parityanimal wrote: »

Howdy y'all. It's wonderful Wednesday! 69 with an expected high of 82 and 90% ... make that 100% chance of precipitation.

I do need to try to get out to a store today. Perhaps I can find a time between rain showers. I also probably need to get some laundry done.

RogerToo wrote: »

That meal looks so tasty, I wish I could eat it, Rice does seem to trigger me to binge eat other carbs and retain water

If I recall You have Publix where You are ? If so have You seen this one ?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/05/22/publix-market-south-carolina-censors-grads-summa-cum-laude-cake/631829002/
Publix supermarket in South Carolina censors high school graduate's 'Summa Cum Laude' cake
The story starts with a proud mom ordering a cake online for her son’s graduation party. On it she wanted the words “Congrats Jacob! Summa Cum Laude Class of 2018.”

Have a Nice Day
Roger

The meal was quite tasty, and there was no danger of eating other carbs as I didn't prepare anything else but the beans and rice. I try not to keep much in the way of "ready to eat" carbs on hand.

I saw that story about the Publix the other day and laughed out loud.

For some reason, it suddenly reminded me of some posters that went up all over the workplace once, about a certain date that was coming up fast, and people had to be sure certain types of tax cases were taken care of and input to the computer before that date or we would be past the date when we could legally assess any additional taxes on that particular tax account, type, and filing date.

We called these "statute cases" because, by statute, we had to be all finished assessing by a certain date, usually three years after the filing of the return.

As that date approached, the "statute unit" had to take care of all such assessments to make sure they were done properly. They made up some posters one year, a couple of weeks before the statute date, with Tweety Bird saying, what someone apparently thought was the correct spelling of the phrase, "I tawt I taw a Statute Case!" rather than "I tawt I taw a Puddy Tat." These posters were placed at various places around the center, to remind people to watch out for those kind of cases and to quickly hand carry them to the statute unit for processing.

Well...every poster was identical and had the word "tawt" spelled with the "a" and the "w" reversed, making the second word a rather vulgar appellation. Surprisingly, the signs actually stayed up several days before someone had them taken down. I suspect people were too busy laughing about it to bother mentioning it to anyone in charge. Once someone in charge, who either knew, or was informed of, the vulgar meaning of the misspelled word, was aware, they had them removed. They were not replaced.

I do not need to stay home waiting for my wine delivery as the crate was damaged in transit and my notice says that they disposed of the damaged merchandise and are returning the remainder to the shipper. So my crate will have to be re-assembled and re-shipped. Rather annoyingly, it had made it almost all the way here, and was apparently damaged at the local facility. One wonders if all of the merchandise disposed of was actually damaged and whether some UPS employee(s) may have copped a bottle or two of wine in the process.

Wouldn't matter to me if they did, and if they did I hope they enjoy it. I've noticed in the past that the shipping company doesn't always seem to put what I consider enough tape to securely hold the bottom of the crate shut, unless it's very delicately handled, and UPS really doesn't tend to handle their packages all that delicately.

This one, having 18 bottles of wine in it, would be VERY HEAVY and would be difficult to move anyway. At any rate, I'm sure between them they'll work it out and get me my wine. It's not as though I needed it by any specific date for a big party or anything. If I did I'd be complaining and expecting some recompense, but under the existing circumstances I'll just wait and see what happens.

As the apparent fault lies with UPS (though, as stated, I suspect the originator may not have wrapped the package as securely as they should have) I don't really expect anything other than receiving my shipment, albeit a bit later than expected. I have every reason to expect that I'll still be around to accept the shipment when it does get here.

parityanimal wrote: »

Well I did make it to Publix today, and did get my discount but I tend to forget to ask anyway. Maybe because I'm old? LOL.

I am not going to give up on all my stores because of lost discounts, as I'd have nowhere left to shop for some items! Aldi doesn't carry everything I need, and they never had a senior discount to lose anyway. There are still a few items that I can't even find at Ingles so that leaves me with Publix or Kroger for those.

We had some excitement tonight when, as I was trying to get a spicy western potato and cheese casserole into the oven, Dinah came bouncing into the kitchen playing with a live bluetailed (well no-tailed by that time) skink and J and I had a time catching her, catching the skink and releasing it into the greenhouse to, hopefully, recover. I disposed of the twitching tail and the spot of blood on the floor. J went to clean up his Dinah scratches and I finally got the casserole into the oven.

At Publix I forgot paper towels so there may be an Aldi run tomorrow. I did remember cat food, and stopped for that just before Publix, then around the corner to the other "wing" of the shopping center to Publix. It was raining very lightly when I left home but had stopped by the time I exited Publix so it was a decent trip.

faithfornsKathie wrote: »

RogerToo wrote: »

faithfornsKathie wrote: »

Good morning

Yes Roger I did get two of the cards. I have a few from the last time still too.

Hi Kathie
I love saving Money

faithfornsKathie wrote: »

Good evening to all. Haven't been here the last several days. Was busy with work and some yard work.
Hope everyone has a good holiday weekend. I cant believe it is almost Memorial Day. This year is going way to fast.

If I said real life comes first. Agreed that the year is moving fast.

I hope I have a good holiday too.

faithfornsKathie wrote: »

Nice Image, As I remember Your normal days off are Sunday and Monday, Do You get another day off as a result.

Have a Good Day
Roger


Hi Valerie