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12 years ago

Ladyrose wrote:

Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie

Dido writes:

East of Eden - John Steinbeck

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connie_in_western_nc
12 years ago
The Human Brain Book...Rita Carter
veer
12 years ago
Brain Washing: Controlling Thought - K Taylor
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Trying to put roses next to each other.
Q
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I like Abe with Lady Hillingdon or Peace :) He goes really well with pale pinks, too. It depends on what you like. He adds a warmer tone, so if you like that with your pinks, excellent. I do beds where I have all totally cool colors, and that's where I don't put him in. Compassion is similar to Abe that way, imho. La France has more blue tones than some pinks of that lightness/darkness. I like to play that up by putting her with violet-based roses. I think Blossomtime is supposed to have mauve tones, too, but mine did poorly in the winter and I still won't get to see her bloom for a while. Le Vesuve looks to have a lot of mauve going on. Hugonis is a clear yellow, so he's useful anywhere you are looking for straight yellow with no peachy tones.
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Important Information about RSPs and their Kin
Q
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It looks great, Larry! You could add the information given by bernergrrl, leafhead and Sandy - Rudy daggerwings and goatweed leafwings also make a frass 'string' that's used as a perch by hatchling and early instar caterpillars. When fall approaches, very young viceroy and red-spotted purple caterpillars make a hibernaculum, a very small, tight nest in their leaf. They spend the winter in it and come out in spring when the host plant makes new growth to eat the young leaves. From that point in spring, they finish their life cycle. Older caterpillars reportedly overwinter in the open. I assume that white admirals also make a hibernaculum? If so, they should be added to that list. Sherry
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Found this chair on CL, put next to FP?
Q
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Maybe if we could see the whole room. I think the chair could be nice as you described but not sure of the look you are trying for without more photos. It may not be luxurious enough for the room.I am impressed with the layout so far. Wow how cool a FP Next to your bathroom. gorgeous.
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Physicists, engineers and kin: how to calculate energy expenditu
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Oh no, really? I've held out for all this time insisting stoves are close-enough fast and more ecologically supportable and all the rest, only to cave now and buy a MW and discover the rest of the world has come around to agreeing with my prejudices? I thought the microwaving-vegetables thing was supposed to preserve nutrients for the shortness of cooking? I have to say I have been loving it. I bought a fancy microwave cooker from an Asian market. It's an oblong plastic with raised ceramic holey device that supports the food; you put a little water in the bottom for steam. I dump veggies in and 2 minutes later they're crispy-cooked. It's a little easier than fiddling with the stupid steamer that's always tipping and never quite fits underneath the lid. Especially on a camp stove (which is thankfully back in its camping box after a year-hiatus in the hot-spot). Course, if I spent a little for a better steamer maybe everything would be comparable. blfenton - I hope you don't think this gross, but when I perform the ritual you relate, I just dump that first cup of clean warming-water right back in the pot. Or sometimes I toss it in dh's coffee maker. It's not turned on so it just sits there for a half-day until next it is. Still, I guess your point is you need to *heat* 2 cups for every one drunk, not the loss of the first cup. I guess the take-home message is, MW's aren't sensible for heating water or simple liquids like soup. They may be for more complex dishes like a casserole. And they may be comparatively poor nutrient-wise for steaming veggies. How about for reheating tea? Is it better to use a low-voltage cup-heater and leave it turned on all day or let that cup cool down and zap it when ready? (no other choices available).
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dido1
Original Author
12 years ago
Billion-Dollar Brain - Len Deighton
Kath
12 years ago
Spotless - Shannon Lush
phyllis__mn
12 years ago
Old Filth....Jane Gardam
ladyrose65
12 years ago
The Iliad of Sandy Bar - Bret Harte
veer
12 years ago
Wind Sand and Stars - Antoine Saint-Exupery
dido1
Original Author
12 years ago
The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester
J C
12 years ago
The Star - Arthur C. Clarke

(A short story but a great one)
lemonhead101
12 years ago
Cosmos - Carl Sagan
carolyn_ky
12 years ago
Living with Light: Decorating the Scandinavian Way, Gail Abbott
dido1
Original Author
12 years ago
The Unbelievable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth - Malcolm Pryce
Kath
12 years ago
How Green Was My Valley - Richard Llewellyn
veer
12 years ago
The Children of Green Knowe - L M Boston

(a wonderful 'must' read)
lemonhead101
12 years ago
Fungus the Bogey Man - Raymond Briggs
J C
12 years ago
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
connie_in_western_nc
12 years ago
Alien...O'Bannon and Schusett

(screenplay)
donnamira
12 years ago
Foreigner ... C.J. Cherryh
lydia_katznflowers
12 years ago
The Uninvited - Dorothy Macardle
carolyn_ky
12 years ago
Lassie Come Home, Eric Knight
lauramarie_gardener
12 years ago
Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
lydia_katznflowers
12 years ago
Zelda - Nancy Milford

(carolyn_ky, I am curious. What is the connection between The Uninvited by Dorothy Macardle and Lassie Come Home by Eric Knight? Sorry that I am dense!)
dido1
Original Author
12 years ago
Hons and Rebels - Jessica Mitford
veer
12 years ago
The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters - Charlotte Mosley
Kath
12 years ago
Princesses: The Six Daughters of George III - Flora Fraser
phyllis__mn
12 years ago
Bootlegger's Daughter....Margaret Maron
J C
12 years ago
The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey
Kath
12 years ago
The Clocks - Agatha Christie
carolyn_ky
12 years ago
Tick Tock, James Patterson

Lydia, I was reaching--Come Home as opposed to Uninvited.
J C
12 years ago
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
dido1
Original Author
12 years ago
Ulysses - James Joyce
ladyrose65
12 years ago
Odyssey - Homer
J C
12 years ago
Homer's Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale, or How I Learned about Love and Life with a Blind Wonder Cat - Gwen Cooper
lydia_katznflowers
12 years ago
Mrs. Chippy's Last Expedition: The Remarkable Journal of Shackleton's Polar-Bound Cat - Caroline Alexander

(carolyn_ky, thanks for the clarification. I get it now!)
veer
12 years ago
Goodbye Mr Chips - James Hilton

(book and film)
phyllis__mn
12 years ago
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society....Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer
J C
12 years ago
Down the Kitchen Sink - Beverley Nichols
ladyrose65
12 years ago
Rust - Guy de Maupasssant
donnamira
12 years ago
The Man in the Iron Mask ... Alexandre Dumas
carolyn_ky
12 years ago
Iron House, John Hart
veer
12 years ago
An Iron-Age Round House - D W Harding
grelobe
12 years ago
The House of Splendid Isolation - Edna O'Brien
phyllis__mn
12 years ago
A Painted House.....John Grisham
dido1
Original Author
12 years ago
The Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
lauramarie_gardener
12 years ago
"Mistress of the White House: The Story of Dolly Madison" - Helen L. Morgan
connie_in_western_nc
12 years ago
The Odd Couple...Neil Simon
donnamira
12 years ago
Odd and the Frost Giants ... Neil Gaiman

Oo! A two-fer!
dido1
Original Author
12 years ago
Strange Meeting - Wilfred Owen

(Donmamira, that's double points to you)
veer
12 years ago
Strangers on a Train - Patricia Highsmith
Kath
12 years ago
The Railway Children - E Nesbit

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