I have not walked my houseplants, but it is still early here, so there is time!

Favorite dessert? Mostly variations on a theme of chocolate: cake, brownies, mousse, etc. After that, cheesecake.

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@Jodi K 🥇

I heartily endorse National Crème Brûlée Day.

Bagpipes are best appreciated from a distance.

This can be parsed as both support for and rejection of the instrument.

No houseplant walking, just dogs.
A water main blew down the hill from us, so no water first thing in the morning.
The water folks got it re-routed pretty quickly, so I could shower before work. Yay!
The road will take some time to repair though. Sad because it was just repaved last year.
Desserts, hmmmm . A good Crème Brûlée is bliss. But the elusive combo of a smooth delicate crem and the proper carmelization of the crust is hard to find in the wild.
One of my favorite variations was a Crème Brûlée banana pudding from a place (now closed ) in Richmond VA called Comfort. Yummy.
No bagpipes please. Period.

Dancing to bagpipe music usually gets the best results if the piper and the dancer are two different people. 🎶🕺

I worked with a guy who made Turkish bagpipes. They are made using a goat skin. He had a standing offer to "take care of" any goat that someone wanted to remove.

We have no houseplants - all the plants are outside.

About the only things I can engage in, here, are to walk a houseplant while appreciating bagpipes. I do appreciate bagpipes, actually - I'm the only one in the family who does, though. Maybe it's my Scottish genes. Or maybe it's the fact that I used a recording of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo as operant conditioning for some awful, abusive neighbors, years ago. Each time they'd start to fight or throw one another against the wall, I'd tip the speakers to the wall, turn up the bass and volume, and blast out the bagpipes till the sheetrock shook. Or the Irish Rovers, "Here's to the Horses." Both were amazingly effective in stopping the noise next door. And neither was particularly painful for me, other than the volume. ;)

Yarnell's "Death by Chocolate"
Tillamook "Mudslide"

I like chocolate ice cream with chocolate, chocolate, and more chocolate

I agree with @Griff Ferrell 💙💛 friendica except I also want chocolate in it. Häagen-Dazs Belgian Chocolate does a nice job, as does Baskin-Robbins Chocolate Fudge.

Good morning! Summer has finally arrived here. It was hot enough to appreciate a refreshing ocean dip with Zach yesterday. Because it happens so infrequently he's always surprised when I'm in the water with him!

@Griff Ferrell 💙💛 friendica mmm... now, I have to have chocolate soon - perhaps dark chocolate gelato... My few houseplants are enjoying the outdoors for a while.

good morning I love bagpipes...my dream is to have a piper play for me! I come from a home of bagpipe love and am married to a bagpipe lover....a win win for me...as for house plants got none because cats. It was a cool to chilly morning at 6am but time for A/C now....

I can appreciate bagpipes. However, as with the fife and the harpsichord, microdosing is my way.

Love bagpipes. It's in my DNA. ;-)

I heartily endorse National Crème Brûlée Day.

Hear, hear!

15th or so, I think...

No houseplants here, some mold, maybe. Does that count?

Dessert? Most are yummy; no particular favs.

Fav instrument? The pen... it's mightier, but not as rapid as the keyboard these days.

A friend hired a piper for her husband's 70th birthday. It was fabulous.

My fave instrument to play was guitar. My fave instrument to listen to varies: sometimes it's saxophone, sometimes organ, guitar, piano, cello.....

National Crème Brûlée Day.

I think we'll head to the Hillcrest for one.

OK, since I am legit half Scots, I will submit my easy-on-the-ear pick for Bagpipe Appreciation Day! Mike Oldfield: Flowers of the Forest Enjoy!

One year my dad wife was perfecting her leche flan which is like creme brulee without the hardened top. It was all good and we didn't get sick of it for the 2 weeks we were there🙂.

I stay away from our plants, in sure if I walked them they works get run over or something as my thumbs are that black LOL

Favorite dessert is a tie between creme brulee and regular custard.

Don't mind bagpipes. Once used the Boston Pops playing 'Scotland the Brave' as a response to downstairs neighbors who liked to play their music loud day and night, despite the tenant agreement stipulating you were NOT supposed to do so.

@Joyce_Donahue good one!!

Thanks, @Bob Lai will have to remember that one for when the teenager next door gets too loud with his mariachi practice. Mostly I just hear his accordion or guitar (he's actually not bad) but sometimes he puts on recordings to play along with that shake the walls with the bass. And we not only have a tenant's agreement, but a city nuisance ordinance against loud music. 🪗

Bagpipes are fine, from a distance.... an ex-housemate of mine from years gone past drove us a bit crazy when he decided to try to learn them (it was the 80s everyone experimented with something). Luckily that only lasted a few months before his job took him out of the country and somewhere at sea he lost them in a transfer from one ship to another and did not return with them or a desire to get new ones.

I don't hear the bagpipes very often, usually when there's a parade or some event, but I usually end up with tears of joy for some reason. My ancestry is Scottish on my father's side.

“When I listen to Motörhead, the entire neighborhood listens to Motörhead”

Chilling in a parking lot in the back seat of my car waiting for a friend to get off work.

Keep getting whiffs of a raccoon corpse located upwind from me. Either that or my desk job induced jock itch just broke through to the next level. Just kidding. It's the unfortunate critter's mortal remains. I hope.

Amazing weather right now. Clear blue skies, not too hot, and a regular breeze.

Somehow managed to work 40h last week. Taking PTO tomorrow to look over the new inventory in car lots. Subaru AWD vs AWD flavor Honda CR-V on the top of the wishlist followed by Mazda's similar offering. Doesn't hurt to look - even though I'm okay with settling for less.

I like synthesizers and still have my whole rack here. But arthritis has removed my ability to play well, so they mostly collect dust these days. I'm still thinking of getting a ukulele and think my hands are good enough to get music out of one.

Tune your ukulele to an open-tuning and then all you have to do is hit some strings and it will sound fine.

I always thought bagpipes were well-suited for hardrock, then this Australian band comes out and does it! Below is a link to AC/DC and their song "It's a long way to the shop, if you want a sausage roll"...WHOOPS! "It's a long way to the top" is the proper name.

I was doing a poetry gig (srsly) a number of years ago when AC/DC were playing at the stadium across the street from our venue. We could hear everything perfectly well without having to pay for expensive tickets! We just couldn't hear any poetry! hehehe!

https://youtu.be/a-MVuqh8k50

Well, there's Rare Air on bagpipes.... I don't know what ever happened to them. They were rather popular at Stanford. Here's a sample (in which they kinda jazzed up/bag-piped-up The Best in All of Ireland.)

Snake MacMurray

Electric Accordion! You heard it here first! ;-)

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqbk9cDX0l0)

@tom grzyb check out Alec K. Redfearn & the Eyesores for some electric accordion.

I have an electric accordion. A Rembrandt. There are digital and MIDI controller accordions, like the Roland FR-4X.

Houseplants? That can only imply this one from teh UK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tkzo8BadgA8

How does an electric accordion work? What do the sensors sense to obtain a signal?

Something like the Roland FR-4X accordion works like any other digital keyboard and MIDI controller.

If one is going to go accordion then one should go full accordion. There's neither shelter nor quarter in the squeeze box world...

We're An Accordion Band

@Rodrigo Mesa thank you for the video! TIL digital accordions have a way to simulate air sounds despite not having reeds. So I guess this Jeff Buckley song is played with one of those:

https://youtu.be/HxfE6PJmGS8

That Jeff Buckley thing starts with what to me sounds more like a church organ than an accordion.

@Carsten Raddatz Here's a little more info on the history of digital accordions, which have been around since the '60s.

@Karl Auerbach I just checked the CD booklet, it mentions both accordion and organ for the album. It explicitly says Loris Holland played organ for that song. You were right, and I had only used my memory and insufficient playback hardware to confirm.

Hey @Carsten Raddatz! We are back to walking our banana plants! hehehe!
https://youtu.be/eZabqakBJEM

Hahah! Yeah @Muse I remember

Taking your plant for a walk seems all very fun when its little, but if you don't train it properly from the start you might have to take extreme measures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYHP08dT-Nw

Now that my banana plant sits on the balcony in summer sunshine I do hope the extra energy goes into, erm, vertical growth.

I certainly don't want them to join the Ents and go to war, or anywhere really! 😅

Funny talking about instruments sounding like other instruments. Even though Pat Metheny is a guitar player, I always thought he phrased like a horn player.

If the "electric accordion" works like a digital keyboard, then it is a digital keyboard. A "real" electric accordion would have to sense the vibration of the reeds or something, and amplify that, in a manner analagous to the electric guitar sensing and amplifying the vibrations of the strings. So, looks like I might have this new product to myself, after-all.

A little thinking and I think I've got it! just put a piezoelectric sensor on, or "downwind" of the reeds, amplify that signal, and away you go! Polka time - Loud and Rockin' !

I discovered there is a Brûlée Bar here in town. Will report on it should I survive.

Is that a food or an instrument? ;-)

@tom grzyb It's a blunt instrument. Here is a cat holding a Brûlée Bar ready to cream someone.

The Kits are back in town...

You know they are trouble: they won't tie their boots.

@tom grzyb HAH!