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My new philosophy in life. Somewhere between "Frustration" and "Futility" is "Format" :D ~ Raven ~

Phoney Fact: Did you know that Texas is the only state in the Union that does not have any neuclear weapons installations? Why? Because they'd USE them. :mrgreen: ~ Raven ~

The first good batch of cucumbers to come off the vines this year my Mother laid claim to for sour pickles. It seems the Atkins company has either gone out of business or our store is no longer carrying them, either way she can't get her hands on good sour pickles any more. So after brining...

I saw this on another message board and it's been a big hit, so I thought we could try it over here. How it's played: You make a wish and the next person to respond plays the part of the Genie granting your wish... but with a twist! In granting that wish something bad must come from it as...

When I first wake up, I am "awake" in name only until I get my daily dose of caffeine. You might say vertical is a strictly honorary position. But there is usually someone in the house who woke up bright eyed and bushy tailed and want to tell me all about something, and usually in excrutiating...

This little container garden I've got going on my patio is spoiling me rotten :mrgreen: I got hungry last night and heard a cucumber calling my name, so I just went outside and picked one, along with a tomato, a carrot, some Genovese Basil and a tiny bulb of Garlic. I crushed the garlic and...

Okay, I've never made home-made Jams and Jellys before, but I've always kinda wanted to. Careful what you wish for. One of our church members noticed that an army of squirrels were stripping his Plum trees so he did what he called an "Emergency Pick". Absolutly overwhelmed with fruit he...

Look what I just found in my Basil :) It's a baby preying mantis. :) Sorry about the fuzzy picture, the basket moved just as I took the snap. I hope he eats plenty of bugs. :) ~ Raven ~

I was channel surfing tonight and ran across a show about the Freemasons (Da Vinci Week) on the History Channel, flipped on and found another show "Debunking" the Da Vinci Code. All in all I ran across no less than 5 different shows all running simotaneously about some aspect of the Da Vinci...

Why is it that no matter what team I root for... THEY LOSE??? I'm a Cub's fan. A friend of mine told me emphaticly "Do NOT watch any Cubs games this year!!!" I should have listened. The Cubs are playing a 3 game series against the Washington Nationals. In the last 2 games the Cubs have shut...

See the Story Here In an ultimate "Whoopsy Doodle" BBC 24 News inadvertantly interviewed a job applicant live on the air thinking he was an I.T. expert and wanting his reactions to the recent verdict in the Apple vs. Apple case. The surprised job applicant believed it was some sort of aptitude...

After the round of tornadoes and severe storms yesterday, last night and again today (and also seeing all the devistation in Texas on the news today) I just wanted to start a Roll Call thread to see if everyone made it through okay. We're fine here in Little Rock. We lost power for a while...

Did you hear about that lingere company that held a contest to find the best bra? They were trying to get away from the flooded "traditional" market, so they held an open call to all desingers for something new and original, but it still had to have good supportability. They mulled over all...

Okay, I admit it, years ago my daughter got me hooked on a show called Ed, Edd and Eddy. There's one episode, where the boys are stuck in Johnny's wall and are forced to tell him a bedtime story. At one point Johnny say's "I want a real story, with Octopus Gardens, Silver Hammers and Mr...

Several years ago I started container growing my own cucumbers because I wanted so much to taste my grandmothers home-made Bread & Butter Pickles (and you can't get pickling cukes in the stores around here). This year my wife has asked me to make her a batch, but to chunk them instead of...

After posting to this weeks freeze-frame, I realized that my response was one of those things that every parent dreads to hear. "Hey Mom! Guess what I trapped in the washing machine?". This got me to thinking about other such potential phrases. Like: "See? I told you it wouldn't turn into a...

Every day, as I'm rooting through my spam filter sorting out what to keep and what to refuse, I see a subject line that I just can't resist replying to. Such as: "What is OEM Software and why should you care?" - Your right, why SHOULD I care? "Make your wife happy" - Leave her alone. "Size...

C'mon folks! Show your true age! Just fill in the blanks :mrgreen: 1. Paul is ______ 2. Simon and ______ 3. King of ___________ (this one's tricky as it can apply equally to two generations) 4. The Big _________ 5. Rosie the _______ 6. Josephine the ________ 7. ______! Take Me Away! 8...

We have 2 tornadic Super-Cells moving through eastern Arkansas right now. One has a CONFIRMED Tornado up north headed for the bootheel of Missouri, the other is headed just north of Memphis. BOTH CELLS HAVE BEEN PRODUCING BOTH TORNADOES AND BASEBALL SIZED (AND LARGER) HAIL!! Some hail has been...

I got word this morning that a dear friend of mine passed away last night. He was in his 70's and had been gravely ill for some time now so it's been expected. He was truely the guru of the most horrible and wonderful jokes of all kinds, and could create them on the spot as more of a knee-jerk...

I found a wonderful new use for my Bible today. Some time back, I had wanted to read the Catholic "aprocropha" so I asked my sister which Bible she would reccomend. She pointed me to a St. Josephs New American Bible (or NAB) where everything is written in more modern english and is thus far...

Am I being oversensitive to this? or is this just creepy? Nintendo is running a new commercial in our area where you see a pack of 7 and 8 year old girls dressed up like princesses running through an obsticle course. So far it's fine, but at the very end you breifly see the words "Touching is...

Well, I've finally done it. I've broken down and bought an MP3 player. It's not an iPod but a less expensive generic thing made in Taiwan ($25.00 off eBay). The thing I find funny about the whole thing though, is listening to Sammy Jons, Doby Gray, The Bee Gee's and Supertramp on an MP3...

I was channel surfing when I ran across the news teasing their upcoming reports. It was chroma-keyed "Bush to talk on War in Ohio". My first thought was "When did we declare war on Ohio?" Perhaps intelligance officials spotted a neuclear power plant outside Akron and turned the state over...

We heard from my nephew in Iraq today. This time, he's fine LOL! He was caught up in that Operation Swarmer over there, and he said when he got back to the base he headed over to get something to eat, passed a TV and there it was all over CNN. His first thought was "Crap! I have to call Mom"...