundland!  Wow just arriving at the airport is such a thrill knowing the tradition of Gander people.  Opening their homes to the 7,000 people stranded there on 9/11 !   

On the wall of the airport is a picture of B-17 Flying fortresses lining the runway during WII.  Still today it is the GO-TO airport for aircraft in trouble during transatlantic flights.

BTW Women pilots did the B-17 ferrying...Just saying LOL

And the Salmon OMG ! I got  the salmon tongue at dinner. 

[jen]

Moving down the warm Golf stream current from Gander, NF.  Good Morning Bermuda!   Only 600 miles off the coast of N Carolina.  Beautiful pink sand beaches.

My hotel was in old part of town.  The shower and rest room was down the Hall...That was different.  Hotel had cozy bar and restaurant.  Men do  not have to wear a coat and tie  in the restaurants any more... but but jeans and tennis shoes... NO you have to eat at the bar.   I don't do  Bermuda Chowder either.

Shirtless in public except at beaches will get you in trouble.  Oh yes there is no fresh water on Bermuda....Cisterns collect rain water.

No car rentals ...scoter rentals... but me I taxi... they drive on the wrong side of the road

[jen]

Buenos dias  Tequila, Mexico  and beautiful high desert (5,000 Ft AMSL) Fields of Agave plants that feed the distilleries in Tequila. Just north of Guajajara (Mucho Parties) and south of Ixtlan Del Rio lava 6,000 AMSL fields.

Friday nights bring back memories of that "OMG she is dancing on the table Tequila."

[jen]

Good Morning Tennessee... New Home of the  In-and Out' burgers Corp office...OMG

Whenever I was in Cailfornia or Vegas would find an In & Out burger restaurant The Founder (a woman, had to mention that) is moving from California with the corporate office and her family to Tennessee.   Wow   Maybe we will get an In&Out  in Florida.

[jen]

Yes, and  the In&Out burger has an unpublished menu  Try the Animal French Fries.   To Die for!

[jen]

Good Morning Lexington, KY  Horse capital of the world.  It is the only place I have seen Boeing 747 horse transports.  There are horse farm tours all over Lexington. A beautiful city,  There are a lot of atv trails that are beautiful in the fall.

[jen]

Goood MMMORRRNING Ohio State Fair in Columbus , Ohio!  Huge agricultural private and Yes 4 H exhibits.  The Hog show is my favorite.

 The Hogs now-adays don't look anything like my 4 H Tamworth Hog the neighbor gave me when I was a kid.  Trace Adkins is appearing this year 🥰.

[jen]

Gooood Morining (Its afternoon there now) Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo....The US Army and KFOR Flags still fly over Pristina below.  You are the anchor of protection in the Balkans yet today.  I remember the huge expansive, unbreeched 'Kill zone' around the Camp.

[jen]

Gooood Morning Devil's Den FLA....Take a dip in the crystal clear subterrain water and picnic at their great accommodations..

Located off US 27 (US 27 is a beautiful drive through Old Florida) and above the Ocala Forest there is Gret ATV areas around that area.

[Gwbarm]

Very peaceful beautiful place.

[jen]

it's privately owned. so picnicking allows alcohol or it did when I was there. Very congenial owners..   They limit the number of people in the water so that's nice. With temperatures in the upper 90's here in Fla. it is a retreat .

[jen]

GOOOOOD MOrning  Valley of Fire Nevada!   Leave the gambling behind and do something you can win at.  (I don't gamble. Life is risky enough)

Head north on US 15 a few miles to the State Park Valley of Fire.. A lot of history there.  Prehistoric cave drawings.  I hiked it but ATV's have great tours.

[jen]

I assumed you knew this is just above Las Vegas. ABTW...watch where you step ..there are some pretty big rattle snakes 'in them hills'.

[jen]

Good Morning and Buenos Dios San Juan

My hotel was in the "Tourist Compound area " ...OMG but close by the Cock Fight Bar.  Definitely a Testosterone guy thing; but What a blast !

 I was working but had time to have fun.  Check out the Rainforest ATV guided tours...

[jen]

GoooD Moorning Las Vegas…”Viva,🎵Viva Las Vegas!”   I Love Elvis Presley. 

As you depart for home, your plane may climb out to the west. Below, the sun may shine brilliantly on Red Rock Cayon below.   Great Hiking and  4X4 tour area.

Don’t go near the Wild Burros they are mean!

But to the south from your plane look for Mt Potosi.  It rises up high and  overlooks the Red Rock Cayon. High on Mt Potosi are the remains of a DC3 that crashed in 1942 embedded in the mountain.

Horse drawn wagons (there were no roads then) and men hurried to the mountain. After a day or so of laborious climbing they reached the crash site. 

Clark Gable waited in anguish alone at the restaurant nearby on word of his wife Carol Lombardy who was on board the fatal flight. All were lost ..Requiescat in Pace  Carol Lombardy et al.

[Gwbarm]

I have been many times, it is beautiful once you get out of the city the country side is breathtaking.

[jen]

Hey, Good Morning Butcher Holler Kentucky.  I had to go there. It is a Pilgrimage for some of us.  The road back there is narrow one lane most of the way. It is lined with local folk who tolerate the visitors.  It's not a house it's a home.  You can tell.  It is beautiful. The picture herewith is from the internet but it's exactly how the house looks from the road across the ravine.  I can just imagine Lorretta Lynn playing in the yard when she was a child. 

[jen]

GOOOD moroning PEI,...Aeghh!   Prince Edward Island the smallest province in Canada but arguably the most beautiful. Located on the Gulf of St Larwence you cannot go far on the Island without seeing the ocean. Been there several times ( The airport has signs printed in Japanese as there are so many tourists from Japan) go figure. But every time go I am impressed by the friendly people and the spectacular scenery.  Never seen the whales. Darn it.

But the first time OMG will never forget!  Girls always remember the first time...  my first boyfriend , First date  First real kiss..wow but PEI was my first ...

time I tasted TIM HORTONS COFFEE!   Heaven be blessed i was addicted.  I get regular orders from Amazon so I ever run out.  I buy bens and use a Burr grinder

Toujours Frais

[jen]

Goood Morning Dog Days!

Wow it is the middle of the heat of Dog Days…OMG.  Back home they have gone from Dandelion greens and asparagus just a few weeks ago to now fresh Half Runner green beans, corn on the cob, zucchini, onions, and strawberries.   Get out the canner.  Snapping beans all morning under the shade tree,  Home made ice cream on Sunday after church and sleeping next to an open window at night to stay cool.

Chicken at every meal as we had to eat the old chickens as the new White Rock layers were starting to lay eggs.   I hated plucking old chickens, but I loved the egg yokes, liver and hearts floating in the gravy.

Ten (10) gallon crocks of sauerkraut stinking up the house.  Check the moon signs before making kraut or cutting your nails.

And the kids are picking Blackberries along the fence row,  Watch out for copperheads as they are blind during Dog Days and will strike at anything that moves.

BTW Dog Days is a remnant tradition of the Holy Roman Empire.

[Gwbarm]

Reading your post brought back lots of memories of days gone by. When i was a kid my grandfather owned a dairy farm they had 7 kids so when the crops came in everyone came, lots of cousins and we all sat around shelling peas and butterbeans and shucking corn and of course there were several homemade ice cream freezers going at once and the boys got to turn the crank,  there were also several water melons in the creek. To get them cold.

As far as the chickens go i still laugh about this when i think about it, grandma sent me out to get a chicken i was probably 9 , she told me just how to do it, catch the chicken grab him by the neck swing him around, she called it ringing his neck, then throw him on the ground, so i finally caught a chicken, easier said than done, i did just what she told me threw him down and he just got up and ran off. Of course they were all hiding around the corner watching me and laughing. They knew what was going to happen just a whole family of pranksters. So the next day grandpa sent me out to the barn to get him a skyhook, i didnt really know what a skyhook was but i was sure i had seen one in there, so i got what i thought would certainly be it and i brought it to him, he said thats not it , how am i going to hook that to the sky, my response was i thought you would know. Those were great times with family that will live forever in my memory, so enjoy yours, its the most fun you will ever have.

[quadmaniac]

@jen those are some pretty cool trips. Great pics. 
 

Edited August 2, 2025 by quadmaniac

[jen]

Goood Morning Mr. Florida Snapper turtle...Came across this guy crawling out of a pond this morning while on my morning bike ride. stopped and got his pic.  I made the mistake one day of trying to move a snapper off the road when i was bike riding.  He almost got me.  (Florida law says you must move gofer turtles off road if you see them. They are endangered due to Venereal disease...WTH..LOL)

This guy will take you finger clean off with one bite.   His jaw force is 1,000 psi