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  • More subscribers These three subscribers have the following in common - I have absolutely no idea why they would subscribe to my weblog. I cannot imagine that anything I would say could be of the slightest bit of inter…

  • Cool Tool - the apple corer/peeler/slicer This is a very cool item. This device peels, cores and slices apples and other similarly shaped fruits. If you have one, suddenly apple desserts and applesauce are a lot les…

  • Women's work Yesterday my husband played a head game on me, and I bit before I realized what he was pulling. He started talking about how his mom built him a desk when he was younger, and I (stupid me) pointed out to h…

  • Opening Pandora's box I've noticed that since I've started reviewing my subcribers, I have had a sudden spurt in subscriptions. I don't think some of these people are really reading my site, they just want me to review…

  • More subscribers These subscribers have one thing in common - their names have absolutely nothing to do with their real names. MaggieGirl - Her real name is Helen, but I bet you already knew that. She is very popular …

  • The voice of the masses A little over a month ago, I started the Destroy Bianca Broussard blogring. It was wildly successful, gaining a membership of over 100 in about a month. I didn't think it would do much except m…

  • Marching onward Today my troop participated in the Azalea Festival Parade. This is a new parade for us, we usually only do ones in our own town, but my coloeader Teresa talked me into this one. Teresa is definitely a …

  • Thanking Subscribers, part 1 It has been brought to my attention that only really low-life scum bloggers fail to thank their subscribers. I was under the silly impression that people subscribed because they wanted to r…

  • Exploring Hampton This past weekend my troop killed two birds with one stone - We participated in an Earth Day celebration, and we did one of the Girl Scout tourist troop patches that our council is famous for. Earth D…

  • On the Team When I was in the Navy, I used to work with this guy Murph. Murph had this theory (well, he had a lot of them, but this was the only one that I felt made any sense) that there were only two kinds of people,…

  • 1 month Anniversary Saturday I was camping, so I couldn't address this issue this past weekend, but the Destroy Bianca Broussard blogring is one month old, and has 103 members as of this date! I don't know if that's a …

  • Dutch Oven Cooking Q&A time again: eubie want's to know what a dutch oven is. It is not like a crockpot that you plug in (we had no electricity). A dutch oven is a classic cooking tool of the pioneers. It is ma…

  • Evasive? You may notice that I avoid being too specific about where I live. I also avoid telling you any details about my excursions with my troop until after the event. I do this not for myself, but to protect my tro…

  • edda's Konigsberger Klopse I made these the other night (yes, I do cook other things besides chocolate). I did make a few substitutions, ground turkey for the veal, I was out of anchovies, matzo meal instead of bread …

  • Better than sex? Better Than Sex Cake One ponders why anyone would describe a cake as being better than sex. It certainly makes one feel sorry for the husband of the person who named it. To make matters worse, all…

  • Responsibility, part 2 If you aren't familiar with the story of my son's bike: Responsibility of Minors The mother of the 5 year old called me today and said that her son and another boy, 4 years old, and the girl who…

  • To blogring or not to blogring Every so often I write an entry that makes people get funny ideas about me. The usual result is that I get invited to some exotic blogring like "Mothers against Sex Offenders" or "Really …

  • Helpful hints for military spouses It takes knowledge and skill to survive married to a military service member. Here are some things that make it a little easier: Write letters. Write every day. If you have email, …

  • Take Charge!!! I live in a military community with very conservative two parent single income families. If it weren't for the ethnic mixture, it would seem like a fifties time warp. In it chores are divided in the tr…

  • Responsibility of minors? My son Gordon, who is twelve, had an unhappy experience today. To state it briefly, a 5 year old boy who lives down the street managed to mangle Gordon's new bicycle while Gordon had it lying …

  • verboodles gives a haircut This reminds me of an incident that happened when my middle son was 3 years old. He had his little friend over and they were playing in his bedroom with the Mickey Mouse train. This was a gr…

  • Lotsa Matzah Q&A time: Cibertron asks if I know any hebrew, I don't really. I know the prayers I use most often, but that's it. Don't ask me to read anything. Dr. Don wants to know the differnce between matzo and…

  • Fine Xanga Technique I have noticed that the feedback will tell you how many people have subscribed to your weblog in any given week, but there is no running total of all one's subscribers. This makes me wonder - cou…

  • Eating my way through Staten Island I just visited my sister in Staten Island this past weekend. It was an interesting experience on a number of levels. First, the main object of the trip was for my husband to build s…

  • Quantifying one's personal value Each of us has methods by which they measure their value to the world at large. It may be the dollars one earns, or one's rank or title in the workplace, it could be by the number of ch…

  • Classmates Classmates.com is a site where you can register your name, high school, and graduating class so that others from the same high school can find you. This may not mean too much to some of you who are young or …

  • Verboodles' Socks I love verboodles , he cracks me up. He must spend more time online than I do to have all those entries (I'm generally too busy nosing around other people's weblogs to write in mine), and everything h…

  • Fast Cookies This is the recipe I use when one of my children tells me that they need cookies and I have only a half hour to make them (yes, this happens all the time). I keep all the ingredients on hand, so it's alway…

  • Cookie Crisis I'm having a small problem here. Maybe it isn't small, it depends on how much importance you put on cookies. These aren't just any cookies, though, these are the nationally famous Girl Scout Cookies. …

  • A night out Tonight I got to have a "night out". In my house, this means the family got in the car and went to the mess hall for dinner. This happens about once a month, whenever my husband has duty. Part of the requ…

  • Still breathing, not in jail I survived a full weekend wrangling my Girl Scout Troop. We had a very heavy schedule - the first day, we went to Luray Caverns, The second day we visited Natural Bridge, and we finished up…

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