Fawzo

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  1. If you have any titmouse around, there can be interesting arguments with the swallows.... they were a constant source of amusement a few years ago here...

    I love titmouse they are cool and come and sing for me quite often in the woods, they are less skitish then most birds....they usually hang out with Carolina Ckickadees though and Nuthatches. I haven't seen any around with swallows.

    We actually have to spray chemicals inside our awnings to keep the swallows out. I hate doing that because all other birds are welcomed its those darn dive bombers that go for your eyes and wont let anyone near the house if they get a chance to nest that I loathe with a passion. It takes all my retsraint and then some not to whack them out of the air with something hard besides a blast of water now and then lol

    My favorite bird of all are owls of any type. I feel like I'm in the presence of royalty when I get near one in the woods.

  2. I was cutting the lawn last year in the backyard and having to shove the mower into a a large shrub to get under it. I knocked a robin's egg out of the nest and it broke and I felt terrible. Now I'm very careful around that bush, yet today when I was cutting around it a baby bunny just bigger than a mouse barely escaped the front edge of the mower and scampered off. I would have been devasted if it hadn't of been fast enough to just barely missed being mulched.

  3. ~ Our daughter had a mouse. Just a field mouse the kids down the way caught & gave her.

    Mice have a life-span of tops 2 years, right?

    Well... Cheerios.

    Yep, Cheerios & a small piece of cheese once a week with a piece of walnut.

    5 yrs! Freaky little critter just kept goin' on & on & on!

    It got bad when it lost it's hair, a bald mouse is unpleasant {Tho' he was still cheerful!}.

    But when it's tail started rotting off, I just got the creeps :( Like a zombie movie... { Poor husband had to do the deed. }

    Anyway, Cheerios really ARE good for every critter, including you.

    {They ought to pay me for this, y'know?}

    If I lose all my hair and tail after 5 years eating cherrios I think I'll stick to my pepperoni pizza and cola diet thank you very much :)

  4. You silly Alpaca, You should NOT put crumpets with honey in the DVD drive, You should eat them!:P

    Silly Alpaca?!?! Look Ed I followed the directions you gave me to a tee....well almost I improvised a little.

    Directions

    1) Combine all of the ingredients in a bowl, and beat vigorously for 2 minutes. A stand or hand mixer, set on high speed, work well here.

    I did this and believe me I beat the heck out of the outside of that bowl with the hand mixer on high speed vigorously for a full two minutes. Not much happened

    except now I need a new bowl and hand mixer.

    2) Cover the bowl, and let the batter rest at room temperature for 1 hour. It will expand and become bubbly. Towards the end of the rest, preheat a griddle to medium-low, about 325°F. If you don't have an electric griddle, preheat a frying pan; it shouldn't be as hot as the temperature you use to cook pancakes.

    This seemed a bit odd but I took the bowl upastairs undid my blankets and hopped under the covers with the dough and took a 1 hour nap. Then awoke and heated up the frying pan to 325. I must admit the rest did me good.

    3) Lightly grease the griddle or frying pan, and place well-greased 3 3/4" English muffin rings in the pan, as many as will fit. (If you don't have English muffin rings, use well-cleaned tuna cans, from which you've removed the top and bottom.) Pour sticky batter by the scant 1/4-cupful into each ring; a muffin scoop works well here.

    This part was messy. I got out the axle grease and couldn't find any English muffin rings or tuna cans but did find some rusty old oil cans in the back yard.

    4) After about 4 minutes, use a pair of tongs to slip the rings off. Cook the crumpets for a total of about 10 minutes on the first side, until their tops are riddled with small bubbles/holes. They should be starting to look a bit dry around the edges. Their bottoms will be a mottled, light-golden brown. Note: They probably won't be as full of holes as store-bought crumpets; that's OK.

    I couldn't find a pair of tongs to remove the rings, I don't wear them, so I had to use a pair of my SpongeBob thongs. They worked great I didn't burn my hands at all.

    5) Turn the crumpets over, and cook for an additional 5 minutes, to finish cooking the insides and to brown the tops gently. This isn't traditional; "real" crumpets are white on top, but the crumpet police won't chastise you for adding a little color to the tops.

    Well the crumpet police never showed up but the fire depratment got there just in the nick of time before the rest of the house went up in flames. Did you miss a step in the directions or something. Maybe next time give them to me in American instead of English :)

    When I went finally back into the kitchen area I did notice one of the crumpets was done to perfection. It tasted fantastic!! Funny thing about that fire, I haven't seen my hamster since.

  5. Probably all those darn updates windows shoved down my throat yesterday on work PC, Home PC and laptops....I had 24 updates they took forever and I could barely do anything while on line while they downloaded

    Or Al was making birthday cupcakes out of one of his USB ports again!!

  6. For the past several months I have been posting a weekly blog relating to the original teachings of Jesus, or more precisely Yeshua Bar Yosep. If any of you are interested, it can be found at www.aconversationwithyeshua.blogspot.com

    I also maintain a Facebook page with the name "A Conversation With Yeshua" which gives the same quotes each week as my blog. I'm always looking for new "friends", so if you are interested, don't be shy!

    Brother Peter

    What criteria do you use for "the original teachings of Jesus"? Is it the Jesus seminar?

  7. Experiences are experiences.

    Is it so, that Grace is a benediction to those who are empty?

    When the most beautiful spiritual experiences come,

    they come without being the result of a personal effort,

    but more from leaving the windows & doors open

    to the house in which the spirit lives...

    Now looks whos dropping gems of wisdom around for all to enjoy!

    Great post Hex.

  8. Some old Daoist wisdom states:

    "A person's heart and mind are in chaos.

    Concentration on one thing makes the mind pure.

    If one aspires to reach the Tao, one should practice walking in a circle."

    Who likes to walk the circle?

    I enjoy walking cirlces around the Stupas at http://www.stupas.org/maryland_general.html I think I will visit there again next weekend it should be quite lovely there in the Spring.

    One important thing to remember when visiting Buddhist temples is don't wear socks with half the heel missing lol I felt so embarassed

  9. Happy Easter to you all! On this most holy of Christian holidays, I would like to share with you what I consider the most important of Jesus' thoughts. We find this expressed in the Gospel of Thomas, the source material Luke used, and in the writings of Paul.

    Righteousness and peace are not some abstractions. They will not be found by looking around and waiting for them to come to us. They are found within all of us, although we may not realize it. The time of righteousness and peace come when we practice it.

    Peace to you all.

    Great Easter Post Brother Peter....Brightest of Blessings for you and yours!!!