Winter Garden Actvity
I glanced into the garden yesterday and saw these jonquils starting. They’re already more than 2 inches tall and it’s the last week of February, in the Greater Chicago-Milwaukee Metroplex. The rounder, green leaves are pachysandra – an evergreen groundcover.
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Paczki Day!
Today is Paczki (poonch-key) Day!
A Paczki is like a jelly doughnut, but a bit different. It’s a piece of fried dough that has been sliced and filled will various fruit fillings (prune is a popular one) and dusted with powdered sugar.
They were originally made to use up the sugar, lard and fruit in the house before Lent.
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Lemon Pazki
One Year Ago Today – Madison
One year ago today we went to Madison to see the protests first hand.
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It was a beautiful day.
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We couldn’t get near the front. Too many people. I had tried to get video of the marchers circling the Statehouse, but my camera wasn’t on when I thought it was.
Althouse got a shot of my back when she was there, but I missed her and Meade… 🙁
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I’m just to the right of the teal knit hat. In the purple coat with the gray hood hanging down. If only I’d turned around just then…
UPDATE: Althouse has consolidated all her posts from one year ago today here.
Happy Valentine’s Day
Love's Philosophy
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The fountains mingle with the river
And the rivers with the ocean,
The winds of heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single,
All things by a law divine
In one another's being mingle -
Why not I with thine?
See the mountains kiss high heaven
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister-flower would be forgiven
If it disdain'd its brother:
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea -
What are all these kissings worth,
If thou kiss not me?
One Year Ago Today: SnOMG!
Huge amounts of snow from a storm that spanned half the country. It’s where all last year’s snow days came from
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Today we can see grass as our recent snow has all melted…
Pre-Florida Polling
John Hawkins at Right Wing News conducted a blogger poll over the weekend.
1) If you had to pick the GOP’s 2012 presidential nominee today, which of the following candidates would you select?
4) Ron Paul: 11.6% (8 votes)
3) Rick Santorum: 21.7% (15 votes)
2) Mitt Romney: 31.9% (22 votes)
1) Newt Gingrich: 34.8% (24 votes)
Go see the rest.
Attorney TV Ad Fail Update
I had posted on this ad the other day. Office was misspelled with only one f. A commenter noted that the “s” in Dallas also kind of looks like an “x.”
Since then I’ve noticed an different ad with office spelled correctly on a pink background, and today there’s a corrected ad with the blue background.
I noticed that this ad has a different toll free number as well as the corrected word. Dallas still looks as if it ends in an “x” although I think that’s just the font choice since the x in Tx is a sharper x.
So, did we have anything to do with the correction?
Cross-posted at Schratwieser Consulting
Stop SOPA/PIPA
I made an image that can be used as a profile picture on social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. Click on the image and then save it. Or right-click on the image and choose save from the pop-up menu. If using on Facebook, choose to scale the image in the thumbnail so it stays round.
This is Just the Best Ad Evah!
The last little girl… oh my.
Perfect for Easter.
Tree in the Snow
The branches of this oak twist and turn.
