I was cleaning out a couple of flower beds below the fence yesterday and found two sets of crucus blooming. hmm, crocus, in the flower bed that has no bulbs, and also below that, where only creeping phlox is planted. I think chipmunks have been transplanting stuff for me!
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I finished a book last weekend that was just fantastic (if you like Fantasy). It was by an author that I have never read before, nor would I ever had read her if I hadn't gotten a "mystery book for $1.99 with the order of any other book" from the Science Fiction Book Club. I was ordering a book anyway, so what the heck, I threw in an extra $2 for a book. Paladin of Souls, by Lois McMaster Bujold, was what I received and it was worth way more than I spent on it!
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Last weekend, when WS took me out to dinner for my birthday, we looked at the desert menu and I knew instantly that I had to save some room. Featured on the menu was Fried Cheesecake. The only words to describe it are: Totally Awesome! (decadent and fattening are also words that can describe it - LOL).
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There are plenty of goldfinches, chipping sparrows, red-winged blackbirds and others back from their winter grounds. Thursday when I got home, the woods were so noisy with bird sounds that it was very rare for me to be able to pick out one type of bird call. The feeders have to be filled every 3 days instead of just once a week now. Even the thistle feeder is getting a huge workout.
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That is it for today from Bogieland.
Sounds like you had a wonderful few days!
Posted by: Susan | April 10, 2005 at 11:21 AM
...fried cheescake - sounds...actually it sounds horrible :^)...
Posted by: billy | April 10, 2005 at 05:10 PM
Billy, Billy, Billy - when the word "fried" is front of the name of any desert-type food, it instantly sounds great. Let's give it a try: Fried Ice Cream (mmm, good), Fried Cheesecake (mmm, good - take my word for it), Fried Brownie Sundae (um, um, um actually that sounds horrible).
Lulu - I did, very much so.
Posted by: bogie | April 11, 2005 at 04:13 AM
Bogie--You may have my fried dessert. I'm with Billy! About the only thing that I really want fried (but I have to take off the skin, then, to get rid of the grease) is fried chicken--well--and chicken-fried steak!
Posted by: Cop Car | April 11, 2005 at 08:58 AM
We must be thinking along the same lines. I have a picture to post of crocus from the garden at the front door that have been transplanted about 50 feet away to the side of a path. Darned little beggers, stealing our bulbs!
About Lois McMaster Bujold, she has several wonderful fantasy books out. I'm pretty sure you would enjoy "The Curse of Chalion." I'm just about ready to order the sequel to it. But, if you have never read her series about Miles Vorkosigan, you are missing some of the best writing around. I think there are about ten books, and when I read the tenth, I mourned because it seemed the story had come to an end. If you decide to read them, try to read the story chronologically. It will help, because Miles goes from a teen to an adult in the series. If you're like me, you won't be able to put the books down.
Posted by: Buffy | April 11, 2005 at 09:18 PM
Fried cheesecake!!? Yikes!
Have you tried fried Oreos yet? Or fried Snickers bars? I hear they're good but never had 'em. (yet)
Glad to meet another bird lover/feeder/watcher - I keep my feeder filled - my little piglet birds are just tearing through it these days!
Have a great day!
Posted by: Monkey | April 12, 2005 at 02:41 PM