So...whats for dinner?
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I tried to edit that previous post's typos and it wouldn't let me. Weird. This only happens on bco.
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Laurie, ditto on the energy thing. You are amazing!
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Laurie I never did understand how Mom's with the younger kids could handle everything. Mine are all grown up and I still don't understand! LOL. It's a constant run. Even when my DH was there to help he'd be with one or two and I'd be running with the others. All I can say is you'll miss it when they begin to drive on their own. You miss that minute of connection when they tell you things. Of course by the time they drive they don't tell you nearly as much as you'd like! LOL. I'd say try to take it easy but that ain't going to happen, so I'll wish that they tire out easily today and go to bed early.....
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Those hummingbirds are amazing!!! We see one here and there around the house visiting the flowers. I LOVE them.
The weather ended up being beautiful today. We got a lot of yard work done and our friends post poned opening the cottage thinking it was going to rain. My room did not get put together due to the good weather. The plan is tomorrow morning we will bang it out when it rains. It is supposed to push out my late morning and we will get the camper ready to head out for Thursday.
Thanks so much for the kind words on my energy level- it makes me feel better for always being tired! This time of year I feel like there is no end to what needs to be done. At some point I need to tackle my perennial beds and weed and mulch them. Just looking at them makes me tired! I need a cool day to do it.
So it is almost 6pm and I have no idea what I am making for dinner. I have chicken breasts out...I hope they cook themselves into some form of delishiousness!
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I was in great-aunt mode today. I took 8-yr-old Nova to have a pedicure, her idea of the COOLEST thing to do! She ended up having a manicure, too. We had lunch at Sam's Club where I had a chili dog and she had pizza. We also went shopping and bought her some summer dresses on sale and sandals. She assured me it was a totally awesome day!
Tonight is the Abita Opry. Most of the time dh and I get a chili dog at the concession stand, but I've already had my chili dog. So we'll heat up some of the leftover ground beef and zucchini dish we had a couple of nights ago. Maybe we'll indulge in a brownie or cookie at the Opry. The concessions are all home-made by whatever group is collecting the proceeds.
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Carole, that little girl is VERY lucky to have you for a great-aunt! She will carry the lovely memory of your fun day for many years to come!
I am about to eat some leftover boiled shrimp...DH had a leftover hamburger from last night, while I was upstairs coloring my roots.
More creatively, I did, in honor of Nance's baking station (and our four black bananas) make two loaves of banana nut bread....and added some coconut emulsion to make them a bit more interesting.
I have a feeling we will be hankering for popcorn later....
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Gee Lacey - now I'll have to have popcorn. A neighbor drove several of us to Outback at noon for steak, baked potatoes & salads (well one lady had baby back ribs). Then I went to a wonderful chamber music concert. They sang music from the 60's - 1860's and 1960's. This was Brahms Lieder and then the Beatles. What fun. Hard to believe 50 years since the first Beatles appearance on Ed Sullivan. My 'supper' was raw veggies & ranch dip. Popcorn for dessert sounds great.
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Minus, I always like to eat at Outback but seldom get there. The one in our area is always so popular. With the high price of beef, have the menu prices gone up?
Lacey, glad the popcorn method is working for you. I use the Orville R. brand. Popcorn is so inexpensive using the kernals. My microwave display stopped working years ago. I just set the microwave for 5 min. and stand there and watch through the glass door until the popping subsides. Then I use mitts to remove the bowl and transfer the popped corn to my designated plastic "popcorn" bowl. I spray the butter flavored cooking spray and sprinkle a little salt. As good as the Orville R. butter-flavored Smart Pop, which is what I used to buy in the bags. This summer I'll go back to buying the Smart Pop since I don't have a large heavy glass bowl in the camper.
Today's noon meal at my mother's house after church -ta dah! Hotdogs and chili. My sister is making chili. I'll make some coleslaw with a bag of pre-cut cabbage.
Laurie, you must be excited about starting your camping season. I thought about you when I was getting ready for a short trip to Gulf Shores, AL, in April. It is too much trouble for me to pack up the camper for a few days. If you do it often, though, you probably find it easier. I make dozens of trip back and forth, back and forth between the house and the camper. Here's a picture of our 5th wheel taken when dh had pulled it out of its building and up close to the house.
Hope everyone has a good Sunday!
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That's a nice sized "house" Carole. That's the only way to camp for me these days!
There must be hot dog pollen in the air, we're having Chicago dogs for dinner. Maybe we'll have an extra one without the bun with leftover chili.
Carole, what brand of butter daisy do you use? The one I got is tasteless.I
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Carole, spray, not daisy. Stupid phone will not let me correct!
DH is fixing me breakfast. Cinnamon bread French toast and bacon. Yum!
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Also, I get unsubscribed every single day!
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Carole - I had the 6 oz filet. Lunch portion was $17.99 with one side. I ordered the dinner portion for $18.99 because I could get a potato and a salad for just the $1.00 difference. So yes, pricey, but I was very disappointed in the toughness of the sirloin the time before this so I went w/the better cut. Not as good as my steaks at home but nice not to fool w/cooking.
How about trying the paper bag method of popping when you're on the road? I put about 2 heaping Tblspoon of kernals in the bottom of a standard school lunch bag, fold the top twice, set the microwave for 3-1/2 minutes and wait for the corn to stop popping - usually sometime after 3 minutes. Of course once I pour it into the bowl I cover it with real melted butter & lots of salt so it's not "low fat" anymore.
laurie - it was so good to read about your adventures. Thanks for posting for those of us who don't do facebook.
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Minus, you buy the paper lunch bags at the supermarket?
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Spent yesterday in downtown Boston, (near the Boston Common and Public Garden) touring some historic churches with Harvard Divinity School seminarians, before attending our new minister's ordination at Arlington Street Church in Back Bay. We went with another couple and met some really interesting people in our little informal tour group.
It was a gorgeous day and the city was so alive with families taking pix of of new college graduates, brides and grooms, kiddies enjoying swan boat rides. The ordination was so moving, especially with the recognition of all the spiritual and human inspirations and supports that helped make this exceptional young woman who she is. Afterwards, I was dying to meet her parents ....and when I complimented them on what a fine daughter they raised, her mom said "....we can only take credit for trying to stay out of her way!" I'm sure we'll see more of them once she begins her ministry in September.
After our tour and before the ceremony, we stopped at a coffee/snack shop on Beacon Hill and I had a spinach meatball soup with what seemed to be Israeli couscous. Then after the ordination, there was a light buffet. I had a puff pastry (yeah....has to be dairy in there, right?) with hummus filling, asparagus wrapped in ham, veggies, minus the sour cream dip, and some interesting meatballs in a curry sauce. For dessert I first tried a vegan brownie with rasberry sauce, but could not get past the loose grainy texture of the brownie, so had a large pink iced heart cookie. Love, but never make, rolled, cut out, iced cookies.
Notes to self.....don't wait for another formal event to spend a pretty Sunday touring around downtown, take DH on a duckboat tour (I have had that privilege as a chaperon for two troubled kids on a field trip with my old school
, take the grandkids on the Swanboats next time they are here in good weather.Have a good day everyone!
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Lacey - your day sounded great.
Carole - yes, just Kroger or WalMart. I started buying 50 "brown bags" but now go for the economy 100 pack.
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Hmmm, Minus, we may try the microwave brown bag method, too.
Today I had my annual Gyn appt. and during our chat I admitted my rogue status since I have remained off Tamox since mid March. She did say that her understanding is that you get the most benefit from it in the first two years, which I've done. Obviously she hopes I'll get back on something but "gets" the wuality of life issues. At the end, she agreed not to communicate my "rogue status" to my MO since I see her in a couple of weeks and will be fessing up then.
Tonight I did the unusual for dinner.....picked up a pre-cooked chicken and heated it up. We usually avoid those due to saltiness, but for 5 bucks, went with it. Had ratatouille, arugula salad, and brussels sprouts to boost the health factor. Then I must have felt too healthy, so scarfed down some M+M's....the new big ones.....way too tempting!
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Lacey - that's so funny you mention the swan boat rides. I just saw a picture of them within the last 2 days. Probably from one the many magazines I'm attempting to clean out of here.
Cooking has once again gone by the wayside. The pot roast was the last thing I made and with 2 of us took a while to eat up. I went into town yest. for a grad. party. I thought it would be a come-and-go affair cookies etc. Nooo - a full cookout was to be had. DH had to work so just me. Today I was lucky to get a Stouffers dinner in the oven. We've had no landline phone service since Sat. I thought it might be from a phone line we never use that I just happened to answer Fri. night though DH was pretty certain there was no service coming into the house. So I was cleaning out where that line is in the bedroom - dusty behind it. Picked up the phone and voila - had a dial tone. I think something in central switching got fixed and coincidentally I was without internet for about 30 min a couple of hours just before I discovered the dial tone. Sooo - no repairman tomorrow. I think I will make chicken and dumplings. Have a pkg. of Annie's froz. dumplings. Or maybe chicken fried steak - I got some tenderized steak last week and corn on the cob - tiny ears. Also had red/orange peppers on sale so will make bean/rice stuffed peppers again.
Hmm - I don't think I've seen new big M&M's. Must investigate.
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Lacey, I like the rotisserie chickens when they're warm but they are high in sodium. They're good for using in a dish that calls for cooked chicken, like enchiladas.
Luv, sounds like you have some tasty options as you resume cooking. I love chicken and dumplings with home-made dumplings. Have not tried Annie's. Have not ever seen them. Trader Joe's?
I shopped at Fresh Market after WW meeting yesterday. The store is in the same shopping center as the meeting room. Interesting to note that some of the organic veggies are now grown in Mexico. Most of the others in CA.
Made the veggie lasagna last night and for some reason the white sauce did not thicken. DH said that the dish was good but it wasn't as good as the first time I made it. Maybe just my taste buds. Or maybe my irritation that the sauce didn't thicken! I used 3 T. of flour and same amt. of liquid. A puzzle.
I bought Alaskan King salmon yesterday at FM and will cook that tonight for dinner using Alton Brown's pan-seared method. Side will be mashed potatoes with mixture of potato and cauliflower.
No M & M's in this house! I do have some WW ice cream treats in the freezer that are very good. Especially the giant vanilla ice cream sandwiches. Delicious. Also dark choc. covered raspberry ice cream on a stick.
Off to the Y with dh this morning. Yippee. LOL.
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The Skinny Cow ice cream sandwiches and ice cream bars are my favorite light treats. Really good.
I probably won't be posting for a couple days. My DD2 is getting married on Saturday. I'll try to keep up with reading though.
No one else has checked in lately have they? There's a lot of people who haven't dropped by in a long time. Hoping all is well with them.
Much love to all.
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I'm finally feeling alive again.
Congratulations Moon and your daughter....
Eric
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eric - yay!
moon - congrats and have a wonderful time!
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Eric, glad you are back among the living!
Moon, have a wonderful weekend with your family at DD2's wedding. Congratulations to you all! Hope you enjoy every minute of this exciting time! You've been through a lot.....time to partake in some joy!
Carole....wise lady to avoid such candy temptations. Those giant M+Ms are waaaaaay too tasty! Candy heroin! Luv....don't even look for them....I'll feel badly for getting someone else hooked! ;/
Off to the gym.....really need it.
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Back in the day in a 6 hour stint working on a college computer class assignment....I'd go through a 2 pound bag of regular M&M and a gallon of whole milk.
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Hahaha, Eric....those M+M's are fortifying aren't they?! And that goes thrice for the new big ones! They give a good energy jolt....perfect for getting through projects.
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Any sewers out there? My daughter asked me to get her veil to the seamstress for steaming. I found it in the plastic bag in her old bedroom ON THE FLOOR. I put it in the car. As I put it on the counter of the seamstress I saw the big brownish yellow spot. Uh huh. The cat ( her cat mind you) peed on it. Arrgh. I took it home. Put it in the sink the part that would fit anyway. It came out pretty easy. So i dried it and put in a bag with baking soda. Think that's enough? Any other ideas? It's a freaking chapel veil so it's longer than i can hold. It didn't get on the lace just the illusion. Serves her right cause i think the part he peed on is the one that goes over her face. LOL ok. I am seeing the humor in this now that I've stopped shaking! . Of course all i can smell is cat pee.... LOL. I'll check it tomorrow shake it up with the baking soda every now and then and take it out side for a good shake. Then will probably have to steam it it get out the wrinkles from the bag I shoved it in. Let me know if anyone has suggestions. And no buying another one won't do this sucker was 300$
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A jealous cat??????
I wonder if a commercial laundry could fix it (the veil....not the cat)?
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It looks like it will be ok. No stain. And the baking soda should get the smell out. I was actually at how fast the stain left. Less than a minute in cold water. And if she had hung it up this wouldn't have happened. LOL she is 31 years old! She should know better. And yes, the cat is pissed because we don't let him roam anymore....LOL
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Certainly sounds like cat has a mind of his own and devious at that. And expensive tastes. Very glad the stain came out. Bet the smell will be gone. I have the most divine dusters those things on a wand - flavored with Febreze. Makes dusting almost a pleasure. Maybe just a little something like that in there. Put in for a bit and take it out and replace if necessary. Maybe in a plastic bag with perforations so it doesn't rest on veil.
Carole - the Annie's dumplings are frozen. I got them at the local Brookshires. Might have them at your Winn Dixie. I think dinner tomorrow night. Tonight is the tenderized steak into chicken fried steak. Good thing neither of us is having cholesterol checked again this year. But bean/rice stuffed peppers should make up for some of the "fried" guilt - right?
Eric - glad you are feeling back to your old self.
I will studiously avoid big M&M's. My local grocery has not the greatest candy selection so won't be that difficult.
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My dh has no idea how to eat m&ms. A small bag will last him 2 weeks.
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Moon, what a fiasco with the veil! I can see this episode in a movie or tv show! It's hard to believe that your daughter left the veil on the floor. Maybe the cat pulled it down from wherever it lay? Glad the stain came out. Hope you have a wonderful time at the wedding. Be sure to give us a report and maybe some photos.
Lacey, my younger sister is an M & M's addict. At one time she always had a bag in her truck. Don't know if this habit continues or not.
I had a busy productive day. All the contents of the office shelves and cabinets have been unpacked from bags and boxes that sat in the living room. I'm surprised that the "new" office (the old tiny guest room) is such a nice little "cozy" room. I really like it. Now I have to move on to painting the now-empty old office which will become the much-nicer guest room. All this trouble and I don't even like having house guests!
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