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[AZtortMom]

Not sure if you guys saw the National news but the California synagogue shooting was 2 mi from my home. [emoji20]
We live in a small town and never thought this would happen here.

I saw that! So sad!

 

[AZtortMom]

Did I miss Karen’s birthday? Must have been too busy figuring out how to get a slice of JoesBro’s cake. [emoji849]

Me too[emoji12]

 

[AZtortMom]

Thinking of you, Noel!

Thank you love [emoji173]️

 

[AZtortMom]

Thank you, Lena! Just be sure to put it on your calendar for next year! [emoji23]

Happy belated Birthday [emoji512][emoji39]

 

[AZtortMom]

Happy Sunday Roommates [emoji851]

 

[Ben02]

Thank you! But now it's over..[emoji17]

Sorry Karen I missed your birthday!!! I hope you had an amazing day

 

[Ben02]

First exam tomorrow!!!!! German speaking.

So it begins.........

 

[Pastel Tortie]

Great! Glad to hear this!

The nitrate test consists of 2 bottles. The instructions say to shake bottle # 2, but they don't stress this enough. The solution in bottle 2 tends to precipitate into crystals that adhere to the bottle.

So "shake" should say...bang bottle on the kitchen counter several times, then shake til your arm falls off.

Otherwise you may get a false reading on nitrates.

Useful information. Maybe I will write in your version of "shake" on the API test kit instructions at our house!

 

[Pastel Tortie]

Not sure if you guys saw the National news but the California synagogue shooting was 2 mi from my home. [emoji20]
We live in a small town and never thought this would happen here.

It is extremely disconcerting when violent + crazy hits so close to home. I'm from a small town. Not far from Tallahassee, which is not a large city, even for a state capital. Certainly not a large city compared other cities in Florida. In the last few years, violence has hit closer and closer to home.

My deepest condolences and sympathies for all of the turmoil and pain your community are going through right now.

 

[Cathie G]

Oh, poison ivy! The totally-harmless-looking villain. I got intimately acquainted with one in Canada. Hope we’ll never meet again at such close quarters. [emoji33]

There's a really old saying. It is: "leaves of three leave it be." I also read in a really old book that it can look like a vine, bush, etc. If the plant has any variation of that? It's not poison ivy. There is a harmless plant that looks like it. I think it's called wisteria. It's been at least 25 years since I read that stuff but I played with a vine in my backyard to see if it was poison ivy. I only found 1 or 2 leaves of 2 along the whole vine. It proved to me I could touch it. That doesn't help you on a hike in the woods. But it can help in your own backyard.

 

[CarolM]

Well, half is gone!! The video is boring because I had start & stop it because it was a slow process.


Cutting in half which was super easy!
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Bye Bye!
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Yay. Congratulations. I bet it looks empty there now. [emoji23]

 

[Cathie G]

Lovely pics and great how your toes match your canoe!

Well...nothing says you can't be a cute tomgirl...hahaha

 

[CarolM]

For the cat lovers amongst us, meet Snowdrop.....................

I love the Specsaver ads!

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[Cathie G]

Useful information. Maybe I will write in your version of "shake" on the API test kit instructions at our house!

Very useful. I get my my kit this Friday.

 

[CarolM]

Started on a new Cherry Bowl today....here are first pix...

The Chunk of Wood Rounded Up
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On the Lathe & Spinning
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Love seeing your woodworking projects.

 

[CarolM]

Not sure if you guys saw the National news but the California synagogue shooting was 2 mi from my home. [emoji20]
We live in a small town and never thought this would happen here.

That is scary!!

 

[CarolM]

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Getting prepared!!!

Whoop whoop. Love the blue toes [emoji6] and the tort and your son pics too of course.

 

[CarolM]

TELL me you see it!

When we clean with bleach, it is of Biblical proportions.

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I see half a windmill.

 

[CarolM]

Good mornooning all. We have a quieter day today and are lounging in bed with a cuppa and the papers to start

The wind has dropped thank goodness, so maybe we’ll clean out the house gutters later... such excitement [emoji23]

Sounds very exciting.

 

[CarolM]

Holy cow! Me too!

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