After a nice week-and-a-half in Oregon visiting family, we're back home again in the Sacramento heat. Where our A/C is still out, and the repairman couldn't meet with us yesterday or today, so these near-100-degree temps are making us desperate. :O
While up north, I went to Tryon Creek a couple of times and visited Portland's Saturday Market (
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I first read "salmon and blackberry cobbler" as "cobbler containing both salmon and blackberries" and was horrified. Then I figured it out. :P It's been a bad year for blackberries here--too much rain. I've only had three blackberries this year before they all rotted.
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I can see how you would have parsed that as "salmon and blackberry cobbler," which is both terrifying and reminds me of all the times I read about pemmican in grade school history. :O
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i too read "salmon and blackberry cobbler" as "cobbler with salmon and blackberries in", and was both confused and a little intrigued. i mean, a salmon pie with blackberries might not be terrible. i know cobbler and pie aren't the same thing, but dessert cobbler --> dessert pie --> savory pie. it made sense to me for about ten seconds.
your mom's dog sounds like a trial. oy, mom, train your dog.
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My mother basically refuses to train her dog, though at times she's hurt that everyone else hates him. Argh. He is a pain in the ass, which she basically overlooks and makes excuses for. Which comes off the same way as a parent saying, "Well, Jeremy's just expressing himself when he kicks people in the shins!"
One of the big worries is that he knocks her down, and she's 92. But she knows the risks, and she's choosing not to train him, so... \o?
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Being barreled by a dog is a common way to break a hip! I hope she's being cautious!
Hope your return to the grind goes smoothly!
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My mother isn't being cautious about the dog at all. He has knocked her down several times, and she's 92, so breaking a hip is something all the kids worry about! But she doesn't care enough about the risk to actually discipline the dog. We mentioned it, and her comment was that she has hard bones (she does), and to say that it was really mostly her fault because sometimes she had her feet positioned wrong when it happened. As if it's reasonable to have to brace yourself every time someone's at the door, to keep your dog from knocking you over! Training the dog, that's the answer. Ugh. /o\
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Your poor son and his lack of AC. I hope it's been fixed. We spent 15 days without AC in the dead of summer one year and it was miserable.
I love the earrings on the Dreamspirit site. So pretty and colorful.
Ugh, another sting. I feel for you. Those are so painful. I was walking across the front yard one day about four years ago under our tree and a wasp stung me on the neck. So freaking painful.
I'm not a dog person at heart so your mom's dog would drive me crazy, lol.
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