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Monday, May 4, 2009

Eight Things

I’ve been tagged by “Mudhooks” over at the Mudpuddle. This one looks like fun, so sure, I’ll play: 8 things meme Rules are simple, list 8 things you look forward to, 8 things you did yesterday, 8 things you wish you could do. Then tag 8 people and let them know they’ve been tagged with [...]

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Friday, May 1, 2009

Vote For Me!

Shameless Plug: I have entered the Ile de France 2009 Spring Recipe Contest and I need your votes! Please visit the Ile de France website and rate my entries: Brunch Brie Strata by Renee (okay, they wrote Rennee): and Spring Brie Mini-Sub by Renee (it really irks me to have to type “Rennee” – it’s [...]

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Saturday, April 25, 2009

Nature Notes: Timing Is Everything

…and I ain’t got none. Female Rubythroat Hummingbird Texas Sage – go ahead & click on it! As soon as the hummingbirds left us for their migration back North, the bright red salvia that I planted to attract them, went into bloom. Hmmph! Another hummingbird view is posted in my PhotoHunt Post over at Flamingo [...]

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Friday, April 24, 2009

Tweet!

Well, now I’ve sailed into uncharted waters: I’ve signed up for Twitter. I’m not sure why, except that it seems like everybody’s doing it. I’m not much of a leader. I wait for everyone else to test the water first, then if it doesn’t look like they’re turning blue, I’ll stick my toe in. I’ll [...]

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Thursday, April 23, 2009

Never Again

My brother sent me this in an e-mail and I had to share it: In Memoriam – 63 YEARS LATER click on this It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended. This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the six million Jews, 20 [...]

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Celebrate The Earth – Stop Junk!

<!– document.write('Enlarge‘); //–> Did you know that more than 100 million trees are destroyed each year for junk mail? Plus, 28 billion gallons of water and enough energy to power 2.8 million cars? When you stop junk mail and catalogs, you keep trees in the forests doing what they do best — providing oxygen for [...]

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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Nature Notes: And If That Mockingbird Don’t Sing…

… then it can’t be mating season. Because the one that’s been hanging out in my backyard lately, will. not. shut. UP. EVER. Yes, all day, all night – especially after midnight (not counting meal breaks) – the male Northern Mockingbirds are in fine voice, showing off their repetoires of whatever songs and sounds they’ve [...]

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Friday, April 10, 2009

Continuing Adventures – And A Recipe

First, I want to thank Lettergirl of Not Going Postal for that awesome award you see just to the right, there, in my sidebar. She wrote the sweetest post back on March 26th (my 20th wedding anniversary, coincidentally!) and I didn’t see it until over a week later… I’m such a doof! Mmmwah! You have [...]

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Monday, April 6, 2009

Weighing-In

The initial trauma – the shock and awe, if you will – has passed. For now. Thanks, you guys, for your support and commiseration. It helps. So, I just blew eighty bucks for nothing by replacing the keys on my “old” Powerbook. The Mac gods’ minions turned it on, and it died in their arms. [...]

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Thursday, April 2, 2009

This Is So F’d Up…

I have to e-mail this post from work because my laptop refuses to completely boot (it makes it as far as the picture on my desktop, and just spins that little beachball endlessly) and now the repair disc is stuck in the drive because there is no external way to remove it and it won’t [...]

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