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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 26, 2024 6:30:51 GMT
Very late lunch today ~ super fresh asparagus, scrambled egg, and ciabatta slathered with mascarpone.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 25, 2024 6:28:35 GMT
This one was fun for me ~ Wordle 1,041 3/6* β¬β¬β¬β¬π¨ π¨π¨π©β¬β¬ π©π©π©π©π© expat ritzy intro
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 25, 2024 2:56:35 GMT
Well, an annoying surprise turned into a very pleasant surprise.
I logged onto anyport & discovered that a guest had left some droppings here in the form of spam on this thread.
That got whisked away, but the good surprise was this excellent thread of which I have no recollection. Heaven knows what I was doing in May of 2021, but it is something different & interesting to enjoy these pictures and the text almost three years later.
And apologies for using the lazy word "interesting" again, but it fits when a thread shows how visiting a potentially unpromising place pays off in charm and the unexpected.
I did get a kick out of how Charleville-Mézières understandably milks the association with Rimbaud. I come from "Audubon's Happy Land" -- West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. A friend there once quipped, "Geeeez. If they build a crematorium here, it will be named 'Audubon'."
Kerouac, you got some excellent rainy day pictures & brought the mired-in-the-pandemic town to life for us.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 24, 2024 22:34:36 GMT
Wow, beautiful & especially so against that wall.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 24, 2024 6:42:34 GMT
Wordle 1,040 3/6* β¬π¨β¬β¬π© β¬π©π©β¬π© π©π©π©π©π© least event overt
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 23, 2024 21:46:06 GMT
Very pretty place!
It looks as though they took their sweet time deciding to shore up the castle/fort.
What are the pieces of cement(?) there in the park?
I love the gray house all covered in fish scales.
How was your steak?
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 23, 2024 21:40:30 GMT
Gemma Chan -- English actress
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 23, 2024 20:55:07 GMT
You've been romping in the meadow I see.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 23, 2024 20:53:30 GMT
Crying their outrage to the skies!
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 23, 2024 18:51:49 GMT
I wonder if his parents have trouble getting a sitter.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 23, 2024 18:50:28 GMT
Halle Berry -- American actress
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 23, 2024 18:48:07 GMT
That sound awful for everyone stuck in that situation, Cheery! I have to wonder why the driver didn't put the guy off immediately, although maybe he thought that would make things worse.
Re: the crying -- not stupid, but a response your body made to an occurrence that didn't make sense. It happens to people quite often in earthquakes. They're not crying because they're specifically frightened, but their bodies are reacting to reality suddenly being thrown out of whack.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 23, 2024 6:43:51 GMT
stoooopid game Wordle 1,039 5/6* π©β¬β¬β¬π¨ π©π¨β¬π¨π¨ π©π©β¬π©π© π©π©β¬π©π© π©π©π©π©π© rinse retro rower roper rover
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 22, 2024 18:07:05 GMT
Yugoslavia -- formerly a country on the Balkan Peninsula, made up of the now independent nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, & Slovenia
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 22, 2024 18:03:17 GMT
I finally finished watching all of Friends, doing the last few episodes in a mini-binge the other night. It has given me so much pleasure & so many laughs that I was sorry it was over, even though I have an issue with one of the finale elements. Picking whatever follows after a series that gave total satisfaction is important, as it has to be good but ideally should not be something that invites comparisons to that previous series. Well, Ripley has been waiting in the wings, so I watched the first episode last night. Oh gracious! Everything you've read about the exquisite camera work and about Andrew Scott's perfect depiction is true and then some. I look forward to savoring an episode of this per night. I'm including links below, all of which probably contain spoilers. But the book(s) upon which this series is based are well known: The Talented Mr. Ripley is a 1955 psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith. The novel introduced the character of Tom Ripley, who returns in four subsequent novels. (wikipedia)Also, they have been have adapted for tv and movies several times: screenrant.com/tom-ripley-tv-shows-movies-ranked/If you're not convinced yet to watch this truly superb production, keep reading: mashable.com/article/ripley-review-andrew-scott-netflixwww.vanityfair.com/hollywood/ripley-netflix-shot-list-awards-insiderThis link you might want to save for during or after you've viewed the series, as it zeroes in on the Caravaggio paintings referenced throughout: mashable.com/article/ripley-netflix-caravaggio
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 22, 2024 16:38:09 GMT
David Ferrie -- one of the people accused by Jim Garrison (DA of NO) of being involved in a conspiracy to kill JFK
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 22, 2024 15:35:47 GMT
Wordle 1,038 4/6* π¨β¬β¬π¨β¬ β¬β¬π¨π¨π¨ π¨π¨β¬π©π© π©π©π©π©π© sword purse aster laser
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 22, 2024 4:45:30 GMT
Finally getting back into anyport. It's been out for a few hours. I did not do as well as the K contingent. Wordle 1,037 4/6* β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ β¬π¨β¬β¬β¬ β¬π©β¬π©π© π©π©π©π©π© trace flush doily jolly
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 21, 2024 21:27:30 GMT
Robert Graves -- English poet, soldier, historical novelist, & critic who produced more than 140 works in his 90-year lifetime
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 21, 2024 19:56:02 GMT
I get double points for this: Baltimore -- historic city & important seaport just northeast of Washington DC
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 21, 2024 19:50:00 GMT
ap-Cray! I haven't done that one yet & now I'm intimidated.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 21, 2024 18:13:42 GMT
Morocco -- country in North Africa
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 21, 2024 18:12:03 GMT
Vida Blue -- a left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1969 to 1986
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 21, 2024 18:05:00 GMT
It's very nice here, a pleasant respite from the past few days. The temperature is in the mid to high 70s, it's overcast, & there is a soft breeze.
It's more than pleasant in my house, with all the doors open, the wind chimes gently playing, and a melodious blackbird singing its heart out somewhere in a tree.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 21, 2024 0:20:55 GMT
It's okay. I enjoy being middle-of-the-road. Wordle 1,036 4/6* β¬β¬β¬π¨β¬ β¬π¨π¨π¨β¬ π©β¬β¬π©π¨ π©π©π©π©π© table flick logic lucid
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 20, 2024 16:43:12 GMT
Chandler Bing -- one of the Friends
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 20, 2024 16:37:30 GMT
Now one branch after another is dying, and there are almost no leaves left. I cut off all of the dead wood, just to make it easier to dispose of it in the coming days. Kerouac, why don't you go ahead & dump it out of the pot so you can see the roots. If they're doing well (unlikely) you can put what remains of the plant into a new, smaller pot & wait to see if if wants to try again.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 20, 2024 16:34:25 GMT
So I have been putting most of the weeds and grass I pull into the compost pile and will use that to cover the beds after they decompose. Unfortunately, there are seeds in there so the weeds will grow back. Bjd, ideally the compost pile will function well enough to either kill those seeds with its heat or rot them out of existence. Fingers crossed!
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 20, 2024 2:33:47 GMT
Hot & humid here, with temps in the 80s. Supposedly it will go down to the mid seventies on Monday. In central France, they got down to about -4Β° last night while overheated Paris only got down to 8Β°. This makes me remember back to TTR and the early days of anyport. Kerouac would post pictures of Paris in May and I was all shocked by all the people in puffy jackets. Obviously I never came to terms with this facet of Europe. When I went to Italy in May of 2019 I was forced to buy sweaters to insulate my heat-loving bod from the cold wet misery of "sunny Italy". Never having been to France in April or May and since I'm happily unrealistic, France yet remains in my mind as a happy land of sunshine and flowers. Another lousy spring.Roll on September. You just tossed aside all of summer, Mick?!
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 20, 2024 2:24:16 GMT
Warren Delano (Jr.)-- maternal grandfather of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, he was an American merchant and drug smuggler who made a large fortune smuggling illegal opium into China
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