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You know your cat is spoiled when he gets lifted up to the window to watch the birds.
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Pint of beer my husband recently received at our local pub. I detest IPA’s, but beer is my juice of choice.
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Results of a horrible multi unit fire that displaced 10 people in our town. This is what the old farm used to look like in the 1800’s.
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By the following day a gofundme campaign had raised $14,000. For a town with a population of just over 700, I’d say we’re pretty generous folk.
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A mussel appetizer the husband ordered this week. I stopped counting at 38. Definitely get your money’s worth there.
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It’s true. He told me….
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This is what happens when temperatures rise too quickly in what should be winter in Maine. All our lovely snow melts, freezes and melts again. We have a skating rink driveway and mini floods everywhere because the ground is still too cold to absorb the water.
This…. is a mess.
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River's world..... 
Ugh, the freeze-thaw that turns fluffy pretty snow in to a hockey rink between us and our car. It has been a awful year for that. I don’t like IPAs either, but they seem to be the dominant brew on tap. What did we do to deserve this?
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We have ice everywhere. Every path, every paved surface. It’s a wonder I haven’t broken my neck.
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Here’s hoping your hipbones are still dense and healthy. Hips can be broken much more easily than a neck. My ex’s 90 year old aunt broke her hip the day before her birthday. She never reached 91. Very sad.
Suggest hubby put a cloth rug or old blanket in front of the door. When the absorbed water freezes you won’t slip and fall coming out the door. As for the paths, hay ot straw work wonders, and provide good fertilizer for the lawn in spring. Not funny, I know, but neither are broken bones.
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We keep a pair of boots set up with spikes for taking the dog out on days when the paths are iced over.
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There’s a whole slew of breweries around here, they all make IPA and it all blows like a mighty wind of undrinkable bitterness. It’s like a sport. 38 mussels for an appetizer? I’m in!
Cat tent? I’ll be looking that item up as soon as I am done here.
Good job, Riv.
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Beer, food, cats. The randomness of my life isn’t random at all.
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I have a tiny tent. I should set it up for the dogs. They are smaller than the cat. LOL
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That house looks more like it was hit by a tornado, rather than a fire. Glad to hear the community is helping out.
Had to look up the meaning of IPA. International Phonetic Alphabet? That one didn’t work. INDIA Pale Ale. I bet that was it! Question: why was IPA made in England, and shipped to India? Sounds backwards to me. And now obviously it is popular in the USA. “I Pee American!” Sounds like a slogan to me. He he he.
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It will be I Pee American from now on.
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I’m telling you, the hubs loves Lord Dudley with all his heart!! It shows in that picture for sure. Don’t know Maine weather sounds like Texas weather without the snow. Freezing one day, warm/hot the next , it’s infuriating. I’m sure your not a fan of the instant hockey rinks that appear over night. I’m with you on the IPAs, they are a trend of beer anyone can make nowadays. Give me a Guinness and I’m good.
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Bass used to make an IPA that was a great bottom end for a black and tan. They may still make it, but I can’t find it around here.
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He does love the little guy. Husband was a dog person when we married, but I converted him.
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You go girl!
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India pale ale got its start in the days when India was part of the British empire. Beer was shipped there from England, but they had to jam it full of hops to keep it from getting all skunky from the long voyage and the heat. In its modern iteration, where they brew it and can sell it right down the street, or even right in the same building, IPA doesn’t make much sense to me.
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That’s interesting. I’m going to impress someone with that little factoid someday.
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That and a whole lot of other stuff, I’m sure.
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I’m a font of useless knowledge, what can I say?
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Remember the “Separated at birth” comment when we first met? I know, right?
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I’ve always felt I had a twin somewhere…
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Separated by two years. That’s some hellacious labor.
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Two years and quite a few miles. Mom was a resilient woman.
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I was born in Maryland, so not that far. My mom is one of those tough-ass hillbilly women. You’ve never seen an eighty-year-old woman work a pair of post hole diggers quite like her.
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Mine was a delicate flower, so I guess it was me that was adopted.
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Hard to say. I’m something of a delicate flower myself. Good thing I’m packing this wicked crop of thorns.
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“It’s true. He told me….”
Don’t believe him. Put the tent next to a pasteboard box and see which one he gets in … you’re being shucked …
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Dudley is the only cat I’ve ever known who doesn’t like boxes. Or bags. He’s weird..
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Charlie isn’t a “box” cat either, it’s almost anti-feline if you ask me.
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It is. Dudley won’t even get in a paper bag.
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We actually fell into the 40’s a few times. Lordy. Might be time to move even farther south. Hey, tell your Marine husbands that the water he is losing to will eventually go through those slats between the boards and go away. Marines always have to do it the hard way.
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They do. But in this instance it kept refreezing and I didn’t want to break my neck taking out the garbage.
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That is such a sweet picture of your husband holding your kitty.
So sad about the fire! But how lovely that all of you raised money for the family.
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He’s a big softy when it comes to our pets. But don’t tell him I said so…
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I won’t. 🙂
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I have been trying to buy a “model” tent, exactly the tiny tent, for YEARS!! Where did you find that??
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It popped up my FB feed.
https://tinytents.com/
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Thanks!!!
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Mother nature keeps you busy with all the snow, melting, snow, ice, etc…
My husband will only drink IPA’s and always asks me to taste them. NO THANKS. Where are my grapes?
So sad about the fire, but so nice that people are willing to help assist a fresh start. Losing everything to a fire scares the bejesus out of me.
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I’m always telling my other half to try my cocktails, if you’ve tasted one IPA you’ve tasted them all.
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I was wondering about water tanks to capture snow melt the other day. Obviously I don’t have snow but it seemed a good idea to catch it somehow.
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One foot of snow equals one inch of water. They’d have to be very large tanks….
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Maybe just the snow on the roof then. And tanks with rubber bits so they expand.
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Depends how much the mussel appetizer cost. If it set you back $100, then no, you did not get your money’s worth.
(I’m pretty confident it did not set you back $100.)
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I believe it was $12….
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Unlike your electricity bill, THAT is quite the deal!
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Well, we do live in coastal Maine. You can’t walk a mile without hitting a mussel.
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