Here’s one suggestion, Doggio! (Just the first one, really, I’m sure the rest are taken care of…)
My daughter texted me this morning–they want to go out and cut down a tree on Mt Hood and were planning on making a little family outing out of it but a friend of hers heard about it and totally invited herself and her boyfriend along, apparently she does this a LOT. I told my dear daughter that “no” is your friend and it gets easier the more you use it. She’s such a people pleaser it’s really hard for her to take a stand and back someone off–she needs to get mean like her momma!
Yawn… oooh, coffee! Yes please! I’m heading up to my partner’s house to help him paint today, I need all the caffeine I can get!
You’re darn tootin’ – I may be crazy, but I’m not stupid!
I am here today. That’s about the best I can do. It’s bright and sunny out, but very windy; Papa Tigs wants to go out and rake and bag leaves. I think they’ll just blow all over everywhere, although I haven’t said that to him. We shall see. We have no big trees in our yard, but there are several huge neighbors’ trees right up against the fence line, so we get lots of leaves anyway. Except for last year – somehow the winds were just right at the right time and we ended up with virtually no leaves in our yard. Hmm, maybe today’s breeze can do the same thing. Neither of us would object!
The basement apartment at Moooom’s is really beautiful, and I am insanely jealous of the hyooooge closet, with a window, even. The young’uns are lucky to have such a nice place all for them! Even if the bedroom is really, really, really green. But hey, if they like it…and it would be like sleeping in a lovely dark cave.
Not much else is happening here, I hope, except for some work and some knitting. Wish me luck with both, I’m going to need it – I’ve got a bad case of the Don’t Wannas today.
We had a nice time at the neighbor’s 99 party last night. We didn’t win any money this time, but them’s the breaks.
The apt looks nice, FCM.
No snow here, just rain.
We’ve already given our son his birthday present. We wanted to make sure he could use it today when they go paintballing. We bought him a compressed air tanks for his paintball gun. Those CO2 tanks are not good for the guns. His first gun has gotten pretty messed up from the tank. So, we went with the compressed air. He now has two guns, two masks, and two tanks; though I’m sure the CO2 tank will be retired.
My daughter bought him a new thermal face mask for his birthday. She wanted him to unwrap the present when he unwrapped ours. She’s not home; stayed with the boyfriend last night.:dubious:
Well, my nephew should be here soon. They’re getting here a little later than they planned because apparently they spent the night in the ER with my BiL. I guess he was really sick, but I don’t know the details.
I guess I should get myself cleaned up. After they all leave, I have to tidy the house and get stuff put together for the little icecream cake affair this afternoon.
OK, I just had to share this. When I was in the 3rd grade, we had to write a history book from the beginning of time to Columbus discovering America. I came across this book as I was cleaning, and this pagein particular tickled her. If you select Full Size, you’ll be able to read it. It’s a masterpiece!!
Very cute! And both excellent cursive as well as excellent writing. Heck, you were writing better in third grade than a lot of college graduates these days. :dubious:
Papa Tigs persuaded me, and we went out and picked up the leaves in the front yard. Sort of – we got the worst of the big piles. We’ve still got one more big pile on the side of the house, and the yard still needs some raking up to get the last bits, but it’s windy enough it was fairly pointless to try to be too thorough. Man, that’s a nippy wind chill, though, feels like about 20°F/-7°C. My face is half frozen. I was sorry I haven’t quite finished SIL’s hat – I would have given it a good test run!
I can’t take a whole lot of credit for the writing. I have memories of reading encyclopedia articles and using them as a guide for my book. I didn’t copy - my mother would have flayed me, and she did check - but my writing style is very much influenced by what I read - especially if I’m reading as I write.
I’d scan and post the whole thing, but it’s pretty long. Plus I’m now crushed - my daughter informed me that when Sister Timothy graded it, she didn’t read it all - she just randomly skimmed, then assigned grades based on that. :eek: Well, there were 50 or 60 kids in the class (bear in mind - Catholic school in the thick of the baby boom - the classrooms were packed in our community) so she’d never get them graded. Except, what else does a nun have to do??
Sister Timothy left the convent the next year. I wonder why??
Pizza Fairy is cooking supper - daughter is picking it up right now. I didn’t get anything else done in the green room - just lost my motivation. But I did a couple of loads of laundry and tidied the kitchen, and wrapped my Secret Santa package for mailing. One Doper is getting a southern Merrylande sampler.
Can’t believe I have to go to work again tomorrow. Work sucks. <sigh>
Poor Papa Tigs, he just spent half an hour hunting high and low for the blender, with no luck whatsoever. Crappy small house with no decent storage. So he finally gave up and is running out to get a new one. You just know the old one will immediately turn up.
::blinks:: I don’t know what to make of that post, but thanks for the link to it, Wallflower.
I forgot to post the recipe for the mushroom barley beef stew I made, so here it is:
4 beef short ribs, seasoned & browned in veggie oil
1 whole onion sliced in crescents
1 stalk of celery, chopped
1 lb. of mushrooms, sliced
2-3 cloves of garlic or to taste
2-3 fresh carrots, sliced
1/2 cup frozen veggies mix (I used peas & carrots); add later
2 cups of no-sodium beef broth
2 cups of water
3/4 cup medium pearl barley
I browned the short ribs, which I’d gotten on sale Friday afternoon at the grocery store, in some veggie oil, after seasoning them first with salt-free blends that I like. I then sauteed the onion, celery and mushrooms in the same pan, after sliding the browned ribs into my crock pot. While those veggies were cooking, I sliced up the fresh carrots and added them to the crock pot, to which I added the onion/celery/mushroom melange, then added the 4 cups of liquid. You could make all 4 cups beef broth, if you wanted. You will also probably need to add between 1/2 and a full cup of water during the cooking process, depending on how thick you like it; I was pleased with a stew-like consistency. Lastly, I added 3/4 cup of barley, then put the lid on the pot and turned it on to low. I did stir things a couple of times during the 5-6 hours it cook, plus I added a bit more water to thin it out some. The frozen peas and carrots were added with just an hour left to cook. I served it with buttered bread and it was delicious.
Actually, not to take anything away from the guy who posted the early MMP - but his OP sounds like it would go over much better in one of the more intellectual discussion forums - or possibly the pit the way some of these folk (dopers in general, not mumpers) get over religion
So in your history, cavemen drew crude pictures on their cave walls. Interestin’…
So he finally gave up and is running out to get a new one. You just know the old one will immediately turn up. 
