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[Lise]

Oh Grog- you have to start at the beginning and catch up!! But mostly we talk about birds, wine and Lise's dates.

Nanci

Don't forget chocolate! We also talk about chocolate!

Can't believe you never saw us goofing off over here, Grog! C'mon in. You do have to start at the beginning, though. Only 1,035 posts to plow through. You can skip the ones about wine, as I do. Unless you can drink wine like a normal person, in which case, you might really learn something!

I love the word "cloaca". At the conference in Utah, I picked up a chicken & hen measuring tape. For measuring the pregnant ladies' bellies and making their bigger kids laugh. You pull out the tape by pulling the egg away from the chicken. Return it to the cloaca by pushing a button on its belly. (You know I'm tired from being up at 4, riding downtown, donating blood, riding home...when I can't remember if that's the "ITS" that gets an apostrophe or no. I'm living on the edge here.

Yeah, Nanci, that "on the bike on" sentence got me to reread it aloud a couple of times!

Poor **** Cheney. Never to see his true name on the TE board.

Fishjr! TOO CUTE! Thanks for the picture!

[Grog]

Don't forget chocolate! We also talk about chocolate!

Can't believe you never saw us goofing off over here, Grog! C'mon in. You do have to start at the beginning, though. Only 1,035 posts to plow through. You can skip the ones about wine, as I do. Unless you can drink wine like a normal person, in which case, you might really learn something!

I love wine and chocolate and procrastinating.

I definitely shouldn't have opened this Pandora thread!!

[SadieKate]

At the conference in Utah, I picked up a chicken & hen measuring tape. For measuring the pregnant ladies' bellies and making their bigger kids laugh. You pull out the tape by pulling the egg away from the chicken. Return it to the cloaca by pushing a button on its belly.

Me, too! I also have the cow tape where you pull its tail. Too bad it doesn't moo at the same time.

I also have a tiny fly reel tape from Orvis. I guess this means I have a collection of measuring tapes.

[Lise]

Me, too! I also have the cow tape where you pull its tail. Too bad it doesn't moo at the same time.

I also have a tiny fly reel tape from Orvis. I guess this means I have a collection of measuring tapes.

No way! I did not see the cow one! Now I covet it! Heck, SK, you're well on your way to being a midwife!

Has anybody else noticed how SK's "Lizard Time" lizard seems to be doing the "Hammer Time" dance, as first danced by MC Hammer? Hmmmmm?

Grog, if you like procrastinating, you've found your home right here.

[SadieKate]

The Cow
http://www.cottonpatchfabrics.com/cg...es=0&lastmenu=

The Doggie and his bone
http://www.cottonpatchfabrics.com/cg...es=0&lastmenu=

Pinocchio
http://www.cottonpatchfabrics.com/cg...es=0&lastmenu=

The Chicken
http://www.cottonpatchfabrics.com/cg...les=0&lastmenu

I think I'll stick my knitting.

BTW, how many of you know the measurement of your handspan? 8". Comes in very handy. This was probably on V's silly measurement thread.

[maillotpois]

Oh my - I go upstairs to have lunch with a friend and I come back to another page and a half - what have I missed!! DH had to call me because I was "away" for so long on the instant messenger that he started to worry that I'd expired. THis won't last.

Nanci I can't wait to check out that web site!!

Chocolate! DH brought me a dark chocolate Peets/Scharffenberger bar to the hospital. I only at one square yesterday - Maybe it is time for #2.

Wine - I now have conflicting reports as to whether I should drink while on anticoagulants. Grr. I think 1 - 2 glasses of wine probably are okay but that goes on the list of things to talk to the doctor about next week.

[maillotpois]

I still have about an hour...

MP - when do you go back to work? How are you feeling, anyway?

Okay - but I took the dog in to the doggy bathhouse and then went to whole foods to get some sparkling water and became aware that I had chest pains. SO I decided maybe I should actually DO the bed rest thing and went home and asked my mother in law to pick up the dog from the bath place.

Back to work next week. Theoretically I could be working right now but this is much more fun.

[SadieKate]

Chocolate! DH brought me a dark chocolate Peets/Scharffenberger bar to the hospital. I only at one square yesterday - Maybe it is time for #2.

I gotta try a Freddo.

Hmm, maybe on off bike field trip to the Scharffen Berger factory? I keep trying to recruit people but it never seems to happen. When did the doctor think you'd be back on your feet regularly?

[maillotpois]

Well, I think my doctor would let me go to Scarffenberger even if I was supposed to still be on bed rest.

Funny "on your feet" story: right after I was admitted to the hospital they wanted me to go down for an echocardiogram, and so I march out past the attendant who was going to take me, right past the gurney in the hall - and I look back, like "What? You expect me to lie down for this?" Apparently they didn't so much want me running up and down the halls of the hospital. What-ever.

[DrBee]

I mean really! What were they thinking??? Did you tell them that you've ridden your bike a gazillion miles and done an altitude camp with PE. Surely a little stroll down the hall wouldn't hurt you, right

SK - love the new avatar (I've been meaning to tell you that) and the line. I'm still on my search for a new avatar.

[maillotpois]

That's what I figured, fish. Plus, before I was "summoned" to the CT scan, I'd driven 2 hours to a court hearing in San Jose where I had to park 3 blocks away and walk (no biggie) to court to argue my motion, and then drove back to the office. Like, what's the big deal??

[Nanci]

Geez, if you'd lived with it for three weeks, what's another couple block's walk?

I am making farfale or something, with parmesan and some other hard sharp cheese and capers for my pre-ride breakfast on Saturday.

Plus I am bringing Mojo bars and extra sharp "reserve" cheddar, and Jelly Belly Sport Beans, though not nearly enough, and Endurance Gatorade, and strawberry milk for on the bike.

You don't want to know what I'm bringing for on the drive down...

Every time I reboot, or re-open Firefox, I get to listen to Randall what's his name from Bonny Doone.

MP, I think it might be dangerous to suddenly stop drinking wine.

Lise, did you go make the lady on m-w say "cloaca" yet? We have a higher-than-normal density of cloacas in my household. I am not one of them.

I actually x-rayed a kid with a cloaca a few weeks ago...

I wish TE sold a wider variety of Terry clothing.

I am very curious about their newest shorts.

Not that I don't love the Sugoi RS Flexes.

I am anxious to see how they do on their first big ride Saturday, though.

Ok, have to go drain pasta.

I am kicked out of the computer room, because BF has his friend over, doing music stuff.

[maillotpois]

Geez, if you'd lived with it for three weeks, what's another couple block's walk?

This is my point!!

MP, I think it might be dangerous to suddenly stop drinking wine.

No kidding!! And I got the lady to say cloaca. I did not know what that was before. I feel so much smarter now!!

[Nanci]

Oooh, my farfalle turned out well. I put butter in it, and the cheese, and capers, and sun-dried tomatoes. Hope it's good cold!

[Nanci]

http://asap.ap.org/stories/693235.s

This is a podcast of my friend Chase in a 100 mile running race. Listen to him!

Nanci