Today, one last parting shot at a harsh winter and a spring that at times has appeared overwhelmed by the task at hand. However, the work of springtime finally is in high gear around here, evidenced by the hit-and-miss nature of Web updates this week. Sometimes, the corporeal world will not wait.
156 responses to “Insulated from Reality”
Lily, glad to see there is a man in your life who is skilled in the culinary arts. We do make the best cooks, you know. 🙂
Boy, do I know it. When I moved in here I thought home cooking meant “overcooked, bland, and salty”
Jean….you may have the honor of being known and the Crazy Cat Lady….Brooklynne calls me the “crazy cat woman.”
I am blessed, as my husband cooks and prepares the meals….for all us… (plus he does 90% of the shopping, he is retired)…..last night it was Caesar’s salad with BLT’s…..then later, it was scrambled eggs with cheese wrapped in a warm flour tortilla with salsa……the other night we had tacos…then barbecued chicken legs with cream style corn…and more salad. He usually has this ready within an hour after we get home, as we’re starved…..I pack smoked turkey breast, beef roast all with a slab of swiss cheese for our lunches….but after two plus years…sort of burned out on sandwiches…………thought of cannned tuna with cottage cheese
does anyone have any ideas???
Mom was tired….there was a baby shower yesterday afternoon for the maternal side grandchildren…..my maternal side nephew and wife are having a boy….just don’t have the relationship with them as I do with my husband’s nephews….rotten shame I had to work 🙂
Lily….I’m confused by your comment of:” My Boss/landlady/best friend/wife of The Man In My Life fielded it for me.” Is this just one person? You have a very unique relationship with your Boss Lady….you are blessed.
Last night we had pot roast with potatoes, celery, carrots and mushrooms.
Debbe, I am fond of Waldorf salad which The Man In My Life makes with bacon, avocado, and chicken
Debbe,I live with my Boss/ Landlady/ BFF and her husband is The Man In My Life. I guess I should say that her #2 son (age 16) is The Boy In My Life. And I certainly know I am blessed. I thank the Lord for them all every day.
I moved in here when I had a terminal blowup with my mother. I was already working at her office and had bee her patient before that
” Personally I’ve always liked Sophia Loren” And I still do. She has aged like a fine wine.
Lilly…I make a wonderful apple salad….with finely chopped celery, apples, red grapes and mayonnaise (and not light either), very little salt, and just a couple of tablespoons of sugar, and walnuts. Maybe simple, but easy and ‘evaporates’ in no time here….of course, I’m a little ‘extra’ with the celery, which I love….peanut butter and my favorite…..phllly cheese.
Sophia Loren is the epitome of beauty….
Mark…love the article….I just wonder who around here (lots of farm supply stores) who would be interested. But, unfortunately, my Cogburns are reaching the age of…..it’s all down here for the next few months….few eggs…..I wonder…if they call an aging hen a ‘spent hen’….what do they call an aging ‘Cogburn’?
I may have just a few more months before the building is purged…..
Debbe, we never use anything marked “Light”. The Man In My Life, who does the shopping, says that if he is going to make something for his family to eat, it’s going to be honest tastes.
Sophia Loren is my husband’s idea of a fine aged wine too. Unfortunately I am short, of Scots-Irish descent, no ethnicity in my background I’d think that would make me ever look like that.
When I moved to Hawaii we had the most beautiful and elegant secretary who told me she was in her 60+ age range. I could not believe it! She gave me her ethnic background, Portuguese, Hawaiian, Chinese, etc. A complete mix of everyone who’d ever lived in the Islands.
I was young, blonde, short, pretty, petite. She looked at me and said, “You poor thing, all those Caucasian genes! When you are my age you will be all old and wrinkled!”
Truer words!
Love, Jackie Monies
Loon, I have a son-in-law who I always swear is employed in some form of espionage. He works in a home office with computers, wears exercise shorts and bare foot, seems to handle lots of phone and computer contacts, no one has seen another company person. He says he is doing customer service for a t-shirt machinery company and handling repairs, installations, trade show and salesmens travel.
I told him that I had yet to see a business card nor a catalog for said company but I had definitely known CIA or other operatives. So, he put me on a t-shirt machinery mailing list.
Still not convinced, he has been in every country in the world. He doesn’t do that much anymore and takes excellent care of my granddaughter as house dad. Considering where most of our t-shirts come from, the third world nations story is plausible.
But what a great cover that would be? I hope no one monitors JJ’s blog site here.
Love, Jackie Monies
For anyone who wonders how “real” any of us are, I just got notified by the author Dick (Richard) Herman that “A Boat Named Scamp” was now available on Amazon and other marine book vendors. I mention this because Dick is a friend and my personal “geezer” husband plays a prominent part in the plot.
It’s Dick’s first venture into nonfiction (good fiction writer) so I am not sure how “true” it all is but he says it is. He says you can’t make up the really good stuff.
It’s actually more a love story triangle between a lot of grown men in love with a 12 foot boat.
Love, Jackie Monies
My favorite boat quote is “A boat is a hole in the water lined with fiberglass into which you pour money.”
No, no Lily, that was what we said when we were yacht brokers!!!
“Just keep pouring the money into the cockpit and when you reach the gunnels we will let you have it!”
Scamp is a 12 foot micro-cruiser made out of plywood by hand. She looks like a little pugnacious bulldog with a blunt nose and a fat belly. The cutest boat ever launched, she looks like a child’s toy plastic boat in a bathtub.
My “geezer” built the first two simultaneously in our back yard, finished one to launch and sail, the other almost, in a marathon of nonstop building of about 90 days in a record setting blizzard. We took one unfinished to Florida for the Everglades Challenge, finished her in the parking lots and launched her in what some call the world’s toughest small boat endurance race. Neither Mike nor his partner had ever sailed her.
She went through 40 mph winds, four to six foot seas. They sailed nonstop 24 hours per day nonstop in this toy boat.
Now no one has to read the book I suppose! But basically this is the little boat that could/can and that isn’t the entire story of course.
Lily, if you knew the kind of people who do this sort of thing it would change your mind about boats. I know it changed mine.
Love, Jackie Monies
“I hope no one monitors JJ’s blog site here.”
Rotsa ruck!
[Just because we’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get us.]
EMB- I thought that was part of our senior citizen mental issues? You mean those people I see are REAL?
Has Arlo and JJ expressed any radical views lately other than being extremely patriotic and supportive of our American way of life?
Yesterday I saw a guy in t-shirt that I thought said, “Our ancestors by now would be hooting”
which I thought, mmmm– probably true.
Then he turned a little more and I saw the “S”.
Couldn’t see if there as any small print or sponsorship logos, but I smiled brightly and got the heck out of his way!
Love, Jackie Monies
I want that t-shirt!
Jackie, I’m just not a water person. Don’t like the beach (when my father took us to Florida I spent my time shopping and reading). Don’t like to fish (or eat the things) or water-ski. I learned to snow-ski, as we say in Texas, last year when we got invited to a chalet in Aspen. That is a hoot.
Lilyblack, I tried to find that and couldn’t. But search for our forefathers would be shooting by now and look what you find.
Jackie – Speaking of building boats, have you ever read How to Build a Tin Canoe? We met the author, Robb White, a few years before he died. A delightful man and a great story teller! You can read a few of his stories on his website robbwhite.com. They’re not all about boats and they are really funny.
Mark, http://www.zazzle.com/our_forefathers_would_be_shooting_by_now_tshirt-235274610566213899
I bought it in royal Blue 😀
Ruth Anne, I LOVE Robb White. I always read his columns while he was alive and when they gathered them together for an anthology we own the book, of course. I bet JJ might have known him. He is much beloved and missed. And yes, even non-boaters could enjoy him.
Are you still in Texas, Lily? Somehow I pictured you waaaay up Nawth, as Texans say.
My Texan friends probably all own that t-shirt. I know a lot of them support separation and other causes. When I lived in Clear Lake area we were all opposed to Houston swallowing our area. One of my best friends designed a bumper sticker and t-shirt with lots of little fish being swallowed by one just bigger and the big fish at the end with teeth was labeled Houston.
Of course, we lost.
We refer to ourselves as “Displaced Texans” up here.
Love, Jackie Monies
For about 10 months in 1967-1968 I was a Texan. My father was in an inspection job for the DOD at the R.G. Letourneau plant in Longview while it was making 500 lb bomb casings for the Air Force. Seemed like a nice enough place but family issues caused mom and the kids to return to Alabama.
Good deal Lilyblack. I saw several versions of the shirt but didn’t post the link so as not to create bother over some of the other items there. I knew if I gave you the right version of the words you could find it.
Sirius is playing my favorite Pink Floyd song now: Echoes from the same album. Wish they would play One of These Days next!