Pulling Back

The Ol’ Curmudgeon had an angioplasty (stent placed in his heart) on February 25. He was feeling miserable for about 2 months before he finally admitted he needed some help. Following the angioplasty, he was feeling much better. On March 24, he had his post-procedure appointment with the cardiologist, and was given a full release [...]

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Licking the Bowl – -

When I was a child, My little Gam didn’t make cookies or cakes very often – mostly around Thanksgiving or Christmas. Occasionally for birthday, but usually, birthday cakes were from Mrs. Rhodes’ bakery. She would occasionally make custard or pudding, too. Each of those efforts, though would mean the same thing – licking the bowl! [...]

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The Ol’ Curmudgeon’s on Vacation – Shriek!

The Three Musketeers (aka the kids) know what that means! Achtung! Das Haus VIL be Cleant!! Right now, he is re-organizing and ruthlessly throwing away things in the library – which had become the proverbial junk room – “just put it in the library and I’ll deal with it later.” Well, “Later” has come! He [...]

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Happy Dance and Joy!

My Ol’ Curmudgeon came home last night! My world has turned “right side up” again!

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My Ol’ Curmudgeon – the Chef!

Just commented on the Blog of my Ol’ Curmudgeon who is a pretty good cook. A while back, with his permission, I posted his recipe for barbecued ribs on a recipe website, and they featured it in this week’s newsletter!! http://www.momsmenu.com/cgi-bin/sefer.cgi?display:/1192017085-6335.txt OR use the tiny URL: http://tinyurl.com/3dsfyl It will get you there, too! I’m rather [...]

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High Intelligence – as opposed to “Genius”

The Ol’ Curmudgeon once sed to an old friend: The schools don’t know what to do with those of us who are only highly intelligent without the divine spark of genius. We usually got whatever concept was being taught the first time, and the teachers just wanted us to siddown and shuddup while they went [...]

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Dialectizer!! – or – Even Turtles Need a Laugh!

I was sent a really funny URL by Riverdaughter! If you plug in a URL, it will bring up a copy of the page in one of several funny dialects. Well, I couldn’t resist. After all, here at the Pond humor is a greatly valued quality!! So, I dialectized one of the Ol’ Curmudgeon’s Blogs [...]

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If Not Today, When? -

Here at Turtle Rock, I often am enjoying basking so much I don’t start work as soon as I should – then I end up being in a very big hurry and stressed with it. The Orthodox Church Fathers call procrastination Sloth, Negligence, and Laziness, spiritual afflictions that affect our perception of and relationship to [...]

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