Category Archive:Moose Nuggets

Lessa and I drove to Anchorage to check on the amateur photo contest. Due to the published press release I knew that none of my pictures had merited a “special” ribbon (grand, first, second or third prize ribbon or honorable mention), but we wanted to see if they had been placed on display.

All four! So, that is nice. They will be on display at the Sears Mall in Anchorage until mid March. I will drive back up to pick them up on the 17th – at least, that is the plan as of today. 😉

While up there, we decided to take in some of the Rondy sights. Mind you, it is brrrrrr cold right now – and the bit of wind we had made it seem all the more cold – so, we were choosy as to what we would stand around for.

The snow carvings were one of the things – and what best to do – than people watching?

doghat 

how better to keep your head warm than with a dog head hat? We live in Alaska – we make our own fun!

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The Good: a day trip to the big city with Lessa

The Bad: coming home to find a request for a complete rewrite of my column for the newspaper (because the newsroom clerk feels that it shows a biased agenda)

The Ugly: the fact that it bothers me so much to be asked for the rewrite (because it is assumed that my interviewee had the agenda, when in reality, it was probably MY agenda)

The Result? I’ve asked a Christian sister for prayer on the matter – my attitude especially. And, I’ve contacted my interviewee and asked for further information – so that I can make the article more secular – thus more appealing to the newspaper.

The Outcome? Remains to be seen.

Nevertheless – thanks for a fun day, Lessa. We’ll do it again sometime.

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this time by Meredith at Violet Voices 

I never really completed it last time, so will have another go at it today. 8)

Six weird things about the Moose:

:arrow: 1. I have a certain order in which I wash dishes and it bugs me when other folks don’t follow that order – but I don’t say anything, because I appreciate it when others do my dishes. (Hubby Moose does them a few times each week!) Glasses are washed FIRST – placed in drainer to drain (duh, moosie!), then placed onto the drainer’s pegs. Silverware – okay, it’s stainless –  is washed next and placed into the little cuppy thing on the drainer – knives pointed DOWN, all else pointed up – sharp knives are perched on the edge of the drainer. Plates are next – smaller to larger coming toward the sink. Bowls next, starting with smaller cereal bowls, ranging up to serving bowls. LASTLY comes the saucepans and frying pans.

It’s all very orderly – so that the greasy things are last and my glasses (plastic or otherwise) do NOT get grease on them. (noted: why, yes, I DO do my dishes by hand – don’t you?)

:arrow: 2. Quirk number 2 also has to do with washing the dishes. . . . dishes have TWO sides and that means  BOTH sides are to be washed. Nothing grosses me out more than to be served dinner on a plate that feels grody on the back side.

:arrow: 3. Folding laundry: my mom worked in a hospital laundry from when I was 8 until she died (in the same hospital) following a stroke when I was 23. There was a certain way hospital bedding and such had to be folded. I sort of follow through on it. I like things folded neatly and TIGHTly – there is only so much room in the “linen closet” and if things are folded loosely they won’t all fit.

:arrow: 4. I like moose – stuffed and fluffy (especially if purple) or alive and lurking in the front yard. My computer station at home has LOTS of moose (I will take a picture sometime to show you) of the stuffed variety – all different colors. My office at work has several also – they seem to show up in my mail slot or at my door from time to time.

:arrow: 5. I love chocolate. Okay, that’s NOT weird – but, it is a quirk about me. see #6.

:arrow: 6. I like coffee. I quit drinking it for several years, but slowly began to fall back into the mocha every morning habit. Then Daughter #1 bought me an espresso maker for Christmas (thank you, Lessa!) and I now have one in the morning and take another to work with me. My latest vice – swirled mint/chocolate chips added to the chocolate mix and the espresso/milk combo. Oh, my! Wait, maybe that should go into the Guilty Pleasures column. heh

Now we ALL know that the moosie does NOT have vices or quirks or weird habits or anything. Heh. We have trouble seeing the logs in our own eyes . . . maybe someone close to us should write about our quirks?????

nahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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My husband is an intimidation expert. Don’t believe me? Read Lessa’s latest over at The Sourdough.

Go ahead, I’ll wait for you . . . .

 

Back? Alritey, then!

To top off Perfection . . . Now, go and check out today’s Rube’s cartoon.

Too perfect, right? Yup, I thought so, too. Lessa, did you PLAN that???

heh :moose:

You tell me:

Eric Bogosian and Elliott Gould

It has been bugging me for several weeks as I’ve watched Bogosian on Law & Order. Gould’s name kept eluding me, but I knew that I knew the face. You tell me . . . is that eerie or what?

I canNOT find out – so far – if they are related. But, even the voices are close.

It doesn’t seem that they are, but – woah!