swampy, I just love your slang. Niller ice cream. Flahrdee. Hee! It’s fun.
I certainly sympathize with anyone who is on the receiving end of Frances, but it is nice from my perspective to see a hurricane headed anywhere else besides Virginia.
Gastone reamed Richmond with the rainfall yesterday, and knowing how much I miss the midwest, gave us 3 tornadoes within 20 miles; one of them on the east side of Hampton and crossing the air force base. That booger was within 3 miles of my office… :eek:
Seven named storms so far this season, and four of them have come through my neck o’ the woods: Alex was a glancing blow; Bonnie was a fizzle; Charlie and Gastone were direct hits at tropical storm strength. If Frances hits Jax as projected, we’ll get him, too, as another fizzle.
I think I like the midwest tornadies and blizzards better than this.
Don’t get cocky, kid. There’s certainly plenty of time for Virginia to become ground zero. Let’s all hope it goes back into the Atlantic and dies a lonely death, away from all of humanity.
Amen!
No Flarduh, Jawjah, Kay-ro-linees, Virginny, or anywhere else.
Yet another reason to live north, really. Hurricanes. I don’t know if we’ve ever had one in Toronto.
I had some kind of cardamon pudding thing for breakfast. It was good. I like those Indian pouch thingies. I was not poisoned. I bought them because someone on chowhound.com (very reliable source of food info) praised em to the skies.
I am working on the list of things to take to Philly. First the lunch and snacks list, and then the gifts list.
Lunch and Snacks:
Veggie sticks, hummus, maybe feta and garlic dip, roasted pepper and ham sammiches with swiss cheese, coke, water, fun-dip candy things, TimBits (doughnut holes), trail mix.
Gifts:
Several books, including the Danielle Steel poetry book, real Montreal bagels (3 dozen), TimBits, maple syrup, homemade strawberry jam, burned cds.
Because everyone should suffer some Danielle Steel poetry at least once, here’s part of one.
I feel you
peeling
away
from
me,
like sticking
plaster
tearing
slowly
from a wound,
a layer
of my skin
soldered
to yours…
And that’s part of one of the best ones.
ShibbOleth wrote:
Did anyone else think of how you lose rings in cows?
I also had a vision of someone finding a ring in a pregnant cow later, and saying, “At least she was married!”
Our wedding bands look like slices from bullets–not the highest end products. I remember my brother telling me when he first got married, that before he was used to wearing the ring, it felt like he still had clothes on when he took a shower. He was right, it did feel like that.
In case Bumbazine wanders in, here is his low-carb tip for the week: use low-carb tortillas, toasted until firm, as the bottoms of pizzas, or else cut up with a pizza cutter into tortilla chips.
Another tip is to use smashed up pork rinds as breading. I’ve done this for chicken cordon bleu and scotch eggs.
I’m dying for a pizza myself.
Damned editing. :smack:
We had our 11th/21st anniversary in May. Eleven years of official marriage, 21 years since we shacked up together. Actually, the two anniversaries are a day apart. We wanted to have the official marriage on the 10th anniversary of the unofficial one, but courthouse wasn’t open for marriages on Saturday, so had to do it on Friday. No problem getting a booking with the JP - guess not many people wanted to get married on a Friday the 13th 
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I have my wife’s father’s wedding band and she has my grandmother’s. Mine is a bit loose, so I usually remove for dishwashing and other activities where my hands will be wet and slippery, as otherwise it will slip right off. I could get it resized, but it’s a gold and platinum band with an engraved pattern on the edges and I wouldn’t want the reduction to show.
I’ve only ever played archery golf on a golf course. It’s played with a foursome of two golfers and two archers, and it’s basically the same as regular golf, with the golfers hitting a ball and the archers shooting arrows for the green. The archers have a tiny little target for the final shot (harder than you might think to hit from close up, as you have to aim well below the target) instead of putting into the cup. A nice combination of flight (distance) shooting and target shooting for the archers. Of course, yelling “Fore” is even more important than usual!
Indian food is good!!! PC Indian frozen entrées and sauces are good! (but only one ! good compared to the real thing.) I want onion bahjees and lamb pasanda and mattar paneer and nan bread for supper, but I’ll have to wait until the weekend. 
Maybe I’ll get a couple of PC chicken khormas out of the freezer to tide me over.
I just talked to Mr. Anachi and he went ahead and bought a little battry TV and some battry lanterns and some other stuff. Generators are nowhere to be found but I think he got enough stuff to put a hex on Frances. :smack: DOH! Hope I didn’t just negate it.
I bought some Thai noodle foodies at the stoa last time I went. You gots to nuke em but they are tastey and only has a coupla hunnert calories in em.
If merrily (welcome merrily!) and vunderbob wrote a cookbook, would you buy it? The MMP poll of the day.
Everybody knows anything is better with pork rinds. I have a cook book called “White Trash Cooking.” I’m going home to look in it just to see if that’s where vunderbob got his recipe for chicken cordon bleu.
Puggy I thought the hubby already bought one of them battry powered tbs. Or is he like Ex who goes shopping for a food processor and brings home a microwave? 
Bookkeeper I bet archery tennis would be fun too. And archery bad minton. But not archery volleyball. The balls are too airy and wouldn’t be bouncy after they got shot. Archery croquet might be fun. Oh! Archery baseball! Archery baseball would be real fun. Specially with flaming arrows being shot at baseballs. That’d liven up baseball a bunch!
I didn’t wake up grumpy Saturday morning.
I let her sleep in.
:eek: 
I didn’t wake up grumpy Sunday morning.
He slept in until early afternoon when he woke up on his own.
[smug smilie]
Regarding Hurricane Frances, the latest prediction map has Jacksonville as the landfall target. Glad I’m not there any longer. Of course, we all know how reliable the long range forecasts are… I’m just gonna fret till I know my baby will be safe. Orlando doesn’t need another hurricane.
I’m home early, waiting for Lowe’s to deliver our sheetrock and luaun - we’ve got a fun holiday weekend planned, you betcha! I know you’re all jealous and wish you could come over and help us mud and sand, but you can’t. It’s our special time together.
If swampy can do a MMP poll, then I’m gonna also: Will FCD and I still be married after a weekend of mudding and sanding drywall? Something to consider - we managed to stay married after hanging striped wallpaper together.
Well, if I did write a cookbook, you should buy it. My very obvious need for the Atkins diet was not caused by drinking beer…
I have said many times to VunderWife that with any mention of hanging wallpaper, I get the burning desire to resume drinking beer. Preferably 30 miles or more from the papering location.
FWIW. VunderWife and my MiL papered the kid’s room the weekend before I was laid off last year. I’m convinced that event cost me my job. Since VW is also a known hurricane magnet, I probably should stop worrying about losing my wedding ring up a cow’s cootchie and just get the divorce overwith.
vunderbob says he gave up beer, but that sentence looks mighty suspiciously beer induced to me. Heck, I need a few beers after just reading it.
FCM I didn’t even know one could order a luau from Lowe’s. Do you have to dig the pit to roast the pig or is that included? You could probably get welby to come help. Just give him beer and a hammer and he’s a whiz at drywall.
I forgot to mention this:
“Popcorn Alsace” is about to happen. I hear the thunderin’ now.
Swampy, if you had to do the Atkins Diet, would it be Pork Rind Alsace instead?
A Pork Rind Storm. Hmmmm… if includes a heavy downpour of beer, I’m all for it!
“Popcorn Alsace” is raining on us even as I post.