This photo was taken at the Hollow Rock Resort along highway 61 along Minnesota’s north shore. I ventured out into -5 degrees Fahrenheit with winds around 20mph. It was freezing to say the least. It was so cold the water was freezing instantly to my camera, lens, tripod and myself. If you would like to know more about this or any other image you can find me on https://twitter.com/DerekGriggs
(This may have been noted already…)
2018, a year to remember: Ash Wednesday is on Valentine’s Day and Easter is on April Fool’s Day.
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By MaryfromMarin on January 5, 2018 at 12:05 am
Morning Mary, I’ll check this out…..
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By Col.(R) Ken on January 5, 2018 at 2:47 am
Mornin Col Ken 🙂
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By G-d&Country on January 5, 2018 at 10:54 am
Mornin’, Col ! Hope it’s a great day there! Stay warm–EVERYBODY, stay warm!
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By MaryfromMarin on January 5, 2018 at 1:43 pm
Morning Mary!
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By sandandsea2015 on January 5, 2018 at 7:56 am
Mornin SandandSea 🙂
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By G-d&Country on January 5, 2018 at 10:55 am
Evening G & C!
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By sandandsea2015 on January 5, 2018 at 9:06 pm
Happy Friday, s and s ! I can NEVER keep straight where most people live, so just in case–keep warm!
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By MaryfromMarin on January 5, 2018 at 1:44 pm
Me either. I feel like we need a spreadsheet. Although descriptive names like yours would help.
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By Menagerie on January 5, 2018 at 4:14 pm
Many people don’t know where Marin is. The hot tub and peacock feather story is looooong past, so it’s understandable.
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By MaryfromMarin on January 5, 2018 at 4:28 pm
What?!?
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By czarina33 on January 5, 2018 at 6:30 pm
See what I mean?
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By MaryfromMarin on January 5, 2018 at 6:54 pm
When asked about the stereotypes associating Marin with these tubs, Henderson recounts…Cyra McFadden’s 1970s book “The Serial,” a satirical look at Marinites’ extravagant lifestyles. “She talked about hot tubs and peacock feathers. There was a little of that going on, especially in southern Marin and West Marin,” he says.
[before my time here…]
View at Medium.com
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By MaryfromMarin on January 5, 2018 at 6:58 pm
Ooooooh-Kay. Got it.
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By czarina33 on January 5, 2018 at 7:06 pm
Thank you, Mary. I’m in North Texas. We’ve had some very cold temps, but no precipitation, so it’s been okay. I truly feel for the folks dealing with freezes and flooding.
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By sandandsea2015 on January 5, 2018 at 9:05 pm
MAYBE I’ll remember that geographical fact…but certainly glad you’re not freezing.
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By MaryfromMarin on January 5, 2018 at 9:17 pm
😉
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By sandandsea2015 on January 5, 2018 at 9:29 pm
Latest GS’s due-date is Valentine’s Day…good year indeed.
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By czarowniczy on January 5, 2018 at 10:33 am
Mornin Czar 🙂 Extra Happy Day is St Valentine’s then!
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By G-d&Country on January 5, 2018 at 10:56 am
We’ll see, it’s a guesstimate but it would be nice to have him born on Valentine’s Day…too many Cancers and Leos in the family…then again most of the Leos are in LEOs sooooooo……
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By czarowniczy on January 5, 2018 at 11:05 am
ONe of my nieces is having twins this spring. A boy and a girl. Exciting stuff!
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By Menagerie on January 5, 2018 at 4:15 pm
Yup, more potential worker bees to feed the ever increasing flocks of drones. They’ll hit the ground running with a debt load they inherited before birth.
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By czarowniczy on January 5, 2018 at 4:24 pm
Well, they come from Italian and Irish working class stock. They will be as ready as they can be. One thing the huge Irish Catholic family I married into excels at is work. The second thing is being smart as…you, of all people, know where I’m going with that one.
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By Menagerie on January 5, 2018 at 6:53 pm
That means Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday) is barely 6 weeks away & Carnival parades will start, oh wait, tomorrow (Phorty Phunny Phellows parade on a St. Charles streetcar), January 6th. Referred to here as Kings’ day or The Little Christmas, it is the Feast of the Epiphany celebrating the arrival of the Magi. The Greek Orthodox Church celebrates the day as the baptism of Jesus, calling it the Theophany. This is the beginning of King Cakes, brioche rings with icing colored greeen, purple & gold, and efforts to avoid getting the Baby, a small plastic child placed in the baked cake which designates the person who has the buy the next cake for the group. If you want a King Cake, or desire to have one shipped anywhere in the world, Haydel’s are the best.
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By czarina33 on January 5, 2018 at 10:46 am
Mornin Czarina 🙂 Thanks for the info. I have never heard of those cakes, I’ll have to look them up!
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By G-d&Country on January 5, 2018 at 10:57 am
I just ordered one! I know it won’t get here in time for the day of Epiphany itself (tomorrow), but it will be within the church season of Epiphany, so there’s that!
Looking forward to this, czarina. We can buy them around here, at the Hispanic grocery stores, but they are NOT very good. At all.
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By MaryfromMarin on January 5, 2018 at 6:48 pm
What flavor filling did you get? Traditional is cinnamon. My favorite is cream cheese.
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By czarina33 on January 5, 2018 at 6:58 pm
I ordered a package–it says “traditional”, so I guess cinnamon. Whatever it is will be light years better than the Hispanic grocery ones.
Don’t know if I’d want cream cheese filling after it’s been shipped cross country…
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By MaryfromMarin on January 5, 2018 at 7:08 pm
Mornin Mary 🙂
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By G-d&Country on January 5, 2018 at 10:54 am
Mornin’, GD&C ! Wherever you are, stay warm. Too many cold-related issues being reported this morning.
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By MaryfromMarin on January 5, 2018 at 1:47 pm
BTW, Happy National Whipped Cream Day!
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By MaryfromMarin on January 5, 2018 at 12:08 am
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By MaryfromMarin on January 5, 2018 at 12:10 am
When you want a treat but dont want to be too bad, lemon greek yogurt with a good shot of whip cream is yummy. When you want to be bad:
Or when its a good day for jack day:
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By Gil on January 5, 2018 at 12:30 am
Menagerie will looooove that one.
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By MaryfromMarin on January 5, 2018 at 1:24 am
Me too!
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By The Tundra PA on January 5, 2018 at 12:44 pm
Yum!!!! Morning Gil!
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By sandandsea2015 on January 5, 2018 at 7:57 am
Mornin sandandsea2015!
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By Gil on January 5, 2018 at 9:46 am
OH! Yummy! That top one looks so pretty as well! Have a great day! 🙂
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By G-d&Country on January 5, 2018 at 12:26 pm
OMG! Is that…it that…oh, it is, it is! Ambrosia and nectar. I’ll have three, thank you so much!
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By Menagerie on January 5, 2018 at 4:18 pm
Limiting yourself? (lol)
I’ll try one too. Don’t slap my hand away while I reach for it, please
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By MaryfromMarin on January 5, 2018 at 4:33 pm
HAHAHA! What a great day! Thanks and mornin 🙂
(hope it shows video)
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By G-d&Country on January 5, 2018 at 11:02 am
HMMMM, just thinking now – dog eating gaseous whipped cream – yeah, he’s out on the porch tonight!
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By G-d&Country on January 5, 2018 at 11:48 am
I’ll reme this about 5pm or so. That’s about all I can eat for a few days after an esophagus banding operation……
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By Col.(R) Ken on January 5, 2018 at 2:51 am
Good Day, Colonel. Enjoy your treat – it sounds delicious!
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By Lburg on January 5, 2018 at 7:34 am
Mornin Lburg 🙂
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By G-d&Country on January 5, 2018 at 11:04 am
Gooood (cold) Morning G-d&Country! At least today the wind isn’t howling. Going on a ‘trashure’ hunt later this morning to find the missing trash can lids. I may be going to the next county!
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By Lburg on January 5, 2018 at 11:08 am
Yes!
We have a gully carved into the snow around the west,north, and south sides of the house formed by the wind, but I opened the door, and the snow was about 18″ high, and fell inside. Should have waited for DH to go out through garage and shovel out the back door! No problems though, just use dust pan to shovel back outside 🙂 Soooo happy we had those trees cut down after yesterday!
Be safe and warm ! Cover those ears, toes, and fingers 🙂
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By G-d&Country on January 5, 2018 at 11:53 am
Good morning Col. Ken.
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By sandandsea2015 on January 5, 2018 at 7:56 am
Hang in there, Colonel! We love you.
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By stella on January 5, 2018 at 10:05 am
Mornin Stella, great pic above! The little bit of sunshine peeking through the rock is like a warm smile through the cold ice! 🙂
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By G-d&Country on January 5, 2018 at 11:05 am
No one expects anything on any schedule, mess is open 24/7.
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By czarowniczy on January 5, 2018 at 10:41 am
Prayers for improving health for you in this new year Col Ken.
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By G-d&Country on January 5, 2018 at 11:03 am
Take good care of yourself, Col. Prayers for you abound.
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By MaryfromMarin on January 5, 2018 at 1:49 pm
Every day!
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By Menagerie on January 5, 2018 at 4:21 pm
((((Col.))))
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By lovely on January 5, 2018 at 6:16 pm
Sweet!
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By lovely on January 5, 2018 at 6:13 pm
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By Lucille on January 5, 2018 at 1:21 am
Amen! Mornin Lucille 🙂 such a pretty pic, and beautiful prayer. I’ll be saving that one!
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By G-d&Country on January 5, 2018 at 11:07 am
Morning, G&C! I’ve been out spending Christmas gift certificates. One was for a culinary store, and I purchased a really adorable distressed wood utensil box plus other assorted goodies. Such fun!
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By Lucille on January 5, 2018 at 3:33 pm
On my birthday my kids gave me a gift certificate for a local bookstore. Then, we all made a trip to the bookstore and got coffee and wandered around and shopped. It was so much fun to do all together and fun to have money to spend on whatever books I wanted and not have to worry about the price. So, I was able to buy some really nice special hardback books.
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By auscitizenmom on January 5, 2018 at 3:44 pm
Arctic Chill Grips U.S. (PHOTOS)
Jan 4 2018 05:00 PM EST – weather.com
https://weather.com/safety/winter/news/2018-01-02-early-january-arctic-chill-us
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By Lucille on January 5, 2018 at 1:22 am
At Ft Richardson this is called ‘Friday’. I’ve been watching the urban snowflakes boo hoo hooing about the snowflakes, as if cold weather and snow are for flyover country only, their being in the more sophisticated and entitled urban areas is most likely the result of white, Southern Republicans rejection of climate change.
Sheesh, cold weather and snow in New England! What’s next, warm weather in Florida?
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By czarowniczy on January 5, 2018 at 10:56 am
REALLY! (eyeroll) DH and I were fed up with it. People stupidly driving into ice flooded roads, and then calling police to rescue them from their cars because they would not walk through ice filled water. (yes I know it is dangerous) WELL THEN DON’T DRIVE IN IT!!! All day long and before – “don’t drive”, but these idiots were out there! People who live on the beach, don’t go to a shelter, then call police to rescue them from their house. AUUUGH! Before cell phones people had more common sense and did not feel entitled even against mother nature! A few years ago it was very cold up here like it is now. I started telling off a couple of people I know who would endlessly complain about the cold – you know why – they refused to wear coats!!!! Can’t fix stupid, but sometimes a few Darwin awards might wake them up!
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By G-d&Country on January 5, 2018 at 11:17 am
Many years ago, shortly after we moved here from Utah, NOLA was hit one Sunday with a freak ice storm. I was stuck across town on business and had to get home but the news and city officials were calling for people who didn’t have to be out driving to stay home. I had a 15 or so mile drive, much of it on the interstate and with about two miles of it on the elevated access to and the bridge over the Mississippi River.
I’m doing great, slow speed, lower gears, no problems. All the way from the eastern side of the city there are cars and trucks at all angles up against guard rails. On the downslopes of the access ramps there were knots of banged together cars I navigated through. On the angled approaches to the bridge there were cars spinning and sliding in every direction, far more cars than one would expect on an ice-free Sunday afternoon, folks just had to come out and see what the ice was like. On the ice covered approach on the bridge cars were sliding back towards me, across my front at angles with a few dead in the road. On the downslope of the bridge cars that managed to make it over the midspan were shooting past me as they accelerated or didn’t shift their trannies to lower gears, there was a pile of them piled together at the turn at the bottom.
Drivers interviewed admitted they didn’t have experience on ice but decided to try it anyway, most whined that (basically) the city didn’t do enough to protect them from their own stupidity…yet they breed.
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By czarowniczy on January 5, 2018 at 11:45 am
Idiots like that make it dangerous for people like us who have practiced and know how drive in bad weather. I really think they should be fined for the cost of saving them, just like when they get stuck on MT Washington etc. “Drivers interviewed admitted they didn’t have experience on ice but decided to try it anyway”. We would go out to empty parking lots and empty streets early on Sunday mornings to gradually learn how to drive in increasingly bad weather and snow.
“most whined that (basically) the city didn’t do enough to protect them from their own stupidity yet they breed” – yes. It’s sad how the breeding rate seems to be the inverse of IQ. Just recently said conservative people better start breeding like rabbits. The opposition is. Demographics is destiny – see “europe”
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By G-d&Country on January 5, 2018 at 12:04 pm
I have precious little sympathy for people who’ve abandoned all knowledge of and preparation for a problem, never mind a disaster.
“Ooohhhh, I live in the ciiiittttyyy, I pay for people to take care of me, it’s not FAIR they don’t and I’m inconvenienced!”.
Folks in NOLA have known all of their lives the city government is incompetent except when it comes to stealing funds to line their pockets yet expressed deep and personal shock when the city fell apart during Katrina. Residents were bobbing in the flooded stores looking foe food (P*** poor planning) for food while city government was stuffing its gut (‘we gotta be strong to lead!) in first class hotels. Soon as the city restarted recovery the big story was city pols misappropriating for personal use SUVs donated by manufacturers for 1st responder use.
Now we have a city full of imported snowflakes who are sure that, were worst to come to worst, the shining city political structure will come to their aid …”Hey Lucy, set that football up for me, will ya?”.
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By czarowniczy on January 5, 2018 at 1:09 pm
Shallow end of the gene pool.
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By czarina33 on January 5, 2018 at 3:44 pm
” It’s sad how the breeding rate seems to be the inverse of IQ.”
See the movie, “Idiocracy”.
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By John Denney on January 5, 2018 at 4:37 pm
I understand your point, but in our family “people like us who….know how to drive in bad weather” specifically choose to stay off the road and stay out of it whenever it happens. Simply because we know that most of those out there don’t have a clue. Always practiced that in SoCal and here in OR and it saved us a lot of headaches. And in MN, people who were the most practiced in it were the ones who stayed home.
Weather is not worth dying over. Especially if it’s a volunteer risk.
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By Sharon on January 5, 2018 at 10:27 pm
Nothing like a toasty down coat to improve your attitude!
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By stella on January 5, 2018 at 11:47 am
How Zoo Animals Stay Safe and Warm in the Arctic Blast
From flamingo ‘hot tubs’ to heated termite mounds, zoos have plenty of tricks to keep creatures safe when the forecast freezes over
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-zoo-animals-stay-safe-arctic-blast-180967742/
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By Lucille on January 5, 2018 at 1:23 am
The Pittsburgh Zoo have brought their Penguins inside during this cold weather……..
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By Col.(R) Ken on January 5, 2018 at 2:56 am
😯
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By auscitizenmom on January 5, 2018 at 7:09 am
Mornin “Mom” 🙂 (teehee teehee I’m guessing you’re significantly younger than me. )
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By G-d&Country on January 5, 2018 at 11:19 am
LOL Oh, are you 80?
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By auscitizenmom on January 5, 2018 at 11:26 am
Nope, not there yet, but I try to get an idea of people’s ages from what they post. Maybe we are closer in age! 🙂
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By G-d&Country on January 5, 2018 at 11:45 am
71
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By auscitizenmom on January 5, 2018 at 12:04 pm
You are just a tad older than I am. I’ll be 71 this year.
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By stella on January 5, 2018 at 12:05 pm
So, I am the eldest. LOL
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By auscitizenmom on January 5, 2018 at 12:38 pm
I hope she won’t be mad at me for telling, but Sharon is older than you are.
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By stella on January 5, 2018 at 1:08 pm
And, the wisest.
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By auscitizenmom on January 5, 2018 at 1:24 pm
Stella, not mad at you at all. I’ll be 74 in April and am at the point where I sort of want credit for surviving. If there’s a negative that I struggle with,it is the reality that my bounce back is not so great, and I truly am aware of limits and issues. It’s hard to know where to put the energy for fighting which chronic or temporary things. Hard to know what to care about.
Docs aren’t much help. Don’t get me started on that.
I will never forget one of my older sisters absolutely having a COW when she was about to turn 40 – oh, the horror!! I was so sick of listening to her I finally said, “Well, if it’s that awful, you should probably just die while you’re still 39.” She finally stopped.
Love ya, Stella!
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By Sharon on January 5, 2018 at 10:31 pm
As we always say, “it beats the alternative.”
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By stella on January 6, 2018 at 8:36 am
OK, “never mind” as Gilda Radner would say. I was confused with children and grandchildren I guess. I’m going to have to make a chart with the Stellars names, ages, and offspring!
Funny story – Every summer my uncle and family would drive up from Maryland, or we would drive down. One year his 7 kids were mostly at an age when they were hyper running around. We were showing them the Battleground at Lexington, and my dad started counting all the children up between the 2 families before we left to make sure everyone was there before we left in the 2 cars – “Yup, there’s 11” he said, and I said “but are they right 11?” He just shrugged his shoulders!!! HAHAHA!
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By G-d&Country on January 5, 2018 at 12:22 pm
Ugh! ” are they THE right 11.
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By G-d&Country on January 5, 2018 at 12:23 pm
LOL
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By auscitizenmom on January 5, 2018 at 12:40 pm
How to go Swimming with Penguins in Cape Town
https://blog.virginatlantic.com/t5/Our-Places/how-to-go-swimming-with-penguins-in-cape-town/ba-p/21967
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By Lucille on January 5, 2018 at 10:45 am
Hoping, all the time that some Great White isn’t out looking for chicken.
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By czarowniczy on January 5, 2018 at 11:02 am
I just snuggled in with my two dogs, a toasty blanket on a comfy couch. 🙂
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By lovely on January 5, 2018 at 6:25 pm
I was so cold this afternoon, it seemed I would never get warm! I snuggled under my down-filled comforter and took a little nap, and I’m a bit warmer now.
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By stella on January 5, 2018 at 6:35 pm
I braved the cold and went out but forgot my license, cash and debit card in a pair of of pants I wore yesterday. So I had $1.76, I was at a food store feeling a bit blue and then I saw the little powder sugar Hostess donoughts for $1.25, not thinking I said out loud and happily “I can afford that!” 😜 the lady at the self check out looked like she was going to offer to buy me a meal 😂. Anyhow I came home and decided there is no reason for me to face the arctic north just to buy some food 🙂 .
Toast dogs and the couch win !
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By lovely on January 5, 2018 at 6:46 pm
I’ve been having some of that feeling like I can’t get warm. Man, that can dig in, can’t it? Hypothermia can happen while it’s the 50s and some days, I feel like I’m an illustration of that. I’ve got so many layers on today I look like a five year old in Montana in 1952.
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By Sharon on January 5, 2018 at 10:33 pm
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)
(Mudslide)
(RumChata)
(Stolichnaya elit, no ice)
(Smoking Bishop)
(Red Russian)
(Yuengling)
(Baileys Irish Cream on the rocks)
(Brompton’s Cocktail – No cherry, no umbrella, no plastic monkey)
(Benjamin Franklin’s clarified milk punch)
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’ czarina33! (aka 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 Covfefe! (aka “Wooly Phlox” aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂
Mornin’ Howie! (aka “doodahdaze”) 🙂
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂
Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂
Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (Gentleman Jack Whiskey Sling)
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”) 🙂 🍸 (Kamikaze)
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’ litenmaus! 🙂
Mornin’ kinthenorthwest! 🙂 🍸 (A Lonely Island Lost in the Middle of a Foggy Sea)
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂
Mornin’ patternpuzzler! 🙂 🍸 (Old Lady)
Mornin’ Senatssekretär FREISTAAT DANZIG! 🙂
Mornin’ G-d&Country! 🙂 🍸 (Blind Russian)
Mornin’ Gary! 🙂
Mornin’ valeriecurren! 🙂 🍸 (Flaming Sambuca)
Mornin’ Lucille! 🙂 🍸 (Peach Schnapps)
Mornin’ Lburg! 🙂 🍸 (Lburg lemonade)
Mornin’ davidhuntpe! 🙂
Mornin’ skipper1961! 🙂
Mornin’ mightyconservative! 🙂
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!
Donuts
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By nyetneetot on January 5, 2018 at 6:18 am
Yay, more biscuits and gravy. 🙂 Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂
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By auscitizenmom on January 5, 2018 at 7:10 am
Good Morning A! I’m with you on the biscuits and gravy train…although the donuts look particularly enticing this morning.
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By Lburg on January 5, 2018 at 7:25 am
Morning auscitizenmom!
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By sandandsea2015 on January 5, 2018 at 7:58 am
Good Morning, Nyet and thank you for a lovely breakfast. Good Morning Stellars!
“O Lord, refresh our sensibilities. Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in, and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with, and casseroles that put starch and substance in our limp modernity. Take away our fear of fat and make us glad of the oil which ran upon Aaron’s beard. Give us pasta with a hundred fillings, and rice in a thousand variations. Above all, give us grace to live as true men – to fast till we come to a refreshed sense of what we have and then to dine gratefully on all that comes to hand. Drive far from us, O Most Bountiful, all creatures of air and darkness; cast out the demons that possess us; deliver us from the fear of calories and the bondage of nutrition; and set us free once more in our own land, where we shall serve Thee as Thou hast blessed us – with the dew of heaven, the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine. Amen.” ~ Robert Farrar Capon
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By Lburg on January 5, 2018 at 7:24 am
From Wiki: “Robert Farrar Capon (October 26, 1925 – September 5, 2013) was an American Episcopal priest, author and chef. He was born in Jackson Heights, Queens in 1925. A lifelong New Yorker, for almost thirty years Capon was a full-time parish priest in Port Jefferson, New York.”
He wrote 20 books! Based on the quotes I found, I’m definitely going to read some of his work.
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By Lburg on January 5, 2018 at 7:31 am
A-MEN!!!!!! Morning Lburg!
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By sandandsea2015 on January 5, 2018 at 7:59 am
Good Morning S&S! (Raises toast in lieu of donut as a salute)
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By Lburg on January 5, 2018 at 8:20 am
😊
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By sandandsea2015 on January 5, 2018 at 9:06 pm
That’s great! I’m printing it out, and putting it in my dining room! He does sound really interesting. I’m going to look up his books. Thanks for posting that, and all your word pictures of the love of food 😉
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By G-d&Country on January 5, 2018 at 12:14 pm
I’m so glad you liked it. This morning I ordered two of his books, “The Supper of the Lamb” and “Kingdom, Grace, Judgment: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus”. Can’t wait until they get here! If they are as good as I think they might be, the next up will be “The Mystery of Christ . . . and Why We Don’t Get It”.
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By Lburg on January 5, 2018 at 12:26 pm
Morning Nyet!!!! Thanks for breakfast!
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By sandandsea2015 on January 5, 2018 at 7:58 am
Now THAT is biscuits and gravy…yes, I’ll have those plus one of those cute donuts with the strawberries? in the center…along with some extra bacon (“Would you like some bacon with your bacon, Miss?”)…
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By Lucille on January 5, 2018 at 10:50 am
Mornin Nyet! Yup still mornin – I’ll have the bacon, and a lovely doughnut please 🙂 Hope you are safe and warm. Must have power with all this cooking right! 😉
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By G-d&Country on January 5, 2018 at 11:21 am
Evening Nyet 🙂 .
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By lovely on January 5, 2018 at 6:28 pm
What a magnificent photo, Stella. Thanks!
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By Lburg on January 5, 2018 at 7:25 am
Mornin’ kids!
https://twitter.com/WeeWeedTX/status/949282416530771969
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By WeeWeed on January 5, 2018 at 9:14 am
Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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By stella on January 5, 2018 at 9:30 am
Mornin’ Stella!
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By WeeWeed on January 5, 2018 at 10:16 am
Good morning, Wee. Love the I-phone!
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By Lburg on January 5, 2018 at 9:30 am
Mornin’ Lburg!
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By WeeWeed on January 5, 2018 at 10:16 am
As a Californian I love it…but they arent leaving fast enough yet! Morning WeeWeed!
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By Gil on January 5, 2018 at 9:50 am
Mornin’ Gil!
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By WeeWeed on January 5, 2018 at 10:17 am
How so very true! Paradise LOST! Morning, WeeWeed!
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By Lucille on January 5, 2018 at 10:51 am
Mornin’ Lucy!
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By WeeWeed on January 5, 2018 at 10:57 am
Mornin WeeWeed 🙂 Sad, but true. Twice my brother drove from Mass. to Calif. and back – not now 😦
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By G-d&Country on January 5, 2018 at 11:24 am
Mornin’ G&C!
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By WeeWeed on January 5, 2018 at 12:17 pm
Evening Wee 🙂 .
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By lovely on January 5, 2018 at 6:30 pm
Evenin’ Lovely!
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By WeeWeed on January 5, 2018 at 7:12 pm
Good morning all. I feel like a kid on Christmas morning and I have to share my excitement …Yesterday morning I put in an offer on a 100+ year old historic building that would be an answer to my prayers. I will hear today whether my offer is accepted and if it is, it will mean selling my cottage on the corner of Wits End and WTF and relocating, but the payoff is a home and studio where I can once again light up my torches and let my spirit fly. Exciting and frightening at the same time but this is a once in a lifetime opportunity for me, so I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
Last night there was a slight snow falling, it was 12 degrees and there was absolutely no wind, so I decided to brave the roads and took an hours drive on black ice ending up at a grove of pines planted by my family as a prairie wind break. It wasn’t the grove of trees that drew me, but the hot tub, open to the elements that sits among the trees. I spent an hour just luxuriating in the warmth of the water, watching the snow fall, enjoying the antics of a couple jack rabbits and listening to the silence of the world and if only for a short time, I felt like I found a slice of heaven.
Slice of heaven was followed with an appearance at a belated New Years Eve party that pushed every emotional button that I have and upon arrival back at home, I found one very pi$$ed-off kitteh. This was the first time that Squeak has been left alone for more than an hour and when I got home he hissed, growled, howled and tried to bite me every time I tried to pet him. This morning however, the diva is curled up in my lap and is purring up a storm, so it looks like I’ve been forgiven and once again, all is right in my world.
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By litenmaus on January 5, 2018 at 10:13 am
Fingers crossed that your offer will be accepted, Litenmaus, and that all will be right in your world when it is!
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By Lburg on January 5, 2018 at 10:43 am
Thank you lburg…I’ll let ya all know as soon as I hear something……:0)
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By litenmaus on January 5, 2018 at 11:13 am
Prayers you get the home that let’s your spirit soar. Home is so important!
When purchasing up here we found various homes with hot tubs out on an open back deck or pavilion outside. I never knew why until I read your story 🙂
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By G-d&Country on January 5, 2018 at 11:29 am
Thank you for the prayers G&C. I’m not a big fan of hot tubs, but there is definitely something magical about the wide open skies, falling snow and a tub full of bubbling warmth. :0)
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By litenmaus on January 5, 2018 at 12:04 pm
My hot tub needs repair. This makes me so sad. It might be my favorite material possession. Especially in the cold, cold winter. A bottle of wine and a soak makes the world perfect.
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By Menagerie on January 5, 2018 at 4:41 pm
The family hot tub has been broken for the last two years and finalllly an old part was located, repairs made and it was cranked up again last month.
If you have an older tub, I will offer up prayers for you because literally, that’s somehow the only way to find some of these obscure parts. Will you get it repaired soon or are you looking at a long winter without? I hope the former. :0)
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By litenmaus on January 5, 2018 at 5:04 pm
It isn’t likely to get fixed soon. Might not be repairable. Sigh.
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By Menagerie on January 5, 2018 at 5:36 pm
My condolences….I understand.
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By litenmaus on January 5, 2018 at 5:42 pm
I can fix hot tubs. You’re In Oregon? I’m in Redding, which my brother refers to as So. Oregon, so, close. Love to help.
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By derk on January 6, 2018 at 12:28 am
Too bad, because she’s in Georgia. Sharon is in Oregon.
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By stella on January 6, 2018 at 8:48 am
Thanks so much Derk. Sure wish I lived close enough.
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By Menagerie on January 6, 2018 at 10:06 am
I won’t congratulate you yet, but your news is very exciting! It sounds like you had a very satisfying day yesterday.
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By stella on January 5, 2018 at 11:42 am
:0) I wasn’t going to share until I had firm news, but just couldn’t help myself.
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By litenmaus on January 5, 2018 at 12:46 pm
We are out here cheering for you!
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By czarina33 on January 5, 2018 at 3:48 pm
:0) Thank you, I am on pins and needles at this point…..
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By litenmaus on January 5, 2018 at 3:51 pm
Can’t wait to hear!
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By Menagerie on January 5, 2018 at 7:13 pm
:0) keep reading…..
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By litenmaus on January 5, 2018 at 7:14 pm
🙏🏼 Prayers for your dream to come true!
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By lovely on January 5, 2018 at 6:33 pm
Thanks lovely, I am feeling optimistic. :0)
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By litenmaus on January 5, 2018 at 6:38 pm
Watching CNN Headline News, & just now they had a piece on South Haven, showing Wooly’s town’s snow levels. Calling it a white-out & stating it was drawing tourists!
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By czarina33 on January 5, 2018 at 10:59 am
Ok. Maybe I’m mean when it comes to weather exaggerations on the part of announcers, but if it’s drawing tourists, it’s not a real storm. If there actually were a white out, nobody would be out in it.
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By Sharon on January 5, 2018 at 1:13 pm
See comments above about people being out in weather they shouldn’t be out in.
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By czarina33 on January 5, 2018 at 3:50 pm
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By Lucille on January 5, 2018 at 11:00 am
I subscribe to Andreea Petcu’s (from Romania) website and she posts the loveliest music…
Michel Pépé – Au Coeur de l’lmmensité
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By Lucille on January 5, 2018 at 11:04 am
Watching HLN channel, they have most of the day dedicated to Wolff who’s bashing Trump while giving away the book’s content and drumming up sales. Then again HLN Channel’s a wart fallen off of the CNN butt so what can you expect? Can’t help but wonder what the Dark Powers promised Wolff for his complicity in destroying Trump?
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By czarowniczy on January 5, 2018 at 11:18 am
Now trying to makes Spicer’s crash and burn look like a noble man getting wrapped up with Trump and being tarred and dragged down through the association.
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By czarowniczy on January 5, 2018 at 11:23 am
Oct 2016, DH and I waiting at the DC airport. All the talking head “newsies” were there trying to get to Cleveland. Wolf was there. What a soyboy, with skinny jeans, and those sneakers – at his age! Then another soyboy type walks up, almost bowing to him, going on and on about how wonderful his reporting is, and how appreciated his hard work is. You should have seen the look on our and some other faces in the waiting area!
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By G-d&Country on January 5, 2018 at 11:35 am
Every pile of s*** has its own following of flies.
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By czarowniczy on January 5, 2018 at 11:48 am
BWAHAHAHA! Never heard that one before! – but it’s true!
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By G-d&Country on January 5, 2018 at 12:07 pm
Don’t know if it’s an existing aphorism or not, just came to me while I was typing…then again it didn’t take much prompting.
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By czarowniczy on January 5, 2018 at 12:55 pm
More BS in that book than a herd of cattle. I am hoping that President Trump just blames a “Vast Left wing conspiracy” and smiles.
Heck, candidate Trump said from day one that Melania told him he could only run if he wanted to win because if he ran for president he knew, and she knew, he would win. Wolff should have watched some actual Trump rallies.
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By lovely on January 5, 2018 at 6:38 pm
I have a small, sneaking suspicion that the book’s release may have been meant to cover the press releases today of Sen Grassley referring Chris Steele to DOJ for prosecution and the FBI’s announcement that it’s investigating the Clinton Foundation. The other option is it’s pure coincidence.
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By czarowniczy on January 5, 2018 at 6:48 pm
And there ya’ go. Coincidence only count in horse shoes or something like that.
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By lovely on January 5, 2018 at 6:51 pm
Morning all! 🙂
Sorry about the length of the bio. I was up late last night cutting it down, but Tissot had quite the life! In honor of Epiphany, here is Tissot’s painting of the Magi:
Jacques Joseph Tissot 1836 –1902, Anglicized James Tissot, was a French painter and illustrator. A devout Catholic, Tissot’s mother instilled pious devotion in him from a very young age. Tissot’s youth in Nantes likely contributed to his depiction of boats in his later works. His parents working in the fashion industry is believed to have been an influence on his painting style, depicting women’s clothing in fine detail. By the time Tissot was 17, he knew he wanted to pursue painting as a career. His father opposed this, but the young Tissot gained his mother’s support. In 1856/1857, Tissot travelled to Paris, and enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
In 1859, Tissot exhibited in the Paris Salon for the first time. After this, and before he had been awarded a medal, the French government paid 5,000 francs for his depiction of The Meeting of Faust and Marguerite in 1860, with the painting being exhibited at the Salon the following year. About 1863, Tissot shifted his focus from medieval style to the depiction of modern life through portraits. He gained high critical acclaim, and quickly became a success as an artist. Tissot fought in the Franco-Prussian War as part of the improvised defence of Paris. He then left Paris for London in 1871. Having already exhibited at the Royal Academy, Tissot arrived with established connections in London. He quickly developed a reputation as a painter of elegantly dressed women in fashionable scenes. Paintings by Tissot appealed to wealthy British industrialists, and in 1872 he earned 94,515 francs, an income normally only enjoyed by those in the upper classes. In 1874, Degas asked him to join in the first exhibition organized by (Impressionist) artists, but Tissot refused. However he continued to be close to these artists. Tissot returned to Paris, where a major exhibition of his work took place in 1885. At the time he was among many Western artists influenced by Japanese art and fashion.
In 1885, Tissot had a revival of his Catholic faith, and spent the rest of his life painting Biblical events. At a time when French artists were working in impressionism, pointillism, and heavy oil washes, Tissot was moving toward realism in his watercolors. To assist in his completion of biblical illustrations, Tissot traveled to the Middle East in 1886, 1889, and 1896 to make studies of the landscape and people. His series of 365 gouache illustrations showing the life of Christ were shown to critical acclaim and enthusiastic audiences in Paris (1894–5), London (1896) and New York (1898–9), before being bought by the Brooklyn Museum in 1900. They were published in a French edition in 1896–7 and in English in 1897–8, bringing Tissot wealth and fame. In 1894, Tissot was awarded the Légion d’honneur, France’s most prestigious medal. Tissot spent the last years of his life working on Old Testament paintings. Although he never completed the series, he exhibited 80 of these paintings in Paris in 1901, and engravings after them were published in 1904. The Life of Christ and The Old Testament became the “definitive Bible images”. In the first half of the 20th century, there was a re-kindling of interest in his portraits of fashionable ladies and some fifty years later, these were achieving record prices.
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By G-d&Country on January 5, 2018 at 11:42 am
I apologize. I thought i had put a hard return in between paragraphs – my bad.
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By G-d&Country on January 5, 2018 at 11:43 am
Beautiful!
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By lovely on January 5, 2018 at 6:39 pm
Sharing two photos today (Christmas leftovers). The first is our Christmas Eve trifle, assembled by my grandsons (with my supervision). The second is a pic of a belated Christmas gift I received today:
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By stella on January 5, 2018 at 12:01 pm
Trifles are so pretty – and that looks so yummy! The socks are just hilarious! You’ll have to walk around with your pants rolled up! 😉
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By G-d&Country on January 5, 2018 at 12:10 pm
The trifle was delicious. How can you miss? Berries, cake, jam, pudding and whipped cream.
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By stella on January 5, 2018 at 1:06 pm
Oh the unfairness of it all! Here I am diabetic and you’re trifling with my affections…
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By czarowniczy on January 5, 2018 at 1:15 pm
It could be made with very little sugar. I buy fresh berries and frozen berries without sugar. Could use a sugar-free packaged pudding. I mix mine with mascarpone cheese. Leaving the jam out works fine (I’ve done that.) I don’t know about the cake (I use plain pound cake).
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By stella on January 5, 2018 at 1:35 pm
BRING ON THE SUGAR! I’ll suffer for my art…or use a smaller spoon.
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By czarowniczy on January 5, 2018 at 1:37 pm
In England, they always sprinkle a bit of sherry on the cake layers, yum.
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By Jacqueline Taylor Robson on January 6, 2018 at 11:13 am
I don’t because I’m feeding kids. In a few years I won’t have to worry about that any more! I use more berry juice instead.
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By stella on January 6, 2018 at 11:27 am
Canadian Prime Minister Sparkles might be a wee bit jealous of those socks…:0)
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By litenmaus on January 5, 2018 at 12:57 pm
trifle trifle…..we are on vacation at lakehouse in East Texas…below freezing for days, but huge fire in fireplace and lots of food…had neighbors over and DW made a huge trifle for dessert….I could eat trifle for three meals a day and a midnite snack as well.
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By joshua on January 5, 2018 at 1:15 pm
I have a recipe somewhere for a tropical trifle that I want to try.
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By stella on January 5, 2018 at 1:32 pm
With rum, no less…
http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/tropical-rum-trifle
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By czarowniczy on January 5, 2018 at 1:40 pm
Sounds good. I think I would use fresh pineapple, and leave out the macadamia nuts.
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By stella on January 5, 2018 at 1:45 pm
Agreed, I think that squishing thru the trifle and getting a crunch might be distracting. I’m wondering if the processed vice fresh pineapple might be due to the enzymes in the fresh pineapple causing problems. Then again, if you make it and immediately scarf it down the enzymes might not be an issue.
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By czarowniczy on January 5, 2018 at 1:51 pm
I thought of that too – might be the case (fresh vs canned).
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By stella on January 5, 2018 at 1:55 pm
Here’s the recipe I was thinking of. It’s from the BBC’s Great British Baking Show. Similar to yours, but more complicated (of course.)
http://www.pbs.org/food/recipes/caribbean-pina-colada-trifle/
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By stella on January 5, 2018 at 2:01 pm
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/22140/double-chocolate-mocha-trifle/
A double chocolate mocha trifle…or a black coffee trifle?
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By czarowniczy on January 5, 2018 at 4:08 pm
Until I saw this recipe, I didn’t have much interest in the trifle. But, this looks really good. 😀
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By auscitizenmom on January 5, 2018 at 2:03 pm
Trifles come in all kinds of flavors!
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By stella on January 5, 2018 at 2:07 pm
LOL I believe it was the rum that changed my mind. 🙄
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By auscitizenmom on January 5, 2018 at 2:13 pm
I’m wondering. I could probably make a chocolate Jack trifle.
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By Menagerie on January 5, 2018 at 5:04 pm
{gasp} {clunk}
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By auscitizenmom on January 5, 2018 at 5:33 pm
More rum, drill sergeant!
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By czarowniczy on January 5, 2018 at 4:25 pm
Love the socks!
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By lovely on January 5, 2018 at 6:40 pm
I like the holiday tablecloth!
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By MaryfromMarin on January 6, 2018 at 12:38 am
Thanks! I made that more than 20 years ago, and it still looks good.
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By stella on January 6, 2018 at 8:49 am
Watching local news piece on frozen weather in the South. Pix showing cars frozen to the road, sliding all over, backed up behind barricades on closed roads…also showing a cop saying they wouldn’t have these problems to the extent they do if the people would just stay off of the streets as they were asked to. Meanwhile through the cop’s car window we see people sliding all over the road…
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By czarowniczy on January 5, 2018 at 1:12 pm
Yup. In Minnesota when the weather’s like that people stay home. And those who don’t? They will be remembered and talked about. For years.
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By Sharon on January 5, 2018 at 1:15 pm
Maybe folks in Minnesota don’t have that same sense of entitlement that the more sophisticated and entitled NE urban areas have?
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By czarowniczy on January 5, 2018 at 1:18 pm
There actually is a group in Minnesota that has the same sense of “reality doesn’t apply to us” – the Somalian immigrants. After 2000, if there was news of some car load of people being killed or badly smushed in a rural area because they ran into the rear of a snowplow in a blizzard, doing the speed limit for summer conditions, it was nearly always Somalian immigrants.
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By Sharon on January 5, 2018 at 1:23 pm
Further on in local news the talking heads are telling us about a guy in Oklahoma who walked out on a frozen pond, fell thru the vice and died ‘AS A RESULT OF THIS UNSEASONABLY COLD WEATHER’. Now when I lived in Oklahoma I don’t remember any banana ranches scheduling early January harvests, matter of fact I remember it being COLD. I also remember folks telling me not to go out on the ice covering ponds. Seems to me that the proximal cause of this guy’s death was not the weather but a bad decision making process.
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By czarowniczy on January 5, 2018 at 1:36 pm
Early EVERY spring, at least one group of idiots get caught out on the lake ice while ice fishing in a thaw. Sometimes they lose a car or a snowmobile, but usually get caught out when the ice they are on breaks off and leaves them on an ice floe. I think they get charged money for the rescue.
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By stella on January 5, 2018 at 1:51 pm
Or just left to serve as an example of the consequences of really bad decision making. “Here lies…”
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By czarowniczy on January 5, 2018 at 1:53 pm
Yes. In MN, those who need rescuring in blizzards after going out traveling after being told, via 2000 radio and TV broadcasts, that it is “NO TRAVEL CONDITIONS” – they are charged for the rescue that is inevitably needed.
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By Sharon on January 5, 2018 at 1:55 pm
They had a similar problem in San Diego. Every year, when it rained, there was water in the San Diego River (it was dry the rest of the year). People would drive around the barriers put there to stop them and they would have to be rescued. They curtailed it a little by taking whoever got rescued straight to jail.
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By auscitizenmom on January 5, 2018 at 2:11 pm
I HOPE they get charged. There needs to be some consequence for stupidity.
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By czarina33 on January 5, 2018 at 4:01 pm
Every year in MN there was always at least one snowmobiler who would go through the ice some time in early November because he thought he was the exception to the norms….the locals always sorta hoped the guy wouldn’t die for his stupidity because it would be hard on the family and all. If he died there was sympathy for the family. If he lived, there was none for him.
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By Sharon on January 5, 2018 at 1:53 pm
I remember the guys who used to be out zooming thru the backwoods at breakneck speed on their snowmobiles, hit a stump, boulder or something else in the snow then get a Greek chorus to join them in blasting the Forest Service for not cleaning up the forest for them.
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By czarowniczy on January 5, 2018 at 4:31 pm
the devil invented PEP boys tire chains selling to Southerners who never drove on ice before….
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By joshua on January 5, 2018 at 1:18 pm
Yeah, certain groups be wonderin” if they come in gold to match they grills.
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By czarowniczy on January 5, 2018 at 1:20 pm
I remember driving home one night. It was raining, but turned to sleet/ice a few miles before I reached my destination. I had to drive partially on the shoulder of the road in order to get enough traction to get up a small hill, and ended up taking off my high-heeled boots and walking into the house barefooted to avoid falling on my you-know-what.
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By stella on January 5, 2018 at 1:38 pm
I remember…dimly now…living in Utah and having to traverse mountains of frozen slush coating the sidewalks, trying to make it across slush-frozen streets before the monster truck drivers accelerated thru the intersections ads if those caught in the streets at light change were now ‘in season’. All of this while breathing in the Valley Crud winter pollution smog that was thick enough to chew.
In comparison to what little I have to put up with now it’s no comparison. If I fall here it’s into mud, far less damaging.
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By czarowniczy on January 5, 2018 at 1:46 pm
one of my very favorite Stella posts from the past….just had to post in in honor of the truth she has given us all with a sense of humor …..thank you Stella…
stella says:
July 19, 2013 at 6:08 pm
A little boy goes to his dad and asks, “What is Politics?”
Dad says, “Well son, let me try to explain it this way:
I am the head of the family, so call me The President. Your mother is the administrator of the money, so we call her the Government. We are here to take care of your needs, so we will call you the People. The nanny, we will consider her the Working Class. And your baby brother, we will call him the Future. Now think about that and see if it makes sense.”
So the little boy goes off to bed thinking about what Dad has said. Later that night, he hears his baby brother crying, so he gets up to check on him. He finds that the baby has severely soiled his diaper.
So the little boy goes to his parent’s room and finds his mother asleep. Not wanting to wake her, he goes to the nanny’s room. Finding the door locked, he peeks in the keyhole and sees his father in bed with the nanny. He gives up and goes back to bed.
The next morning, the little boy say’s to his father, “Dad, I think I understand the concept of politics now.”
The father says, “Good, son, tell me in your own words what you think politics is all about.”
The little boy replies, “The President is screwing the Working Class while the Government is sound asleep. The People are being ignored and the Future is deep in crap.”
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By joshua on January 5, 2018 at 1:17 pm
Trencin Castle, Slovaka – Medieval Fortress
See article at: http://riowang.blogspot.com/2010/06/greetings.html
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By Lucille on January 5, 2018 at 3:49 pm
Spell it correctly, Lucille! SLOVAKIA! If you click on the first picture, it will enlarge…not the second one, though.
However, if you’re inclined on occasion to give out with a mild oath, SLOVAKA just might fill the bill. It doesn’t mean anything, and so how could anyone take offense? The method is to throw your hand up in the air and with emphasis say, “Slovaka!” Now if it turns out that Slovaka really is a word in Slovakian and you start a Slovakian swearfest, don’t blame me…I didn’t know.
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By Lucille on January 5, 2018 at 4:04 pm
:0) Home is where a handshake is a contract. Home is where you’re lineage matters. Home is where your work with the community pays off in subtle ways.
I am smiling. I woke up yesterday morning and there was a feeling of urgency that I needed to call the real estate agent who was selling the property that I am now emotionally invested in. I spent a number of phone calls trying to find the individual who was handling the sale of the property and as I say, I sensed an urgency in placing the call as soon as possible.
I have now heard from the real estate agent and from this moment, my possible home is in God’s hands. Here’s the rest of the story…
Brother and Sister own the property. On Wednesday, the sister was contacted by an interested party and sister made the commitment to that party that she would show them the property on Monday and entertain an offer from them.
On Thursday, I called and spoke of my desire to maintain the property if at all possible because it was a building that deserved a place of pride in the community, asked that the realtor pass along my personal tie to the building and signed my offer.
The realtor reached the brother this Friday afternoon and he is ecstatic about my offer, BUT the sisters agreement with the other party takes precedence and my offer is on hold…HOWEVER, brother is so not excited about the other party’s possible offer that he has scheduled a meeting with me on Wednesday to come lift up the ceiling so I can see ‘the marvelous moulding’ that’s been hidden for sixty plus years…Yes, you read that correctly and now you know why I am smiling.
Five more days…stay tuned. :0)
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By litenmaus on January 5, 2018 at 4:55 pm
😀
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By auscitizenmom on January 5, 2018 at 5:02 pm
Sometimes ‘ties’ sway sellers – they want to know that someone out there loves the building as much as they do. How marvelous that you’ll get to meet with the person who gets that – prayers that your dream is realized!
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By Lburg on January 5, 2018 at 5:28 pm
Exactly. This is a 100 year old bank building that contains the original vault that was hauled to the Montana territories before there was a State. The entire building is covered in the most absolutely exquisite pressed tin that could be found at the time. And the hand carved wooden Banking Header is a one of kind from the German settlers. I’m swooning and yes, I couldn’t feel more blessed knowing the brother and I share the same love of history,
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By litenmaus on January 5, 2018 at 5:40 pm
Oh, my that sounds wonderful.
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By auscitizenmom on January 5, 2018 at 9:09 pm
And people who cant appreciate it paint it all white because they think thats easy. It sounds like a dream.
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By Gil on January 5, 2018 at 11:24 pm
Hah! They did one better on this building Gil…they didn’t paint it white…no, they used pink/beige paint. Not pretty. :0)
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By litenmaus on January 6, 2018 at 6:44 am
Litenmaus, I don’t actively have a blog! Initially thought I had to have one to participate on the tree and with Stella…..I have exactly one post. Just wanted you to know the ‘why’!
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By Lburg on January 7, 2018 at 9:47 am
Thanks Lburg..appreciate the info…:0)
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By litenmaus on January 7, 2018 at 10:37 am
My son and DIL made an offer on a house that wasn’t the highest. Their realtor wanted them to meet the sellers. They did, and they got the house. The sellers had raised their three children in that house and they saw a nice young couple with a child and another one due (any minute) and wanted them to have it.
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By auscitizenmom on January 5, 2018 at 5:37 pm
I’ll never forget watching “This Old House” and the host was admiring the beautiful oak woodwork and congratulating the owner for not painting it some “awful emerald green” the cameras then followed the duo upstairs where of course all of the beautiful oak woodwork had been painted emerald green 😞.
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By lovely on January 5, 2018 at 6:59 pm
ROFL…gotta love it..:0)
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By litenmaus on January 5, 2018 at 7:20 pm
Right? His face was so funny !
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By lovely on January 5, 2018 at 7:32 pm
That could have been me. I used to sell millwork, and I hate to see old wood painted. New stuff, tacky stuff, yes, I have a painting business, and sometimes it looks better to cover wood. But not the old, old original stuff.
Me of these days I’ll probably have a customer who wants to hire me to paint an old Victorian and I will have to confront my avarice head on.
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By Menagerie on January 5, 2018 at 7:22 pm
I grew up in Chicago in a beautiful 2 flat, my grandfather lived upstairs and my family lived in the downstairs. Both flats were identical, lots of oak (none of it painted) and one of my first memories is being held by my uncle and looking into the built in oak buffet at all the lovely objects 🙂 .
I just love the esthetic of wood. I have hard wood floors and oak doors but my favorite thing is my old oak pantry door, it has a window as it was once part of a pharmacy. There is just so much beauty and character in wood.
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By lovely on January 5, 2018 at 7:32 pm
Attorney General Jeff Landry, Congressman Mike Johnson Release Publication on Religious Expression in Schools
BATON ROUGE, LA – Students, teachers, and administrators now have more guidance when it comes to prayer in schools thanks to Attorney General Jeff Landry and Congressman Mike Johnson. The two have released the Louisiana Student Rights Review, a publication providing guidance on religious expression in public schools.
“Despite court ruling after court ruling affirming our constitutional rights of freedom of speech and expression, there remains confusion on the practical application of those rights in public schools,” said General Landry. “So Congressman Johnson and I have put this publication together to help answer some of the most frequently asked questions and misconceptions about the law in this area.”
“It is important to remember that our Constitution and laws protect the rights of students to live out their faith on campus,” added Congressman Johnson. “Religious liberty is the first freedom listed in the Bill of Rights, and the next generation of Americans needs to be encouraged to preserve it.”
The Louisiana Student Rights Review addresses student religious expression, religious student organizations, and involvement with those organizations, and is intended to serve as a helpful resource for Louisiana students, parents, teachers, coaches, administrators and school board members.
“We hope this publication helps all citizens better understand religious liberty because too many people have unfortunately been misled into believing schools must be religion-free zones,” concluded General Landry. “The truth is our First Amendment rights are not surrendered at the school house door.”
A hard copy of the publication will soon be mailed to all school superintendents throughout Louisiana. Those interested in viewing and/or using the booklet may download it for free today at: http://www.agjefflandry.com/Home/GetRelatedFile?articleId=2697
https://www.ag.state.la.us/Article.aspx/6506?TypeId=1&CatId=2
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By Lucille on January 5, 2018 at 6:18 pm
I’m a firm believer that the people who paint beautiful handcrafted wood should be shot, no questions asked…..
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By litenmaus on January 5, 2018 at 7:31 pm
oh, oh I’ve posted too much, this was in reply to Menagerie.
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By litenmaus on January 5, 2018 at 7:32 pm
😂
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By lovely on January 5, 2018 at 7:34 pm
Well, I’m not going to listen to that crap but if the guy pictured is the one saying, I have a hint for him. Look in the mirror, Bunky. The visuals do not recommend you as a source for anything, much less opinion about Mr. President.
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By Sharon on January 5, 2018 at 10:35 pm
It’s only 6 seconds and it is a visual using a Jim Henson muppet. No liberals were allowed to speak in this video 🙂 .
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By lovely on January 6, 2018 at 9:48 am
lilbirdee12’s prayer:
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.
Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and Mike Pence and their families as they seek to lead America back to You.
Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.
We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
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By auscitizenmom on January 5, 2018 at 9:01 pm
Amen
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By auscitizenmom on January 5, 2018 at 9:04 pm
Amen.
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By sandandsea2015 on January 5, 2018 at 9:07 pm
Amen
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By lovely on January 5, 2018 at 9:18 pm
Funniest president ever.
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By lovely on January 5, 2018 at 9:19 pm
His use of the understatement is unsurpassed in my lifetime, I think. He doesn’t waste energy projecting mad or upset or arrogant or anything. He can just say, “Sad!” and the object of his comment should wish they had kept their mouth shut.
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By Sharon on January 5, 2018 at 10:37 pm
I went to costco today. The michael wolfe book front and center, and theyre almost out. Kinda strange. I do live in a conservative area in CA. Maybe they moved them to the fiction section.
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By Gil on January 5, 2018 at 11:19 pm
Not sure what the purpose of the book is other than to put some money in Wolff’s pocket and send tingles up the legs of liberals. It will be interesting to see what President Trump gets done under the radar while the MAddow clan are gasping in indignation for the next week about libelous statements. Wait ! No they aren’t libelous because Wolff says in the forward that some of the book is just lies and it is up to the the reader to believe or not believe whatever they want. Such low bred people.
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By lovely on January 6, 2018 at 9:42 am
You can’t make this stuff up.
Tipping Point With Liz Wheeler on OAN – January 5,2018
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By Lucille on January 5, 2018 at 10:44 pm