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Hoppy Easter!
Thank you Aunt Monica for the yummy ham glaze recipe it is the hit of dinner every year!
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Thank you great grandpa!!
16 years ago
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Some Bunny Loves You!
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008
M I C K E Y
Not him but maybe a distant cousin, is scurrying around my house right now! EEEEKKKKK!
About 1am Adam got up to get a drink and saw a mouse in the kitchen so he promptly got me up and we saw it scurry past the dog and into the back of the house.
I immediately got dressed and ran out to the grocery store (yes Cheryl to Ralph's), and bought some poison. Getting home we put the dog in the bathroom for the night and started opening boxes. When I read the box it says it takes 4-5 days for the mice (god, I hope it is not mice and is only a mouse)to begin dying after eating. That is way too long for me to wait. So back to Ralph's for glue traps. I don't care if or how it dies, immobilization is good enough for me. So now we have placed 6 glue traps around the hosue, the dog is still in the bathroom for the ngiht (the traps are peanut butter scented, with our luck the dog would get one attached to her nose!) and I am settled in for an all-nighter. There is no way I can comfortably sleep knowing this varmint is running free in my house.
I remember a lot of mice growing up on Navy. We had a burial plot on the side of the house for after they were caught in the old metal traps. Mom would never empty the traps, she had to call her friend Lenore to come over and do it. That is a GOOD friend. I distinctly remember standing on the bottom landing of the stairs to the upstairs bedroom (most of you who read this have lived in that house at one time or another and know exactly where I am talking about.) before school in the morning and hving to pee so bad, but not wanting to go to the bathroom because we had seen a mouse the night before. So I stood right there and peed in my uniform.
I am such a girl.
About 1am Adam got up to get a drink and saw a mouse in the kitchen so he promptly got me up and we saw it scurry past the dog and into the back of the house.
I immediately got dressed and ran out to the grocery store (yes Cheryl to Ralph's), and bought some poison. Getting home we put the dog in the bathroom for the night and started opening boxes. When I read the box it says it takes 4-5 days for the mice (god, I hope it is not mice and is only a mouse)to begin dying after eating. That is way too long for me to wait. So back to Ralph's for glue traps. I don't care if or how it dies, immobilization is good enough for me. So now we have placed 6 glue traps around the hosue, the dog is still in the bathroom for the ngiht (the traps are peanut butter scented, with our luck the dog would get one attached to her nose!) and I am settled in for an all-nighter. There is no way I can comfortably sleep knowing this varmint is running free in my house.
I remember a lot of mice growing up on Navy. We had a burial plot on the side of the house for after they were caught in the old metal traps. Mom would never empty the traps, she had to call her friend Lenore to come over and do it. That is a GOOD friend. I distinctly remember standing on the bottom landing of the stairs to the upstairs bedroom (most of you who read this have lived in that house at one time or another and know exactly where I am talking about.) before school in the morning and hving to pee so bad, but not wanting to go to the bathroom because we had seen a mouse the night before. So I stood right there and peed in my uniform.
I am such a girl.
Friday, March 14, 2008
Quoted
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm (November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) was an American politician, educator and author. She was a Congresswoman, representing New York’s 12th District for seven terms from 1968 to 1983. In 1968, she became the first African American woman elected to Congress. On January 23, 1972, she became the first major party African American candidate for President of the United States. She won 152 delegates.
• I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by melanin. When you put it that way, it sounds like a foolish reason for fame. In a just and free society it would be foolish.
That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black and a woman proves, I think, that our society is not yet either just or free.
• I want history to remember me not just as the first black woman to be elected to Congress, not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and dared to be herself.
• Of my two “handicaps” being female put more obstacles in my path than being black.
• I’ve always met more discrimination being a woman than being black.
• My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. All we want is for that trivial difference to make no difference.
• Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.
• We Americans have a chance to become someday a nation in which all racial stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically.
• In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism.
Amen
• I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by melanin. When you put it that way, it sounds like a foolish reason for fame. In a just and free society it would be foolish.
That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black and a woman proves, I think, that our society is not yet either just or free.
• I want history to remember me not just as the first black woman to be elected to Congress, not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and dared to be herself.
• Of my two “handicaps” being female put more obstacles in my path than being black.
• I’ve always met more discrimination being a woman than being black.
• My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. All we want is for that trivial difference to make no difference.
• Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.
• We Americans have a chance to become someday a nation in which all racial stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically.
• In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism.
Amen
Thursday, March 6, 2008
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