One of my favorite cartoon classic characters has alway been Tinkerbell. I was captivated with the idea fairies as a young girl. The Peter Pan movie brought Tinkerbell to life for thousands of children. I really like the way Disney is bringing back fairies in a series of books and dolls. I think every girl should experience the fantasy of a little fairy and their fairy dust magic.
A Turkey in Every Pot
The latest craze for Holiday meals is deep fried turkeys. This HAD to have been invented in the South. They fry any and every thing in the South – and it usually tastes damn good, too.
The problem with deep frying turkeys is that you have to use a lot of very hot oil in a big pot that can tip over or spill over very easily. This usually causes someone’s house to burn down because these dumb rednecks don’t understand that hot oil spilled on a wood deck equals big fire. So if you are cooking a turkey in a big tub of hot oil, please use your brain and put it on a surface that cannot catch fire. And cook it outside, far away from your house!
Brrrrr
Wow – we got a blast of artic air down here! It’s freakin cold!
Usually I only have to wear a coat in January and February. I wonder if this is just going to be an anomaly of a winter for us and be colder and longer than normal?
It was so cold this morning getting into the car that I was at the interstate before the heater started blowing warm air in the car. I was having to hold my hand in front of my face and blow on it to get it warm enough to grip the icy cold steering wheel and then switch hands and blow on the other one. I’m not liking this cold weather AT ALL.
My Dentist Appt
This morning I am not going into the office. I have a dentist appointment at 10:30. So it doesn’t make sense to sit in rush hour traffic and drive all the way into work, just to have to turn around an leave again in an hour.
I slept in, watched the news, and got online for a little while. Now I have to grab a shower and brush my teeth and get downtown. Let’s hope I get a good report from the dentist today. I don’t want any trouble with my teeth.
Bonfire
My neighbor had a big party yesterday and invited us to stop by. It was a great turnout and they all seemed to be having a blast.
She even had a big bonfire going up on the hill. We sat around the fire on hay bales and roasted marshmallows and told funny stories. It was great fun – but too dark for my camera to get any good snapshots of the group.
70’s in November!
Wow! What a weather perfect weekend this is going to be! The forecast is for sunny days with temperatures in the 70’s and no rain for several days in the foreseeable future! This is perfect weather for doing fun things outdoors, like rock climbing, exploring the lakeshore, or even raking leaves and pruning shrubbery. This is the weather we should have had last month – it’s very unusual for November.
There is football on TV this afternoon and tomorrow, but the weather is too nice to be sitting inside watching a TV. I’m going to make the most of the nice weather and stay outside as much as I can!
Peeling Bananas
This funny video was on the front page of Yahoo today. It’s timing is really good – I just brought home 30 bananas. A friend had a huge box of fresh bananas that he was giving away for free and I took them. I have no idea what I’m going to DO with 30 bananas, but he was going to throw them away. So . . . at least I know how to peel them now. LOL
AA Batteries
For some reason I can never find good AA batteries when I need them.My digital camera is the biggest battery hog and I am always having to change out the AA batteries in my camera – it is a real nuisance.
I have tried rechargeable batteries – but they have a lot of disadvantages. Every time you recharge them you get a little less life and there is no way to tell how many times you have left or how much life you have to use. It’s very frustrating to charge the batteries overnight and then get only 10-15 minutes worth of charge.
So I bought a big value pack of regular AA batteries. But evidently they go bad from sitting on the shelf and each time I put innew batteries I would get less and less use. Arrrgh! I guess I am going to have to bite the bullet and pay the extra money for lithium batteries. I hope they are worth it!
When Angels Kiss
I love this picture. It makes me think about these two beautiful angels and what they must have been doing right before this tender moment. I love pictures that leave you wondering about the rest of the story.
Recycled Ink Cartridges
Today I was cleaning out a couple of drawers in the office. Well, I was looking for a bottle of glue and couldn’t find it, so I had to clean out the drawer while digging through the mess looking for the glue.
In the back of the drawer was a ziploc bag with a bunch of old, empty inkjet cartridges for that broken Epson printer that I used to use. I hated that printer – you had to have 6 different color ink cartridges to get the colors to print. If you ran low on any one of the 6 colors, the printer wouldn’t work at all until you replaced the one cartridge. You couldn’t even bypass the colors and use just black.
It was a total nuisance trying to keep up with all those ink cartridges. Now I have a big bag of the empty and I guess I will find someplace to recycle them.