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Mornin’ Lucille!
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Good morning, Miz WeeWeed! Are there any poems about sweeping up those leaves and dried weeds?
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Thank you Lucille, I am saving this one for my little guy to memorize. We’ve had a challenging year so far, and haven’t made time for poetry and art. This will be a good one for him.
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Good morning, Menagerie! It is a good one. Also, don’t forget the Jabberwocky.
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Conner is just the kind of kid who’d like that, I think. His older brother sure did, for awhile.
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Good morning!
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Hi, Menagerie! So happy the poem will have a continuing life in the heart of your dear grandson. Visualizing the descriptive words is always a fun part of learning prose and poems.
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Morning, Lucille!
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Good morning to you, Stella!
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BEAUTIFUL HORSES REMEMBER EACH OTHER
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awwwww
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Mornin’ kids – here’s the coffee. Maybe it’ll hold us until lunch!
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Morning Wee. Lovely choice, such a pretty little floral pot! Thank you so much. I have my own cup!
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Mornin’ Menage! I heart the Pennsylvania Dutch designs. How y’all doing up there? Do you have flooding or power outages, still?
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None in my immediate area, although we had pond run off yesterday morning, and a greatly swollen little stream on the other side of the house.
There was a dam failure east of Knoxville and it’s very bad up there, and those poor people in western NC are in terrible shape. The videos out of Asheville and Chimney Rock are awful.
They were afraid a dam on Lake Lure in NC was going to fail too, but apparently it didn’t.
As far as Chattanooga, I don’t think we got it as bad as it was projected. Haven’t watched a lot of news though.
Years ago I had a few pieces of furniture and some dishes with Dutch designs. I had planned to stencil my kitchen. Stencils were big in those days, but I was intimidated, never did it. This was before my painting business days.
After I ran my business and learned so much about faux finishing and decorative painting, I kinda got mad at myself for all the projects I talked myself out of before.
Anyhow, I still like the art. It is charming, clean, uncluttered, and lets the work itself pop.
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how clever! Where is it?
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Mornin’ Czarina! I don’t know – I’ll see if I can go find an answer for ya…
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Stanton, Iowa. I heart it!
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Mornin’ Wee! Ooooh, that’s a big one.
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Mornin’ Stella!
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What a delightful object to come upon as you’re out driving. Someone certainly had fun constructing and painting it.
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Another good one!
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Addiction Recovery Month
National Drink Beer Day – well it is the end of Octoberfest. Yes, Octoberfest starts Sept 16 and runs till the start of October.
National Strawberry Cream Pie Day – have to be imported strawberries, ours were in season last spring
National North Carolina Day
National Save Your Photos
Ghost Hunting Day – they can stay right where they are, I don’t need any
Public Lands Day – goes well with the next one
National Hunting and Fishing Day
National Good Neighbor Day – can’t hurt!
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Octoberfest and poor ol’ North Carolina. Cajun Navy should already be in Asheville.
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Timely choices today.
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Morning czarina! I’m all for the good neighbor day. I have great ones.
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Me too. Such a blessing.
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What do you think about this?
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I am trying this with some of my starter. I have a rich, active starter a year old now, and I currently have three jars going.
She’s convinced me to add the seeds and get some einkhorn flour, which I knew about but have resisted because I have six flours at least in my pantry right now, and I use every one of them regularly. Okay, potato flour only a couple times a year, but when I want it, I want it.
So, I change that starter up and dry in the flour, see what happens, and I will also use her lots of flour technique on my starter as is without changing it. That leaves one untouched just in case. I have too much invested in it to risk it.
If it works like I think it will, that’s how I’ll be doing it, mostly. I do keep some going on the counter a lot and use discard a lot, but it’s not a problem to build that up as needed.
Thank you Stella, this is great. I’m going to check how she makes her bread, and also on that yogurt. But since my sourdough is so active and good, I don’t think I need to start one from scratch.
Best thing I’ve watched in a long time!
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I’m going to try her sourdough method from scratch using yogurt and a mix of rye and spelt flour. If it works, I will continue with sourdough. My reasoning is that I don’t bake bread that often, and the constant discard seems a terrible waste to me.
I haven’t watched her yogurt video, but I will. I have made yogurt at home in an Instant Pot 2 ways; using a powdered starter, and using supermarket yogurt.
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I use rye in my starter now.
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I was watching another video using a similar method, and she says you can use either Kefir or Kombucha instead of buttermilk or yogurt.
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I enjoyed watching this. I noted that the sourdough bread she made was softer with a fine crumb.
Like you, I was adverse to discarding so much starter. The method she uses makes sense for infrequent users.
She’s informative, experienced and enthusiastic about her topics.
Good catch in a sea of sourdough videos.
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Also, with you on ghost hunting. Why in the world would you go looking?
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morn all. in the 40’s and very sunny this morn. that was the one thing I was concerned about moving up here, lack of sun. hasn’t been a problem.
prayers for all effected by the storm.
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Mornin’ Mom!
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Mornin’ mom! One thing I loved about the west is the huge skies.
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yes. me too.
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Hope you are healing well, Aus,
It’s amazing how large a swath of America this one storm has affected.
Prayers, indeed. Lots of good people trying to help. It’s needed.
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Apprehending and then letting them go on to wherever the cartels send them is quite different from apprehending and deporting them immediately.
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Speaking of North Carolina…here’s the way the Dems are assured the state will go to Comma-La….
Judge allows ‘digital IDs’ for voting in North Carolina
By Sharyl Attkisson – September 28, 2024
https://sharylattkisson.com/2024/09/judge-allows-digital-ids-for-voting-in-north-carolina/
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The corruption and lawlessness continues….
BREAKING: Biden-Harris DOJ Lawsuit Blocks Alabama from Purging Noncitizens from Voter Rolls
By Michael Austin – September 28, 2024 at 11:12am
Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen announced the purge of names from the voter rolls on Aug. 13, revealing his office had identified 3,251 individuals registered to vote in Alabama.
https://www.westernjournal.com/breaking-biden-harris-doj-lawsuit-blocks-alabama-purging-noncitizens-voter-rolls/?
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