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Hi Edparityanimal wrote: »Howdy y'all. Of course I've been up for hours but increasing the size of my drive in the Windows 10 virtual box has been distracting me most of the day.
Finally got that done!
Last night's party was nice, but awfully warm in the house there. And the fact that they kept dumping champagne in my glass didn't help with that. After snacks of hummus, pureed Baba Ganoush (made with smoked eggplant - heavenly!) olives, carrot sticks, sliced French bread, etc, all vegetarian, dinner was served. 24 people sat around in various groups after serving themselves.
Smoked pork loins, and a smoked GOOSE! I was in heaven, as you can imagine. And ALL the side dishes were vegetarian so J had plenty to eat between the appetizers and the dinner. I had just a small bite or two of all the dishes, there was some kind of couscous salad with tiny orange mushrooms (golden chanterelle, I think), some other salad of some kind of sprouted or slightly puffed grain (something beginning with an f) and nuts, some bean and fig salad, some dilled carrots, a pasta salad with extra grated cheese to sprinkle on, and I forget what all. Needless to say, I was in my element there.
And then they brought out desserts. Lemon squares (evil), some kind of light, powdered, crescent shaped cookies (evil), some mini-cupcakes with caramel on top, some with orange frosting, and some chocolate ones with dark chocolate frosting, a red velvet cake with lots of fruit on it (all evil), some almond brittle, and a fruit salad (melon, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries) which was probably the only NON-evil dessert. Oh, and some Bailey's Cream truffles, and some chocolate macaroons. More evil...so I split the smallest lemon bar with someone, ate one small truffle, tasted everything except the macaroons (not crazy about macaroons), and had some fruit salad. Then got a slice of the cake (birthday cake, technically, since the host and hostess were celebrating their 100th birthday. 60 for him and 40 for her added up to 100. LOL.
I ate one small bite of the cake and handed it off to J who finished it off.
After that just sipped ice water and mingled for a while until I realized that I was REALLY tired and needed to get on home before I turned into a pumpkin.
Anyway, laundry is started and Windows 10 is now updating. It needed the room before it could update. I doubled the disk size which was a major pain that involved creating a whole new virtual disk, cloning the old virtual disk to the new one, shutting down the virtual system, reconfiguring it to use the new disk and forget the old one, extend the partition on the new disk to actually use the additional space (all this after spending hours figuring out all the necessary steps for all this with all the actual parts being largely imaginary!) but finally got it going.
Now it's nap time. Lilo is ready.
I did not realize a Virtual Disk size expansion was that much work. In my Windows computers I just Clone the disk to a bigger disk and done. Just curious what is it that You use Windows for? I do know that Windows has a larger variety of software available for some things however.
That sounds like some feast. They went all out from the sound of it and spared no expense.
The Desserts were evil because, Sugar?
Have a Nice Night
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I just use my Windows 10 virtual box as a sandbox, mostly just to keep up with what's going on in the Windows world. I do play a couple of games on it now and then. My particular virtual box software though doesn't allow easy resizing of a disk, at least not on a Macbook, though it's supposed to...so I had to create a whole new disk in the virtual box software, attach that disk in the virtual box software, then boot Windows, format for system, clone the existing system disk to the larger disk, shut down Windows, swap disks in the virtual box software, boot Windows again, get to the disk management tools, extend the partition on the new disk, as all it partitioned for was the same size as the original disk (well, it WAS a clone) and then rebooted again just to be sure. After napping, windows update is running and as always it's SLOW.
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Howdy y'all. It's marvelous Monday.
Moving slow this morning, but must be 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...
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Hi
It was 50 Degrees This morning 5 degrees cooler than yesterday. I did wear a somewhat heavier long sleeve shirt over a light long sleeve shirt and light gloves. I have walked 8,090 steps so far and still no Cents. I have had a NS Chocolate flavor Shake. Breakfast will be either the NS Baked Blueberry Oatmeal or the $Store Blueberry waffles or to a Cold Cereal Breakfast.
The weather looks like rain overnight into Tuesday morning, I will have to decide what I am doing for walking then if at all. Also it is supposed to be warmer which may play into my decision.
Have a Good Monday
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Hi Edparityanimal wrote: »I just use my Windows 10 virtual box as a sandbox, mostly just to keep up with what's going on in the Windows world. I do play a couple of games on it now and then. My particular virtual box software though doesn't allow easy resizing of a disk, at least not on a Macbook, though it's supposed to...so I had to create a whole new disk in the virtual box software, attach that disk in the virtual box software, then boot Windows, format for system, clone the existing system disk to the larger disk, shut down Windows, swap disks in the virtual box software, boot Windows again, get to the disk management tools, extend the partition on the new disk, as all it partitioned for was the same size as the original disk (well, it WAS a clone) and then rebooted again just to be sure. After napping, windows update is running and as always it's SLOW.
I wonder why Your Your windows update runs slow. Possibly the Virtual Box is the cause? Does all of windows run slow, Or Internet only or only the windows updates. On the Windows 10 computers here it downloads in the background and when I go to shut down it asks Install updates and restart or Install and shut down as well as the usual other options such as Hibernate.
That is a good idea using a Virtual machine as a sandbox. I know others that do that running it within Windows and I suppose I could do that or I could run something like Sandboxie. I have been thinking about it although between Norton and Malwarebytes Anti-malware I feel fairly well protected.
Have a Nice day
Roger0 -
GardenKatGardens wrote: »Ed,
Simon's Cat was very well behaved at the vet. I pity the vet that tries to do that exam on Tom E. Cat...he'll be bitten, scratched, and who knows what all.
The guy from animal control yesterday was as interested in talking to me, as I was to him. There is a subdivision that backs up to the western side of the school property, and I can see some of it in the winter when the leaves are gone. Seems as though someone over there has been feeding a 'herd' of feral cats, and they're helping catch them, and take them to this vet clinic...Planned Pet Hood, for neutering, shots etc. So, his questions to me were along the lines of had I been seeing any/many stray cats lately? (not really...saw a big black cat one afternoon but not since)..
Tomorrow I am going to check out first, my issues with my doc, and then go to a vet in Lilburn, that is quite close to me, and see if they'll just give Tom his shot without having to take him out of the carrier. Cuz trust me, if that door is opened, they had better first put the cat in the sleepy box!!!!
OMG what a feast you had! MMMMM! I'd have been too full of food to drive home!!! Hope your BS was not toooo high this morning! WOW! What an experience. Bet you now have a whole new set of ideas of what you can duplicate in your kitchen!
I have no idea what you were doing with/to your computer. I read things like that and just go hug my Mac!!! LOL!!
Ok, I'm fed, cat's fed, dishwasher running, dryer still spinning clothes round and round, but I think I'll get ready for bed and then unload the dryer.
I'm tired for some reason. Early to bed sounds good tonite.
Tomorrow I'll have to have a nap, as I think I will at least attempt to watch the debate...not sure for how long though!
Later...
Hi Valerie
I can see where someone has been feeding/watering cats at a location outside of the one park I sometimes walk through. At this time of year I only get there on weekends as I do not feel like working my walking through students heading for school on the same sidewalks I would be on. Right now I would be OK on the outbound and I might be OK on the return leg, I'm not sure. What I am sure of is that later on in the season as I start heading out later to beat the early morning cold weather the students would be in the way.
I can not decide, Watch the Debate, don't watch the debate or DVR the debate for later viewing, Nothing indecisive there
Good Luck at the Vets
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Howdy again y'all. My birthday isn't until the 28th but thanks anyway, Val! I'll be 39 of course...
I rebooted my macbook and the virtual windows machine, and the virtual machine speeded up considerably.
Last night I really didn't feel all that well and don't think anyone else in the house did either. I didn't feel like cooking so ordered in Indian, even though I didn't really feel all that much like eating either. I knew I needed to eat SOMETHING so I ordered.
This morning wasn't feeling that great either but after nap today (when I got home from work, after lunch), I thought maybe a really NICE dinner might make me feel better and, as I had the energy to cook, I made potatoes and onions, fried in ghee, lamb sirloin chops, baked to tender yumminess, seasoned with salt, pepper, garlic, and rosemary, steamed, lightly buttered broccoli, seasoned with salt and pepper. That took care of D and me. J had some of the potatoes, some of the broccoli, and three lace fried, over broken, eggs, along with some fake bacon.
Everyone in the house had a nice dinner. Might be D's last here as he's packing up to go back to Arizona to be with his mother for however long she has left. Hopefully he won't end up in jail for murdering his step-father...
Off to bed soon!
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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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Howdy y'all. It's terrific Tuesday! The last couple of weeks the tagging has been split between Tuesday and Wednesday. We'll see what we see this morning...
High of 85 with 30 percent chance of rain.
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...
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Wow, 5 posts!
Hi
It was 66 Degrees This morning a large change from yesterday. It was comfortable walking despite a increase in the humidity. I have walked 8,361 steps so far and once again no Cents. I did see a penny however it was stuck into the driveway and did not pick up when I tried
It rained overnight and the rain was finished earlier than the originally forecast time so it was OK to walk although I did take a small folding umbrella along in my back pocket, just in case.
Tomorrow is Grocery Store day for Bananas and Apples or Apples and Nectarines or Plums or all three to last until Sunday morning ainxe it is 10% senior discount day. With the advertised price per pound the bananas will be 26 cents a pound, Hard to beat that price unless they look really poor
I ended up unhappy yesterday, It appears that the Walking Appetites AKA Deer have discovered the Three Columnar Apple Trees in the back Yard. The first two pictures show the damage and the third picture shows the wire cages I ended up putting around them to protect them. Hopefully
Have a Good Tuesday
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GardenKatGardens wrote: »Good Morning!
Boy, have I been up for 'awhile'! I still trying to sip my coffee this morning at 6 a.m. decided to put the new Mac OS 'Sierra' on my computer....dear heavens, that was one slow process!!! Then my One Word secure app for remembering my passwords, etc. needed updating so I did that too. All the while doing 'other chores' like moving into my new wallet, unloading dishwasher, texting Ted, till I bored him and he sent me a sleeping emoji!!! Called the Doc's office and left a message about returning their call from Saturday, and mentioned I would NOT be taking morning meds until I heard from them...so far, no return call. Will wait a bit longer and just direct call again...grrrr. I hate 'leave a message and we'll get back to you'...it usually should be prefaced with 'maybe'!
70 this morning, and I saw on the local news 50's by Thursday for overnite lows??? Wait! What???? I think we skipped fall this year, at least for night time temps. Wonder how long before I cave and turn on the heat? Hopefully not before mid October!! YIKES!
They also said that yesterday was day 88 of 90 degree weather, but with this cold front they doubted we'd see the 90th day, which would tie the all time record. I hope they repeat that, with a year. Its always fun to see how many years a record stood.
Ok, lots to do this morning so, I'll chat later...
Hi ValerieGardenKatGardens wrote: »Update
I did call little doc's office back....and...I was right to discontinue the BP meds, and she'd sent a new script in to be filled. Am so glad I waited to fill that script...otherwise I'd have 90 days of pills that I couldn't take!
I'm old school I just use a small notebook for usernames and passwords.
Just curious, define slow upgrading the OS? I think it took a couple of hours+ to go from Windows 7 & 8 to Windows 10 on the two computers I did it too. Strangely the laptop that said it was ready for the free upgrade then said not compatible?
Our temperatures are all over the place from day to day even.
I have the heat turned off at the wall switch, The red one that says Gas Burner Emergency Switch
Good Decision to save Your money
Enjoy the Day
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Hi Edparityanimal wrote: »Howdy again y'all. My birthday isn't until the 28th but thanks anyway, Val! I'll be 39 of course...
I rebooted my macbook and the virtual windows machine, and the virtual machine speeded up considerably.
Last night I really didn't feel all that well and don't think anyone else in the house did either. I didn't feel like cooking so ordered in Indian, even though I didn't really feel all that much like eating either. I knew I needed to eat SOMETHING so I ordered.
This morning wasn't feeling that great either but after nap today (when I got home from work, after lunch), I thought maybe a really NICE dinner might make me feel better and, as I had the energy to cook, I made potatoes and onions, fried in ghee, lamb sirloin chops, baked to tender yumminess, seasoned with salt, pepper, garlic, and rosemary, steamed, lightly buttered broccoli, seasoned with salt and pepper. That took care of D and me. J had some of the potatoes, some of the broccoli, and three lace fried, over broken, eggs, along with some fake bacon.
Everyone in the house had a nice dinner. Might be D's last here as he's packing up to go back to Arizona to be with his mother for however long she has left. Hopefully he won't end up in jail for murdering his step-father...
Happy Upcoming Birthday.
39, You and Jack Benny.
I found in the past that the older windows would run better with restarts daily. The current one not really. However I am not surprised that things sped up afterwards. I see I have a Firefox update and some not all of the Norton updates do need a windows restart.
I have had days when I felt Meh And those were days in the past when I definitely went the Fast Food route.
I do like sliced Boiled or Baked Potatoes cooked with Eggs scrambled into them as they heat in the skillet.
I hope D's visit goes as well as it can
I would think that splitting the tag day would be handy TBH.parityanimal wrote: »Howdy y'all. It's terrific Tuesday! The last couple of weeks the tagging has been split between Tuesday and Wednesday. We'll see what we see this morning...
High of 85 with 30 percent chance of rain.
Have a Nice Day
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Hi ValerieGardenKatGardens wrote: »Apologies to ED! So sorry I apparently put the date in wrong on my calendar. Soooo, the good news is, you will not feel badly (I think you said 'not quite right), on your 'real birthday', and you're still 38 for today! LOL!!! I have to laugh at myself, otherwise I might question where my mind is...or was..
I think I really screwed up yesterday, when doing the install of Sierra. I was running very low on available 'space' so I agreed to pay the 0.99 cents a month for 50 G cloud space, and I thought I was only backing up my photo's, calendar, documents, and maybe email....WELL, Ted seems to think I backed my whole system into the cloud...as it took over 12 hours... He'll have to look at it over the weekend or sometime. I do know I had to restart my computer this morning...and that it had about 15G's to go when I went to bed at 11:30 last night. AND, I'd started it around 8 that morning....
I know you two 'geeks' are very comfy with computers, clouds, and how/why stuff works...to me its a huge mystery, and I should NEVER be allowed to 'do' anything with the system.
But, it works, it seems to be quicker, and I'm not going to worry myself over it.
Yesterday (day two with no BP meds) my BP was 118 over 74......today I will go take a reading and if its still this low, I am not going to take these new meds. They supposedly 'relax' my blood vessels...or in my opinion, how to die by well meaning Doc.
Wonder why Ed, they are splitting the tagging days? Seems kinda weird, as you seemed to have had a perfectly good system going. I hate change just for the heck of it. I do not mind change, its a good thing, unless its just being done 'because it can be done'. Ain't broke? Don't fix it!!!
Ha! Roger! I copied my post above, and went back to reload the page, and there was your post!
So 'Good Morning'... I'm sorry about the deer eating your trees...whatever they had been eating has either all been eaten, or otherwise became unavailable. I tell you, the thing they drove home in my Master Gardener's class was that DEER will eat anything, including roses, thorns and all. They do not however seem to care for plastic flowers or garden hoses. Sadly really tall fence or electric fence is really about the only defense options you have. Or, it you don't mind spending some time in the pokey, I guess you could shoot them. (bad joke).
The damage to the trees really isn't that bad, as in just a few weeks the leaves would have fallen off the fruit tress anyhow. 26 cents for banana's is one BIG good deal!! Whoa. If you like them in your NS shakes, etc, I'd buy a bunch just to freeze in one banana size packages. Kroger has had organic banana's here for like 64 - 69 cents a pound, which compared to my other options is cheap! I did buy an avocado yesterday, and even at the Mex. Market which has good prices on veg things, it was $1.79, and it is a nice size. I've seen them for 99 cents other places, but they're small and usually black as night and way over ripe, so 'not my food'. My guess is that even avocado's have a 'season' of availability, and a season of 'pricey'! I don't eat them often, so this may be the last one for a few weeks.
'Fession time while belaboring food prices. I picked up a 'Red Japanese Potato' at Whole Foods. I'm really much stronger than I thought, it rang up at $2.47! and I didn't faint. Its now in the microwave steaming itself. All I can say is it had better be really, really good! I'd seen them at the Hmart the day I went with Ted, 'Mr Impatient' when in any retail store... What I'm really wanting to find is the Japanese? Purple Sweet Potato. Supposed to be super healthy. THe surprise as when I cut the thiner stem end off the Red Yam, was that it is white as snow on the inside!
Back later with my assessment of over priced Red Yam! Also pondering Rogers statement that maybe I should switch to soy sauce instead of salt??? I think I remembered that correctly...
What I had said was I wonder if it is time to switch to soy sauce, meaning regular vs the low sodium version.
I guess the question is, was the 'Red Japanese Potato' tastier than the regular ones and is it worth the extra money?
There was a reason I called them walking appetites He noticed today that they or something had also eaten many of the leaves off of the Beet Plants and some of the Sweet potato Vine leaves too. Since He had not thought to check them Yesterday when He saw the Apple Trees we do not know if it was damage from before or new damage. Also we pulled the memory chip from the trail camera and it showed nothing, it would have caught something eating at the Sweet potato vines or the Apple trees if it happened last night as I hung it where it saw them Yesterday after I made and installed the cages. I do not know if I mentioned it yesterday, I did see some when I was out walking coming out a side street some blocks from home and heading towards the brook.
Normally Regular Bananas are 49cents by me and the Organic are 20 to 40 cents higher and the most expensive are the miniature bananas.
Cheers
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No tags today! I guess that couple of weeks of split tags may have been a fluke.
D has not left for Arizona yet, but plans to go tomorrow. I had not actually made any dinner plans so it was a "wander and wonder" night again.
I ended up with beefy, cheesy, macaroni. OK. There was a little onion in there too, and some tomato sauce, and Italian seasoning. Wine of choice: Empyrean Draco Claret (Bordeaux style blend) 2005, Washington State. Very dry, fruity, quite nice!
This is one of 4 that I have purchased that have been cellared for 11 years. I was quite happy with all three reds (still have a bottle of each left too) but sort of so-so with the one white.
The one I wasn't so thrilled with was a white blend from California. Over the years it did develop a lovely golden color, and the taste was quite nice to begin with, but the finish was VERY acid. Not dis-satisfied, on the whole, as that is sometimes an issue with me for many white wines that have NOT been cellared for 11 years. Probably part of why I generally prefer dry reds...but sometimes a white is just a better pairing with dinner.
But why bother drinking one cellared for 11 years if it won't improve? To be fair, I never tasted that blend as a younger wine so have no point of comparison. I probably won't buy that particular white wine blend again unless it happens to be a single bottle in a 15 bottle crate from my wine club that otherwise looks great to me. And, considering the acidity, now that I have experienced it...probably serve with fish, seafood or some REALLY nice Asian or East Indian food.
The second half of the bottle was quaffed, ice cold, rather than sipped, which helped with the acidity, though it was still definitely there at the finish. No, I don't get drunk from quaffing half a bottle of wine...as long as I have eaten recently anyway. Heck, I don't get drunk from a WHOLE bottle of wine, come to that, as long as there has been sufficient food with carbs to offset the alcohol.
Finishing off the claret now. Wish I had ordered more than two bottles of each of these reds now. But maybe they will show up in another special. When I bought them it was a special deal for 6 bottles, 2 of each, all from the same winery, which I felt was a good bet since I was buying that blind, never having tasted ANYTHING from that particular winery before. When that is the case, 2 or 3 bottles is usually my limit on mail order as I might not be all that crazy about it.
There were two other reds (a dry California blend and a lovely 2011 Bordeaux blend) that I ended up buying a whole case (12 bottles) each of after trying them. Frankly, if they offer a 12 bottle case of any of the three reds I mentioned above, I'll probably jump on that too. I've given away two bottles of the Bordeaux blend as gifts and one bottle of the California blend.
The prices from my wine club fit nicely into my range for buying wine (up to $15 a bottle for generally "good" wine) and some are beyond good to EXCELLENT, in my opinion. Most end up in the $6 to $10 range, though the $6 only hits when I have special sales AND coupons to use at the same time, and some of the pricer (and very good wines) come in at $14 or $15 and then they have some higher end ones that cost even more but I haven't gone there...yet. I may, as I don't object to paying more for an excellent bottle, just can't always afford that!
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Howdy y'all. It's wonderful Wednesday! Finished off last night's macaroni dish for breakfast. 85 is the predicted high for today with 0% chance of rain. Sounds like a nice day for my 39th birthday.
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...
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Hi
It was 55 Degrees This morning a large change from yesterday. It was still comfortable walking since I added a layer second layer of long sleeve shirt and Gloves. I have walked 8,080 steps so far and 10 Cents. It is now time to change to long pants for my walks, especially since some dummy, me, spilled coffee on his hiking shorts.
I stopped at the Grocery Store day for Bananas, Green Pears and Nectarines. Since it is 10% senior discount day. With the advertised price per pound the bananas will be 26 cents a pound, Hard to beat that price so I picked up enough to last me to next Wednesday and they are already in the refrigerator along with a couple of Pears and Nectarines. I still have a Apple from earlier and three days worth of Grapes that my brother picked up for me on a whim yesterday. He also brought home some Blackberries that are already eaten with my DInner as the SC as They usually last the shortest time. The Grapes were two servings of Large Green and tow servings of Large Red Grapes.
Later I will go over my upcoming NS order as Thursday 6PM is the latest I can make changes.
Have a Good Wednesday
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Hi Edparityanimal wrote: »No tags today! I guess that couple of weeks of split tags may have been a fluke.
D has not left for Arizona yet, but plans to go tomorrow. I had not actually made any dinner plans so it was a "wander and wonder" night again.
I ended up with beefy, cheesy, macaroni. OK. There was a little onion in there too, and some tomato sauce, and Italian seasoning. Wine of choice: Empyrean Draco Claret (Bordeaux style blend) 2005, Washington State. Very dry, fruity, quite nice!
This is one of 4 that I have purchased that have been cellared for 11 years. I was quite happy with all three reds (still have a bottle of each left too) but sort of so-so with the one white.
The one I wasn't so thrilled with was a white blend from California. Over the years it did develop a lovely golden color, and the taste was quite nice to begin with, but the finish was VERY acid. Not dis-satisfied, on the whole, as that is sometimes an issue with me for many white wines that have NOT been cellared for 11 years. Probably part of why I generally prefer dry reds...but sometimes a white is just a better pairing with dinner.
But why bother drinking one cellared for 11 years if it won't improve? To be fair, I never tasted that blend as a younger wine so have no point of comparison. I probably won't buy that particular white wine blend again unless it happens to be a single bottle in a 15 bottle crate from my wine club that otherwise looks great to me. And, considering the acidity, now that I have experienced it...probably serve with fish, seafood or some REALLY nice Asian or East Indian food.
The second half of the bottle was quaffed, ice cold, rather than sipped, which helped with the acidity, though it was still definitely there at the finish. No, I don't get drunk from quaffing half a bottle of wine...as long as I have eaten recently anyway. Heck, I don't get drunk from a WHOLE bottle of wine, come to that, as long as there has been sufficient food with carbs to offset the alcohol.
Finishing off the claret now. Wish I had ordered more than two bottles of each of these reds now. But maybe they will show up in another special. When I bought them it was a special deal for 6 bottles, 2 of each, all from the same winery, which I felt was a good bet since I was buying that blind, never having tasted ANYTHING from that particular winery before. When that is the case, 2 or 3 bottles is usually my limit on mail order as I might not be all that crazy about it.
There were two other reds (a dry California blend and a lovely 2011 Bordeaux blend) that I ended up buying a whole case (12 bottles) each of after trying them. Frankly, if they offer a 12 bottle case of any of the three reds I mentioned above, I'll probably jump on that too. I've given away two bottles of the Bordeaux blend as gifts and one bottle of the California blend.
The prices from my wine club fit nicely into my range for buying wine (up to $15 a bottle for generally "good" wine) and some are beyond good to EXCELLENT, in my opinion. Most end up in the $6 to $10 range, though the $6 only hits when I have special sales AND coupons to use at the same time, and some of the pricer (and very good wines) come in at $14 or $15 and then they have some higher end ones that cost even more but I haven't gone there...yet. I may, as I don't object to paying more for an excellent bottle, just can't always afford that!
It sounds as if You have been having good luck with Your wine selections and prices.
Hopefully today will not be a heavy tag day for You.
Nothing wrong with a Macaroni dish for breakfast. I have been known to do that in past years, usually I would Crisp up Bacon in the skillet, Pull the Bacon, drain off most of the Bacon grease and Crisp up the leftover macaroni dish in the Bacon grease and depending on what type of dish either Crumble in the bacon if a Mac & Cheese or eat slices separate if a Tomato Gravy dish.parityanimal wrote: »Howdy y'all. It's wonderful Wednesday! Finished off last night's macaroni dish for breakfast. 85 is the predicted high for today with 0% chance of rain. Sounds like a nice day for my 39th birthday.
Have a Good Day
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GardenKatGardens wrote: »Good morning,
thermometer says 65! Not bad. We may have fall after all!
Shopping day. Have looked at the adverts for both stores..and nothing exciting either place. Kroger has the best price on Mandarin oranges, so I may get one or two to see if they're sweet this year. If really great, I can always go back for more.
Roger, hope you're having a good walk. I'm guessing on the homeward bound leg by now. I got my steps in yesterday, and crossing the parking lot at Publix, gained a penny. First coin I've found in awhile.
I think I'm in the mood to rip out the pretty ugly geraniums in a pot in the driveway, and put a mum in its place. Could use a bit of color. The backdrop to that plant will eventually have red berries, but its too early for them to turn. So the pot needs to have a bit of color. Thinking a nice bright yellow would be just ducky! lol!!
Oh, Roger I do use reduced sodium soy...have for years. At first I didn't like the taste, but I have gotten used to it. And even then I use it very sparingly.
Did I mention this new operating system has Siri on my desktop? I love it. Have used it several times already.
Later...
Hi Valerie
Since I got home at 8:15 today I would say that Your guess was correct
It has been a while since I Picked up money too and then this morning I found a Dime, Whee I'm on the way to becoming rich.
I am not sure how I feel about Siri. From a 2011explanation on ZDnet
The sounds of your speech were immediately encoded into a compact digital form that preserves its information.
The signal from your connected phone was relayed wirelessly through a nearby cell tower and through a series of land lines back to your Internet Service Provider where it then communicated with a server in the cloud, loaded with a series of models honed to comprehend language.
Which makes sense as Your Phone or In this case computer needs to get information elsewhere if You want to know where to get something from a location near You. I think my problem with this is simple. To me this means that Apple has the information regrading Your current location and tastes.GardenKatGardens wrote: »Forgot to mention that the red Japanese sweet potato was good...but not worth the price, but that was from Whole Foods, and I suspect I can find them cheaper at H-Mart! Maybe even happen on the purple variety. I haven't looked to see if I can find the nutritional stats for it, as opposed to a regular sweet potato, ....which come to think of it is on sale at Kroger for 98 cents a pound. I will remember to pick up a couple of them for the coming week. Chunks of sweet potato with spinach, onion, garlic, and sometimes beans also are a tasty and filling, very nutritious lunch. (not to mention quick and easy!)
Not worth the money, what a shame. I always liked my Sweet Potatoes with Butter melting into it after mashing them. And of course the canned Candied Yams always did hit my sweet tooth nicely.
Have a Nice Day
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Birthday was, mostly, nice. Not a whole lot of tagging, but pretty busy out there this morning!
Lunch was just a pick-up from the deli at work as I left. J had a frozen Thai entree.
But birthday DINNER tonight (I'm 39!) was Asian delivery. Spicy mango chicken with fried rice and a Spring roll. Red Velvet cake for dessert. Wine of choice: Magnifico Cuvée Bianco, Italy.
J had Spicy Basil Tofu, no wine. And cake, of course.
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Howdy y'all. It's thrilling Thursday! High predicted of only 77 today with 0% chance of rain. I can live with that for sure!
Today is J's birthday. I think he might admit to being 42, but I think of us as the same age now. Hehe. Both 39.
No idea what he'll select for dinner. Last night was my selection(s) and it was nice. I do know we have a slice each of chocolate cake with fudge frosting for his birthday cake. It's nice to be able to get cake for two at the grocery instead of having to buy a whole cake!
Not too much tagging yesterday, but I did see someone checking the hose talkers at one of the pumps and comparing to a printout. Right after she left I decided to confound them and DID go out and hang the signs for the beef jerky, figuring at the price marked we won't have any customers for it anyway. And if we do I'll just explain that for some silly reason Corporate thinks it's more important that we hang that sign than advertise for something we actually sell in the kiosk.
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...
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It was 68 Degrees This morning a large change from yesterday. It was still comfortable walking however. I have walked 7.4K steps so far and 0 Cents. I have changed to long pants for my walks, So of course it warmed up
I geared up in rain gear since the weather map showed rain over my area with more coming in from the west so of course I did not need it as it only drizzled a little bit. The predicted rain has not happened as it was still dry under the trees.
While walking I also picked up a bunch of Black Walnuts off of the street as I had a Plastic bag just in case the weather forecast was wrong. I had noticed them the other day when I had nothing to put them in
Later I will go over my upcoming NS order as today at 6PM is the latest I can make changes.
Have a Good Thursday
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Hi Edparityanimal wrote: »Howdy y'all. It's thrilling Thursday! High predicted of only 77 today with 0% chance of rain. I can live with that for sure!
Today is J's birthday. I think he might admit to being 42, but I think of us as the same age now. Hehe. Both 39.
No idea what he'll select for dinner. Last night was my selection(s) and it was nice. I do know we have a slice each of chocolate cake with fudge frosting for his birthday cake. It's nice to be able to get cake for two at the grocery instead of having to buy a whole cake!
Not too much tagging yesterday, but I did see someone checking the hose talkers at one of the pumps and comparing to a printout. Right after she left I decided to confound them and DID go out and hang the signs for the beef jerky, figuring at the price marked we won't have any customers for it anyway. And if we do I'll just explain that for some silly reason Corporate thinks it's more important that we hang that sign than advertise for something we actually sell in the kiosk.
What a great tasty looking dinner for You Birthday meal.
Happy Birthday to J too. I like that we can get Cakes in slices also at the ShopRite grocery store. Usually a two slice package
I'm partial to their Carrot cake FWIW.
I see that Your sense of humor has survived doing retail work. Advertise something You sell where the sign is hanging, What a concept he says tongue in cheek.
While walking I am currently listening to the Charlie Chan radio show, From one of the advertisements I heard I gather that the one episode was aired between VE day and VJ day. They are interesting if somewhat simpler than the Charlie Chan movies to fit in the 30 minute broadcast time frame.
Have a Nice Day
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Had there been any two slice packages of carrot cake, that would have been my birthday choice too, but to get that I would have had to buy a whole cake. They often have carrot in the two slice packages but not yesterday. Thus the red velvet won as second choice.
Val, you can mutter all the dirty words you want. *Kitten* *kitten* *kitten*
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GardenKatGardens wrote: »Well there was an entire post that went with that, and an emoji after those Happy Birthday exclamation marks. Now I know what happens when you insert them from my mac's source...the whole entire rest of the post just disappears! I have a few bad words to say, will wait till I'm in the shower!
Coffee and lunch with Marietta today...
today is National Coffee Day...so a trip to Star Bucks is in order...will buy a bag of beans, and SB in exchange for and to celebrate the day, will give a tree to an independent coffee grower somewhere in an area that they grow coffee in this world...could be Mexico, or Africa or ?????
Have a great day guys....
Later...
Hi Valerie
I have had weird things happen to posts too, usually when I get to thinking about it, I find that I did something stupid like preview and not post
My Brother mentioned National Coffee Day to me, When I had returned from walking and had no plans to go out later of course
They have been covering the Train Crashing into Hoboken's NJ Transit Terminal there. It never stopped at the end of the line. 100+ Injured and the last I heard 1 dead.
From Here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/30/nyregion/new-jersey-transit-train-crash-hoboken.html
HOBOKEN, N.J. — A commuter train crashed at a station in New Jersey during the Thursday morning rush, killing at least one person and injuring about 100 others, a number of them seriously, the authorities said.
“There are fatalities,” said a senior transportation official who did not want to be identified because he was not authorized to speak publicly. “There are a significant number of injuries. The train was going very fast. There are structural concerns about the facility.”
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“The first car was pretty well destroyed,” he said at the station. “The whole roof was caved in. The seats were broken.”
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The train went “over the bumper block, through the depot,” and came to rest at the wall right before the station’s waiting area, Mr. Larson told reporters during a segment that was broadcast on CNN
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“There were wires down, water pouring from the ceiling, the roof had collapsed and there was people climbing out of windows of the train,” he said.
They are still waiting to find out what happened, the news broadcast did not know if it was a mechanical problem, or a Medical problem with the engineer or what.
There went my morning taking a turn to the worse, for me personally not nearly as bad as what happened there to others.
I just had a NS Bagel that I sliced and Toasted and used a taste of Butter, Tasty too.
Have a Good Day
Roger
Hi Edparityanimal wrote: »Had there been any two slice packages of carrot cake, that would have been my birthday choice too, but to get that I would have had to buy a whole cake. They often have carrot in the two slice packages but not yesterday. Thus the red velvet won as second choice.
Val, you can mutter all the dirty words you want. *Kitten* *kitten* *kitten*
I think I would have done the same thing if I went for cake and no carrot cake was available or only the entire thing. Prior to my decision to get healthy and lose all this weight I would have passed the 2 slice package and grabbed the entire cake Now of course no.
I am 2/3s of the way to having my brother pick up a 2 slice package of carrot cake when he stops at the grocery store later. Carrot cake is my Kryptonite. On the plus side I am, as of this morning, down 2 pounds from last Thursday hence my indecision regarding the Carrot Cake. Not to mention You only live once so why not enjoy if You can. I have finalized my NS order this morning and it closes out at 6Pm today and has a ship date of the 30th so since it comes from the next state, usually under 24 hours from the ship date Saturday might be busy checking it in and putting the frozen away.
Have a Nice Day
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So of course TODAY they had slices of carrot cake...probably cut up that whole cake I didn't buy yesterday. LOL.
Grabbed a hot dog and small packet of mustard for a lunch snack before leaving as I hadn't eaten in a while.
I used to buy the whole carrot cake and we'd feast on carrot cake until we were darn near sick of it...though I'm not sure I could ever really get THAT sick of carrot cake...but in recent years I've come to realize that we really, really don't need to have THAT much evil cake sitting around in this house.
Now the NS carrot cake dessert was actually a pretty good dessert for me, when I was buying from them instead of making food on my own. Not nearly as good as a REAL, KROGER carrot cake, but good enough and it at least let me have some once in a while.
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Howdy y'all. It's fabulous Friday! 75 predicted for the high today with 0% chance of rain.
J, as is often the case, didn't care what dinner was so I made my home made spicy, cheesy, hash brown casserole with some cheesy scrambled eggs. And we had the chocolate birthday cake.
I hope that hummingbird cake wasn't made with real humming birds!
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...
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It was 58 Degrees This morning a largish change from yesterday. It was still comfortable walking however. I have walked 9K steps so far and 0 Cents. I took a chance and only took a folding umbrella along as there is rain in the weather forecast and the weather radar showed showed rain to the west. I did not need (use) it as it only drizzled a little bit on the final 1/3 of my walk.
I looked at my email and I see the confirmation email for my upcoming NS order.
No tracking or indication that it has shipped, I sort of would like it not to come until next week to let me free up a bit more space in the basement freezer
Have a Good Friday
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Hi Edparityanimal wrote: »So of course TODAY they had slices of carrot cake...probably cut up that whole cake I didn't buy yesterday. LOL.
Grabbed a hot dog and small packet of mustard for a lunch snack before leaving as I hadn't eaten in a while.
I used to buy the whole carrot cake and we'd feast on carrot cake until we were darn near sick of it...though I'm not sure I could ever really get THAT sick of carrot cake...but in recent years I've come to realize that we really, really don't need to have THAT much evil cake sitting around in this house.
Now the NS carrot cake dessert was actually a pretty good dessert for me, when I was buying from them instead of making food on my own. Not nearly as good as a REAL, KROGER carrot cake, but good enough and it at least let me have some once in a while.
Isn't that always the way
I love a Good Hot Dog and really do not like bad ones. I find that I prefer All Beef for example and that the Hebrew national and Bests brands are good. I do not know what brand they use at the Texas Weiner and it is only OK, Not Great. What saves it is that it is grilled AKA Fried not boiled. I prefer mine grilled or BBQ'd. Maybe that is one of the reasons why I like the Jimmy Buffs Italian Hot Dogs, They are deep fried in the same tray as the Potatoes, Peppers and Onions. Plus the Round Italian Bread
The NS Carrot Cake is not that great, unless they changed it before I signed up with them. Much of why I am saying that is the thin flat frosting.
I am going to say 100% chance of rain as I was drizzled on and the streets were wet before I left from overnight.parityanimal wrote: »Howdy y'all. It's fabulous Friday! 75 predicted for the high today with 0% chance of rain.
J, as is often the case, didn't care what dinner was so I made my home made spicy, cheesy, hash brown casserole with some cheesy scrambled eggs. And we had the chocolate birthday cake.
I hope that hummingbird cake wasn't made with real humming birds!
The Cheesy Hash Brown casserole sounds delicious as do the Cheesy Eggs. I do like a Cheese Omelet and they most likely tasted similar. I'm just to lazy to work up a omelet at home so what I would do is Scramble the Eggs and add cheese near the end before plating.
Have a Nice Comfortable Friday
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GardenKatGardens wrote: »Winding out before going to bed. Home late...we chatted....all day!!!!!
Ed, I laughed when you said I could mutter all the dirty words I knew....well.....
I started with kitten, kitten, changed to bigger mutterings...cat, cat, cat, and still hadn't said quite enough to suit me so I ended it with shitaki!!!
Lets see if this 'flies' as is or if they sensor it.
Hi Valerie
Yea, It Passed.
Sorry to hear about the Crick in the neckGardenKatGardens wrote: »No...it passed!!!! Apparently now we can say the mushroom word! WoooHOOO!!
I swear I am punchy....need to sleep. And have developed a 'crick' in my neck ???? I may be saying kitten for real by morning!
G'night!!!
I feel sorry for the family of the women killed. It isn't just the families of the passengers on the train. Since the Station is damaged and closed and it is a major hub where many NJ Transit Rail lines end and Passengers transfer to the PATH line to continue on to NYC for work a lot of people are going to suffer commuting problems, including those who were already in the city when they closed down Hoboken Station. PATH Line = Port Authority Trans Hudson Line that goes through tunnels between NJ and New York City Just in caseGardenKatGardens wrote: »Roger, I'd not seen news all day...so no I hadn't heard about that train. How horrible...sorry for the families of the one reported death...hope there aren't more dead.
Can you imagine the chaos of being in that station...or worse being on the train. I'm sure you'll hear more than we do down here...so let us know when they find out just what went wrong.
You may also want to tell us how good that carrot cake you were debating asking your bro to pick up!!!
Cake's not my first choice of sweet treats, but for awhile Ted had his mother pretty hooked on Hummingbird cake.
Later...
Hummingbird Cake?
I ended up having him pick up the two slice package It was tasty, and of course I ended up retaining water, However that will pass
Enjoy the Upcoming Weekend
Roger0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkEC49vU2Wg
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