I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.
That's enough whining! Spaghetti carbonara with dry sherry instead of white wine? Eeuw. Bacon and mushroom penne with sage. 'Sgonna have to do...
why are you out of white whine ? why arent you stomping some grapes ? when are you going to start stomping the grapes ? , and so on ..
bluntman used to be the grape stomper in our house . he was bout 4 yrs old and fit very well down inside of a crock . ill have to ask if he remembers .
I use to enjoy driving at night, loved seeing all the lights in the office buildings, etc. The monuments, the White House, and Capital Building are awesome at night :) Out where I live the main roads are well lit but the side roads forgetaboutit. I feel like I am driving in a black hole in the universe.
How do you like this sudden drop in temps outside?... maybe part of my issue was barometric pressure going amuck.
alright then . im out of quart mason jars . have to go look at a chimney for a guy in a little while , maybe he has some . people out here in the sticks have a black market of sorts . one such neighbor hooked me up yesterday with a really heavy gauge truck tool box that can ( will ) be cut up and reconfigured to build three boxes for my smaller truck .
my whine is there is only one of me , no help. the aftermath of my last two projects hasnt been cleared from the driveway yet . had to shift to apple canning -- they wont wait .
40 yrs at hard labor to date . whats the govt think were made of , titanium ?
fn kill me ..
Pam I think the dog chunks take about 90 minutes to can safely IF you plan to eat them. otherwise if you just intend to use them to get rid of unwanted guests earlier than they planned they should be fine. Just invite them into the pantry to help you decide "what's for dinner" Remember to do the paws seperately for pickled feet and boil the head well for brawn. CM will tell you how to make that. The eyes are very difficult to get out but worth the trouble if you have Middle Eastern friends. Hope Boni does not read this . Of course if your visitors are Chinese you will have to try something else. Roadkill anyone?
But the making of brawn/headcheese is perfectly, beautifully described in "Little House In The Big Woods." Love that whole series. You could use it as a pioneer's manual.
Managed to get her up and keep her since 12:00 noon. Last night around 3:00 a.m. I heard a crashing sound and thought boy.... this is it!! She'd fell onto the coffee table, thankfully breaking nothing. Some gibberish about how those people told her she needed to do something. What people?? Yikes. I have been trying to keep her busy today so she'll be so tired she'll pass out tonight (fingers crossed) I can already see the agitation setting in as she's tapping that leg a mile a minute. Gonna take her to the grocery store and a small ride to see if I can squelch some of this.
Veronica, I once saw someone cooking a "coon". I opened the lid and it's head popped out bearing teeth and big eyeballs ...it was hairless by that time but I will never ever forget that sight (shudder) looked like my friends poodle ;)
i dont even have the energy to whine tonight . i swung real wide today and done the trk tool box install job . id like to get back to canning but thats going to require some shelving reconfig . the available shelves are full and i still have 15 gallons of apples to cut up and can .
just wow. its been like this for a year now -- no starting or ending point .
i might be getting my own life back but sometimes i think ive been " chumped " . lol . not at all like the brochure ..
i envy those of you with a spouse.
the tool box is cool , maybe one of a kind . sits rearward and overtop of the truck cab . it'll be common equiptment in 5 years . everything i ever built was a few years ahead of the world .
laggards !!
hes eventually going to die but he isnt even going to know it ..
Suggested that Dad tell me what he actually needs, I will go on-line, order it, and have it delivered to their house..... Dad doesn't want to pay delivery fees..... [bagging head against the wall].
beef plate is a layer of 100 % lean beef located in the underbelly where youd find bacon on a hog .. we cut it into jar height strips and rolled it into a cylinderic shape .
I am far from intact there Mr. Cap. Actually, my non-intactness is a lifesaver. If I am too intact, I tend to get very mouthy and opinionated and whoops, there goes my sissy brothers :/ Envy is one of those deadly sins Bob, take this time to grieve and move forward. The lucky woman will be happy you did :P
Someday's I just feel like tossing everything into the garbage bin and starting over. Fresh start. Clean slate.
FF.... my best suggestion is to just DO IT. Anxiety is nothing to play with and your parent's will JUST have to learn to understand. They have NO choice. Do not feel guilty. Head banging was a rock thing at one time?
Dad tried to get on the Internet yesterday but said he couldn't connect.... I've given up trying to tell him it's because he's on dial-up in a huge metro area... told him that yesterday was baseball playoffs and college football so people were on-line watch the game... now if he had high-speed internet he would get on... well, he's not going to pay for that.... that's the child of the Great Depression talking.... [sigh]
re ; HS internet / dad .
he aintta payin it , let em keep it .
dang rain day here this am . that changes everything and nothing . ill shift gears and jump into something altogether different -- like canning apples .. now i have the last three fabrication messes stacked up out front . dont want to clean em up too quickly . bits of the three messes can be hacked up and incorporated into the next project . left over 2 x 10 pieces = pantry shelving ..
I want some old fashioned under-vests and some old fashioned pyjamas and can I get hold of any? Can I buggery. Marksandsparks, the nation's stand-by for these things for decades, has gone so bloomin' arty-farty and "Collection" this and "Limited Edition" that that they've forgotten to stock up on plain old undies. I am not going to dress my 90 year old mother like she's hankering after her boudoir days.
This past Sunday, I actually looked forward to going for a visit. (I normally visit 2-3 times per week.) When I arrived, we sat in the family visiting room and chatted with some of the other residents. I've leaned a lot about them since my LO went there. It was really rather nice. The residents, regardless of their abilities, have much to offer. They have taught me a lot.