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From the wiki article: "A gluten-free diet allows for fresh fruits, vegetables, meats and many dairy products. The diet allows rice, corn, soy, potato, tapioca, beans, sorghum, quinoa, millet, buckwheat, arrowroot, amaranth, teff, Montina and nut flours and prohibits the ingestion of wheat, barley, rye and related components, including triticale, durum, graham, kamut, semolina, spelt, malt, malt flavouring or malt vinegar." - Stephen Mack from Bookmarklet

So far King Arthur Flour has my favorite mixes as far as cookies, cake, bread, and brownies go. I have some Cup4Cup, but I haven't given it a whirl, yet, and Better Batter isn't available around here. This is my favorite pasta: http://www.bionaturae.com/gluten-... - Lix

I will get them, then I will take them somewhere to make the shoo bloo. - ωαřмaiden ☆TeamOtto☆

Cute shoes! - Anne Bouey

And check out the webseries if you haven't yet: http://mindmybrains.com/ - Rachel Lea Fox

Just got my last vote in! Now my fingers are crossed! - Anne Bouey

Hmm they ripped off all the roof including plywood by 9am this morning. Since then nothing, nothing but rain off and on and a naked roof. My guess they hired one company to do demo and another to do the roof the next day and didn't plan on rain. - SteVe C

:( - Anne Bouey from iPhone

Damn. - Brian Johns

maybe i just want to have an excuse to go around visiting vineyards and eating in good restaurants and calling it research? - Iphigenie

Gratz! - Lnorigb

I lalalove y'all. <3 - Kelli H.

Aww...so cutes! Someone also likes to play with DoF when they take selfies, too. ;) - JA Castillo

I can't help falling in love with you! ;) - Jenny R

Same to you, Jenny :)* - mina_sydney

Love it! - Tamara J.

Just saying it one more time before Valentines Day is over! :) - Rachel Lea Fox

"What becomes of a garden gnome hurled in fury at a windscreen during a stormy breakup? Or a teddy bear that was once a Valentine's Day present? A wedding dress from a marriage gone awry? An ax that smashed through household furniture? All are on display at the Museum of Broken Relationships in the Croatian capital, each with written testimonies telling tales of passion, romance and heartbreak. On Valentine's Day, the museum sees its visits almost double. "The objects that are here represent all the stages of a breakup ... and how people go through love," said Drazen Grubisic, a designer and artist who co-founded the museum in 2010 in the Croatian capital. "We might say it's a love museum, just upside down," he said. The mementos - collected from all over the world - are random and varied, ranging from fake rubber breasts to a cast from a broken leg. Each item comes with dates and locations of the relationships, and notes by their anonymous donors." - Anne Bouey from Bookmarklet

"Some are funny. The note next to a garter belt says: "I never put them on. The relationship might have lasted longer if I had." Some are bitter. The garden gnome flew over a car driven by a husband who turned "arrogant and heartless." It bounced on the asphalt, shattering its face. "It was a long loop, drawing an arc of time ... that defined the end of love," the note from Slovenia... more... - Anne Bouey

I hope they can see you soon. - Anika

hope that you're feeling better! - Sir Shuping is just sir

Welcome, Ben! - Kevin Fox

I don't think it had anything to do with the tornado release - a spammer bumped a bunch of Bret's old posts today. - Ben Darnell

Dang! - ☆ Mellyboo ☆

:-( - John (bird whisperer)

That's a big steak and you and and Dominic are so adorable! - Anika

Hah i beat you by 8 years having been at a customers in Taipei over chinese new year one year. :) So i think that makes me even with your whole fluent in multiple languages and actually living abroad thing. - SteVe C

I love the pictorial evidence! - Anne Bouey

whut? - Mary Carmen

((((((furrworld)))))) - vicster

Good morning, MC! - Anne Bouey

Good morning, pretty Mary. :) - Steven Perez

"Browns Valley resident Cynthia Rinehart was walking her dogs one night last weekend in Sunrise Meadows Park when she realized something was amiss — her border collie dug in his heels and wouldn’t budge. She looked up to see two coyotes scamper away, the first time she’s seen coyotes in more than 20 years of living in west Napa. “It was kind of disbelief, like coyotes — huh?,” Rinehart said. “We don’t have coyotes here.” A number of her neighbors have reported seeing the wild animals in the last couple of weeks, setting off a chain of postings on the subject at an online neighborhood news forum, Nextdoor Browns Valley, Rinehart said. “Browns Valley neighbors are talking,” Rinehart said. The Napa County Sheriff’s Animal Control Division has received several reports of coyotes in the Browns Valley neighborhood in the last month, said Sgt. Craig Nickles. Nickles said his officers will check the area, but unless there’s a report of an attack or a diseased coyote, animal control is... more... - Anne Bouey from Bookmarklet

I think Cricket can take them. - Jessie

Doh. =( - ronin from Bookmarklet

Le sigh :( - ☆彡Jazzy-B from iPhone

Good afternoon! - John (bird whisperer)

B! :) - Kelli H. from Android

<3 - Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart

Cameo appearance by Trish R's postcard in the background! - Nakachi

How's tricks? - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

O HAI, LADY BOTTS! :) - Steven Perez

"There's only one thing more irritating than having to interrupt your Brazilian jazz class to feed the meter. That's racing outside, keys in hand, only to find a parking officer writing a ticket. In two East Bay cities, that most frustrating of urban experiences may soon be obsolete. Berkeley and Oakland are both considering a true rarity: driver-friendly ordinances that would forbid parking officers from writing tickets if the driver is present. "We're trying to have a kinder, gentler parking policy," said Berkeley City Councilman Kriss Worthington, who proposed the Berkeley ordinance. "If you show up to move your car, that should be good enough. I don't think we should be punishing you for that." Berkeley's proposal originated with Frances Kalfus, a classical guitarist who takes Brazilian ensemble classes at the Jazz School in downtown Berkeley. Week after week, his teacher had to rush out of class to move his car. Three times in two months, he returned to class with a $45 ticket,... more... - Anne Bouey from Bookmarklet

Joey, right -- cities have large incentives to entrap citizens into paying fines, and there's really little in terms of checks and balances. Corruption invariably ensues. - Stephen Mack

"Not so long ago, common ravens were uncommon in the Bay Area. A 1927 reference calls them "rare" except at Point Reyes. American crows lived mostly along the Marin County coast, not in the East Bay. In 1991, Audubon Christmas Bird Counts tallied 17 crows and 54 ravens in San Francisco; 60 crows and 23 ravens in Oakland. The 2011 San Francisco count reported 599 ravens and 566 crows; Oakland had 1,152 crows and 193 ravens. Remarkable, especially considering that crows, if not ravens, are highly susceptible to the West Nile virus. California Department of Public Health statistics show more dead crows than any other bird species testing positive for West Nile: 1,792 in 2008; 468 last year. (Raven mortality was minor.) The disease devastated crow populations in the East and Midwest, but California populations weren't dented. Much of the crow and raven boom is urban. Birder Josiah Clark has seen flocks of 90 ravens in San Francisco. City crows are hard to miss in Berkeley and elsewhere in the East Bay; they're certainly, noisily, all over our neighborhood." - Anne Bouey from Bookmarklet

:) - Anne Bouey

"They came from the deep. They have 15-foot tentacles. And now they're oozing around Pier 39. They're three rarely seen giant Pacific octopuses, caught by a crab fisherman and now - in all their gelatinous, eight-limbed glory - mesmerizing biologists and the public at Aquarium of the Bay. "They're so iconic - it's sort of like shaking hands with a sea monster," said marine biologist Mike McGill, describing the experience of holding one of the new arrivals. "They wrap their arms around you so they can feel you and taste you with their suction cups. If they don't think you're a predator, they can be very friendly." Aquarium of the Bay, a nonprofit run by the Bay Institute, every year tries to persuade crab fishermen at nearby Pier 45 to turn over giant Pacific octopuses that sneak into the crab traps in search of fresh Dungeness. The aquarium uses the octopuses for research and to give the public a chance to observe the mysterious creatures, the largest octopus species in the world but... more... - Anne Bouey from Bookmarklet

What happens to them at the aquarium? If the get 1 a year do they have a display of 5 or 6? - Rachel Lea Fox from iPhone

"The octopuses are each about 4 years old, geriatric for the species, which has a life span of 3 to 5 years. They'll live out their days at the aquarium free from predators and with plenty of Dungeness crab to feast upon. Scientists, meanwhile, hope to learn a little more about the elusive, wily animals. Octopuses may be shy, but they're able to twist open jars with their arms and squeeze their squishy bodies through the 7-inch opening of a crab trap." - Anne Bouey

Happy Birthday guys!!!! - aden {Chickadee}

Happy Birthday both of you! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

That sounds like our cats. - Anne Bouey

=D - ANJELINABANANA

:( - LB so u no it's real from Android

Looks like we'll have to have the landlady replace our carpet upstairs. It reeks now. The irony is, the carpet is super worn and old and gross *downstairs* and we'd love for her to replace that, but she's so stingy, I don't know how we'll talk her into that. It just makes sense, though, to do it all at once. - Laura Norvig

"Birds and people will be flocking to Mare Island and the surrounding area this weekend to enjoy the 16th annual San Francisco Bay Flyway Festival.  The three-day event celebrates the return of more than one million shorebirds and hundreds of thousands of ducks, geese and hawks which migrate through or winter in the Bay Area. In addition to exhibitions, presentations and movies, there will be more than 50 regional outings, including a walk in the new Napa-Sonoma Marshland Wildlife Area led by biologists. “In 16 years Fish and Game has never led a walk — this shows their commitment (to the festival),” said event coordinator Myrna Hayes. Hayes has been involved with the event from its beginnings in the mid-1990s.  The Flyway Festival is focused on beginning and intermediate bird watchers. Napa resident Cheryl Harris, outreach chairman for Napa-Solano Audubon Society, said people will be able to see the recently opened new trails in American Canyon and on Mare Island.  “It’s an opportunity to see nature close by, and it’s a wonderful opportunity to learn about birds in our own backyard,” Harris said." - Anne Bouey from Bookmarklet

Who's providing John with couchsurfing space? - Spidra Webster

"Just in time for Valentine's Day, a Florida judge ruled on Tuesday that a man involved in a scuffle with his wife treat her to an evening at a local bowling alley and a romantic meal at Red Lobster. Judge John Hurley ordered that Joseph Bray, 47 and his wife Sonja, 39, also visit a marriage counselor." - SteVe C from Bookmarklet

How dare he brush it off as very minor. Minor violence escalates to major violence, almost invariably. And this asshole judge thinks a fucking DATE will fix things. Marriage counseling is good advice, but the judge making light of the situation & thinking he's so clever with it REALLY offends me. - Starmama from FFHound(roid)!

Günaydın, Eivind :-)) - Ali Oz

Yes, Eivind. Ali Öz = Ali Yolcu :-)) - Ali Oz