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Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

 
Your problem is very interesting.
It will, however, have to wait until after my nap before I can work on a solution.
 

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

Love the picture… unfortunately I don’t know any Amtrak trains where a dog is allowed outside her carrier, even for a moment, even a nice doggie.

Some dogs behave better than some people, but there’s a lot of speciesism in this world.

MontanaLady
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1 year ago

maybe it’s not Amtrak?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  MontanaLady
1 year ago

Could be, but not in the U.S. unless it’s pretty local.

Amtrak runs all interstate and most intercity passenger trains in the US, except some commuter rail lines.

There are also some local rail lines… And of course freight trains.

It doesn’t have compartments, like a European train…

and the set-up and upholstery are so familiar, I took it for an Amtrak train, like the ones I’ve taken.

But who knows.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

Just a common house spider.

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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 year ago

Maybe that’s common at your house………..

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

 

 

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Reply to  Alexikakos
1 year ago

One of my favorite early Who songs.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

Years ago, my then husband and I traveled by car from California down into Mexico.

We didn’t have much money, and stayed in local “casas de huéspedes” .. guest houses, much cheaper than hotels. Most were very plain… bathroom down the hall, sometimes you had to ask the host to light the hot water so you could shower.

Late at night, arriving in a town about halfway to Guadalajara from the border, we found one where the office still had a light on.

It turned out to be unexpectedly beautiful… the high-ceilinged rooms were full of old colonial furniture, the walls very thick, with multi-paned windows.

Finally lying in bed, exhausted, we were startled to see a giant spider crawl out of the shadows and settle in a high spot on the wall, across the room from our feet….

Just like the spider in this picture, only father away, and, I admit, a lot smaller, though its 18″ or so across was a lot more spider than I wanted to see in our bedroom.

I was scared to go to sleep, but we were afraid if we chased it, it would run towards us.
Before we figured out what to do, we both dropped off anyway.

In the morning, it was gone… and we left for parts south.

On the way back, we hit the same town about the same time… so we went to the same casa.

The hostess was delighted to see us, and gave us the same room.

Same spider.

Leaving the next morning, I told the hostess there was a huge spider in the room.

“Oh yes”, she said “He lives there.”

He had a name… I don’t remember it. But she was very casual about it.

MontanaLady
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

there is a little town not far from us where they ‘decorate’ for Hallowean. this one shop always uses a giant spider near the top of their building. looks just like your giant.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 year ago

Eighteen inches in diameter is one enormous spider!

Saucy1121
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

Aragog or Shelob?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 year ago

There was a newspaper story, in the1980’s or 90’s, that became the late 20th century version of viral.

A young British woman was traveling in Chinese occupied Tibet, I think just sitting at a cafe, when a Tibetan soldier suddenly started yelling at her, and tried to rip off her Sgt. Bilko T-shirt.

Other soldiers joined in the yelling, and she ran, thinking she was being either arrested or even sexually assaulted.

She managed to get back to her hotel and change, unharmed.

Eventually someone who spoke English explained to her that, being unfamiliar with Phil Silvers, or 60’s TV, they all thought it was a picture of the exiled Dalai Lama, whose image is totally banned in Tibet.

It must be the glasses.

happyhappyhappy
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1 year ago

The knowing look…

Alexikakos
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1 year ago

 
It’s bacon day today.
 

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Alexikakos
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1 year ago

 
There is no reason you can’t dice bacon after it’s cooked.
 
From: “A Guide To Good Cooking with Five Roses Flour”
(TWENTIETH EDITION revised, 1962)
Published by: Lake of the Woods Milling Company, Limited Montreal – Winnipeg under the supervision of Pauline Harvey
 
“BACON RAREBIT”
 
1 cup diced bacon
2 cups milk (whole)
3 tbsps. bacon fat
3 tbsps. Five Roses Flour (still available in Canada, but any all purpose flour may be used)
1 cup grated cheese
1 tsp. dry mustard
Salt and pepper
1/4 tsp. paprika
Toast or Crackers
 
Cook diced bacon until crisp. Make a sauce of bacon fat, flour and milk. Add grated
cheese and mustard; stir until cheese is melted and sauce smooth. Add seasonings.
Serve on toast. Sprinkle crisp bacon over each serving.
 
Notes from me:
I use old cheddar (sharp cheddar in American parlance).
 

Alexikakos
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1 year ago

 
Thanks to StelBel’s posting (I think sometime last year but maybe early this year) I recognized this for what it is.
André Rieu and his orchestra do a beautiful job on this.
 

 

Alexikakos
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1 year ago

 
How much you’ll get through is debatable (I made it to 2 minutes 46 seconds), but this is the original recording of “Delilah”.
To be fair to Proby, he hated the song and initially refused to release it, so it came out after Tom Jones.
 

 

SusanSunshine
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1 year ago

I’m sure there are plenty of people who will envy Claude’s misadventure this time.

I personally know several who I’m sure would gladly pay as much as they could afford to be beamed aboard the Starship Kibble, and meet Mr. Spot.

And they might pay almost as much just to reach his imitator, Mr. Spock, aboard the Starship Enterprise, along with whatever other crew members were about, on either ship.

(I mean… wouldn’t you?)

Even if it were a simulation, I bet they’d still go… cos I’m sure they know that the real Doctors Spot and Spock are too busy to meet fans while they’re on duty.

….

As for getting back to Earth, I’m sure one of the Boneses would beam them back… but if not, and they had to travel in space… wow… BONUS!

MontanaLady
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1 year ago

what a perfect title for today’s story! what a perfect story! love the ending!!!

P51Strega
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1 year ago

Great animation! I love Clio’s uncharacteristically dog-like responses. This time, though I think Claud got a cool reward.

MontanaLady
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Reply to  P51Strega
1 year ago

agreed!

Tigressy
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1 year ago

I love cross-overs!!!

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