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And So It Begins
by sherri_ at 2/6/2011 1:49:02 PM
Man Child is sick again. Maybe. At fourteen, it’s hard to tell if it’s a contagious sickness or the non-contagious sickness, Hookieitis. But I have to take him in to the doc’s to find out since...
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Grrrrrrrrr
by sherri_ at 1/30/2011 1:48:27 PM
I just got back from the store, actually the Redbox in front of the store is what I went there for, but you know... Handicapped spot, SUV type vehicle, my car. SUV lady is just finishing loading u...
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Hello, My Name Is Sherri, And I Am an Addict
by sherri_ at 1/15/2011 3:41:36 AM
I marvelled in dumbstruck awe when my friend told me she had 15,000 titles in her e-book library. How could that be? For what purpose? Then I got a Kindle for Christmas. Fifteen days into the ne...
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Itsy Bitsy Spider
by sherri_ at 6/24/2010 9:43:15 AM
Dropped right down off my car visor onto my steering wheel and tried to help me drive the car this morning. I [b]hate[/b] when a body grabs hold of my steering wheel when I'm in the driver's seat a...
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Today Is a GREAT Day To Be Alive
by sherri_ at 6/21/2010 5:42:23 AM
Yesterday I was made aware that I completely creeped out Smokin' Hot Adult Daughter with my bags of human hair scattered in and around (well, it's not scattered inside the house, just in an out of the...
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True Love and Vampire-Proofing Your Home
by sherri_ at 6/20/2010 5:50:00 PM
My new Main Man is Jerry Baker, Master Gardener and PBS host. Totally unrequited. *sniff* He doesn't even know I exist even tho' he took my money...or more correctly, Amazon.com took my money. Two...
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Making Cent$
by sherri_ at 6/2/2010 6:37:58 AM
This morning I'm harvesting rhubarb (and sugar snap peas, but I have to harvest those every morning). I only took about 1/3 of the plants, on this first picking, but still I have about 40 stalks. ...
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Great Garden Book
by sherri_ at 6/1/2010 12:08:27 PM
I've mentioned Sue-Next-Door. She drove over the other day (we drive our tractors to each other's houses) to check out this year's garden and we got to talking about my Tobacco Tea recipe and she sta...
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Super Spray
by sherri_ at 5/30/2010 6:42:02 PM
I've been getting a lot of requests for my homemade veggie spray and I'm tired of writing it out, so I thought I'd just type it here then copy and paste and print as needed. This will repel deer an...
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Charmed
by sherri_ at 4/29/2010 12:53:11 PM
In the tv series, there was an episode where Detective Morris was magically imbued with Superman powers and he tore to Hell everything he touched...picked the phone up, and it crused in his hand; open...
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Adding Big Red To The List
by sherri_ at 4/28/2010 9:41:29 AM
"Big Red" is my tractor. It *is* still a few days to May, so officially still the month I've renamed, Break-It. Adult Son #1 was "helping" me again yesterday. He sheared off the front center ba...
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Jan. Feb. March, Break-It, May...
by sherri_ at 4/26/2010 6:09:11 PM
I am renaming the fourth month to "Break-It". So far, with one week remaining, broken at Chez Moi: Water Heater Water Bed Screwdriver 4X4 Cold Frame Kitchen Light Rear Tine Tiller Compost Tu...
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Funeral for a Friend
by sherri_ at 4/23/2010 10:03:04 AM
Poor, poor Wilson. We went out so happy after installing his new parts. We cut a couple limbs together, then his chain stopped moving...even tho' the motor was running. Turns out, Adult Son did mor...
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Wilson LIVES!!
by sherri_ at 4/21/2010 11:33:44 AM
So does Murphy  But now I know what an E-Ring is, and figured out how to take it off, put it on, take it off again, squeeze the ends back together and put it on once again...and unjam t...
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Poor, Poor Wilson
by sherri_ at 4/18/2010 9:26:30 AM
Smokin' Hot Adult Son #1 wanted to "help" me. I have some limbs and small diameter trees that are shading my veggie garden, have been for some years, but never had time + weather to get them down bef...
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Hammered
by sherri_ at 4/17/2010 2:25:29 PM
Gads, am I hammered. But I was talking about Rustoleum Hammered. It's really cool paint, don't have to sand the rust off, just brush off the loose flakes. It has glass beads in it and turns the rem...
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Ye Olde Compost Tumbler
by sherri_ at 4/9/2010 11:09:00 AM
[img]http://www.vermiculture.ca/store/images/uploads/compostbins/compostumbler1.jpg[/img] It's awesome. 18-bushel capacity. Screen insert where the door is so you can "sift" the finished compost ...
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Did You Know?
by sherri_ at 3/4/2010 7:11:41 PM
Man Child is entering highschool next year. Now, it's a big to do because my state has three different types of high school diploma, so there's multiple parent and student meetings. The below video ...
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Broccoli, By "Bob"!
by sherri_ at 2/25/2010 2:19:43 PM
Next week is March. March is when we here in the Ohio River Valley plant our "cold crops". At Chez Moi, that means: potatoes, onions, cabbage, peas, brussel sprouts and broccoli. Sure, there may...
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"What do you think you're doing?"
by sherri_ at 2/16/2010 9:41:49 AM
--Smokin' Hot Adult Daughter, to me. She's awesome. Drop dead gorgeous, intelligent, goes to school full time and works six days/week. Last nite, she worked two jobs simultaneously--she *is* that g...
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Death and Chocolate
by sherri_ at 2/10/2010 10:38:39 AM
My parents were neighbors in the first ever "subdivision" in my town. Subdivision is kind of a misnomer as the lots range from 1/2 lot to more than ten acres. When they got married, they moved their...
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When Wild Grape Attacks
by sherri_ at 1/30/2010 4:16:41 AM
I am completely out of firewood. Well, not totally out, but down to less than a week. I'm going to have to cut more. Cutting firewood in February, in the snow and cold is EXACTLY what I was hop...
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A Weekend of Quirks and Quarks and Haute Cuisine
by sherri_ at 1/24/2010 8:40:01 AM
Our library books are overdue. We're not done with them. Man Child has decided he wants to keep "The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory"...so I ...
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The Wile E. Coyote SOO-per Genius Effect
by sherri_ at 1/14/2010 5:26:31 PM
Man Child, on the first day of school, to his science teacher: "When do we get to study theoretical physics?" Science Teacher: Freshman year of college. Obviously crestfallen, the science teac...
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I Suck BIG Time
by sherri_ at 1/11/2010 1:11:23 PM
I dunno that anyone could suck more than moi. Je suis tres tres SUCKY. I got this gizmo at CVS as a Christmas gift for the family, called Extreme Fit...it's got athletic games, whack-a-mole and ot...
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Honey, I'm Hooommmmeee
by sherri_ at 1/10/2010 12:25:31 PM
I've picked up the house, swept the floors, done a couple loads of laundry, refilled all the bird feeders and moved about 400# of firewood from the side of the house into the porch. Baked Cajun Chi...
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A Very Sad Christmas
by sherri_ at 12/26/2009 8:45:48 AM
Mine actually started Christmas Eve morning, right in the middle of my oatmeal raisin cookies. Last type of cookie before I divided all the cookies and candies up on Christmas plates to send them to ...
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"From the Desk of Santa Claus, Christmas 2009
by sherri_ at 12/14/2009 3:03:03 PM
...with special "Thanks!" to Santa's helpers..." It one of the volunteer things I do, and every year one of them ends up in MY mailbox  Siblings who write don't get a form letter, they all get ...
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How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck...
by sherri_ at 11/22/2009 4:37:58 PM
...if a woodchuck could chuck wood? NOT MORE THAN ME!!!! Thank God for Man-Child, who helped me stack some of this. I *think* I have enough... [img]http://img.DateHookup.dating/Regular/2009/11/...
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Kudos
by sherri_ at 11/10/2009 4:55:31 PM
Some kudos don't bother me at all; for instance, I quite like "Hell Pope Empress Supreme Dictator of North America" and it's been a saying in my home for some time, "This is Mommy-World where I am the...
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Spiced Cranberry Jam ~or~
by sherri_ at 10/29/2009 5:32:21 PM
"I Just Never Learned When to Quit" We had our first hard freeze on Oct.17 & 18. That's VERY early, darn that global warming. I had to spend my Saturday bringing in *all* the garden -- except for...
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Bumper Nuts: Silent But Deadly
by sherri_ at 10/12/2009 12:52:28 PM
Wild raspberries & blackberries have bumper years, every other; so do nuts, black walnuts. I've got a buttload of black walnut trees. Really, several dozens. Last winter I ran out of fallen tree...
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Demands
by sherri_ at 10/11/2009 6:37:01 AM
I have them. Last nite I got a DH email from a fellow Kentuckian down in Louisville (if you don't pronounce it, "LOU-uh-vull then we (tiaw) know you're an Outsider). Louisville is one of our lar...
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Spiders and Snakes
by sherri_ at 10/8/2009 5:26:11 PM
It's fall. More like November. Dunno what happened to my beloved October. Or my summer, we had spring then a week of summer then fall. But regardless, October is when the snakes start burrowing th...
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Prey vs Predator
by sherri_ at 10/7/2009 10:25:19 AM
We have a massive oak tree about 30' off my patio, it's gotta be 5' in diameter at the base. Massive oak trees produce massive quantities of acorns which draw massive numbers of those accursed deer. ...
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Reanimating the Inanimate
by sherri_ at 10/5/2009 8:49:44 AM
Everyone knows how clothes dryers eat socks. One sock in a set. Some theorize there's an interdimensional wormhole that opens up for a Loki like spirit to snatch *one* sock thus messing up the pair....
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Dumb As A Box of Rocks
by sherri_ at 10/4/2009 12:05:19 PM
I'm capable of absolutely stunning brilliance...sometimes even impressing mah-self. And then I can turn around and demonstrate I'm dumb as a box 'o' rocks. Dumber, even. Today is dumb and dumbe...
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Huevos
by sherri_ at 9/29/2009 9:49:02 AM
My Bridge Jumping ones; can't find them. Last I saw them was when I was 17 or 18 and immortal...and yes, Ma: in fact I *would* jump off a bridge if everyone else was. Half-lit. On a dare. Not be...
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It's All in the Genes
by sherri_ at 9/27/2009 6:03:06 PM
I've been in Chester County, Pennsylvania for the last week or so. 1650 to 1815. The Welsh tracts of Nantmeal, Whiteside and Tre..somthing, to be precise. Spent some of those decades in southwester...
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The Art of Being Tight
by sherri_ at 9/19/2009 12:14:38 PM
I am *incredibly* tight. I don't make Lincoln cry, I make him scream. I'm a lifelong member of the First Antioch Church of the Wailin' Abe. Skinflint, miserly, tightwad, frugal. All are terms th...
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Free
by sherri_ at 9/17/2009 3:16:33 PM
So we're coming back from Man Child's physical therapy, and I have to stop at the store. Man Child is out of pop, Smokin' Hot Adult Daughter is out of milk for her coffee and I have nothing planned f...
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Mirror, Mirror On the Wall
by sherri_ at 9/15/2009 11:41:17 AM
How come why you keep [b]lying[/b] to me? So just who is that old broad you keep putting dead center? I know it's not me, I still feel the same (very wise and mature) 19 yo that I always am. Ok...
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Passion
by sherri_ at 9/14/2009 12:19:32 PM
Or, plural in my case. It's a very busy place inside my head what with chainsaws and being Evil Incarnate and plans for World Domination and all. Currently, as if it wasn't obvious, one of my top ...
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Chainsaws
by sherri_ at 9/13/2009 11:51:55 AM
I love them. I had to give away Dad's 36" bar, gas powered - that was just too much saw for me. On a Doc's recommendation I got a 8" Beaver. WOT a waste, that thing was downright dangerous. Every ...
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World Domination
by sherri_ at 9/12/2009 6:18:31 PM
Sure, I admit it. I HAVE PLANS. It's what I do. I can't help it, really. So, I have a plan for World Domination. Of course, so do all the other -NTJs, but clearly mine is the best albeit always...
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Bowling Season
by sherri_ at 9/8/2009 5:36:08 PM
Now that summer is officially over, as signaled by the "Blow the Summer Away" Boomsday, it is now time for..... [b]BOWLING SEASON!!!![/b] Of course, it's critically important to have a "Strike D...
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D Does the Double
by sherri_ at 9/7/2009 4:59:29 PM
I swear, she gets frisked by the hot young guy two years in a row. This year, she slugged the cop. She says the cop last year was better  Otherwise, it was bust for me. Too cold to swim, high...
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Boat City
by sherri_ at 9/6/2009 6:59:15 AM
Yes, there is such a place. Once a year, in the Ohio River between Cincy on the north and Covington/Newport on the south. They start arriving a couple weeks prior to the Main Event from all over t...
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*sniffle*
by sherri_ at 9/5/2009 5:09:56 AM
My last offspring is almost at the age where I can no longer run him to ground. With vast experience on the topic I can assert that it's almost impossible for an adult man or woman to chase down a te...
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This Year's Official Pyro-wear
by sherri_ at 9/4/2009 11:48:08 AM
Put out by The Garment District of WEBN for the 'EBN Fireworks. 'EBN has 'tude. They just do. And very dirty minds - a simple glance at their website tells all (www.webn.com). It is no coinc...
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Housework Is The Pits
by sherri_ at 9/3/2009 11:57:21 AM
UNLESS You put some dance tunes on and dance while you're doing it. You can actually burn quite a few calories and get some balance/muscle work in if you do it with enthusiasm. (nods) Some *go...
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Diet Coke
by sherri_ at 9/2/2009 4:30:54 PM
Today the Man Child was at the doc's; he's inflamed his Achilles tendon where it attaches to the heel. Both feet, we don't do things halfway in my family. So the Doc got off on a tangent about pop...
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The Gathering of the Clan
by sherri_ at 9/1/2009 1:58:57 PM
The youth group I volunteer for had their meeting last nite; this would be the group I went camping with three weeks ago, and still have the paintball hickey on my leg. I made sure the perp knew he w...
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The Excitement Builds
by sherri_ at 8/31/2009 5:18:09 AM
the one, the only, WEBN Fireworks. Always the Sunday before Labor Day, always first boom at 9:05. Always, the houseboats start arriving a couple weeks prior. It's primal. You can feel the booms ...
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I Feel Good...nah nah nah
by sherri_ at 8/30/2009 8:23:24 AM
I knew that I would... nah nah nah. I'm talking about yoga. I started when I was twelve. Take it up for awhile, put it down for awhile. Stiffness creeps up on you. You don't realize how stiff...
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In Case of Shoe Emergency
by sherri_ at 8/29/2009 9:08:13 AM
If it's warm enough, I do most everything barefoot. Not when I'm cutting firewood in the black locust grove or picking blackberries, that's just Very Bad. It's very, very sensual. Very. Feeling ...
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The Bag of Life
by sherri_ at 8/28/2009 5:26:07 AM
No, not me; fertile old bag tho' I may be Pick It up, turn It upside down and shake It until every last little thing inside falls out on the ground at your feet.
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Mmmmmmm...
by sherri_ at 8/27/2009 2:11:26 PM
... cheesecake. Not as good as [b]mine[/b], of course; but ...mmmmmmmmmmm... cheesecake
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Simple Pleasures
by sherri_ at 8/26/2009 10:42:47 AM
Going down over the hill after the Man Child heads off to school and torching the brush piled up in the fire ring; sitting in the chair, bare toes sliding in the dew covered grass, sipping on my monst...
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Send Them Off With a Smile
by sherri_ at 8/25/2009 4:56:46 AM
There's almost a generational age gap between my last youngest and me second last youngest...but in both my older group of three and my last born, they'd challenge their friends, "My Mom can make you ...
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Super Heroes
by sherri_ at 8/24/2009 4:21:27 AM
Three of my children are adults now and no longer part of the Annual Back To School frenzy, leaving me with my Man Child. On the last day of school he brought his backpack home and there it sat, li...
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The Shopping Gene
by sherri_ at 8/23/2009 5:08:12 AM
I see all the shops, strip malls, TWO regular malls--one outdoor, one indoor. There are *thousands* of stores and there's just not that many folks in the NKY area. Obviously all those stores hav...
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Daybreak
by sherri_ at 8/22/2009 4:42:45 AM
I love daybreaks, and sunsets; but especially daybreak. I feel like I've missed something special if I miss the sunrise. An old Indian proverb I'm very fond of talks about how one should observe t...
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