Here’s the cherry glop recipe for your tasting pleasure. It’s RIDICULOUSLY sweet. Everytime I eat it, it’s like eating a mouthful of summer. That, BBQ chicken and corn casserole send me back to childhood in the summertime.
Crust:
1 cup flour
1 stick butter, softened
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 cup chopped pecans
Mix all the above together & press into a 9x13 pan. Bake on 350 for 15 minutes, then cool.
Thanks MetalMouse. When I brought in the bridal registry yesterday and was mentioning what I was thinking about buying, one of the guys said ‘why don’t you just get a gift card’? MEN!!! The Manager had an out-of-office meeting this morning. I was excitedly telling the guys about what I bought; the only thing that they reacted to was that I had saved $109+. I know that at least the bride will like the gifts since they were on her registry and when a wife is happy then the husband is happy; or so I’ve heard.
Hope your books enjoyed seeing a bit of the country
Sari, I agree with MetalMouse, you are the parent and as such, ‘the boss’. If a puppy would be good for your mental health, by all means, Go For It!
Niner You worked very hard for your degrees, you deserve a dream job. YOLO!!! GO for it!
I have found that glasses screws come in about 100 kinds. Glasses repair kits contain about 5 kinds.
The odds that the kit screw you wedge into your frames will be the right one are pretty low. And once you’ve damaged the teensy weensy threads in the frame, you’re screwed. Or at least your glasses are screwed. Or at least your glasses won’t ever be properly screwed again and so will keep falling apart. At which point you are screwed.
So you see, it’s s screwed-up situation no matter how you look at it.
That was one of the good things about working in the bakery – the first pan of chocolate chip cookies would disappear as soon as they were cool enough to eat.
Wasn’t shoe one of those who said they don’t wear a bra to the store?
Finished planting last night. We now have chives, oregano, basil, sage, rosemary and thyme in the window boxes, plus peas, green beans, radishes, strawberries, onions, two kinds of summer squash (yellow and green), pumpkins, lettuce, four varieties of tomatoes, bell peppers, four varieties of hot peppers, peppermint, and catnip. And the waiting begins…
Our part-time next-door neighbour has natural gas. We don’t. So I called the gas company yesterday to see if they could pipe us in. I’ve just received this reply [bracketed parts mine]:
Our gas main ends at the S property corner of [neighbour’s address]. Your neighbor [there] has a split service with [the house on the other side of him]. Unfortunately, we cannot split a service line a third time so in order to get gas to your home we would need to do a main extension of about ~60-70 FT to get to your property and then an additional ~50-60 FT service line to get to you home. The cost would be around 4-6K depending on site conditions.
Four to six kilobucks is out of the question right now. We really need to bring the funky electrical system up to code, so that would be a higher priority. I won’t be cooking with gas anytime soon.
Howdy Y’all! Provisions and fried chikin N.O.L.s were procured. Provisions were stowed and vittles got et up. Nappage was then achieved. No word from the guy’s insurance company. They were supposed to call me today to set things up. I may have to go all Karen on them tomorrow.
Niner I say go after the dream gig. Since you gotta irk might as well be at a job you like.
RealFish BtY deserves to be in some hot water for that. He needs to learn and has chosen to learn the hard way it seems.
Quilt update: Month three’s block has been challenging but I finally got my test block to work out. I took this thing apart and resewed it five times, occasionally scrapping the pieces and recutting them:
I need to make eight of these using the real fabric before May 13th. There are total of twenty four using this pattern but different fabrics so I will likely be working on this block til august.
(yes, I know that the top black square is a touch too far to the left, but this is just the test block. I know how to correct this small mistake in the real block)
You’ll be pleased to know that for me at least the error went completely unnoticed until you pointed it out! I really love the way it looks. The color, the fabric print, the geometric layout… It’s extremely pleasing to the eye.
(I can’t remember the last time I was in a Wal-Mart.)
I grew up with natural gas, and had it everywhere I lived in SoCal… until I moved up here to Washington. I don’t care for propane heating, since we’re run out of propane more than once. (The last time, a month and a half ago, they put a monitor on the gauge. They refilled it yesterday.) And I prefer a gas range to cook on.
Grandspawns have been returned to their mother and I got home before the rain started. FCD didn’t want supper so I finished off a small sack o’ravioli. Chillage shall ensue.
I’ve read everything but my brain is in sieve mode, so pretend I responded appropriately to whatever you said.
Agree 100% with everything you say. I’ve not been able to have a gas stove since 2012. I miss it. I too am substantially never a Wal*Mart shopper. Much to my amazement Her Ladyship is a fan of at least some of their products.
I think it’s a very well-done piece that will look beautiful when you’ve got a bunch of them. You can be rightly proud of the skill that took. It shows.
And unlike some folks, the gap where the black square doesn’t touch the gray diagonal jumps out at me something fierce. As you say it’s a straightforward fix next time but not worth reworking this one. As well, a small glitch that stands out in one square is much less obvious in an assembled quilt.
If you really want us to get all judgy, be sure to set the finished piece square and taut versus the printed grid on your cutting mat before you take the next pic. Then we’ll really break out the micrometers and the stitch counters.
bumba I’m surprised your Roku remotes don’t talk to the audio etc. I’ve got a Roku stick that will turn everything on and off. I fact I’m in a hotel for this install and brought it along and it will turn the TV on. (I do need to then use the hotel’s remote to change inputs, but at home it work just fine.)
The install is going well, except for a graphics screw-up that put us back a day. I will have to do some minor gymnastics to install the biig title sign not being able to use scaffolding.
Read much, retained little, I’m putting in 10m hour days and am pretty darn tired.
Hope y’all’s weeks go better. Even y’all that are having good ones, hope they get better too.
I’ve had a heavy-duty component video cord that has sat unused for years. I decided I’d get a component-to-HDMI converter to hook up the VCR. The converter came today. The VCR only has the three RCA jacks on it. Oh, well. I ordered an RCA-to-HDMI converter. Apparently, that converter uses USB for power. There are two USB jacks on the back of the TV.
In other news: There’s a tree hanging over wires and the roadway a couple/few miles from here. I called PSE a month and a half or so ago. They said the ‘power lines’ didn’t belong to them. They are cable lines for Ziply Fiber, so it’s not PSE’s problem. I tried to contact Ziply, but never heard back from them. Today I contacted Whatcom County. They said the road is under the jurisdiction of the Washington State Dept of Transportation.
We don’t live in the area where the tree overhangs the wires and the roadway.
We don’t use Ziply.
I’ve made three attempts to bring the hazard to someone’s attention.
At this point, I say let the chip… erm, tree… fall where it may. As long as I’m not under it when it falls, it’s not my concern.
I don’t know either, but they aren’t the latest generation, so it may be that, or maybe they just don’t like Samsung TVs.
Just remembered something else I don’t like about Roku remotes; They go through batteries at an alarming rate. That’s why I buy the great big pack o’ batteries at Costco.
Flyboy, If recent events here in Orygun are any indication, Washington state may ban installation of new gas stoves in the near future. Or not. Politicians work in mysterious ways, their wonders to perform.
