"Just because I am from PA does not mean I like to bake..."
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"Just because I am from PA does not mean I like to bake..."
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Now, I wanted to turn that into a caption contest... but I "knew better" not to "provoke" the humor of TD. ;) *cough cough* ;)
My thought:
"I am not making cookies. I am NOT making cookies. I'm NOT making...
...
Ok. I'm making cookies."
:D :D :D
awwww, Jennifer you look really happy.
Kit, we can see your eyes!!! You have eyes! who knew?
X-keep those two outa trouble. :p
ooh, chocolate has somehow magically arrived at my table. :D gotta go. :cool:
Wow - all these wonderful TD reunions going on right now! Very cool.
BMo3 have fun with your visitors - I wanna buckeye! They look yummy!
CC - wow great action shot of you with the bike at the tri. That is a really cool pic!
Be safe you battered PNW-ers. Some crazy weather you all are having.
It's 40 degrees (F) here right now. That's cold for us!! The kid is baking horse treats (thanks SK!) and we're doing some Christmas planning. Relaxed day. Have fun everyone.
Oh - Snap - congrats on the promotion!! FINALLY!! Yay!
And Nanci - I love Krusty! Very handsome!
Kit - It has been an extreme pleasure to finally meet you. You are even more wonderful in person, if that is possible. It's been a long time since I was this tired. Totally worth it though. :cool:
BMo3 - Thank you for having us out here with your family. You are an incredible person. If anyone is looking for a great vacation spot, come to (flat) Ohio.
Trek - Yes she has eyes! They're real and they're spectacular. :D So how's your little adventure going?
KG - have fun at the b-day party! Eat lots of cake.
As for baking cookies... ladies, they are also forcing me to make a Yule Log. :confused: :eek: I can't tell if it's coming out right or not. Is it supposed to look like a big blobby mound? ;) I'm thinking not. So, we'll gather round in a circle with spoons and go at it. Same taste in the end. :rolleyes:
mimi - Kit and I loved the biscotti! I can't believe you make that... it's so hard to make good biscotti. I have never even come close. Thanks. The handmade ornament is so cute too.
nanci - good luck with the tort. Hope you get it adopted soon.
CC- do you think if I sent you chocolate Buds that they would survive? Maybe I'll wait until it cools off there.
Kit and I are taking a break and going out for sushi. Anybody want some?
take care and have a safe day,
X.
Look! Big yellow globe thing is in the sky, the sky is an odd colour....it's....it's.....blue!!
Knott and I are headed to the coast.
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Originally Posted by Bikingmomof3
TOO COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: :D :D :p :p
wow!! Kit went all the way to Ohio! how cool is that? I hope that sort of makes up for Jen's not having thanksgiving.
It is fun to see your faces, especially your faces together.
Jen I am amazed that you were able to save biscotti all week considering you have 3 sons and a husband.
X, you are quite the trouper, driving all that way and then getting Kit at the airport. (Kit that had to cost a fortune to fly out there, but i understand
escaping from your house without power!!!
Knot, you sure had the right idea leaving town THIS weekend!
and Bruno and CC thanks for the spectacular photos of the other parts of the world. The scottish countryside looks so sublime, and There in AUssieland
you guys look comfortable in wet swimsuits!!
yeah, Nanci, MOVE that turtle. you don't need another vet bill!
well, I guess I'll go cook a turkey.
Is that Bruno on the left of the second photo?
I sort of imagined she would look different... but she has such deep and calm brown eyes...
and where is her bike?
ROFL:D :D :DQuote:
Originally Posted by margo49
Very funny...I'm plotting revenge as I write.
(To avoid confusion - this refers to the picture of the highland cattle I posted earlier and is Margo's idea of a joke. Lots of pictures on TD just now)
The timeline is a tad off because, well, I needed to sleep. I hada lovely nap (no photos of that).
Our day so far consisted of me meetting Kit (She is so dang sweet, funny, and pretty!), beginning the Yule Log and getting a start on christmas cookies with X while Kit and DH discusssed computers and then Kit decided X and I needed supervision. ;)
After baking several batches of cookies, the two young ones decided O should nap while they went for Sushi and headed towards Yellow Springs to hit the bike trail. Kit borrowed my oldest son's bike. I miss those two ladies, but I am glad they went out for fun, and, as Imentioned, I needed a nap.
Cookies (the Yule Log is cooling in the white towel
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X and Kit and the prepare to head out for lunch and Biking
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Bruno-Nice to see you again and I love the photos! :)
Nanci-Krusty is beautiful! Have you found out whether or not it will cost a fortune to care for him? Any news on the adoption?
Trek-it sounds as though you and Knot are having a splendid time and meeting so many Ters!! Pics, we want pics. :D Hey cleaning or not, you and Knot are always welcome here. :) I am happy Trek, very happy. I needed this Christmas gift. :D :D Kit has beautiful eyes. After I took her picture upon arrival I told her to take the shades off so I could se her lovely eyes. :) Um, you do not want to leave X in charge. ;)
Enjoy the beach!!
KG-I cannot speak for Kit and X, but I am having a great time. :D How was Charlotte's Web?
MP=Buckeyes are a wonderful treat. Not needed with al the chocolate X brought and the cookies, but I could not let them leave without experiencing a Buckeye or two. The weather is overcast, but very warm, so those two hit the trails.
Lisa-it is cool. It proves we need a TD get together!
Mimi-This is a Christmas gift for me. :) It is perfect! Of course there was Biscotti left, I had every intention upon sharing you biscotti with them.
Okay, I need to get moving and have some coffee before those two get back here. It is so quiet without them. :(
How much can an antibiotic shot cost??? You know vets, though. Unfortunately, he's gotta go as soon as I have money, like Friday. The prospective adopters would get him the middle of January.
Nanci
Nanci,
I hope this is one the the inexpense antibiotic shots.
Note to self: Do not try to cheat and make "doctored" Pilsbury sugar cookies. The results are not pretty.
uh, Snap, how did you doctor them? Valium?Quote:
Originally Posted by snapdragen
Jennifer,
It's so great that you guys are all there together!! I can't get over how great the pictures are- thank you for posting them all- what wonderful group of gorgeous and happy women!!
Nanci, perhaps if you explain the circumstances to the vet they might be willing to keep charges low for this tortoise, it being wild and this being a kindhearted rescue.
And also I do hope that whoever adopts it will be true to the goal of returning it to the wild in the Spring. They should bring it back to the same general area it was found but to a safer woodland spot of course, to be released again. I don't know about your area but here in NY state box turtles which used to be common are now rare. Partly due to habitat reduction but also due to people finding them and then keeping them as pets because they are so appealing. Those pets are then no longer breeders in the wild.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articl...v5/ai_15388171
Here is a cool article I came across about a particular box turtle:
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A Visitor from the Past
by Tom Tyning
I was on comfortable and soothing ground the other day. The woods were familiar as was the trail, mostly worn because I had tread on it for over twenty years. I have searched this area for plants and animals, collecting information, photographing butterflies and wildflowers and mostly using it as a great refuge from day to day life. Like most people I have my own special getaway where I am as comfortable as I am anywhere, including home.
So it was to my utter pleasure that I encountered one of my oldest acquaintances at this site very recently. I was walking along, not particularly focusing on any one thing. A few birds vocalized only rarely. A turkey vulture swooped low over the treetops. The first of the woodland asters had opened their flowers. But for the most part it appeared to be just another quiet walk in the woods. Then I looked down at my feet.
After my eyes focused I still could not quite tell if this was an apparition or had I finally discovered one of the great patriarchs of North America - an adult box turtle. Here, on the bed of oak leaves and lowbush blueberry, in the dappled afternoon light, a box turtle fits into its environment like most other species. The caramel-colored shell, alternately dotted and then streaked with cream spots and swirls, makes for one of the better camouflaged animals we have. I am always impressed when I find one crossing a highway. Here, in my own"backyard" and under more natural conditions, I was ecstatic. My excitement was to be enhanced, however, when something about this animal seemed familiar.
Drawing of an Eastern Box Turtle
I kneeled down to take a closer look. The dark head held two glowing, coral-red eyes, indicating that this was most likely a male. Female box turtles tend to have brown eyes. Its high domed shell, a characteristic of the eastern box turtle, was pitted and ragged along the edges. This is typical of old turtles and none in this country grow older than a box turtle. Accurate estimates of up to 125 years or even more have been made on New England box turtles. As I stretched to see more detail of the animal, which I left untouched, a tiny hole along the front, left margin of its shell struck me. This was indeed an animal I had known. Back in 1974, I was in the Forestry and Wildlife Department at the University of Massachusetts and under the tutelage of Dr. Wendell Dodge, and others. Dodge was one of the pioneers of radio telemetry and he was helpful, if not amused, when this local undergraduate announced that he wanted to put a radio on a box turtle and follow it for a couple of years. This was the turtle I had found almost twenty years ago and it was a mature adult then. The transmitter antenna was affixed to the turtle's shell by drilling two small holes on the edge of the shell. I spent a great deal of time with this fellow, following it on its short, but almost daily jaunts. I watched it feed on blueberries and mushrooms. Each night the turtle dug into the leaf litter, usually next to a fallen tree and actually created a small, dome-shaped den, called a form. Its entire activities were confined, during the time I followed this animal, to a small area - perhaps an acre or less. But after the study was over and the transmitter removed, I could not for the life of me find that animal again, no matter how hard I looked or how familiar I was with his habits. I had even followed him to where he dug three inches into the soil and spent the winter. Over the past many years I have checked and re-checked that exact spot as well as most other locations where he spent his time - but to no avail. I was sure that my old friend had passed on, one of the last of a declining species in Massachusetts. That is, until the other day, when at least one of us was extremely pleased with the reunion. It's hard to determine what a turtle thinks. After two decades, this box turtle was sitting within fifty feet of where I first found him. He probably thought I had not seemed to have gone very far either.
Survived the birthday party - I still suck at bowling. I had the lowest score both times - I said it was golf-style bowling so lowest scores wins. :rolleyes: Charlotte's Web was good - very funny, I slept thru part of it as I seem to do these days, but woke up to shed a few tears when the poor girl died. :( :o
Glad you ladies are having a good day.
Nanci - those are beautiful shots of the turtle (tortoise?). I've never looked at one close up before.
Trek - we saw the sun here today too, and I said the same thing...
*snort* That probably would have been better....Quote:
Originally Posted by mimitabby
I took the cookie dough logs, and rolled them in colored sprinkles. Then sliced 'em up. I've never used these logs things before, and didn't know how much they spread. I had cookie pans with giant melted together cookies on them. :rolleyes:
I think I have redeemed myself with Lemon Biscotti - made from scratch.
snap - please tell me you didn't use up all those cinnamon chips on those cookies...
well Kit and I went out riding in Yellow Springs on a paved trail. She dropped me like a bad habit... I loved it. Of course, she's still a PITA. :D
BMo3 and hubby showed us even more hospitality by ordering in Chinese food. Thanks J & S.
I think someone better check on BMO3-
Great turtle story!!
Nanci
Heavens no! Those are going to be used in Cinnamon Buttons.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xrayted
Snap- I've doctored cookies once...
X- Always the PITA, never the... uh. ... the um... ...
FTR, what happened was the family of la Chateau de BMo3 used their FF miles so suddenly Thursday morning, I'm asked "Can you come out here?" I say ..."someday...." X says "This weekend?"
..buth... buh? This weekend?!"
So yup, this weekend, courtesy of BMo3's fantastic family and FF miles, and X for giving me a ride from the airport and an incredible email detailing all the reasons why I so needed to come out this weekend. :D
I dropped X so hard. :D It was fantastic.
:D
Having a good day. D
"No shades required"
I'm so happy for you Kit - you deserve it. :)
*post deleted on account of group drunkenness*
:D
X has relinquished command of our group. We're in dire straits. No one will volunteer themselves for the position of blame. Huzzah! More cider and wine :D
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Wow, what a great story!
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Oh man. THose cookie pictures should not be viewed by anyone trying to lose weight. Period. No fair. White flag.
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Originally Posted by Kitsune06
that is SO unfair. What about those of us getting drunk by our own lonely selves??
Wow, so cool to see the pictures from Ohio. And Nanci, good luck with the ailing turtle.
I spend my day in the woods of western Mass. where the temps varies from high 30s to mid-40, though there was ice on the ponds. I carried 4 saws today, and happy to report that I used all of them. Well, the chainsaw I only carried 30 feet to cut a log right near the car - but I sharpened it yesterday so I had to use it. How nice to cut through a 10 inch log in 30 seconds instead of 15 minutes. But I gotta love my 42 inch 2-man crosscut saw which I don't mind carrying for miles and even cut a rotten 18-incher with. Then there was the beech with 3 large branches 8 feet above the trail that we worked on for an hour - kind of like a giant game of pick-up-sticks (if we cut this first, then we can cut that, and that's going to move this way when it breaks, and you don't want to stand there...) Lots of fun.
No fair! You can't delete your drunk posting, it is community amusement.
It is kind of like when my best friend drunk dials me and leaves me very funny voicemails. Somehow those always get forwarded back to her AND her DH. Then I play them on speaker for my mom (who loves her like another daughter).:p
Lovely day at the coast, stopped at a beach along the way then down to the little town of Pescadero. We stopped for lunch here for
artichoke heart soup, Anchor Steam Chirstmas Ale, the beeeeest bread:
www.duartestavern.com
stopped at a little gallery here:
www.madeinpescadero.com
Knott's making pasta puttanesca with Artichoke heart pasta sauce (also made in Pescadero) and TJs brown rice pasta (review to be posted in the " :eek: I can't eat wheat" thread in the future.) and we're sipping on "Two Buck Chuck."
I wish I remembered what we posted initially. ATM, we're working on a Yule log, tag-team beating a mixture of egg yolk and sugar/water. Imagine the plays on words coming out of thisl, then the laughter therein/thereof/ er. regarding it.
We had a great time at lunch, and I enjoyed seeing Trak and Spazz again, and meeting Knot and Teresa. I was, unfortunately, pretty distracted because just moments before everyone showed up I realized I had lost my wallet somewhere with 3 blocks of where we met in downtown Berkeley, with $100 cash, business and personal credit cards, my drivers license, etc. :eek: And just before the holidays. Oh, I was so mad! :mad: Spazzdog and Mel hunted around a bit while Trek and Knot were parking, but no luck. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Trek420
But, this morning I got a message at work that my wallet had been found 2 towns away in front of a yoga studio! Yay! :) Everything was present and accounted for (except the $100), and according to the CC companies, there have been no charges on any of my cards. Whew! I feel like I dodged a major PITA experience there. And now my friends and family do get Christmas presents after all!
ETA: Whoops - just noticed my business credit card is missing, but I put a hold on it yesterday, so there's only that one to deal with.
This is Knott, too lazy to change from Trek's login to my own:
BikerZ, we are both SOOOO glad your wallet was found!! Two towns away at a yoga studio? Namaste! And only the money was taken, well, money being taken does s*ck, but it could've been ugly. What a relief!
And yes, parking took us a while...;)
Happy 2nd night of Chanukah, y'all!
So you and Trek have been parking huh? :rolleyes:
This is Trek :)
Yes, holiday traffic is horrid here, horrid I tell you. It takes so long to park, we parked at Trader Joes, in Berkeley, at the beach, Pescadero, the dog park, BART station, at Half Moon Bay...;)
I have had the best weekend of my life! It is sad to think soon my dear friends will be heading home. I shall be cherishing every moment we have together tomorrow. I do not have the words to adequately express just how important this visit is to me.
X-thank you for ignoring me and coming out to see me, rather than going to the ocean. :)
Kit-I am so glad you were willing to fly out on such short notice. :)
Mush warning-
(((((((((X & Kit))))))))) I love you both, you have made my Christmas. I am a much better person for having both of you in my life.
Gotta love mush. :D
Glad you had a good weekend BMo3. :)
One more week of work for me then two weeks off - yahoo!!