The shorts are a bit short - I recall you've said you like the longer shorts.
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The shorts are a bit short - I recall you've said you like the longer shorts.
Eventually some wispy white clouds drifted over. I put the torts and the wine log and the Palm Pilot away, and sat under an umbrella with Dill, reading my book. I love rain. It's gone now. BF is at work, OT, doing Weed and Seed, whatever that is. Home at midnight. I slept till 10:00 today, he slept till 2:30. I had a nap on the couch.
I have found another excellent food/wine combination- Chex Mix Honey Nut Sweet Salt, and Chenin Blanc. Mmmmm!!
Movies I am dying to see:
Clerks Two. A Scanner Darkly. Descent.
Right now i am either going to watch America's Funniest Home Videos, or, what's that movie, with the two brothers or cousins, in the south, Dukes of Hazzard!!
We got 50% off our hotel room Friday night since my bed was infested with hairs of all sorts. I ended up paying $20 for a $90 hotel room...
Ew! Hairs? :eek: Did you sleep at all?
After I changed the bed myself and put on new sheets, with only one hair, and a new sheet over the down comforter, with no dead spider, and changed all four pillowcases, but still slept on my own four pillows that I brought, yes, then I could sleep pretty well, considering. The desk manager himself admitted that finding hairs in the sheets was the most disturbing hotel occurance he could imagine. You should have seen him grimace when I handed the stack of "used" sheets to him...
Nanci - if the posole you bought was canned in salt water, you might want to drain it. I didn't put that part in my recipe. Sorry. The canned posole i buy is usually salt-free.
Keep the heat on low and cook until the pork softens up again. Posole is also good with lamb. But I like pork the best.
I really want to see "V for Vendetta." And all the Oscar nominees. And the penguin movie. And the 2nd Pirates of the Caribbean.
nanci - sounds really fancy what your making for dinner, i'm sure its good though.
i'm throwing in pizza. between fishing and hauling in an anchor who knows how many times from who knows what depths, cleaning a boat and then somehow finding energy to mow the lawn. i forgot how hard that was! :eek: i'm exausted!
oh ya i have to do something with those fish..... the work never ends.
Know the one.Quote:
Originally Posted by chickwhorips
We went up to the Blueberries farm/orchard to pick a year's supply yesterday. Thought it was a lovely idea till we got stopped at a roadblock by a 19 yo female soldier who said a rocket fell on the town up there. So we said "Well, we are going past there to ___ to pick blueberries" and she let us thru. (Those 70's-80's non-violent-activist-training-weekends paid off again!!)
So we picked 5 kg of blueberries (11 pounds) and 1 kg (2+ pounds) of big blackberries to the background sounds of tank and cannon-fire, with smoke all across the northern horizon from the fire and the fires on both sides of the border.
Just me and the SO in the whole orchard. The trees were just laden. All the different shades of blue and purple with the occasional not-yet-ripe pinks, and greeny yellows
On the way there was no one and nothing on the road.
The apples and plums still on the trees, the grapes (for wine) nearly ready and noone to pick them either.In the fields the wild fig trees are full of fruit and the wild olives, though still bright green and hard as river pebbles, are promising a bumper crop in October . But not a movement - no people, no animals, very few birds.
At the blueberry place the same.
On the way back there was a continuous stream of traffic going east (the opposite direction to us).
Cars full of Reservists going to their Military Meeting-up Points. Groups of men everywhere.
(Note to those of us feminists who tend to see men as a group. When you see so many of them actually in the process of collecting together in one place, before they have got the group-feeling - you see how individual they each are)
Men trying to turn themselves into soldiers at a few days notice - most less than successfully in terms of physique and fashion. Not to mention "operational capability".
Do you laugh or cry?
Both at the same time
Then at 10 pm , after a family dinner and "the news" (15 dead and the injured in the hundreds and that is just on "our" side of the fence for which I have the numbers and some names and faces) I started to make blueberry jam
shalom salaam peace pax
Not on TE much because am back home in Albany NY with 80-year-old mom in emergency hospital kind of thing. I was trying to entertain her by telling her about this forum---including some of Margo's flora and fauna and from-the-front messages. So tonight I printed out a few of those and will bring them to the hospital tomorrow for her to read. It's comforting somehow to see a wide world view during tough times.
I never would have imagined that blueberries grew in Israel. But I didn't know they grew in Florida, either. I have a friend over there- I hope she's ok. She was in very fragile health before all this. She has an amazing pigeon named Hercules, who rescues all baby birds and raises them as his own- even chickens!
Margo - that must have been extra eerie with no birds and no movement. Hopefully this will be over long before the grapes and olives are ready to be picked!
Salsa - good luck with your mum. I hope she recovers from the emergency hospital thing super quickly!
Today I finish my slides and learn whatever I can about bees. This ought to be fun!
You know my snake Maizey...she's refused one mouse out of two, three feedings ago, then two of two, then one of one. I am taking her in to be "sexed" tomorrow. This is normal behaviour for a male in breeding season. It's too late to change her name if she _is_ a male. Then I'll have Milly the male pigeon and Maizey the male snake. I must subconsciously prefer female pets.
margo - thats a lot of berries. our berry season here is late. there hasn't been much rain or sunshine. poor little berries are really little! glad you got to pick some.
salsa - hope your mom gets better.
nanci - i hope you get your gender issue resolved with your snake. what kind? had a ball python for a while. i named her fido. i figured she was a girl, but who knows.
It's an easy procedure to determine sex. That would be pretty funny if she was a he. Maybe next time you could get a pet whose gender you can determine by external morphology. Hee hee ;)
Oh - and the hairy sheets - that's completely nasty! I've found hairs in the bathroom and had my room changed, but never hairs in the bed. Ewwwwwwww.
Margo - thinking about you lots... I wondered if you knew any of those reserve soldiers :(
I went to see my first criterium yesterday - very exciting! I saw the tail end of the Cat 1/2 women's division and then the Pro men's race. They had a 1 km circuit set up downtown and they raced for 55 minutes plus 2 laps. Three guys lapped the entire peleton (peloton?) 1-1/2 times so the verdict was pretty clear early on. There was one crash around a corner and I saw it just before it happened. Some road rash and cracked up bikes for two guys but no one too badly injured. One of the top women was a girl named Leah Goldstein who battled back from a terrible crash last year that left her bedridden and then in a wheelchair for 3 months. Pretty amazing story. Being a newbie cyclist, I've never heard of her but I imagine many of you have. :) She credits her determination to her seven years in the Israel army. Reminded me again of Margo...
Swimmer's Tail - anyone ever heard of that? We took our chocolate lab Gabriel out to the lake to swim and he had a great time. Next day he couldn't sit or move his tail at all. Took him into the vet and learned about swimmer's tail. Apparently Labs use their tail as a rudder and he was experiencing the same pain I get when I do a long ride. Poor guy...
Nanci - well done on your 200 km! I so want to try that someday. I did my first metric on the road bike a couple of days ago and can't imagine doubling that in one day. Is it fairly flat where you ride? Maybe I could do it if it was flatter. This trip was all hills and my legs still hurt two days later. Ah, but it's a good hurt.. :)
I am learning to enjoy white wine. Only trying the sweeter stuff - Erhenfelser, Gwurtztraminer (totally guessed on the spelling), and a sweet Reisling. Yummy to have something cooler to drink on those hot afternoons.
i've heard of that. i've known labs that have had their tail docked because they had a problem with that and/or hitting it against things.Quote:
Originally Posted by kelownagirl
i'm glad my big dog has her tail docked just because of the damage she could do if she had a whole tail. i hear her numb thumping and i can just imagin. though when i first got her i thought she was born with a small tail till i researched it bc she kept biting at it. i wasn't to keen on it at first, seemed kinda cruel to me. it doesn't seem to bother her now and as long as she's happy i'm happy.