Breakfast burrito time!
"Ketchup is destructive of all that is right and just about a properly assembled hot dog " -Cecil Adams
Yes it is/was
Good morning everyone.
It’s currently a refreshing 56 degrees and sunny with an expected high of 93. The sprinkler is watering my back lawn.
Yesterday, I trimmed a bunch of shrubs and bushes and weeded the front and front side yard. I need to hit the side of the yard by the driveway and I’ll be done with the front for a bit. I also need to cut some sod out of the front bed next to the front porch. It’s really encroached into the garden.
My son is going to come up and hang out with us today and it’ll be nice to see him.
I hope Roxy is feeling better, FCM. I also hope that you and FCD get some RELAXATION in today. Jeesh!
shoe, I’m glad to see your appetite and sense of well-being are returning.
I’m not a fan of hot dogs. They all taste salty to me. I didn’t use to mind them, but now I just refuse to eat them. I think the husband just made too many hot dogs and I reached my limit.
But, back in the day, my mother boiled them and that’s how we ate them. I think it was because she would boil all the sausages from the german deli before frying or grilling them because those sausages were raw, and by boiling them a little bit, they didn’t dry out in the pan or on the grill.
Well, it’s time for another cup of coffee and then I’ll push the roll-suck around because Polar is trying to grow little mini-mes.
But we don’t expect any soft rains.
I don’t get the attitude about ketchup on hot dogs. That’s how I take mine. I don’t force anyone else to eat them that way, and I don’t think it’s anyone’s business that I prefer them that way. It’s just a stoopit hot dog!!
Speaking of stoopit, I just watched an adaptation of Mansfield Park, and it was way too modernized to be any good. I hate when period pieces are rewritten with modern subplots. It’s so wrong. I’m having lunch and trying to decide if I’ll do a chore or watch more Netflix… Chillage is good.
Probably because A) It’s easy; and B) Because that’s how it was done when she was a child. I too, usually had boiled hot dogs as a kid. (The ones at the elementary school cafeteria looked green, floating in the water.) I prefer quarter-pound hot dogs split in half and grilled on cast iron, or cooked uncut on the barbie.
I grew up eating boiled hot dogs, too. My mother was not a good cook, sadly, unless it involved chocolate. She was fantastic with chocolate.
Nowadays I grill the big fat hot dawgs, or sausages, on the grill whenever possible.
It’s supposed to get to 98f today, so sometime before this afternoon I need to mow the back yard. (I mowed the front Friday). It’ll take all of 10 minutes. I think I can manage it.
Howdy all. I eat boiled hotdogs but prefer them grilled. I also use ketchup and mustard and copious amount of onions. No fake nails for me. I had them once and loved them but when it was all said and done they made my natural nails thin like paper so no more. I can’t stand them long at all.
I have a chirping smoke detector and it’s too high to take it down so I guess I’ll go crazy.
Too bad about phone Cookie. Yay for new nice boss Shoe. Hoping Roxie feels better soonest Moommm. Metal Mouse where is it you get your weekly sub? I had a half one the other day from Jersey Mikes and it was the best sub I have ever had.
I awoke all snuffly and with a headache. I considered doing a rona test but I honestly have not been around anyone that I can remember. I want chicken soup though so I shall have to make it. I have frozen chick bird so I may use the instant pot to speed it along. Can’t believe I don’t have a can of chicken soup here.
I did more gardening yesterday so my back and knees are sore. I now have about 400sq feet of flower beds out back and many, many pots out front.
Have a great Sunday everyone.
In honor of this thread, I just had a hot dog for pre-work lunch: microwaved, raw bun, with ketchup.
Woulda added onion, but didn’t want to “start” a whole fresh one just for a few slivers. Totally shoulda, though.
let the pearl clutchin’ begin!
Making an appearance in this week’s MMP just under the wire… *phew*! 
I grew up with and prefer boiled (or nuked) hot dogs. Mustard only, if not nekkid.
As always, I’ve read everything. I almost definitely don’t remember everything, so I’ll give two particular shout-outs while hoping that I haven’t overlooked anyone:
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wetone: I’ll be thinking of you on Wednesday…
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shoe: yay for the new job and for feeling better!
On Tuesday evening I went to my first in-person bariatric support group meeting. There were only three of us (plus the nurse practitioner who moderates the group, and who also had surgery 11 years ago), but it was really nice to get to be face-to-face with them! The in-person meetings will happen on the first Tuesday of every month (Zoom meetings will continue every third Tuesday), and we’re hoping that more people will gradually start attending. I know the location could be an issue for some folks: it’s only 20-25 minutes from me, but if it were much farther I probably wouldn’t go. In other surgery-related news, I discovered that one of my co-workers is also a member of the bariatric center’s FB group! Turns out she had a sleeve gastrectomy in 2016. Such a small world.
Yesterday I had lunch with a woman I hadn’t seen since 1988 – when she was one of my HS teachers! She was one of those teachers for me, and I’ve been glad that FB has allowed us to stay connected. About a month ago I’d offered to help her with something at her house: she found someone local who was available, but we decided to set up a lunch. She lives in Baltimore, and we met at a Panera roughly halfway between us (in Laurel, MD). We wound up talking for 3.5 hours! 
She was a young teacher – only 12 years older than us – and it was great to connect with her as two adults.
I don’t regret spending that much time with her but it was unexpected, and – combined with the inevitable accident on I-495 on the way home – threw off my plans for the rest of the day. At first I was going to head back to (roughly the same part of) Maryland at around 6:30pm to hear a friend sing at an outdoor jazz thing, but by the time I got near home it was already after 4pm, I was dreading another trip around I-495, and my eating/supplement schedule was way off. So, I decided to skip the jazz. I was also craving strawberries, so I stopped at the grocery store, and I didn’t walk back through my front door until shortly after 5pm (I’d left the house at 10:45am).
I felt a little bad about missing my friend’s show, but it was nice to spend the rest of the evening/night on the couch with Bailey. I caught up on some streaming shows, and ended the night by watching a few innings of baseball. At first I turned the Nationals game on, but they were getting shellacked (natch) so I switched to the Yankees game. We lost, too, but only 0-1…our first shutout in years!
This coming week will be a little different. My best friend has some mobility issues (including not being able to drive), and her husband and son are going out of town for a week: she’s mostly self-sufficient but could use a couple of trips to her community pool (in lieu of her usual PT), etc., so I’m gonna work from her house a few days. It’ll be easier to take her places, and I’ll be able to help around the house in general while I’m there. Right now I’m thinking that I’ll go there T/W/TH, so I only have to set up all of my work stuff once; we’re going to talk sometime this afternoon and figure out the details. It’ll be nice to spend some time with her (even if mostly she’s upstairs in her home office while I’m downstairs at her dining room table), and I’m looking forward to the change of pace/change of scenery.
Waiting for a Costco order via Instacart. If it arrives before it gets hot enough to melt the sidewalk, I’d like to go for a stroll, since today is my no-workout day.
Honestly, you’re fine as long as you don’t order one with ketchup in a Chicago restaurant(or put ketchup on an Italian beef sandwich, which might get you arrested.) Cecil the Wise said,
Ketchup smothers the flavor of the hot dog because ketchup makers add sugar to their products. That takes the edge off the highly acidic tomatoes, but it takes the edge off everything else, too. Which is exactly why a lot of parents like it, according to Mel Plotsky, sales manager for the David Berg hot dog company in Chicago. (Chicago is one of the hot dog’s holy cities.) Put ketchup on it and a kid will swallow anything — and from there it’s a straight shot to Velveeta cheese, Franco-American spaghetti, and Deborah Norville.
Wow, Deborah Norville…Hello, 1989! I was born and raised in Chicago, but unlike that wild, daring WetOne, have hewed the no-ketchup line. (My parents also decried ketchup on steak.) I did have ketchup on a hot dog at a birthday party when I was 7. After I took a bite, it looked like a severed body part, which grossed me out and sealed the no-ketchup deal. But hey, people put all kinds of weird stuff on food, including ranch dressing on pizza. To each her own. I just wince and look away, and I’m working on that wince.
That’s all that really matters, right? 
So Butters, when you wore fake nails, did you have to learn how to type and such with them on? Was it like learning to walk in high heels? I’m in awe of people who can wear them and use their fingers. I hope you feel better. A headache and snuffles sounds miserable.
Oopsie, bless you for having lunch with that wonderful teacher. I’m sure it meant the world to her. You know, you teach kids and care about them and send them on their way, but you don’t forget them. To take all that time with her and to let her know she’s not forgotten and made a huge difference in your life is pure gold. You’re a good person.
FCM, the cinnamon roll apple pie recipe sounds wonderful! How is Roxy today, do you know?
Haven’t talked to my daughter today, but I’m of the no news is good news line of thinking. Roxy is probably driving her grandma crazy!!
I was watching a mini-series version of Persuasion but I kept falling asleep! So not a very compelling performance. Plus the sound wasn’t done well - you could pretty much tell when an actor got our of range of the microphones. I gave up less than halfway thru it. Shortly, I’ll go find something else to watch, I’m sure. I just went outside and it’s freekin’ hot out there. So much for yard work! 
I either steam my hot dogs or grill them over charcoal, and eat them with either mustard, relish and onions or chili cheese and onions.
I do not have a thing against anyone cooking and eating hot dogs with ketchup or any other condiment, it just isn’t to my taste.
I am never going to give up hand sewing, but as a quilter I just made a commitment to my hobby:
SWMBO saw a commercial for a breakfast buffet at the Nooksack Northwood Casino, so that’s where we went for breakfast. It’s about a half-hour drive, and we got there not long after they opened at 10:00. I loaded up on the proteins: Roast beef hash (Good: It was more meat than potatoes; Bad: It wasn’t corned beef hash), three links, five rashers, scrambled eggs, and their version of eggs Benedict (half a biscuit with ham, runny egg, and gravy). I went back for a biscuit and gravy. The biscuit was good and buttery. The gravy was not the brand of packet gravy I buy, and it wasn’t great.
Anyway, we got a bigger breakfast than we usually eat, I don’t think I went too crazy with the carbohydrates, and we had a nice drive.
nice that’s at least 300 or 400 $?
Bernina makes a superior machine, but they are quite expensive.
I paid $1200.00 for it.
oh wow i knew they were expensive when when my aunt looked at one years ago they weren’t that much yet
hippie, at that price, hope you get a long life out of the machine.
I am not entering the Great Wiener Debate, simply because I don’t think I’ve eaten a hot dog in 12-15 years.
And that’s the place I go to for my Moanday sub. Vastly better than Subway and beats Jimmy John’s hands-down, albeit JJ’s has a good roll.
Weather is holding so I really do need to mow the lawn, clippings are picked up on Mondays here, but it’s 93F outside and I have a bad case of the Dontwannas…maybe wait until later this evening…
OK, all y’all take care. I think nappage may be in my near future (Olive Garden tends to do that to me…)
i want firehouse subs…
My wife started out with the basic Bernina (this is the base model) thirty years ago. They hold their value well. She has traded up twice and now has the top of the line quilting machine. She has never had a problem with any of them.