Archive > October 2006

Yesterday’s Haiclue, today’s haiclue, and some safety news

OK, so in the order of the header: Answer to yesterday’s haiclue: Strawberry Fig Newton! Today’s haiclue: go in or come out colors mean different things to some visitors Last item of business: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061030/ap_on_re_us/city_crime_list_glance Amherst is SAFE! and Buffalo and Knoxville are NOT.  Love the list. Same as last year even.

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A Haiclue for you.

Here’s the haiclue of the week: creamy goo, yet dry surprisingly unpleasant like a breakfast bar guess what it is! Hint: it’s strawberry flavored!

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Mr. Sun sun sun

The sun is out! Woot! I swear it’s been like 3 weeks since I’ve seen the sun. Well, no, since the big snow storm, so two weeks.  We get one day of sun and more rainy rain rain the rest of the week.

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Sunlight? What?

You know that saying “the sun never set on the British Empire”? Well, the sun never shows itself in Buffalo, and the freezing cold blustery wind never stops blowing. Dad and I thought we just caught bad weather when we were up here in May, but no, really, it’s always that cold and windy and [...]

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Butterbeer recipe

So, I’ve just made butterbeer. It tastes like warm buttery caramel popcorn. Success on the first try! Anyway here’s what I did. Put a Quarter cup sugar and quarter cup water in a NON STICK pot. Turn the heat on high. When the mixture turns brown (after about 8 minutes or more) add a tablespoon [...]

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Snow tires

I bought snow tires today. They cost 450$. And I can’t get studs because I’m going to be driving out of state. They’ll have to wait til January.  OOO SPARKS BABY!  I also bought 6 sandbags and threw them in the back of the truck. I got to the tire place at 5:30 and got [...]

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one more thing

One more thing: The basement flooded and I lost my entire Lemony Snicket and Brian Jacques collections, and my book of the collected works of Jane Austen, and a several others, some from my Roald Dahl collection.

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We were on CNN

Here’s a pretty acurate description of what happened.

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Photos

Here are my snowy photos. A couple of notes. It turns out the early snow gathered on the leaves of the trees and took down even the strongest trees.  That’s how the power was cut all over the city.  That’s why I took the photos of the trees. It was like that EVERYWHERE. It looks [...]

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Power!!

Well, I’m back in action after being powerless, heatless, foodless, unhappy, cold, grumpy, annoyed, and pissed off since Thursday night. It started snowing around 1pm Thursday. By the time I left school at 4 the roads were slushy but doing ok.  By around 6 pm the snow really started dumping, and sticking.  At 7 PM [...]

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