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by spcasm from Fort Collins, CO

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Well if you were the adult would you stand your child out in the cold with a sign:  Sounds like    poor role  modeling to me   the child got the smokes  took them in  'his' room and was merely imitating   wut  the parent did....   Bottom line I  take sides with the kids in this video, sounds like frustration to the max......parent sitting in warm car and kid in the cold   FOR  HOW LONG ???   bet  she was smoking !!!

the poor kids must  be littled  to the point of  embarrassment, belittling a child doesn't work but may cause extreme anger in later life !!!    Get  HELP  for the MOM   p l e a s e.

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Awesome  view of the sky, almost as a Arizona desert sunrise in our skys?   A  REAL  LIVE   view, this need s  to be shared:    Leedsville,   EAST   view 

turquoise, yellow,  orange,   lavenders     WOW  !!!

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Vitamin C came into the conversation with Dr. John as Fall weather came upon us, the flu season, etc. . . . . If you could drink a daily supplement to vitalize your energy, help rebuild your inner organ health,  NO, THIS IS NOT A COMMERCIAL but a product I pay  $60 a month for at MYVEMMA.com/544056505  ............................................

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Listening to the airing of getting up early to put your turkey in the oven, many of us oldtimers have prepared the turkey/stuffing the night before.. perhaps for decades.....carefully wrapping,   washing with cold water, basting, buttering the skin, so why wait til morning to pop it into the oven!!!

   Esp. with the stuffing temp. at risk? News of the stuffing temp. staying at room temp in the deeper parts of the turkey.. . one year I decided to pop it into a slow oven and let the turkey bake while I was sleeping... due to travel time in the a.m.

This requires careful stuffing..buttering the skin, and adding  a little water...my secret is to put a raw apple quartered into the center to absorb excess 'grease' as the turkey slow-cooks. One part of the turkeys neck has mushroom onion stuffing and the inside has cranberry stuffing for choosey eaters....

Two years in a row I have put my turkey prepared as above into my oven at say 9-10 p.m.  or so and set my oven temp. at  250 degrees....setting my alarm for the wee  hrs. to drain excess licquid  that I save for gravy makings.. When I get up at  8 a.m. for the day; my turkey is deliciously golden and ready for the noontime meal...It is baked so slowly that the meat falls from the bone......a bit of imagination, sealed in foil insures the moistness of the beast!!    It is .cooked through and through....Removing the top foil at the wee hrs.  -1 a.m. or so--a bathroom break such as those of us who wake up in the night to potty!  This is the time to drain excess juices----- Well, that bathroom break is  wut happens as one enters the golden years.

  This frees my oven for those pies, casseroles, etc.

          This year we are taking mincemeat pie and a frozen keylime as my dau. will have the traditional pumpkin and my other dau. will bring a sweet potatoe pie...yes,   we are grateful for the opportunity to share our health and wealth and time with our loved ones....thinking of the military persons who are not so lucky while they are serving overseas!  Praying for their health, wealth, and happiness also when we are tucked safely in our homes. . .  now time to kick back and enjoy t.v., visit , and be thankful for our health.

      Carving the turkey comes at noon meal and also allows transport time to my grandkids house...  with the  cooked turkey in tow. . . wrapped to keep it warm..

 

     It is in the refrig today covered in foil and ready for  'rewarming' in another house!  Of course, put it back in the oven at 250 to rewarm. Enjoy!

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Tonight in  Fort  collins no less, at Martinez Park is a  live band and   a few enthusiastic listeners to the  rally for  county commissioners:  Bob Bacon who I met in person...and the band was playing on when  we  left....

Hearing the  speech, at least parts of it, is also a thrill to hear Senator Obama remain cool, calm, and collected with his  part....and  the  speaker for the debate  trying, in vain, to get them to  'talk'  to each other, they preferred to address issues to the t.v. audience....which I thought  appropriate.

Is Colorado indeed,  for  Obama, all signs that I see are!

One  unruly remark, heard bits and pieces of the  speech  debate, after the real debate, and these radio talk show hosts, I declare have  no heart,  joking  re:  the   oldsters, or [handicapped individuals]  in  mobility scooters with a golf ball...Now  get real folks:   the  golf ball is nothing to be joked about, so it is:   when the use of ones grip is gone and I am talking about  hand  grip  and use of your fingers, or palms, this is not  a  joking matter. Personal insult to injury already had  the need for a golf ball on ones scooter is for the mobility and  personal  ability to get around without assistance, as in assisted living....Please  whoever, hosts these shows needs a  wake-up call on  the  golf balls, you should be counting your blessings not to use the  scooter with a joy stick and  be very thankful you can walk without  such  aids  a distance that most using the scooters  canNOT.    Indeed.

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moral of the story:  Its' better to arrive  alive and  be  late:   Car  racing  is  for   race tracks, that is little comfort  to those  left behind, or who witnessed the accident...my sympathy to the  mourning  families.

SPEED  kills.  Prayer s   for   angels  to comfort those left behind.  

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this should be a number one election getter for the college students; i know CSU is goin all out and I mean all out to get people registered, standing on every corner, at the library - ARE   U   registered???     Believing the  young, esp. college students don't see  color in the  factor, being in a university and all, and being educated above all  gives them the integrity to get Mr. OBAMA  elected.

 

I for one think  Mrs. Obama will make a great, great first lady....and the girls are just precious. 

 

I don't agree at all with the remark, made by some idiot of the nature: " He may get into the whitehouse the first day, but there won't be a second day.."..I ,   for  ONE ,  believe in the security of  the most prestigious office held  in our  U. S. of A.    and  it   won't  happen, believe me,   all the small talk in the world will   make the uneducated pay attention.

 

I hope  he  takes the election by a landslide and all Hill's    followeres     vote DEMOCRATIC.

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i have desires, not your desires: of painting, traveling, soaking up art fairs. Your brothers-they depend on you. Sundays are for them the Indian way. Gather up! Old Mother, she won't always be there, so now, you sit with her obedient son.

I long for your companionship yet you use me as a prostitute to satisfy your dildo...then leave me here as so much used toilet paper to flush away!

It is okaye to visit me leaving me as ***wipe. or a  harlot...... then go off visiting alone to see your divorced wife> When two people cannot live together on a daily basis why do you try  to keep two wifes? My need is for daily companionship.

No more.

 "It is over!" or I will sink in the quicksand with you.

Titled YOUR HERITAGE DROWNS YOU AS QUICKSAND

                 IN  THE  DAYS  OF  SO MUCH INFIDELITY, NO MORALITY IS WORSE THAN INFIDELITY FOR EITHER MAN OR WOMAN, DON'T YOU THINK? IT IS THE CAUSE OF MUCH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND  CAUSES GRIEF TO THE CHILDREN.

----AUTHOR:   trees

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What do you have to say re:   your experience as the   E.P.A.   ????asssuming  Enviromental Protection Agency  and  the  pollution I  mused about from the  train cars of sulpher   goin  up  and  down  this part of Colorado.

Any complaints ever formally filed to the extent of the  cycle of  clouds, atmospheric winds, and cloudbursts redepositing  the sulpher  escapin into the  air  [we breath] and recycling into the sidewalks, parking lots, etc    drain gutter places that are stopped up with leafs and other debri???

The  yellow  edging I notice after puddles of rain fill certain low  spots where  these  pools lie ever catch anyone elses attention?

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A certain  back   dock   in Oldtown is a  catch-all  for kids.....and also the graffiti that follows with the young and restless........

He stepped off the precipice of civilized humanity into the free fall of unadulterated  animal  lust.......

everything is illuminated

08-01-08    author [s]  unknown

So it is one of our  beautiful Colorado moonlight nights and believe me, the  'vampires'  are out in full force by another Oldtown  busy  bar....

As I scooted home from 7-11  there were some nice lookin legs in heels  slowly kicking away, knees crossed, as i looked further the  girl was a guy  dressed in drag - if that is the proper name, well a rather rough looking face, if don't say so myself....whatever trips your trigger, except someone would have to be pretty tripped out and drunk to fall for that gag.

A ways up in the 7-11 parking lot was the man  lying prone by his knapsack, a brother to this other drag person by the texture of their unnaturally thin hair, dirty fingernails, dirtier clothing and pretty layed out  lookin as if he was very tired and worn, I wondered why he didn't seek the shelter of the alley, as opposed to  lying there where someone could easily pull into the parking lot where he was choosing to rest for a bit. Reporting to the on duty manager a transient person was  'loitering'...."No," he replied, to my request that he look out and simply said: "---we'll  see  if he moves along on his own."

With that attitude the world would indeed go on by recklessly and carelessly making one wonder  what our world is coming too?

Then the line to the  more famous bar popular to the college students looked like  another  wherewith  to  beset upon by the  local [?]  hookers .....young ladies with those six inch skirts and not much else for  shirts lined up to fend for the best looking  guys who seemed more appropriately dressed, or  perhaps was i just having a  'wish i were younger moment'  But the guys looked much better to me than the girls?   Yes, reality cheak, must still be in a heterosexual world.

The graffiti in the  Box Bar a bit further down the road [45 miles] to be exact which is famous for its  cup   cup   dart-board  antics  proved to be  quite dead on a Sunday p.m. with a  well-stocked hard licquor bar that  did sell on Sundays, if there were any customers, that is!

A sign of the hard times  we are facing?

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alls   fair in love and war, but politics and those   'hate'  commercials get the prize......

WHATTA  TURN  OFF  it is to see the commercial that our  Rep. candidate for PRES  has   aired on the fox  station:   blaming Obama for the high price of oil.....whatta   jerk  head  to even  declare such a  statement....if any of the public has an education on the  subject of    rotten,  tomato  throwing  commercials,  this gets the prize.

..ONE  MAN  doesn't make decisions  about  taxes.

  Obama is busy rallying overseas views, support, along with  raising campaign monies   for his upcoming democratic  'campaign'....et. along with getting political views from the 'opponents' /  free countries overrun with terrorist legions...or countries wishing to be FREE. He is  being pro-active!

What it says about  the  'John '  campaign  is  truely   disgusting - Free  elections   with   support   goin and/or wishing to vote for a third party candidate just   so a name-thrower won't get elected....  MY  opinion!!!!  My  vote   is already for Obama  and  that view is not goin to be influenced by  dirty-laundry throwing  commercials for the uneducated. 

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for those of you who don't  walk,  use a mobility scooter, and ride bycycles  in the fast lane; have you ever stopped to look at the puddles after a pouring rain...I do, cause  it would get the battery wet on my scooter....lines of yellow   edges  around the puddles make one wonder if the sulfer has  reinvented itself into acid rain, perhaps  from  the condensation of the sulpher plant itself whereever it is located...

Hello   EPA

The puddles  dry up and the yellow   'chalk' like substance is left  on the pavements, sidewalks, and gutters where the flow has been.

Someday will take a pic, if had the digital camera to do so.

As for different matter of  the e-coli,  and NOONE  knows   from where it comes:

A horse of a different color is the e-coli mystery illness that can kill.

I think it comes from the  dirt, or from the compost  of which  is  derived manure like substances that we grow  our tomatoes, garden  varieties of all sorts from the  bags of store-bot fertilizer...Hello?   

      Can  the dirt   cause e-coli  bacteria to  'flavor'  tomatoes, veeggies of all sorts, fruits................  as the lettuce scare, we had while back -  and the  compost  used in mass production of  fertilizers to speed up the growth; perhaps can cause the illnesses of  e-coli  by  NOT   washing,   chemicals passed in transportation -whether in the trucks, boxes, crates, or packing  'net' bags,  clear plastic containers, etc. 

The scientific community should know if this can transfer into the growing veggies inner most parts. I doubt that one, thinking it would be on the surfaces!!!

Don't ya know to wash those veggies, fruits...

 

and as for our sulfer rains???   someone needs to explore this one..

All the explosions   overseas are goin to come back to haunt us in the returning rains, upper atmospheric winds,   yepper.  ---thinking of our grandchildrens children, come on?

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Somewhere in our retirement building the news of a long term tenant passing or moving gets around quickly...in this case, belatedly to me...so  the crippling knee disease that suddenly incapacitated our  long term tenant upstairs on fourth floor has   got another of us entered into an assisted living  care facility, as it is...  ...our joyful Joyce, single and no children   -- wutta  life...to end up in a care facility???

 

Sometimes, I believe when love abounds, business, and chatter of children keeps one s soul in sink...and from old age  whatta   u get....?????--with the business of not being able to walk  independantly,  well..........a care facility...  what with the expense of a mobility scooter, I once raise up the motion for  a need based  scooter to keep ones independance  and privacy. . .  with Volunteers of America  doin the  frozen meals to you with  special love and care, and diet...yes, thats a  solution...get a mobility scooter and have your  meals  prepared for you, at least part of them....

So Joyce, as we sort thru things left behind of dishes, a fancy wooden rolling pin , and frosting  decorations,  fav white coffee mug,  i will use in memory of you.....

McDonalds will miss her as that was her  pt-time job for over four years that I knew her..

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Marcury Publishing  Co.

Editors: The Countess Constance Wachtmeister-Kate Buffington Davis

HOME MADE YEAST

Wash, pare, and soak one large potato. Steep one TB. of hops (loose) In one pint of boiling water; mix one heaping TB of flour, one Tsp. of sugar, one tsp. of salt, one tsp. of ginger; grate the potato into the flour mixture.

Let the hot water boil briskly for one minute, strain it over the flour and potato mixture, then mix thoroughly; if it does not thicken like starch, place it over the fire for a few minutes, stirring briskly. If too thick, add boiling water til think as cream.

When lukewarm or at 70 degrees, add one half cake of yeast.

Raise in a warm place til frothy, beat it down every half hour. Bottle and keep in a cool place.

THREE HOUR BREAD

Pour one cupful of boiling water over two tablespoonfuls of flour and beat well; when this becomes lukewarm add two teaspoonfuls of sugar and one-yeast cake that has been dissolved in one half cupful of lukewarm water. Beat thoroughly, adding flour enough to make a thick batter, beat until light and set in a warm place, about 90 degrees. F. Keep covered and let rise til light and frothy, with this proportion of yeast it should rise in thirty minutes.

When light add one cupful of scalded milk, cooled to lukewarm, and flour enough to make a stiff dough; stir in the flour with a spoon, beating it thoroughly; when the dough begins to stiffen, cut in the flour with a bread knife; add flour until the dough slips easily from the board, and does not stick to the hands. Then knead the dough on a slightly floured board til smooth, elastic, and full of air bubbles

Knead it firmly, but lightly, using only the wrist movements, put back in bowl, cover, and let rise in warm place until it doubles in shape.

Shape into loaves, or biscuit; brush lightly with melted butter, and place in warm buttered pan. Let rise, closely covered until loaves have doubled in bulk. Bake in an oven hot enough to brown one teaspoonful of flour placed on a piece of paper in five minutes.

If biscuit are to be baked, the oven should be hot enough to brown flour in two minutes. Let the bread bake from forty-five minutes to one hour. The first quarter of the time the bread should rise, but not form a crust; the second quarter the crust should form, the third the crust should become golden brown, the fourth should complete the baking.

Place the loaf to cool uncovered, and in such a position that the air can circulate freely around it, bottom and all.  Page 90.

Now do you think todays  children could bake bread from this recipe??? Not without, a lotta  mother, grandmother observations, huh?  just thought I'd share!

p.s.Goin online to find out what hops are:  HOPS & BERRIES is located at 125 Remington Street Fort Collins,  or at  www.hopsandberries.com   I just had to visit today and many refrigerated varieties are available there in 1 oz. portions selling  for 3.75   to 6.75   in two ounce quantities...

Incidently, there is a Colorado State Fair HOMEBREW COMPETITION THATS  ANOTHER STORY..WITH entries  to not be shipped prior to August  4, 2008.

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Marcury Publishing  Co.

Editors: The Countess Constance Wachtmeister-Kate Buffington Davis

HOME MADE YEAST

Wash, pare, and soak one large potato. Steep one TB. of hops (loose) In one pint of boiling water; mix one heaping TB of flour, one Tsp. of sugar, one tsp. of salt, one tsp. of ginger; grate the potato into the flour mixture.

Let the hot water boil briskly for one minute, strain it over the flour and potato mixture, then mix thoroughly; if it does not thicken like starch, place it over the fire for a few minutes, stirring briskly. If too thick, add boiling water til think as cream.

When lukewarm or at 70 degrees, add one half cake of yeast.

Raise in a warm place til frothy, beat it down every half hour. Bottle and keep in a cool place.

THREE HOUR BREAD

Pour one cupful of boiling water over two tablespoonfuls of flour and beat well; when this becomes lukewarm add two teaspoonfuls of sugar and one-yeast cake that has been dissolved in one half cupful of lukewarm water. Beat thoroughly, adding flour enough to make a thick batter, beat until light and set in a warm place, about 90 degrees. F. Keep covered and let rise til light and frothy, with this proportion of yeast it should rise in thirty minutes.

When light add one cupful of scalded milk, cooled to lukewarm, and flour enough to make a stiff dough; stir in the flour with a spoon, beating it thoroughly; when the dough begins to stiffen, cut in the flour with a bread knife; add flour until the dough slips easily from the board, and does not stick to the hands. Then knead the dough on a slightly floured board til smooth, elastic, and full of air bubbles

Knead it firmly, but lightly, using only the wrist movements, put back in bowl, cover, and let rise in warm place until it doubles in shape.

Shape into loaves, or biscuit; brush lightly with melted butter, and place in warm buttered pan. Let rise, closely covered until loaves have doubled in bulk. Bake in an oven hot enough to brown one teaspoonful of flour placed on a piece of paper in five minutes.

If biscuit are to be baked, the oven should be hot enough to brown flour in two minutes. Let the bread bake from forty-five minutes to one hour. The first quarter of the time the bread should rise, but not form a crust; the second quarter the crust should form, the third the crust should become golden brown, the fourth should complete the baking.

Place the loaf to cool uncovered, and in such a position that the air can circulate freely around it, bottom and all.  Page 90.

Now do you think todays  children could bake bread from this recipe??? Not without, a lotta  mother, grandmother observations, huh?  just thought I'd share!

p.s.Goin online to find out what hops are:  HOPS & BERRIES is located at 125 Remington Street Fort Collins,  or at  www.hopsandberries.com   I just had to visit today and many refrigerated varieties are available there in 1 oz. portions selling  for 3.75   to 6.75   in two ounce quantities...

Incidently, there is a Colorado State Fair HOMEBREW COMPETITION THATS  ANOTHER STORY..WITH entries  to not be shipped prior to August  4, 2008.

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spcasm

Never doubt the power of prayer and thanksgiving...for The U.S. of A. ....also thankful for any time that I would be able to spend with my grandchildren who are really really scattered.. ..all busy with their own lives. Sing with a grateful heart, God Bless America. And thanks to those defending it.

Member Since: 11/16/2006