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Yeah, we're good. It's just a shit-dipped cherry on the top of a melted sundae of grapenuts icecream.

Uuugh. Today sucks. Hubs called me at work. Upstairs bathroom flooded, floor upstairs soaked. Went under floor, and down the wall in the bathroom underneath it.
Came home, started cleaning and mopping up… and Dibley decided it was a great time to go after Paisley.
Can today be over now?!

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“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?” #GNUTerryPratchett

Hopefully someday soon!

This cold that’s going around is wicked. I had it a while back. Sudafed Cold and Sinus is your friend. And steamy showers.

When did Scarpetta come out on Prime?! Has anyone watched yet, and if so what’d you think?

Sweet baby angel pupper.

Same, Steve.

Gorgeous!!!!

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It was so boring. I learned nothing of dates, rulers, what was happening in the area… nothing like that. Here’s an Ionic column, a Doric one and a Corinthian one. In this paper I will attempt to —

I’m a dates, battles, monarchs, politics kind of history fan. Learning about the types of columns, or ancient pottery… each class was a chore.

My grade 9 was British and we were the last class to get it. All the other grade 9 classes in our school got, you guessed it, more Canadian. Grade 10 was ancient history but the teacher did it about pottery, architecture, the arts, and let me tell you how very little attention I paid to that class.

What about now? It’s now, right? Right?

My grade 11 history class, and my grade 9 British History (up to Victoria) are my favourites out of all the ones in grade school not just because they weren’t Maritime or Canadian (though I loathe both) but because it was so new and interesting.

You know, the first time I learned about WWI and WWII was in grade 11. Not one touch on it until then. And not any history outside of Maritime and Canadian until grade 10.
Both of my grandfathers, and great uncles (and a lot of my classmates’) fought in WWII, and not a mention.

I love British history, and even I couldn’t keep up with Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History.

Sounds like it’s time for a night course. Canadian Engineers and the Pontoon Bridges

Great for students means: *I* don’t want to leave it on the sidewalk, but I’ll let a student do it for me.

Oooh thanks! I’ll check them out!

I just looked them up - they’re called Camelia small reds. Can’t find them on the amazons.

Pete’s has all kinds of dried beans I’ve never seen before. I do wish somewhere sold the light rose coloured beans they use in southern beans and rice, and gigante beans.

Yea it’s not mandatory. But the boiling before popping in the slow cooker is.

Owie! I’ve jabbed myself accidentally before. It suuuucks.

Offices making people travel in when you COULD work from home is a slap in the face. It’s even worse when you’re taking an active pay cut to do so (cost of gas, car repairs, parking, bus fare, lunches, office clothes, not to mention mental stress from having to deal with other people in person.)

Kind of like a Zatarans box mix (which is also good) but no beans in it. It has a very little amount of heat which was nice. I don’t see them on Amazon tho which was surprising.

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Warm bed, cool room. Noise machine on. Once my toes warm up it’s gonna get *lit up in here!

*Sleep, she means sleep.

I did beans and rice from a bag for dinner tonight and they were AMAZING. I got them from Pete’s. I added a diced green pepper and 2 German sausages diced up at the beginning. Highly recommend!!! I think it was 4$ and change. 2 mains and a fair lunch. Will buy several for emergency dinners. 30 mins.

The brining overnight is from Americas Test Kitchen. Brining makes the beans creamy. If you have a cast iron pot, I recommend that in the oven on super low heat. My oven has a slowcook function and it’s a better slow cooker than my actual slow cooker.

Old-Fashioned Baked Beans Recipe - Food.com This is a recipe from Thompson beans, that is the old-time recipe for baked beans, before slow-cookers, and microwaves. They are so delicious, and th

Baked Bean expert here! Soak your dried beans overnight in salty water. Drain and rinse the next day. Then follow this link’s instructions. Use Thompson’s Pea Beans (Navy beans).
I usually swap out the bacon and use a smoked ham hock. Either is great! I also add 1/3C bbq sauce at the end.

Please stop wasting money doing this.