Ho, hum, the monkeys were here yesterday for a while, but then they went away. For some reason, my monkeylady fed me again after my monkeyman had already given me my dinner. They took some food away with them, but didn’t bring any back when they returned hours later. I think they went somewhere and gobbled a lot of food and felt guilty and gave me extra. It must be some mysterious monkey holiday. Whatever. I’m going to take a nap. Via: Flickr Title: Riley Upside-Down Nap By: GinnyRED57Originally uploaded: 20 Nov ’05, 7.37pm PST Original description:
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How long will we be afflicted with the Weaver pox, oh Lord?
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Here’s our niece Melissa with David, just as we were getting ready to leave Aunt Norma’s house after Thanksgiving dinner. She’s doing really well in school and has made tremendous progress – her verbal skills have improved a HELL of a lot since last year. I’m very happy for her. This image was sent from Flickr as a blog entry, email or cameraphone image. Via: Flickr Title: Melissa By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 25 Nov ’05, 1.56am PST
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This frost pattern on the storm door at Norma’s looked like a mountain range as seen from space. A few minutes later, it had completely melted away because the inner door was left open. This image was sent from Flickr as a blog entry, email or cameraphone image. Via: Flickr Title: Frost By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 25 Nov ’05, 1.54am PST
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Just wanted to add that a comment at a recipe site mentioned adding a bit of molasses, so since I had some for the pecan pie, I added a tablespoon to the mixture to make these two. We’ll see how it turns out. I think we’re only taking 2 pies total, since there will be at least one or two other desserts. David is anxious that there will be pie left over to bring home. Oh, there may be, or I can just make more. This image was sent from Flickr as a blog entry, email or cameraphone image. Via:…
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Okay, my pecan pie is out of the oven and looks pretty good. I got the recipe from Elise’s Simply Recipes site, which I read regularly via Bloglines. Her recipese always look so good and they’re very easy to follow. I’m a nervous cook and always take forever fussing around getting ingredients set up in advance, then repeatedly check and re-check before I finally start combining. I will say that her recipe is a snap to put together, much easier than one I saw that involved cooking the sugars on the stove first until they got to the “crackle” stage…
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There are so many things in Dennis Byrne’s Chicago Tribune column today that I find objectionable, since I’m childfree. He apparently just became aware of the phenomenon of couples declining to reproduce and seems to be just horrified at the prospect. From the sound of it, he ran across some rants pages from the more extreme end of the childfree spectrum and he was shocked. Shocked! Yeah, Dennis, that’s the point: to shock people like you, and to reinforce the “us/them” construct between denizens of the various childfree sites. Another irksome thing: I’m pretty tired of hearing endless variations on…
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Please, please, please adopt a cat this week and give thanks for companionship, warmth, and a new friend who purrs: Chicago Tribune | Cats multiplying like rabbits David and I adopted Riley Cat Gibbs after a long spell of catlessness, and have had so much fun playing with him and getting to know his beguiling little ways. We’re so grateful we helped rescue him, and we’re grateful to the folks at PACT Humane Society who helped. There are several links to Chicago-area shelters in the Trib story – to that I’ll add a link to PACT Humane Society, Chicagoland’s largest…
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We were at Home Despot earlier mulling ways to make interior storm windows. As I originally thought it might be a variation of the magnetic kit thingy I found, we were at the Plexiglas section. There was an upper shelf that was empty, except for a long cardboard box that had been repurposed by the store with the message “Please place nothing on displays,” which was written in black marker. As you can see, it looks oh so slick and professional and workmanlike. Immediately below, someone got as philosophical as it gets in a suburban hardware store: “what about this…
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