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Hershy's Special Dark, I'll take it Oh goodie.. I'll trade you all my Hershey's Dark minis (that come in the variety bag) for all your Hershey's Milk Chocolate. ha. The only dark choc. I like is Jr. Mints, Mounds and those "Ghiradelli Raspberry square" thingies I mentioned earlier... other than that.. it is MILK chocolate all the way. ha.

Ha.. they look like red chocolate chips.. taste like cherry. PACKED with sugar I am sure. Not sure what else you can use them for (probably cherry chip cookies.. ha.) I have only ever used them for Cherry Mash. (my aunt is the one who got me started making it homemade.. about 20 yrs or so ago.. when SHE stopped making them and bringing them at Christmas.. ha. I had to take over the family tradition.. sigh. It was a hard job.. but SOMEBODY had to do it!!

what is cherry mash candy It is pretty popular here in the KC area.. midwest in general, maybe. It is like cherry fudge.. wrapped in chocolate nut fudge.. VERY rich and super sweet. (If I buy it store bought.. it takes FOREVER for me to eat a whole one... usually about four sittings.. ha. A few bites go a long way) http://cherrymash.com/ And no offense to the Chase Candy people.. but I do prefer homemade. To me it is just a better treat because I am not that big on the whole chopped nut thing.. and the store candy is loaded w/ chopped nuts. Also... I really like the texture that you get w/ the chocolate fudge part of the homemade recipe. It is not as dry as the storebought...just a little creamier texture, maybe. But hey.. the storebought is NOTHING to sneeze at... ha. It is VERY delish. Just be prepared for a "sweet tooth" overload no matter which way you try it. ha. And PS: you can get the homemade recipe off a bag of cherry chips, (at least around here anyway) It does have marshmallows in the recipe.. but they melt and become a part of the cherry fudge, so it is not "marshmallowy" at all.

OH my golly.. finally a list I can REALLY get behind, ha. (I am such a lousy list maker.. but candy.. well.. THAT would be a specialty, ha) Let's see... it REALLY depends on the mood I am in, (and PS: I leave off the nuts from just about ANYTHING except Snickers) Hmmmm... let's see... Candy Bars: These pretty much are all interchangeable as favorites because I could just about as easily prefer one over the other at any given time of day.. I go in "seasons" sometimes. ha 1) Hershey's Chocolate Bar (I know.. boring... but none the less, tried and true) 2)3 Musketeers (NOT any "special" kind.. the plain original if you please) 3) Reeces Peanut Butter Cups (plain, not crunchy) 4) Mounds (because sometimes you feel like a nut.. and sometimes you are one, ha) 5)Milky Way (I once went an entire year where I had to have ONE Milky Way mini a day.. or else. ha) 6) Snickers SOUR Candy (yee haw.. this would be the kidling's most fave category.. and I must confess, I tend to prefer sour over chocolate the older I get.... (NO comments from the Grey Gallery over the implications of THAT, if you please) And again.. the order of these is entirely interchangable depending on my mood, ha... 1) Icebreakers Sours Raspberry or Strawberry (I can't remember which) Lemonade. 2)Lemonhead and FRIENDS (Jackie.. has Alice tried these?? They are the kidlings and my fave as they have lemon AND a bunch of other assorted sour flavors) 3)Lifesavers Sour Gummy's (especially the Wildberry flavors) 4)Cherry Sours (OH my golly.. talk about tried and true) "Other" candy: (also in not TOO specific order, depending on my mood) 1) Ghiradelli Squares Dark Chocolate Raspberry (that is my CURRENT "hankering" ha. .. I have some in my fridge, even as we speak) :-) 2)Junior Mints 3)Homemade Chocolate Covered Marshmallows (easy to make.. WAY fun to eat) 4) Homemade Cherry Mash Bars (I prefer my own to storebought because that way I control how much "nut" is in the chocolate.. I use crunchy peanut butter instead of smooth.. and leave off putting in the chopped nuts that way) 5)Jolly Ranchers hard candy (LOVE grape and cherry the best) Oh brother.. I need to stop.. I am thinking it is time to go get a Ghiradelli Rasperry thingie now. (Did I mention that was my lastest "hankering" ?? ha...) PS Grey Guy.. your list was missing ONE item I thought SURE would be there... http://www.food.com/recipe/sauerkraut-candy-198251 Edited by: rohanaka on Jun 22, 2011 5:06 PM

a terrible sore throat and fever and various things for about a week Oh NO. That's not good. DO take good care and get well soon. (lots of hot tea and honey.. warm soup, etc.) In the meantime.. Seeing that picture makes me want to get "Blood Alley" so I don't get in trouble. (I've seen it but I was young then.) Ha.. well no worries there. I only save the worst of my "Peacemaking" (for the "younger" Greyer folks... who just hem and haw around.) Maybe by the time you are feeling better you can watch and chime in too.. (and maybe by then the GREY dude will too.. ha.. oh no.. I hope you feel better sooner than THAT!) Take care, sir. Edited by: rohanaka on Jun 22, 2011 1:02 PM

I hope Ro has that wrtten down somewhere! I actually had him on my list for M&M's.. but I will make this addition to my candy stockpile too!! There's ALWAYS room for on my list for more chocolate! (and nothing is too good for the Movieman!) :-) Here, Mr. Movieman.. all for you!!!!!!!!!! May I recommend (with all the hot weather) FROZEN is quite delish this time of year) Enjoy!! :-) Edited by: rohanaka on Jun 22, 2011 12:41 PM

may watch that next. Or I may not! Well.. guess I better go stock up on more rope... since you seem DETERMINED to do things the hard way. In the meantime.. here... let me just give you ONE more gentle encouragement to enjoy Blood Alley NEXT.... and

I've been poisoned Not yet... that is not on the "schedule of torture" for another few weeks or so.. ha. (you didn't know we had a "schedule" did you???) I've since watched The Sea Chase. And the verdict on that one is_______________. I have only just recently even HEARD about TSC What did you think?. I don't know if I should be interested in it or not.. but the "bits" of it I have found on youtube look interesting. In the meantime.. get to crackin' on Blood Alley, buster. I am interested in your thoughts on it. It is not your "typical" Duke role. Not sure where you are going to come down on it all together (I am not nearly so good at pegging your opinions on some movies as Miss G) but I think you will at least like it SOMEwhat. Now.. to go order a few more ropes.. just in case I need to boost my inventory....

I've been hoping the Clark Gable box set would go on sale Well.. I DO understand that.. ha. (you do remember you are talking to the queen of "thrifty" ha.. (sounds ever so much better than.. "tightwad" ha.) But OH me.. excuses, excuses. ha (But I don't blame you.. ha.. I think Miss G has you pegged though. I don't expect rave reviews overall on this one from you) Behind your back and into mine! Not SO, my DEAR friend. ha. Only the hat pin is for a "rear flank" sort of maneuver.. ha. The scissors are always used for the frontal assault, don't you know. Right upside the noggin' just like Vance used to do.. ha. I can watcb Blood Alley. That's one that I do have WHAT?? I thought you had seen that one. Oh GOOD golly.. It has been such a long time since I blabbed.. I mean "Rambled" on that one, I plum forgot you were still MIA on it. Good gravy.. I must be slipping in my old age!! Ha. (A Peacemaker's work is never done) sigh... By ALL means.. you should watch that one. (BABY is waiting for you!!) Hop to it, Mister!! Don't MAKE me break open the freezer for a ROPE!!)

Red is for danger, no? At least where MrGrey is concerned! Ha... well.. to be honest... sad but true.. .USUALLY red is for.. me.. embarrassing myself over SOME dumb thing I have said lately.. ha. But don't tell that GREY dude. Let's tell him RED is for how mad I get when he is so wrong headed all the time (you know.. so he can worry over it a while. HA Oh yeah.. like he is shaking in his boots, over that one, I am so sure!!) Ha.

Ok.... ha. obviously I am TOO dense to figure out how to use the color buttons.. ha. (and now I am missing half of what I wanted to say.. ha. OH me.. I am a mess) What I was TRYING to say little darlin' is... The blue is lovely.. but if we are talking favorites, mine is RED.. and PS.. I bet you are spot on w/ your prediction on a certain GREY person w/ regard to San Francisco. He is an "easy" guess when it comes to SOME stuff.. ha. And I think you have him pegged. And PS: when it comes to posting... after my latest disaster w/ the new message board "goodies" I will take my technophobic self TOTALLY out of the "color" scheme and stick w/ black and white.. ha. STILL reliable after all these years!!!!!!! Edited by: rohanaka on Jun 20, 2011 8:57 PM Edited by: rohanaka on Jun 20, 2011 9:02 PM

a strange little western Fred.. "strange" is a good word to describe this movie for sure. And you are right about how this film does not match the caliber of the other stories by the same author. And what is sad is, I think it COULD have. But the dialogue went back and forth from sophisticated and interesting.. to just plain doofy. And there was a lot of back story missing from so many of the characters (that a lot of stuff did not make sense) Truthfully, Preston's character stole the show and got all the great lines. He was the only one that was REALLY interesting to me.. the other characters were pretty flat and one dimensional. (though I did like Wills character too, for the most part) young John Drew Barrymore OH, the poor kid. ha. He was one of the most "one dimensional" characters of all. But I sort of felt sorry for him because he spent the first half of the story just getting sent out to unhitch the horses everytime the older brother wanted to have a "grown up" conversation w/ out the kid brother listening in. ha.. I kept expecting him to say something like, "Aw gee.. again. I NEVER get to hear the GOOD stuff" ha. And then when he DID get in on the action, it only served to teach him one of those lessons that had to be learned the hard way. Poor kid, indeed! :-) Edited by: rohanaka on Jun 20, 2011 6:26 PM

PS. Oh yeah. I love San Francisco. Especially ****. mmm-mmm Jackie.. Miss G... What do you think??? Should we skip over the formalities and just "triple DOG dare" him to watch it????????????? (Nah... He'd likely just call it a "musical" and who knows WHAT he'd say about that ending.... blah blah blah...) ha. Sorry Grey Dude.. I am being mean, I know. You do know we love you, don't you?????????????????? (said w/ a hat pin and large pair of scissors behind my back) HA!

Ha, Jackie... he was PERFECT for that role.. I have to admit.. even when he was being his "bawdiest" and slitheriest".. but I kept waiting for him to bust out with a hearty "We got trouble with a capital T and that rhymes with P and that stands for POOL!" ha.

OH, and I forgot to mention... Jack ELAM is in it too. (in a very un-Elam sort of role.. and yet... he was entirely himself. ha) Here is the youtube link.. it is a pretty easy watch (coming in just under an hour and a half..but the picture and sound quality are sort of rough. Watch it sometime when you CLEARLY have nothing better to watch.. ha. Because, again... I can't say it was all that GREAT of a story..but it does have it's moments. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BChuRQv5vM

I KNOW!! ha. I bet you were thinkin'... "Oh that Ro.. ha. she's totally off her rocker.. again!" ha. And RE: Robert Preston... He was quite the "black hat" in this one too.. kinda mean (sometimes) almost "slippery and slithery"(even a bit "bawdy" at times too). He was not a very nice guy most of the time... and yet.. there was something NOT entirely UN-likeable about him either. (UGH, I hate it when that happens)

Elsewhere in another thread, a couple of weeks ago, Miss G asks... have you ever seen *The Sundowners*? If not, I think you'd like it, even if you don't think you'd care for Mitchum or Kerr. It's your kind of movie, similar to these in subject, if not setting (Australia Well..... I saw it.. and then again..I didn't!!! ha. I went searching for the title online and found it on youtube... but little did I remember that whole "Mitchum/Kerr/Australia" thing.. since I just looked up the title... And guess what I JUST discovered.. (duh) there is a COMPLETELY different movie with the exact same title (1950 I think) with Robert Preston as the BLACK HAT (sort of) and I THOUGHT that was the one you suggested that I needed to watch... so I DID, ha! (again.. because I had completely forgotten that whole "Mitchum/Kerr/Australia, thing) ha. But at least I got to see Robert Preston.. OH that Kid Wichita.. I could not decide whether to love him or hate him. UGH!!! (Grey Guy.. you would have loved him, for sure) All in all..not a GREAT movie.. but it had some pretty good moments.. AND some way cool GEOLOGY. (the shoot out in the canyon was totally awesome, if only for the rock formations.. ha) But alas.. still NOT the best western ever.... (mini-spoiler) On the UPside... who'da thunk it???? CHILL WILLS saves the day!!! (yee haw) Now to go find the OTHER movie of the same name.. ha. So many movies.. so little time... Edited by: rohanaka on Jun 20, 2011 1:49 PM

he'd want the ending to take place during the "beforehand" and skip the rest. He's such a stick in the mud that way.. ha. And it's too bad, too, because I think "****" would be a character he could relate to pretty well.. even at the end (despite how much he might try to disagree with me) Did I mention he is stick in the mud sometimes??? ha Just kidding Grey Guy... or AM I???

Miss G says: you'd hate the ending He would, wouldn't he. (even despite all that death and destruction and doom and gloom beforehand)

In the meantime.. have a little chocolate "sumthin'" to go w/ all those icecream sodas, (and/or other beverages of choice) my friends. Here, Miss G.. you need to keep your strength up. :-)

WOOOOO HOO.. I finally figured it out.. ha. Duke: Dadburnitt, Dobe. This here is the BRUNETTE thread. What the heck are YOU doing here? Dobe: I heard that Miss Jackie was feelin' poorly and I wanted to wish her well. Ben: Take good care, Little Darlin'. We LOVE you! (ps.. thanks Renee.. it was the "plain text" tab that was throwing me off.. yeehaw.) Edited by: rohanaka on Jun 17, 2011 2:11 PM Edited by: rohanaka on Jun 17, 2011 2:13 PM

emergency appendectomy OH dear me, little Missy... So very sorry to hear it. Glad to hear you are doing ok, now, though. PS, tried to post a little "pic" for you of a few "fave" Brunettes, but could not get it to post.. I fiddled around and got it to work in my private messages finally, but still could not get it to post here.. Not sure if it is the "upgrade" stuff, or me.. so will have to save it for later. In the meantime, rest up little darlin' and feel better SOON. Edited by: rohanaka on Jun 17, 2011 3:18 AM

I'm afraid the doctors will think I have a fever after this! Hopefully Miss Maven's icecream will help cool you down.. if only for a moment, ha. (PS: Miss Maven.. do those things come in "Extra Strength?" ha. I think I could use one of those right about now.. ha.) Thanks so much for inviting the boys All for you little darlin'. Hope it brought a smile to your face.. Oh and PS: we just had a late arrival show up to give you a hug! Yee haw! :-)

Ha.. he DOES look a bit parched just sitting out there in the sun, doesn't he? ha. He'll have to go and talk to Stumpy about that one though.. the only beer I have to offer is ROOT beer. :-)

This is actually my FAVORITE photo of George OH me... I had NO idea. Sorry to be an "instigator" ha. Rudy vs. George, oh help me Well good luck with THAT one.. ha. (I know.. I am NO help at all, ha) Decisions decisions.