In France, a seafood platter is not unlike this. It’s called plateau fruits de mer, or just fruits de mer, and usually comes on a multi-tiered tower that makes it look like a slimy wedding cake. Needless to say, the best fruits de mer are startlingly fresh. I don’t remember the exact moment I conceived this idea, but I’m pretty sure it was inspired by this French version of a seafood platter. I found a lot to appreciate in my European travels and consider myself a changed and better man for them, but I will admit I prefer our seafood from the Gulf of Mexico. Fried.
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Anal?? Oh, that kind of anal. I keep telling Jackie I just like neatness and organization, so as not to waste valuable time hunting stuff, but I’m not OCD, or as a friend keeps saying, “OC/DC”.
Yes, Terrie the Lingerie-Drawer-Stuffing Housekeeper may need a bit of disciplining in the finer art of unmentionable handling, but I suspect I can manage to give her that. 😉
I have been choosing Terrie’s outside-the-bedroom assignments (she’s rearranging Jackie’s bedroom…get your minds out of the gutter) in the order of what p.o.’s me the most in terms of disorder. Pending are the freezer drawer; the small kitchen pantry; the kitchen dish-and-glass shelves; and the large pantry area in the laundry room. A Ghost’s work is apparently never done.
That thing about sushi not being alive…um Symply not accurate…ordered some Fargone abalone in Japan and this is what arrived!
https://www.facebook.com/Philippe.E.Gut/videos/vb.1631560167/10202699866851095/?type=3&theater
I turned and asked Gayle and her daughter Sara if it was moving or was I seeing things….ate it quickly…they were not enthused.
Oh yeah, Symply.
Next time you’re eating fresh fruit or raw vegetables, Symply, remember that they’re still alive.
Got two loads of towels and sheets washed before I pooped out but not folded. If I am OK after dinner I will fold and refill linen shelves and store some. Housekeeper isn’t good on this so Ghost and I will do laundry until he can teach her how.
Ghost put new Weber grill together to cook hamburgers tonight and we did joint potato salad using new potatoes out of garden, along with corn on cob and tomatoes.
Resting on clean sheets. Life is good.
Ghost is frustrated. Cannot find a match or a propane lighter. Off to Dollar General.
We are prioritizing by what drives him crazy with my help. I have a covered cooking patio built just for that function. It has water and electricity but never wired or plumbed nor set up for use.
Tomorrow he gets Terrie to help him clean it down bare, decide how he wants it set up and we turn it into an outdoor cooking kitchen.
Coyote hunting in p.dog town.
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I have a kitten! I love with a couple who were my neighbors, and they surprised me with an eight week oldkitten. She is a tricolor. Gray, orange, and white.
I have a kitten! I live with a couple who used to be my neighbors, and they surprised me with an eight week old kitten. She is a tricolor. Gray, orange,and white. We call her Mia(My-a) .she wasn’t afraid or tried to hide. S will have to get used to dogs. It’s a dog domain around here.
I meant live not love! It changed twice on me.
I forgot to mention she is a stub tailed cat . S he was born that way. Her mother is a stub tail too. I had a cat but Patsy disappeared in March. We never found a trace of her. I really missed having a cat.
So glad you got a kitten.
Laura, glad you have a new furry friend with you. They sure add something special where we often don’t think we need any thing more. Hope you share many stories with Mia.
Laura:
Tricolor: gray, orange, and white. Sounds like a variation of a tortie [tortoise shell] or calico. Both of them are necessarily female [or abnormal XXY or some such], because torties and calicos have two different pigment genes, one on each of their X chromosomes. Normal males are XY, so can have only one or the other pigment gene. Lots of websites. Can you give us a photo?
Peace,
I wish I could give a picture, but I don’t know how to post a picture. Got to learn.
I love Bob tail cats. Anyone want to explain how they happen naturally?
I have a plethora of orange cats and have since I moved here despite neutering and spaying anything I catch.
Added a lot of black ones with Marks cats from Alabama and a couple of long haired brown and white. Every body fixed.
The latest finding reference Jackie’s recently departed and totally unlamented hired help is that they managed to rust stainless steel utensils. Of course, they apparently thought regular gardening tools would not rust even if left outside, on the ground, in the rain, so…
The saddest thing is that Jackie was really, really good to those people. And they repaid her kindness by cheating her through taking her money for work either done improperly or not done at all, and cost her even more in loss of and damage to her equipment and property. So she did the right thing by cutting them loose.
Laura from AR. If you have a Facebook account post your pictures there. Then you can copy the address and paste it here. That’s how I’ve been posting my pics and Jackie and LLee’s photos for them.
Good morning Villagers….
Laura, I am eggcited that you nave a new furever friend…may you have many days of a cat on your lap 🙂
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then there will be days like this:
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That is how Dickens looks down on us except we never have a camera.
and may you have many days of these:
http://cheezburger.com/2095109/prove-that-cats-can-be-jerks
I walk three + miles every day and can attest that it does not help you lose weight, but like Janis, realize that I would really be fat if I didn’t walk. Every day for the last 6-7 years, I have walked counter clock wise around our building and in the afternoon a nice lady would walk clockwise around the building. I likened our relationship to a twitter account as we have to spit out what we wanted to say to each other in 140 characters or less. I never did ask her name…came back from Spain and noticed that her car was not in the parking lot and when I walked by her office it was empty. She really helped motivate me to walk if only to know someone else was walking too
A few years ago a co-worker commented that if he did not know that I was happily married, then a juicy rumor might get started. I laughed and said ” So you think I’m walking for my health?” Strange that this line and the 3 miles were used in today’s strip.
Today is “Hug Your Cat Day” . What a coincidence. Debbe loved the cat-being-a-jerk.Oh, so true. Lolaand I did.
Bear, I haven’t made it up to Connecticut yet, but for good fried clams I might have to see about that.
Laura, several of the feral cats that I take care of are stub-tailed. I would think something happened to them, but a few years ago I brought a kitten inside, and her tail is just very short.
Cats are proof that the world is indeed round. If it were flat they would have pushed everything off by now.
Rained most of night, often heavy but no storms here. Still dark and rainy I suspect. Just got fed my favorite breakfast, in bed no less, raspberries, blueberries and cottage cheese with a buttered English muffin and iced tea.
Is this heaven or Oklahoma?