General Discussion, Friday, November 16, 2018

Posted on November 16, 2018 by Stella

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  1. MaryfromMarin says:
    November 16, 2018 at 12:04 am

    Schools closed down here tomorrow, and all over the SF Bay Area. Air quality moved into and out of “very unhealthy” all day.

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  2. Lucille says:
    November 16, 2018 at 12:06 am



    Have a wonderful one!

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  3. MaryfromMarin says:
    November 16, 2018 at 12:42 am

    Bets on sizes and types of protests…

    Trump To Visit California To Console Fire Victims

    https://patch.com/california/northridge/trump-visit-california-console-fire-victims

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  5. Wooly Covfefe says:
    November 16, 2018 at 3:18 am

    So sad. Love this man and his peeps. Is good people.

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    • sandandsea2015 says:
      November 16, 2018 at 7:40 am

      One of my favorite songs. I first heard it on the episode of ER where Dr. Green dies. It was so touching. Those characters had become part of our lives and it felt so personal. Every time I hear it, I think about that scene. Great show and great song.

      Morning Wooly!

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      • Wooly Covfefe says:
        November 16, 2018 at 9:01 am

        Is why I quit watching “Walking Dead” by season 4.

        Why am I weeping about fictional characters? I have enough real characters in my life to weep about and pray for. I don’t do soap operas any more. I have one in real life. It’s called Real Life.

        I wept watching the Sci-Fi film “Interstellar” more than once. I can’t watch it without crying.

        How do we care for fictional characters like that? It’s why I quit. They’re not real.

        My friends are.

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  6. nyetneetot says:
    November 16, 2018 at 5:43 am

    Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
    Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
    Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Jack Daniels – Single Barrel )
    Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
    Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 🍸 (earthquake)
    Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
    Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (white wine and perrier)
    Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂 |_| (Tom Collins)
    Mornin’ texan59! 🙂 |_| (Black & Tan)
    Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
    Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂 |_| (Boilermaker)
    Mornin’ czarina33! (aka czarina) 🙂 🍸 (Lynchburg Lemonade)
    Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂 |_| (Wild Turkey Rare Breed)
    Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂 |_| (Irish Car Bomb)
    Mornin’ Patriot1783-ctdar! (aka “ctdar”) 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
    Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
    Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
    Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂 |_| (Godfather)
    Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Mortlach)
    Mornin’ Wooly Covfefe! (aka “Wooly Phlox” aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂 |_| (Roy Rogers)
    Mornin’ Howie! (aka “doodahdaze”) 🙂 |_| (Classic Daiquiri)
    Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 |_| (Gin & Tonic)
    Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
    Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
    Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂 |_| (Blackberry wine)
    Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (Gentleman Jack Whiskey Sling)
    Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 |_| (Backdraft)
    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 🙂 |_| (Flaming Dr. Pepper)
    Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂 |_| (Stinger)
    Mornin’ Les! 🙂 |_| (Rusty Nail)
    Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂 |_| (Jack Daniels)
    Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂 |_| (Whiskey Smash)
    Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂 |_| (B52)
    Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂 |_| (Rum & Coke)
    Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
    Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Kamikaze)
    Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
    Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂 |_| (Night Train Express)
    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) 🙂 |_| (Albanian Raki Moskat)
    Mornin’ rheavolans! (aka “Rhea Salacia Volans”) 🙂 |_| (Hot Buttered Rum)
    Mornin’ joshua! 🙂 |_| (Mudslide)
    Mornin’ John Denney! 🙂 |_| (RumChata)
    Mornin’ litenmaus! 🙂 |_| (Stolichnaya elit, no ice)
    Mornin’ kinthenorthwest! 🙂 🍸 (A Lonely Island Lost in the Middle of a Foggy Sea)
    Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 |_| (Smoking Bishop)
    Mornin’ patternpuzzler! 🙂 🍸 (Old Lady)
    Mornin’ Senatssekretär FREISTAAT DANZIG! 🙂 |_| (Red Russian)
    Mornin’ G-d&Country! 🙂 🍸 (Blind Russian)
    Mornin’ Gary! 🙂 |_| (Yuengling)
    Mornin’ valeriecurren! 🙂 🍸 (Flaming Sambuca)
    Mornin’ Lucille! 🙂 🍸 (Peach Schnapps)
    Mornin’ Lburg! 🙂 🍸 (Lburg lemonade)
    Mornin’ davidhuntpe! 🙂 |_| (Baileys Irish Cream on the rocks)
    Mornin’ skipper1961! 🙂 |_| (Brompton’s Cocktail – No cherry, no umbrella, no plastic monkey)
    Mornin’ mightyconservative! 🙂 |_| (Benjamin Franklin’s clarified milk punch)
    Mornin’ NC Nana! 🙂 🍸 (Beautiful)
    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:

    Breakfast!

    NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!

    Blueberry Scones

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  7. rheavolans says:
    November 16, 2018 at 6:50 am

    Just saw a headline that Besty Devoss is being sued so that she’ll start moving on student loan relief. Who promised anyone student loan relief? I’m really wondering if I am one of the last few people actually paying mine off. No one promised me forgiveness for my loan; I promised that I would pay it back when I got out of school and got full time work.

    There’s something wrong here. I don’t like it.

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  8. lovely says:
    November 16, 2018 at 7:56 am

    Good morning Stellarites 🙂 .

    I woke up to a surprise snowfall. Yippie! 😐

    I grew up going to this toboggan hill every year as a child. It was so much fun, facing the picture on the left hand side was a small building where free hot chocolate with marshmallows was served.

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    • TOG&C says:
      November 16, 2018 at 9:57 am

      Wow – that’s like a kids fantasy playgrond 🙂

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      • lovely says:
        November 16, 2018 at 10:00 am

        It was great and the boys always carried the toboggan up the hill for us 🙂 !

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        • Menagerie says:
          November 16, 2018 at 12:36 pm

          My husband and his brothers and sisters (eight in total) used to live on this huge hill, so big that the Union soldiers actually mistook it for Missionary Ridge during the Chattanooga fighting and dug in up there.

          We don’t get a lot of snow down here, and they were an adventurous bunch (understatement) so they used to ride their sled down the hill with no snow. The road is bumpy, patched, has holes in it. Terrible condition, the city won’t maintain it for the very few families who live on it. So, it was a bumpy, dangerous ride, and at the bottom of the hill a busy road crosses but you of course cannot stop there. They used to post a kid at the foot of the hill who would watch for cars and give the all clear, a not 100% safe plan.

          One of my sisters in law’s friends was taking turns one day, had a crash, got beat the heck out of, tumbled head over heels, all pavement burned. When she finally staggered to her feet and started up the hill, all the kids were waving and yelling.

          She told me she felt so warmed at their concern and encouragement, happy her friends were cheering her safety. Until she realized that they were all yelling “Get the sled! Get the sled!” There was an absolute rule that whoever went down on the sled had better come back up with it, and there apparently were no exceptions. 😀 😀 😀

          Tough world back in those days. No one in the family ever grew up and looked for their safe space.

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          • auscitizenmom says:
            November 16, 2018 at 12:42 pm

            And, I am sure, were better off for it. 🙂

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          • lovely says:
            November 16, 2018 at 5:44 pm

            Until she realized that they were all yelling “Get the sled! Get the sled!”

            That is hilarious !

            What fun to be racing down the hill with the added adventure of the possibility of having to bail if a car appeared (out of nowhere of course) 😊.

            Our summer house was at the top of a small hill. My dad bought us kids a giant blue metal contraption. It looked like a metal tire but on the inside there were two flat metal seats welded to the interior of the concaved wall. There was also a metal bar in front of both metal seats. Two of us would sit in it and it just took a small push and we’d be rolling down the hill head over heels. Great memory!

            We still have it in the dirt crawl space under the Summer home. I’m not brave enough to dig it out but I may get someone to do it some day 🙂 !

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            • Menagerie says:
              November 16, 2018 at 6:26 pm

              My husband said there were always sparks shooting around that sled as they raced down the hill. They also built an elaborate zip line that went from tree to tree. That one resulted in at least one broken arm on a brother.

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          • sandandsea2015 says:
            November 16, 2018 at 7:32 pm

            No snowflakes in that bunch! Evening Menagerie!

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    • sandandsea2015 says:
      November 16, 2018 at 7:28 pm

      How fun! Love it! Evening lovely!

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    • Wooly Covfefe says:
      November 16, 2018 at 8:06 am

      I just helped a woman about twice my age up the curb. Her daughter, older than me, was like “Mom, there’s a ramp over here,” with her walker. Lady says “Shush, this man’s doing a good deed!” I held her hand and arm and helped her up the curb. Let’s do this!

      Can’t stop smiling.

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      • auscitizenmom says:
        November 16, 2018 at 8:30 am

        LOL That is so sweet. You helped her and she let you help her. Love it.

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        • The Tundra PA says:
          November 16, 2018 at 1:32 pm

          One of my hardest lessons when I became handicapped was to let people help me. I’d always been a do-it-yourself kinda gal, and still am.

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          • auscitizenmom says:
            November 16, 2018 at 1:41 pm

            Yeah. I have always been fairly healthy and able to do on my own. Now I have to figure out a way to get somebody else to do it.

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          • tessa50 says:
            November 16, 2018 at 3:09 pm

            That’s a really hard lesson, one I still struggle with. Not just the not being able to do things, but feeling guilt that I have to ask for the help.

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            • The Tundra PA says:
              November 16, 2018 at 3:11 pm

              yes. And feeling helpless, and a burden on others. I hate that.

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              • tessa50 says:
                November 16, 2018 at 3:17 pm

                Yes, me too. One thing I have noticed, Sometimes the intent to help you is there, but when time comes, I will every now and then get the, you need it right now? I don’t say it, but I think to myself, no, I’m just asking to ask. I guess it takes time to get the routine down, where both are comfortable.

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              • tessa50 says:
                November 16, 2018 at 4:34 pm

                I’ll give you an example of what I sometimes run into that causes me to get the you need it right now? thing. Maybe you will have a suggestion. Through the week I eat frozen breakfast sandwich for breakfast and hub will make me a sandwich for lunch and leave in fridge for me. On the weekends he cooks my lunch, (my lunch is my dinner, I eat 2 times a day) so I can have real food, as he calls it.

                The problem comes in because he asks me after I eat first time, what time I want him to grill or whatever he is doing. I can only give him a general time, so he says when you are ready for me to cook, let me know. Never works. So, I suggested that he just go on and cook it, and I will nuke it to reheat whenever I am ready. I figure that will give him the rest of the day to tinker with whatever he would like to do, uninterrupted. He won’t do it because he wants me to eat it right after it has been cooked. I understand why, but it causes a problem for me when I ask for it and he gets aggravated because he is right in the middle of something. Then I feel guilty and wish I had just ordered take-out or something. I miss real food but I don’t know how to fix this one.

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                • The Tundra PA says:
                  November 17, 2018 at 8:00 pm

                  My only suggestion would be to skip breakfast, or eat something really small (piece of toast with peanut butter or something); and then eat the “real food” whenever he feels like cooking it. I’m very happy to be flexible when someone else is willing to do the cooking. Hope something works out for you, tessa.

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                  • tessa50 says:
                    November 18, 2018 at 12:27 am

                    I thank you for the response Tundra. I really thought and still do think I was being flexible when I asked that he cook whenever was good for him, before he starts a project. Then all I need to do is nuke it. No problem whatsoever and yes I am thankful for him wanting to do that for me. We’ll work it out, guess I was just talking too much the other day. I hope you are well, and warm. Night, Tundra

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      • Wooly Covfefe says:
        November 16, 2018 at 8:53 am

        Oh, I went back down to the hair salon where she was with a picture of my Nana I have from when she was about six years old and showed her. We talked for a half hour or so. She and the other ladies in the salon were touched, too.

        The lady was 90. I think my Nana was 87 when she passed. Me and my mom talked with her every other day for an hour, on the phone. Mom talked with her every day. Nana drank Miller High Life, just like me, and we had some great conversations, with lots of laughter. I had a great conversation with this woman this morning.

        We were just listening to that song yesterday at work. “I need a woman that’s twice my age.” Grateful Dead and my Boss, don’t think of changing his station on the Pandora. I did that yesterday, and he had ran down the basement and changed it back within ten minutes. And I don’t mind, he’s an incredible Chef/manager.

        I told my mom about the song, and about the lady this morning. “I Need a Miracle” — Grateful Dead. Life is strange, and I can’t complain. (I can, but it won’t do any good. I figured that part out, at least.) There are periods of joy that nothing can explain but the influence of God. Every day.

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    • lovely says:
      November 16, 2018 at 9:13 am

      Good morning Wooly 🙂 . You are, I am we all are a miracle everyday. We could have simply never been.

      Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

      There is beauty everywhere.

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      • Wooly Covfefe says:
        November 16, 2018 at 9:37 am

        Yep. There is, every day.

        And it’s unbelievable sometimes how big it is.

        And how beautiful it is. I try and think on these things.

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      • Wooly Covfefe says:
        November 16, 2018 at 9:42 am

        “We could simply have never been.”

        Yep, we could have been cut off before we could even start.

        i thank God every day I wasn’t. That’s a great quote, lovely, and well put.

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        • lovely says:
          November 16, 2018 at 9:53 am

          Thanks Wooly 🙂 . How’s it going? Is the new friend more Rottweiler or more Joy ?

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          • Wooly Covfefe says:
            November 16, 2018 at 10:15 am

            She’s surrounded, at work, by crazy angry stupid Latinos. So, more rottweiler. I can’t blame her. They’re stupid, angry, entitiled, mean people. They won’t be there much longer, though. They’re not compatible with a kitchen crew. Not at all. A month or so. They’ll be gone.

            She’s actually coming over to my restaurant. Good.

            When the crazy family from someplace outside America leaves this nation, and our workplace, I’ll go back. Bossman is held by the huevos, though, in that he cannot fire the lazy two without firing all three. He needs to fire all three, and has the right to do so. They’re a package deal. One of them works. Barely. She cooks eggs. And really doesn’t give a darn what they look like on a plate. What the customer sees. She doesn’t care. And her husband on dish and daughter on prep don’t even care at all. Gimme my paycheck is all. Business? What business?

            He’s lost like 5 employees because of this embedded family and how mean they are to his employees? She almost left the other day. I don’t blame her. I did. I lasted 4 days with these w@tbacks. They’re intentional a&&holes. They don’t give 2 s&^ts about this business, and they display hatred for everyone there that isn’t Latino. And they talk crap about us in their Mordor language all day long. Bossman is starting to figure it out. Finally.

            So many people have quit (5?) because of how mean this family is. They need to go back home. Plain and simple. They don’t belong here, their beliefs are incompatible with our society’s beliefs, so they need to go back.

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            • Menagerie says:
              November 16, 2018 at 12:46 pm

              At Home Depot we tried hard to find Hispanics to hire in Dalton, GA. Back then that town had a much higher concentration of immigrants who worked in the carpet mills than average towns, and we needed Spanish speaking employees, although again, back then the customers were trying to speak English, they were learning, but not at all fluent.

              We had one cashier who was Hispanic, a woman in her forties. Amazing woman, excellent employee, friendly, upbeat, always positive. Eventually she was promoted to head cashier. She was excited, proud, thrilled, and would have gotten a dollar an hour raise for the promotion. And she would have been great at it, could have moved up even further.

              Next day she came in crying, explained that she could not accept the promotion. Her husband told her she could not take the job, she was too stupid to do it, she had to turn it down.

              There was no change in her hours or working conditions. The SOB only did it out of spite, jealousy, threatened manhood, who knows? She would not go against his wishes.

              I would have and both of us would probably have needed a trip to the ER because no one is calling me stupid. If my husband ever, ever tried that I would punch him, no doubt in my mind.

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              • auscitizenmom says:
                November 16, 2018 at 1:06 pm

                Many years ago I was in a group with a Hispanic woman who was an anchor baby. Her mother had come across the border and had her in a San Diego Hospital, got her birth certificate and then went back to Mexico City. They were not poor people. She was the Human Resources Manager in a big company there in SD. Anyway, this tall, beautiful, strong, intelligent, well spoken woman who had a degree in business would go back home to Mexico City and be called dirty names by her four brothers, and treated like dirt, because that is their culture.

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              • tessa50 says:
                November 16, 2018 at 3:40 pm

                That is just so sad for her.

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      • Wooly Covfefe says:
        November 16, 2018 at 9:57 am

        I know that I talked with a 90-year old woman this morning for almost an hour.

        Granted, she was a captive audience, because she was ensconced in on of those hair-dryers that you have to put your whole head in. We had a great conversation, though.

        I hope the rest of my day gets better. If it does, I’mma have an incredible day.

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  11. stella says:
    November 16, 2018 at 9:45 am

    Friday, November 16, 2018

    11:30 AM The President participates in the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act signing ceremony, Oval Office, Closed Press

    1:00 PM The President presents the Medal of Freedom, Pre-credentialed Media

    3:15 PM The President meets with the Administrator of the Small Business Administration,
    The White House, Closed Press

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  12. Menagerie says:
    November 16, 2018 at 10:12 am

    Stella, the Outlander Kitchen book is on Kindle for 2.99 today.

    If you thought Scottish cuisine was all porridge and haggis washed down with a good swally of whiskey, Outlander Kitchen’s here to prove you wrong

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    • Menagerie says:
      November 16, 2018 at 10:14 am

      Unlike czar and Woolly, I love my little iPad. I don’t know if it’s having spasms today or WordPress is. Three times I got the message “Sorry, this comment cannot be posted.”

      I need coffee. That’s what you get for passing it up first thing in the morning.

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      • lovely says:
        November 16, 2018 at 10:25 am

        There are certain rules to life Menagerie, for some it is coffee first, for others, like myself, it is tea first. Anything else disturbs our personal universe.

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      • Wooly Covfefe says:
        November 16, 2018 at 10:53 am

        I had to reset my router/modem this morning. All day yesterday the internet quit working entirely about every three minutes. I could temporarily fix it if I pulled out my USB internet thingie on my desktop, and plug it back in, but internet went out again in three minutes (if that.) I tuned off the power strip to which they’re both connected, waited thirty seconds (counted them, too), and turned it back on. No problems, now.

        That’s usually the best solution to internet problems, I’ve found. Turn off both your modem and your router, wait thirty seconds, and turn them back on. Then go have a cigarette while they restart, because it will take that long.

        But, then, you’re good.

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        • stella says:
          November 16, 2018 at 10:57 am

          I have that same problem every so often, and that’s the solution.

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          • auscitizenmom says:
            November 16, 2018 at 11:17 am

            I have a problem just about every day. It runs perfectly fine until some time after 6:00 PM. Then around 8:00 PM it has slowed down so that I get concerned. I try to restart it before it gets too slow or I can’t sign off and it causes other problems. If I restart, it is fine. Sometimes I forget and have to restart before I post the prayer. Then, it is a problem. One night the darn thing decided to update and it took an hour. 😦

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      • The Tundra PA says:
        November 16, 2018 at 1:43 pm

        I need coffee. That’s what you get for passing it up first thing in the morning.

        Passing it up? PASSING IT UP??? Who in their right mind would do that??

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    • stella says:
      November 16, 2018 at 10:49 am

      I already have the Outlander cookbook. I’ll check to see if it’s the same one!

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  13. TOG&C says:
    November 16, 2018 at 10:26 am

    Morning everyone!
    Today we have the second Clyde Aspevig river painting:

    Along with these Thanksgiving images:
    The first is from the 1920’s and is by Edmund Davenport

    The second is the most realistic method of getting a turkey, and is by J.B. Sword

    And here is a somewhat more modern Norman Rockwell method

    So it snowed/sleeted 7 inches of wet misery here last night – totally killed my plans for today. A friend was taking me out for my (belated) birthday girls day out – oh well – maybe by December!

    Unless the snowblower can actually get through it, I’m going to have be out most of the day shoveling with DH Keep your fingers crossed. Now if it was just a little colder…..

    Have a great day everyone 🙂

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  14. TOG&C says:
    November 16, 2018 at 10:49 am

    Here are some more pics for the Little Guy:
    The 1st 2 are the Dutch Batavia Christened 1995.

    Note the actual sea painting on the ship in this close up

    This ship reminds me of the beautiful painting by Howard Pyle on the cover of the book he wrote and illustrated- “The Book of Pirates”

    And here is a beagle poster for him

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  15. Wooly Covfefe says:
    November 16, 2018 at 11:04 am

    The two best restaurants I ever worked in, including the one I do now, have this book, accessible to both workers and patrons, at all times. That’s one of the reasons people like our restaurant.

    Chef has an edition that looks like a Bible. I thought that’s what it was, at first. Hardcover, gilt-edged paper. Nope. It’s the Chef’s Companion. I gave him a hug when I realized what it was. That book belongs in every single restaurant. Should be hanging on a chain next to the fire extinguisher, by law. Server: “Does the Chicken Noodle Soup have any gluten in it?” “There’s the book, lady. Look it up. Yes, ma’am, noodles have gluten, as they are made out of wheat.”

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  16. lovely says:
    November 16, 2018 at 11:36 am

    Hermann Weinhardt House (1888), 2137 W. Pierce, Chicago IL

    Hermann Weinhardt House (2004), 2137 W. Pierce, Chicago IL

    Gotta run folks, have a beautiful day 🙂 !

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  17. stella says:
    November 16, 2018 at 11:44 am

    Kitchen question:

    I opened a can of chipotle chiles in sauce, and used a small amount. I put the rest in a plastic container in the refrigerator. Can I freeze it? I won’t be using the rest for a while.

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  18. Lucille says:
    November 16, 2018 at 12:29 pm

    A Million Dreams – The Greatest Showman
    The Piano Guys (teen pianist, Milo Allman and adult pianist, Jon Schmidt)

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  20. litenmaus says:
    November 16, 2018 at 1:26 pm

    As Pooh would say ‘it’s a blustery day’. Woke this morning to blowing snow and I have been provided a perfect excuse as to why I didn’t get my windows washed this year……always lookin’ for the bright spot. :0)

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  21. stella says:
    November 16, 2018 at 6:17 pm

    We knew this was coming, but here’s confirmation:

    https://twitter.com/SL1733/status/1063536760620236800

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  22. auscitizenmom says:
    November 16, 2018 at 9:00 pm

    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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  23. auscitizenmom says:
    November 16, 2018 at 9:00 pm

    Prayer for Justice Kavanaugh:

    https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/kavanaugh-v.-ford
    “After watching her husband rip into pro-death senators who used Dr. Christine Blasey Ford in attempts to derail the appointment of her husband to the U.S. Supreme Court, Ashley is asking all people of faith to unite in praying Psalm 40, which reads:”

    “BE PLEASED, O LORD, TO DELIVER ME, LOOK DOWN, O LORD TO HELP ME. LET THEM BE CONFOUNDED AND ASHAMED TOGETHER, THAT SEEK AFTER MY SOUL TO TAKE IT AWAY. LET THEM BE TURNED BACKWARD AND BE ASHAMED THAT DESIRE EVILS TO ME.”

    In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen

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  24. Lucille says:
    November 16, 2018 at 10:31 pm

    Y’all have a…

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