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CLXXXV Icy Blasts and Floods

10 years ago

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Boots and Bareback - Myla Jackson

No Shoes No Shirt No Problem - Jeff Foxworthy

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yoyobon_gw
10 years ago
AISLE BE DAMNED: Swaying Hips, Praying Lips and Flying Tips by Rishi Piparaiya
woodnymph2_gw
10 years ago
Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert

We in SC are supposed to get 3 inches of snow tomorrow and ice, as well!
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Hope those who live where winter is usually mild stay warm. I remember it snowed one year when we lived in southern Germany. I don't think some people had seen that too often, or maybe not at all, and were out driving their cars with smooth tires and pulling their kids on sleighs behind! Cars were slipping all over! Not a very safe practice and I hoped no one got hurt but they were having the time of their lives! We had the really cold front but now it's 'balmier' - going up to 0C (32F) for tomorrow's high but down to -8C (17F) at night. I don't really notice how cold it is unless the wood stove doesn't keep up and the furnace kicks in. Always comfy indoors, enough food supplies for probably a good week, a nice neighbor plows our private road and our long driveway, and with 4 wheel drive and good winter tires I'm prepared. Tolerate having to wear boots for months which is difficult for me as I prefer bare feet! At least I can have bare feet in the house. Last night when we drove home from the city and it was just starting to snow again there were 3 big trucks with snow blades and sand/salt loads waiting til the snow got deeper before they headed out. Most people are ready for it so it's not so bad. LL my roses are wearing their fencing rings filled with peat moss and a layer of snow. I'll pile more snow on them over the winter. I'm hoping for more snow than we had last year as the ground was almost bare in January and I was putting leaves I'd saved for compost on some plants. Hope the roses make it but if not I'll have to get even hardier ones cause I'm not doing more to protect them.
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Winter Poem to PNW'ners plastered with weather !!
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I probably shouldn't post this again but.... Once upon a morning dreary, while I pondered weak and weary Over many a cold and omnous forecast in the newspapor, Suddenly, there came a dropping, as of rain so gently plopping, Softly falling, dripping, sopping, over heath and hill and moor. Tis not snow, at least, I muttered, not een looking out the door - Merely rain, and nothing more. Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak November And the deer had just dismembered all my plants (damned herbivores). Eagerly I wished the summer; winter, it is such a bummer Nary does one see a hummer* in the garden anymore. Though Grevillea victoriae blooms brightly as before, Rain, it keeps them all indoor. Presently my heart grew stronger, for the sound of rain no longer dripped and dropped and plipped and plopped as so incessantly before. Well! said I, A welcome ending to the rain so unrelenting! Now, before the chance eludes me, I had better go outdoors. For so many tasks awaited, miscellaneous lame chores - So I opened wide the door. Deep into that daylight glaring, long I stood there cursing, swearing, For now from the sky was falling snow, and not rain as before; Making not a sound they drifted, subtle, soft, by wind uplifted Flakes of whiteness now alighting fore the threshold of my door. Silence, it deceived me sorely; winter with its icy hoar Settled now its frigid score. Back into the kitchen breezing, closing door to keep from freezing, From the cold air briefly wheezing, pitching out the newspapor, For its forecast had deceived me, and the snow that fell now grieved me, Now I sat before the TV to discern what was in store. Now, said I, to get the latest bout this blizzard that doth roar, TWC** will know for sure.' But I soon became disgusted, finding they could not be trusted, For their forecast still suggested rain was all twould be in store. Surely, said I, Any schmo can look outside and see the snow That falls upon my garden so, though TWC ignore. So I cast aside the rèmote, snowy blast preparing for, Stepped once more outside the door. Now I knew the task before me, to protect these plants so warmly Lest they freeze and die, as in the frigid wintertimes of yore. So I labored, although vainly, for the snow had now quite plainly Covered stem and leaf completely, blanketing the garden oer. Yet into my heated greenhouse yet untouchèd by the hoar I hauled many plants, though sore. But the nighttime, eer foreboding, now upon me came in closing, Ere I knew it all was dark, and on the snow fell as before. And the wind now came up blowing, further worsening the snowing, While the temperture was lowring, so I had to get indoor, Lest the stinging crystals biting freeze my body to the core, So at last I went indoor. Now the garden, it lies frozen; Im regretting I had chosen Many plants not suited to this climate far from milder shore. And the memry of my losses gnaws upon me, while I tosses Fragments of the plants that froze upon the blazing heap that roars, Yes, a bonfire to dispose of all the plants that grew before - Now quite dead, forevermore. *Anna's hummingbird **The Weather Channel
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I don't get the washlet
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I came across this thread while searching the bathroom forum for installing sinks! Very interesting thread, I just have to add my two cents. I grew up in the Philippines (in the 60's) and our shared bathroom had a toilet that was retrofitted with a small tube that sprayed water upward--specifically pointing in the right direction (after #2), if you know what I mean. It was effective for getting the bottom clean, and not wasting a lot of TP. Moving to a new house in the late 70's, we were able to install bidets in some bathrooms. We favored the fountain sprays as opposed to the one which had a faucet. We had always used the bidet by sitting on it the same way you would a toilet. It surprised me years later to find out that Europeans use it by straddling the bidet, facing the bidet controls. Having to transfer from toilet to bidet was a hassle, but having a bidet had become a necessity since we got so used to a water stream in "that area". Fast forward to the 2000's. Most homes I know don't even bother with the bidet anymore because what has become very popular here is a "bidet hand spray". It's like a kitchen spray that is connected to the side of your toilet, to use whenever you felt like an extra blast of water would be useful. A bunch of rolled face (should I say "bum") towels sits next to a bench beside my toilet. The hand spray is easily retrofitted to an existing toilet by using a valve that has two outlets--one for the toilet and one for the spray. With the new homes that use "gray water" for flushing toilets, many have just plumbed in another cold water line where the hand bidet would be connected. Now even the guest and powder rooms usually have this feature since it's so inexpensive to add. A handspray is cheap--from $8 to $30 depending on brand and material (plastic, chrome-plated brass, etc). The only downside we've experienced is if the water pressure is too strong, and the valve is not shut off before leaving the house for vacation, the hose can break and flood your bathroom. That would do a lot of damage to wooden floors and sheet rock. But if you know this, and keep the pressure at medium at all times, shut valve off in long absences, it should be fine. Bidet sales have almost vanished here, even in the most high end homes, giving way to these hand sprays. I was trying to put in a picture but I don't know how to, so just google "bidet hand spray" and you'll see what they look like. I'm not sure if they carry bidet hand showers now in Lowe's of HD--but I've actually sent these over (together with the retrofit valves) to some cousins in the States.
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Special thoughts please-
Q
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DD just called me, and is very nervous, although her house is on the edge of the flood plain, and hopefully will be OK. But she has kitty litter in the car, harnesses and carrier for the cats, everything off the floor in the basement. The heavy snows didn't help matters any out there....just made the sandbagging harder to do. I'm so impressed with the young people doing such a great job.
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yoyobon_gw
10 years ago
HOLY GUACAMOLE by Dan Harmer

(woodnymph.....eeks. That's nothing for us in NYstate but pretty serious in SC ...stay off the roads !)
phyllis__mn
10 years ago
The Dud Avocado........Elaine Dundy
leel
10 years ago
Mexican Cookery by Barbara Joan Hansen
veer
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10 years ago
We Wanted it Hot - E & A Heimann
kathy_t
10 years ago
The Whole Enchilada - Diane Mott Davidson
leel
10 years ago
Why some like it hot : food, genes, and cultural diversity Gary-- Paul Nabhan
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10 years ago
The Curry Club - Pat Chapman
yoyobon_gw
10 years ago
IT'S NOT INDIGESTION, I'LL EAT WHAT I LIKE (Napoleon's Spanish Ulcer) by Geoffrey Watson
leel
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Bites Scratches and Stings: A Thousand Days in the African Bush - Julian Hamer
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The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody....Will Cuppy

(I'm just reading this now.....a Christmas gift and greatly appreciated)
yoyobon_gw
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10 years ago
THE WINKY CHERRY SYSTEM OF TEACHING YOUNG CHILDREN TO SEW by Winky Cherry

( are there "old" children ????)

(( Winky Cherry?? egads ))
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10 years ago
American women of nursing-- Edna Yost
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10 years ago
Edith Cavell: Nurse Martyr Heroine - Diana Southam

(Cavell was shot by a German firing squad in 1915 for aiding Allied soldiers)
woodnymph2_gw
10 years ago
Dear & Glorious Physician - Taylor Caldwell

We are currently thawing out from our deep freeze here in SC.
phyllis__mn
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10 years ago
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10 years ago
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10 years ago
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woodnymph2_gw
10 years ago
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yoyobon_gw
10 years ago
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leel
10 years ago
Mollie Katzen's sunlight cafe-- Mollie Katzen
yoyobon_gw
10 years ago
THIS MOOSE BELONGS TO ME by Oliver Jeffers

( a nod to her first restaurant the Moosewood in Ithaca NY....loved going there when it first opened many years ago. It was the first really great vegetarian, homemade food, home baked breads kind of place to lunch. Sadly it's become very commercialized now....and lost it's quaintness)
veer
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10 years ago
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carolyn_ky
10 years ago
Bambi, Felix Salten.
yoyobon_gw
10 years ago
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sheriz6
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10 years ago
Hans Brinker; or, The silver skates --Dodge, Mary Mapes
veer
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10 years ago
The Silver Sword - Ian Serraillier
sheriz6
10 years ago
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yoyobon_gw
10 years ago
THE UNICORN TAPESTRIES by Margaret B. Freeman
woodnymph2_gw
10 years ago
The Lady & the Unicorn - Tracey Chevalier

YoYobon, I think we went to that restaurant many years ago. Was it out in the country, set in rolling hills? Food was unforgettable!
yoyobon_gw
10 years ago
woodnymph...
No, The Moosewood was located ( and still is) in the basement of an old brick school one block from the center of town ( now The Commons).
A photo of it the way I remember it is in the first Moosewood cookbook).
You might have gone to the one just before you come down the hill into Ithaca coming from the south.
It was french country?
The name was french......cannot recall it.
leel
10 years ago
The portrait of a lady-- Henry James

(I've been to both restaurants. Both great in their own ways, but I can't remember the other one's name either!)
veer
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10 years ago
The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
yoyobon_gw
10 years ago
AN IDEAL HUSBAND by Oscar Wilde

( I think that the restaurant was L'Auberge Du Cochon Rouge .......does that sound familiar?)

This post was edited by yoyobon on Wed, Feb 5, 14 at 7:24

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