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Howdy y'all. It's fabulous Friday! Cooler this morning but supposed to be hot by afternoon again! Working another 5 hour middle. I actually don't mind these 5 hour middles much. Not sure what I'll be doing for dinner. Maybe some wine and cheese and just a few crackers...and a lamb leg steak?
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Good Morning All,
Trying to catch up with everyone after being off the grid for nearly a week. We were in VA and NC (Outer Banks, in the dunes area) then back for a night in VA. Lovely, very hot!
It looks like we have a new buddy here, Millie. Welcome. You have some great ideas (the chic cake with thin coating of PB). I also appreciated your description of the affair you are having with the 12 grain bread. Hopefully you are breaking off that affair.
Time to get moving. A meeting all day today (yes, Saturday). Next week I will be at a conference. Eeek! I am speaking at that conference. It is the national meeting for my professional colleagues. The room they assigned me to has a capacity of over 400...again, I say EEEEK! Hopefully, I won't get that many attendees in my session!
Will check in tomorrow, I hope, and somewhat spottily next week. Wishing a good week to all.0 -
Howdy y'all. It's sensational Saturday! I've got the day off, but may get out to the hardware store or elsewhere to find a cheap table fan and extension cord to bring in to the fuel kiosk for the hot days of summer! We do have air conditioning in there, but it still gets pretty warm up in the front where the glass and the payment tray are.
I've been up for a couple of hours now but distracted by feeding Lilo, feeding me, and getting this big crock pot of beef stew going. It's got beef (d'oh!), onion, garlic, carrots, potatoes, herbs and spices, and water in there, along with some thickener, of course.
I made an amazing discovery too, while preparing dinner. I put in the first half of the beef and turned the crock pot on low. Then I added the onion and garlic, the rest of the beef, the carrots, the herbs, spices and thickener (all mixed with water) and then the potatoes on top. As I was chopping all along the way, this took about 15 minutes. Then I brushed my hands along the sides of the crock pot to make sure it was warming up, as I always do a few minutes in. Cold as steel. Crock Pots work better when they are PLUGGED IN!
I plugged it in and then checked in another 15 minutes and all is going well.
Dinner at 6ish.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
parityanimal wrote: »Howdy y'all. It's sensational Saturday! I've got the day off, but may get out to the hardware store or elsewhere to find a cheap table fan and extension cord to bring in to the fuel kiosk for the hot days of summer! We do have air conditioning in there, but it still gets pretty warm up in the front where the glass and the payment tray are.
I've been up for a couple of hours now but distracted by feeding Lilo, feeding me, and getting this big crock pot of beef stew going. It's got beef (d'oh!), onion, garlic, carrots, potatoes, herbs and spices, and water in there, along with some thickener, of course.
I made an amazing discovery too, while preparing dinner. I put in the first half of the beef and turned the crock pot on low. Then I added the onion and garlic, the rest of the beef, the carrots, the herbs, spices and thickener (all mixed with water) and then the potatoes on top. As I was chopping all along the way, this took about 15 minutes. Then I brushed my hands along the sides of the crock pot to make sure it was warming up, as I always do a few minutes in. Cold as steel. Crock Pots work better when they are PLUGGED IN!
I plugged it in and then checked in another 15 minutes and all is going well.
Dinner at 6ish.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...
Hi Ed
I've done that too, sadly I did not catch it until I went to eat it. You got lucky!
Cheers
Roger
That's why I ALWAYS brush my fingers along the sides before I leave the kitchen, to make sure that it's not only turned on, but plugged in and actually working! Too easy to forget to plug it in or forget to turn it on...and end up with well soaked beans or ruined dinner.
At this point, it's in the "smelling wonderful but still has three hours or so to go - bwahahahaha!" stage...
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...
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We had some storms too. The lawn guys got caught in it too! After the storm we went out for a minute to the hardware store and passed through a large area without power, which made me wonder if we still had power at home, but when we got home everything was fine.
The stew came out just right!
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Howdy y'all. It's scintillating Sunday! Working a six hour middle today, but Sunday is usually not too terribly busy. We shall see.
Leftover stew made a great breakfast.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Happy Father's Day to all...since it is a safe bet either everyone is a father, had a father, or knows a father.0
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Howdy y'all. It's marvelous Monday! I've already got a dishwasher full going, and plan to probably do laundry later. Then maybe make pork chops marsala for dinner. And breakfast. And dinner...well, we'll see how many meals it really makes.
Lilo will likely want a nap in here somewhere too.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Cat boxes scooped already. Dishwasher is running. Clothes will be started in a while.
Pork chops marsala are started in a crock pot, for lunch AND dinner. Maybe breakfast too, depending on how piggy I am at lunch and dinner...
Pondering whether to dig out some frozen chicken thighs for making of crock pot coq au vin later in the week. I'll think about that for a bit.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
My pork chops marsala came out fantastic. I had one chop for lunch, and in lieu of my usual carb side of noodles or mashed potatoes, I had a few bites of the Mi Goreng with tofu I stir fried for J's lunch (and dinner and probably another lunch).
I did get the chicken out for crock pot Coq Au Vin later in the week.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Good morning all,
Mmmm, pork chops marsala. I still have some of that marsala wine from the chicken about 2 weeks ago. Maybe if it isn't vinegar yet, I could try that with pork chops in the crop pot. But...it sounds like I better make sure the pot is plugged in to get things going!
All okay with everyone? Walking, cat box scooping, cooking...and whatever else we do.
I saw a TV ad yesterday with NS CEO, Dawn Ziers. It got me thinking about the decision to eliminate the NS boards...which got me thinking of an analogy. I envision the NS boards as folks who each have a booth at a flea market. You walk around the flea market and decide on any given day to go up to that booth and buy something/chat with the owner. Without a flea market, you don't know what exists. And you have to go to a shopping mall to specific stores and hope you bump into something unusual. The former NS boards were the flea market where I could just drop in on someone I might only engage with once a year, but they still were there. The current system (having to track folks down via FB, MFP, etc.) means I go to shopping malls looking specifically for someone/something.
Don't get me wrong: I enjoy you wonderful folks, but I don't like making special shopping trips to a mall, looking for a specific item. I kind of like moseying around to see what there is in a more casual setting. And we no longer have that. It comes down to...after I use my last 60% off NS cards from NS, I think I may drop off the NS rolls. I buy shakes from Wonderslim, and Zone lunch bars at the market. I get the social aspect from here. Why do I need NS?
Enjoy the day folks!
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Howdy y'all. It's terrific Tuesday! Working a 5 1/2 hour or 6 hour middle today. It should be hot but I brought a small fan in and it keeps the air moving in the kiosk so it feels a lot more comfortable. The air conditioner in there works, but the back part (no windows) stays nice and cool while the front, glassed in part, with the cash drawer (a major air leak there) gets quite warm. I have the fan set up to keep air moving from the back to the front, and if needed I can aim it to blow right on the area where I sit. Even on LOW speed, it does an amazing job. I haven't yet had any need to try any higher speed and don't think I'll need to.
I'm with LeeAnn on the specialty mall thing. I don't even have any need to look at the NS site now. There is nothing there for me. I stopped buying their expensive, specialty (admittedly, VERY CONVENIENT) foods quite a while back. I did learn a bit about portion sizes from them but frankly learned more about that and overall nutrition from the dietitian at my endocrinologist's office. I had some fun playing with the NS foods to make them tastier or create unusual things from them,combining my add-ons with the packaged foods, but it's just as easy to browse local stores I'd be going to anyway and find things to create tasty dishes from. To be fair, 45+ years of cooking experience comes in handy for that, just as it did with making new, tastier things from the NS foods. And people on the now defunct boards offered hundreds of interesting recipe ideas, using the NS foods and using regular grocery foods. That important support layer has now been ripped out from under NS users.
Some of the newer NS foods do sound tasty, but looking at some of the stats on the new foods, compared to the old, I seem to see a move toward slower weight loss and less attention to detail on any specific food. It would be easy with some of the new ones for a person to make poor choices within the NS foods and overdo the calories, fat, and carbs, over a longer period, while still technically following the plan. Too many of them are lower on the protein, higher on the fat and carbs, etc. Anyone choosing just those most of the time would be slowing the plan or even eliminating it. They're all fine for once in a while, of course.
The original idea of NS was to make sensible choices and prepare healthy food yourself anyway, and some of us have gone back to those roots. When they started mass production of convenience foods, it made it easier for people to follow the plan, but the emphasis on people learning to do it without the convenience foods seems to have paled. A determined user can still find that on the site, and talking to counselors, but I have one of the original books somewhere with real food recipes, not convenience foods, and most of what's in it still makes a lot of sense.
I don't need those recipes any more because I know how to do it. Sometimes I choose to NOT do it, but that's not from lack of knowing how. Everyone needs to indulge once in a while.
And we can all DO THIS on our own, with support from each other. They can keep their expensive, tasty food.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...
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I LOVE tomato basil soup.
They had several one pound packages of ground lamb on the WooHoo rack today, so I bought them, despite having several already in the freezer. They are all vacuum packed and should hold up well.
Tonight's dinner utilized one of the ones purchased tonight. Shepherds Pie as I wanted something fairly quick and easy. I know that may not sound quick and easy to some, but by my standards it is.
J had some pizzafied portabella caps.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...
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Howdy y'all. It's wonderful Wednesday! Working a 7 hour middle today. It's going to be another hot one. I believe my chicken is thawed up enough to get my crock pot coq au vin going before I leave for work though.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Howdy y'all. It got rather stormy at my work, but not too terrible with the rain. However, our main server went offline and we couldn't sell anything but fuel for the last two hours of my shift. Needless to say we had some rather annoyed tobacco and drink customers. I had to lock up the drink cooler and ice machine so that people wouldn't be grabbing stuff, not knowing they couldn't pay for it.
Came home to THIS. Well, I did have to thicken the sauce a little, and make the potatoes, but then I had THIS for dinner, with a glass of Chamisal Vineyards Morrito 2012 Estate Bottled Pinot Noir. Very fruity with a wonderful smooth texture. The bottle was given to me by a good friend.
Crock Pot Coq Au Vin
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Howdy y'all. It's thrilling Thursday! Same chance for storms as yesterday. At least yesterday's storms did lower the afternoon temperature a bit, for a while.
Off work today. I've been up for a while but distracted by leftover coq au vin for breakfast, feeding Lilo, getting the dishwasher started, and watering the indoor plants. Then checking on a few things online, of course. I have a few extra slices of slab bacon left from making the coq au vin and they may figure in my lunch today, as a "side" dish for the remaining coq au vin, along with maybe just some high fiber, low carb bread.
I might make up a Greek style, lamb based spaghetti sauce for dinner, along with, of course, a vegetarian sauce for J. I had a Greek style chicken spaghetti once in a restaurant and it was very good. If I use lamb I'll alter the herbs a little but still add a little cinnamon and just a dash of powdered cocoa. It should be tasty.
If I had any more cooking wine, I'd consider putting some of that in the sauce too, but I finished off a whole bottle of Holland House red cooking wine making the chicken. I could, I suppose, open another bottle of red and put some in the sauce but it's not getting any of my silky smooth Chamisal Vineyards Pinot Noir. That's just for drinking...I'm sure it would make a great sauce, but since it was (I looked it up) a $60 bottle of wine, nope, it's for drinking. I'm not a wine snob, but after tasting this one I could see myself becoming one if I could afford to. LOL.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...
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It's been a good (and less busy) day off today. I made a run to the farmers market and bought some pears and a couple of quince apples, finished off my coq au vin for lunch, had a nice nap with Lilo, and I've got Greek style spaghetti sauce simmering on the stove, made with ground lamb.
J will be having spicy, cheesy, meatless spaghetti tonight.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Howdy y'all. It's fabulous Friday! Working a 7 hour middle again today. Hopefully they'll have finished processing the return of the one who left a few weeks ago, and she can get back to work soon. Dinner at a friend's tonight, as he is conducting the audit of the treasury which J is currently in charge of.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Howdy y'all. It's sensational Saturday! No work today, and I've been up for hours but distracted by lots of stuff.
Haven't got all the distractions done yet anyway, and Lilo is wanting a nap if she can tear herself away from her birdwatching.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Howdy y'all. It's scintillating Sunday! Working a five hour middle today. Not sure what I'll do for dinner tonight. We'll see...
I thought I made a post commenting about Val's spinach breakfasts but maybe I forgot to hit "Post Reply" or something, as I don't see it. I love spinach and think spinach for breakfast sounds great. Popeye would approve.
Anyway, I need to get into the shower and all, so later gators!
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Howdy y'all. It's marvelous Monday! Working a short middle again today. Then maybe home for some cheese and crackers, and something for dinner. I didn't set out anything so may just have to wing it! I should really look in the freezer now and see what to set out for tomorrow and/or the next day...
I've been up for a while but distracted by feeding Lilo, who has been paying more attention the last couple of weeks to the fact that I'm feeding her first thing, and then feeding me.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Howdy y'all. It's terrific Tuesday! Made a variation on Boeuf Bourguignon last night, without the cognac, mushrooms, or tomato paste. No bacon either. It was still delicious tossed with a few noodles and served with steamed broccoli, and I did sacrifice a whole bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon to make it. Leftovers made a fine breakfast and will likely make lunch and dinner as well. Maybe even one more meal. And this time I did NOT use the crockpot, but made this one on the stovetop. I've made Boeuf Bourguignon in the crock pot, and it does always turn out nicely but last night I was a bit late getting started so elected to do it the speedy way.
I've been up for a while now, distracted by the usuals. Lilo is happily settled in my lap for a while. She can stay there at least until I need to brew my next cup of tea.
I'm off work today. Dishwasher is running, and laundry is still in the pondering stage. I'm off again tomorrow so may hold off on the laundry until then. We'll see.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...
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Well, we got sprinkled on in Lawrenceburg, coming out of the courthouse but other than that and driving some in the rain, we didn't get wet. By the time we got back a little west of that, it was fine and sunny again, though I had a headache from the weather.
Laundry definitely waiting until tomorrow.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Er...that was LawrenceVILLE...don't know how I managed that, must have been my weather headache.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Good Morning Everyone,
I've been around, just haven't checked in lately. Looking forward to a short work week this week and a long, sunny holiday weekend that has been predicted. Val, the campground you were referring to is mostly RVs with some tent camping, it's right on Long Sands in York Beach, Maine. Long Sands is great, but crowded at this time of year. When I was a kid, my family used to vacation in Maine and we used to go to York Beach frequently, my Grandfather from Vermont used to rent a cottage right across the street from the ocean for my Grandmother and Great Aunt for the summer each year. My Grandfather and Great Uncle would come up on the weekends and work in Vermont during the week. It was kind of a family cottage and I went there many times and have many fond memories. Those memories and love of Maine is what prompted me to move here over 30 years ago. In terms of camping on the ocean, there are lots of nice places up the coast that are much less crowded, but none that have a beach like Long Sands. Long Sands is probably the longest white sand beach in Maine. It is about a half hour to 45 minutes away from where I live. I usually don't get anywhere near places like that at this time of year because it's so crowded. I have some nice beaches within 15 minutes of where I live, I was on one of them early in the morning a week ago watching these people teaching children how to surf....it was fun. Have a good day everyone!0 -
Hi All,
It seems I am not the only one who has been here but out of touch...in other words, not posting. I had a work conference last week and I was presenting, so I needed to focus! Then...no excuse, just tired the last couple of days after the conf.
Regarding Peter W's book, I did buy it. It was a spiral bound book. I might also have the PDF (on the other computer), but I still like paper for some things. He has great ideas/recipes in there. My favorite right now? Cyber Sally's (remember her?) breakfast brownies. If anyone wants the recipe, let me know and I will type it up.
Rain storms alternating ith sun. Hoping for dryer weather!
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Howdy y'all. It's wonderful Wednesday! I've been up for a while, but distracted by breakfast (finished off the Boeuf Bourguignon), feeding Lilo, getting the dishwasher going, and setting everything up to braise a couple of pounds of bottom round all day in the slow cooker. I need to get that started around 10 or 11. Maybe I'll split the difference and go for 10:30? Doesn't matter much. Dinner time is not locked in around here. It's either whenever it's ready or whenever I feel like making it or whenever I'm hungry for it.
I still have laundry to do, and of course a nap. Hopefully the storms won't be too loud to have a nap.
I love that VW Bus side car!
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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Interesting article here:
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/going-vegan-can-lead-to-weight-loss-study/
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Howdy y'all. It's thrilling Thursday! 7 hour middle today, with rain and storms forecast. At least it's not supposed to be terribly hot.
I've got the "big water" done indoors but still need to fold that last load of laundry from yesterday. I'm giving it a refresher run in the dryer now.
Had some leftover braised round steak for breakfast. Yum!
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Howdy y'all. It's fantastic Friday! Working another middle today, and there's supposed to be showers/storms intermittently most of the day. Again, though, not too hot so that's a relief. The little fan I bought and put in the fuel kiosk is great at keeping it pretty comfortable in there, but I'm not sure if even it can help when we get to the dog days.
I've been up for a while since a thunderstorm woke me fairly early. I need to get a piece of chicken into the toaster oven for the sugar gliders, as we fed them the last of the "old" piece last night.
Later, gators!
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0
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