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03-07-2013, 07:16 PM
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Seriously! I love that.
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03-08-2013, 04:18 PM
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I've handled, fondled and seen it in person, and I can't tell how he did the body. All the ends/twists are hidden inside. I guess.
Maybe it's some kind of Mexican voodoo scorpion and he now has my buddy's soul in a jar at home?
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03-13-2013, 04:31 PM
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That is extremely cool!
I like working with bell wire. It's very forgiving, very fine and malleable. I've got a pic around here somewhere of a tree I made once. Nothing as dramatic as your friend's scorpion though. That's cool.
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03-19-2013, 01:57 PM
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What did I make today?
Breakfast.
Sausage, eggs, grits, blueberry waffles, and the biggest glass we got filled to the brim with ice cold moo juice. Breakfast, it's what's for lunch.
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04-09-2013, 04:55 PM
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A pile of saw dust
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04-09-2013, 04:56 PM
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And an admirable pile it is.
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04-09-2013, 06:17 PM
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Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian
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Better than what I accomplished today ...
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04-14-2013, 05:44 AM
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polaroid of perfection
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Not made yet, but started.
Got a New York Style Baked Cheesecake mix (silly, really - Mum grew up in a Jewish part of London so we know it's Jewish-style really). Suggestion on the box to soak some sultanas in bourbon and add to the mix. Seemed a small way to personalise it. So I bought a JD miniature. And gave it to Mum for safekeeping. I know me too well. She handed it over yesterday and they have soaked overnight, so I'm ready to start the arduous procedure of making the mix... Hey, when I was young and easy under the apple boughs I used to make cheesecake from scratch, soaking the gelatine and all that. But I did it too well. People just asked where I bought it. So no more. Although there was one Baileys and orange one that even I swooned over.
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04-14-2013, 05:47 AM
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polaroid of perfection
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Grav - missed your scorpion post first time round.
Absolutely marvellous. As Foot says, love the story and love the outcome. When I come visit, promise you'll take me there?
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04-14-2013, 08:36 AM
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Well, today is obviously a tail-posting day.
Cheesecake mix in bin. Sultanas in food recycling bin. Turns out you need to add 300g of soft cream cheese to the mix (as well as milk & butter, which I had expected). Which makes me wonder what's in the mix to start with?! Why in the bin though? Because when I went into the living room and sat down all exasperated, Mum was completely steely-cold. "Well I wouldn't know, I didn't buy it" with a smug little smile. It wasn't a silly one-off comment either, she held my gaze. So fuck her. Like I bought it for myself or something. I'm sure I'll calm down at some point, but she was just so self-satisfied and downright nasty about it. Pleased I'd failed. I've obviously stepped over some line somewhere today since cleaning the bathroom. Nasty old bitch.
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04-18-2013, 08:25 PM
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So, after many trips to the coast and a bit of $, Sam's unusable attic
has been re-worked into 2 bedrooms and a half (?) bath. The most costly and difficult thing thing was the new requirement for AFCI circuit breakers. The breaker for the 240 line (2 heaters) was $107 +shipping ! In any case, it's essentially done !!! |
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04-18-2013, 08:59 PM
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Nice job! And good for you, following the new electrical rules.
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04-19-2013, 01:52 AM
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Congratulations, Lamp, ya done good.
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04-19-2013, 05:46 AM
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still says videotape
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Job well done.
(Visa price list meme) Taking your morning dump in a heated bathroom. Priceless
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05-27-2013, 01:16 PM
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still says videotape
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Reawaken thread for holiday weekend
After I re-did my entryway I started agitating for the permissions to build a new door. I wasn't getting my way until Pete hit a piece of gravel with the mower and shattered the glass door. Hooray! Full steam ahead. I built the door over the winter in my very limited free time. So here it is, still waiting on door handles...
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