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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 8, 2024 14:34:46 GMT
Oban -- resort town on the west coast of Scotland
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 8, 2024 14:25:58 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 8, 2024 6:17:45 GMT
That is painful. I think I have a special kind of Adult ADHD that kicks in when I play Wordle. Note misplaced excited hubris resulting in an inevitable wrong answer in my #3. Wordle 1,024 4/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 scour tread bread breed
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 8, 2024 4:20:24 GMT
Romania -- European country with a tumultuous history stretching far back into antiquity.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 8, 2024 4:13:20 GMT
Nie Haisheng -- major general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and an astronaut
fun fact: Chinese astronauts are known as "navigating celestial-heaven personnel"
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 8, 2024 4:05:42 GMT
I'm so embarrassed. I recently saw a trailer for Godzilla x Kong & thought it looked pretty good. From the trailer for It's Raining in the House, the acting looks well above merely competent. Of course, it might be because I watched that trailer after the one for Sidonie in Japan, so my critical faculties were probably at low ebb.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 8, 2024 3:56:12 GMT
Ha -- "ANOTHER awards show!" was my exact thought when I saw there was a new post on this thread.
Thank you for showing those pictures. I would say they saved me from opening the link, but I wasn't tempted.
The Castellows are as Petticoat Junction as it's possible to be.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 8, 2024 0:32:58 GMT
I couldn't wait to make a stupid mistake, so did it immediately in #2 ~ Wordle 1,023 5/6* ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ 🟨⬛🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟨⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 frame cheat anvil villa voila
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 6, 2024 22:18:57 GMT
We were all all over the place with this one!
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 6, 2024 22:14:50 GMT
I download them asap if they are free That is interesting. I always assumed if we "purchased" it for free, it was ours for evermore, regardless of when we downloaded it. I'm sure you must have mentioned it at some point, but the fact that the Joseph Bridgeman novels are about time travel got past me. Just looked them up on Amazon US and am very tempted. I was also happy to see that there is a pronounced price difference in favor of the ebook editions compared to the same work in a physical edition. Ray Porter has his own FB page, if you're interested. My wifi connection must be slow right now or something, as I was unable to load & listen to an audio sample on Amazon.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 6, 2024 18:24:49 GMT
Wow -- you all will eat like kings.
Since my favorite salad is tomato and onion, I greatly approve your choices. (but no green beans?))
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 6, 2024 16:46:53 GMT
Thank you, Lugg. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts after you read it. That leads me to a question: When you all acquire ebooks, do you download & read it immediately, or leave lthem in your digital library until some future time? Today's book is one I remember enjoying when I read it probably almost twenty years ago, when it was first published. At that time, I'd only read one other of her books, The Patron Saint of Liars, which greatly impressed me. Since then I have read a couple of Patchett's books that I quite disliked, finding the premise, characters, etc. not at all realistic or compelling. At any rate, if other readers feel the same or don't yet know Patchett, this one is on deep discount right now. Be warned that every single reader who reviewed it seemed determined to give away the plot.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 6, 2024 16:28:28 GMT
Mick, those pictures should convince more people to pot up bulbs. That's a gorgeous & cheerful display.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 6, 2024 16:21:46 GMT
Wow, that seems like a lot. Admittedly, I have no idea what the yield will be since I've never planted onions.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 6, 2024 6:08:48 GMT
Ditto. Wordle 1,022 5/6* ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ 🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨 🟨🟩🟨🟨⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 slant crown niche pinch finch
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 6, 2024 1:14:26 GMT
Harold Lloyd -- American actor, comedian, & stunt performer who made nearly 200 comedy films, both silent and talkies, from 1914 to 1947
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 6, 2024 0:56:06 GMT
The goooood old stuff!
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 6, 2024 0:51:44 GMT
Oh! You sure didn't! I looked at your spoiler earlier, but failed to note the no-yellow phenomenon.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 5, 2024 18:33:12 GMT
I wonder if you cut the non-performing redbud way back & maybe top dressed it with some compost scratched into the surface around it, would it decide to start doing its part? You could even dig it up & scrutinize the roots before replanting the well-cut-back little tree. I did that to a sickly, non-growing camellia I was given & it's responding nicely.
You must be right about a host tree being partly hollow to allow another to grow inside. I remember all those years ago when I saw the baby tree seeming to grow on the older one that it was a fluke & bound to die. Guess not!
I have another memory about that tree & the others on that stretch of sidewalk, also from many years ago. I was walking there on a sunny day when I noticed that the leaf shadows seemed particularly sharp and distinct. As I looked at them, I saw that each leaf shadow looked like a little kid's sandwich with one perfect quarter-moon bite taken from it. Finally it occurred to me that I was witnessing solar eclipse.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 5, 2024 14:31:49 GMT
Beautiful!
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 5, 2024 14:30:39 GMT
The weather here is crazy. After that scorcher on the 2nd, it's been days of very cool temperatures, starting with hours of cold rain on the third. It's 8:30 am here now & in the low 60s, but will climb another 10 degrees during the day. Then tomorrow & through Thursday, it's supposed to be in the 80s and 90s again.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 5, 2024 14:26:00 GMT
That bed is really filling out, Bjd. I hope you'll keep showing it month by month. The wisteria is so perfectly placed, it looks as though it was planted deliberately. At least thirty years ago, maybe forty, I noticed that a tree across the street from my grandparents' house had another tree growing out of it. And then I came across a photo of it on the web, taken many years later. Here is that picture, taken on July 4, 2020. www.flickr.com/photos/auvet/50091591758
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 5, 2024 6:33:05 GMT
Pera -- BeyoÄŸlu, a municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey on the European side of Istanbul, was known as Pera during the Middle Ages and in western languages, into the early 20th century
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 5, 2024 6:26:04 GMT
Wordle 1,021 3/6* ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ 🟨⬛🟨⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 claim inset wrist
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 4, 2024 23:45:55 GMT
It's been a while since anything was featured in this thread, but today there is a book that my mother & I both read and enjoyed, if that is the right word. In families with some memory, even second- or third-hand, of the immigration to the new world, there is always that longing to know what it was really like for those who felt constrained to leave in hopes of making a better life. This book, set in early 18th century Sicily, is from almost two centuries before my own ancestors left that troubled island. Even so, it brilliantly shows a world where the aristocracy perpetuated a system of indifference and corruption. Rest assured that this is no fluffy romance glorifying the old days, rather serious literature which sometimes recalls Madame Bovary in its uncanny recreation of a lost time. Do know that there are no graphically shocking passages, but that there are some decidedly unsettling events in the novel.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 4, 2024 22:33:45 GMT
Ooooo, thanks, Lugg -- you did well, too!
Re: stats, etc. This may be some temporary glitch or a reset or something. All my stats show (583 games played), but it says my current streak is 5. Maybe I missed a day recently?
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 4, 2024 22:19:41 GMT
What a great idea to ask for that, Cheery! We all know there is never enough compost.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 4, 2024 6:20:48 GMT
happyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappy Wordle 1,020 2/6* ⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 slide climb
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 3, 2024 6:27:31 GMT
Ward Bond -- American movie & tv actor
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 3, 2024 6:21:36 GMT
Wordle 1,019 5/6* ⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 brace shank flail plaid plait
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