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Pigwidgeon
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Originally posted by Moo:
I saw a wonderful production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar last night.
The cast were from the American Shakespeare Company's theater in Staunton. It was very gripping.
Moo
I was just looking at their website yesterday! I was trying to see if there was anyway to get there to see Henry V from Washington, DC, when I visit there next spring. (I won't have a car, so apparently there isn't.)
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Moo
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The theater in Staunton is wonderful. It's the world's only facsimile of the Blackfriars theater. The stage projects much farther forward than modern stages It helps the actors interact with the audience, which they do frequently.
Moo
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Brenda Clough
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If you are in DC, we should try and organize a Shippie get together.
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Pigwidgeon
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Originally posted by Moo:
The theater in Staunton is wonderful. It's the world's only facsimile of the Blackfriars theater. The stage projects much farther forward than modern stages It helps the actors interact with the audience, which they do frequently.
Moo
I'll have to get there some time -- I've heard wonderful things about it. I love the way the actors use the thrust stage at the London Globe to interact with the Groundlings.
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Pigwidgeon
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Originally posted by Brenda Clough:
If you are in DC, we should try and organize a Shippie get together.
Yes! I'll be there with a group from Road Scholars (formerly Elderhostel), but I'm hoping it works out that I can stay a couple days afterwards. I had been hoping to suggest a Shipmeet once I know more details.
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Brenda Clough
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Excellent. Pick a day and a time, and put up an invite! If you want advice selecting a meeting place we can discuss.
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Brenda Clough
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Oh, and I do have a car.
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Pigwidgeon
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Originally posted by Brenda Clough:
Excellent. Pick a day and a time, and put up an invite! If you want advice selecting a meeting place we can discuss.
Super! I'm not going until May, so we can post something in the spring. I'll PM you with more details.
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Moo
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Today three Tech students came and raked all my leaves. They belong to a group that does yard work for free, but accepts checks made out to the Cancer Society.
They are a spinoff from the Relay for Life. They would rather do some sort of practical work instead of walking around a track.
I'm very glad they feel that way. Whenever I need any help with yard work, I get in touch with them.
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Lothlorien
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That's a great idea, Moo.
When I moved here, i rented a truck and two strapping teenagers from sons' church did almost all the heavy work.
After they had finished , i went to pay them and they refused. Son then explained it was for their youth group fund which went to help disadvantaged young people who came to youth group. In that area, there was no shortage of kids who could benefit from the scheme. I already knew a fair market price for their job and paid them that, to their surprise.
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Piglet
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I'm just dropping in to wish y'all a merry and food-filled Thanksgiving.
You'll find some indigestion tablets in the cupboard above the kettle. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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MrsBeaky
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Happy Thanksgiving to you all!
The American community here in our town in Kenya gathered today for a big feast at lunchtime but I had to work so am now waiting for my husband to come home and we'll have pretzels and white wine as a token offering.
Will try to talk to my family later on Skype
Hope you all have fun ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Nicolemr
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Happy Thanksgiving all!
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Welease Woderwick
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Happy Thanksgiving from over here, too.
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While the world may not be perfect, we have a lot to be grateful for today.
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Pigwidgeon
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I just listened to "Alice's Restaurant," so it's officially Thanksgiving. Now off to church...
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Moo
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I am seriously overstuffed.
Moo
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Brenda Clough
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So am I. However, there are masses of leftovers, which is a good thing. If everything was eaten up then we did not make enough.
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Kelly Alves
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
I just listened to "Alice's Restaurant," so it's officially Thanksgiving. Now off to church...
Sweet
I passed around the "As God is my witness" clip from WKRP in Cincinatti" and hopefully at some point over the weekend I will view my favorite Thanksgiving film, "Pieces of April."
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jedijudy
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We had a thoroughly delightful Thanksgiving here! For the first time ever, there was no bird in the oven, but ribeyes and salmon on the grill. Cleanup and prep were easier, but there is no carcass for soup.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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jedijudy
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We had a thoroughly delightful Thanksgiving here! For the first time ever, there was no bird in the oven, but ribeyes and salmon on the grill. Cleanup and prep were easier, but there is no carcass for soup.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Lothlorien
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Here is a hint for cooking salmon which you may not know.
I don't know what you call it at your neck of the woods, but place the salmon on a piece of baking paper, parchment or whatever, before you place it on grill. This works for grill with bars or a flat surface or a frying pan etc. skin will still brown or go crunchy. Cooking time is the same. When done to your liking, pick up edges of paper to remove or take fish off with an egg slice etc.
No fishy mess to clean off whatever you used to cook it.. Brilliant.
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Piglet
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Anyone tried it in the dishwasher?
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Kelly Alves
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Damn! ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Piglet:
Anyone tried it in the dishwasher?
If you're on the road then Steak Manifold is an option.
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jedijudy
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I'm going to try the parchment trick, Lothlorien!
Oh, and I'm blaming wonky computer number two for the duplicate post. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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Lothlorien
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It works well. My brother cooks a lit of things like that, but it is good for salmon. Fold paper up at end and all the smelly bits go out with the paper. I usually have salmon marinaded with various flavours and the marinade makes a mess on the pan. No mess this way.
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jedijudy
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Advent III, and it's been stinkin' hot. Daughter-Unit's mom-in-law and I went on our annual Christmas scavenger hunt yesterday, and it was so hot out, we almost melted!!!
Now, we don't want it to be cold, Heavens, but is a nice 75 degrees with low humidity too much to ask?
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Piglet
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Originally posted by jedijudy:
... is a nice 75 degrees with low humidity too much to ask?
Probably. ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
That does seem a tad excessive, even for Jedi-land. We had a delightful just-above-seasonal 4°C (39°F) today - if it would stay like that for a while, it would suit me just fine.
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Welease Woderwick
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It is 12.45, lunchtime, here and 28.7C and 80% humidity.
It's a bit cool but might warm up this afternoon.
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jedijudy
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It's 77 this morning, but! we are promised cooler weather for the end of the week and the weekend! Sunday is to be 75! Perfect for Jediland! Of course, I'll probably whine Saturday morning if the temp is really 51 as predicted.
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Pigwidgeon
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Here in the "sunny" desert of Arizona we're looking at a cold, wetter-than-usual winter. It's raining now (and his been all night). Towards the end of the week it will be dryer but down to 27F.
I know we need it, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.
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Rain rain and more rain. Yah we badly need rain, BUT not all at once hills bare from fire last fall so nothing to hold the soil, so danger of land slides. Gentle rain please God
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jedijudy
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We have had more than the normal amount of rain in November and the beginning of December. Water is standing in the fields and swales. Hopefully this means fewer wild fires this winter.
Big bonus, the wading birds love the little delicious creatures they find in the water! It's almost like going to an aviary when driving down certain roads! Beautiful storks, egrets of all colors and sizes, ibis and herons. The ospreys and eagles are happy, too!
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Pigwidgeon
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Originally posted by jedijudy:
We have had more than the normal amount of rain in November and the beginning of December. Water is standing in the fields and swales. Hopefully this means fewer wild fires this winter.
Here in the Desert Southwest, wet winters actually lead to worse wildfires in the summer. The rain encourages the growth of underbrush, weeds, etc. When the dry heat comes, those plants dry up and form fuel for forest fires. We're expecting a very wet, rainy winter this year, so next summer will probably be a bad one for fires.
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Piglet
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It does seem to be a case of "if it's not one thing, it's another" with your weather - either droughts or floods.
Take care. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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Carex
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The river behind our house is slowly dropping back down - at one point the flow rate was 50% above flood stage. Fortunately the area flooded is mostly farmland and golf courses, with few homes threatened. But more rain is forecast starting tonight - we might get 3 - 5 inches in a day and a half, and twice that in the headwaters of the river.
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jedijudy
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
Here in the Desert Southwest, wet winters actually lead to worse wildfires in the summer.
Our fire season is in the winter. Summer is our monsoon season, and the only summer fires I can remember are started by lightening.
Tomorrow is supposed to be rainy. Which is good! Tonight is Star Wars night!! Don't want to stand out in the rain then sit in a cool theater!
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Moo
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We have had a few bits of snow today. I call them bits because they're much too small to qualify as flakes.
The temperature lately has been very mild until today. It's supposed to be cold again tomorrow, but then it will warm up again.
I just hope the weather doesn't interfere with Christmas travel. I'm taking a bus to Washington on Tuesday and coming back the following Tuesday.
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Pigwidgeon
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We've had frost every morning this week (very unusual around here), but it's getting a little warmer as we go into the weekend. The weather people can't seem to make up their minds about whether we'll have rain for Christmas -- they change their prediction on the weather website at least once a day.
I was totally shocked when I went to the Post Office this morning -- not another customer in the place until I was leaving. I asked the clerk (who knows me) if this was really December 18th, or was my calendar wrong.
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jedijudy
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It's cold today! it's only 57 right now. An indicator for temperature is my hair; it's too hot to wear down and unbraided unless the temp is very cool!
I'm keeping my hair long for that future time when ladies are cold all the time. It's very much like a cape.
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Piglet
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We have had a few bits of snow today. I call them bits because they're much too small to qualify as flakes ...
That sounds like what my friend M. calls "fat rain", especially if it happens before the beginning of November and she's in denial about the idea of sn*w.
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Lothlorien
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Bump. It was on the verge of being page 2 material.
This will be closed later today, so thinking caps on for a new thread title.
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RuthW
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"It's Trump's country - we just live in it."
Too soon?
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Kelly Alves
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Oy.
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Kelly Alves
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Vespucchiania?
Yankee Doodle Discourse?
The U.S.S ITTWACWS?
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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
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Piglet
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Originally posted by RuthW:
"It's Trump's country - we just live in it."
Too soon?
Unless you're working on a similar principle to putting someone on one's list in the Celebrity Death Pool, in the hope that it doesn't happen ...
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Brenda Clough
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It's not his country unless we give it to him. Not a single vote has been cast yet. Let's send him down, howling, the Biggest Loser of them all.
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