Go back under your rock. :-P Or I will throw a cupcake at you.
(giggle)
Iowa Hatch Sequence Commencing....10....9....8....7....6....
I think if you will recall, Commander Moxon, that cupcakes have been placed on the restricted celebratory food list, due to actions like those threatened above.
Attention Launch Supervisors:
Please do not allow cupcakes to be served at any hatching, pipping or chick delivery event. Pecan (below the MDL), Banana and Coconut Cream pies are to be allowed as long as they are not hurled for the dog to retrieve.
Muffins may be served, but only if they are not frosted and are not in those annoying little paper cups.
Over.
What about cinnamon buns? With pecans on them.
And why does Major Catscan get to set the food rules on MY WATCH?! I call that insubordination! I'm reporting this to your superiors...
Yes, on cinnamon buns.
No, on with pecans on them if above the MDL--unless a special exception is requested, in triplicate with Duncan Donut Coupons attached to each copy. Western bases require either Starbucks or Noah's Bagels coupons. It is up the requestor to determine which coupon is required.
Over.
Iowa doesn't have Noah's Bagels or Duncan (Dunkin?) Donuts.
I am not setting the rules--they are right there in the "Celebratory Foods and Their Correct Management during Hatching Missions" rule book. Don't you have the updated version?
Commander Moxon--no one likes a tattle-tale. Keep these temperamental outbursts up and you risk losing your command.
Moreover, I'm tellling the CF!
Ah--but you have Starbucks, don't you?
Sigh..........................................................
I'm entitled to outbursts because:
1) I have a sick goat.
2) I am not home to check on my hatch.
3) I have been teased with mentions of pecans all day.
4) I am stuck in trademark class.
5) I haven't eaten supper (well, I had a Reeses PB cups)
6) It will be too dark to look for eggs when I get home.
So there.
And no, nobody sent me the updated manual. Mine still has the rice pudding rules in it. And tapioca.
And yes, we have Starbucks and I frequent it with alarming regularity.
And the CF likes Iowa so she will take pity upon me.
Mox.
Moxon: Of your sniveling reguests for pity, the only one with real validity is # 4.
For your information: Tapioca and rice pudding are still on the books as "restricted" but may be supplied when, and only when, the crew is in need of powerful comfort foods. Excessive use leads to drowsiness and paradoxical caloric anxiety.
The CF also likes "tough love"--so I wouldn't be too sure about her tolerating your outbursts.
But this is YOUR mission--though you seem to have abrogated all responsibility and left it to your second in command--and you carry on as you see fit. Sniff.
Why doesn't my sick goat count? Her back legs are both paralyzed and she can't walk. It will probably have to be euthanized. She's only 6 months old and a nice little nubian named Cookie. Her sister is Coffee. I think that is clearly worth pity and has significant validity. Perhaps even more than trademarks class. She had to have a spinal tap. And there was blood in it. This is very sad and pitiful.
Sniff.
Commander Moxon: NPGC regrets its harshness. Your goat situation has validity. It was lost in the general flood of self-pity. A shorter list might have been more effective. Many of us consider peanut butter cups a perfectly respectable dinner.
Okay--IF you can get someone to send you pecans, you may put them on your cinnamon buns. But this is a SPECIAL exception. And you are to tell no one--or all the Yankees will want them.
Commander Moxon appreciates NPGC's change of heart and apologizes for its pity party. Mox is now at hatching base and will report shortly on hatching progress. Two possible hatches reported by sub-agent but his reports are not generally to be trusted since sometimes he can't count his own fingers.
Misplaced YANK here with outstretched hand... pecan please?????
Head bowed for goat ~i~
What good is coffee without cookie?? ;-(
Thanks Fran. I don't know how Coffee will manage. Those two are joined at the hip. I feel terrible about it. I am afraid that it might have been Muffin who kept using her horns too aggressively on the other little goats. Maybe I need to separate her. Cookie wasn't very aggressive back to Muffin. I am very sure she is near the end. It makes me so sad I can hardly think about it. I just pray to Mother Earth to be gentle with her and take her without pain.
I am neither a Southerner nor a Yank, so what am I? Oh right, I'm an alien. Bleep.
Two millie modules completed hatching sequence and drying off in bator. Three porcelain d'uccle modules remain pipped and one more millie module is pipped. The rest are taking their sweet time. I hope they are not dead - they looked viable at last candling - filling up the whole egg except for air cell.
Moxon still feeling bereft of pecans.
Commander Moxon providing photographic evidence of two hatched millies during very quick momentary opening of 'bator to remove said chicks to the brooder because they were pecking at the pips on the shells of the other eggs and I decided that was potentially bad.
Please note: these chicks are not fully dry but were quickly transferred to the brooder in order to prevent damage to other pipped eggs that weren't ready to hatch.
Nice life form Commander. So sorry to hear about your goat. Extra pecans on your cinnamon bun this morning
commander josh reportng(am i a commander i dunno i lost track correct me if i am wrong)
the one next to the back chick dosnt look like it is far of by the looks of it it has started to zip
yes Commander, you are still a commander. congratulations!
Commander Moxon here, about to go check hatch.
Stand by.
Commander Moxon with morning report.
Two porcelain d'uccle modules completed regulation hatching sequence and progressing in water evaporation phase (i.e. drying out).
The two millie modules from yesterday are close to attaining maximum cuteness parameters. Possibly going off the regular scale in to the ultra cuteness range.
5 more porcelain d'uccle modules are pipped and one showing no signs.
2 more millie modules are pipped.
Crew remains hopeful of more hatching during today's diurnal period.
Moxon over.
Good morning Commander.
any goat report this am?
Goat report: Goat was examined and testing done - spinal tap indicated more blood than normal. Blood work being done. No evidence of breaks or other damage to legs or back from an external exam. They are testing for CAE and other things. General impression was that it's unlikely to be a good outcome. We await word from the vet. We took her to the University of Iowa large animal clinic which is part of their veterinary school. They are good at these things. Thanks for asking. :-)
Captain Williams here with pecan topped cinnamon buns for all to enjoy. Commander Moxon (aka Foxy Moxy?) congrats on the 4 new babies. I am surethe cuteness factor scale will have to be adjsted once these are compared.
I was wondering how Cookie is today? Was she one that you got a JC??
Sheila
Just a note here -only those Northerners who want pee-cans rather than pecans are prevented from enjoying the Southern goodness...
Where i live we got pecan tree's everywhere and we get tired of them i got a whole 5 gallon bucket full from last year.
We have 2 trees and only got a cup from each -they're in need of some serious lovin'
Grow Don't you need a male and a female for pollination seems like daddy told me that??
My favorite thing from Dairy Queen is the Pecan Turtle Cluster Blizzard. And yes, I call them PEE-cans. Not pe-CAHNS.
Sorry they are a southern staple and they are pronounced Pe-cahns a pee can is not allowed in our house they were banned by the govment when all us hicks got indoor plumbing. Or as my granny called it a "Slop Jar"
Giggle fit....pee can.....heeeee hehehehehe heeeee....
But the bird is a Toucan, and nobody calls it a Tou-cahn, so why is it a pe-cahn?
Because pee cans are indelicate, unnecessary, and horribly unhygienic...
No wonder you've had trouble getting nuts -you've been asking for the wrong thing the whole time...Be careful what you ask for...{{{heh heh heh}}}
Now, Claire, I know you said you're Canadian so hopefully you don't also worsh instead of washing....(my evil step-mother was from Iowa, I'm very prejudiced, I admit)
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No worshing here. Even Kelly doesn't worsh.
One thing that makes me crazy in Iowa, people say "acrosst" instead of "across". Like "It's 10 feet acrosst and 12 feet long". It is all I can do to keep my mouth shut.
We acrosst here to.
Oh. Oh dear.
I am so relieved to hear that it is indeed pe-cahn and not pee-can. I have never been able to say the latter and my years in Texas (where pecans are as common as maples in NY) reinforced my predjudice. But having real, authentic Southerners, verify it is a relief.
Moxon--great swaths of America retained the vowels and idioms of Elizabethan English--lost by the British in the great Vowel Shift of the 1700s. Really. You can look it up. It's why some (usually more rural) parts of England have the hard "a" sound you hear in the States, instead of the tony "ah" sound of the more cosmopolitan regions. I love the "Great Vowel Shift". Maybe it's time for another?
anyone want some TEA!!
I would have been shot for acrosst-ing though it is probably linguistically valid. Nice "t" ending for anything 'fait accompli' which a measurement must necessarily be.
If you want a great vowel shift, check your English around the world.
Americans 'play' Brits 'pley' Aussies 'ply' NoyZles 'pluy' (and those naughty Canadiennes won't commit!)
And I believe Queen Elizabeth the First said "We AIN'T amused"
My neighbor says "sost" I need that envelope sost I can mail it.
Don't impress me much... LOL