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  1. Lorna in the boonies
    My family does not know about my blog, and I aim to keep it that way (well, my in-this-house family knows about it, but they aren't allowed to read it -- see my signature.;) My extended family does not know about it). Not sure why I'm fine with strangers reading it, but I don't want family reading it . . . but that's the way it is.:001_smile:
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    I think it looks good, and I love the picture of the von Trapp kids as adults (and I left a comment telling you so, too!).;) I don't really have any advice, as I don't really have a theme. I'm kind of all over the place with mine (and none of it is very exciting).:)
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    Thanks! Grabbed one!:D
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    Yes, I do constantly get questions like those.;) And also questions like, "Hey, Lorna! How ya doone?":glare: Amazingly, each person thinks they're the very first to come up with such original queries.:001_smile:

     

    On the other end of the spectrum, I also get a lot of, "Wow, that's a strange name. I've never heard it before" -- to which I want to reply, "Didn't you ever study British literature? And haven't you ever shopped for cookies?":001_huh:

     

    I saw your post mentioning the rattlesnake festival. Are you in Sweetwater now?

  5. Lorna in the boonies
    My dh and I have an agreement like this. For some reason, my big, strong man has an aversion to frogs and lizards. Our agreement is that I take care of the frogs and lizards, and he takes care of everything else. In 18 years of marriage, I've had to handle exactly one frog and one lizard. I can't tell you how many critters he's had to handle! But in answer to the OP, I'd probably suck it up and throw the trap away along with the mouse. If you wait until Tuesday, that thing's going to stink something awful!
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    I use Charlie's Soap (the powder version) in my top loader. I love it! My clothes get really clean with it. I don't use any fabric softener at all and hang my clothes out on the line, and they're still soft. I know nothing about top loaders, though, so you should probably ignore me.;)
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    Spanish and French here.
  8. Lorna in the boonies
    No, but the littlest one looks just like me ('cept she's skinnier . . . and blonder . . . and cuter).:glare::001_smile:
  9. Lorna in the boonies
    Looking for the rep button and crying because it's gone . . . .:001_huh: Thank you! This list is wonderful!:D
  10. Lorna in the boonies
    Tanya, It's too close to her birthday for me to get too emotionally involved in telling her story right now (I'll start bawling if I attempt it, and I'm expecting company in a few minutes), but I struggled with very similar emotions after the death of my daughter. My struggle with it is on my "Talitha" blog listed below my signature, if you'd like to take a look. I'm sorry my response isn't any more personal than "look at my blog" -- but her birthday is the day after tomorrow, and this is the one week a year I allow myself to be a total wreck.;) :grouphug:
  11. Lorna in the boonies
    Never, never, never. Never ever. No. I do not enjoy getting dressed up.:)
  12. Lorna in the boonies
    I could have written your post. I live in blue jeans and t-shirts and ponytails, too (except for church) -- and my 15 year old daughter lives for dressing up and putting on makeup!
  13. Lorna in the boonies
    When my oldest was born, my mother spent the night in the room with me. We both got the giggles and we just laughed and laughed all night long. The nurses kept popping in and saying, "Are you sure you just had a c-section this afternoon? It's supposed to hurt you to laugh, you know!" And when ds was born, the next door neighbors had a baby goat. It was September, and we had our windows open all the time. I could never tell if it was ds crying or the goat bleating. I'd go check, thinking it was him, and he would be asleep. The next time, I'd be convinced it was the goat -- and it would be ds. I'm not kidding . . . they sounded exactly alike!
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    Count me among the clueless ones! :001_huh::lol:
  15. Lorna in the boonies
    Well, tooth-irty is a whole lot better than tooth-hurty!:D
  16. Lorna in the boonies
    What she said . . . except my kids are swimming as I type this. We generally don't cover the pool until the beginning of November (because my teenager loves to have her friends over to swim the first weekend in November . . . because teenagers are weird).
  17. Lorna in the boonies
    I don't have any experience as a widow, but when our daughter died, we received several cards with money in them. It was a huge help at a very expensive time in our lives, and we appreciated it greatly. I wouldn't hesitate to include it.
  18. Lorna in the boonies
    I'm kind of hesitant about it, too. I've only sent one request, and that was to someone who I know that I know that I know would know who I am. There are so many posters here that I can't always keep everybody straight, and I know that, being one of the less frequent posters, I fall into that same category for nearly everybody else . . . especially since I just removed my avatar (it was of my three kids). So, timidly, I avoid sending friendship requests, even though I want to belt out, a la Veggie Tales, "I can be your friend! I can be your friend!" (And I can, you know. I can be your friend!):)
  19. Lorna in the boonies
    We ate this the day you posted it. The only thing I changed was that I used a frozen bag of carrots and peas instead of just carrots (and I didn't mash them). Everybody liked it except for my 15 year old . . . who proclaimed it the best thing she has ever eaten!:) Thanks!
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    Just playing around since we have a new system to figure out! Will you be my friend? (In case it doesn't show up, this is Lorna . . . in the boonies!)

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    Thanks -- nabbed one!
  22. Lorna in the boonies
    I don't know the specifics as to how dangerous it is, but I do know that I googled something the other day, and a post of mine here (containing the words I googled, and which I had only posted the day before) was the fourth result listed. That makes me a lot warier than I had been in the past, and I'm thinking about making my profile much more vague than it is -- I use pseudonyms, but I'm still not comfortable with it.
  23. Lorna in the boonies
    Ours was built in 1967, same as me.;) It's pretty boring, but it serves its purpose. Our last house was built in 1907 and was initially a one-room schoolhouse out of town on a ranch. When the county opened up its main school, our house was sold to the Primitive Baptists, drug into town via sled and mule (this was in the 30s), and "converted" (ha, ha) into a church. In the 60s, the church sold it and someone threw up walls and called it a house. It had an oddball floor plan, but it certainly had character! I say all that to say this: one of the men from the Enola Gay went to school there as a boy -- so my living room had history attached to it!
  24. Lorna in the boonies
    I placed an order late last night, and it worked fine for me then. You might want to e-mail them about it -- it could be on their end, but even if it's your computer, it's quite possible that they'll know how to talk you through it. I'm sorry -- I hope it clears up for you soon!
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    I agree with Valerie -- Blogger is very easy to figure out (if I can do it, anyone can do it!). I picked a basic template at first and just started typing. Mine still isn't very fancy, but when I look back, I'm kind of amazed at just how much I've figured out over the course of time.
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