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BBP
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Our first snowy day of the year! And 9 cm of it!
Of course, riding out the trash container wasn't much fun, but I managed to shoot a lot of pretty pictures.
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scallopino
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Gee that's beautiful.
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Well... more frost coming up tonight! -16 C expected in these regions!
Anyway... learning to play the castanettes... they're a lot noisier than I'd expected!
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scallopino
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Watch out...they bite!
[Edited on 7-1-2009 by scallopino]
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BBP
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Snow is all gone now. Everything is very, very wet.
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I couldn't get on the zappa forum or zappa.com!
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Address Not Found Firefox can't find the server at http://www.zappa.com.
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Couldn't get on either. What are they up to?
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BBP
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Learning how to use Flash.
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BBP
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Went Carnaval-shopping and have managed to finally decide on my outfit; I had 3 possible dress-ups: vampire, Frank, and Marge Simpson. This was based
on the stuff I had already. I decided on Frank. But it means I'll have to get on with the knitting.
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BBP
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Made my own peanutbutter. Tasty AND messy! The golden combination!
[Edited on 26-1-09 by BBP]
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Got a food processor the other day. Haven't tried it out yet.
How did you grind up the peanuts?
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Took the dog to the beach. He found something dead to roll in.
So I took him home and gave him a bath. Now he doesn't smell like dead anymore...
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but everything else does, right?
why is it they love that so much? and their noses are so much more sensitive to ours?
crazy!
I remember having to give the dog a bath in tomato sauce in order to get the smell of skunk off her.
So then the house smelled like tomato AND skunk for it seemed a very long time. 
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BBP
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I wondered about that too, when a friend's dog rolled over in horse manure. Is it to stop us from petting them?
Punky: Grinding is very hard. I used 3 methods and got a nice comparison. I used:
- Mortar & pestle: very slow, hurts arm much. On the bright side you can decide how fine to grind it.
- Nut mill: little device with small holes and a plastic thing you need to turn round, much like a coffee grinder. A little faster, but the nuts will
remain too coarse for peantbutter. Which is not bad if you like it that way, but you'll need some finer grind to blend with the oil.
-Braun Immersion Blender. I'm frightened of the consequences it might have for the mixer, but it's sure a lot easier and faster. However I didn't
manage to get the nuts as fine as I wanted.
So, what's left? Ah: oil. I used arachid oil, which is made from peanuts.
Store in the fridge to prevent the oil and nuts from un-mixing and leaving you with a gross layer of oil on top.
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I'm told that dogs roll in smelly things to mask their own scent, since whatever they're tracking tends not to be afraid of shit or dead
things...
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mtf that's brilliant! but what's a chihuahua 'track'? 
Bonny you went through all the steps that I would, deductively. And am glad it turned out to your satisfaction.
But after reconsideration, I realized if I would do it, I would rather tie up the peanuts in a clean kitchen towel. Sit it on a cutting board that
won't break and bash at them with a hammer!
After awhile, take your sifter or collander ( I keep both kinds) and separate out the big pieces. Then bash away some more until desired
smashedness.
I'm suddenly realizing this could really work with my slacker-virtual-youtube-vacation empire thing, my little viral education project I half-ass out
here in flyover zone. Just send it to people and keep sending it. Elicit responses, keep them at it. Get them to wonder what's coming next, a
bashing, or a sifting?
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punknaynowned
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I really like those pictures of the snowfall at the top of the page.
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BBP
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Thanks Punky! It was so beautiful!
Hey I like that method! Although it's very Mr Bean.
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Had a funeral yesterday, of a twenty-year-old guy. Terrible.
Just a note of warning to my friends: if you end up in hospital, don't catch any infections there!
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I arrived home to Melbourne from Maroochydore in Queensland. I was there with my mother visiting my maternal grandfather, who I see once every ten
years or so. He's Ukrainian and was the only one of his family to survive the war. I'm glad i'm home though because i HATE the weather there. It feels
so god damn hot every day even though it's only 31 or 32. It's always about 70-80% humidity. Awful.
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