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Posted on 04/20/2006 2:10:46 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
I think we're going garden shopping....and stop by the grocery store on the way back. Mmmmm.....liver pudding....
I thought I was done garden shopping, but I'm gonna need to replace the vinca that the chipmunk et. Then I'll cover 'em with some cayenee pepper for a special treat.
Looking a Lowes this weekend for swings. Promised Luke, need to deliver.
Ah - well that's a good solution then! We can see it, and still boycott it :~D
Well if we're boycotting boycots, does that mean we have to go see it?
I believe, in this case, they would be referred to as ~wafers~
I didn't think the book was so hot, but it was definitely a page turner...I'll probably watch the thing on DVD when it gets that far.
A good friend of mine loved the book, said it read like a Clancy, lots of intertwining plots and you aren't sure how all of them will fit together.
Yes, several intertwining plots, plus mysterious and intriguing references to secret societies and the beginnings of Christianity. I thought the protagonist was a little bit of a dorc, though.
All in all a light and entertaining read. I haven't read any of his other stuff.
I liked Red October and Red Storm Rising from Clancy, but could do without his subsequent efforts. I read that he owns a private railroad passenger car, which he gets coupled to the back of Amtrak trains when he travels, preferring that to the airlines.
I keep trying to read the John Adams book, but it keeps putting me to sleep, I'm ashamed to admit. The last time I put it down, I was to the place where Adams was advocating the position that the state of Massachusetts should encourage education, which has turned out to be something of a double edged sword.
I read the same thing about Clancy and his personal Pullman car :~D
I don't remember which Clancy novel it was that had the story line with the tree, an old growth tree that starts in the forest being selected for cutting, with long descriptions of why it was the perfect and blessed tree, to be loaded on a ship, to serve as a major beam in a Japanese temple. You read along wondering how it was possibly going to connect with the story, and it's only role was that it fell off the boat in a storm and was randomly hit by a submarine.
I'm only a few chapters into it... he just arrived in France to negotiate the alliance.
Pretty funny how it says that Benjamin Franklin slept in til 10:00AM most mornings.
I don't know about Clancy's Pullman car. But he has a tank sitting on his property. And an indoor shooting range.
When I was between jobs in DC I did some part time work for a friend whose company escorted authors around town to interviews. I took a producer from Hollywood out to Clancy's house on the Bay. Didn't see the inside of the house (except for the bathroom).
But I met Clancy before we left.
Cool :~D He reminds me, in appearance, of my friend Bob. I think it's the sunglasses and the big smile.
I used to live a much more interesting life.
That said, I got a call from a campaign office yesterday (one I may have mentioned before) saying "can you volunteer?"
I said "Not right now."
So, there's that.
What kind of a tank, I wonder?
A big 'un.
(embarrassed to say I don't know/remember)
When I was in Israel, we went by a park where they had three tanks that had been captured in Lebanon (I think). They were painted primary colors and the kids were playin' on 'em.
mine?
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