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I love these pictures, so beautiful, reminds me of home.
I thought this video was funny, Rubio debates Rubio
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(aka, Mardi Gras–“Fat Tuesday”, b/c that’s the last time you could have fats to eat before Easter!)
http://image.slidesharecdn.com/pancakeday2015-150216072905-conversion-gate02/95/pancake-day-2015-2-638.jpg?cb=1424073646
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oops, forgot to shorten it:
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Around here, they eat Paczki (whether or not you are Polish).
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I’ll take a half dozen. Please.
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They are good, but real gut bombs. I like the lemon ones and the custard the best.
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When I was still working, my employer would buy dozens of these for the employees to enjoy on Fat Tuesday.
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Wow. Those look incredible. I bet they are 1200+ calories each. Sigh.
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Sigh indeed!
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No, they are e-pazckis, no calories. 😀
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Good morning from the night before!
God’s blessings on all, this new day–the threshhold of Lent.
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Correction: “threshold”.
“Typos are sent to keep us humbel.” [h/t I’d like to say, “me”, but probably not]
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Mornin’ Mary!
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Good morning!
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Sled dog update. Aliy Zircle did not win the Yukon Quest 300; she came in second by just under an hour. After 40 hours of racing, that’s pretty close. Aliy was running the B Team for this race, the younger dogs needing experience; Allen has the A Team for the 1,000 mile race. Next month, for the Iditarod, she will run the A Team and he will run the younger dogs. The incredible thing is the strength and stamina of these superb canine athletes that allows them to run both big races and finish very well.
As far as I can tell from the Yukon Quest website, Allen is in second place, about 8 miles behind the leader, Brent Sass. But this is day 3 of a 9 day race. All kinds of strategies are being tested. The trail is hugely mountainous, with all the uncertainties of terrain and weather that brings. Anything can happen.
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I admire the way so many in Alaska embrace her history, physical character and (yes) weather! Most of the country has become much more homogeneous.
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Photo submitted by The Tundra PA:
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Awwwww!! Beautiful!!! 😀
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Good morning. Extra strong coffee y’all.
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Garcias, Menage.
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But kitty, the fun ain’t over yet! Hang in there until midnight, then go get your ashes in the morning.
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Started out like this.
Ended up like this. 😆
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Always gotta tell, don’tcha???
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I ain’t sinkin’ on this ship alone. 😆 😆
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Good morning!
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Mornin’ stella! 😎
Mornin’ WeeWeed! 😛
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Mornin’ derk (“Stellars”) 🙂
Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂
Mornin’ complainers! 😐
Mornin’ whiners! 😐
Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 🙄
Breakfast!
Paczki day!
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Good Morning everyone ! I ran past the first set of sweets and then I run into these……. sigh…… I’m going to the kitchen and get a low fat yogurt for breakfast and lie to my self and pretend it one of those yummy sweets. 😦
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Mornin’ Boris!
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Awesome job nyet. I’m going straight for the paczki today, for tomorrow I fast!
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Mornin’ Nyet and all of you Stellars,
Crunch Tuesday in New Hampshire, has GOT to be a double digit victory for DT. At least that’s what people tell me.
Beautiful day here, hope you all have real fine ones yourself.
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Mornin’ Derk!
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Good morning Nyet. Of all days to be sick I am sick on Fat Tuesday 😦
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Oh no! Not fair. Hope you feel better soon.
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Mornin’ Nyet. 🙂
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Mornin’!
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Me & aus were upgraded [retrograded?] in smileydom! THANK YOU!
High five at five, nyet–time for tea (just finished steeping as I was composing this comment).
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Mornin’ kids!
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he….he…… The way my boss as been pressing my buttons , I’m right there with ya !
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Mornin’ Sha!
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Afternoon WeeWeed !
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You misspelled “spouse”.
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If you would just stick to the envelope arrangement all would be well.
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…. Do you people call each other?
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Oh it’s so much worse than that. We don’t need to! We know.
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It’s like a seen out of a gangster film, “You’re short this week. You better come up with the rest by Friday or you may need to make an insurance claim on your expensive computers when you fall down the stairs with them.”
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scene
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Seriously nyet, you are one of the people who gift me with smiles every morning. Thank you, fellow internet crazy pal. It’s nice to start they day off with laughter, the joy of imaging the true beauty of Stella’s pictures, and the shared stories and comics and encouragement here.
As my granddaughter enthusiastically says “I like it!”
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Fine! Laugh at my pain and misery.
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You are holding up to it well.
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That probably should say “to point out that everything is your fault.” Some guy wrote that wrong, doncha think?
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Did I ever tell you about by friend? Her husband came home from work and their uphill driveway was icy, being NC they didn’t have shovels or salt so he parked on the street at the bottom of the driveway. Very early the next morning she was backing out of the driveway and hit his car. The next thing he knew she was yelling at him about what he made her do 🙂
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😀 And yer point?? lololz
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He was great at telling the story. “The only person who caused a car accident while sleeping in his own bed.”
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Lovely, I did something like that just a few weeks ago. I wasn’t paying attention and walked my shin right into the hitch on my husband’s truck. I blamed him and he asked me how he was to blame for me not watching where I was going. It was pretty simple, he parked his truck where he never parks it, where nothing is ever parked so I never have to pay attention while walking through that spot. If his truck was parked where it was supposed to be parked I wouldn’t have a bruise on my leg. lol
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God, that hurts….. had one on an suv we sold right before we moved; I walked my bad knee right into it. Sharp, too – the plug thing was a state of TX shape. Thought I’se gonna die right there in the Albertson’s parking lot….
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I still have a faint bruise.
I hate those things and it’s not the first time one of them got me.
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Yes she used much the same logic 😀
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Surely I am not the only wife out there who has moved the furniture around and then heard the complaining about hurting their little toe, knee or shin on furniture that wasn’t there yesterday? If that’s our fault they couldn’t see the couch, then it’s only fair it’s their fault when they park their vehicle where it doesn’t belong.
When I was younger I had to hear the complaints about the furniture being moved all the time. Now that I’m older it takes too much energy to move it around, so once it’s there, it’s staying there. lol
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Oh my goodness ! I forgot about him , he always pushes my buttons . After 29 years of marriage he thinks my sarcasm is flurting. 🙂
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LOL!
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Good morning WeeWeed and all 🙂
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Mornin’ Lovely!
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Afternoon lovely !
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Afternoon Sha 🙂
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Mornin’ Wee!
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Mornin’ Michelle!
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Good morning all! Enjoy Mardi Gras! At first I thought it would be fun to post a video about Mardi Gras in New Orleans, but I couldn’t find one that wasn’t totally tasteless.
Instead, I found this one of Rio Carnivale, which shows the amazing parade, put on by the many samba schools in Rio, with their beautiful costumes.
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Good morning Stella 🙂
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Hope you feel better soon!
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Thanks, there is a bag of Hostess powdered sugar “donettes” taunting me 😦
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Stella this was awesome. Thanks for finding one that showcases beauty and talent. I have never seen anything like that. I’ll be watching that a few times today.
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I watched a program the other night (PBS?) about the samba schools in Rio, and how they rose out of the slums. It was quite interesting.
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Good morning Stella!
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The blog of a Medieval book historian at Leiden University, The Netherlands.
http://erikkwakkel.tumblr.com/
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Cool. And I’m thinking the profession of Medieval book historian would be a fine job to have.
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Severe weather has hit north Georgia. It’s thirty degrees, snow is falling, we have almost a half inch of it now. You can bet shelves are bare at every store, schools are closed, and mothers are already pulling their hair out. Yes, this powerful storm may bring society to a halt.
It’s probably only a matter of time until we are eating ashes and huddled under tarps. 😀
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It got so cold here I had to wear my winter nightgown.
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…. Some people only have sleepwear for special occasions like FAT TUESDAY!
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😯
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Mom, are you going to wear that flannel nightie? 👀😉😯
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Yep, and it goes from my chin to my ankles. Very sexy. (not)
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It’s going to be 17 here one night this week. I hate February. But it does make me greet spring with joy, and appreciate it all the more.
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Absolutely miserable weather up here. It’s 45F right now and supposed to get up to 60F and no rain.
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Well, I don’t begrudge you one of your three annual rain free days. Enjoy!
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😀 It’s snowing here too, and in the low thirties. It’s kinda purty.
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There is always snow coffee if things get really rough.
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Ahhh….. and the birds are already dead and laying there…. and it’s TUESDAY!!!! 😀
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I thought those were turds. 😯
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Aaaaaaaaaa….. I’m not going to be the first to sip the coffee she set out…
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A whole half inch of snow! Wow!
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And it’s gone already. That’s the best kind of snow.
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Wish ours would do that, but it insists on being shoveled. Has been a very low-snow winter for us so far. Probably only a foot or so covering the yard right now.
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I don’t know if anyone posted this before, but it seems useful in harassing the admins at CTH by posting to the daily thread.
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Ooh, you are gonna get in so much trouble. 😯
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Pure genius.
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I think Telluride, Colorado is one of the most beautiful places on earth, and I love dogs. This video is about both:
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Dogs are truly incredible! Thanks so much for this, Stella. Made my morning.
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As far as I am concerned dogs are probably God’s finest creation. Or they at least tie with grandchildren.
I loved this video. Thanks!
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Another view of the Telluride area. I have NOT driven this road, but have been over both the Ophir and Imogene Pass roads. This one is too much for me. One of the Jeep livery drivers told me that one woman in a tour group of his decided to get out and walk during the most challenging part. It is beautiful, however.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blz2pzrdzao
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Here is what can happen. Bad language at the end, but I can hardly blame him.
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OMG I don’t blame either one for the language. Perfectly appropriate under the circumstances. 😯
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Yikes!
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You couldn’t make me go on that. 😯 Not even with a “makin’ machine”.
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This is what the last part of that road looks like from across the valley (on the Imogene Pass Rd):
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Looks like a large-scale Lombard Street.
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And more vertical.
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Instead of using Wranglers, how about 2 jennies, light load.
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Another agenda behind the Zika crisis?
Zika prompts urgent debate about abortion in Latin America
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/zika-prompts-urgent-debate-about-abortion-in-latin-america/2016/02/07/b4f3a718-cc6b-11e5-b9ab-26591104bb19_story.html
In Colombia, an organized movement to lift restrictions on abortion has gained allies in the government but has run into determined opposition from religious authorities. The same is happening in Brazil — and some doctors say that as a consequence, illegal, back-alley abortions are on the rise.
Nearly everywhere in Latin America, including in those countries hit hardest by Zika, women who wish to terminate their pregnancies have few legal options. But as U.N. health officials have projected as many as 4 million infections in the Americas this year, activists are pressing lawmakers to act as swiftly as possible to ease rigid restrictions.
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I wouldn’t be a bit surprised.
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Only in the south. We have snow falling here and a high pollen count. 🙄
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Granted I haven’t been paying a lot of attention to the Zika virus crisis but it sure seems that the media is pushing that there is a definite and established cause cause between the virus and microcephaly.
Yet;
http://time.com/4209537/zika-birth-defects/
How Health Experts Will Definitively Link Zika to Birth Defects
Scientists still can’t say for certain that Zika causes the birth defect microcephaly, though several experts, including government health officials, agree the current evidence is convincing. “The evidence is highly suggestive but we don’t have definitive proof yet,” U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Dr. Tom Frieden told TIME in an interview.
Beyond reaching a definitive conclusion that the virus and the brain damage are linked, scientists also want to know how they are linked. For instance, what is it about the Zika virus that allows it to pass the normally protective placenta? “We identified the Zika virus in brain tissue. That still doesn’t prove that it is the cause or the only cause,” says Frieden.
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Wonderful picture, Stella.
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Good evening Taqiy 🙂
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Hey, lady!
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Hi there, taqi!
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Cutest video ever made.
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