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    Opal Apple

    Opal didn't bake particularly well -- might be OK for tarte tatin where a little solider apple is wanted, but I think it's mainly an eating apple.
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    Food fun

    I was looking for sorbet recipes for my new ice cream machine and saw this -- looks like a lot of fun for kids -- or for easily-entertained adults. Could be a fun do-it-your-own-way dessert for a BBQ or party. This no-cook recipe for vanilla ice cream makes about eight half-cup servings...
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    Opal Apple

    OK, new fruit find -- Black Velvet Apriums. I've never been that excited about pluots, the 3/4 plum, 1/4 apricot fruits -- just expensive plums. But I love good apricots, and saw these at Sprouts so bagged a few. Didn't realize this was an aprium -- 3/4 apricot, 1/4 plum -- until after I had...
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    Any gardeners?

    Nematodes are a bear, and endemic in hot climates. Very hard to avoid eventually accumulating in the south or southwest -- or ever get rid of. Crop rotation helps -- they supposedly won't touch strawberries, onions and leeks, asparagus, some herbs, and a few types of galliardia and marigolds...
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    Any gardeners?

    I'm starting cabbage and brussels sprouts, rapini and such indoors this week for transplanting out in mid-Sept. Also trimmed back my tomatoes and am rooting a couple stems (indoors) to transplant out in a couple weeks to try to get a late crop. Two shaded tomato plants are resting for now (they...
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    The Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne

    Just about 4 chapters into Hounded and really enjoying the read a lot. Nice humor; makes me chuckle out loud. Thanks for the recommendation. next day... OK, finished Hounded and going to download the next one right away. Very entertaining, nicely done. A little light-weight in terms of...
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    Official Arizona Weather Thread

    It's due to the strong seasonal differential between ocean heating and heating over certain types of land masses, which produces a turbulent season-specific 'sea breeze' that carries humidity inland. The sharp difference in air pressure plus the moisture content typically brews large...
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    Your Top 5 TV Shows on right now...

    White Collar Covert Affairs In Plain Sight The Closer Surviving the Cut Just about caught up with backlogged June-July episodes on all of these just as their summer stint ends, so I'm going to try to pick up on Necessary Roughness - the promos have looked more interesting. I was hoping...
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    Official Arizona Weather Thread

    YAY! over 3/4 inch tonight!
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    Official Arizona Weather Thread

    I should get my slideshow done and posted sometime this week, and then I'll write a post about my visit with Keebali, but it's been slow going -- heavy jetlag, then digging out at work, catching up my garden ...and wilting daily. I am so envious of the rain other people have gotten -- most of it...
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    Independence Day

    Independence Day was totally mindless feel-good rah-rah fluff. In that genre, it was one of the best ever. Now -- as a sci-fi flick? Sux. As a drama? Sux. As an action film? Sux. I watch it almost every year.
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    Cowboys and Aliens

    :thumbup: .
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    Official Arizona Weather Thread

    Jeeez, it's hot.
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    Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (POTC4)

    Johnny Depp.
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    Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (POTC4)

    Three big votes for "Man, did that suck, or what?!"
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    What are you reading now?

    Just began R Lee Smith's "The Care and Feeding of Griffins" and it is a spectacular start - it seems on the surface like a magical book maybe for older kids, ala Harry Potter/Tolkein, and reads almost that way at the very beginning, but fairly quickly the darkness and eroticism starts to shadow...
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    What are you reading now?

    Just last night finished reading my second novel by R. Lee Smith. The first was 'Heat' and it was really excellent - scifi/horror/erotica. One of the best bad guys ever. Then I read her first novel, recently re-released uncensored/uncut on kindle - 'Olivia.'...
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    Yesterdays downtime

    Slikha, O. I had just been reading another thread and apparently had Gee on the brain. urk. I thought this was awfully sophisticated humor for Gee, and wanted to give a little pat on the back. But from you, O - I expect no less than a keen, sly edge. Again, my humble apologies.
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    Yesterdays downtime

    Good ones, Gee. Very good. Hey, Keebalim - I'm leaving for Israel next week, and will be in Tel Aviv for a few days in mid-July. Any chance I could pop in and see ASFN keebali-mercazi if I'm in the neighborhood?
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    Kindle

    And they made sure of it. That's how the wifi and synchronizing and so on flows back and forth. Mind you, they also can do it w/o your permission. My daughter publishes e-books -- she said a year or so ago Amazon was pressured to remove a couple pretty severe porn books from their catalogue --...
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    In Plain Sight (USA)

    Just a bump -- I love this show, and Mary is my role model! Yes, I do cranky -- either see beneath it or get outa my way.
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    Paleo Diet: Eat like a predator, not like prey.

    Mulli, you're stretching the idea of the paleo diet pretty broadly! I don't disagree about the processed food piece at all-- I've been on a rabid anti-trans-fats crusade for 30 years, when NO one 'official' gave them a second thought. Everyone back then pointed to egg yolks, which are pretty...
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    Paleo Diet: Eat like a predator, not like prey.

    My mother's family were Copes from the Harrisburg-Carlisle area on one side!! I grew up with Lebanon bologna, shoofly pie (aka black-bottom pie), sticky buns, dried-corn 'pudding,' schnitz und knepp, scrapple, and big, hard Penna dutch pretzels whenever we visited my Granny Grace and aunts and...
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    Paleo Diet: Eat like a predator, not like prey.

    I am about as much of a pure carnivore as any female I know -- I would rather smack a huge, thick, medium-rare porterhouse on my empty plate than any other food on earth; just for a change, I like a side of fresh wild salmon or some thick lamb chops -- and more often than I usually admit...
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    Hanna

    now comma we're all females smart-aleck

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