You can do it Wetone!
This cracked me up!!!
I just finished building a casserole for supper - rice, chickie, broth, broccoli, 'shrooms, onions - and about 10 minutes before it’s done, it’ll be topped with shredded cheese. I predict yum! I had a terrible time finding a chickie rice casserole that didn’t use cream of whatever soup. I don’t use cream of whatever soups. I refuse to!!! 
I bought beef yesterday. I think I’ll make a pot roast Wednesday.
I lurves me a good pot roast. Maybe next week…
‘Good’? That would be a matter of debate. I use dad’s recipe, which he got off of a box of Lipton Onion Soup Mix. Snobbier food snobs than I, will scoff. But I like it, and it’s what I grew up with. Just the thing for the cooling days.
Sounds a bit like the Portuguese soup caldo verde, which has potatoes, sausage and kale.
An Englishman is in an American diner, and he orders the soup of the day. When it comes, he takes one look at it and exclaims, 'Good Lord! What is this? :eek: ’
The waitress says, ‘It’s bean soup.’
The Englishman replies, ‘I don’t care what it’s been; what is it now?’
I also have a 2010, & I’m already at your desired mileage.
Some of those packaging recipes are not bad at all. My lemon meringue pie is courtesy of Publix bagged lemons several eons ago.
My thrown-together casserole was pretty good. There are no leftovers, which is a good indicator. As soon as I load the dishwasher, chillage shall ensue for the evening.
As for the mileage on my car, it’s been to Floriduh several times, to my mom’s (over 200 mi round trip) many times, to NYC once, plus I put over 40 miles on it every work day. And at one point, for 6 months, my commute was closer to 70 miles round trip every day. It doesn’t take long for the miles to rack up. Heck, the closest grocery store is 7-ish miles away, and most places we have breakfast out are between 7-20 miles away. So, yeah, lots of miles.
Howdy Y’all! I spiffed da cave which didn’t need much bein’ as I did cleanin’ whilst puttin’ it all back together last week. This afternoon I had some quality cee-mint pond time. Then sup was made and et. All in all not a bad day. Have I mentioned lately how much I like retirement? 
WetOne yay for you! You can do it!
Yup. That’s pretty much what it is, except I don’t usually put as much potato and I add some celery and carrots diced up. Tonight I’m gonna add a bit of ham we have lurking about the fridge, also.
Speaking of which, I need to get cooking.
I thought more of you than that, Johnny. :dubious:
That’ll learn ya, dern ya!
Go for it wet one! It’s been seven years and change for me.
metal mouse, I always say that I have the cereal disease and snap, crackle and pop are the sound effects.
bumba, may your airbag recall go as smoothly as mine did. Toyota had me a new airbag and in stalled it within two weeks of the recall. At the time, my boss wound up in rentals for six months getting her Saturn’s replaced.
Mooooooom, count me in as another who doesn’t do recipes that cream of whatever in them. I mean, how hard is it to make ten ounces of white sauce, without a metric shit ton of salt in it?
To answer the OP, at times, if there’s a ding-ding or certain drum rhythms on the radio, I will sometimes turn it off just to make sure that it isn’t my car doing that. My beast just turned over 12K and needs to last at least 200K. Of my last three vehicles, the first S10 was retired with 250K, the second with 300K and the Toyota was totaled with 185K. I tend to wear them out.
I spoke too soon about an easy month end. When I got in this morning, our weekend crew had been given an assignment by our former manager (now a senior manager) to do a bunch of counts in an area sorely in need of inventory adjustments. I drew them. 
I was at irk until after six (poor Nelson, I hadn’t taken him to daycare because I truly expected to be home before five). To top it off, they issued our new uniform shirts today, to be worn tomorrow. That meant a load of laundry. I’m going to look like a frikkin’ highlighter pen. I’m just now finishing up supper and it’s within an hour of bedtime.
I guess I am the only one dumb enough to trade in a paid off perfectly good truck with under 23 thousand miles on it to buy a new truck. I do like the new one a whole lot better though, and it doesn’t strain to make it up the ‘mountains’.
I’m still not liking the back up camera, I guess I’ll get used to it eventually.
And I couldn’t figure out how to turn on the wipers today. Fortunately the salesman had already showed me how to put gas in it. You don’t pull the door open, you push it and it opens, and there is no gas cap.
As far as weird noises, I think I need my hearing checked. When the dryer was running tonight I swore I was hearing a radio on somewhere.
Nerf boards get put on the truck tomorrow. It’s a good thing I called, because they had come in but nobody thought to call me and tell me.
Echo is going up and down the stairs all by herself now. She and Ripple have started cuddling a little. Still working on the housebreaking. Surprises me because both Ripple and Mackie were pretty much housebroken when I got them as babies.
I got some pics of the two of them together FCM - just can’t get them to upload.
Worked, came home. Beer.
When my sarcodosis was acting up, and I had an old beagle, we sounded like a flooded Rice Krispies factory getting out of bed.
As dogbutler briefly mentioned, it sounds like you’ve got a constant velocity (CV) joint that is wearing. Not a huge deal at this point, but when it really starts making noise you’ll want to have it replaced. And the one on the other side as well.
Evening all. Soccer has been practiced and the bare bones leftovers in the refrigerator provided dinner, (The Great October Shopping Trip is planned for Wednesday). Watched some tackleball and internettin’, heading off to bed shortly.
Sari, I used to be that way, get a new car when the old one was just paid off, like I couldn’t live without making a car payment. The working overseas I saved enough to pay cash money and since then I’ve done my savings first and then looked for a car. But if you can afford it, go for ti.
Red, enjoy the counting…
Catch y’all tomorrow.
The user testing of the software I and my team developed for our departmental end users has concluded and has been a unvarnished success story! We knocked off issue after issue (not that there were too many of them), and I have been told users love the speed and the fresh new look they have got (which probably says more of their ancient MS Access-based slowpoke than the new web-based software we wrote for them). The hot chick in the user group even called me her “favorite” for knocking down a particularly vexing problem double-quick.
Then the bad news: the next project has been cancelled. I now have to do some legwork to land my next gig or say goodbye to my client and look for a new one. Not a good time of the year for that. Let’s see how things unfold.