Tho the other will be acceptable when topped with chocolate syrup.
Agree utterly, thoroughly and intensely.
(Re: our nellie)
In my mind’s eye (such as both my mind and eyes are) our nellie is like the Statue of Liberty, with kindness and benevolence beaming out of her crown and torch, instead of merely freedom and liberty.
Late to the party, but eggs were 3.09 for 18 last week at Kroger. If I buy at Aldi, when cage free are within .50 of regular, I buy them and CF have been running $2.29 for 12.
Squee! The puppy is absolutely adorable sari. (Adam ain’t a bad looking puddy tat either).
:tacklehug: Yay! You’re back nellie. I love your stories and have missed you greatly. Your kids turned out OK. You did the best that you could do with the tools in your toolbox and you raised two bright, compassionate children. Be kind to yourself.
Conga-rats on your award fishy.
I’ll second the audio books yank. If you have Prime, da Jungle has a decent selection of free ones and many of their Kindle selections have the option of having them read aloud to you (I tend to listen to the current book via bluetooth when traveling).
Irked, got most stuff in my area flashed and all of the cartonization cleared out in preparation for my day off tomorrow. I have to have Nelson at the vet’s @ 0730 and pick him up at 1400. While he’s out, I’ll go to Nashville for a new desk chair (buying a better quality one because I’m tired of the second hand home models I have been buying) and coming home to make a pot of chicken and rice so he’ll have some soft food for a few days.
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
Oh, and the best way to greet the dawn is by snoring loudly at it.
Evening all. True to my plan, did very little this afternoon, just finished a couple grilled ham-n-cheese sammiches (I still can’t get them quite right) and will continue slothage into the later hours. Not enough garbage to take out to the curb, I’ll get it out next week.
Preach it, Brother!!!
red, hope you get a good chair; I spend way too much time in mine but it is real comfortable.
Cat Glove, there was a SNAFU, but it wasn’t yours. Glad it all worked out in the end but I’d be rather peeved at the care place.
I had never heard of a spinning compost bin, so I looked it up–interesting device.
FCM, I don’t keep ice cream in the house as it saps my will-power and I can’t stop eating it (same with potato chips). But those flavors do sound good…
Flyboy, sad about the neighbor, I do worry sometimes what will become of me in 15-20 years…at least I hoard books and they are in bookshelves (well, most of them…) and my weight continues to trend downward.
OK, need to put the evening’s dishes in the dishwasher (probably have a full load by Friday) and get down to some serious slothage. Take care all.
Sounds like a great birthday dinner, Happy Advance Birthday, I hope you sleep as late as you want!
One of the main things I was looking forward to when I retired was being able to wake up when I wanted instead of by the alarm. I’ve settled in at waking up around 9 unless I stay up late playing with thread or reading.
I can’t trust myself with that much ice cream, so have only bought pints since forever. It doesn’t surprise me that it keeps shrinking. I bet it went up in price too.
Argh. I’m so glad it got sorted in the end, but very not fun.
I was just going to say that same thing. Adam looks like a Very Good Cat and is very handsome.
I learned something today, thank you!
Mine is black. I have it between the fence and a bush to try to keep it out of the sun, but I’m thinking I’m going to buy a rattle-can and make it white.
Oughta be excellent.
You are quite the cannin’ fool aren’t you? So domestically skilled and yet so wild. A great combination! 
Yaay! Lamb is so wonderful I never understand folks who’ll willingly give some of it up for mixed whatever. But it sounds like an excellent meal overall. If you’d not been there before now it sounds like you’ve got a new go-to place.
I have some general rules when perusing a menu. They have stood me in good stead all these years.
- Never turn down an opportunity to eat a duck.
- Absent a duck, never turn down the opportunity to eat a lamb.
- Absent a lamb, pick something unusual.
- If all else fails, eat the third thing in the Entree section. With the best glass of wine of the appropriate color / varietal.
So two single-serving packages. Got it.
Vacations without water are simply ordeals. I love a good museum traipse as well as the next pseudo-intellectual, but really, vacation = beach.
As to icons and parts, the SDMB icon for eggplant is 
although I could make a good argument for bacon 
or hotdog or tamale 
with the little ring thign tied tightly at half-shaft. Or for the really twisted folks in the audience: 
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Good. But you certainly earned the right to. As did Hubs.
I recall a few absolute horror stories with my late first wife’s care during transitions. The various bureaucracies and providers could handle routine very routinely. But change was always a challenge.
Wouldn’t it be nice if maybe the rest of the USA decided to embrace kindness and benevolence instead of “freedumb” and “mah liberty (to be a flaming jerk)”.
Yes, Nellie is a great treasure to us all. Please tell us a story.
Practice dear boy, practice. The nice part about being the cook is you have to eat all the close calls. I could live on grilled ham’n’cheese sandwiches for a long time. … A very long time.
5am is when nature is at her best and I’m naturally up to greet her. She gets the rest of the lazy bastards up later to live in the dregs after I and the other early birds have had our first dibs on everything good and wonderful.
YMMV of course. That which makes you happiest is best. Even if it is wrong.
As to me:
Quite the quiet afternoon of sloth here. While it sprinkled intermittently outside.
Dinner out was a fun little place locally that specializes in small plates. Sort of Appetizers ᴙ Us, but nothing deep fried. All real food. The rain had wandered away, leaving warm & slightly damp in its place. Umbrellas were carried but never needed. Tres comfy.
Her Ladyship chose a pulled pork slider that was just right for light dinner. Me having eaten a protein-heavy breakfast & lunch at home I chose a wedge salad and a Sapphire martini. The wedge salad was, no exaggeration, an entire head of iceberg. With the outer maybe 1/2" of diameter removed. But still huge. And a half-cup of halved cherry tomatoes and a half cup of good blue cheese dressing. And bacon. Lots and lots of bacon.
I ate half & was bursting. The rest came home for tomorrow.
I napped with Spot. I went driving around the area of the lateest GSD sighting. I had a martini.
I love your child. Unless he becomes a Coke dealer. 
I’m here for both. I love learning and TMI.
AWWWWWWWWWW!!! 
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Becuae if your Basil freezes, it will turn out Fawlty.
Baseball. I only go for the beer.
I like pre dawn coffee. the sun isn’t shining, the birds aren’t singing, just me and my hot bean liquid.
We may have had this disquisition before, but how do you prepare your martinis? I’m partial to Sapphire with olives, no juice, and a bit of dry vermouth. Well chilled of course.
You left out the stars & maybe Moon. And the lights of wherever. Watching the sky slowly light up and hearing the birds awaken noisily is the best part of the day. Easy to imagine there are no vexatious people anywhere on the planet. Then all the humans wake up and ruin that little dream.
Tanqueray #10, Noilly Pratt vermouth(3:1), Crude Rizzo bitters(local rosemary/grapefruit), 3 olives. stirred. 
Power outage! Luckily we have a backup generator that picks up some of the load. Even luckier, one of the few outlets that remain powered is the one our TV and cable box are plugged into. Huzzah!
Pretty much, yeah… 
I love you guys 
Thank you for the support.
Thanks for the inspiration. I used to do this i.e. get up at that time and walk but haven’t in a long time. Now that it’s a decent temp at 5:30ish, I’m going to try slingshotting self out of bed and going for a walk and enjoying the break of day.
I’ve got the Spousal Unit’s mid-century slat coffee table-inspired potting bench assembled. I may sand the top some more, or I may not. I may give it a coat of Thompson’s Water Seal, or I may not. I’ll post a pic once it’s in the shed.
Mrs. L.A. had a kebab in a Carb Balance Spinach Herb tortilla with sour cream and tomato. Lettuce? I don’t know; I was working on the table. I had two chicken tenderloins with salt, pepper, and turmeric, and about half a bag of broccoli. Yum. (I saved some chicken bits, and let Goo clean my plate.)
ETA: Oh, and we picked up her RAV4 from the body shop.
I am trying to keep clean and not oily just now. Yesterday and today I have been making suet cakes for next winter. They won’t cost what storebought ones will, but of course it takes time to work on them.
I’ve rendered the suet and mixed in other ingredients such as birdseed, a few glops of peanut butter, some stale peanuts and some minced orange peel. I will get at least seven cakes, maybe a couple more. I won’t be able to use them this summer because I don’t have whatever ingredient the purchased ones have that keep them firm. So I will freeze them and if I make, say, one batch a month there will be plenty by the time it gets cool enough to put them out.
Power outage! Luckily we have a backup generator that picks up some of the load. Even luckier, one of the few outlets that remain powered is the one our TV and cable box are plugged into. Huzzah! Chefguy, did you have a storm
You shoulda known me when I was a professional cheesemaker. Playing with warm milk or testing for surface tension can make for interesting discussions. And let’s not forget about the excitement that happens when things start firming up…
Mom was a farmer’s daughter during the Depression. I was raised with the “food is sacred” mindset and hubs and I used to have an extensive kitchen garden. I’m too gimpy to dig around in the dirt, so the kitchen garden has mostly gone away, but if someone gives me a box of tomatoes or cukes, my old habits kick right in.
Besides, hubs loves my pickled peppers, he’ll eat a quart a day if he can find them which always has a bad outcome, so I put them in half pint jars and hide them in random places in the fridges. He approves of this solution.
The tomato paste is in the oven now, so I’ll be prepping that for freezing in a couple of hours.
Hubs says I have to stop telling him what you said. He says it’s too painful.
It is a potting bench, you can’t make it too nice or she will be afraid to use it the way she wants. Leave it a little rough looking so she doesn’t worry about wiping up water or spilled dirt until she is finished with what she is doing and can just spray it clean when she’s done.
Poor hubs has just figured out that the Celebration of Life is on Memorial Day weekend and is not happy about that. It is on Saturday, so traffic coming up the hill shouldn’t be that horrible but it will still take an hour longer to get home than usual if we are lucky.
I thought he understood that was why the young ladies and I are going to the needlework store tomorrow. I don’t want to go on Friday because that is when the I17 will be a cluster but I do want to have time to help them get sorted and stretched before the services. Hopefully we will be able to get started so we will be able to sit quietly and stitch for a while after the celebration.
Please be sure and tell us what the birds think. I’ve considered it but beef fat suet melts in the winter so it’s been on the back burner for me.
As Jane said, sanding is optional; the rustic look can be good.
IMO water seal is not optional . And the less sanded, the more water (or water seal) it’ll absorb. Failing to seal something that’ll take on lots of water while in use is deciding to have it turn to shite in 3 years. Probably not your intention.
I wish I could have made an exact replica of a mid-century slat coffee table, but I couldn’t get the wood. (Pine for the slats, oak for the faces, and hemlock for the crosspieces. And the slats are wider than original. Hence, I didn’t bother to angle the ends.) Wifey said that if I made it too nice, she wouldn’t want to use it as a potting bench; we’d bring it inside.
That’s what I thought.
Canes lose to Florida, are eliminated.
Mood:
