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Hi gals! So far so good! I rescued all that food I had out back near our door, on the little garden table, but the squirrels or someone had thought I left it out there for THEM! It was 32 degrees out...perfect to keep the food until this morning... but when DH went out there, he noticed a piece of Sweet Potato, taken out, and on the table! The little Dickens tore a hole in the plastic covering on the dish, and were thinking their Thanksgiving Dinner was EARLY! Even that cranberry dish had been tampered with....
So I had to make room in the fridge... They couldn't lift the glass lid over the celery, onions & butter out there... Nor the broth, or the cut up Chicken.
ANYway, Blessings, those were ALL good ideas! Even after I leave rest-rooms, I hold a wet towel to open the door with... and wash my hands as soon as I get home... buggy-carts MUST be hazardous....Even WITH those cloth's they provide to wipe them off
I could start using my cane to open doors... Ha! But I only take it when we're going to walk around the mall....
Happy Thanksgiving my friends! xoxoxo
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HAPPY TURKEY DAY EVERYONE
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for us owls
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Happy Thanksgiving! I hope your day is spent with friends and/or family, and that you know how thankful I am for each of you.
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Still sorting photos- but here is Oxford: https://plus.google.com/114548905958190217046/posts/fj1wZeCa7xJ
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Happy Thanksgiving, Owlettes. Sassy, if you're here, we're using the Haviland china for the meal – which is still not ready! We use an electric roaster to cook our turkey, have for years, and it usually cooks much faster than in the oven. Today, however, it is taking its sweet time. Everything else is ready and waiting, but the darn turkey will not finish! I baked pies last night; I made one of the crusts and taught cousin so she could make the other one. We have steamed fresh green beans with slivered almonds, fresh sweet potato and apple casserole, DH's signature fried dumpling noodles with mushrooms & sherry, and Mom's recipe chess pie (with walnuts & raisins). If we ever get to eat...
I had the most excruciating experience with my rads simulation yesterday. I have really bad arthritis in my left shoulder (tumor side) and keeping it immobilized above my head is extremely painful. For one thing, it has a really limited range of motion, and after 2 surgeries, a lot of adhesions, so it can't be put where they need it to be. To get it even close, it stuck out too far to fit into the ct tube. We fine tuned the position for nearly an hour! Then came the sim. By then I was in tears. I don't know how I'm going to do this even if it's only 15 minutes every day. I came home and iced my shoulder and took a pain pill. Pain woke me up in the night, took another. Had to take another today just to get through helping with the cooking. Good thing I didn't need to do very much, thanks to my cousin and DH, for whom I am truly thankful.
As I am for all my Owlette buddies.
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Chess pie with walnuts and RASINS????? DO TELL!!!! I do a mean chess pie, but that's new to me!
We went out , first time in my life that happened. It was as good as what I would have done, and no clean up! Sore feet or achey back
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hope everyone enjoyed their thanksgiving.
Chevy, what's the name of the software you use to make fancy sparkling pics
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Oh my stomach. Just took zantac. Food was good but I ate too much ahhh
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Happy morning after gals!
Smarty, I just go to Google Images, and type in any picture or topic you want, and usually it's like "animated" trees, or something like that... And SOMEtimes it works, and the animated whatever will show up where you copy & paste it to... hopefully.... sometimes.
Morning Blondie.... You doing okay?
Rosie! You know what I did? You know that cranberry salad I made.... Okay... write this down... and stick it somewhere important.. THIS is your morning tip.......
DO NOT EVER NEVER EVER add fresh pineapple, even if it HAS been frozen to anything with JELLO! Now I KNEW this, and as soon as I DID it, I just KNEW it would not gel!
It just sat there! Overnight... ! Looked like soup!... So I thought, why not use a Cake Mix, add 3 eggs, put in SOME of the screwed up cranberry mixture, and MORE on the bottom, and bake it... ! I mean what could it hurt? MOST DELICIOUS CRANBERRY "CAKE" EVER!
So that disastrous cranberry-jello salad became something GOOD! I un-screwed it!
Then when DD asked where the Cranberry salad was that she loves, I lovingly brought in the CAKE! Hah! She wasn't impressed.
Same with beans... When cooking beans, do not EVER cook them with your meat, or oil, or grease, or anything LIKE that! Cook them first... plain, then when they start to get soft, well THEN you can add the ham-hocks, or meat... etc. Beans will never get soft if they have oil with them...
Man I could write a book on some things I have done... But ONE time, DH opened up that big can of Dinty Moore Beef Stew, and added a can of pork and beans!!!!! OMD! But me and the girls ate it... He thought it was great, and I acted ever so lovingly that he had made dinner!
Smarty! Benadryl helps allergy symptoms a little, but even a 25 mg will make you sleepy... It's supposed to stop that itch-scratch-itch cycle... but it doesn't last lone... Might as well go to bed if you take the 50 mg.
Mom2... Stay safe! I see all the pictures on the news about all the storms going on!
And Good Morning to everyone else who is still asleep...Ha!
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good morning all. Hope everyone had a great thanksgiving day.
Mine was wonderful. All my company made it in and I had very little work to do. It felt weird So my sis let me peel some potatoes to do something. So although I did little work I did stay upright all day. I am up paying for it today. Lots if back pain. Everyone else here is still sleeping. Hope they are not exoectung much but leftovers today lol. Jk loved to spend the time with family. And I am very thankful for my bco friends
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Thanks for the birthday wishes, this year was better than last year. I know next year will be even better!
Princess made me a very proud mommy this morning. For the first time since we got her, I didn't have to put her in her kitty box so she could go. I was getting my coffee and I heard her litter being moved around and I turned around to see her in her in there!
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Awwww! Proud Mommy!
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Yes, Spookie, chess pie with walnuts & raisins. There's a story, too.
My dad was in the Navy, and he had a buddy who was from Oregon. My mom was from Los Angeles, so when Dad was stationed on the West Coast, they would drive up and down the coast whenever he had leave, visiting various family & friends. Well, his buddy's mom owned a diner, and this pie was her secret recipe which she never revealed to anyone. People would come from all over, even buy whole pies to take home. Well, when the mom retired & closed down the diner, she gave the recipe to one person – my mom. My dad loved this pie so much that it was his "birthday cake" as well as a holiday treat for all of us. I'm not shy about sharing the recipe as long as I get to tell the story! Here it is:
Chess Pie
1/3 c. evaporated milk
1/3 c. butter
1 c. sugar
2 eggsSoften butter until just firm, not squishy. Beat all ingredients together just until the butter is in about 1/2" lumps. Add:
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 c. chopped walnuts
1 c. raisinsStir together, pour in 8" pie crust. Bake at 325º for 45 minutes. Let cool.
I think I have a picture. Let me find it.
The semi-soft butter chunks are what make that delightful crust on the top. This one was probably one I made without raisins, since I'm the only one here who likes raisins in it. Hubby & cousin like it with just the walnuts. I've also made it using semi-sweet chocolate chips instead of raisins. That's pretty good too. Around here we call that a Dixie Pie.
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Thanks Mags! I made a copy of it!
DON'T EVER USE FRESH PINEAPPLE AROUND ANY JELLO...Ha!
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Yes i was and I continue to be. She's still going to the kitty box on her own.
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Mags. I use vinegar and corn meal in mine. Can't tell the vinegar is in there
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TEKA! GOOD one! Ha, ha! I didn't go out, because I couldn't! But we are going Tuesday to hopefully get another car! xoxo
THEN I will run hog-wild...Ha!
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My county won't allow PetsMart to sell puppies and kittens. Yay
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Chevy- thanks for the heads up- no fresh pineapple in jello, nice save on the salad to cake! Seems we might be with you in the car replacement lane. My husband loves his German Passat... I HATE that damn car. It's too low and is hard to get in and out of, when you put the turbo on accelerate fast - nearly snaps your head off. The locks lock automatically and have pinched the skin on my arm leaving blood blisters mor time then I can count. It has all these computerized things all over the dash board and dings with a snow flake if it's snowing - I have a windshield and 2 eyes I can see if it's snowing. grrr.. Worst of all everything breaks on this dang car and everything costs 400-1000. Nothing is cheap a friggin key is 100.00 because they are computerized and bizarre! I swear it's a conspiracy to get back at Americans for WWll... a 100 dollar key???
Well Wednesday night right after work the Passat gives up the ghost on some computerized chip and the key won't even open the door. So day after Thanksgiving we get it towed to the dealer and it's some super specialized part that has to shipped from GERMANY and will take a week or more. No car. 125.00 to diagnose the damn car. It handles well - when it runs and the gas mileage is pretty good and I still HATE that car. So I am on a mission to get a replacement, even used. My kid in college wants to buy it off him... she can't afford to maintain it. Hell I would happily give it to her.. I hate it. The only car I hate more than that Passat is the Ford Escort I bought fresh out of Graduate school. Thankfully I bought the warranty because in one year the Ford dealer replaced 3,500 worth of things on that car - it only cost 5600.00! (This was years ago - lemon through and through) I have never bought a Ford since. I will never EVER buy a Passat again.( I told DH that he had to wait until I am dead to get another German car) The dealer said hey I can put you in a nice new Jetta for... I stopped him and said "only if it's FREE." All that hype on "German engineering"... BS I tell you. My BIL brought a volvo back from Sweden after a military tour, had it shipped to the states. He HATED that car... told the funniest stories about all the things that went wrong! hilarious.
Ok Rant over! Thanksgiving was great! Hope your was too.
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Here the PetsMart and PetCo have shelter animals. Our shelter has 6 condos at the PetCo in the next block. Our volunteers go over 3 x day to feed and play with them. It's great for us because they tend to fly our of there. And they're all adults looking for their forever home.
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Howdy Hi..... Hope all have survived the BIG day & the shopping from hell day. I cleaned the patio, huge mess.. I had PT, was so fatigued in the arms & shoulders from trying to clean our concrete patio. I had the lawn people clean our rain gutters....Big Mistake! They just hosed them out, 15 years worth of fine dust, sand from the shingles. They have been wonderful lawn family, very helpful. This job was not what I expected.
Nighty night.....
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OMD Rosie! Haaahaaaaaaaah! I tried not to laugh out loud when I read your post... That was GREAT! But I laughed anyway.
That car sounds like it has it's own mind... and it MIGHT need you, if it wants a fill-up, or some human kind of response... other than that, it can run on it's own! It pinches your ARM! I would take a sledge-hammer to that thing!
And yes, DD rented a car here, when she came in from Orlando, and something "dings" when the windshield gets a rain-drop! You can just imAGINE what would happen if like a truck went speeding by on the highway, and rocks came swirling off the top of that damn thing, like it did to MY car! My windshield got 3 new dings! Your whiny-little Passat would have just stopped and sobbed! Damn little pu$y-pasat!
Remember "Hal" on 2001 a Space Odyssey? Your car is a clone! They are smarter than WE are! Maybe I WILL get another clutch-car... with roll-down windows, and 60 cent keys that work.... and re-cliner seats that.... oh never mind.... And I don't need no "4 on the Floor" no more! I need that room for coffee cups, cell-phone, grocery lists and chit.
No Ford Escort eh? I just looked one up... Rather cute, they are! Okay... I have that on my list of what NOT to buy... along with a Hummer, Jeep, Cadillac, or '65 chevy rat-rod! And no damn Volvo.
In fact, I'm having the Dealer call YOU before I settle on a car... I need more expert opinions... Ha!
Our Nephew got home with my clutch-less car... probably like 2 mph he drove. His Dear Wife following him... probably putting on her make-up, shopping on-line, taking a nap, and just making sure he got home okay.
Okay... This is Saturday? 3 more days till I get another car... still thinking of something like a 2012 Chevy Cruz... I just HAVE to have the name Chevy in there somewhere!
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Back in the 80s DH bought a Plymouth K car. There was a reason it was painted yellow!
In 92 I bought a Saturn. And the extended warrenty. Thank Dog! It had MAJOR problems, they had engineers from all over the country trying to figure out the problem. They were ready to put a whole new engine in it.
I was so impressed, I bought 2 more. If they hadn't been eaten by GM, I'd get another.
So I bought a 2014 Chevy Spark. Fun little car to drive, sits high, easy on gas. Not a lot of bells and whistles. Has 9 air bags! In the year I've had it, it's had 3 recalls, with one more to come.
The point is, each maker can have lemons. There are consumer protection laws for us. Learn what they are and how to use them if necessary.
I'd rather have a brand new car with extended warrenty than buy somebody else's used problem. This Spark has every warrenty I could get.
Sure, they start breaking about 50-60 thousand. That's what the warrenty is for
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Chevy - here's a car for you! Two years ago we bought my dream car - a Smart For Two! I love this baby car more than the Jaguars, Datsun, Oldsmobile, Chrysler, and Toyota cars we have had in 47 years of marriage. It is huge inside and small outside and takes me everywhere. Then of course, I don't have to haul kids around any more and the grandkids live up north and we haul our Toyota behind the motorhome. Then again, I wouldn't mind having only one at a time anyway. All my groceries and Costco purchases fit in back. What more do I need? I first saw one of these in Bellingham near the Canadian border in about 2000. The lady had a tree she had purchased at KMart and it was sticking out through her sunroof. It was love at first sight
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