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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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taters, even if your hubby fills up his C-pap in the morning, he would likely wake you up by flinging himself into bed. Like others, I would recommend a better bed in the guest room.

oopsie, we did a celebration last October for my dad’s 85th. Four of five of us were able to get together and he really enjoyed it. Here’s hoping that your dad enjoys his 75th as much.

Did some serious sloth, day drinkin’ and messing around in the studio today. We also went to the dog park after lunch. Gotta go to bed early tonight since I’ll be back to irk tomorrow.

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DH decided that catnip was a good idea. Buddy is indifferent to it, Allie loves it. Yes, at least one is shedding all over the blanket. We’re used to it. :slight_smile:

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I shopped, I cleaned, I took a nap, and listened to the lump under the sheets gurgle and snore. Time for bacon cheeseburgers and an Old Fashioned. :hamburger: :tumbler_glass:

Well, it was 4 windows and a sliding glass door, so it was only 15 minutes of wasted sloth. And yeah, ground floor. I wouldn’t try it if I was on the 3rd floor.

Alex Catt love catnip. One St. Patrick’s Day/Gotcha Day she had waaaayyy too much, hornked, and had a three day hangover. Which is about normal for a St. Patrick’s day/Gotcha Day. :wink:

When the complex changed out all the windows, I found out Gordie could bark for 6 hours straight. :roll_eyes: Hope the vet can help Ripple with the leg.

Of course not. I prefer a chainsaw. :smiley:

Happy to your mom, Godbod

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Birthday sup was a success if’n I do say so myself. We like waffles made with Jiffy corn muffin mix. Yes we be weird, but it makes a tasty waffle. I even cleanded up the kitchen all by myself. We had some ice cream cake earlier this afternoon. Another piece may be callin’ in a while, or not. I can still taste the maple syrup from my waffle. Real maple syrup is spendy, but worth it for the mapley goodness.

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Evening, everyone. Just got back from my previously posted festivities. After we had pizza, we went to Festival Foods and got various dessert foods, such as macarons and cannolis (I wasn’t a big fan of the latter).

I enjoyed The Fabelmans quite a lot. I was very confused about what was going on at first, as I went into it pretty much completely blind, but as I put the pieces of the plot together I came to really enjoy it. I recommend you all check it out.

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I wish I could come. Those elements are my favorite breakfast. If only there was a way to fit in sausage gravy.

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I would bring or make a cake too. Does the birthday boy like chocolate?

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On the scrambled eggs, of course!

The beer cooking went well and my friend’s chickens are feasting on the spent grain. I kept some for our yard flock, but hubs produces about 15 lbs of boiled hops and grains per 5 gallons of beer and it will mold if not used quickly. I’ll be able to dry it outside in a couple of months, it would be too much bother to even try inside.

The White Crown sparrows and House Wrens (real snowbirds) all showed up at once today and the feeders looked like what I picture soccer matches to be. They usually get along but they just had a long flight and were hangry!

A month or so back, I took some sample cheese to a diner a few towns away. The owner called me today and asked to meet at her diner so we could go over numbers and see if we can both make some money together.

Thank goodness she doesn’t want vegan cheese, that stuff is an abomination unto the cheese world and it is so icky to work with. I wear gloves and know that I’m making food, but the slimy feeling still just grosses me out to no end.

For those who haven’t heard me holding forth on the subject…vegan doesn’t mean healthy and while I will let friends taste my oat milk mozzarella I make sure to warn them about the super high sodium and calorie levels.

The diner owner really wants feta but store bought goat milk is pretty pricey. She says she has a friend who can supply the milk and I’m really hoping those numbers will work. I LOVE working with goat milk, it wants to be cheese.

She also wants butter balls (gets your minds out of the gutters), which are small single servings of butter that I put in fancy molds and chill. She is quite sure that everyone will want seasonal butter pats for their toast. I’m not buying heart shaped molds and red dye until I’m convinced that she is right.

Butter is yellow, that’s why the original margarine came with little bags of food coloring before being colored at the factory. Nobody wanted white margarine and ain’t nobody wanting red butter either.

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Still, thanks for making the slime, since it’s the only cheese-like thing my lovely wife can eat, and she has lost so many foods since a yearlong interferon treatment that without icky substitutes, she could never eat out or have approximate versions of beloved foods.

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Not that anyone cares, but my roaming package was last reported to be in San Francisco, and ETA is now tomorrow rather than Thursday. :slight_smile:

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I am so sorry for her. Losing cheese would be a life changing event for me. I sell the oat milk mozzarella to a pizza place that makes real vegan pizza which includes a separate oven just for the vegan foods. I know what goes into my vegan cheese and know that it is seriously not health food. The slimy part is that oat milk is slimy by nature. Commercial oat milk has stuff added to lessen the slime and improve the mouth feel, but I don’t bother with that because I am going to be turning it into something else.

I used to work with someone who was vegan for his issues about meat farms and his food was super healthy and tasty. If you would like, I could ask him what he uses that is something like cheese on his food.

Stops back pedaling and starts asking constructive questions. Is your lovely wife only having issues with normal dairy or has she tried milk from other sources? You can buy camel milk on Amazon and sheep milk (probably too close to cow for her) is fairly easy to source. Before the world ended, I bought some zebra milk from a wild animal park but because it was so pricy, I had practiced with horse milk first.

Camel milk is supposed to be a superfood. It is thin and milky and doesn’t want to be cheese without a bunch of stuff with super long and hard to pronounce names. Buying enough to make cheese was a very expensive middle of the dark winter indulgence.

Horse milk has a nicer mouth feel and makes a nice yogurt. It reacts with rennet but is fairly costly to use for cheese.

Oddly enough, Zebra milk was nothing like horse milk. It looked, tasted, felt and reacted totally differently. Sometimes I try something and think that I want to try again because I can see how I could have done it better.

After tasting the cheese, the only thing I could think of that I could have done better was to not waste my money on Zebra milk.

I care! I was going to ask you for the tracking number so I could help fret, but GG came running in to tell me that there were birds out there and I got distracted. I loved the pics you shared today, it is so good to see your feline overlords so relaxed and snoozed out together.

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Weren’t they supposed to do that last week?

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I ordered a foam microphone wind screen from a company in CA. This was back when UPS package tracking had just become a thing. I watched my package go back and forth from CA to TX for almost 2 months before it finally showed up here in WI. Fortunately I wasn’t in a hurry to get it and it wasn’t worth a whole lot so I wasn’t too worried about it. When it finally arrived, the package had very distinct tire tracks on it and the padded envelop was severely damaged. The wind screen, being made of foam, survived unscathed. But that thing saw more of the world in that time than I did.

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TIL you can buy friggin’ zebra milk. Because, of course you can. :zebra:

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Passes joint. Be careful, it is sneezy. Do you wanna know why the wild animal park had Zebra milk to sell? It was because they had bunch of girl Zebras and one boy Zebra. Zebras like sex even more than cats do so boy Zebra kept the girls preggy all year long.

The wild animal park ran out of room for more baby Zebras and felt sorry for the poor girls so had a horse vet come and do the big snip on the boy zebra. The girls kept getting knocked up and another large animal vet came out and did even more snipping while leaving the balls, cause the herd needed the boy to have lots of testosterone.* The workers googled the issue and “learned” that as long as the females were lactating, they wouldn’t get preggy so started milking them.

*this is why zoo lions have balls, without the testosterone, their big manes go away.

Am I a font of useless information when I’m stoned or what?

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Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Off to heave.

I don’t think they are quite as docile as Holsteins, though.
“You drew the short straw, Carl, here’s a bucket and remember, Mabel goes for the nose.”

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Somehow, this sounds, um, well…

Taters, I think my mom is very happy that my dad, who has a CPAP, is the first one to bed. After my neighbors kids moved out, they moved into separate bedrooms and the big bedroom is now reserved for visiting grandkids. He has restless leg syndrome, so sharing a bed meant that she wasn’t getting any sleep.

Oopsie, my husband and his sister are the result of their parents wedding and 3rd anniversary. My grandparents really liked celebrating Valentine’s day - the birthdays of my mom and her brother are only 2 days apart. Habits can be good. :slight_smile:

One of the three light bulbs over the stove went out, so we had to figure that out. Due to the available space, we can’t put in an LED, so we have to stick with halogen. Realized that parts of the hood were not getting cleaned so well, so that’s also taken care of.

JtC, I hope this works out for you. Sounds like fun. Not sure about the red butter, though. Maybe some red wine butter?

Friend of mine suddenly became allergic, including hives, to cow’s milk. Fortunately sheep and goat’s milk are no problem. Don’t think they’ll be trying zebra milk - probably a bit too pricy.

Today I’m going back to the gym, after being off for two weeks. My coughing has mostly subsided, so I shouldn’t scare the other attendees. A lot of people are still on vacation, especially as school starts on the 9th. It’s too warm for skiing, and today the weather’s got the blahs. So a good day to stay inside.

Happy Toosday!

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN 'Tis 63 Amurrkin out and partly cloudy with a predicted high of 75 with HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS predicted for this afternoon. We shall see. The big item on today’s agenda is laundry I can hardly contain myself. Other than that it shall be high sloth and general overall uselessness as is our wont. Sup shall be leftovers from Sunday’s big feast. This will take care of the leftovers as food was sent home with others.

CupCakes snausage gravy could get included, but it would mean there would also have to be bizkits, as the way to properly serve snausage gravy is to split open a bizkit and glop gravy all over it. Chawklit cake will always be snarfed down.

JtC hope the deal can be worked out with the diner owner. I agree about red butter. It is an abomination that should never see the light of day. Glad GG, you, and the other household residents are enjoyin’ birdie thunderdome.

Lily here’s hopin’ your lovely wife can eat the beloved foods she misses one day soon.

Nettie yay for imminent package arrival! That is if it does not decide to spend the week in Hawai’i first.

GodBod glad you enjoyed the movie.

Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, onward into the day! Rah.

Happy Tuesday Y’all!

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All three of my sisters were born between April 29 and May 9 (different years) and my parents’ anniversary was Aug 9. Except the sister born on May 9 was actually due in July, so she wasn’t an anniversary babby. And now I’m feeling kinda ooogy thinking about my parents :open_mouth:

Today, the hospital bed is being delivered to the apartment. FCD will drop his mom off at the hospital, then wait at the apartment till the hospice folks arrive. He’s planning to sleep there once his dad is moved, which I expected and I have no problem with it. His mom will need him.

Honestly, I’m surprised his dad is still alive. He barely eats and just sips a little water, They don’t have him on any IV per his wishes. Nature is just taking her time claiming him. FCD and I will both be glad when this is over, tho he feels like a bad son when he says that. I watch how his mother is suffering, and I want this over for her sake, too. She’ll grieve, then she’ll keep going. We’ll get her involved at the senior center, and there’s a bible study near her that she hoped to be part of. She’s a very social lady, and I think once she starts making friends, she’ll perk up. At least I hope so.

And today, I’m back to toddler wrangling. SIL brought the kids over yesterday afternoon for a little while. We played in the basement, then I took them outside because it was so nice. Tobias likes his swing. Roxanna wanted to play in the sandbox, but it’s all wet and gross and falling apart. I need to set up a new one for them come spring. Maybe I can find a used one for sale around here - off to check FB marketplace.

It looks like we’ll have a few more mild days before the cold returns this weekend. If the rain holds off, I’ll take the kids to the playground this afternoon. Getting them tired out is good. Plus the playground is pretty easy - Roxy makes friends instantly and Tobias is still slower than I am so I can keep up with him! :rofl: So a good day ahead.

Happy Tuesday!

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Up annoyingly early, eyes popped open at 6. I’d like to get to work, but I’m in my friend’s shop today, and I don’t have a key. So farting around til 8:30.