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Cookie dough news... (4.00 / 6)

Following up on Jill's story from earlier this week, images have been released of the suspect.  AP File Photo -

"Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization." - Eugene V. Debs

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by: JayinPortland @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 20:58:21 PM CDT

I don't think so. (4.00 / 6)

Isn't that a photo of the Lt. Gov. of Alaska?

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by: count @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 21:12:08 PM CDT

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Or... (4.00 / 6)

The "First Dude". Heh...

"Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization." - Eugene V. Debs

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by: JayinPortland @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 21:15:09 PM CDT

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Hey, waitaminute! (4.00 / 6)

I just awoke from deep slumber. The world was OK when I went to bed, and now I'm reading that Sarah Palin resigned, to run for Queen of the Universe? What's this about?

Perhaps the transmission was garbled.

Whatever's going on, it's Dave Letterman's fault. And Dave thought he might lose his job.

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by: count @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 21:09:57 PM CDT

See what happens when you nap? (4.00 / 5)

The whole world shifts out from under you!  Nothing will ever be the same again.

That's why I always keep one eye open.  Like CBS.  I fear waking up one day, and finding out that, ummm, fish have grown thumbs and taken over most of Eurasia...

"Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization." - Eugene V. Debs

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by: JayinPortland @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 21:17:42 PM CDT

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i've seen that guy! (4.00 / 6)

mmmgrmphahaha!

after yeeeears of not grilling out, mrD came home today with a bag of charcoal & a couple steaks. seems we're having a couple friends over tomorrow since the kids are not coming. (i would not have minded NO celebration but....)
so....
i put the steaks on to marinate, & made a fruit mess (apples, bananas, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, pineapple, mango, kiwi & starfruit) & some tater salad for tomorrow.

come firefly-dreaming with me....

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by: RiaD @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 21:21:41 PM CDT

Mmmgrmphahaha! :) (4.00 / 5)

That's quite a tropical 'fruit mess' you got there!

All I got here is a grapefruit and some leftover blueberries from Wednesday's market.  Thinking of dinner.  Lazy.  And HOT!!!  Like 96 here today.  Probably just gonna wrap up some spinach, cucumber and sweet onion on a whole wheat wrap w/ some tahini and call it good...

Maybe have a beer.  Tonight would be good for a Widmer Hef w/ a lemon.  But then, I'd have to go out and find a lemon.  Bah.  Okay, probably will soon.  Or I can go to the pub down the block and they can do it for me!  Hmmmm...

I will grow a lemon tree in my 'bedroom', since I never use that room anyways.  Yes, a lemon tree will grow in my bedroom.  I will "will" it to happen.

"Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization." - Eugene V. Debs

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by: JayinPortland @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 21:36:39 PM CDT

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You wrote that you saw a blueberry patch. (4.00 / 5)

Have you been able to get berries from there?

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by: count @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 21:42:20 PM CDT

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That was on... (4.00 / 5)

(appeared to be) private property, didn't want to touch it...

"Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization." - Eugene V. Debs

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by: JayinPortland @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 21:43:07 PM CDT

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wasn't it outside the fence? (4.00 / 5)

Thought you said there were some accessible from the sidewalk.

Yankee Frugality: use it up, wear it out, make it last, or do without.

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by: Anonymous Bosch @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 22:26:23 PM CDT

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put just a little gin in the mess (4.00 / 5)

That's what Mom used to do. It'll make it a whole lot better and keep the fruit from wilting.

Yankee Frugality: use it up, wear it out, make it last, or do without.

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by: Anonymous Bosch @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 21:46:02 PM CDT

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We're getting beets tomorrow (4.00 / 6)

I may make a vodka infusion with them . . . unless these first one are the young ones, then maybe beet ice cream. Got a whole season of beets coming on, lol!~ Ohhhhhhh! Maybe I can do both and then make myself a nice "healthy" adult shake, lol!~

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by: nycstray @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 22:06:52 PM CDT

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The first time we had them (4.00 / 5)

I had to threaten Mrs.B ;-)

She'd never had them before. Now she loves them. Roasts them mostly.



Borscht and sour cream. Yummmmmmmmmm...

Yankee Frugality: use it up, wear it out, make it last, or do without.

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by: Anonymous Bosch @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 22:25:00 PM CDT

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That reminds me of a story . . . (4.00 / 5)

where the new hire at the caterer's worked his first and last day on the day that the company was doing functions for both the Shriner's club and the Women's Christian Temperance Union. (This was some time ago) This fellow delivered the ice cream sundaes to a bunch of unhappy Shriners, and the rum-spiked watermelon went to the WCTU. When last seen the ladies were busily shoving the seeds into their pocketbooks . . .  

I have succumbed to the Twitter craze. @Omir55

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by: Omir the Storyteller @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 22:40:10 PM CDT

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Im going to a vegetarian meetup thingy (3.86 / 7)

Kind of unexpected - I had planned to sit around writing up a diary about all of the current food bills in Congress right now - but what the hell, I'll go. This is exciting!

"I can understand someone from Iowa promoting corn and soy, but we are not feeding the world, we are feeding animals and soft drink companies." - Jim Goodman

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by: Jill Richardson @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 21:33:21 PM CDT

Awesome! (4.00 / 7)

Have fun! :)

"Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization." - Eugene V. Debs

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by: JayinPortland @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 21:37:58 PM CDT

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Yay for vegetarians! (4.00 / 5)

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by: Populista @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 23:54:42 PM CDT

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I am LMAO (4.00 / 6)

FDL and Raw Story are posting rumors of the Palinator's impending indictment for embezzlement. Go team!

Earlier a commenter there said he had to hit "pause" at 4:20 into the announcement because his ears were bleeding. I couldn't get past 0:45

Yankee Frugality: use it up, wear it out, make it last, or do without.

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by: Anonymous Bosch @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 21:43:11 PM CDT

Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell (4.00 / 6)

the man who put the "lack" in "lackluster,"

Ouch.

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by: count @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 21:59:33 PM CDT

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Mystery berry (4.00 / 4)

Here are photos of what I called dewberry. No good pics of ripe berries, though, there weren't any. I wrote that these ripe berries begin to appear right after ripe red raspberries. Maybe so, but so far I have scarfed exactly 5 of these, contrasted to quarts of red raspberries.

Wide eyed lib, have you encountered these berries? I mourn not finding out about these and black raspberries until this year. Both are yummy.

Wide eyed lib nailed it when she wrote that the Houston photo showed a relative of blackberries. (How did you do that, wel?) A descriptor that distinguishes raspberries from blackberries is that, when the fruit is picked, raspberries separate from the attachment stubs, blackberries take the stub with them. These berries do the latter.

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by: count @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 21:49:46 PM CDT

do het get any darker, count? n/t (4.00 / 2)

Yankee Frugality: use it up, wear it out, make it last, or do without.

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by: Anonymous Bosch @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 22:11:54 PM CDT

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edit: het=they n/t (4.00 / 2)

Yankee Frugality: use it up, wear it out, make it last, or do without.

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by: Anonymous Bosch @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 22:21:05 PM CDT

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Yes, black when ripe. (4.00 / 2)

Yesterday, there was one black one amidst a cluster that was all light green, not even pink. Plants are weird.

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by: count @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 22:52:32 PM CDT

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I thought they looked familiar (4.00 / 2)

Around here we call them blackberries. They don't all ripen at once, but spread it out unless there's a really hot spell.

Had them in back of the house up in Maine. But it never got really hot so they took their sweet time ripening.

Yankee Frugality: use it up, wear it out, make it last, or do without.

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by: Anonymous Bosch @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 23:02:05 PM CDT

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People have been breeding blackberries (4.00 / 4)

and raspberries for a long time and have created lots of cultivars and hybrids, many of which escape. For instance, loganberries are a cross between raspberries and blackberries, and youngberries are a cross between dewberries and blackberries, and boysenberries are a cross between loganberries and dewberries. Is your head spinning yet? I know mine is.

You might never figure out exactly what your berries are. My best guess would be that your berries are a wild form of youngberries, but that's based mostly on the fact that the leaves and thorns seem like blackberries and the fruit seems like dewberries.

As for knowing they were related to blackberries, it was a good guess based on the shape of the fruit. Blackberries are (generally) more oblong in the direction away from the stem, and raspberries are wider.  

I wish I knew half what the flock of them know
Of where all the berries and other things grow,
Cranberries in bogs and raspberries on top
Of the boulder-strewn mountain, and when they will crop.
--"Blueberries" by Robert Frost

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by: wide eyed lib @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 23:16:14 PM CDT

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I got berry dizzy reading that description. (4.00 / 2)

What if you bred boysenberries with raspberries? :-)

Yankee Frugality: use it up, wear it out, make it last, or do without.

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by: Anonymous Bosch @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 23:23:18 PM CDT

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testing a slideshow... (4.00 / 4)

This is Red Yarrow. The fly? bee? bug! is some new creature that's making a visit along with a multitude of little relatives.

Yankee Frugality: use it up, wear it out, make it last, or do without.

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by: Anonymous Bosch @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 22:00:20 PM CDT

If you could photoshop that plant (4.00 / 3)

into staying absolutely still it would look like the bug was teleporting around the flowers.....

Regarding locavores as elitists - explain to me how supporting local business is elitist....

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by: Joanne Rigutto @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 22:09:01 PM CDT

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It was as unbreezy as I could manage. (4.00 / 2)

I took previous pics of this yarrow, but never bothered to fix the camera to the tripod.  

Yankee Frugality: use it up, wear it out, make it last, or do without.

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by: Anonymous Bosch @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 22:14:22 PM CDT

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little sleep tonight (4.00 / 4)

It sounds like Operation Iraqi Freedom out here tonight. "Firecrackers" big enough to rattle the windows. Small arms fire. You name it. The natives are restless. The cats are hiding under the beds.

Yankee Frugality: use it up, wear it out, make it last, or do without.

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by: Anonymous Bosch @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 22:08:55 PM CDT

We've got someone out here who (4.00 / 5)

has a small canon, I swear. We get a lot of shock and awe out here too. Everyone has acreage and everyone is sighting in their rifles just before deer season. 4th of July is just the warm up.

I have an idea that's why you can fire off a 12 guage right next to the horses and they don't even notice.

I like to hang out in the arena right at dusk on the 4th. I can see the fireworks at the Molalla Buckaroo grounds, and most years there are private licenced fireworks going on all around me. One year there were 3 in addition to the ones in Molalla, all within 1/2 mile of me.

Time to park the truck in the arena and have a seat on the tailgate, pop a beer or two and enjoy.

Regarding locavores as elitists - explain to me how supporting local business is elitist....

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by: Joanne Rigutto @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 22:13:14 PM CDT

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we're having someone [over] for dinner tomorrow (4.00 / 4)

then we're going to Mom-i-L's to watch the fireworks above The Art Museum on The Parkway. Mom's apt is 24 storeys up. Good Show.

One year, maybe fifteen years ago, the fireworks display had a chain fire. The entire 20 minute show went off in three minutes... and showered everybody there with a pall of smoke and bits of flaming debris.

Yankee Frugality: use it up, wear it out, make it last, or do without.

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by: Anonymous Bosch @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 22:20:09 PM CDT

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I once worked at a hospital (4.00 / 4)

in a large urban area. The hospital had a five story tower, and I don't remember how I got up there (I think Security opened it up), but on the 4th of July one year I went up to the roof and watched about four different fireworks displays.

I have succumbed to the Twitter craze. @Omir55

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by: Omir the Storyteller @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 22:44:16 PM CDT

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Mon's on the top floor (4.00 / 4)

but you can't get to the roof. BUT, sometimes the fireworks are on one side of the building and we watch from the lobby near the elevators. And other times they have the displays on the river. Then we watch from her apartment.

Yankee Frugality: use it up, wear it out, make it last, or do without.

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by: Anonymous Bosch @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 22:49:46 PM CDT

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say hi to Cheryl Crow (4.00 / 2)

see ya and the Mrs Sun...May not have a patio...see post

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by: LeeN @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 05:58:38 AM CDT

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Odd thing happening here, it's been QUIET!!!!!!!! (4.00 / 2)

I've heard maybe one or a few random ones, but nothing like it normally is. I'm in a prime viewing area for East River fireworks. Who knew that moving them to the Hudson this year would silence the idiots in my 'hood?! I am THRILLED and my pets are still calm. The Dot is not thrilled with fireworks, to put it mildly, but if there's an actual show on TV that syncs with it, she's a bit calmer because there's a "source" for the noise. Having them on the Jersey side will also help. {happy dance} I'll still do our fireworks party routine. I play games with her like diving for cheese, dancing for cured meats, crawling for hidden treats.  It's quite weird, but a fun distraction for her. Beats having a cowering, shaking dog that looks like she's about to die from panic . . .  

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by: nycstray @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 12:29:31 PM CDT

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She wouldn't be a Collie by any chance? (4.00 / 1)

diving for cheese, dancing for cured meats, crawling for hidden treats

Oh Boy! What fun! Can I come over?

I babysat a Collie who hid under the bed when I took my shotgun out of the closet. Didn't even need to start shooting. She was unfindable. And she'd reappear when the shotgun went back in the closet.

Yankee Frugality: use it up, wear it out, make it last, or do without.

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by: Anonymous Bosch @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 12:51:17 PM CDT

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Nope, she's one of those crazy (4.00 / 2)

spotty dawgs :)

Stop on by! Distraction parties are fun, *hic!, lol!~

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by: nycstray @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 13:56:13 PM CDT

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what a sweety 4444 n/t (4.00 / 1)

Yankee Frugality: use it up, wear it out, make it last, or do without.

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by: Anonymous Bosch @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 14:32:04 PM CDT

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Well, everyone has been blogging about (4.00 / 7)

their market haul.

I am now proud to have one of my own.... The owner of the produce stand that opened just down the road from us has agreed to give me all the trimmings and old produce from the stand every day.

I must have brought home a couple hundred pounds of old produce for the compost pile this morning. I'm going to have multitudes of worms and worm castings to sell and use by next spring. Bye bye commercial plug mix! Hello home grown compost!

Plus the melons that are a bit too far gone for people to buy are relished by the chickens and the goats. I gave the Ladies of No Mercy two watermelons yesterday and they all had pink lips. They got watermelon this morning and the hens got cantaloupe and watermelon.

I figure if it's good enough for Will Allen's outfit Growing Power, it's good enough for me.

And the downside of the day? A couple more hours pulling dog fennel, the bane of my exsistence.  >:(

Regarding locavores as elitists - explain to me how supporting local business is elitist....

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by: Joanne Rigutto @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 22:20:01 PM CDT

This Guiness is for you, Joanne :-) (4.00 / 3)

Yankee Frugality: use it up, wear it out, make it last, or do without.

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by: Anonymous Bosch @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 23:13:35 PM CDT

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Geeze (4.00 / 4)

I'm glad I didn't have a mouth full of Guinnes when he got to the punch line! That would have been a Windex moment...

Regarding locavores as elitists - explain to me how supporting local business is elitist....

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by: Joanne Rigutto @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 01:21:02 AM CDT

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Pre-Independence Day Garden Update (4.00 / 5)

I had today off work, so I hung around the house, slept, and went out to check out the garden. We've cut the watering back a bit and the plants seem to be all the happier for it. We're getting more flowers on the tomatoes and peas, at any rate.

The not so good news: Some of the peas are pretty dessicated. (The others are doing OK) They're all in one container, so I wonder if it's something about that pot. Well even if all of the peas in that planter go dry we'll still have four planters full of peas to (hopefully) harvest. Hope they're sugar snap peas, but I honestly don't remember. LOL

It was moderately hot today, up into the 80s. It will stay there for a day or two and the rain is supposed to come back on Monday. I'm ready. I'm no fan of the hot weather.

I have succumbed to the Twitter craze. @Omir55

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by: Omir the Storyteller @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 22:52:08 PM CDT

you really should do another diary, Omir. (4.00 / 3)

Your pictures were terrific. Can't wait to see the progress.

Yankee Frugality: use it up, wear it out, make it last, or do without.

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by: Anonymous Bosch @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 23:15:06 PM CDT

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Oh I suspect I will (4.00 / 3)

eventually. Today was just a particularly lazy day. So many things I could/should have been doing, and I didn't do any of 'em. :)

I have succumbed to the Twitter craze. @Omir55

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by: Omir the Storyteller @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 23:54:19 PM CDT

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gotcha. been procrastinating too (4.00 / 3)

When the plants aren't bursting out of the ground, it looks like not much is happening.

Yankee Frugality: use it up, wear it out, make it last, or do without.

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by: Anonymous Bosch @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 00:16:50 AM CDT

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Here's a New Jersey report for you (4.00 / 5)

I've got some great photos from a long walk in Riverside Park today looking at N.J. across the river.  But I spent the whole night looking out my windows at more N.J. and didn't get a chance to go through my flower photos.

After the sun went down fireworks displays began in many distant towns of New Jersey. I could see the displays in the closer towns of Bergen county. Pretty amazing global warming visuals and so appropriate for this nation. In the far off towns it just looked like explosions. As if war broke out in New Jersey.

The big one in downtown Yonkers is only about a half mile north of me on the river, so I was getting the war soundtrack and the rocket's red glare to go along with the attack of New Jersey.

And from my kitchen window I was seeing fireworks in most of Westchester County. There is a big one at Yonkers Raceway, another at New Rochelle and off in the distance I think it must have been Rye Playland setting them off. Further on there were puffs of color over long Island, another war zone.

It was a good show. And I think I'll make the big one on the Hudson tomorrow.

I hope you have a very Happy Fourth of July. I know I will because I'm going in for a double day and there will be overtime too!

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by: Eddie C @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 22:56:48 PM CDT

now wait just a minute! (4.00 / 4)

You posted those the other day!

As if war broke out in New Jersey.

The 4th would be a great day to start. Between the drunks and the light shows, nobody would notice for at least a couple of days.

From Mom's windows we can see the "spontaneous" displays of patriotism all over the city.

Yankee Frugality: use it up, wear it out, make it last, or do without.

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by: Anonymous Bosch @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 23:08:23 PM CDT

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Congrats! (4.00 / 4)

And on the "war in New Jersey" thing - wouldn't be the first time this century!

Heh.

"Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization." - Eugene V. Debs

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by: JayinPortland @ Fri Jul 03, 2009 at 23:08:42 PM CDT

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Utah Phillips (4.00 / 4)

A couple of days ago, I mentioned a story told by Utah Phillips. Wouldn't you know - YouTube has it. For those of you who haven't heard it:

Moose Turd Pie

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by: count @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 03:46:53 AM CDT

Love that story (4.00 / 4)

U. Utah Phillips was one of a kind. I was sorry to hear he passed away last year.

I have succumbed to the Twitter craze. @Omir55

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by: Omir the Storyteller @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 17:06:36 PM CDT

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the shore (4.00 / 5)

Jay,

Well I used to go to the other Jersey Shore..Atlantic City.July 4th week end is usually spent at my sisters house in Fire Island, Except this weekend when I am redoing the back patio Yesterday I pulled up the outside carpet...and today cleaning and patching.then painting..in the meantime I just saw my daughter finally posted pics on her blog in India with her brand new digitial slr. I miss her

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by: LeeN @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 05:55:11 AM CDT

Ha! (4.00 / 1)

The "other" Jersey Shore...

Lol.

Good point, though - I'd say 'our' Jersey Shore, for those of us up North Jersey, ended at Seaside.  Although I'd say the culture shift from North to South begins once you cross the bridge from Manasquan into Point Pleasant.  That's where you start seeing more Phillies hats and jackets than Mets or Yankees, and where subs and heros become 'hoagies', where Wawa overtakes 7-11, etc...

:)

"Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization." - Eugene V. Debs

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by: JayinPortland @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 17:33:19 PM CDT

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Going to my sister-in-law's for a barbecue (4.00 / 4)

She's supplying the chicken and lemonade. We're supplying rolls. One of her other friends is bringing a chocolate cake that is death to look upon, much less eat. There'll be fruit salad and mango salsa and all kinds of goodies.

And I get to take a look at her garden. She put one in this spring and I'm curious to see what it looks like. Apparently the lettuce for the tossed salad will be coming from the garden.

I have succumbed to the Twitter craze. @Omir55

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by: Omir the Storyteller @ Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 17:02:02 PM CDT