Actually, a variant thereof, has been a big hit here lately.
Our combo consists of:

Dried tropical fruit (mango, papaya, pineapple) combo (the *small* chunks, not the huge ones)
Dried cherries-and-golden raisins combo
Soy nuts
Sunflower nuts (kernels?)
Sesame sticks
M & Ms

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Imagine that sort of a noise emanating from the cold water pipes in the basement…for no immediately apparent reason. Then, imagine it just going on-and-on-and-on…for a good couple of hours, no end in sight. At night.
I finally got up, went out on the front porch and tried running the hose - thinking that mmmmmaaaaayyyybbbbeeee air […]

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Spartan Brass will be invading for the Frozen Four Hockey Tournament!! Better, yet…our Very Own GaWBA will be a part of it!!
If y’all’ll be in town during that time - plan to get in touch with her!!!! She wants to try to see you!

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I’ve set up a “PAGE” with the link to *some* of the Death Valley photos that Valdemort had taken - just click the “Death Valley” link under “Pages” in the right-hand column, then click the link on the page and you’ll get into a slideshow of 81 photos.
I will (of course ) have to […]

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…strep, from the flu.
Yep, good ol’ secondary infection kicks in about the time the flu should have been abated. Actually felt ALMOST kinda OK this afternoon, but kept the doctor’s appt anyway, only to find out the “bad news”. Also demonstrated the highest temperature *in* the office that I’ve registered all week.
Amoxyl for the infection, […]

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Click here for the slideshow consisting of 81 photos from the Spring 2007 trip to Death Valley

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… for what’s otherwise known as “Jewish Penicillin”. The easiest recipe I know?

1 pkg (approx 1/2 lb) boneless chicken
1 32-oz box of Swanson’s chicken broth
Chunk of fresh onion, diced (approx. 1/4 - 1/2 cup)
Handful of “baby carrots”, cut into large chunks
1-2 stalks celery, cut into large dice

While cooking the chicken (in whatever fashion amuses you), […]

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Nook & I are viral. She never made in to school (low-grade fever at 7AM combined with dizziness and achy eyes - she went back to bed). I - being of the “Contracted Worker Bee*” variety, made the attempt to go in to work to spread the joy riffle through voice messages, emails, faxes, and […]

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Two of us did not make it out the door to our usual Monday destinations today. Both Nook & I were feeling just viral enough to do the “Excused Absence” calls for both of us. No fevers, just the ickies and coughing (NOT the “bottle flu”, either, mind you - *tsk-tsk* if you even thought […]

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To start with, what Kayak Woman said.
This was a weekend that neither of us imagined would have been as fraught with boozy significance as it turned out…and all of that was within the Planet of Ann Arbor!! For such a Maize & Blue town, there was a tremendous amount of Spartan Green in evidence […]

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