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Happy Birthday Tomboy.....
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOMBOY!
Thinking of you today. Many warm hugs.
I hope you are doing whatever your heart desires today.
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Ok EVERYONE your cards to TB are amazing, BUT (T), ducky you are the cheekiest!
Hugs to all
Have a great Saturday.
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Duck vindaloo! And some of that cake in a jar for dessert....ah Sula, I will be there before you know it! And thanks to all of you for the smiles this am (loved the masked woman, Katy!).
Tomboy, You share a birthday with one of my favorite people, my daughter...so today is always a happy day in my life, and so hope it is very, very, very HAPPY for you too! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Tomboy!
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(drools) Duck vindaloo? I may ask for that for my birthday, though I won't insist on Sula showing up on my doorstep and cooking if for me. We'll see how my husband manages.
Wishing I had the chops for the cards people are coming up with.
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Happy Birthday Tomboy!
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I'm chop-less here too,
but my wishes are true.
Can't do the cute memes,
But wish Tomboy great dreams.
She may be absent this morn
Could be with her porn
That is her boymanfriend
Hoping he sends her
To heaven and mends
Each little hurt, every last dream.
And whatever he misses,
Her Crazies are here
Providing the rest
For a perfect NEXT YEAR!!!!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOMBOY,
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎈🎈🎈🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎈🎈🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
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AAAAwwwwww, thanks, you guys! It really made me smile and yes, giggle to see what you have posted! But if we are celebrating MY birthday, I think it's only fair that we find out and celebrate everybody's!
I haven't thrown anything yet, but I will try! Love that cartoon you found lucy! That IS me with the cat mask on! But I am wearing the other girl's jeans with the holy knees! I like that little squirrley-cat thingy that is giving a cookie!
Slo, also I love your before and after pics of what you look like! Funny! Well, maybe not.. made me smile though.
So, time to call my mom and thank her for my life! I always celebrate her on my birthday, and tease her about celebrating the new year with my dad! (here I came 9 months later!) Hope everyone has a lovely and safe labor day, and remembers the wobblies.
gonna go and eat Sula's cake in a cup now
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Creepy! Anyone else have the google page tell them happy birthday? And it even used one of my nicknames!?
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Ducky, how did you get my picture to use on Tomboy's birthday card???? hahaha
Here is the cake I would make if I did that kind of thing. haha
Love the ducks!! Don't think I could eat one though. Lately I've had a difficult time eating beef if I think about it too much. That didn't bother me when I was younger. Maybe it's the chemo.....yep....it's ALWAYS chemo's fault!!!
Love to all!!
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Sorry I'm a little late to the party. Happy birthday Tomboy!! I'm having a drink to celebrate with you
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mmmmmyum, thanks!
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Tomboy,
Hey there...sorry I'm late to the party, but my party just broke up... Crazy Tiwn in the Monkey House. We had a great luncheon that lasted all afternoon with one of our bc. Org friends. So great to have a lunch where it's all cancer crazy talk all the time!!! Wow... What would happen if we all got together!!!???
Here's a pic of me getting the table ready full of Indian food
Anyway... A bit late but here's my birthday cake and best wishes for you Tomboy... All your years and all the years you/we have ahead of you/ us... Thus the multiple of candles.
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Thanks Sula! Nice to think of you and the other lady sitting down to that mouthwatering spread. It would be great to bring all of us together at your house, but what about the Aussie ladies? I actually had a cake a few years ago, that when my man and my friend who has since passed,lit the candles and made me close my eyes, I could feel the heat of all the flames from about 5 feet away!
A couple years ago,bright before dx, at my job I told my boss I was forty-eleven. So now I am forty-sixteen. Yay!
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Good Morning Crazies!
I've missed writing, but have glanced through this vivacious thread.
Tomboy I hope you had a wonderful day filled with laughter and things that nourish you!
Sula fantastic spread ( would we expect anything else) and I will definitely let you know when I swing to the left coast in 2016!
Katy- first how did the sleep mask serve you? Loved that pic. Oh and the birthday poem; is there anything you don't do?
Slow all of your posts are cracking me up, I won't bother to pretend I know the difference from a meme and a gif or a dancing thing - my boymanfriend ( thanks for that Katy) like s to say 'step away from the technology' or pop culture stuff. That said I do do my own website and can work my way through photoshop and illustrator- but I think that's intuitive- not because I really know what I'm doing... But I do know how to ask for help- so maybe that's how I get through!
Octo- how are you feeling? Thinking of you.
I hope everyone is having a lovely 'long weekend' and only circling crazytown, it does seem quieter, except for the festivities, so I think that's good! Yet one thing I LOVE about this thread is that we all just show up here for whatever reason at all!
Have a great day
to be continued...
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actually, gaia,"boymanfriend" is my word. Katy knows I call him that. I like making up my own words!
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Gaia- yes I was hurrying to post that boymanfriend IS Tomboy's word- I stole it but only because it was her poem. The sleep mask helped. Thanks so much for reminding me of what is under my nose!
Tomboy I also hope yesterday was wonderful and memorable.
For the long weekend I am indulging in gardening, harvesting tomatoes, watching endless US Open tennis matches (and being reminded of my mom) and this:
Top is done except for borders. I am laying in bed with the screen door open to the back. It is so nice. I can hear the hummingbirds right outside, and a goat of my neighbor'sasking for his brekkies. Quite bucolic and wonderful.
Hope everyone has a great day. As you can see, I have added a few neighborhoods in the plot plan of CTown. Plenty of room for everyone
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and Sula- the good spread and cake was literally mouth-watering!
I received two of the Indian cookbooks recommended on this thread (bought them used on Amz). Can't wait to see if I can manage it!
By the way also...I had never heard of Kalustyans. Looked it up after the reference here. Amazing store! So many things I'd like to buy! But I think I'll wait till I come to NY becuz the S & H was almost enough for a plane ticket. Tail between legs hitting the back button.
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Katy, that is SO BEAUTIFUL!!! You are a gifted woman, and if I was at your house, I would enjoy the day and the goat and the hummingbirds, peacefully with you. I wanted to tell you, I guess that one piece that you guys are talking about, is a hummingbird that I carved and cast. One of the only cast pieces that I have left. It was a special prez for my mother, - she LOVES hummingbirds. I had made glass wings for it, it kind of looked like they were moving at high speed. A yea or so ago, she was afraid to tell me that she dropped it while cleaning it, so I need to find a place that has a kiln for glass, to make new wings! One of these days.. I need to take a picture of it in profile, it's easier to tell what it is. Okay, I hope to be taking a picture of some things for you, beads and such. Do you have a favorite color or two? I can see that you are a fan of color, like me! Good luck with your new cookbooks! I make a simple dinner of fish, veggies, rice, and salad, almost every day! Simple and deliscious! one of my favorite veg dishes right now is, cut your sweet potato or yam into bite size chunks for you, melt some ghee (4 Tblspn?) (or butter) and add liberal amounts of turmeric, maybe a tablespoon per cup of yam, stir it all up, and spread in a pan to roast after sprinkling with sparkly big sea salt. O man, it is SO good! It is colorful, and WILL stain your fingers if you eat with them as I do!!
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Tomboy- thank you. Since I like color so much, I will leave it up to you. The artist.
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Hi all: happy weekend!
Gaia, I am feeling good today, thanks! Well, that is, if one can feel good when one is hungover. Big engagement party for my nephew last night involved lots of dancing (that was the good part) and a few drinks (felt good at the time, today not so much). And lots of good food in the mix. My chemo had originally been slated to start last week but was postponed until this coming Wednesday. I am grateful for the long weekend without the chemo, but the anxiety has gotten to me a bit. I mean, if two martinis, can make me feel this poisoned (argh, I am getting old!) what will chemo do? Hovering near the CT exit on that one....
Oh well, maybe I should just keep dancing until Wednesday!
Sula, the food looks fabulous! Engagement party was Indian, by the way: groom to be is half Indian, bride to be is Indian, both Gujarati, lots of visitors and relatives from India, and folks of Indian descent in attendance. Most of the women wore saris. I did not,but plan to for the wedding itself, which will be a large bash. There was some darn good food to go with that open bar!
and the quilt is coming along very nicely Katy. You are going to display it in the CT museum, right? (am I the only one who loves Erlene Fowler mysteries?
Octogirl
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Octo- Museum is a good idea. Tomboy is in charge of the arts..... Maybe she wants to appoint a curator or maybe she should do this job herself. Right up her alley!
I've started reading my Indian cookbooks. I need to upgrade my spice cabinet.
I can't find Tutti. Darn cats always have to have at least one hiding place their humans can't know about. A Jellicle spot
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Hello, dear crazies, I'm back from the wilderness. Reading your week's worth of posts was like dipping into a good novel, perhaps lacking an airtight plot, but definitely populated with the most remarkable characters, each telling her own perfectly splendid story and chatting across a communal back fence. Such fun to read through the posts! Happy belated birthday, Tomboy! Love the quilt and the food and beautiful illustrations and much more!
We spent last weekend at our CSA farm about 4 hours north of NYC. Toured the farm and camped out and potlucked and ate -- drank -- I know not how to describe it --manna from heaven in the form of warm maple syrup in shot glasses. Makes me shiver just thinking about it. Here are a few photos from the farm:
Then we spent several days camping in Vermont. I know this sounds as if I am an enthusiastic camper, and I'm really not. DH and DS love it, and I sort of string along and make sure the campsite is near the bathrooms and we have plenty of towels and spare flashlight batteries and something for dinner besides red meat. But it is nice to get away once in a while, and the wilderness is very calming, possibly the exact opposite of Crazy Town. We hiked, canoed, watched a muskrat swimming in the lake and entertained (but did not feed) a very friendly duck who wandered into the campground around dinner time, clearly expecting to be invited to pull up a seat at the table. (See above, because I am a spaz at inserting photos in the right place.)
I do seriously recommend a posthumous anthology by Shirley Jackson called Let Me Tell You. It's a melange of short stories, essays, literary criticism (including a piece on Dr. Seuss!), and notes on domestic life. Some of these I read aloud to DH and DS, which led to DS stealing the book. Meanwhile, I keep circling Go Set a Watchman, but I'm having trouble committing to it. I don't know, maybe I'll try it again in a few months.
Awright, must start supper. Glad to find you all here and prospering!
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OMG- Octo. I'd never heard of Earlene Foster. I had to look it up because I have great regard for your taste. I love to read and love quilting and its history. And folk art. Required reading for me! Off to Amazon to buy some used books!
Can you suggest what I should read first? I see there are some written in series and some award-winning stand alones. I feel like I just found buried treasure!
Btw, HRT (Her Royal Tuttiness) has been found. She somehow got out and was on safari among tall grasses in the back yard. Her 👀 were HUGE! Safe in the house now. She's set to be spayed in a couple of weeks and she's still very small. Eats more than Jack thoand growing fast!
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Rainny! We x- posted! Missed you! So glad the trip was a grand success.
The whole thing looked idyllic, bucolic, and your description was musical.
I tried unsuccessfully to enlarge the chickens. It looks like a painting! Would you be willing to share that pic image with me? I have a thing for chickens and roosters. You could attach it to a pm and I think I would get it.
My mom taught herself to quilt and designed this 3D rooster:
Sorry about reflections. It is hanging in my sunny kitchen.
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Oh Katy, I think you will like Fowler a lot, at least I hope so. I envy you having just found her, I have read everything she has ever written and think she is a great voice among women mystery writers!
Start with the Benni Harper series and go in order, starting with Fool's Puzzle. The other books she has written are very good, but don't have as strong of a quilt or folk art connection. though it might make you want to relocate again to the Central Coast of California..
My one caution: she is religious (I am not) and God occasionally plays a bigger role in her books than I'd like. That said, the women in her books are all strong and independent and God never stops them from doing what they want/need to do, or from getting into trouble, he is just a bit more of a presence than I'd prefer. Never to the point of being annoying, but often there. I tell you that only because I am enough of my father's child not to want you to think for a minute that I am a true believer. But that is a story for another time..
Tomboy for curator! Of course! (Benni Harper is a museum curator too, by the way...)
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Octo- Fool's Puzzle on its way. Thanks for the gentle warning. I am like you andwill enjoy more having been forewarned.
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Katy, I sent you the chickens by PM. Here are some more:
No roosters about; these are all laying hens. Love your mother's quilt, though!
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so cute. I hear chickens and goats in the morning around here when I wake up. No roosters. Always makes me smile.
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