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However you celebrate,…
Flowers, chocolate, and a candlelit dinner.
Or if you choose not to…
Netflix, tacos and comfy slippers.
I hope you have a wonderful day, filled with those you love.
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🩷❤️🩷
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Happy Heart Day.
Tag Archives: humor
Let’s play.
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Happy Friday!
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It could be Somewhere Over The Rainbow.
Or perhaps I Gotta Be Me.
But the first thing I thought of when I saw the picture?
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Freddie at Live Aid.
Aaaaayyy-o! Aaaayyy-o!
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Now you.
What song do you think the hippo is singing?
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You’d better hurry.
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In keeping with my annual ridiculous Valentines Day gift suggestions, I bring you something new and in limited quantities … so don’t waste any time.
Get yours now.
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Because nothing says I love you like nuggets.
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I have yet to attend a dinner party where nuggets and caviar has been served. Clearly I travel in the wrong social circles.
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I’m confused.
They’re free of charge… but will sell out quickly?
Only McDonalds marketing could come up with that.
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Cabbage knees, chicken soup and lickable elements.
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Fat shaming is wrong.
Even if it’s directed towards those of feline persuasion.
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Poor Fred.
I feel you buddy.
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Since I posted about my knee troubles two weeks ago? I’ve been inundated with ads for bamboo wraps, pain creams and Velcro braces.
But yesterday?
Things went a little south..
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For the record I won’t be wrapping myself in cabbage… no matter how blog worthy the photos might be.
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Our buck, having dinner.
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He still has his rack, which is rather odd.
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But it does make him easier to identify.
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Posted for those who have always wondered.
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After too many awful internet crock pot recipes to count, I finally found a good one. This was easy and quite tasty, though I had to leave out the red pepper flakes for my spice averse spouse. When I make it again I’m going to halve the amount of chicken, once shredded it was a little too meaty for me.
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In case you didn’t realize.
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Are you watching the Winter Olympics?
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I love the Olympic Games and try to watch as much as I can. The excitement of competition, the thrill of victory, the heartbreak of defeat, the human interest stories… it’s all good.
I like it so much, sometimes I watch two sports at once.
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I also do this :
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But that’s neither here nor there there.
Sadly, scandal has once again raised its ugly head to mar the purity of the games.
This year? It’s a little more…
Interesting.
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Say it isn’t so.
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Damn.
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They say people will do anything to win.
I think this qualifies.
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News you can’t use.
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Useless, but rarely boring.
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Good thing no one told Prince.
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I don’t see why not.
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Chlorosis, or the “disease of virgins” (also known as “green sickness”), was a historical, primarily 16th to early 20th-century diagnosis for adolescent girls characterized by paleness, faintness, amenorrhea (suppressed menstruation), and poor appetite. Often attributed to a lack of sexual activity or “retained blood,” it was viewed as a social and medical condition that could supposedly be cured by marriage.
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Oh, they weren’t kidding.
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I’m guessing the goat didn’t win that argument.
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And I didn’t even know prosthetic nipples were a thing.
The world is a strange place.
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For Pete’s sake, hurry up.
Our President is in dire need.
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Ah, the life of a wildlife photographer.
So glamorous.
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Clearly there weren’t enough diseases or climate change disasters to study.
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Is it wrong to fall in love with a vacuum?
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When we put our new flooring down in February of 2024, I bought a little Dyson stick vacuum to help keep it clean.
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It beat the broom and dust pan…was small, cute, easy to use and sucked up crumbs on the bare floors admirably.
But when we laid our new carpet in the bedrooms last year it made me realize how useless my other vacuum… an old Hoover … had become. The carpet is luxurious and quite thick and my old machine simply wasn’t up to the task.
But I’m a New Englander so if it ain’t broke? We don’t fix it…. or replace it for that matter.
Until last week when my (15 year old? 20 year old?) Hoover breathed its last. She blew up in dramatic fashion with dust and sparks flying everywhere … so even I had to admit it was time for a new model.
Enter the new love of my life.
A full size cordless Dyson V 15 Detect.
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Easy to assemble, easy to use, easy to charge, easy to clean.
She’s easy.
But in a good way.
And may I just say, her suction power is beyond impressive. ( There are a plethora of off color jokes I could insert here, but our relationship is brand new and I don’t want to insult her.)
I’ve honestly never seen a vacuum remove so much dirt, cat hair, dust, crumbs, kitty litter stuff from a carpet before.
Are we really that dirty?
I had to empty the container three times by the time I’d done three rooms, so apparently the answer is yes.
For a relatively simple machine, Vera (yes, I named the vacuum) has a few interesting features.
The Dyson V15 Detect features an LCD screen that provides real-time, scientific proof of a deep clean by displaying the size and quantity of dust particles as you clean. A piezo sensor counts particles up to 15,000 times a second, with color-coded bars indicating sizes: Yellow (allergens/pollen), Orange (microscopic dust), Pink (dust mites/fine sand), and Purple (sugar-sized particles).
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Holy Macaroni Batman! That’s a lot of allergens and pollen… considering it’s winter in Maine and we’re not opening the windows. ( Makes me think I’d better add ‘clean furnace ducts’ to the to do list. )
No, Vera wasn’t cheap.
But I think we’ll be very happy together,
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And I’m looking forward to the day when our allergen particles fall to under a billion.
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Let’s play.
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Warning – you will be required to count. If that’s too much math early in the morning, please return later this afternoon.
Today’s exercise will prove how old you are.
Out of the 20 things listed, how many have you personally experienced?
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Clearly I’m old as dirt because I’m 19 for 20… and the only reason it isn’t 20? I never owned a Walkman. Though the husband did and used it when jogging.
Talk about cumbersome tech!
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How about you?
What’s your outdated, no longer in existence number…
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Young bones, deer and Guy Lombardo.
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I’m officially old.
I must be, because I can’t see any other reason why my doctor would send me for a bone density scan.
At first I wasn’t going to have the test, but then I figured if my skeleton was about to crumble to dust I should probably be informed.
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I was unaware these things are scored by percentages of youth. But if I’m 114% of a young adult? That’s good enough for me.
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Yay for good bones.
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A few pictures of our resident buck.
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And a video.
Which I hope you can view…
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I had to laugh at this notice posted by a local water district.
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A sense of bureaucratic humor is a beautiful thing.
And speaking of senses of humor, it’s a good thing I have one because my husband went to the dump the other day and came home with this –
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I know, you’re jealous.
Guy Lombardo is the autograph you’ve always wanted to add to your collection… but my husband beat you to it.
Better luck next time.
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Maps
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The ridiculous statistics continue.
First up…America, broken down into tv show regions.
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I can’t comment on the total veracity of this map as I’ve only seen three of the shows, but let me assure you… The Sopranos is New Jersey.
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This is very sad. Though I’m happy to live in one of the few green states.
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I’ve never bought a lottery ticket, and probably never will.
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That’s just mean.
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Smoking is definitely on the decline in our area of Maine.
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Damn Australia. Your mothers must have serious upper body strength.
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Clearly there’s a cultural overlay.
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