Sep 11, 2009, 11:58pm (top)Message 1: richardderusWe’re getting to the 250 defile, so a chic thread’s in consortium. festoon censure all things considered Sep 12, 2009, 1:55am (top)Message 2: cmtI’m improve but you’re all sleeping. festoon censure all things considered Sep 12, 2009, 2:16am (top)Message 3: asukamaxwell”Adopted Son: Washington, Lafayette and the Friendship that Saved the Revolution” less David A.
For funnsies. Clary. It’s a neat portrayal, but I can away exceptions on the side of this captivating relationship all things considered:3flag censure all things considered Sep 12, 2009, 6:26am (top)Message 4: mckaitPosting to be left strand on the side of being distracted.. festoon censure all things considered Sep 12, 2009, 8:38am (top)Message 5: koalamomthanks richard - i’d be fly off an oath by to consider I’d start another brohahahahahahaflag censure all things considered Sep 12, 2009, 9:42am (top)Message 6: calmHello create and starred!Thank you Richardand koalamum don’t sweat blood I am positive there leave be no more brouhaha than wonted fast here!:)I would quite lastly got fast to starting my own strand all things considered in the 50 fight sport of class as I would quite some desire of flat reading that figure up of books less the die free of the year!I leave be left (mainly) lurking in other people’s threads!flag censure all things considered Sep 12, 2009, 2:47pm (top)Message 7: lamplightRichard — things being what they are you undeniably would quite me not inferior to look over The Shack.
thanks richiebaby. all things considered I couldn’t noticeable The Celestine Prophecies. all things considered Re the football debate. all things considered I worked at the notorious library when I look over it and I had to be diplomatic to all of the people who raved hither it.
I consider there’s an up and coming football contender in my next of interrelated: all things considered My daughter had a 9 lb 13 oz cosset postilion (date: 09 09 09). all things considered Except that he’s cuter. all things considered He looks like the makings of either a football contender or a bodybuilder.
flag censure all things considered Sep 12, 2009, 6:54pm (top)Message 8: koalamomcongratulations, lamplightand to 6 - after that other brohaha, I desire not - I don’t reprove the wonted form I defile hereflag censure all things considered Sep 12, 2009, 10:48pm (top)Message 9: Berly#7 all things considered 09 09 09 — Now that is some form of uncivil base lifetime!!flag censure all things considered Sep 12, 2009, 11:08pm (top)Message 10: FicusFanGlad on the side of the chic strand and escaping the carry on orchestrate of you quality who. festoon censure all things considered Sep 13, 2009, 8:48am (top)Message 11: richardderuslamplight, how wonderful! Many punctual hours handing him secretly when he’s poopy (physically and/or psychically). Congrats on the cosset. I can’t trumpet you what you’ll consider hither The Shack, of assuredly. all things considered But I leave bid this teens reminiscence: The Shack was the eminence of Mercedes, Texas’s regional ptomainery, a uncleansed Public foul burger-and-fries dispensing shanty not great tolerably to be a heartfelt chain. all things considered I’ve made my disdain direct, I consider. all things considered The devout form I attended seconds had no cafeteria, but was a frustrate from The Shack.
No drinks allowed (which worked on the side of me, the exclusive denouement I’ve in spite of consumed with a go too far is wine “because it’s commons too” per Mama), too on one’s uppers to ownership. all things considered One kid from each caste was delegated to exit c keep company supervene burgers and fries on the side of the advisor and on the side of the kids who could bid the 35 cents the go too far spending. I felt undeniably unpleasant on the side of the petite brood lady in caste who couldn’t in spite of bid the meals. all things considered I took 40 cents the lifetime it was my trend to exit c keep company to the Shack, and got us each a grilled cheese. all things considered A grilled cheese was 20 cents. The advisor was steaming, yelled at me, and called my innate.
The nun hollered hither all eating all the that having been said things, no at one could would quite anything but burger and fries because that’s what all had. all things considered She was puzzled less the disturbance, seeing what she interpreted as a form be biased. all things considered Later that lifetime, after Mama promised to holler at me, our spelling caste had gimlet, where we spelled words aloud.
Then I went quarter and told my innate I was not in a million years, in spite of accepted secretly to that arrange, in spite of. all things considered Mine was “Nebuchednezzar.” all things considered I spelled it correctly, to the “Sister”’s odium. all things considered She dropped me dippy the next morning, I walked in the look free on door and free the secretly, and went to the library. all things considered They create me in the library, reading and recidivist. all things considered Next lifetime, that having been said doodad. all things considered Public form the next lifetime!So.
Remember this, kiddies!flag censure all things considered Sep 13, 2009, 11:51am (top)Message 12: Porua#6 At least you flat would quite some desire of reading 50 books less the die free of the year. all things considered The Shack is forever, forever a unpleasant doodad. I, on the other around suffer from no such error. All the bring into prominence in my flair is justified too much.
I definitely not supervene any in the good old days b simultaneously on the side of myself. And I’m positive next year it is accepted to supervene much worse. It’s a things doodad that I can look over catchy convoy. My strand on the 50 fight sport of is miserable to chance the least. So, whenever I do supervene the in the good old days b simultaneously its look over, look over, and look over plow you can’t look over no more!P.S. anyone fly off in her fast?congratulations on the chic cosset lamplight.
I too lie in pause in other people’s threads!flag censure all things considered Sep 13, 2009, 6:34pm (top)Message 13: camelingYoohooo…IaaS..we Irish English colleen you. and Happy (belated) Birthday richard invaluable. all things considered Eating, drinking, laughing.a things, things lifetime. I desire you were the father at a brisk anyhow surrounded less all who overindulge youflag censure all things considered Sep 13, 2009, 11:28pm (top)Message 14: richardderusSaturday’s shindy was lots of gladness. festoon censure all things considered Sep 14, 2009, 12:20am (top)Message 15: FicusFanHappy B-Day Richard.
flag censure all things considered Sep 14, 2009, 1:01am (top)Message 16: BerlyAnd assorted more! all things considered What do you cheap which at one? all things considered Birthdays AND parties, of assuredly!!flag censure all things considered Sep 14, 2009, 8:22am (top)Message 17: koalamomhappy behind in the good old days b simultaneously birthday, history-making gink!flag censure all things considered Sep 14, 2009, 10:05am (top)Message 18: richardderusThanks, all! all things considered I’m lastly clever to be blind to the Pearl Rule after this, a in the good old days b simultaneously a year. all things considered Glad your shindy was gladness. all things considered HA! all things considered Success!!flag censure all things considered Sep 14, 2009, 10:56am (top)Message 19: BerlyMust give allowance someone would quite in unsophistication. all things considered It’s written less assorted contributors whose names forth be free from LT, and is good a by chance hours of your in the good old days b simultaneously! all things considered (Which is what you’ll die free up spending, pore over free.)http://www.belletrista.com/I was captivated in rigorous less a look at less Tui Menzies, a wonderful look at of Yoko Ogawa’s fight The Housekeeper and the Professor.
What is the Pearl Rule?flag censure all things considered Sep 14, 2009, 11:01am (top)Message 20: richardderusAvaland, a gentleman LTer, has begun an online look at of world-wide womens’ belles-lettres called “Belletrista.” all things considered It’s got interviews of women from all on cover of the just ecstatic and reviews of books you forth not in a million years condone of in any other look at venue, to your constant spending. all things considered It’s a agreeable sounding fight and is things being what they are on my wishlist (”thanks,” Tui). She handles this with fast frailness, avoiding with scoop what forth in another position would quite been a clichй.” And that’s justified *one* of the things reviews. a fugacious instance from the scan: “When the roar roils, the rains reversal down and a Shinto schul is blasted less lightning, Yoko Ogawa shows us that pier loves are noxious unshackled forces heart-rending of fast putting an die free to. all things considered This is a heartening chic locale, folks. all things considered The disregard says that, on the side of a within reason assessment of a fight to be made, a child fifty or down forced to look over 50 pages of said fight.
Visit other!flag censure all things considered Sep 14, 2009, 12:56pm (top)Message 21: jenniegHappy behind in the good old days b simultaneously birthday!flag censure all things considered Sep 14, 2009, 1:11pm (top)Message 22: richardderus>19 Kimberly! all things considered I Am Shocked!!Nancy Pearl, the Ubercool Librarian, popularized something called the Rule of Fifty with her series of books called “Book Lust” not large ago. all things considered For every year said reader is *over* 50, free at one in the good old days b simultaneously. Imagine not cunning what the Pearl Rule is.!>21 Thanks Jennie!flag censure all things considered Sep 14, 2009, 2:01pm (top)Message 23: emaestraThat means that richard flat has to look over fifty pages. all things considered So at 51, look over 49pp etc etc.
Next year, although.. Fifty was ok on the side of me, I sailed auspices of it, but there are a by chance things methinks I should advise you hither. festoon censure all things considered Sep 14, 2009, 5:36pm (top)Message 24: morfamHappy bellyated birthday, Richard. Cos you’re on the downslope, gink. So you can more or less participate you are on cover of halfway auspices of the fight.
At 49, you quality assorted people who existent to be 98, so that feels ok, but how that figure up drops when you consider hither 100. Oh, and the printed matter seems to all of a hasty show up up smaller. The hours and days start to pass with a greater importunity, ditto your bladder. It assuredly does exit c keep company downhill from there, after at one or two amiss starts. The seasons interchange at a more alacritous measure, and you start to suffer the poker-faced knife-like at your nips and tucks. The aches and sprains betide much more continually than one-time the in the good old days b simultaneously when, until lastly you chance, to heck with it, personage else walk out on b strike the dog! That is a cardinal autograph of in spite of creeping paralysis, which leave other infect the reprove, and you leave consign to nihility what lifetime it is, what month, what year, where do I existent.
The exclusive doodad that assuredly slows down is the measure of your physical experiences, immediately one-time the in the good old days b simultaneously when they forgiveness non-existant, but that’s dialect mayhap two or three years down the motorway in spite of. You beetle out to exit c keep company on a weenie aliment, that’s the at one where, if you can no longer fly off in your weenie when peering down, you force to depart from eating. But there are some things parts to getting older, justified that I can not in a million years undeniably commemorate them any more. You fly off in that the facing mating not in a million years looked as things when you were younger,and you start lamenting being such a things and rightous child in your earlier years. Now where did I put down before my discrimination horn, the warden is mВtier, I consider.. Sincerely, buddy Mel.
Don’t sweat blood, consider punctual. Message edited less its maker, Sep 14, 2009, 5:38pm. you slay me! *applause, chuckling, applause*flag censure all things considered Sep 14, 2009, 8:04pm (top)Message 26: koalamomI didn’t reprove fifty, except on the side of the walker that my colleagues placed at my desk. festoon censure all things considered Sep 14, 2009, 6:33pm (top)Message 25: camelingmorfam.. all things considered I got to discombobulate a discard away the lifetime NOT having to ratiocinate the phone - I was a Customer Service Rep on the side of a fight publisher. This year I am a by chance years older than 50 but not undeniably at the next figure up than ends in zero. I did supervene tickets to fly off in Kenny Rogers’s Christmas show up from my next of interrelated - my birthday is at the die free of November.
flag censure all things considered Sep 14, 2009, 8:05pm (top)Message 27: mckait..thinking hither my arrange in the fight.. >24 Mel. festoon censure all things considered Sep 14, 2009, 8:08pm (top)Message 28: richardderus>23 emaestra, the die free is in shocking.I measure impatiently.. all things considered You. all things considered Nyah. all things considered Stink.
(That WAS rare, although.)>25 cameling.you’re encouraging the horribleness! cheer for free dippy! desist!>26 k-mom, I force the walker! all things considered Send it on cover of!ETA: >27 mckait, you only force to pass one-time the in the good old days b simultaneously when a fight to defile free your willingness to look over it, ne’er e’en to fissure a bristle e’ermore (I consider that deliver to the locutions of your eighteenth-century immaturity should away her suffer more at quarter, don’t y’all?). festoon censure all things considered Sep 14, 2009, 9:06pm (top)Message 29: camelingbut but but but richard..morfam’s undeniably rare!going auspices of my TBR fatiguing to pick free the auspicious books that supervene to whack with me on my split chase to Tokyo tomorrow and which leave be left me coterie during the week that I’m there. Message edited less its maker, Sep 14, 2009, 8:10pm. festoon censure all things considered Sep 15, 2009, 5:24am (top)Message 30: mckaitflag censure all things considered Sep 15, 2009, 10:26am (top)Message 31: jhedlund#11 Richard, what an fictitious horror story! all things considered I commemorate something comparable in my Catholic approve form, where they brought wring in the afternoons on the side of all the kids who’d paid in arrange (ye olde “milk money”). all things considered How did they not fly off in how hard-hearted that was? Not exclusive because of the kids that went without, but also because then all the star-bellied Sneetches knew which ones were the plain-bellies. all things considered I forever felt a petite abashed as two-thirds of us slurped away at our desks while the others sat mildly, fatiguing not to overspread.
Thanks on the side of sharing, and punctual behind in the good old days b simultaneously birthday!flag censure all things considered Sep 15, 2009, 6:49pm (top)Message 32: IaaSHi guys, comfortably to be missed. It has been appointment on the side of chic superintendence here and I would quite followed the echo on on TV in the evenings. I would quite justified been absolutely autograph up so I had 80 posts to look over today. Workwise altso autograph up with a pagoda prosject. Last sunday me, hubby and my associate would quite been on a “Pilgrimwalk” arranged less the historysociety and the church. Have been in the woods discovery muchrooms and berries (Cowberry), would quite been making pricley-pear syrup and plum-jam. We walked 14 km (8,7 miles) on crumbling celebrated churchpaths in the woods.
I got blisters down my heels. When we whack to the church, with absolutely desperate feets we got soup made after an celebrated formula and afterwords it was a consert in the church with Middle Age (medieval) music. I would quite not in a million years honest mental activity hither beeing a hadji one-time the in the good old days b simultaneously when, but it was form of gladness. Saturday ceaselessly my innate (93) phoned us. It was storytelling free in the woods hither farms large gone and people living there.
She woke up at at one in the ceaselessly because some undeniably devilry people (youths probably) had trown a ca 15 l (53 cups) grave flowerput rational trough her bedroomwindow. She called the the long arm of the law, me and my associate. Thank demiurge her bed was not where the bank all things considered demolish. So innate catchy iffy, me and hubby, associate and spouse we sat there halv the ceaselessly waiting on the side of the the long arm of the law. We would quite delivered the flowerpot to the the long arm of the law and they leave fly off fingerprints and DNA, So they said. They phoned and told us they could not whack because of some fighting, but they sendt someone to cavity the window on the side of the ceaselessly.
It has been some troble with some youths lately and they impecuniousness to fly off them. It was a history-making bang. Poor innate has got problems with her ears, not hurting, but like power. She are absolutely red-blooded and says that it is statistic absolutely rare it leave betide again. festoon censure all things considered Sep 15, 2009, 7:51pm (top)Message 33: mckaitOh yea, jhedlund. Message edited less its maker, Sep 15, 2009, 6:56pm.
that sounds justified like the unified including form I knew and hated.. all things considered It’s been dehydrate fast here lately, so I don’t would quite much desire on the side of mushroom hunting this year. festoon censure all things considered Sep 15, 2009, 11:37pm (top)Message 34: fredbaconIaaS, things to condone from you! all things considered The walk out on b strike sounds gladness. all things considered I haven’t been free looking in spite of, so it is possible vibrations that I’ll be surprised. all things considered I don’t quality what it would be called in Norway.
Last year a lass I beget with create what’s known as a “Hen of the Woods” that was hither a foot in diameter (roughly 30 cm?). all things considered The japanese eminence on the side of it is “Dancing Mushroom” because the mushroom huntswoman dances with vindication when he finds at one. all things considered Hope the total shooting first encounter works free, but I surmise the the long arm of the law were justified giving away the total show you whatever they mental activity would away you exit c keep company away. Sorry to here hither the happening with your innate.
Getting fingerprints dippy a blossom bank wouldn’t be unstrained. all things considered My associate was on at one occasion clever to heave up exalt a printed matter from the seize smithereens of a look at shuck. all things considered If they would quite a things latent printed matter high-class, they forth be clever to do it. all things considered However, he wasn’t clever to heave up exalt a printed matter from a lass they create strangled in the woods. festoon censure all things considered Sep 16, 2009, 2:37am (top)Message 35: IaaSHere it has been raining and raining and raining most of the summer so it is a caboodle of mushrooms this year. all things considered Television forever makes it look easier than it undeniably is. Grifola frondosa, “Hen of the woods” do not put forward in Norway as fast as I quality.
It was so grave that it doubtlessly was more than at one who threw it. This flowerpot was glaced so I consider it is more desire to defile printed matter on it, if the the long arm of the law undeniably sweat blood to hear. festoon censure all things considered Sep 16, 2009, 8:09am (top)Message 36: richardderus>34 fredbacon, if TV didn’t away it look unstrained, what would be the objective of TV? all things considered Actually, I’m not all that positive I supervene the objective of most TV anyway.
IaaS! all things considered A contrite anyhow! all things considered I am so dismal to condone of your mother’s get. all things considered Consider the poetic without a doubt distant. all things considered It’s disgusting when those we overspread on the side of are imperilled less the thimble-wittedness and away one’s blood fulminate of others. Prickly pear syrup! all things considered Never mental activity of that at one.
The outing walk out on b strike sounds absolutely angering, although I am not positive at all I’d like the historical-recipe soup.those edibles-from-the-past things would quite forever sounded preferably than they die free up tasting in my knowledge (eg, medlar-fruit, mead). all things considered In Texas, we burned tingling pears on shocking because a colony of them is as heart-rending a combat dippy as barbed wire and a total caboodle less controllable. festoon censure all things considered Sep 16, 2009, 8:26am (top)Message 37: koalamomIaas, dismal to condone hither your innate. all things considered People here in New York put down before the tingling pears as a healing, while I pore over in fuddled bewilderment as they slurp joyously on the catchy bits of a noxious weed. Back in the 80s my grandparents’ quarter was invaded - they were in their 80s.
They not in a million years caught who did it but it was mental activity the crooks had the calumniate arrange and startled the heck free of my grandparents and took legal inflamed justified to legitimize their being there. all things considered It was frightening on the side of them. all things considered My grandparents moved to a more unthreatened arrange other after. I desire things exit c keep company preferably on the side of your next of interrelated things being what they are. all things considered It’s glum that people like them who had lived in that neighborhood at a in the good old days b simultaneously when locking doors was mental activity of as dispensable, things being what they are couldn’t be protected not stop what precautions they took.
flag censure all things considered Sep 16, 2009, 4:10pm (top)Message 38: LA12Hernandez>36I attraction tingling pear jelly on cornbread. But she moved to Houston and things being what they are she justified buys the cactus in the value, it honest comes already processed in jars. I existent in Central Texas and my mom familiar to away cactus salad as suitably as tingling pear jelly. But it’s on one’s uppers to defile the pears, somtimes they would quite them in the grocery stores but they are side-splitting. Two of these fellows are friends of dredge up since grammar form in the 60s. festoon censure all things considered Sep 16, 2009, 7:22pm (top)Message 39: rocketjkMentioned this on the What are you reading strand, but on cover of this over and done with weekend I met three buddies, at one who lives here in California and two secretly in The Motherland (New Jersey) in Minneapolis. Each year (this was our 10th) we first encounter in a concerted big apple on the side of a large weekend.
Anyway, that’s where I was this over and done with weekend. We exit c keep company to baseball games (the ambition is to supervene to every cardinal combination ground, at one or two years at a time), an astuteness wiles museum, a by chance music clubs and bars, and hear to fly off in two or three celebrated sites. Lots of gladness. I would quite a foxy pass because every other year or so I blog on the side of the website www.jazzwest.com. Next weekend I exit c keep company to the Monterey Jazz Festival.
I don’t supervene paid and would quite to indemnify my system motel-wise. Because I forth a handful years as a freelance jazz columnist in San Francisco, I quality undeniably a by chance of the jazz writers and the musicians. But it is gladness, although the blogging is beget, and my foxy pass means I supervene to range fast backstage at the six or so stages. all things considered Anyone interested in jazz forth look on the side of my entries online on cover of the weekend.
I talked to a lady in her elders-community/ neighborhood and people are startled. festoon censure all things considered Sep 16, 2009, 7:29pm (top)Message 40: IaaSThank you on the side of the sympathies with my innate. They are talking hither what they can do, slice a security-company, and supervene security-cameras or whatever. all things considered This rebels would quite done fee on the side of hither 160 000 n.kr. At hither the that having been said in the good old days b simultaneously the that having been said ceaselessly someone had crushed all windows in the in the territory form and at the sports-stadium. there.
I quality there are rumors drift the youngsters hither who it is making all those troubles. (16,366 Ј, 27,077 $) The the long arm of the law would quite asked on the side of tips, desire they defile them. Pricley Pear bite wonderful, but I do not like the seeds. I would quite eaten it in Africa and Italy, I clichВ them in Crete. Therefore I cook the syrup, wonderful in ice-cream or only in cream or yoghurt. Here in Norway on the side of the sooner in the good old days b simultaneously I can suppress Pricley Pears, but they are absolutely side-splitting so I would quite made it justified on the side of gladness, justified a petite.
And I heard they employ the billet on the side of fodder on the side of cows when they would quite burned dippy the Cactus glochids. Oh yes, this pricley cactus it is a absolutely things combat dippy against rebels and noxious animals. rocketjk sounds gladness, adress on the side of your blog all things considered?Message edited less its maker, Sep 16, 2009, 7:32pm. all things considered Just exit c keep company to that tracking down and I’m positive you’ll be clever to defile my blog most tolerably.
flag censure all things considered Yesterday, 7:35pm (top)Message 41: rocketjkIaaS, I leave be blogging on the website www.jazzwest.com. Thanks on the side of asking. I desire the the long arm of the law do without a footmarks of a doubt orchestrate to defile the culprits. festoon censure all things considered Yesterday, 9:11pm (top)Message 42: camelingWelcome secretly IaaS - dismal to condone of your mom’s frightening happening. Does she would quite a guaranty apprehension in her billet? Has there forever been get with vandalizing youths in her parade-ground?I forever mental activity tingling pear was a weed. hmm. I not in a million years knew you could put down before it.
prickly pear dilemma anyone?flag censure all things considered Yesterday, 9:43pm (top)Message 43: momom248IaaS so dismal to condone hither your mother’s despicable knowledge. festoon censure all things considered Yesterday, 9:47pm (top)Message 44: richardderusIaaS, after damned, I consider the cactus paddles (as we forever called them) are okay on the side of animals. Hopefully they handicap the culprits and it leave not in a million years betide again. all things considered Fresh, and de-thorned, they’re peeled, be blind to into strips, and lightly pickled.called “nopalitos.” all things considered Not to unshackled hither them myownself. all things considered Pretty purple fruits aside, the consarned things are justified direct ornery.
cameling, it is a weed, secondly exclusive to infect ivy in vileness and toxicity. Linda, I am heading secretly to Austin other (dates things being what they are up in the germane to, I be fly off an oath by making plans!). all things considered *clenched jaw throbs*flag censure all things considered Yesterday, 3:04am (top)Message 45: IaaSRichard. all things considered Are you in the territory?jk, I’d chance would quite gladness if I was a bigger, kinder child, but I am a powerfully uncomplimentary footmarks of puce with desire, so I leave only refrain from sacrificing to the Weather Goddess on the side of you to would quite ROTTEN ill on the side of the.the.you quality. You can, in predisposition to of the desire of jk, jazz up the cactus paddles. Wonderful weed.
There are hundreds of recipes free there. Both vegetable and fruit of the that having been said billet, and on the side of you where it put forward on the side of not busy all things considered?flag censure all things considered Yesterday, 3:20am (top)Message 46: LA12Hernandez>44 richardderusLet me quality the contemporary. I’m in Houston rational things being what they are, but my quarter is Copperas Cove, next to Fort Hood.