USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ 29 October 2003

Canteen FRiends ~ Radix ~ LindaSoG

[Radix]

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Pumpkins on Wednesdays

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Welcome to Pumpkins on Wednesdays.

Wednesday October 29, 2003

Here is an amalgamation of trivial facts and seemingly useless data.

Do not forget to hit the hyperlinks.

We have links, lots of them.

GONGOOZLER

An idle spectator.

This is one of the odder words in the English lexicon and not only because of its strange appearance. It suddenly started to become popular in Britain from about 1970 onwards, but with very little previous recorded history attached to it. It is closely linked with canal life, and even now it seems to be a word especially favoured by those who like to mess about on narrow waterways. It is said to have been a bit of canal workers’ slang, originally for a person who stood on the towpath idly watching activity. You might expect that it would date from the heyday of the canals in the early part of the nineteenth century, but it is actually only recorded from the end of that century or the early twentieth. It was given wider public notice by the late L T C Rolt, who used it in his book about canal life, Narrow Boat, in 1944. It is said to derive from a couple of words in Lincolnshire dialect: gawn and gooze, both meaning to stare or gape. However, nobody seems too clear about this.

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Happy Birthday

Kate Jackson 1948

Kate Jackson appeared on issues #193 and #251.

What's up Chuck?

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Happy Birthday

Winona Ryder 1971

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Happy Birthday

Denis Potvin 1953

We are counting cards

A member of the New York Islanders for 15 seasons, Denis holds all career scoring records for Isles’ defensemen (goals, assists and points). He is a three-time winner of the Norris Trophy, captained four Stanley Cup-winning teams and was the first team member to have his number retired (#5).

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Happy Birthday

1948  Ihaff Tapoop

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Todays Wednesday field trip takes us to the pumpkin patch

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ABOUT A HUNDRED DOLLARS

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The Yankees fall.

You knew the Yankees were finished.

And Beckett, indeed, went out and pitched one of the most resolute closeouts in series history.

The Yankees looked as feeble as the many teams they have enfeebled in their history of baseball supremacy.

You win 'em and you lose 'em and life goes on.

So a 23-year-old kid who had never thrown a big-league complete game took on El Supremo of the Bronx and he showed no fear.

The Boss is dead — for now, anyway. It is enough to make the OFF love baseball again.

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On this day:

1967 - The musical "Hair" opened off Broadway.

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Wheel of Fortune.

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1977 - "Bat Out Of Hell" was released by Meat Loaf.

I remember every little thing, as if it happened only yesterday

Ain't no doubt about it, we were doubly blessed

Will you love me forever?

Holy Cow, I think he is going to make it.

Remember!.

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1652 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony proclaimed itself to be an independent commonwealth.

The original seal of the Massachusetts Bay Colony here, the Puritans, intrepid explorers themselves, tell the story of their "discovery," not of the North Pole, but of a "New England."

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Would you like some pancakes with your pumpkins?

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1929 - America's Great Depression began with the crash of the Wall Street stock market.

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Perfrcte definetley.

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1960 - Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) won his first professional fight.

Who is on first?

The Greatest.

ALI.

Clay comes out to meet Liston
And Liston starts to retreat
If Liston goes back any further
He'll end up in a ringside seat.
Clay swings with a left,
Clay swings with a right,
Look at young Cassius
Carry the fight.
Liston keeps backing
But there's not enough room
It's a matter of time.
There, Clay lowers the boom.
Now Clay swings with a right,
What a beautiful swing,
And the punch raises the bear,
Clear out of the ring.
Liston is still rising
And the ref wears a frown,
For he can't start counting,
Till Sonny comes down.
Now Liston disappears from view.
The crowd is getting frantic,
But our radar stations have picked him up.
He's somewhere over the Atlantic.
Who would have thought
When they came to the fight
That they'd witness the launching
Of a human satellite?
Yes, the crowd did not dream
When they laid down their money
That they would see
A total eclipse of the Sonny!
I am the greatest!

Cassius Clay before the first Liston-bout

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 The word Geometry comes from Geometria (Greek gê, "earth" + metreien, "to measure"). For most of us geometry is like alchemy: mysterious, incomprehensible and sometimes boring. But geometry isn't a mysterious or abstruse science, it's a tool like any other, just like a hammer or a screwdriver. By means of geometry and a lever, Archimedes wished to lift the Earth. More reasonably, Eratosthenes made a surprisingly accurate measurement of the circumference of the Earth, using simple geometric formulas and a stick! This site intends to show that geometry can also be fun because it's visual creativity. Accordingly, we have endeavoured to make an "intuitive" puzzle site with fewer formulas and more visuals, which may encourage students learning this science or just constitute a platform for reflection.

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Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater,
Had a wife and couldn't keep her;
He put her in a pumpkin shell
And there he keep her very well.

Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater,
Had another, and didn't love her;
Peter learned to read and spell,
And then he loved her very well.

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1973 - O.J. Simpson, of the Buffalo Bills, set two NFL records. He carried the ball 39 times and he ran 157 yards putting him over 1,000 yards at the seventh game of the season.

I had an excellent driver.

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1998 - The oldest known copy of Archimedes' work sold for $2 million at a New York auction.

About a hundred dollars

"Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand, and I will move the world."
-Archimedes, 230 BC

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Can you find the pumpkin Pi?

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Who, or what is Pawl?  

NOUN:	A hinged or pivoted device adapted to fit into a notch of a ratchet wheel to impart forward motion or prevent backward motion.
ETYMOLOGY:	Probably from Dutch pal, from Latin plus, stake. See pag- in Appendix I.

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Pumpkin Pie.
1 unbaked 9" pie shell 3/4 lb. firm tofu 1 (16 oz.) can pumpkin puree or 2 cups fresh-cooked pumpkin 1 cup Sucanat or brown sugar 2 Tbsp. oil 2 Tbsp. molasses 1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon 1 tsp. salt 3/4 tsp. ginger powder 1/2 tsp. nutmeg	Blend all ingredients in a food processor until very well mixed. Pour into the pie shell and bake for 1 hour in a preheated, 350-degree oven for 1 hour, or until cracks start to appear in the filling. Chill for at least 2-3 hours before serving. Serve with Whipped Tofu Topping for a decadent finish. For best results, use fresh pumpkin - it will vastly improve the flavor and make the texture more

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Pumpkins Wednesdays

Definitely

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[Valin]

On This Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on October 29:
1740 James Boswell Scotland, Samuel Johnson's biographer
1859 Charles Ebbets (namesake of Ebbets Field, Brooklyn)
1873 Guillermo Valencia Colombia, poet/translator/statesman
1875 Marie queen consort of Ferdinand I of Romania (1914-27)
1884 Bela Lugosi horror actor (Dracula, Body Snatcher)
1891 Fanny Brice singing comedienne (Ziegeld Follies, Baby Snooks)
1897 Hope Emerson Hawarden Iowa, actress (I Married Joan, Peter Gunn)
1897 Paul Joseph Goebbels Nazi propagandist
1906 Fredric Brown American writer (US Army in Transition)
1910 Alfred J Ayer England, Neopositivist philosopher/logician
1917 Henry Carlsson Sweden, soccer (Olympic-gold-1948)
1921 Ed Kemmer Reading Pa, actor (Buzz Corey-Space Patrol)
1921 William Henry Mauldin US, political cartoonist (Pulitzer-1945, 59)
1922 Neal Hefti Hastings Neb, orch leader (Kate Smith Show)
1925 Geraldine Brooks NYC, actr (Faraday & Co, Dumplings, Act of Murder)
1926 Jon(athan Stewart) Vickers Prince Albert, Canada, tenor
1934 Robert E Hughes NYC, orch leader (Rich Little Show)
1937 Michael Ponti Freiburg Germany, pianist (Boston Competition 1964)
1945 Melba Moore NYC, singer/actress (Ellis Island)
1947 Richard Dreyfuss Brooklyn NY, actor (Jaws, Nuts)
1948 Kate Jackson Birmingham Ala, actress (Rookies, Charlie's Angels)
1953 Denis Potvin Ottawa Ontario, NY Islander defenseman (Norris trophy)
1959 Jesse Barfield Ill, outfielder (Blue Jays, Yankees, 1986 HR leader)
1960 Finola Hughes actress (Anna-General Hospital, Staying Alive)
1961 Randy Jackson rocker (Jacksons-ABC)
1965 Steven Sweet Wadsworth Ohio, heavy metal artist (Warrant-Cherry Pie)
1971 Winona Ryder [Horowitz], Mn, actress (Heathers, Edward Scissorhand)

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Deaths which occurred on October 29:
0490 Petrus Mongus, patriarch of Alexandria, dies
1618 Sir Walter Raleigh is executed in London
1885 George B McClellan Union army general, dies at 58
1901 Leon Czolcosz assassin of President McKinley, is executed
1911 Joseph Pulitzer American newspaperman, dies in Charleston, SC
1947 Frances Cleveland Preston former 1st lady, dies in Balt at 83
1957 Louis B Mayer MGM producer, dies at 71
1963 Adolphe Menjou actor (Front Page, Star is Born), dies at 73
1971 Duane Allman dies at 24 in a motorcycle accident
1975 John Scott Trotter orch leader (George Gobel Show), dies at 67
1981 William O Walker publisher of the Cleveland Call Post, dies at 85
1987 Kamal El Mallakh dies at 57
1987 Woody Herman bandleader/composer (Thundering Herds), dies at 74
1990 William French Smith attorney general (1980), dies at 73 from cancer

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Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1963 PITZER DANIEL L.---FAIRVIEW WV.
[11/11/67 RELEASED IN CAMBODIA, DECEASED
1963 ROWE JAMES N.---MC ALLEN TX.
[12/31/68 ESCAPED, KILLED IN PHILLIPINE INSIDENT 04/21/89]
1963 VERSACE HUMBERTO R.---NORFOLK VA.
[09/22/65 POSS EXECUTED PRG DIC LIST]
1968 BEZOLD STEVEN---MC KITTRICK MO.
1968 HARRISON DONALD L.---CHAMBLEE GA
1968 HUNTER JAMES D.---PORTLAND TN.
1971 OAKLEY LINUS LABIN---CARTHAGE AR.
1972 SULLIVAN JAMES E.---HULL MA.
["DEAD, HANOI RADIO REMAINS RETURNED 08/14/85"]

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

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On this day...
539 -BC- Babylon falls to Cyrus the Great of Persia
1618 Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded in London. He had been charged with plotting against King James I.
1682 William Penn lands in what will become Pennsylvania
1727 Severe earthquake in New England
1787 The opera "Don Giovanni" is produced (Prague)
1811 1st Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans
1813 The Demologos, the first steam-powered warship, launched in New York City.
1833 1st US college fraternity to have a fraternity house founded
1863 Intl Comm of the Red Cross founded (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963)
1867 Mail packets "Rhone" & "Wye" capsizes off St Thomas Virgin Islands
1889 NY Giants (NL) beat Brooklyn (AA) in world series 6 games to 3
1889 Stanley Park dedicated in Vancouver, BC
1894 1st election of the Hawaiian Republic
1904 1st intercity trucking service (Colorado City & Snyder, Texas)
1920 Edward Barrow named Yankee general manager
1923 "Runnin' Wild" (introducing the Charleston) opens on Broadway
1923 Turkey proclaimed a republic (National Day)
1924 "Dixie to Broadway," opens at Broadhurst Theater
1927 Russian archaeologist Peter Kozloff apparently uncovers the tomb of Genghis Khan in the Gobi Desert, a claim still in dispute
1929 "Black Tuesday," Stock Market crashes triggers "Great Depression"
1930 1st football game in eastern Canada played under floodlights
1932 French liner Normandie is launched
1939 Golden Gate International Exposition closes (1st closure)
1940 Sec of War Henry L Stimson drew 1st number-158-in 1st peacetime military draft in US history
1942 16,000 Jews killed in Pinsk Russia
1942 Alaska highway completed
1942 Branch Rickey named president/GM of Brooklyn Dodgers
1942 Nazis murder 16,000 Jewish in Pinsk, Soviet Union
1943 3 allied officers escape camp Stalag Luft 3
1945 1st ball point pen goes on sale, 57 years after it was patented
1950 Wally Triplett avgs 735 yards on 3 kickoff returns
1954 Colonel Nasser disbands Moslem Brothership
1956 Chet Huntley & David Brinkley, NBC News, team up
1956 IDF crosses Egyptian territory in the Sinai
1956 International zone of Tangier returned to Morocco
1956 Israeli paratroopers drop into the Sinai to open Straits of Tiran
1957 A hand grenade explodes in Israel's Knesset (Parliament)
1958 Boris Pasternak refuses Nobel prize for literature
1959 10 nation soccer league to play all games on NY Randalls Is, announced
1960 Chartered C46 carrying Cal State's football team crashes, kills 16
1960 Muhammad Ali's (Cassius Clay's) 1st professional fight, beats Tunney Hunsaker in 6
1963 "Meet the Beatles" booklet is published
1964 Star of India & other jewels are stolen in NY
1964 Town of Karmiel founded in the Galilee
1966 National Organization of Women founded
1972 Don Cockroft of Cleveland Browns kicks 57-yard field goal
1975 Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffer kills first
1979 Billy Martin fired as Yankee manager (2nd time)
1982 Car maker John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking, later acquitted
1982 Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson release "The Girl is Mine"
1984 Orlando Pizzolato (2:14:53) & Greta Weitz (2:29:30) win NY Marathon
1987 Thomas Hearns wins unprecidented 4th different weight boxing title
1988 2,000 US anti-abortion protesters arrested for blocking clinics
1988 China announces a herbal male contraceptive
1988 Jim Elliott (US) begins 24-hr paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi
1988 Soviets 1st scheduled shuttle launch (postponed)
1989 NYC MTA opens the 63rd street extension to the subway
1990 30 die in a (5.7) earthquake in Algeria
1992 Alger Hiss said Russia had cleared him of the charge of being a Communist spy that sent him to prison for four years and helped launch Richard Nixon's political career.
1998 Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, who in 1962 became the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth,, roared back into space aboard the shuttle Discovery, retracing the trail he'd blazed for America's astronauts 36 years earlier. At 77, he was the oldest person to travel in space.(payback for saving willards ass)

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Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Cyprus : National Day
New Zealand : Labour Day-last Monday in October (Monday)
Turkey : Republic Day (1923)
Biographies are Beautiful Day
National Magic Week (Day 5)
Cooking, Crafts and Home Books Month
National Dessert Month

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Religious Observances
Christian : St James Hannington, bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa
Christian : Commemoration of St Theuderius, or Chef, abbot
Ang : Com of James Hannington, bishop of E Equatorial Afr & companions

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Religious History
1869 Birth of E. O. Sellers, American Baptist musician. At various times the song evangelist for R.A. Torrey, Gipsy Smith, A.C. Dixon and J. Wilbur Chapman, Sellers is remembered today for his two original hymns: "Thy Word Have I Hid in My Heart" and "Wonderful, Wonderful Jesus."
1870 Birth of Juji Nakada, Japanese Christian evangelist. In 1901 he influenced Charles and Lettie Cowman (authors of "Streams in the Desert") to come to Japan, where in 1910 they incorporated the Oriental Missions Society.
1889 New York City missions pioneer Albert B. Simpson, 46, incorporated the International Missionary Alliance. Combined in 1897 with a group formerly also organized by Simpson, it became the Christian and Missionary Alliance, one of the most missions-minded denominations in modern American Protestantism.
1919 The Apostolic Christian Association was incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia. It later merged with what is now the International Pentecostal Church of Christ, headquartered in London, Ohio.
1955 American missionary Jim Elliot, 28, wrote in his journal: 'First time I ever saw an Auca--1500' is a long ways if you're looking out of an airplane.' Ten weeks later, on Jan 8, 1956, Jim and four other missionaries would be speared to death by these same Indians they had come to Ecuador in hopes of evangelizing.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

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Thought for the day :
"Faith will not die while seed catalogs are printed."

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Did you ever wonder...
Why is it that when you transport something by car, it's called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it's called cargo?

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Murphys Law of the day...(Abbott's Admonitions)
1 If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know.
2 If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.

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Astoundinf fact #386,987,665,710.6...
The first fossilized specimen of Austalopithecus afarenisis was named Lucy after the palentologists' favorite song, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, by the Beatles.

[darkwing104]

Good Morning Canteen FReepers.

[Soaring Feather]

wh!!!

Pumpkin Pancakes

2 cups flour
5 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. salt
3 tbsp. sugar
2 cups milk
5 tbsp. melted butter
2 eggs beaten
1 can pumpkin
1/2 cup pecans, chopped
corn oil for griddle

Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar.
Combine milk, butter and eggs and add to flour mixture.
Add pumpkin and pecans and stir until fairly smooth.

Heat griddle or frying pan to moderately hot and grease lightly before cooking each batch of pancakes. Use approximately 1/4 cup butter for each one. Cook until bubbles form and begin to break on top. Flip and brown other side.

Serve with maple syrup.

[tomkow6]

Pumpkin WAFFLES

2 cups flour
5 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. salt
3 tbsp. sugar
2 cups milk
5 tbsp. melted butter
2 eggs beaten
1 can pumpkin
1/2 cup pecans, chopped
corn oil for griddle

Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar.
Combine milk, butter and eggs and add to flour mixture.
Add pumpkin and pecans and stir until fairly smooth.

Heat waffle griddle to moderately hot and grease lightly before cooking each batch of waffles. Use approximately 1/4 cup butter for each one. Cook until done.

Serve with maple syrup and butter.

 

[blackie]

Pancakes on Wednesday ~ Bump!

[blackie]

Good morning ~ I'll pass on the pumpkin ~ it looks better on you. :-/

[blackie]

Coffee time!

[MeekOneGOP]

Mornin', everybody ! Happy Pancake/Waffles day !

Have a cup while you Freep !

For those who prefer hot chocolate.....

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, darkwing. Hope your weather has lightened up. Thanks for your part in keeping this great country of ours free.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Bless This House sung along with this morning,
twice because I love this song for our troops USO Canteen,
and A Prayer of Protection
said for all who enter the USO Canteen Freeper Style, including
our troops, our veterans,
their families and our allies.

Welcome to all who come to honor our troops and
veterans, for whom this USO Canteen was created.

A PRAYER OF PROTECTION

The light of God surround you
The love of God enfold you
The power of God protect you
The presence of God watch over you
Wherever you are, God is,
And all is well.
Amen.

Wherever you are, God is, and all is well!

Wherever you are, Godand all is well!

[Kathy in Alaska]

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Meekie, for my morning cup of hot chocolate with marshmallows. Pretty nippy this morning!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning Troops, families, veterans, Israeli, British, Australian, Polish, and Italian allies (and all the ships at sea, and everybody else). Thank you for taking such good care of the USA.

Today in Anchorage, Alaska:

Sunrise 8:20am
Sunset 5:04pm

Hi 36°F
Lo 30°F

Mostly sunny

Actual yesterday in Anchorage:

Hi 37° F
Lo 29° F

State Hi 56° F Cape Decision
State Lo -2° F Anaktuvuk Pass

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, Boys!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, Aeronaut and Otto, and thank you both for your dedication to the flyover of protection for our troops' Canteen, a place where we offer a "touch of home" for our troops, our veterans, their families, and our allies. Low 20s here, but not a speck of snow in sight.

[E.G.C.]

Good morning, Kathy(HUGS)How's it going?

And, BTW (HUGS) to everyone here at the Freeper Canteen. I was a little bit quick with the bumps. My internet day begins at 5 AM and ends at 5 PM weekdays and 4 PM on the weekends.

Between my turning off the computer at 5 PM CT yesterday and 5 AM CT this morning, I recieved 20+ new posts. A lot of these posts contained large pictures which took almost my entire internet time 10-20 minutes to download.(LOL)I'm one of many freepers who use dial-up and my internet connection isn't all that fast 33.6KBPS so it takes awhile for the big graphics to load.

That's why I was a bit fast with the bumps this morning. Remember, not all of us freepers have cable or DSL or fast internet connections.:-D

And once again a very pleasant good morning to all of our military at home and abroad and our allies. Thanks so much for your continued service to our country.

Folks, please be sure to update your anti-virus software and get the very atest critical updates for your computer. It's very important.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, E! ((HUGS)) Hoping to get my laptop back from the doctor today or tomorrow. They can't seem to make Norton AntiVirus update automatically, so I will be relying on your reminders. And I've learned to do the critical updates. Thanks for keeping us updated. Low 20s today. Hope you have weather you are enjoying.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good Pumpkins morning, Tom! Good Pumpkins morning, Patriotic Pattie!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, TM, for coffee in the good china.