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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were both easy and breezy, and now it is time for you to post until the easy breezy cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: FISSIPAROUS!
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TOD:
Food: I like it.
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I had a very strange dream last night about having to drive a piece of heavy construction equipment through a crowded Times Square.
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Have a great day for all those who will be enjoying the holiday.
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Susan Boyle sings Memory on Britain's Got Talent
http://talent.itv.com/videos/video/item_200228.htm?intcmp=729064_123_1 (http://talent.itv.com/videos/video/item_200228.htm?intcmp=729064_123_1)
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Thanks for posting that link, Michael S.
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Good morning, all! I dreamed I was orchestrating a show on enormous score paper, and I was in a large room, rather like a classroom - with Sid Ramin, Leonard Bernstein, my friend Charlie Harmon and my friend Larry Blank. There was a lady in the dream as well but I cannot remember now if it was Mathilde Pincus or Judy Haring.
Today, Jerome Moross pieces for two pianos.
That is all.
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Good Morning!
I'm up, I'm up... And I'm up before Noon! -Well, even before 2:00pm! ::)
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As for the Free-For-All-Food Topic of the Day....
How about...
Since it is Memorial Day...
And even though we may done this before, but...
What are you favorite picnic and cookout foods?
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Memorial Day greetings! Continuing our low-profile holiday weekend, Richard and I are about to watch C-Span's coverage of the ceremony from Arlington National Cemetery.
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Oops, Arlington ceremony doesn't start for an hour - back later!
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And the word of the day is: FISSIPAROUS!
And The Song Of The Day Is: BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO
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(http://herosride.com/yellow%20Ribbon.jpg)
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Constance Bennett is buried in Arlington Cemetery.
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yes today is Memorial Day.....it is wonderful to take a moment to think of those for whom this day has been set aside.
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Such lovely photos from DR JOSE from NYC yesterday....with Monkey being baffled by the Ramble, etc. And DR FJL had some lovely lyrics to share.
I myself am coughing and feverish and otherwise down - I do not think I will be able to attend rehearsal tonight....we shall see. I sent an email to the director, but she has not responded. Time will tell.
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~~~~~FEEL BETTER VIBES TO DR JRAND~~~~~
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DR JRand - Why did you bother calling your director? I mean, if other people don't show up to rehearsal.. ;)
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Good morning!
Another overcast morning and coolish but not as cool as I'd like. Yes, I have the house opened up, but it's kind of muggy/cool. Forecast says a chance of rain for the next five days. May has been a very wet month.
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Favorite picnic foods:
fried chicken, potato salad, cupcakes.
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In other news...
I believe I'm going to pass on heading over to the Guggenheim this morning. My friend, Mike, just called me, and he happened to get there when they opened this morning. -There was lots of hubbub by his hotel this morning due to an explosion outside a Starbucks at 92nd & 3rd Ave, so he was up earlier today than he though he would be. In any case...
There are a couple of things I've been taking care of here at the apartment, and since I do have to head out again later this afternoon, staying put for now is a good thing.
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On TV TOnight!™
NBC - DATELINE, MEDIUM
ABC - THE BACHELORETTE, HERE COME THE NEWLYWEDS
HBO - IN TREATMENT (season finale)
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Just got the word to work on VALKYRIE (Blu-ray), so that will be my work project for today. The disc was sent to me by mistake, but due to the mail holidays, it makes no sense to postpone working on it so it can get into the hands of the right person.
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DR JRand - Why did you bother calling your director? I mean, if other people don't show up to rehearsal.. ;)
Hey you're right. Darn. And it's too late to delete the email.
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DR JRand58, sorry to hear you are not feeling well.
***RAPID RECOVERY VIBES!!!!!***
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A Happy Memorial Day to everyone who, like me, had loved ones who served in conflicts involving our nation.
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Explosion outside of Starbucks.....whew!
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Favorite picnic foods:
The traditional hamburger and potato salad.
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It's raining lightly today, so I moved my planters off the porch to the sidewalk so they can enjoy the moisture from the sky.
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As for my favorite picnic foods:
Potato Salad - A good potato salad can be hard to come by, but when I come across a bowl of mayo-laced goodness... :) I like mine with some chopped eggs and pickle relish. Although, I recently had a sweet-potato-and-apple salad that was simply divoon.
Hot Dogs - Ballpark Franks! And cookouts tend to be the only place I ever eat hot dogs.
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Favorite picnic food....mmmmmmmmmmm.....good topic DR DAW.
I love grilled hamburgers as well.....with pickles and cheese.....and tomatoes.... And potato salad as well....whew! Now I want some.
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good topic DR DAW.
Giving credit where it's due... it was DR JoseSPiano's idea. :)
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**DVR ALERT***
Wednesday evening, some PBS affiliates will be showing a behind-the-scenes documentary concerning In The Heights...
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(http://img.timeinc.net/recipes/i/recipes/ck/06/07/potato-salad-ck-1206167-x.jpg)
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Memorial Day remembrance of my Dad:
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Very nice, DR GINNY.
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Fritz Lang's Man Hunt almost sounds like a website.
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Fritz Lang's Man Hunt almost sounds like a website.
;D
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I used to like hot dogs, but for two years, I took one or two to school for my lunch every day, and I kind of overdosed on them. Thus, I don't have much a taste for them any more.
Hamburgers are a completely different story. Yum!
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Memorial Day remembrance of my Dad:
That's a good idea. I think I've got a picture of my dad in his Army uniform. Let me look for it.
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TOD - Cold fried chicken, deviled eggs, sliced tomatoes.
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Here's my dad who was stationed in the Phillipines during World War II.
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Now I guess it's time for me to head downstairs. There is no mail to check (DARN!), but I have some straightening up to do and then I'll start on lunch.
WBBL.
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My Dad went to Okinawa at the very end of WWII and then was sent to a then-newly-troublesome spot that my Mom had never heard of - Korea.
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Thanks for sharing, DR MATTH. Very nice picture.
DR GINNY - was he with General MacArthur? or wait a minute - I think that was the Philippines.
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Constance Bennett is buried in Arlington Cemetery.
Really? How did she manage that?
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Thanks for sharing, DR MATTH. Very nice picture.
DR GINNY - was he with General MacArthur? or wait a minute - I think that was the Philippines.
I don't think so, DR JRand. I do know that, at some point, he was part of an honor guard for former-president Hoover.
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If any DR happens to be in the market for a new blender - "in the market", is that the correct phrase ??? in any case...
If any DR happens to be looking for a new blender, Sur La Table is currently running a Web Only special on a Kitchen Aid Blender (http://tinyurl.com/oljez4). Not a bad deal. The catch: only one color available: Caviar Black.
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Hey all, happy Memorial Day. Been keeping up with bk's notes, quite a way to start the day usually. This weekend is/was auditions for The Full Monty here in San Mateo. One day of auditions, one day of callbacks and more callbacks this eve. Yes, for the dance auditions they had to strip down to their underwear, and yes, it was uncomfortable at first, but in the end was a lot of fun.
Today will be house/yard work before more callbacks and grocery shopping. Don't think we'll get to the movies, though. I really want to see "Angels and Demons", maybe next weekend.
TOD - fried chicken and any salad mixed with mayo!
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Constance Bennett is buried in Arlington Cemetery.
Really? How did she manage that?
She was married to an Air Force Brigadier General when she passed away.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=bennett&GSfn=constance&GSbyrel=in&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=1906& (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=bennett&GSfn=constance&GSbyrel=in&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=1906&)
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DR GINNY - the idea of President Hoover makes me laugh....
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DR GINNY - the idea of President Hoover makes me laugh....
Well, it's hard to think of him without having the song from "Annie" come to mind...
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DR JRand - I hope you feel better soon!
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I'm up after a good night's sleep (eight hours). The day is overcast at the moment, but that will probably burn off in an hour or so and then I'll do the long jog and then I'll start my busy day of relaxing.
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And the word of the day is: FISSIPAROUS!
Didn't he come in second in the Indy 500?
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I would need to find a pic of my Dad, which maybe I will do. In the meantime, you can read a sentence or two about him here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Douglas,_Utah
and here's a news article on the award my Dad received which was presented to him by his good friend Gen. Westmoreland:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=336&dat=19830216&id=n-UOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZoMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7337,360795
I got to meet "Bill" and "Kitzy" (no, I'm not kidding) that night and they gave me several lemons from Bob and Dolores Hope's tree.
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My father is also a recurring character in the famed "Molly" stories of A.J. Liebling. These originally ran in The New Yorker, but later were compiled in many books.
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There's also a really good documentary on Ft. Douglas produced by KUED, SLC's PBS affiliate, which has been broadcast nationally a couple of times. It's called The Spirit of Ft. Douglas and has a whole segment on my Dad. I of course provided all the pics/info for that segment, but couldn't get to SLC in time to be interviewed. I hope any of you passing through SLC will take an hour or two to visit Ft. Douglas, and especially to drop by the Museum my Dad founded, which is housed in a building named after him
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Here's my mom and dad on their weddng day. My dad served on the USS Ranger, an aircraft carrier that was reported sunk three times in the South Pacfic. I don'y know how my mom got through the war.
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Here's my dad who was stationed in the Phillipines during World War II.
Was there a "Jap" (using the parlance of the day) in there taking that picture? Lawsy, what an intense stare! :)
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Here's a question for you frequent movie-goers. We're going to see STAR TREK this afternoon, and one of the listings for it says "OC--STAR TREK". What could that "OC" stand for?
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Overtly Crappy?
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Great photos and remembrances, DRs MattH, JMK, and Elmore!
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Just saw a video audition for a Rosie candidate. She's real cute and with some direction could probably do it. Don't know about star quality but for the reading she might be fine - but I'm supposed to get some other candidates in the morning and we'll have auditions Wednesday or Thursday for those and then I'll decide. But this girl was very good - she's a former B'way Penny Pingleton from Hairspray, so the vibe seems right.
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Overtly Crappy?
;D
Wouldn't that have to be in front of every listing, then?
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My mother's sister Jean, after her marriage broke up around 1941, became a WAC. I know very little about her military career. Around 1945, my grandfather afer a falling out with my hometown's steel corporation over a patent ownership, ended up working in Seattle, where he suffered a major stroke. My aunts Jean and Dorothy went to Seattle to bring him back to Ohio and found that sleeping cars on trains were requisitioned by the military for wounded soldiers. My Aunt Jean used her military clout to get my grandfather a bed on an eastbound train. He died in 1948, but his ghost appeared quite frequently during the 1950s and 60s.
(http://i597.photobucket.com/albums/tt56/elmore3003/203Jeanuniform.jpg)
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Looking for these photos, I found one of me around the age of three. My summer fashion sense hasn't changed in 60 years!
(http://i597.photobucket.com/albums/tt56/elmore3003/243Larry.jpg)
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My dad and my mother's sister Ruth.(http://i597.photobucket.com/albums/tt56/elmore3003/180BillRuth.jpg)
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One last shot of my Aunt Jean.(http://i597.photobucket.com/albums/tt56/elmore3003/194JeanWAC-1.jpg)
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Here's my mom and dad on their weddng day. My dad served on the USS Ranger, an aircraft carrier that was reported sunk three times in the South Pacfic. I don'y know how my mom got through the war.
Happy to report the Ranger was never sunk. In fact, USS Ranger was homeported at Naval Air Station, North Island (Coronado), San Diego when I was on USS Kitty Hawk in 1992-93. One of the saddest sights I ever saw was USS Ranger, sometime during summer 1993, pulling out of her homeported berth for the final time as a skeleton crew (i.e., only a scant few men) stood on her flight deck as she was taken to NAS North Island for "mothballing."
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Thanks for all the pictures and sharing the memories.
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Good Afternoon!
And, I believe, I'm heading down to MoMA - first visit in almost three months!
Laters...
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Love the photos, DR ELMORE!
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DR Elmore - my mother's sister was also named Ruth. That's where I got my middle name!
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OK, folks, if it gets cold again here in the Midwest, you can blame me. I just packed away the sweaters and turtlenecks for the summer!
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Lovely photos, everyone! :)
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Great photos, everyone. Thank you! :)
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Yes, wonderful photographs! Please send topic suggestions to me. This is the kind of thing I really like.
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The sun came out, I did the easy breezy long jog, and now I'm doing some corrections on the Nudie music - and there are a LOT to do.
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Just got the FNM eblast and only have one question--are the readings on June 15 and 16?
(Sorry, couldn't resist).
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For Those Who have Blu-Ray and as a TOD- What are the Three Best You have seen so Far?
I'll Start
BLACK NARCISSUS
PLANET EARTH
WALL-E and I'll Add a 4th------- THE ROBE
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Just for pure visual phantasmagoria-ness, SPEED RACER.
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I love all the old photos. They are great.
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This morning I went for a walk, and this is what I saw:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTYL5zOehtI
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DR Elmore - my mother's sister was also named Ruth. That's where I got my middle name!
No, my mother's sister was named Ruth. She never married, althogh she and another woman bought a house together where they lived for over 25 years.
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JMK - I think the readings are on June 15 and 16.
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Looking for these photos, I found one of me around the age of three. My summer fashion sense hasn't changed in 60 years!
(http://i597.photobucket.com/albums/tt56/elmore3003/243Larry.jpg)
I love the positioning of the hands. Foreshadowing?
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Here's a question for you frequent movie-goers. We're going to see STAR TREK this afternoon, and one of the listings for it says "OC--STAR TREK". What could that "OC" stand for?
OC - Original cast, Leonard Nemoy.
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Healthy vibes to Jrand
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Am really loving these pictures of veteran dads. Hope more can share.
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Page Four Dance!!!
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I'll be glad to answer your question, DR Arnold Brockman, but don't we want to save these suggestions for the topics of others days?
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I began my afternoon of viewing with last night's season finale of THE TUDORS. Henry meets Katherine Howard in this, and Cromwell meets his maker. Cheers to James Frain for a wonderful performance as Cromwell in this episode. Very emotional at the end.
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Then I watched my work project for the day - VALKYRIE. It was a very entertaining and illuminating historical drama. I only knew a little of the story, so much of it was brand new to me. And like '1776,' even though we know the ending the plot, it doesn't negate the entertainment value at all since half the fun is getting to the end with all of the various twists and turns of fate. First rate cast, and all of the different accents didn't bother me at all.
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There are two commentaries, but I'm saving them until after I go back down. Instead I immediately began watching the bonus featurettes. I got five complete ones watched and was in the middle of the sixth one when it was time to come upstairs. I'll complete them when I go back down as well.
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I got my shipping notice for THE CLOSER's fourth season set this morning, but I went ahead and set the DVR to record tonight's rerun of the show, so I'll watch it and MEDIUM tonight starting around 9:30.
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I'll be glad to answer your question, DR Arnold Brockman, but don't we want to save these suggestions for the topics of others days?
I Agree
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More TOD - I just put one of my favorite cook-out specialties in the oven - baked beans. Actually, it's just Campbell's Pork & Beans, doctored up with brown sugar, molasses, catsup, mustard, and hotdog relish. I got this recipe from a friend of my Mom's almost 40 years ago. For just Richard and myself, I'm making a small batch, but if you invite me to a cook-out, I'll make a double or triple recipe!
1 28-oz can Campbell's Pork & Beans
2 T brown sugar
1/4 C molasses
1/4 C catsup
1 t mustard
1 t hotdog relish
Put bacon slices on top, bake at 375o for 1 hour & 15 minutes.
(The original recipe calls for one small onion chopped, but we don't cook with onions in our house...)
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Hello, everyone.
My mother did NOT have a sister named Ruth.
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Feel-better-soon vibes to JRand.
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That is all.
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I must do some writing now, so I'm hopping off-line for the moment.
WBBL.
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Hello, everyone.
My mother did NOT have a sister named Ruth.
;D
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Rain has arrived in SW Ohio - too bad for the dinnertime cook-outs :(
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My mother did NOT have a sister named Ruth.
Nor did mine. In fact she had no sisters at all. She didn't have any brothers either. She was an only child.
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We are back from a lovelier than lovely time on Long Island. We ate and visited and slept and I bought a television pass through box and a new antenna. I will hook them up on June 13th and see what kind of stations and pictures we get and if we get enough channels then goodbye Time Warner Cable!
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Welcome home, DR Ben!
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I once knew a woman named Ruth.
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Feel better JRand
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I don't have a photo of my dad in the service. It was after WW II and before Korea. He played the trombone at Ft Dix, NJ
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Welcome home Ben
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I once knew a woman named Ruth.
I have a cousin named Ruth who is not a mother
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My MIL had a sister named Ruth.
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Enough about Ruth, what about Naomi?
(Is that indeed an Electric Company reference?)
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Enough about Ruth, what about Naomi?
(Is that indeed an Electric Company reference?)
It could be a biblical reference.
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We watched the HBO Grey Gardens this weekend. I really liked it, although I didn't need the end scene that ran under the credits.
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My MIL also had a sister named Naomi.
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Love all the military photos!
And of course the one of Master Lawrence, as well.
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Betsy's middle name is Ruth.
STAR TREK was quite enjoyable, IMHO.
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And here is my dad during World War 2. Willard L. Barnum
(http://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo146/mbarnum/dad.jpg?t=1243291649)
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I'm not sure if anybody has posted this. But Susan Boyle performed in the semifinals of Britain's Got Talent. ANd it's now up on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3_CtdViu9w&feature=popular
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I am looking forward to watching tonight's MEDIUM.
Also on tonight is the 2nd to last episode this season of THE HILLS.
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I'm not sure if anybody has posted this. But Susan Boyle performed in the semifinals of Britain's Got Talent. ANd it's now up on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3_CtdViu9w&feature=popular
One of my friends, a successful businesswoman and very good singer, said that her plan for when she gets laid off is to become a "Susan Boyle impersonator." She said she loves what SB has done for frumpy, middle-aged women!
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Had a fun lunch at Islands - bacon cheeseburger and endless fries.
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Dropped off a big box o' Tom Jones CDs to my local dealer.
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I once knew a woman named Ruth.
I knew a man with a wooden leg named Smith.
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Now I'll decide which Blu-Rays I shall watch - many choices and a couple I haven't seen, like The Reader.
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And here is my dad during World War 2. Willard L. Barnum
(http://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo146/mbarnum/dad.jpg?t=1243291649)
I have said it before Mikey, but your dad was a hottie!
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We have to get these post up to, at least, Page Six so that this day will be Memorial for Bk, as well. Sorry, I don't have a scanner, so I can't post my dad's photo.
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I once knew a woman named Ruth.
I knew a man with a wooden leg named Smith.
And what was the name of his other leg?
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I knew an old lady who swallowed a fly
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I don't know why, she swallowed the fly
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perhaps she'll die
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I once knew a woman named Ruth.
And what was the name of his other leg?
LOL! ;D ;D
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I once knew a woman named Ruth.
I've got a cousin in Milwaukee!
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I don't know why, she swallowed the fly
Years ago, Seattle had an outdoor theater on Green Lake called the Aqua Theater. One year, Kathryn Grayson did KISMET (I think) at the theater; and during the performance of one of the songs, the audience was entertained by watching this giant moth fly around Miss Grayson while she sang. And, of course, before she had finished singing, the moth had flown into her mouth and was swallowed.
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We have to get these post up to, at least, Page Six so that this day will be Memorial for Bk, as well. Sorry, I don't have a scanner, so I can't post my dad's photo.
I haven't figured out how to use the scanner I have, DR TCB, so I swiped the photo I posted from my sister's post on:
Find a Grave (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=ellis&GScid=600&GRid=35558603&)
I didn't think she'd mind...
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We have to get these post up to, at least, Page Six so that this day will be Memorial for Bk, as well. Sorry, I don't have a scanner, so I can't post my dad's photo.
I haven't figured out how to use the scanner I have, DR TCB, so I swiped the photo I posted from my sister's post on:
Find a Grave (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=ellis&GScid=600&GRid=35558603&)
I didn't think she'd mind...
My sister is pretty much computer challenged, so I doubt very much that she has my dad's picture posted anywhere but her nightstand.
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I was too damn lazy today to even go buy some hamburger to grill. Still, barbeuced hamburgers and hot dogs, with my sister's potato salad would be my number one favorite picnic food (or does that count as three?)
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My thanks to George for his nice comments about GUYS AND DOLLS. And also for driving all the way up to see the show. I certainly am glad that I got talked into playing Arivde, the show and the cast were quite wonderful, despite the opinions of certain Tacoma theater folk.
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We have to get these post up to, at least, Page Six so that this day will be Memorial for Bk, as well. Sorry, I don't have a scanner, so I can't post my dad's photo.
I haven't figured out how to use the scanner I have, DR TCB, so I swiped the photo I posted from my sister's post on:
Find a Grave (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=ellis&GScid=600&GRid=35558603&)
I didn't think she'd mind...
My sister is pretty much computer challenged, so I doubt very much that she has my dad's picture posted anywhere but her nightstand.
I'm very appreciative and proud of the genealogy work my sister has done. She really astounded me with this presence on the internet.
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Does a microwaved frozen dinner count as a picnic if I have the
patio balcony sliding door open?
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My number one picnic food is Gingham Inn chicken, mom's potato salad, baked beans and lemonade
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I mowed my yard today, not realizing it was almost 90 degrees (hot for here). I didn't take water out there and got a bit over heated. But, after drinking a gallon of water,a cool shower and relaxing a little I felt much better
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I love my cousin's Family CD! I've been looking through it and getting rather sentimental over the photos. I came across this one of my mother and me from around 1951 and it's very funny.(http://i597.photobucket.com/albums/tt56/elmore3003/315ElsieLarry12-51.jpg)
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Does a microwaved frozen dinner count as a picnic if I have the patio balcony sliding door open?
I don't see why not
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Does a microwaved frozen dinner count as a picnic if I have the patio balcony sliding door open?
Richard and I just had hotdogs and baked beans in the family room with the windows open. We watched my new Barbra Streisand CDs and pretended we were on the lawn at Arrowhead Pond.
"Picnic" is a state of mind.
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Oh let's get to page 6
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It isn't too far from here
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Nice photos DR Elmore
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Love the family photos and the Memorial Day photos
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I wonder what the two police officers outside my house are talking about.
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I wonder what the two police officers outside my house are talking about.
Have you been terrorizing and intimidating the neighbors again?
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Are they friends of the game warden?
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I wonder what the two police officers outside my house are talking about.
Have you been terrorizing and intimidating the neighbors again?
Now, now. I am practicing my song for Sunday.
Maybe you are right.
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I wonder what the two police officers outside my house are talking about.
Have you been terrorizing and intimidating the neighbors again?
Now, now. I am practicing my song for Sunday.
Maybe you are right.
Are you doing the song? How's it sound?
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She sounds good. We'll see about me.
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They went to the Goldstein home. I hope everything is ok.
ETA: They left after a couple of minutes. That's a good sign.
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Hope everything is ok
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I have a bug bite on my neck that is itching like crazy!
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Feel better, Cilla.
Not to make light, but "Itching Like Crazy" could almost be a parody of "Miss You Like Crazy." Maybe we could join forces on that.
:)
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Nothing-going-on vibes to Laura
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Good Evening!
And what was your Frozen Custard Flavor of the Day? Mine was Tangerine. :)
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And speaking of "The Young & The Restless"...
Here's an article from last week's "Advocate" about Thom Bierdz, and his return to "Y&R":
Thom Bierdz Coming Home (http://www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid84724.asp)
*And I wonder if this is related to the other recent "Y&R"-related news.
**And my apologies if this article was already posted here.
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I swear, I have no idea how Alison Dubois ever gets to sleep knowing she's going to have horrible dreams!
Good night, everyone!
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It is late for me.
G'night!
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Memorial Day remembrance of my Dad:
That's a good idea. I think I've got a picture of my dad in his Army uniform. Let me look for it.
It is a good idea! Here's picture (it's a scan of a copy of a copy) of my dad in the late 1950s shortly after he joined the army. He's with his three brothers and it's probably the last picture that was taken of the four of them together. One of them died from some degenerative disease (I can never remember what), one is living is Colorado and doesn't want anything to do with the rest of the family (for whatever reason) and one has disappeared and no one knows where he is or what happened to him...very, very strange. :-\
(http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff302/HHWgroup/GPDsDadandHisBrothers.png)
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As for the Free-For-All-Food Topic of the Day....
How about...
Since it is Memorial Day...
And even though we may done this before, but...
What are you favorite picnic and cookout foods?
Hamburgers, hot dogs, the usuals.
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And just because...here's a picture of my dad with his two sisters. This was taken a couple of years ago:
(http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff302/HHWgroup/GPDsDadandHisSisters.png)
;D
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Feel better, Cilla.
Not to make light, but "Itching Like Crazy" could almost be a parody of "Miss You Like Crazy." Maybe we could join forces on that.
:)
LOL, thanks FJL, it's really just a bug bite, but I appreciate the thought and the creativity. Do I know Miss You Like Crazy?
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Feel better, Cilla.
Not to make light, but "Itching Like Crazy" could almost be a parody of "Miss You Like Crazy." Maybe we could join forces on that.
:)
LOL, thanks FJL, it's really just a bug bite, but I appreciate the thought and the creativity. Do I know Miss You Like Crazy?
Ok, I remember it. It wasn't one of my favorites, but it has real potential as a bug bite/itching like crazy parody
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Wow! I had a lot more to VALKYRIE than I thought. Besides the commentaries, there was a near two-hour documentary tracing German history from post World War I through the rise of the Nazis and on into the war, then to the story covered in the film, and then the aftermath. Very interesting stuff. Great to see many ancestors of the people portrayed in the film.
Some of the casting for VALKYRIE, by the way, was eeriely close to the looks of the real people.
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When I finished that, I finished watching an NCIS episode that I had started yesterday. It was about a female naval officer who had been kidnapped. Zac Efron had a small role as an underaged teen sipping a beer and caught by Tony and Ziva.
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Then I watched a BONES episode, the first half of the two part season premiere this year that took place in London. Enjoyable episode with the different character interplays, but with a lot of characters on both sides of the Atlantic, it was kind of a frantic episode.
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I rewatched last season's premiere episode of THE CLOSER since Jason O'Mara was the guest star, and I enjoyed it all over again. He's got such great chemistry with Kyra Sedgwick. Their scenes together just crackle.
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And I concluded my evening viewing with MEDIUM. Enjoyable episode, a little lighter than usual (though the Lee and Lyn story wasn't especially interesting to me). I thought I had it figured out REAL early, but I was only half right, and their story ended up better than the one I had thought they were going for.
Also, kind of sneaky of NBC saying that next week is the MEDIUM finale. Well, it IS the finale for them, but not for the series.
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I would need to find a pic of my Dad, which maybe I will do. In the meantime, you can read a sentence or two about him here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Douglas,_Utah
and here's a news article on the award my Dad received which was presented to him by his good friend Gen. Westmoreland:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=336&dat=19830216&id=n-UOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZoMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7337,360795
I got to meet "Bill" and "Kitzy" (no, I'm not kidding) that night and they gave me several lemons from Bob and Dolores Hope's tree.
Nice!
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Good Evening!
And what was your Frozen Custard Flavor of the Day? Mine was Tangerine. :)
What about the hot dog with sand and mustard? And the ride on the ferris wheel...
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**DVR ALERT***
Wednesday evening, some PBS affiliates will be showing a behind-the-scenes documentary concerning In The Heights...
I've got my DVR set! ;D
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Well, I'm going to go now. I want to work on my lines before tonight's "Medium" because we have rehearsal tomorrow and we're supposed to be off book...and I haven't had any blocking rehearsal, yet! :o I've never been in that kind of situation before. :-\ I'm such a procrastinator. I've got the short lines memorized, but I have three longer speeches that still need a little work...so work, I must. :)
Until later!
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I'm heading down now since my eyes are very heavy and I obviously need to go to bed.
Good night!
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MattH, why don't you start posting links to your reviews - I know people here would be interested to read them.
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I've watched two motion pictures on Blu-Ray, both with spiffy transfers. I'll now check out the quality of a couple of others, then write the notes.
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I worked on my lines...but they still need work. ::) But I will continue to work on them. :D
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Wow, I still get one post for today.
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At least!
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Hi George,
I better catch up and read today's post.