tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43836838345347591632024-03-18T16:11:01.822-06:00♪♫•*¨*Letter Out*¨*•♫♪Blondi Blathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15656970490122824720noreply@blogger.comBlogger1956125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383683834534759163.post-54418714303332211162024-03-12T00:30:00.000-06:002024-03-12T11:02:23.578-06:00Where's Kate?<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Kindly come over to </span><a href="http://stubblejumperscafe.wordpress.com/" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Stubblejumpers Caf</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">é</span></a> <span style="font-size: large;">to find me these days.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Below are bookmarks for sites I visit online. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are also my "letters out," archived, and a link to an even earlier blog. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">-Kate</span>Blondi Blathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15656970490122824720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383683834534759163.post-14137752934555589042016-11-24T09:19:00.000-06:002016-11-24T10:48:27.775-06:00KEEPING WARM<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When we bought this house we didn’t move in right away. Scott wanted to put new flooring in, paint the walls and fix the ceilings, and it’s easier when there is no furniture in the way. But we had to keep the house heated, and even though the thermostat was turned as low as possible to maintain the drywall in freezing outdoor temperatures, the fuel bills were ridiculously high, like $500 a month if I’m remembering correctly. That's crazy-high when you consider that the house is only about 1000 square feet. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The first thing Scott did was set about replacing the old oil furnace, for if it was costing us that much when we weren’t living in the house, it would bankrupt us once we needed a comfortable temperature to be maintained. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As soon as he could, Scott re-insulated the walls and attic and installed new windows, all of which would help conserve heat, but that was the following year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A natural gas furnace was out of the question, as the gas-supply lines don’t run out to our place. We could’ve paid to get them dug in, but the cost seemed prohibitive. Propane wasn’t the best idea either, and we didn’t have the funds to make the investment in solar heating or geothermal, so we stuck to oil, even though it wouldn’t be our choice if we had every option. W</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">e do care about the environment, after all. But w</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">e had to do something and we had to do it fast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So here we are now, buying fuel oil each fall to get us through the winter. It pollutes and it's expensive. On my way to bed I turn the thermostat down to 68F because I like a coolish room for sleeping, and every year I say I’m going to leave it there all day: layer up, leave the heat down. I’ve never been able to do it though. Eventually I get sick of my hands being cold no matter how many sweaters I’ve got on, and crank the furnace up to 72F during the day. Or if I don't, Scott does, believing warmer air translates into less moisture condensation on the inside of the new windows. (These windows are a whole other story. If you live where we do, don't buy windows designed for Calgary's chinook weather.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I’m trying again to keep the thermostat low. We’re into the fourth day. I’m bundled up. Maybe I’ll have better luck this time, having figured out that keeping my feet warm by wearing shoes or slippers makes a huge difference. So does getting moving. I get cold if I sit still too long. Maybe I should wear a knitted beanie in the house. Hey! There's a thought. Not that I'm a hat person. I don't actually like wearing things on my head. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can't see them here, but we have at least a dozen chickadees at the feeders all day long. Cute little things. I often sit on my knees backwards in the easy chair to watch them and, when I do it for more than a minute, experience deep relaxation.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;">I laid down at 10 so that I'd be receptive to Kate's energy treatment, and when I got up and looked at the time it was 10:30. The first thing Kate said when she wrote to me afterwards was that she'd noticed the connection seemed to be lost after a half-hour. How's that for apples, eh? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666; line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/thesongadayproject">CHECK THIS OUT: The Song a Day Project</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Listen past the 3-minute-40-second talking intro and be rewarded by discovering actor Jeff Daniels, the musician.</span><br />
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text-align: center;">⊱</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;">✿</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;">⊱</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;">✿</span></span>Blondi Blathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15656970490122824720noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383683834534759163.post-85682550318526872432016-11-23T09:57:00.002-06:002016-11-23T20:11:50.025-06:00HODGY PODGY<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: 28px;">“The thing to do is to note the pith of what is said—that I don’t think—then to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself. . . . To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme—thinking too much." - Virginia Woolf</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 28px; text-align: left;">Woolf said this about critical reviews of her writing, and I find it equally true of ungenerous judgments of others toward oneself. Don't you?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;">If you don't listen to CKUA Radio, check it out: <a href="http://www.ckua.org/">http://www.ckua.org</a>. You can hear it online.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;">CKUA is always introducing me to musicians I've never heard of who are really great. There's wonderful variety too. Check out The Old Disc Jockey, for one, if you like that kind of stuff, but there are all kinds of shows and artists.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;">I'm now enamoured of Madeleine Peyroux. Remember when I first bought her CD and didn't like it? Now she's one of my favourites. 'Course, I have a hundred favourites. So much fabulous music, so little time ... and a big appreciation for quiet also keeps me from doing much listening these days.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;">CKUA played a song by Rhiannon Giddens that I liked, "Down That Lonesome Road":</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 16.8px;">I made this Wild Rice Salad when Cathy was here.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's the recipe if you want to try it yourself. Something different.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://stubblejumperscafe.blogspot.ca/2016/11/wild-rice-salad.html">http://stubblejumperscafe.blogspot.ca/2016/11/wild-rice-salad.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;">Last night for the first time I threw together this easy dish and loved it: <a href="http://stubblejumperscafe.blogspot.ca/2016/11/one-pan-mexican-scramble.html">http://stubblejumperscafe.blogspot.ca/2016/11/one-pan-mexican-scramble.html</a>. It's going to be a regular around here. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 16.8px;">I am about to lie down in order to be receptive to a session of distance healing by my friend Kate at Bluehorn Healing Centre. See her ad under "Letters of Recommendation." It will be my first experience of this aspect of Kate's many talents. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 16.8px;">Later,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px;">Kate</span></span></div>
Blondi Blathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15656970490122824720noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383683834534759163.post-11368193110227294802016-11-22T12:38:00.000-06:002016-11-22T12:39:36.302-06:00IT'S A SKATING RINK OUT THERE<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Oh mighty hunter, is this your catch of the day?" I say when he comes in from outside and plunks a frozen lump of ground beef onto the kitchen counter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You bring meat to the house, I'll cook it, I tell the lad (who doesn't want to be vegetarian). But some things I won't touch and one of those is a package of pork hocks. Those he has to prepare himself and eat them too. The hocks aren't the feet of a pig but that's what I picture when hearing the word. Dad agrees with Scott that the hocks are delicious, but understands my aversion; the hocks are "close enough" to the feet, he says with a chuckle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's silly. Dead animal is dead animal. Why does it matter what part of the body you're eating?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But there you have it. I can be silly.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">Just the content of the red and white bag, the beef, is on tomorrow's menu. We made meatballs with mixed beef and pork a few weeks ago, when this picture was taken. Scott and his brother raise organic cattle and their cousin raised the pigs. Emil has been asking to be taken to see some pigs but we didn't get around to it, shame on us. He loves pigs but is afraid of chickens. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While I'm getting Julian Barnes out of my system:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Every love story is a potential grief story. If not at first, then later. If not for one, then for the other. Sometimes, for both.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So why do we constantly aspire to love? Because love is the meeting point of truth and magic."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">~From <i>Levels of Life</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is an English word for excessive fondness for one's wife: <i>uxorious</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Is there an equivalent word for excessive fondness for one's husband?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If not, that's telling, isn't it, about our society. Does it suggest that it's possible to love a woman too much, but not possible to love a man too much? Or does it suggest that loving a man too much never happens? Or what?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;">There was freezing rain all over the place yesterday; lots of traffic accidents. I hung onto the railing while going up and down the steps, and my shoes still slipped. I didn't dare walk on the driveway, and gravitated to the grass alongside it instead, but it too was like glass. Today is no better. I'll still go out, but it won't be for a long, brisk walk. It will be a careful plod over to the quonset to put bread in the deep freeze, and then a slow saunter to the road for a look-see before coming back to the house.</span>Blondi Blathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15656970490122824720noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383683834534759163.post-4540856066261380082016-11-21T12:11:00.003-06:002016-11-21T15:54:53.478-06:00VOCABULARY LESSON<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;">My vocabulary is probably about average. I read a lot, but sometimes won't slow down to look up an unfamiliar word, instead guessing its meaning from those around it. When Joan gave me the </span><i style="line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;">Canadian Oxford Dictionary</i><span style="line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;"> for Christmas one year, I began to change this lazy habit. That's when I learned not only how often my understanding had been incorrect, but how many more words I have never heard of. Now I keep my journal and pen handy while reading so I can scribble words, sometimes even those I've looked up before, and write down their definitions. It slows me down, but it's worth it. Tedious, but worth it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;">From <i>Flaubert's Parrot</i>, by Julian Barnes:</span></span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;">He was in his early forties, with a pinky <b><i>glabrous</i></b> complexion and square rimless spectacles: the banker type of academic, circumspect and moral.</span></span></span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;">Can we deduce love for Juliet Herbert from the fact that Gustave called his greyhound Julio? Some can. It seems a little <b>tendentious</b> to me.</span></span></span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;">It seems a reasonable guess that if he had eaten bear he would have commented on such <b><i>ipsophagy</i></b>.</span></span></span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;">Or is this coloration indicative of a further shift away from humanity, a progression to the extremes of <b><i>ursinity</i></b>?</span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;"><i>glabrous:</i> free from hair or down; smooth skinned</span></span><br />
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</span> <span style="line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;"><i>tendentious: </i>calculated to promote a particular cause or viewpoint; having an underlying purpose</span></span><br />
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</span> <span style="line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;"><i>ipsophagy:</i> not in my dictionary, not in an online dictionary, but I found this in a review of the book: "</span><span style="background-color: white;">If Barnes wants to be as nitpicking as this I may as well point out to him that `ipsophagy' is a dreadful mixture of Latin and Greek roots, and if he wanted to coin such a term it ought to have been `hautophagy'."</span><span style="line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;"> Unfortunately the book's been returned to the library so I can't re-read the entire section around the word to figure it out. </span></span><br />
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</span> <span style="line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;"><i>ursine:</i> of or like a bear</span></span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 16.8px;">Sometimes I'm almost embarrassed that I don't know or remember the meaning of a word that is commonly used or that I've looked up before. Almost. It keeps me humble.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My journals are filled with quotations and excerpts from the books I read. From <i>Flaubert's Parrot:</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"As you get older, the heart sheds its leaves like a tree. You cannot hold out against certain winds. Each day tears away a few more leaves; and then there are the storms which break off several branches at one go. And while nature's greenery grows back again in the spring, that of the heart never grows back."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The author, Barnes, was a grieving widower when he wrote this book. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"This seems apt enough, but I choose not to believe it. I'll remain positive and expect my heart to be more open to beauty and joy as I get older."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's a perfect example of my wilfulness. Barnes is probably absolutely correct, and <i>he should know, </i>having experienced the loss of a beloved spouse. I don't want to accept this kind of inevitability, even if my elders tell me how it is, and so I arrogantly insist that I won't, that I'll have healthier beliefs and therefore avoid their experience. My world will be different. Pfft! I never did learn much the easy way. Wouldn't listen to anyone. Still don't. Found out many times that it would have been wiser to take heed.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">The liquid will be added to 20 cups of whole wheat flour mixed with yeast and salt, and toward the end of the kneading period I'll slowly pour in sunflower and sesame seeds. I thank the DoGs each week for my kneading machine, which saves me 15 minutes of huffing and puffing.</td></tr>
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<br />Blondi Blathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15656970490122824720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383683834534759163.post-67834207830399893512016-11-19T10:08:00.000-06:002016-11-19T10:08:55.930-06:00ONE OF MY SEESTERS<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arimo"; line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;">When I was at Joan's, we talked nonstop. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arimo"; line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;">We went for a couple walks. Kelowna has the most rich air, moist -- I like it. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arimo"; line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;">We did some clothes shopping and she bought me two tops, a thigh-length sweater-vest and a flannel shirt even longer to wear over leggings. These are my Christmas and birthday presents, she insisted, not fooling me for a moment because sure as shit she'll send presents anyway, being a person who dotes on her sisters. We are lucky, aren't we, Karen?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arimo"; line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;">We stopped at a grocery store where, just outside the glass doors, we donated a few dollars for poppies ("I don't know if you've ever been pinned by a vet before," said the gentleman in uniform, fastening the flower to my collar. "Does this mean we're going steady?").</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arimo"; line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;">We took a new piece of Joan's art to JoeBud's Coffeehouse, the café that has been hanging it. Her airbrushed caricature of David Bowie sold quickly, and she had recently completed one of Jimi Hendrix that the café owner had no doubt would also be purchased soon. After that she finished her pic of Mick Jagger, and she has just posted one of Slash on FB. If you're connected with me on FB you might've seen these, as I share the posts. I'm very proud of her, not to mention amazed at her talent. Not that she isn't good at everything she does. It would be one thing if she'd been drawing and painting all her life, but this seemed to come out of nowhere, when she was already a fully fledged adult, so it's been surprising and her artistic output continues to delight all who know and love her.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arimo"; line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;">I'll ask her permission to post photos here. </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: arimo; line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;">Why haven't I done that already? </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: arimo; line-height: 16.8px; text-align: center;">So much to do, so little time ... no, really! Life is full. The days pass so fast, and the evenings are over before I know it. </span><br />
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</span>Blondi Blathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15656970490122824720noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383683834534759163.post-89722822089448404382016-11-18T14:45:00.000-06:002016-11-18T14:45:13.430-06:00SPEAK UP<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span class="s1"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/11684120060438252945">Steve Reed</a></span> has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://goldengrainfarm.blogspot.com/2016/11/curtain-blind.html"><span class="s1">Curtain Blind</span></a>": </i></div>
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<i>Maybe Scott thinks you accidentally washed the curtains with the drapes and is intentionally not saying anything? :) </i></div>
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Ha! :)</div>
Blondi Blathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15656970490122824720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383683834534759163.post-38648580242696129422016-11-17T21:27:00.001-06:002016-11-18T12:49:23.095-06:00CURTAIN BLINDIt's been almost three months since Scott's dad passed away. During the days following his passing, I decided to dye the dining room curtains from white to wine, closer to the colour of the living room drapes.<br />
I forgot to check the fabric label, alas, and ended up with pink curtains. I was chagrined but hung them back up anyway and will try again with even more dye, and will soak them a lot longer, as per Cathy's advice.<br />
I wondered how long it would take Scott to notice the curtains had changed colour. Usually he doesn't miss a thing.<br />
But he still hasn't said a word. Maybe he's curtain-colour-blind.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dining room window</td></tr>
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It's been a cold day here in SaskieLand, but I dressed for it and walked three miles anyway, listening to CBC radio podcasts on my iPhone.<br />
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New recipe at Stubblejumpers Café: <a href="http://stubblejumperscafe.blogspot.ca/2016/11/killer-marinated-tomatoes.html">KILLER MARINATED TOMATOES</a>, a good way to use the last of them.<br />
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We've been watching the <i>Soundbreaking</i> music series on TV the last few nights. It's on again now so I must away.Blondi Blathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15656970490122824720noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383683834534759163.post-27902557694938662622016-11-16T19:32:00.001-06:002016-11-18T12:49:47.329-06:00MEMORIES LIKE EARWORMS<div class="MsoNormal">
Something that reminds me of Mom pretty much every time I do
it is making the bed, because she told me to “Do it right.” None of this
careless pulling-up-the-covers for my mother, oh no! Each sheet, each blanket,
the whole kit’n’kaboodle must be lined up just so, nice and flat, tidy, pretty.
I’ve come to appreciate this sentiment because now I too like to walk into a
room with a nicely made bed. It’s more inviting. Not that I do it "right." I just do it.</div>
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Another thing that makes me think of her is whenever I am
working with bread dough. I don’t add flour to avoid stickiness in the
loaf-shaping process; instead I dip my hands into lukewarm water and spread a layer
of it on the countertop. </div>
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“You can’t do that!” she said, watching me. </div>
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But I do
because it keeps the finished product as light as possible. </div>
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Mom only ever made
white bread, as I recall. If you tried the water trick with dough made of white
flour, it would probably be a helluva mess.</div>
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If Scott dies before me, I’ll surely think of him whenever I
run hot water into the kitchen sink. When preparing food, I rinse my hands often
and wipe my workspace frequently and sometimes, while waiting for onion and
other vegetables to sautée or for a pot to come to a boil, I’ll wash the dishes
that have already been used. Sudsy water in the sink is quite handy then, and
there is less mess to clean up later. Scott says this is inefficient and all
the dishes should be washed at once, <i>after</i>
the meal. I say keep schtum, buddy, or do it yourself. If he is dead first,
this will probably be an amusing memory and I'll wish he were around to nag me about my heinous ways. </div>
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Then there is Grandma Benson, whenever I flatten a used
plastic bag and turn it onto an empty cardboard roll for storage, then fasten
an elastic around the outside. Can’t beat it for a way to keep bags for re-use.</div>
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When I wash the dishes and put them into the tray, and
consider leaving them to drip dry, I hear Grandpa Benson telling me to “Finish
them.” I’d had one of many meals with my grandparents and done dishes afterward, but not completely.
He meant dry them too and put them away.</div>
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Anytime I play rummy, I think of Grandpa Johnson: “Be a
deuce!” </div>
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Hours upon hours did we spend at his kitchen table in Margo. We played
cribbage too.</div>
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When sweeping off a step and sidewalk, I remember Grandma
Johnson doing the same in front of their house in Margo. I was four years old
and headed down the street in search of excitement. I could go to the café on the main street, she
told me, “but don’t ask for candy.” Of course I did, and got it too: Smarties. </div>
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I’m reading June’s blog entry, <a href="http://byebyepie.typepad.com/bye_bye_pie/2016/11/the-mother-and-childish-reunion.html">http://byebyepie.typepad.com/bye_bye_pie/2016/11/the-mother-and-childish-reunion.html</a>, amused as ever, and as always there are many comments. I don’t usually read them, but this morning I’m still eating toast and drinking orange juice, so what’m I gonna do till they’re both gone? I decide to read the comments. And they’re hilarious! I’m laughing out loud.</div>
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Then there is the lovely Stephen Fry:</div>
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<a href="http://kenlevine.blogspot.ca/2016/11/american-comedy-vs-british-comedy.html">http://kenlevine.blogspot.ca/2016/11/american-comedy-vs-british-comedy.html</a></div>
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Blondi Blathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15656970490122824720noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383683834534759163.post-59669823800242356652016-11-15T17:29:00.006-06:002016-11-16T11:36:13.277-06:00VINDICTABLE ME<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">I like to think I’m not vindictive. I
wouldn’t deliberately hurt another person to punish them or make my point. I see grudges held and figure that
is a shame and thank goodness I’m more forgiving.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">People rarely do me a bad turn, so my evil traits don't frequently present themselves. But when they do? I can be a grim miserable cuss, and can continue hissing and spitting long enough to surprise myself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sure I may be civil,
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">We are advised to imagine the “wrongdoer” as a small child, lonely, frightened and
crying. This is to </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">soften our anger, </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">awaken our empathy. “Anything that isn’t an expression of love is a cry for help,” it is said. It's best</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> for <i>us</i>, we're told, if we meet assholes with our compassion rather than bitterness or contempt.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">When anger fuels change, I tell myself, it's best to acknowledge it. Respect it. Be willing to let it go, and figure out how. Then do it.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The rural municipality came out and installed a culvert under our south driveway. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looks like a hand shovel had to be used. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">We're hoping this will help get some of the water away from our property, as flooded-out trees have been dying for several years.<br />
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Blondi Blathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15656970490122824720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383683834534759163.post-72624242216458035852016-11-14T15:26:00.001-06:002016-11-14T15:27:11.612-06:00WHAT'S THE STORY<div class="MsoNormal">
We’re having some warm sun in recent days and if you’re out
of the wind your ears won’t blow off. Cathy with a little chuckle called it
Indigenous Summer.</div>
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What gives political correctness a bad reputation is that
people usually just slip up, not even knowing we have or only suspicious we might’ve. We didn’t intend our words to be damaging to anyone, yet we are being corrected and we’re not sure what the reason is. It’s no wonder some think
political correctness has gone too far. <i>What are we supposed to say now?
When did it change? Why?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Often people don’t even ask those questions. We aren’t
particularly interested in the answers. We might have to practise empathy and
respect in an unfamiliar way for someone whose experience we do not share or
understand. We might have to admit that we didn’t already know everything
about everything; that we weren’t, ourselves, above reproach. We might have to think about one more damn thing. <i>Sheesh, don't we have enough on our plates already!</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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And then there’s cultural appropriation, a practice
considered harmful and yes, politically incorrect: <i>a fancy term for being
pissed off over nothing, you big whiner.</i>
That’s the attitude. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Recently I could not adequately explain why it’s now
politically incorrect to call a ball team, for example, the “Indians.” I only
knew that many First Nations people found it offensive, and that was good
enough for me. But why does it offend them? <o:p></o:p></div>
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I did a brief internet search for an explanation. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Indians_name_and_logo_controversy">HERE’S WHAT I FOUND. </a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Let’s be open-minded. Let’s educate ourselves instead of insisting that demanding political correctness is little more than a
platform for too-thin-skinned complainers. Let's listen and be willing to adjust our perspective.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">These youngsters stared me down at the gate while their elders hightailed it to the place where Scott was putting a fresh bale out. They're curious about anyone new. They're not hostile but I'm nervous anyway. </td></tr>
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My day so far has consisted of reading while drinking my morning coffee, mixing up a batch of bread for our household (the last two batches were sold and we were down to half a loaf this morning), doing yoga in the living room once the dough was on its first rise, making marinated tomatoes (that's the last of Scott's garden produce dealt with) and the inevitable dishwashing which, by now, goes without saying so why do I keep saying it. Maybe because it takes up so much time. </div>
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The wind on the step is nasty but I'll go out anyway as soon as the six loaves of bread come out of the oven. When I get back it will be time to think about supper. Oy. I don't want to. I might have food-prep overload.</div>
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Doc MacLean is touring over in South Africa for the first time in his long career as a blues musician. He doesn't always have access to the internet but he's posted a good collection of photos at his blog: <a href="http://zuluskies.blogspot.ca/">http://zuluskies.blogspot.ca/</a> .<br />
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<br />Blondi Blathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15656970490122824720noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383683834534759163.post-28983229503987915372016-11-13T15:42:00.000-06:002016-11-14T09:55:24.127-06:00WISE WORDS FROM TONYWhen I was in Kelowna at Joan's we watched the documentary about Amy Winehouse, an incredible vocalist with serious addictions that killed her at age 23. So young and with so much life ahead of her! And what talent she had ... what she might've done with it ... what a sad ending.<br />
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She was thrilled to meet and sing with the legendary Tony Bennett, who remarked that she was the best jazz singer that ever was. Now that's saying something! He also said, wisely I thought, after her death, "Life will teach you how to live it, if you live long enough." So just hang in there, you young people contemplating suicide as an exit from the discomforts and dissatisfactions of life. Just hang in there, because nothing lasts forever. Everything changes.<br />
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Cathy arrived from the city yesterday afternoon as I was returning home from a walk.<br />
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She had picked up some fresh herbs for me, as I couldn't get them at the store in Wadena, and also brought a jar of her home-made jam and pre-mixed caesars. We got right into those caesars. </div>
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I made her work for her supper. The wild rice salad was already chilling in the fridge, and it was tasty and a nice change from the usual. I'll post the recipe at Stubblejumpers Café one of these days. Another part of my supper plan was stewed chicken with cinnamon. I've made it before and it was delicious, but I must've thrown the chicken whole into the stewing pot. This time I decided to follow the recipe more closely by cutting the chicken into pieces and removing the skin before stewing it. I knew, however, that I don't know the proper (if there is one) way to cut up a chicken. Cathy thought she did, as she'd watched her mother do it many times while growing up on the farm at Wilcox. So while I busied myself with other kitchen errands, Cathy attacked the chicken. The stew turned out beautifully and I'll post that recipe too. <i>One of these days.</i><br />
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Cathy's just driven out of the yard and I'm on my way to town in a few minutes to pick up Emil from Everett's after his three-day weekend and ferry him over to his own place, which is too far for him to walk. It's not that he can't walk that far, it's that it takes him forever and he's exhausted afterward.<br />
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It's a gorgeous fall day, sunny but requiring a windbreaker, something warm beneath it, a scarf, and ear coverings if you're striking out to walk on my road. It rained during the night so Scott's harvest has halted again. On Thursday afternoon headed into town I met a convoy of eight combines on the road, on their way to do custom work for a local farmer.<br />
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"Never take a trip with anyone you do not love," wrote Ernest Hemingway in his Paris memoir <i>A Moveable Feast. </i>How wise is that! </div>
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He also advised F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of <i>The Great Gatsby</i>, that it's not the size of your equipment that is important, it's the angle in which it is employed. Fitzgerald's wife Zelda had told him he was small in the junk department. He asked his friend Hemingway's opinion. Hem assured him his size was normal, whatever that is.</div>
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Hemingway married four times. It seems he and his first wife Hadley were quite happy but he cheated on her anyway, destroying their marriage. He never lost his goodwill toward her. "I wished I had died before I ever loved anyone but her," he wrote, describing his feelings of guilt before Hadley became aware of what he'd done and was continuing to do: sleep with his next wife.</div>
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Many will say that if that first marriage was happy he wouldn't have cheated. It's one of those "popular wisdom" beliefs that isn't necessarily true even though everyone takes it for granted. Like the one about cheating spouses: "If he cheated on her, he'll cheat on you." If you believe that, you believe that people don't learn from their experiences. Do you really think a man or woman who has once hurt a spouse and their children will think another affair is worth embarking upon? A person who has "been there, done that" is <i>more</i> likely to avoid temptation, nipping opportunities for poor judgment in the bud. While there are those who view extramarital affairs and one-night-stands as mere recreation, most people learn as they live. They don't forget that along with following their "bliss" may come deep regret, and have learned to value discernment. They have realized (thank you, Julie, for putting this into words) that our emotions are "like the weather — they come and go" and are not always reliable factors upon which to base our actions.<br />
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There is a set of preachy people knocking at my door. Ducky Doodle barked and ran toward the porch. I began to make my way there until through the dining room window I spied the van that was here the other day, when I did the same thing upon seeing two women carrying pamphlets crossing the front yard: walk back into the office and let them think no one is home. I can't even be bothered to tell them no thanks, go away; I won't give them two seconds of my time.<br />
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<i>rea has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://goldengrainfarm.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-importance-of-little-things.html"><span class="s1">THE IMPORTANCE OF LITTLE THINGS</span></a>": </i></div>
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<i>getting into a routine of doing things is the ticket,however I don't but in the long run it serves you better.still don't have our floors done so hope we get no visitors.what do you mean when you say I have written on you time line? </i></div>
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Blondi Blathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15656970490122824720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383683834534759163.post-88331893025463660352016-11-11T23:58:00.001-06:002016-11-12T00:01:45.141-06:00THE IMPORTANCE OF LITTLE THINGS<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 30px; text-align: justify;">I'm on my way to bed and remember that I haven't posted anything here today. What the heck have I been doing with myself then, you ask?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 30px; text-align: justify;">Well (Reta), I've been keeping up with the dishes since you were here. That's time-consuming in itself, but doesn't seem so for the simple reason that I'm doing small amounts more often. I don't wait for them to pile up. It's easy when I'm home all the time! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 30px; text-align: justify;">I also tried out a new recipe for soda crackers, adding sesame seeds and finely chopped onions to the dough. They turned out okay. Nothing spectacular, but pretty decent. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 30px; text-align: justify;">I went with Scott when he had to give bales to the cattle this morning. His brother, who usually does the chores with him, was nowhere to be found and the "coos" were hungry, so my help was enlisted. All I had to do was stand at an open gate and make sure no cattle came through it. Easy enough. They weren't trying very hard. But man it was cold out there! I wore leggings under my jeans, a winter jacket with the hood up, a scarf, tuque and gloves, and still the wind got the best of me. I'll never figure out how those two men handle the cold while taking care of their herd. Moving more than I was, maybe that's it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 30px; text-align: justify;">I washed the sheets from all three of our beds. Cathy's coming tomorrow! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 30px; text-align: justify;">In the late afternoon I bundled up and walked three miles with Ducky Doodle. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 30px; text-align: justify;">So yeah, not too exciting, nothing to write about really, but there goes a day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "ff quadraat ot" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 30px; text-align: justify;">"Many of the difficulties of modern couples and families can in part be blamed on the way prestige is distributed. Couples are not only besieged by practical demands at every hour, they are also inclined to think of these demands as pretty much humiliating, banal and meaningless, and are therefore likely to be averse to investigating them at length or offering pity or praise to one another, or themselves, just for enduring them. The word ‘prestige’ sounds wholly inappropriate when applied to the school run and the laundry because we have been perniciously trained to think of this quality as naturally belonging elsewhere, in high politics or scientific research, the movies or fashion. We seem unwilling to allow for the possibility that the glory of our species may lie not only in the launch of satellites, the founding of companies and the manufacture of miraculously thin semi-conductors, but also in an ability – even if it is widely distributed among billions – calmly to spoon yogurt into small mouths, find missing socks, clean toilets, deal with tantrums and wipe congealed things off tables. Here too, there are trials worthy not of condemnation or sarcastic ridicule but also of a degree of prestige, so that they may be endured with greater sympathy and fortitude." -From <a href="http://www.thebookoflife.org/calm/">THE BOOK OF LIFE</a></span>Blondi Blathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15656970490122824720noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383683834534759163.post-41118499663443505732016-11-10T11:11:00.001-06:002016-11-10T11:18:49.239-06:00WHY HURRY<br />
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go for a walk when I stepped into the porch and a spider on a long web was
hanging there in front of my nose.</span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: "arial";">“I don’t think I want you in my house,”
I said. “I’m going to put you outside. Sorry, buddy.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "arial";">It's cold out, is why I'm apologizing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "arial";">I got a glass from the cupboard and a
postcard wedding-invitation off the fridge, slapped one on each side of the
insect, and released it on the railing of the step.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "arial";">Scott’s truck had come roaring into the
yard a minute earlier and parked on the other side of the Quonset while he got
something from another building. I meant to stroll over for a word, but while
returning the glass and the postcard to the kitchen I saw the truck speed out
the driveway.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "arial";">“He’s a man on a mission!” I said out
loud to myself. “Oh yes he is!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "arial";">That's not a bad thing, for sure, but
it does suck to be always in a hurry. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "arial";">When I catch myself that way while
mixing ingredients for cookies or doing any number of errands that aren’t
pressing, I deliberately slow down. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "arial";">I catch myself rushing, and I take a
breath and remember that the next thing is not more important than this thing
in front of me. Why stress myself by acting like I'm late for a fire? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial";">Why think about the next thing I want
to do instead of what I’m doing right now? I've become more conscious of the
fact that<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>it is only a habit<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial";">and not a helpful one.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "arial";">My natural inclination (sometimes it
almost seems like an OCD trait) is toward efficiency in movement and energy
use. I'm learning that speedery (my blog, can make up words, remember) doesn't
necessarily serve me well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #666666; font-family: "arial";">ON ANOTHER TOPIC </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "arial";">What I think is verbal abuse, others
sometimes call simply crankiness, bad manners, immaturity, frustration, anger.
I used to think that’s all it was, too — the unfortunate acting-out of the
unenlightened who are short on self-control.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "arial";">Recently at the recycling depot I read
a sign on the wall:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial";"><i>Verbal Abuse Will Not Be Tolerated:</i></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial";">-No <i>Yelling</i></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial";">-No <i>Insults</i></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "arial";">and I forget what the fourth item was.
No Spitting? Though that doesn’t really fit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial";">It’s well past time our society started
calling a spade a spade. Clearly I’m not alone in refusing to accept the above
three behaviours as no more than shocking disappointments or poor communication
skills. They are<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>verbal abuse</i></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial";">. Putting this label on them is an
important step in seeing them for what they are. Before you've done that,
you're just making excuses for attack-verbiage. "That's just how men are.
They're different from us women. Boys will be boys," and so on. Baloney. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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my post yesterday? Whoopsie daisy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "arial";">Don't you hate dreams where you've
killed someone, hidden the body, and are spending the rest of your life
worrying about being caught?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "arial";">I had one of those last night and had
to keep semi-waking to remind myself that it was only a dream and I had nothing
to hide. Otherwise my sleep wouldn't be worth shit. And it wasn't anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "arial";">I'd cut the throat of a man, an
acquaintance from my twenties whom I haven't seen since, and buried him in the
basement. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "arial";">"Killing someone may be a sign
that you are releasing parts of yourself that aren't necessary in your present
evolution; killing off beliefs or behaviors that are no longer needed by you.
Do not feel guilty if you have a killing dream; it usually signifies the
beginning of a great spurt of self-growth. A positive symbol."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "arial";">All I knew for sure during that dream
was that I would hate to have killed anyone. What a horrible thing to live
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</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial";">Try these:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://stubblejumperscafe.blogspot.ca/2016/11/parmesan-baked-potatoes.html"><span style="color: #4d469c;">BAKED PARMESAN POTATO HALVES</span></a>. Everyone loves them.
The recipe definitely is a keeper for me.</span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="s1"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/13505498142247410546">Joan McEwan</a></span> has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://goldengrainfarm.blogspot.com/2016/11/too-too-too-too-too-too-bad.html"><span class="s1">Too Too Too Too Too Too Bad</span></a>": </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am also flabbergasted! Although, I must say, as I watch and hear more, I do believe that not all that voted for DT can be racist, sexist, uneducated, etc. There are many I think that feel he was their only choice for change from the current state of government- I see the question as not why he was voted in but WHY he was the republican candidate in the first place? As a human being, those who voted DT, can't think he's a honorable, decent person from the way he campaigned. </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">... racist, sexist, uneducated, etc. ... maybe each person is not <i>all </i>of these things, but every DT supporter I've heard speak has demonstrated at least one of these characteristics or certain other beliefs that make my skull swivel on its post.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have not heard every DT supporter speak, so my evidence is anecdotal and I've made a generalization in expressing the way they come across to me. And I've only seen these people on TV or read their rantings, making little to no sense, on FB. Nevertheless I've yet to hear an intelligent, well-balanced argument for DT being suitable to sit in the president's chair. And then to watch/listen to the man himself during his campaign, well ... what kind of person thinks that man's any better than a monkey? and why should a monkey represent millions of people? </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="s1"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/03913730942861873965">Teresa</a></span> has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://goldengrainfarm.blogspot.com/2016/11/too-too-too-too-too-too-bad_9.html"><span class="s1">Too Too Too Too Too Too Bad</span></a>": </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How sad! I'm all for change but progressive and inclusive are paramount. It seems that fear and divisiveness are the future. My house is news junk central, between the American news "all things election" and Al Jazerra "blow them up TV". I'm totally disgusted with the horrible things happening in the world and politics that have created and encouraged it to continue. </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm going to avoid the news for a while. I'm sick of it, and particularly this election crap. Everyone is talking now as if they're hopeful DT will turn out to act better/surprise us all in a more decent and reasoned way than <i>we have seen</i> he is capable of. Of course we're all hopeful, but worse than that: after what has happened, we are desperate to believe it's going to be something better than we pretty much know it is. We knew before he was elected that he didn't belong in the running let alone in the White House, and we know it now too.</span></div>
<br />Blondi Blathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15656970490122824720noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383683834534759163.post-7351796961202342332016-11-09T08:37:00.002-06:002016-11-14T15:33:09.889-06:00Too Too Too Too Too Too Bad<span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span>'ve been shaking my head for two years that DT was even considered as a U.S. presidential candidate. It amazes me that any thinking person could believe he was suitable, no matter who he was running against. At least most lowlife assholes try to hide their flaws from the public; this person seems proud of his. I'm embarrassed for the United States, and grieving for those — not enough of them, apparently — who had the good sense to fight against a Republican electoral victory. It's a sad day and people around the world are shocked and mortified. Here in our household, too. I got to sleep last night by reminding myself that there isn't anything I can do about it or could have done, but still slept fitfully.<br />
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I've been on media lockdown for a while now, sick of seeing that cringeworthy man and his racist, sexist, bigoted, uneducated, foolish supporters on the news. My disappointment that there are so many people like this is palpable this morning. I've always had faith that people are basically good and sensible and will do the right (kind, fair) thing. Now I have to struggle to hold onto that belief.<br />
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Why am I so surprised? There are plenty of right-wing voters in this country too. Canadians elected Stephen Harper, and Saskatchewan elected Brad Wall. These citizens seem to be smart enough, practical enough; some are even my family and friends. I don't get it. Maybe they just aren't forward thinkers? Maybe they have never really studied what the different political parties stand for, and only vote like their parents did? Maybe they watch and believe what they see on FoxNews? Maybe their allegiance to a political right is held onto like religious leanings instilled in children — accepted without thought or balanced study, even as adults?<br />
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I'd have been just as heartsick if Stephen Harper had been elected again, here in Canada. That's because of the record his government had already established when he was prime minister, gutting environmental protection laws, serving big business, and the list goes on; there's no need to mention the lying and subterfuge, is there?Blondi Blathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15656970490122824720noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383683834534759163.post-22479598991720357952016-11-08T13:04:00.000-06:002016-11-08T13:04:52.566-06:00Where Should We Invade Next<span style="font-size: x-large;">S</span>cott woke me around 7 a.m. and we left our house about 10 to drive to Calgary, where we would spend the night with Gunnar and Melissa. The state of crops on either side of the highway was visually inspected by Farmbeau all the way there. Verdict: There is a lot more crop still in the fields than the agricultural reports are claiming.<br />
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That night Gunnar put on Michael Moore's documentary titled <i>Where Should We Invade Next</i>. I assumed it was about U.S. military incursions into other nations around the world, and was pleasantly surprised to learn that instead that Moore had visited countries to highlight ways they do things far better for their population than the U.S. does for its own. Even, as Dad suggested when I told him about it the next day, if Moore cherry-picked people and places that exemplified his messages, the film is still well worth watching and I'm here to recommend it. Apparently Italian workers get eight weeks of paid holidays each year, and receive an extra month's salary in December. French children eat chef-prepared, healthy gourmet food instead of cafeteria slop, and for the same cost. Finnish students have the highest marks of any in the world, yet they aren't assigned homework and only attend classes about three hours per day. There's more. Much more! Don't tell me Moore isn't your cup of tea; watch the film and tell me what you think of what you saw.<br />
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After a night in Calgary I left Scott there to visit with his family and hopped a Westjet plane to Kelowna to visit some of mine.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Two days after I arrived in Kelowna, Joan's 14-yr-old daughter Jordan and her friend sat in the yacht club restaurant as far from we two old ladies as they could get. Joan and I sipped sangria in the lounge while waiting for a very fine chicken and quinoa salad containing candied pecans. To Die For. Although I suspect those nuts, followed by a Thai supper that included peanut sauce and cashews, caused an outbreak of cold sores that evening before I went to bed. </td></tr>
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<b>So Far Today </b>list:<br />
1. made six loaves of sunflower bread for a paying customer who will pick them up in the morning.<br />
2. cleaned the kitchen.<br />
3. scrubbed a sinkful of garden carrots given to us; they are drying on the counter.<br />
4. put two loads of laundry into the machines in the basement<br />
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Now it's lunchtime and I'm going to warm up last night's supper, which was delicious, if I say so myself. I made <a href="http://stubblejumperscafe.blogspot.ca/2014_08_01_archive.html#4835041268441149111">LENTIL-HERB SOUP</a> (the basic recipe, without paprika and olives, but I added sautéed celery, some leftover wild and brown rice, and about four cups more water; the end result was more like stew than soup). When the soup was ready, I added <a href="http://stubblejumperscafe.blogspot.ca/2016/11/meatballs.html">MEATBALLS</a> that were first baked in the oven.<br />
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You may presume (by looking at the meat section in the Stubblejumpers recipe collection so far) that hamburger is my favourite when it comes to eating dead animal flesh. You'd be right, but pork chops and bacon are also high on the list although eaten more rarely, and so is marinated beef steak grilled to medium-rare. I don't consume any of these particularly often as I don't prepare dead animals every day, but I did grow up with this diet and have my preferred recipes. Scott will eat meat every day if he can, and for every meal if he can get it. Keeping our deep freeze full of organic beef including roasts and stew meat and ribs and such is one of his rewards for all the labour involved in raising cattle. He is one serious meat-and-potatoes man.Blondi Blathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15656970490122824720noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383683834534759163.post-12247278318226995502016-11-07T10:42:00.000-06:002016-11-07T10:42:54.323-06:00Can't You Take a Joke?<span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span> married a guy whose humour was bitingly sarcastic and whose idea of fun when in company was to make me the butt of his "jokes." My friends didn't like it and I found it tiresome and it's one of the things that led to the end of our marriage: he wasn't my friend anymore and I didn't owe him my loyalty or devotion. He has since become aware of the tendency and has worked to discard it, and thinks he's been successful. I hope so. He deserves to be happy with his new sweetheart and she deserves — as did I — to be spoken to and about with consideration and respect.<br />
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Scott has a very different kind of wit but eventually he too crossed the line and I was constantly being teased. "Where's your sense of humour?" he'd say. "You used to like it." Indeed a little teasing is fun but too much falls flat and gets on my nerves. Often I'm not sure when he's serious and when he's trying to be funny. Apparently he needs to wear a grin when it's the latter, so I know.<br />
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I've observed other husbands whose conversations with or comments about their wives in my presence are almost pure teasing. I doubt they are conscious of what they are doing and how it may make their wives feel. I know the wives are not always entertained, though they try to be "good sports" about it. I hope those men wake up before they destroy some of the trust within their relationships.<br />
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I can't say it's always men who do this to women. I can only say that I haven't seen women do it to men as often, if at all. I wonder who the men are trying to impress. Other men? You tell me. I can tell you that what impresses other women is when a man speaks highly of his wife and treats her with affection in public as well as in private. Husbands like that are admired by women as much as men who are able and willing dancers.<br />
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<br />Blondi Blathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15656970490122824720noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383683834534759163.post-49026842218996794352016-11-06T13:43:00.002-06:002016-11-06T13:44:08.702-06:00Dining with Dad<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">H</span>ere's the guy whose air miles paid for my round-trip flights between Calgary and Kelowna while I was hiatusing (it's my blog, I can make up words if I want to). He picked me up at the airport and drove me there when I left too.<br />
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One night he had me, sister Joan and her taller half Gary over for supper. The Jackson Triggs shiraz he poured into my glass tasted like heaven. I raved about it. I'd be sure to ask them to get it in at the liquor store in Wadena. And the surprising thing was that it's a cheaper wine; I think Dad said he paid $10 for the bottle. When I got home I pulled out the half-empty bottle I'd opened before leaving, and what do you think it was? The exact same wine. Hoo, Nellie. I should worry about my lack of observational skills or maybe my memory. But I don't think I will. It's only details.<br />
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Gary gave me a demonstration to show that wine poured through a small aerator tastes far better than wine that is straight poured. I couldn't tell the difference even after a second taste-test. Dad can't either (and doesn't remember how he poured the wine, but possibly the aerator is why I noticed the bright flavour at his place and not mine).<br />
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Dad had discovered that Costco sells a delicious chicken pot pie so he served up two of them along with a variety of fresh cut-up vegetables, followed by apple pie and maple walnut ice cream. I didn't cook one thing while I was "on the road," but ate like a queen.Blondi Blathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15656970490122824720noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383683834534759163.post-69905254547843856362016-11-05T10:04:00.000-06:002016-11-05T10:44:45.839-06:00Close Calls<span style="font-size: large;">S</span>everal times I almost lost Everett, or might have, or thought I had.<br />
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When he was just a toddler, he followed other children and their dad into a lake after my husband took him down to the shore, decided to visit an outhouse, and left Everett by himself. But the other dad wasn't aware of Everett; he was busy playing with his own children, walking deeper into the water. Fortunately I was watching from a distance, higher on the beach with Emil, who was slowly making his way with his walker across the hot sand. The moment I saw Gord abandon our baby I sprinted to the shore and waded into the water, catching up to him just as he stepped into a pothole and his head disappeared underwater. Thank God I was right there to reach in and pluck him out. Thank God Thank God Thank God.<br />
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Once we came out of the post office onto the sidewalk in Legal, Alberta, where we lived for seven years. I had a hold of Everett's little hand, but he pulled it out of mine and ran into the street so quickly I didn't have time to think. I froze as a big delivery truck screeched to a halt, with him right in front of it.<br />
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One sweltering hot day I told Everett, who was two or three, that we were going to the store. As we were getting ready, the phone rang and I answered it. After the conversation, Everett was nowhere in sight. I called in the house and around it, then began going to the neighbouring houses. Two doors down lived Joe and Helen (best neighbours ever ever ever). Joe hopped onto his quad and began searching the alleys and drove downtown; maybe Everett had set out without me. After his first reconnaissance of the town he came back with his report — no sighting yet — and went again. Helen stood with me in their driveway, and I stood beside her near tears — could someone have taken him? — until I saw a shadow through the front windshield of my van, parked in the street and facing Joe and Helen's driveway. I hadn't thought to look there! I'd planned to walk to the store, but Everett thought we'd be driving. And there he was, my boy, crying in the heat of the vehicle, unheard, unable to open the sliding door to get out. Oh what relief to find him there, oh how stupid I was for not looking there in the first place, oh how flushed and warm he was, oh what might have happened had I not been standing where I was and seen him! I carried him into the house and we sat on the step, him in my arms, both of us weeping with relief.<br />
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When Mom was sick and we moved to Kelowna to be with her and Dad, the boys were enrolled in schools there. I drove Everett to his on the first day and went in with him, and was told where to pick him up at the end of the day. When 3:30 came around, I drove to the bus stop and waited. The schoolbus came and went without Everett getting off. I followed it until it stopped again, and asked the driver where my little boy was. He had no idea. He radioed the school. They had no idea. Well, I got back into my vehicle and lost my mind. I drove to the school in tears; practically in hysterics. What if he'd gotten off somewhere else? He didn't know our phone number or address in Kelowna yet, and I pictured my lost little boy at the police station or picked up by someone else, someone who shouldn't be picking up children on the street. It was horrible — another taste of what parents of missing children experience — until the school finally located him. The teachers had put him onto the wrong bus, and finally he was brought back to the school after the bus dropped off all the other children along its route.<br />
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When I think of any of those times I still feel the sick horror in my belly, all these years later.<br />
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I'm pretty sure I've written about all those close calls before, and if you've followed this blog for any length of time you're already aware of the stories above. The risk of repetition is strong here, and becoming stronger year after year. I no longer remember for sure what I've shared and what I haven't, and just plunge on in, hoping for the best. Thank you for your patience as I become a little old lady repeating herself!<br />
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Everett is 24 years old today. I went to town last night to get Emil for the weekend, stopped at the grocery store to buy a key lime cheesecake and then dropped it off at Everett's house. He doesn't celebrate birthdays, he says, doesn't want any fuss or gifts or extra attention. But I'm his mom. I can't help myself. I handed him two new pairs of thermal socks we figured would be good for him to wear at work, since he is in and out of the building all day, and he seemed glad to get those. In spite of not seeming to want company when I called a few minutes earlier to say I was coming over, we chatted enthusiastically before I said I had to go because Emil was waiting in the car.Blondi Blathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15656970490122824720noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383683834534759163.post-30588218022231962822016-10-26T10:44:00.002-06:002016-10-26T10:44:55.810-06:00Taking a Break<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<br />Blondi Blathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15656970490122824720noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383683834534759163.post-15727778561425653182016-10-25T18:22:00.002-06:002016-10-25T18:22:41.887-06:00Moving Cattle<span style="font-size: large;">T</span>he gents decided to bring some of their herd back to the family farmyard before the weather gets worse. Me and Little Green, my wee Taurus, were called into service to head the cattle off at the pass should they decide to head north rather than following Scott's truck from one pasture to another. But they followed him, the Pied Piper of Cows, and I didn't even have to get out of the car.<br />
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<br />Blondi Blathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15656970490122824720noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383683834534759163.post-13125062375151102102016-10-24T20:10:00.000-06:002016-10-24T20:10:14.142-06:00Wandering Around in a Fog<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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It's so quiet. Although one night the train was so loud you'd swear it was less than a mile away. And there are no railway tracks within four miles of our place. </div>
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Scott says a loud train means a change in weather. </div>
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We fully expect at least a week of sun and warmth to get the flax crop off, and if we don't get it we'll be putting in a complaint with the powers that be. </div>
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<br />Blondi Blathershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15656970490122824720noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4383683834534759163.post-12864422545238537032016-10-23T16:03:00.000-06:002016-10-23T16:04:50.420-06:00Down One Cat<div class="p1">
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I didn’t want to go to the
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The lady who lived here before us said that
skittish barn cats get friendly when the weather turns cold, and it’s true, but
I was pretty sure something was wrong with KitKat. As I stroked his orange fur and talked to him, I wondered if he’d been
injured, and was relieved when he got up and took a step closer so he could
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He showed no interest in the fried egg
I was delivering. I left it nearby and covered him with a blanket. That night I lay in bed worrying that I should have done something more for
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<i><span class="s1"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191">Wisewebwoman</a></span> has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://goldengrainfarm.blogspot.com/2016/10/walking-chewing-gum-no.html"><span class="s1">Walking & Chewing Gum? No!</span></a>": </i></div>
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<i>I miss the piano and singing - and I had some fun with a musical I wrote and directed. Gee I really miss the piano, don't have one now and I always did. Mainly for my own pleasure.....love the video. He's great!</i><br />
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Isn't he!<br />
I do have a piano, which Scott would like me to move out of the living room because the room's too crowded and I never play it. Until I do, and then it's worth the wait (to me).</div>
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<i><span class="s1"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/13505498142247410546">Joan McEwan</a></span> has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://goldengrainfarm.blogspot.com/2016/10/walking-chewing-gum-no.html"><span class="s1">Walking & Chewing Gum? No!</span></a>": </i></div>
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<i>I ve been playing and singing with my neighbour, Mark, for a few months now. We practise every week if we can and it IS fun! He played guitar and piano and is very good musically..... A good way for me to get practising and force myself to do something a little out of my comfort zone..... </i></div>
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A regular play date is the best practice motivation there is.<br />
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<i>reta has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://goldengrainfarm.blogspot.com/2016/10/foods-thing.html"><span class="s1">Food's the Thing</span></a>": </i></div>
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<i>going to try to send response,did you never look at all the bartly men?they all had that round bald <a href="http://spot.at/"><span class="s1">spot.at</span></a> what age it started I don't no,maybe bev would.also mom could not <a href="http://smell.is/"><span class="s1">smell.is</span></a> that hereditary? </i><br />
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I never noticed the Bartley men's hair (or lack of it), no!<br />
I've read that anosmia can be hereditary. </div>
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