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3491. wonkers2 - 1/11/2006 4:40:55 PM Does anyone think we could use a humour thread? 3492. alistairconnor - 1/11/2006 4:59:32 PM Nah that would imply that the other threads are not funny.
Carry on. 3493. alistairconnor - 1/11/2006 6:43:44 PM Tful, I thought I recalled a discussion in which you said you had reacted against your parents' hippie tendencies. I must be thinking of someone else. 3494. thoughtful - 1/11/2006 8:52:54 PM No, only thing I can think of is i remember mentioning having been raised on organic home-grown vegetables which may have had a 'commune' note to it. But it was only that my Polish father who loved gardening was far too cheap to waste money on things like fertilizer and pesticides, when you can get manure for free down the street and make your own noxious teas to spray on plants. 3495. judithathome - 1/15/2006 5:38:37 AM Hey, we have a patio...several friends came over today and helped Keoni install these stones and sand and grout and we have a patio! It's beautiful..... 3496. thoughtful - 1/16/2006 7:14:11 PM nice treat this weekend of catching a sharp-shinned hawk in the maple by our bedroom window. Magnificent bird. 3497. thoughtful - 1/17/2006 7:59:40 PM looked a lot like this one
I took a shot but it didn't come out clearly and by the time I moved to another room to get closer, he'd moved. 3498. wonkers2 - 1/17/2006 8:53:20 PM I envy you. In our suburban neighborhood we don't get any hawks or owls or other big birds except for Canadian geese and an occasional crow. Our bird feeders do attract a varienty of small and quite a few mourning doves. 3499. thoughtful - 1/17/2006 9:31:25 PM Keep the feeders going...they may attract bigger birds like the hawk or as I saw last winter, a kestrel...hungry and looking for little ones to eat. Of course it's amazing how when one of them is in the area, the birds vamoose. One little sparrow didn't get out in time and managed to hide among bushes, frozen stiff. Fortunately, (for the sparrow that is) the kestrel never saw him.
 3500. concerned - 1/18/2006 1:09:20 AM Ever have a hawk on the ground threaten you in your own front yard? I have. 3501. Ulgine Barrows - 1/18/2006 5:58:47 AM Cool birds, some cardinals have been coming around for the food we put out. 3502. Macnas - 1/18/2006 12:32:56 PM Hawks abound here, can't look to the skies without spotting one. 3503. judithathome - 1/18/2006 2:54:08 PM Troubles with the mother-in-law, Mac? ;-) 3504. judithathome - 1/18/2006 2:55:07 PM Oooops, wrong thread! 3505. thoughtful - 1/18/2006 11:31:54 PM So which should it be moties to go with my roast pork dinner...apple chutney or apple cranberry chutney? Decisions...decisions.
All my struggle over what to make for dessert and one of the guests has offered to bring dessert so I'm off the hook in that regard....though I had decided on spiced fruit compote served over angel food cake with a dollop of whipped cream...reasonably healthy and light. We'll see what the lady brings though. Nice surprise for me! 3506. Magoseph - 1/18/2006 11:34:19 PM Ill take both. 3507. thoughtful - 1/19/2006 4:16:30 PM I was going to make the chutney last night as it tastes better after it sits for a few days, but I was foiled by the power outage brought to us by heavy winds and rain yesterday.
No power, no cook.
Instead, ate cheese, crackers, wine and salad by lantern light and candle. 3508. alistairconnor - 1/19/2006 7:21:53 PM You don't have a gas cooker? How primitive. However do you manage?
Yeah I suppose you've got classy glass hallucinogen burners. 3509. thoughtful - 1/19/2006 8:53:59 PM No, in this house we have an old-fashioned electric range. We have a 4 kw generator and we have a gas grill which is fine in the summer, but not in the winter. We have a wood stove which, when we get it cranking can boil water and lots more, but last night we didn't have the energy to make the fire. 3510. arkymalarky - 1/20/2006 2:08:24 AM I have a gas stove, but the oven will not work if the electricity is out. You can light the stovetop burners, but not the oven.
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