A great coming year for comets they say. One in March that could be good, and then Comet ISON in November.
Apparently ISON could get bright enough to be seen in the daytime, and others have speculated that it could be the biggest in several centuries.
These things have a habit of not panning out in the way that optimists hope they will, but then...
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When we had the big one here.....a bunch of years ago.....you could see the thing for several months. People watched it get bigger and bigger, but it was kind of cool to watch it slowly get smaller and disappear too, knowing just how far out there it was heading , and how many long years it would be until it returned again.
coccinelle:
hello friend, yes, thats true i was not that much active on the site lately. its crazy. but this year i wanna be better. i wanna be better in more things. and i really believe in that. thank you for stopping by and good luck for you too!
One thing about making apple pies : You know what you're going to be doing all day.
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meteora:
Thank you 
I'm certainly looking forward to exploring the site, and being part of the community...there's so much here, it's fantastic!
I'm certainly looking forward to exploring the site, and being part of the community...there's so much here, it's fantastic!
meteora:
Eep! I just realized what was meant to be a reply to your comment on my blog ended up here...and didn't make a whole lot of sense. Whoops! Total noob...oh well. Regardless, thanks for your kind comments, and hope the apple pies turned out well!
*Trying* to get all my outdoor winter preparations done before things get *really* like winter.
Laid out the long weed-eater cord, and got it hooked up to my birdbath heater today.
Keeping some water open, when everything freezes up solid, is totally a great thing for birds and birdwatching.
A funky water bowl heater , $16 from the feed store, does the trick.
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Yes, if you have a birdbath, or even just want to make something like this out of a bowl you have laying around, stop and check at the feed store. The heater I have just looks like a funky spiral of heater wire, wrapped in some heavy aluminum foil. While you are there, pick up a 50 lb bag of millet. Really cheap, and you just scatter it around on the ground and particularly under shrubs that give cover.
It doesn't take much to get a thing like this going in the wintertime. The water is really the thing here.
Yes, if you have a birdbath, or even just want to make something like this out of a bowl you have laying around, stop and check at the feed store. The heater I have just looks like a funky spiral of heater wire, wrapped in some heavy aluminum foil. While you are there, pick up a 50 lb bag of millet. Really cheap, and you just scatter it around on the ground and particularly under shrubs that give cover.
It doesn't take much to get a thing like this going in the wintertime. The water is really the thing here.
neeeeon:
My mom always puts a heater in her bird bath in the winter. The cardinals love it!
Happy balloon by my picture to me. :-)
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violently:
happy birthday!
neeeeon:
Aw, I missed it. Happy day after balloon by your picture day!
Arrgh, the issue of being out-classed when dating !
I was visiting my sister in Portland Oregon, and ran into this beautiful woman while sniffing perfume at a place where a dear friend works. We spoke for just a few minutes, but it was a very nice conversation. She talked about being "older" (women simply don't use the "O word" in my experience) and I...
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I was visiting my sister in Portland Oregon, and ran into this beautiful woman while sniffing perfume at a place where a dear friend works. We spoke for just a few minutes, but it was a very nice conversation. She talked about being "older" (women simply don't use the "O word" in my experience) and I...
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mydogfarted:
Nowadays friendships, and even romance, can easily blossom over great distances. Things like Skype allow for lengthy conversations over nothing, that used to only happen in person.
thora:
The real question: Does she like cats? 
And....here on the Oregon high desert, it is indeed snowing, just like they said it might. Those huge damp flakes like big wet falling Kleenex. Sticky and sticking.
Not that snow is bad, but it's a wee bit early for this kind of stuff to be predicted for the whole rest of the coming week. The kind of situation that, if it stays semi-cold, can...
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Not that snow is bad, but it's a wee bit early for this kind of stuff to be predicted for the whole rest of the coming week. The kind of situation that, if it stays semi-cold, can...
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neeeeon:
whoa, that's pretty early snow! It's still in the 80s here
skoosh:
HAHAHAHA! I just saw your comment about the chicken and the egg and black and white thinking. Awesome. 
Snow already? Hmmmm We're moving to Indiana. Hoping for a light snow year.
Snow already? Hmmmm We're moving to Indiana. Hoping for a light snow year.
Things continue to go well with my new cat Buddy. I put up signs, and there's an ad in the paper, but no one has called with the proper description yet. Sad though, as when you do this you hear from everyone who has lost a cat, so I've found myself doing some consoling of those who are struggling with the idea that their own...
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mydogfarted:
Sounds like a very cool cat.
neeeeon:
cats are awesome
cats are awesomeI've had cats all my life, but had one for about 5 years, after having a couple of ones which were born in this house die of old age.
The idea of going to the pound and picking one out, when you knew the others would be going to the gas chamber....I just couldn't do that.
So thin guy went through my yard two days...
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The idea of going to the pound and picking one out, when you knew the others would be going to the gas chamber....I just couldn't do that.
So thin guy went through my yard two days...
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desdmonia:
I hope you get to keep him
violently:
maybe he's a neighborhood cat that doesn't belong to anyone- just a cat that everyone takes care of? we have one of those in our neighborhood, he's awesome. he's actually nicer and better behaved than my house cats!
anyway, i hope you get to keep him.
anyway, i hope you get to keep him.
Well, I think some of you know how it goes. Sometimes we just don't feel like blogging, and so we let this page sit idle, as though we do not care.
So I did have something that happened a few days ago. My.....well, I can't really call her my GF, but we were saying "I love you" to each other, and sleeping together, when neither...
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So I did have something that happened a few days ago. My.....well, I can't really call her my GF, but we were saying "I love you" to each other, and sleeping together, when neither...
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craftygrrl:
Thank you for the blog comment.
Us humans are complicated creatures; I hope everything works out for the best.
Us humans are complicated creatures; I hope everything works out for the best.
archaepelago:
So glad to see your comment on my blog. Sending you lots of love 
An archy friend of mine just got a job on another forest up in Bend...she'll be in your forest protecting your archy stuff come November
An archy friend of mine just got a job on another forest up in Bend...she'll be in your forest protecting your archy stuff come November
Will be heading up to the Lake for...10 days, I hope. My old canoe, my pup tent, some fishing, lots of birds, old companions that meet once a year in a beautiful setting.
Could it really be true that I've been going there for this many years ?
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mydogfarted:
I think it's because it just keeps the look low and clean. Just not a big fan of ape hangers.
thora:
I know, right? I found out this was not based on their 1st church performance. At least they got away with a couple. And that their term is well underway, which sucks when you have little kids.