**Red **- sadly, my sis no longer tends bar. For the last year+ she’s been trying to recover from the knee replacement, but for a variety of reasons, including (literally) the way she was born, she’s still in constant pain. She’s on disability now. But I do have a few corks that I bought when I was more active with my pottery - good thought - thanks!
Also - how does one make stock from shrimp shells? I just toss mine, but now I’m intrigued…
We have much rain promised over the next few days. Meanwhile, the grass is getting higher and higher. In one area, I’ll have to weed-whack before I can mow, if it ever dries out enough that I can mow.
It’s kinda cool having **FCD **working from home. He uses me as a sounding board for his designs. My approach to engineering is different from his, so I look at things differently and between the two of us, we do a pretty good job of avoiding pitfalls. His latest project is a pretty good one - this morning’s meeting will be with the customer to see if they approve.
Meanwhile, I have a pile of stuff on my desk, so I don’t have to beg for work. Yay!
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN Tis 73 Amurrkin out and cloudy with a predicted high of 85 and ONLY a sixty percent chance of rain today. Tomorrow is only 50 percent. Who knows, I may yet be able to accomplish mowage. Not today though. Gots to lay in provisions as the larder, while not bare, needs to be replenished. Howzzat for a fancy way of sayin’ I need groceries! Suppage will be decided as I wander the aisles of the Pubic Sto’.
Now I need more caffeine and rumbly tummy demands sustenance. Then purtification must commence as I must be appropriately shevelled to go to the Pubic Sto’. Rah.
Good Morning MMP. Feeling pretty good today, might even do some house cleaning, since I have a re-modeling guy supposed to be visiting tomorrow morning. 74F on the way to 85 today, right now the really severe weather is down south of Birmingham, Ali-bama we’ll see if it makes it’s way north or not.
Either there is a story there, flytrap, or the doctor needs to up your medication…
Mooommm, sounds like you’ve got two jobs now. Hope they remain interesting. Sorry your sister is hurting like that; my Mom had spurs in her neck that gave her continuous pain her last 20 years and it was not fun seeing her that way. Hope she gets proper treatment.
We have that before-the-rain humidity going on today in front of the remnants of the tropical storm that’s heading north. We’ll get the rain today, but we’re just not used to the Gulf moisture this far north.
Getting excited about the our weekend trip to Chicago this weekend! Getting rid of the kids, hanging out with the hubs, going to a show… I can’t wait. But I need to get through the house appraisal on Friday morning first…
One more sleep til vacation! I’m excited to go but feel bad about leaving Ursala Kitteh. She is having a cat sitter (Rachel) so she can stay at home. Last year she lost a little bit of weight while I was gone. That was a good thing. Like me, she carries her weight in her <snerk> butt. Hope she takes a little off this year.
Have fun in Edinburgh WetOne! I loved it. It’s a beautiful town.
Halfway through chivvying children.
Yesterday we heard from the bank that the approval is back on the new house. I just need to send back a few more (ha - like I believe that) papers, and we’re done for now. It’s very surreal.
Otherwise, we’re focusing on finishing the school year here, getting the kids enrolled in their new school, and finishing getting my MiL settled in.
I have procured comestibles. I bought two really nice salmon filets for tonight’s sup. I shall grill the salmon, do some green beans (bought some fresh ones at the sto’) with 'shrooms, onion, garlic and slivered almonds, make parsley baby N.O.T. and bake some rolls. We shall sup good tonight!
I’m doing a pasta bake tonight. I wanted to get fresh green beans yesterday, but they were nasty looking in Food Lion, so I passed. I got some broccoli that I’ll cook up to go with the pasta. I may stop for a loaf of crusty bread, too.
I’m not sure I’ve mentioned it on this thread, but I’m on a keto diet now. There’s evidence that it helps people with chronic migraines. It’s too early to say for me. Your menu made me shiver though. Pasta! Bread! Eek - run away, run away!
Swampy and Moooomm, you’re making me hungry! I get leftovers tonight because I’m working late and the kids will waste away waiting for me. Or so they would lead me to believe.
**Sunny **- my sister is doing keto and being around her this past weekend bordered on obnoxious. I’m beginning to be of the opinion that you keep your diet to yourself, just like you keep other personal stuff personal. That is, if you mention “I’m following <whatever> diet” and no one says “Please, tell me more” then that should be the end of it.
And this isn’t a shot at you - you just provided the opening. I’ve been around far too many people who make a lifestyle change, and they’re out to either convert the world or bitch/brag about their choices. It gets really old hearing “ooooo - that looks so good, but I can’t eat it.” We vacationed once with a couple, and the woman was doing some freaky diet plan where she couldn’t eat this if she ate that or some such silliness. Some goofy food pairing program… For a solid week, that comprised half of the conversations.
OK, end of rant. Seriously, it wasn’t an attack on keto or anyone other plan. It’s just that the obsessiveness of some people makes me crazy.
Some of my Mausers have fixed-stocks ------- but I know what you mean.
In his case it very well could be both.
Hot, humid and storms to follow every afternoon this week. Getting things together for the big history event next week. In other words I picked a bad day to have to crawl into the attic.
It’s another not so hot day, no AC yet but the fan stays on 24/7.
I woke too early and fell back asleep.
When I woke up I saw I had a scary email from irk saying that I had missed a significant number of calls. I panicked, typed a response, went out online to check my irk phone settings, very upsetting. After all that I got an email saying to ignore the previous email because it was sent to everybody by mistake.
I have to go out today to pick up a script, why the store didn’t fill it at the same time as my other scripts I don’t know. PITA to have to make two trips, but at least the window should be fixed by now so I don’t have to go in. I’m waiting for my son to get up so I can get a shower and go. I should have crate trained Ripple but I didn’t and he can’t be trusted ‘alone’ in the house yet. I can’t take him i the bathroom with me because he still likes to grab the end of the toilet paper and run with it.
If I knew for sure I could use the window, I’d just go without showering first, but you never know.
Red If I saved the shrimp shells I would end up with a freezer full of shrimp shells that would never be used.
I’m going to grab my irk phone and go sit outside for a bit. Ripple is full of energy today and driving me crazy.
He can go chase some squirrels for a while.
Hey there! I thought I’d pop in. I read here but rarely post.
I’m glad to see your wife is okay, Bumba. That must have been a bit nerve wracking. I’m sorry the meds are so expensive; I sure you hope you find a less expensive alternative.
Not much going on in my little corner of the world. I still work, the dogs still keeps us entertained and loved, my kids are doing great, and my daughter’s baby bump is growing large. She’s 25 weeks along, but looks bigger because she’s so darn tiny.
Also, I have lost my charter membership because I failed to re-up in time. Tried to do it from work, but the stupid security here made it impossible. I gave up, telling myself I’d do it at home and then completely spaced. Ah well; I don’t post here often, but I like keeping up with my MMP OG (original gang).
Finally back from the camping trip. Very relaxing, though it wound up going on a bit longer than planned- I went on the train, and just trusted to getting a lift back most of the way, as the train was so expensive unless one got very lucky with advance tickets (as I did on the way down).
Turned out the only person with car space was staying an extra day for pack down, so I helped with that, and didn’t even leave site til Tuesday afternoon (the event finished midday Monday), after having to jumpstart the car. Then it was so late by the time we got to his place that I stayed over rather than try and get the 2am coach back, which drops off something like 5 miles from the house, long after the last bus of the night… The 20 minute taxi back would cost more than the 4 hour coach to get there.
So I’ve only just got back, ver’ tahred, and everything could do with a wash.
I wish I could have a relaxing lie in tomorrow, but alas, the car windscreen got cracked last week, and someone’s coming between 9am-2pm tomorrow to replace it. However, that and irking Fridays plus the odd extra day is pretty much all I have planned now for the next three months. It’s a long time since I had summer break, and I’m rather confused as to what to do with it.
Suppage will be decided as I wander the aisles of the Pubic Sto’.
