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Today is National Oreo Cookie Day, National White Chocolate Cheesecake Day, National Frozen Food Day—and National Dentist’s Day.
Remember what I told you?
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Oh man what a day!
Goody : Oreo, cheesecake, creme de menthe.
And you can drink your cheesecake:
Raspberry White Chocolate Cheesecake Cocktail
1 ounce white creme de cacao
1 ounce Chambord
1 tablespoon cream cheese
2 scoops vanilla ice cream
1/2 cup crushed ice
Pour all the ingredients into a blender and blend until smooth. Pour the mixture into a parfait glass. Optional: garnish with a raspberry.
Dental visit incoming!
https://tipbuzz.com/oreo-cheesecake-cupcakes-st-patricks-day/
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Perfect for St. Patrick’s Day, too!
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Which New Orleans will be celebrating in neighborhood bars & on the streets I just 11 days, conveniently on a Saturday so fewer people are forced to take off from work to attend (or take the next day off to recover from). Slainte!
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I grew up on the gulf coast not too far from Lake Charles, LA. Many of my friends went to NOLA for Mardi Gras and St. Patrick’s Day. I always loved getting some of the Mardi Gras beads they collected. I never went, I just lived vicariously through them.
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Not enough ABV. Add vodka. Preferably Tito’s.
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I will not take a knee on those celebrations…but I will want a glass of milk to go with the cookie.
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LOL!!!!
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Dagnabbit! It’s stil Why Did I Give Up SweetsFor Lent Day here.
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Mary do they make a blueberry Oreo cookie?
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Perhaps it’s time to propose one!
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There was a Special Edition Blueberry Pie Oreo in the summers of 2016 and 2017. Let’s hope it returns this year! Description: “Made of a pie crust cookie with a blueberry filling”
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I want them! I,want them!
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What she said. Same here.
I saw that and heard Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus” in my head.
My eyes got real big.
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And the ad on the top of the page was for CHOCOLATE Frosted Flakes! What took them so long!?!?
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Remember Banana Nestle QUIK?
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They test-marketed that for one year in my area, in the late 80s.
Apparently it failed, but I absolutely loved it. Mix with Strawberry and you’re set!
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No. Was it chocolate banana? That has promise, but since it is not currently in shelves, I bet it had limited success.
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I posted this on last night’s thread, but repeating here too:
Having worked for Italians for 40 years, this absolutely tickles me.
Apocalypse Ciao: Italy’s Trump Election
…The big winner of the night, however, was the “Five Star” movement. This most obviously Trumpian outfit, which expresses the voters’ anger at the establishment, won 33 percent. Its slogan, “Vaffanculo!” none too subtly invites establishmentarians to attempt monogenesis. It took votes primarily from the Left. Moreover, Sunday’s vote changed Italian politics generationally from below. Nothing like this had happened in a century.
ADD: Leave it to the Italians to have a political movement with an obscene slogan.
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Ive told kiddo about Italy and shown him some photos. I hope someday we can go together. Once it is rotorootered and “Italian” again.
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We’ll see if that happens. Italians are a little bit crazy when it comes to politics (okay, a lot crazy).
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WHAT? ME WORRY?
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Why bother having a whizzzzz-bang polityical slogan in Italy? Most IOtalian governments don’t last long enough for the interior decorator to change the drapes.
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Do you know what it means? It made me laugh because it is such a typical thing for an Italian to say when they are frustrated or pissed off. Not something stupid, like “Forward”.
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Mrs. Nyet speaks Italian cuss/swear. I’ve heard a few more than that.
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Mrs. Nyet swearing………….
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I had to laugh. This is exactly what I was telling the political masters, the liberals, and the sainted Catholics and other Christians who turned their nose up at the Trump candidacy.
And I’m still saying it. And it feels pretty danged good, actually.
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It brings back happy memories. My boss was a beautifully dressed and well-educated man who had an engineering degree from the University of Bologna. He was equally at home quoting Dante at length – or cursing volubly with the typical Italian hand signals (no, it isn’t just a cliche), shouting one or more of the following in a deep bass – “porca miseria!”, “ma vaffanculo!” (or va fan culo), “mannaggia!”, “che cazzo!”, “stronzo!”, “merda!”, “Figlio di puttana!”
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Here he is, after a race, probably at the harness track near Naples. He was manager there in later life.
And an article about him in the New York Times:
Many years after he left our company and returned to Italy, we made a book for him on his birthday with photos of the employees who worked there during his tenure, with notes of greeting from everybody. On the cover was a caricature of him in a Roman toga, with his foot on a block that had the company logo on it (a stylized “M” in a circle) and the title, “And A Nose That is Handsome”.
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This article brings back so many memories. I knew his cousin, Fausto, very well. So many crazy stories!
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What fun memories.
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or
“hope and change”
or
“yes we can”
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Yes, but whenever I hear the words ‘Italian’ and ‘government’ together all I can think about is how Italy’s had some 65 since the end of WW II. Even in the early 60s when I lived in Germany the joke was something to theveffect of: “Well, it’s Wednesday, who’s the Italian prime minister today?”.
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For feeding Christians to lions, God turned Romans into Italians.
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LOL Since I didn’t know what monogenesis meant, I looked up vaffanculo. That was pretty clear!
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It’s crude, but funny when applied to politics.
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Good Advice, Lucille – Hope you have a great day!
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Thanks, Lburg!
Though actually a sad song, “You Are My Sunshine” is upbeat in tune. It’s one of those songs a child of my era learned in school. Jimmie Davis – “You Are My Sunshine” (1940)
(It Is Claimed That Oliver Hood Wrote the Song in the Early 1930’s and Performed it at a Veteran’s of Foreign Wars Convention in Georgia.
1st. Recorded 22 August 1939 by the Pine Ridge Boys on Bluebird 8263 A (no composer credit)
2nd. Recorded 13 September 1939 by the Rice Brothers Gang on Decca 5763 A (Paul Rice Credited) Paul Rice Claimed to Compose it in 1937
Jimmie Davis Bought the Song & Rights from Paul Rice
This Song is One of the Two Official Songs of the State of Louisiana)
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I used to sing it to my children when they were little – and now they sing it with their children. Although it is a sad song, my daughter says the only thing she remembers is feeling like she was my sunshine…. That’s good enough for me!
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I sang this to my girls every morning.
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Louisianans’ are proud to remind others he was their governor.
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Jimmy Davis – last governor of Louisiana who actually had a skill other than screwing the public.
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Good morning Lucille, beautiful!
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Good morning, lovely! I love that so many people have put wonderful sayings on pictures and posted them online.
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Sunflowers are so beautiful !
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Good morning Lucille! I love sunflowers! This made me smile. 😊
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Good morning, sand! I love sunflowers, too. They seem to encourage a person to smile and be happy.
http://en.thaiembassymoscow.com/events/viewimage.php
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Oy, that certainly came out weird…the Moscow Embassy!! Good, grief, Stella, your blog may now be on the FBI radar (if it wasn’t already!).
I’ll find another flower photo to post.
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Here’s an article about sunflower planting time…
Sunflowers have something to smile about as spring planting nears
http://www.capjournal.com/sunflowers-have-something-to-smile-about-as-spring-planting-nears/article_206ed9da-c93f-11e4-b274-1b85793e9120.html
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Thank you Lucile………
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You’re welcome, Colonel!
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Whazzat? Paul Ryan’s new campaign slogan?
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With a selfie even.
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A tim’rous selfie.
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Ryan should be nervous I saw him change I saw him make the conscious effort not to do the right thing when he became Romney’s wing man. It was painful to watch him on his first return to Wisconsin after his grooming.
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Delingpole: Penguin ‘Supercolony’ Discovered in Antarctica; Another Global Warming Scare Story Bites the Dust
![](https://i0.wp.com/media.breitbart.com/media/2018/03/penguin-colony-640x480.png)
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/04/delingpole-penguin-supercolony-discovered-in-antarctica-another-global-warming-scare-story-bites-the-dust/
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Good song!
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Yes great song….
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Good morning Sir 🙂 !
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Exploring my grandparents’ house when I was a kid, I found an alligator purse in the basement. It had a full baby alligator head on it. Seemed really creepy to me. I understand using the skin, but the whole head, eyes and all? I never understood. Why would someone make that?
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sounds like a call for Johnny Horton….
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Joshua’s lost his mind.
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was busy at the Iditarod powdering dog’s behinds to prevent chapping from the massive poop event Tundra described so thoroughly and made me sad for the pooches. that set me off and blew my mind….
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I used to see those all the time. They were very popular (but not with me.)
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They also had fox jackets/stoles with a fox head clasp, too.
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I had an aunt with one of those dead fox deals….totally creeped me out as a child….when she died, it was still stored in a closet…my brother and I gave it a formal burial…..
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https://twitter.com/GrizzleMeister/status/971161905414004736
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That is absolutely hilarious!
Conservative men, if you see colored hair, run. Women? If you see a man bun, run.
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Man bun and skinny jeans. Beta male. Know what a beta male is? Not enough guts to come out as gay, not enough testosterone to really be a man.
Although I was sooo tempted to write a little poetic verse using a term rhyming with guts.
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This is impossible! No one is that stupid. Really!?!?
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That’s what I was thinking it is either a parody or a photoshop. But I would disagree about no one being that stupid 😜.
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Yep, a son I recall we have evidence in Congess. Representatives from Georgia, Texas, California and Florida come right to mind, although I’m quite sure there are many other states represented.
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Okkkkkaaayyyyy….. I concede someone IS that stupid.
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And there is always Maxine Waters 😜.
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And Hank Johnson.
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^^^ Scroll up a bit Stella 🙂 ! GMTA
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Sorry. I was answering in the side bar.
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Nothing to be sorry about 🙂 . Hank is worth reposting!
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I’m thinking she is that stupid, more than likely.
But I’m also thinking that was done with MS Paint.
It’s quite obvious, when you look at it.
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Alligators is misspelled. This meme must have been made by Russian bots.
It’s that good.
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I ain’t gonna ‘like’ that, too much like my first marriage. Annnnnnnd there’s the second half of my March one.
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Monday on the Iditarod trail. Gorgeous weather and warm on the way up to Rainy Pass. Aliy had me anxious for a while, she stopped for 8 hours of rest in the middle of the day, probably to avoid running in the heat. Temps are in the +20s, which is warm for sled dogs. They perform best at -10 to +10. Letting them get overheated is the worst thing for them. I watched as team after team passed her up, and was afraid something was wrong. But early rest in this marathon is gas in the tank for later. She blazed over Rainy Pass, down the Dalzel Gorge, and into Rohn, which is the end of the Alaska Range. She is in 7th position now, a good place to be for the middle portion of the race. Word on the trail is that the weather gets bad about 20 miles out of Rohn. Snowstorms for the next few days with lots of soft white stuff being dropped. That will slow all the teams down as the dogs are churning through chest deep fresh snow.
More photos here:
http://iditarod.com/photo/
And a lovely description of the Rainy Pass checkpoint and the volunteers who make it work here:
http://iditarod.com/volunteer-spirit-runs-rainy-pass-checkpoint/
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Getting back up to 7th place is encouraging after an 8 hour break. Sounds like she is mushing smart! Thanks Tundra and Go Aliy!
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Beautiful pictures. I had forgotten how beautiful and deadly AK is…..
Go Aliy
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Word’s out, Mississippi Senator Cochran is retiring from the Senate on 1 April due to health problems. Chris McDaniel’s dusting off his track shoes, interesting how he will deal with his ‘Trump voters are delusional’ remarks when he runs.
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Per remarks next door, some of the Mississippi Treepers don’t think he’s a very good guy. One Treeper said he’s done nothing in the State Senate except miss the voting.
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We’re gonna wait and see what the state Republican Party does. Gotta remember, we’re a small state, only some 3-million, and there’s gpnna be a lot of outside $$$$ coming in to try and swing the elections (both Senators’ seats will be in play) one way or tuther.
So far the state Rat party’s been very quiet and that’s unnerving too. Most of the Rat progs are hiding under rocks in the Jackson area but aren’t above going out into the hinterlands and promising two taxpayer-funded chickens in everyones’ pots if they vote for corrosion.
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And don’t forget the dead vote…..
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Cochran’s election was the final nail in the coffin of my Republican Party loyalty. It had been on life support for a number of years. That election killed it.
I might vote for a candidate who is running as a Republican, like I did President Trump, but they no longer have any assurance of my vote at all. The only absolute left for me is that I will never vote for a Democrat.
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I saw many a post in 2016 about voting for the Democrat when a RINO is also on the ticket. Those type of comments always made me think the poster was actually a Dem trying to act like a Conservative.
But, then, of course, RINOS like George Herbert Walker Bush and Babs voted for Hillary rather than our great President. It’s just inconceivable to me how any Republican with an ounce of sense could do that. NEVER vote Democrat is my motto!
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Just tell yourself what Dems online have been telling themselves, when they see a comment with which they disagree.
Those comments are made by Russian Bots.
That seems to be the go-to insult in the current year on most forums.
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George H.W. Bush showed his true color when the started wearing the Justin Sox probably supporting NAFTA and The Royal Can Mounted Police
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I might vote for a candidate who is running as a Republican, like I did President Trump, but they no longer have any assurance of my vote at all. The only absolute left for me is that I will never vote for a Democrat.
Yep. Right now we have (U)niparty and (O)ther. I prefer the other, every time.
The Uniparty has shown us what they have to offer, in spades, since GHWB.
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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)
(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’ rheavolans! (aka “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!![:mrgreen:](https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/mrgreen.svg)
Breakfast!
NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!
Lemon Scones with Vanilla Lemon Glaze
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Good Morning and thank you Nyet – the Baron of Breakfast! Good Morning Good Stellars!
“Roses and violets from summer gardens, sun-drenched Sicilian lemons squeezed of their juice and mingled with juniper from the frozen north. Saffron threads and gold leaf from the Indies waited to be turned into something magical. And contained deep within all of this was a smile that flooded him with warmth, a pair of blue eyes, and the scent of chocolate…” ~ Laura Madeleine, The Confectioner’s Tale
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Good morning Lburg 🙂 !
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Helloo there, Lovely!
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Morning Lburg! Love that passage. The words are so descriptive that I can close my eyes and see it!
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Good Morning S&S! I’m so glad you liked it! (Didn’t take too long at all to come up with Baron of Breakfast! )
I really could almost smell the lemons when I read it. Hope your day is fabulous!
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😊
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Chocolate closes the deal every time!
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here is some Mush…..for the Huskies……helps with controlling poops….
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Thank you, Nyet! The bacon portion is perfect.
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Morning Wooly! How are you and Tripod?
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I’m good, thank you, Sand. Tripod is back to being an outside cat. I kicked him out last week. Back to where he belongs, in his environment. He belongs in my apartment like Somalia belongs in Minnesota. In other words, he doesn’t. I still feed and water him, but he doesn’t belong inside. And now I have a modicum of peace.
Minnesota could learn that life lesson. So could most of Europe.
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Well, I’m glad that you have peace now. 😊
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He’s in his spot on my bed right now.
I let him in for an hour or two a day.
I don’t think Minnesota and Europe should follow my lead on that policy, though.
As far as I can tell, Tripod doesn’t worship a death cult.
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Hehe!
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Good morning Nyet 🙂 !
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Morning lovely! How are you today?
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Dandy, Sand 🙂 .
I’m out the door soon into the wonderful winter land, I think our city snow plow drover was filling up his hours, the street snow has been cleared but he’s been by a few times anyhow his plow scraping the road and causing sparks. Probably being paid $80.00 an hour. I waved to him and he smiled.
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There was this hilarious internet story going around about 15 years ago called A Tennesean Moves to Minnesota. Everything was happy happy at first and he loved the snow. By the time February rolls around there was a line that said “wounded the snow plow driver.” I still remember that and laugh.
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They are notorious for plowing in peoples driveways. It’s probably good that their plows are fortified.
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My mother in law plowed snow at night every winter for years in Indiana. I don’t know how she did it! Not too many women who do that work, but I think it’s awesome she did. Glad to hear you have a very dedicated snow plower!!!! 😉
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Here the snow plow drivers all look the same, slightly overweight bearded men, I swear it’s been the same snow plow driver since I was a child in Chicago!
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Hey, I’m a slightly underweight bearded man, and I clear our whole block.
Then again, I do it with snowblowers and shovels.
‘Stead of sittin’ on my a** behind a steering wheel getting fat.
😆
Don’t even ask me about Union workers, and how Harley-Davidson had to beef up their motorcycle frames to handle the unbelievable bulk of their main customers.
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It’s like an army of clones who drive the plows here. I have never seen a slender driver, maybe they are all in the job through family ties.
Ask me what the city charges to mow the lawn of someone who is “non-compliant” with city ordinances.
Glad you asked 🙂 !
140.00 an hour. the fee is higher if anyone in the house threatens the mower because then all the residence in the house have to sit in as many back seats of cruisers as it takes to hold them.
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It’s $275 here. Ask me how I know. It’s a scam, and they say that if your grass is more than 3″ long, you are non-compliant. They did that to me late in October a few years ago while I was at work. They only did the backyard, using a gang mower, and it took them all of 10 minutes, according to my neighbor, who is the guy who cuts my grass when he cuts theirs. Did they fine my neighbors, whose grass adjoins mine in the front and is the same length? No.
Did I pay them? No. I wrote a letter and said I would not pay them, and why. The first year they added the fee to my taxes, and I didn’t pay it then either. They finally removed it from my tax bill and I never heard another word about it.
They really can’t legally do what they are doing. If they issued a ticket and I was given an opportunity for my day in court, that would be different, but that isn’t what they did. They levied a fine with no recourse on my part, which isn’t legal, and they know this. Isn’t that what due process is all about? As far as I am concerned, the people who pay their fines are being robbed.
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I don’t know how it is done here as to payment. I was wondering how they get the bill paid. Most of the non-compliant folks are renters so the landlord would receive any bill attached to taxes.
And I don’t know what the complaint length is here, but if it was 3 inches the majority of us would be in trouble.
My neighbor got a noticed taped to his door for not shoveling his front walk once, I don’t know what the city would charge to shovel a walk but I’m sure it isn’t cheap.
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That would be a problem here. In the summer the grass grows so fast that they mow it and two days later you can’t see my little doggie’s legs when she walks through it.
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I checked the current ordinance, and it is 7″ for weeds and grass. I am sure it was not 7″ when I was fined.
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PS Want to hear about the city of Chicago’s red light scam? If I didn’t drive down there so often I wouldn’t have paid my ticket but a Waukesha policeman advised that it would be a prudent thing to pay it.
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At least with a ticket (even if it’s a red light camera) you have the option to fight the ticket. A fine for long grass doesn’t give the homeowner any legal recourse at all.
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True. But I’d have to drive to Chicago to fight it and likely get another ticket once I was there. As you know traffic there is a mess. There are unprotected left turns at 5 way intersections which means that one car can make a left and it is almost always after the light turns red as traffic is simply too heavy to turn during the green or yellow. Your larger point is true though, I could have fought it, and won, “When was the camera last calibrated your honor?”
Your honor “Bailiff is there a representative from CPD who can tell me when the camera was calibrated?
People look around, “No your honor.”
Judge “Case dismissed.”
I get to my car and start it, CPD taps on my window, “Mam’ can I se your license, insurance and registration,”
Me “Yes Sir, what is the problem?”
Officer “Mam, there is a seatbelt law in IL and you’re not buckled up.
Me 😐
Perhaps I am a bit jaded about Rahm’s Little Lebanon on the lake.
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I understand, really. Question: Why wouldn’t you be wearing your seat belt? That’s the first thing I do, even before I turn the key. (I used to date an insurance executive)
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I always wear my seatbelt while driving, I don’t necessarily put it on before I start my car. I might be letting the car warm up a bit, or putting on the air with the windows down just to let out some heat, setting my playlist, texting some one to tell them that I can’t text anymore because I’l be driving, so all this is stuff I might do while I’m sitting in a parking spot before I start to drive.
My sister -in-law in CA got a ticket for starting her car without her seatbelt on.
I trust Chicago politicians and judges as much as I trust Sheriff Israel.
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LOL!!!!
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How’s it going by you Sand?
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Very good, thanks. Enjoying the sunny days and 60+ degrees temps. Everything is blooming, which is awesome, but that also means sneezing. 😉
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I take an allergy tablet every day 😐.
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I need to. I forget to do it. \o/
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Me too. But then I start sneezing and remember.
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I have eye drops 4x per day which cure red-itchy eyes & drippy-alternating with stuffy nose. Every day. All year.
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I need eye drops once in a while. I didn’t have allergies until I hit my 40’s.
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Morning Nyet! Love those lemon scones! Thank you.
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Nye!!!!!!!! Thank you……
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Thank you Nyet….those scones are callin’ my name.
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Good morning, Nyet! I’d take that lovely platefull but the sausages are OUT. After reading the other day about sausage ingredients, I’ll never eat one again.
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At least you can see what bacon is made out of…I think…
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After I ranted at work (as I do sometimes) about the Gluten Free Zombies not knowing what contains gluten a few days ago, probably 20 minutes passed and a server came into the kitchen, because she HAD to, per customer request, to ask us if our bacon had any gluten in it.
Our line cook, a wonderful, almost-illiterate black man that I love, stomped his feet and said “Bacon comes from PIGS!! Ain’t no wheat! Ain’t no flour! It comes from pigs!!” He had us in stitches, and even he almost fell down laughing. And I was right. Most people are idiots.
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Love it, Wooly! Please give your line cook my best regards!
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You’d love him, like we all do. Ain’t nobody can dance like him, laugh like him, or talk like him. He’s got quite a story, like we all do. He’s a wonderful Christian, but his past certainly wasn’t. He’s very animated when you can pry those stories out of him. With liquor. And my brother has some crazy stories. And he is my brother, I say.
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He says “Yourn” to describe something that is yours. It’s a South Chicago thing. I tried to figure this out linguistically, and I have. Mine? Yourn! It’s that simple.
If we see a product in the walk-in labeled “Shrimp Lobster BIX” we know he meant bisque.
If we see on the whiteboard, our daily special with “honey muster”, we know what he meant.
He pronounces “Delmonico”, after all these years, “Della Marco”. It’s a running joke in our kitchen. Me and Chef pronounce it that way now, too, and for a long time.
It’s a cool family. And if you heard our daily music playlist, you’d wanna work in there.
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Looks good. Mornin’ Nyet, everyone. 🙂
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So far today, God, I’ve done all right. I haven’t gossiped, haven’t lost
my temper, haven’t been greedy, grumpy, nasty, selfish, or
over-indulgent. I’m really glad about that.
But in a few minutes, God, I’m going to get out of bed and from then on I’m probably going to need a lot more help.
Thank you.
In Jesus name. Amen
— Oreally, commenter at AT
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Oh Woolly, how true that is of my life. Thanks for the smile and the reminder!
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So true for me, too Menagerie. I think I’ve read that before, if memory serves, but I just saw it in a thread on American Thinker this morning about prayer.
That place has been a daily read for me probably since it’s inception, and its comment section. An aptly-named site. I don’t jump in, ever. Like I wouldn’t interrupt Lewis, Tolken, and the Inklings. Just sit back and listen.
I do that here a lot, too.
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The revolution in Iran continues.
Inch by inch a people finds its voice.
The run on banks continues.
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While I don’t adore the idea of atheism, it is much preferable to Islam.
Hopefully the atheism is a stepping-stone to Christianity, and not to Maoism.
While it is heartening to see people leave Islam for good, I wish people would leave Islam for God.
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“While it is heartening to see people leave Islam for good, I wish people would leave Islam for God.”
~ One of the most beautiful & wise prayers written. From your lips to God’s ears.
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I think first they have to break away from the only “god” they have known before they can look for God.
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That’s pretty much how deprogramming from cults works. When it works.
It’s difficult to do.
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Exactly this.
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Fatima. Look again Wooly. Many Muslims will be converted.
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Wooly, don’t forget about your gift for photography, I hope you are still planning on getting a camera. This is taken with my Nikon, no special lens, just the one it came with. No special lighting, just zoom, focus snap and shoot.
An orange segment.
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thought it was a picture of our President’s hair…..
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😆 Joshua.
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That’s an incredible macro. My current camera (phone) can’t focus that close.
My last phone could focus from a half-inch away. Easy.
It was like a microscope in my pocket.
I can’t decide between a camera or a good microphone.
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My Canon has a really good macro.
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My vote goes to the camera but I am biased.
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You don’t beatbox or sing.
I have everything I need to make music. Except a good studio mic.
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I understand Wooly, whatever makes your soul happy, brings you peace, challenges you to make the next step better that is where you should put your energies. I get that it is different for everyone 🙂 !
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It really is hard to decide, Lovely. May spend my next couple hundred bucks on a good kitchen knife. Probably a Wüsthof set.
It would be neat to sing, though.
But them brussels sprouts ain’t gonna halve themselves.
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Decisions, decisions Wooly, I bought my daughter and her boyfriend a good knife a couple of years back but I don’t remember the brand name, they really like it and se it a lot.
You could halve the brussels sprouts rhythm 🙂 .
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What an awsome close-up!
How fast can your camera startup & take a picture? I missed the picure of a lifetime – a bald eagle flying past my window carrying a large, shining fish in it’s talons – because my camera was taking so long to turn on.
Can it take decent night photos of the moon, & does it need another lens to do so – many do for moon pics.
What model Number is your camera?
Thanks so much. I have a folder on camera advice, & I am narrowing questions to specific iinfo before spending the $$$$. Thanks again.
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Don’t forget to add a tripod to your list of camera accessories. I don’t have one, and it is required for night photos.
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Did not know that – Thanks!
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Thanks G-d&Country 🙂 .
Less than 1/2 a second to be picture ready, I haven’t tried pictures of the moon but I’m sure with using a tripod and setting the aperture correctly it would be fine for taking a picture of the moon.
It comes with a built in flash but you can put it on fully automatic or fully manual.
NIKON D3200
I have 2 lenses and rarely use the second one.
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Thank You for the info 😉 I’ll add it to my folder.
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food for thought from PJMedia…
“This is my experience of the left and right as well. On the left: self-serious, self-righteous, angry-faced harridans who want to destroy you for disagreeing with them. They call you names, they shout you down, they riot if you try to speak, they try to get you fired or run you out of business. On the right, we laugh a lot and argue constantly.
Brooks says progressives are winning because they have managed to silence dissenting opinion. In his speech at CPAC, Shapiro declared the right is winning precisely because: “The era of political correctness is over.”
Suppression of opinion, or free discussion? Which way forward do you think Americans will ultimately choose?”
https://pjmedia.com/andrewklavan/two-op-eds-draw-stark-portrait-left-vs-right/
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Chevrolet and Apple Pie……
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🙂 gotta go with Ford as that company provided my family with a lot of good over the years–my dad took early retirement from Ford in the 90’s…oh & if it’s apple pie then prefer the Dutch version…
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stick a slice of cheese on that Dutch Apple and I am with you…..
“Ford’s in his Fliver, all’s right with the world”….1984
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Had the Hildabeast won, well 1984 it would be “deja vu all over again!”
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Shapiro’s speech was a breath of fresh air.
I don’t always agree with him, but yep.
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I saw him on F%F talking about the Oscars. He called “The Shape of Water”, “Grinding Nemo”! That’s the funniest thing I’ve ever heard him say. LOL!
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That sounds like one really weird movie.
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I heard some guy who was talking about the Oscars, say “The Shape of Water” was about beastiality.
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I’m watching “Bright” on Netflix right now.
Will Smith is a cop in a NYC with an Orc partner, in a city with a plethora of Orcs, Elves, and Fairies, and it’s all normal. Really neat story, with takes on racism that Hollywood never thought of, nor could they, with their IQ.
Whoever greenlighted this script, I want to give them a high-five. IT’S SO FUN. Weird is good, sometimes.
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My bad, it’s Los Angeles. With humans, orcs, elves, and fairies.
Really good film, though. Whoever thought this was a good idea: fist bump. It is.
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I’ll put it on my list.
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MICHAEL GRAHAM: OSCARS’ #METOO SHOW MIGHTY FISHY.
When the guy who hosted the breast-obsessed ‘Man Show’ appears onstage with an NBA player once accused of rape to give awards to people who spent decades doing business with Harvey Weinstein — you know Hollywood has gotten serious about sexual harassment.
I have no comment about the crop of overrated movies honored by the Academy Sunday night — other than to note that giving the Best Picture nod to ‘Handicapped Woman Has Sex With Fish Man, Is Saved By Communists’ may be the most #Oscars! moment ever. What is worthy of notice is the nonstop self-congratulations from society’s most notoriously corrupt class, the Hollywood Left.
http://www.bostonherald.com/opinion/op_ed/2018/03/graham_oscars_metoo_show_mighty_fishy
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🙂 so glad he’s on our side!
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Don’t care whoy’are, Branco’s brilliant. Mornin’ all!
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Mornin’ WeeWeed!
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Mornin’ Stella!
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Good morning, WeeWeed! Is there any Conservative out there working on legislation or what? to combat this discrimination against 100 million citizens?
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I believe some class action lawsuits are in the works……Mornin’ Lucy!
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Just Googled ‘conservative news’ and first up comes a stream of feeds on how Facebook blocking conservative news. Don’t look at him, don’t look at me, look at that progressive social media engineer behind the tree.
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Afternoon Z!
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Absolutely wunnerful one, could be a bit less breezy but come August it’ll provide a warm (versus hot and humid) memory.
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‘Twas terrible windy here, too – shades of Slowdeatha……. still soppy wet, gawd we can’t even weed or mow, yet. Carolina jasmine, tulips, azaleas out and getting crazy and the grass done woke up. Pecans are budding (which is the “OK for spring planting” here) and the Red river is swollen…..
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Pecans are the last to show up here.
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Looking at light frost Wed and Thur nite.
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Morning ! 🙂
Sad,but true Branco. Per speech above – we can not be silenced. Many individuals in their daily personal lives are afraid to speak, but must.
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Afternoon G&C!
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Afternoon Wee… have a huge respect for satirical cartoons, I agree with you that Branco is a master of his craft and I find it fascinating that no one has “liked’ this powerful piece. Thanks for sharing it.
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Afternoon Litenmaus!
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Evening Wee 🙂 !
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Evenin’ Loves!
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Heather….
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lovely!
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Wish i could make my “lawn” into this – no mowing!
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Morning all…Yesterday, I made my first venture into ‘the bank’ since my purchase and I thought I’d share.
In the 1900’s these safety deposit boxes not only held the items of private individuals, but the labeling indicates that this particular unit is where the bank held the collateral titles, assay documents and other important documents before the state & its governing body existed. This particular ‘au currant’, ‘must have’, banking equipment, is a “mobile” unit… which is hilarious, because the estimated weight on this baby is about 500 lbs.
However, in complete opposition to the bulk and weight of the storage unit, if one looks closely at the keys that remain intact, each one is about 1/4 of the thickness of a dime…wafer thin… and each is beautifully cut with design work….Amazing craftsmanship.
Repurposed….It should make a glorious cabinet for storing studio supplies…
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Oh, thank you for sharing. This is just the kind of thing I find interesting.
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:0) It’s awesome aus….I’m so happy that you appreciate the history of it…
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I’m really looking forward to seeing more. 🙂
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I’ll try to oblige….:0)
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😀
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TY for the picture! At first look it appears too flimsy for safe storage of important stuff, but your notation of its weight changed that opinion. Mobile? Indeed!?!
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:0) yw czarina…If you notice the handle to right…it has the design of an English tea cart….
The whole “box module” sits on a cast iron base that sits atop cast iron wheels that weigh about 50 pounds each…this piece was literally “built to last”.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like it on Ikea’s shelves…..:0)
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That’s awesome, litenmaus.
Me and Chef moved a post-office mail-sorter out of his basement that weighed as much, and it was just as cool. We hauled it to his daughter out in the sticks, who uses it for sorting glass-blowing supplies for her side business. If I could still use Pbucket, I would show you a picture. We found a date and a manufacturer in Ohio on the bottom of it. Late 1930s.
(While hauling the thing out of the basement, I kept bumping my head on the staircase above me. Chef told me, “Turn your baseball cap backwards.” I did. I didn’t bump my head any more. I don’t wear baseball caps while working any more.)
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I love that Chef’s daughter has repurposed and given new life to the piece…my respect goes out to her..:0)
IMO Fedoras rule…baseball caps, not so much :0)
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We had a penchant for old yellow oak office furniture. There was a whole yellow oak set of filing cabinets and a set of small card catalog drawers that dated back to the 30s, our military unit got it years ago and we found it in the attic. Property Disposal didn’t want it, they said to take it to the dump so I was going to dump it at my house. Went up about two weeks later to bring it down and – you guessed it – some eager beaver had beat me to it and took it to the dump. so much for planning…
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Oh man czar, that’s enough to make a grown person cry…what a shame…
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Indeed, litenmaus. Oak filing cabinets from the ’30s. For shame.
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You mean a government entity destroyed something valuable that could have been sold for profit? Unheard of!
That’s disgraceful! I hope whoever threw it out got a severe tongue-lashing from at least one outraged soul.
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No, operant condition was clearing the attic. There used to be a private metal scrap yard that bought ‘used’ tools from the Air Force Base nearby. As it was a depot there was a lot of ‘used’ tools so they’d go to the property dosposal where the scrap yard would buy them by poundage – a whole dump truck full. The dump truck would come in, dump them in a pile and you’d getb to come in and for a vfee rummage through. I still have vperfectly good tools that the AF shop just didn’t want to inventory and clean, they just called ’em busted and threw ’em in barrels to be scrapped.
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“It should make a glorious cabinet for storing studio supplies…” My 1st thought exactly!
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Love that cabinet! It can be used for all kinds of things. I have reproductions of the old library card catalogue cabinets and I put my cds in them.
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Oh I love the library card cabinet/cd rack idea Lucille….clever….:0)
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Very very cool litemaus!
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Obviously, if someone could kindly share sizing information with me so that my pictures aren’t huge…I, and I’m guessin’ Stella, would appreciate it…ty
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I don’t know what it looked like on yours, but the picture was the perfect size on mine.
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on my screen it looks huge aus, but if it looks okay on your end I’ll stop hyperventilating…:0) thx aus.
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What’s your screen? Full HD, 1080?
Because if you’re using a pre-HD monitor, it’s going to look huge, because there are only so many pixels per inch. On the other hand, if you had a 4k monitor, the pics would look really tiny. If you had a 8k monitor (a thing now, really), you’d need a jeweler’s loupe to see the picture.
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This monitor is an HP2009m…I backed off the site and reentered and that seemed to have been the magic fix…..just a little WordPress gremlin would be my guess….:0)
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There are many WP gremlins. They are annoying.
Trick is to weave and bob your way around them, or just ignore them.
They’re like mosquitoes. Or fairies.
You could try and kill them, but there are ten thousand more.
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Same here. I think WP resizes pics to a max size.
If you posted a 1080p HD pic here, WordPress will downsize it so it’s not the size of a monitor, in the thread. You can click it and get the HD size in another window, which I’ve done with several of Stella’s pics for my desktop wallpaper over the years.
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Hi there! 🙂
I put my pics in paint 1st to resize, then save. Stella had said no larger than 700 pixels keeps WordPress happy (my translation). I use 500-650 pixels in either direction usually. Your pic looks perfect!
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Thank you, I was trying to resize after I posted to Imgur….silly me…I will resize in paint first…again, thx G&C that’s exactly what I needed to know…:0)
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Your welcome 🙂
Not silly at all. You can resize in Imgur. I just think I’d rather make a mistake on my computer in Paint rather than online on Imgur.
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You can resize in imgur, you have to choose edit photo, then mouse over the picture and an edit option button will be available 🙂 .
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Hi everyone 🙂
I am so far behind in work, I was just going to sneak in and post my pic, but of course started talking to everyone!
So for Scotland week I have the famous Scottish painter Joseph Farquharson (1846 –1935) He was a Scottish painter most famous for his snowy winter landscapes, often featuring sheep & often depicting dawn or dusk. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland & died at his beloved Finzean, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He is known for outddor paintings, but I had to post his self portrait. Check out the moustache & sideburns! I will post more of his paintings this week.
A fun bit of info about how he painted outdoors:
The remarkable realism of Farquharson’s work can be attributed to his desire to work en plein air. This had to be carried out in a unique way which was adapted to the harsh Scottish climate. Farquharson had constructed a painting hut on wheels, complete with a stove & large glass window for observing the landscape. o achieve as realistic a result as possible when painting the sheep which frequently appear in his snowscapes, he used a flock of “imitation” sheep which could be placed as required in the landscape of his choice. Farquharson painted so many scenes of cattle & sheep in snow he was nicknamed ‘Frozen Mutton Farquharson’.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Farquharson
Have to run! Sorry and a big smile and wave hello to all I missed! 🙂
Have a great day!
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http://visualmelt.com/Andy-Goldsworthy
I had two coffee-table books of this guy’s art when I was in my 20s.
Absolute photographic and engineering genius.
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He didn’t use photoshop. It didn’t exist. He picked leaves based on their color.
And ice. And sticks. And river stones.
And then made things out of them, and took wonderful photos.
Everything he made was transient, like sand castles.
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One more by Goldsworthy. The man was a genius. These leaves were selected and carefully cut.
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That’s really cool Wooly!
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The guy was an absolute mad genius. He probably didn’t use an X-Acto knife. Probably his teeth, in fact. This guy was in the serious wilderness. He used his own pee to stick ice chunks together — because it works. Check out his ice portals, made from ice taken from a lake which had just began to freeze. Incredible engineering, and in the wild, to boot. The only hi-tech this guy had was his camera. Everything else was MacGyver.
And he had an eye for beauty. Check my link out.
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Urine (pee) was once a valuable commodity. In the 1700’s and earlier it was used for laundry (stale urine forms ammonia/lye). It was also used in furniture glue. In cities like London, night soil men would collect it for commercial use. Ditto poop – used for fertilizer.
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Urine was also used to make gunpowder, and as a fabric dye fixative.
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That’s 2 things I have leaned from this thread!
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I still wonder where bleach came from. And who found it.
Civilization’s march is an amazing thing.
I use bleach every day. They were in B.C. days. Where’d they get it?
This is the stuff that keeps me awake at night.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleach
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The Monarch of The Glen
Sir Edwin Landseer 1851
Oil on canvas
The deer in this painting has only 12 points which make him a “Royal Stag”, a “Monarch Stag” should have 16. Sir Landseer also sculpted the lions at the foot of Nelson’s Column at Trafalger Square. The painting was bought by Pear’s Soap Company in 1916 and then sold to John Dewar and Sons for commercial use for Glenfiddich Scotch. It was lent to The Scottish National Gallery, and in 2017 was valued at 8 million pounds. They told the gallery if they could raise 4 million pounds, it was their’s.
I hope this comes out. I have a new ‘puter, and I’m still trying to figure out it’s intricacies!
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What a beauty!
I found this photographer yesterday….
Serendipity With A Moose
The moose shot I’ve been waiting for
Text & Photography By Adam Woodworth | June 20, 2017
https://www.outdoorphotographer.com/serendipity-with-a-moose/
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I love meeses to pieces! What a fantastic shot. Truly one of a kind!
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https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/monarch-of-the-glen-184975
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https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/159116/monarch-glen
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That’s a beautiful photo of Edinburgh Castle, Stella. The place is YUGE and I’ve combed over most of it. There is a wee chapel built in the 11th century for the King’s Mother, Saint Margaret. Such a wonderful place. Her burial place is at Dunfermline, near to the tomb of King Robert the Bruce.
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EEEEEEEEEEE! This dang thing is fast, but it sure is complicated!
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Arrggghhhh! What do you want to bet she gets off with the “battered wife” excuse…
Florida: Jurors in trial of Orlando jihad mass murderer’s wife asked their views of Muslims and Islam
March 5, 2018 4:04 PM By Robert Spencer
“The president is part of the government and acts unfairly toward Muslims,” a male college student responded.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/03/florida-jurors-in-trial-of-orlando-jihad-mass-murderers-wife-asked-their-views-of-muslims-and-islam
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TMI
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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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Amen.
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I am beat tonight along with wind blown and frozen.
This was one of those days when farming almost kicked my butt. lol
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Well I’m pleased it was only almost 🙂 .
Maybe you should get a companion goat to help soothe you after a hard day on the farm………….😎….nothing like finally making it indoors after a long day and sweeping up goat pellets wiping up urine and gutted butted when you go to sit down.
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I love the baby goats, but after sitting with them all day, pulling babies, and playing goat rodeo, I’ve about had enough companionship for one day. lol
Goats don’t always appreciate help even when they need it and holding a goat as strong as an ox by basically holding it’s head and half sitting on it to have the help of your legs to hold it while it’s bucking and trying to pull away uses a lot of muscles you don’t normally use. 🙂 Yes that was much of my job all day. I think my daughter got the easier of the two jobs by doing the pulling. She just got the messier end. lol
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Blessings on you for being supportive of your animal friends, especially since they don’t understand.
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There’s a first time Mom out there that ran my head into the stall, put a bruise on my leg and then rejected her baby that is skating on some really thin ice.
She really better be glad that I just don’t like the taste of goat. lol
She better hope I get over being mad at her or this will be her last year on this farm.
I smashed my finger on the gate this morning, so I’m still not in a forgiving mood yet.
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I hope you feel better soon!
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Thanks Stella, I’m honestly fine, just a little moody and bitchy. lol
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The wind today was crazy. I had a stocking hat on all day trying to block the wind out of my ears and I still have earaches tonight.
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Sorry Michelle earaches are no fun. I hope you get a good nights rest.
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I took some tylenol and benadryl as all the dust also had my sinuses flared up and slept like a baby.
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Happy to hear it:). Stay warm today, hopefully it will not be as full of a day as yesterday but I know you don’t have a choice in what the animals needs for the day will be.
I think we are talking about goats too much I had a dream I was staying in a cabin and a raccoon was peering out at me from the rafters, it came down but turned into a goat and then there were loads and loads of goats in the room 😜.
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At least the wind is not supposed to be blowing today. I think the temp is supposed to be in the 50’s, but it will be a nice day so probably not a single one of them will have babies today.
Your dream is probably telling you that you need a companion goat or maybe that you need to do goat yoga. 🙂
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So they’ll wait for the next cold blustery day, sounds about right.
Maybe I’ll just get my dog a goat costume? Do you think that will help ? Or is that just weird? What of my dog identifies as a goat? Now my brain is really racing with potential scenarios.
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He might start asking for plastic surgery to turn him into a goat. 🙂
It’s supposed to be storming Saturday so they’ll probably choose then. We only have 7 to go now, hopefully they don’t all choose Saturday. There are 2 first timers to go.
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Well I hope they choose a day with mild weather. It seems I took a little nap here 🙂 .
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Our hope that the other doe would raise the baby that the first timer rejected didn’t work out. So that means a bottle baby. My grandson was helping and we went citified and bought some newborn diapers, cut out a hole for the tail so no poop or pee when she’s out of her cage, this has him dying laughing at a goat with a diaper.
He was laughing about her trying to find a booby on him and I told him if he laid down she’d probably jump on him. He thought that was hilarious and I told him he was doing some goat yoga. He said, “goat yoga, Nanny that sounds stupid and weird.” hahaha Nanny couldn’t agree more.
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Smart boy there.
So cute a little goat in a diaper. Happy goat happy grandson happy grandma 🙂 !
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Really happy, she’s going to a new home tomorrow. I’m not fond of bottle feeding. The main reason we always leave babies on Mom is because it’s better for the baby, but a close second is because I hate bottle feeding. It’s expensive and time consuming. Every 4 hours for a month you have to feed them. Then you can start spreading out the feedings, but you have to continue until they’re at least 2 months old, sometimes longer because they don’t have a mom to teach them how to browse for food.
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That sounds like a lot of work. I’m glad she has a home to go to tomorrow.
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I once didn’t hate it like I do now, but I guess I’m getting lazy in my old age. 🙂
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Not lazy, just sometimes things become monotonous when we are doing them for what seems like the thousandth time.
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We’re tied down enough, when you add bottle babies into the mix you can’t leave your house more than three hours tops.
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Totally understand, my two dogs mean lots of extra planning if I do anything. I can’t imagine a whole farm full of animals.
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My brother had a dairy farm, which he loved. You can’t just go away anywhere for a long vacation, for example, without planning. Somebody has to be there to milk the cows, feed the cows etc.
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Farming of any sort seems like so much work. I try to be grateful for the food that “magically” appears in grocery stores but I know I don’t appreciate all the hard work that goes into getting it there enough.
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I think you have to love what you are doing. My brother really loved his cows.
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That’s another reason I’m looking forward to not raising pigs, out of all the livestock they are the ones that tie you down the most.
Water and a mud hole is crucial for them and it’s almost impossible to leave them enough water to last longer than 2 days without an automatic water system and that doesn’t solve the problem of keeping water in their wallow.
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I’m sorry there will be an income loss but I’m pleased you’ll be freed up a little.
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Really we’ll be getting out of the red. Pig’s feed cost this year was going to be more than we could sell piglets for. Last year was the first year we didn’t make a profit and we broke even.
It’s been years since I saw the pig market as low as it is now and it doesn’t seem to have hit bottom yet. The problem is the last time it was this bad feed cost a lot less.
I don’t know how any small guys like us will be able to last unless they can find a deal like one guy I know. He has a deal with local stores and restaurants where he gets all their fruit and veggies that are going bad, old bread and expired milk. Then he gets all the restaurants scraps. His pigs live on that.
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Keep that up and your dreams tonight will be really weird. Mine have been lately too!
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I know. There were little goats all over the place.
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😯
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It is a well know fact Michelle that farm critters never fail to pick the nastiest, windiest, coldest or most miserable days possible to drop their young….hope you get a chance to soak those tired muscles..:0)
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Don’t I know it.
I took a hot shower, took some tylenol and benadryl and slept like a baby.
I woke up feeling much better until I walked outside and it was 20 degrees, the gate was stuck so I had to take my gloves off to get it unstuck and then smashed my cold fingers.
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:0) I am glad to hear you slept well, winced when I read about your fingers….terrible way to start the morning….
I hope you have easy births and a wonderful day michell…:0)
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Only one still hurts, but I got it good, tore part of my nail off and it’s swollen from first knuckle to tip.
They’ll shock me if any have babies today.
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Ouch….well then, the bright side is, looks like you won’t have to use it if the girls are giving you a breather. :0)
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I’ll have a pretty nail for awhile as it’s turning black and blue now. lol
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Just tell everybody it’s a test sample of Avon’s ‘Color of the Month’ nail polish…peeps will think you’re going goth :0).
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I knew it wouldn’t be long before someone sued.
I read in a local newspaper the opinion of 5 different attorneys and they all said the same thing that WalMart and Dicks could choose to not sell firearms and ammunition, but if they choose to sell them then they must follow local, state and federal laws. That you can’t tell someone they can’t buy something based on age anymore than you can refuse based on color or sex.
Of course we all know the law doesn’t matter, only what black robes say, but I doubt this will be the last lawsuit.
If Dicks and WalMart are so concerned then why don’t they quit selling firearms?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/20-year-old-sues-dicks-walmart-over-new-gun-policies/ar-BBJUJKp?OCID=ansmsnnews11
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Well, I am embarrassed. I said the other day that I had checked and I was getting $300 more a month in my checking account. Not so. It is only……….wait for it…………$22. It seems I subtracted correctly…………….. the wrong numbers. 🙄 I never was any good at math.
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Plus, it was a government form, which is well nigh impossible to fathom. I finally quit trying & pay H&R to get it in the right columns.
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Since doing our taxes left me sitting crying the first couple of years I was married, I decided to have our taxes done by a professional and have ever since. It wasn’t that they were too complicated, they weren’t. I just couldn’t figure out what in the world the words on the tax form were telling me to do.
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Sorry Aus.
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