And the Badgers won over South Dakota yesterday too.....

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"With cats." kittyman

Your Lou looks like our Eva! Welcome to the Critter Cafe!!!

2 of our four cats, Lou and Bricky

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It's not easy living with the Queen of Halloween.

Well to paraphrase Kermit, "It's not easy being Queen." I hired a teenager from down the street to help me haul boxes and wire up my Halloween Village. We both worked like dogs for 4.5 hours today and I'm only about a quarter decorated. Whew!

Pics would be nice, when Ya have Yer energy back and Yer done, No You don't have dress up as Witchiepoo... :D

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It's not easy living with the Queen of Halloween.

Well to paraphrase Kermit, "It's not easy being Queen." I hired a teenager from down the street to help me haul boxes and wire up my Halloween Village. We both worked like dogs for 4.5 hours today and I'm only about a quarter decorated. Whew!

You'll have to give us some pics when the job is done....

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"Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow." Albert Einstein
"With cats." kittyman

It's not easy living with the Queen of Halloween.

Well to paraphrase Kermit, "It's not easy being Queen." I hired a teenager from down the street to help me haul boxes and wire up my Halloween Village. We both worked like dogs for 4.5 hours today and I'm only about a quarter decorated. Whew!

Actually, I do put bourbon or brandy in a spray bottle once a year and I find it really doesn't slow Eric down. When I make fruitcakes in big batches (really big batches - like 9 at a time!!!) I wrap them all in cheesecloth and I use booze in a spray bottle to moisten the cheesecloth wrappings as each fruitcake slowly ripens across a month or two. Ripening fruitcakes just get better with age. Yum!

Why you gotta make me Nostalgic and Hungry...Sounds like you do them like my Grandma did.
I miss those Fruitcakes, And they were never wasted. :,(

Yer lucky there, I knew My Grandma on Mom's side better than I knew My Grandma on My Dads side, As My Dad and His Dad didn't get along as Grandpa was an Evangelical type and My Dad wasn't(Dad was made to do calisthenics before breakfast and memorize the whole bible by His Dad, So Dad didn't want that for His Children at all), but then Grandpa was the only evangelical in the family, so It's no surprise that I hardly knew Him and most of the rest of the family had already passed away by the time I was born, so I have very few memories of relatives from back then. when Grandpa died He left a will, which attracted an unknown at the time half brother to My dad, He invalidated the will which Grandpa hand wrote on Type writer paper and Grandpas House and land that was left to My Dad was sold for about $20,000 total and each got about $10,000 which was fine with My Dad as He'd planned to sell the place as He had memories that He'd rather just forget about. There was even supposed to be a family Bible there with a complete listing of the family tree that was missing, It took Me Years to reconstruct most of It, the only part I'm missing is of the half-brothers Mom and the half brother and any of His family. His name and location is in the LA County Archives for 1970(Grandpa died on Dec 31st 1969), One of these days I'll be able to run that down. And yes He was quite a guy My Grandpa. Police Chief(the family owned a Garage at Washington Blvd and Irving Pl(the building is long gone), that's why He was the Police Chief(Culver City CA), We have His Gold Shield still, around 1923 or so I think), City Councilman(Culver City CA), He owned and ran a bicycle shop on National Blvd near Motor Ave in Palms CA which still exists to this day(I gather It was sold before I was born in 1960 as Dad didn't want to take It over at all or wasn't ever asked, I have no idea which It was of course, I only knew of any of this after Mom died, go figure), He advocated bringing in a monorail from Germany at some point in time, He worked as a carpenter at the MGM Studios in Culver City at some point in time, the Family owned before 1929 a Car Dealership(Durant and I think Oldsmobile), this is all I know about Him, besides My Grandpa being listed on the Culver City website as the owner of the Bobier Garage, He wasn't and It will never be corrected most likely, the Garage was owned by the Joesph Washington Bobier family, Who I think is My Uncle Joe that I never met as He passed away before 1960.

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Actually, I do put bourbon or brandy in a spray bottle once a year and I find it really doesn't slow Eric down. When I make fruitcakes in big batches (really big batches - like 9 at a time!!!) I wrap them all in cheesecloth and I use booze in a spray bottle to moisten the cheesecloth wrappings as each fruitcake slowly ripens across a month or two. Ripening fruitcakes just get better with age. Yum!

Why you gotta make me Nostalgic and Hungry...Sounds like you do them like my Grandma did.
I miss those Fruitcakes, And they were never wasted. :,(

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Actually, I do put bourbon or brandy in a spray bottle once a year and I find it really doesn't slow Eric down. When I make fruitcakes in big batches (really big batches - like 9 at a time!!!) I wrap them all in cheesecloth and I use booze in a spray bottle to moisten the cheesecloth wrappings as each fruitcake slowly ripens across a month or two. Ripening fruitcakes just get better with age. Yum!

I'm sure You make very good Fruitcakes Angela, My family and Me have always ordered ones from Collin Street Bakery in Corsicana Texas, Part of My family on My Mom's side was from Texas and had been there since before Texas was briefly a Republic...

Then I guess You've never ordered a simply mouth watering fruitcake before I take It? They say there that they stay moist, well they do, they aren't hard though, My Mothers family ordered them for well over 30 years, I've ordered the cakes only once, but still they're My favorite, bar none, I just don't always have the spare cash on hand to do so with. The tin would only leave empty from the house and that wouldn't take too long either.



DeLuxe® Fruitcake

Hand-picked Golden sweet pineapple and lush papaya, from our farms in Costa Rica.
Ripe, red cherries from Oregon and Washington State.
Pure clover honey, plump golden raisins.
Refrigerated, the DeLuxe stays moist and delicious for months.

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I bet Angela's are even nicer than these :-)

Fruitcakes

"and seasoned with fine Kentucky bourbon."

Sounds good to me.

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I bet Angela's are even nicer than these :-)

Fruitcakes

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Don't drink water, that stuff rusts pipes!


You are making Proof out of Logic, by just being dubious! {Bluestar to me)

Angela's fruit cakes, and it's maturing process, sounds absolutely delicious.

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Actually, I do put bourbon or brandy in a spray bottle once a year and I find it really doesn't slow Eric down. When I make fruitcakes in big batches (really big batches - like 9 at a time!!!) I wrap them all in cheesecloth and I use booze in a spray bottle to moisten the cheesecloth wrappings as each fruitcake slowly ripens across a month or two. Ripening fruitcakes just get better with age. Yum!

I'm sure You make very good Fruitcakes Angela, My family and Me have always ordered ones from Collin Street Bakery in Corsicana Texas, Part of My family on My Mom's side was from Texas and had been there since before Texas was briefly a Republic...

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Actually, I do put bourbon or brandy in a spray bottle once a year and I find it really doesn't slow Eric down. When I make fruitcakes in big batches (really big batches - like 9 at a time!!!) I wrap them all in cheesecloth and I use booze in a spray bottle to moisten the cheesecloth wrappings as each fruitcake slowly ripens across a month or two. Ripening fruitcakes just get better with age. Yum!

I think she'd need Bourbon in a spray bottle to slow me down significantly.

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Psst.. Angela.. someone really impatient that likes to sleep in might try a spray bottle....

LOL friend! I can wait for Mother Nature to bejewel all the webs. Water in a spray bottle will not be necessary.

Not even on Eric? ;))

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Psst.. Angela.. someone really impatient that likes to sleep in might try a spray bottle....

LOL friend! I can wait for Mother Nature to bejewel all the webs. Water in a spray bottle will not be necessary.

I do not think insectiside is on Angela's agenda. err or arachnacide?

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Janice

Psst.. Angela.. someone really impatient that likes to sleep in might try a spray bottle....

I hope it's not RAID you are referring too? That stuff kills flies about as effectively, in my observation, as spraying them with water.

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Psst.. Angela.. someone really impatient that likes to sleep in might try a spray bottle....

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Janice