Early Risers - Eastern Time Zone
Replies
-
Howdy y'all. It's sensational Saturday! Michael just left with the rest of his tasty dessert, headed back to Augusta. D is at work, and likely to be until late tonight. I had leftovers for breakfast again, and did manage another bite of Michael's dessert before it left for Augusta.
One load of laundry is going, and I have two beds worth of sheets left to go and the whites and towels. It's major laundry day here!
Sipping tea now and waiting for the first load to finish in the washing machine so I can move it to the dryer and load up the second load in the washing machine.
Somewhere in there will be a nap with Lilo and Ariel. Probably after having leftovers for lunch...
————————————————————————————————————————————————-
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
The turkey noodle soup has been made and is delicious! The last of the turkey went into it along with some carrots, celery, broccoli, spinach, parsley and onion. Then, at the last, a generous handful of spatzle noodles, simmer along for 20 more minutes and DONE! So a bowl of that was dinner, along with a couple of the leftover mini-croissants.
And the LAST load is now in the dryer. I ended up doing 4 loads today, but I'm all caught up, at least until J gets home next week...hopefully he'll have done some of it at my sister-in-law's house.0 -
Howdy y'all. It's scintillating Sunday! Had some leftover ham and dressing for breakfast. Yum!
One small plate left for lunch, and a serving or two of turkey soup and Thanksgiving will be over.
Today can be a day of mostly rest, I guess, as laundry is done and there is little left to worry about except watering a few plants.
0 -
Howdy y'all. It's marvelous Monday! Supposed to be rainy, but we'll see. Yesterday was supposed to be too and nothing much happened.
Off to the salt races!
————————————————————————————————————————————————-
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Howdy y'all. It's obscene o'clock again and I'm up and making breakfast. Time to hit the salt races soon.
————————————————————————————————————————————————-
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Howdy y'all. It's wonderful Wednesday! Rain supposed to end today, though frankly didn't see much of it yesterday, just drizzly all day. Not sure what it did overnight though.
Off to the rat mines.
————————————————————————————————————————————————-
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Howdy y'all. It's thrilling Thursday! Supposed to be colder today, but dry. I need to audit the cigarettes in the kiosk as the pack count was WAY off yesterday, compared to Monday. I'm assuming I made a mistake in the pack count...
————————————————————————————————————————————————-
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Howdy y'all. It's fabulous Friday! I did, in fact, make a mistake on the addition when doing the cigarette count the other day, so it's not so far off. And since I audited the cigarettes yesterday, the count should be a perfect match today. Off to the rat mines!
————————————————————————————————————————————————-
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Howdy y'all. It's sensational Saturday! A bit on the cool side, but not too terrible. Lilo is enjoying my lap at the moment. I was actually up at obscene o'clock with a charley horse but fifteen minutes of heat therapy made that feel lots better and then Lilo and I went back to bed.
Lunch and a board meeting later at a nice restaurant in Sandy Springs. Then probably a stop at the hardware store and the Farmers Market. I need ghee and a couple of other items, and always look at the fruit to see what's looking good.
————————————————————————————————————————————————-
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Howdy y'all. It's scintillating Sunday! Breakfast is eaten, Lilo is in my lap, and dishwasher is running. I do need to eventually get to my tea but that can wait until Lilo moves or my legs get too stiff and I finally make her move.
Yesterday's board meeting ran LOOOOOOONG, but since I'm not on the board (J is on the board) I was able to eat and then go play games on my phone in a corner.
My plan (that actually got executed!) was to go to the restaurant, see if I liked the sound of the soup of the day, and eat a bowl of that soup (if I did like the sound of it) along with a wedge salad. The soup was listed on the chalk board as Hoppin' John, so I knew what I was having without bothering to look at the printed menu.
I usually make Hoppin' John with blackeyed peas, ham, rice, onions, garlic, salt and spices. And I usually make it as a rice dish, rather than as a soup, but I like it either way. In fact, I'll likely make some for the new year, along with my hog jowl, collard greens and cornbread. The restaurant used sausage and bacon instead of ham, but it was quite tasty all the same and I definitely approve of their recipe. So far I've never had a soup there that I didn't like, though the one time I had the white bean "chili" I really think I would not have called that soup chili. It was very good, with white beans, some chili seasoning, chicken, kale, onions, garlic, etc. It did not remotely resemble any bowl of chili I've had or made, ever. Not even white chili at other restaurants or home made. I would have called it white bean and kale soup. Regardless, I did like it and would have it again if offered.
I think the soup of the day at this restaurant is just whatever the chef's fertile mind tosses together for that day and feels like making. It's probably his or her "fun" item as the rest of the stuff is all pre-defined on the menu and doesn't have a lot of room for playing with the food, other than perhaps subbing an extra egg (for the bacon that J didn't want) and leaving off the toast that he didn't want.
If I were running a restaurant I fear the majority of the daily menu would have to be whatever I felt like playing with that day and you couldn't count on today's spaghetti to taste exactly like the one you had two weeks ago because I might have had a different idea today. LOL. I might be able to make a FEW "standard" items but I like playing with my food too much to make the same old things day after day.
————————————————————————————————————————————————-
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Howdy y'all. It's marvelous Monday! Off to the rat mines...0
-
Howdy y'all. It's terrific Tuesday! Yesterday wasn't great, as they didn't have anyone assigned to relieve me and had to call someone in. They have known for two weeks that there was no one on middles this week, but hadn't told me what, if anything, they'd done about it. Yesterday, the one who came in, did tell me and I'll be working some over on Wednesday and Thursday, which is fine if I KNOW ABOUT THAT in advance so I can plan accordingly. I'm definitely going to be applying for other work. I can run this fuel center for them but not without resources.
Off to the salt races.
————————————————————————————————————————————————-
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Howdy y'all. It's wonderful Wednesday! Tag day, so there's no telling what's waiting for me...anyway, off to the salt races!
————————————————————————————————————————————————-
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Howdy y'all. It's thrilling Thursday! A lot of tags needed changing yesterday so it was a pretty busy morning. Today, maybe, I can sweep and bleach a couple of sections of the concrete. We'll see. Anyway, off to the rat mines!
————————————————————————————————————————————————-
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Hi Allparityanimal wrote: »Howdy y'all. It's thrilling Thursday! A lot of tags needed changing yesterday so it was a pretty busy morning. Today, maybe, I can sweep and bleach a couple of sections of the concrete. We'll see. Anyway, off to the rat mines!
————————————————————————————————————————————————-
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...
Hi Ed
I'm going to go out on a limb and hope I do not hear sawing sounds behind me and guess that there were more price increases than price reductions
Be careful with that bleach, I would ask for a concrete cleaner solution instead TBH
I have seen how bleach can eat things up when concentrated. The hard wooden floors of trailers used to transport bleach need replacing fairly often.
Cheers
Roger
It IS a concrete cleaner powder. But its main function is to bleach out the oil and gasoline stains. I can apply it as powder or mix it into a suspension (that has to be shaken frequently) and spray it. I find it seems to work better on really bad spots as powder that I kind of grind into the concrete with the hard bristled push broom, and then sweep off the excess. It's called Eximo.
Dinner tonight was just frozen pizza. I was tired so bought some at work before coming home to nap. It worked out well. I had Tombsone Diablo pizza (quite nicely spicy!) and J had cheese pizza, also Tombstone.
I'll be having Diablo pizza for breakfast too, of course...
0 -
Howdy y'all. It's fabulous Friday! Working a long one today, supposedly 10 hours. If anyone tries to make it go longer, then they may have a shut down fuel center. At last check, they have not, as yet, hired or even interviewed anyone but they better get on the ball. I can work A extra hours during Christmas break but once that's over he's back to his standard 15 hours over Saturday and Sunday and that's it for him. I'll give him 40 during break, more if he wants and they'll allow it. But we need at least one more, maybe two.
Weather should be fairly nice today. 52 out there right now and supposed to see 70 today!
————————————————————————————————————————————————-
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Howdy y'all. It's sensational Saturday! Supposed to be fairly nice today. We have photography at the orchid judging again. Seems like we just did that! I may get back to bed for a bit more sleep yet...woke up with a cramp about to happen so walked to forestall it.
————————————————————————————————————————————————-
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Howdy y'all. It's scintillating Sunday! No cramps this morning, but still woke up hours ago, and decided to get up and make breakfast. Had a hankering (that's a craving, for you northerners...) for pancakes so whipped up a few silver dollar cornmeal pancakes from scratch and had that with some bacon. Granny would approve.
When I do have cramps, walking usually helps if I get to it before it's too terribly bad. Sometimes I have to heat up the microwavable gel pack and put it into the sleeve and wrap it for 15 minutes or so, which generally helps a WHOLE LOT.
I do take my mineral supplements, though no potassium as I have to watch my intake of that, being on an ACE inhibitor. I figure I get enough from drinking one Powerade ION 4 drink per day when working.
Cramps are sometimes just one of the many lovely side effects of diabetes.
Drinking some Pu-erh tea now. On my first cup, and will make the second when Lilo desserts my lap or when I get so stiff I have to evict her.
————————————————————————————————————————————————-
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Well, Valerie, I am trying out Nature's Garden Express to see how it goes with home delivered produce. I've customized a box for us and if I don't like the first one, I can cancel the whole thing easily. We'll see if I like what arrives on Friday!
This should encourage me to cook and eat more vegetables since they'll be coming right to me.
I'm starting out with the "tiny" box and setting a weekly delivery for Friday, so I'll have just been paid at Kroger and shouldn't have to worry about there being money in the account. Also I'll have the weekend to play with the food.
First box is supposed to contain:
Green Beans - .75 lbs
Cucumbers, Field - 1 ea
Lettuce, Mixed Leaf (2 small heads)
Onions, Yellow - 1 ea
Peppers, Green Bell - 1 ea
Potatoes, Red - 1 lbs
Squash, Zucchini - 1 ea
Tomatoes, Slicing - 2 ea
Turnips, Purple Top - 1 lbs
I did customize that just a hair, removing celery (which J doesn't really care for at all and I am not really crazy about, so won't miss that) and replacing it with the turnips, which I like. J isn't crazy about turnips either (or the green beans for that matter) but I will eat them both so they won't go to waste. I suspect I can mix some turnips, potatoes, and squash with perhaps the bell pepper in a well seasoned and spiced roasted veggie mix that he won't mind eating at all.
Each week I have time to customize the default box and replace any items I don't want, such as eggplant (which J rarely goes near) so I should be able to just get things that we'll eat up.
————————————————————————————————————————————————-
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
I have a friend in Pittsburgh who uses some kind of share where she gets a lot of meat and some produce too. I just didn't feel like I needed that kind of share subscription right now, as I get all the meat I need off the manager's special rack at Kroger. The meat and meat alternatives on Nature's Garden, which are not part of the regular shipment, could be added as desired but they would, of course, be at additional cost. The pricing on their meat, and on eggs, is rather prohibitive anyway, so I'll just get produce for now. I may increase the box size if I like it and change to a fruit and vegetable mix.
0 -
Howdy y'all. It's marvelous Monday! Supposed to be 100% chance of rain today. That reminds me that Friday morning, for a few minutes, I was one of the 1%!
My weather app claimed 1% chance of rain for my area and it was raining where I was so I was in the 1%.
Other than rain, it's supposed to be fairly nice, warm near 70. We have Orchid Society holiday party and diner tonight. I'll make a casserole.
————————————————————————————————————————————————-
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Getting ready for our Orchid Society holiday party. The casserole is in the oven. Gotta get me in the shower!
Val, the Tiny box is 28 dollars plus tax. For me, that came to 28.56. Not bad at all. The Small box is $38 plus tax so I guess you can do the math and see what that would be. Any given week, if you don't like the default items, you can substitute some of them for a number of other items (scroll down the list to see what all) and J approved heartily of subbing turnips for the celery. I was either doing turnips or baby bok choi, and decided turnips would be more suitable for both of us. He said he likes them raw sometimes and will be OK with me roasting them. He doesn't care for turnip greens and I'm going to assume that the greens won't be attached to these turnips, as it didn't say they would be. They have beets on another page that DO have greens attached and a bunch of those may find its way into my box some week, if still available.
Now collards or mixed greens, when in a default box, will be kept as I LOVE greens.
————————————————————————————————————————————————-
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Howdy y'all. It's terrific Tuesday! Made it to the dinner party on time, ate too much and got home not too terribly late so it all worked out well last night.
Off to the rat mines!
————————————————————————————————————————————————-
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Howdy y'all. It's wonderful Wednesday! Can't seem to get awake this morning but it's still off to the rat mines...
————————————————————————————————————————————————-
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Howdy y'all. It's thrilling Thursday! Gotta get my fat free hot dogs eaten and off to the salt races.
————————————————————————————————————————————————-
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
My hot dogs vary between Hebrew National 97% fat free (which I love the taste of, even if they are a bit dry) and Ball Park fat free white turkey franks, which are pretty good, and not dry unless overcooked.
The fuel center will be closing at 6:00 next Thursday, and the store closes at 7:00. Both are supposed to open again on Saturday at 7:00 in the morning, so I'll get a nice break.
We have hired someone! He's training at the training center this week and, supposedly, at the fuel center next week. I slotted him into the schedule anyway for three, four hour, training sessions, the last being Saturday morning opening.
The following week he can be fully on board, which is good since I've got one on vacation that week.
Now if they can get me ONE MORE the staff will be complete. I need to remind Mr. F that he's not quite done with the hiring yet, as I can't work new guy 40 hours a week for very many weeks...and there's still no one else for that shift Monday through Friday.
Dinner tonight was middle eastern spiced kofta style lamb patties, pan fried in ghee (and drained on paper towels) served with lightly buttered rice and French style green beans in a light butter sauce. And there are leftovers!
————————————————————————————————————————————————-
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...
0 -
Howdy y'all. It's fabulous Friday!
Only supposed to make it to 47 today. Big change from a couple of days ago. I have set a cooler out for them to leave my vegetable delivery in. Not because I need one this time, but I will need it out there for other deliveries in more frigid weather so I figured I'd go ahead and drag it out, clean it up and have it ready. And one never knows, I might sometime add some meat, yogurt or eggs to my order, though at their prices I seriously doubt it.
Today is the major test delivery! If I like what I see, the box size may change for next week.
————————————————————————————————————————————————-
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0 -
Howdy again y'all! My CSA box has arrived! I must say that I am quite pleased with the contents. One COULD say that $28 plus tax is just a hair high for the amount of food, but it's all organic and I didn't have to shop for it!
I really, really don't like shopping much. I do it when I have to but especially going in and picking through the veggies is annoying. It's good that I work at a grocery because I can minimize my shopping in any given trip by just buying the essential items, which is usually only a few things. Only once in a while do I have to make a BIG grocery trip, and I know where everything is so I can optimize my list to sail through and get things as efficiently as possible.
Now having said that, I did have qualms about letting SOMEONE ELSE pick my vegetables, as I am picky about them. But once I got past that and went for it, I just waited to see.
What arrived (and it's a larger box than "tiny" would suggest - it fairly well filled my cooler, and it's about a medium sized cooler!):
Green Beans - .75 lbs (Yep, and I get to snap and string them myself, just like when I was a kid!)
Cucumbers, Field - 1 ea (One medium sized cucumber. Jason and I will enjoy it. If I eat much of it, I'll enjoy it for hours...as cucumbers repeat on me)
Lettuce, Mixed Leaf (2 small heads) (2 small heads/bunches of a dark green leaf lettuce. Not sure of the variety, but I'll eat that for sure!)
Onions, Yellow - 1 ea (One fairly large organic onion. Firm and not blemished at all.)
Peppers, Green Bell - 1 ea (One large green bell pepper. No blemishes and good and firm.)
Potatoes, Red - 1 lbs (A nice couple of handfuls of new red potatoes, suitable for boiling or roasting.)
Squash, Zucchini - 1 ea (A nice, medium large, firm zucchini.)
Tomatoes, Slicing - 2 ea (Two medium sized slicing tomatoes. I can sit them on the counter for a few days to let them ripen just a bit more, but they look good.)
Turnips, Purple Top - 1 lbs (Half a dozen medium small turnips. I'm sure they'll be tasty)
I am still considering moving up to the small box which has a bit more. I think it would still fit in my cooler.
0 -
Update! It turns out there were THREE small bunches of dark green leaf lettuce in my box, though only two were promised. I ate one of them as a tossed salad with dinner tonight.
0 -
Howdy y'all. It's sensational Saturday! I've been up for quite some time, but distracted by feeding the cats and feeding me and reading things online.
And it's still only 30 degrees out there!
Yesterday my fuel center passed the fuel department audit. With 98 points out of 100. And those two weren't really on me, but on the store for not providing some of our scratch off lottery tickets, from the safe, in a timely fashion, though I had asked for them.
So...almost two months into my position and I feel really good about the audit! And I left a note thanking the employees for all their hard work, and letting them know we'd passed with flying colors.
Yes, they are going to get something else but I haven't yet decided exactly what...
A friend from out of town is coming to visit for a few days, arriving tonight, and she will no doubt be wanting to eat out or possibly order in from the Indian restaurant. Joy!
I have to pick her up from the Marta station about 7:00.
Now, what can I prepare from the CSA box to be lunch later? Hmmmmm...
Oh, I did decide to change to the "small" box and mix in a little fruit, for next week's delivery. I love that you can customize your box. Sometimes if you're exchanging for a pricier item, you have to select two things to exchange for one but I can understand that and have no problem with it. I tried to select fruit that I think we'll eat, and some may go to the sugar gliders.
Val, the bananas (Cavendish) come 5 to a bunch. Just so you know.
————————————————————————————————————————————————-
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some only once...0
This discussion has been closed.