Sunday Wild Card — 7.19.09

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  marmitetoasty on July 18 at 9:07 a.m.

  Today we had 'drop scones' for a late breakfast, and I found a little packet of blueberries in me freezer which we plopped on top whilst the drop scones were cooking, and then we poured on top lashings of maple syrup that a matie had sent from Maine about 18 months ago (dont think it had gone off)..

  We often have pancakes here, but our pancakes are thin and we roll them up with lemon and sugar inside, a bit like french crepes, where as your doodle pancakes I think are more like our 'drop scones' that we had this morning……

  drop scones = doodle pancakes….

  We couldnt eat many cos they was to filling, but me and Jacob remembered when we was in Maine a couple of summers back and we went out for breakfast (which to us Brits is such a wonderful treat lol) and we just had a small brekie, but we stared godsmacked at the table next to us…… upon asking our host what the hell the people on the next table were eating, we were told…. oh just some pancakes…. well, bugger me, this pile of pancakes stood about 6 inches tall and was smoothered in syrup and cream stuff…… and they bloody ate the lot and then went on to have what we would call a full English with sausage, bacon, eggs, mushrooms and tomatoes and toast………

  My lads did manage 4 drop scones/doodle pancakes with blueberries each…… the greedy gits lmfao……

  Overcast with well proper heavy showers and thunder again today…..

  Happy Saturday..

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  marmitetoasty on July 18 at 9:42 a.m.

  Pretty amazing, that dear Henry was the last human connection to WW1….

  Henry Allingham, the oldest surviving serviceman from the First World War, has died at the age of 113.

  Mr Allingham served with the Royal Naval Air Service during the Great War, later transferring to the Royal Air Force and serving at Ypres

  Less than a month ago, Mr Allingham was declared the world's oldest man by Guinness World Records.

  Mr Allingham celebrated his 113th birthday on June 6.

  Just thought this was interesting, even though its nuffin to do with doodles LOL

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  Zelda Krup on July 18 at 3:12 p.m.

  I have a deep woods mystery. I live on a heavily wooded lot but it's still suburbia. I was awakened about 2:30 a.m. by unearthly, blood-curdling shrieks and screams coming from the woods below my backyard. At first I thought it was coyotes. Then I thought it might be a cat or maybe a dog being torn apart by a predator. The shrieking lasted about 30 seconds — long enough for my dog to alternate between trying to jump out the window and searching for a place to hide.

  When the shrieks stopped, the strong odor of skunk came through the open window. Took me a long time to get back to sleep.

  I'm not positive what was screaming, but I think it was more predator than prey. My guess is that it was a great-horned owl since they are about the only predator that will eat a skunk and we have a lot of them in the neighborhood along with a heaping helping of skunks.

  Has anyone else out there in Huckleberry Land heard forest noises like this? Was it a great-horned owl or its owlets? A cougar? Big Foot?

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  spokelooneh on July 18 at 8:30 p.m.

  Definitely a Sasquatch, Zelda.

  They're migrating to cooler climates due to Global Warming, plus it's rutting season, and as everyone knows, they smell like skunks.

  “Now if you were a big hairy ape - and no one's saying you are - but if you were, wouldn't you look for cooler climes in these days of global warming?

  Those wide-eyed cryptozoologists, after all, don't go looking for yeti and sasquatch on Caribbean beaches. No, those hirsute beasts (the yetis, not the cryptozoologists) prefer the shady cool of deep woods, the frosty heights of distant mountains.

  When the heat is on, Bigfoot moves north. To Montana.
  That's the conclusion of a scientific report released by a team of university researchers in a recent edition of the Journal of Biogeography.
  …
  The conclusion: Sasquatch will be bigfootin' it north, and into the Rocky Mountains, pushed from his usual haunts in California and the coastal Northwest as the world warms.
  …”

  http://www.missoulian.com/articles/20…
  ;)

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  Zelda Krup on July 18 at 10:44 p.m.

  Biological niche modeling, huh? Sounds suspiciously akin to modeling credit default swaps and CDOs, which also turned out to be big, hairy crypto-monsters.

  Maybe what I heard was Sasquatch eating a Great-Horned Owl. A skunk saw the whole thing happen and barfed a little. (Skunk burps are almost as bad as what they do on purpose.)

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  Frum Helen Back on July 19 at 12:24 p.m.

  OMG. We had a Sasquatch nearby in the middle of the night recently. I didn't see it but the smell woke me up.

  Marmie, I heard about the death of Henry Allingham, the oldest living soldier from WWI on the doodle TV yesterday. It does affect some of us doodles. My grandfather was in WWI. And my grandson Bob is a history nut and was telling me about Allingham last this week before his death. The doodle tv station I was watching said he told the reporters that he owes his long life to cigarettes, whiskey, and wild, wild women.

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  marmitetoasty on July 19 at 1:10 p.m.

  Yep Frum Helen, ole Henry was a bit of a 'jack the lad' in his time…. :)

  FH, when Im mobile and out and about proper, Im gonna make you up a scrummous parcel and make you addicted to something british, just like you made me an addict of them cheddar bunnies LOL….

  I will do it in honour of Henry and your Grandfather :)…. except no smokes or whiskey in the parcel lol

  It seems funny that its a little after 9pm here and yet its just after lunch there left of the staples…… enjoy whats left of your day..

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  Frum Helen Back on July 19 at 1:21 p.m.

  Don't get me hooked on British food. I may run away from home and show up on your door step for you to feed me.

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  toadman on July 19 at 8:19 p.m.

  OMG! A Sasquatch smelling and hearing! FINALLY! I've been in the Inland Northwest for SIX years and have YET to meet ANYONE who's seen/heard/smelt a Sasquatch.

  I love Sasquatch. Them's is my people.

  And Marmy - We'll be over soon.. dinner at six?

  ;-)

  Lastly, welcome me back, please. You see, on the fifth of July, I drove my family down to Boyd, TX. for a visit with family and friends. We visited my parents, my wife's parents, a friend who's just gone through a nasty divorce, and a friend who's been diagnosed with stage four esophageal cancer and is undergoing chemo treatments.

  Overall, we had a good time. Saw a lot of family that we haven't seen in almost six years, but missed seeing some others. The drive was hellish and long, but the new van tempered some of the pain with it's fold down couch seat in the back, DVD player that could be hooked up to the PS2.

  Coming back, we pulled a small UHaul trailer with pretty much the last of our stuff out of my parents attic in Boyd, TX. We drove through two blue states and three red states on the way (not counting Texas, which is so red they've almost outlawed MSNBC and CNN in favor of Fox news 24x7). New Mexico was friendly and unique, Colorado was congested and smoggy along the front range, Wyoming was big, wide, and completely empty, Montana was dry and empty at first, then more interesting as one got closer to Idaho. The Idaho panhandle was beautiful, but on the way back, thankfully small.

  Texas was, well, hot. It was over 100 degrees and over 40% humidity where we were EVERY single day we were there. We're glad to be home where the nights are cool, and the summer days are temperate. This is home now, for us, I think.

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  keithincda on July 19 at 8:36 p.m.

  Welcome back Toad,
  Here's a few West Texas towns I lived…1st-El Paso my birthplace then Odessa, Laredo, Monahans, Pecos, Amarillo, Lubbuck and Del Rio…..we were nomads growing up as my Dad was in construction which ultimately brought us to E Wa as he worked during the construction of the Columbia Basin project.
  Anyway Welcome Home!

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  MikeK on July 19 at 8:37 p.m.

  Don't know if anyone mentioned this or not, but the soldier being held captive by the Taliban is from Idaho. Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl from Blaine County. Keep him in your prayers, and look forward to the US special forces recovering him safely then delivering swift and appropriate justice to his captors. Emphasis on swift.

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  marmitetoasty on July 20 at 12:07 a.m.

  Welcome back Toadie…… actually dinner was at 6 lol…. cos we have high tea at 4 :)

  Wow your trip sounds brill…. I so wanna go on a road trip, but there is no way I could watch a telly or play a playstation whilst the car was moving, I would puke LOL….I just love driving though (well I will when Im allowed back to drive)…. I might do on of those fly/drive holidays one of these days from the west coast right over to the east….

  Toadie, say NO to 100 degrees everyday and sweaty nights lol…. well, those sort of sweaty nights anyways :)

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