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Enjoying the day and the past weekend. A few of my friends helped me stretch out my birthday. Went to Bubba Gumps today to celebrate. So awesome possum. I just wish it were a sunny day today than cloudy and rainy. Still it was all good.:chewiedance: Thanks for the Birthday message from all the awesome possum people here.
 
May the Pace of the Possum be with you.

(wait, that's Peace of the Possum, not pace. though sometimes I'd like a slower possum-pace).
(idea for a rural serial drama; Possum Place?)
 
Starting to get into the swing of Christmas decorating now and I'm so obsessed with Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer. It is my all time favorite Christmas special and I'm decorating my place and tree with all or a lot of Rudolph. I even went to Build A Bear to snag one of the limited edition 5oth anniversary plushies they have. I just love that little reindeer.
 
Just went thru K-Mart, they had an inflatable Bumble.
creeped me out when I was a tot...

(I have a football simulation with fictional teams, one of them is the Wisconsin Winter; the fans adopted the Bumble as a sort of unofficial mascot)
 
I made homemade condensed milk and fudge for the first time this week. First I made chocolate fudge with pistachios, walnuts and marshmallows mixed in, the next day I made peanut butter (fudge?) and poured that over the top of the chocolate fudge. I didn't intend on making the peanut butter one until after my Mister tried the chocolate one and said it was too rich and dark...(Impossible IMO!) I can't complain either way... I love chocolate and peanut butter together.
 
I made homemade condensed milk
NEXT STEP:
How to make caramel from sweetened condensed milk
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Ingredients :

1 8 ounce can sweetened condensed milk

Direction :

1. Immerse closed can on its side in a pot of boiling water.

2. Leave on a simmer or light boil for 2 hours topping off with water as needed. Be careful and don’t let the water dry out.

3. Remove from heat and let cool thoroughly before opening can. Condensed milk should be thick and a nice caramel color. Don’t open the can while its still hot, I hear that can be very, very messy.

 
This past Christmas 2014 has shown that my wife truly understands me. :love:

For Christmas I got a large "Stuart" Minion from our dog and my wife made a donation in my name to the Small Paws dog rescue group! (y)
 
Our vending machine at the office can break $5 bills so I often buy something cheap in order to achieve my real objective, getting change for the drink machine that only accepts change or $1 bills.

Lately when breaking $5 bills I have been getting all dimes instead of quarters! Yep, buy something cheap like gum for $0.50 and I get 45 dimes back instead of 18 quarters.

I think the vending machine guy caught on and is now just messing with me. :cautious::LOL:
 
vending machine operators are notorious manipulators. The worst ones put the yummy items back behind the junk so you have to buy, or wait for other purchase, four or five junks before the good stuff.
I suspect they have cameras to monitor our reactions.
some items seem to never change or leave. do people still eat 'squirrel nut zippers'?
 
Thanx for the reference to the Old Time Candy site. Just spent 40 minutes pinning my favorite candies!
I could really go for a Maple Bun
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