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23442. wonkers2 - 1/21/2008 9:15:58 PM Time for one of the least enjoyable procedures--a colonoscopy? 23443. webfeet - 1/22/2008 2:06:16 AM One word, Judith: yogurt. And maybe garlic if its healing powers aren't too odious for your husband, or for you.
And maybe Calvados, come to think of it. Peel and core two apples, put a dollop of butter and light brown sugar in the cavity and splash with calvados and a little lemon juice. Then bake for 50 min at 350. Remove the apples, let them sit for a bit, and pour the juices into a saucepan. Add some cream, let bubble then pour over the apples. That should cure him.
23444. arkymalarky - 1/22/2008 4:52:26 AM Judith? Y'all okay? 23445. arkymalarky - 1/22/2008 5:45:59 AM I'm out for the evening, but I hope Keoni's okay. I emailed Judith too and haven't heard anything back. 23446. judithathome - 1/22/2008 9:10:19 AM Webs, we've been eating yogurt (with active cukltures) since Christmas...the good sort, not the flavored ones that taste like a dessert.
Keoni went to the doc today and learned his malady was caused by an mild infection run wild due to a weakened-by-the-holiday-crud immune system. He should be over this latest thing by the weekend with the help of the antibiotics he was given in the ER visit. 23447. judithathome - 1/22/2008 9:11:56 AM Arky, I wrote you back...did you not receive it? 23448. arkymalarky - 1/23/2008 5:02:43 AM I got it today, but I was at work all day and had to work a ballgame tonight. 23449. wonkers2 - 1/23/2008 5:44:35 AM That's good news, Judith. 23450. judithathome - 1/23/2008 4:10:01 PM We had brown outs yesterday, just as we do in the summer when it hits 105 and everyone hogs the air conditioning...electricity went out three times. And of course, this happens just as the rates go up and we're all getting screwed over by what they charge.
I guess people never heard of putting on sweaters. Of course, the reason so many people have to crank up the thermostat on a day the temps dip below freezing is due to so many living in houses with "great rooms" that have two stories of wasted space between the floors and ceilings...yeah, they look great and if you could figure out a way to teleport up to that stunning cathedral ceiling, you'd be toasty as hell. As it is, you're stuck on the floor freezing your kiester off... 23451. Magoseph - 1/23/2008 9:15:04 PM It's snowing now--again. It's by far the worse winter since I moved back up here twelve years ago. My bill for plowing is getting bigger every couple of days.
Right now, we have Hi: 16° and tonight Lo: -4°. It's a trial to go to town, shop for food and pick up the mail. Flexy can't go out for his daily walk in this type of weather--we both are afraid that he'd get a chill. He sits on the porch in plain light right now getting his vitamin D, screaming at one of his pals who doesn't seem to understand today's Market.
I'm so glad that finance and politic entertain him--he's not much for watching Grey's Anatomy reruns and old movies and since he doesn't want to stay alone, I'm now reading The Ambassador--again.
23452. wonkers2 - 1/24/2008 2:37:03 AM It's miserable here too, Mago. Almost enough to shake my belief in global warming. Please stop sending that bad weather aross Lake Michigan! 23453. arkymalarky - 1/24/2008 3:25:15 AM Remember, it's about weather extremes. When we went to CO last summer, they'd had the worst winter in their memory, and they've all lived up their 20-50 years. 23454. Magoseph - 1/24/2008 1:24:47 PM I'm reading The Ambassadors from Henry James, just in case you wondered which book I was talking about above. 23455. Magoseph - 1/24/2008 1:39:22 PM Wonks, it'll be still cold today: Hi: 8° Lo: 4°, but Friday, Saturday, and Monday will be much better, in the thirties. 23456. judithathome - 1/24/2008 4:54:54 PM We're in the 30s during the day here...which is extreme for Texas. 23457. arkymalarky - 1/25/2008 3:26:00 PM We just had school cancelled. Woke up to sleet. Bob had to go, which makes me mad. I wanted him to stay home, but he said the interstate is clear (that's most of his commute, but I commute on country roads). 23458. alistairconnor - 1/25/2008 4:37:33 PM You cancel school for sleet?
Wimps. 23459. arkymalarky - 1/25/2008 4:57:05 PM Yeah, yeah. We're used to hearing that from big, bad hard winter people. With it below freezing but not far below, it's slicker than owlshit on the roads. Freezing rain and ice is the worst. On the rare occasions that it really snows, it's actually easier to get around--though we still close schools because we don't have the road equipment to clear rural roads for the school buses. 23460. wonkers2 - 1/25/2008 6:03:04 PM Goose shit is slicker'n owl shit. We have to put up with it December through March! 23461. arkymalarky - 1/25/2008 6:31:25 PM It's not the same when you have lots of hard-frozen stuff, especially snow. The most fun I had being out was when it snowed over a foot here. Schools were closed because rural roads were snowed over, but we could drive, the electricity never went out, and we had a blast. The ice storm that left us almost two weeks without electricity was another story--trees snapped everywhere and an undrivable sheet of ice everywhere. The only vehicles that could get over it were utility vehicles--Hummers were pulling SUVs out from ditches right and left.
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