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1. about 21 hours ago on Breaking Cat News

   Sending prayers and hugs. I’d send purrs from Orrie & Janet, but they still haven’t figured out how to do healing purrs. So I’ll send you healing purrs from Niko & Lily from over the Rainbow Bridge, those two were the best when I wrecked my knee. The first thing they did when I got home from 2 months in rehab was to lay down on either side of my leg and purr. I’m sure their purrs are effective from the Bridge, sometimes I still feel them.

2. 1 day ago on Thatababy

   I love their artwork. I find the artwork on newer SciFi kind of dull and boring after growing up on the Brothers Hidebrandt. (I also find a lot of newer SciFi writing kind of dull and boring, so maybe the new artists are just churning out what the publishing houses want these days.)

3. 3 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Lately most of our power outages have come from dead ash trees falling on powerlines during wind storms. That %$#@! emerald ash borer really took a toll up here.

   I did hear once that one reason they don’t put lines underground is because of ‘frost heaves’ In late fall and spring when the ground freezes at night and then thaws in the daytime, the ground gets funky, so buried lines would have to be put in deep, under the frost line with is something 4 or 6 feet here, and I guess that sort of digging is expensive (But Ma Bell managed way back when, so I don’t know.)

4. 3 days ago on For Heaven's Sake

   :-D. I’d forgotten about that.

5. 3 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I live in a cell signal dead spot, so I’d have to walk out to the mail box, or maybe drive into town, to call them.

   In the 45 years we’ve lived here, we’ve never lost our landline service, but power and cable go out all the time. Those underground phone lines stand up to UP weather, I don’t know why all the utility lines are underground – but then some fool with a backhoe would probably come along and …..

6. 3 days ago on Kitchen Capers

   Whatever you normally use, I think. For me that would be either Penzey’s Sweet Curry or Penzey’s Maharaja Curry. I’d also leave out the cilantro, and use a mild pepper like ancho in place of the chili, but that’s just me.

7. 3 days ago on For Heaven's Sake

   As I recall, my son would fall asleep during the sermon (our pastor at the time had a soothing voice) but right after the sermon the organist would pull all the stops out for the closing hymn. Everyone woke with a start.

8. 3 days ago on Pearls Before Swine
   “We still have a “landline”, but it’s provided through our cable Internet service, so it can go out if the power goes out”

   The cable company used to try to get us to add the phone to the TV and internet bundle. I haven’t heard from them in a while about that. I think they finally got tired of me asking how I could call them when the cable went out if the phone was part of that.

9. 4 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Hubby, resident son, and I all have our own cell phones but we keep the land line because the cell phones don’t work in the house (or in most of the yard, have to walk all the way out to the end of the driveway to get a signal). We have 4 cordless receivers stashed throughout the house, but we still keep the old corded phone so we can call the power company when the electricity goes out.

10. 5 days ago on Breaking Cat News

    Happy Birthday, Lady Bri!!

    43? Do you know you were born on the day Hubs and I celebrated our 2nd wedding anniversary? We’re celebrating our 45th wedding anniversary today.

    Does anyone else here subconsciously think that everyone else in the ORB is more or less the same age as they are? And get a bit surprised to find out other folks are about the same age as their kids (or parents)?