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Cheesecake.... yummm.... pumpkin cheesecake - double yummm. It's a good thing it's dark or I'd be fighting myself to get in the car and run out for some cheesecake.

Ruby Tuesday used to offer blackberry cheesecake, about 3" high. It was absolutely delicious.

I love cats, especially Maine Coons. The neighbor has one but her cats unfortunately aren't well cared for. Thankfully the Coon cat doesn't go outside much or she'd be in danger as the other 2 are from the heavy traffic in this area....or from "coons" of a different kind - with the patches over their eyes, long claws, and the ability to get into just about any kind of plastic device humans put out.
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"Soon and for the rest of your life." immediately comes to mind along with really good Philly cheesesteak sandwiches... My very own three layer pumpkin cheesecake... Trader Joe's key lime cookies...my big fat Maine Coon cat named Beyonce when she flips over and exposes her ample belly.
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The advantage of being a PermaFudge is that you have access to Mackinac Island's fudge shops whenever the ferry runs, or you can try skating or other wintertime activities to brave the frigid cold and reach the island in the winter to create the permanent availability of this magnificently tempting delicious delicacy.

The disadvantage is, well, all that fudge does become permanent... on one's hips. Yikes!
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Then when you move up here you become PERMAFUDGE...........
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SendMe, to be a real Fudgie you have to go to Mackinac Island in person, and savor the experience. You'll get to leave your car on the mainland, enjoy the ferry ride over, feel the wind in your face, and sometimes the spray of the water, then excitedly arrive at the Island.

Given that vehicles are barred, you'll have the opportunity to take a ride in a horse drawn carriage and see the shops, or if you're more adventurous, you can rent a bicycle and ride off all the fudge you'll eat when you walk into a fudge shop and are overwhelmed by the temptations.
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Oh....Just saw mention of husband. Get him trained and some income, if not already, and hit the old rocking chair.
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Send, there is no division of responsibility, I have to do everything! Can you believe it?! Well, wife does take care of her horses, does a little laundry, maybe a little cooking and cleaning occasionally, so there's that......

So Send, Ya got a fellar around the place? Is he well trained and housebroke? Can he lift heavy things? Does he have any money coming in? If so, then by all means you should retire immediately if not sooner.

Garden, I am an experience smelly-er and I drink wine occasionally also.
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Ordering fudge from Macinac Is. now, using the Amazon card reserved for husband's use, expensive electronic and bicycle habits. No work intended.
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Windy, I can understand your retirement wishes. Did your wife retire also, so you both have saved enough for retirement to have a housekeeper, cook, gardener, handyman, landscaper, and someone to do the laundry?
Just asking if that has been all figured out, how you did it, or how the division of responsibility is working, because I don't want to be the mean one, no one should have to be. Do you have any serious advice for me, because I would like to retire.
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Just thought - you could turn your area into a new Woodstock to generate revenue to decrease the reliance on drunken tourism. Then all you'd have would be happy hippies eating fudge.
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Whooops! I missed Windy's latest post. Guess he's not going to be our new master wine maker after all.

Well, maybe he can be protector of the seeds. He can sit on his tractor, get a guitar, and sing Blowin' in the Wind just like Bob Dylan. Oh, he can also drink his beer - wouldn't want to deprive him of that pleasure.

So, Windy, will you be the new Seed Protector as well as Master Folk Singer as well as Master Crafts Beer sampler?
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SendMe, keeping seeds from being scattered by the wind along with worries is where Mother Nature's intervention comes in. You have to make sure she's happy with your garden, given lots of flowers for her pollinator friends as well as for her, veggies and winter cover for the little critters even if they do eat up what you had planned for dinner, and of course lots of nice compost for her soil.


SendMe, great idea to appoint, or should I say "anoint", Windy as the Master Grape Processor, but I'm not sure his wife would agree. It might be an issue of Honey-Do vs. Windy's new responsibilities as Winemaker vs. Windy's Wants.

Maybe we could also make him Sommelier Premier so he can taste all the wine he makes before shipping it to his Aging Care friends. We'd just have to make sure all the downstate Fudgies don't get wind (pun intended) of his new occupation and swarm all over the area to get his wine. He'd probably have to figure out a way to send them to Mackinac Island for more fudge and leave his grapes alone.

Coloresue, thanks, if that's meant for me.
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OK all you Favorite Thingers, don't be sendin no grapes up here. We've got about 30 wineries, 4 hard cider places, 5 brew pubs and 2 distilleries in the county already. Drunken tourism is our whole economy.

My wife is a saint but she's pretty mean to me lots of the time. I keep reminding her I'm retired but she still expects all this productivity around the place. I was hoping retirement was going to be drinking beer and watching ICE ROAD TRUCKERS marathons all the time, but Nooooooooooo.......
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Good one, GA.
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Windy, spelled: G a r d e n i n g A s T h e r a p y .
Where is Cwillie, the spelling expert when we need one?
G'night, Gershun, spelled that right, huh? Or did you change the spelling again?
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Send...think your idea has merit. Float it w/Windy....he seems game ....his wife must be a saint but no doubt, your charm can sway the doubters....
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Sendme, sendme, sendme so cute and lovable.
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Glad, I have often turned to you for your wisdom, and could count on you.
We really do have bunny rabbits multiplying so fast here, leaving poop on the cement overnight. My dog used to want to eat it so we kept cleaning up the tiny pellets. I think all those northern neighbors use it to fertilize their gardens.
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Send, so often your posts just catch me completely off guard. Like, where in the world did that come from! In a nice way mind you. You keep everybody on their toes and keep the brain sparking.
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Ah, yes Mina-dog, you seem sincere to me, love. Love you too.

Btw, Sunday nights get a little crazy, boring, but I don't drink at all, just whine a little bit. Should I grow my own grapes, send them far far up north to Windy so he can ferment them in wine barrels? His wife would like that. Wouldn't that be therapeutically stinky, Windy?
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Ha! Ha! Ha!.....Sendme.....you prove my point....BUT you do know how much I love you, right?
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Glad, so happy that you can identify with me--I knew that you were someone to be counted on. This was a very long day for me, even though in the fall the days get shorter, the nights get longer, then the rabbits come out and poop everywhere.
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Garden, yeah butt, won't the seeds also be blown away by the wind?

Mina, that was quite a description of someone I don't know....but thank you for the complement, I may fit one or two of the profiles you mentioned.
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Yes send is a riot. And don't forget the "as goofy as the day is long"!
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Sendme.....You crazy, LOL funny, very possibly insane, sincerely sweet and considerate, raucous total nutcase, generous w/out borders, in-your-face hilarious, ranting weirdo, seriously compassionate, amazing and beyond brilliant ....YOU.....are....my favorite thing!!!
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We'll have to get Windy on the Gardening Therapy thread - once we're out gardening, all our worries are supposed to be blown away on the wind.
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OOOHH! Windyridge,
Count me in on the memory drugs. And I love your new title for this thread. Sometimes that's exactly what we write about!
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Not having to get up to go to work on cold mornings such as yesterday and today so I can sleep in and daydream of next year's garden.

It's still too early to think about snow and snow shoveling.
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I'm a far northern neighbor to Garden and Black Dog. Fur sure fall up in these parts. A little snow yesterday, fall colors are vivid, the downstate Fudgies are now "Leaf Peepers" and they are all back in town driving us crazy.

Put all the deck chairs in the shed, drug out the snow tires for the old jeep, and got the tractor cab ready to mount for tomorrow.

Wait....Is this the Whine Thread? No?....... OK ...New Thread: A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS TO WHINE ABOUT WHILE IM GARDENING. That should cover it.

Hey Black Dog. Maybe we can get a group discount on memory drugs!
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There's so much about life worth celebrating....God's plan gently unfolding our lives before us so that we will understand His love for everyone;
the small victories, the day-to-day pleasures, the simple joys of quiet friendship and sharing these little things with friends on here, that is a favorite thing today.
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