When we lived in Louisville, we would go out to visit my Aunt Bert occasionally. She was a very good cook, and even my then-picky-eating children loved her food. So after a while, when we headed over to visit, they would say "We're going to the House of the Good Eats." Sadly, I don't have any of her recipes...the ones I'm going to post are all from ( Read more... )

Another meme, hijacked from invaderk, originally from izilen and now from kuriadalmatia

5 questions meme:
- Comment with "JACKPOT"''
- I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better.
- Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
- Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.

( Jackpot! )

Gakked from mcgarrygirl78

I would like all my LJ friends to comment about how you got to know me. But I want you to LIE. That's right. Just make it up. If you'd like, copy this to your journal so I can do the same.

Now, lets see if we can get more than one person to reply to this! Anybody out there? You can reply even if we're not Friends in the technical ( Read more... )

( Snow and the adventures of the Little Yellow Taxi )

I was watching CNN and they mentioned that Fergie had been invited to Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding and the first thought I had was: "Why did they invite Fergie from the 'Black-Eyed Peas'?" . Only to realize a few seconds later they were talking about Sarah Ferguson, former wife of Prince Andrew, William's uncle. And here I am, an ( Read more... )

Gakked this idea from mcgarrygirl78, but I did the CM one instead of the CSI. How I got this, I'm not sure, but it does seem pretty accurate.

Which Criminal Minds Character Are You?

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It wouldn't be fair to omit our travels in our 'nearest neighbor to the east', now, would it?


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Gakked this from matociquala. I guess we've gotten around a little more than I realized!


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We've been living in Michigan in semi-rural areas for the last 26-odd years, and this morning, the Mr. finally hit a deer. Well, clipped a deer. The damage is all on the front passenger side, so he probably hit it a glancing blow, and it was probably a fairly small deer. At 4:45 am, you're not really going to be able to see them since they haven't ( Read more... )

One of the benefits of being 60 years old. Spoilers for tonight's Hawaii 5-0 behind the cut.

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