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  1. 1.

    PsiFighter37

    Rainy gray day in NYC as a Nor’easter blows through – think the folks in Massachusetts are getting some snow today. Otherwise, a snoozer of a day for me. Need to spend some time doing some fantasy football research later, along with reading more of Obama’s memoir.

  2. 2.

    Jerzy Russian

    Is there a photo? I can’t see it at the moment (using Chrome on a Mac laptop)

    ETA:  And now it is there.

  3. 3.

    Jerzy Russian

    @PsiFighter37:    Rainy gray day in NYC as a Nor’easter blows through

     

    We have had Santa Ana winds in San Diego the last few days. Very warm and dry, sort of the opposite of your situation I guess.

  4. 4.

    laura

    That face – the disappointment is writ Large and the nose Knows. Dogs have a keen sense of injustice. Please right this wrong and give a big boi a banana

    Spouse scored a case of canning jars this morning so I’ll be making meyer lemon marmalade. Our two wee trees are heavy with lemons that will not wait.

  7. 7.

    Nicole

    Pooch strained her leg this morning, probably from an overenthusiastic couch dismount.  I googled to see if the Petsmart on the East River Plaza sells wrist braces (yes, they’re a thing for dogs; I just learned that today) and discovered it closed… in April.  Boo.   She’s not limping too bad; we’re going to keep her quiet and if there’s no improvement I’ll call the vet on Monday.

  8. 8.

    jimmiraybob

    “I just learned of absolute incontrovertible evidence of North Korean boats delivering ballots through a harbor in Maine, the state of Maine,” Stone said. “If this checks out, if law enforcement looked into that and it turned out to be true, it would be proof of foreign involvement in the election.” – Roger Stone.

    What an idiot!  He left out the most incontrovertible and absolutely convincing part.  The captain and crew were reptilians from the galaxy XplupQ!  And why haven’t any front pagers here revealed this yet!?  I smell coverup!

  9. 9.

    Jackie

    Not to rain on Bixby’s parade but my vet says that bananas are particularly a problem for cavities. Expensive advice after we thought we had found a healthy treat. In less than a year we suddenly had dental issues.

  11. 11.

    raven

    @Jackie:  Bodhi and Lil Bit(rip) have been eating sweet potato dog food for 15 years

     

    “Dr. Beebe explains that when cavities occur in dogs, they are usually caused by sweet treats such as bananas or sweet potatoes.”

  14. 14.

    Zinsky

    I haven’t posted much recently, as my wife had a very mild case of COVID and I had to assume all household duties for ten very full days. Thankfully, I never got it and my 28 year old son who lives with us didn’t either. Anyway, I don’t understand why Democratic Senators, Representatives, and just citizens with common sense are not being more vocal about this farce\canard\charade that this juvenile dipshit in the White House is pulling on the American public. Everybody needs to call out the real fraud here – and that is a bedwetter geriatric old narcissist who can’t admit he got the shit kicked out of him by Joe Biden. The gutless, nutless coward would rather drag the United States through this divisive horseshit and poison the Biden Administration than admit he is a laughingstock and a loser, both of which he has always been.

    CALL YOUR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES AND TELL THEM THAT TRUMP’S ATTACKS ON THE ELECTORAL PROCESS NEEDS TO STOP OR THEY NEED TO BEGIN IMMEDIATE IMPEACHMENT CHARGES AGAINST THIS BLACKHEARTED MAN!!

  15. 15.

    TaMara (HFG)

    @Jackie: Extra large dog, small piece of banana every once in a while…no problem. Big dogs have their issues, but some things that plague smaller dogs (OMG, chocolate*) has little effect on them.

    Though he does have a plaque issue on his back upper molars, but like a boss, he lets me scrape them.

    *not that I give them chocolate, but it would take A LOT to damage their organs like in small dogs.

  16. 16.

    TaMara (HFG)

    @Zinsky: Hope she’s well on the mend!

    I think other than keeping an eye on the criminal-in-chief and what’s going on at the DOD/Pentagon, he should be ignored. The attention is what he craves and an impeachment would let him go out and whine for more money.

  18. 18.

    Matt McIrvin

    @jimmiraybob: His lying has reached the Ralph Wiggum level. “I saw Miss Krabappel and Principal Skinner in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me!”

  19. 19.

    TaMara (HFG)

    Okay, off to walk the dogs – separately. The retraining is going well. I’ve been able to focus on the bad habits each of them has picked up over the last few months and quickly correct them. A full month of separate walks should really reinforce the new, proper behavior.

    Besides, I’m loving the extra exercise. Even in the cold…that extra walk is lifting my dark December mood.

  20. 20.

    narya

    Gonna try a zoom yoga class today. It’s with a teacher I went to YEARS ago (now that I think about it, probably first started going to her 20 years go . . . I feel old). I’m doing a December challenge w/ my Run for Beer folks that involves 20 minutes of activity/day (8 days consecutively or 20 days total or both; I’m doing both). I’ve been running a LOT–88 miles in November–so I thought an activity day that involved no running would be a good thing. And it forced me to tidy things up a bit. Also: seasoned the new carbon steel pans yesterday–looking forward to trying them!

  23. 23.

    Doc Sardonic

    Depends on the dog I think. My late mother’s dachshund when she was a puppy ate an entire bowl full of Butterfinger minis off the coffee table one day. Vet gave her a few doses of activated charcoal, and 13 years later dachshund is still going strong.

  24. 24.

    J R in WV

    @jimmiraybob:

    “I just learned of absolute incontrovertible evidence of North Korean boats delivering ballots through a harbor in Maine, the state of Maine,” Stone said.

    But haven’t we heard from fearless chairman Trump over and over that he and DPRK leader Kim love one another for the past 4 years?

    Doesn’t that mean that any ballots delivered by North Korea would be marked for Trump?????!?!!!!!!

    And how would North Korean printers know the design of ballots from multiple US states so as to print them marked for Trump OR Biden?

    So many questions Roger Stone can’t answer…

  25. 25.

    trollhattan

    @TaMara (HFG):

    Ours is not normally a thief but one day a chocolate croissant magically disappeared (“Did you eat it?” “No, didn’t you?”) and the dog had slinked off so as not to present guilty face.

    What to do, knowing that he at least was at risk of being sick. I did the spoonful of salt down his throat and took him out back, where within five or ten minutes we had the croissant back.

    Dogs.

  26. 26.

    narya

    @Steeplejack: Made In. They looked to be of decent quality, and–though I normally am not big on celeb endorsements–several big chefs (Colicchio, Izard, Achatz) are advocating for them. They seasoned nicely–a 12-inch skillet (probably could have gone one size smaller) and a paella pan.

  28. 28.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    Once every few years I’ll try a tiny piece of banana.  I think they are gross. I peeled one just last week thinking maybe this time it won’t taste like squishy vomit.  Nope.

  32. 32.

    zhena gogolia

    @gwangung:

    I have to have one a day (or at least half of one — pandemic sometimes requires), or I don’t feel right. I’m sure Bixby feels the same.

  33. 33.

    Miss Bianca

    Oh, that’s so funny that Bixby craves bananas – they are one of the few things that *neither* of my dogs will touch, not even canine vacuum cleaner Watson!

  34. 34.

    CaseyL

    Yesterday, had a Cat Medical Emergency that turned out not to be one.

    Jeannie seemed to be badly constipated, straining and growling/hissing – which is never supposed to happen to cats, and is a big red Danger! flag. So I signed out of work and ran her off to the nearest Blue Pearl emergency clinic.  (Where you sign up in the vestibule, go back to your car, and wait for a tech to come outside and get the carrier.)

    Turns out she had a case of Poopy Butt that was, um, blocking the exit.  Tech cleaned her off, shaved her, and brought her back outside.

    Jeannie has become arthritic, therefore inactive, and not as good about personal hygiene as she used to be.  This could be a problem going forward, since she’s a medium hair and very fluffy round her nethers. She may well be rocking the shaved-butt “I’m-wearing-chaps” look from now on.

    One really nice thing Blue Pearl did was not charge for the visit.

  35. 35.

    TaMara (HFG)

    @CaseyL: Can I suggest a good CBD oil…it completely took 18-year-old Emma from being stiff, sore and unable to groom herself to a spry young thing again.

    It may or may not work – I’m finding out it depends on how many receptors they have – but for her, it’s been like the fountain of youth.

  36. 36.

    geg6

    Hahaha!  Love the Bixby accusatory face.

    Koda does that to John when he eats toast.  She loves anything that crunches.

  38. 38.

    Zeecube

    Well, it’s a lovely crisp Fall day in South Louisiana. Plan to finish outside holiday decorations,  get tree and decorate that, which takes hours (we have accumulated LOTS OF ornaments and nicknats over the years.) But first off to get a Covid test.  A coworker we had a meeting with on Monday came down with the rona on Wednesday, and the other person in our group tested positive  yesterday afternoon. I followed CDC guidelines, and I presently feel fine but I  and Ms. ZC are high risk. Plus, I  want to visit my 90 yr old mother who just got out of the hospital and is recuperating at home.

  41. 41.

    Benw

    @trollhattan: we had a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel that ate an entire 1/2 lb box of Sees dark chocolate. Took him to the vet who gave him mineral oil. He barfed at the vet and then outside. Once we though it must be all out we brought him inside and he barfed an unbelievable pile of dark chocolate on the carpet.

    Dogs.

  44. 44.

    cain

    I see Erik Prince is trending – it seems our shitlord president is busy fucking up the pentagon – won’t allow BIden and his team into the building while replacing troops in Somalia with his Russian contractors. There is going to be a lot of shit things that is going to be happening on the military front.

    Gah.

  45. 45.

    cain

    @cain:

    The U.S. govt is likely for sale and anything you want in exchange for money will be given so that Trump can pay off his debts.

    I believe they are also opening up the alaska thing as well quickly. So it’s a fire sale for sure.

  46. 46.

    Zinsky

    @Zeecube:   Hope it is negative!  This is a dangerously infectious disease – my wife thinks she may have gotten it while shopping at Aldi’s for groceries with a mask on!  It’s the only time she has been anywhere without me and she tested positive and I didn’t.  I haven’t been in any public places except a doctor’s office since July.  Thankfully, she had very mild symptoms (headache only), perhaps due to a very low viral load she acquired.  Be safe everyone!

  47. 47.

    cain

    @Zinsky:

    Yikes..  were other people wearing masks  there? Here in my neighborhood everyone wears a mask and I don’t touch anything other than the handle of my shopping cart which I wipe.

  48. 48.

    Yutsano

    @laura:

    Spouse scored a case of canning jars this morning so I’ll be making meyer lemon marmalade.

    *looks with longing eyes à la Oliver Twist*

    Gib plz.

  53. 53.

    Jeffro

    Lincoln Project dropped another doozy.  This time they are noting that in the Georgia Senate races, even though he is not technically on the ballot, Mitch McConnell surely IS on the ballot.

    smart.  You don’t have to be a fan of Warnock or Ossoff or even know anything about them to be motivated to get out the vote against Mitch McConnell.

  54. 54.

    Baud

    @jimmiraybob:

    “I just learned of absolute incontrovertible evidence of North Korean boats delivering ballots through a harbor in Maine, the state of Maine,” Stone said. “If this checks out, if law enforcement looked into that and it turned out to be true, it would be proof of foreign involvement in the election.” – Roger Stone.

    I hate having to check out absolute incontrovertible evidence.

  55. 55.

    mrmoshpotato

    Bixby Is Not Amused

    That face says “I’m disappointed in all of you.”

    Sorry big fella.

  56. 56.

    Di

    I used to have a cat who, whenever I peeled a banana, would come running into the kitchen to see what was going on. I don’t know what he thought would appear – a ball? A squirrel? Then he’d sniff the banana and very dramatically gag. Every. Time.

  57. 57.

    raven

    @Di: Lil Bit was deaf and blind for at least the last year of her life but if you peeled an apple it didn’t matter where in the house she was, she appeared immediately!

  58. 58.

    trollhattan

    @raven:

    Hah! :-) Our first Dalmatian knew the sound of an opening zip-lock baggie and would appear from an adjacent county.

    He was also a drooler and if sitting like a good boy in hopes of a taste, a puddle of spit would form next to him. And that’s why god invented linoleum.

  60. 60.

    SWMBO

    I have had dachshunds over the years that would eat anything.  One of them ate rocks out of the yard.  NONE of them would eat fresh banana or green olives.  Black olives were fair game.  Banana bread would disappear.  But it was one pack NOPE on fresh banana or green olives.

  64. 64.

    Tdjr

    We’ve had the most delicious grapes available all season and I’ve been buying and snacking on them a lot (I was going to say a bunch). My dog Jasper sits longingly watching me snack with a little puddle of drool dripping. No grapes for the pooch!?

  69. 69.

    geg6

    I am going to make some Chex Mix Crack to give out to my sisters and nieces. I always give a gift of something homemade, which is usually red or black raspberry jam and a jar of tomatoes, both grown and canned by my John. But this year, we didn’t have enough berries to can because John moved the bushes to another spot on the property. So I’m going with the tomatoes and Chex Mix Crack. It’s easy, you can make huge amounts as long as your refrigerator can fit the trays and people love that shit, which is why it’s called crack. Recipe makes 40 servings, so a couple of batches will fill all the cellophane bags I ordered.

    4 cups Chex cereal
    4 cups Cheerios
    4 cups skinny pretzel rods
    3 cups salted peanuts
    11 ounces red and green M&Ms
    24 ounces white chocolate chips
    3.5 teaspoons shortening or solid coconut oil

    Place cereals, pretzels, peanuts and M&Ms in a large mixing bowl and set aside.
    Place parchment paper on a large baking sheet and set aside.
    In microwave safe bowl, add white chocolate chips and shortening/coconut oil and microwave at 50% power in 30 second increments, stirring after each increment until melted.
    Pour melted chocolate into the mixture in the bowl. Stir to combine.
    Place mix onto baking sheet and push it down evenly using a spatula.
    Place baking sheet in refrigerator for at least 20 minutes, break into clumps and store in an airtight container.

    Great snack food. I may also break up some candy canes to add.

  71. 71.

    mad citizen

    @Zinsky:  Good idea except this assumes your Rep/Sen is living in reality. From the last thread and the Wapo poll, my idea was to call my (R) Senators to see what their offices’ conclusion is on the Presidential election. (Having problem stating this ridiculous question–but it’s what are your set of facts?) Start from that lowest common denominator.

  72. 72.

    laura

    @TaMara (HFG): When we bought the casita de Amor, we were disappointed that the orange tree was smack in the middle of our smallish yard. It has been a workhorse of unknown tons of good fruit. Errybody gets a sack for Christmas with tons left for the Breakfast party and still an abundance for the foodbank harvesters that finished it off. We got two dwarf meyer lemons over the last couple of years that produce an unbelievable amount of fruit. This coming year with a scaled down holiday and no way in hell we could hold the breakfast shindig – and so even more will go to the foodbank for our friends and neighbors who can used every kind of a helping hand.
    I’ll try and document the marmalading and send pics in for a Sunday Garden Chat if there’s an interest.

  73. 73.

    Catherine D.

    @CaseyL: Cat hairball/constipation help: 1/8 tsp of MirraLax mixed into wet food once a day. My vet recommended it, and it’s made a big difference over the years. I buy the smallest human jar, and it lasts for months.

  75. 75.

    PsiFighter37

    @Jeffro: Eh – I just don’t think that people on our side are as motivated to vote against someone being a legislative leader (unlike the GOP, who seems to be very successful at turning Pelosi and Schumer into the ultimate boogeymen). I wonder if they have decided to actually poll-test any of their messaging this time; in the presidential race and a lot of their other ads, it seemed like most of it was coming unfiltered straight from the mind of Rick Wilson.

  76. 76.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @geg6:

    We use very different recipes/ingredients*, but I am also making vast quantities of Chex Party (at-home-by-yourself) Mix this weekend.

    *Mine is heavy on the garlic salt and Worcestershire sauce. Mixed cashews/almond/pecans rather than peanuts. No M&Ms.

  77. 77.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @laura:

    I’ll try and document the marmalading and send pics in for a Sunday Garden Chat if there’s an interest.

    Yes, please!

  78. 78.

    pamelabrown53

    @MattF:

    Wonderful article. Thanks for the link. Thinking I may buy the book “Shakespeare and Trump” mentioned in the article.

  79. 79.

    trollhattan

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    You describe the version I had as a kid–umami heaven (decades before I learned umami). There’s a synergistic blending of worchestershire sauce and butter, plus I’m allergic to peanuts and one must have cashews and pecans in the mix.

  80. 80.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    Ah, a relaxing Saturday. I’m sitting on the sofa by the window, reading the internet, sipping my tea.

    Sammy the beagle mix is on his favorite perch on the back of the sofa where he can peer out the window, snooze, or guard us from incoming UPS packages.

    And right outside the window is the front porch which is a major squirrel superhighway for some reason, and it’s especially busy at this time of year.

    This is not actually a relaxing combination.

    He got so hysterical a little while ago that I had to take him out to the porch to chase off the enemy, and then patrol the perimeter till he was satisfied.

  81. 81.

    mrmoshpotato

    @laura:

    I’ll try and document the marmalading and send pics in for a Sunday Garden Chat if there’s an interest. 

    Yes please.

  82. 82.

    PsiFighter37

    Looks like Trump called Brian Kemp this morning and asked him to basically call a special session and overturn the results. Kemp said no; I expect he will get massively shat on at tonight’s superspreader event in GA. Seems like the few polls that are out that are not Trafalgar show a tight race that is slightly in our favor. I have to think that the 10% decline in Kemp’s approval rating amongst the GOP is a real sign of trouble for Republicans there – if 10% of GOP voters stay home, they are toast in that race. Really hoping Stacey Abrams and friends can help push Ossoff and Warnock over the finish line, with voter registration deadline on Monday.

    As for me – the weather has cleared up in NYC, so time to take a walk and get some groceries done with the family.

  83. 83.

    mrmoshpotato

    @PsiFighter37:

    Looks like Trump called Brian Kemp this morning and asked him to basically call a special session and overturn the results. Kemp said no 

    Sad, unbigly, traitorous, orange, mobster assclown!

  84. 84.

    WaterGirl

    @SiubhanDuinne: That sounds more like the version I make.  I use butter instead of oil, how about you?

    I laid in supplies for chex mix when I was doing my early pandemic shopping.  imagine being stuck at home and unable to have something essential like chex mix???

    Sweet mixed in is intriguing, though.

  86. 86.

    scav

    I think there very well could be a general interest in an All The Ways One Can Make Chex Mix Melee.  All the different regional and familial tweaks to explore.

  87. 87.

    WaterGirl

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  90. 90.

    Topclimber

    This thread is riper than an ever-Trumper’s sex toy but just have to give shout outs to Ozark’s pluralith coinage. Infinite diversity in infinite combinations, friend.

  91. 91.

    WaterGirl

    @mrmoshpotato: I use one box of corn chex, one box of rice chex, and 2 boxes of wheat chex.  I think the wheat chex gives it more depth.  YMMV.  And I use either baby cheese goldfish or Annie’s cheddar bunnies instead of pretzels.

  93. 93.

    LuciaMia

    @mrmoshpotato: Chex Mix, ummmm. Snacking on a batch, there was always the excitement of finding that chex piece that was saturated with the woistercher-butter mix.

  94. 94.

    geg6

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    That is how I have traditionally made it, but last year, a co-worker brought this sweet version in and I knew it would be a big hit with my sisters and nieces.  Sweet and salty hits all of us where we live.

  96. 96.

    catclub

    @WaterGirl: I think the wheat chex gives it more depth.

     

    also the worcestershire sauce and salt. I think worcestershire is a big umami sauce/source.

  97. 97.

    WaterGirl

    @catclub:

    Ingredients:

    1 box rice chex
    2 box wheat chex
    1 box corn chex
    1 bag baby goldfish or Annie’s cheddar bunnies
    1 Tablespoon seasoned salt
    2 Tablespoons worcestershire sauce
    1 tsp. minced garlic
    2 cups butter

    sometimes I add cashews and sometimes I add pretzel stix.

    Directions:

    Mix butter, oil & spices together to make the sauce, preferably at least ½ hour ahead of time. Preheat oven to 175 -200 degrees.  (Under no circumstances should oven be hotter than 200 degrees.)  Combine snacks in two large, extra deep roasting pans. Sprinkle sauce slowly over the ingredients while keeping the sauce stirred up and the snacks mixed. Put pans in oven and cook for 1-1 ½ hours.  Check and stir snacks every 15 minutes.  Start tasting after one hour.  Do Not Overcook.

  98. 98.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @LuciaMia:

    the excitement of finding that chex piece that was saturated with the woistercher-butter mix.

    THIS! So true, I’m going to blockquote it again:

    the excitement of finding that chex piece that was saturated with the woistercher-butter mix.

  99. 99.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @WaterGirl:

    Start tasting after one hour. Do Not Overcooktaste.

    I’m reminded of Sandra Boynton*’s recipe for chocolate chip cookies, which began: Theoretical yield, 24 cookies.

    *The “hippo birdie two ewes” cartoonist, in case there’s a soul here who doesn’t know her name.

  101. 101.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @trollhattan:

    I can’t eat peanuts either (not allergic, just, the taste and smell make me gag), so it’s the mixed nuts for me. This year, instead of the traditional pretzel sticks, I’m using little tiny itty-bitty wee pretzel-shaped mini pretzels. And I ran across a recipe that suggested garlic-flavoured mini bagel chips, but I dunno. Maybe one batch, to see how they work with everything else.

  103. 103.

    lowtechcyclist

    @jimmiraybob: Man, our fixers really suck!  While stuffing the ballot boxes in Maine to give Biden the win, they totally forgot about the Senate race!

    We hired a buncha dipshits, I tell ya.

  106. 106.

    trollhattan

    @catclub:

    Agree, the Wheat Chex are toothsome in a way the other two Chex aren’t. Al dente? Dunno.

    There’s no way that mix tastes as good as it tastes, based on looking at the ingredients. Pretty sure crack makes it in when you’re not looking.

  107. 107.

    SFBayAreaGal

    My cat Puddin (no longer with us) loved the milk left over from the sugar cereals.

    When she heard the clang of the spoon hitting the bowl, she appeared as if she had been transported from where she was to where the person was eating their bowl of cereal. She would sit in front of you shifting nervously from one side to other. She would tap you gently with her paw to remind you she was waiting for that beautiful sweetened cereal milk.

  111. 111.

    zhena gogolia

    @SFBayAreaGal:

    My cat Buddy was like that. He also loved ice cream.

    One day my ex-husband noticed Pookie licking up the remnants of his martini. We were alarmed, but then it turned out that she loved olive juice. So every time he had a martini he had to pour out a little olive juice for her so she wouldn’t get into the gin.

  112. 112.

    There go two miscreants

    Damn it, you folks have about talked me into making some chex mix — I will have to expand the grocery list! I hope they have Wheat Chex — sometimes they are hard to find.

    Also too: Just got an email that my calendar has shipped! Yay!

  116. 116.

    JeanneT

    Pet related announcement:  this afternoon I was able to successfully trim all of Lily the Beagle’s toenails in one 10 minute session, with breaks for zoomies and cheese between each foot.  It’s the FIRST TIME she’s been able to tolerate my messing with all her toes on the same day since she moved in with me in 2019 – and she seemed happy about it.  I’m chuffed!

  121. 121.

    PaulWartenberg

    I would like to mention my Christmas happened today with a new Ford Escape Hybrid.

    The parents were unhappy that I was going with a black car with a black interior. “But Paul, it’ll get so hot in Florida…”

    “Mom? Dad? This is Florida. It WILL get hot no matter what…”

  122. 122.

    PaulWartenberg

    And I came home to a major water leak in my yard. The utility water ports are swamped. I can’t tell which one is busted. Called it in just now. Ugh, Saturdays.

  123. 123.

    WaterGirl

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: They have been saying that for weeks or months, but I guess if the news is finally getting some play, that’s a good thing.

    I am so sick of seeing couples where the woman is wearing a mask and the man isn’t.  I have thus far restrained myself from shouting – you should ditch that asshole while you can, he is selfish and he cares only for himself and his image.

  128. 128.

    mrmoshpotato

    Without comment. ?

    hey, remember when the Republicans took an oath to uphold the constitution? yeah, neither do the Republicans— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) December 5, 2020

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    MagdaInBlack

    @WaterGirl: I have every intention of using that ” information” at work. I dont have any non maskers, but I do get scoffers, so I will just mention in passing…… ? for my manly blue collar body shop guys.

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    Yarrow

    @laura:

    I’ll try and document the marmalading and send pics in for a Sunday Garden Chat if there’s an interest.

    Yes, please! I have Meyer lemons in my fridge that a friend game me and I’ve been planning to make marmalade. I have a recipe for orange marmalade that I’ve used plenty of times and I was going to follow that. It doesn’t call for added pectin – just the pectin from the seeds and pith and so forth. Is that how you make yours?

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    Jay

    Percent of wages currently subsidized by governments due to COVID:

    Japan: 100% for small businesses; 80% for large firms

    Netherlands: Up to 90%

    Norway: Up to 90%

    Germany: Up to 87%

    France: Up to 84%

    Italy: 80%

    United Kingdom: Up to 80%

    Canada: Up to 75%

    United States: 0%

    — Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) November 30, 2020

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    Benw

    Grey day, but I’ve run and done my chores. Now I’m tucked in watching the Tech game with a big labradane head smooshing my lap.

    Go Jackets!

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    mrmoshpotato

    @WaterGirl:

    I am so sick of seeing couples where the woman is wearing a mask and the man isn’t.  I have thus far restrained myself from shouting – you should ditch that asshole while you can, he is selfish and he cares only for himself and his image. 

    But he…  I got nothing.  I don’t walk downstairs to check my mail without a mask and gloves.

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    EmbraceYourInnerCrone

    watching Tennessee vs Florida. Gators QB just got sacked.  Working in n updating my VGLI insurance and my will because I need to do it and keep putting it off. Starting wrapping and debating dinner options…probably going to be angel hair pasta with garlic Alfredo sauce and grilled chicken chopped up in it.  Gotta work out after dinner on the stationary bike.

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    JeanneT

    @trollhattan: Ah, she mastered that a while back, making joint forays with my lab mix, who knows how to open jars.  Little by little they are training me to keep my countertops food -free.

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    laura

    @Yarrow: Yes! The pudding bag of pith and pips – squeezed to yield the glue that holds the whole thing together and adds the bitter bottom note of flavor.

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