The Guardian for this meeting was Adams Rubble. The comments are by Adams Rubble.

Adams Rubble: Good morning Riddle :)
Riddle Sideways: Good, Adams ㋡
Adams Rubble: I started 10 minutes early and had trouble getting here
Adams Rubble: but I am here :)
Adams Rubble: It is soooo cold outside in RL
Riddle Sideways: sync, did same
Riddle Sideways: viewer updates and crashs
Adams Rubble: maybe last day of biotter cold for winter
Riddle Sideways: then ok
Adams Rubble: bitter
Riddle Sideways: cross fingers
Riddle Sideways: or some supersitious traditional action for good luck
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: think we are still to get some more rain
Adams Rubble: wow
Riddle Sideways: yes, seems like the longest rainy period ever
Adams Rubble: it seems so from here
Adams Rubble: we seem to have had lots of rain this winder but not concentrated like there
Riddle Sideways: last night was only enough to mess glasses up
Riddle Sideways: duck pond is growing weeds
Adams Rubble: the ducks better get eating
Adams Rubble: swans?
Riddle Sideways: go ugly ducklings yet
Riddle Sideways: checking, no ducks swimming right now
Adams Rubble: ponds frozen here

Riddle rembers Tuesday's Topic: Fat Tuesday

Riddle Sideways: finally remembered tuesday's topic
Riddle Sideways: now is too late
Adams Rubble: oh?
Riddle Sideways: "Happy Fat Tuesday"
Adams Rubble: oh
Riddle Sideways: and what does that mean anyway?
Adams Rubble: there is a feast
Riddle Sideways: a radio said it was a feast day
Riddle Sideways: snap
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: before lent
Riddle Sideways: eat too much and then fast
Adams Rubble: related to Marti Gras
Adams Rubble: have all the fun and food before fasting for lent
Riddle Sideways: almost the end of winter, so eat the last of the stored food
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: eat all the reindeer who have survivd the winter
Riddle Sideways: ㋡
Adams Rubble is thinking like the Sherrif of Nottingham
Adams Rubble: we have a crazy bunny who comes in the middle of the night and is hopping out in the snow this morning on a very cold day
Riddle Sideways: when locked indoors. the Wise Ones stated a day to cook lots and eat
Adams Rubble did nto feast and is not fasting
Riddle Sideways: hopping to keep warm
Adams Rubble: ahhhh
Riddle Sideways: no, do neither also
Adams Rubble: had not seen many rabbits around here before this winter
--BELL--
Adams Rubble: well that was a 15 minute topic :)
Adams Rubble: 25% topic
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: this side of the valley seems to not have the rabbits that the other side has
Riddle Sideways: yep, was so 2 days ago topic
Adams Rubble: we might extend it to all religious rituals surrounding "holidays"
Adams Rubble: the rabbits are always greener on the other side of the valley
Adams Rubble: oh wait, that is grass
Riddle Sideways: yes, before TV, Internet, radio, Netflix holidays had to be the Special thangs
Adams Rubble: hmmm, is there a connection?
Riddle Sideways: and eating good food and lots of it is Special
Adams Rubble: bring the neighbors together
Riddle Sideways: yep
Adams Rubble: competing to see who has best fastnacht
Riddle Sideways: the Johnens had a large room, so most of the neighbors went there
Adams Rubble: invite the fiddler
Riddle Sideways: Aunt Marthy would bring that Yam dish
Adams Rubble: open the cider barrels
Riddle Sideways: sit and say a prayer while the hot food went cold
Riddle Sideways: and the cold food went hot
Adams Rubble: depending on the time of year
Riddle Sideways: say some prayers, drink a cup of wine
Riddle Sideways: stand up, face Mecca
Riddle Sideways: sit in lotus and om
Riddle Sideways: then eat
Adams Rubble: after the eating and dancing everyone go out into the cold night, stand in a circle under the stars and sing hymns before going home
Riddle Sideways: invite the local tribe, they always had the best maze
Riddle Sideways: invite the stranger that has no home in to join
Riddle Sideways: invite the new people, hope they bring an exotic dish and the recipe
Riddle Sideways: they have friends from far off California that sent something named an Artychoke
Riddle Sideways: some years it is too cold out for granpa
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: back when grandpa was young he walked three miles through eight feet of snow to go to school
Riddle Sideways: every year, we end with "Let's do this again same time next year"
Riddle Sideways: up hill both ways
Adams Rubble: hehe
Riddle Sideways: stares at the roasted duck the neighbor brought
Adams Rubble reminds Riddle that it is not polite to stare
Riddle Sideways: counts the turkeys outside and declares a holiday with main course is Turkey
--BELL--
Riddle Sideways: Oh the weather outside if frightening and the fire is so delighting, so let's have gathering and eating holiday
Riddle Sideways: then step on the scale, oh dear, time to fast
Adams Rubble: are you ready for some FOOTBALL?
Riddle Sideways: giggles
Riddle Sideways: right
Riddle Sideways: the smart mom's would shooo everybody outside to play slushball
Riddle Sideways: it is now a tradition for the football broadcasters to always replay that Thanksgiving snow-ice game
Riddle Sideways: the goof play Dallas made
Riddle Sideways: guy was going to be in the Hall of Fame
Riddle Sideways: now is in Hall of Same
Riddle Sideways: Shame
Riddle Sideways: his mother weeps
Riddle Sideways: TRADITION!
Adams Rubble sings "Mamas don't let your sons grow up to be Cowboys..."

You Can Get Anything You Want....

Riddle Sideways: somehow, don't know why-when-how, but Thanksgiving tradition is now to play all of "Alice Restaurant"
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble knows the whys and hows
Riddle Sideways: well, yeah
Adams Rubble thinks of Arlo when seeing trash dumped in the woods
Riddle Sideways: so many occasions to think of Arlo
Riddle Sideways: many times when eating a pickly
Riddle Sideways: pickle
Riddle Sideways: the important of a jokes delivery is not to typo the punch lin
Adams Rubble: timing is so important in PaB sessions :)
Riddle Sideways: yep
Adams Rubble: or NO time
Riddle Sideways: so important that the timestamps are stripped off
Adams Rubble: :)
--BELL--

No Time to Lose

Adams Rubble: there was NO time to lose
Riddle Sideways: So, 75% gone +/- what was your topic?
Riddle Sideways: great thought
Riddle Sideways: had NO time, so could not Lose any
Riddle Sideways: No time, No time, No time left for you, No time left for me
Adams Rubble wonders about her topic
Adams Rubble tries out "there is NO topic to lose"
Riddle Sideways: yet the reader might think this is rambling rubble
Riddle Sideways: when it is delightfull crafted theater of the mind
Adams Rubble: A good name for a song "Rambling Rubbles"
Riddle Sideways: hums along
Riddle Sideways: Ricky Nelson
Riddle Sideways: not Rickrickroll
Adams Rubble was thinking in terms of Sam Elliott
Riddle Sideways: Lenard Cohen
Adams Rubble: ohhh
Riddle Sideways: Alro Guthrie
Riddle Sideways: Joan Bias
Adams Rubble: Biaz?
Riddle Sideways: right, thanks
Adams Rubble: Joan Bias works for the other side :)
Riddle Sideways: from the garden of the Valley

Watching a Movie: Itzhak

Riddle Sideways: btw - saw the most wonderful movie last night. "Itzhak"
Riddle Sideways: moving and funny
Adams Rubble listens
Riddle Sideways: at a Jewish Film Festival event so lots of laughs at special phrases
Riddle Sideways: and then those high beautiful rich colorful notes
Riddle Sideways: the body taps, shakes, tilts and lift until the mind/heart/Being sours off
Riddle Sideways: this great man on a wheel cart trying to get through a NYC snow bank
--BELL--
Riddle Sideways: the delay in schooling because of a Juliard school that did not think a prodigy on crutches could do it
Riddle Sideways: the joy between wife-husband
Riddle Sideways: and what a great style of Teacher
Adams Rubble: ohh about Itshak Pearlman
Riddle Sideways: yes, now have to go look who any other Itzhak would be
Adams Rubble watched trailer
Riddle Sideways: oh, could you push the link?
Riddle Sideways: waves to reader
Adams Rubble: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6186232/videoplayer/vi2244917273?ref_=tt_ov_vi
Adams Rubble: Is that the right movie?
Riddle Sideways: Yes, had to wait for adverts to end
Adams Rubble: yes 16 second ad
Riddle Sideways: so many wonderful parts of the movie
Riddle Sideways: was stuck by listen to pres Borah Obama introduce, well just talk, miss that clarity of speaking
Adams Rubble: well we've covered some PaB greats today: NO Time, Watching Movies and Bunnies

Was Just joking about the bunnies

Riddle Sideways: weather
Riddle Sideways: not mentioned health
Riddle Sideways: a good session
Riddle Sideways: if just one APABPB was mentioned
Adams Rubble: yes despite Rambling Rubbles
Adams Rubble: ohhh APAPB, yes did not mention
Riddle Sideways: future readers will read back that that #1 hit was started in this session
Riddle Sideways: it was not Carli Simon's chat with Neil Diamond
Adams Rubble waits for punch line
Riddle Sideways: Zubin Matha
Adams Rubble: Mehta?
Riddle Sideways: thank you
Riddle Sideways: and thank you
--BELL--
Riddle Sideways: next year the festival meal is at your house
Adams Rubble: hehe
Adams Rubble remembers when we used to visit each others houses after a PaB session

Riddle Sideways: fasted that hour
Adams Rubble: thank you for the session today
Riddle Sideways: and thank you
Riddle Sideways: instead of a house
Adams Rubble: have a very good day and a great weekend
Riddle Sideways: now put a table in the field
Adams Rubble: and call it macaroni
Riddle Sideways: yes, should be good ones
Riddle Sideways: giggles
Adams Rubble: bye for now