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Howdy y'all. It's magnificent Monday! 58 with an expected high of 67 and 90%...er make that 100% chance of precipitation at my house, with a good possibility of thundershowers.
Never did get a nap yesterday, but did get to bed a bit earlier than usual of late.
Not much of anything on the agenda today and I think that it's a good day for that. Maybe I'll get a nap today. Of course they're calling for the likely thunderstorms about the same time as I would normally nap, this afternoon. Maybe a morning nap?
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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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Haven't seen a new HFLC for a while and this is a long one. But I like tacos and want to see which one wins the low carb battle.
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And speaking of tacos, I wonder if they are in the TOP 10 Mexican foods list here?
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And speaking of top 10 lists, what about top 10 foods for the grill?
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And now, for something completely different, what the pho?
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Good Wet and rainy morning!!
I think the 3 inches of rain may be the total for our 3 day rain.? They said 3 to 4 inches...on the other hand...my Weather Channel app is showing rain from now thru 3 a.m. on Tuesday..( or about another 15 or more hours of rain....I already have my 3 inches in the rain gauge...hmmm.
Ed, the counter top veg slicer/grater/shredder was interesting. I have a metal one that I bought some time ago...its great on carrots, walnuts, etc. Not made for almonds! Got myself in a real pickle trying to grate those almonds!
Dishwasher emptied, load of 'light' laundry needs to be moved to the dryer, 2 bags of kitchen and bathroom trash to take out to 'herbie curbie', I did take out the recycles. Actually everywhere I look I see some usually small thing that needs to attended to...Never ends does it?
Tom E came in, ate, begged for treats, and then quite willingly wanted outside. That surprised me. Considering the rain!
Tomorrow after my Chiro appt I will be heading to Whole Foods, hope to find green stuff! I think 'head lettuce' is something you like....or not. I'm in the not camp. For decades I thought I hated salad...nope, just Iceberg lettuce!!LOL. Also of course I'll be looking for fried tofu.
Need to also check the calendar, for when I need to present myself to donate tubes of blood. I know its soon that I do that.
I've looked under my car for various reasons, but never thought to look for penguins!
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I'm back from walking and no cents. The temperature this morning was 39 degrees. Yesterday was a another busy day doing the yard. Once again the walking was OK today as there was no wind. The Sky is a cloudless sky and the day should warm up nicely. There is rain in the forecast that should arrive overnight into Wednesday
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Have a Great Tuesday
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GardenKatGardens wrote: »Good Wet and rainy morning!!
I think the 3 inches of rain may be the total for our 3 day rain.? They said 3 to 4 inches...on the other hand...my Weather Channel app is showing rain from now thru 3 a.m. on Tuesday..( or about another 15 or more hours of rain....I already have my 3 inches in the rain gauge...hmmm.
Ed, the counter top veg slicer/grater/shredder was interesting. I have a metal one that I bought some time ago...its great on carrots, walnuts, etc. Not made for almonds! Got myself in a real pickle trying to grate those almonds!
Dishwasher emptied, load of 'light' laundry needs to be moved to the dryer, 2 bags of kitchen and bathroom trash to take out to 'herbie curbie', I did take out the recycles. Actually everywhere I look I see some usually small thing that needs to attended to...Never ends does it?
Tom E came in, ate, begged for treats, and then quite willingly wanted outside. That surprised me. Considering the rain!
Tomorrow after my Chiro appt I will be heading to Whole Foods, hope to find green stuff! I think 'head lettuce' is something you like....or not. I'm in the not camp. For decades I thought I hated salad...nope, just Iceberg lettuce!!LOL. Also of course I'll be looking for fried tofu.
Need to also check the calendar, for when I need to present myself to donate tubes of blood. I know its soon that I do that.
I've looked under my car for various reasons, but never thought to look for penguins!
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Hi Valerie and Ed
The sign warning about looking under the car for Penguins was interesting, what I did not see was what to do if there are any under there
Have a Good Day
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Howdy y'all. It's terrific Tuesday! 59 out there now with an expected high of 69 and 20% chance of precipitation. Maybe I'll actually get out to the store today. We'll see.
Sink is cleared and I've eaten. Need to clean up yesterday's cat bowls and feed the cats. Then maybe shower and think about getting out to the store once rush hour is past.
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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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Hi. Quite a day...all good Got 'reassembled' at my chiro appointment, drove to Whole Foods, and the lot was not much more than half full???? Odd. Walked towards the doors to Whole Foods only to be told that Whole Foods was closed???? WHA???? Atlanta, the city of Trees...and rain soaked ground and big gusts of wind. Tree down, took down power lines on Ponce. Pretty quickly they were saying only another 10 minutes or so, they had to 'bring up the cash registers' It was a little more than 10 minutes, but soon enough we could go in and shop. They had my chicken Fried Tofu, and I got a box of greens, and soon enough on my way home. Didn't have time for a nap before Jack's driving home call...and now I'm sitting here yawning my face off!
So its off to sleep soon as I feed Tom E. I think I'm having birthday dinner with Jack and family tomorrow evening. Tomorrow is Jack's birthday, and for a change he will be in town for his day.
Tom's eating, I think I"ll get into my pj's, and call it a night.
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I'm back from walking and 1 cent. The temperature this morning was 54 degrees. Yesterday was a semi busy day spreading fertilizer on the lawn. The walking was OK today as there was a bit of a breeze to help keep me comfortable. The forecast rain arrived overnight into Wednesday, It is lighter than forecast OTOH, It is a steady rain.
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Have a Great Wednesday
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Hi Edparityanimal wrote: »Howdy y'all. It's terrific Tuesday! 59 out there now with an expected high of 69 and 20% chance of precipitation. Maybe I'll actually get out to the store today. We'll see.
Sink is cleared and I've eaten. Need to clean up yesterday's cat bowls and feed the cats. Then maybe shower and think about getting out to the store once rush hour is past.
Yesterday's chore(s) got done, Fertilizer spread on the lawn, It had to be spread by hand as the sealed bag managed to to pick up moisture and clumped up and would not go through the spreader
My optional chore, Laundry is done and folded, Whee
Today's temperatures are forecast to be in the 60s and wet. Next week they are forecasting highs in the 70s. I ended up running the AC yesterday as the Living Room got uncomfortably warm.
Since I have rarely eaten Taco Bell...parityanimal wrote: »Discontinued Taco Bell items.
DAK Ham is a regular canned ham around here, I have had canned Bacon, a different brand OTOH and TBH it was sort of salty too. I have never seen canned Butter, I wonder how they avoid it going rancid to get a good shelf life.parityanimal wrote: »Emmy's apocalypse breakfast.
Have a Good Day
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Hi ValerieGardenKatGardens wrote: »Hi. Quite a day...all good Got 'reassembled' at my chiro appointment, drove to Whole Foods, and the lot was not much more than half full???? Odd. Walked towards the doors to Whole Foods only to be told that Whole Foods was closed???? WHA???? Atlanta, the city of Trees...and rain soaked ground and big gusts of wind. Tree down, took down power lines on Ponce. Pretty quickly they were saying only another 10 minutes or so, they had to 'bring up the cash registers' It was a little more than 10 minutes, but soon enough we could go in and shop. They had my chicken Fried Tofu, and I got a box of greens, and soon enough on my way home. Didn't have time for a nap before Jack's driving home call...and now I'm sitting here yawning my face off!
So its off to sleep soon as I feed Tom E. I think I'm having birthday dinner with Jack and family tomorrow evening. Tomorrow is Jack's birthday, and for a change he will be in town for his day.
Tom's eating, I think I"ll get into my pj's, and call it a night.
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Reassembled, I did not know You had fallen apart.
Whole Foods, I'm guessing that the Chicken Fried Tofu was in the hot section ? Was it still hot ?
I was in Whole Foods the other Day and Picked up a pound of the 365 salted butter. Decent price and the butter was really good. OTOH I did buy some hot foods that I should not have bought.
Their Pizza slices were what I consider pricey, and not all that good to boot
Enjoy the Birthday Dinner with Jack.
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Howdy y'all. It's wonderful Wednesday! 56 with an expected high of 70 and 0% chance of precipitation. Sounds like my kind of day!
I've been up for some time now, since Lilo started trying to get me up at about 5:30 this morning. I resisted until about 6:30 but finally gave up. Distracted by breakfast, internet, and working on a little re-seasoning for the 10.25 inch skillet I use the most. It's not quite up to slick enough for scrambled eggs yet, but it's getting there. I probably should have sanded down the cooking surface when I first bought it to make it even smoother but then I'd have had to worry about making sure I cleaned out every bit of the iron filings, then re-season from entirely from scratch on the cooking surface. I must say that I was impressed with the job that Emmy did on hers in that video, but I don't have one of those scraper thingies anyway. I'm sure I'll eventually get it as glossy as I like, through use and occasional refreshing of the seasoning.
I believe I'll actually get out to the store today. Maybe just Aldi, but it's a store!
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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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Happy World Penguin Day! How much do YOU know about our flightless feathered friends?
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I DID get out to the store today. There weren't many critical items, but the ones that were critical were...well...critical.
OK. MAYBE I could have waited until tomorrow, but tomorrow J (who is out of town) is expecting a Fed-Ex delivery of some sort that requires an adult signature. I guess I'll fill the bill. And, of course, I can't go anywhere until it's been delivered, as the delivery attempt would, no doubt, happen while I was out, since that seems to be universal law of some sort.
So I'll be at home awaiting his delivery and enjoying some of the $75 or so worth of stuff I bought at Aldi. No, it wasn't all critical. In fact, most of it wasn't, but some of the non-critical stuff looks rather tasty.
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Good Morning...and Happy World Penguin Day!
Lets see, small flightless bird. Their area at ATL Aquarium smells nasty!, And it has been reported that 'Some' penguins closely resemble Puffins!!!!
I've cleared sink, fed Tom E. fixed myself lunch, spent 40 minutes by the timer working in the 'new addition'...
Now I need to scramble so I can go to my local WF and pick up some of their chocolate energy bites, and then make a mad dash to Kroger, of which there are two on my route home...I"ll have to shop 'Roger Style' if I hope to do that and not be late for Jack's BD dinner.
Roger wrote: (and I responded to.......
Reassembled, I did not know You had fallen apart. A. Not quite fallen apart, but many loose connectors, and crossed wires! LOL!
Whole Foods, I'm guessing that the Chicken Fried Tofu was in the hot section ? Was it still hot ? B. Yes, it was hot...because they brought out a newly fried large pan of it. Me and several others descended on it like vultures. One lady ahead of me commented that although she was NOT a VEGAN she loved the Chicken Fried Tofu...hmmm. Wonder if she really was a vegan and that was just a disclaimer? Or maybe she just really liked them???
I was in Whole Foods the other Day and Picked up a pound of the 365 salted butter. Decent price and the butter was really good. OTOH I did buy some hot foods that I should not have bought. C. Curious...what did you buy from the Hot Bar??? and was it good?
Their Pizza slices were what I consider pricey, and not all that good to boot D. Ted and I used to get their whole pizza's, in particular the margherita pizza... and it was always good. I haven't had any by the slice, or for my last 5 vegan years for that matter...
Ok, my time is dwindling....
Later...
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If You open how can You return it ?
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I'm back from walking and no cents. The temperature this morning was 58 degrees. The walking was OK today although there was a bit of a breeze. Overnight there must have been a bit more rain come through the area as the roads and streets were still wet as I went out the door.
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Hi Edparityanimal wrote: »Home cooked vs. $65 pizza.
Ni Pizza is worth $65... Not even if sprinkled with Truffles and Gold specks.
Critical needs tend to only get worse if ignoredparityanimal wrote: »I DID get out to the store today. There weren't many critical items, but the ones that were critical were...well...critical.
OK. MAYBE I could have waited until tomorrow, but tomorrow J (who is out of town) is expecting a Fed-Ex delivery of some sort that requires an adult signature. I guess I'll fill the bill. And, of course, I can't go anywhere until it's been delivered, as the delivery attempt would, no doubt, happen while I was out, since that seems to be universal law of some sort.
So I'll be at home awaiting his delivery and enjoying some of the $75 or so worth of stuff I bought at Aldi. No, it wasn't all critical. In fact, most of it wasn't, but some of the non-critical stuff looks rather tasty.
I hope the delivery comes though OK, I recall in the past when there was someone home to sign for a FedEx delivery and nobody knocked or rang the doorbell. Instead a sticker regarding a missed delivery was stuck to the storm door so
Good Luck
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Hi ValerieGardenKatGardens wrote: »Good Morning...and Happy World Penguin Day!
Lets see, small flightless bird. Their area at ATL Aquarium smells nasty!, And it has been reported that 'Some' penguins closely resemble Puffins!!!!
I've cleared sink, fed Tom E. fixed myself lunch, spent 40 minutes by the timer working in the 'new addition'...
Now I need to scramble so I can go to my local WF and pick up some of their chocolate energy bites, and then make a mad dash to Kroger, of which there are two on my route home...I"ll have to shop 'Roger Style' if I hope to do that and not be late for Jack's BD dinner.
Nothing wrong with focused shopping
Here I sit some days feeling as if I were falling apartRoger wrote: (and I responded to.......
Reassembled, I did not know You had fallen apart. A. Not quite fallen apart, but many loose connectors, and crossed wires! LOL!
I meant to ask in the past, the Chicken Fried Tofu, is it shaped like Chicken parts or as patties or cubes ?Whole Foods, I'm guessing that the Chicken Fried Tofu was in the hot section ? Was it still hot ? B. Yes, it was hot...because they brought out a newly fried large pan of it. Me and several others descended on it like vultures. One lady ahead of me commented that although she was NOT a VEGAN she loved the Chicken Fried Tofu...hmmm. Wonder if she really was a vegan and that was just a disclaimer? Or maybe she just really liked them???
I was in Whole Foods the other Day and Picked up a pound of the 365 salted butter. Decent price and the butter was really good. OTOH I did buy some hot foods that I should not have bought. C. Curious...what did you buy from the Hot Bar??? and was it good?
Their Pizza slices were what I consider pricey, and not all that good to boot D. Ted and I used to get their whole pizza's, in particular the margherita pizza... and it was always good. I haven't had any by the slice, or for my last 5 vegan years for that matter...
Ok, my time is dwindling....
Later...
My Brother will not touch Tofu, I on the other hand never minded it in Thai dishes where it picked up flavors from the sauce.
There Were two types of small Chicken Breast Pieces in a sauce. The killer item was the Mac & Cheese and of course the Thick Crust Pizza
The Pizza would have been worth the money if it had been tasty, instead it seemed to need something and they were a bit stingy with the Pepperoni.
Have a Nice Day
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Howdy y'all. It's thrilling Thursday! 50 now with an expected high of 63 and 100% chance of P.M. precipitation.
I'm happy to report that the touch up seasoning for my main cast iron pan (that pretty much just lives on the stove, though there IS a designated spot for it in the pots'n'pans cabinet) turned out beautifully. The pan is a gleaming, slick, black wonder and made perfect, non-stick scrambled eggs this morning using just a little bit of ghee, to cover the bottom of the skillet.
I may still have a little bit of touching up to do on J's "vegetarian" skillet, particularly where I had to Brillo off the worst of the rust bits, but it's looking pretty good too. Of course while it's designated as "vegetarian" now, we have no clue what may have been cooked in it by any previous owner(s), but we do know that since cleaning it up and re-seasoning it, nothing has been cooked in it that wasn't vegetarian.
Despite his wanting his own "vegetarian" cast iron cookware, and threatening (hah, as if!) to take over ALL my cast iron, he still does most of his cooking, when he cooks at all, in the stainless steel wok I bought for him when he first wanted to learn to cook more things. He has not, in fact, cooked anything in any of the cast iron cookware but I will still leave that one designated as "vegetarian" and use it only for vegetarian dishes.
After all, even though it was purchased at my request, J paid for it from his account. We also have a "vegetarian" stainless steel spatula for his skillet and all of the wok implements used for his wok are "vegetarian" whether wood, bamboo, or stainless. And there's his "vegetarian" blue silicone spatula, which is the only blue spatula in there. Seems silly for the stainless utensils but that's the way he wants it and it's fine with me. I have plenty of other utensils to use with fish, fowl, or meat.
Speaking of fowl, dinner last night was a chicken breast, brined and then grilled on the stove top in my cast iron grill, served with the last of some pasta I prepared on Monday night, I think. The pasta was fusilli tossed in a spicy tomato and herb pesto. I can't claim it as the spice mix was already put together by Aldi and tied to a bag of fusilli. I made the whole package when I made it, and had 4 good meals out of it. I thought it was pretty good stuff.
I think maybe some laundry today. But with the threatened weather, probably no store visit, or not one very far anyway. Maybe a quick run to Publix. I'm doing something with a pound of ground lamb tonight and was pondering Shepherd's Pie but need some frozen peas and carrots to do my regular version of that. I suppose I COULD just do one without the peas and carrots but I really like it done that way.
On the other hand, Edweirdo...I mean Eduardo!...may come up with something vaguely exotic to do with the lamb. Ideas are already percolating that include an onion, perhaps a small potato or two, some middle eastern spices, and perhaps eggs. Hmmmmmm.
Oh, wait, I have to wait at home for J's package. I guess Eduardo wins.
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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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