Baldur

to + o = too

Baldur

Ok, so Baldur is going crazy.
I have been on this site for ages and just noticed a new (to me) piece in Candy.
It's a near-black, near-rectangle at a slight angle. On the 'Draw' page it appears in the area with the Licorice Allsorts.
I don't seem to have ever used it. In researching I have found examples of it going back a couple months, was it always there?
HMMM

I Draw with candy quite a bit and have always utilized the shiny black jellybean, when this little slab of licorice would have worked much better.
I'm losing my mind

Baldur

I should give credit where it is due. The picture that brought it to my attention is indigo's 'I'm playing too...'.

AuntieB

Baldur have you been in the oregano again?
That piece has ALWAYS been there.

Hello everyone, I trust that you are all well and that anyone in the path of hurricane Irene is battened down.
Auntie B is well out of harms way in Capetown this week.

Baldur

Happy Birthday to jaybuddy, Darren McFadden, Milano Collection Akihito Terui, Carlene Begnaud, The Great Khali, Yolanda Adams, Downtown Julie Brown, Sergei Krikalev, Pee-wee Herman!!!, Paul Reubens, Sgt. Slaughter!!!, Barbara Bach, Tuesday Weld, Daryl Dragon, Edward Patten, Sri Chimnoy, Martha Ray, Lester Young, Lyndon B. Johnson, Norah Lofts, C. S. Forester, Man Ray and Charles Rolls.

Dragon

I know just the piece you mean Baldur and Auntie B is right, it's been there from the beginning. I use it all the time, I find it one of the most useful pieces due to it's blackness and nice edges.

Qsilv

Somehow I keep fully expecting to see a proper purple in that candy palette!
But then, the major flaw with Fruits is lack of a decent blue.

Thanks for the garlic chives info, Baldur.
And Dragon (I'm catching up on your approaching life-event here)... warmest congratulations!

Baldur

Welcome to Rhode Island Irene.

Baldur

Happy Birthday to Kyle Massey, LeAnn Rimes, Todd Eldredge, Jason Priestly etc.... we are shutting the emergency generator down for a few hours here at Boughbreak.
I'll be on again as soon as possible

autumn

stay safe!

marius

Stay safe, Baldur.

Here's a little something Dragon probably knows about but it it's the first I've heard of this lady. Wish there were more like her!

Lady mayor of Canada's 6th largest city for 33 years, and her city is DEBT FREE!!!!!! with a 700 million SURPLUS!!!!! in their budget

http://www.garynorth.com/public/6791.cfm

Dragon

I had not actually heard of her before marius, but that was great. No wonder she keeps getting elected, I can't imagine why others would run against her.

Dragon

Hope all is good at Boughbreak as Baldur and his household batten down the hatches to get through Irene's fury. (I also hope all his Garden Gnomes have storm proofed their gnome burrows or where ever they dwell, would be a shame if any of them got blown away.)

sheftali52

Watching the news and seeing flooding is rampant in Rhode Island and half the state is without power--hope you're safe, Baldur.

Baldur

...still no electricity here, on the generator again. Primrose is as far away from the Atlantic as one can get in RI, we were spared the flooding.
Looking at the damnage now we suspect we had a mini tornado. Trees fell in twisted heaps and in every different direction.
We are all safe. None of the houses here were damaged.

marius

Glad to hear you are all well and safe at Boughbreak! Hope the electricity comes back on soon and that all your gnomes, gardens and cats are fine too!

Here's a little fun something that goes along with Baldur's birthday listings. Click the link, scroll down the page a bit, enter in your birthdate/year and click submit. Results will tell many things about your particular birthdate. For example, the US population was about 150,697,361 when I was born. (Haha, I KNEW the traffic was more sparse when I was a kid, even when I first began driving!)

Apparently I am 20,805 days old. Is that all? Would swear I've lived more days than that! Have fun!

http://www.paulsadowski.com/BirthData.asp

Dragon

That's a cool site marius. I was not surprised to find out I was born on a full moon. I wonder if I'm were-Dragon.

autumn

its very lonely in here, good thoughts going out to everyone!!

Dragon

To help out Baldur and not make him drain his generator I've prepared today's birthday list. (I'm afraid it's heavy on Canadians but I'm sure you'll all get by anyway)

Caligula, Wilhelmina HPM, queen of the Netherlands, James Coburn, Dan Rather, Jean Marc Beliveau, Van Morrison!!, Richard Gere, Zack Ward, Scott Niedermayer.

marius

Filling in for Baldur:

Birthdays for September 1:
Lily Tomlin, Barry Gibb, Dr. Phil, Gloria Estefan, Boney James, Charlie Robinson, Johann Pachelbel, William IV< Price of Orange, Engelbert Humperdinck, Yvonne De Carlo, Vittorio Gassman, Rocky Marciano, Boxcar Willie, Conway Twitty, Seiji Ozawa, Leonard Slatkin.

And a few things that happened on September 1:
1532 - Anne Boleyn made Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England
1772 - The Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in San Luis Obispo, CA
1836 - Narcissa Whitman, one of the first English-speaking white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington
1878 - Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell
1897 - The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America
1902 - "A Trip to the Moon," considered on of the first science fiction films, is released in France
1905 - Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation
1906 - The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys is established
1914 - The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo