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Miscellaneous nonsense.

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After the recent mass shooting tragedy in Maine lots of people were paying tribute to the resilience of my state and its people. I happen to like Stephen Colbert’s take…

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And since it’s November in my northern home, temperatures are dropping rapidly at night. They had snow to the west of us and we’re waking up to frost. I say bring it! But my husband is starting to shiver. Since menopause has endowed me with internal heating I’m slow to crank up the furnace these days and see nothing wrong with throwing another blanket on top of the spouse. … which is why I got a kick out of seeing this online the other day.

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I really need to post that on our thermostat.

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If you’ve never listened to the Grateful Dead? Never mind, you won’t get it.

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And if you’ve never watched Game of Thrones or The Last of Us? Never mind you won’t get this either.

But speaking of the latter?

It’s real.

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Thankfully it hasn’t moved on to humans, but you never know.

Which is why I was a little shocked to see it was the top ingredient in a coffee that’s being hawked on FB.

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What the Hell people?

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Don’t bother.

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Are you like me?

Not able to scroll past an easy new recipe you see online?

If so, let me save you the trouble.

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I found this the other day and tried it last night.

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Since I won’t buy those horrible bacon bits and was out of real, I opted for garlic powder and parsley.

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With an entire bag of cheddar cheese.

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They looked promising …

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But were actually hard dry lumps. We had to slather half a pound of butter on them just to make them edible.

If you see this recipe? Keep scrolling..

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News you can’t use.

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You know the drill.

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This goes for my husband at every meal. If his food isn’t flaming hot and burning his tongue? He’s not happy.

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Finally, there’s hope for the politicians in Washington. Let’s all chip in and buy them a few…

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Who is this chick anyway?

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No one is more thankful than me that the subscription to Cosmopolitan I received as a gift last year has run out.

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As seen in Wal Mart.

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I was in Wal Mart the other day, innocently walking through the health and beauty section looking for some reading glasses.

We call them cheaters and I swear the older I get the more I need a pair in every single room of the house and two in the kitchen.

I’m old y’all.

And while I admit I have a hard time reading the fine print on labels, I didn’t have any trouble identifying these products when I turned the corner in search of eyeball magnification.

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Tush toys?

Vibrating rings?

Little suckers?

Shelf upon shelf of …. accessories.

And to think I used to take my mother shopping here.

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Royal feline or arctic fox? You be the judge…

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Since the renovation project is at a standstill, walkies have resumed at Casa River.

And with cooler weather coming on that means mouse hunting.

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Lord Dudley Mountcatten can hear them scurrying under the foliage and through the rock wall and after long patient observation…

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He’s airborne.

Straight up in the blink of an eye.

Just like an arctic fox.

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He chases birds in the burning bush as well but that’s not nearly as entertaining, though it is more colorful this time of year.

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No worries, he never catches any.

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Catching His Lordship in full arctic fox mode is difficult but I managed one good shot.

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Unfortunately for him none of these flying leaps resulted in a captured mouse.

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Maybe next time…

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In his element.

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As well as the ceremony at the Beirut Memorial, my husband’s squadron hosted a reunion dinner. And as you can imagine, being surrounded by old Marines telling stories is just about my husband’s favorite place to be.

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From left to right… Corporal, Gunny, Captain.

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The next day it was a picnic at the marina on base.

More old comrades, more stories.

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And while they were on the air station? A chance to refamiliarize themselves with the big toys.

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The V-22 Osprey, an 80 million dollars per nightmare of an aircraft. My husband worked on this program when the Marine Corps first adopted them to replace his beloved CH-46 helicopter. 30 years of R&D and they were still falling out of the sky. We had one crash down the road from our house when we lived in North Carolina and Marines were refusing orders to fly in them. Meant to assist troop deployment in the Middle East, it was discovered the intake clogged with sand which rendered it virtually useless. I’ve read they’ve finally worked out the kinks. Time will tell.

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A CH-53 Sea Stallion. The first heavy lift transport helicopter to be refueled in the air. I’ve been in one of these, they’re beasts.

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The Bell UH-1 Iroquois, otherwise known as the Huey…. the workhorse of the Marine Corps and beloved by Vietnam Veterans like my husband.

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The twin engine AH-1W Super Cobra with its blades folded down. This is a lean, mean, made for attack machine.

(Believe it or not yours truly can identify which of these choppers is flying over her head by sound alone. That’s what you get from living in a military town for 16 years.)

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Let’s play.

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You don’t have to….

But you should.

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Looking back… I realize I must have been a strange child because I honestly can’t think of a single thing.

I was never afraid of monsters under the bed. I always slept in a room by myself, in the dark.

I watched horror movies under the covers, I played spotlight in the backyard.

I liked bugs, and snakes and toads.

Thankfully I grew up in a loving stable home in an era where no one had to warn me about talking to strangers or telling my parents if someone touched me inappropriately.

I had an idyllic childhood and happily sailed through it with no fears.

How about you?

What scared you as a child…

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O.M.G. … is this a man thing or am I losing my mind?

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We have to special order two replacement doors.

I have told our contractor numerous times what type of doors we want. He relays this information to the store rep he orders through.

And while the rep was on track with the living room door for some reason the bedroom door is still a problem.

I gave our contractor the door catalog and circled these three styles.

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I texted him this photo from the website.

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I specifically described the shape and style of the top window door we want. I gave him everything he needed to order said door which he passed along to the sales rep… so you can imagine my surprise when he emailed me this.

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Does that look like the door we wanted?

No, it does not. So a few days later he emailed me this.

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Does that look like the door we wanted?

Again, it does not… so a few days later he emailed me this.

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Okay, we’re getting closer… but this half fan model is a bit old fashioned and not the door that we want.

Help me out here. Am I being unclear… or is this a man thing?

Do all pretty windows look the same to the male eye?

I swear this door will be the death of me. Or at the very least the death of my sanity.

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