Early Risers - Eastern Time Zone
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Howdy y'all. It's fabulous Friday! Planning to be home well before the snow and ice that may come later.
Made some delicious hash for dinner last night from smoked sausage, onion, potato and kale. Finished it off for this morning's tasty breakfast.
I've got some split peas, spicy curry powder, onion, garlic, carrot, and a couple of ham hocks started in my biggest crockpot, so by lunchtime when I get home, I should be able to pull out the ham hocks, shred that little bit of meat off them, dump in the rest of that smoked sausage, and have some really tasty soup! That can be dinner as well. And probably food for tomorrow.
Off to the salt races! Hope the city doesn't run out of salt for the roads...
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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)
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Howdy y'all. Back to check on "things" and to say that when I got off work, I was OUT OF THERE in no time because I knew the city was largely closing down at 1:00 pm and I wanted to get home before that! I clocked out at 12:38 and was home by 12:45, with little traffic.
I suspect the store was nearly out of milk, eggs, and bread by then, but I didn't need any so didn't check. Do people make lots of French toast when it snows, or what?
Pulled the ham hocks out, put the smoked sausage in, shredded that little bit of meat off the ham hocks, then, put that back into the soup and then it was lunch!
Lilo is happily sitting in my lap now as I browse the web.
My CSA box is all put away, except for the green beans which need to be snipped, rinsed, and frozen for a later meal, but that won't take long.
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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)
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Howdy y'all. It's sensational Saturday! Winter weather advisory here until this afternoon, when they expect temperatures to rise and melt the black ice.
Lilo and I have been fed. I actually made a "real" breakfast this morning, instead of eating leftovers.
But lunch will be a salad and some of the leftover split pea soup. It came out really thick and tasty, just the way I like it, with enough meat in it to really provide a satisfying, protein rich meal to help balance out the carbs in the peas.
Though, to be fair, peas are, in my opinion, not too bad carbwise, as they are legumes and have a lot of good carbs too.
Speaking of split pea soup, that is another long gone NS lunch that I approached with trepidation, though it became something of a favorite. So, of course, it's gone, gone, gone. All of the "add water and microwave" items left are ones that I liked, but then I think I liked most of that type, though I found fault with the cooking instructions and always cooked them (and let them sit) longer than the times indicated.
The split pea soup was approached with trepidation because I though an instant split pea soup would probably suck. It really didn't, but was way too bland for my taste. I found that adding a spoonful of curry powder, cooking it for longer than the recommended time, and chopping up a a couple of Hebrew National 97% fat free hot dogs into it, as my protein add on, made it quite tasty! I have to give some of the credit to the hot dogs though, as those are REALLY tasty and well spiced. Still the best tasting fat free (or at least nearly fat free) hot dogs on the market, in my opinion.
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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)
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Sigh. Eating the last of the delicious split pea soup for dinner. I just finished off the lettuce from yesterday's CSA box in a large salad, with half a large slicer tomato. One tomato left. Tomorrow I think I'll slow cook that bunch of collards, and have it with bacon, pork, cheddar meatballs.
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Howdy y'all. It's scintillating Sunday! Supposed to get considerably warmer today. I've got my collards cooking away in my smallest slow cooker. The meatballs are ready to cook. It's just a matter of cooking them.
I've been up for hours, but distracted by feeding Lilo, feeding me, laundry and internet.
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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)
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I sure hope our 1/8 inch of snow didn't get Valerie! I haven't seen anything all weekend.
The pork and bacon meatballs are warming now in some marinara sauce, spaghetti will be prepared to go with it. Collards on the side for me. I didn't have any bacon but I did put in a splash of smoke flavoring.
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Howdy y'all. It's marvelous Monday! Supposed to be pretty nice and warm today.
Off to the rat mines!
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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)
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Glad to hear Val is feeling better. I'm back for a minute, just waiting for my yellowfin tuna steak to finish cooking, then I'll warm up the rest of the collards to eat with it, and maybe a small serving of potatoes.
You know you can tune a piano, but you can't tuna steak.
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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)
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Howdy y'all. It's terrific Tuesday! Supposed to be pretty warm today, but rain tonight. We just can't seem to get away from that rain for very long!
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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. But at least it's not supposed to be too terribly cold.
Off to the rat mines!
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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)
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Howdy y'all. It's thrilling Thursday! Only one outside tag to change yesterday, one of the cigarette hanger tags on the pump hoses. They're back to playing with the price of Marlboro Special Blend. One week it will be 4.14, the next, 3.99, then back to 4.14. It's a cigarette, not a yoyo!
Of course the hang tags in the kiosk, under those cigarettes has to change too when they do that. It's very annoying when you have to keep re-doing the same tags week after week. Some of the vapor cigarette thingies went up a dollar last week, then down 50 cents this week. Sigh.
Well, off to the salt races.
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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)
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Howdy y'all. It's fabulous Friday!
J is back finally. He just got back a few minutes ago. He's gone to bed with the cats.
I'm off to the rat mines. Supposed to be cool and dry today.
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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! 30 degrees out there right now but supposed to get up to 65 today. I've been up since about 4:20 but distracted by breakfast for me, breakfast for Lilo, etc. Especially etc. Yes, that's a euphemism for the internet.
I think I'll go back to bed. Maybe I can enjoy some of this warm weather this afternoon.
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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! Supposed to be a pretty nice day again today. My mother in law came back with J this trip, but she'll be leaving today sometime. She wants to get back to Kentucky while it's still daylight, if she can. Considering how J times things, I think that unlikely but we'll see...
Meanwhile, here's one way to lose weight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcoNym1Q1Ds
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Howdy y'all. It's marvelous Monday! Supposed to be the first day working with my new pay rate, which was a surprisingly high raise from the old one. I'll enjoy seeing that in my paycheck next week.
Off to the salt races!
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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! Supposed to be unseasonably warm again today with thunderstorms tonight. Just what we need, more rain.
Anyway, off to the rat mines.
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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 -
Boy, was it foggy this morning! Positively creepy. The fog didn't start lifting from the fuel center area until after 10:00!
But I got through the morning, restocked the candy, chips, motor oil, fuel treatments, Red Bull, chewing gum, and cold coffee drinks - well, I got them all from the store and left the J that works for me to actually place the goods. Then I went back in the store and, hopefully, completed next week's schedule, came home, ate lunch and took a nap.
Dinner was salad (thanks, CSA box from last Friday!), home made spicy vegetable soup, and some mini-quiche appetizers that were in the manager's special sale freezer at work. The soup was spicy enough to make me sweat and open up my sinuses, which was exactly what I needed!
Just the soup pot and ladle left to wash and I'm done.
Leftover soup too, that can be tomorrow's lunch, with a small, grilled cheese sandwich.
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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! Supposed to be thundershowers today. And it's tag day. Joy!
Off to the salt races.
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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)
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Howdy again y'all.
Hard to say whether the fog affected business yesterday, because Tuesdays can be slow anyway. The rain this morning certainly did! I did manage to get all my tagging done, eventually, but it took a while as I had to take a long rain break on the outside part once the deluge hit. But there was plenty of tagging to do inside so I certainly wasn't bored.
Veggies and tofu are roasting in the oven now. I slept a little longer in my nap than intended, so dinner will be late, but that's OK. I must have needed the sleep. I need to stir the veggies and tofu around a bit in a few minutes and then wait half an hour or so while it cooks some more.
It's got tofu cubes, turnip, rutabaga, parsnips, onion, zucchini, one potato, garlic powder, extra spicy Mrs. Dash, salt, pepper, Spike herb blend, and a little super hot chili crush. Should be good. I spent quite a while working with all those veggies, so it better be good! LOL.
Later gators, gotta go stir.
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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! Looks like February is making a comeback today, with temperature only to 53 and down to 28 tonight.
After all that rain, they're still talking about flooding even though it's supposed to be sunny and nice today.
Off to the salt races!
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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! J still has a cold or whatever and I'm still souping it up. Made more (but different) spicy vegetable soup last night and if it was any more chunky it would have been a casserole with a thin sauce!
33 degrees out there (feels like 27) and looking at the forecast the coldest I see coming up is 24 sometime in the next ten days or so. It has not reached the coldest for tonight yet, as that will likely hit about 8:00 in the morning.
Went to the doctor for starving...er, I mean fasting blood work yesterday afternoon. I did eat food but nothing later than 6:30 a.m. so it was long enough by the time I got off work and got to the doctor's office. In a couple of weeks we'll see what results the vampires got.
Got to eat and head off to the rat mines! Maybe all the rats will be in hibernation.
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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...
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Not too busy this morning at work. Fridays, one never knows.
Got a late start on dinner again, but tonight it's roasted veggies gratin. Bell pepper, onion, zucchini, turnip, rutabaga, potato, shaken in a bag with a little EVOO, several good shakes of Spike, some crushed rosemary, hot Hungarian paprika, regular (American?) paprika, and a hearty sprinkle of six cheese Italian blend and some sharp Cheddar, tossed back into the oven to brown the cheese a bit.
Tonight’s wine choice:
Lar De Oro Tempranillo Syrah blend, 2014, 70% Tempranillo, 30% Syrah. A delightful Spanish wine blend.
I really am not terribly crazy about Syrah/Shiraz, but in blends like this it works nicely. I AM very fond of Tempranillo.
Fairly soft tannins, but just a hint of sharpness. A very fruity, slightly sweet taste. And I have another bottle of this in the wine cellar, along with the rest of THIS bottle.
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Happy Saturday, y'all!
I've been up for quite a while, but distracted by feeding Lilo, feeding me, washing up most of last night's dishes, cutting up a mango (ate most of it but chopped up a little bit for the sugar gliders to have tonight) and getting some spicy, curried, vegetarian, split pea soup going in a crockpot. J has never, to his knowledge, had split pea soup and I thought it might be nice for lunch. His cold continues to progress. He didn't particularly WANT dinner last night but I made it so he ate it. That's a good boy...
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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)
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And now I've got that bunch of kale from last week cleaned, torn, and cooking in a smaller slow cooker! This week's collards can wait a few days. I do need to make salad either today or tomorrow to use the lettuce though. Still running a week or so behind usually on eating potatoes and onion, but that's all right as they keep well. All caught up on the other root vegetables except I still haven't gotten around to doing anything with that burdock...well, I'll get to it. Really!
I have beets and carrots coming next week. And more potatoes and onion...
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The split pea soup came out quite nicely! J had a good bowl of it for his lunch, even though he still didn't really feel all that much like eating. But I made it for him, and he ate it. I put a good spoonful of the braised kale on my bowl and stirred it in, but he declined on the kale. Soup and kale leftovers in the fridge!
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Well, I didn't win the Powerball last night...again. Sigh.
Howdy y'all. It's scintillating Sunday! Felt kind of blah last night but feel somewhat better this morning. I guess I need to get out this morning to get some bottled water and some more cold medicine for J.
I've been up for an hour or so but distracted by the usuals.
The internet can be SO distracting!
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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! Cold out there, but not snow weather, yet...
Off to the salt races!
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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! If a weather person said SNOW then people down here are FREAKING OUT!
Off to the rat mines.
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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! 25 degrees out there right now. Brrrrrrr! Only supposed to get to 37 today and likely to get a bit colder before that, as we usually hit the low for the night around 8:00 a.m. or so this time of year.
I had a customer get mad at me yesterday because I refused to "buy" (he didn't like me using that word "buy" either) his $1.00 or more of loose pennies and give him a solid dollar. He probably DID already buy gas, to be fair, and it was only a dollar. But I generally don't buy change unless the till happens to need that denomination of change, and even then I will limit the amount I buy, so the small amount really didn't come into it. It was 100 coins that these old, arthritic fingers would have had to count up and roll up, and really, even in the store they won't buy unrolled change, as they have a Coinstar machine in there and they direct the customers to that. I don't know what percentage it charges them to "convert" their change to bills.
Would they buy $1.00 in unrolled pennies at the customer service desk? Probably. I don't know for sure. But I'm not the customer service desk, and I'm not the bank either and I don't have lots of room to store lots of excess change. He then said that anyway I didn't have to be a d*** about it (I wasn't being, but he claimed it was in my "tone of voice") and he "came here all the time and bought stuff" and my customer service sucked. I just said I was sorry if he perceived it that way, but I certainly wasn't trying to be a d***. I think he was just mad that I wouldn't stand in for the Coinstar machine. Maybe he does "come here all the time" but honestly he didn't look all that familiar to me...and I've refused to buy change from other customers who I KNOW "come here all the time" and they were nice about it. Then again, they always ASKED if we "bought" change rather than demanding it as this guy did, like it was a service we were supposed to perform.
Needless to say, we accept loose change (or rolled) in payment for anything we sell, but sometimes it's hard to keep that happy, chirpy, smiley face on when a customer is out there apologizing for paying me with $23.15 in assorted, unrolled coins, or even with $4.00 in unrolled quarters. I've even had them be apologetic about paying with ROLLED coins.
Whether he went in the store and said anything about my customer service I don't know. The store manager didn't say anything to me when I went in, later, other than to ask if I'd "attended" my conference call at noon, which I had. I didn't speak to the Front End manager over the fuel center, as he is also over a lot of other stuff and with the snow blowing, he was, as expected, busy out in the store.
Anyway...off to the salt races!
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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 -
Hoooweee! That little bit of outside tagging today was COLD! I had to do it in small bursts, even though it wasn't all that much.
Nap time now!
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