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Howdy y'all. It's fabulous Friday! No work today, but need to get all the food prepped for the Lilo and the treats for both cats, etc, before we leave. Ariel's food is on an automatic feeder.GardenKatGardens wrote: »Ed, 4 days off!! Great! Camping in the mountains I hope, too hot down here in the lower levels!
Was your Tomato and Roasted Red Pepper made by Pacific? I used to love that soup in the winter!!
Sorry about the name issues. Don't you just 'love' incompetence. I think I'd be looking for that guy, and let him fix it again.
Camping IS indeed in the mountains, or at least hills. Don't know that we have anything around here I'd call actual mountains.
The bank responded to my online query saying they'd fixed the problem but I still don't see the hyphen online. I'll wait and see if the credit cards and check books look correct before I complain any more...and then it WILL be in person.
I don't even want to think about getting the name change fixed with the pharmacies and insurance...hopefully the retirement office will take care of all that, or at least most of it.
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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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For those pondering updating to Windoze...er Windows 10, well, if you are on 8 I'd say do it as 10 beats 8 out, but it's still Windows...I'm on it now in a virtual machine. I played with some of the preview builds as I like to keep my hand in, and then got the full upgrade when available, but am glad I didn't have to pay for the upgrade...I'll still stick to my Macbook mostly I think.
No windows were harmed in the posting of this message, though it was posted using Google Chrome, from my virtual machine, running Windows 10.
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Hi All
I got out and walked my usual 2 3/4 miles. I was out the door early before Sunrise and beat the worst of the heat and Yahoo, The Humidity is down too.
The Censored Deer are still eating things, the latest is they ate most of the leaves off of the pepper plants, Left the Peppers that were growing, why? They also nibbled off the top of a tomato plant and ate some of the leaves off of a Rose Bush. It seems they can work around the thorns
Have a Great Friday
RogerGardenKatGardens wrote: »Coffee Update! I must have run that vinegar thru the machine at least 6 times....some, but not a lot of improvement. I was checking the prices for new online, and decided one LAST try...One other thing in the book was to clean the little needle that pierces the bottom of the k-cup. Just need to stick a paper clip thru it. I'd done that earlier, but with one of the larger paper clips, this time I rooted around in my desk drawer til I found one normal sized one... tried it again, ran another vinegar thru it...and lo and behold a cup of vinegar came back out. (this is all AFTER lunch as I had to run by my bank, where they have a Keurig..I'd forgotten, or I would have made a much earlier trip to the bank...anyhow, did my other errands, etc, and it was nearly 4p before I got a full cup return) SO, ran a cup of water thru it, and put in one of the two k-cups I'd tried to brew this morning....I got coffee! Set it down to cool a bit, took a sip....well!!! try to imagine pickled coffee!!! I don't think you could sell it. YUCK!!
Rinsed X2, and I now am drinking my morning coffee! Bet I don't sleep tonite, but I'm having it anyhow!
Roger, I was just being "MO Mule Headed" this morning. I have Dunkin Donuts, McDonalds, and Publix coffee with in a mile or less of my house. Just like I am being now, determined, no matter what, to drink a cup of MY coffee!!!
LOL!!!
And no, this MO Mule Headedness, did not come with age....:) Both my boys also got this 'gene', even the one that was born in VA!!! We are a real hoot when we try to work together! Everybody has their own ideas on how we should do the project at hand....not pretty! LOL!!!
Lets all have a good evening!
Um, Roger...your water drinking is excellent after walk, but I'd feel a lot better if you had at least an 8 ounce glass of water before you leave home. Peeps get somewhat dehydrated over night, and then in the heat, and your sweating.... better safe than sorry...
Hi Valerie
My Brother is a stubborn cuss too so I know exactly what You mean.
Congratulations on getting the coffee machine fixed.
I have a sip of water before I leave and then I do have a Large or extra large coffee near the start of the walk. The Quick Chek is only 4 blocks from home. I also do know that if I stop sweating that is a bad sign.
I carry a 1/2 liter bottle of water with me just in case, The Cargo(?) Shorts have tons of pockets and a couple that are really large. I fit a entire Folding Umbrella in one pocket along with the other items usually in it if there is a chance of rain.
I hope You sleep well tonight.
Roger
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parityanimal wrote: »For those pondering updating to Windoze...er Windows 10, well, if you are on 8 I'd say do it as 10 beats 8 out, but it's still Windows...I'm on it now in a virtual machine. I played with some of the preview builds as I like to keep my hand in, and then got the full upgrade when available, but am glad I didn't have to pay for the upgrade...I'll still stick to my Macbook mostly I think.
No windows were harmed in the posting of this message, though it was posted using Google Chrome, from my virtual machine, running Windows 10.
Hi Ed
I have warned my brother not to take it. Some of the hardware was almost impossible to find windows 7 drivers for and I would be afraid to jump to windows 8 or 10 on that machine. If he would give up on his 800 series HP inkjet, it is so old it only has a parallel port for the printer interface. He has had it since Windows 95 or 98 days.
I actually do like windows 8 since I installed s/w to add the start button. How did the licensing go with windows 10?
Thank You
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Good Saturday Morning!!
Roger, I took your advise...and slept, and slept again!! Many many hours! Thanks! I feel rested and great.
Yesterday was a fun day, and a great day in the North Ga mountains. We got Marietta's peaches for her Sunday School teachers, and I got a jar of Chow Chow, not quite sure why...to try it mostly. I also picked up a peck of apples, and beautiful grown in Delonaga GA tomatoes! 4 big beauties. There will be more tomato sandwich lunches!!
Ed should be in, or heading for the mountains.. I was hoping he was going to NC, as the mountains there are really spectacular. Not the Rockies mind you, but beautiful old mountains. (all our east coast mountains are old and worn!)
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Hi All
I walked a slightly different route and walked 2.8 miles today. It was much nicer out today than Yesterday, When I started out it was before Sunrise and the Blue Moon was out with a few wispy clouds drifting across it. I came home, Cooled off and went back out around 8AM and mowed the Lawn. 9682 steps so far today according to the FitBit Zip including the mowing. I am now officially tired
My Brother commented that it looks like the Censored Deer was back and ate some more overnight. I have seen them in the woody area below the lake and I saw two or three Yesterday along the edge of another park that has a wooded area along a brook. Them dang things are all over anymore. I do not know how they manage to avoid the thorns on the rose bush they have been nibbling on.
Whats a fella to do, You can not string Razor Wire around the property
Joy, Joy, I fixed my Main floor computer last Night too. I thought it was the power supply and the Mailman delivered the new one. Long story cut short, When it still turned on and right off I diagnosed deeper, pulled the back, drives and memory. It turned out to be one of the memory chips I installed as a Memory Upgrade, I left it out and put back the original one and one of the newer ones and voila it is working again. Hmmm.... Not so short a story after all.
Have a Good Weekend
RogerGardenKatGardens wrote: »Good Saturday Morning!!
Roger, I took your advise...and slept, and slept again!! Many many hours! Thanks! I feel rested and great.
Yesterday was a fun day, and a great day in the North Ga mountains. We got Marietta's peaches for her Sunday School teachers, and I got a jar of Chow Chow, not quite sure why...to try it mostly. I also picked up a peck of apples, and beautiful grown in Delonaga GA tomatoes! 4 big beauties. There will be more tomato sandwich lunches!!
Ed should be in, or heading for the mountains.. I was hoping he was going to NC, as the mountains there are really spectacular. Not the Rockies mind you, but beautiful old mountains. (all our east coast mountains are old and worn!)
I hear lawn mowers going, so I guess its ok for me to head outdoors with mine...
Hi Valerie
Why let the clock rule Your life The way I look at it I am retired and beholding to no one except myself. I am glad the rest helped. I think I was the first one out mowing today. The Tomatoes and Beans are in production now. The Deer did not get them all, so far, so good.
I need to blanch a bunch of Yellow beans and Green beans and vacuum seal most of them for the freezer so they will be nice and fresh later when the plants are done for.
Have a Great Day
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Hi All
I walked a slightly different route for 2.8 miles today, Weather was Cool and low humidity, Tomorrow the Humidity goes back up, oh well.
I suspect that the four legged appetite was back nibbling the flowers and vegetables. I say that since it looks like more damage and the Potted Petunias were knocked over despite no wind last night.
Have a Good Sunday
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Hey Roger!
Ed's in the mountains, not sure if he's back tonite, or Monday. So it just You and Me kid!!! Who's line was that anyhow?
Low humidity again here today, felt wonderful, and like yours, humidity will return overnight. Boo!
Busy running errands, but I have managed some chores, and a trip to the gym. I needed a few more steps on the FitBit!.
Watering my moss lawn and a raised bed under one of the maple trees, and it time to go turn it off,
So ....
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Howdy y'all. It's scintillating Sunday! We've been back from the hills for some time. Not quite to the mountains but close. Hilly enough that after walking the trails Friday and Saturday, my calves are KILLING me.
We've been back since about 11:15 or so but I got busy doing most of the laundry from the trip, along with putting things away and taking a good, long nap with my precious Lilo! There is still some laundry left but I think it will wait until another day. The bulk of it is finishing in the dryer now.
Back to work tomorrow. Bleah.
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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 -
Ed, glad you had a great time...you picked a perfect weather weekend!
I agree with back to work tomorrow...it is BLEAH! Short shift I hope....0 -
Howdy y'all. It's marvelous Monday! Working a long middle today. Yesterday I got the bulkiest part of the laundry done after we got back. I guess I'll finish up with that tomorrow.
Wednesday maybe I can go and work on getting my replacement drivers license.
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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 -
Good 'mid' Morning! Monday, Monday!!
Few thing started this morning, trip to the gym, and some 'sorting' of stuff is the agenda for my day. I opened the door to feed the cats this morning and found that the humidity has returned. ICK! It was great for the couple of days we were 'dry'.
Also I need some rain. Ed, your end of the county too?
Roger hope you had a good morning for walking. I do admire your sticking thru the heat, i.e. getting up at the crack of dawn, etc.
I made it to the gym yesterday, and have every intention of going again today! If I do, I have a good chance of going 5-6 days this week! ....,.. (not as impressive as Rogers record, but gaining ground)
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Hi All
I got out and walked a 2.75 mile loop, I reversed the direction of the loop so I could avoid walking into the rising sun for 95% of the walk.
I picked up a Extra Large QC Coffee on the outbound and went back into the QC for a DeCaf on the way back home. I reused the old Coffee cup as I had just emptied it and got charged the refill rate saving 50 cents + Tax, Thank You to the Young Lady at the register.
Have a Great Monday and the Start of the New Challenge
RogerTooGardenKatGardens wrote: »Hey Roger!
Ed's in the mountains, not sure if he's back tonite, or Monday. So it just You and Me kid!!! Who's line was that anyhow?
Low humidity again here today, felt wonderful, and like yours, humidity will return overnight. Boo!
Busy running errands, but I have managed some chores, and a trip to the gym. I needed a few more steps on the FitBit!.
Watering my moss lawn and a raised bed under one of the maple trees, and it time to go turn it off,
So ....
Later...
Hi Valerie
Just You and Me, Kid (1979) is where I remember it and it is the title of a George Burns Movie. I am sure it comes from somewhere else earlier on........
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079384/GardenKatGardens wrote: »Good 'mid' Morning! Monday, Monday!!
Few thing started this morning, trip to the gym, and some 'sorting' of stuff is the agenda for my day. I opened the door to feed the cats this morning and found that the humidity has returned. ICK! It was great for the couple of days we were 'dry'.
Also I need some rain. Ed, your end of the county too?
Roger hope you had a good morning for walking. I do admire your sticking thru the heat, i.e. getting up at the crack of dawn, etc.
I made it to the gym yesterday, and have every intention of going again today! If I do, I have a good chance of going 5-6 days this week! ....,.. (not as impressive as Rogers record, but gaining ground)
Later...
Hi Again
I get out early in self defense against the heat. It does mean I run out of steam earlier than I used to, often by 10PM.
The Humidity is supposed to be moving in today as the day progresses, Yuck
I tried a Gym in days gone past, I could not sustain going. Cheers for Your Perseverance
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Hey Roger,
I'd run out of steam way before 10 p. if I was getting up early as you are!
You have to remember I worked at this gym for 8+ years, so I know quite a few of the other members....AND its only a mile from my house. (0.9 actually)... so its just a hop into the car and I'm there. Planet Fitness is only $10 a month.... cheap as it gets I think.
Today's trip was about 20 minutes of walking and 40 min on the strength machines. Tomorrow will be cardio only, Wed, I'll be in Atl at my chiro, WO on Thurs and hopefully Friday afternoon. If I make it Friday I will feel 'justified' to stay home over the weekend! LOL!!!
Sorry you're getting your humidity back. Ours came back with a vengeance today!
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Hi Valerie
I knew You had worked at a gym, 8+ years is a fair length of time.
Sooner or later I will have to start with a gym myself to tighten things up
Have a Good Evening
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Howdy y'all. It's terrific Tuesday! Lilo has been fed. I need to get the rest of the laundry done today, and suspect that D left some of his junk in there. I distinctly told him to clear the laundry but he tends to hear things, acknowledge them and then promptly get distracted by a shiny squirrel and forget. If his stuff is still there, he'll find it ... somewhere...maybe.
Lilo has been fed and my kielbasa is nearly blackened enough for my taste, so that, and a sweet Georgia peach and a little bit of pepperjack will be breakfast.
Lator, gaters!
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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 -
Good Tuesday Morning,
Gonna be hot in GA today. Sunshine thru the trees is beautiful this morning though.
Chores at home, and gym. That's it for my day........at least the 'planned' part of my day. You know how that goes!!!
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Hi All
I got out early today walking, It looked like the rain was done, wrong 20 minutes into the walk it started a to rain. I was glad I had the Umbrella in my pocket too. I shortened the walk somewhat, 2.5 miles
I posted Four new recipes to day in the recipes group here:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/106935-nutrisystem-plan-recipes
I posted Carrot Cake Muffins & Cream Cheese Frosting by Peter W,
Angel Lush Cake by Dlekapj (Linda) from the old NS Forums,
Chocolate Cupcakes by Christina Gray from the Old NS forums
and Chocolate Frosting by Christina Gray from the old NS Forums
Have a Good Day
RogerGardenKatGardens wrote: »Good Tuesday Morning,
Gonna be hot in GA today. Sunshine thru the trees is beautiful this morning though.
Chores at home, and gym. That's it for my day........at least the 'planned' part of my day. You know how that goes!!!
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Hi Valerie
It was nice out during the walk before the rain came back and for a little while after, Then the Humidity kicked in and it is currently hot & humid and Miserable outside. I know that from a run to the bank and the recycle center with paper.
Cheers
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Good Morning! Wednesday...
Day off from the gym. Chiro at lunch time, then a quick run (drive) up the street to Mid Town Whole Foods. They have great hot bar vegan entrees! And I need a loaf of bread, and organic bananas. Hopefully I won't get much more than that!!! Oh, already the list grows, need dish soap and kitchen hand soap.... and so the list grows.
They're saying rain here Thurs late into Friday. We surely do need it.
Couple chores to do before going into ATL...and chat with DS1 this afternoon. Should be my day!
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Hi all
I got out for a walk today 2.8 miles and 60 Cents.
That means that I paid $1.07 for my Large Black Coffee minus $0.60 for a net cost of $0.47
The weather was beautiful too, Not Humid and in the 60s, Whee!
So far no need to turn on the AC either.
Have a Nice Day
RogerTooGardenKatGardens wrote: »Good Morning! Wednesday...
Day off from the gym. Chiro at lunch time, then a quick run (drive) up the street to Mid Town Whole Foods. They have great hot bar vegan entrees! And I need a loaf of bread, and organic bananas. Hopefully I won't get much more than that!!! Oh, already the list grows, need dish soap and kitchen hand soap.... and so the list grows.
They're saying rain here Thurs late into Friday. We surely do need it.
Couple chores to do before going into ATL...and chat with DS1 this afternoon. Should be my day!
Hi Kat
Am I remembering wrong or did Atlanta's drought end?
Isn't it amazing how a short shopping list can balloon
Enjoy The Day
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Howdy y'all. It's wonderful Wednesday! I've been up for a LONG time but busy getting Lilo fed, getting Clyde to the vet to be altered, getting Bonnie medicated, getting me to the doctor so they could pull enough blood to clone me, then finding food and then getting to the department of driver services to get my new drivers license ordered.
Busy morning! Clyde should be ready to come home this afternoon, all going well.
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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 -
Home made vegan pasta e fagioli for dinner. Must be good as J is on his second helping and says that it's really good! I, of course, had one small bowl...and I thought it was pretty good myself.
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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! Working a 5 hour middle today in the middle of scattered thunderstorms. Nothing much else on the agenda though.
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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 -
Hi All
I did my walk this morning, 2.8 Miles. Humidity is low, and the temperature was in the 50s, I felt a little chilly until I warmed up from the walking or maybe it was the 1/2 banana I ate on the way out of the house.
Walking past the stream below our one parks dam I saw the Blue Heron in the stream. I have noticed it now for each of the three days I walked that way recently. Then we seem to be getting deer into the area too. I saw Four next to that brook one evening walk, Three grazing in a different park and four along another brook the other day. They sure are destructive to plantings and gardens too. Oh well.............
Have a Good Day
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Good Morning on a fine Thursday mid morning!
I fell into the internet, and just 'surfaced', big gulp of air...and I'm going diving again! I fell into a nest of vegan and vegetarian recipe's that seem down to earth and don't require a quarter tsp of something you know you'll never use again kinda recipe's.
Ed, I hate you have to work during the storms today, but we need rain so badly, that I have to hope we get it.
I've watered twice, and need to do it again if this doesn't pan out.
Tell how you made the pasta e fagioli, please? I found this strange sauce 'Vegan Cheese Sauce" at the Midtown WH yesterday. I opened it and it tastes pretty good. It does have a list of ingredients, but no other info on it...makes me think it was made at Whole Foods... and in my Wednesday charge thru Publix they had Publix pasta on sale for a buck a box, so I got 3. I was almost out of penne, and had been wanting a cold farfalle salad, etc.....
Have been missing cheese for awhile, and if J thought your fagioli was good, I'd love to give it a try!
Yesterday off from the gym seemed weird, but my gym time is paying off. Chiro was very impressed with my bones, and sent me on my way for another month!!! YEA!!!!! So, sometime this afternoon I will be found at PF walking and doing strength machines. I need to figure out some core exercises...I know I've done them before, just have to get a list organized and then DO IT!!
Roger I can visualize you out walking! When I lived in NJ so many years ago, there was an older Indian man who walked past my house every day...neighbors said he'd been walking for some time, and that they'd watched him lose a lot of weight! So keep up the good!!!!
Ok, I need to either go fix some kind of breakfast, or wait another half hour or so, and just skip breakfast and tumble right into lunch!!!! hmmmmmm??????
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OK, so where is our Roger????
Ed, its 'booming' big time over here...and some rain. It seems to have slowed...heading out to the gym before it winds up again!0 -
Roger I swear I did not see your post this afternoon when I posted 'where's Roger'....
Glad you got your walk in, and that it was cool for you for a change.
Don't worry about the plants/gardens and the herons... they are fish eaters. Have issues with them here in GA...eating the koi out of peoples little landscape ponds!, AND the garden stores that carry Koi to stock those ponds have to cover their big tanks too!
I'm trying to stay awake to watch the debate...Not at all sure I'll make it.
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GardenKatGardens wrote: »Tell how you made the pasta e fagioli, please? I found this strange sauce 'Vegan Cheese Sauce" at the Midtown WH yesterday. I opened it and it tastes pretty good. It does have a list of ingredients, but no other info on it...makes me think it was made at Whole Foods... and in my Wednesday charge thru Publix they had Publix pasta on sale for a buck a box, so I got 3. I was almost out of penne, and had been wanting a cold farfalle salad, etc.....
Have been missing cheese for awhile, and if J thought your fagioli was good, I'd love to give it a try!
Well, I started out with about 5 or 6 cups of vegetable broth, into which I put some finely chopped spinach, some diced carrots (maybe...half a cup? More if you like a lot of carrots in your dish), some Italian seasoning, Spike seasoning, a little black pepper, just a LITTLE bit of salt as the broth was already salted. Then I added some minced onion and garlic (I really don't measure any of this stuff. LOL.) and a generous shake of red pepper flakes for some heat, a good shake (maybe half a tablespoon) hot Hungarian paprika along with about a quarter cup of extra virgin olive oil. Added some white kidney beans (cannellini? beans - heck this is one of those "use what I have" dishes and any bean really is fine, whatever you have on hand and like - my "usual" recipe actually calls for pink beans) and cooked it all for a while to get the carrots and beans done. Added some elbows as I didn't happen to have any ditalini, which is what I usually use in this dish and cooked it until the elbows were pretty well at the consistency I wanted and then stirred in a small can of tomato sauce, mixed it in thoroughly, brought it back to a boil, checked seasoning and adjusted a little, and served it.
I made it a bit hotter, spicewise, than most people do, I think, but J likes it that way and so do I. Since I had plenty of spice in the mix already I omitted the optional spiced olive oil drizzle on top. It didn't need it and I felt it had enough oil in the dish as made.
If he ever gets up from his nap I'm baking him some mozzarella sticks for appetizer and reheating the last of the pasta e fagioli for his dinner.
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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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Good Morning Friends...I've been MIA for quite a while between traveling and needing a break. Yesterday was my 1 year anniversary on NS and I'm happy to say that I am still here!! Summer vacations are over and it is time to refocus and get back to business. My freezer and cupboard are stocked with my NS meals and it feels good to be back to a regular schedule. A couple of weeks off my food plan and I can feel the difference in many ways, energy level being one...I do feel so much better when I am getting lots of fresh veggies and water...hard to do when spending 8-10 hours in the car. At any rate...on to the last 40 lbs!! as my signature line always said, I did not start on the journey to quit halfway!!!
Hope you all have a great Friday!0
