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JuicyLucy
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Ok Bob ya talked me into it. Im having a bowl of banana pudding too
I was thinking about making some too
Banana puddin all gone now! 
And I doubt if the groceries have restocked. Last trip to wally World heard several women grumbling about no pudding for nanner puddin.
And I doubt if the groceries have restocked. Last trip to wally World heard several women grumbling about no pudding for nanner puddin.
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Banana puddin all gone now!
And I doubt if the groceries have restocked. Last trip to wally World heard several women grumbling about no pudding for nanner puddin.
I make mine from scratch
I make mine from scratch
YUMMY!
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I make mine from scratch
That's how I learned to make it, too -- from the recipe on the box of Vanilla Wafers.
It doesn't use any "pudding".Andria
I ran out of scratch...
I make mine from scratch
I seen a few recipes and it looks very easy, just never tried it yet
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I seen a few recipes and it looks very easy, just never tried it yet
The trick is not letting the yokes start to cook with you fold them in
It got pretty damn nasty here yesterday and now they are worried about flooding. Some areas got 7+ rain last night.Mornin' fuggers. Weather fit for DUCKS here... or maybe FISH!!!
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Same here, we still have a flash flood warning till about 10pm. And this morning, apparently lightening struck in the backyard of the street just behind ours, and brought down a couple trees, with an UNGODLY noise -- scared poor Tuxie right into the cat cave, and even Annabel, usually not a scaredy-cat, hid under the spawn's bed for a while.
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I'm tempted to think "Lucky!"...but then I think about the idiots here in the south who absolutely cannot drive even in fucking RAIN, but who THINK they can handle snow, ice, apocalypse... and I think maybe we're lucky to be getting rain and not the white sort of precip.
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I make mine from scratch
But if it's Scratch's pudding, are you sure it's nanna?
Ah one o' them thar "ya gotsta be this many tallz to dooz it" tricks. i got no more tallz, i iz six feets tallz again, don't wanna grow no more.
Our power went out yon 'round 1-2 am. Got it back around 12 - 12:300 this afternoon. Wife drew up an AEP map showing hella area that got knocked out from wind and trees. Said they had over 300,000 customers without power just in our sector, who knows how many down VA way looked twice the size of us on the map. Bet them linemen (line people ifin I needz to be all PC an wut.) are loving the extra $$$s coming in.
I'm tempted to think "Lucky!"...but then I think about the idiots here in the south who absolutely cannot drive even in fucking RAIN, but who THINK they can handle snow, ice, apocalypse... and I think maybe we're lucky to be getting rain and not the white sort of precip.
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Send 'em up here to WV. We train NASCAR drivers and we get snow often enough to keep folks on their toes, even the butt ends of lake effect blizzards at times.
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Well, the biggest problem is that there is pretty much ZERO infrastructure to deal with white precip here, except on the interstates -- the surface roads, you just have to wait till they melt. But folks from up north are CONVINCED that they "can handle it." I have to keep reminding my husband (from Missouri!) that the problem isn't the frozen shit on the roads... it's all the assholes on the roads who leave their cars right there, and walk to wherever -- you cannot drive when the roads have turned into PARKING LOTS.
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My kids learned to drive up here and can navigate anything - but you certainly can't control other drivers
When youngest first moved to Seattle and there was an inch of snow, her boss was stunned when she walked in the door for work on time that morning
She was the only one besides the boss that came in that day, lol
Got Deviled Egg dropsy?
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Pretty much, lol
We finally polished them off yesterday
If Mr J's mouth wasn't all screwed up, they wouldn't have lasted through Dec 25, lol
My lectric did not even flutter.
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My kids learned to drive up here and can navigate anything - but you certainly can't control other drivers
When youngest first moved to Seattle and there was an inch of snow, her boss was stunned when she walked in the door for work on time that morning
She was the only one besides the boss that came in that day, lol
One other thing to keep in mind, beyond the total lack of snowplows and salt trucks, is our topography -- it's very hilly and the roads are curvy; if you're used to snow/ice in some flat place, it won't translate well to our topography AT ALL. In Jan 2011, we had the biggest snow I've ever seen in metro ATL, 9 inches of snow... which wouldn't have been THAT big a problem if it had just turned into slush and melted as it usually does, here... It turned slushy all right, but that night, it froze HARD, like 22 degrees... and nobody went anywhere for nearly 2 weeks. My husband couldn't even make it off our street, due to the hill and having to make a turn; no way to get traction up that hill, with ice frozen to the road 6 inches deep. Same story here, though the hill here isn't quite as steep, it's longer. Old-growth trees, so they shade the road in many places... which means, it won't melt for awhile.
It's usually best to just stay home and wait for the melt -- most of the time, it doesn't take very long; 2-3 days tops. That shit in 2011 was RARE.
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Lucy has landsildes and such complicating her driving..
But yes frozen rain is even dangerous to try to walk on.
But yes frozen rain is even dangerous to try to walk on.
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It sure is; I think freezing rain is about the worst thing that ma nature throws at us, here in N GA.
But I brought up the topography angle because I *did* learn to drive in snow and even on ice, when I lived in MI -- but MI is flat as a pancake! Same for most places on the plains, in the central US... so even if you are an expert at driving in, say, Nebraska... it won't do you a lick of good in N. GA snow/ice... because no one is plowing/salting the roads, and you simply won't find any big flat places here, except maybe the interstates -- and those ARE maintained, due to fed DOT money. But you have to get to them, for that to do you any good, and at some point, you have to exit.
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Figure you have by now, gotten a generator set back up and wired to a
dead man switch. Your power clicks off and the generator clicks on.
Think many feel helping our planet this late on seems useless. We're
lost and that's that.
Was that the shit that came out of nowhere and froze the entire Eastern
seaboard solid?
I recall me and wife surviving a week without power during a freak ice
storm. First morning of it we woke to trees literally snapping clean in
two from being flash frozen solid. They sounded like shotguns going off.
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I dunno; it wasn't too long after xmas, I do recall. I know it was one hell of a snow machine; previously, the most snow I'd ever seen here was about 5 inches; that monster gave us about twice as much, and it was good snow too, not that wet icy shit we usually get.
But.. as novel as it is to snow that much here... or hell, to snow AT ALL... I'd be delighted if that NEVER happened again, because it's very hard to keep eating when the breadwinner misses a whole damn week of work.
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No buddy, thats a nor'eastern they call it and they are right nasty storms. Only seen it once that I remember. A strong cold front came down and collided with a strong warm front and set off a massive weather event that left the east coast in snow for weeks. I was in the gulf of mexico when they collided and we had 120mph winds sustained for over 8 hours and close to 48 hours above 80 mph. Did sumptin real stupid in that storm and lived to tell about it. I went on the heliport and saved my helicopter. Damn near died from it but it was what it was. Back then I actually gave a shit
(that was the same storm the perfect storm movie is made from)
No buddy, thats a nor'eastern they call it and they are right nasty storms. Only seen it once that I remember. A strong cold front came down and collided with a strong warm front and set off a massive weather event that left the east coast in snow for weeks. I was in the gulf of mexico when they collided and we had 120mph winds sustained for over 8 hours and close to 48 hours above 80 mph. Did sumptin real stupid in that storm and lived to tell about it. I went on the heliport and saved my helicopter. Damn near died from it but it was what it was. Back then I actually gave a shit
(that was the same storm the perfect storm movie is made from)
Ah. Okay, that makes sense too as something I recall having heard back then. Might have been when dumb as rocks me grabbed unto frozen nylon rope line to pull down and secure our tarp roof covering. I still get bits of that stuff out of my hands on occasion. Eh, least it wasn't steal cabling line.
Pft, machines, things and the fucks you need to give them.
Do it proper!
Happy New Year! Hope it's a great one for everyone. Looking forward to our new year here. Got some vague idea of some goals we're not admitting is forming a plan. We do not admit to having anything like that, we know better. 
Good morning all and Happy New Year!!
I officially joined the ranks of retired on Dec.15th, 2018. SS check sucks but it’s enough to keep a roof over my head etc. Life was good until Dec 29th when my youngest decided to go to work at Walmart high, piss off the wrong customer who proceeded to complain and he was terminated. Sucks for him because he has a car payment and no money coming in. A hard head makes for a sore ass. Now with the holidays over, I’ll be able to hang out here more while I look for a part time job to help make ends meet. I hope you all have a fantastic New Years Day!
I officially joined the ranks of retired on Dec.15th, 2018. SS check sucks but it’s enough to keep a roof over my head etc. Life was good until Dec 29th when my youngest decided to go to work at Walmart high, piss off the wrong customer who proceeded to complain and he was terminated. Sucks for him because he has a car payment and no money coming in. A hard head makes for a sore ass.
Now with the holidays over, I’ll be able to hang out here more while I look for a part time job to help make ends meet. I hope you all have a fantastic New Years Day!
Hi Lynn. Enjoy the retirement.
First day of 2019, feels a lot like 2018...
First day of 2019, feels a lot like 2018...
Bob, I fully intend to once I get in the groove. Everything was wide open during the holidays, sick grandson, sick cat added in to all the other stuff that normally goes on during special occasions. Personally, I’ll be glad when things start settling down.
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Worked with an ex cop in Temple terrace FL.
Used to razz him over doughnuts all the time.
Used to razz him over doughnuts all the time.
Still keeping my decades old New Years Resolution to not make any more NYR's.
Good morning all and Happy New Year!!
I officially joined the ranks of retired on Dec.15th, 2018. SS check sucks but it’s enough to keep a roof over my head etc. Life was good until Dec 29th when my youngest decided to go to work at Walmart high, piss off the wrong customer who proceeded to complain and he was terminated. Sucks for him because he has a car payment and no money coming in. A hard head makes for a sore ass.
Grats on the retirement Lynn! Sucks on the kid being a meat head
Yet at times it takes letting them screw up royally for them to learn those hard life lessons.
Evening fugee's and thank god the new years celebrating is over. I was up real late with a scared to death pit bull puppy boy. Poor baby was so scared he was trembling as he glued himself to my side. I love fireworks and I love to go out and shoot in my back yard but I hate my dog being that scared of all the booms going off outside.
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Just move here. They are always shooting guns around here even after dark.
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Both our felines were completely wigged out.
Then the dumbass spawn let Annabel escape his room, Tuxie goes running into the living room, turns the corner into the hall, wanting to go hide in the cat cave... and there sits Annabel in the hall outside the spawn's room.. Neither of them knew what to do about that. There was some staring, a bit of hissing, but at least no cat brawling. Andria