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Kelly Alves
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Even for a small image, that is impressive. I would love to hang out in there.
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wow, Moo, that's stunning.
in other news... greetings from Allergypocalypse 2014. supposedly this is our highest pollen count in history, and we have been having visible pollen "storms". it's quite something.
Today's observation: you just ain't lived until you've been baptized in cat snot.
that is all.
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Meh. I've got a new job finally, but I'm suffering from culture shock. This is the first time in thirty years I've spent substantial time working with people who are neither Asian nor academic nor Christian. Very nice people, but I'm a bit taken aback when public restaurant lunch discussion turns to coworkers' skirts and whether they constitute an invitation to forcible same-sex oral rape on the office floor... (yes, coworker was present and laughing, too).
No drink taken, either.
I'm embarrassed--I thought I wouldn't have turned a hair. My husband is snickering at me and saying, "welcome to the mission field."
It's gonna take me a while to unghast my flabber. ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
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comet, I hope the earthquake didn't affect you.
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nope, not even a little. The distance between me and the epicenter is about the same as the distance from Richmond to Albuquerque.
I have a friend in Shemya and a few friends in Atka, and I've heard nothing, but internet is sketchy out there. word is that the tsunami warning was cancelled because the quake was so deep. no idea about damage, but there's not a lot out that way. few small villages.
the earth has been pretty interesting up here lately in general, though. Noatak is having a "quake storm" - which just means a lot of them - and they don't usually have much activity up there. and last I checked we had 5 active volcanos at once, which is a new record for us.
All of it is on the western side of the state*, though, and a lot of it out the Aleutian Chain, which is a crazy long distance from here. our biggest natural phenomenon has been the bizarre pollen... thing... storm? highest counts in recorded history, and you can see clouds of the stuff on the hillsides.
otherwise, a cool but lovely summer so far, only one notable earthquake around here and while I woke up, the dog didn't even stop snoring.
*I'm in the southeast of the state, in the Alexander Archipeligo.
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Welease Woderwick
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Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
Meh. I've got a new job finally, but I'm suffering from culture shock. This is the first time in thirty years I've spent substantial time working with people who are neither Asian nor academic nor Christian. Very nice people, but I'm a bit taken aback when public restaurant lunch discussion turns to coworkers' skirts and whether they constitute an invitation to forcible same-sex oral rape on the office floor... (yes, coworker was present and laughing, too).
No drink taken, either.
I'm embarrassed--I thought I wouldn't have turned a hair. My husband is snickering at me and saying, "welcome to the mission field."
It's gonna take me a while to unghast my flabber.
When I worked in an old people's home the staff room was next to the office and I was able [actually had no choice] to the conversations of the entirely female care staff during coffee breaks and it was an eye-opening [indeed jaw dropping] experience. Perhaps I was naif but I had no idea that people openly shared such explicit information.
![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
p.s. thinking about it I should probably be grateful as in my later work in the AIDS industry it was de rigeur to be unshockable.
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Yes. I'm sure it will be very useful to me in the future!
It wasn't the content that shocked me, it was the fact that they were virtually shouting this stuff in a public restaurant. I mean, WAY Too Much Information.
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Originally posted by Moo:
It just occurred to me to google Ben Long fresco, and I found this. It shows not only the fresco behind the altar, but also the two at the front of the nave.
Mary is the figure on the left. John the Baptist is on the right. It would be nice if there were larger images of them.
Moo
This is larger. Amazing!
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Today, I had to slow down to avoid a chicken crossing the road. I was tempted to stop and try to figure out once and for all exactly WHY...
And LC, work in a bar...what you experienced is nothing ![[Biased]](wink.gif) I'm still amazed by what people feel compelled to share very loudly, in pulbic....LaLaLaLaLa - please stop talking....
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Lamb Chopped
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I'd EXPECT IT in a bar. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) Not so much in a lunch-time Mexican place.
Though I'll grant you, people come up with the oddest things at the oddest times. Like the pastoral visit which someone attempted to turn into a vaginal exam.
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Originally posted by BessHiggs:
Today, I had to slow down to avoid a chicken crossing the road. I was tempted to stop and try to figure out once and for all exactly WHY...
![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
I had a dumbass red tail hawk decide to fly n front if my car, face my driving direction , and "lead" me. I was freaked out, because if I had accelerated two mph faster, the thing would have been tangled in my bumper. WTH?
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Kelly, I've done gone and hit one of those. They don't say Bird Brain for nothig
I spent 8 hours today with my (m)other-in-law*. She needed a ride to the city cause she thought she was having an MRI and would have to take Valium but noooo... Today was a bone scan. We get there, they shoot her up with the dye and say come back in 3 hours. We went to Wally-world. ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif)
^ (m)other-in-law is my best friend's mom. I love her, but shoot, fire and hold the matches....I'm married, so I'm not goinmg to take your son off your hands...
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to Comet,
"Today's observation: you just ain't lived until you've been baptized in cat snot"
Well, the horse just got new shoes today, and you ain't lived until you've been baptized in HORSE snot"! And on my new teeshirt too!
Speaking of teeshirts, Mcgyver's Apprentice, JB and I finished up our 11 day photography trip to Colorado, Utah, and Arizona. Included in the trip was Hovenweep, Edge of the Cedars State Park, Canyonlands and Arches National Parks, Dead Horse State Park, Coral Pink Sands State Park, Newspaper Rock, Natural Bridge State Park, Antelope Slot Canyon, Bryce National Park, Kodachrome State Park and Grosvenor Arch (off roading), Escalante, Hollywood Museum (old movie sets-very cool), "Standing on the Corner Park" in Winslow, Arizona and Rock Art Ranch for the largest petroglyph site we've ever seen.
Yes, we did a lot of things, ate some good food and met some great people and we'll be doing it again next year! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Originally posted by Ye Olde Motherboarde:
... Mcgyver's Apprentice, JB and I finished up our 11 day photography trip to Colorado, Utah, and Arizona....
First pictures.
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Welease Woderwick
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Very nice!
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Kelly Alves
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Wow, gorgeous!
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Very impressive!
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Originally posted by Ye Olde Motherboarde:
to Comet,
"Today's observation: you just ain't lived until you've been baptized in cat snot"
Well, the horse just got new shoes today, and you ain't lived until you've been baptized in HORSE snot"! And on my new teeshirt too!
Eww! I'll bet that's a heckuva lot of snot.
I once had a moose come into my garden and munch on my cabbages and broccoli - actually, it happens a lot, but this time in particular - it was the slobberiest moose EVER. the bits they left behind were coated in mega amounts of drool. sort of like insult to injury!
you guys (and MA!) need to come see me. I got your excellent landscape photo ops right here, baby... Plus, I miss you guys. and I want to meet MA. and show off my beautiful town.
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A happy 4th of July on this beautiful bright and clear day (here, at least). On Morning Breakfast today, Emma Ayres played a lot of Broadway musicals, including several sung by Frederika von Stade, and a great Learning the Conga from Pal Joey sung by Rosalind Russell. Then to finish, nothing less than Stars and Stripes Forever.
Be kind to your web-footed friends, for a duck may be somebody's mother......
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Kelly Alves
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Nice!
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That does sound good. Flicka's album of Rodgers and Hart songs was great.
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Welease Woderwick
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It hasn't quite got to any of you yet but Happy 4th July to all in The Lost Colonies from over here, too.
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Kelly, one set of the words can be found here. It used be sung at the end of the Singalong with Mitch TV show too far in the past to admit to having watched it.
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Just popping in to wish our southerly neighbours (or in Comet's case, westerly neighbours) a happy Fourth of July.
![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif) for those of you in Arthur's path; I suspect you'll be sending him our way at the weekend ...
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Kelly Alves
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Kelly, one set of the words can be found here. It used be sung at the end of the Singalong with Mitch TV show too far in the past to admit to having watched it.
Oh, Sis and I sang this all the time! ( Grandpa had a bunch of Mitch Miller albums.)
Hanging out with my cousins in Sonoma-- barbecue to follow. Should be a great day!
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Mmmmmm, barbecue! What kind do they have in Sonoma?
How is everyone else celebrating? My husband has to work all weekend (retail) so we went out for Chinese at lunchtime and then bought some small fireworks from Wal-Mart. AMURRICA!!!
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Ye Olde Motherboarde
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Happy Fourth of July everyone.
I almost burned down the kitchen making kale chips (never have a pan that has no sides) Then I worked in the garden and cleaned up around the house, did laundry, washed the windows, No rest on a holiday here. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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I worked a ten hour day. (my feelings about how short staffed we are belong in Hell) my family took part in the parade, organized a crazy-successful rubber ducky race and a pie sale. I then went to the evening's music festival, but I was too tired to dance. (that has NEVER been true before)
all of this in record rains (and we're in a rainforest!) and flood warnings.
generally, it was a fun and full day. I'm about to go to work, again, and it's making me crabby. surely we're supposed to have a Holiday Recovery Day?
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We have spent the holidays with my mom and brother and his family. We started the 4th with quiche, went four wheeling, had grilled meats for dinner, went fishing at the river, and set off fireworks(mostly sparklers). Today we started off with buttermilk biscuits sausage and gravy. The rest of the day was world cup, swimming at the lake, eating sandwitches Pata made, and fishing in a pond. Now we are about to grill some vegetables and shark. It has been a good weekend.
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Ye Olde Motherboarde
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Went into Sears yesterday to buy our 4th (yes, fourth) pressure washer! (Dang, we do break them easily) and saw the Soccer game. I say SAW, because ALL THE TELEVISIONS were on in Spanish, so I could only make out a word or two, but then, you don't need a commentary, you can see what is going on, right?
Yesterday morning, JB and our neighbor put together and started the fountain. Windy season is never over here, but wind is not a blowing sandstorm to get into the fountain apparatus and clog the daggone thing. The sound is so soothing as I am sitting on the porch eating cantaloupe and scrambled eggs (not TOGETHER) Pretty productive weekend all in all. Now, back to the daily housework grind. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
Its a chore, but someone has to do it........ ![[brick wall]](graemlins/brick_wall.gif)
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Ye Olde Motherboarde
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6 NATIONAL KISSING DAY !
Get to practicing, people!
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Welease Woderwick
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Who says I need practice?
![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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Ye Olde Motherboarde
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Well, Welease, somebody might need help.....
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Today is the big annual family fish fry. Catfish, fries, onion rings and hush puppies for 100. I'm tired already, but boy I can't wait to eat some of Miss Norma Jean's onion rings
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Hours later...I'm hot. I'm sweaty. I'm so pleased with how everything turned out. This used to be my father-in-law and his two brothers' gig, but they're older now and can't take the heat and the strain. Us younger generation have stepped in and kept it going.
And 92 year old Miss Helen told me my hushpuppies were wonderful. So
All in all, a pretty freaking awesome day!
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I am on vacation! Hallelujah!
So I'm writing to you all from the top (almost) of a mountain in the Smokies! How awesome for this south Florida girl to be able to sit on the porch, drinking my tea, enjoying the cool!!! air and listening to the birds.
Ahhhh. I really need this right now!
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Got a nasty summer cold (grrrrrrrrrr). Home by myself since the guys are off to Scout camp and can't hang around alternately looking anxious and inquiring what we're having for dinner.
I discovered that my dear Vietnamese husband does not know the difference between "passing out" and "passing away." He gave my mother a terrible fright a while back when she called to ask how I was doing with some pain. "She's doing great, she just passed away, no problem!"
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Confuse him further: sing
The Old Stage Queen.
She rises to go. Has the night turned colder?
The new Queen answers to call and shout;
And the old Queen looks back over her shoulder,
Then all unnoticed she passes out.
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I'm writing just to say HI. Loved the MacGyver Jr's photos!
I got to meet up with Grits last week, which was so awesome. It felt like I knew her for ages. It made me think of the ship again...
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Hello Duchess, and welcome back! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Welcome back, duch!
We had a little earthquake last night (5.9) not a big deal, but i have a couple of observations.
1. If you live in a tent, you hear a lot of nature. When it's lightly raining, you can hear it (when it's heavily raining, you can't hear anything else!) so when there's a quake, all the big trees above your tent dump all their pooled water on you all at once and it sounds a bit like getting slapped by a cranky giant. Interesting. (no damage, all well, dog slept through it all, which is my gauge of quake seriousness)
2. The quake somehow severed the big fiber-optic cable on the ocean floor which means most cell providers (except mine) and ALL internet in our Southeast region is down, and may be for days. My observation: it's only been about 15 years since we got this new-fangled stuff and boy are we reliant on it! All CC machines down, atms, etc and no one carries cash. People don't know what to do if they can't google everything. I felt I re-introduced a good dozen of our guests the the concept of a book, today.
We need everything-outages regularly. Reminds us of the material world.
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Originally posted by BessHiggs:
And 92 year old Miss Helen told me my hushpuppies were wonderful.
Forgive the intrusion by an ignorant Brit, but to me, Hush Puppies are shoes. I imagine that's not what you mean here? (Although I'm perfectly sure your shoes are wonderful)
M.
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Deep-fried cornmeal batter: see here.
Dang. Now I'm hungry!
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Ah, thanks!
They look good and terrible for you!
M.
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Almost like a sort of savoury Timbit™ (the hole from the middle of a doughnut)?
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Timbits are more cake like, while if I understand correctly, a hushpuppy is more bread like. I could be wrong, I've never had hushpuppies, though I've had more than my share of Timbits.
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