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I've said it before, I'll say it again....

I. HATE. BEING. SICK!!!!! Down with a cold, on the weekend no less. Still out with it, had to re-schedule a dentist appointment this afternoon. Colds and teeth cleaning don't go together. Tried to rest as much as possible this weekend, but the hot water lines froze (hubby thinks the hot water heater tripped off and since the hot water lines don't have heat tape, froze) and we ended up getting a heat canon from Moscow Building Supply (very nice guys there and the rental wasn't too pricey). With hubby's back out on him and on his meds, guess who had to drive? Ah well, we finally got hot water Saturday evening, our neighbor D helped get the very heavy propane tank out of the van and to the back of the house, after shoveling a path (snow was a good foot deep). Loaded up the van on Sunday and took the equipment back. The bummer of having to go gluten free means all my cold fall backs are out of the question. I really, really want a nice greasy pepperoni and extra che

This is getting ridiculous!

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This morning there was MORE snow!!!!! Rum Tum was a very happy kitten tho: Not looking forward to the low and below zero temps the next few days. Luckily we still have a dragon in the house and it is ready to go.

OW!!!!!!

So a while back we'd gotten a PS3, in part to watch Netflix and because it was recommended as best for watching videos (Blue Ray) and such as the picture resolution was great. Well, yeah, but when we compared the Blue Ray player to our HD DVD player, there was pretty much no difference between the two, so paying an extra $4 a month for Blue Ray discs from Netflix was not worth it. So fine, came with a game controller, so a friend gave us a game he didn't like and we tried it. Probably would have been fun if I didn't spent half my time screaming in frustration trying to figure out 3/4s of the buttons to make it do anything. So we had a pricey Netflix streaming device. Decided to sell it and ended up trading it for a Wii, some controllers and a game. WOW!!!!!!!!! Okay, it doesn't have HDMI hook ups so we can't run it thru our home theatre and the resolution of things like YouTube thru it isn't as good a quality as the PS3, but game play! We rented The Co

The things you see

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when driving in Idaho at 65 mph. We went to Lewiston to do shopping and thought we saw an owl walking in a filed just off the highway. Needless to say, we whipped around to double check and found this: Not an owl, a balloon of a monkey (at least we think it was a monkey, it was pretty far away and my camera can only zoom so far) that was stuck in the field on something and just bobbing around.

The view out the break room window this morning

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Also playing around with the aspect ratio settings on my camera. This is 3:2 at 12.5M, supposed to be similar to 35mm film.

AARRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!

I would like to find out who ordered December and beat them senseless! NO MORE SNOW!!!!!!!!!

2 purple ducks

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It's been a while since I've done some photos for the challenges that the photo group I am on has. Current challenge is purple: Fuzzy duck: Devil Ducky I had a most difficult time getting the pic of the Devil Ducky. I have two and I could not snap a pic of either one that showed they were purple! Every pic except this one had them blue. Color me very confused!

No hot dog buns?

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No problem. Haven't gotten around to attempting homemade GF hot dog buns or hamburger buns. My last loaf of GF bread went off, so I came up with this idea: pop sausage dogs under the broiler and then nuke tortillas with cheese: Roll sausage dogs into the cheesy tortillas and VOILA! Have to start slicing and freezing my GF breads so I can get them to last thru the week. If I am having sandwiches every day it isn't a problem, the loaves are just big enough for about 4 days and a bit.

Out the car window this morning

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We were expecting just a skiff! I WANT SPRING DAMMIT!!!!!!!!!!!

AHHHHHhhhhhhh!

HAPPY DANCE!!!! NASCAR season has started!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Shootout was very exciting and I can't wait for the race this Sunday :D

AACCKKKK!!

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Rolled over in bed last night and spasmed half my back and it is still twingy this morning. Been trying to do light stretches while sitting and they are helping some. Woke up to a skiff and a quarter of snow and cold. I am so ready for spring to get here. I am seriously anxious to get my garden spaces into shape to start planting. I've got a number of seeds I am wanting to get into the ground so I can have some spring greens. Baked another loaf of GF bread this weekend. This was a box mix from King Arthur Flour. Came out very nicely: Toasted up well and while still a little more moist then I like in a bread, quite tasty. I wouldn't mind getting more, but it isn't available locally. Have to see if I can find it up in Spokane, if not, will have to wait until we can mail order some, but that will be a ways down the road. In the meantime I have the from scratch recipe to play with and a couple other recipes I want to try. I also have the recipe for a GF Artisan Bread in

BRRR!!!!!!!!!

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Beginning to wish I wore my thermies under my clothes and brought in some gloves. Seriously low energy weekend. The weather didn't help at all. Just wanted to stay curled up in bed under the covers, but did manage to get a few things done. Hit the Co-op on Saturday and picked up more Dr Bronner's soaps and some white rice flour and brown rice flour. I blended the two flours when I got home. Then it was off to the mall. Hit Ross and picked up some cotton dish towels and a set of the dough presses that will let us make pierogis, pot stickers, etc. I've a couple sites bookmarked with GF pierogi dough I can't wait to try. Then it was off to Winco for other groceries and then home. Wanted to take a nap, but had to get ready for Imbolc rit. Had a very nice evening as we also incorporated the Chocolate Rit MMMM!!!!! One person made lamb curry, so another brought GF garlic naan. She sent out the recipe on Sunday, so I know what I am making this next weekend (MMMMMM naan!!