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Posted by coborn35 on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 11:14 PM
Well, gonna be working on my science project till the wee hours of the night, (its due at 3:15 tomorrow) so occaisonaly wake me and feed me some food and remind me NOT TO WAIT TILL THE LAST MINUTE ANYMORE!!!! Ha its too much stress, LOL

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Posted by JoeKoh on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 10:28 PM
just back in for a late night snack.who put a for kiitty only sign on the hammock?
stay safe
Joe

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Posted by blhanel on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 7:38 PM
Ohhhh man, I love all these meals that are verboten in real life right now...

One large plate of spaghetti, and two slices each of garlic toast and brownies![dinner]

//down about 35 pounds now[:D][wow][tup][yeah][swg]
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Posted by CShaveRR on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 5:06 PM
Oops, my bad--I forgot about that neglected eastern part of Colorado. I guess that's where you'd want to plant the barrier anyway!

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Posted by mudchicken on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 4:58 PM
The asparagus is for defensive purposes only (kinda like what garlic is to vampires)...

Got plenty of sandy soil to grow it in; Just a little lacking in the water and temperature department at the moment..
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Posted by CShaveRR on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 4:49 PM
MC--I don't think my sister would drive that far for dinner--you'll have time to grow your own asparagus! (Somehow, I don't think the soil's quite right out there.)

Spaghetti sounds great tonight. This is the traditional Christmas Eve dinner in our family, and I'll be missing out on that this year. So I might as well indulge tonight (Of course, our family uses Italian sausage instead of meatballs, but that's a minor detail.) A salad will do me good, too, and I can feed the garlic toast to my son-in-law.

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Posted by mudchicken on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 3:31 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

Well, hammock was full, so I just took it in stride and went by the warm fire. Hopefully I can get in a nap before Tree gets himself untangled from the hammock. Strange thing - it flipped over several times, with him in it! Imagine that.

After nap, going to find something for the future freezer - smart chicken sounds good.

[}:)]


Tree getting just a bit dizzy?

Mook is about to go for a 550 mile walk to find dinner?[:D] Asparagus!, quick!!
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Posted by cherokee woman on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 2:47 PM
Sarah, hope you enjoyed your large bowl of beef stew and cornbread.

Mookie, wonder if Larry is still in the hammock. And I like your new Christmas
earrings. Isn't Dollar General great?!?! Prefer them over Family Dollar, but that's
what we have around here, mostly. There is a Family Dollar about 5, 6 blocks
northwest of us. And it's got a bus stop right at their front door, and a bus stop
in the opposite direction directly across the street. Makes it very nice.

Okay, enough about that for now. It's time for eating business now. Here's
the supper menu tonight:

spaghetti w/meatballs and garlic Texas Toast, with a garden salad.

Dessert tonight will be fresh baked brownies, right out of the oven, or you
can have some peach or cherry cobbler w/ice cream. (Or all of the above,
if you're a very, very thin person.)[}:)][swg]
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Posted by CSXrules4eva on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 12:23 PM
I'm goin to back up Jeaton here and say a God Bless the family and friends of this poor fellow.

I can't believe what I did this morning. I got up early! I went to bed at 3 something in the morning and got up at 7 30. Now for those people that know me, it is unheard of for me to get up that early with that little sleep, on one of my vacations days. But, I was having trouble sleeping, so I got up went to the gym, then finished the last of my Christmas shopping and that was that. The mall wasn't at all crowed today. Now I am a bit tired.................imagine that. lol My stomach is growling also, so CW I'm going to need a very large portion of beef stew and cornbread w/ butter, not margrine butter!!!!!!!!! Thankx
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Posted by jeaton on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 11:16 AM
Jim

Sad situation. Condolences to the family, friends and co-workers.

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 11:07 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

*^~^*

Like my new Christmas Earrings?

They're very expensive - real rubies, you know.

Got them from Dollar General!

Mook



Well, I guess we all know now where to shop for Mookie. [;)] [8D]

I forgot to mention that the worker who was killed was a machinest. Funny, after so many years working he was killed in a car. Remember safety first, at home, at work, or in between.

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Posted by Mookie on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 10:41 AM
Well, hammock was full, so I just took it in stride and went by the warm fire. Hopefully I can get in a nap before Tree gets himself untangled from the hammock. Strange thing - it flipped over several times, with him in it! Imagine that.

After nap, going to find something for the future freezer - smart chicken sounds good.

[}:)]

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Posted by CShaveRR on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 10:38 AM
SJ, you're in the right family. My younger sister called me, delighted that she'd gotten my other sister's name in our family's Christmas-gift drawing: "I've already been to the Dollar Store!"

(Of course, her plan was to drop a few bucks on various things, and give them all to her, but the glee with which she described going to the Dollar store to shop for her sister just cracked me up.)

Cher, could I please get one of those BLTs?

Oh, and Mook, red is becoming on you! You and Pat would make the lovely Christmas pair--she got an emerald a couple of months ago.

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Posted by cherokee woman on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 9:18 AM
Larry, hope you enjoyed your hot breakfast, and the warm hammock.
(It looks like that heated hammock is going to be very crowded very
soon!)

We are currently up to 28 degrees F. We started off at around 15 or 16
degrees F this morning.

Lunch today will be: have more beef stew and cornbread, and there is a
pot of cream of potato soup on.
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Posted by Modelcar on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 8:20 AM
........Central Indiana having a "heat wave"....low this morning was 20...Not use to that. Now we're in a "warming trend" for next few days peaking in the 40's end of the week....

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Posted by mudchicken on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 8:03 AM
Who let the cat in the eggnog again? Catnip and Nog don't mix! [:D][:D][:D]
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Posted by Mookie on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 7:06 AM
*^~^*

Like my new Christmas Earrings?

They're very expensive - real rubies, you know.

Got them from Dollar General!

Mook

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Posted by JoeKoh on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 6:51 AM
blt sounds good for breakfast.of course since I work 3rd places are just dong breakfast.
thanks CW.I hear ptter patter must be mookie coming
stay safe
Joe

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Posted by tree68 on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 6:42 AM
Hhhhhhottttttt bbbbbrrrreeeeaaakkkkfffaaaaassstttttt!!!!!!!

Not quite as cold as we've already had, but cold enuf at -6 or so...

Don't see Madam La Mook in the heated hammock, so I'm headed there next.

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Posted by blhanel on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 6:42 AM
Sounds good to me- I'll take one!
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Posted by cherokee woman on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 5:28 AM
Good Wednesday morning, everyone! Randy, glad you enjoyed the chilli.

Breakfast this morning: If you don't want sausage, biscuits & gravy with
scrambled eggs, how about a nice toasted BLT? Thought that might
make a nice change for a midweek breakfast.
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Posted by rvos1979 on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 3:49 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by cherokee woman

Yeah, Randy, that five alarm chilli is pretty good, isn't it?!?!


<cough, cough> Oh yeah!! <cough> Decided to grab another big bowl of <cough> five alarm chili. Need something to clean out my <cough> sinuses.

Had an interesting one in the shop today, they brought in a UPS trailer that needed to be re-roofed. The trailer was not leveled when it was roofed, and it twisted the trailer enough to lift the driver side spring pad OFF THE SPRING.

A supervisor had said they had one that twisted so bad a few years ago that it lifted the tires off the ground on one side. I guess those aluminum roof sheets are pretty strong.

Randy

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Posted by coborn35 on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 10:31 PM
God Bless, Jim.
Considering I am a Packer and Twins fan......... yes we are having a bad seaosn, but weare gonna get BUSH!!!! No not the monkey, (tounge in cheek to all bush fans) the good one. And of course the TWINS are going to the series!! DU-UH!!
Thanks for the cake! The kitty saved me some.

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Posted by cherokee woman on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 10:07 PM
Jim, glad you are doing all right. Mutt and I are very sorry to hear about your
coworker. Our prayers will be with his family, friends, and coworkers.

Like you, our temps tomorrow are to start warming up. Supposedly by
Christmas Day, we may see temps in the upper 40s, low 50s.

MERRY CHRISTMAS
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 9:34 PM
Happy Birthday Max [:D] [8D] [:D]

[bday] [bday] [bday] [bday] [bday]

[C=:-)] [4:-)] [oX)] [D)] [dinner] [C):-)]


I hope your birthday was a good one. [:D] [8D] [:D]



And how is everybody else doing tonight? Well, I hope. [:)] We got some sad news Monday night at the beginning of our shift. One of my coworkers was killed Sunday night on the way home from work. A drunk driver on the wrong side of the road hit him head on. Another one of my coworkers was there just a few minutes after the accident happened and he said he could not even tell who it was. Very sad, but it definately shows us that we never know when or where our time will come. I hope we are all ready in more ways than one.

Our temps are a little warmer now that last time I was in. I certainly am glad of that. I am not a cold weather person. [B)]


Well I am off to see what else is going on. Everyone take care and remember the real reason for the season.

MERRY CHRISTMAS



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Posted by cherokee woman on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 7:15 PM
Hope everyone is enjoying the chilli tonight. Mutt and I took a nap, and have
only been awake for a few minutes.

For your dessert tonight, have some Christmas Cookies decorated with
reindeer heads on them. (Sorry, no glowing red noses, so none of them
are Rudolph!)
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Posted by CSXrules4eva on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 4:38 PM
[bday][bday][bday] coborn35!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! God Bless. I'm makeing b-day noises for you with my empty Genuine HAWK'S Premium Orange Soda......which happens to be the best orange soda on the eastern side of the United States!!!!!!


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Posted by JoeKoh on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 2:46 PM
chili is sounds great for tonight.mamma was saying this morning you wanna spend the night at mom and dads for Christmas?we did that a couple years ago.had 10 inches of snow and 40+ mph winds.now i look at the forcast and it says santa might want some ice skates?hmmmmm.mookie the solution for your hammock is a cane pole.can use it to rock the hammock at your speed.
stay safe
Joe

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Posted by cherokee woman on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 1:28 PM
Yeah, Randy, that five alarm chilli is pretty good, isn't it?!?!

Supper tonight: got some more of that chilli and grilled cheese
sandwiches. And there is also some more beef stew in the
Crock Pot.
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Posted by rvos1979 on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 12:59 PM
Morning/afternoon everyone....

Willy, I heard the score at 10pm lunch last night and just laughed.... Now serving, BBQ Packers, no waiting...... At least my prediction of a rebuilding year is coming true, although at this rate, we might as well yank out all the problems and replace everything!!

Stayed above zero here last night, had another smoker start at work again, The times we had to go outside to grab supplies were made very quick, though it's hard to hustle on a sheet of ice. Yard driver was complaining about it last night, took him forever to get stuff moved around.

Coborn 35, happy birthday, old enough to drink yet? If so, don't get plastered. (I know, CW, there's no alcohol here!)

Hmm..... Let's sample the five alarm chili......

WHUMP!!

<cough, cough> Perfect! (tears running down face)

I'll take a bowl...

Randy

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