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My Goldfish

A while ago, I gave my ever-growing Goldfish and never growing Neon Tetra to someone who had a much larger aquarium and no fish.

The Goldfish continued to grow, and lived happily with the Neon for a long time, I think a year or two.

Because of his size, he was renamed "Bubba" (thanks for the reminder Empress). Then one morning, there was only a Goldfish in the bowl. I guess the poor little Tetra became live goldfish food.

Yesterday, I discovered that a goldfish has only a 3-second memory. That explains why he could eat his only friend and never seem to mind.

I wonder if the little Neon Tetra minded.

Yes!!

A sure sign of spring (I hope)

We live in Bucks County PA.
And these little beauties are bit early this year.
But they're very welcome.

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Curling

Don was watching the Olympics yesterday morning and I and I sat down to watch with him.

The competition was Curling.

I sat there planning on making fun of this “unusual” sport, and within about 5 minutes, I was mesmerized.

Once you pay attention to what they are doing, it’s interesting (or at least I thought so) and that there is a lot of skill involved in the sport.

I would even watch it again, and the next time, on purpose.

Go Team Go!

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POURING COFFEE DOWN YOUR SWEATER AT WORK

Now not that this happened to me, but here’s the solution to pouring coffee all down your sweater while you're at work, and have a meeting scheduled in an hour.

Turn the sweater around, so that the stain is on the back, and then borrow a cardigan sweater or jacket from someone, and go off to the meeting with a smile on your face.

Well, maybe it did happen to me.

And they thought he would be dinner

What does a snake call a hamster? Buddy!

Zookeepers at Tokyo's Mutsugoro Okoku zoo presented the hamster — whose name is a tasty rice dish in Japanese — to Aochan as a snack in October, after the snake refused to eat frozen mice.

But instead of indulging, Aochan decided to make friends with the furry rodent, according to keeper Kazuya Yamamoto. The pair have shared a cage since.

Click here for a video of the two friends.(it takes a minute to load)
You just never know.
I wonder if the friendship will last.

When the snake keeper at the Tokyo Kingdom Zoo put a hamster in a rat snake's cage, he didn't expect the two animals to be become friends. But the odd couple are roommates, living together in a heated glass box.

TOKYO - Gohan and Aochan make strange bedfellows: one's a 3.5-inch dwarf hamster; the other is a yard-long rat snake.

Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine’s Day.

If you’re looking for a romantic love story movie, I’ve listed the top 100 per the American Film Institute.

I’ve seen 54 of these movies – does that make me a romantic?

1. Casablanca (1942)
2. Gone With the Wind (1939)
3. West Side Story (1961)
4. Roman Holiday (1953)
5. An Affair to Remember (1957)
6. The Way We Were (1973)
7. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
8. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
9. Love Story (1970)
10. City Lights (1931)
11. Annie Hall (1977)
12. My Fair Lady (1964)
13. Out of Africa (1985)
14. The African Queen (1951)
15. Wuthering Heights (1939)
16. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
17. Moonstruck (1987)
18. Vertigo (1958)
19. Ghost (1990)
20. From Here to Eternity (1953)
21. Pretty Woman (1990)
22. On Golden Pond (1981)
23. Now, Voyager (1942)
24. King Kong (1933)
25. When Harry Met Sally… (1989)
26. The Lady Eve (1941)
27. The Sound of Music (1965)
28. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
29. An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
30. Swing Time (1936)
31. The King and I (1956)
32. Dark Victory (1939)
33. Camille (1937)
34. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
35. Gigi (1958)
36. Random Harvest (1942)
37. Titanic (1997)
38. It Happened One Night (1934)
39. An American in Paris (1951)
40. Ninotchka (1939)
41. Funny Girl (1968)
42. Anna Karenina (1935)
43. A Star is Born (1954)
44. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
45. Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
46. To Catch a Thief (1955)
47. Splendor in the Grass (1961)
48. Last Tango in Paris (1972)
49. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
50. Shakespeare in Love (1998)
51. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
52. The Graduate (1967)
53. A Place in the Sun (1951)
54. Sabrina (1954)
55. Reds (1981)
56. The English Patient (1996)
57. Two for the Road (1967)
58. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
59. Picnic (1955)
60. To Have and Have Not (1944)
61. Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
62. The Apartment (1960)
63. Sunrise (1927)
64. Marty (1955)
65. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
66. Manhattan (1979)
67. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
68. What's Up, Doc? (1972)
69. Harold and Maude (1971)
70. Sense and Sensibility (1995)
71. Way Down East (1920)
72. Roxanne (1987)
73. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
74. Woman of the Year (1942)
75. The American President (1995)
76. The Quiet Man (1952)
77. The Awful Truth (1937)
78. Coming Home (1978)
79. Jezebel (1939)
80. The Sheik (1921)
81. The Goodbye Girl (1977)
82. Witness (1985)
83. Morocco (1930)
84. Double Indemnity (1944)
85. Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (1955)
86. Notorious (1946)
87. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
88. The Princess Bride (1987)
89. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
90. The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
91. Working Girl (1988)
92. Porgy and Bess (1959)
93. Dirty Dancing (1987)
94. Body Heat (1981)
95. Lady and the Tramp (1955)
96. Barefoot in the Park (1967)
97. Grease (1978)
98. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
99. Pillow Talk (1959)
100. Jerry Maguire (1996)

Nor'Easter

16 inches and still snowing.
Update - we got 17.5 inches total.

It really is beautiful

Winter

The weather prediction for the Philadelphia area for this weekend is for snow. There is a 70 percent chance of a Nor'Easter hitting this area and we could be getting 8 or so inches of snow.

We haven't had a snowflake here this year, which is pretty unusual. I wonder if we'll really see any snow this time.

I'm not very fond of winter, but snow, especially on the weekend
(when I don't have to drive in it) can be just beautiful.

UPDATE - 2:48 Saturday afternoon.
It's snowing!

Tasty Veggie

We bought an acorn squash last week and there was a sticker with a recipe stuck to the side of the squash. It sounded good, so I tried it.

If you happen to like acorn squash, I think you'll find this really good. I'm planning to make it again next week.

The recipe is in the extended entry of this post.

Acorn Squash

Cut squash in half, remove seeds and strings.

Place upside down in shallow pan with 1/4 inch of water.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Bake 35 minutes.

Turn squash over, sprinkle lightlywith salt (optional).

Add 1 tablespoon orange marmalade and 1 teaspoon butter, melted and mixed together. (I used a little more of both)

Spoon mixture over the edge of the squash halves. Place under a broiler for five minutes or until lightly browned.

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Note to azaleas: Chill

8,000 pounds of ice was spread to stop the azaleas from blooming before their annual tour at Bayou Bend, in Houston,Texas.

Because of the mild winter, last Tuesday, crews spread 40-pound bags of ice cubes around 600-700 azaleas. An insulating layer of mulch was then applied on the ice to help keep the temperatures down. The ice treatment will give them an extra week so that they will be in bloom for their annual tour.

I wonder how many different types of plants will be affected this year.
It’s been an unusually mild winter here in Bucks County Pennslyvania.
I guess we'll find out soon enough.

Refund offer

Don and I bought a bottle of wine with this refund label attached.

In case you can’t read the fine print, here’s a larger version.

And in case you can’t read that, the part we found most interesting was the
Expiration date: February 31, 2006.
Does anybody know when that is?

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Groundhog Day

Every February 2, people gather at Gobbler's Knob, a wooded knoll just outside of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.

If Punxsutawney Phil, the most famous groundhog, sees his shadow, it means six more weeks of winter. If he does not see his shadow, it means spring is just around the corner.
Approximately 90% of the time, Phil sees his shadow.

Local residents say that Phil has never been wrong.

The ceremony in Punxsutawney was held in secret until 1966, and only Phil's prediction was revealed to the public. Since then, Phil's fearless forecast has been a national media event.

The groundhog comes out of his electrically heated burrow, looks for his shadow and utters his prediction to a Groundhog Club representative in "groundhogese." The representative then translates the prediction for the general public.

Phil started making predictions in 1887 and has since become an American institution.

Any colorers in your house?