Bogey, the Meadow Muffin

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Xena the Wonder Dog
June 16, 1999 - December 12, 2009

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The sweet-potato-and-bacon biscuit dough is made and chilling in the fridge. The 19 lb turkey is resting (somewhat) comfortably in the brine. Three bags of stuffing mix at the ready, along with mushrooms, onions, apples, a few raisins, some chopped walnuts and loads of butter (along with a dash of white wine, of course.) A fifteen pound sack of ( Read more... )

The trip across was mostly uneventful. The plane ride from Washington D.C. was just over 8 hrs and I didn't sleep much at all.  I guess I really should have taken that sleeping pill but didn't think to grab it out of the rolling carryon before it was stored away.  Oh well.  And silly me, I had said I wanted a Kosher meal instead of the usual plane ( Read more... )

Now is one of those times when I wish I had the wherewithall to make a demo video and post it to YouTube so I could embed it in here to really drive home the point.

If you work with cash - paper and coins - I implore you to remove your cranium from your rectal region and make sure you give your customers change properly.


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Back in November 2007, I posted (at length) about our boxer-mix, Xena's, Mast Cell Tumor issues.

The prednisone helped considerably with the tumor on her face - under her right eye.  It's still there and a bit larger than it was 1.5 years ago but the prednisone did bring it back down in size to barely noticeable.


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Provencal Sauce

1/4 cup olive oil
6 cloves garlic
1/2 cup onion, very finely diced
1/3 cup celery, very finely diced
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
1/4 cup fresh flat leaf parsley, very finely chopped
1/2 teaspoon dried basil
10 to 12 whole plum tomatoes, peeled, seeded and chopped into 1/4-inch pieces
1 cup tomato juice (out-of-season substitute 3 cups canned ( Read more... )

This was included as "fact" from one of my sociology professors.  I'm not able to find much on Google or Snopes and I want to know if it's true.  I would think that if he had, in fact, said it in a book, it would have made a bigger (i.e., noticeable) splash online - even if it was said back in the 90s.

Newt Gingrich wrote in one of his books in ( Read more... )

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I don't do it often (and I really can't do any right now, I'm sorry) but I had promised a friend I'd do her natal chart for her. It took me over a month to have a break in my schedule long enough to focus on it. I'm not really an intuitive interpreter when it comes to this stuff (natal charts, tarot, etc.) so I have to rely on resource material to ( Read more... )