I don’t have a lot of time this morning; it’s a travel day for me, and I must get an early start. I did want to leave you with this, one of my favorite “cooking” strips. Readers don’t have to wonder where I got this idea!
Cooking Lesson
By Jimmy Johnson
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357 responses to “Cooking Lesson”
Bless your heart, Sand, and all those that served with you. My Dad was on USS Oriskany in the Gulf of Tonkin 1968(?) and he likes to say the only shots he heard were those from the big guns of the USS New Jersey
Lilyblack, a good friend was on that cruise. He teases me that they had available ice cream twenty hours out of twenty-four. God bless those Navy swabbies.
sand, I know that Georgia boy would be proud he is remembered. I’ll lift a toast to him this weekend myself.
One of my most lasting memories was spending my unpaid free time reading and “closing” the files on Pearl Harbour casualties while spending my paid salaried time “opening” the casualty cases for Viet Nam.
I cry easily and get angry easily, both OK in my opinion. Memorial Day is a time for both I think.
Interesting observation somewhat on topic- the Louisiana parish from whence my Southern ancestors came is the only parish that did NOT secede from Union. They remained loyal to the Union, which made for interesting family gatherings for a century or so. Most fought as Union/USA soldiers and died as such.
Genealogy teaches you that your ancestors often fought for freedoms since we first came to America.
Love, Jackie Monies
Jackie, I didn’t know about the the Louisiana parish that did not secede from the Union. I do seem to recall hearing about a county in Mississippi that attempted to secede from the Confederacy after the state seceded from the Union.
Lily, now I find we have something else in common…I have also have good hair and no cleavage to speak of. But I’ll take a great set of wheels over a pair of over-sized headlights, anytime. 😉
I know high heels are bad for female feet, but they sure do wonders for female legs. Five inches above the knee, huh? That’s great length for those who have the legs for it. FB photo, perhaps? Well, a guy can hope, anyway 🙂
Winn Parish in Louisiana is a poor piney woods hill country. Populated right after the American Revolutionary War by wagon trains of settlers from the Carolina Piedmont area.
Probably where they got their beliefs?
Home of Huey and Earl Long, REALLY unique political believers.
I will point out that my immediate ancestors did leave there and head for soil that more easily supported farming than the piney woods did, going east to the Delta areas. And more “southern” in traditions but I think those independent ancestors contributed a few genes to most of us!
Love, Jackie Monies
Shelly, don’t feel lonesome. I often intend to post but by the time I get through reading everybody else’s, I’ve either forgotten what I wanted to say or that I haven’t posted! 🙂
Ghost, yes, I do prefer the bubble-bath, candle, glass of wine version of “Red Red Wine”. Neil Diamond has a much better voice. 😉
My ancestors came from the hill country of Scotland and once they arrived in the New World headed for the hills here. We have always preferred less Government intrusion in our lives and would like to keep it that way.
Jackie, my ancestors came from Germany in the 1840s ( I have a great-aunt who is big on genealogy) and settled around Fredericksburg, TX. In the early days of the Civil War, a couple of my cousins left to join the Union Army and were shot dead by Confederate fanatics. We clean their tombsones, among others, during family reunions.
Ghost, here’s a pic of me in a tennis dress: http://s1306.photobucket.com/user/Lilyblack1/media/Tennis_zpsb59bb96c.jpg.html
Cute, Lily. Blurry, but cute.
Interesting factoid: The calf muscles are the second densest muscles in the human body. At least that’s what my aerobics instructor once told me, and she’s so cute and sexy that I’d believe almost anything she tells me. 🙂
For bonus points, name the densest muscle in the human body. Hint: Despite the empirical evidence to the contrary we all see demonstrated daily (often by our co-workers), it is not the head.
Ghost, you are so like predictable. It’s the one you like to watch going away from you.
“Let no neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten as a people the cost of a free and undivided republic.”
Maj. Gen. John A. Logan, May 5, 1868: Upon the creation of Decoration Day to honor both the dead of the U.S. and Confederate troops. This day is now Memorial Day and is designated to honor the dead who served and died in all wars throughout American history, including the Revolutionary War to the present conflicts.
Love, Jackie Monies
Okay, then, her’s me running in a marathon:
http://s1306.photobucket.com/user/Lilyblack1/media/Running_zpsf515fae0.jpg.html
Yep, nice legs, Lily. Thanks. By the way, do you know your BMI? I know it would be low, but I’m curious as to how low.
And despite what that loony Loon says, that’s not where the densest muscle is. Hint: Think “alligator”. And not its tail, either.
My BMI was 19.5 last time I calculated it, Ghost
Lily:
Not as quick as you, but whenever I hear people say that marathoners never finish with a smile on their face, I show them this picture.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151458182648859&set=a.44704918858.56944.619003858&type=3&theater
Mike’s sailing partner has a running wife who goes all over the world in her marathons. I say she is semi-pro because she now seems to have sponsors.
Anyway, we were looking at photos of her with lots of Disney Princesses and my Disney freak daughter asked “How did you get those fantastic shots?”
We said you had to run a marathon for those!
Love, Jackie Monies
Link won’t work for me, Steve, but I sure had a smile on my face when I finished the last one. A few minutes after, anyway, cause I had to sprint to the finish line to beat my closest female runner in my age group
Her is another link: http://twitpic.com/e4q2ot
“Not much cleavage to speak of” is much less likely to age to “38 long”. Also, works better in tennis and track, and sex appeal, to me. De gustibus . . ..
“I’d have to add Dilbert to your list, even though many of those cartoons so resemble Life At Work that I some times literally don’t know whether to laugh or cry.” Dilbert strips are among those widely posted on faculty* doors. I was encouraged to learn that was also so in many businesses, though I suspect not in many others.
*A newly elected chair once asked me to remove all such posts from my office door: It was “unprofessional”. He chose not to run for a second 4-year term when it became clear that he would be unseated. Cannot remember if these were before or after I retired, but I think shortly after. We had excess office space for a while, so retained my old office for a few years. Have had to move twice since, but still have shared space in the same bldg. I’m the only emeritus who regularly [every week or so] shows up for lunch in the faculty lounge during the school year.
About really large breasts- I was once in a diet clinic in Houston run by a now deceased but famous diet guru. A lady down in front row raised her hand and asked if she would need breast reduction after she lost the weight?
He replied, “Honey if you don’t, you’ll be able to throw one over each shoulder and tie them in a bow in the back.”
He survived investigation and “exposé” on 60 Minutes with Mike Wallace, so he was pretty quick with repartee!
I never asked any questions!
Love, Jackie Monies
Today and tomorrow, Ancestry.com is allowing free access to military records (as they do every year). I popped on to see what was new. Not only did I find a few records that clarified some things (and created some new questions. *sigh*), I noticed “leaves” next to my parents’ names as well. Their marriage record is now available … as is mom’s obituary. Although I should have realized it might be there, it still caught me off guard. I dutifully updated my family tree, but decided I’d done enough for the day.
Well, Mindy, it is a holiday, so it depends on whether you regard that as “work”.Me, I have been posing for a painting for the last few hours, posting here on my potty breaks.
Lily, Was at work at 6am. This was later. Wasn’t implying “work” so much as “bummer.”
eMb – For those of us still in the trenches at the secondary school level, it’s a little harder to find comics that reflect our reality. One that does is drawn by a middle school English teacher in nearby Volusia County, Florida. Here’s his recent series on the state-mandated testing that has taken over our library (because of all our computers) for 8.5 of the last 9 weeks –
http://www.mrfitz.com/archive.htm As the page notes, you have to start at the bottom to read the strips in order.
The staff at our vet’s office enjoys the printouts we bring of A&J strips featuring Luddie and/or pet-related Rhymes With Orange strips. We’re there on a regular basis since our cat has kidney issues and gets fluids every couple of weeks.