The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[Figgy1]

Yeah, we still have to get rid of the horses somehow and though there are only a few, there's apparently no market for horses. We don't really care either way about the money, but we can't even GIVE the suckers away. I'm putting it on FB...if anyone is willing to come and get them, they can HAVE them.

I'm wondering if @Wrangler-Rick would be interested in the horses

 

[Figgy1]

It's a mythical creature....it doesn't really exist. You believe in it until you have kids.

THNX that's what I thought

 

[Figgy1]

An acquaintance of mine just brought a few relatives back home with her from Puerto Rico. They live just outside San Juan in a nice area.
At best they were being told February before they MIGHT have power.

Same with one of our snowbirds they are planning on wintering here instead of Puerto Rico. Their house survived in pretty good shape but not expecting power until maybe spring. They had to go and buy a winter wardrobe for the first time in many years.

 

[Figgy1]

Just got back from DWifeys giant family Thanksgiving...!!!

My plate...!!!

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Oldest DDs vegan plate...vegan mashed potatoes, dressing, green bean casserole, and country fried tofu...yes, really...!

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A few shots of the venue and folks...the empty looking tables are people still getting food...!

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And, on the way back home, when we drove past the airport, the red gyro had just landed and was taxiing...!!!!!!!

Country fried tofu. recipe please

 

[Figgy1]

Well....what the heck is Canadian Ketchup?

Canadian Tourtiere with Canadian Ketchup

Does it say excuse me andeh and come with cheese curds

 

[Figgy1]

We're just starting to see the vacuum qualities in our boys...lordy...eating us out of house and home!

Sympathy like. i hope they don't perfect it like my boys have.

 

[Figgy1]

Part 4!

After leaving the Old town of Tula, we decided to return.

The Trip went into a weird way as our Tour operator surely was in a hurry to return.
No seriously, this guy was going at 160KM/h in a 90Km/h highway.
Not fun. My mother had to tell him to slowdown a few times... No idea why he had that much of a hurry.
Anyway he left us in front of our Hotel. It was dark already and we decided to return, get ready and then go to eat dinner.

I was too tired so decided to just eat some KFC which was right in the main plaza.
Then returned to the hotel. My mom and Sister went to a coffee store and had some fresh coffee and biscuits.

We had a bit of trouble getting in bed as we only had 2 beds at the moment. So we were pretty tight space wise x_x

NEXT DAY:

Anyway we woke up pretty early since we had to rush to breakfast in the other hotel (the one we were didnt have breakfast facilities, so we had to go to the hotel that was infront of the plaza (in the other side), and use our tickets to get free complementary buffet).
Kinda weird to have to do such kind of things. But it was the same owner of the hotel, just different name.

Once we were done with breakfast which was ok.
We returned to clean up, and get ready.
I packed up all my gear (camera wise) and we waited for our next tour operator.

It was the same car and we got together with another car which was supposed to do a similar ride.
We talked with this tour operator (which was way trained and he apologized for the behaviour of the inexperienced one). We drove for 1 hour approximately all the way in the mountains until we reached the famous Prismas Basalticos (Basaltic Prisms).

Which is a Lava formation that was expelled from a nearby caldera and got cold by nearby water pool, making these lava condense in the formation they have, mostly hexagonal.

They formed a small canyon with water moving in the middle forming 2 very sharp shasms full of these kinda weak towering prisms.

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Note the left, these prisms were more than 20 meters tall and were slowly damaged, cut down or simply wore down by time and water to form the current formations.

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They built areas to enjoy the view on both sides, including a "puente colgante", aka a suspended bridge.

This area is heavily touristic, mostly for events. Its full of stores and restaurants and counts as a private/national park. they charge you entrance. Not very expensive and worth it.

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Interestingly, the area suffers constant collapse as these pillars by nature have "gaps" between each other.. causing some of them to be very brittle. and once they "unglue" or suffer a fracture.. its simply a matter of time until they collapse.

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So, you must wonder why "Prisms" ?

When you get close to a wet pillar from the top. The different minerals cause them to show different colours. Like it was made of prisms.

It of course depends on the water and the sun.
The effect was not very visible.

Have some Panoramas and images of the area.

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On the left, the waterfalls (3)and the chasms of prisms, in the bottom the "kisser's waterfall", on the right the infamous miner Ex Hacienda de Santa Maria de Regla. a hacienda who for hundred of years abused slaves and "workers" in horrible conditions for the extraction of gold and silver. (more of this in the following posts).

View attachment 245484 The bottom of the mini canyon.

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The smallest waterfall of them. Gets very big as its depends mostly on rains.
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They warn you to not climb the prisms as they are very unstable.
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The water also has not only power... but also its kinda contaminated.
Some fun moron decided to connect the drainage of a housing complex they built, right into the river that feeds a nearby lake, which in turn feeds the prisms's waterfalls.
On the bad side, the water is green and is kinda polluted.
On the good side, the water does not smell (probably treated a bit before it hit the lake).

As I've said before if I ever hit the lottery I'm going to hire you as our vacation photographer

 

[MinnieM123]

A few shots of the venue and folks...the empty looking tables are people still getting food...!

That looks like an entire town, not just one family?! Food looks delish!!

 

[Figgy1]

Ahh guilt. Are you Catholic also?

Yup, even have a few relatives that are clergy.

 

[Figgy1]

That looks like an entire town, not just one family?! Food looks delish!!

Whole town or my boys for an hour

 

[Figgy1]

My allergies wouldn't withstand a real tree in the house. I don't touch them even outdoors.

Sympathy like. They don't bother any of us so I don't understand why my dh doesn't want one

 

[Figgy1]

Figmentfan423 said: "I'm feeling a bit guilty this morning" It was attached to my photo of St. Patrick's Cathedral.
Yeah....I was curious about that post too.
Spill the beans @figmentfan423

It was too windy and I had to take care of a long list of items so I stayed inside nice and warm.

 

[Figgy1]

Sigh.. My bad luck started to row again (first world problems)..

1. Went to the movie theatre.. they gave me a broken hotdog platter, so when I was grabbing it, my food flipped and I ended staining my shorts with tons of mustard.
2. Returned in time to get a notification that my payment was declined on my Amazon purchase.
3. Amazon was suddenly refusing all my credit cards with no reason. I was p***ed (2nd time it happened this year). So I decided to cancel the order and renew. No problem right? NOPE...
4. The product disappeared from the list. So now I had no discount nor any monthly payments(no interest). The only available vendors only had full price.. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. So no upgrade for me.

{{HUGS}}

 

[Figgy1]

Have you seen some of the lights at Uni Florida. I wanta go!

Your boys would love it! They are dabbling their feet into competing inch by inch.

I wish Disney would consider doing something like this with their holy rock formation called FLE Mountains. That could be warm and fuzzy. The loss of Osborne could be made up here easily.

So much lost potential. They can draw some of the over crowding from the hub.
Did you see Saturday when the Cast lost crowd control over the 'savior' the new hub? The guest revolt? They took took over the hub and all the forbidden walkways cause there was nowhere for them to go and held their ground. Crazy nuts. We saw this during Hurricane Irma. Keep putting more and more in a hub that doesn't have the square footage to accommodate no matter how they try to pretend it does. My call, spread it out. I want to see how Sunset works for DHS, that street and area is so narrow.

We need to run away from home together. A few nights at Portofino sounds nice

 

[MinnieM123]

I'm wondering if @Wrangler-Rick would be interested in the horses

That's a really good suggestion. We haven't heard from him on the forums for a while; hopefully, he checks in from time to time.

 

[MinnieM123]

Have you seen some of the lights at Uni Florida. I wanta go!

Wow--nice holiday lighting display!!

 

[Figgy1]

I'm already broke and then I see this

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

Firefox is part of the Mozilla Foundation (which makes a few other open source software )

Chrome is.. well.. part of the Alphabet of Google.


Indeed.

I just facepalmed as some of the parts I bought on amazon.. have HIGHER discount today!
Should have waited.
The good thing is Amazon always price matches.
So already contacted them.

Thanks for this information!

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

Just got back from DWifeys giant family Thanksgiving...!!!

My plate...!!!

View attachment 245387

Oldest DDs vegan plate...vegan mashed potatoes, dressing, green bean casserole, and country fried tofu...yes, really...!

View attachment 245388

A few shots of the venue and folks...the empty looking tables are people still getting food...!

View attachment 245389
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And, on the way back home, when we drove past the airport, the red gyro had just landed and was taxiing...!!!!!!!

Is DWifey's family so big that you guys all need name tags? Wow!!

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

Part 4!

After leaving the Old town of Tula, we decided to return.

The Trip went into a weird way as our Tour operator surely was in a hurry to return.
No seriously, this guy was going at 160KM/h in a 90Km/h highway.
Not fun. My mother had to tell him to slowdown a few times... No idea why he had that much of a hurry.
Anyway he left us in front of our Hotel. It was dark already and we decided to return, get ready and then go to eat dinner.

I was too tired so decided to just eat some KFC which was right in the main plaza.
Then returned to the hotel. My mom and Sister went to a coffee store and had some fresh coffee and biscuits.

We had a bit of trouble getting in bed as we only had 2 beds at the moment. So we were pretty tight space wise x_x

NEXT DAY:

Anyway we woke up pretty early since we had to rush to breakfast in the other hotel (the one we were didnt have breakfast facilities, so we had to go to the hotel that was infront of the plaza (in the other side), and use our tickets to get free complementary buffet).
Kinda weird to have to do such kind of things. But it was the same owner of the hotel, just different name.

Once we were done with breakfast which was ok.
We returned to clean up, and get ready.
I packed up all my gear (camera wise) and we waited for our next tour operator.

It was the same car and we got together with another car which was supposed to do a similar ride.
We talked with this tour operator (which was way trained and he apologized for the behaviour of the inexperienced one). We drove for 1 hour approximately all the way in the mountains until we reached the famous Prismas Basalticos (Basaltic Prisms).

Which is a Lava formation that was expelled from a nearby caldera and got cold by nearby water pool, making these lava condense in the formation they have, mostly hexagonal.

They formed a small canyon with water moving in the middle forming 2 very sharp shasms full of these kinda weak towering prisms.

View attachment 245452
Note the left, these prisms were more than 20 meters tall and were slowly damaged, cut down or simply wore down by time and water to form the current formations.

View attachment 245454
They built areas to enjoy the view on both sides, including a "puente colgante", aka a suspended bridge.

This area is heavily touristic, mostly for events. Its full of stores and restaurants and counts as a private/national park. they charge you entrance. Not very expensive and worth it.

View attachment 245455

Interestingly, the area suffers constant collapse as these pillars by nature have "gaps" between each other.. causing some of them to be very brittle. and once they "unglue" or suffer a fracture.. its simply a matter of time until they collapse.

View attachment 245456

View attachment 245457


So, you must wonder why "Prisms" ?

When you get close to a wet pillar from the top. The different minerals cause them to show different colours. Like it was made of prisms.

It of course depends on the water and the sun.
The effect was not very visible.

Have some Panoramas and images of the area.

View attachment 245483
On the left, the waterfalls (3)and the chasms of prisms, in the bottom the "kisser's waterfall", on the right the infamous miner Ex Hacienda de Santa Maria de Regla. a hacienda who for hundred of years abused slaves and "workers" in horrible conditions for the extraction of gold and silver. (more of this in the following posts).

View attachment 245484 The bottom of the mini canyon.

View attachment 245485
The smallest waterfall of them. Gets very big as its depends mostly on rains.
View attachment 245486
They warn you to not climb the prisms as they are very unstable.
View attachment 245487
The water also has not only power... but also its kinda contaminated.
Some fun moron decided to connect the drainage of a housing complex they built, right into the river that feeds a nearby lake, which in turn feeds the prisms's waterfalls.
On the bad side, the water is green and is kinda polluted.
On the good side, the water does not smell (probably treated a bit before it hit the lake).

Soooo AMAZING. Love your pictures and your explanations! I cannot believe they built housing so close to that area.

I bought DS a 12 pack of socks.

Socks make good presents in my house as they always disappear.