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05-04-2010, 04:51 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Austin
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Today in our garden
lizard.jpg
and in Lady Bird Lake
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I'm glad it wasn't the other way around!
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05-04-2010, 06:26 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Central MS/Orange Beach, AL
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Played golf this afternoon and took the mutt on a hike this morning. He's in 3 of the pics. Can you see him without enlarging the pic? Black dogs don't show up very well in shady areas.
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Investing style: Full time wuss.
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05-05-2010, 01:21 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Collin County, TX
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Today is  and my DH's 56th birthday. I took him to Cici's Pizza for lunch.....
Well...that's what he wanted.... 
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05-05-2010, 01:33 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 47,500
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How terrific to have such an LBYM-oriented husband!
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Happily retired since 2009, at age 61. Best years of my life by far!
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05-05-2010, 01:38 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Northern California
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I made the rows and mounds for our summer garden. Now I have to get some soil amendments and plants, and we'll be ready to roll....
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05-05-2010, 02:36 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Collin County, TX
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Well...he's getting better at watching the budget.
However, just a few minutes ago he left to get a bottle of Tequila Don Julio 1942...not exactly a LBYM's kinda booze. But hey...it's his birthday and he'll share with me... 
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05-05-2010, 02:37 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Apr 2006
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IP,
I see you have broad banded water snakes in the lake. Our house backs up to Oyster Creek outside Houston and we see then quite frequently. Had two crawl under the back fence last summer. They are feisty although not poisonous.
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05-05-2010, 02:42 PM
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#4248
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jul 2008
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Originally Posted by bbbamI
However, just a few minutes ago he left to get a bottle of Tequila Don Julio 1942...not exactly a LBYM's kinda booze.
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Not crazy about tequila here (though I would drink it in a marguerita), but curious enough to look it up. Well, I won't feel bad about my occasional indulgence of French... Oh, never mind.
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05-05-2010, 02:43 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Austin
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 2soon2tell
IP,
I see you have broad banded water snakes in the lake. Our house backs up to Oyster Creek outside Houston and we see then quite frequently. Had two crawl under the back fence last summer. They are feisty although not poisonous.
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Thanks for the ID. I was wondering what species it was.
Poisonous or not, it is still completely capable of inducing heart failure 
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05-05-2010, 02:44 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
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Sounds like he knows what he wants, anyway!  Oh well. It's his birthday.
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05-05-2010, 04:50 PM
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 6,924
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Busy day:
Went to dentist & had incisors rebuilt
Farmers Market: asparagus, spinach, chicken gizzards
Vet: special cat food
Grocery store: various stuff
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05-05-2010, 06:33 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Oahu
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Mainland friends are dropping in next week, so the cleaning countdown has begun.
The tenant's old (broken) microwave is fixed, tested sat, and off the lanai. Glad to get that hangar queen in the attic for spares. Now we can vacuum the lanai instead of vacuuming around the lanai.
Ran Scooba on the kitchen tiles. Tomorrow we'll do the diningroom, and the day after we'll do the hallway & bathrooms.
New shower curtain. Not sure whether the old is worth cleaning/saving.
Fixed a backyard sprinkler, but I'm going to wait until things dry out a little more before I test it.
Picked up a lot of green waste but we have room in the can for more... cutting the palm nuts off the trees and pruning the bougainvillea. Green waste goes out Friday so I'll probably get the bougainvillea Friday morning or Saturday.
Picked the last tangerines off the tree. The stupid thing is blooming again, which will be its third crop in a year.
Now I'm goofing off before paying the bills, and wondering whether I should skip taekwondo practice tonight...
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05-05-2010, 06:37 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nords
Picked the last tangerines off the tree. The stupid thing is blooming again, which will be its third crop in a year.
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I take it you are tired of tangerines?
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less stuff, more time
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05-05-2010, 06:52 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Pittsburgh, PA suburbs
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Went to w*rk then went out with some co-workers for dinner for Cinco de Mayo. Fajitas and a Grey Goose martini.
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05-05-2010, 06:55 PM
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nords
Mainland friends are dropping in next week, so the cleaning countdown has begun.
The tenant's old (broken) microwave is fixed, tested sat, and off the lanai. Glad to get that hangar queen in the attic for spares. Now we can vacuum the lanai instead of vacuuming around the lanai.
Ran Scooba on the kitchen tiles. Tomorrow we'll do the diningroom, and the day after we'll do the hallway & bathrooms.
New shower curtain. Not sure whether the old is worth cleaning/saving.
Fixed a backyard sprinkler, but I'm going to wait until things dry out a little more before I test it.
Picked up a lot of green waste but we have room in the can for more... cutting the palm nuts off the trees and pruning the bougainvillea. Green waste goes out Friday so I'll probably get the bougainvillea Friday morning or Saturday.
Picked the last tangerines off the tree. The stupid thing is blooming again, which will be its third crop in a year.
Now I'm goofing off before paying the bills, and wondering whether I should skip taekwondo practice tonight...
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"I've seen a glass raised to tangerine..."
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05-05-2010, 07:50 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Oahu
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Quote:
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I take it you are tired of tangerines?
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A man can only eat 2-3 per day. Neighbors run away when they see me approaching with a bag in each hand.
The papaya crop is coming along nicely, although they have a tendency to all ripen simultaneously at 4:24 PM next Thursday.
However I have high hopes for our lychee tree!
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05-05-2010, 09:27 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nords
A man can only eat 2-3 per day. Neighbors run away when they see me approaching with a bag in each hand.
The papaya crop is coming along nicely, although they have a tendency to all ripen simultaneously at 4:24 PM next Thursday.
However I have high hopes for our lychee tree!
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LOL, that's quite a problem to have! I guess I'd be looking up canning/jelly recipes. It would be hard for me to watch them go to waste! Of course I say that now, but if I were knee deep in tangerines, I might be singing a different tune.
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05-06-2010, 11:07 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by WhoDaresWins
I drove in to Pittsburgh today for the opera: Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro". I loved it. It is a farcical romp set to wonderful music and true love prevails in the end. I particularly liked the movements featuring the harpsichord. Well worth battling the off and on rain and the traffic created by the Pittsburgh Marathon and a Penguins home game to get in town.
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Mozart operas can be really funny! I recently saw "the Magic Flute" and the audience was in stitches!
Hockey, now that's a seriuos matter!
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05-06-2010, 01:43 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Hagersville
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Ordered high speed wireless internet. It is finally available in my area at a decent price. Installation on the 15th. Got to change all my email stuff. Hatched 23 Chicks. My back porch is chirping. Going to Auction sale to see what they have. Resurrected my ebay and paypal accounts. Git to get rid of some of the stuff from the attic.
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05-06-2010, 01:57 PM
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Good clothesline day
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