April 21, 2021

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MontanaLady
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

Ah. “Misty Valley”. Nice choice for morning fog.

Grog
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Reply to  MontanaLady
3 years ago

I’d rather go to Misty Mountain.

Liverlips McCracken
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3 years ago

Face facts, Clara. No one else at home gives a hoot about Alice the former next-door neighbor. And anything after that was just the sound of the wind. But you said something about pie! That is newsworthy!

perkycat
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3 years ago

All Claude and Cleo heard is pie. They certainly don’t care about Edna’s new cat.

Grog
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3 years ago

Or any of the other goings on.

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MontanaLady
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3 years ago

Pie? Did I hear PIE!!?

Any good vanilla ice cream to go with that?

Grog
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3 years ago

Wild thing, you have a pie thing!

Last edited 3 years ago by Grog
DennisinSeattle
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3 years ago

Oh come on! The Troggs are not in the same universe as John Lee Hooker and his band!

Grog
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Reply to  DennisinSeattle
3 years ago

John Lee Hooker has nothing on pie, so Buy, Buy Amereican Pie.

DennisinSeattle
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3 years ago

Did someone say “pie”?

SusanSunshine
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3 years ago

As the proprietor of both Susan’s Pie Shop … right next door to the Tiki Bar on Ballard Street… and Susan’s Bakery … around the corner from the Tiki Bar, and a few doors down from my hair salon …

Pardon me? Oh… Susan’s Salon, of course…

I approve most of these comments.

I’m also obviously a very creative namer of businesses.

But it’s not the name… it’s the pie.

Fresh for Wednesday morning… key lime, pecan, Oregon blueberry, Washington apple, Washington cherry, boysenberry, banana cream, chocolate cream, and cherry cheesecake pie…

Slices also served at the Tiki.

dorothea
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 years ago

A slice of pecan and cherry cheesecake please. Yumm!

MontanaLady
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 years ago

Washington Cherry sounds delish!

With all you do around this place, you have time to run those 3 fine establishments?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  MontanaLady
3 years ago

I don’t have time, but … cough… of course I make time.

It’s hardest in summer, when my tomato farm and cannery are also going full out.

With the Monkey gone, having to take over his Sheriffing duties and his 12 hour day shift as manager at the Tiki, PLUS my 12 hour night manager shift and bookkeeping there…

I admit, it HAS been a little tight.

That’s why I keep trying to catch him.

Besides his being a good friend who went missing….

with an apparently worrisome tale to finish telling…

I want to make sure he’s really going to take back his jobs.

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Alexikakos
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3 years ago

 
Those two sponges are definitely behaving like lemons today.
 
From: KATE AITKEN’S COOK BOOK
 
Published by: WM. COLLINS SONS & CO. LTD.
LONDON – GLASGOW – TORONTO COLLINS
A White Circle Book Toronto I.S.B.N. 0 00 682482 X
 
LEMON SPONGE PIE
 
Temperature: 425° F.  /  350° F.
Time: 15 Minutes  /  30 Minutes
 
Plain pastry (for a 9″ single crust pie)
 
1/4 cup margarine or shortening (use a vegetable shortening)
3/4 cup white sugar
3 tablespoons flour
3 eggs, separated
6 tablespoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon grated lemon rind
2 cups milk
 
Line 9″ pie pan with pastry; moisten edge; flute on rim. Cream together margarine or shortening and sugar; blend in flour; add unbeaten egg yolks; beat well; add lemon juice and rind and milk; beat till smooth; fold in stiffly beaten egg whites; pour into uncooked shell. Bake in hot oven (425° F.) for 15 minutes; reduce heat to 350° F. and continue baking until done. Serves 6.
 
Notes from me:
 
When turning the oven down, don’t take the pie out, just turn the oven down.
If using a commercial bottled lemon juice from concentrate the measurement is still 6 tablespoons (There is no reason you couldn’t use lime juice for this recipe either.).
The 350° F.  /  30 Minutes timeline is a guideline.
Test at the end of 30 minutes by sticking a knife in the centre of the pie; if it comes out clean (and it will be obvious if it’s not) the pie is done.
 

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

 
I found all nine with no problems whatsoever.
 

perkycat
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

I found six…….but, then, I have always been ordinary.

MontanaLady
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

I, also found all nine. Took me longer than I’d like to admit. This was fun, NH.

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

I found twelve (plus two cats and a dog) but I think most of those are the result of pareidolia…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

I found all nine too…

The hardest thing was remembering to count the most obvious one.

Like Steve, I can also find more if I let my mind loose… but I’m pretty sure they’re not ones the artist intended.

That artist, btw, is Mexican surrealist painter Octavio Ocampo, who calls his own style metamorphic.

His probably most famous paintings are of Don Quixote, and religious or traditional subjects … but he’s still working, and has done portraits of people like Marilyn Monroe, Jimmy Carter and James Dean.

….

I don’t know of any contemporary artist whose works are more stolen, appropriated, and plagiarized.

You find them used for puzzles like this, but also printed without attribution on cheap imported trays and dish towels, and even crudely hand copied onto painted furniture, mostly Mexican, but not always.

He’s fairly well known in Mexico, but not as internationally famous as he ought to be.

Old Phart Plods
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3 years ago

Good morning, Cleophanatics and ML!

There’s pie? Whoo hoo!

Y’all keep +. (((((HUGZ)))))

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MontanaLady
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Reply to  Old Phart Plods
3 years ago

Good Sunny morning, Plods.
Did you mention CHOCOLATE covered cashews day. Count me in.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Old Phart Plods
3 years ago

What’s the significance of yellow bats?

The baseball kind, I mean.

Not the live kind with yellow fur, yellow paint on them, or hepatitis.

Old Phart Plods
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3 years ago

This is supposed to phunny, but it’s yesterday for me.

Not the snowbanks, but the visibility.

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perkycat
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Reply to  Old Phart Plods
3 years ago

North Idaho ~ nine months of winter.

MontanaLady
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Reply to  Old Phart Plods
3 years ago

We had a skiff of snow yesterday, and frost this a.m. Spring.

JP Steve
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Reply to  MontanaLady
3 years ago

Mid-seventies again today in BC and I’m running out of sunscreen! Will this heat wave never end?

MontanaLady
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Reply to  JP Steve
3 years ago

Supposed to get up to 57 today. Nice!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
3 years ago

Here too… Well, some days down in the low 70’s.

But chilly rain coming Sunday and Monday… Highs under 50°.

I just know the others will feel sorry for us.

JP Steve
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 years ago

😉

JP Steve
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3 years ago

MontanaLady
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Reply to  JP Steve
3 years ago

Mmmmmmmm. Two of my favorites: Sons of the Pioneers, and Springtime in the Rockies! Thanks, Steve.

Grog
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Reply to  Old Phart Plods
3 years ago

I’ll take the cashews, lightly salted – hold the chocolate.

Last edited 3 years ago by Grog
dorothea
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Reply to  Old Phart Plods
3 years ago

We had about 3 inches in Michigan. Covered everything. Broke a big branch of one of my lilacs. Boo hoo.

But most of it melted today.

Alexikakos
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3 years ago

@comment image From yesterday

I used what skills I have to search the ‘net for a posted answer, but could not find one and I missed that black colour change entirely (I was looking for circular arcs not colour changes every time I looked for it during “idle time”)
 
As I missed it entirely and it is different, I like you (and bambushie), will tentatively accept it as the answer the puzzle author meant.
 
Thanks for your help, I appreciate it.    🙂
 

GerardD
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3 years ago

You are very welcome.

Rotifer MY AVATAR IS BETTY BOOP'S BUTT Thalweg
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3 years ago

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Rotifer MY AVATAR IS BETTY BOOP'S BUTT Thalweg
Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

nitpicker
that’s what you are
nighthawks the nickname nitpicker

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

Um… “Rotifer ANOTHER THING I LIKE ABOUT WORDPRESS IS NO 50 CHARACTER LIMIT IN THE USERNAME Thalweg”
is 93 characters counting spaces.

DryandDusty
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3 years ago

Good morning Balladeers, ((((Plods))) and Miss Susan.

perkycat
perkycat
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3 years ago

Any word on StelBel?? How is she doing??

MontanaLady
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

That is such good news! Thanks for the update!

perkycat
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

Yes, thank you!

dorothea
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

Good to know!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

I commanded her to get better.

What choice did she have?

GerardD
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 years ago

Could you please command me to get rich?

Rotifer MY AVATAR IS BETTY BOOP'S BUTT Thalweg
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3 years ago

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Arfside
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Try Rotifer Cranky Old Yank…etc.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

It sure would be nice to have captions, if you know the where and when.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

I didn’t see the title above the picture…

Sorry.

Arfside
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3 years ago

I see Clara going on and on, then it comes to me why men don’t listen when they should. Their ears are suffering from overload, and have shut down. 😉

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3 years ago

Claude’s hearing is focused on only one thing. I thought Clara would have known that by now.

P51Strega
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3 years ago

JOB OFFER! Olla Cleomigos y Cliomigas. I got a JOB OFFER! It’s been 17 months since I was let go as part of the tech center closing here, and I finally goa a JOB OFFER! Not only do I have a JOB OFFER for a contract R&D position, but I still have an interview planned at another company for a permanent R&D position. Who knows, next week I could have 2 JOB OFFERS! Anyway, one in the hand beats two in the bush, so if I can’t get a quick offer on the permanent position in time I’ll take the contract JOB OFFER!
🙂

MontanaLady
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Reply to  P51Strega
3 years ago

Boy, P-51, that is really good news!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  P51Strega
3 years ago

Congratulations!

P51Strega
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
3 years ago

Thanks

perkycat
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Reply to  P51Strega
3 years ago

Good luck on getting the one you want. Great news for you!

P51Strega
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Reply to  perkycat
3 years ago

Thank you!

P51Strega
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Reply to  nighthawks
3 years ago

Thanks Nighthawks, and thank you Big Ed!

Alexikakos
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Reply to  P51Strega
3 years ago

 
Congratulations!
 
May all go smoothly for you.
 

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Reply to  P51Strega
3 years ago

Mazel tov.

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3 years ago

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P51Strega
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Reply to  Tigressy
3 years ago

Thank you

dorothea
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Reply to  P51Strega
3 years ago

Congrats!

DennisinSeattle
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Reply to  P51Strega
3 years ago

Happy for you, P-51!

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