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The Codgers™ Get Staged! The Crew has been subjected to a Makeover.

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Cyber Cafe & Characters

Good morning Gentle Readers! Well here we are, standing outside the Cyber Café Conversations coffee shop and restaurant in our shirtsleeves enjoying the +43ºF St. Paul morning. As most of you know, the Cyber Café is a place where you may come, anytime, grab a porcelain, not China, but made in China, Codger™ Collectible mug of organically & shade-grown, fair-trade, coffee, or tea, or—well you decide—we have it. Here you may speak your mind (within the limits of common decency & courtesy, of course) freely, as your thoughts and opinions are welcome here.

You may have noticed the new graphic. This is the one we will use for a while for our temperate-weather “Old Men & Coffee Shops” conversation series. The now-staged (made-over) character’s caricatures are from left to right: (front row) Jay, Medford, Carl, Harold, Fred (cool shorts, Fred), and the (the imaginary) Molly, (second row) Jay’s old pick-up, (back row): Our almost-a-codger friend, Boomer, and his delightful Daisy, the long legged Beagle.

Our little cyber-adventure, in combination of the first tentative probes of Spring into Winter’s clutch on St. Paul have made us immune to the implied (and obvious) entreaties of our Florida Gentle Readers to go south. March will remind us that winter still has a few punches, but as April approaches, they will soon become very weak, indeed.

So, stop on by, grab a mug, & tell us what’s on you mind!

(WOW this is our 200th Post!)

 

ECOP

 

 

 

Jay, Medford & Company 

Boomer Jack Boardman & Carl McIntyre, the Codgers
Noted Curmudgeons - Saint Paul, MN

Chris & Colleen: Yep, we have a lot to say, none of it important, but a lot to say just the same. Talkative old coots—you betcha!
Sarah:
There are certain aspects of that much coffee...

Thanks for stopping by, Med & Jay

Mar 11, 2007 10:30 PM
Jay McGillicuddy
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Verani Realty - Exeter, NH
Real Estate Broker
WOW, 200 that's awesome and 43 degrees to boot. We are a mild 29 right now at 7:20 AM EST.  I like the new staged look.
Mar 11, 2007 11:22 PM
Cheryl Johnson
Highland Park, CA

Welcome home, Jay and Medford!

Mar 11, 2007 11:27 PM
Linda Davis
RE/MAX Home Team - Gales Ferry, CT

I love the new look!!   Congratulations on your 200th post.  Glad I've been around  to comment on most of them.  Mornings just wouldn't be quite the same!

I do love the plaid shorts!

Mar 11, 2007 11:39 PM
Ann Cummings
RE/MAX Shoreline - NH and Maine - Portsmouth, NH
Portsmouth NH Real Estate Preferrable Agent



    200 posts - wow!!!!  CONGRATS!!

    Love the new 'stage' - looks great!!

    30 degrees and moving upward here in Portsmouth NH!!!

  

 

Ann

Mar 11, 2007 11:40 PM
Boomer Jack Boardman & Carl McIntyre, the Codgers
Noted Curmudgeons - Saint Paul, MN

Jay: You got it right! Mild 29 degrees!

Cheryl: Yes, it WAS quite an ordeal!

Linda: Thanks for the congrats! You have been a motivator.

Ann: Another who appreciates mild weather. Thanks for the spectacular congrats!

Jay

Mar 11, 2007 11:56 PM
Bryant Tutas
Tutas Towne Realty, Inc and Garden Views Realty, LLC - Winter Garden, FL
Selling Florida one home at a time
 Kudos on 200! That's an awful lot of writing and art work. Love the new graphic. Seems more colorful(maybe it's Fred's shorts). Keep writing and I'll keep reading. Looking forward to the next 200!!!
Mar 12, 2007 01:46 AM
Lysa Napolitano
Daytona Beach, FL

   

Wow! 200 Posts! Really enjoyed what I've read so far and the graphics are great! Can't wait til Jay gets his truck out so I can see what that Baby really looks like! Congrats Gents, Daisy and Molly too!

 

 

Mar 12, 2007 04:17 AM
Maggie Dokic /Indialantic | 321-252-8696
Magdalena Dokic - Indialantic, FL
Selling the beach in Florida's space coast
Congratulations on your 200th post!  And I think everything you have to say is of importance.  I love Fred's black socks.  =)
Mar 12, 2007 04:43 AM
Bonnie Erickson
Tangletown Realty - Saint Paul, MN
Does Fred participate in Joe Soucheray's black socks classic?  The outfit would definitely fit!
Mar 12, 2007 06:15 AM
Boomer Jack Boardman & Carl McIntyre, the Codgers
Noted Curmudgeons - Saint Paul, MN
Bryant: Yep, Fred's been wait for warm weather to break out those shorts! 200 posts, as slow as I type, it's amazing we got past 25!
Lysa: Ooo! more colorful congrats--thank you!
Maggie: I guess we have you fooled. Fred IS kind of a rebel.
Bonnie: He's never said.
Jay
Mar 12, 2007 08:54 AM
George Souto
George Souto NMLS #65149 FHA, CHFA, VA Mortgages - Middletown, CT
Your Connecticut Mortgage Expert
Jay congratulations to you and all the other Codgers and almost Codgers on your 200th post.  Also thanks for the group picture.
Mar 12, 2007 10:57 AM
Rick & Ines - Miami Beach Real Estate
Majestic Properties - Miami Beach, FL
Holy Cow!!  200th post!!!  Congratulations and LOVE the new graphic - very hip!
Mar 12, 2007 11:08 AM
Boomer Jack Boardman & Carl McIntyre, the Codgers
Noted Curmudgeons - Saint Paul, MN

George: Thanks. And you're welcome for the group picture. We needed full-caricatures for upcoming posts.

Ines: Why, in our day we were known as hip!

Jay 

Mar 12, 2007 11:35 AM
"The Lovely Wife" The One And Only TLW.
President-Tutas Towne Realty, Inc. - Kissimmee, FL

Well. Well. Well...

Not only has spring sprung for the Codger Gang you hit your 200th post. That is really cool. I guess I need to congratulate you and get Codgered up for this occassion :)

 

 

 

 

 

TLW...Smiling very, very, very wide...ROAR! 

Mar 12, 2007 12:58 PM
Kaye Thomas
Real Estate West - Manhattan Beach, CA
e-PRO, Manhattan Beach CA

 WOW..200 posts.. guess you did deserve a vacation.. you still should have come to the beach....: )

Mar 12, 2007 01:15 PM
Chris Griffith
Downing-Frye Realty, Bonita Springs, FL - Bonita Springs, FL
Bonita Springs Listing Specialist - Agent

May I suggest a beach?  Zip: 34134

bonita beach

Mar 12, 2007 01:25 PM
Nick M.
Certified Residential Appraiser- West Palm Beach Real Estate - West Palm Beach, FL
Realtor-Appraiser in West Palm-South Florida Real Estate Appraiser

200 posts is quite a milestone! great job guys!!  the graphics are cute.. love all the details to the characters. got some free time do ya? :)) keep em coming! :)

Mar 12, 2007 02:24 PM
Boomer Jack Boardman & Carl McIntyre, the Codgers
Noted Curmudgeons - Saint Paul, MN
TLW: Thank you, ma’am, and may I add, your Codgered-up image is quite attractive and must have been done by a very fine artist, indeed [no blatant self-promotion there ;-)]!
Kaye: Love the trophy! We’ll have to put it on our virtual mantle and show it off!
Chris: Beautiful beech photo—but it’s stretching our blog (A-HA! We get it. It’s just a cagey way for a Floridian to affect the Codgers™ now that we are immune to the weather-related entreaties from you folks—clever!).
Nick: From a guy who spends his time keeping the Eiffel Tower firmly on the ground, that’s a high compliment—thanks! We’ll keep-em coming—we can’t help ourselves!
Jay & Med
Mar 12, 2007 08:57 PM
Boomer Jack Boardman & Carl McIntyre, the Codgers
Noted Curmudgeons - Saint Paul, MN

Thank you Chris,still a beautiful photo!

Jay & Med 

Mar 13, 2007 09:01 AM