Month: February 2011
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Packer Game
After a dinner of pulled pork and sweet potato fries we all moved to the living room and listened to the Packers game on the radio. My Darling B had the game on an AM station in the kitchen and T-Dawg found the same broadcast on an FM station so we could listen to it… Read.
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Never A Dull Moment
We dined out twice today! First at the Dane County Farmer’s Market, because the breakfast they were serving was biscuits and gravy, and when you say “biscuits and gravy” you’re going to get a visit from My Darling B, and you’d better have a plate of hot biscuits and gravy waiting for her. She adores… Read.
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Recipe
Overheard at the office pot luck yesterday: “How did you make these cream cheese roll-ups?” “Well, I started by saying to my wife: ‘Honey, I need something for the pot luck at the office tomorrow.’ Then she said, ‘You should have told me that yesterday.’ Then we fought for about fifteen minutes. Then she got… Read.
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Mixed Nuts
Today at the office we had a pot luck that was all snacks, the kind of snacks you’d eat while watching a football game, in honor of the super bowl. I brought mixed nuts. It’s a no-fuss snack. All I had to do was put them in a container that I could seal up so… Read.
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Poke
As one of the CE (continuing education) specialists in the Office of Education and Examinations, I get phone calls all day long from people who have attended a course or weekend seminar and want to know if it would satisfy the requirements of their CE program. It always depends on the profession we’re talking about.… Read.
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Attack of THE SNOWNAMI!
Here’s the obligatory snapshot of me and T-Dawg shoveling about a foot and a half of snow off the driveway. I can’t tell how much snow actually fell – probably only six or eight inches – but the driving wind heaped up drifts at least a foot and a half high of snow like cake… Read.
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Snownami
This is the problem with superlatives: We’ve already had the ‘snowpocalypse’ and ‘snowmageddon.’ ‘Blizzard of 2011’ sounds so mundane. So what are we going to call this thing? I heard that a local television station is calling it ‘The Snow Beast.’ Oh, how cute. My Darling B wants to call it THE SNOWNAMI. That might… Read.
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