That deserves every like it gets.
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That deserves every like it gets.
Be not afraid. Hissssssssss!
Baking is a therapeutic way to get through the slog of processing vegetables.
Sad but true. Though Udiâs frozen gf English muffins are vaguely reminiscent of what bread sort of tastes like.
We had a tiny yield of 9 oz of little grapes- their first year producing. So I made a dozen grape muffins, using a blueberry muffin recipe. They are excellent. đ
Of course itâs going to last, you self-absorbed morons.
Iâm doing an experiment. Converting the grocery money into cash and doing most my food shopping at farm markets and family-owned independent groceries. The rest at the bulk store. Will report back.
And its gentle companion question: how about a nap?
That was an entertaining thread. Thanks. Iâve been getting little twiggles of back-to-school memory, too. Mostly nice ones. New notebooks and binders. The smell of a fresh eraser. The new outfit.
Theyâre like a creeping rash. There are creams for that.
Just Us coffee in Wolfville, NS - excellent stuff. Fair trade.
Urgh.
In my day we would have called yon collie a teacherâs pet.
It *is* nice, isnât it? A park instead of a freeway.
Itâs very difficult for an educated person to pretend to write like a moron. They get quite complicated sentence structure correct while using moronic words and phrases. Trumpâs lunatic ramblings are unfeigned stupidity.
Zactly. Nil by mouth.
The Iâm sorry spoken as a question. Deadly.
Thatâs a dinner poem, in that picture.
O âZactly.
I would love to be at the beginning of Pratchettâs work again. Reading them for the first time. I could almost be sentimental about it.
And honestly wonât recover much. I think ârapid declineâ would be the chart note.
Mexican melons donât taste of oppression.
Being a good-natured person is not terribly fashionable at the moment.
âI donât care,â they say. âI Wanna.â
Neither me. I donât respond well to being driven.
Hah. But is good First Lady material, da?
And itâll be a slow process because buried bodies.
Sweden and Finland, too.
Hah. Loud bee just buzzed around here for a minute, like a teenager on a dirtbike.
âZactly.
What a pleasant and calm reaction to the early morning mower. Wishing them well, rather than raging. Although rage would be perfectly understandable.
I like your phrasing about âthe assignmentâ. Sometimes certain behaviour is assigned in order to keep everyone safe. âPlease keep calm and move in an orderly fashion to the lifeboats.â The âI Wannaâ crowd jump the queue, creating panic, or refuse to comply because they Donât Wanna. And drown.
Weâre watching a lot of Scandinavian noir programs these days. Learning little bits of Finnish, Danish and Swedish.
And for those English speakers trying to learn one.
And isnât that sad? Iâm re-reading Margaret Atwoodâs Oryx and Crake trilogy at the moment and it feels like tomorrow. Some of it today.
All titles soon to be banned. Read âem you still can.
Ooh, excellent. And if Zellers could return to all the places where Walmart came in and shut them down with their brutal loss-leader tactics, perhaps theyâd do well and weâd be able to boot Wally back to where it came from.
Yep. Processed the small corn crop yesterday because raccoons. Ten cups blanched and put in freezer. Kitchen looked like show-stopper bomb had gone off.
Put the red hat on him and the shirt with his name on it so he can remember who he is when they check him in.
Late summer rose after a rain, just now.
No need for a state funeral. A quick flush should do it. Or save the ashes for the re-planted Rose garden. Time will eventually wipe away the oily smear left on the American psyche.
These are lovely.
Talk of civil war hasnât been an exaggeration for weeks. Months, even. Take care of each other, you guys.
Utterly.
The First Coffee, snatched away, though. Vexing.
So, Texas planning to build a railroad, maybe? History. Repeating. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Thatâs a perfectly acceptable reason to have a little morning cry.
Oh, thatâs rotten. Our snipper has behaved so far. They might replace the battery if you kick up a fuss?
Me: coming downstairs in clerical gear. Lucy: side eye and flump on window bed. Me: Going to church. Iâll be back soon. Lucy: Donât even speak to me. Iâm a Canineite and your rituals disgust me.
We love Ryobi stuff. Interchangeable batteries, excellent power tools, mowers, etc. Sad about the pressure washers and people hurt by them.
This is just unbelievably petty behaviour on the part of the officials. Dear heavens.
This was in May. I should think that by now, their appropriately disastrous summer tourism season will have helped them to see that their âgoodwillâ visit was a waste of time and money.
So suave. So debonair. And such a silly little come-hither smirk.
Classy lady, your mum.
My mother used to make typo corrections in books Iâd lent her. Sheâs no longer living, but whenever I come across one, a little pencil scrawl in a margin, she reappears in all her magnificent pedantry.
A child who has discovered Brie cannot be expected to show restraint.
I think thatâs a splendid idea. It would give her a chance to get to know the people her husband is supposed to be representing. A chance to experience real life in a real place. Maybe she could try living on a social assistance budget in her farmhouse rental. Something to write about.
The Pretty Violent Fish would be an excellent band name.
Halsâs people always look like the people youâd love to have at your next party.
Their friends are divided about the procedure.
My mother used to say âDonât worry darling. Nobodyâs going to look at you.â And you know, unless you have a desire to be seen, itâs not that hard to vanish. Which can be useful.
North mountain Annapolis Valley. Thatâs water coming out of the sky. Glory be.
That's a pleasing story. đ
Using Bluesky to try and get dates is like going to the symphony for the peanuts.
Very soon, hopefully, we can call all our Murican neighbours âTrump survivorsâ.
Abusers are almost always people who were abused. Itâs an explanation, but never an excuse.
Thanks for making this a gift article. The fact that there is even a debate anywhere about the fact that slavery is devil is horrifying. You might just as well debate whether water is wet or fire is hot. Slave âownersâ have always been evil.
Years ago, doing kidsâ theatre in NYC, we got on an express train that took us into Harlem. A kind lady came over as we whizzed passed stop after stop and said âhoneys, you are on the wrong trainâ and guided us personally across to the other side and waited until we boarded to go back down.
Fond of it. O auto correct, you are a scourge.
Gave
I have it to my mum after I painted it. She always wanted me to tone down grandmaâs yellow dress but I never got around to it. A bit clunky, but Iâm fine of it. Because she was.
And en for no. Hiilya for quiet. And satanaan perkele for swearing. Good things to know. Though my spelling is likely all wrong.
I love the pace of it. And the fact that the characters donât change their outfits every five minutes. Not to mention the conversational Finnish. đ
I like to get the general news oâ the day on BBC and CBC and then see what people have to say about it. Sometimes (often) Bluesky is far more up to the minute.
Watching Deadwood these days. Finnish. Scandy Noirs are splendid. But very hurdy hur.
That cat is badass.
Yes, thatâs it. Yum.
Yes indeed. đł
Everybodyâs welcome. đ
Thanks for that. Forwarded to my desktop. đ
Time to turn those paycheques into folding money.
Well really, it would be best if Vermont just quit being part of Murica, and became a province of Canada.
Wot tizzit?
I think that was beautifully said. Spoken by a player who is actually controlling the game quite handily.
Thanks for a proper belly laugh. My belly would like more of this.
I love the smell of a philosopher in the morning.
Grin.
Iâve been trying to find the appropriate name for the country south of us. I mean, to differentiate the continent from the incontinent. I think Murica works best.
The fact that this abuse material is all over the internet, thatâs a trigger for lots of people who have lived it. But Iâd rather see it out there than locked away. Thanks for your kindness.
So, you have secret police everywhere. O please revolt.
Thanks. He went to jail, eventually. Which is what I wish for the one in the White House. Itâd be a relief for everyone.
The Oval Office, these days, reminds me of the sleazy basement bar that my friend Allisonâs dad had in the 70s. He was a diddler, too. As Alison knew and I found out.
Out of touch much, pastor?
đ”Thereâs a bathroom on the rightâŠđ”
I suspect that Full Gilead is not that far away, in some states, anyway.
Theng-kew. đ
Dachshund.
Full Gilead. Nice one.
Wow. This is a fascinating and expertly written article. And has some hope in it, at the end. Well worth the read. Thanks.
