A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....02-07-03....Finest Profile Pages #8

Billie and daisyscarlett

[Pippin]

So you are not originally from Missouri?

[dutchess]

Hi Nan! (LadyX and Pippin) I've tried to stay away and spend quality time with Mr. D. as I learned today my first REAL REAL Spotlight is Monday...Yipes...guess what I'm doing this weekend... So...Codee (our 15 year old dog with skin allergies) got a bath...Mr. D. was fed and finally fell asleep in front of the fireplace...and I recently slinked back to FR...Hopefully Mr. D. still thinks the pillow his head is on is my lap!!!!....Hope to stay for awhile so long as Mr. D. and the "kids" behave!!!

[WVNan]

Hey hey hey! I'm about caught up. Now I suppose everyone will go to bed. Yeah dutchess, White Castles. You know about those jalapeno hamburgers they have in Columbus don't you? I love those things. I overdose on them every time I get the chance.

[Pippin]

Hey, just a bit of trivia to lighten up the mood since we went to the elevated alert ( code orange)

[dutchess]

How cool about how you Texan's are pulling together. BTW, FR anniversary again...

[WVNan]

Opps, forgot to delete the tag.

[Pippin]

Was that tag line for my benefit?

[WVNan]

Puff Puff Puff.....finally....I'm here to respond in real time.

[FreeTheHostages]

Libertina, I'll make you a deal which sounds like the sorta thing people promise but never get around to but in my case I actually will! I'm going to clean up my upload space and links and put all 3 photos of you and Horowitz that I have up there and then Freepmail you the URLs for the 3 so you can download them or whatever. I'm just going to figure out how to do all this this weekend. (I kinda have to get better at manipulating photos if I'm to be any kinda help to our darling Billie here.)

You're right about Trulock -- he's very very nice to Freepers. His daughter came to the booksigning: she looked really bring and was a nice young girl. I hope what's happened to him doesn't hurt him too bad -- financially. In that connection, I say to the peanut gallery:

Have you read the book? Notra Trulock's KINDRED SPIRITS is a *great* nonfiction look at the Wen Ho Lee spy scandal at Los Alamos. LOL -- or was the scandal at the FBI?

[WVNan]

Those tags keep me in trouble Pip. I always forget to change them or delete them and they end up being totally inappropriate.

[dutchess]

You know about those jalapeno hamburgers they have in Columbus don't you?

For real???? Never heard of them...but probably would love it!!!! Who does them????

I was never into hot stuff...but when I quit smoking...gosh...13 years ago now...I had cravings for jalapeno peppers....almost every night I would melt cheese on nachos...take a jar of jalapenos with some sour cream and salsa.... Think it was a substitute indorphine release....(that was before the drugs they now give lol!)

[FreeTheHostages]

Nan, some day when you come to DC to visit me on a weekend, I'll show you how to make a simple patchwork design, and in that one day, before we have tea, you will have made a quilted pillowcase. :)

Then you can scratch that off your list!

[FreeTheHostages]

First "real" one: Duly noted. I'll be there Monday to cheer you on!

[ST.LOUIE1]

Did you know that 'liver' is among the slider ingredients? It's true. : )

I wouldn't be surprised...and that's cool...I'm polish and I hate to say the all the gunk that is stuffed in "casings" that we eat and love.

Well, I like Polish food so.....shhhhhh....don't be tellin' me. LOL

The tradition was to take them to White Castle and see how many "sliders" they could eat....The last one to go (late 70's) won eating 30... No one came close to his bathroom that evening LOL!

Yikes! LOL

I'm surprised he could even make to the bathroom. LOL

[LadyX]

Just coming back for the late evening, jw.
One of my sons took his family a year ago to see Mt. McKinley, flying to Anchorage and renting an SUV to drive there.

When he went with us at age 10, the Denali Highway was primitive and unpaved - no amenities at all. No lodges, restaurants, billboards, gas stations; no showers or even restrooms! - nada.

Bit of a problem for a woman, especially since the next day was the opening of Moose Season, and fidgety hunters were driving up and down the road to pick 'the best spot.' With no trees, and very little brush, it was a challenge foe me to have 'privacy' - positioned my two boys to watch for approaching vehicles at the road while I found a mini-depression and hoped for the best...:))

We had set up camp at the 88 Mile Overlook, and drove on to Mile 125, closer to the base, and it is indeed overwhelming and awesome.

Now there are modern hotels/motels at the beginning of the highway in, and you are no longer free to drive further inland, except for arranged, (costly) guided tours.

They had to go by bus through the Denali National Park, seeing plenty of animals - but not the wilderness feeling we experienced in 1965!
I'm sure man's intrusive, destructive habits when so many descend dictated that becoming necessary. I was there before the pipeline was begun.

I am so grateful to have had unhibited access to the pristine land, going at my own pace.

(They then drove to Valdez and boarded the cruise line ship to go to Vancouver to stay for another week.)

The week before we headed south from Eielson AFB, we had spent 5 days going up the Steese Highway to a point ABOVE the Arctic Circle to camp! Had snow flurries on August 12th....the whole August trip was in temperatures ranging from 30 at night to 55 by day, but we were accustomed to it then.

We had driven from Rapid City, South Dakota to Fairbanks over the Alaska Highway (around the upper end of the Rockies) in the dead of winter - and out in summer, going all the way to South Florida (to see family, where I grew up) and then up to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina....just a few miles..:))

[ST.LOUIE1]

So you are not originally from Missouri?

Oh, but I am! : )

Ok, ok, lest you get a wrong impression of me.....I'm one of the 'nice' folks. : )

[LadyX]

Hi, dutchess!
I took a breather and coasted through the early evening, so I'm rarin' to go tonight.
Hope Nan will hang around so we can stir things up - trade insults and jokes and create general mayhem..:))

(also invitng Dave to be our official referee again! Br> Nan does get carried away, you know.)

[Pippin]

LOL!

I know you are! :^)

I just like messing with you! :^)

[WVNan]

Every time I go to Columbus to the doc. we stop on the way home at the White Castle out near Chilicothe. It's a new one, but there's another closer in to town that also has the jalapeno ones. They are not too hot, but the jalapenos make them sooooo good. I would think that all the W.C. in Columbus would have them. Check the menu next time you go to one.

[Pippin]

That's why I chose the tagline I have it's appropriate anywhere and I just delete it when it's not.