So sorry, Scrappy. I'll be keeping your mom in my thoughts.
Fire bad. Tree pretty.
Buffy ,'Chosen'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
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.
lisah - Sep 12, 2012 1:54:25 pm PDT #21875 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
Calli - Sep 12, 2012 2:02:15 pm PDT #21876 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I'm sorry, Scrappy. I hope your mom can have a good quality of life for as long as possible.
sarameg - Sep 12, 2012 2:33:25 pm PDT #21877 of 30001
Scrappy, I'm wishing your mom a good quality run at this. I'm sorry the news isn't better.
I just lost a chunk of tooth (old filling?) on one of the teeth I need to have crowned. Which was going to be in like January. I'm hoping for a temp fix, because cutting the recovery that close to my trip is just not that workable (nevermind I've maxed out my dental insurance this year, so it would be ALL OoP.UHG.)
smonster - Sep 12, 2012 3:09:19 pm PDT #21878 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Oh, Scrappy. So sorry to hear that.
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amych did me a total solid once and came over for dinner with me and the kids (aged 8 months and 3) while mr. flea was out of town once, and it was soooo helpful.
psst, I think that was me? Hey, this must mean I'm on Team Amy! SWEET.
Hil R. - Sep 12, 2012 3:43:55 pm PDT #21879 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm rereading Anne of Windy Poplars, and just got to this sentence:
She just loves church work and would be perfectly happy attending Ladies' Aids and Missionary Societies, planning for church suppers and Welcome socials, not to speak of exulting proudly in being the possessor of the finest wandering-jew in town.
The finest what? I tried wikipedia, and the only definition of "wandering jew" that makes any sense there is the plant, but I'm not sure that the plant would have been grown in Canada in the late 1800s, and anyway, it doesn't make too much sense at the end of a sentence about church stuff.
brenda m - Sep 12, 2012 3:46:18 pm PDT #21880 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I think it would have. Anyway, I don't see that so much as a list of church stuff but more a list of genteelish lady stuff, among which vaguely competitive gardening would fit right in.
Sophia Brooks - Sep 12, 2012 3:47:22 pm PDT #21881 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
My immediate thought was the plant. My grandmother had them
Sophia Brooks - Sep 12, 2012 3:47:29 pm PDT #21882 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
My immediate thought was the plant. My grandmother had them
Ginger - Sep 12, 2012 3:47:58 pm PDT #21883 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
She'd be talking about the house plant. [link]
Hil R. - Sep 12, 2012 3:51:21 pm PDT #21884 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
OK, thanks. A glance at wikipedia seemed to indicated that they only grow much further south, but I think I'll go with it being the plant, and that it was a bit of a joke/pun/whatever to put a plant with a name like that at the end of a list of church stuff. There are a few other times in these books where she does stuff like that with plant names.