Or in my case pumpkin seeds. A memorable ER visit from my childhood 
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Minor puzzle of the day: is there an actual meaningful distinction between soup and stew, or is it mostly semantics?
According to crossword puzzles stew is more “hearty” or chunky I guess. Both are great IMHO.
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So after spotting them a goal line INT, a failed 2 point conversion, and letting them advance on a 3rd and 19, the Packer won with a last second fingertip block on a FG.
DA BEARS!
SUCK!!!
Also, the shredder died, so the Turtles are happy, but I am not. Time for hockey!
{{{{WetOne}}}}
if only I was closer, I’m always up for beer and bricks. And good luck on the work.
Scraping the bottom of the bong. 
A pile of dirt, and a broken whisk? It’s like you’re staring in The Amityville Mild Puzzlement.
{ coughs }
{ chokes a bit }
There has GOT to be a story there …
Did the dog bring it to your yard, and then a stiff breeze rolled it into the hallway?
Soup is thinner than stew.
Stew is thickened (potatoes, bread, boiling it down) and has many bigger, chewable ingredients, while soup is easily slurpable and doesn’t require teeth.
Sounds like you need to start putting out a bit of milk and a snack for the house elves.
Poor Ariel. Pats to her and hugs to you.
Stew tends to be thicker and have chunkier pieces.
Sunday chores are done, the new-to-me lamp installed, Nelson shampooed and conditioned, Sunday dinner (Persian chicken over rice, sauteed zucchini with mushrooms and Persian cucumber salad) made and et.
Now for evening KP and finishing up the Townsend Thanksgiving Cooking Marathon. This outfit does period 18th century reproductions for sale and also produces historical content on YT. They’re based about 20 minutes from where I grew up.
To me, soup has a thin broth, stew has a thick, saucy yummyness surrounding the meat and veggies.
If you’d like the recipe, I’ll be happy to send it to you, or share it here if anyone else would like it - raisins and all!!
MIL went to bed around 6:30 last night. FCD woke her around 7:30 to ask if she wanted to go to church and she said no. She got up a bit before 11 to pee, then FCD tended a cut on her foot and gave her the morning meds and she went back to sleep. It’s just after 5 and she just got up. I made her a cup of coffee and a grilled cheese sandwich and she’s holding them both while sitting in her chair asleep. We don’t know what to do, but the nurse comes tomorrow so we’ll talk to her. She’s amazing and she’s been so helpful and supportive. We’ll miss her when this is all over. I need to send a nice note to Hospice about all they’ve all done.
I’ve been crocheting and streaming miscellaneous stuff. Since it’s supposed to be warmer tomorrow, I put off my yard work till then. The rest of this evening will be crocheting, except for the hour I spend on the bike. It’s mostly been a lazy day for me.
Maybe we should ask Judy Gumbo about stew! Its funny how she got her name. I see she actually has a book out, which I must get! Yippie.
Sitting here sad cause my team lost. This time.
Eating my dorito salad, praying it works out with Housing and I don’t get evicted tomorrow.
My rule of thumb is that if it needs to simmer for a couple of hours in order for the meat’s connective tissue to break down, then it’s a stew. In fact, it’s the definition of stewing. A soup can be finished in the time it takes to add the ingredients and heat them and may be in a pureed form.
It’s { checks quickly b.c. I’m notoriously terrible at keeping track } the middle of the month.
Gawds, for a second, I really thought, “Aw shit, I owe rent again? Didn’t I just pay those fuckers lovely people who handle maintenance of their own property in a semi-timely manner?”
Not to pry, but wouldn’t an eviction issue come up at the beginning of the month (when IME rent is always due) or is there something else afoot?
If it’s absolutely nun-mah-bidness, you are welcome to tell me so, or simply ignore my post outright.
I agree.
6 p.m. and I have finally put on pants. { “No, it’s okay, you may hold your applause.” } Off to get kibble before it starts raining the cat loses patience.
If there’s a coupla bucks - ain’t nuthin’ gettin’ cheaper - left, I may get one or two of what I’m starting to call “push-button” meals. I don’t wanna be caught short the next time we have an OMG WTF night.
We must report all work to Housing.
I filled out forms in early Sept. Did not work.
Because of the forms I must report. I contacted them.
They would not give a letter saying I was hired but did not earn.
I do have e mails I sent them.
Their letter said you must provide paperwork by the 17th.
Thats today and Housing isn’t in office.
They have rules and a lot of people have been evicted lately.
My rent (25) is paid.
There has been a lot of talk about favorite cookies in the last couple of days here. Also cookie exchanges. Those would be fun but by mail perhaps a little impractical.
But cookies are FUN!!! I wouldn’t want to clog us the MMP so sometime tomorrow morning I’m going to start a cookie thread in Cafe Society. Write down the recipe and directions to as many cookies as you like.
A long time ago on the Dope there was a holiday recipes thread. I don’t know if I can find it again. But one recipe had at least some of the following ingredients I don’t remember it all, but maybe someone else still has a long lost link.
Too much alcohol
Tired female relatives who have to do the work
Opposing politics
The ingredients are simmered slowly in resentment.
Ok, not much driving at night for me anymore. I spent the afternoon doing strike at the high school, putting the stage back in order after a show, then had to drive home at 6:30. I can’t see with the super bright new headlights.
And now I want cookies.
Username/post.
Good evening all. Spent a couple hours and the gym and did a fair amount of sweating, then came home for sammiches and am trying not to over-snack right now, but it is hard to resist. Temperature is down to 58F and will get cooler as the night progresses.
JtC,maybe the spirits came back to clean up their mess and you interrupted them…
I understood that reference.
Language, shoe. language!! 
Best wishes, Coppertone
VanGo, I know what you mean, folks driving on a 2-lane road with their brights on, that is blinding an you can’t see a damn thing on the road.
OK, 7pm and need to do the end of the week internettin’ and then try to finish last Sunday’s NY Times so i can start this week’s. Take care and I’ll catch y’all on the next MMP.
Howdy Y’all! We deheathenated and then had N.O.L. at Longhorn’s. That was a spontaneous idea. We were sittin’ at a stoplight right in front of Longhorn’s and we both went “Longhorn’s yum!” Then it was home to da cave for nappage.
I wouldn’t have the faintest idea where one might procure porn.
Have a safe trip! Lamp guts are easy to source, inexpensive and easy to change out. I am so picky about lamps an such that once I find one I love, I don’t want to replace it.
I sure do wish we had taco trucks out here, but I also wished we had taco trucks when I lived in AZ. They had them in the cities, but not at the junction. I think they would have made bank sitting by the interstate with all of the travelers.
That is so nice of you to say, thank you.
I fool a lot of people, my new doctor was shocked at the x-rays of my back and hip because I wasn’t constantly displaying pain and asking for pain meds.
It’s the weed. It doesn’t stop the pain, it just makes me not care about it as much. That’s why I only use sativa, I have shit to do so I can’t be smoking indica and spending all day on the couch. Well, or sativa heavy hybrids. Here’s a fairly good explanation for the non-stoners amongst us.
I’d guess it would be a good place until the ceiling started collapsing. The panic and confusion would allow the giant cephalopods to burst through the floor drains and up through the roof in an apocalyptic display.
How fun! I took Mom during the long dark winter of 2018. We were the only ones there. Did your ticket have a passenger name? I just assumed that my passenger was in steerage and when we matched our names to the ship manifest…yeah, I was right. Mom was upstairs.
Did you read the menus? Holy cow, some of those meals sounded wonderful!
Mom and I had plenty of benches available when we wanted them and I know that you are in much better shape than we are so I am going to assume the benches were placed there by the building owner and not the renters.
That’s when I take my glasses off!
I’m so sorry and I hope you start feeling better sooner rather than later.
As long as you aren’t attracting bugs or extra mice, don’t beat yourself up or stress over it. You have so much going on that a few socks on the floor and dust on the door sills is really very minor.
PM will be sent as soon as I’m done with this post 
You are a very good and understanding wife. The night before the first day can be pretty stressful and worrisome.
I thought that was one of the reasons the internet was invented. Cat pics, porn and arguing for hours with an online stranger over politics.
Do they still do porn movies in theaters? Some friends and I went to see one there once. I don’t remember the name but watching one on the big screen shows just a little too much detail IMHO.
I’m sorry your greenhouse didn’t work for you.
I don’t think it does either, the poor dear. She’s talking to hear your voice, not because she is hearing your words.
My recipe has them chilled over night then rolled in powdered sugar before baking, then rolling them in powdered sugar while they are still molten hot which makes that lovely icing layer. Let them cool for ten minutes and then dredge them in powdered sugar again.
BFF used to take my cookies out of my hands and hide them in her bedroom so people wouldn’t eat them before dinner. She wanted everyone to get them with all of the other deserts so feelings wouldn’t get hurt. I should probably send her a dozen next week.
My main issue with fruit in cookies is that you have to be so very picky to push the fruit under the dough so they don’t burn or dry out.
Well, of course! That’s why Hubs has asked me to not keep too many cookies around, they are just too easy to eat.
I’m the same way once I’m in the door, and isn’t that the strangest thing? I always feel better and keep pushing myself to do four more laps. I sleep better after an hour in the water and my legs don’t twitch in the night, plus my chicken wings have stopped flapping. I have no idea why it is so hard to keep doing it.
Harry just likes my cookies. I’m going to stop over tomorrow and ask the Mrs if there is anything she would like me to bring besides cookies. I make a killer cranberry sauce (adults only) and have many festive butter molds I’d be happy to use.
Hurray for the kitties! Back when I was fundraising, I would always thank folks for their spare change, even if it was just a handful of pennies. It adds up very quickly and being enthusiastically thanked for pennies often made folks come up with a few larger coins as well.
People are not going to believe it was your dog and they will whisper about domestic abuse behind your back. Especially if you end up with a black eye tomorrow morning.
We used to have a bookcase headboard that the cats slept on. One fateful night, one of them rolled off onto my face. Scratches, black eye and swollen nose happened. I told a couple of people the truth and I could see by their faces that they didn’t believe me. After that, I just told folks I’d been in a knife fight with a bear and that the bear lost.
So, figure your cover story out now, cause everyone is going to blame your husband anyhow.
LOL!!! GG and Jolene always love watching “As the Squirrel Turns”.
Was your college theme song also by Nine Inch Nails?
UGH
My post went poof
Congrats MetalMouse
Glad you have a job you like Nettie
{{{FCM and FCD}}}
I was going to suggest FCD get a job with a company like ROVER to get his dog fix. Maybe when he isn’t so tired
It’s been a week, not for me so much.
I didn’t make the funeral Thorsday because my tummy told me, you aren’t going anywhere today, and tomorrow isn’t looking good either.
My phone has been blowing up because
A friend’s BF died. He went to bed fine, and died during the night.
Another friend just caught her husband cheating on her.
My friend whose husband is dying of some kind of brain disease is at his wit’s end
Of course, all I can do is listen. All of them live too far away for me to do anything else.
I will never catch up reading here.
Have you looked into the alphabet nonsense that is CBG, CBD, CBN, and … a whole lots of other stuff?
{ *sends JtC down rabbit hole of research? )
Various hopes about different terpenes being particularly good for inflammation, pain, nausea, ahem lack of appetite, insomnia, etc.
… and do you have access to the various differences?
(P.M. me if you prefer, I can send you more detailed info)