Haines His Way
Archives => Archive 22 => Topic started by: bk on February 04, 2012, 12:52:16 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were fresh and had eyes, and now it is time for you to post until the fresh cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: SPELUNK!
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Good morning to all.
Why am I up so early?????
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TOD:
Richard Burton:
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
Where Eagles Dare
The Night of the Iguana
Becket
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Elizaberth Taylor:
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Suddenly Last Summer
Rex Harrison:
Midnight Lace
The Agony and the Ecstasy
My Fair Lady
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Very cold today. The forecast is for snow tonight - I do hope so!
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Good morning, all! It was a very long night. I slept well, with many dreams, but it seemed to go on for years. All of my dreams were bizarre: working at Drama Book Shop to discover I'd arrived wearing only my underwear, deciphering who should sing what part in a Christmas rehearsal in which a reindeer was named Feckless (shades of Cold comfort Farm!), a dream in which my brother Randy was about five years old. I'm glad to be awake.
First thing, laundry, then I tidy the apartment, mop the bathroom and kitchen, and get to work on the Disc 4 liner notes.
Coffee first.
TOD:
Burton & Taylor
Who's Afraid ofVirginia Woolf
The Taming of the Shrew
Harrison
My Fair Lady
Blithe Spirit
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Morning all.
That is all.
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Oatmeal and coffee.
We watched the episode about Starr and the prostitute from Duchess of Duke Street last night. I love this series!!! We also watched the one about the dying man. Shades of Grand Hotel.
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Saturday.....it is a bit rainy - so maybe there will be fewer than 350,000 people wandering the SuperBoil Village today.
I am annoyed that everyday on the news we hear from the SMUG woman who is in charge of the event bragging about herself and her almost ALL FEMALE staff and the great job they are doing.....she NEVER mentions the 8,000 volunteers who are doing the street work...NEVER.... I hope she enjoys her paycheck. As soon as the event ends, she is off to run the Olympics somewhere.....my guess is that she won't even clean out her desk.....but leave everything for someone else to clean up.
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I like CLEOPATRA....filmed in Todd-AO.....but I bought the special 3-disk DVD version, so I doubt that I will buy it on BluRay.
TOD:
Elizabeth Taylor
Cleopatra
A Place in the Sun
Giant
Virginia Woolf
Butterfield 8
Father of the Bride.....and many more
Richard Burton
Virginia Woolf
The Robe
Rex Harrison
Anna & the King
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Here is a HIGHLIGHTS site from the Committee....if anyone is interested.
http://www.indianapolissuperbowl.com/highlights/
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Good morning, all.
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TOD:
Taylor:
National Velvet
A Little Night Music
Taming of the Shrew
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Suddenly Last Summer
A Place in the Sun
Burton:
Equus
The Medusa Touch
Divorce His/Divorce Hers
Night of the Iguana
Becket
Spy Who Came in the from the Cold
1984
Harrison:
Unfaithfully Yours
Anna and the King
My Fair Lady
Night Train to Munich
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
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BK
FOUND IT!!!!
I have a listing of Bay Cities records. I think it's complete. I can send it to you if you'd like to have it.
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TOD:
Elizabeth Taylor
SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER
GIANT
A PLACE IN THE SUN
Rex Harrison
MY FAIR LADY
THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR
Richard Burton
WHERE EAGLES DARE
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DR George wrote:
Sounds good...but only a 1/4 cup of peanut butter? You'd think that there should be more. And if you wanted it to be a little easier, you could buy the chocolate pie crust separately. I've had those and they are very good. I've never seen Oreo Baking Crumbs for sale as its own product, at least, not here in the US.
I just use oreo cookies and take off the white parts. And then just put it in the food processor. Just takes a few minutes.
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DR Jane, re: the kindle comment from yesterday. There are some ebooks not available to Canada. But some people have found a very easy fix. If you change your address to US (very easy to do) then you can buy any book you want.
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Does anyone here make cold pasta salads? I want to make one tonight for tomorrow. But just wondering what to use as the dressing. Would you use mayo or not (i'm thinking not).
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That was a fun preview DR GEORGE.
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Good Morning!
I'm up, I'm up... And I've had my first cup of coffee of the day. First of ##?
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Does anyone here make cold pasta salads? I want to make one tonight for tomorrow. But just wondering what to use as the dressing. Would you use mayo or not (i'm thinking not).
Mayo, yes. Salad dressing (oil, vinegar, herbs, etc.), yes.
I mean, even bk's Tuna Pasta Salad uses mayo.
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OK...
Time for me to debrief the next 200 people I'll be playing for. -And, hopefully, not against.
Laters...
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Here is a picture that DR JMK shared with me.....Miss Frances Farmer with gloves and extra hair attends the Premiere showing of CLEOPATRA at the Loew's Theater in Downtown Indianapolis. ;D
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BK
FOUND IT!!!!
I have a listing of Bay Cities records. I think it's complete. I can send it to you if you'd like to have it.
I like lists and completeness so would certainly welcome the inclusion of all titles.
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And now I am off to work.. Oh Well.
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And the word of the day is: SPELUNK!
And The Song Of The Day Is: THE CAVE
(Sung By A Wonderful Group Called MUMFORD AND SONS)
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I feel the same way about for-profit companies enlisting volunteers, JRand.
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I have gone ahead and ordered CLEOPATRA from Amazon.UK, the first time ever I've ordered from them. I know, I know, will the excitement never end?
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Ben Gazzara has died.
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Saturday morning greetings! I'll be E & T until later this evening because Richard and I are taking my Mom to see JERSEY BOYS this afternoon at Dayton's Schuster Center and she's taking us to dinner at the Amber Rose. Her theatre ticket was our Christmas present to her and the funds for dinner were my sister's to her.
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Ben Gazzara has died.
Again? ;)
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Page 2 dance.
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I also see that Zalman King died.
He was a former actor who became a director and producer.
BK worked with him in the TV series The Young Lawyers.
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I have gone ahead and ordered CLEOPATRA from Amazon.UK, the first time ever I've ordered from them. I know, I know, will the excitement never end?
Congratulations on expanding your horizons JMK! And in the spirit of two-way country exchange, I've just ordered SPELLBOUND from Amazon.com. But I can't claim that it's the first time I've ordered from them :)
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I have a question for anyone who teaches people who are not singers how to sing a new song. Anyone?
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I have a question for anyone who teaches people who are not singers how to sing a new song. Anyone?
A number of ways--many people in the various choirs I lead do not read music and aren't especially skilled. Pounding out their parts repeatedly on a piano helps. I also provide MIDI files of parts for my choir members.
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I'm up, have had my telephonic conversation, and must now be on my way to the storage facility.
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Shayne, send it along.
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JMK, I am going to send you a PM in a few minutes.
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It's started snowing. There might be several inches by tomorrow morning.
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I hope the snow is welcome.
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For DR George:
(https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRpEAbtK4Z1YbzDcDsATwtXP7-TB3GKfx5abKEgzjAMYPOgHBQV)
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DR George wrote:
Sounds good...but only a 1/4 cup of peanut butter? You'd think that there should be more. And if you wanted it to be a little easier, you could buy the chocolate pie crust separately. I've had those and they are very good. I've never seen Oreo Baking Crumbs for sale as its own product, at least, not here in the US.
I just use oreo cookies and take off the white parts. And then just put it in the food processor. Just takes a few minutes.
If the boxed crumbs are too fine, IMHO, like the boxed graham cracker crumbs I'm sure the way you make them is better.
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DR Jane, re: the kindle comment from yesterday. There are some ebooks not available to Canada. But some people have found a very easy fix. If you change your address to US (very easy to do) then you can buy any book you want.
Have you done this?
I thought the iPad worked like the Kindle. Apparently it doesn't & Keith couldn't get WINSTON'S WAR for free.
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Thank you, JMK.
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Today, in my Disc 4 researches, I came across this sketch of the comedy The MerryWives OfGotham. It's actresses Laura Hope Crews and Grace George as two sisters who were separated in Ireland 43 years earlier and are friends in 1873 Manhattan. Crews played the Irish washerwoman who works for the wealthy Park Avenue matron, played by George. Only the audience knows they are sisters; they never discover the fact. Victor Herbert wrote a glorious song "Heart O'Mine," for the production. It's possibly his last song and moves me to tears every time I hear it
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Great image, Larry.
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Page two?
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Back from various and sundried errands and whatnot, including picking up a couple of packages, getting music and photos from storage, and all that jazz.
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I'll be very interested to see what Grant likes for a cover, because no one photo is screaming "cover" to me. In fact, none of them are. But I've found some great photos for inside the book.
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Great image, Larry.
Ditto. It is sad they never knew they were sisters.
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Good Afternoon!
It got very foggy in Memphis over the past few hours. Just in case you wanted to know of such things.
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And today's audition went.
That is all.
::)
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DR Jane, re: the kindle comment from yesterday. There are some ebooks not available to Canada. But some people have found a very easy fix. If you change your address to US (very easy to do) then you can buy any book you want.
Have you done this?
I thought the iPad worked like the Kindle. Apparently it doesn't & Keith couldn't get WINSTON'S WAR for free.
DR Jane - There are some "Kindle Only" exclusives which will not "work" with the Kindle app for the iPad/iPhone. You have to own an actual Kindle.
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DR George wrote:
Sounds good...but only a 1/4 cup of peanut butter? You'd think that there should be more. And if you wanted it to be a little easier, you could buy the chocolate pie crust separately. I've had those and they are very good. I've never seen Oreo Baking Crumbs for sale as its own product, at least, not here in the US.
I just use oreo cookies and take off the white parts. And then just put it in the food processor. Just takes a few minutes.
I usually just use chocolate graham crackers.
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LOL Jose, I figured that out when Keith explained why he couldn't get the book for free. ;)
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DR George wrote:
Sounds good...but only a 1/4 cup of peanut butter? You'd think that there should be more. And if you wanted it to be a little easier, you could buy the chocolate pie crust separately. I've had those and they are very good. I've never seen Oreo Baking Crumbs for sale as its own product, at least, not here in the US.
I just use oreo cookies and take off the white parts. And then just put it in the food processor. Just takes a few minutes.
I usually just use chocolate graham crackers.
Do you mean chocolate coated graham crackers?
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What our evenings look like.
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Interesting. I tried to transfer this photo from downloads & it wouldn't take. I closed HHW, put the photo into my web file, reopened HHW & clicked once on the photo. Both forms showed up.
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DR George wrote:
Sounds good...but only a 1/4 cup of peanut butter? You'd think that there should be more. And if you wanted it to be a little easier, you could buy the chocolate pie crust separately. I've had those and they are very good. I've never seen Oreo Baking Crumbs for sale as its own product, at least, not here in the US.
I just use oreo cookies and take off the white parts. And then just put it in the food processor. Just takes a few minutes.
I usually just use chocolate graham crackers.
Do you mean chocolate coated graham crackers?
Nope. Like these: http://www.groceries-express.com/default.asp?upc=4400000486
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I took a break and ran out and about the neighborhood. I cecked out new titles at Barnes & Nobles, bought sme dinner at Artie's, bought the eBay sketch from "The Merry Wives of Gotham," and I am in for the evening.
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Thank God! Finally,
!!! Page 3 Dance !!!
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What is it with Bravo and "The Patriot?" They show that film as regilarly as folk have bowel movements. It isn't that i don't like Mel Gibson, but I do hate that anti-semitic bigot and pig.
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That is what I thought. They don't look very good-lol.
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The snow has covered my satellite dish so I can't get any TV pictures now.
Whenever that's happened before I've managed to shift the snow by throwing snow balls at it.
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Up from a two-hour nap. Nice.
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Good evening! We're expecting some snow--nothing much expected to accumulate, though.
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Thanks for answering my question about your book, BK! Looking forward to reading it!
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The snow has covered my satellite dish so I can't get any TV pictures now.
Whenever that's happened before I've managed to shift the snow by throwing snow balls at it.
LOL. We can reach ours with a broom but it is a real pain. We got a new dish that works better when it snows.
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Moorea was our favorite place on the cruise, and fortunately the days were clear & beautiful. On the first day we took a jeep tour of the island.
We stopped for a lovely view of our ship.
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We stopped at a pineapple farm & walked around.
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A close up shot for DR Laura.
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Last photo of the pineapple fields.
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Does anyone here make cold pasta salads? I want to make one tonight for tomorrow. But just wondering what to use as the dressing. Would you use mayo or not (i'm thinking not).
For a cold pasta salad I would use an Italian dressing.
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Back from various and sundried errands and whatnot, including picking up a couple of packages, getting music and photos from storage, and all that jazz.
Wow, that's weird. I was just listening to "All That Jazz."
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Nice photos, DR Jane!
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Watching "As Time Goes By" on PBS. Love Dame Judi!
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Thanks DR KevinH. I will post more tomorrow.
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Watching "As Time Goes By" on PBS. Love Dame Judi!
Loved the show!
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DR Jane, re: the kindle comment from yesterday. There are some ebooks not available to Canada. But some people have found a very easy fix. If you change your address to US (very easy to do) then you can buy any book you want.
Have you done this?
I thought the iPad worked like the Kindle. Apparently it doesn't & Keith couldn't get WINSTON'S WAR for free.
Yes it's very easy to do.
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DR Jennifer I'm glad you can now get books from the US.
I've never made pasta salad.
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Does anyone here make cold pasta salads? I want to make one tonight for tomorrow. But just wondering what to use as the dressing. Would you use mayo or not (i'm thinking not).
For a cold pasta salad I would use an Italian dressing.
Like a bottled dressing?
I don't really like the flavor of italian bottled dressing. And i was not going to use mayo. But if DR Jose says to use mayo. I'll have to see what the dressing looks/tastes like.
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DR Jennifer I'm glad you can now get books from the US.
I've never made pasta salad.
I don't think it's that many. The weird thing is that when i'm not signed in amazon always assumes i'm from canada. So sometimes i don't realize why i can't see a certain book.
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Great photos, Jane. Looks like that pineapple vine kinda tore up your sleeves a bit.
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Great photos, Jane. Looks like that pineapple vine kinda tore up your sleeves a bit.
;D
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Jennifer, when I make a pasta salad, I finely chop onion, celery, green pepper if I have it, carrots, and some broccoli flowers cut really small. I often mix some mayo and some bottled dressing and toss it all together. I like to use the rotini shaped -- like a corkscrew -- because it holds the dressing better.
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I'm on the LL Bean website looking at flannel sheets. I think I'm meant to buy these.
http://www.llbean.com/llb/shop/69556?feat=1156-CL2
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I'm on the LL Bean website looking at flannel sheets. I think I'm meant to buy these.
http://www.llbean.com/llb/shop/69556?feat=1156-CL2
I dislike sleeping in flannel sheets. I sweat enough at nigiht without wrapping myself n flannel.
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I used to love flannel sheets because I'm always cold. Now they just seem like a magnet for Sherlock's fur & it is Keith who wants them. I don't know why since he always seems warm.
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One more.
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Page Four (4)
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We are back from a delightful day with my Mom. Got to the Schuster Center in time for the "Backstage on Broadway" lecture about JERSEY BOYS by the chair of the musical theatre department at Wright State University. Our seats for the show were great and we all quite enjoyed the production. Of course, Richard and I had seen it in Chicago in 2009, but it was all new for Mom and she had a great time. Afterwards we went to the Amber Rose (http://www.theamberrose.com), a unique restaurant in Old North Dayton.
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Here we are finishing dinner...
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Oy, such a day
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Here is an interesting meteorological phenomenon known as a skypunch.
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Here we are finishing dinner...
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What a great picture.
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DR Ginny, I agree-great picture! :)
The restaurant looks good except I didn't see much there for a vegetarian. What did you have?
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Im thinking that tomorrow I may go to two movies, WOMAN IN BLACK, which i hope will live up to the great BBC production from about 15(?) years ago, and ONE FOR THE MONEY. After a scare, I could use a laugh.
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Thanks, DR TCB! My Mom was having a much better time than it looks in this photo...
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DR Ginny, I agree-great picture! :)
The restaurant looks good except I didn't see much there for a vegetarian. What did you have?
I had chicken paprikas with spaetzle and German chocolate cake for dessert (half of which I sent home with Mom). Not at all heart healthy...
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Oh, I also brought home about 1/3 of my dinner to have for my Super Bowl supper tomorrow...
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Thanks, DR TCB! My Mom was having a much better time than it looks in this photo...
:)
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DR Ginny, I agree-great picture! :)
The restaurant looks good except I didn't see much there for a vegetarian. What did you have?
I had chicken paprikas with spaetzle and German chocolate cake for dessert (half of which I sent home with Mom). Not at all heart healthy...
I used to make a great chicken paprika. Even the vegetarian version was rather unhealthy.
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Did anyone open the LL Bean link? I tried to post the photo without the link but couldn't.
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Does wearing a clerical collar get you better service? :)
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Or at least into Heaven?
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Does wearing a clerical collar get you better service? :)
No, but we do get some funny looks when Richard and I hold hands...
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Does wearing a clerical collar get you better service? :)
No, but we do get some funny looks when Richard and I hold hands...
;D ;D
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Did anyone open the LL Bean link? I tried to post the photo without the link but couldn't.
Yes, DR Jane, I opened the link and agree that you need to buy those sheets. The few times it's gotten cold enough here for flannel sheets, we used only the top one with a regular sheet on the bottom and that worked quite well.
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Ginny, didn't you see the Bernese Mountain Dog puppy? ;)
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Hmmm, I'll have to ask Keith about using only one flannel sheet. I don't use the pillow cases anymore while he prefers them.
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Ginny, didn't you see the Bernese Mountain Dog puppy? ;)
Of course I did!
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Ginny, didn't you see the Bernese Mountain Dog puppy? ;)
Of course I did!
OK. :) Have you used those LL Bean sheets?
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This is the reason my side of the bed has twice as much fur in it as Keith's side, and why I stopped using flannel pillow cases.
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Thanks, DR TCB! My Mom was having a much better time than it looks in this photo...
Well, probably because she had to drink wine instread of scotch.
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Good grief, there is no one else here, so I guess I had better post a few more times.
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This is the reason my side of the bed has twice as much fur in it as Keith's side, and why I stopped using flannel pillow cases.
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I could complain about how much pain I am in, but that is probably one of the reasons that everybody else left the site.
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This is the reason my side of the bed has twice as much fur in it as Keith's side, and why I stopped using flannel pillow cases.
Oh good, JMK is here.
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One more.
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Page Five.
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I am tired.
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I am going to go to bed.
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G'night!
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'night!
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Thanks, DR TCB! My Mom was having a much better time than it looks in this photo...
Well, probably because she had to drink wine instread of scotch.
;D
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This is the reason my side of the bed has twice as much fur in it as Keith's side, and why I stopped using flannel pillow cases.
Cute.
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'night
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Aww, I'm sorry TCB. I hope you feel better in the morning.
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Great photos, all.
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Back from a party marking the opening of a new Stephan Pyles restaurant. the problem with these things is far too many cocktails and not enough food. And I wasn't in a cocktail mood tonight.
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Feel-better vibes to TCB
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No-hangover vibes to John G
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We had a 90% chance of snow last night and today. We got none...zero, zilch, not a damn flake. When will Europe and Asia stop hogging winter?
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No-hangover vibes to John G
Thanks. I had 1 glass of Champagne and a half a passion fruit margarita. A little too sweet for my tastes. That's not enough to do me wrong.
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Great Photo Ginny!
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I did go shopping, which wouldn't have been possible if we had gotten the snow. I got a really good mattress topper that I'm going to put on the futon that has a fairly thin mattress when mom and dad come to spend the night. Mom likes sleeping in that room and it will make it a very comfortable bed. I also got a great deal on an outfit for my nephew's wedding. I couldn't believe the amount of clothes on the clearance racks. People must not have been buying winter clothes this year
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OF course, we haven't needed any winter clothes so far
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OF course, we haven't needed any winter clothes so far
So many things are blooming here. And the rains are just making everything feel as if it's spring.
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Night, all.
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Had a mostly good rehearsal - cast was fine but I had to give a few notes to a few people, just to keep energy up and stuff. And a few notes about dynamic for the pianist.
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Then the family Hollis and I went to Barney's Beanery - I had their yummilicious foot-long chili cheese dog and fries.
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Then we came back watched The Music Man, which Melody had never seen.
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Then we came back watched The Music Man, which Melody had never seen.
The Robert Preston or Matthew Broderick version? :-)
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BK
Did you get the Bay Cities list?
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Jane, I also loved Moorea.
Stayed in a fare, or hut, on stilts on the lagoon.
Had a glass window in the floor that I could open and feed the fish below.
Love the photos.
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Larry, I was wondering if Bravo decided to air "The Patriot" because of the Super Bowl teams.
I don't like Mel Gibson either.
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Got the list - it's very confusing and not accurate - I really am not having much energy to just list a bunch of titles that I had little to do with other than mastering them.
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Iris, did you try the avatar thing yet?
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Not yet, Bruce. Will work on it tomorrow.
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John G-
I had a great dinner at a Stephan Pyles restaurant many years ago---I think it was called the Routh St. Cafe. Yummy.
How is his new place?
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Well, today was a day. At about 10:15 am, I got to the scene shop to help load set pieces to transport to the space where we're performing (the basement of the local Eagle's Club, called The Eagle's Underground). There were about 10 or so people and three vehicles, so it all fit in the carts and we only had to make one trip. We then got to the space and unloaded the vehicles. We assembled most of the pieces that needed to be put together (there are still some things that aren't finished and it was decided that some people would continue with the assemblage and some of us would walk downtown and put up posters.
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I went with the posterers and by the time we got to a restaurant called McMenamin's/The Spar (http://www.mcmenamins.com/633-mcmenamins-spar-cafe-home), it was time for me to meet my friend Margo and our former co-worker Jan at McMenamin's. Jan, Margo and I had a lovely lunch and chatted for a couple of hours. Afterward, I walked back to the space and helped a bit more. I then left after an hour or so and came home to rest. I actually took an impromptu nap.
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I needed to wake up because tonight, I went to a concert at a local shop called Traditions. A group called Hot Club Sandwich (http://www.hotclubsandwich.com/) performed and they were very good and a lot of fun! I even bought the three, count 'em THREE CDs that they were selling...for $25 total! I then came home and am now ketchuping on HHW. :D