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Monday, December 17, 2012

19,997 clicks... and THE HOBBIT

It's 9 AM in these parts... I think this will be the day! Who will click that 20,000th click...? It will be someone who comments, I hope, or at least leaves a calling card... My son and I went to two shows yesterday. The first was the Moss Hart and George Kaufman play, YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU, about a wonderfully zany family whose ingenue daughter brings home her fiance, the boss's son, and what happens when he brings his very proper parents over for dinner on the wrong night. This was a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, December 16, 2012

I done it!

Typed up a cover letter, assembled the first 10 pages of THE HERETICS, wrote a 1-page synopsis of a 650 page manuscript, and sent the whole package to an agent whose name and address have been languishing in my computer for a couple of months now. By February I hope to get back a request for more. I doubt you can walk around, digits crossed for that length of time, but keep your pom-poms handy to raise a cheer when the time is right! (click update: 19,965 ) Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, December 15, 2012

Potato pancakes

I haven't made them in years... shredded Yukon gold taters, with a couple of eggs, a little flour, a dash of milk... garlic and onion powder because my son has an antipathy to the texture of onions. Slowly fried in a covered skillet, the taters cook through and the outside is crispy brown, not crispy black. Oh, I wish I'd thought to make some applesauce.... Oh--just a minute... *eyes apples... eyes grater...* yeah... 20 min later: shredded apples with cinnamon sugar and a little water, cooking... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, December 14, 2012

Awwww...

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=vJRDpTUIrJI&vq=medium A Canadian friend of mine shared this with me today. I didn't know who Rick Mercer is. Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Savor the moment!

The time is:12:12, 12/12/12 And it never will be again... no more consecutive same-number days ever in our calendar. I wish you a dozen of dozens of dozens of good things! (And make that a 12-pack) Sign in to see full entry.

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Christmas shopping online!

Seriously, I am not trying to sell this item nor inspire anyone to buy it. Just... read the comments. http://www.amazon.com/Hutzler-5717-571-Banana-Slicer/dp/B0047E0EII/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top Yes, look at the product, appreciate its elegant simplicity, and then scroll down, down, down to the comments... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, December 10, 2012

19,900

That's how many clicks, as of today. We've had our first winter snow of the season on Sunday, about 3 inches of packing snow, making streets right for sleighs, if only we had them. As a matter of fact, I found. at a local thrift store, and old Yankee Clipper sled, the kind with steel runners, and it still has its pullin' rope, and the runners are straight, and the steering bar moves as it should. I flew downhill on my first sled like that when I was 6, in the first snow I really remembered. We... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, December 9, 2012

Another flight on the horizon

Just got a dandy fare on SW Airlines for a flight in January, back to the Seattle area. I will be there a couple of weeks, reminding myself why winter in the Northwest is to be avoided: It will probably be raining the whole time. In fact, if anyone asks, these days I describe myself as nomadic, traveling from one place to another, on no particular annual migratory pattern. I have family now in the NW rainforest, the Rocky Mountains, and along the Potomac. The problem is, there are so many parts... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

My holiday greetings to Blogitland

KING JOHN’S CHRISTMAS A.A. Milne illustrations by E.H. Shepard King John was not a good man, He had his little ways. And sometimes no one spoke to him For days and days and days. And men who came across him, When walking in the town, Gave him a supercilious stare, Or passed with noses in the air And bad King John stood dumbly there, Blushing beneath his crown. King John was not a good man, And no good friends had he. He stayed in every afternoon But no one came to tea. And, round about December,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Morning Hysterics

There is a dog at the neighbor's place this morning. Tall, lanky gal of some sort of Great Danish persuasion... Davy just went off totally nuts when he saw her, as he went out the door. He was surprised, startled, so he was a little... well, he was hysterically barking. I went down and grabbed him, and he got quiet, I 'nice-dogged' them both, and she believed me, but as soon as I let go of him, he was off again. I sent him to get his ball, the one as big as a soccer ball, with a built-on handle,... Sign in to see full entry.

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I'm doubtful the events of my life will be of great general interest, but I'd like to share a little more of me to the several of you on Blogit I've come to feel are real friends, and the many I imagine are potentially real friends. We'll see how it works out. ______________________ all my words and images posted on Blogit are copyright 2005-present, all rights reserved.

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