A short poem today, for a short post. This is from 1996, 20 years ago this month. Someone asked me about this strip in an email the other day, wanting help finding it. At the time, I wasn’t sure where to look, and it was just as well. I would have sworn I drew it no more than 10 years ago. Yeek.
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Jackie, sure that could be done. And with the Bluetooth type arrangement Ghost’s got, you could stream your music through it too.
Here’s an article that describes what they are and how they work: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2418338,00.asp
Had to eat some of garden vegetable soup to have room to put in remainder of vegs. Ran out of pot. It gets spinach and mushrooms, herbs yet to be added. Everything fresh and raw except corn. Didn’t have corn at market and I felt too bad to go to second.
Okra, green beans, peppers and Swiss chard from garden. Everything else from local grocery store but I counted 19 different vegs, not counting herbs.
And I can’t see Janis abandoning her walk through the neighborhood, because it keeps her connected to the doings around her. Too many people these days do all their living in their own house and ignore what happens outside their own property lines.
I keep dropping words from my comments today. Have I had a TIA? Or is it just that my blood sugar is low because I haven’t eaten lunch yet? Probably the latter.
One reason I haven’t eaten is that I’m watching “Latin Series: The First Four Legs” from the GrandSlam Latin Series on ETV. The male dancers all look like genetically-engineered Super Lounge Lizards, but the female dancers are incredibly lovely and sexy. Of course, I’m only watching to test out my new sound bar. Yeah, right, that’s the ticket.
“Ran out of pot.” If I only had a dollar for every time I’ve heard someone say that…
My marriage was so independent many hardly knew I was married. So was my late husband’s. What you do with that freedom and independence depends on the individual and his ethics and principles.
Have known many joined at the hip marriages. They don’t work . A friend is struggling in one now, it is not his choice. He just wants to go fishing.
I purchased a Samsung soundbar to avoid any compatibility issues. I also picked up a set of metal brackets that will allow me to rear-mount the bar to the top of the TV. (It’s sitting on the stand in front of the TV now.) The sub-woofer is sitting on the floor in front of stand. I really like it so far; the sub-woofer makes a lot of difference, especially for music.
For your friend, Jackie, from the C&W King of Snark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwRrKaq0IyY
Really enjoying my veggie soup for a second bowl. My blood sugar was indeed low, plus I wore myself out slicing and dicing all those vegs and picking all the chicken off bones. If I were feeding this to a normal person I would add salt with the herbs and spinach and mushrooms.
My friend plays in a band and she took up guitar so she can play too, only way he got to do that. You know I do not support clinging vines. I never stay long enough for Moss or a vine to grow on me!
Women should have their own lives of course, own interests, hobbies, jobs. I subscribe to many old fashioned beliefs and values, I am Southern for heaven’s sake, but I am a independent person and always have been. The road goes two ways. Things done together should be by choice.
Jackie, my husband calls my veggie soup “Two-Pot Vegetable Soup” because for years I would start out in one large pot (with broth and long-cook veggies) and end up scooping some into a second, smaller pot by the time I added the last, quick-cooking veggies. After a few years of this, my Mom-in-law gave me a truly huge pot, so I finally got it down to just one pot. 😉
My late husband referred to many of my dishes as “growing.” While I can follow a recipe and have even taught and demonstrated cooking live like the TV chefs, that just isn’t my style normally, so things “grow.” I even made myself put one piece, like a yellow squash or turnip, or half like a small cabbage.
I am too short to reach big pots.
“Running out of pot”… I hate when that happens. Pulling out a larger pot, splitting it into 2 pots, yuck. Usually hits me while I am making chili.
It is Canadian Thanksgiving weekend up here. I have a spatchcocked bird in the smoker while my wife is using every bowl/pot we have for the rest of the meal. I was assuming the bird would take 3-3.5 hours. It has been just over 2 hours and it looks like it might be done soon. I will spot check it with my Thermapen soon. I don’t want to overcook it.
Spatchcocked cooks faster Gary. Glad to hear from you.
Happy thanksgiving! How is everyone other than cooking? What is rest of menu like? Hug your family for me, they can’t catch this virus onlinr.
I just took the bird off the smoker. The meat is fully cooked, moist and very tasty. The skin is nicely crisp. A 15 lb. bird cooked in just over 2 h. We now have to wait another 1.5 h for everything else. The rest is scalloped potatoes, baked acorn squash, stuffing in the oven, balsamic honey glazed carrots&turnips.
We are doing well up here. If you were closer, I would bring you over some dinner.
I would definitely enjoy some of that dinner. I like everything that you are having. The balsamic glazed turnips and carrots sound like a great combination
What’s for desert? Desert is always a huge deal in American thanksgivingovernment. Okay, I am leaving that one! I typed menu and Hal typed that!
Since Ghost has not put in his requests I am turning one chunk of roast into Cajun pot roast poboys with French bread and fully dressed. They are not good unless gravy runs down your wrist all the way to elbow.
The other roast I will turn into a Cajun beef stew with new potatoes, pearl onions, carrots, peas. If I were being decadent I would bake a fluffy pastry shell and turn it into a Louisiana pot pie. Talk about comfort food. Jack Daniel’s beef stew in a personal size flakey crusts with a decent dry red wine. Or maybe just Beaujolais Villages.
Happy Thanksgiving to Gary and all the Canadian Villagers! I read the Yarn Harlot’s blog (she’s a Torontonian knitter) so I usually keep up on holidays like Thanksgiving, 2-4 Day, and the Queen’s Birthday; but she hasn’t posted much lately so I almost missed it. One can never celebrate too many holidays. As a Michigander, I figure our peninsulas have a lot in common with the Great White North, and I sure do like the CBC.
Jackie. I am embarrassed to say but we have a store bought pumpkin pie for dessert. But we will whip our own cream to go with it.
Smigz, you are right, never too many holidays to celebrate. My company has different holidays in different countries so we have to be aware of at least the US holidays and the US folk need to be aware of ours.
Happy Thanksgiving to y’all in the Great White North.
Note to self: Celebrate both Canadian and US Thanksgivings next year. (Use Gary’s menu for former.)
I love strong, independent women. Probably one reason Millionaire Widow Lady and I hit it off so well.
Good. Where would you like for me to deliver your mama’s urn silk flowers for her monument? You do not need be present to accept them, they are for her and your sister.
Happy to deliver them anonymously to funeral home, cemetery ofice, church or anywhere else designated. You can pick any location in Mississippi or Alabama. I have to be there this week for another reason.
Southern women, especially florists, feel strongly about sympathy florals. If you do not need them now, save them for when fresh looking ones are needed.
You are welcome. I would have liked your mother. We are diminishing I suspect.
The eat’n, at least as much as we can fit it right now, is done. I have carved up the remainder of the bird and am now boiling the carcass and sundry gibbons for soup later on this week.
I am going to see how my better half feels about another big turkey dinner to celebrate the US Thanksgiving.
I thought I’d had enough to eat today before I read the above 20 or so posts! What’s in the freezer?
You could have ham or other bird like duck or goose. I have to confess it has been a LONG time since I roasted a goose. I have even done pork roasts, especially I ally crown roasts with the cute bones garnished with orange kumquat and the whole in middle piled with stuffing.
Obviously I once had way too much time on my hands or else set my goals just too dang high for my place in life.
Want a recipe for cranberry cheesecake or pumpkin cheesecake with candied praline pecan topping?