This is my 8 year old, Ian - sleeping. Earlier today he earned his yellow belt in Karate. At 6 pm he had a Pack Meeting for Cub Scouts. Yesterday was Little League practice. Tomorrow a school play for celebration of Thanksgiving. That’s all true - and he seems to be having a great time with it all.
The pillow thang sort of strange… but I golf.
SondraK, Lympian Slayer WHITE FRUITCAKE
4 cups shelled pecans
1 pound candied cherries
1 pound candied pineapple
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 pound butter
1 cup sugar
5 large eggs
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 to 2 ounces vanilla extract
1/2 to 2 ounces lemon extract
Chop nuts and fruit into medium-size pieces; dredge with 1/4 cup of flour. Cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs. Sift together remaining flour and baking powder; fold into butter-egg mixture. Stir in vanilla and lemon extracts. Blend in fruit and nuts.
Grease a 10-inch tube pan.
Line with parchment, wax paper or foil; grease again. Pour batter into prepared pan or pans. Place in cold oven and bake 2 1/2 to 3 hours in tube pan or 2 hours in 8 1/2-by-4 1/2-inch loaf pans at 250 degrees. Check cakes 1 hour before done, again in 30 minutes. When done, remove from oven; cool in pans or cake rack.
Makes 5 pounds of fruitcake.
Note: In 4 1/2-by-2 1/2-by-1 1/2-inch (baby) loaf pans, bake cake about 1 hour. For 1-pound cakes in 2-pound coffee cans, bake about 2 hours. In 5-ounce custard cups, bake about 1 hour. And in ungreased foil bonbon cups, bake about 30 minutes.
Guys: Are we going to make Sondra K pay for this herself ???
Say it ain’t so !
I flipped her a twenty via Amazon yesterday. Let’s show her we care.
As one of the exes says “Anyone who says money’s not everything hasn’t been shopping Neiman Marcus at the Houston Galleria”.
ps: I’m outa here, offline ‘til Sunday night or Monday, hope to find some money in the kitty when I back.
comment by Hurricane Thomas on 11/17 at 07:33 AM
*hikes up long red velvet dress so I can curtsey*
Thank’s Tom!!!!
“It’s a very simple product to use,” Dr. Spana said.....................
My head’s already swimming with thoughts of how this will be abused.
That Ray might be onto something....
inspired by Andre3K
Threats to man who shot domino-toppling sparrow
An animal worker who shot a sparrow after it almost wrecked a world record domino toppling bid has asked for police protection after receiving death threats.
Several international animal rights groups expressed outrage over the killing of the sparrow that toppled 23,000 of the four million dominos set up for record attempt in Holland.
Investigations into the legality of the shooting in Leeuwarden have also been launched.
A representative of the animal management company that employs the man said: “We have not made an official complaint as that would be no use.
“But if an idiot comes around here, we want a direct line to the police so they can come quickly to help us.”
Organisers of the upcoming event have hired extra security staff following the death threats and an offer of £2,000 made on Dutch radio to anyone who topples the dominos prior to the event.
“The military does not like to admit firing gay Arabic linguists during a dire shortage* because the public doesn’t understand why we would rather fire gays than have enough Arabic linguists to translate intercepted cables,” said Aaron Belkin, director of the center based at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Sheriff Sterk says he will not grant anymore specialized weapon permits…
Sterk says he’s worried about the liability he faces, allowing people to buy guns like pistol-grip short-barrel shotguns, or accessories like silences. So he will not sign any more permits for them.
Well ain’t this a can-o-worms.
If you lose your voice, you’ll can find it in my right ear!
Becoming used to terror helps defeat it, which is a good thing. Al-Qaida’s rhetoric is more numbing than fear-provoking. But we can’t go too far. Pres. Bush is right to call for constant vigilance. He’s wrong, however, to keep promoting the initial fear and rage after 9/11. If he really wanted to lead us to some kind of victory, he should guide the public with policies that evolve with the situation. That would include a sensitivity to changing public attitudes.
Terrorism is now a problem that has matured to a different phase. Public outrage isn’t needed. The need is for patience, professional diplomacy, negotiations, international police work, exchange of intelligence, and so on. The work is dull but effective in the end. Pres. Bush should be responsible enough to usher us into this phase, but by manipulating the intelligence that led us into Iraq, he undermined his credibility and has no choice but to keep reiterating the buzz words of fear and rage from yesterday.
“People discouraged by tough times were cheered by its tenacity and strong will to live.”
So someone tries to kill it.
