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Home, soccer has been refereed and coached (lost one game 1-10 and won the next one 6-2) and with the temperature near 90F and hardly a could in the sky I am well tanned. Nothing much else planned for the day, think I’ve done my labors for the day.

FCM, I guess if the mailing’s cheaper they’ll send you a label, but this bunch doesn’t sound like their act is entirely together…And not a pineapple person but I do admit that looks pretty delicious.

rocky good news!! And never used a Clax cart, but looks like a pretty neat device.

J-Bats, hope everything worked out and you’re in your apartment.

A place for everything and everything in its place

And that’s all the news for the day Take care all.

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I started my next crochet project. The colors are cream, mushroom, toffee, and cinnamon. Pretty colors, terrifying recipe!

Main part of supper will be chicken. Not sure about sides but inspiration will strike! Or not. Whatevah - we have cake for dessert!

:cake:

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I hope it was a nice day for a white dinner!

Safe travels!

Hurray! I’m glad you recovered quickly.

We would not be bored, I promise! I hope your life gets calmer soon! Give Bob some love for me :slight_smile:

I certainly does look yum!

And we all need as much joy in our lives as we can get. I’m happy that you are happy!

As I got my MMJ card yesterday, we took a trip to the closest dispensary. THEY HAVE A DRIVE THROUGH!!!

Besides that, you cannot smoke marijuana in WV, you have to vaporize it. Edibles are just arriving and require a different license so many dispensaries won’t have them. No infused weed or dabs. Because weed cannot be smoked, you can’t buy pipes and bongs at dispensaries. You have to go to the vape store for those because you use them to smoke tobacco. :wink:

I told the nice budistas that today was my first time in their store and my first time buying weed in WV so they were happy to tell me all about it. He even hand wrote the days to come for the sales on a post-it so I’d be sure to remember.

I had been seeing a small produce store on the other side of the tracks, but never saw signs of life until today. Not only were they open, they had a nice amount of local fruits and veggies. They said they usually bought stone fruit from Georgia, but couldn’t get to that farm so went to a different farm in TN. They are only open on the weekends because they are such a small operation. I wish them much success.

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I must’ve missed you mentioning this earlier. Looks like a handy-dandy device!

We shall help you, if you like.

Home.

Monkey was very affectionate, and then all, "Oh, hey, you left the door open & I haven’t been outside for DAYS MONTHS SOOOOO LONG I CANT REMEMBER so I’m letting him chill outside in the pleasant Midwestern autumn sunshine while I have a snack and reconfigure.
(And enjoy being the f@#$ out of the blazing Texas sun.)

Rats def need more water - next order of business - but they had a tiny bit left & Monks had a few pieces of kibble remaining (and plenty of water) so I guess nobody was at death’s door.

You follow odd recipes.

LOL

… and it was! I had a surprisingly nice time. Will go into more detail later.

I bet they just acquired a new regular.

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Ohhh, do tell! I shall await anon.

I may have mentioned the cart a few weeks ago. The cats got a new pram as well. Things are rolling along here.

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Watching hockey now. Spot appeared, demanded attention, then disappeared.

Dölly, by Ikea.

A reminder of what happened to last lady that said “Let them eat cake!”. :wink:

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The cake was very yum, but for some reason, the very center didn’t bake completely - when I did the toothpick test, it was off to one side where it was cake-y. So the center is more like pudding than cake. Very tasty, tho, if messy to eat.

Dishwasher is washing dishes (duh!) and I’m headed back to my recliner. Time to crochet my odd food-combo blanket.

Here’s the one I just finished:
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This is not a good pattern to make with large squares. It works much better with smaller squares, but it takes more of them to make a good sized blanket. Live and learn.

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Ahhhh…my mom and granny always made them in a cast iron skillet, so a totally different looking cake. ETA: It looks yummy!

By now, you’ve already resolved this, but wishing you luck with the move.

When I went out the door to go to the grocery outlet, my next door neighbor was just coming out with both dogs and a mop pail full of dog hair. He had groomed Sully in the classic poodle clip and all of that hair was from her. Next weekend is Sugar’s turn.

Got some bargains at the outlet, came home and divided up the meat for the freezer and put everything else away. Now for chillage.

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Ursula has a pretty intense urinary tract infection and her kidney levels are high, which means her kidneys may also be affected. The treatment is a 10 day course of antibiotic pills. We all know the cats are not cooperative when it comes to taking pills. Supposedly these have a good flavor so I was told I could crush that up and put it in her wet food. Oh no, she said I’m not touching that. So I put on my big girl pants picked her up which she doesn’t like opened her jaws and got out my screwdriver and plunger and got that thing down her throat then stroked her throat make sure she swallowed it. She does not seem too pissed off at me so either she spit the pill out or it really did not taste bad.

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Howdy Y’all! DAWGS WIN! WOOF! WOOF! WOOF! Final score, 31-13 for those playin’ along at home. That was the excitatement of the day. Nappage, my DAWGS, day drinkin’, and sammiches make for a nice day. OYKW says I was good today, so I don’t need extra special double sooper sekret confession tomorrow.

Rocker yay for negative plague test!

red that sounds like one of our shoppin’ lists. Except tp gets bought in hyuuuuge packages at Sam’s.

JBats probably too late for advice now, but maybe see if the hotel will hold some of the stuff for ya and then go back to retrieve it later in the day. Most hotels will do that.

MOOOOOOM you made chikin and cake. What more could they want!

JtC glad the dispensary folk were so nice. Also, way cool findin’ the produce place. I love the local produce stands we have durin’ Summer and Fall.

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Well heck, my AC isn’t working. Turned it on when I got home and noticed it wasn’t getting any cooler inside. Went outside and the main unit doesn’t seem to be functioning, so will keep the overhead fans running (at least the outside temps are down in the 70’s so sleep should not be a problem). Need to call up the HVAC folks and get them out here, the hot times are not quite done with us yet.

JtC, nice to have drive-thru’s for you medical needs… And sounds like you found a nice store to visit (when they are open).

Welcome home shoe, glad the trip was less a burden than you thought it might be.

FCM, nice work there.

wet one, good luck on pilling Ursula and retaining your health…

swampy, and Ali-bama lost to the Commodores of Vanderbilt, which will cause loud wailings and gnashings of teeth in these parts.

Back to sweating and trying not to snack anymore…

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I hope that the treatment works quickly.

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That’s the important part, right?

That stoopid song (that I used to just love and rock out with) has been an earworm ever since you first told us about your thing. I’m looking forward to the details.

I’ve never done drive-thru weed, that is so exciting. I do wish I had went to a Phx friend’s place and had weed delivered before moving, but there wasn’t time when Hubs finally said we should move.

But I’ll probably keep walking in because that will allow the Budistas to tell me all the deals without worrying about keeping the line moving.

Plus, I kinda like them seeing me put money in their tip boxes because that makes them want to help me get the best deals. (is that rude?)

Oh really? I don’t remember that. Pics please and how do they like it? Would they be able to get out if they got scared? Would it hold 30 lbs of moving cats?

We still haven’t gotten the catio figured out so walking the fuzzbutts in the back yard might work until next year.

It is guaranteed that I would have attached one of those the wrong direction and then gotten mad and hidden it in the closet for a month or so before fixing it. It is very pretty, nice colors and as a lap blanket, I doubt anyone will notice that the corners aren’t perfectly square.

Oh no! Of course she isn’t going to like the med no matter how it tastes, she is a cat and cats don’t do that shit.

I’m so sorry for both of you, not fun at all.

I love the pop-up stands too. Unless they are selling yard sale stuff or trump shit, I always stop to see what they are selling…and usually always buy something.

This place is a family run business that goes to farms and buys what they can get and sells it at very reasonable prices. Tomorrow we will be having lopsided chicken tacos with homemade pico.

The only time the dispensary folks were crabby was in S. CA. It was obvious that they hated their job and hated their customers. It was like dealing with a crabby pants clerk in a chocolate shop. Do not recommend.

Well, that just sucks. At least the temps are dropping, but yeah, winter isn’t here yet. I hope it is something routine and inexpensive.

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Sitting here in my winter coat.
Had spaghetti for sup, now cake and then bed.
My favorite day tomorrow- church and football!

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A customer service peep after my own heart.

The “Diner En Blanc” thing.

So, this was definitely a “see and be seen” thing, but it was really light-hearted and and the mood was always fun.

Hundreds of people. There was champagne. Do the math.

Y’all remember those ostentatious, ridiculous dresses (and that jumpsuit!) that my friends and I had fun with?
Absolutely none of them would’ve been out of place.
Including the jumpsuit.

I swear I saw at least two versions of the feather-trimmed swing dress, and three cousins of the jumpsuit.

There were some in rather conservative attire, some who just found whatever white clothing they could gather, at least one or two women who were giving their straight-up wedding dresses another go-round (and why not?) plenty of “umm, WTF?” (hint: sheer white clothing is unforgiving if you haven’t given sufficient thought to your undergarments … or lack thereof) and lots of men in white linen and fancy hats.

The only woman in the entire crowd both my mother & I felt looked out of place was a poor soul in a cream dress with a pink floral pattern on the whole thing.

Women had battery-operated lights on their hats and/or on their ring fingers, there were flowers and feathers (both real & fake) everywhere - esp. towards the end of the shindig they were floatin’ around - and everyone is encouraged to bring (and go nutz with) table settings.

Ah, and the Sooper Sekrit Location turned out to be Lone Star Park, which is a hyuuuuge horse race track in Grand Prairie

https://www.lonestarpark.com/

The following will only make sense to DFW peeps:
We were on those buses rollin’ down Bush Turnpike past I-30 and everything 'till it’s not even a highway anymore. (“Are we going to Las Colinas?” Which would have made sense; it’s a rather nice destination.)

So. Much. Concrete. So many overpasses for all these other highways heading for yet more strip malls surrounded by parking lots paved with concrete.

But we passed the exits for Las Colinas, passed … well, everything civilized, till finally I turned to my mom and said, “Are we going to Kansas, or gonna wind up on the evening news, or … ?”

Pulled into one of those enormous parking lots you can’t imagine if you haven’t ever been to DFW, (“are we doing this … here … ?”) but everything got sorted and once we got outta the ginormous parking lot & into the venue, everyone mostly had a good time.

Got ahold of Sweet Manager and while I did tell her I was quite tired, I offered to go in (“please, no closing.”) She said the most helpful thing was for me to come in - well, right about then - to cover so the crew could start their breaks.

… which is how I found myself running the entire line (sauce ‘n’ chz station, sausage/pepp station, AND final toppings) all at the same time, while muttering, “I’m not even supposed to BE here today” and wiping my hands to catch the phones.

Honestly, I wasn’t even irritated. (Mostly cuz I knew I wouldn’t be there for long.) It was just a feeling of, “Yeah, bitches, I’m back!!”

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I’ve spent most of the evening so far in the kitchen. Not cooking but doing prep with a lot of the veggies I have.

I made fresh salsa, kind of throwing stuff together, and adding odds and ends. When I do this I like to let the items kind of marinate together for a couple days before eating it. I forgot to add garlic though. There’s jalapenos, bell pepper, cucumber, fresh corn kernels, finely chopped chives from our buildings small garden, chopped tomatoes, one packet of Horsey Sauce from Arby’s, and two little containers, totalling about two tablespoons of a spicy dip, from a food truck I like.

I pulled apart a grocery store rotisserie chicken. The meat will be used for a couple things and the bones, skin and so on are in water on the stove, at the lowest temp, to be reduced to broth.

Also worked on a pumpkin I bought this morning at the Farmer’s Market. Once a year I buy one and cook it up to make pulp for pumpkin pie from scratch. This was a good medium sized gourd, probably enough for two pies. I also have a smaller pumpkin I got from the grocery store. I will cook it up to compare texture and flavor. Not yet worked on are a butternut squash and an acorn squash. I have a tasty recipe for the latter called Gilded Squash.

Tomorrow afternoon I will make a couple loaves of a new bread that I got the recipe for out of the GOT cookbook. It’s called black bread. I had to order rye flour online as it seems I couldn’t find it at any local grocery store. Every kind of flour but rye. And the recipe also calls for dark beer, so I have a couple bottles of Guinness at room temperature.

It’s a foody king of weekend.

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Oh, the only real casualties of being gone a few days was returning to fly stravaganza several onions gone very, very bad.

(I walked in and thought, "Oh, shit, who/how many died?")

Mostly half my onion stash went bye-bye. (Only two went bad, but their adjacent neighbors were … questionable.) The sole remaining garlic head seems roughly OK but all cloves are on close notice.

That bleah! root basket has been thoroughly cleaned of the atrocities, the few remaining survivors returned to a paper-lined bowl to await future close scrutiny, and their flying attendants have hit the highway.

Parking for less’n three days at the airport was over fifty bucks. (!!!) Not sure what they’re doin’ with the money; the parking structure - which holds hundreds of vehicles - has existed for ages and the two attendants can’t cost that much.
My mother - who travels a ridiculous amount, still in her 80s - told me this was the usual amount now.
“Nothing is getting cheaper.”
(That’s what I tell customers fifty times a day when they bitch that our prices went up! But I work in a restaurant, and raw meat/cheese/Sysco/produce is ridonck costs now. But fixed costs for a built structure that’s already years old … ?)

ETA: no, it’s not maintenance or upgrades, that’s for damn sure.

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This one looks good. My guys are 20ish pounds together. I got the 3 wheel one.

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That looks really good. Sadly my husband doesn’t like upside-down pineapple cake. More for me, right?

@Jack_Batty Glad you didn’t get evicted. Hope the move goes well.

And secondary joy as well. Supposedly it’s made in Germany, so Claus the Clax Cart?

Reminds me of the trifle Rachel made during one of the episodes in Friends.

Budistas are the nicest people.

Good luck with the remaining course of pills. Hopefully Ursula stays not too pissed off and the antibiotics do their job.

:metal:

Sounds yummy. I was looking at pumpkins at the store yesterday, but decided I should wait until I have time to deal with them. This weekend is not the time.

Yesterday was fall cleanup day. Hubby power washed the front and back patios. I edged the grass in the backyard, plus trimmed the ground cover and removed some branches. Stopped after 3 hours, before I way overdid it.

We used to have a string trimmer, but it died. Since we only used it once a year, I decided to just use garden shears to edge the grass, but that means squatting. Today my legs are not happy with me.

Hubby also vacuumed, cleaned the toilets and put away the suitcases. We also flipped the mattress, washed the mattress cover and sheets, and made the bed.

Today is laundry - first load is in the dryer, second load is in the washer and the third load is waiting in the wings. The first load includes the fabric inserts for the laundry hamper. They get washed when the mattress cover does, as they accumulate odors.

Today we need to vote and get our ballots in the mail. So we’ll go for a short walk - today’s high is supposed to be 13°C / 55.4°F. That’s only happening if the sun comes out, as it’s almost noon and still 9.2°C / 48.6°F. Fall is definitely here.

With our new dresser, I decided to put our sheets in the bottom drawer, which means the sheet storage box is empty. So for the first time in my life, I will actually put my summer clothes in a storage box for winter, instead of just pushing them to the back of the shelf. Should make finding clothese easier.

Time to go be productive. Or think about lunch. Bolognese sauce from the freezer, so that’ll be quick.

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 71 Amurrkin out and cloudy with a predicted high of 78 and cloudy. It’s a Fall day! The bit item on today’s agenda is deheathenization in which I have Chalice duty. ‘Tis also blessin’ of the animals this afternoon, but that shall be skipped. Normally this would be first Sunday brunch day, but that’s bein’ put off until next week when the Vestry is kickin’ off the annual pledge campaign with a todo after church. Rah. We have coupons, so we’ll swing by Arby’s and get roast beast sammiches and curly fries to bring back to da cave and eat. Then the all important RDOS inactivities of nappage and day drinkin’ will happen.

Metal Mouse YIKES! Hope the a/c fix is not to pricey. You are right about the hot times not bein’ over yet. Not only did Bama lose, but the Rocky Flops, aka Tennessee, did as well. The SEC be weird.

WetOne hope Ursula is feelin’ better soonest, poor baby.

JtC I am sure the budistas appreciate the money you stuff in the tip jars. They get tips, you get better treatment and service. It’s all win-win!

shoe glad you had a good time at the white thang. I take it no one showed up in a wife beater. Good for you for goin’ in so staff could go on their breaks.

CupCakes I am not a fan of pumpkin, but I would do some serious chowin’ down on the salsa and bread.

Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then purtification for deheathenization shall commence.

Happy Sunday Y’all!