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Post by bixaorellana on May 1, 2024 1:43:52 GMT
Flash Gordon -- space hero
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 30, 2024 23:35:45 GMT
Gueydan -- a tiny town in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, it is known as the Duck Capital of America
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 30, 2024 23:25:57 GMT
Gosh ~ everything filled out so beautifully!
Yesterday I got to go to the fancy plant nursery in Xalapa. Mainly what I wanted was to get stuff to "fluff" the three built-in raised planters in the front part of the house. The vision is there, but it doesn't yet sing. I got some big pink New Guinea impatiens to keep company with some I already have in the shade planter. Also got a low-growing bushy little plant covered with what looks like white flowers, except I think it's a kind of Euphorbia. I bought something I'd never seen before: miniature Vinca, in two different colors for the two separate sun planters. The surprise item -- something I can't believe I willingly paid money for -- was Oxalis. This variety is very ornamental -- thick, bronzy red foliage and tons of acid yellow flowers.
Got it all planted today, plus moving some other stuff around. Got rid of the borage that rotted & put a miniature yellow rose in that spot.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 30, 2024 23:15:09 GMT
Sometimes that leads to a high percentage of cold women.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 30, 2024 23:13:38 GMT
Wow! That's glorious.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 30, 2024 7:10:22 GMT
*sigh* Only now noticed how stupid I was at the second guess. Wordle 1,046 4/6* 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟨🟨🟨 ⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 react throw drown prowl
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 30, 2024 6:20:56 GMT
Couvin -- city & municipality in the province of Namur, Wallonia region of Belgium. The municipality has a heritage steam railway, a brewery, and caves, along with other sites of interest
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 29, 2024 22:40:17 GMT
Happy for all of you who got the weather you'd wanted!
It's been way too hot the past few days, culminating in today's weather that was like being trapped inside a wet, heated army blanket. I went to the nearby city of Xalapa today in a friend's air conditioned car & we shopped in the air conditioned mall. Afterward, our treat was to go to the big nice plant nursery (not air conditioned). She dropped me off home just as some rain drops were starting. I got all my plants in easily, as it wasn't really raining. But once inside, we (dogs & I) were alarmed several times by huge loud cracks of thunder. And then it poured, which is much needed.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 29, 2024 6:23:10 GMT
Wordle 1,045 4/6* ⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ 🟨🟩🟩🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 spasm track crate craft
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 29, 2024 2:23:02 GMT
Yesterday evening I finished Warlight, by Michael Ondaatje and, if we all lived closer to each other & used the same library, I would be pressing it into your respective hands. Years ago I remember loving The English Patient, but have not unqualifiedly loved anything I've read by him since then. This book, though ~ whooo! What prompted me to read this one was a quote from a review in the Washington Post: ... Warlight ... has the immediate allure of a dark fairy tale. “In 1945 our parents went away and left us in the care of two men who may have been criminals,” the adult narrator begins, leading us into the shadowlands of memory.And so it proceeds, indeed in the semi-plotless way of memories from childhood, but propelling us along with the brilliance of extraordinary but somehow always believable details and the prose of a completely mature and surefooted writer.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 29, 2024 1:44:28 GMT
Yes, one does that when one can. When I got that terrible stomach thing in England, I had the good fortune to come across ginger cordial. That's a lovely thing to mix with acqua minerale gassata or whatever decent unflavored fizzy water one can find. At this moment, after a miserably hot day, I am enjoying a gin & tonic made with Diega Verde*, San Pellegrino tonic water, & some tiny, almost bitter limes from a dwarf tree I have. Quite nice. * Gin from MexicoGin 38% Alcohol infused with Hemp seed, cucumber, lemon and rosemary Dry and refreshing gin
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 28, 2024 22:34:16 GMT
Congratulations, you have re-invented the Italian Summer bar staple: the Shakerato. *executes shaky curtsy*
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 28, 2024 21:50:40 GMT
Wordle 1,044 4/6* ⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟨⬛ 🟨🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 guard trout urine prune
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 28, 2024 21:46:34 GMT
I consider myself to be reasonably intelligent. Well, to be honest, my self-assessment is as one of above-average intelligence.
But if that were so, why has it taken me until today to figure out how to do something in a way that elevates it from the mundane to the sublime?
I refer to a life-changing method of making iced coffee. In my defense, I don't drink it all that often, preferring coffee hot, black, & in a cup. But it's ungodly hot here & I'd been out in the sun performing grubby tasks, so deserved a treat.
I came inside & made a short pot of coffee -- very strong because of less water in relation to coffee, so that ice cubes & milk could be added. That's the usual way.
But then inspiration struck: put it all in a cocktail shaker & shake until the container is too cold to hold, then strain into a tall glass. Not only is the coffee mixture delightfully cold without the bother of ice cubes bobbing up against your lip, but the shaking creates tons of wonderful rich foam.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 28, 2024 21:34:52 GMT
Marginally connected to this thread ~~
Yesterday I saw this online somewhere:
A person related that he'd received a text from his roommate to please "tidy up" as the roommate would be bringing a date home.
In response to the request, the poster said: "I created a shrine to Princess Diana in his room."
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 28, 2024 21:31:08 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 28, 2024 7:04:10 GMT
thanks, mick! I'll delete it.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 28, 2024 6:03:00 GMT
Sinéad O'Connor -- Irish singer
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 28, 2024 2:24:49 GMT
Oh, Kimby! This has been my cry pretty much forever! If you want, we can hold hands and run head-first into a brick wall together, as that is my only response to this answerless question.
The bland, programmed answer is always that Israel is our (the US's) buffer between us & the "problematic" non Judeo-Christian countries. Right you are when you answer "bullshit!" to that.
I guess my simple viewpoint that the rights of Palestine's citizens be respected, that we stop arming (i.e., encouraging) Israel so it can hammer its enemies (i.e., places with territory Israel wants) into nothingness is okay as long as we drop some care packages into a population we helped murder & push into famine is all WRONG.
And please all the gods of sane discourse, can a person be allowed this viewpoint without being automatically accused of anti-Semitism?!
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 28, 2024 2:15:33 GMT
Poor Bixa. I started #1042 late in the day, then later gave up on it because I was having a stupidity attack. Doesn't look as though I'm much smarter today ~~ Wordle 1,043 5/6* ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ ⬛⬛🟩🟩⬛ ⬛⬛🟩🟩⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 index spear wheat bleak gleam
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 26, 2024 6:36:47 GMT
When I made asparagus for lunch today, I saved all the cut off ends, then poured the water from blanching the asparagus into a pot & boiled the ends in that.
I used that water this evening in making cream of asparagus soup, adding in the well-blenderized ends, along with the leftover asparagus from lunch. It's a mild but nice soup, which I dressed up with some fresh dill & enjoyed a small bowlful for supper.
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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* ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 🟨🟨🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 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* ⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 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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Trees
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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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