Just as I enjoy the plethora of pumpkin-flavored foods that appear around Thanksgiving, I eagerly await eggnog season come December. Homemade, of course, is superior, but I have been known to enjoy copious amounts of the off-the-shelf variety, as well. You can imagine my dismay, then, when I polished off a bottle of Labrot & Graham a couple of ( Read more... )

I cannot find solid brass, pineapple-motif towel bars online. You would think there would be wide demand for such an item in colonial America. Oh, wait. This is 2008.

And, I just discovered that Virginia Metalcrafters has gone out of business. Hmph.

I just want a place to hang my dish-drying cloth!

My ESL student from Nicaragua just called to tell me that she passed her citizenship test! We filed her paperwork 6 months ago, and it seemed like this day would never arrive. She had her interview at 7:20 this morning at the FBI office in Charlotte. She and her husband left at 4am in order to arrive early ( Read more... )

Last night, I fell asleep on the living room sofa watching "L'Homme Qui Rit (The Man Who Laughs)" with Drmellow. At some point, amidst dreaming that asqmh was visiting my parents, I found myself in a parking garage or parking lot on the verge of being assaulted. With all of my might, I kicked the guy in the crotch ( Read more... )

Aaaaaaaaaa..... only 4 days left until the Women's Retreat.

I see that I haven't posted anything since August 30th. That is why.

The Town of Boone finally voted to serve mixed drinks this week. Overwhelmingly, I might add, though I'm surprised the voter turnout wasn't higher for this particular issue. From someone who remembers the days of road-tripping to get something other than a beer, I say, "It's about time ( Read more... )

Dear Body:

I'm a little tired of this upset stomach thing. Two weeks is long enough. I appreciate that my antibiotics are doing their thing, as the whole Salmonella/E. coli thing was getting rather tiresome, but the drugs are making me feel almost as bad. Let us just be done with this.

Because everything's better with bacon: How It's Made: Bacon

And because this one just blows my mind: How It's Made: Hatchery Chicks. Hang in there until about 2:40, when they get to the "separator". It's pretty surreal after that. My brother's exact words: "I need you to watch this so we can talk about it."

Props to canticles.

What is in the back seat of your car right now?
Music binder for my guitar group.

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Our local Fox affiliate (Fox8-WGHP) has been running an interesting series on the nightly news: Made In N.C. Each segment features a product made exclusively in N.C., many of them in or around Greensboro. Of course, Pepsi (which originated in New Bern) expanded their operation quite some time ago, but some of our more famous exports still call ( Read more... )