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[Foxfyre]

Back in the 1990s I had the very good fortune to spend a few months in Germany. The Berlin Wall had just fallen and I was a proud, yet ugly American on the loose in Central Europe.

There I discovered the best milk chocolate bar I had ever had. The Milka Bar. They look like this:

While browsing around Amazon, I came across this chocolate offered right here in the good ol' U.S.A. I ordered a box of ten plus one.

It makes me wonder why those 'easy girls' in post war Germany went so nuts for a Hershey Bar! Hershey's chocolate is a bar of paraffin dipped in chocolate flavoring in comparison to the German made Milka!

Maybe it was availability that drove their obsession. Maybe it was a smile from and American serviceman. Maybe it was a hope for something else like a pair of nylons. But if I could have a Milka, I'd happily take it!

My wife likes Milka and we buy it regularily... Good chocolate

Back in the 1990s I had the very good fortune to spend a few months in Germany. The Berlin Wall had just fallen and I was a proud, yet ugly American on the loose in Central Europe.

There I discovered the best milk chocolate bar I had ever had. The Milka Bar. They look like this:

While browsing around Amazon, I came across this chocolate offered right here in the good ol' U.S.A. I ordered a box of ten plus one.

It makes me wonder why those 'easy girls' in post war Germany went so nuts for a Hershey Bar! Hershey's chocolate is a bar of paraffin dipped in chocolate flavoring in comparison to the German made Milka!

Maybe it was availability that drove their obsession. Maybe it was a smile from and American serviceman. Maybe it was a hope for something else like a pair of nylons. But if I could have a Milka, I'd happily take it!

My wife likes Milka and we buy it regularily... Good chocolate

Never heard of it. Actually Hersheys isn't that bad for a reasonably priced chocolate. But okay, I'll have to hunt up some Milka. (I got talked into trying Godiva chocolate once and paid the exhorbitant price to get some. And I was underwhelmed.)

You should try some seroogy's.
Seroogy's Homemade Chocolates - Since 1899

Haven't seen those either. There are some absolutely superb local candy makers though that create great chocolate candy but it is ungodly expensive. And every now and then you run across chocolate that is head and shoulders above all others.

I'll make a note of Seroogy's though.

 

[Gracie]

Driving around town:

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[Gracie]

That's Dennis coming to the van,lol.

This place is really awesome. Redneck hill people...Camouflage trucks, most of the men look like duck dynasty folks, lots of leather coats, uggs, older folks.

I adore it here.

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[Gracie]

First pic is our

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[Gracie]

Dammit.
First pic is entering our road to our house.

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[Gracie]

Meanwhile, Oroville evacuees are heading to Chico and here in our town. I'm glad we are up higher!

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[Gracie]

And some pics of the bedroom:

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[peach174]

Back in the 1990s I had the very good fortune to spend a few months in Germany. The Berlin Wall had just fallen and I was a proud, yet ugly American on the loose in Central Europe.

There I discovered the best milk chocolate bar I had ever had. The Milka Bar. They look like this:

While browsing around Amazon, I came across this chocolate offered right here in the good ol' U.S.A. I ordered a box of ten plus one.

It makes me wonder why those 'easy girls' in post war Germany went so nuts for a Hershey Bar! Hershey's chocolate is a bar of paraffin dipped in chocolate flavoring in comparison to the German made Milka!

Maybe it was availability that drove their obsession. Maybe it was a smile from and American serviceman. Maybe it was a hope for something else like a pair of nylons. But if I could have a Milka, I'd happily take it!

My wife likes Milka and we buy it regularily... Good chocolate

Back in the 1990s I had the very good fortune to spend a few months in Germany. The Berlin Wall had just fallen and I was a proud, yet ugly American on the loose in Central Europe.

There I discovered the best milk chocolate bar I had ever had. The Milka Bar. They look like this:

While browsing around Amazon, I came across this chocolate offered right here in the good ol' U.S.A. I ordered a box of ten plus one.

It makes me wonder why those 'easy girls' in post war Germany went so nuts for a Hershey Bar! Hershey's chocolate is a bar of paraffin dipped in chocolate flavoring in comparison to the German made Milka!

Maybe it was availability that drove their obsession. Maybe it was a smile from and American serviceman. Maybe it was a hope for something else like a pair of nylons. But if I could have a Milka, I'd happily take it!

My wife likes Milka and we buy it regularily... Good chocolate

Never heard of it. Actually Hersheys isn't that bad for a reasonably priced chocolate. But okay, I'll have to hunt up some Milka. (I got talked into trying Godiva chocolate once and paid the exhorbitant price to get some. And I was underwhelmed.)

You should try some seroogy's.
Seroogy's Homemade Chocolates - Since 1899

Haven't seen those either. There are some absolutely superb local candy makers though that create great chocolate candy but it is ungodly expensive. And every now and then you run across chocolate that is head and shoulders above all others.

I'll make a note of Seroogy's though.

It's well worth the money.
We get a box for each other at Christmas time. It's our tradition.
Of course I get Mr. P the sugar free, which is just as good as the regular ones with sugar.

 

[Sherry]

Gracie, it looks very comfy and cozy.

 

[Gracie]

Poor Oroville folks are not having a good time, thats for sure. Church down the road from us is prepping for refugees from that very full dam....before Thursday since another round of storms are heading this way. I just saw it all on the news and its so scarey looking. I am so glad we are up in the hills above that mess.

 

[Foxfyre]

 

[Sarah G]

And some pics of the bedroom:

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That room looks very comfy! The town is so dang cute too!

 

[gallantwarrior]

If you know what this says you are a true American redneck.

Wait, let me translate:
"zucchini
potatoes and tomatoes
jalapeno
bell peppers"
Looks like Deep South to me.

 

[gallantwarrior]

Too darned funny. Thanks, Foxy!
I do miss the days when real-live editors read and "spell-checked" written pieces.

 

[gallantwarrior]

Tomorrow is St. Valentine's Day and, if there's anything to tradition (and I dearly hope there is), grade schoolers everywhere are wrapping shoe boxes in red, pink and white paper, cutting a slot in the lids and anticipating St. Valentine's Day messages from their classmates.

Little paper cards with hearts and puppies and kittens and flowers meant to suggest some innocent romance or affection. I always wanted a Valentine from Mary Lynn Schoolcraft, the cutest girl in the second grade. I don't know if she wanted one from me, but I always reserved the sweetest one for her.

Later, the candy, the wee sugary hearts with sentiments like "Oh! You kid!" and "Be Mine" were passed around for everyone to enjoy. Milk chocolate in the shape of hearts, jelly beans and Good & Plenty (a confection I never appreciated. Licorice, ya know). All that candy could take a boy's thoughts away from even Mary Lynn Schoolcraft, but just for a moment.

Happy St. Valentine's Day everybody!

Regret to tell you, but I think those days are gone. If cards are exchanged, there is a mandatory compliance list. Most schools have an approved list of "treats" that may be provided, home-made goodies are a thing of the past, and one must be cautious about which store-bought goodies one may send. A guy I work with recently ran through the litany for me. Sheesh! Wishing for the simple days of childhood!

 

[gallantwarrior]

We got rain and not really cold.
We sure need the rain.
Never have been a fan of snow, even when I grew up in Colo.

I actually loved snow up on the mountain--there was something about sitting in front of the fireplace with a cup of coffee or tea watching it pile up on the deck outside the sliding glass doors. But we were much younger and stronger then, more sure footed, more able to dig ourselves out. Before we got our 4-wheel drive, and then AWD I sometimes could not get my little Mercury Capri up the hill to get home when the road was snow packed and then icy from traffic. I would get as far as I could, put it in the ditch on the side of the road and walk the rest of the way if somebody didn't pick me up. (Somebody usually did.) No way I could do that now.

I have never liked it and did not like playing in it when I was a kid.
Give me the desert, I love!

I like that we have winter. I never could stand the South, with all the snakes, spiders, alligators, etc... I'll take a little extra snow anytime.

You don't have snakes and spiders in Ohio? And alligators aren't a real big problem in the desert.

No snakes or alligators here, and the modestly-sized spiders stay on the ground, for the most part.

 

[gallantwarrior]

Tomorrow is St. Valentine's Day and, if there's anything to tradition (and I dearly hope there is), grade schoolers everywhere are wrapping shoe boxes in red, pink and white paper, cutting a slot in the lids and anticipating St. Valentine's Day messages from their classmates.

Little paper cards with hearts and puppies and kittens and flowers meant to suggest some innocent romance or affection. I always wanted a Valentine from Mary Lynn Schoolcraft, the cutest girl in the second grade. I don't know if she wanted one from me, but I always reserved the sweetest one for her.

Later, the candy, the wee sugary hearts with sentiments like "Oh! You kid!" and "Be Mine" were passed around for everyone to enjoy. Milk chocolate in the shape of hearts, jelly beans and Good & Plenty (a confection I never appreciated. Licorice, ya know). All that candy could take a boy's thoughts away from even Mary Lynn Schoolcraft, but just for a moment.

Happy St. Valentine's Day everybody!

I was a fairly shy and, in my eyes, not one of the popular kids in grade school. (My classmates from that era that I am still in touch with don't seem to remember me that way for which I am grateful.) But I always dreaded the school Easter egg hunt because I never seemed to find eggs like my classmates did. And I dreaded Valentine's Day for fear nobody would put valentines in my decorated shoe box and I would be terribly embarrassed. Some always did, but the fear never went away.

By high school I was out of my shell and felt like I could stand my ground socially, but back then. . .not so much.

Tomorrow is Hombre and my wedding anniversary--let's just say we've been married more years than many of our Coffee Shoppers have lived at all. And we rarely ever celebrate on the 14th because the restaurants are packed and it's just generally not as much fun as going out on a less frenetic night.

Congratulations, Foxy! I admire folks who managed to stay married to the same person for...ever?

 

[gallantwarrior]

We got rain and not really cold.
We sure need the rain.
Never have been a fan of snow, even when I grew up in Colo.

I actually loved snow up on the mountain--there was something about sitting in front of the fireplace with a cup of coffee or tea watching it pile up on the deck outside the sliding glass doors. But we were much younger and stronger then, more sure footed, more able to dig ourselves out. Before we got our 4-wheel drive, and then AWD I sometimes could not get my little Mercury Capri up the hill to get home when the road was snow packed and then icy from traffic. I would get as far as I could, put it in the ditch on the side of the road and walk the rest of the way if somebody didn't pick me up. (Somebody usually did.) No way I could do that now.

I have never liked it and did not like playing in it when I was a kid.
Give me the desert, I love!

I like that we have winter. I never could stand the South, with all the snakes, spiders, alligators, etc... I'll take a little extra snow anytime.

You don't have snakes and spiders in Ohio? And alligators aren't a real big problem in the desert.

No. I haven't seen a bug in my house in a long time. My previous place had some but it was a lazy landlord problem. I lived down south for awhile and I couldn't take it. I was cleaning the sink after we moved in and a huge, ugly, centipede crawled out of the drain.

Nothing against the people, I prefer it right where I am.

Having always had cats, I have rarely had bug problems. I do tolerate the spiders who make their homes in my south-facing windows because they keep the flies to a minimum.

 

[gallantwarrior]

No. I haven't seen a bug in my house in a long time. My previous place had some but it was a lazy landlord problem. I lived down south for awhile and I couldn't take it. I was cleaning the sink after we moved in and a huge, ugly, centipede crawled out of the drain.

Nothing against the people, I prefer it right where I am.

These guys do laps in the bathroom in the winter.

Box Elder Bug

Have you ever dealt with stink bugs? You've got to deal with them just right or they never leave you. Puke

They have them in NC that I know of but they've been spotted around here in the Fall trying to find a warm place to stay for the Winter.

The stink bugs up here smell like cilantro. I suppose it would depend on how you feel about cilantro whether they "stink", or not.

 

[ChrisL]

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Awesome Gracie! So happy for you! Your dog looks right at home!