Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on July 02, 2022, 12:15:15 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes had high spirits, and now it is time for you to post until the high sprits cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: APPOSITE!
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Nobody home?
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Other than us chickens?
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First post after BK!
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I have never, never I tell you, been the first post after BK.
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I wonder if perhaps I’m actually asleep and dreaming. 🤔
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Well, either way, I want to thank all of you here at HHW for the wonderful wishes and warm welcome back.
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Congrats to Vixdad on becoming an American citizen!
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On a somewhat ironic note (b-flat), I dearly wish to become a British citizen. I have wonderful friends in the UK, and, well, things here are no longer to my liking.
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Sadly, it’s not possible. However, if TFG wins in 2024, my British friends have offered me a room in their house. Guess I’ll be in hiding.
Must learn to make a proper pot of tea, excellent scones, and baked beans. Will work on it over the weekend.
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Happy holiday weekend to everyone.
I’ll be back later, as I have some messages to post to some other Dear Readers.
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And you are all VERY DEAR.
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Oh, before I go..
I just read that the King of Spain has been quarantined on his private jet.
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That means the reign in Spain stays mainly in the plane.
*still happy to see me back?* 😁
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Bye for now.🌻
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Good early morning to all.
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I’ve seen two different productions of High Spirits, one where the didn’t fly Elvira. I have to admit I don’t like the change in the ending from the original Stage version of Blithe Spirits which I’ve also seen. The same goes for the film version with Rex Harrison.
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Good morning, all!
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My computer is being quite wonky this morning. I am not amused.
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Dear Lurker Iris,thanks for the laugh. At this point, my frustration with my computer really needed some levity.
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DR Jrand71, I hope our closing on Friday goes well as yours!
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I'm rebooting this POS. This morning is too crazy, thanks top those Access-a-Ride bastards' screw up yesterday./
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Good morning, friends.
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Off to get some groceries before it gets crowded.
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Good morning, all.
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I lived all but a few early months of my life at 207 Fairmeade Road in Louisville. This was the house Mom sold last year. That’s my gray Honda in the driveway.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/207+Fairmeade+Rd,+Louisville,+KY+40207/@38.2483992,-85.6350248,3a,75y,70.91h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1srwcs5hcnrhC3mVVxQ7Xigw!2e0!4m2!3m1!1s0x886975251ece7d13:0x36f0b76f671be6df
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Thanks to DR VIXMOM for sharing the sad news.
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Well I have today off....although I have work on the computer I have to do....I have to add some things to the theeder website and finish the Easy Sheet for the choreography we did on Thursday night.....where - if you can believe it DR TCB - it was someone else who was being the butt instead of ... the other girl.
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Nice house DR JOHN G.
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I lived here from just before age 1 to age almost 5. It was 219 St. Clair St. in Mooresville. At age five we moved next door to the bigger house you can partially see on the right side of the picture.
(https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/streetview?location=219+Saint+Clair+St%2C+Mooresville%2C+IN+46158&size=576x432&key=AIzaSyARFMLB1na-BBWf7_R3-5YOQQaHqEJf6RQ&source=outdoor&&signature=kd-2K5oBVJOrQXyV5zt-4N_EIUE=])
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Hmmmm.....that didn't work.
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Time to get up and make the Dolly Parton coconut cake.
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I'll try it this way.
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HA!
I guess someone lost a shutter - or found three. And barbecue grill on the front porch is a nice touch. 8)
After the second house, we lived in the country for awhile....and then even further in the country for awhile....and then moved back to Mooresville.....
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I was in 3 homes before I moved out, although the first was just the first few months of my infancy. Then we moved to a house where we lived until I was 9 and then the house where my mom still lives.
At 20 I moved into a friends home and shared space with them and at 29 I moved to an apartment with Vixdad and 5 years later we bought the house where we now live
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Cake is in the oven.
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As for High Spirits, I always like a Hugh Martin score. Make a Wish is a personal favorite.
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I crashed on Wordle today......
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My WALMART does not carry the Dolly Parton cake mix OR icing....I keep waiting......
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TOD:
From my birth to the age of 21, I lived in 5 different houses, 3 apartments and in four dormitories.
On my own, I have lived in 7 barracks, 8 apartments, onboard two ships, and in two houses, including the one I now live in.
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I was very sorry to learn about DR William Orr's loss.
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Denny is here cutting my grass.
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Is it my cousin Denny? He has a brother named Jimmy.....
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I am enjoying the NEW BOOK very much. I hope to finish it today or tomorrow. I already have the title for my review.
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That's a plethora of abodes DR RON PULLIAM.
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Good morning, all.
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DR TCB - that money comes out of the check that we were paid at the end of the ordeal.....so instead of the full selling price, all of that was deducted -- which I guess is SOP....
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Continued vibes for DR ELMORE's closing and for a better rest of the day.
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INDIEGOGO Vibes for MR BK.
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Is it my cousin Denny? He has a brother named Jimmy.....
It's Denny Clark of Johnston. Any chance he's your cousin?
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Here we are in the three-day holiday weekend, and this already feels like my third Saturday due to the housemates having had some time off in the past two days. They were thrilled to have made it a five-day weekend, but the funny thing is how their doing so made me feel the same way, as though it's also a five-day weekend for me.
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That's a plethora of abodes DR RON PULLIAM.
Yes.
The on-my-own part is what surprises me. I wouldn't have the energy to do any of it again. The last move was the most intense, moving from Oakland to SC. I packed myself out over two months, but it just about knocked me for a loop.
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After much frustration with this computer today, Access-a-Ride was about 15 minutes late, but the driver was wonderful. I picked up my meds, and got my hair cut. The walk from the barber was brief, and I'm rather happy with all. It's the computer that's working my last nerve.
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Okay, let's see how this adds up. From when I was born:
Four apartments and one rented house in Columbus, then my parents' first owned house in the then-new suburb of Whitehall which we were in for about five years. Then we moved closer into town, in Bexley, for one year before making the decision to move to Florida. In Fort Lauderdale we lived in a motel for a month, then two rented houses, and then the house they bought there. They were in that house for close to seven years when they moved back to Ohio, and that was my last place living "at home".
I lived in the dorm one year, then four other places in Cleveland before moving to L.A. Out there I lived in five apartments, then on a job transfer I lived in one apartment in Schaumburg, IL, then back to L.A. and my condo in West Hollywood for three years before being transferred here. In Danbury I lived in a rented townhouse, a small house, a guest cottage, and finally my own house.
TOTAL, with family: 11.
TOTAL, on my own: 13.
These counts include short-lived temporary places, such as the weekly-rental apartment behind the Chinese Theatre before finding the one we wanted a few blocks away. And the friends' boat I lived on for several months. I should probably count it all again to be sure, but like Lili von Shtupp, I'm tired - if not for the same reasons.
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When I was born, my parents were living wth my mother's parents, unmarried sister, and two brothers still in high school at 711 Tenth Avenue, so I lived there until around the age of three, when my mother, who did not get along with my grandmother, pressured my dad to move into the house he had built at 3003 Goldman Avenue and which he intended to sell at a nice profit. I lived there until I was seventeen (1964) when I went off to college and lived in Oxford Ohio at various addresses until 1971, when I moved to Carlisle, PA, for a disastrous year. I moved back to 3003 Goldman in August 1972 and stayed there until June 1979, when I moved to NYC.
My first apartment was a great space at 201 West 94th Street, wshich I moved into on Dec. 1, 1979, but the place was haunted and rather frightening when I was there alone, the super was never sober and could do nothing, and the landlord was a real mess. On July 15, 1980, I moved into the home for the past 42 years, 202 West 82nd Street.
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I believe your 42 years there has us all beat, DR Elmore.
Seriously, are there any challengers? Speak up!
I believe I have most of the addresses, most of the phone numbers, and at least some kind of picture of each place, however poor it may be. There's one house in 1961 I'm particularly sad NOT to have a picture of. For a couple of them, all I'd have is a recent Google image.
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Well, I must get on with my day.
I smell bacon cooking. After we eat, Kristi and I are cleaning up the back deck and grill and the tables and chairs there. We are VERY late in doing it properly this year -- life has been craziness -- but by this evening it will look like someone lives in the jernt.
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I'm up, I'm up - five hours of sleep - maybe.
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The computer froze just before bed last night, so I was up an extra thirty minutes shutting it down and then starting it up and waiting for it to load everything.
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Some action already - so - 72%!
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No on Elmore’s 42 years. I can only manage half that. I have been in my house 21 years.
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Cake has been frosted. It’s in the fridge until later.
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Listening to a comic novel called One Day I Shall Astonish the World. I’m finding a bit of depressing stuff in what it is supposed to be comical.
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Paid $4.18 a gallon for gas today at Costco.
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Think that since I made cake today, I will make a pie tomorrow. I’ve got peaches, raspberries and blueberries.
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I lived all but a few early months of my life at 207 Fairmeade Road in Louisville. This was the house Mom sold last year. That’s my gray Honda in the driveway.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/207+Fairmeade+Rd,+Louisville,+KY+40207/@38.2483992,-85.6350248,3a,75y,70.91h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1srwcs5hcnrhC3mVVxQ7Xigw!2e0!4m2!3m1!1s0x886975251ece7d13:0x36f0b76f671be6df
Very nice, John.
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I'll try it this way.
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That's a cute house, Jrand.
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I was very sorry to learn about DR William Orr's loss.
So was I. My condolences. :(
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After much frustration with this computer today, Access-a-Ride was about 15 minutes late, but the driver was wonderful. I picked up my meds, and got my hair cut. The walk from the barber was brief, and I'm rather happy with all. It's the computer that's working my last nerve.
Very nice, Larry...except for the computer part. ::)
;D
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No on Elmore’s 42 years. I can only manage half that. I have been in my house 21 years.
This October, I'll have been in my condo for 16 years.
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When I was born (in Alabama ::) ), my dad was in the army. We lived in Alabama, Georgia, California, Texas, then Germany by the time I was 4 years old. We then moved to Colorado when I was 7, then here to Washington when I was 10.
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Here's a picture of my parents' house that they've owned since 1976:
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It's obviously an old picture from Google Maps because the red truck was my dad's and he got rid of it probably 15 years ago!
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But the house is still that brown color. There's a lot more plant life in the front of the yard on both sides than what's in this picture, too.
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After living at home while going to Centralia Community College, I went to Western Washington University for three years and lived in on-campus housing for the first year and the first two quarters of the second year.
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That third quarter, a friend and I got an apartment just a couple of blocks from the College. For my third year, I got my own studio apartment in downtown Bellingham. After graduating, I moved back home with my parents.
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Back from an omelet, fooling around at the mall, a brief trip to Gelson's, where I got some lox, bagels, and cream cheese for later and for tomorrow. Now I'm home and I'll probably watch something. First, have to cool down the house. Tomorrow, I'll garage it and pull out a few more fun art items.
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I finally got a job (in the same place where I'm still working today!) and moved out for the last time. I got an apartment with a friend for a couple of years, then I got an apartment by myself for about 5 years.
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Then, I lived with my sister and niece for about 5 years, then I got another solo apartment for a couple of years, then my sister built a new house and I rented her old house for a couple of years (part of that time with a housemate), then I bought my condo in 2006, from which I plan to NEVER leave. :)
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Back from the grocery. It was madhouse in the way that Costco wasn't.
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But I got some cat food and took it outside. Didn't see either of the cats.
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I also found some plumbago plants on sale. I wanted to get a few more, so that was nice.
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Time to finish La Fanciulla del West.
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Good afternoon!
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The deck is as clean as it’s going to be this time around, which is a huge improvement no matter how you cut it.
Looking forward to sitting out there later, grilling something, and just relaxing.
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Well, except for the fact that we’re under a severe thunderstorm watch from now till 9 pm. But it’s beautiful now, and topping off at around 84 degrees.
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DR John G, I remember seeing the film Mr. Klein, but they used the French title, Monsieur Klein. Great film, very disturbing, in a Kafkaesque kind of way.
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Have you seen the film Tell No One? Wonderful French thriller, based on the novel by Harlan Coben. I think you would like it very much.
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Tell No One is streaming on Amazon Prime.
I highly recommend it.
It’s so good and so suspenseful, that I watched it twice in a row on a long flight from London to Los Angeles. Then I took several friends to see it, so I guess I’ve seen it at least 4 times.
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Am tempted to watch it again today.
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Just waiting for John G’s cake to be ready in order to enjoy a slice with my viewing.
Is it ready yet? 😋
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I lived in one house until the age of 11, then moved to the house where I lived until I left for college. My brother and his wife still live in that house.
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I, on the other hand, have lived in at least 20 different apartments, and 7 houses, scattered around Maryland, New York, Phoenix, and all over Los Angeles…probably 12 different cities in Southern California.
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Favorite places were Santa Monica and Laguna Beach.
I miss living there, and always will.
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Have you seen the film Tell No One? Wonderful French thriller, based on the novel by Harlan Coben. I think you would like it very much.
Twice. Once in the theaters. It was great.
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Just waiting for John G’s cake to be ready in order to enjoy a slice with my viewing.
Is it ready yet? 😋
It is. I’m hankering for a slice, too, but it’s for the dance tonight. So I must wait.
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Tell No One is streaming on Amazon Prime.
I highly recommend it.
It’s so good and so suspenseful, that I watched it twice in a row on a long flight from London to Los Angeles. Then I took several friends to see it, so I guess I’ve seen it at least 4 times.
Did you ever read the book? I can’t remember if I did.
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Gratuitous post 99!
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No, I haven’t read the book, but I hear the ending is a bit different.
Can’t imagine anything improving upon the film.
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Wonderful production of La Fanciulla. Deborah Voigt had me in tears at the end. Or maybe it was Puccini who did. Whatever the cause, the magic worked.
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No, I haven’t read the book, but I hear the ending is a bit different.
Can’t imagine anything improving upon the film.
True.
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The sun has finally made an appearance here.
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Got several things crossed off the to-do list today.
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And tomorrow is another day.
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Fiddle-dee-dee.
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La-de-dah.
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On the deck, sipping a Gewürztraminer.
With an ice cube in it. Cheating, because it didn't have time to chill.
Delicious.
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I don't know what DR CHAS SMITH is sipping, but I would like to try it.
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Computer vibes for DR ELMORE.
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I moved into this house in 1971.....I bought it from my parents in 1981 when they were planning a move to Florida.
Then the move got canceled for my father's health.....and so we lived in it all these years.....my father passed in 2015 and my mother in 2018 - so I have only lived alone here for 4 years.
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Jack wins! I’ve only been here 30 years.
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I don’t know what I was thinking in line 4, I already knew the correct placement for letters 3 and 4
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Tell No One is very good - I saw it at a French film festival at the DGA. That was in 2007 and I wrote about it in the notes that very night. I liked it but found it wasn't perfect, and was annoyed by the musical score. Really liked the actors. Will watch it again.
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Cake I
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Cake 2
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ALw’s YouTube channel is showing the full Donny Osmond version of Joseph this weekend.
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Cake I
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6915.0;attach=14859)
Wow...that looks great!
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PAGE FIVE YUMMY DANCE!!
Cake 2
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6915.0;attach=14861)
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Trying to watch this new Chris Pratt thing but it's really starting to be irritating.
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Has anyone watched any of Only Murders in this Building? I have no idea what platform it's on.
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I will just say this: there are a lot of people who have forgotten how to use their indoor voices. Inconsiderate clods.
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It appears that Dolly has outdone herself.
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But the proof is in the
pudding cake.
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Sometimes, there is pudding in cake, too.
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And apparently now I've got pudding for brains.
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Good night, friends.
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Has anyone watched any of Only Murders in this Building? I have no idea what platform it's on.
I believe it is on Hulu, I watched the first couple of episodes but my Hulu has been problematic. I should just cancel it
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John, that cake looks luscious !
I suggest an experiment to see how well it ships…for the sake of science I am prepared to act as the guinea pig.
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John, that cake looks luscious !
I suggest an experiment to see how well it ships…for the sake of science I am prepared to act as the guinea pig.
I’m all for science.
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Starting to watch the first season of Hacks. I am not sold on the writing entirely, but Jean Smart is worth watching. She’s spectacular.
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Richard Thomas is coming to San Antonio in To Kill a Mockingbird. I may go see that.
Too bad it’s not BK’s musical version.
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Good night, all.
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I think I have to give up on this Chris Pratt thing.
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And I love vengeance things.
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At two hours it might have been okay - at eight, it's just ridiculous.
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Cake has been frosted. It’s in the fridge until later.
Is this the Dolly Parton cake? Does it have two cherries on it as nipples?
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I also found some plumbago plants on sale. I wanted to get a few more, so that was nice.
Is that a hybrid of a plum and a paper bag?
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PAGE FIVE YUMMY DANCE!!
Cake 2
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6915.0;attach=14861)
That cake #2 is very small.
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Has anyone watched any of Only Murders in this Building? I have no idea what platform it's on.
Hulu. And yes, I have.
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Cake #1 looks like it was frosted with mashed potatoes.
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I guess that would be called a shepherd cake.
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I guess that would be called a shepherd cake.
Better than a shepherd's pie...peppered with actual shepherd on top. ;)
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Richard Thomas is coming to San Antonio in To Kill a Mockingbird. I may go see that.
Too bad it’s not BK’s musical version.
Does he play Scout?