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  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 23,078 Member
    Well, I did get out in the cold today, to PetSmart, where they were out of the salmon flavor canned cat food I wanted for Lilo and Orion, but I got a couple of other flavors that Lilo is sometimes happy with. We are back on three different brands of kibble as Orion needs a special kidney diet to help prevent struvite crystals, Lilo needs a special kidney diet for extremely mature cats, and the young girls, Kiara and Dinah are still, for now, on a grain free brand that they seem to like. I may see if the vet thinks it would be beneficial to put them on the same thing Orion is eating, just to save the hassle of keeping up with so many. And since I got canned food for the young girls, and three tubs of kitty litter, and four cans of meal worms for the sugar gliders, it was in excess of $100 at PetSmart.

    I then went to Kroger, which, by comparison, was cheap! And encountered extremely light snow flurries on the way home from there.

  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 23,078 Member
    edited February 2020
    Howdy all y'all. It's satisfying - and possibly soggy - Saturday! It's below freezing just now and the forecast calls far 90% chance of snow turning to rain. I peeked out and while it's frosty out there, at least on the cars, no snow is in sight and there is a streaky pink sunrise.

    I don't have to go anywhere today so I will just stay in here where it's warm, at least until it's time to pop down the driveway to the mailbox.

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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.

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    :)


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  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 23,078 Member
    Howdy all y'all. It's sumptuous Sunday! It's cold out there, with freezing fog warnings. That always puts an odd image into my mind of solid walls of fog that a person or car could slam into! LOL.

    I rather enjoyed watching our 2 inches or so of heavy, wet snow as it fell for 2 hours, accumulated, and promptly started melting. By bedtime there were only small patches of snow remaining and what is left will probably be disappearing today. It made quite the Winter wonderland for a short time.

    I probably would not have enjoyed it so much if I had to get out in it, but it was nice to look at from the warm confines of our house.

    Not much on the agenda for today. Maybe some laundry.

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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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  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 23,078 Member
    Can you find me in this picture, with my parents and 5 of my 9 siblings? I was not in need of any weight loss assistance at that age.

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  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 23,078 Member
    Howdy all y'all. It's marvelous Monday! 70% chance of p.m. rain, so if I want to go anywhere I need to get on out this morning. I don't see anything super critical on the shopping list, and am trying to keep costs down for a bit until I catch up on all the hospital bills. As expected, they are nickel and diming me. I swear, every doctor who so much as said hello to me in passing has sent a bill for $35, and then the separate bills from radiology and cardiology for the tests. I have paid several and just when I think I have seen them all, another shows up. Reconciling the bills with the insurance statements is a bit of an annoyance too, but as long as the bills are itemized and show the insurance payments and adjustments too, it can be accomplished. Sometimes I have several insurance statements that have to be all reconciled to the same, single, itemized bill.

    I have one bill showing two items at $18 each, with no indication of what, if anything, the insurance paid, or even whether the insurance has been billed. I have paid one bill to that department, that had been sent through insurance, but if they think I am just blindly paying them $36 for two electrocardiagram reports without any insurance statement they can think again.

    OK. I just called, and apparently something got lost in the shuffle during the transfer from one office to another. The hospital I was at had just been eaten...er I mean acquired by another hospital and somehow this particular bill didn't have my insurance information attached to it. I called the number on the bill, which just gave me a different number to call, due to the office move, and I gave them my insurance ID and they will bill it now. So I can wait far a revised bill, if any, to arrive.

    Lilo has had her "horrible" and treats for this morning, and is patiently (hah!) awaiting breakfast, along with the other three.

    As to the picture, my mother is 5 foot 4 and my father was 6 foot 4, so there is a bit of distance between them. The one in my mother's lap is one of my younger brothers. I am the third of the ten children.

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    :)


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  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 23,078 Member
    edited February 2020
    Howdy all y'all. It's terrific Tuesday! I need to get Lilo's shot drawn up and administered, so she can get past her "horrible" and have a treat. I would like to get out for a few things, and may try around 11:00 when the rain chance is the least and it MAF be just "cloudy" for a bit. If I just go to PetSmart and Publix or Aldi, I might not get too wet.

    In the picture posted the other day, I am the beanpole with the Dumbo ears on the far right.

    I installed a camera in the window by the front door yesterday, and set up the monitoring to watch for motion. I found this scary video this morning. Meet Orion, the spook! You may have to click on the picture to activate it. Orion must have heard something outside and poked through the curtain to investigate.

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    Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)

    :)

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  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 23,078 Member
    Well, I did get out for a bit, and picked up the most needed groceries.

    I also got a little more food for Lilo.

    Today is Lilo's 17th birthday!

    Oh, and I think in other pet news, you might like to know that Remus Crabbypants and Clyde are now cohabiting and seem to be fine with it. Right at first, Remus acted as if he was still a baby and Clyde was his daddy, climbing on Clyde's back to ride around. And Clyde let him! He doesn't do it now, so I guess they have worked something out between them.
  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 23,078 Member
    Howdy all y'all. It's wonderful Wednesday! It is supposed to be warm today with 30% chance of p.m. showers. I don't think I need to go anywhere, but I do need to get to that laundry.

    For Lilo's special birthday treat yesterday, I made tuna casserole.

    She didn't get the casserole, but she did get the "tuna juice" (the water from the can) that she graciously shared with Kiara. She loves tuna but doesn't need the extra protein, so I let her have the water and she is happy. When she was younger, I would let her have a bit of the tuna before it all went into the casserole.

    I used Barilla Red Lentil Rotini in this casserole. I can definitely taste the lentil when I use this kind of pasta, or their Chickpea Rotini, in which I can taste the chickpea, but using it in the tuna casserole helped to mask that flavor somewhat, and the extra cooking time, in the sauce, helped with the slightly odd texture of the cooked pasta.

    Using that pasta does take some getting used to, and spending that much on it does too, but it adds protein and reduces the simple carbohydrates in the casserole, so it doesn't spike my blood glucose so badly. The extra fiber also helps me to feel full without eating too much of the casserole.

    Well, this mug of tea is empty. Time to pour another.

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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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  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 23,078 Member
    Want to peek at my bloomers? :wink:

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  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 23,078 Member
    Howdy all y'all. It's thrilling Thursday! It's rainy this morning, but it's supposed to taper off toward the afternoon, with temperatures falling, but not TOO far.

    With the camera watching the front sidewalk now, we found out last night what is sometimes triggering the front door light to come on. A white and black cat, that actually looks a lot like our Kiara, was seen on cam last night when the light's motion sensor turned it on. The cat came in from behind the hedge, stepped just far enough into the frame to be seen, and then back out, presumably back behind the hedge. Something has been triggering the motion sensor light by the garage too, and we had been wondering what. Now we suspect one (or more) of the three (current) neighborhood cats that sometimes wander over for a visit is probably triggering that one too.

    I need to get some laundry folded 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)

    :)

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  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 23,078 Member
    Howdy all y'all. It's fabulous Friday! Nice weather expected all day, and I might get out to Kroger for a few things. Not a lot on the agenda.

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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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  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 23,078 Member
    Howdy all y'all. It's satisfying Saturday! Zero percent chance of precipitation today. We might go to an antique mall in Monroe later.

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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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  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 23,078 Member
    Howdy all y'all. It's sumptuous Sunday!

    The antique mall was a lot smaller than we expected, and it was a fairly long drive to get there.

    We didn't consider it a wasted trip though, as we stopped at a nice farmers market on the way back, picking up a few items, including a large tub of salad that we used half of at dinner later.

    Then we stopped at a small flea market in Conyers, but most of the stalls were closed. The market was open until 8:00 but apparently the individual stalls were open whenever the renters wanted. To be fair, it wasn't very busy by the time we got there, so there was little incentive for the sellers to stay late.

    So we enjoyed the trip, aside from the traffic, and while dinner was a bit late, it was quick and easy as we had leftovers already plated up in the refrigerator. I quickly put together a couple of side salads from the tub we picked up, warmed up the leftovers in the microwave, and dinner was served.

    Not much on the agenda 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)

    :)


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  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 23,078 Member
    Howdy all y'all. It's marvelous Monday! It should be a fairly nice day here, and I may get out for a grocery item or two. Or even three or more. One never knows what unexpected deals there might be. Or maybe I'll not go. We'll see how the day goes.

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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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  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 23,078 Member
    Howdy all y'all. It's terrific Tuesday! It looks like it is going to be a rainy one. I need to get out to pick up some more fluid for Lilo's treatments, and it's almost time to get her some more Adequan for her Tuesday shot. I think I have enough to give her one more dose, next week, so I need to call and make sure they can get me another bottle. And it's about time to take Dinah in for her yearly stuff. It's always something!

    Yesterday the front door cam caught the Easter bunny hopping around on the front walk.

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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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  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 23,078 Member
    Howdy all y'all. It's wonderful wet Wednesday! Another rainy day here in Peachtree Corners, with flood warnings on many rivers and creeks. fortunately, it isn't too cold! I did get out in the rain yesterday, and picked up the bag of lactated Ringer fluid for Lilo, but that was ALL I picked up. Not a lot on the agenda 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)

    :)


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  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 23,078 Member
    I have been waiting for the rain to stop before I go to the grocery, but have plenty of staples on hand. Today was a "what can I make from dried beans" day so I found a recipe online for stewed Mayocoba beans and modified the method somewhat to slow cook it, and as a rare treat, made fried potatoes to go with it. Then I made first pass at making old fashioned cornflake chewies, that turned out pretty tasty, but too sticky. We ate a very small portion each, for dessert, and the rest is back in the refrigerator.

    The bean recipe can be found here:

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  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 23,078 Member
    Howdy all y'all. It's thrilling Thursday! I could hear the raindrops a'falling on the house when I got up. I hope to not be going anywhere today.

    I finished Lilo off on the old bottle of fluid yesterday, and put the next setup together so that it's ready to start with the next 10 doses, one dose, three times a week.

    We will have the leftover stewed Mayocoba beans for lunch today. It's nice to have that ready to heat and eat.

    GardenKatGardens wrote: »

    I have a question about when you were moving here, and let the cats stay at home....I am not doing so good on finding someone to watch over Tom E. Wondering about getting about 5 disposable litter boxes to put around the house, and he will have to make do with kibble for 5 days... hmmm. Just a thought...open to suggestions.


    When moving, it wasn't a problem, as we generally had one of us at each location. Once the house in Georgia was set up, J lived in it most of the time, while I lived in Memphis with the cats. If I had to be in Atlanta for work or training at our downtown or Chamblee office, J would arrange to be working in Memphis that week.

    After Twist died, we adopted Ariel and she traveled back and forth with him. If we had a rare chance for both of us to be in Georgia the same week, I started travelling with the other 4, and started doing that for long weekends too. By the time I retired, and started actually moving too Georgia myself, the cats were all already comfortable in either house, so we just moved them all to Georgia and if we both needed to go to Memphis it would only be for a night or two and we just left them with plenty of kibble and water.

    So your question actually applied more to vacations of more than a night or two. At first, we had friends coming once a day to feed, check water, scoop boxes, and visit with the cats.

    Later, in Memphis, we hired pet sitters to do the same, and left a check for them on the counter. If we were only going to be gone for a weekend or a single night, we just left plenty of kibble and water, and took care of the litter boxes when we got home. We have not both been gone for more than a couple of nights at the same time, since our Georgia roomer moved out. We utilized his services while he was living here.

    We would not leave our pets for more than a weekend without hiring someone. And of course We don't actually know anyone here that we could hire but I am sure there are people who do that. You might ask your veterinarian if they know of any reliable pet sitters.

    Scattering litter boxes around the house might not be a good idea, as he is used to the one box being in the one place, and if you have others in different places, for an extended time, he may get used to the idea that they will be there and go in those places whether they are there or not. Maybe you could put them all in a row at the usual place though.

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    :)


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  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 23,078 Member
    Tonight's "cook what you have" dinner was slow cooked pasta e fagioli.

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  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 23,078 Member
    Howdy all y'all. It's fabulous Friday! It's cold this morning and there is a scary, bright yellow thing up in the sky that I can't look straight at. Whatever could it be? And why is the sky blue? It's been gray so long I don't think I remember anything else. LOL. I am sure the plants appreciate all the rain.

    I need to get out to the grocery today. After I take Dinah to the vet for her annual stuff.

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    Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)

    :)


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  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 23,078 Member
    Howdy all y'all. It's satisfying Saturday! It should be another cool one with zero chance of precipitation. The yard should be walkable by now instead of a soggy mess! Not a lot on the morning agenda, but a party this evening. I think I will make some yellow rice, which is nothing like yellow snow.

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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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  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 23,078 Member
    Howdy all y'all. It's sumptuous Sunday! Another cool day, mostly cloudy, with slight chance of precipitation. So far nothing on the agenda today. Ate too much at the party last night, but brought NOTHING home, leaving it to the host to decide if he wanted to keep or toss the leftovers.

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    Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)

    :)


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  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 23,078 Member
    Howdy all y'all. It's magnificent Monday! Here comes the rain again, falling on my head like a memory. All day, apparently. Well, we had a few nice days and the forecast is calling for a few more nice days after today.

    I need to do a little housework maybe.

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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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  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 23,078 Member
    Howdy all y'all. It's terrific Tuesday! Cloudy with 20% chance of rain today. I might get out to a grocery.

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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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  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 23,078 Member
    Howdy all y'all. It's wonderful Wednesday! Good chance for pm showers, but otherwise a nice day. It will get a bit chilly overnight.

    Last night was Mardi Gras. Supper was not the traditional, very late breakfast, with lots of sweets. No, it wasn't. It was great northern beans, cornbread, and roasted potato chunks with onions. J had the bulk of the potatoes, and I was, as usual, the only one eating the buttermilk cornbread. J doesn't, in general, care for cornbread. I did have some nice white wine with supper.

    But...after that rather plain supper we did talk a little about Mardi Gras traditions, while watching a recorded television show, and I said that I should have made pancakes or cinnamon rolls. J asked if I had the ingredients to make cinnamon rolls, which kind of floored me, as those ingredients are all staples and OF COURSE I had them. I pretty much always have them, but don't need to be making cinnamon rolls, in general. J apparently had no clue how easy it actually is to make cinnamon rolls.

    The only missing "ingredient" was time, as it was too late to allow for the rising required to make them properly. I know there are ways to hurry that along, but it still would have taken more time than I had before I wanted to go to bed.

    However, lest you think that this would stop my inner Eduardo (the chef inside), from making a Mardi Gras treat, think again.

    I used a cup of self rising flour, 1/8 stick of cold butter, and enough buttermilk to make a small, sticky blob of soft buttermilk biscuit dough.

    Then I melted 1/2 stick of butter with some granulated sugar and ground cinnamon, to make almost a paste, but thin enough for my purposes. Small blobs of the biscuit dough were then dredged in the cinnamon mixture and dropped into the bottom of a glass loaf pan, and there were just enough of them to fill the bottom, with a few small gaps here and there between the blobs. The remaining mixture was spread evenly on top and this sticky mess was baked in a preheated 350 degree oven for 20 to 25 minutes, or until it looked and smelled done to me.

    About a third of a cup confectioner's sugar and a very small amount of milk, along with a drop of vanilla extract, made a lovely, thick glaze to drizzle over the top of the confection, and we thoroughly enjoyed our Mardi Gras treat of Cinnamon Monkey Biscuits. Yes, I did make that name up. LOL.

    Way too many carbs? Oh, yeah...but worth it to properly celebrate Mardi Gras and remind myself that I can still pull a trick or two out of my sleeve at the last minute? Absolutely!

    And now that I havo probably made you hungry...have a great Wednesday! LOL!

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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)

    :)


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBr2IA8IDVs

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHmaFjg3_qw

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvRJ2wAvTP0

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa2C689BRSs

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSVgb15Fhe4

  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 23,078 Member
    Howdy all y'all. It's thrilling Thursday! A bit chilly out there but not quite frozen.

    I woke up early after what felt like hours of dreaming about being at the courthouse over some silly tax thing regarding my 1984 taxes, after all these years! In the dream, they were after less than $20 in supposedly back owed taxes, that were actually (in the dream) due to the IRS "correcting" my tax return and accidentally refunding me a bit less than $20 too much money.

    Now I know that if the IRS does such a thing, that the taxpayer still does owe the money back, but the circumstances in the dream just kept getting weirder. My in-laws were with me in the court, though they had nothing to do with my 1984 taxes since I wasn't married in 1984 and didn't even meet them until 1995. I guess they were there for moral support.

    In the dream, there was some green colored paperwork attached to my originally filed tax form, provided by the IRS, but the green colored paperwork seemed to have something to do with someone else's taxes. Someone I had never heard of. Oddly, instead of pointing this out to the judge, I separated it and, during the lunch break, rolled it into a tube and casually laid it at the upper corner of the desk/table I was assigned, so I could pretend it had been left by the prior person. It seemed that there were several of these tables as they were investigating other people simultaneously, with several in the court room at once and the next case immediately being seated without even cleaning off the table of the prior case's trash.

    At this point, in the dream, I noticed that the registered mail they had sent advising me of the summons had cost the government $35 and I was pondering the absurdity of how much they were spending, including paying all the people working on this, on the possibility that they MIGHT get $19 and change in back taxes/overpaid refund, since they weren't asking for any interest or penalty. People were filing back into the court room after the lunch break to continue the multiple deliberations.

    Then Orion woke me up because his food bowl was empty. So I will never know the resolution of my case.

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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)

    :)



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozksm_q1hRU

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxMAJ4s6Gw8

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZE3Ud6WtB8

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pocDiMpu_W4

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XV7whomojk
  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 23,078 Member
    edited February 2020
    As February 27th is National Pancake Day, my inner chef, Eduardo, whipped up as small a batch of fluffy buttermilk pancakes as I know how to make, and J and I celebrated the day at lunch. I had a New York strip with my syrup-less stack that still tasted divine. I haven't had pancakes in a while and, fried in ghee, they were really quite nice even without syrup.

    J had a couple of fried eggs, broken, over hard, and hash brown patties with a stack of pancakes that had butter and real maple syrup.

    It was a nice lunch.

    Beef stew is going in a slow cooker for my dinner. I am not 100% sure what I will be making for J but I will come up with something. For me, this chilly day is definitely a "stew" type of day.

    :)
  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 23,078 Member
    edited February 2020
    Howdy all y'all. It's fabulous Friday! The temperatures should be about the same as yesterday, on the cool side. I need to get out for canned cat food and maybe run by the endocrinologist to let them have a few drops of blood.

    I am getting behind on videos myself and think 5 a day may be too many. I'll just post this tiny one today of me at the endocrinologist...


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  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 23,078 Member
    Howdy all y'all. It's satisfying Saturday! And it's LEAP DAY. I don't do a lot of leaping any more. Besides, I have a headache, but I am sure I will get over it. I may take a walk out in the cold, but DRY air.

    I am working, gradually, on a big box of old photos, digitizing the ones I think are worth preservation, and discarding a lot of junk photos. I took a lot of photos back in the day that I look at now and wonder why. If there are no people I know or interesting scenery, animals, buildings, or objects, one wonders why.

    I found some (not very good) pictures I took at my youngest sister's first wedding, but honestly think ALL of my family would just as soon forget that wedding, as that marriage turned out to be a disaster and didn't last too long. She has been happily married to her second husband for many years now and is a grandmother.

    Some of these photos were left behind from a former roommate, when his sister gave them to me after his death, in case there were any of me in the stacks, or of him and his dogs that I might want.

    As I come across good pictures of him, I have been digitizing them and sending the pictures to her and her other brother, on FaceBook. She is probably sharing them with her twin sister too. I do know her twin, but not that well, and we are not connected on FaceBook.

    None of us live in Memphis any more, and the twin and the other brother had already moved from there before I met any of the family so I only knew them from their occasional visits back to Memphis while I was living there with their brother. I continued to live in Memphis for many years, until I retired and moved to Georgia, and I kept up with the one sister who had stayed in Memphis.

    After both of their parents died, she eventually moved up to Massachusetts and the three surviving siblings now live fairly close together again. I was a pallbearer at the former roommate's funeral, along with 5 other friends of his, as, even though it had been several years since we had roomed together, I was still a friend of the family. And, of course, I attended the funerals of both parents, and the family/close friends gatherings after each funeral.

    Looking through old piles of pictures can be a bit emotional, so I am taking my time with it. Most of them are still in the folder/envelopes that the developers delivered them in, though a few are old Polaroid instant photos. I have looked at most of the loose photos, and scanned those I deemed worthy of preservation.

    As I find photos of people I still know, I will send them their pictures on FaceBook. And somewhere I have a few old albums of photos I should go through and scan the ones I want to save digitally.

    Not a lot on the agenda for me today, but perhaps I can work in a 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)

    :)




    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IDhsBdIxgY




  • parityanimal
    parityanimal Posts: 23,078 Member
    Howdy all y'all. It's sumptuous Sunday! It should be a really nice day today. I may get out to see the current bloomers, and may get out to a grocery store. Spring begins in March!

    I made it through Leap Day without telling anyone to go take a flying leap. But then I didn't go anywhere either. LOL

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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)

    :)


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLr8DjDHWDU

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