Login HereGendron/Ivaldi play Debussy's Cello Sonata.
The video above is a sublime interpretation of Debussy. Wonderful way to begin the morning. After the long week we've all just gone through, I thought something soothing and introspective was in order. There is something about the cello that just pulls me inward, perhaps the mellow tones or the ache that you hear in the background in this piece in particular, I don't know...but it is truly wonderful. I hope everyone enjoys this one.
It was just what I needed today. Isn't it funny how you sometimes stumble onto something just when you need it most?
We have company coming over for dinner this evening, friends of ours who haven't yet seen our home. And I'm afraid I've gone into that fugue state that Mr. ReddHedd calls "beyond Martha Stewart batshit crazy." I'm not quite there yet, I swear, but I'm close after spending the afternoon straightening up the house and then determining that our off-white carpet needed to be shampooed due to one to many hits of the aging dachshund. (She's my baby and she has back issues, and the hand steamer only does so much. What can I say?)
But in the light of morning, the clean carpet looks glorious, and the backache seems worthwhile. The floral arrangement I threw together from a couple of take-away bouquets from the grocery store is also working for me. But I am beginning to understand what my dear husband meant with his fugue state comments.
I swear, Sunday is going to be all about relaxing, hanging out with The Peanut, and finally getting around to organizing my iPod into nifty little music folders (mainly because I'm sick and tired of having to skip over Christmas carols while I'm on the treadmill). And, as it happens, I have a $25 iTunes card that is burning a hole in my pocket, and I'm ready to use it on some new music. Thought I'd reach out to everyone for some suggestions today. I just know someone has a song out there that deserves a shot, and we can all have a little fun trading favorites.
So, what are you listening to and loving these days? Something brand new? An old favorite that you've rediscovered? Something that makes your toes tap? Your eyes weep? Your heart ache? Makes you sing with joy at the top of your lungs in the middle of the world's worst traffic jam? Do tell! Pull up a chair...
PS -- I don't know why, but I find these latte art YouTubes really fascinating...who knew you could so so much with a little foam, some chocolate syrup and a tool or two.
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Good morning Christy!
Good Morning Christy! I hope you are doing well. Now to tell everyone else.
Angel from Montgomery Bonnie Raitt and John Prine
This got EPU’d Christy. Good mornng.
Do you know what got me this week? Bush asked the UN World Heritage Committee to take our River of Grass (The Everglades) off of the endangered list. No one knows why. (Oil or Residential Development??)
Everglades uproar brings change
A Senate hearing looks at how a U.N. list was altered.
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has changed its procedures for trying to remove U.S. sites from a United Nations list of endangered special places after the Everglades was struck from the list this summer, a State Department official said.
Gerald Anderson, a deputy assistant secretary at the State Department, made the statement at a hearing held Wednesday by Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., into how and why the Bush administration asked the U.N. World Heritage Committee to remove the Everglades from its list of endangered environmental sites.
“We’ve assessed the reaction to the decision, and we understand there are some concerns that need to be addressed,” said Anderson, who admitted to being surprised that the Everglades was removed.
At a meeting in New Zealand in July, Todd Willens, a deputy assistant secretary at the Interior Department, persuaded the World Heritage Committee to take the Everglades off the list, despite recommendations to the contrary by the National Park Service and the committee’s science advisers.
Nelson said he wants Willens fired, something the Interior Depatment is unlikely to do. He fretted that any false suggestion that the Everglades is healthy, such as its removal from the U.N. endangered list, could sap political support for continuing the cleanup.
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More at the link.
Good morning.
Sublime video, Christy.
Good morning Christy et al.
Last Sunday I did a High Holiday service at church. One of our gifted members played Max Bruch’s Kol Nidrei, an amazing piece arranged for cello and piano. It goes for about 10-12 minutes and will entrance you. I recommend Jacqueline Du Pré’s recording. They have it on iTunes on a Brahms cello sonatas album of hers.
An old dog, a young child and off white carpet? I have to rethink my opinion that you are extremely sensible.
I brought back a cd from Pearl, a New Zealand duo, when I came back to the States in July. This is their website - http://www.pearlband.com/ - and you can get a sample of their sound. They are new, but they opened for Eric Clapton and Elton John in NZ concerts. I don’t know if one can get their music otherwise, but I find them to be just great. Do go and give a listen. Let me know what you think.
Since I don’t have a clue about your taste in music, this is a complete shot in the dark. Bela Fleck (brilliant jazz banjo)and Chick Corea have teamed up to produce an extraordinary duet album titles “The Enchantment” They play off each other like the jazz veterans they are, and the banjo and piano blend perfectly.
Joey Calderazzo, who has been playing with Branford Marsalis for the last few years, released a wonderful solo piano album over the summer. It’s called “Amanecer.”
The new albums by Rilo Kiley and New Pornographers are also strongly recommended.
morning christy - i don’t know about recommending music, it’s such a personal choice. sorta like what colors do you like?
but, i do have one suggestion for you and firepups, if you don’t already know about it… is the annual sxsw torrent. each musican or band that participates in sxsw gives a song or two in 128 kbps mp3 and the more than 700 songs are packaged into a torrent for free download.
i’ve downloaded the last three years for almost 2400 songs - all free… it’s a great way to hear pop music from bands you’ve never heard of.
here are the pages that have links to the torrents (i didn’t check, but the torrents are probably still live):
sxsw 2007
sxsw 2006
sxsw 2005
That is twice now you have added to my limited list of classical favorites.
Gorecki’s gulag graffiti classic brings me to tears, and I don’t even know Polish. A friend of ours from way out here in Kansas sings for The Met now and then, and she sang the Gorecky, in Polish, though she does not know the language, she memorized the sounds but barely understood them.
But it does not matter if you know the language, she told us that for any soprano, there is an incredible spirit in singing that piece, that transcends the sorrow of it’s theme, uplifting the hearts of everyone who hears it.
There is something about that piece that moves emotions in the coldest to souls.
That being said, let me add this to the day’s conversation.
I had another “duh” epiphany watching Jeremy Scahill’s flicks from Iraq, (which I embedded on my own blog, thanks to The Nation, for the loan) and some of the news coverage about it…
Here’s the $64,000 question..
Are all the Blackwater goons white? Or most of them…
Just think “Erik Prince, North Carolina, KKK,” and the implications are startling, if not frightening.
IS this band of mercenaries an expression of the old south racist agenda? If so, their return, AS A UNIT, to this country represents a very dangerous and disconcerting potential.
Considering that the Republican candidates won’t even talk to minority groups, and the evidence of a very deliberate move to the right down in Jena, one might assume they have written-off the ethnic vote.
So how much of a leap is it to the conclusions I’ve drawn here?
I don’t even need a tin-foil hat for this one…
And I think it would behoove all the blogs to converge on the Republican candidate’s obvious racist direction in this long season of lies.
Dylan’s “Shelter from the Storm”. End of story.
C&J Rum & Coke Friday came on very late but is good for a giggle. Check it out.
Blackwater kills Iraqi civilains Blackwater gives weapons to terroists who want to kill our friends the Turks.
Is Blackwater in a competion with Bush as to who can make the most mistakes and lose the war in Iraq or what!
I know the war is already lost but Blackwater just created a potential Jena Six/Emmet Till dynamic getting Blackwater could be the one thing all the terrorists could agree on.
Is Bush’s plan to unite Iraq by providing a villian ( us ) that all the Iraqis could unify behind to oppose. Is Iraqi unification to be achieved over dead Blackwater and Army bodies?
ooooo . . . found youtube (audio only) of Kol Nidre with Jacqui DuPré
Excellent.
Bela Fleck & The Flecktones!
This is one of my favs of theirs, but I’d have named it Squirrels, Bulgarian Squirrels
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91YiQ72M_Ns
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and Good Morning!
things come undone @ 16
I Hvae heard debate in Congress wrt the troops coming home but has anyone heard any debate in Congress wrt Blackwater? I mean, they have their own air force and all.
Morning Christy,
FWIW, I enter the same fugue state prior to entertaining or having either set of parents anticipated to arrive at the house. Both my mother and my DP’s mother are Stewart-ish — and it makes receiving them very, very stressful. Thankfully, the pre-arrival cleaning/straightening/cooking fugue always seems to work.
The Debussy is wonderful. And while it’s not classical music, Oren Lavie’s The Opposite Side of the Sea is wonderful chamber pop which you might enjoy.
hmmmmmm… something that makes your toes tap. Larry Craig recommends Motley Crue’s Smokin in the Boy’s Room
I love the cello. It reaches my soul in a such a way that no other instrument does. The harp comes close, however I always feel that when I hear a cello playing, I go on journey.
RevDeb’s -07
That was a great part of your service. The cello is an amazing instrument, and in the context of your service, it was very inspiring to listen and reflect.
Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own U2 live
What if thanks to Blackwater we have some major causalties in Iraq hundreds instead of tens dying. We know Bush will say support the troops and send reinforcements a defeat could work paradoxicly in his benefit.
We need a plan.
Keeping with the strings motif Soliloquy From How It Happens (The Voice of I. F. Stone) from Short Stories by Kronos Quartet has remained a favorite of mine.
Pearl’s fourth song could have some lines for the Democratic Party “How many promises forgotten? Too many times I’ve thought of leaving you..”
Also, the next to last teaser (you can forward through in the top right) is a great version of Crowded House’s “Whenever I fall at your feet”
Hi MM. It was great to have you with us last week and fun at the food fest too. A bit of rain coming your way shortly . . .
ccmask @19 the Khristian Klan has an air force? We need Congress to cut off their funds they are hurting our troops. We need Congress to investigate these guys. We need to turn them over to the UN for war crimes.
Hi,
have you listened to The Mammals yet? Great music and great progressive lyrics,
http://www.themammals.net/
Also, if you’ve got a couple of hours to spare, this video of a lecture by Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch is the most inspiring things I’ve seen in ages. It’s his ‘lesson in having fun in life and work’, delivered to an audience of academics, but really for his children, as he is dying from a terminal illness.
http://video.google.com/videop.....5846055184
On C-span 2 right now, Jeremy Scahill just said that in many instances, Blackwater has better intelligence that the military.
He said a military guy asks a Blackwater guy for permission to shoot an insurgent. WTF?
One of the most memorable musical moments I’ve ever experience was at a Easter service at Washington DC’s Holy Trinity Church. After the two days of solemnity of Holy Thursday and Good Friday, the joy and light of Easter was celebrated with music that included a selection from one of the Bach Unaccompanied Cello Suites (I think #5) — which is my favorite piece of music, period. I couldn’t stop crying, and I still tear up thinking about it.
ccmask @ 30
How many mercs do they have in Iraq?
re: blackwater.
for anyone who missed it, there was a very good whistle blower hearing yesterday on security contractors in iraq. the witnesses were:
Kathryn Helvenston-Wettengel, Mother of Former Blackwater USA Employee
Jeremy Scahill, Investigative Reporter
Nick Bicanic, Documentary Filmmaker
Donald Vance, Former Private Security Contractor
Bunnatine Greenhouse, Former Top-Ranking Civilian Contracting Officer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Robert Isakson, Former Coalition Provisional Authority Contractor
Stephen Kohn, Executive Director, National Whistleblower Center
Alan Grayson, Attorney, Grayson & Kubli
the video is here (and should have transcripts posted soon), and i ripped the audio if you’d prefer to download an mp3.
RevDeb @ 27
I had a great time, some nourishment of the soul, body, and mind is always good. We can use he rain.
things come undone @ 28
Monetary gain is a motive for armed combat. If Blackwater makes money,why would they look to end the war or try to actually bring democracy to the people. They can’t make money off democracy. Blackwater is also bankrolling the politicians to stay at war I imagine. They must be big campaign contributors (IMO, especially under the table).
When I’m really sad, I find myself singing along to music, not necessarily sad music. It’s the
sinningsinging that helps me cheer up.An old favorite that you’ve rediscovered?
yeah, something like that.
David Lindley has a different take on werewolves…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpebrtsSSYY
Here’s one from Till and the Wall that never fails to pick me up and get my feet moving in the morning: http://youtube.com/watch?v=XZCZRTcY3uA
And for more contemplative moods, Barber’s Adagio for Strings. It played as the plane was taking off for my first trip to Russia, a transforming moment.
CHS–Thanks for keeping us up to date through a week that pretty well sucked for those of us who care about civil liberties.
No music recommendations here, I’m afraid. (Other than you should dread the day when the Peanut discovers Radio Disney. I love my XM, but not when the eight-year-old gets a turn to choose the channel!)
I don’t mean to be a trouble, but I wondered if you got the e-mail I sent last Saturday after our brief PUAC exchange. I just want to be sure AOL didn’t mark it as spam…
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Tori Amos
Seriously, it’s haunting.
Rev Deb…thanks for the link to Kol Nidrei. I also found this, a link to a Moroccan version which has an English translation …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....4&NR=1
egregious @ 38
ah yes. The first time I recall hearing it was played —believe it or not—by the Canadian Brass. Loved it! If you like that, check out the Kol Nidrei above @ 17.
ok - got a meeting I’m late for, but one more afore I go…
(weekend - what weekend?)
Kasey Chambers - Australian - very pretty:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0_LSMYUVk4
Fun and bouncy, Tome Jones and The Cardigans covering Burning Down the House
things come undone @ 32
I don’t think anyone knows. I’ve been in and out of the room so I missed that. But it is a good book tv for sure. The book is named just “Blackwater”.
Blackwater may have 20,000 but the author said that there are so many different companies that Blackwater is like a drop in the bucket.
Grunts get court martialed and Blackwater guys get nothing.
Holy Moly! He just said every 40 cents of every dollar is going to private contractors. They are deputized by governors in the states.
Blackwater was pulling in $240,000 a day to stop looting during Katrina. And this was the same time there was an uproar over debit cards given to victims of the storm.
I’m turning it off. Stick a fork in me.
ccmask@5-
A lurker here-
Not the Everglades! I live just on the edge of the Everglades (in Naples). I am sick to my stomach imagining development after development popping up between here and Miami. Ugh. I sure hope they change it back.
last friday i got 10 lbs of extra tomatoes from the local organic farm. i made a gallon of tomato sauce and froze most of it for the winter. it was so yummy (due to the tomatoes, not my kitchen skills *g*) that yesterday i got 20 lbs of extra tomatoes and as soon as i finish leisurely drinking my coffee i’m going to make another batch of tomatoes for freezing…. oh, and i also got about 2 lbs of basil! i’m going to make it all into pesto and freeze it too. yum yum!
the leaves are turning, the breeze has a chill, and guess what Christy- you are nesting! Don’t fight it- enjoy it!
Hi Christy,
This one is appropo.
Van Morrison “Cleaning Windows”.
Hi Chrisy and all
I was listening to a Vivaldi compilation on my way down to Townsville for an eye examination. Macular degeneration or some such. Thinking about my options now … 1. do nothing, it may not get worse or 2. an op with outcome, could improve vision greatly, do nothing, or make it worse.
But I am not knocking my Dr. Maria Moon, lovely woman who listens to a patient, asks questions, considers replies. Far better than the two male specialists I went to first. Has anyone else noticed that male doctors tend toward the “I am a god” approach to patients or is it just me?
Whatever.
Re Blackwater: some investigation ongoing re ‘the company’ or maybe just some rogue contractors, illegally importing automatic weapons to put onto the black market. Feh!
Think I’ll put on Iron Butteryfly’s “In-a-gadda-da-vida” and have some more wine.
Speakout @ 47
So do I! I freaked out last night when I stumbled quite accidently on the story in the Naples News. How is this possible? Bush & Big Business. Sugar? Oil? Development? Who knows. I haven’t gotten into it yet. I was going to start researcing tomorrow because I am going to see my mom today and if I get started, I’ll forget to go.
JEP @13
can you recommend a recording of the Gorecki? tx.
Having slept 12 hours after substituting for sixth-raders (who were amazingly well-behaved and helpful, I woke up to catch up on my daily Press Briefing-reading.
Dana Perino said, “I think you need to look at the motivations of why someone would say these things.”
Wish just one — one reporter would call her on this and ask what her motivation is.
selise 47_ Go for it. I’ll be cooking some tomatoes today or tomorrow also. I found some olives that are in a very light brine and will be be slowly roasting them with a batch of tomatoes.
I may not freeze that batch, it may not make it to the containers.
Why don’t we have any numbers for Blackwater deaths? Why is the true number of Americans dead in this war being hidden? A solder dies he gets his name in the paper these guys many of whom may or may not be racists are still Americans.
They died no true picture of how “cough” well we are doing in Iraq can be complete unless we know how many total Americans have died Army and Merc dead is dead. What is the true cost of this war?
P.S. CHS …
My late wife was always fugal about dinner guests imminently arriving. And I’d say, “By the end of the evening, no one will notice anything!” LOL.
I miss her obsessive compulsive turns, though.
Just had a tangential thought: does anyone know if Chalmers Johnson’s claims about 730 U.S. military bases in 130 countries (acknowledged) and possibly 2 million active military is close to right?
The only part-corroboration I’ve found is some Pentagon spokesman recently, claimed over “a million in our military population” … (no cite, my bad.)
I know Okinawa has many bases, and Guam. Diego Garcia is wholly U.S. military, courtesy of the poms who evicted the native population to give the place to America.
Nineteen large bases in Germany, before, during and after the Cold War. Who were/are we protecting them from???
things come undone @ 56
If there is profit to be made in war, why is there a deficit?
Fortunate Son Creedence Clearwater the perfect song to lift weights, run or hit a punching bag to…after you see a Bush press conference!
On the music front there’s an album you might enjoy from 1978, Twin Sons of Different Mothers. Singer/Songwriter Dan Fogelberg meets Jazz Flutist Tim Weisberg for an interesting fusion. There’s some really nice instrumentals and several powerful vocal pieces. Fogelberg does a beautiful cover of “Since You’ve Asked.” It’s at iTunes. They got back together for another album in 1995 which I’ll have to check out, No Resemblence Whatsoever.
There’s one song on the album that can be reinterpreted as a comment on the politics of a ‘Democratic’ Congress that stabs Move On in the back and can’t quite deal with the NetRoots. It’s Tell Me To My Face. Everytime I get an e-mail from the House/Senate Democratic campaigns asking for money, I’m going to be thinking about these lyrics.
ccmask @ 52
I’m looking in the Naples Daily News for the Story but can’t find it- It was in Friday’s paper?
Good morning from L.A. Huge rainstorm here last night. The ground is so parched, it already sucked most of the water up. More on the way later, according to the local news. Suits my mood after last week.
Right now I’m listening to Springsteen’s Seeger Sessions (headphones of course, no one else is up yet). Here’s one that brought tears to my eyes @ a concert in ‘06 :
Bring Them Home
ccmask @ 57
Because only Bush could mess up Keynes’s pump with Milton Friedman ideas and crony economics.
Christy,
I had day from hell yesterday and woke up very blue/sad this morning.
However, the “latte art” gave me a teeny giggle fit. Optimism may return after another cuppa.
Millineryman @ 55
mmmm. yum yum!
i’ve always loved this time of year, but now, getting a bounty of fresh veggies from the farm every week - well, it’s beyond amazing… and last night was an especially beautiful drive out to the farm.
i wish i knew more about preparing and storing all this great food to enjoy during the winter. i think i might try making some ratatouille to freeze… don’t know how that would store though. any advice?
selise @ 33
Wow — I started watching this yesterday and then my son came home from Kindergarten… Thanks so much!
Oops- Just checked the link back at #5- St. Pete Times. :)
(((looseheadprop)))
rar3 @ 40
I totally agree about Radio Disney…it is insidious sledgehammer marketing through constant repetition.
Waiting for 2 albums to come out-The new Bruce album and the complete recordings for the Return of the King. Been listening to Bruce’s Live in Dublin a lot, I dig his take on some old Pete Seeger classics.
(((((looseheadprop)))))
Do you have any idea what a difference you have made in my life, this week alone?
Love and positive energy coming your way, my dear. You are one of us.
Does Blackwater only hire white people? You would think Obama could run with the idea of a private merc army, run by a racist, who gives money to Bush, who only hires whites to boost black voter turnout to astronomical levels.
We can play the fear card too!
musicsleuth @ 66
Thanks. Watched most of it, & it’s worth watching again for the Bunny Greenhouse testimony alone. She is truly an inspiration…
(((((looseheadprop))))
NZ Expat, now in KS @ 26
“Woodface” is one of my top 20 or 30 albums EVAH!
(((((((( loosehead ))))))))
you are the best!
moose @ 57
i don’t know anything about the size of the military - but i think the number of bases from chalmers johnson is only those that are acknowledged by the pentagon… i’ve heard estimates that the true number is closer to 1000. have you read chalmers johnson’s books? i’ve read blowback and sorrows of empire… highly recommended. nemesis is on my to read list, but i haven’t gotten to it yet.
5 minutes here before going to my saturday part time job (one of the 10,243 part time/contract/freelance jobs I currently hold) and I have to say; what a video. wow.
gorgeous. just gorgeous
thanks.
Jill at 8 — Unfortunately, the color of carpet was already here when we bought the house. It’s a really high quality berber, and I haven’t been willing to rip it out because it’s really wonderful. But off-white? Not what I would have chosen myself had I been putting it in fresh…budget doesn’t allow for a big change in flooring at the moment, though, so I’ve made friends with a store that rents rinse-n-vacs. *g*
Speakout @ 61
It was in the online paper. See my #5 post above for the link. And here is a song for your delurking today. WooooooooHoooooooooo!!
@ 58
“If there is profit to be made in war, why is there a deficit?”
Easy. It’s called ‘redistribution of wealth’. Some mistakenly call it capitalism, ha! when it is really cronyization.
Darn, can’t find Iron Butterfly. Change of pace:
Amanda Marshall, this track, “Dark Horse” …
From TPM Muckraker
Vicente Fox: “Cowboy” Bush Is Scared Of Horses
By Eric Kleefeld - September 21, 2007, 9:20AM
Here’s another fun detail from Vicente Fox’s upcoming autobiography: He says that despite President Bush’s cowboy image, the man is actually scared of horses.
Fox tells the story of the two men meeting in Mexico in early 2001, in which he invited Bush to ride a large horse. Bush nervously backed away. “A horse lover can always tell when others don’t share our passion,” Fox wrote.
Fun fact: Bush’s Crawford ranch, purchased in 1999 in order to help create a down-home image for his presidential campaign, does not have any horses.
The horses smell fear or else Bush is an H.P Lovecraft Old One
posaune @ 53
Upshaw…
Marie R, you need to get Live in Dublin…”How can a poor man stand such times and live” Gives me a chill every tme I hear it…
How Can a poor man-Live in LA
music starts at 2:00
Speakout - thanks for delurking today. hope you catch the bug and continue to join in the conversation. the more the merrier!
Christy Hardin Smith @ 78
A friend of mine had a white berber carpet. Right before he pulled it up, he went to the store and bought 10 boxes of Purple Rit Dye and filled up a tub of water and got on his knees and sponged the color into the rug. Now, purple is not my color, but, it was gorgeous!! Then he got one of those machines that suck water out of carpets and I’m telling you, I was impressed.
And now for something completely different: Richard Cheese. Caution, the second song is kinda blasphemous.
Hey Speakout! Welcome to the lake. Hope to hear from you a lot.
Christy Hardin Smith @ 78
Windex for animal stains - works wonders! Blot the stain, spritz, then blot with a warm, damp cloth.
I also have faced challenges with carpets - got a light colored rug (nothing else matched) for a room recently and our puppy Scottie just chewed a bit of a hole in it. Oh well.
ccmask @ 85
did your friend keep the purple or tear it up after all that work?
hi Selise,
I’ve read various articles of his and “Nemesis” ought to be in the next care shipment to the land of oz, from Amazon …
selise @ 89
Hell no! She kept it–it was gorgeous.
Good morning everyone..
Funny that you have music as the topic today. Had my fill of progressive talk and started pulling out the CD’s and charging up the Ipod. Went to sleep with my Josh Groban playing.
Josh Groban….mmmm
selise @ 65
If you either wrap your cassarole dish well, or put the ratatoille in tupperware, it freezes very well
JEP @ 82
can’t find a utube version (that would be precious) but here’s the CD for sale, this is the very one that “hooked” me…
http://www.amazon.com/Henryk-G.....B000005J1C
I should add that the couple who did the rug started out with 10 boxes of dye. But they had to buy a lot more. They were sorry that they didn’t measure the tub of water in the beginning because it was hard the second time they got more dye to get the color right. So, if you plan on doing it make sure you do it by the gallon or according to the box directions.
PS: When they put the house up for sale later on, I was laughing because who would buy a house with a purple rug. The first couple that showed up LOVED THE COLOR PURPLE and bought the house.
Chile to extradite Peru’s Fujimori
Hmmm… even Paraguay might not be far enough away, come January, 2009.
ccmask @ 91
whew! that’s what i thought, but i wasn’t sure from the way i read it.
OT — need tubes help.
Learning the ropes of laptop which accesses tubes via this router thing.
When I post from the laptop do I use the same name? Or need a new one?
fly much?
if so, note that HOMELAND Security is keeping track of carry-on reading materials
Twisted Martini @ 83
Thanks, TM. Springsteen concert here was intense & memorable. Went to Henry Waxman’s office the following week for a meeting & ended up talking about the concert, which segued into discussion of the mess we’re in due to BushCo foreign & domestic policy eff-ups. Waxman’s staff are great.
Oh wow, wasn’t looking for sympathy. Maybe the comment came out wrong. I was trying to say that the Latte art was making me feel better.
Thanks for all the hugs and support guys.
I have now finsihed writing my blogpost for tomorrow, consumed two “soupbowls” of coffee and am ready to go trekking. I think 6 miles down by the big beach will be just the ticket to a brain full of endorphins.
See you after the walk and gym workout.
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