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One week until Santa gets here boys and girls. Not sure if one week of being good is gonna help some of ya’z. But who am I to judge. Coffee up y’all. Looks like I’m going to Chi-town today. We’ll see, when I come out the other side. 😆
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Pull up a chair…
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That’s a might fancy for a heathen like me, but I’ll give it a shot Mary. 😉
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Plenty of room, plenty of tea, plenty of good cheer–everyone is welcome!
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The pause that refreshes.
Thank you, Mary.
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Are ya’ goin’ to the Russian Tea House it is fancier yet 😎
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In the spirit of the season, they be…
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Beautiful table you’ve set, Mary!
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Well, I had help…
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🙂
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Had just stepped out of the shower, coveralls and boots are being soaked, by the rain. Is this formal, business causal, causal? I’ll stand until the Ladies are seated……thank you Mary….
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Col Ken! I always admire a true gentleman. Morning to you!
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Thank you SAS for those kind words.
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Sounds like you’re wearing
your birthday suit and a smile. 😉
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Wearing my thermals top and bottoms…….
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If you are going to come in your birthday suit, the ladies might prefer that you sit! 😯
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Mom, wearing my thermals……. I don’t put all of the cards on the table, I like discovery learning…….
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Love this place.
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Good morning, Mary, and thank you – looks irresistible!
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Chicago?? Isn’t it -12F or something? Please be careful. My friend was on a flight that was held up because they couldn’t fuel up, it was too cold or something.
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Morning Tex, great coffee………thank you..
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Stay warm I think they are predicting -30 today. lots of snow but not sure when that is supposed to start. At least the frigid temps should keep the savages at home instead of out harassing shoppers on Michigan Ave. Packers are playing the Bears so don’t be surprised if you have to step over large mounds of drunken human revelers frozen to the sidewalks.
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I remember seeing that in St Peterburg when it was still Leningrad, on a payday. Militiamen used shovels to scrape them off the pavement.
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Same thing in Riviera Beach in the old days.
BTW, told this one before but thought I’d resurrect for you. Back in the days when we monitored Soviet fighter aircraft readiness we noticed an increase in the rate of certain fighter aircraft in their Far East being grounded. Seems they were grounded for problems with their ‘hydraulic’ systems. Big Giant Heads couldn’t figure out what was happening for a while, all sorts of theories were fielded. What they finally found out was that some of the aircraft systems used straight grain alcohol and not more exotic fluids like ours did. When the drums of alcohol arrived the airmen at the base were diverting them to drinking purposes instead of flying purposes, leaving the aircraft dead on the ground. Conditions at the Far East bases were so miserable they’d stay drunk thru as much of their tour there as they could.
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But I’ve heard this many years ago! I wonder how you guys got it here?
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It was our job. Sorta like so many of the Soviet Far East military units manned by Russian officers who couldn’t speak the soldiers’ languages. Or the problems so many of the Soviet military dog handlers had when, for the reward of extra rations, they took their Ovcharkas home.
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Got it.
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To put it in more recognizable terms…our work just GRU on you.
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I gathered that much.
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Can y’all donate a buck or two to the Snowflake Fund? 😆 😆
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Their leader should
provide their care. 😉
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Agree Impeach, and if you want food or shelter, my barns are dry…..
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I’ll donate a snowblower. Hope that will help.
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Thank you Mary, have been looking for the perfect Christmas tree…….
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24.2 °F
Enjoying a warming trend.
Precip should be rain.
Time for another log…
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I’ve seen the lows you’ve posted recently!!! Brrrrr! The vortex is in N Texas right now and currently it is 20 and going lower. The high will be 29 late afternoon. We don’t experience very many super cold days like this. It went from 69 at noon today to 20 in mere hours! 😳
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Would seem, time for
another log in Texas, too.
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Time for a warming song…
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No, not Elvis; Terry.
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Thank you, but no thank you. I’ve experienced Amarillo in winter and I’d prefer Key West by morning.
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Aren’t we lucky we live in Florida! Time to go to the beach.
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Hello, Dolly.
Funny, very funny. 😉
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I know, I don’t mean to be mean! I am sorry… It’s too hot for the beach, anyway.
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LOL {snort}
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🙂
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sand fleas….jellyfish….sharks….illegals…..
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Wait a momentico here, all sharks have moved to Washington D.C. where they are legalizing the illegals. Jellyfish are busy recounting the electors’ votes. We can deal with sand fleas; one out of four is not that bad!
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{snort}
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Ha! When tourists don’t start chewing each other’s faces off, we are the most peaceful piece of this great country!
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Boca Chica Beach in Brownsville?
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Impeach, if it makes you feel any better, I had to wait until just as the sun went down to take a walk last night. And, now I many 1/2 inch itchy bumps from mosquito bites. 😦
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Almost 8 am and it’s 15 degrees!!! Verrrrry brisk!
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44.8 °F
Currently enjoying a heat wave.
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Wow!!! Very nice! 😊
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9:00 AM 80* 😦
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(that’s in the shade)
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Funny, very funny. 😉
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When I lived in Texas we had our air-conditioning on on Thanksgiving day. I took all of our winter clothes, boots, coats, everything and donated them to thrift store that supported a local church.
Of course a couple of years later we moved to WI 🙄
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LOL
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I can remember having the windows open on Christmas. That year some fools were out sailing on Lake St. Clair.
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Florida sounds pretty good right about now. I’ve got flip flops and shorts galore, but no clothes appropriate for 15 degrees!
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Well then, pack your flip flops and get on the plane – we can watch the New Year fireworks from my courtyard.
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Hehe! I just might take you up on that!
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You are not scaring me! Say when, and I’ll start baking, and my husband will be mixing drinks!
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;D
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You’re a funny gal. 😉
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Yes, another log will do! About 36*, winds west at 10, Rain, and flood warnings all around. Heavy rain since 2230. Local weather babe said an inch since midnight, another half inch by noon. Will be in the twenties by 1700 today. So it’s rain, then freezing rain, and snow by evening……..
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…and it’s not even Winter, yet. 😉
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Yeah, I can’t wait!!! This might be a train up…….
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It was single digits here this morning. Then the sun was very deceiving, looked warm this afternoon until you walked outside in our high of 14 degrees. We got a little ice and a little snow yesterday. It’s supposed to be back up hovering around 32 tomorrow so hopefully it will all go away.
I do not like winter.
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We are a lovely -8° at the moment and that doesn’t include the windchill factor 😐
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Those kind of temps are very rare in my neck of the woods and I hope they skip us this year. lol
My perfect world would be it’s gets cold enough for a week before Christmas to lower the ground temperature, start snowing Christmas morning and have a big enough snowfall to build a snowman Christmas afternoon. Then the day after Christmas spring to arrive. lol
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Sounds perfect. We already have snowberggs in all the parking lots if this keeps up it is going to be a year where folks are wondering where to put the snow.
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I’m praying for an early spring. My hope is the granddaughter is born near her due date and it’s warm. I’ve seen it both ways here. The year my oldest son was born in February, it was decent weather, not quite spring, but not cold either. Then in March that year we had a big snowfall.
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Praying for an early Spring also. The sun is shinning here so that is a happy thing. One of my very best friend’s is going to be a grandma in March. Her family is my family of choice. I am so excited 🙂 I was the second to buy the baby a gift his/her dad stopped at a garage sale and bought a bunch of clothes. I can’t wait!
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I have a huge tub full of clothes, all the way up to 12 months. I found this little consignment place along the highway one day and most of the baby and kid clothes were 75% off that day. I got 3 huge bags of baby clothes and a huge bag of toddler clothes and boots for my grandson. I got all of it for a little over 50 bucks. I’d hate to think how much it would of would cost new.
I brought it all home, washed it, folded all of it up that wasn’t NB size or my grandson’s stuff and hid the rest in a big tub. lol
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Great score! I can’t wait to start buying for the new baby. they don’t know if it is a girl or boy and they are having a home birth. Neither Grandma or I are too excited about a home birth.
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My daughter took the middle road. She had a doola and midwife, but the birth took place in a birthing room in the hospital. She gave birth in a big bathtub. (that was the second baby)
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I worry. I would have died along with my first born if we weren’t in the hospital. I know it was done at home for centuries and I know that hospital’s come with their own set of problems but I still wish she was having the baby in a hospital.
That said if anyone could pull this off without a hitch I would put my money on the mom. She is a tough, healthy, not petite boned, and her mom had no problems.
It just makes me nervous should an emergency arise.
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I was happy my daughter made the choice that she did. It was lovely for the family. The room was huge, and she had a king sized bed, a table and chairs where we could have a meal, and it was very private. She stayed there for the first night after the birth, then came home.
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They live on a small farm. They both have jobs and the farm is right next to a subdivision but probably 20 minutes from the closest hospital. It sounds like your daughter did it in an environment with ready access to a full staffed hospital. It sounds like a beautiful experience.
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It was actually in the hospital, with immediate access to life-saving equipment and personnel, if they were needed.
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I love my daughter dearly, but she’s not quite made of the same stuff as her mama. She had an epidural with the first one and says she’s doing it again. Although, being as the hospital is almost an hour away and this baby seems to be determined to stay low, she may fall out before we get to the hospital.
We did get more good news today though. She’s still extremely low, but they’re not as worried anymore because her cervix doesn’t seem to be bothered by it and her uterus is now within the two centimeters of how far along she is.
She’ll continue having to go in once a week until she gets here and still take it easy, but they’re not acting like they’re afraid she’s going to pop out anytime anymore.
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All good news! Woo hoo Baby Michelle jr. !
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She always cracks me up when they’re trying to get pictures and measurements on ultrasound or trying to record her heartbeat with the doppler. She doesn’t like either one and during ultrasounds she kicks, punches, flips trying to avoid it and always kicks the doppler off.
They’re always joking that this baby always doubles the time because she’s so ornery.
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Think how much fun she’ll have on the farm with all that energy 🙂
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Somehow I think the animals won’t have as much fun? lol
I told my daughter today I could see her all dressed up in a pretty little dress and being covered in mud from head to toe.
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It could happen. Yes it could. 😀
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Oh trust me her mommy did that more than once. I swear she could get dirty, mess up her hair and rip her stockings on the way to the car. lol
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It’s funny with my daughter Stella, she’s always been tough and a high tolerance for pain and of course has been birthing animals her entire life.
She talked about all natural, home birth and all that with the first one, but as the day got closer she was determined it was going to happen in a hospital. It then didn’t take long before she wanted an epidural. With this one she’s said from day one, it’s an epidural for her, that it’s great for me and others who want to feel it all, but she prefers the magic of modern medicine taking all the pain away. lol
She also doesn’t like the idea of everyone watching her have a baby. She could have had as many as she wanted in the room when she had him, but all she would allow was me and her husband.
Now myself, would prefer the pain of childbirth to having a needle stuck near my spine. However, I do agree with her on audiences, I didn’t want anyone with me except my husband and there were times with all 3 that I didn’t want him in there bugging me either. lol
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My first GS was induced, and she had an epidural, which didn’t really take effect until after he was already born! I think the second one was a response to the experience with the first one. She didn’t have any pain meds, and the 2nd was a pound heavier; she said, “it hurt”. I know I didn’t have any of that either.
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My daughter’s went to work very fast. I tried to talk her out of it, because I was worried about back pain and headaches I had always heard of.
Her doctor and nurses claimed it would relax her and make labor progress faster, imho it slowed it down.
If this little girl stays down so low, she may not have time for one this go around. My only fear with that is, her husband is a good 35 to 40 minutes away and my husband goes all over for our business, so he can be anywhere from 10 minutes away up to 3 hours away. That leaves just me and I really don’t want to deliver my grandchild at home or on the side of the road. lol
I keep hearing all of these horror stories from women whose babies were really low like this one who barely made it to the hospital with the hospital being 15 minutes away. We don’t have a hospital that close.
I carried her fairly low, not as low as she is carrying, but a lot lower than my other two. I had her in less than an hour after getting to the hospital and I was at my mom’s when I went into labor and the hospital was 20 minutes away.
My boys were not so easy or so quick and the last one I begged for drugs, but was told no.
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I see that now 🙄. I went back and reread after I posted in the drop down side bar. Sorry! It does sound like the best of both worlds.
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No need to diet during the holidays…
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I brought a grab bag of Christmas Tree ornaments that were hand made to tennis yesterday. My friends actually liked my sad attempt at tennis ball ornament. They thought they were funny and cute. A Christmas miracle. 🙂
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well….Balls for Christmas….Obama could use such a present….golf…..
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…lacking his own…
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his underwear demanded a mulligan….
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He had his mulligan – he was boss for eight years, enough already!
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The local news from Pgh just issued a warning to all; a ring of Porch Pirates operating in the suburban areas.
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Some just think,
what is yours;
is theirs (socialists).
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Savage children.
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Yes, but what’s theirs is also theirs, they think.
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The entitled class is growing every day.
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Democrats big, sulking babies…
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Bawler…….Bawler…….Bawler…….
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Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
(Jack Daniels – Single Barrel )
(Tom Collins)
(Black & Tan)
(Boilermaker)
(Wild Turkey Rare Breed)
(Irish Car Bomb)
(Godfather)
(Mortlach)
(Roy Rogers)
(Classic Daiquiri)
(Gin & Tonic)
(Blackberry wine)
(Backdraft)
(Flaming Dr. Pepper)
(Stinger)
(Rusty Nail)
(Jack Daniels)
(Whiskey Smash)
(B52)
(Rum & Coke)
(Night Train Express)
(Albanian Raki Moskat)
(Hot Buttered Rum)
(Hot Buttered Rum)
(RumChata)
Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎
Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 (earthquake)
Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (white wine and perrier)
Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂
Mornin’ texan59! 🙂
Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂
Mornin’ Czarina! 🙂 🍸 (Lynchburg Lemonade)
Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂
Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂
Mornin’ Patriot1783-ctdar! (aka “ctdar”) 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂
Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀
Mornin’ Wooly Phlox! (aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂
Mornin’ Howie! 🙂
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂
Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂
Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (bailey irish cream on the rocks)
Mornin’ lovely! 🙂
Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸 (Jack & Coke)
Mornin’ Pam! 🙂 (Not even water)
Mornin’ Ms.Tee! 🙂 🍸 (Mojito)
Mornin’ koolkosherkitchen! 🙂 🍸 (Cuba Libre)
Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂
Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂
Mornin’ Les! 🙂
Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂
Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂
Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂
Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂
Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Mudslide)
Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂
Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸 (1970 ducru beaucaillou)
Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸 (1961 Château Montrose)
Mornin’ amwick! 🙂 🍸 (Blue motorcycle)
Mornin’ hocuspocus13! 🙂 🍸 (1970 Chateau Latour)
Mornin’ Sloth1963! 🙂 🍸 (1971 Moulin Touchais)
Mornin’ MTeresa! (Ex-lurker) 🙂
Mornin’ Rhea Salacia Volans! 🙂
Mornin’ joshua! 🙂
Mornin’ John Denney 🙂
Mornin’ whiners and complainers! 😛 (No drink for you!)
Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕
Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra, F.D.R. in Hell and sundance!
Breakfast!
NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!
Apple Coffee Cake with Crumble Topping and Brown Sugar Glaze!
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Morning Nyet!!! Wish I had some smell-o-vision so I could fully enjoy the bacon! ;D
Morning all! A blessed Sunday to everyone!
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Good morning Nyet 🙂 We have moved up to a balmy -2° here, so your warm toasty breakfast is especially inviting this morning.
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Morning Nyet! Bacon and crumb cake for me please!
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Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂
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A piece of that scrumptious cake with my coffee, please! Good morning, Nyet, and thank you!
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Nye!!! Evening Everyone!!!! Fantastic, was thinking about this all day!!!!!! Thank you …..
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Delish Nyet, thank you and a good evening as well.
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Good night.
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Mornin’ y’all!
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Morning WeeWeed 🙂
We are at -2°, it seems -1° was our high for the day. 😐
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Mornin’ Lovely! That sucks…..
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The Like button suddenly doesn’t like me 🙄. The sun is suddenly shinning! We have a ton of snow, snowed again last night, I’m getting my tree rat rifle ready and my tea kettle for the snow. Life is good 😜
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Weird stuff is going on with WordPress, I think.
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19 here, close to the high for the day. We won’t get as cold as you are (protection from the lakes), but our low tomorrow will be zero, and six degrees on Tuesday. Quite cold for this early in the season!
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Twas 61 this morning at 6:00 am. Should be close to freezing tonight. Some of you people make me feel really blessed to live in the south, until it’s August and drippy hot!
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Good morning, Miss Wee! Finally, we are getting a president who cares about the wants of others.
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Mornin’ Dolly!
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Good mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Evening Ms.WeeWeed!!!!!!! Ice is gone, rain stopped, ground is not completely frozen, yet. Clean up the boys and girls area, put new straw down, couple more bales of orchard grass…..cold but bearable,……fire is warming, and about to run the numbers on 50-55 head +\ – . Should be a peaceful week….
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Evenin’ Colonel Sir! Cold here, too!
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We all went for grandson’s picture with Santa. He didn’t care for him anymore this year than last. He cried and when Santa tried to distract him by asking him what he wanted for Christmas, he sobbed, “I don’t want you, I want Mommy.”
Maybe next year they can get a picture without him crying. lol
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Next year he can have his baby sister’s hand to hold so maybe that will make him more comfortable. My kiddos were never santa fans. But that is another whole story.
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He has improved over last year. Last year he didn’t like any santas including my santa figurines and animated santas. This year he likes to push their buttons and he likes old guys in santa suits from a distance.
He’s not fond of strangers in general, especially men, so it’s not surprising.
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Anyone want to argue about yesterday’s post next door, ‘A Third Dimension in American Economics…’?
I don’t see what SD is describing as “new”. It’s what divided the country economically from the beginning and was part of the description of the Northern States vs. Southern States (no, it had nothing to do with slavery). What has exacerbated the issue prior to the creation of the Federal Reserve were the Coinage Acts of 1873, 1891 and a gold standard formally adopted in 1900.
The beginning was not in the 1980’s. It can be pegged to the 1780’s.
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Perhaps you ought to argue with SD …
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🙂 Yeah, well, I didn’t want to get labeled a complete troll by the slobbering fan base over there. There was only one comment that obliquely references the 1690’s.
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Of course it’s not new, but what I took away was that he painted a picture of some fairly complex principles that most people can relate to. Your points are true and valid, but so is his post, in that he gives those of us who are not as well informed and intelligent as you are a starting point to “see” something important. They can’t make the leap all at once nyet.
And I want you to understand that none of this was written with snark in mind. I’m quite sincere in saying those of us less intelligent than you, and it isn’t sarcasm, it’s respect.
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Oh, now you write this after I went over and posted crap.
I am told the same thing you’ve written here in my home, with the very respectful eye roll and heavy Russian accent. It’s very difficult for me not to read without some serious snark. 🙂
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…truth is….you are so spot on….nothing is new, including massive corruption and political lies and theft….however, our knowledge of true history of our own nation’s financial and cultural events have been gutted and unless you have a REASON to dig it out for yourself, you cannot interpret today’s situation as not abnormal, but a massive leadership and cultural value seachange needed to right the ship. All the blather about hacking and twittering and drones and debates is NOISE….time to get on and we will get this thing right again……but one gets WEARY of the ignorant pontification of the media types attempting to INTERPRET for us via SPIN.
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I guess that in reading the comments of guests in the thread parroting college professors or Glenn Beck chalkboard lessons, I recognized when I did the same and had to stick my two cents in.
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You, a complete troll? It is to laugh.
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Dang that’s cold! I thought the 15 we have this morning in Texas was bad.
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Chilly night,
for some…
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(For the weather not you Impeach 🙂 )
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From the best movie ever!!!
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🙂
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“Now, get off My Lawn”
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Buenos dios Bonita!
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Stella this picture is one of my all time favorites that you have posted a diamond among gems! The mountain top looks like it is made of solid amber.
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I think that’s Yosemite. I love the mountains!
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I can tell. They are beautiful. My niece lives in the mountains and sends beautiful photos.
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Florida version.
(w/o snow 🙂 )
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Beautiful.
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El Capitan, Yosemite
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Correct Impeach!!! Now according to legen: there is a gold vein about 20-80 feet wide, and 100 feet tall that goes into the Mountain. Maybe the “Lost Dutchman”, maybe not. I do know this, in some of the downstreams from the Mountain there are small nuggets of gold. Now if you drop a pan in the water, you will meet the nicest US.Park Police officers who will scope you up, and probably put you away for 5 or 10 years……
Just dream Impeach, just dream. Would be easier to rob Ft.Knox. Cause there NO Gold in the vault, Goldfinger got away with it…….
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Good morning, Stella, everybody! Beautiful photo!
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Good morning Dolly 🙂
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Good morning, Lovely, and a beautiful day! 🙂
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Trump chooses another inaugural entertainer. Viktor the sining bear. The Left clucks.
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General Maddog Mattis:
He has a bearskin rug in his living room.
It is NOT DEAD.
It is just too scared to MOVE.
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Kudos on this comment, joshua!
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ROTFLMAO Good one.
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Bravo!
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From a conversation on FB regarding the lack of films that seriously deal with religious subjects. An interesting perspective, I think, although I’m not a film expert by any means:
OK, now you’re teeing up a topic I’m passionate about. As an evangelical, I hate the snide condescension much of Hollywood’s output aims at me, but as a lifelong cinephile, I have little tolerance for the half-baked efforts of the evangelical subculture. Here is a list of some films I recommend people seeking respectful portrayals check out:
Ushpizin: A simple and charming story of an orthodox Jewish couple in Jerusalem who have no money to celebrate Sukkot. Not only are they (a real husband and wife in reality) very likable, but the portrayal of faith and struggle is surprisingly well done. Oh, and get this – the film portrays a universe in which God answers prayers.
The Mission: DeNiro plays a former slave trader turned priest who then becomes convinced that it would be unrighteous to not fight to protect the innocent people he had formerly made slaves. Jeremy Irons is in it, too. Just go watch this. So good.
Signs: Man, I have not seen an explicitly Christian story handled this beautifully by anyone in the evangelical world. Wow. The journey from deep brokenness to restoration. The scene where Mel refuses to pray… goosebumps. (it may seem like it’s slagging faith, but you have to watch the whole thing)
Machine Gun Preacher: Now this is an interesting animal. An indie film about a real-life Christian minister, but (to my knowledge) not done by Christians. I like seeing how outsiders see faith matters, and their different way of approaching a story. Sam Childers is a very flawed man, and is shown with all his warts, but the thrust of the film is a meaty question about defending innocents, and what is the righteous response. Gritty stuff. (and R-rated for a reason)
The Innocents (2016): This is a nuanced story depicting a complex situation in which a group of Polish nuns have to deal with the horrors of war, and find a path to restoration. I really appreciate the careful attention to detail and the solid handling of the moral and faith matters from the various characters’ perspectives. This is really a MUST SEE.
Chariots of Fire: A story of what drives us, and the fruit that bears. Olmypic runners Liddel vs Abrahams, and their different approaches to what they do. Abrahams has something to prove. Liddel operates from a place of love and joy. the portrayal of Liddel’s faith-based convictions is very positive.
The Book of Eli: This movie captured a perspective on holiness – that some things you just don’t take lightly – that I have not really seen on film before.
The Tree of Life: A poetic rumination on existence, with perspectives drawn from things such as the book of Job. A real work of art by a master, and a profound reminder of the beauty of life. This may be a challenging watch for people who are not fans of arthouse, non-standard cinema.
Babette’s Feast: A very understated tale whose tone mirrors the quiet life of the small Christian sect it follows. The titular payoff is very rewarding.
Amazing Grace: A great story of William Wilberforce’s crusade to end the British slave trade done my an academy award winning director.
The Apostle: Duvall! Brokenness, repentance, and the journey of restoration in between.
The Blind Side: Amazing story of grace and literal adoption. What a powerful tale of redemption.
Henry Poole is Here: While the central plot device is not something I normally go in for (the “miracle” of seeing the Lord’s face in a water stain), the portrayal of this guy’s journey to faith is powerful. God’s relentless goodness to us can win over even the most hardened heart.
Honorable mention – Changeling: A gripping, emotional tale of a mother refusing to give up looking for her missing son. Great performances and directing, and I was really jazzed to see Malkovitch play a heroic preacher who gets some excellent moments to portray a man of faith very favorably. This movie feels like literature: a matter-of-fact telling of some very difficult events complete with the unfolding of a full range of rich emotion.
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I really loved The Mission. Very beautiful movie.
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DH and I watched a very good movie last night called Risen, starring Joseph Fiennes. About a Roman Tribune who was present at the crucifixion and ordered to find the missing body of the Nazarene in the days afterward. Very well done.
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Have seen that a couple of times, concur.
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Chariots of Fire is my favorite movie, ever. Amazing Grace is a stunning movie. And The Mission perfectly portrays the eternal question: when faced with persecution, what is the Christian response? Not an easy answer, at all. I’ve spent spare time over the years researching that issue.
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Great lineup, Stella, and thank you for mentioning Ushpizin.
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You are welcome, but I wasn’t the one who compiled this list – only admired it!
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You posted it, though, so you deserve the compliments!
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VERY interesting piece from 2015 about Hillary Clinton’s email server, and how easily it was accessed.
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2015/03/16/breaking-news-spam-filtering-service-had-access-to-clinton-classified-emails/comment-page-1/
… What this means is that when Obama or anyone in the State Department emailed Hillary, the email went to MxLogic. It was then decrypted, checked for spam and viruses, and then reencrypted and sent over the open internet to Hillary’s server. While it was at MxLogic it could be read, tapped, archived, or forwarded to anyone in the world without anyone knowing.
This system has serious security implications. Email to McAfee’s servers might be encrypted and email out of McAfee might be encrypted, but while it’s at McAfee any employee who has access to the filtering system can tap and read any email going to that domain. So – for example – if I’m a Russian spy, ISIS, North Korea, or Fox News, or a 14 year old hacker, all I have to do is bribe someone at McAfee or hack their work login, and they get to read all the email of the Secretary of State. WooHoo!
And – this is one of many reasons they have a rule at the State Department that you have to use their servers. …
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It’s was the same nail in the coffin for BlackBerry. Once it came out that all exchange message traffic went through BlackBerry Corp. owned servers, switches, routers before routing to the phones it killed them.
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And when everybody viewed the inside of Marine 1 control panel. That was some “contractor who use a flash drive with shared music files also on the drive. Flash drives were collected and destroyed.
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Don’t miss this one by our friend Clarice Feldman at American Thinker (that’s what lead me to the link above):
All the News the Editors See Fit to Print
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/12/all_the_news_the_editors_see_fit_to_print.html
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All of this “Fake News” drivel from the libs makes me tired. They started it, they own it, and yet, they try to pin it on us. If it weren’t so annoying, it would almost be funny. Where’s Miss Wee’s Magic Meme Spinner when you need it. 🙄
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I think iowahawk beat her to part of it.
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all the former journalism majors went into politics instead and now are Congresspersons.
they get to make BS into law
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Hey! I can see my house.
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😆 😆 😆
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They could make a “Moana”-type movie with this as background locale.
In light of Hillary’s reaction to the election, it could be called “Moan-ana”. or “Hawhineii” .
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Day late for caturday but I might forget about by then.
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Please, Santa, please.
Let this be my present.
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I am off to a Christmas party…. actually a chili party… The best part is that it is 75F, I am wearing shorts and sandals… this is a first.. We were at the beach today… just basking in the sun, listening to the waves pound….. I think we broke record temps here…
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Zsa Zsa Gabor finally bought the farm.
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At 99
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Heard this on the radio coming home..
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Not to be rude. But she’s been at death’s door for years and years. I wonder if that younger so-and-so that married her for her money is still around. Or if the money ran out…..
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Wee, why don’t you apply for a job writing obits? I hear they charge for them now. You could save peeps a lot of money! 😀
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I DO have a way wit’ woids, huh, Menage??? 😀
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Mincemeat Pie History
https://whatscookingamerica.net/History/PieHistory/MincemeatPie.htm
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Hmmm. I’ve never had one but peeps throughout my life have extolled their virtues. This is the only meat pie I know, and the history is rather brief.
https://www.natchitochesmeatpies.com/
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Walkers Shortbread, Glenfiddich, 6 Luxury Mincemeat Tarts, 13.1-Ounce Box
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We had mincemeat pie every year when my mother was still alive, plus a coworker’s wife always sent in a tray of homemade mincemeat tarts (delicious); they are from England.
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Must contain booze or it’s not authentic. Bread pudding, fruit cake, all of them had booze in the original recipes.
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Must also have meat in them. Suet, if nothing else.
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🙂 I thinking of a Menagerie version of pie crust, Jack Daniels and a couple of maraschino cherries, but yes Suet fore sure.
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I ain’t wasting my Jack on some pie, even though I loved mincemeat pie as a child when my mama fixed a frozen one. I’ve never had a real one.
My Jack is sacred. I don’t even use it for the Christmas ham. For the first time in years, I’m down to my last bottle. I think my oldest son hit me hard the last visit or two. Without your daily rations I’d be parched.
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Ok, I had the best thing ever invented at that chili party…Macadamia pudding shots…… Imagine, sorta melted rich vanilla ice cream that was hiding Macadamia Liqueur. They were in mini red solo cups…. I have to search for a recipe…
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Found it:
White chocolate macadamia nut pudding shots:
1 small Pkg. white chocolate pudding (instant, not the cooking kind) ¾ Cup Milk ¾ Cup Trader Vic’s Macadamia Nut Liqueur, 8oz tub Cool Whip Directions 1. Whisk together the milk, liquor, and instant pudding mix in a bowl until combined. 2. Add cool whip a little at a time with whisk. 3.Spoon the pudding mixture into shot glasses, disposable ‘party shot’ cups or 1 or 2 ounce cups with lids. Place in freezer for at least 2 hours
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hmmm…the designated driver had to be really pizzed for missing out…..
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last nite and today cold as rip for Dallas…pretty day today, but frigged. spent the day napping with dogs on sofa in front of roaring fireplace with my Wedded Managing Partner who is a fan of adult coloring books and did same with sleeping dogs on top of all of us….got up for some hot choc and marshmallow and snack junk…and back to napping….glorious….I can hardly wait for the confirmations tomorrow to prove that the notTrump folks need to catch the next train to Clarkesville….
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Everything will be fine tomorrow. I believe..
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