Why the heck does anybody drink their tea cold??
Howdy Y’all! I made a trip to the Burly Butcher Sto’ for a few needed items and got some chikin boobs that were on sale. YAY! I also took care of a few errands this mornin’. After all that I needed nappage and day drinkin’. We et an early(ish) sup and are now in chillax mode.
WetOne glad you finally got a glass of civilized iced tea.
when I lived with my grandma she made iced tea and Kool-Aid to drink …and after I moved I never found anyone or a place that made it like she did until Walmart and other places started carrying Milos brand tea … it’s about 3.25 a gallon and it’s just sweet enough to taste it but it’s not tea-flavored syrup … They even make a sugar-free version …although the lemonade/tea mix tastes like they used the same lemon flavoring that Nestea used in its instant tea… huh they even make unsweet tea for weirdos …
Ever been to SoCal in Summer?
Doctor at the ER told me to set up an appointment ASAP for a follow-up with ortho. Called them, and I managed to get one by swapping my already scheduled appointment in three weeks with Lady SCAdian’s appointment next week. 
And ortho also gave me a script for another six days’ worth of oxycodone, to last me until the appointment, along with one for a box of thirty Lidocaine patches.
or the high and low CA deserts where in about 3 weeks or so the average will be between 90 and 115 by 8 am?
Funny story I just remembered in the late 80s my stepdad’s parents talked them into moving back to Tuscon for about 8 months and we visited in the summer …
they used to make sun tea …which is you plop water and teabags and pit it out in a sunny spot for a couple of hours …
Well Tuscon gets so hot that if you leave it out for more than 15-20 minutes it scorches the tea …since mom didn’t wanna waste tea I had to drink a few gallons of awful tea that I made blech
Remember: Lancaster is still in L.A. County. 
We’re all temporary containers. My big bro used to sing a song with the line my body’s just a suitcase for my soul.
That’s what I’ve been doing with Nelson this evening. This is his. Ms. Dog is lucky to have you as one of her humans.
Growing up, I can count on one hand the number of times that I went to school on my birthday. We were usually still on Christmas break. As an adult, once I got past 30, birthdays weren’t a big deal.
Irked, came home, walked Nelson and et. Not much happening at CasaRoja.
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
So I dreamed they were doing “small upgrades” on the building at work, but it resulted the entire building being swept away in a giant mudslide. Hazardous Ken and I still had to stay and clean up, though. Then I dreamed I was in a meeting with this Japaneses company that was building a hyperspace bypass and they were expecting us to take shifts screaming at the workers so they would work 16 hours shifts to demolish The Earth a lake area at New Bern and I-440. Which was protected by a witch in a cave, who was actually some recluse lady with fireworks and the cave was just a lake house built Hobbit style, next door to the Head Bad Guy’s house. And the Head Bad Guy’s butler killed the hero with a chopstick, but fell in the lake and was eaten by a Harryhausen style claymation dragon when he panicked. Anyways, this martini is good.
I thought that was unspeakable ads
That’s a huge Red flag.
Hope she’s felling beter now.
Ms. or butler?
[Southern Lady]Bless your hearts[/Southern Lady]
Irronically Sweet Tea was invented by a Brit in 1904. But if you work in the fields in The South(or elswhere), a cold, sweet high calorie drink is refreshing. Plus it makes a nice counterpoint to the fried foods during meals.
Herald, glad ER doc is on the ball with your joints.
We walked to, around, and from Capital Lake, about 6.5 miles, and we are tired. Such adventures we had, though! Ms. Dog got within 2 feet of a duck. I was astonished, but a little while later, she got within a foot of one! If I hadn’t been holding her back, she might have gotten it. Either those were some chill ducks, or Maynard the Mallard has been into the hashish again. Of course, then she was convinced she was Queen of the Ducks and kept trying to jump in and swim out to her loyal subjects/entrees.
We also saw coots, a first for me.
She got away from me briefly, which scared the daylights out of me, but she came right back.
Oh, that is cahyuuuute! Ms. Dog’s is a humdrum brown.
Nelson is lucky to have YOU as his primary human! I always love reading about him.
I have never had sweet tea. I may have to try some.
Leave yourself out for 15-20 minutes, and you’ll get scorched. I’ve been there twice, both times to take care of my late, great MIL, both times in summer. And they had no AC, just a swamp cooler. I now consider all my sins to be burned away.
How could you dream about me when we haven’t even met?
Nice song, though.
I used to take sugar in my iced tea. (Not ‘sweet tea’, but iced tea with sugar in it.) I was going SCUBA diving one day, and didn’t want to risk my tea becoming ‘syrupy’ if I put sugar in it. So I took a gallon of sun tea with me without sugar. After the salt water, the unsweetened tea was more refreshing than I can describe. I’ve never had sugar in my iced tea since. (I also don’t take sugar in my coffee, despite my upbringing.)
Exactly!! Iced tea tastes like cold brown water. Ick.
I take my tea slightly sweet, no milk. And if it gets tepid, it gets dumped.
There’s no discussing politics with MIL. They all lie just to get elected. None of them are worth anything, and that’s why she won’t vote. So, nice weather we’re having, eh?
Speaking of which - tomorrow might reach the low 60s. Moanday, it might reach 90. I give up. Weather is too weird.
So endeth another day.
Wifey, RN had concerning issues with one of her patients; so concerning that she wanted to go out tonight, So we went down the beach for dinner and cocktails. As it happens, I received a DVD of Hardware Wars and Porklips Now. I’ve loved these for decades, We watched them, and she found them funny. She said, ‘Thank you.’
And a late evening to all. Finally made it to the gym for a little workout post-dinner, took folks advice and did the biking today, swimming can be tomorrow. The cycles have a small monitor to track your time/calories/etc. and also double as a TV monitor with about 8-10 channels, so watched basketball and hockey while riding to nowhere. Garbage is out at the curb and hamburger is defrosting for the post-soccer practice meal tomorrow, and that’s about as responsible a human bean I plan to be tonight. Off to bed shortly and I’ll catch up with all y’all tomorrow.
Cat Glove, you’re welcome, having worked for the DoD I’m used to both using and finding acronyms, this site: https://www.acronymfinder.com/ can find most anything. And since I did it once:
LGI - LifeGuard Instructor (actually I can’t find that but it makes sense in how it is used.
WSIT-Water Safety Instruction Trainer.
On the great tea debate, I like sweet tea and learned early in life to add sugar to Iced tea, Never been a bug hot tea fan, they used to serve it in Abu Dhabi when I called on some military folks, it was always served in a tiny mug and was quite sweet.
Nellie, sounds like you and Ms. Dog have a fine friendship.
Herald, hope the medicine keep the pain under control until you can get to the ortho folks.
doggio, I think I’ll have what you’re having…
Time to bed down. Take care all.
As you saw, paneer is fast and easy to make. If you are a fan of it, do not make it yourself unless you are willing to do it every time you need more. Store bought paneer is pretty ick after tasting the fresh stuff, but that is pretty much how it is with most things.
I’ve stopped my usual cheese production because I think transporting maturing cheeses is going to be tricky. The parm is coming with us, I’ve got two 2 1/2 year old wheels that I’m not going to give up.
Thanks for thinking of me I love your adventures with Mrs. Dog.
She sounds like a pretty smart pupper!
After telling shoe about the treat puzzle ball, I dug ours out and showed it to GG. He watched me put treats in it and even watched me push it across the floor so a treat fell out. He thought that was great so spent the next half hour watching the ball, hoping something magical would happen and another treat would appear.
He also fails the “cover the treat in front of your pet” test. He can’t even figure out to knock a clear plastic cup over for the treat despite being able to see it.
He is very handsome. He is very personable. He is amazingly graceful for a cat with feets as big as saucers.
He spends his days being adored and pampered, he doesn’t need to be smart.
If one has room and is a prepper, 10 gallons is the minimum that should be kept on hand. I hope your water comes back on while you are at work shoe.
I really hope you stay pain free or at least happily zoned until the ortho guy snaps his fingers and fixes you on the spot!
My poor stubborn Hubs refuses to admit that he is getting old, so made the drive back from WV in less than three days. Now he is in serious pain and is spending a whole lot of time in the tub. I sure do wish I could run him to the ER or even a Doc in a Box, but he thinks doctors are just quacks out to get your money.
Le sigh.
As a fellow Christmas baby, I rarely went to school on my birthday but after spending my childhood learning that nobody noticed my birthday “But you got one BIG present instead of two small ones!” I made it a point to always take my birthday off at work. That way I didn’t care if anyone else remembered or not, I did and I did what I wanted to on that day. Which was mostly veg in jammies while smoking weed and eating junk food.
Except for my 30th. I was so upset about that one. My life was going to be over, my boobs would suddenly be hanging around my knees and cellulite would cover me from the nose down. I would be at my desk working and suddenly I’d remember that I was going to be 30 and break out in silent (and sometimes not so silent) tears because I was going to be OLD.
Many years later, Mom confessed that the reason her phone kept cutting out when I was crying at her was because she didn’t want me to hear her laughing. Nowadays, I laugh at Past JtC as well. Gawd, I was so vapid when I was young.
And they resist putting salt in their tea despite scientific evidence that it makes the stuff taste better.
You are a good husband.
I used to drink a lot of iced sun tea, but would often add sugar if it was handy. Now I just drink icewaterwithlemon, please but if I have to buy a drink to get a discount on the meal (Shoney’s), unsweet tea is my standby. (if you drink your tea with a straw, your teeth don’t get stained)
Four-way. My bifocals weren’t in yet when I got my new “regular” glasses.
… I guess technically, since I got half of my order, then that makes it a 3.5-way race.
Mumper math iz hard.
What took you so long?
Because when it’s 105 F in the shade, and the “coolest” it gets in the middle of the night is 85 F, most folks want to cool off, not ingest something even hotter than themselves.
ETA: I see this has been explained.
Burned myself at work tonight. Nothing bad, just a little blister. Was cleaning the fryer - the hose for the device used to schluck out the oil gets quite hot, and I very briefly brushed a metal connector.
Anyone wanna come over & kiss my owie?
Otherwise, it was a pretty good day. My water came on literally 5 minutes before I was set to leave - thank gawd I could flush, so the ick wasn’t marinating for hours.
Apparently, the whole town lost water, and some people are still under boil notices last I heard. So I guess I’m lucky.
… still peed before I left work, just in case.
Lotsa dogs coming through the drive-thru lately. Today’s parade included a well-behaved Yorkie wearing a shirt that said, “The PARTY has arrived!”
So OF COURSE pupper got a treat. They were a very good little terrier!
Seemed odd to work at one pizza joint & then go spend $$ at another, but that’s ezzactly what I did today. Someone waiting for their order was munching on a Crazy Bread from Lil Caesar, and they done flung a cravin’ on me!
Didn’t eat the Irish stew but it’ll be there tomorrow, and so will I.
Besides, on the way in, two rare occurrences converged: I had several extra minutes to spare AND I kinda wanted another one of those salads I got recently.
Since I rarely crave healthy foods of any kind, I figured it was best to roll with it before the impulse passed, and popped into Wally on my way in.
I also had some Cheeto Puffs, but I figured the salad cancelled those out.
Oh! Big news!
There are signs in the windows of the former Dickey’s across the street. The big marquee hadn’t been updated yet, but small red signs proclaim magical words like, “TACOS” “BURRITOS” “TAMALES” … so it looks like we’re gettin’ some Tex-Mex! 
The 1st words out of my mouth were a stern, “You better not suck!”
Gawd, I hope they’re good … ! I haven’t had a tamale in far too long.
Finally, we got an online order that, intriguingly, included in the “Notes” part a very polite note that … simply repeated back the entire order, including specifying “the regular thin crust.”
We were like, “Large deluxe no green pepper. Got it, lady. Not complicated.”
But when I was handing it out to her - and she was just the nicest, most polite person - I made a reference to her sweet little note, and she responded with some self-deprecating noises, and then explained.
See, our tickets print toppings preceeded by the word “WHOLE” (unless, of course, it’s a half-and-half … or you’re one of the psychos who wants 1/3 this and 2/3 that) and it shows up that way for online orders, too.
So for example:
16" Thin
WHOLE Pepperoni
LEFT HALF Sausage
would be a large, pepperoni on the whole thing, sausage on just half … and no, it doesn’t matter which half, ye jokers.
Well, this lovely woman was concerned that she was getting a whole wheat crust, and went on to laughingly say, “I just wanted to make sure I wasn’t getting some HEALTHY pizza!”
Had fun relaying that one back to the others.
It’s bloody cold - there’s something of a freeze warning & I’m debating dragging my agave’n’lemon back in - but y’all, ferrealz, The Oracles predict highs near or at SEVENTY FERRET HEIGHT next week, and all I can say is, Mama Nature needs to get her shit together.
Okay, it’s time for some serious snackage and some zombie killin’ while Monkey enjoys his hush bribe can of Fancy Feast.
Then we can all - all of us - do this groovy thang again tomorrow.
Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave.
Spot is smart and dignified. Except when he goes full Bertie Wooster, then he is not.
To be fair, I had a Pepsi delivery guy who only drank Coke, and an Utz rep that would always buy Pringles to snack on. Vive la difference.
I am back with a Public Service Announcement.
If you liked popping bubble wrap, do NOT buy this! It has the cuts, but you have to pull the paper apart before using it.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BRQ5RDHQ?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1
You can hold the roll and pull on the end, or you can drop the roll on the floor and pull it that way, but then not all of the honeycombs will open so you will spend a stoopid amount of time just playing with the stuff. (It does work pretty well when you stop messing around with it. I will order another roll for packing.)
Nellie, your adventures with Ms. Dog do sound fun!
Personally, I am affronted by my own little Annie girl this morning. I have to go to the orthotics place this morning and so I’m wearing very comfortable leggings that are easy to move around in. They also happen to be a very bold pink, black, and white plaid pattern. Anyways, Annie took one look at my lap this morning and decided to sit next to me. :harumph:
Going to be another busy day and I’m still debating on whether I’m going to go to the AMC this evening. I truly enjoy being there and helping, however, I have a feeling that I’m going to be out of energy by that part of the day. We shall see.
Ok, off to hunt down the morning breakfast bagel with a Diet Coke. (No disgusting tea of any sort here!)
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 59 Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 83 and N.O.S. for the day. I shall take care of various duties over to the church house this mornin’ and then we shall be bears who brunch at Eggs Up. The rest of the day shall be high sloth, nappage, and day drinkin’.
shades I agree about Milo’s sweet tea. It is the best of all the pre-made ones.
Herald yay for gettin’ an appointment with the ortho so quick!
Nellie I am sure Ms. Dog considers you her favorite human outside of her mom.
I am a Summer baby, so growin’ up I never had to go to skool on my bday. Imagine my shock when I got to adult size and had to irk on my bday! I got over it, however.
shoe yikes on the burn. Glad it wasn’t too bad. Also, yay for the water comin’ back on before you left for irk.
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, alas and bother of bothers, I suppose I must needs purtify and don attire acceptable for bein’ amongst the great unwashed. How I suffer for my public!
Happy Thursday Y’all!