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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For those among you who like electronic “toys”, the solar power package we got included this – http://www.goalzero.com/p/79/guide-10-plus-solar-kit – plus one of their cute little rechargeable speakers and a Torch250. Got it all on sale for only a little more than what they want for that alone now.
My opinion as well on Temptations. I used to love them. Look at those tickets again. I figure knee surgery won’t totally stop me.
Yes, I have congestive heart failure. Supposed to be controlled. Looking at ankles and legs and no obvious edema. In fact, look fine. Weight jumped overnight several pounds.
Still waiting for call back on hives or Ithacaria.
Entertaining myself looking at who is appearing in various venues. Try classical, maybe insane inflation has not hit the arts.
Have to dress and go to pharmacy for allergic rash meds.
It is hot here again.
Got call on Triggers door dings. Have to go to body shop. Too deep. $300. I hate the people who slam you like that. Had to be in motel parking.
Today was National Walk to School Day. I considered it, but the last school I attended is 400+ miles away, so yeah, no.
Looking ahead, tomorrow is National German-American Day. I’m a German-American, so…
And October 8th is National Fluffernutter Day, whatever a fluffernutter is. Sounds vaguely like some kind of sex act.
I think it’s a cookie. But ….no, I can’t say that. Can think it, can’t say it.
I must be in a musical mode. I bought tickets to the Kris Kristopherson awards night at Cains, a Dwight Yoakum concert, a string quartet chamber music performance at the Episcopal cathedral and an oratorio performance of a blue grass mass that includes shaped notes at the University of Tulsa.
Let it never be said my tastes are not varied
Sounds like the pre-sets on Bullet’s SiriusXM receiver.
If you had, theoretically, an escort-cum-driver, would that escort-cum-driver get to, hypothetically, attend the concerts, too?
Jackie, soaking in a tub of barely lukewarm water with baking soda added may relieve some of the urticaria and discomfort. Any result from the meds yet?
Ghost: here you go – https://newengland.com/today/food/new-england-made/fluffernutter/
Yes, I am not itching as badly and spots have decreased in color. I don’t look quite as much like a giant pink spotted dalmatian.
My neighbor in Colorado made fluffernutter, marshmallow cream mixed with peanut butter. I never tried it…
Jackie, how are you doing now? Just saw the thread about your allergic reaction…be careful!!!
Message to Ghost. Southern ladies always buy tickets in pairs even when they are single ladies. It is just the way we are. Like the scouts, we like to be prepared, ready or available, which ever is needed.
You do realize that while in remainder of month they are not on same dates? There are also an opera, ballet, lots of other things going on in Tulsa this month. We are not as uncouth as we get credit for actually.
Thanks for the flutternutter recipe, R.A. If you slapped a sliced banana on that puppy and fried it up in butter, Elvis would have loved it.
Only if you added six slices of bacon with the banana.
I must feel better, even if w-itchy woman. I loaded dish washer, picked up kitchen a little from weekend and started putting away clothes a little from bags I had in truck with me. Pulled together an outfit I “think” goes together but may not.
Intention is to keep appointment with orthopedic surgeon for knees. She can look at rash and welts too. I must still be foggy, I think I have been whelping which is another procedure altogether.
Jackie, you would not believe the number of doctors and nurses who don’t know the difference between welts and whelps. Good thing I work from home, since I have broken out laughing at bad spelling or improper wording of phrases. When I was in Nashville, we had one of the ER nurses who always spelled the name Louise as Lousie. And Jhons and Jhonathans by the dozen.
Ruth Anne, Rusty: White bread [yech] + marshmallow fluff [yech]; what a horrible thing to do to good peanut butter.
De gustibus non disputandam est, I guess, or chacun à son goût.
Peace,
Here’s a comic for Debbe: http://www.chron.com/entertainment/comics-games/comic/Mother-Goose-Grimm/151341/2016-09-24.php
I must confess I love marshmallows. Just plain unrelated dry marshmallows the dryer the better, like they began as a candy. I do not like marshmallow coated anything, fluff or otherwise. Never even ate a Smores at a campfire.
The one exception to that ban was Southern ambrosia which required miniature marshmallows, pecans, sour cream, oranges, pineapple, coconut and maraschino cherries which I dislike as well. I love ambrosia but feed the cherries to someone else.
I do not think I still have the Elvis Presley cookbook.
emb: I just found the description – no way I’d eat it! Only acceptable use for that much marshmallow is Rice Crispie treats 🙂
My favorite marshmallows were the ones coated with toasted coconut. My grandmother was into anything coconut and I picked it up from her.
http://dessertreport.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/marshmallows.jpg?itok=_exiu4kN
Southerners eat a product called a Moon Pie which is made of two graham crackers in a round shape filled with marshmallow fluff and dipped in chocolate. I never ate these either but my late husband loved them.
There has been a more upscale product around lately called Whoopi Pies which are large rather cake like cookies filled with marshmallow fluff. I think most of the Hostess brand deserts were cake like snacks pumped full of the stuff by injection.
Maybe it is fact I have been dieting all my life but I never ate these things?
That was easy, I found the recipe for the version of Whoopie Pies made with the peanut butter and marshmallow fluff sandwiched in between the two chocolate cake cookies. If you like stuff like that it might be decadent enough to substitute for sex.
The fillings seem to involve powdered sugar, butter or shortening and marshmallow fluff.
Marshmallow fluff is the main ingredient in Mamie Eisenhower Million Dollar Fudge which she took right from back of the jar and claimed as her recipe. A little political trivia.
Wouldn’t you know? [sigh] I love maraschino cherries.
Interesting factoid: In Mobile, they throw Moon Pies from the Mardi Gras floats instead of beads.