On the 137th Thursday, My true love gave to me....

[RedHedd]

While we're on the subject of cookies, my wife and one of her friends from church made cookies here last week. They made one cookie that I can only describe as crack for sugar junkies. Take sugar cookie dough, roll it into balls, and wrap each piece of dough around a turtle. Bake until light brown. Sounds like something we should stock at the bar for those chocoholic moments!

OMG! That sounds like Chocolate HEAVEN! I'll take half a dozen to go with my cuppa ginger tea (yes, I'm STILL sick! ugh!)

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

Well, we're in our little(?) cocoon in the Sam's Club parking lot, just sitting here waiting for news on Speckles, so I guess I'll have a DOTD to help warm my bones.

[zippy-kat]

I officially have my MASTERS now!

Anyone wanna celebrate with me?

Crown and butterscotch schnapps, please, if anyone's still serving.

[Cinder & Smoke]

I officially have my MASTERS now!

Anyone wanna celebrate with me?

Some VERY WELL
DESEVED

**CONGRATS**
to Our
Zippy-Kat ~

WAY TO *GO*
Zippy!!


BIG {{{HUGS}}}

/s/ Phred & the FurKids

[Karen]

Woooooo hoooooo! A round of Hot Buttered Rums or nice warm chai all around!

Congratulations, Tonya! A few twisty-leaps are in order! Piper, you listening?

[Corinna]

Congrats Now we will see you more now? m we've been missing you.

[lbaker]

TWISTY-LEAPS ALL AROUND!!! YEAAAA ZIPSTER Oh, and about those turtles LH, beware the wrath of the Mayor *it's not a pretty sight* I just sent you a p.m. Slick ~ I'll call you later on, hopefully you are still asleep.

[Cinder & Smoke]

Well, we're in our little(?) cocoon in the Sam's Club parking lot,
just sitting here waiting for news on Speckles,
so I guess I'll have a DOTD to help warm my bones.

Are ya pointed "south" in the Motor Howze??

Seems like you kinda snuck outta towne without much FanFare ...
Where's the Travelogue Thread to chronicle the journey?

Have the Junior Assistant Pilots settled in to Life on the Road?

Drive Safe!

[momoffuzzyfaces]

WAY TO GO ZIPPY!!!!

I'll break out the hot chocolate this morning with tons of marshmallows. It's cold here and fixin to snow this afternoon!!!

Gosh, it's good to see the Mayor and Phred here!!! What out that Mario doesn't sneak a cherry in your drink (unless you want a cherry in it)!

[zippy-kat]

{{Thanks for the congrats, guys! It feels good to have it over and done with! }}

[Karen]

Hee hee - I went to all my Mom's courses with her for her Masters degree, as I was a little kid - too young for school for me yet, but my older siblings had their own schools to go to. So I tell people I got my Master's before I graduated kindergarten - I was four years old. And boy oh boy does Ma looks happy in her graduation picture!

What exactly is your Master's in Tonya?

[Cinder & Smoke]

It feels good to have it over and done with!

You're not quitin YET, are you?

"DOCTOR" Zippy has a nice *ring* to it!

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

Woooo hoooo!!! Way to go Zippy!!! I know how relieved I was when I was done, and all I did was get another bachelor's degree. I can't imagine the work that goes into a Masters! I agree with Corinna though, this means we get to see more of you here, and more of a certain gray and white protege of Edwina too?

Are ya pointed "south" in the Motor Howze??

Seems like you kinda snuck outta towne without much FanFare ...
Where's the Travelogue Thread to chronicle the journey?

Have the Junior Assistant Pilots settled in to Life on the Road?

Thanks for asking Phred, and you'll never guess.....why am I not surprised....yep, you got it....another hydraulic leak. So we're up before the crack of dawn getting ready to roll. Terry starts the engine and hydraulic fluid literally shoots out the side of the motorhome - like 10 feet! Turns out there's some kind of oil cooler thingy on the outside of the radiator, and the fluid just shot right out of that. At least this time we knew where the leak was. Cummins was less than a mile away, so we put in all the spare fluid we had (because is shot out every drop and Terry couldn't even steer!) and drove as fast as we could to the Cummins place. JUST made it too, because as we were turning in, the steering went out again and Terry had to manhandle a 45' 40,000 pound motorhome into the parking lot. We took the cooler to a radiator place, they fixed it and we brought it back to Cummins where they reinstalled it. They say it should be good to go, but we're going to look into ordering a new one and having it installed while we're in Florida.....if we make it that far. So we're finally on the road again and will probably only make it down to Effingham, IL, instead of Dalton, GA which we had hoped to make.

The snots are all settled in. Peanut just went pee pee so she's literally snoozing away now. CJ is fussing now and then, but is doing good. Terry's blood pressure has dropped down to normal again, and I'm ready for a nap. Now....if we could just hit some 40 degree weather, we'd be happy, but it doesn't look like that will happen tonight.

So, I'm ready, and I'm not driving, so bring on the bucket of hot buttered rum!

[Kfamr]

Congrats Tonya!


I made home-made potato soup today if anyone's interested - I'm so sick I can't eat it (milk makes me congested as it is) - so if anyone would like a warm bowl of soup.... feel free.

Also, my mom has a freezer full of a variety of her famous Christmas Cookies, fudge, and sorts of sweets - dive in!

[davidpizzica]

Will it help the grandfather of all chest colds?? Right now I'm coughing and I have bad sore throat. If it does, I'll have a couple of bowls! BTW, this is bad timing because I'm supposed to sing in the church choir tomorrow!