I mentioned yesterday that many of the cat facts presented in the current A&J comic strips were “gleaned” from the Nature series that has, for years, run on PBS. I perhaps should mention that if you’re into streaming, you can make a contribution to PBS and gain access to a lot of material online that you wouldn’t otherwise have. I know that everyone online wants money from you these days, and I resist subscribing to a number of shows and periodicals that interest me, simply because I could nickel and dime myself into quite an outlay if I’m not careful. I do, however, subscribe to the PBS feed; it’s much better than a coffee cup or a tote bag! (Did I mention you can subscribe to gocomics.com for $20 a year and read your favorite comics without having to see ads?)
Family Herloom
By Jimmy Johnson
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37 responses to “Family Herloom”
Re 10-21-19 real-time cartoon: In fairness to Janis, I can remember at least once last winter when I was bundled up much as she is, just to walk outside. (I believe Jackie has photo.) Of course, the WCF was minus 15 F at the time, so…
Ghost, colchicine has been a staple for gout since the Egyptians! The standard prescription when I last took it was take two 0.6mg tablets at first sign of gout. Continue taking one tablet every hour until (extensive) diarrhea hits…
According to the Internet, studies were done and prices were raised since I last took it. Cost for Colchicine now is about 50 times what it was when I took it in the mid 2000s. One benefit is that the dosing now is suggested as 1.2mg to start, followed by .06mg in one hour– with no additional dose for 24 hours.
Oops– 0.6 mg as second dose…
I seem to do little more than apologize for what comes out of my kitchen now. I have never cooked many casseroles, one pot dishes and crock pots seemed to me the indication of those getting recipes from back of soup cans.
So in effort to make a dish in one pot I dragged out my 20# Lodge cast iron Dutch oven. I dragged out ingredients which covered about 3 feet of my counter space. I sliced and diced and sauteed and stirred and followed directions. I ended up with pot full to top.
Ghost declared the resulting cheesey American style ghoul losh to be totally inedible. Since the dang thing had a lot of $$ in pot I did not dump. Wish I had a church dinner, the blogger said it was popular there.
If no church dinners, what about “soup kitchens” or other places to feed the homeless in your area?