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Ugh, and yeah, f###.

So sorry.

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He's still very incoherent, but sitting in a chair and feeding himself, and being weaned off the abx for the pneumonia. The hospital has admitted responsibility for the fall, whatever that means. My poor stepmother. Her car died this week too. She doesn't want to get a new one until she knows what h...

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Good gawd, I've been obsessing about grilled cheese lately and lo and behold, a whole thread about it. Must be the weather :) I recently stumbled across this list and I want to make and eat every single combination! Make sure you have a napkin ready to catch the drool. Maple! You enabler, you! I bo...

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8000 feet or so in the Rockies, we'd better start seeing a bit of snow by now!

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So, last night, for the first time in years, I was fed a grilled cheese and tomato sandwich and a bowl of home made tomato soup. Oh my word. That sandwich was heaven between two slices of toast. I realize that I really have no idea how to do this properly. What cheese, for example, works best? What ...

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No. That would be weird.

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If I'm still riding at 89, I won't wear a helmet either. Go out on a big note, doing the thing you love!

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Mine would rather be boiled in oil than come, so I'm on my own...

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I'm very choosy about who I take lessons from. I have had some interesting experiences in the past, too. Which means I am working with a trainer who is basically an agoraphobic hermit who hates the cold so is even more elusive in winter than she is in the summer. However, when we DO get it together,...

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My personal opinion is that the mouth-open problem is a habit in some horses. It is a habit that may have started early when they were first started or later during the training. I believe that is why some trainers really tighten the noseband and flash on youngsters. Once they learn they can open t...

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My PCP of many years standing finally closed her own practice and joined the local clinic of our large university health network. Trying to make an appointment with her or leave her a message or ask a question is just a circular nightmare--especially when you aren't feeling so great to start with. S...

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Leftover leftovers... which might have been an error of judgement. And half a bar of fruit and nut chocolate.

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Yes, but if it's just a happy snap it doesn't matter that much.

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Tarlo, with 3 kids in the house it's probably the tumble dryer. We had one who when she left, left about 6 months worth of actual bagged trash stinking in the driveway. The neighbors were complaining. This was an upscale suburban neighborhood. We had to rent a dumpster to get rid of it. I leave the ...

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Ha, Canyon.... snap!

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I thought it was "Bill Bailey," Bailey!

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For facebookers, just upload the pic to facebook and save it from there. Facebook resizes it correctly automatically...

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What "contact issues" do these theoretically help with? My new horse has a tendency to open his mouth in response to contact. It's not my hands, he's an equal opportunity mouth-opener. If you put a flash on him he braces against it. Without a flash, he just opens his mouth. Just a bit, but...

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I accidentally stole a neighbor's cat once making the assumption that it could possibly belong to the person that it did... that was a bit embarrassing

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Snftrs, that's a great idea. My stepmother finally seems to have got the idea that it's OK to ask for help and it's OK to spend his money on it... She's in charge, and if I know her she's all but sleeping at the hospital anyway, but I can only hope she is looking after herself and taking help from o...

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Got too much difficult stuff going on atm to add an extra layer of trying to be perfect. Next time, maybe.

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I haven't made Lasagne in ages. Could be about time with some of these ideas.... thanks MC and Kande!

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Counter canter. I think we cracked it. For us, it is all to do with remaining focused on straightness. Of course. We need a bit more finesse, but it has really come together in the past couple of weeks. So, on to November. We are riding in a Clinic the weekend before Thanksgiving, and the weather is...

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Came through the surgery well, is somewhat coherent today, now they have to get him sitting up a bit so his lungs can clear. Ugh, poor guy.

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Short ribs braising in red wine have just gone in the oven... will have with mashed potatoes and brussels sprouts, in about 3.5 hours.

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No news as yet this morning. I'm taking that as meaning he's had surgery and no news is good news. It's a bit frustrating being at the far end of the information conduit.

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They both look great, and they look great together!

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My father, who is 85 and has some mild dementia, caught a cold a week or so ago, which turned into pneumonia, complete with hallucinations, and was taken into hospital on Friday morning. Last night, he somehow managed to fall out of bed and broke his femur in 3 places. He's not yet been into surgery...

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I feel like hammered poo tonight, though.

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My barn mates of course all hooted with laughter and have decided I'm a roarer... not quite!

Strange, eh, Tulsa. I understand it's a fairly new diagnosis.

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Vocal cord dysfunction. Years and years of asthma treatments that never actually worked, allergy treatments that never actually worked, being told that it was all in my mind, an annoying persistent cough and recurrent upper respiratory infections... A new doctor--ENT guy. Scoped my vocal cords--they...

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shepherd's pie, with broccoli. Comfort food for a bleak night.

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I was at the top of a frickin' mountain when I typed that... but yeah, snow down to 7000 feet tonight. Ugh.

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Its been a long assed day and it is still only 3.20.

I started the day with an echo stress test.

I'm now sitting here on a construction site in the snow waiting for my 3pm client to show up. Sigh.

Tomorrow morning I'm getting a naso layngeoscopy to start my day.

when is it Saturday?

Waah.

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It was much nice cold.

I'm thinking of making a stock out of the carcass and making pea soup with it... pea and ham without the ham

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OK, go look up BBC Radio 4 extra online. Listen to British radio--excellent plays, series, comedies, something for everyone, free. I love a good mystery, myself--classics like Lord Peter Whimsey, amongst may others.

I hope the ex gets a bad case of hives.

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Yep, knit... acres and acres of knitting, I did, when I was on layup with my leg.

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Hmmm, coleslaw... I know what I'm doing with the left-over smoked chicken now

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That sounds rather good, Bascar. It has bacon and noodles in it...

We have left overs tonight. Pretty damned good leftovers--lamb and lentil casserole, yummy.

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I'm carting around an extra pants size that I really need to see the back of in the next month, or else I've got some very expensive shopping to do, I need to commit to riding at least 4 times a week as the nights draw in and it gets colder without an indoor ring, and I have a knitting project I am ...

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I was just going to post and ask how he was getting on! I thought of you this morning as I was leaving the house and here was a big 5 pointer standing outside my hay shed while the rest of his family were in a shoving match for Lucky's breakfast. Poor Lucky. Time to start feeding out of nets inside ...

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Our fall colors are pretty much gone up here in the mountains of Utah, so I thought I'd add some of my own...

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So, it was good, very moist, but all I can taste even now is the smoke. It was applewood chips. I need to investigate other woods, I think.

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Lol!

It is soaking in a bowl of brine as we sit.

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Poor Art, that totally sucks. Wishing you the best finding soft landings for your tribe, and getting through the next few months more or less in one piece.

Stick around and keep us posted, please!

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OK, I have a meat thermometer so I can do that. It's a good-sized bird. I was thinking about 3 hours.

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My grandmother, an avid cook and gardener, grasped me by the hand when she was in hospital after her first stroke, and said to me very earnestly, "I have to get home and plant the beef casseroles before the weather changes!" Dementia made her frightened and violent. A sad end to a fascinat...

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So, I have a free range chicken and a smoker with limited instructions that was a gift from my stepson that I have to use before the snow flies...

Recipes, ideas? How long to smoke a whole chicken?

Smoker is propane powered, I have a bag of wood chips of some sort.

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I should have read that article before my ride today, instead of waiting until I got home! In fairness, we've got it down going in one direction. The other is more perplexing for us both. We practice on.... Lesson tomorrow. I think I know what we need to spend some time working on with supervision!

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