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20647. arkymalarky - 12/2/2006 9:33:39 PM Thanks Wabbit!! I'll spread that around. 20648. Ms. No - 12/2/2006 9:37:59 PM Wiz,
Ah, food wars! Glo is a superb cook. She can make anything from whatever happens to be on hand. My only quibble is that her idea of holiday food and my idea of holiday food diverges a little bit. I think it's partly generational.
Crap, company, gotta go! 20649. judithathome - 12/3/2006 1:29:25 AM Decorated the porch today....plopped half a dozen of my fake poinsettias down on the antique child's sled and stacked some tins together and tied them up with gaudy ribbon in a tower and put them on the whiskey barrel with another pot of fake poinsettias and tomorrow, if we can find it, will hang/drape the fake garland across the windows and accent it with fake red velvet bows.
Looks very festive out there.
We'll drag out the fake tree and bedeck it with 300 REAL vintage chandelier crystals and silver balls and plastic "crystal" icicles and eighty feet of garland made of fake silver beads...we're nothing if not authentic!
20650. arkymalarky - 12/3/2006 3:00:21 AM Sounds lovely to me!
We're not doing the tree this year, but Mose and her new guy went out and cut one for her place the other day. 20651. Magoseph - 12/3/2006 3:09:24 AM Thanks, Wonk, for the info--I have some exercises to do too and I have started. Did you get a lot of snow? Went to town this morning around ten and the snowplows were all over the place. Traffic was slow. This is the first blizzard we had since 1999.
20652. wonkers2 - 12/3/2006 4:54:15 AM You're welcome. Good luck with your back. We got cold rain but no snow. 20653. Ms. No - 12/3/2006 9:10:26 AM Judith,
That sounds lovely! The most I'll probably do is put up some lights and get some greenery for the house --- it smells so wonderful.
20654. judithathome - 12/3/2006 4:36:25 PM We have to use fake because Keoni is allergic to pine, fir, cedar...all those wonderful things that smell so good this time of year. 20655. Magoseph - 12/3/2006 5:08:45 PM Hahaha, this is funny to me—the map I put in post #26635 only shows the top part of the state. When I was trying to post it, the map must have changed to north-west and I didn’t even notice it.
Anyway, Ms. No, we had a hell of a blizzard around here and a size queen-plus I was. Sorry for not answering your post sooner--actually, I did, but it was tasteless, not mean at all, but I didn't want to embarrass myself.
20656. Ms. No - 12/3/2006 8:44:30 PM No worries, I was being somewhat tasteless myself, but all in good fun. ;->
We don't get snow here -- or only once about every 80 years or something. It's not that cold in the daytime but I'll be glad when they get the heat going. It's in the low 30's at night and the only really warm place to be is in bed or standing next to the oven. 20657. alistairConnor - 12/3/2006 11:44:21 PM Still unseasonally warm here. Just as well, because I have a dysfunctional relationship with firewood.
I've been meaning to buy some since, well, last winter. By the time I got around to prospecting a couple of months ago, it was hard to find any that was reasonably priced and deliverable to the back o' beyond where I live. Finally got it delivered yesterday, 15 cubic metres (about 10 tons), and...
it's green. Less than a year old, and unburnable.
Still had to put it away -- it was dumped in front of the vehicle access -- so I spent all day doing that, making neat stacks by the hedge, for next year. Found a guy who lives only a few miles away, he has large quantities of firewood, cheaper than the other stuff and old enough to burn... Really nice guy too. A peasant farmer, who, in his late forties, decided to become an actor. It's what he always really wanted to do. He was going to tow a load of wood around this afternoon, but one of the headlights on his tractor is broken so it'll wait till next weekend. That's ok, now I feel secure about my heating needs. 20658. alistairConnor - 12/3/2006 11:45:31 PM I also bought my snow tyres yesterday, so it can let rip now. I hope it does, me and the girls want to go skiing after Christmas. 20659. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 12/4/2006 12:18:57 AM Nice story, Alistair–I can relate–and as Byron said . . .
"When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning -- how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse. 20660. Magoseph - 12/5/2006 12:23:29 AM Ali, check out Mote Fiction. Great read! 20661. judithathome - 12/5/2006 12:59:08 AM A cannibal was walking through the jungle and came upon a restaurant opened by a fellow cannibal.
Feeling hungry, he sat down and looked over the menu ...
Broiled Missionary: $10.00
Fried Explorer: $15.00
Baked Politician: $100.00.
The cannibal called the waiter over and asked, "Why such a price difference for the politician?"
The cook replied, "Have you ever tried to clean one?" 20662. Macnas - 12/5/2006 10:50:13 AM Howdy do all.
Begob, only 20 days 'till Christmas and not a child in the house washed! 20663. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 12/5/2006 5:56:22 PM I'm going to my local mall to try this . . .
20664. Ms. No - 12/5/2006 6:33:52 PM Hiya Mac!
Can't you just send them out in the yard and let them run around while you spray 'em with a hose? 20665. Macnas - 12/5/2006 6:42:40 PM Social services say no. 20666. robertjayb - 12/7/2006 5:37:41 PM Note this day that lives in infamy.
Consider the wisdom of preemptive war.
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