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Admirable.

@Daniel You’ve probably spent more sustained time there than I have, but I may have made more trips!

@ShiroKuro Winner winner chicken dinner! Yes pest control. Yes idiot agent.

@wtg That looks really nice!

CBP shot and wounded two people in Portland, OR today, in a medical clinic parking lot. Developing story here.

Ha ha

Ai-yi-yi!

@Daniel Good luck on getting out of a bad situation. Do you have to sell your current dwelling? You’re not taking RM with you, are you?

@Daniel When you say “we,” who is the other person?

This was quite enjoyable! As a singer, I found his discussion of the moving voice lines very interesting.

Went to a friend’s house for dinner and ping pong. Three couples, the women know each other and Mr. AM was the newbie to the group. Home by 10:30. Good night, and happy new year!

Thanks all!

Delicious @andyd !

Lemon and blueberry is such a winning combination. Gluten free bonus points, too.

@piano-dad Congrats to the family!

For Christmas I love pulling out the china (my mom’s Noritake Oriental, bamboo motif) and her silverplate (service for 12; we have sterling for 8 from her uncle, but that’s not enough). It’s like playing dress up for the house. I don’t mind hand washing it all after guests go home. My kids stay and help with the clean up.

My women’s choir sang that Pink Pony Club last spring, and it was very fun. I don’t listen to contemporary radio, so it was new to me!

My extended family likes Brussels sprouts this way:

Halved, sheet pan, 425 degree oven. Drizzle liberally with olive oil, and less liberally with toasted sesame oil, a good grind of salt and pepper. Roast 10 minutes, stir. Roast 5 minutes, stir. Add Chinese sausage (lap xiong, sliced on the diagonal in 1/4” pieces, number of sausages up to you), drizzle all with oyster sauce. Stir. Roast 5 more minutes. They’re done, tender, some crackly leaves for interest. Delish!

Cool! I wasn’t sure this story was going to get written; the author and I traded some emails before the holidays. I’m just thrilled that the food banks got a nice piece of pie from my free hat pattern!

Thanks for the tip off, @bernard !

@ShiroKuro Agreed.

I’m loving these slender trees! So much less intrusive than the big bushy round ones. We don’t have a lot of room for a tree, and I stopped putting one up when the kids moved out.

Here’s my tree this year, same as before but slightly different ornaments. Forgot my sock monkey!

@Bernard It all looks fabulous. Really 14.5 pounds of boozy cake? That’s almost like a packed box of salmon roe from my cannery days! (20 lbs, but hey)