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I used to make a steamed cranberry pudding, served with hard sauce. It was wonderful!

Fig pudding. Do you look for the wasp when preparing fruit?

As the Huffington Post points out, figs are not fruit– they're actually inverted flowers. As such, they require a specific kind of pollination that can only come from fig wasps– wasps that have to die inside the fruit in order for the fruit to mature, since figs cannot be pollinated by wind or normal bees.

That is my learn something new every day for today.
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Send: What is the recipe for that fig pudding? Just wonderin'. That reminds me how much I like figs!
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We won't go until we get some!
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Send: Fig pudding? Yum! I haven't eaten a fig in "a month of Sundays."
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This song!

We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Traditional
We wish you a Merry Christmas,
We wish you a Merry Christmas,
We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Good tidings we bring to you and your kin;
Good tidings for Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Oh, bring us a figgy pudding,
Oh, bring us a figgy pudding,
Oh, bring us a figgy pudding and a cup of good cheer. Refrain

We won't go until we get some,
We won't go until we get some,
We won't go until we get some, so bring some out here. ......

Sounds more like trick or treat!
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Tasks caught up when I didn't think it could be done.
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Send, great song and wonderful movie! Definitely a classic...
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"So this is Christmas" song on the radio. (before Thanksgiving).

Tweety heard it, was singing along happily this morning.

"It's a wonderful life" movie.
Jimmy Stewart quote:
“You want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down."
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Yes! Maybe Duvet covers come in fleece now?
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Maybe put a duvet cover on it?
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Fleece sheets do sound soft.
Thinking of doing away with any top sheet, and just using the lightweight comforter. It might not stand up to that many washings needed though.
It is a pain to wash.
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Fleece sounds cozy but unfortunately I'm still going through menopause so they aren't for me. I can only handle a sheet most nights.
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I’m happy that we don’t get much of a winter! Fleece sheets sound cozy though, flannel too. My husband would hate them. I would like them.
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Yes, to flannel sheets for winter!💞
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I'm here to rave about my fleece sheets. I had several sets for mom but I never tried them on my own bed until now... they're incredibly soft. wonderfully warm and I don't think I'll ever go back to plain old flannel.
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I’ll be back ... which would make my parents smile.
Sunrise and sunsets good wine and some cat purrs,
78’s records, including light operas,
A swim in the sea, or just watching a bee.
These are a few of my favourite things.
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A warm night with a warm wind and a full moon in the ski.

When the house is quit and mice aren't even moving...LOL

All my cats are behaving.

Fresh cut grass!

These are a few of my favorite things!
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Cwillie,
Just guessing that the admins are doing their job unbeknownst to us.

They must be monitoring posters whose goal is to cause trouble over religious discussions and politics.

Shakespeare wrote:
“Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.”
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Did a post get removed? Because I don't see anything political...?
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No politicizing please.
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Rudyard Kipling wrote:

If you can keep your head when all about you   
   Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,   
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
   But make allowance for their doubting too;   
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
   Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
   And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;   
   If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;   
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
   And treat those two impostors just the same;   
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
   Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
   And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
   And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
   And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
   To serve your turn long after they are gone,   
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
   Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,   
   Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
   If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
   With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,   
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,   
   And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

End.

Out-take:
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it.
And-which is more-you'll be a caregiver so done.
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Cool mornings, cactus flowers and a full moon.
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Sing it!

This land was made for you and me!
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Oh, thread. This thread is your thread, this thread is my thread......................
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Everybody!!! This land is your land, this land is my land...................etc.
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I can give you a Canadian version of that ditty Send

This thread is your thread, This thread is my thread
From Bonavista to Vancouver Island
From the Arctic Circle to the Great Lakes waters,
This thread is made for you and me...
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This thread is your thread, this thread is my thread,
From California, to the New York island,
From the Redwood Forest, to the gulf stream waters
And beyond the waters, beyond the boundaries,
This thread was made for you and me.
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Fish cooked with heads still on, I cannot manage. Will never forget when in college, the dining room one day had trout with the heads still on. Nobody had much of anything that day. The fish heads kinda grossed everyone out!

Finally, after 2.5 years in this rural area, found someone to cut my hair. It has always been long, still is. I am just very picky about someone trying something new. Today, as a walk in, cut six inches from my hair that was within a few inches of my waist, and I am 5'10" tall! This woman did a great job! Feeling almost human again, and much lighter! She could even tell where to part my hair, it will not part in the middle and that is where most hair stylists usually try to part it for a cut. Then I am very unhappy if it is done that way. One side will end up being an inch and a half longer than the other side. So happy with the way it turned out!
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Answered prayers, my favorite thing.
God gets all the credit!
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“For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’” — Matthew 25:35-36."

Caregivers are good people!
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