It turns out, 20 years later, that eggs aren’t bad for you after all—or bacon either if it isn’t highly processed, but that kind of bacon is hard to come by. It isn’t often you see this many people in an A&J strip! Maybe that will make a good theme for us here this week: other people in Arlo & Janis. To be honest, I’ll have to think about that one.
199 responses to “Egging ’em on”
Jackie, as P&PHS was trimming my salt-and-pepper hair today, she said, “If I were to ever go gray…which I won’t…I’d want my hair to look exactly like yours.” Based on that, and some comments you’ve made, I’m guessing you’d like it, too.
And I drink fat-free milk.
Yes, I love salt and pepper hair and beards. Or gray.
Interesting, I don’t color my hair. Sort of a ash blonde. According to my hair dressers I will never need to, just get more ashen.
Interesting medical visit today, first time I ever filled out form that asked about relationship issues and sexual orientation. A comprehensive form. I was impressed.
Jerry
Fat free milk is bluish white water – unless it is colored like they did
125 YA
If it says so on the internet.
Mark
If your mother is at all unsteady on here feet she should have someone with her.
But then all it takes is a few min.
MIL was alone less than an hour when she fell. Which we probably could not
have prevented anyway.
If other family members take over primary supervision make sure you give them a
break (a day and a night) once a week or every other week so they can relax.
That was how BH and I were able to watch MIL without burnout.
FIL would only drink powdered milk. Even skim was too rich for him.
Mark that is “her” feet
Good morning Villagers…
Steve, yes, everyone should eat more eggs…..I need a raise 🙂
I’ve been told there is more of a demand for the by-product of eggs…our eggs are used for that, such as Sara Lee and Milky Way candy bars….seen a rig with the name Milky Way on it coming from the direction of The Corp.
Rick, your mom cooked like mine did…always had a tin coffee can full of bacon grease she used for seasoning veggies and such.
Mindy, I would love to have that sign in my packing room….thanks for the grin.
Mark, my mom was prone to falling….we finally got her a walker with wheels and it had a seat on it. She also had one leg shorter than the other due to a faulty knee replacement. Had to have special shoes made for her. Old Bear has given excellent advice. At the nursing home, they had an alarm that would go off whenever she would try to get out of bed on her own. I know what you are going through and a prayer is on its way……………Amen
Well, a new motor for my packer came in and it had less wires on it than the old motor….I left.
Husband ordered a new radiator for my ‘Zuzi’, I hope we can get it all put together by this weekend. I’m going nuts. They pulled the dent out of the bumper and grill, now something about the a/c…told them I don’t need the a/c. Need pins for the hood and a latch.
Happy Hump Day
Debbe:
Thanks for jogging my memory!
My mom also used a coffee can for the bacon grease.
She favored Chase & Sanborn, so those cans were a frequent feature all over the place.
Dad used them for nuts, bolts, and other things for his basement workbench.
GR 😉 did ya forget about something last night 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKyFweWu0OQ
paws for the cause….
http://cheezburger.com/8773828864
Old Bear and Debbe, thank you for the advice and for the memory of coffee cans full of drippings. When I was little, my mom and dad favored Chase and Sanborn too. I don’t recall either grandmother or mother cooking with the grease. They just threw the cans away as they got full.
If mom goes to brother to stay, she will have plenty of company. Brother stays home while his wife works, she will be retiring within a year, I think. My nephew Joe, his girlfriend and their baby daughter also live with brother. Mom has complained she doesn’t get to see the baby, so now’s her chance.
Have a great day, everybody.
Today’s TIP BlogSpot:
http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/
Its real title is ‘Little girl lost in Paris.’ Housez is not widely known, cc. of only a few works available online.
Is the song widely known? Rings no bells but I’m totally ignorant of the pop scene.
Peace
From the musical Annie, “The sun will come out tomorrow”. Thanks Google search.
Debbe 😉 Thanks, hon. That video never gets old for me.
“Foursome”, huh? 😉
Lord, I have so much to do today. How do I get so far behind? I lose ground while I sleep! Oh right, yesterday I got to meet that new doctor and find out I have one less body part to worry about.
Same body part our possible presidential candidate considered most important on our possible first lady. That’s about as political a comment as you’ll get from me. Ironic.
Said “possible presidential candidate” today seems more than just “possible”.
I’ll not comment on “possible first lady” lady parts.
I’m getting tired of having to hold my nose when voting for POTUS.
A somewhat historic day in the Tampa Bay area. The Tampa Tribune stopped publication with yesterday’s edition being the last of the daily paper after 121 years. The paper was purchased by the Tampa Bay Times (nee St. Petersburg times) for an undisclosed amount. The last sale of the Tribune was 2012 when it fetched nine million.
This has been a long awaited shoe to drop. In the 1980’s after the death of Times publisher Nelson Poynter, the St. Petersburg Times went after other local papers aggressively. Mr. Poynter had always respected other publications’ markets.
The Clearwater Sun fell first and fast. The St. Petersburg Times built an office directly across the street from the Sun. A large noisy helix windmill was erected on top of the new building presumably to generate power but in reality to drive the staff of the Sun crazy with the whoop, whoop sounds.
The Times moved into downtown Tampa soon after. It bought the naming rights for Tampa’s sports arena (which recently became Amalie Arena.) Most of the Times staff and management was moved to the new Tampa facility. The Tribune retaliated by building an office in Pinellas County, not in St. Petersburg but a suburb north of town, too little, too late.
In 2012, the St. Petersburg Times was changed to the Tampa Bay Times, something that was to happen years before but the Tribune owned the name “Tampa Times” which ceased publication in 1982. (I delivered the afternoon Tampa Times in the early 1960’s). The court ruling denying use of the name, “Times” expired in 2012.
I grew up in an era when you just subscribed to your local paper, period. The son of the Tribune’s editorial manager sat in front of me through junior and senior high school (Dudley Clendinen, RIP http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/us/dudley-clendinen-author-dies-at-67.html?_r=0). He became a well known writer and editor but never worked at his father’s paper. He did work for the St. Petersburg times in his early career. That should have been a clue as to the declining quality of the Tribune.
As a subscriber to the Tampa Bay Times, I’m pleased that the paper will pick up all the comics from the Tribune that are not already seen in the Times. The daily A&J will now be available to me, Yay! If cartoonists are paid by circulation, J.J. will get a raise.
Ghost Sweetie, I am officially jealous! Our a/c is still not working, and the guy had to order a part, which MIGHT be in on Thursday, so he MIGHT be out here Friday. Thankfully the weather has been a bit cooler and somewhat rainy the last few days so opening windows helps.
I still have a can for bacon grease, but I keep it in the fridge and use it sparingly. Mostly I put it in cornbread instead of the fourth cup of cooking oil called for in the recipe I read long, long ago. Tastes much better. 🙂
As I believe I have mentioned before, my once-auburn hair is now pretty much all white, and I have never bothered to try to color it. Recently, though, I have thought of putting a streak in it, as a friend of mine does. She is a blonde, and her streak changes from pink to blue to green, depending on her mood. Or maybe the seasons. I just haven’t decided on a color yet. Of course, I could try this:
http://fashionbossip.com/top-20-best-multi-color-looks-that-take-rainbow-hair-to-the-next-level/
When I was a teen in college I was a hair model for an avant garde hair dresser, which surprises no one. I have had hair of many colors but none like today’s styles. I have had white, pink, blue, red, black. The baby blue landed me in a blue silk dress and a bank of azaleas on front page of paper.
But a colored streak Trapper says you are still young in spirit, so go for it.
Jean dear, here’s hoping for a quick resolution of your AC problems. And ironically, the unseasonably cool weather here means I really didn’t need AC yesterday, and probably won’t today, either. The HVAC guys apologized for the three and a half days (two of them over the weekend) it took to replace the unit, but as I told them, it could have been much worse…it isn’t August yet. And I’m sure you’d look equally elegant and lovely with auburn hair, white hair, or something a bit less traditional. And I agree a “streak” may be the way to go. (All the examples in the link you posted seemed to me to be a bit of chromatic overkill, though.)
Jackie, you’ve had non-traditional hair colors? I’m shocked, shocked, I tell you! 🙂 Perhaps you and Lady Mindy should compare notes on hair colors.
Last night I was reflecting on the fact that three of my grandparents had snow white hair, my mom and dad and all their siblings had/have snow white hair, and only my paternal grandmother had hardly any gray in her dark hair when she died at age 85. And yet it appears it will be a long time, if ever, before I go completely gray, and my sister (two years younger than me) had almost no gray when she passed. Funny how that genetics thing works, isn’t it?
Since my mom and all her siblings were brunettes, dark, dark, as was my maternal grandmother and great grandparents and aunts and uncles, where did my ash blonde hair come from? My father I never met although my mother died telling me he bleached it, just like I once did.
Who knew good looking men in the 19 40s bleached their hair?
A blizzard warning for New Jersey? You’re kidding me. I’m wondering how cold I will be in Michigan . My 10 day trip begins next
Wednesday.