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[Spoonman]

I have never seen a year where we had so many spectacular sunsets. almost everyday had one. most of these were taken from our back deck. Some while kayaking. There are a lot so I'll make a few posts with a selection of them.

 

[peach174]

We have also had some pretty great ones here this year.
The bottom one looks like AZ minus the big trees.

 

[Foxfyre]

We have also had some pretty great ones here this year.
The bottom one looks like AZ minus the big trees.

Albuquerque too and we have a lot of trees in Albuquerque despite it being high desert country.

 

[ChrisL]

We have nice sunsets here too, but there are too many trees in the way for me to get any good pictures. I'm in kind of like a valley next to some woods and a river.

 

[ChrisL]

Hey, I was just GPS'ing something, and in the area I was checking out is a store called Bitch Bags. Ha ha!!!

I'm going to have to go and see what kind of bags they have for us bitches with sass and attitude.

 

[blackhawk]

 

[Spoonman]

We have nice sunsets here too, but there are too many trees in the way for me to get any good pictures. I'm in kind of like a valley next to some woods and a river.

I have a pretty good spot. we're on a hill and to the west of us through a very narrow tree line is a valley. I get those shots across the valley with the sun setting behind the next range.

 

[gallantwarrior]

So I had to share this somewhere --- I was injured this morning by ......... wait for it....


Hobbes.

I've been hobbled for several weeks with some kind of muscle pull in my left leg that has me walking unnaturally. It's almost healed by now. Or was, until this AM, when I was ambling out to the car and Hobbes, as he often does, jumped out to pounce on me. As I have trained him. But he was heading literally straight for where my foot was about to land so I took a sudden evasive maneuver, twisting my left knee and going down in a yelping heap. It was very painful. Hobbes just ran away in search of the next bug.

Bowled over by a cat. I take the shame.

Boy, do I know that feeling! I have a gait I refer to as the pussy-cat shuffle. More like shifting them gently out of your way with a foot than squashing them mercilessly.

 

[gallantwarrior]

Quinoa doesn't have much flavor on its own - it's just an ingredient, imo.

I've had some delicious dishes which featured it. One of my favorite restaurants has a Kale Quinoa salad, which despite my making fun of the concept, is incredibly delicious. It's dressed with shaved parmesan and toasted pumpkin seed - really quite yummy!

I actually enjoy some vegetarian and vegan cuisine - I just can't stand the self-absorbed ideology of the Twoo Beweevahs.

So is it a thickening or binding agent like flour? Or does it have some nutrition value more than other ingredients we more commonly have on hand? Otherwise, why feature it?

It's a high protein "grain". For people who don't eat meat, it is something that can be combined with other plants to create whole protein. I'm in no way a vegetarian, but I like a balanced, healthy diet with fresh ingredients. Sometimes, I just feel like a vegetable salad for dinner (i.e. the kale and quinoa) - such a combination is healthier than iceberg lettuce!

It's also used as a base ingredient (or co-ingredient) in making gluten-free pasta, for those of us who know what wheat can do to us yet still love our pasta.

It's damn expensive though. Usually I get the rice-based pasta.

I avoid rice - especially white rice. And I don't have pasta or bread very often - so when I do, I want the real stuff.

We eat a lot of rice and other grains. I can live without pasta or bread, but have folks who eat at our table regularly (including Hombre) who consider a meal without bread an unpardonable sin. So like I told Pogo, I'm always interested in good alternatives for those who can't have ordinary wheat products.

I often cook for others that which I might not consume personally. Most everyone understands. I see no reason not to please others.

 

[gallantwarrior]

It is so FRELLING COLD in Oaklandtown today that my freshly made cappuccino is already luke warm.

Meh.

Props for the Farscape dialect usage.

I am so frelling gratified that you GROKked the reference!

And now you're channeling Valentine Michael Smith!

I had to look that name up. What do you know, that's a book I've read.....but it was long enough ago I didn't remember the name at all.

I am a HUGE Heinlein fan. I've read just about everything he's ever published.

 

[gallantwarrior]

It is so FRELLING COLD in Oaklandtown today that my freshly made cappuccino is already luke warm.

Meh.

Props for the Farscape dialect usage.

I am so frelling gratified that you GROKked the reference!

Grocked? THAT goes back far beyond Farscape Grock goes back to Heinland's 1961 Philosophy/Sci Fi "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Who else, without Google, knows Michael Valentine Smith?

Other than me? I'm sure there must be others. How are you with "Time Enough for Love?"

 

[gallantwarrior]

It is so FRELLING COLD in Oaklandtown today that my freshly made cappuccino is already luke warm.

Meh.

Props for the Farscape dialect usage.

I am so frelling gratified that you GROKked the reference!

Grocked? THAT goes back far beyond Farscape Grock goes back to Heinland's 1961 Philosophy/Sci Fi "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Who else, without Google, knows Michael Valentine Smith?

Other than me? I'm sure there must be others. How are you with "Time Enough for Love?"

How many of y'all know the provenance of the quote: “An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.”?

 

[blackhawk]

 

[gallantwarrior]

Happy Saturday all !

I hope everyone had a good New Years Eve.

I had to work, but that was of no consequence. I was more aggravated by the idiots on the road than by having to work.

 

[gallantwarrior]

We have also had some pretty great ones here this year.
The bottom one looks like AZ minus the big trees.

Albuquerque too and we have a lot of trees in Albuquerque despite it being high desert country.

But a river runs through it...that makes a difference.

 

[gallantwarrior]

Goodness, am I all alone here? Well, no bother...
It's been high 30s, low 40s here all day. It wouldn't be so bad if many roads and especially where I have to tend my goats, didn't resemble an Olympic-style skating rink. Even with cleats, I had to walk like a penguin. And the poor goats...they were skidding all over the place! The poor things!
For the second time in a month, my iPhone went tits-up. Last time, the screen went dead. I could use my Bluetooth to dial out but could not unlock the screen to retrieve anything. This time, I cannot hear any kind of noise unless I'm logged into the Dodge Bluetooth. I have been instructed to visit the Apple Store downtown at my soonest opportunity. Personally, I think that the wire that brings signals to the speaker in the iPhone has become disconnected. Cross fingers.

 

[boedicca]

It is so FRELLING COLD in Oaklandtown today that my freshly made cappuccino is already luke warm.

Meh.

Props for the Farscape dialect usage.

I am so frelling gratified that you GROKked the reference!

Grocked? THAT goes back far beyond Farscape Grock goes back to Heinland's 1961 Philosophy/Sci Fi "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Who else, without Google, knows Michael Valentine Smith?

Other than me? I'm sure there must be others. How are you with "Time Enough for Love?"

"Time Enough for Love" is a fabulous book!

 

[boedicca]

It is so FRELLING COLD in Oaklandtown today that my freshly made cappuccino is already luke warm.

Meh.

Props for the Farscape dialect usage.

I am so frelling gratified that you GROKked the reference!

Grocked? THAT goes back far beyond Farscape Grock goes back to Heinland's 1961 Philosophy/Sci Fi "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Who else, without Google, knows Michael Valentine Smith?

Other than me? I'm sure there must be others. How are you with "Time Enough for Love?"

How many of y'all know the provenance of the quote: “An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.”?

I have often used "An armed society is a polite society" when discussing gun control with the grabbers. It's so twoo!

 

[Ringel05]

Okay, I'm awake, the heat's been turned up, cats have been fed, I'm suckin' down my first cup of resurrection juice, Giz want to go outside and is being very vocal about it, the wife is still asleep and my resident birds are impatient to get their morning meal. Yup, typical morning at the 05 ranch.......

 

[Ernie S.]

However I just received the following in my e-mail--oldies but goodies. And after spending the last most of an hour on the phone with incompetent service reps and one clueless person I was trying to get an answer from re a medical question, I am convinced these probably did actually happen:

Recently, I went to McDonald's and I saw on the menu that you could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets.

I asked for a half dozen nuggets.

'We don't have half dozen nuggets,' said the teenager at the counter.

'You don't?' I replied.

'We only have six, nine, or twelve,' was the reply.

'So I can't order a half dozen nuggets, but I can order six?'

'That's right.'

So I shook my head and ordered six McNuggets

(Must have been the same one I asked for sweetener and she said they didn't have any, only Splenda and sugar.)

* * * * * * * * * *


I was checking out at the local Wal-Mart with just a few items and the lady behind me put her things on the belt close to mine. I picked up one of those dividers that they keep by the cash register and placed it between our things so they wouldn't get mixed. After the girl had scanned all of my items, she picked up the divider, looking it all over for the bar code so she could scan it.

Not finding the bar code, she said to me, 'Do you know how much this is?'

I said to her 'I've changed my mind; I don't think I'll buy that today.'

She said 'OK,' and I paid her for the things and left.

* * * * * * * * * * *

A woman at work was seen putting a credit card into her DVD drive and pulling it out very quickly.

When I inquired as to what she was doing, she said she was shopping on the Internet and they kept asking for a credit card number, so she was using the ATM thingy.

* * * * * * * * * *
I recently saw a distraught young lady weeping beside her car.

'Do you need some help?' I asked.

She replied, 'I knew I should have replaced the battery to this remote door un-locker. Now I can't get into my car. Do you think they (pointing to a distant convenience store) would have a battery to fit this?'

Hmm, I don't know. Do you have an alarm, too?' I asked.

'No, just this remote thingy,' she answered, handing it and the car keys to me.

As I took the key and manually unlocked the door, I replied, 'Why don't you drive over there and check about the batteries. It's a long walk....'

* * * * * * * * * * *

Several years ago, we had an Intern who turned to a secretary and said, 'I'm almost out of typing paper. What do I do?' 'Just use paper from the photocopier', the secretary told her. With that, the intern took her last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five blank copies.

* * * * * * * * * * *

And then there was the lady who called 911 to report that her kid had just eaten a bunch of ants. She gave him some ant killer. What else should she do?​

I hope the last one isn't true!!

sadly, it probably is. Unfortunately conception doesn't involve an IQ test.