| Hot Muffins [message #9487] |
Mon, 05 January 2009 18:57  |
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Hot Muffins
Smooshes!
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| Re: Hot Muffins [message #9491 is a reply to message #9487 ] |
Mon, 05 January 2009 19:14  |
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 Julia
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Registered: October 2008
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Oh Robin! Thinking WARM thoughts at all your plants and things.
Snork. I'm going to have to write that down somewhere too.
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Pronounced . . . uh . . . but it’s a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious word, isn’t it? If you say it aloud, something magical is going to happen. Even if it’s just everybody else in the room bursting out laughing
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Brilliant. Heehee. Dociousaliexpelisticalifragicalirupus- Or something like that. [time to watch Mary Poppins again, I think. But when they say it backwards, it is something like that, right?]
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I feel better already.
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OH GOOD. Hugs.
Now for some sleep, maybe? [Probably not, I know. But I feel that it is worth asking anyway. All in your best interest, of course!  ]
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Do you ever have trouble differentiating a particularly vivid and resonant dream from something that really happened out here in this world?
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Mhm. Yep.
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| Re: Hot Muffins [message #9492 is a reply to message #9487 ] |
Mon, 05 January 2009 19:22 |
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Do you ever have trouble differentiating a particularly vivid and resonant dream from something that really happened out here in this world?
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This morning, actually! Except it was an anxiety dream, and I spent the entire morning anxious and confused. I'm making myself feel better with a book and small mammals. :) I like the cool maybe-real dreams a whole lot better. But yes, it happens to me alllll the time.
We're supposed to get snow here tomorrow. I think I'm the only one looking forward to it. Of course, I'm also the only one who doesn't have to drive in it. That might have something to do with me being alone in my hopeful joy. ;)
Smooshes!
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| Re: Hot Muffins [message #9500 is a reply to message #9487 ] |
Mon, 05 January 2009 20:08 |
skating librarian
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Registered: October 2008
Location: Vermont |
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Fantastic ... I cut out a similar recipe years ago, and have misplaced it.
This will go in my recipe notebook, as well as into my computer recipe folder. I really, really want to have my range functioning so that I can try out all your recently published recipes. The kitchen rescue has been underway since October and the hard part is done ... except for the waiting for the plumber, electrician, the gas co. and the finish carpenter. Waiting, that's turning out to be the hardest part.
Last weekend, due to the severe cold, neither the toilet nor the bath tub were working.
That really seemed like the last straw. No kitchen sink, no range, no shower, etc.
So I spent a couple of hours in the crawl space with a radiant space heater, creating and heating a little insulated enclosure around the drain pipes. What joy when I could finally hear the ice in the tub drain breaking up and the water whooshing out to the septic tank. The hot shower I took thereafter was pure heaven ... especially since I was very, very cold after two hours on my knees in the crawl space.
With regard to vivid dreams ... as long as they are ridiculous it's okay, but some, which are utterly plausible and end in a panic attack, darn near cause panic attacks of their own as I struggle to wake up. Adding insult to injury, some of the things which happen in those dreams do actually happen at some time in the future. It took a while to learn how to fight off the panic and change the situation enough to "escape" the dream which appeared to be coming true. Ugh!
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| Re: Hot Muffins [message #9509 is a reply to message #9487 ] |
Mon, 05 January 2009 23:45 |
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Whenever I see one of those hairless cats I can't help but think of Dr. Evil.
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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| Re: Hot Muffins [message #9513 is a reply to message #9487 ] |
Tue, 06 January 2009 00:35 |
Nurse Jane
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Registered: November 2008
Location: Indiana |
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OK, no one has mentioned this and I can't stand it! You say the hellhounds would be outraged at rosebushes in your bed, but say nothing about Peter! In one scenario I can imagine him whacking away toward you, machete in hand, and the other he just accepts the additions in an eccentric-English-gardener kind of way!
When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.
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| Re: Hot Muffins [message #9515 is a reply to message #9487 ] |
Tue, 06 January 2009 04:07 |
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Diane in MN
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Registered: October 2008
Location: Twin Cities, MN, USA |
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But it’s cold for here.
That's what matters, isn't it?
Next winter, no doubt, with the plant grow light hung up at the summerhouse at Third House, which (summerhouse) walls will furthermore be lined with bubblewrap, and all available windowsills jammed with jungle both at Third House and the cottage†, it will never get below 40°.
Yes: the propitiation effect. Put a lot of money into this project and it will probably guarantee ten years of mild winters, at least in your microclimate zone.
The hellhounds must be VERY unhappy about your weather. My guys would sympathize--they absolutely hate being cold and wet. We hope you get a break soon.
"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: Hot Muffins [message #9519 is a reply to message #9487 ] |
Tue, 06 January 2009 05:32 |
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AJLR
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Registered: September 2008
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The forecast is for a ‘severe’ frost tonight and a cold clear day tomorrow which may mean another of these days it never gets above freezing; and more of the same, probably through the rest of the week. Cue wringing of hands.
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Yes, it is a trifle inclement, isn't it! I'm trying to take comfort from the fact that it is also fairly dry - and has been for a couple of weeks - and that the ground is therefore not sodden as well as cold...might give the dahlias (yes, mine are still in the ground too) a little more chance do you think?
I sympathise about the hellhounds trying to urge you towards bed-sharing again. Tabbs gets extremely umpty at the moment if she isn't allowed her 10 minutes cuddle/warm up in our bed before we get up in the morning. Seeing her with her head tucked under Ray's chin, purring away (Tabbs, not Ray - although come to think of it...), is a real 'awww' moment.
I loved the bit further down in this article, about the people camping out at the moment to get dibs on a beach hut for the summer: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/big-chill-des cends-on-britain-1228142.html Makes one proud to be British!
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"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."
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| Re: Hot Muffins [message #9520 is a reply to message #9519 ] |
Tue, 06 January 2009 06:13 |
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When it hits the news that a crazed American living near Stuttgart, Germany was seen running madly for the north, swimming the Baltic Sea between Denmark and Sweden and the last sighting was with raindeer north of the Arctic Circle, you know it was me. Well, I'm not sure if that'd make the news. But maybe L.K.R. would see me streak past and let you know.
Most of the world bemoans the cold and it's never cold and snowy enough for me. We seriously need to move.
However, I do hope your garden pulls through.
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| Re: Hot Muffins [message #9524 is a reply to message #9487 ] |
Tue, 06 January 2009 10:29 |
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Mrs Redboots
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Registered: October 2008
Location: London, UK |
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I have said before that it is All My Parents' Fault, this winter - they are in their 80s, and their boiler decided not to pass its safety inspection. They couldn't replace it by the same kind, as these are not made any more, so are having geothermal heating put in, and even the best estimate won't have it ready for another week.
It figures that the only mild week we have had this winter was when the Nice Plumber did a temporary fix on the boiler (which fix expired in the middle of Christmas afternoon, whereupon the temperature promptly dropped again). And my father has lost far too much weight, and I worry dreadfully about them. And am on holiday so can't really ring them up.... well, I could, but would have to get them out of their nice warm sitting-room into the cold, cold scullery where the phone is!
And Robin - roses in your bed would be far too prickly! Dogs' elbows are rather better.....
Mrs Redboots
I love my computer because my friends live in it!
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| Re: Hot Muffins [message #9529 is a reply to message #9487 ] |
Tue, 06 January 2009 16:38 |
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you could come get some of ours,we are supposed to get hit with another storm tonight.
Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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| Re: Hot Muffins [message #9555 is a reply to message #9514 ] |
Tue, 06 January 2009 19:54 |
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| Diane in MN wrote on Tue, 06 January 2009 01:40 |
| ssshunt wrote on Mon, 05 January 2009 22:45 |
Whenever I see one of those hairless cats I can't help but think of Dr. Evil.
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Actually, they make me think that the first ones appeared at a toxic waste dump as a result of some ghastly mutation. Some hairless dogs are cute--Chinese Cresteds, anyway--but a hairless cat just doesn't cut it.
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They aren't the prettiest cats, no.
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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| Re: Hot Muffins [message #9556 is a reply to message #9487 ] |
Tue, 06 January 2009 19:58 |
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Sorry, double post. Our Winter Warning Advisory is in effect until tomorrow night. Argh. Where's a Chinook when you need one?
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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