It’s 4/20 today, in the month of 4/20. So in the spirit of Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart, partake if it’s legal, or just bake something if it’s not.
Which reminds me of my Dollar Tree Days. If you are buying 1500 sandwich bags, you might just own a convenience store. If you buy 1500 sandwich bags, and I get a contact buzz off you, you might be a weed dealer.;)
rofl
yeah round here until they legalized it the dollar stores made the most money off of pot …between the sellers buying supplies and the smokers buying snacks …
Morning! 20th April has no such significance for me, and when people start mentioning it, it does take a minute before I work out what you’re all on about 
It’s not legal here, but seems to be largely overlooked in the great scheme of things. However, there was an underpass not far from my house that was well known for dodgy dealings and was often reported to the police for anti-social behaviour (including drug dealing). It’s now been filled in, and the top part has been landscaped with a few little trees planted, and the council have upgraded the pedestrian crossing. So there are some benefits to drug deals!
Monday means back to remote working today…better get my clean scruffs on.
Morning!
I was immediately aware of what you were talking about; I’m clearly more ‘street’ than BooFae 
I shall not be celebrating, being well-behaved and all. I occasionally wonder if I wound up on some watchlist though after a bunch of purchases last year; a load of little plastic baggies (for a seed swap), a bunch of hydroponics gear (for tomatoes) and a set of very accurate scales (for bee medication)
It’s an exciting day today; I’m leaving the house!!
Gonna go check on the bees and do some shopping on the way home. It feels like a holiday.
I’m just getting some washing out first, as the sun’s making a reappearance and I put off the usual weekend batch of laundry 'cos it seemed daft to do it on the few wet days of the week just for the sake of habit, as I do prefer to dry stuff on the line.
You must be! I’ve had a sheltered upbringing, you know… Actually we were in Vancouver a few years ago when they were demonstrating in favour of legalisation, it still just made me think how horrible the smell of weed is 
I’ve never tried it, never been tempted and never felt I’d missed out either.
Like duuuuuuuuuuudes, Good Mornin’! I’m, like, caffeinatin’! YAWN It’s like 61 Amurrkin degrees out and, like, cloudy, ya know, and it’s gonna be like 79 Amurrkin degrees for the high (HEH! HIGH!) and like N.O.S. We’re gonna, like, spiff da cave today, and, like, eat Doritos today. I looooooooooooooove you maaaaaaaaaaaaaan! There’s like all this food in da fridge, and we’ll, like, sup on that.
Now, like, I need more caffeine and rumbly tummy has, like, a case of the munchies. Then, like, ya know, onward into the day! Like, Rah.
Like, Happy 4/20 Moanday duuuuuuuuuuuuudes!
When a neighboring state legalized pot we all received an email from the company stating that testing positive was still grounds for termination. When I spoke to the CEO about this he explained that it was a condition set by our liability insurance company. We are subject to random testing at the insistence of this same insurance company.
151 days and a wake up…
:eek: I have been remiss! :eek:
<AHEM> CLEARIN’ THROAT <AHEM>
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HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!!
HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!!
HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY DEEEAAARRR MMMEEETTTAAALLLMMMOOOUUUSSSEEE!!!
HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!!
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Not only did I never try wacky tobacky, I never wanted to. And the one time I was around it, I believed the guy who told me he preferred to roll his own cigarettes. Yeah, I was kinda naïve back then. But I still have no desire to mess with recreational substances. Heck, I hardly even imbibe in alkehol!
Happy MetalMouse Day!!
We’re supposed to have a rainy one and I have no real plans beyond foraging in the freezer for something to thaw for supper. Maybe I’ll run to the dollar store for buns and make burgers…
Happy Moanday!
Happy Birthday MetalMouse
Good morning all and thank you swampy for the remembrance (don’t know how you do it) and FCM and Hippy for the wishes. It’s my 2/3 of a century day (67 years on the calendar), where I could reflect upon outliving the vast majority of people who have ever lived, but I’m not the reflective sort so I’ll just eat my Jersey Mike’s sub and maybe get an extra bag of potato chips for celebration.
Only thing I’ve bought at Dollar Tree recently was 24oz glass mugs, real thick and durable ones, each for $1.00. Probably other bargains there, but it’s just not one of my regular stops.
Have made out the weekly list, planning own mowing the lawn on Wednesday (rain predicted for Thursday) and do a little grocery shopping 1-2 times, but otherwise another week around the house. Oh joy. Cheap gasoline and nowhere to go.
Boofae, never used pot either, was tempted on several occasions but was too poor and too skeered to do so in my college days.
Nut, enjoy your freedom and hope the bees are in fine fettle.
Everybody have a good and safe week now.
Happy Moonday!
Happy Birthday MetalMouse!
It’s a cloudy 48 degrees, supposed to get up to 63.
I stayed in bed watching youtube until almost 8, even though I woke around 6.
No playdate today, so Echo is whining, and walking around from windows to doors waiting for somebody, anybody, to come to play.
To celebrate today I had a brownie for breakfast.
That it was a FiberOne high fiber, the only trip I’ll be taking is to the bathroom, still counts, right?
If I had thought listening to John Coltrane’s *Favorite Things * a hundred zillion times was making me crazy - OMG! I don’ tknow what this new song is but it doesn’t even register as music to me. He actually has two he has to write about and the other one sounds a whole lot like a rock song I know and it is driving me crazy trying to remember it.
Happy birthday metal mouse!
Growing up in northern Indiana, every kid knew where there was a patch of ditch weed available for harvest. During the first world war, a lot of hemp was grown in the area and not all of it was straight up hemp. Between that and some of the intentional cultivation going feral, it was there. Not high quality weed, but free, which is something when you’re a broke 15 year old.
This year, I was gifted a brownie from a friend who bakes with it. (she’s had a lot of time on her hands lately )
Up, caffeinating, breakfasted, purtified for going out of the house and have a warm dog on my lap. In ~an hour, I’ll go to Aldi and Kroger for groceries. Then come home, read some and have lunch (including the aforementioned brownie).
Happy 4/20!
Happy birthday, metal mouse!
Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. It’s rainy, so i had to drag Princess Pretty Paws off the porch. I need to run to HT today for a thing or 3.
Nut, you do plants and bees, you could be the Walter White of “chronic honey” But I’m sure I’m on a watch list or 2.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MetalMouse!!!
Happy Birthday Metalmouse!
The bees is still present and correct, though, as usual, they’re acting slightly confusingly and may or may not be getting ready to swarm. They might just be staging a revolution, it’s hard to tell, but they seemed to be trying to make a new queen. I’ll have to check again in a few days, rather’n leaving it 7-9 days between inspections like normal, 'cos if they are getting ready to swarm I need to stop 'em, but I don’t get involved in their political structure unless I really must.
I’m a bit annoyed about the shops though, it was worse than last week. I reckon this town could do with a lot less ‘Thank you NHS!!!’ posters, T-shirts, chalk graffiti and clapping (not to mention the ‘Thank you NHS’ fireworks people keep letting off during the clapping, for which there are not enough :rolleyes: in the world), and a whole lot more attempting to follow distancing guidelines.
Hardly anyone seemed to be even vaguely trying to be sensible; there was a whole bunch wearing gloves and barging past everyone, like the virus is something you pick up through fingertips or something, rather than a respiratory thing. The only other people wearing a mask were a couple shopping together (which is supposedly not allowed) one of whom only had the mask over his mouth, not his nose, plus a staff member in the car park. Plenty of floor markings, signs, constant tannoy announcements and staff wearing ‘Please give me at least 2m space’ high vis jackets, and people, including the staff, just ignoring the lot of it. We have very few confirmed cases locally, but that’s not going to be the case for long if people keep acting like this.
Anyway, sorry about that rant; I have snacks, more booze and some discount chocolate, so I shall go cheer myself up by eating something nice.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY METAL MOUSE!!!
I tried to do it in fancy colors and after my fourth error gave up. Too bad I can’t make you a cake.
Off to Hades Annex. Yay.
Happy Birthday MetalMouse!
Last night I made baked wild (Coho) salmon seasoned with a little kosher salt and lots of dill, lemon-dill Béchamel sauce, and asparagus. As usual, I made too much sauce. I wonder what I can use it on? I’m thinking plain omelettes.
Lemon-Dill Béchamel Sauce
[ul][li]2 Tbs butter[/li][li]1 Tbs flour[/li][li]Milk[/li][li]Lemon[/li][li]Kosher salt[/li][li]Dill weed[/ul][/li]
Melt the butter in a pan. Whisk in the flour and cook a bit to make it less floury-tasting. Add the milk, a whole lot of dill, and salt to taste, and heat until thickened. (I like lower heat so as to prevent scorching.) Juice a 3" to 4" long lemon. Whisk the juice into the sauce.
After baking the salmon, put the sauce on top. Also put the sauce on top of the asparagus.
Rather than buy buns, I decided to pull out the bread machine and make some. We’re about to see if the flour and the yeast is too old for this. Luckily, there’s plenty of time to run to the store if my efforts fail.
Fingers crossed for good buns…