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Fri, 11 December 2009 19:35  |
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 Black Bear
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Chapter something
"The time is always right to do what's right."--MLK Jr.
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| Re: Chapter something [message #24168 is a reply to message #24161 ] |
Fri, 11 December 2009 19:58  |
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Poor hand. Ow. Even if you can type all right, I bet it still hurts! (One of my squicks is hand pain. I NEED those.)
Sending lots of productive energy your way!
Smooshes!
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| Re: Chapter something [message #24171 is a reply to message #24161 ] |
Fri, 11 December 2009 20:23 |
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Steamed broccoli for dinner - yummmm. Steamed brocolli with bugs - not so 'yum'.
I've been there and I sympathize.
FairyTales - http://xkcd.com/872/
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| Re: Chapter something [message #24177 is a reply to message #24161 ] |
Sat, 12 December 2009 05:13 |
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ouch!
appendages are necessary. *productive vibes* as well from me.
"they say that absence makes the heart grow fungus".
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| Re: Chapter something [message #24182 is a reply to message #24161 ] |
Sat, 12 December 2009 11:41 |
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Mrs Redboots
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Ouchicles! Poor you - hope you heal fast and the arnica I know you've been taking massive doses of kicks in very soon.
As for buying Peter presents - my husband is exactly the same way! At least my father, brother and brother-in-law are grateful for things like whisky and chocolate and Dijon-mustard-with-cassis, but my husband? Srsly? This year and last I have taken him out to concerts* but the previous 28 years.....
* Steeleye Span^ at the Barbican for his birthday and Messiah, tomorrow night at the Bert Barn^^ for Christmas.
^ Thank you Robin for drawing this to my attention!
^^ All right, Royal Albert Hall if you insist!
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| Re: Chapter something [message #24237 is a reply to message #24161 ] |
Mon, 14 December 2009 00:44 |
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Diane in MN
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I managed to fall down on level ground, cold sober, and without assistance from hellhounds—my feet just went out from under me, WHAM.
This has happened to me, once on a sidewalk in downtown Seattle--I suspect a rain-slick metal civic doodah in the pavement--and once here at home (rain-slick tree root?). The result in both cases was a perfect pratfall. Your type of fall, on hand and knee, hurts worse (ask various dogs how I know this). I'm glad you did not jam, sprain, or otherwise damage your finger and that the arnica has done its work nobly. We forget how to fall down after about age 9 or 10; this is probably an evolutionary mistake.
And when I came back to the cottage after ringing practise and settled down with a nice bowl of steamed organic broccoli . . . my broccoli is full of bugs.
I'm just a tiny bit neurotic about washing my organic broccoli (and cauliflower, too) a whole lot with lots of running water and a good light above the sink, to find any protein infestations before the broccoli goes into the pot. Cooked or not, I don't want to eat them.
I wanted to spend New Year’s planting roses‡‡‡.
Well, that wouldn't be an issue for you here--not after last week, anyway . . . 
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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| Re: Chapter something [message #24242 is a reply to message #24161 ] |
Mon, 14 December 2009 05:18 |
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Kuro
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I managed to fall down on level ground, cold sober, and without assistance from hellhounds—my feet just went out from under me, WHAM.
Oddly enough, I fall most easily on level ground with nothing in my way. Sure, I can climb mountainsides and traverse thick forestation without problem, but put me on a nice slab of level granite and down I go. Walking is always an adventure with me.
Edited for grammar.
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This is goodnight and not goodbye.
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| Re: Chapter something [message #24243 is a reply to message #24240 ] |
Mon, 14 December 2009 09:07 |
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| Fake Frenchie wrote on Sun, 13 December 2009 22:18 |
Do you soak your organic brocoli in salted water? This is supposed to make the "protein" float to the top.
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Oh! Thank you for this tip. I haven't heard it before. I'll have to try it next time we get fresh broccoli. I confess to having switched to using frozen* since they seem to consistently have debugged it already, but I'd like to go back to fresh.
(*we are lucky enough to have frozen organic)
FairyTales - http://xkcd.com/872/
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| Re: Chapter something [message #24269 is a reply to message #24161 ] |
Mon, 14 December 2009 21:20 |
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In figure skating falling down and getting up again is in lesson number one, and most of us get to practice it frequently. One learns things like not sticking out appendages to break one's fall (they often end up sprained or broken) and how to protect one's head.
I can fall down while standing still on both ice skates and cross country skis. I'm even better at tripping over my own feet and falling over small pets.
"Winning a war is like winning an earthquake" Jeanette Rankin
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| Re: Chapter something [message #24284 is a reply to message #24269 ] |
Tue, 15 December 2009 08:43 |
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Mrs Redboots
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| skating librarian wrote on Tue, 15 December 2009 02:20 |
I can fall down while standing still on both ice skates and cross country skis.
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Not tried cross-country skis, but can attest to the fact that it is easy to fall down while standing still on both ice skates - and it's usually one of the nastier falls (like ice dance falls, alas) because you aren't expecting it.
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