hollydolly
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Have a good Day Gee Gee !Pouring buckets here and expected to last all day.
Off to work with me
What are you doing today?
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katlupe
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Today I am planning on cooking up a cabbage that I got in one of the two boxes from the food bank. They delivered two boxes of food to each apartment in my building last week. I am making a keto version of unstuffed cabbage rolls but my own recipe, of course. Also vacuum packing a package of chicken into smaller packs for the freezer. Finishing up a pile of papers on the table. Not doing much because I am babying my knees today. Did too much the last couple of days.
Aneeda72
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We thought about a living in a 55+ community back a few years ago. At the time, in Utah (don’t know about now) the communities were 80/20 percent-meaning 20 percent could be young folks with children.
We also decided, at that time, we wanted more diversity. Now, at age 76, I would definitely skip the places with children, especially teenagers
. When looking, I suggest find out if children/teenagers are allowed to live in the complex.
Aneeda72
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After watching several hoarders shows I would never buy used dishes or a fabric couch at a thrift shop.
Aneeda72
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What type and what flavor. I could never master yeast bread. I could make it, but the kneading was difficult.you mean what flavour ?.. or what type ?... the bread I was going to make yesterday is Tomato and Cheddar cheese..
hollydolly
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Tomato & Cheddar...white crusty bread...
I know what you mean Aneeda, but in spite of what Matt and Cory say, once I've put those dishes through my dishwasher on sanitize I feel okay about them. Since there are three of us, I find lots of pretty china sets that I think were probably given up after one of the four broke. (That's what I tell myself anyway.)
Lewkat
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Being a part of Veteran's Day programs.
Aneeda72
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Well, I always use paper plates anyway.
Aneeda72
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My Veterans day program consist of me and husband going to Applebees for the free lunch.
hollydolly
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hope you have a really good day Lois... what are you actually doing ?
here altho' it's Remembrance day today.. 11/11 most of the activities and parades , and the laying of the wreaths at the Cenotaph will be on Sunday
Never to be forgotten, all those who died for our freedom...
hollydolly
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This from the Guardian today...about the accuracy of the storylines in The Crown Tv show
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/11/beware-the-crowns-blurring-fact-and-fiction
In case it's behind a paywall..this is what it says..
Thirty years ago, the present king tried to usurp his mother, the Queen. He sought to conspire with the then prime minister, John Major, after an opinion poll hostile to the monarch appeared in the Sunday Times. Like all the scenes in Netflix’s The Crown, this is claimed to have been “inspired by real events”.
In truth there was no such plot, no conspiracy and no poll hostile to the monarchy. A fictional storyline was put into the mouths of living people and then introduced as “the story of the political and personal events that shaped the Queen’s reign”.
I carry no brief for the royal family. The institution has shown it can handle the strain of being the butt of inaccuracy and ridicule. For their part, the Crown’s apologists shrug and excuse it as entertainment, a sceptical portrayal of celebrities to be taken with a pinch of salt.
It enjoys a licence to lie that is granted to all docu-dramatists: that they are “artists”. The show’s creator, Peter Morgan, has adopted a different defence. He admits to “forsaking accuracy but not the truth”. His consultant Robert Lacey seems to be stretching things when he writes under the headline, “Never a truer word was said of the royal family”.
The Crown’s approach to accuracy ill-conceals a different excuse, that depicting famous people on screen lends a plausibility to any plot, however weak. It titillates the audience with familiarity.
So what if Prince Philip was still alive when The Crown implied, on no evidence at all, that he had been unfaithful to the Queen? It made a better story than if he had been a fictional prince.
At one level, making money out of being offensive or cruel to living people is commonplace. They are usually rich, and can always sue if they think they’ve been libelled. We might add that the British royal family brought it on themselves when they decided in the 1960s to project themselves as high-profile celebrities, in pointed contrast to the discretion of Europe’s other hereditary monarchs.
More serious is the abuse of the word “truth”. The series has had its poignant moments but it is blatantly biased against the monarchy. The royal biographer, Hugo Vickers, has noted that many of the falsified scenes are derogatory about the royal family. It claims to be a “fictionalised dramatisation” of reality but it cannot have seriously researched the truth, as did Hilary Mantel in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy. It did not follow Thucydides in declaring his war reports as “the closest possible fidelity on my part to the overall sense of what was actually said”.
People believe accounts of reality portrayed on television. Roughly a third of Americans believe Donald Trump’s claim that his presidency was “stolen” by Joe Biden. They have seen it on television, with confirmatory “evidence” on social media. That is why lies are so dangerous. Look also at Owen Matthews’ wise new book on Ukraine, as seen from Moscow’s standpoint, Overreach. It shows Russians strongly supporting Vladimir Putin’s view of the war as the result of Nato aggression. They have been told it relentlessly on television and so it must be true.
I accept that these are real people and not dramatists. But a casual disregard for truth is the same wherever it occurs. Accounts of real, historical people cannot depend for their veracity on the vigour of the liar or the plausibility of the actor. The maxim remains the same, that a lie encircles the globe while truth is still getting on its boots.
I am sure Britain’s royal family will survive this reputational blitzkrieg. Biographers have already had a field day deconstructing The Crown, and if millions of viewers are misled, too bad. The status of truth is a more fragile casualty. Academic historians and (most) journalists do not see it as their task to distort or glamorise contemporary events by spicing them with lies. The policing of stories about living individuals is subject to a mix of libel law, literary reputation and journalistic ethics. Publishers hire lawyers and factcheckers. The mainstream media has long offered an editorial filter between events and their readers and listeners, one that remains appreciated by the latter. In litigation, truth is always a defence.
Social media has shredded that editorial filter. Regulation of information of all sorts is in its infancy. Much of the internet is not so much a global village as a global Hyde Park Corner. Journalism’s “first rough draft of history” is blowing in the wind.
That is why art cannot be licensed to rewrite history as it sees fit. The Crown should have opened with a screaming health warning: “The following events depicted in this drama did not take place … ”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/11/beware-the-crowns-blurring-fact-and-fiction
In case it's behind a paywall..this is what it says..
Beware The Crown’s blurring of fact and fiction in this age of dangerous untruths
Simon JenkinsThirty years ago, the present king tried to usurp his mother, the Queen. He sought to conspire with the then prime minister, John Major, after an opinion poll hostile to the monarch appeared in the Sunday Times. Like all the scenes in Netflix’s The Crown, this is claimed to have been “inspired by real events”.
In truth there was no such plot, no conspiracy and no poll hostile to the monarchy. A fictional storyline was put into the mouths of living people and then introduced as “the story of the political and personal events that shaped the Queen’s reign”.
I carry no brief for the royal family. The institution has shown it can handle the strain of being the butt of inaccuracy and ridicule. For their part, the Crown’s apologists shrug and excuse it as entertainment, a sceptical portrayal of celebrities to be taken with a pinch of salt.
It enjoys a licence to lie that is granted to all docu-dramatists: that they are “artists”. The show’s creator, Peter Morgan, has adopted a different defence. He admits to “forsaking accuracy but not the truth”. His consultant Robert Lacey seems to be stretching things when he writes under the headline, “Never a truer word was said of the royal family”.
The Crown’s approach to accuracy ill-conceals a different excuse, that depicting famous people on screen lends a plausibility to any plot, however weak. It titillates the audience with familiarity.
So what if Prince Philip was still alive when The Crown implied, on no evidence at all, that he had been unfaithful to the Queen? It made a better story than if he had been a fictional prince.
At one level, making money out of being offensive or cruel to living people is commonplace. They are usually rich, and can always sue if they think they’ve been libelled. We might add that the British royal family brought it on themselves when they decided in the 1960s to project themselves as high-profile celebrities, in pointed contrast to the discretion of Europe’s other hereditary monarchs.
More serious is the abuse of the word “truth”. The series has had its poignant moments but it is blatantly biased against the monarchy. The royal biographer, Hugo Vickers, has noted that many of the falsified scenes are derogatory about the royal family. It claims to be a “fictionalised dramatisation” of reality but it cannot have seriously researched the truth, as did Hilary Mantel in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy. It did not follow Thucydides in declaring his war reports as “the closest possible fidelity on my part to the overall sense of what was actually said”.
People believe accounts of reality portrayed on television. Roughly a third of Americans believe Donald Trump’s claim that his presidency was “stolen” by Joe Biden. They have seen it on television, with confirmatory “evidence” on social media. That is why lies are so dangerous. Look also at Owen Matthews’ wise new book on Ukraine, as seen from Moscow’s standpoint, Overreach. It shows Russians strongly supporting Vladimir Putin’s view of the war as the result of Nato aggression. They have been told it relentlessly on television and so it must be true.
I accept that these are real people and not dramatists. But a casual disregard for truth is the same wherever it occurs. Accounts of real, historical people cannot depend for their veracity on the vigour of the liar or the plausibility of the actor. The maxim remains the same, that a lie encircles the globe while truth is still getting on its boots.
I am sure Britain’s royal family will survive this reputational blitzkrieg. Biographers have already had a field day deconstructing The Crown, and if millions of viewers are misled, too bad. The status of truth is a more fragile casualty. Academic historians and (most) journalists do not see it as their task to distort or glamorise contemporary events by spicing them with lies. The policing of stories about living individuals is subject to a mix of libel law, literary reputation and journalistic ethics. Publishers hire lawyers and factcheckers. The mainstream media has long offered an editorial filter between events and their readers and listeners, one that remains appreciated by the latter. In litigation, truth is always a defence.
Social media has shredded that editorial filter. Regulation of information of all sorts is in its infancy. Much of the internet is not so much a global village as a global Hyde Park Corner. Journalism’s “first rough draft of history” is blowing in the wind.
That is why art cannot be licensed to rewrite history as it sees fit. The Crown should have opened with a screaming health warning: “The following events depicted in this drama did not take place … ”
Lewkat
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This morning, I am attending a Mass for all Veterans of all nations who fought in WWI, II and beyond. Those in attendance will be recognized.hope you have a really good day Lois... what are you actually doing ?
here altho' it's Remembrance day today.. 11/11 most of the activities and parades , and the laying of the wreaths at the Cenotaph will be on Sunday
Never to be forgotten, all those who died for our freedom...
This afternoon, I'll be leading a special social dedicated to all us veterans who are living in my community. There will be three of us, one from each major service branch, giving a brief speech. There will be a presentation of certificates of recognition and thanks, plus special pins marking the occasion.
This will be followed by the cutting of a cake and refreshments served.
Pappy
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Was out before the sun came up and took a short walk. So nice today compared to the hurricane we just had.
Started putting back all our decorations, flags, etc that we put away from the storm.
Thelma informs me that before we get groceries again, we are cleaning out the inside of the refrigerator.
Started putting back all our decorations, flags, etc that we put away from the storm.
Thelma informs me that before we get groceries again, we are cleaning out the inside of the refrigerator.
Sliverfox
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Rainy day,, listening to it beat on the roof.
Had the dog out,, it felt warm out.
Had the dog out,, it felt warm out.
MickaC
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Will be in my attitude mode…..
Thanks to a uninvited Colorado Low yesterday and last nite, got a good dump of snow.
But……once it quit sNOwing, the wind did blow some off my driveway, but still a couple of good banks to clear.
Backyard……just finished the deck……going to have to take sessions, and take breaks……still at the tail end of pneumonia.
Do I message my foster daughter for help, who lives 11 blocks away, nope….she’s has a bad habit of not reading messages…..so I can’t be bothered.
Plus…..the dump we had last nite, left a couple banks in front of my garage door…..so I’d have to shovel to get out…..I would have to go pick her up…..because they have been with no vehicle since end of July…..this is a common thing for them.
They buy cheap……that’s all they can afford…..and they don’t last…..they say they’re saving for one.
Sadly their version of saving is different from my version.
So…..they borrow other peoples vehicles, get rides from people, etc. When they borrow vehicles, usually for shopping trips an hour away.
I think this is so irresponsible of them, since they have three kids…..time to live in the adult world…..they never shovel snow at their place…..they walk and run over it.
She’s very good at offering help, mostly she’s a no show.
So…..I will work away at my sNOw.Ohhhhhh…….guess what……I saw on Facebook last nite……they are 2 1/2 hours away on a fun trip……really.
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Sorry, for the venting.
Thanks to a uninvited Colorado Low yesterday and last nite, got a good dump of snow.
But……once it quit sNOwing, the wind did blow some off my driveway, but still a couple of good banks to clear.
Backyard……just finished the deck……going to have to take sessions, and take breaks……still at the tail end of pneumonia.
Do I message my foster daughter for help, who lives 11 blocks away, nope….she’s has a bad habit of not reading messages…..so I can’t be bothered.
Plus…..the dump we had last nite, left a couple banks in front of my garage door…..so I’d have to shovel to get out…..I would have to go pick her up…..because they have been with no vehicle since end of July…..this is a common thing for them.
They buy cheap……that’s all they can afford…..and they don’t last…..they say they’re saving for one.
Sadly their version of saving is different from my version.
So…..they borrow other peoples vehicles, get rides from people, etc. When they borrow vehicles, usually for shopping trips an hour away.
I think this is so irresponsible of them, since they have three kids…..time to live in the adult world…..they never shovel snow at their place…..they walk and run over it.
She’s very good at offering help, mostly she’s a no show.
So…..I will work away at my sNOw.Ohhhhhh…….guess what……I saw on Facebook last nite……they are 2 1/2 hours away on a fun trip……really.
.Sorry, for the venting.
hollydolly
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Thank you for Your service Lois ..
Was out before the sun came up and took a short walk. So nice today compared to the hurricane we just had.
Started putting back all our decorations, flags, etc that we put away from the storm.
Thelma informs me that before we get groceries again, we are cleaning out the inside of the refrigerator.
Good to hear hat the storm has moved on from Florida. ...saw the news coverage of the terrible beach erosion around Daytona Beach.
MickaC
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Adding to my previous post……how did they get to their fun weekend……they must have borrowed a vehicle.
I know this sounds mean……my vehicle is off limits, unless it’s an emergency.
I know this sounds mean……my vehicle is off limits, unless it’s an emergency.
RadishRose
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UK's Remembrance Day is our Memorial Day, in May. Remembering those killed in wars.hope you have a really good day Lois... what are you actually doing ?
here altho' it's Remembrance day today.. 11/11 most of the activities and parades , and the laying of the wreaths at the Cenotaph will be on Sunday
Never to be forgotten, all those who died for our freedom...
Our Veteran's Day, is to honor especially living Veterans. The date, Nov. 11 was originally Armistice Day commemorating the end of the Great War (WW1)
We have Poppies for Veterans Day and Forget-me-nots for Memorial Day.
RadishRose
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Made an appt for Doggy at the Vet. She has a little pink bump on the side of her left nostril. I just seemed to appear one day about a month ago. I kept hoping it would go away, but it hasn't.
I did look it up and learned there are more than several causes, and can also be hereditary. We go next Wed. I'm trying not to be nervous.
I did look it up and learned there are more than several causes, and can also be hereditary. We go next Wed. I'm trying not to be nervous.
Trila
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I'm free! I'm free! Yesterday, my Orthopedic Surgeon assessed my mobility, and he was (happily) surprised at my results!! He said that I was doing well with my at home PT, and that my progress was "above the bar"!! He then changed my patient status to PRN, meaning that if I need something in the future (like a shot in my shoulder, etc) that I can just call for an appointment and he will take care of whatever it is that I need. Of course, I still have to do my PT....I'm a work in progress!
Today is our first cool day.
. Good day to use the oven! I'll be making Pumpkin Cheesecake! Yummmm!while I've been writing this post Andy has fallen asleep in the bookcase, and Dio....well, I think he would like to have breakfast!!
Yesterday I went to Costco to pick up my hearing aid, it's an hour away, I made it fine, no problems...I'm getting really apprehensive about making these trips into the city, I've not had any problems, sometimes I think I scare myself needlessly.
The weather here has turned much cooler which is very good as my heat pump is down, the A/C part, they had to order a control part for the outside unit, may take a while, something about a chip, I have heat but no A/C.
Everyone have a great weekend.
The weather here has turned much cooler which is very good as my heat pump is down, the A/C part, they had to order a control part for the outside unit, may take a while, something about a chip
, I have heat but no A/C.Everyone have a great weekend.
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