Since I was sick week before last, we canceled the regular twice-monthly housecleaning service and deferred it to this Wednesday. Which means that in addition to more than the usual amount of clutter, there was a lot of stuff on the carpet and dirt in the front hall and a huge number of dustbunny-type junk in the upstairs bedroom. It takes a while for my completely dormant housekeeping skilz to stir themselves, but today I’d finally had enough of looking at dusty margins and clumps of cat hair on the carpet, so I got out the vacuum cleaner. Fairly quickly,…
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Okay, it’s Saturday, it’s too cold to go outside for more than a brief, well-layered walk, and so therefore I’ve been making some modifications to the CSS file for the blog. There were a couple of issues that were bothering me with this otherwise excellent theme: Virtual Assistance For Business : Free Premium WordPress blog theme “Talian†released. An elegant theme that is very much close to my heart. The theme designer hasn’t responded to comments requesting fixes or information for several months. It’s likely that he’s not that interested in supporting his free themes, just in designing them. Which…
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One of my Flickr photos got selected for the current Schmap online guide – they use photos to illustrate points of interest in their web-based city travel guides. It just goes to show you that it’s a good idea to tag your photos effectively on Flickr, as this is the second time something like this has happened. The other one requires me to fill out some kind of form, need to get on that this weekend. I might actually get a small fee for use of another of my photos. Salt Lake City – Theme Bars The decor is as…
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We had a trickle of water coming in the basement on Sunday during a thaw with plenty of rain, and since then it’s been really cold, so everything froze up again. Even the streets – where on Sunday there were running streams of water, trying to find their way to the storm drains (which were mostly blocked by snow and ice dams left by the village plows) we now have sheets of hard frozen ice. The bottoms of everyone’s driveways are also either ice dams or sheets of smooth, glassy ice, and in some suburbs, there’s so much ice left…
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If you agree he’s an embarassment, there’s an online initiative for you: We don’t support Chris Buttars – Signatures
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Quake hits NE Nevada, has buildings swaying in downtown Salt Lake City – Salt Lake Tribune There was an earthquake in Nevada that shook buildings – hard – in Salt Lake, more than 200 miles away. I’m not too worried about family members there, but I expect they’ll have some good ‘all shook up’ stories for me later.
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My husband David will be so disappointed to hear this: ‘Fraudulent’ British celebrity chef faces sack from US TV show after claiming he made Diana’s wedding cake | the Daily Mail A celebrity British chef who has his own TV show in America faces the sack after he was unmasked as a fraud. Robert Irvine claimed he had helped make the wedding cake for the marriage of Prince Charles and Diana. And in a bid to impress Americans the former royal chef said he was knighted by the Queen – and even boasted that he had been given a castle…
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Chicken Piccata Recipe | Simply Recipes Ingredients: all we need are capers! 2-4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves (1 1/2 pound total) 1/3 cup flour 2 Tbsp grated Parmesan cheese Salt and pepper 4 Tbsp butter 4 Tbsp olive oil 3 Tbsp lemon juice 1/2 cup chicken stock or dry white wine 1/4 c. brined1/8 c. capers in balsamic vinegar 1/4 cup fresh chopped parsley When I got to the store, all they had were capers in either plain vinegar, or balsamic, not brined (unless that’s the same thing… ). The recipe calls for either butterflying thick chicken breasts, or…
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Salt Lake Tribune – Cannon in line for possible promotion WASHINGTON – Republicans will have a difficult time reclaiming the House in November’s elections with a slew of incumbents deciding to retire, resign or run for higher office. Huh? Why did they change the headline? Why is this a duplicate story? I blogged it yesterday. Salt Lake Tribune – Cannon growing old in D.C. WASHINGTON – Republicans will have a difficult time reclaiming the House in November’s elections with a slew of incumbents deciding to retire, resign or run for higher office. Here’s something else that caught my eye –…
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Mike Huckabee seems like a great guy; funny, talented, self-deprecating, and refreshingly moderate in some of his actions as governor of Arkansas. It’s easy to discount his “former Baptist minister” label, but some of his strongest supporters hold some mighty scary views. Mike Huckabee’s radical religious friends | Salon News