What’s the matter, they were out of avacado orange and kiwi grape? 
I still say the ceiling looks like baby butt pink and the wall looks like bordello hot pink.
Obviously my life calling was to create color charts and I missed it. 
Puggy glad everything’s ok. Looks like Lisa is headed out to sea and won’t touch land. Let’s all blow real hard.
Bailey the Wonder-Kitty doesn’t want me to post. He’s sitting on the mousepad flicking at me with his tail. That’s why this post is short.
You got it! I’m blowing so hard I’m hyperventilating!
Bailey just wants you off the computer so you can go lay down and get better Lissla. He worries about you like we do, but he lives with you so he can flick you with his tail. If I lived with you, I’d flick you with my tail until you got off the computer and went to lie down so you could get better from your cough.
If I had a tail, that is.
Kipper the Wonder-Kitty does that. She sits on the mouse pad, right over the mouse (with the mouse sort of between and behind her front paws) and flicks her tail at me. She gets this really baleful look on her face. I have to pet her and scratch her ears and tell her she’s the Prettiest Kitty In All The World before she lets me have the mouse back.
Well, the wall may be spicey curry, but the ceiling is pink. However, I don’t think it is baby butt pink (although its been a while since I saw a baby’s butt), it looks more like one of the many shades (tones?) of Barbie Pink to me.
My dream remodeling (outside) is to put down a concrete/tile/brick or some such patio over half of the backyard, although I could be talked into a wooden deck if someone convinced me the upkeep was just as easy (plus if I sell the place and the new people wanted more lawn, a deck is easier to remove). On the patio/deck would be a hot tub, maybe in its own little gazebo for added privacy. Except I kinda don’t want a roof 'cuz sitting in a hot tub in the rain is so very cool. One of the windows in my bedroom would be made into a door for direct access to said hot tub. This may someday actually be within my budgeting capacity.
The dream remodeling (inside) is to raise the roof on the back part of the house even more ('cuz my house is a one and a half story house) so that the room upstairs, which runs the entire length of the house, could have a higher ceiling and width, making it into two truly full size rooms instead of a kid size room. And I’d add a bathroom upstairs as well, and if possible, make the stairs less steep. This will never happen, unless I marry an eccentric millionaire who wants remodel this house before we buy another house.
And nothing will be painted pink. Or even spicey curry.
That is incredibly sweet, Rue. Aww. Thank you.
I am getting better. I only had two major gag-reflex-inducing coughing fits last night. Aren’t you glad?
Going to buy kitty food, and then have a nap. FCM, you realise, with all your remodeling, you’re spoiling a rare example of Totally Ugly housing. You should have preserved it- eventually it could have been a historical site! I like the floor, though.
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Well, the wall may be spicey curry, but the ceiling is pink. However, I don’t think it is baby butt pink (although its been a while since I saw a baby’s butt), it looks more like one of the many shades (tones?) of Barbie Pink to me.
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Ahem, tints are colors mixed with white, shades are colors mixed with black or another dark color, tone is a color mixed with grey. Yeah, pretty useful, the stuff I know.
My big news for today is that I’m getting a new dishwasher. The one I have now is ancient and generally just moistened the dishes rather than washing them, so I dance a very happy dance of anticipation.
Yesterday I watered my rue plant. It was thirsty. Yer welcome big Rue.
Well, to be honest, the ceiling does look kinda pinky on my monitor too, but it’s actually more orangy-bronzey in person, and the wall was supposed to be kinda a brick red color, but when it dried it had a little more blue in it than that. Anyway, it looks prety darned good in person, not that I’m offerin’ tours or anything you unnerstan’.
It’s called DuraCeramic. Looks like ceramic but it’s a composite. Kinder on the feet, for certain.
Just pointing out that it will be my birthday next Wednesday, so everyone should have already bought me presents, and be ready to ship them out. I am looking for Trader Joe’s triple ginger snaps, chocolate, a KitchenAid mixer, kittens, money, Everclear, a new vacuum cleaner, and lots of love.
Great.
You are all sending me presents, right?
Well… I have both kittens and Everclear but I don’t think they’ll ship very well.
Either together or separately.
(The loverly cobalt blue KitchenAid mixer is mine.)
Yeah, sure, you got it. I’m sending you presents in the same box you sent me presents. Yep. For sure.
I think I may go up to Trader Joe’s this weekend and get some triple ginger snaps. I don’t like them, but I bet they’d go fast if I left them in the break room. It’s nice to live so close, so very, very close to a Trader Joe’s so I can get good stuf so easily. Really, really easily. Why, it’s almost as easy as stopping by the post office to mail stuff. Hmmm, what do you know?
Did y’all know that Campbell’s [sup]TM[/sup] makes a Cream of Chicken and Mushroom Soup? Yep. Cream of chicken and cream of mushroom all together in one can! Well, chicken and mushroom bits in the cream of stuff all in one can. I think you get the same amount of cream of stuff but it’s about half chicken bits and half mushroom bits. I was so fascinated, I bought some. Maybe I’ll make some squash dressing with it. A CBG likes the squash dressing. Yuck, you say? I’ll have you know it’s delicious! A CBG must be one of those people who will eat anything you say? Well, he did put beets (ICK!) on his salad at a salad bar the other night, so that might be so, but never you mind! He likes squash dressing, so there!
Squash Dressing:
Cornbread (oh, just make a pan of it. I use an iron skillet myself. Just follow the directions on the bag of cornmeal to make it. Geez, do I have to do everything around here!)
3 cups of cooked summer squash with onion (the yellow kind. Geez! Don’t you people know anything!)
1 can of cream of mushroom soup (or cream of chicken, I did it by mistake once and it tasted the same, or the fascinating chicken/mushroom cream of stuff)
Some celery if ya want
Salt and pepper to taste
Some extra onion if ya want
Heck, clean out the fridge and dump it all in for all I care (don’t really do this cause this ain’t an actual ingredient)
Mix it all up and bake it at 325 degrees (or what ever that Celsius thing that means the same thing is. Look it up! Take some initiative will ya!) for 30-40 minutes. It supposed to be kinda bubbly and a little brownish on top but not to brownish. You got enough sense to know when it’s done. Sheesh!
Feed it to family and friends and listen to em carry on about how good it is and how wonderful you are to make such a special dish just for them.
It’s good and it’s a yellow veggie which you need. Just eat it already!
-swampbear (I should publish a cookbook. I’ll call it “The Grouchy Cook”)
Mmmm, me gonna print that recipe out and try it. Sounds right yummy! Did you know that the cream o chick & shrooms soup also makes a first class pot roast? I use an eye round roast with it and just seal it all up in some 'luminumum foil and slow cook it for a while. You can also splash in some vino if ya want.
ashes, thanks for larnin’ me sumpin. I like it when I larn sumpin here. 
liss, well I can certainly cyber ship a big ol box o luv {{{{{liss}}}}
Anybody watch the PBS Nova special Origins? It was on our local PBS last night. Really fascinating stuff and great visuals.
Tupug (Larnin’ up a hurricane)
Well of course I knew that cream of chicks and shrooms makes for a good pot roast puggy. So does cream of celery. I do it in the crock pot. Well, not “it”, sheesh people! Whatta bunch of dirty minds! I make a good pot roast in the crock pot. What? It’s a roast in a pot. What else does a pot roast gotta be? Quit lookin’ at me like that.
I’m going to visit a certain someone tonight. We’re having pizza. It’s delivery not DiGiorno, or however you spell it. Well, it ain’t gonna be delivery cause we’re gettin’ kickin’ chicken pizza from the Harvest Moon and ya gotta go pick that up. Well, CBG does, since he’s ordering it. I’m bringing beer though, cause I’m all helpful like that.
I couldn’t decide which to send you for your birthday Lissla, the money or the kitten. So I combined them. I got you mittens!
I make our pot roast in the crockpot too Swampy. I’ll toss in an envelope of Lipton’s beefy onion soup mix (and water) plus whatever else I think of at the time and just let to cook and cook. When it’s just falling apart, I’ll shred it up and make sammiches outta it. It’s real good. As an added bonus, you can throw some carrots in to soak up the juices and they get good too.
Don’t forget the taters Rue. Gotta toss some taters in with the carrots. Oh, you’re doing that Atkins thing? Well, throw some taters in anyways. Soupo and Katcha gotta eat too and they don’t need Atkins. Jeez! Poor kids never get taters anymore. If ya toss in some onions too, you can put em on top of the pot roast in sammiches. YUMMMMMMMMMM!!!
-swampbear (guess I need to see if I have a beef roast in the freezer. I want pot roast now)
Don’t forget to bring the cockies, too.
Talking of taters, I made some homemade smashed taters the other night to go with a turkey boob I roasted.
Hand mashed them, so they were lumpy. Potato water, lotsa butter, and milk, with some garlic thrown in at smashing time. Mmmm, mmm, good, and I’m not that big of a potato eater.
I like my smashed taters lumpy, because that means they’re homemade. My Mom jumped all over my butt one time when I mentioned that, because she thought I was insulting her smashed taters. No, Mom, I’m insulting all those homogenized, industrial, lifeless, and tasteless wads of starch I’ve eaten in school and company ralphaterias when I wasn’t at your table.