So...whats for dinner?
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Love the pictures of the new granddaughter. Thanks for posting. Grandmother looks good, too! I hope the baby's parents appreciate all your work, Lacey.
Minus, the brandy cream sauce always sounds so good when you mention making it.
Last night's dinner at Hilltop restaurant with the Couples Golf group was good. I had a garden salad with blue cheese dressing and the pecan crusted walleye fillet with spring veggies. He had barbecued ribs that looked delicious. We stopped at Dairy Queen on the way home for a hot fudge sundae.
This morning we went to the gym and afterwards to West Forty for breakfast. I had the taco omelet, which I always enjoy. I ate half of it and brought the other half home to warm up for lunch.
Today is dh's birthday, one of the Big 0 birthdays. Hint: he was born in 1939. He said the other 0 birthdays hadn't bothered him but this one does. Tonight we're having a ribeye steak, potatoes and salad.
Yesterday afternoon some of the kids here at Pine Hollow Resort delivered balloons, a card, and a tray of cupcakes. I think dh was pleased.
I unpacked the multi Quick Pot yesterday and it had a dent in the side. I had ordered two last Oct. and left this one in the box. I called Customer Service people and was told the dent wasn't a problem for the pot's operation. I did the test run and it went fine. Now it's a matter of working this method of cooking into my cooking routine. I printed out a recipe for beef stroganoff.
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Carole, happy birthday to your DH. I feel his pain, I'm not doing well at all with 7-0, don't know how I will manage the next "0".
In the 70s today, but humid of course. House cooling is courtesy of the attic fan and numerous tower fans. Cool is a relative term here, it's 80 in the house.
To avoid adding heat, tonight will be leftover tri-tip in barbecue sauce for sandwiches. Sides will be broccoli and I might make some stove top mac and cheese. I have a small piece of raclette that I could throw in. Last night was pizza on the grill which turned out great.
Minus, I was thinking about your brandy cream sauce as I came across a mushroom cream sauce recently that reminded me.
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Carole & Nance - I will be exactly between those two birth dates this summer. I was still in active treatment for the big 70 so I didn't give a royal 'toss'. I continue to grouch 'thank you cancer' for making me feel much older than I should. Without my consistent exercise plan I would be very stiff - but I do keep up with Silver Sneakers twice a week, water aerobics twice a week and a chair yoga class.
I'd love to hear what any of you do with brandy cream sauces. The base for my last attempt was a bechamel with 1/3 cup milk, 1/3 cup heavy cream and 1/3 cup brandy. Very rich - but as you can imagine...absolutely no calories (LOL). Basically I was lazy, using left over pork loin and canned mushrooms - oh, and extra butter on the noodles.
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Tonight was taco salad. It did not hit triple digits today (only 98)but it certainly felt like it! Forecast is for a cool front dropping temps "way down" to the 80s on Monday.
Enjoying photos of grandbabies, swans , et al.I
Things appear to have settled down here after a whirlwind few weeks with granddaughters in and out (you really don't want to go shoe shopping with them!), our son having an accident overseas where he lives and DH developing a tension headache that required medication. Hoping to get back to investigating some new recipes!
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Our subscription lapsed and we missed an issue... So, I missed that article.
I made some sourdough dinner rolls for DD and that was also when I fed the starter.
Unless I find another train locomotive pretending to be the light at the end of the tunnel, I'm 95% done with the painting/home repair/fixing construction mistakes.
Beav posted while I was typing. Hi.
I didn't do much typing, but it took awhile because the dogs kept wanting my attention. :-)
It was triple digits here by 11:00am and it's warming up over the next few days.
Dinner out is on the schedule for tonight. I figured out I saved almost $5,500 by doing all this stuff myself, so I may as well "splurge a bit".
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Eric, how was your dinner out?
We had leftover linguine last night. I added grated cheese before warming up in the microwave. Just as good or maybe better than the first time around. Side was a tossed salad.
DH is going back to the out patient clinic this morning. He was getting better but had a relapse with more hacking coughing. He woke me up several times last night. It will be better for both of us if he can get rid of this bronchitis or whatever it is.
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Eric, you've certainly earned more than one dinner out!
Last night was romaine and baby spinach with fresh peaches and blueberries and shredded turkey. Dressing was choice of specialty oils (I used lemongrass grapeseed and DH used butter infused evoo) and blueberries infused balsamic vinegar. Yum!
No idea what will be on our plates tonight...
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Beaver - that salad sounds wonderful. I always think of strawberries & mushrooms with spinach. I'll put peaches on my list.
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Hey all - have again been MIA, don’t have a super good reason, I seem to have been easily distracted lately. I did read up - congrats to lacey on the new beautiful grand baby - yay! Everyone seems to be making yummy food and working hard! I need to get back to regular posts
Tonight will be some mac n cheese I made yesterday, large elbows with green peas, sautéed onion and green pepper, ham, and a white sauce with mozzarella and parm. Topped with panko and more parm and baked. Made a kale salad to accompany.
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I love when the fruit is fresh, cheap and plentiful.
We went to a place called Mi Vegana Madre (My Vegan Mother), a vegan Mexican food themed restaurant about 5 miles from home.
Like I've said earlier, DD talked Sharon into trying veganism and I'm going along for the ride. Anyway, the food was really good and as usual, the spices are what makes the meal. What was even better was that when I was finished, I satisfied but not "stuffed".
I'm only needing 15 more minutes to finish the painting. Today I had a dental appointment (a failing filling was found), Tuesday morning we are going to a funeral, Wednesday morning is when the filling will be replaced, Thursday is full, Friday morning is a retirement party and Saturday is school bus driver in-service training. So, either I'll have to get some construction lights and do this in the very late evening or wait until Sunday morning. I'm getting anxious to get this all finished and get all the tools put back "to bed".
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Eric - sounds like you're experiencing just what I am - now that I'm retired I seem to have less time than when I was working. Something every day.
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Well, "what's for dinner" began to change drastically last Friday. Tuesday I took my Dexilant (PPI) and then read an article (reported in two medical e-mail newsletters to which I subscribe) about a study done by Washington U. (St. Louis) Med. School implicating long-term use of PPIs (and to a lesser extent, H2 blockers) in cardiovascular disease, stomach cancer and kidney disease. So, since I got my Invisalign I stopped eating after my post-dinner brushing & flossing, several hours before my usual night-owl bedtime, I consequently no longer got occasional breakthrough reflux, I decided to quit Dexilant. Fine all day Wed. and Thurs. Thurs. night we went to Mon Ami Gabi, where we had oysters (tiny, and not ythe kind like Olympias or Kumamotos that are supposed to be tiny; frisee salad with lardons & poached egg; and I had skate wing--which I'd been craving--with asparagus and cauliflower mash, followed by (against my better judgment) chocolate mousse. It was nearly 11 when we got home, and I went to bed before 2. (Had we been half an hour later, we might have been the ones gunned down in a drive-by at the Lake Shore Dr. onramp we used to go home).
Fri. morning (the day we were going to a Cubs game) I woke up with a scratchy throat, only lower down than when I get a cold. Chalked it up to the high pollen count. Had a fried egg and mini sausage biscuit, and headed off to the game--only with the scratchy throat beginning to transition to a "lump-in-the-throat" or "stomach poking up into my neck" feeling as we rode the Red Line. Because of the nuisance factor of having to take my aligner out to eat or drink anything but water, I bought a bottle of water.
Two sips into the bottle, my personal Mt. Vesuvius erupted: the dreaded "water brash." Waves of burning kept roiling up into my upper esophagus--not the awful battery-acid-in-the-throat taste and searing pain of a breakthrough, but still extremely uncomfortable, with the water refusing to head back down and out. (At least the Cubs won). After the obligatory three-chorus singalong of "Go, Cubs, Go" (the late Steve Goodman's atonement for his bitingly funny "A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request") we headed across the street to the Hotel Zachary for one of its three restaurants. We settled on Dutch & Doc's on the ground floor.
I had read the menus the night before but only to see what looked good; this time I searched in vain for what I could safely eat & drink. I asked if they could make a milkshake or anything resembling it. The waitress shook her head. What about a glass of milk? Again, no go (it's described as family-friendly, but I guess "family" means a group of related adults). How about a virgin piña colada? Surely, with a bazillion types of booze, they could make one? Again, no--the waitress pointed to the cocktail menu--which listed only a few of their specialty drinks, plus beer & wine. "Closest thing we have is a Frozen Hurricane." It was then I realized that they had no blender--just one slushie machine full of frozen Hurricane mix. Fortunately, they did have ginger ale (my first sweetened soda in a long while), which I had to stir to flatten it and use my own silicone straw, as plastic straws are now illegal here and paper ones fall apart. All I could eat on the menu (low fat, low acid) was a shrimp cocktail--hold the sauce & even the lemon. Done by 6pm--and didn't eat any more.
Messaged my primary, who advised taking 40 mg of Pepcid BID and go up to a total of 120 if nec. (Ssid that the 10mg dose per pill was little more than homeopathic). Sat. I could only handle dry toast, a boiled egg and applesauce. Had to give up my beloved seltzer, lest the carbonation irritate the stomach and shoot back up into the esophagus. Bob said to go back on the Dexilant, to avoid any erosions that could turn malignant.
Sun. I got up early, had a nibble of a piece of matzo and just enough espresso to wake me up and keep from getting a withdrawal headache. Headed down to Morris to teach at an outdoor dulcimer festival. The feared rain didn't materialize, I got a good parking space, and the staff hauled me & my instruments in a golf cart. Was doing fine all day on water, but by the time I was done teaching I was starving. The Boy Scout troop providing the food was winding down (they were finally getting to eat), and I had a $5 lunch voucher. So a plain (no condiments) bratwurst on a white bun, and another water. All was well till the last little bite of bun--which lay like a lump of dough at the base of my throat. I went to Culver's for some vanilla custard before hitting the freeway--it did turn out to be soothing. Still, no dinner last night. And I was starting to get dehydrated: had some dizzy spells during the fest.
Today was my bariatric appt--saw the NP. Weigh-in: down 15 lbs. since my MO ordered the consult back in March--before I knew about the eating and drinking restrictions on Invisalign. She offered me three diets: keto detox (no way--that would mean no eating out, especially while traveling); "partial meal replacement" a la Jenny Craig or Nutri-System (again, a nonstarter, as we dine out and travel); and a modified version of Atkins & South Beach--laxer than Atkins but stricter than S. Beach. I opted for the latter, as it's doable on the road and most sit-down restaurants in the heartland can accede to the diet's restrictions--it worked for me from 2004-6, when I lost 40 lbs. Sort of like the old fad "Carbohydrate Addicts' Diet" except no time limits on the dinner containing the one sugar or starchy carb per day, but with that carb restricted to a very-low-starch-or-sugar option: low-carb 100% wholegrain bread, brown rice, wild rice or quinoa, steel-cut oatmeal, Cheerios & whole milk, Greek yogurt, berries, melon or citrus, Smart Pop. The Invisalign is helping that,=as my rationed "aligner out" time makes snacking a royal pain.
Only problem is that none of the permitted anti-GERD foods were on the list, and all the no-nos on low-carb include gut-friendly foods. The NP told me to resume Dexilant and start the diet once the blood levels have kicked in. (Which could take 4-5 dqys to get high enough blood levels again). And at that point, it'll be safe to ditch that pill every other day. (on day 3 tonight). Was able to have a little Pinot Noir with planked wild king salmon Tues. night. Tonight I had half a Quest pizza (cauliflower & cheese crust), 5 gm net carbs. Didn't feel like drinking alcohol tonight, so it's back to the seltzers.
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Sandy, wishing you luck on the new eating plan. It's difficult to "eat healthy" when eating out as much as you do.
We had a delicious pizza for dinner last night, a gift from MN friends who live down near the MN border and are here at a different resort with a large group of family members. One couple in the family group own a pizza restaurant that makes really good pizza.
I heated the pizza at 425 degrees for 10 minutes. It had thin crust, Italian sausage and lots of cheese.
Tonight we will visit these friends at the nearby resort and have dinner with the whole family gathering.
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Forgot to say, "Welcome back, SpecialK! You were missed."
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Yike Sandy, what an ordeal. I'm a long term PPI user too and would like to stop, but fear prevents me. I plan to talk to my gastro and primary docs about it.
A/C wizard came yesterday and fixed the unit with minimal time and expense - a relay switch. We're enjoying a spate of cooler weather though and didn't even need it yesterday.
Now that that's taken care of, I have to start thinking of cooking other than grilling. At this moment, I've no idea what that will be. Chicken cacciatore is a possibility.
Welcome back SK!
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Oh, Sandy, what a challenge! Hope all is going better now.
Thinking about burgers, corn on the cob and tossed salad for tonight. It is raining again (seems more like yet!) so will need to be cooked indoors.
Special K, good to hear from you.
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Lacey - thank you, thank you again for the Cod concoction. It is so delicious. Onions, bell peppers, mushrooms and I had bunch of Campari tomatoes that I added. Fried the cod after dipping in melted butter & rolling in Panko. Melded in the skillet while I finished other things. Great not to turn on the oven when it's high 90s. I will dig out Lacey's fantastic recipe for anyone who is interested.
BTW Lacey, my friend Pat who you met in Boston doesn't eat fish because of the fish smell & taste. She would love this & I will cook it for her one day.
Special - good to see you.
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Sandy - are you happy with your silicone straw? If so, can you send a name &/or model number & where you purchased it.
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Dinner with the MN couple and their family last night can only be described as "minimalist." (Chuckle) One of the two sons-in-law cooked 6 brats, 3 pork burgers and a few beef burgers on the grill. There were packs of hamburger buns and hot dog buns, yellow mustard and ketchup and a plastic tub of potato salad. And a medium sized bag of chips. Near the end of the meal a son-in-law announced, "There's one hamburger left. Anybody want it?" Replies of "You take it." We were 8 adults! I cannot imagine a southern meal of this type without leftovers.
My brat was tasty and the potato salad was the best bought potato salad I have ever tasted. It consisted of cubed potatoes and a mayo type sweet dressing. Chris, our hostess, works at her sister's pizza restaurant and this is the potato salad the restaurant buys from a supplier.
There was probably enough food for everybody but I was still amused. The rented cottage has a nice screened porch overlooking Eagle Lake.
Dinner tonight may be pork medallions prepared as piccata. It was cold this morning, 49 degrees, and will warm up to upper 60's, cool enough for a chili or stew, but dh is taking the one vehicle (truck) to the golf course. So dinner will come from whatever is in the freezer.
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Thanks for the welcome back all - it is nice to be missed!
chisandy - sorry to hear of your issues with going on/off the GI meds. I had a Nissen procedure many years ago, it was exceedingly successful as I have had many more symptom-free years than most do after this type of surgery. I now have started to notice that overeating, eating typical GERD diet no-no foods, or margaritas (dang!) will cause trouble for me, but it is manageable. I was surprised that I didn't have more trouble during chemo, as so many people do - maybe because I was eating a BRAT diet for most of it... Anyway, I hope you can work out the right combo of approaches - it certainly is no fun, especially coupled with the eating timing restrictions and complications with Invisalign. Just a warning - I have to wear my retainer trays full-time, so same deal as the straightening, for one year following the pronouncement that my active treatment was done. I am about half way through that process and will then go to just nighttime wear.
Dinner tonight will be out to celebrate the 40th birthday of my good friend (BRCA1 with TN, diagnosed three years ago) at our new-ish public food hall. They have some really good mini-restaurants inside and tonight is the night market - Florida is too hot at this time of year for daytime ones. We always have fun there, although it is a challenge for me as it is a lot of hardscape and ambient noise - my poor little hearing aid can barely cope and I hate saying "what?" all night.
Will be making pork chops, sweet potatoes, and a romaine salad for DH. DD just came home early this morning from a work trip in NC. She stopped to visit a friend while there, went for a short horseback ride, and was thrown. The fall cracked the helmet (thank goodness she was wearing one!) and nearly cracked her - she is battered, cut up, and bruised. Yesterday was a long day and night monitoring how she was doing long distance. She seems to be ok, currently here resting in my bed with warm beanbags in assorted locations and pain meds on board. She has a photo shoot tomorrow evening for Yamaha boat motors - might be a challenge - but she can wear sunglasses and a hat. She is sore and moving slowly but she was lucky.
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My mouth is partially missing.... I just finished a dental appointment to have an old filling replaced.
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Special, hope your DD is feeling much better.
Eric, I sincerely dislike that "half a mouth" feeling! May you recover soon.
Tonight's lazy dinner was stir fry from frozen oriental vegetable mix and chicken strips with orange ginger sauce.
Needed a lazy dinner--pulled weeds a couple of days ago and did not realize that the ants had found me. It takes about 24 hours for my body to react to ant bites and then I'm an itchy demon. Fitbit says I slept about three hours last night-- knew I was only dozing off and on. Most of the itching is improving this evening but a few areas are just starting to flare, hoping for sleep tonight!
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A neighbor brought me 4 "real" tomatoes from Ellinger - a small town to the West. Oh my - they are soooo good. I started to cut one up for a salad today, but ended up just leaning over the sink and biting into it. So delicious I didn't care about the salad. Earlier in the week I had made salmon dip w/cream cheese & sour cream & spices. I had that after the tomato on the remaining 1/2 of a pumpernickel bagel from my freezer. Supper was a bowl of popcorn after water aerobics this evening.
Special - so sorry to hear about your daughter's adventure. But glad there are no broken bones. It's amazing how fast the young bounce back.
I agree - I dislike all dental procedures. Beaver - what a mess with the ant bites. Hope they weren't our lovely Texas fire ants.
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My face is returning to normal. The dentist's favorite local anesthetic causes me problems (like I'm going into shock), so I get some other "numbing juice" that works great, doesn't cause me problems...but lasts 10-12 hours.
Ouch, Special. I'm glad she was wearing a helmet. Bruises are bad, but better than broken bones and fractured skulls. Still.....
I had to think about PPI for a moment. It's also "Plan Position Indicator", the circular radar display. It sounds like the Dexilant is like most other meds....good and bad...
Carole, when I'm cooking for a group, I tend to make sure there will be leftovers for everyone to take home. :-)
No dinner tonight. MIL asked to be taken to the ED for her hip pain...she's going to be getting a hip replacement in the next couple of months. Basically they did what Sharon and I expected; x-ray, 3 days of Norco and a referral to her doctor to see about getting the hip replacement done sooner.
Beav, that not so good that it takes so long for the "bites" to begin to bother you. We have what sounds somewhat similar here. Some really tiny ants that when disturbed (weeding), about "10 billion" ants will almost instantly erupt from their nest entrance. It's enough ants that it looks like a moving carpet in the grass. If I don't move away quickly enough, I'm looking around for the Benadryl cream, which seems to do a pretty good job stopping the itch.
DD is flying into Chicago-Midway airport to go to a music festival in Michigan (Electric Forest). She's getting excited. The festival has a shuttle that leaves at 830am from the Inn of Chicago (and another one at 1:30pm). Her flight gets into Chicago around 1am, so she's going to wait in the airport until around 5:30am and then take the orange and red "L" lines to the hotel. She say's she's giving herself enough extra time to get "unlost" and to get a Styrofoam cooler and food from a nearby store.
This will be her first time flying alone, first time in Chicago and first time on any of the trains...and it sounds like she's getting it figured out. So far the only thing we've done is to give her a USB phone charger that uses 4 AA batteries at a time and a "brick of 60" AA batteries for the phone and other electronic stuff. She is coming home next week for her camping gear and a roller bag that is just under the maximum size allowed on Southwest Airlines.
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beaver - I am constantly getting bitten by fire ants on my feet when I take the dog out! They are sneaky and wait until a few of their friends are on board and then all bite at once - they are organized! I have thought about trying Afterbite, or something like it, as I also have an inordinate response to mosquito bites. I just looked it up and was reminded that taking an anti-inflammatory can also help. I am probably living in the wrong state - things that bite or sting are plentiful here!
DD is a mess - concussion, sprained ankle, potentially fractured tailbone, cut/bruised eyebrow, sore and bruised everywhere - but could have been worse, thank you all for the kind wishes.
eric - hope your DD has no issues flying or attending the concert - modern technology makes it so much easier to get around, but we still worry, right?
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I do worry a bit, but I'd rather worry than have a daughter that is afraid of doing anything.
Wow, Special. Double ouch. Wish her well for all of us.
I replaced the molding around the garage door (called garage door stop) today and I came in for a HUGE glass of cold water. In the hour it took to do the work, it went from 103F to 109F. Supposedly it's still not yet summer.
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SpecialK, agree about the fire ants--not certain if these were fire ants or not. I do have the typical "core" in each of the bites that I get with fire ant bites. However, did not see an ant hill near where I was working. While I knew about fire ants, nobody told me about scorpions and poisonous snakes in residential neighborhoods when I agreed to move to Texas! Knowing about that big three might have been a deterrent.
Special, hope your daughter is taking care of herself and her injuries and not trying to do business as usual.
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Oh Special, that sounds awful - poor thing! Hope she heals fast.
Ugh! Do. Not. Like. Fire ants. On my very first trip to Texas I stepped on a small hill wearing sandals. Not like me. Having lived in the rural countryside for half of my life, I'm used to looking down at where I'm stepping. I was at an ice cream stand at the time so I must have been distracted.
Carole, I had to laugh at your bbq story. I'm well known in my family for preparing enough food to feed any and all guests as well as the neighbours. My entertaining motto is "Excess is never enough."
Tonight is Frogmore stew. I bought some corn that is not terribly sweet, so it seems like a good use for it, thinking the spices and other ingredients will give it some flavor.
Celebrating with the rest of St. Louis for the Stanley cup win by the Blues!
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"Half a mouth" feeling is in my future tomorrow or Sat.--just broke the cusp off a lower R molar when eating leftover Quest low-carb (caulflower-cheese crust) pizza for dinner. Too big a chunk for a tooth-colored filling--will likely need a crown. No pain, so I hope there's no need for a root canal. (This is the year I'm putting my dental team's kids through college). Endodontist says to call in the morning if it hurts; still waiting for dentist to get back to me.
Nancy, congrats on the Stanley cup coming home to your city!
Joruby silicon straws on AmazonSpecial, awful about your DD, but thank heaven there are no fractures. Beaverntx, I'm terrified of fire ants. I learned about them when my mom moved to SE FL and warned me not to step on sand patches in grass. I also know that empty places on prime-view areas on the lawn at Jazzfest in NOLA are due to fire ants. But a dear friend who visited his timeshare condo in Orlando put his suitcase down for a moment while fumbling for his door key--just long enough for the little b*stards to get into the case and all over his bed. He had to go to the ER and then cut short his vacation).
Minus, the straws are made by Joruby and I bought them on Amazon: Joruby silicon straws on Amazon
Brunch was a veggie-Swiss cheese omelet. Dinner was 1/4 of that low-carb pizza (suddenly lost my appetite for the rest) and a little whole-milk Greek yogurt with imitation "honey" and vanilla extract.
Eric, that hotel looks pretty nice. It's a block east of Michigan Ave., aka the "Mag Mile." The Orange Line will get your DD into the Loop, but she'll have to change at Roosevelt for the Red Line (the Orange is elevated, the Red is subway at that point, but there are elevators). But the hotel is a good half-mile hike from the nearest Red Line stop (Grand & State). Hope DD's roller bag is up to the task. Might want instead to Uber or take a taxi from the Roosevelt elevated station; or walk a block east to Michigan, take the Michigan Ave. bus north to Ohio St., and walk 1 block east to the hotel. (Or you could always front her the money for a cab or Uber from Midway to the hotel--door-to-door).
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So sorry about your daughter's injuries, SpecialK.
Hope your daughter has a great adventure and stays safe, Eric.
Last night's dinner featured broasted chicken, dark meat, from nearby Clancy's restaurant, I always like their broasted chicken but this batch was especially tasty. Crispy brown skin and not at all greasy. I made a pea and cheddar cheese salad that would have been better with some good sweet pickle but didn't have any. I had ordered a side of fries but there was only a portion enough for one person and they weren't good, pale and not crispy. No more sides from now on, just the chicken. The minimum order is 8 pieces so we have four pieces left. I may try heating them in the grill.
Nance, when does the For Sale sign go up?
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