<p>Do we have a Marmot cocktail?</p>
<p>Or is the Fuzzy Navel enough?</p>
<p>Fuzzy Navel
Ingredients
3 oz Peach Schnapps
3 oz Orange Juice
Instruction
Combine the orange juice and Schnapps, and pour it over ice in a highball glass. Garnish the drink with an orange slice. </p>
<p>I will drink a Fuzzy Navel in honor of SBmom’s return from the Big Apple. Or maybe an Appletini? </p>
<p>So many virtual drinks. So little time.</p>
<p>Ah! Sex and the City has made the cosmopolitan the Manhattan drink to me.</p>
<p>Momof3sons: I love your kick line! I can actually see them doing it too!</p>
<p>Continuing bulletins from spring in Northern California.</p>
<p>Isn’t it just so great to be alive sometimes? This is the kind of day where my mother would have nosed all us kids outdoors like a dog shoving its puppies around. Get out! Get out! Go play outside!</p>
<p>All you sinners, leave the lights on! And take a lap out in the California sun! I send it to you!</p>
<p>Birds are chirping, and the creeks, which will dry to dust and rocks come summertime, are running. There’s enough water that ducks can turn upside down looking for food. And they do.</p>
<p>The bicyclists are out and about. In throngs of spandex, leaving odd wisps of conversation in their wake. “Yeah, he’s bound to make the call…”. Kids are riding Big Wheels down the sidewalks. Doctor and nurses are walking to work at the hospitals, walking down the sidewalks in their scrubs. People are running, wearing tights, and baseball caps, and their sweatshirts tied around their waists and bouncing because it just got too warm to keep them on.</p>
<p>The produce hasn’t yet really caught up. It’s still about tangerines at Whole Foods. Although the varieties of fresh mushrooms are starting to multiply, brought by the rains which for now have stopped.</p>
<p>No one’s grilling food outdoors yet. That will be the next sign. The smell of the grill and the cries of the kids playing spring soccer once the fields dry out. And the organic strawberries will start to pile up at the market.</p>
<p>But for now, it’s spring. I had to brush the cherry blossoms off my jacket yesterday, thinking they were lint.</p>
<p>I believe I will sweep out the Alley. Prepare to rouse, all you sleepers under the tables. Prepare to rouse.</p>
<p>Smooches to all because sometimes life is just good.</p>
<p>Yay for the spring in Alumother’s step.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>I always officially inaugurate grilling season on the first day of Daylight Savings Time, which I come to find out is next Sunday. I may need my down jacket, but I’ll be out there. </p>
<p>Here in Philadelphia… it’s Flower Show week, so even if it’s bone-chilling cold outside, all sorts of things are in bloom. See how my mood has improved? I felt like I was a little snarky last week about your daffodils, so I just up and got over myself!</p>
<p>We grill all year round, and we’re in the cold, snowy Midwest! I shovel the deck, get the snow off the grill cover, and add extra time if it’s really cold!</p>
<p>martharap–We grilled steaks on Feb. 1 just cause it was DH’s birthday…but it was so cold I was worried the grill would never warm up. It took a while but finally we had steaks.</p>
<p>Thanks for the virtual “Spring” alu!</p>
<p>Here in SW Ohio we are feeling hopeful that spring is just around the corner not because there are crocuses, or bodies in small amounts of exercise wear, but b/c the snow has finally melted. (Isn’t that pathetic? We ask for so little.)</p>
<p>Yeah, soon enough we’ll be complaining that the grass needs cutting. :)</p>
<p>Not-so-patiently waiting for Spring here. Two small storms last week (8" total) and all the snow is back. </p>
<p>Finding things to do like getting a $145 NYC school tax credit for DD and cleaning the laundry room (ugh) and the rest of the basement. </p>
<p>It’s been a very long winter.</p>
<p>oh, ivoryk…It hurts every spring when I realize I’m missing the Philadelphia Flower Show. And going back home on the train where every other passenger has some massive bunch of ■■■■■-willows or cheap roses!!!</p>
<p>But, the good side is that it was over 70 degrees down here in NC today…worked on spring cleaning of our pond/stream…Even the fish came out to swim in the sun-warmed water today!!!</p>
<p>High sixties in Western PA! I raked up the leaves from last fall…</p>
<p>well then come back to Philadelphia for the Flower Show! I volunteer every year, and you’re absolutely right, the trains going home are full of people with curly willow and pussywillows and pots of daffodils. It truly is a wonderful event… made extra nostalgic for me because the theme this year is “jazz it up” – New Orleans – and my daughter seems so far away down there in NOLA. I don’t work tomorrow, but when I go in Wednesday, I’m borrowing some of the Mardi Gras beads she sent her sister to add to the atmosphere. The show seems extra wonderful this year – so anyone within a train ride – come on down!</p>
<p>I forgot to add for the SA crowd – hurricanes all around!</p>
<p>Can I just order the rain, and leave off the violent swirling weather/hurricane OR tornado?!! Just saw on TV that St. Louis may have thunder-snow!!! I keep watching the nasty colored band of weather heading my way in Charlotte. </p>
<p>(And yes, H and I DO have a matching set of 8 Pat O’Brien’s Hurricane glasses from a particularly festive trip to NOLA . Since that forgotten night so long ago (to clarify…it was forgotten by the next morning when we woke up), those glasses have not had too many uses around here!!!)</p>
<p>Howdy podners (yes, whoever said they envision the swinging barroom doors like those of the wild west, I agree).</p>
<p>DH’s plane just landed-- 90’ late but safely on the ground. Bad, bad weather here til about a half our ago. Now the sun is shining. Yay! However, pour me a bourbon on the rocks, please. It’s been a wild ride in one of the other threads in this forum (PC). While I don’t always agree with the OPs, I’ll defend their right to say it. However, I feel like the clown in the bullring right now (slowly I turn… step by step…).</p>
<p>Pore jym–set your bones down in a Barcalounger while we fetch you some bourbon.</p>
<p>Does your horse need a drink too?</p>
<p>^^^^ HAHAHAHA!! Yes, ol’ paint could use a shot of whiskey! Thanks for thinking of him, Alu!</p>
<p>mommusic-
What are you serving? Ahh, never mind, right about now I’ll drink about anything.</p>
<p>Jim Beam? Canadian?</p>
<p>(not that I know anything about Bourbon, y’unnerstand.)</p>
<p>I’ll drink it, but I’m a Scotch person myself. 
Whatever my H is pouring, I’ll have a sip of, and he has taught me to appreciate single malts.</p>
<p>And let’s raise a toast in honor of kids coming home on spring break! I TOLD you spring was just around the corner.</p>
<p>oh jym, I was shaking my head sadly this morning reading that “other” thread…figured we’d see you in these parts sooner or later. If you’re the rodeo clown, not only do you need to keep your eyes on the bull, you also need to watch where you are stepping!!!</p>
<p>jym, re: the other thread- you must feel like you stepped on a 'rattler! Ouch! put yur feet up and relax!</p>