HAPPY BIRTHDAY Roy!!!
Hope it is/was a Good one, and you have many more!
Being Crazy,keeps you from going "INSANE" !! "The light at the end of the tunnel,has been turned off due to budget cuts" NOT AFRAID A Vet., and PROUD OF IT!!
You preach pretty good Mr. Tom. As I said earlier in the line the taste for stewed okra is an aquired taste.
Have a great week
Temps going down to upper 20's here in W-S with lower 40's tomorrow and a dustin of snow expected for the week-end
Take caare.
Roy
I don't cotton too much to greens of any kind or the okra and spinach. The reason, I guess, was that my mother, bless her heart, cooked some concoctions that would put a dedicated greens/okra/etc eater off his din-din! Turnips and such were so bitter that it would shrink your tongue and curl your teeth. What's worse, she made me eat the stuff. Once I got on my own, I stopped eating them. To this day, I can't even stand the thought of eating such things, even though my wife makes fairly good collards and turnips. End soapbox
Tom
COAST LINE FOREVER
It is better to dwell in the corner of a roof than to share a house with a contentious woman! (Solomon)
A contentious woman is like a constant dripping! (Solomon)
Okay, no okra tonight. What is on tap and on the serving station for supper are:
1. Snowshoe chicken over rice, w/your choice of steamed broccoli or brussels sprouts w/butter sauce, sweet yellow and white corn, mixed together in butter sauce, green beans, and nice, big dinner rolls with plenty of butter to go in the rolls, tossed salad with blue cheese dressing, or the dressing of your choice (there are several varieties always on hand in here).
2. Meat loaf w/mashed taters & gravy, and the above mentioned veggies and rolls
Dessert: Lemon iceboxpie with ice cream and coffee, yellow cake w/chocolate icing and fresh-from-the oven peach cobbler.
After the workmen started doing the insulation this morning, we could already feel the difference: it actually got hot in the living room! They will be back early in the morning, to do more work, in the walls and taking care ofweathering around the windows.
Everyone have a great evening, enjoy your dinner/supper, and take care of yourselves.
tree68Visited a long-ago girlfriend a long time ago. She served okra. I wasn't impressed, but we were destined to part anyhow so that wasn't a factor. I could probably handle the stuff if served, but I won't go looking for it. On my list of "tried it and will never touch it again" is cooked spinach, liver, and olives.
Visited a long-ago girlfriend a long time ago. She served okra. I wasn't impressed, but we were destined to part anyhow so that wasn't a factor.
I could probably handle the stuff if served, but I won't go looking for it. On my list of "tried it and will never touch it again" is cooked spinach, liver, and olives.
I know a gentleman who works for our local fire department, and some years ago I had taken a basic course in black and white photography, and this gentleman was one of my classmates. His nickname at the time was "Popeye" because of his liking for spinach.
Thank you Mr. Tom for your greetings this day,
Temps are very much like yours here in Winston-Salem. I have just finished a rework of my house with the windows, and HVAC systems. I can speak with some authority that the upgrades were definitely worth the time and dollars.
Regards,
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
Thank you all for your best wishes at my half-century plus eighth year.
Johnny, stewed okra is what I call an acquired taste and fried is most of the time what people like best. Being A gentleman of the Southern Persuasion I feel that both dishes of this vegetable should be on the same table. I agree with you that the turnips should best be the greens and served as you say with fat back, enjoy eating them that way now, cholesterol does enter into that equation eventually..
Thanks to Miss Paula for such good additions to my menu suggestions and may everyone have a prosperous day, week, and year.
Piouslion
AKA: Roy Alexander
Happy birthday, Roy!
Ah, yes, hardware stores are great places for wandering around, considering , "How can I justify buying this?"
As to food, boiled okra, even though it has those wonderful ball bearings that ease its passage (up, as well as down) is on my list of non-foods. Fried okra is, indeed, on the food list. When I was a boy, I once was forced to eat boiled okra by a spinster who was visiting my grandparents; I had politely declined the nauseous mess, but she insisted that I eat some, and my grandmother helped her cause.
Tom, when you mention turnips, do mean turnip greens or turnip roots? Definitely turnip roots are on my non-food list–but rutabagas are different, having a better taste and even being more nutritious (though for a while, after I was told rutabagas are yellow turnips, I was highly averse to them). As to greens (turnip, collard, spinach, mustard), a little fatback added to the pot while they are being cooked helps the flavor.
Thanks to all who expressed concern for me in the last few weeks. I am slowly mending, and hope to be back to full speed (if not full weight) in a couple of months.
Johnny
MookieYou just made the Driver's day! He loves to go to the hardware stores and "shop".
.....Yes, Jen.....Hardware stores are our "candy stores"....!
Quentin
The HW store is one of my favorites - many stops, rarely over $5 spent at any one time. But a huge collection o bolts and screws, etc.
The foam insulation for switch plates can also be made out of the tops of foam egg cartons - the 'dozen' size works best, 'cause it can cover those multiple 'ganged' switch assemblies and be used to make 'specials', etc. It's a good project if you're handy with an X-xcto knife - and a lot cheaper than the 'store-boughten' ones, too.
Other good methods are caulking, weather-stripping, and the spray-foam. The guys who built out house used dozens of cans of ''Great Stuff'' or similar, in several different varieties. As a consolation to the Driver, those pretty much do have to be gotten from the HW store.
- Paul North.
Modelcar Mookie Quentin - I found a light switch that had cold air coming in around it! We can't do much about insulation, but may have to knit a switch plate for it. Actually coming in around the switch itself. Jen.....There are thin foam cutouts in packages available at hardware / big box stores to fit behind the finish wall plate of your switch / outlet opening. They go a long way to stop that incoming air.
Mookie Quentin - I found a light switch that had cold air coming in around it! We can't do much about insulation, but may have to knit a switch plate for it. Actually coming in around the switch itself.
Quentin - I found a light switch that had cold air coming in around it! We can't do much about insulation, but may have to knit a switch plate for it. Actually coming in around the switch itself.
Jen.....There are thin foam cutouts in packages available at hardware / big box stores to fit behind the finish wall plate of your switch / outlet opening.
They go a long way to stop that incoming air.
I never found any purses or shoes there. Don't understand!
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
MookieBrian - will keep that in mind. He is quite artistic and seems to be good at designing. Will probably all change by 12, but will encourage him in the artistic direction.
Brian - will keep that in mind. He is quite artistic and seems to be good at designing. Will probably all change by 12, but will encourage him in the artistic direction.
.....A nice morning here in Indiana for us. Bright sunshine, but very cool. Now rising temps with the sun putting heat thru the windows. Mid 20's temp now. But the remainder of this week is to be on the cool side.
Yes, I see the weather Paula is talking about....Believe we'll luck out for that. The east / west band of snow is south of us....than the band of ice is south of that, and then finally the band of rain below that....and it all stretches across to the east coast.
Just a bunch of lazy snow flurries at times here yesterday.
But the bright sunshine sure looks and feels good this morning...{shining in my eastern office window here}.
Insulation in a house certainly makes a great difference....Of course up here it is a necessary item to be included when building....When I had this one built, all outside walls were filled with blowed in cellulose, including garage walls facing inside rooms.....{garage ceiling too}, and insulated garage door....and insulated service and storm door out of garage and of course the same in the ceiling {attic}, in the rest of the home....and thermopane windows, with storms on the outside of them....
Also, pay attention to electric outlets....{seals available}...Even around and under baseboards if the "plate" isn't sealed tight to flooring....Seal there...Seal around pipe outlets....and of course insulated {and storm doors}, all help to complete the project of keeping a home comfortable...and less expensive to keep that way.....Have a storm door on the outside of our sliding glass door {of course it's double glass}, and verticals to shut when weather is extreme, and or to keep sun out....
It can get cold and windy up here in the Winter months...so the above is a helpful, necessary part of staying comfortable.
MookieHe designs games for SpongeBob Squarepants on this one. Wants to be an artist - that's this year (10) Maybe so - has good genes for it
If he still has that desire when he's deciding what to do after high school, we can put him in touch with my son Chris, who is gainfully employed as a game designer for Budcat, a company in Iowa City which is a subsidiary of Activision. Chris has worked on various games for them, including some of the Guitar Hero versions that are on the store shelves. He's currently over visiting another subsidiary north of San Francisco for a week, learning about another project that Budcat will be assisting the other subsidiary with.
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
Good morning. 42 and sunny in Carolina this lovely day. Our house is deficient in insulation, and consequetly, not as snug as it could be. We also need some more blown into the attic. With the furnace on the fritz, it is doubly noticeable.
Roy, have a great and memorable birthday, son, and many more happy returns.
Mooks, I couldn't agree more on the okra and stewed tomatoes, and you can add collards. turnips and mustard to that list.
Everyone take care, stay warm and healthy
Happy Birthday Roy (PL). Think I will pass on the Okra. Had it once - it had been boiled - never wanted to have it again. Served along side stewed tomatoes. Don't want them again either.
Joe - tell your friend bifocals will be next.
CW - after they do the insulation, you will really notice the difference. Even a little will help a lot.
No sun today. Grandson tho' after school is out. Gotta get another puter. He designs games for SpongeBob Squarepants on this one. Wants to be an artist - that's this year (10) Maybe so - has good genes for it - except for Grma! She types!
Well - happy birthdays around!
I've got a light dusting of snow this morning, but there are schools on delay to the south of me, in the middle of the lake effect band. Hopefully I can make it into town today for a few items. I'm working on some 'rope bags' to carry the FD's forestry hose in and I ran out of a couple of things I need.
Time for breakfast, take the dog for a walk so I can pick up the mail, and then on to the days projects.
Good morning
flurries and brr outside.matt is on time and on the bus.Today my best friend brian turns "40".got to go make his day extra special. Cw thanks for breakfast.
stay safe
joe
Deshler Ohio-crossroads of the B&O Matt eats your fries.YUM! Clinton st viaduct undefeated against too tall trucks!!!(voted to be called the "Clinton St. can opener").
Good Wednesday morning ,everyone, and Happy Birthday to Roy (piouslion), and to the late, great composer, Mozart! I hope it is a very, very good and Happy Birthday, Roy, and may you be blessed with Happiness, Love, Joy and Peace on this, your birthday. And may you be able to see plenty of trains today!
Roy, with it being his birthday, has selected the menus for today. For Breakfast, we have: Country bacon and sausage, scrambled eggs, grits, for those of you who like them, large 3" homemade buttermilk biscuits w/sausage gravy and plenty of butter, strawberry jam and some fine Sumatran coffee. And there's also the regular bagels and bear claws.
All the other breakfast beverages are also available and ready to go.
We currently have a temp this morning of 22 degrees F., going for a high in the 40s. And they are now saying that tomorrow, we will get 2 to 4 inches of snow, and some areas south of us, may see 8 to 10 inches of snow. Looks like it's going to be 'fun, fun, fun in the Ville" tomorrow. (yuck) With yesterday's, bad weather, we had almost 250 accidents yesterday morning, some with school buses involved, with minor injuries to some of the children. A lot of people are complaining that they did not see any salt trucks out, and that the schools should have been on a 2 hour delay. (The city is saying that they did brine the streets, bridges and overpasses, but I never heard or saw any vehicles anywhere around our area yesterdy morning.
For the lunch menu today: Pork chops, fried okra, squash, green beans, served with your choice of hot or iced tea, rolls, and several flavors of Jell-O for dessert. (I'm posting this menu early this morning, because we have more people coming to the house today to blow insulation into the attic, and do other weatherization to this old, old house of ours.
Everyone have a great morning, and I'll see you all sometime late this afternoon, early evening.
It snows, then the wind shifts and it stops. Then the wind shifts and it starts again. There's a lake effect advisory through tomorrow afternoon, so we'll get back a little of the snow our January thaw took away. Kinda like the blanket of white again...
We had 59 people show up for Produce this morning. We got: red potatoes (5# bags), 3 # bags of onions, packages of sliced red apples, bags of sliced carrots, 5 # bags of lettuce and salad mix, 10# bags of greens, 5# bags of apples, 5# bags of oranges.
As far as the best burgers and cheeseburgers I've ever had (other than Mama's home cooked burgers & cheeseburgers, where she mad her own brand of tarter sauce (chopped up lettuce, onion, home canned sweet pickles) was a little restaurant down in Russellville, KY . I can no longer remember the name of the restaurant, but I know it's still there (have a friend who was raised down there). When I was little, and the family would be going or coming back from Tennessee to visit Mama's family, we'd always stop there. Sometimes we'd stop both ways, once for breakfast, on the way down, and coming back, for a late lunch.
On our menu for this afternoon and tonight:
1. Your choice of Chicken abracadbra or pork chop abracadbra
2. A mini Mexican Fiesta night, with tacos, burritos, enchiladas, and fajitas, with chopped lettuce and tomatoes, and tortilla chips with the various sauces
Our current temp is 32 degrees F., with a breeze/wind that will cut right through you.
Everyone enjoy your meal, have a good evening, staying warm, keeping safe and taking care.
Central Indiana has some snow flakes floating around this morning and overcast, but very bright....so must be a rather light cloud cover. temp now: 21 plus. About a half inch of snow yesterday with gusts of wind.
On the hamburger / cheezeburger comments: Mine, I must go back decades. Location: on route 30 in Jennerstown, Pa. Bill Brown's Diner. Believe it started back about 1929. They had several {3}, locations in the town over the years. I'm sure Bill and wife are deceased now.
A burger and {real} mashed potatoes / butter on top.....Wow....! That was often a lunch stop when we were doing auto transmission testing out of that little town. Other Companies did testing work there too...Brake co's, mostly, but in the 50's, Ford Motor Co. did a lot of testing work {trucks & cars}, in that area. Our Co. was Borg-Warner Corp.
.....Best burgers I have ever eaten....bar none. It was a family business open until late at night. Would pay plenty to access one {or more}, of his creations now....and of course, not possible....Sigh......
Good morning. Currently, it is 45 and sunny in Carolina. So nice, in fact that the girls didn't want to come back in!
Pernell Roberts was known in Hollywood as a very angry man who caused disruptions on the set over a variety of things. Nuff sed.
The best cheeseburger I ever ate was at the Dairy Bar in Columbia whilst I was in college. For 65 cents, you could get a cheeseburger the size of a quarter pounder that was unforgettable. I can still remember how good it was 40 some years on.
Everybody take care and stay warm.
I'm doing great, CW! I'll find out for sure Thursday (one-week recheck), but I think my distance vision is now better than 20/20.
I, too, really enjoyed watching Bonanza in my younger days- I still like to catch a rerun every now and then when it shows up on one of the cable channels.
cherokee womanGood Tuesday morning, everyone. Brian, it's good to see that you were in last night: long time no see, stranger! How are you doing, after your eye surgery? Everything still going o.k.? Well, we have a little bit of snow on the grassy areas this morning, nothing too bad, streets are wet, but traffic is moving along all right. Don't think I'll have too much of a problem with Tuesday Produce this morning. Coffee, juices and hot beverages are all freshly made and ready to go this morning. On the serving station this morning: all the regular breakfast menu items (bacon ,sausage, eggs, bagels, bear claws, etc.), so just mosey on over to the serving station and fill your plates. Speaking of "moseying along", heard on the news this morning that actor Purnell Roberts, who played Adam Cartwright on Bonanza, and Trapper John, M.D., as passed away at age 81. With his demise, that leaves none of the "Cartwrights" left, and the only starring member of the cast left, is David Canary, who played Candy, after Purnell Roberts left the show. For those of us in our 50's, 60's, and over, that doesn't leave too many people left, that we all watched on TV growing up. Everyone enjoy your breakfast, have a good morning, keep safe, take care and I'll see you all after I get through with the Produce people.
Good Tuesday morning, everyone. Brian, it's good to see that you were in last night: long time no see, stranger! How are you doing, after your eye surgery? Everything still going o.k.?
Well, we have a little bit of snow on the grassy areas this morning, nothing too bad, streets are wet, but traffic is moving along all right. Don't think I'll have too much of a problem with Tuesday Produce this morning.
Coffee, juices and hot beverages are all freshly made and ready to go this morning.
On the serving station this morning: all the regular breakfast menu items (bacon ,sausage, eggs, bagels, bear claws, etc.), so just mosey on over to the serving station and fill your plates.
Speaking of "moseying along", heard on the news this morning that actor Purnell Roberts, who played Adam Cartwright on Bonanza, and Trapper John, M.D., as passed away at age 81. With his demise, that leaves none of the "Cartwrights" left, and the only starring member of the cast left, is David Canary, who played Candy, after Purnell Roberts left the show. For those of us in our 50's, 60's, and over, that doesn't leave too many people left, that we all watched on TV growing up.
Everyone enjoy your breakfast, have a good morning, keep safe, take care and I'll see you all after I get through with the Produce people.
CW, the role of Ben Cartwright in Bonanza was played by Lorne Greene. Lorne Greene was born and raised in Canada and a few years ago Canada Post issued a series of stamps in a souvenier sheet commemorating Canadian-born actors, and a stamp depicting Lorne Greene is part of that sheet. Being that I am a stamp collector, I have that item in my collection.
It's pretty cold here in Sioux Falls, we have a temp of -10.5 below 0, to say nothing of what the wind chill factor might be. I will not try going anywhere today. Everyone stay warm!
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Thanx Joe - I really need coffee this morning.
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