What's a Canadian doing in North Carolina?
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Throw it all in the pot...
That's what we do with leftovers, so this is my "left-overs" post. Got lots of stuff tucked away in my head, and people adding to it on a daily basis, so I'm gonna put it all in the pot and cook it and see what we come up with :)
First, Happy Samhain to you and yours! We celebrated last night, after I got home from work. I cooked a roast beast, colchannon (mashed potatoes, with cabbage and oinions), turnips, and sweet potato pie (which I had for breakfast...yummmmm!). James made some pan friend taters for his Pop. We stuffed ourselves, and put a plate and a light out for the ancestors on the front stoop. If that doesn't tip the neighbours off as to why we don't go to church, nuthin' will! ;)
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We've thankfully been getting some rain this week. It's rained nearly every day, but sadly it is still not enough to reverse the drought. The river is still not up to "normal" levels. Most of the state is wondering if there will be water stores in the next couple of months, and the governor is considering state wide water rationing.
The sun is shining today, so I'm guessing that's it for the rain again. Which is a shame, George & Bruno looked so cute in their rain coats! LOL!
They were fussing the other night about going out for a walk, and it was raining, so James decided they MUST have rain coats on. He got a couple of his old Domino's delivery jackets and put them on them. He called me upstairs and when I saw George standing there like this, I nearly pee'd my pants laughing!
Every time George put her head down to sniff at the ground, which is often, the hood fell down over her eyes and she'd stumble around trying to get it off. The sleeves were too long on both of them and they'd end up walking on them, and flapping over their feet! The whole time we were out, I spent bent over laughing at them. It was just too funny. James says he's going to alter the jackets so they'll fit better. Trim the sleeves and take in the hood for George. Bruno's head is big enough that the hood on his didn't bother him at all.
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You'd think that in a town that has a rather large immigrant population such as Morganton, (mostly from Latin America, but quite a few from other parts of the world as well) the one and only Post Office would be better stocked for Global Priority mail packages! I spent the better part of my lunch hour the other day trying to find something to send my nephew AJ's birthday present in because there was NO global priority boxes left! NONE! Not anywhere in the entire post office >:-| They didn't even have any APO packages left either. And there's a fairly large population of people here who send care packages to soldiers overseas. I'm tellin' ya...sheesh!
Not only does the local post office suck, but recently a co-worker had to call 911 AND SHE WAS PUT ON HOLD!!!! For 10 minutes! When they finally came back to her, she said "nevermind, I'm dead now!" and hung up! Luckily for her, the threat had left (she works part time at a local gas station, and there was some kids hanging around making people nervous), but jeezus, she could have been shot and bled to death while she was on hold!
Another chalk mark in the column for "reasons to move away from here". Far, far away...
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I do love the fall, it is my favourite time of year. Finally the summer heat and humidity is gone, the leaves are starting to change colour, the air is fresher, and hopefully soon I'll be able to find parsnips at the grocery store (they're rare around here apparently). Maybe today since it is not raining we can take the dogs for a good long walk on the Greenway. Maybe have a picnic in the park. That would be fun. :)
Our wedding anniversary is on Tuesday next week. 6 years. Can you believe it? I can't. Feels like forever, and not quite that long all at the same time.
I'm trying to convince James to take me out to dinner at Churchill's Pub on Tuesday. I don't know why he has such an aversion to the place, but one of these days I'll get him in there!
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And I think last but not least, a friend of mine from back home posted this YouTube on my Facebook FunWall, and I'd like to share it with all my other friends who are not on Facebook.
I've been big on trying to help out the environment for quite a few years, and the argument that this guy uses is similar to one I've used previously to folks whove said "nope, its not us, its normal!" I also use the financial angle, the workshop I led at PPD was "How to save money by being and environmentalist".
Check out this guy's presentation, he's got some valid points.
(hopefully I post this correctly...I've never done a YouTube link before)
¶ 10:56 AM 0 Comments
First, Happy Samhain to you and yours! We celebrated last night, after I got home from work. I cooked a roast beast, colchannon (mashed potatoes, with cabbage and oinions), turnips, and sweet potato pie (which I had for breakfast...yummmmm!). James made some pan friend taters for his Pop. We stuffed ourselves, and put a plate and a light out for the ancestors on the front stoop. If that doesn't tip the neighbours off as to why we don't go to church, nuthin' will! ;)
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We've thankfully been getting some rain this week. It's rained nearly every day, but sadly it is still not enough to reverse the drought. The river is still not up to "normal" levels. Most of the state is wondering if there will be water stores in the next couple of months, and the governor is considering state wide water rationing.
The sun is shining today, so I'm guessing that's it for the rain again. Which is a shame, George & Bruno looked so cute in their rain coats! LOL!
They were fussing the other night about going out for a walk, and it was raining, so James decided they MUST have rain coats on. He got a couple of his old Domino's delivery jackets and put them on them. He called me upstairs and when I saw George standing there like this, I nearly pee'd my pants laughing!
Every time George put her head down to sniff at the ground, which is often, the hood fell down over her eyes and she'd stumble around trying to get it off. The sleeves were too long on both of them and they'd end up walking on them, and flapping over their feet! The whole time we were out, I spent bent over laughing at them. It was just too funny. James says he's going to alter the jackets so they'll fit better. Trim the sleeves and take in the hood for George. Bruno's head is big enough that the hood on his didn't bother him at all.
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You'd think that in a town that has a rather large immigrant population such as Morganton, (mostly from Latin America, but quite a few from other parts of the world as well) the one and only Post Office would be better stocked for Global Priority mail packages! I spent the better part of my lunch hour the other day trying to find something to send my nephew AJ's birthday present in because there was NO global priority boxes left! NONE! Not anywhere in the entire post office >:-| They didn't even have any APO packages left either. And there's a fairly large population of people here who send care packages to soldiers overseas. I'm tellin' ya...sheesh!
Not only does the local post office suck, but recently a co-worker had to call 911 AND SHE WAS PUT ON HOLD!!!! For 10 minutes! When they finally came back to her, she said "nevermind, I'm dead now!" and hung up! Luckily for her, the threat had left (she works part time at a local gas station, and there was some kids hanging around making people nervous), but jeezus, she could have been shot and bled to death while she was on hold!
Another chalk mark in the column for "reasons to move away from here". Far, far away...
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I do love the fall, it is my favourite time of year. Finally the summer heat and humidity is gone, the leaves are starting to change colour, the air is fresher, and hopefully soon I'll be able to find parsnips at the grocery store (they're rare around here apparently). Maybe today since it is not raining we can take the dogs for a good long walk on the Greenway. Maybe have a picnic in the park. That would be fun. :)
Our wedding anniversary is on Tuesday next week. 6 years. Can you believe it? I can't. Feels like forever, and not quite that long all at the same time.
I'm trying to convince James to take me out to dinner at Churchill's Pub on Tuesday. I don't know why he has such an aversion to the place, but one of these days I'll get him in there!
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And I think last but not least, a friend of mine from back home posted this YouTube on my Facebook FunWall, and I'd like to share it with all my other friends who are not on Facebook.
I've been big on trying to help out the environment for quite a few years, and the argument that this guy uses is similar to one I've used previously to folks whove said "nope, its not us, its normal!" I also use the financial angle, the workshop I led at PPD was "How to save money by being and environmentalist".
Check out this guy's presentation, he's got some valid points.
(hopefully I post this correctly...I've never done a YouTube link before)
¶ 10:56 AM 0 Comments
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Well, I'm glad that's over with!
Last weekend was our Pagan Pride Day. I think I mentioned before that I had been "voluntold" as the Entertainment Co-ordinator for the event. Well, I won't go into details, but suffice to say that I am very glad the event is over and done with, and that I will not be volunteering for anything of the sort any time soon! UGH! and GAH!
Not to mention of course the sunburn on the nose and forehead that is now peeling...
We took the dogs with us for the entire (very long) day, as both James and I would have been away from the house for over 12 hours, we couldn't leave them here. They were marginally well behaved, considering. By 2pm or so (we arrived at 8am) they were ready to leave, after being mauled by children who just wouldn't get the hint to leave them alone.
We got back home just in time to catch Torchwood at 9pm. So we did indeed have a very long day. We had left the house that morning at 7am. The dogs ate their supper and then slept until about 3pm the following day. And one of my goldfish died that night. The other is not looking too good either lately. *sigh*
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Other than that, Autumn seems to finally have found us. The temps have cooled off some thankfully, and leaves are starting to change colours. They've had frost up in the mountains, though it hasn't touched us here yet. We had a bit of drizzle the other day, but we're still stuck in an extreme drought. The governor says that most cities in the state have only 90 days worth of water in storage. If that runs out, we're in trouble. The state of Georgia is not fairing much better.
We've been trying to conserve water as best we can, but crikey, if the city runs out in 3 months, what are we gonna do?
Some selfish bastards in Charlotte are having wells drilled because the city has put restrictions on watering gardens and lawns for customers of city water sources. If they had half a frikken brain, they'd realize that they're not helping themselves or their neighbours any just to have a green lawn! When the water runs out, their own well (for which they'd just spent $5000 to drill!) will also run dry! selfish eejits...I think the city should ban well drilling for households who are already on city sources. I mean really...how stupid and selfish can people get?
It has even gone to the extreme that the governor has suggested to restaurant owners to not serve water unless a customer specifically asks for it! Some pretty scary stuff :-(
Well, this weekend I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to try and get some stuff done around our own house that we haven't had much time to do because all my spare time the past few weeks was taken up by PPD stuff.
Next weekend will be busy with Samhain up in Boone with a new Druid friend and her family. I'm going to take a roast beast, and maybe some mashed taters with cabbage. mmmm...mmm..mmm...I can't wait! :-)
catcha later! ¶ 9:54 AM 2 Comments
Not to mention of course the sunburn on the nose and forehead that is now peeling...
We took the dogs with us for the entire (very long) day, as both James and I would have been away from the house for over 12 hours, we couldn't leave them here. They were marginally well behaved, considering. By 2pm or so (we arrived at 8am) they were ready to leave, after being mauled by children who just wouldn't get the hint to leave them alone.
We got back home just in time to catch Torchwood at 9pm. So we did indeed have a very long day. We had left the house that morning at 7am. The dogs ate their supper and then slept until about 3pm the following day. And one of my goldfish died that night. The other is not looking too good either lately. *sigh*
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Other than that, Autumn seems to finally have found us. The temps have cooled off some thankfully, and leaves are starting to change colours. They've had frost up in the mountains, though it hasn't touched us here yet. We had a bit of drizzle the other day, but we're still stuck in an extreme drought. The governor says that most cities in the state have only 90 days worth of water in storage. If that runs out, we're in trouble. The state of Georgia is not fairing much better.
We've been trying to conserve water as best we can, but crikey, if the city runs out in 3 months, what are we gonna do?
Some selfish bastards in Charlotte are having wells drilled because the city has put restrictions on watering gardens and lawns for customers of city water sources. If they had half a frikken brain, they'd realize that they're not helping themselves or their neighbours any just to have a green lawn! When the water runs out, their own well (for which they'd just spent $5000 to drill!) will also run dry! selfish eejits...I think the city should ban well drilling for households who are already on city sources. I mean really...how stupid and selfish can people get?
It has even gone to the extreme that the governor has suggested to restaurant owners to not serve water unless a customer specifically asks for it! Some pretty scary stuff :-(
Well, this weekend I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to try and get some stuff done around our own house that we haven't had much time to do because all my spare time the past few weeks was taken up by PPD stuff.
Next weekend will be busy with Samhain up in Boone with a new Druid friend and her family. I'm going to take a roast beast, and maybe some mashed taters with cabbage. mmmm...mmm..mmm...I can't wait! :-)
catcha later! ¶ 9:54 AM 2 Comments
