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leel
11 years ago
Why some like it hot : food, genes, and cultural diversity Gary Paul Nabhan
veer
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11 years ago
Red Hot: Cooking with Fire and Spice - Jenni Fleetwood
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The only winning move is not to play the game.
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From DUNO I got the following: D. BARRY SIMPSON 3 + 1 CANE DIVISION 120mm POT $US 30.00 D. BRINAWA CHARM X KARSUN ÂKYLIEÂ DIVISION. 100mm $US 25.00 D. KING OF HEARTS X YONDI TINA ÂGOLIATHÂ FCC/AOC-ANOS DIVISION 120mm $US 35.00 D. johannis (SPECIES) X SUNGLOW DIVISION 140mm $US 30.00 D. TOLGA X ELEGANT HEART DIVISION 120mm $US 30.00 D. COLONIAL MAID ÂVERITYÂ DIVISION OF ORIGINAL 180mm $US 95.00 D. GOLDEN MOON 8/6 + 2 NEW GROWTH $US 80.00 D. GRACIOUS CASCADES DIVISION 5/2 + 1 NEW GROWTH $US 50.00 D. MIARA ÂTEDÂS BEST YELLOWÂ DIVISION 12/ 7 + 2 NEW GROWTHS $US 120.00 At Cal Orchids he had 2 trays of seedlings that Hipkins (spelling?) recommended. One was Hilda Poxon x Hilda Poxon (different crosses) the other some beautiful Southern Star crosses. Since they are seedlings, I bought a few each. He was not really hiding them from the public, just waiting for them to get bigger before putting up for sale. Fred Clark from Sunset Orchids was there the day before and bought 8 each of them. When he lists them 2 years from now, you'll know where they came from. At Santa Barbara Orchid Estates they had a tray of mericlone Avril's Gold, an awarded (in Australia)cross in the back also not keeping them from the public but waiting for them to reach a larger selling size. That one was $100, they still have more. Their $7.50 table is hard to beat, I like their LC tenebrosa and LC Sea Urchin, they crossed these with a few others so I got about a dozend of them. Sea Urchin is nice but has an incredible growing habit, literally outgrows the weeds in my back yard. That's the extent of the damage. Nick
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OT : come play a game and win a gift
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oh Susan I was just joking. I thought you were also hahahahahahaa SMILE and be happy. This is FUN...HUGS ANYBODY has any questions ..PLEASE ask....ALWAYS! ha ha not sure if I can answer it Dorothy. What do you mean? All the words on the collage used at least once? OK let me see if I can clarify the mistery: I made a collage with 25 pictures. Each picture has a name on what you see in the picture. YOUR job is to find the right word to each picture. You only have to write a word ONCE!! Then next time you post, you can use totally new words. Your goal is to get as many words matching the collage words as possible by the 18th. I keep track of the correctly guessed words of each one of you. Tonight I will tally up the scores after everone has posted...speack midnight lol. Just not sure how often you all wanna here the scores??? I do not want to discourage the players that did not guess a lot yet ;-) But like MJ when she guessed on the Frosty, she got a lot of other words just by guessing in that direction ...hint hint hahaha I will be back later Just to make sure nobody has any questions and FUN FUN FUN ...under the sun or snow or rain? Geeeeeee I rather have snow right now then rain. ta ta Lucy
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Let's play avesmor's game again - Do these rooms work and why?
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I think they both work overall, but there are issues with both. To me,the first room works pretty well at first glance. But when you take a longer look, I think there are a couple of issues. It looks like a room that a 'real person' decorated, using things they had in part. The chair shape is great, but the fabric on the chair is wrong for the room. Not because of the print, but because it is done in 'dirty' colors (and actually, looks like an old chair),a fact the pillows on it highlight. Were the chair done in a white duck or a lime and turquoise stripe, it would be fine. The rug is again a 'dirty' color, more olive; a plain cream or white rug, or a colorful large scale modern print, would do more for the space. I love the READ on the wall, because I believe the framed pieces are favorite books (one is Eric Carle's "The very busy spider"). But I guess that to me would be better on another wall, near a reading chair or beanbag in a kid's room, and a bookshelf. Then again, if the child is a voracious reader, nothing wrong with celebrating that fact! The second room is fine, except for the fact that all the color weight is low in the space, and the lampshade disappears against the wall and looks awkward with the little built-in above. Instead of the lamp on the night stand, I would have hung reading lights of some kind centered above each headboard, done in brass (for the nautical feel) with lampshades in a print with deep blue (no stripes to compete with the beadboard) or a solid dark blue. It also looks like the rug is running in the wrong direction for the pattern. I would have also preferred to mix up the decorative pillows on each bed, so they weren't matching but complimentary, but that is not a big deal.
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Not playing her game......
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Isn't it crazy? I wish my ex would vanish for months on end. However I know the kids are devastated by such behavior of a parent. I can't imagine it being a mom. It's difficult for me to understand or wrap my head around a mom like this. Crazy! I think you did the right thing. They don't need in and out, up and down from her and if that means you protect them from it by keeping them busy then that is what you have to do. What a flake... Her parents should be ashamed of her but unfortunately they probably have no clue! my parents have touched with this issue a little with my brother not being a hands on non custodial parent and it is embarrassing. Especially when people ask how his daughter is and they feel like they just have no clue what to say. But he is grown and they know they can't say anything. Have fun on July 4th! We are going off to the lake too. Going to see the in law's.
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yoyobon_gw
11 years ago
A MILD CASE OF INDIGESTION by Geoffrey Watson
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The Man Who Ate Everything -- Jeffrey Steingarten

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11 years ago
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins.....Dr. Seuss
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11 years ago
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11 years ago
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS! by Ralph Oliver
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Finding your Soulmate Without Losing your Head - Richard Sexton
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Captain Blood: Pirate & Privateer - Rafael Sabatini
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The Buccaneers - Edith Wharton
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Cold Flat Junction, Martha Grimes
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