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donaldtoo
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Thanks...!!!
She’s definitely sore, but, says she’s OK.
She’s currently on her chaise under a blanket with a pillow under her knee and Ranger next to her.
And yes, I’m takin’ care of all her wants and needs...!!!
Never used it in any baking I have ever doneBritish baking
probably not as popular here
Goofyernmost
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In 1984 three friends and myself drove down to Myrtle Beach from Vermont for a weekend of golf in the beginning of March. When we got down to Albany it started to snow lightly and quickly accelerated to a blizzard. While driving down the Garden State Parkway or the Jersey Turnpike, I don't remember which, we got behind a grouping of plows like the one pictured. The plows weren't attached to trucks though they were attached to the front of cement trucks. Still worked but looked funny. I can tell you that if you want to get ahead of the plows you had to go all the way up to the first truck and then quickly drive through the pile of snow that they left behind. If you tried to cut in front of the final one you were taking on a pretty significant pile of snow and it would have a pretty good chance of stopping you and then you would have to answer to that last plow in the line. I thought it was a very clever way to clear multiple lanes quickly. We didn't have that system in Vermont because we had almost no more the two lane highways. All we needed was a plow in the right lane pushing snow to the right and another on the left side pushing snow to the left. It didn't matter what sequence they went in as long as they left space between them so the brave and sometimes the absolute foolish a place to go around them.
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Figgy1
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What route did you use to wind up on the GSP???????????????
Goofyernmost
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I don't remember but we came down on I-87 until just before NYC and if I remember correctly we picked it up somewhere near there. That was in 1984 and I haven't been down that way probably since the late 80's. It could be all different now. It didn't take me to long to figure out that from NYC all the way across the Delaware Bridge and beyond to Fredericksburg, Virginia was just one big freaking city with Baltimore and DC next. After that I went the extra miles to go through Pennsylvania (which is never ending) around Harrisburg and then cut across to I-95 in Fredericksburg. It actually was about 80 miles further but about an hour less time and a gazillion dollars saved by missing all those Toll roads.
Figgy1
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No problem it just seemed odd not winding up on the Turnpike from up there
Goofyernmost
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I have an interesting story about driving through the Jersey Turnpike. I have mentioned that for about 14 years I owned and operated a Residential Care Home, housing people with disabilities from physical to mental and all aspects beyond. Anyway, I had one resident that I was particularly fond of. He was around 60 years old and was afflicted with Cerebral Palsy. He had many physical problems but the worst was that he had trouble speaking. He could get a few words out, like "Boy, Oh Boy, Yes, no and wow. He had been committed to an mental institution for years because of his inability to communicate easily. That's what they did back then. He loved to read and his favorite books were about the civil war or the civil war era. He worked in a sheltered workshop and was stashing away a pretty good sum of money that he had to spend down or lose it. Sitting next to him on our front porch I got an idea that I could take him on a road trip to WDW and along the way we could stop at some of the Civil War sites.
To make a long story a little shorter while going down either the Garden State or the Jersey Turnpike we came up to a toll station with at least 10 open lanes and cars backed up in everyone of them. He looked over and then turned to me and said the first full sentence I had ever heard him say and it was... "I've never seen so many cars in my life". I'm sure he hadn't because the guy had never left Vermont at all. We stopped in Myrtle Beach and I got us an ocean front room where he sat out on the balcony and stared at the ocean for hours. We went to Charleston and took a tour boat to Fort Sumpter. On the way there and back dolphins were jumping up around the boat. We went to the Kennedy Space Center, WDW and Silver Springs before heading back home. I never heard another full sentence from him but I did hear an awful lot of "Wow's" during that time and a few Boy, Oh Boy's too. I did up a photo album of the trip for him and he showed that to everyone that would look at it. After he passed I kept the album, but in subsequent moves I seem to have lost it.
To make a long story a little shorter while going down either the Garden State or the Jersey Turnpike we came up to a toll station with at least 10 open lanes and cars backed up in everyone of them. He looked over and then turned to me and said the first full sentence I had ever heard him say and it was... "I've never seen so many cars in my life". I'm sure he hadn't because the guy had never left Vermont at all. We stopped in Myrtle Beach and I got us an ocean front room where he sat out on the balcony and stared at the ocean for hours. We went to Charleston and took a tour boat to Fort Sumpter. On the way there and back dolphins were jumping up around the boat. We went to the Kennedy Space Center, WDW and Silver Springs before heading back home. I never heard another full sentence from him but I did hear an awful lot of "Wow's" during that time and a few Boy, Oh Boy's too. I did up a photo album of the trip for him and he showed that to everyone that would look at it. After he passed I kept the album, but in subsequent moves I seem to have lost it.
Goofyernmost
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You know I think that not to long after that trip a new highway did connect to the turnpike but for a while we always were on the GSP for a short while. I'd have to research it and see if I can reconstruct which roads we took.
donaldtoo
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Cesar R M
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Wasnt this the comic series where the weight metter was actually sentient and replied very sassily to Garfield?
donaldtoo
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I don’t really hate winter down here, usually...but, the last almost week certainly sucked...!!!!!
MinnieM123
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They do some similar tandem plowing here, and also up on the Maine Turnpike. Usually, drivers behind them don't attempt to pass them. Again, the word is usually . . . . there's always one in every crowd who might try, and fail. I could never understand why anyone would think they ever could pass by them--super dangerous.
donaldtoo
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I’d call that...I hope he realizes that a cyber-cat (or dog, etc.
) is much less time-consuming and expensive to care for than a real one...you can just shut it off and walk away from anything “cyber”, unless, of course...!!!!! 
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