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Watermelon

June 21, 2010

I read some somewhere recently that watermelon is very good for you – especially for flushing out the liver. Something my liver could use – I took some B12 supplements recently and it backfired. It created a crazy teen-aged zit farm on my face. Apparently the B12 stays stored in your liver, so I thought [...]

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Playing the vuvuzela perfectly…

June 17, 2010

Below is an instructional video about 1) the correct pronunciation of the vuvuzela and 2) how to play it. I hope you enjoy all 35 seconds of these instructions. Not explained in the video? What’s with the chicken hat?

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The Vuvuzela Mentorship Program

June 16, 2010

Welcome to Vancouver’s first Vuvuzela Mentorship Program! Our program offers an actual South African-born instructor with an authentic vuvuzela brought all the way from the far-away country. Lianne will offer all courses in a nearby alley in order to prevent disrupting people on the main streets or nearby offices. Please note: we cannot guarantee that [...]

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A very quick craft

June 15, 2010

This is really barely a craft. But after I saw this beautiful doily table runner, it reminded me of two linen tea towels I had sitting in our linen closet. First of all, who uses a white linen tea towel with a pretty and simple embroidered bouquet of flowers on it? No one in our [...]

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Treats from afar…

June 14, 2010

Huzzah to me! I wrote my tale of whoa on my blog about how I killed 2 sets of lupines in our front yard garden. My blog friend from Portland, Oregon, Happy Zombie, read about my terrible gardening skills and offered me some more lupines – maybe I’d have better luck with them this time. [...]

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Bumper Crop

June 13, 2010

I accidentally did an experiment on the hydrangea bushes out front. One I trimmed in the fall. I trimmed the dead wood down, but just to where some new shoots were starting. The other one, I trimmed it all the way down to the ground – just about 3 or 4 inches from the ground [...]

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“…signalling reassurance and contentment.”

June 12, 2010

A yawning cat is a relaxed kitty, according to this very thorough cat communication website. The whole family today has been watching World Cup Soccer and then watching OZ back to back, time shifting. I think it’s called, “being lazy”.

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We live in a temperate rain forest

June 10, 2010

Vancouver is well known for all the rain we get, but even for the locals, the last couple of weeks have been very, very, even extremely wet. It was so chilly tonight, I was tempted to turn the heat on in the house. But I refrained. Heat on in June? I just couldn’t do it.

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The Whoopee Cushion

June 9, 2010

Why didn’t I think of that yesterday? The whoopee pies were pretty well received tonight, so that’s good. Someone asked me how I made the whoopee cushions. SNORT! As you can see, Oscar takes a break from his kitty condo from time to time to take a rest in his leisure property – the Day [...]

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Makin’ whoopee…pies

June 8, 2010

And boy, did I ever. I made them way too big though. See the whoopee pies below? They’re each about as big as my fist.   That makes for a very large cupcake, that’s for sure. And that’s pretty much what these are – a thick cake batter dropped onto cookie sheets and iced with [...]

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