'Hell Bound'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Lavender jelly sounds interesting. I'm madly searching for a decent recipe for sweet potato pie.
In the fridge as I type is our 13 lb (it's so bitty!) turkey and some garnet yams are on the counter. sarameg is on the couch and I am exhausted.
Grace ended up going to a hospital this morning and she apparently has viral pneumonia. She's at UCLA's pediatric ICU again. Sigh.
I only close the door when i'm showering - to keep in the nice warmth! The rest of the flat is cooooooold in the morning. It's amazing how fascinated a cat can be with showering when he hates baths so very very much.
Kat, I'm so sorry Grace is sick and back in the ICU. I'm glad she's at UCLA, but I wish her road wasn't such a rocky one.
Kat, I'm so sorry. Health~ma to Gracie and coping~ma to you.
Plei, I had to leap to the end to say that those pictures of the Boo are unbelievably cute.
I am so sorry, Kat. Health-ma to Grace.
Smoke alarms! I need some of those. What a timely, er, time for this to come up.
Health~ma to Grace, poor little noodle.
Kat, this one looks good [link]
It's from Patti LaBelle, and her stuff is usually good.
There's also this one, from Tanya Holland [link]
OH! Vortex, thank you!
Conversational gambits I love:
"Bless her heart."
"She's a piece of work!"
OH! Vortex, thank you!
no prob. I've been scared to attempt sweet potato pie, since my grandmother's was so amazing, but I think about it occasionally :)
Darn you all, instead of getting some good work done this AM, I'm looking at Hawaiian firefighter/surfing instructors, all of whom look exceptional. Also, some of their students are no more great physical specimens than I am, which makes me want to book a trip to Hawaii right now.
Instead I have to go to school, with my scratchy throat.
Smoke detectors shouldn't be put on a wall -- because of the way that smoke moves in a room, it takes a while to build up enough to accumulate anywhere BUT the ceiling, and you want a warning as soon as possible, hopefully to be able to put out a smolder instead of having a full-blown fire set it off. Center of the room's ceiling is the absolute best placement.
For a kitchen or bathroom, spend a couple extra bucks and get a detector with a large "Off" button in the center, which suspends the alarm for a couple minutes before resetting. Then if it goes off, grab a handy pole or broomstick.
What smoke detectors gain you is vital time -- to either be able to stop a small fire before it gets to be a big one, or a big one where you have enough warning to you can grab your loved ones and get out.