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Not if you prepare it right and as with everything practice is the key. Not to mention a chef grandfather who came to the rescue when I got stuck. Aside from the occasional chicken we covered our meat need with what we harvested for several years. We used our game tags up in Georgia/Alabama.
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I know little about game including venison, but my former father in law said he wouldn't shoot an animal if it saw him. Said the animal's adrenaline made the meat taste bad.

Ate venison twice. 1st time as a teen, hardly remember. 2nd time it was done as if it was beef bourguignon and was pretty nice, but I'm not interested in more.
 
Good morning, all! Christmas is a mere week away! 🎄 👯‍♂️

Yesterday DH took 10 boxes of cookies to the post office, we'll mail more boxes today.

Busy day, so I've gotta bounce. I'll check in later when taking a break from the long list of holiday-related tasks in front of me.

Hope all are having a great day!
 

I took the bedding to the laundromat (I like to use the front loader for those - I think my top loader would be too rough on them). Then I went grocery shopping. Bought chicken breasts to prepare for Christmas and a few other goodies. When I returned to the laundromat, there was a sign on the door - "The electricity will be turned off between 10am and 4pm today. The laundromat will be closed for those hours". Phew - just made it, it was 9:40am when I was there. If I had been any later, it might have been a wasted trip.
 
Just over a trace of snow overnight, so as Gomer would say: "Surprise, surprise, surprise!" More leaf cleanup.

Then I need to finish up modifications beefing up a wood & hardware gift for my grandson. Amazing that so much sold today is so... puny and inadequate and doesn't match the photos.
 
Los Angeles at sunrise. My older daughter flew this morning at 6:00 a.m. from the Ontario Airport (Los Angeles County) to Seattle (Washington State) to visit some friends. That's a time when my pups are still solidly asleep. OK, everyone has their own bed. But Heidi in the center likes to cuddle up with the boys, even if it gets a little bit crowded. I am changing the blankets weekly because they are easier to wash than the dog beds.

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My 5 y/o grandson loves to cook; and next, he is at a Christmas/pajama party. And on Monday everyone will visit Legoland in Carlsbad SoCal.

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Seeing a horse is nowadays, where we are living, nostalgia. The road's two driving lanes are divided by a wide middle strip, the other direction is not visible. The middle strip used to be a streetcar right-of-way many, many years ago. And the horseback rider is using the bicycle/sidewalk path.

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I know little about game including venison, but my former father in law said he wouldn't shoot an animal if it saw him. Said the animal's adrenaline made the meat taste bad.

Ate venison twice. 1st time as a teen, hardly remember. 2nd time it was done as if it was beef bourguignon and was pretty nice, but I'm not interested in more.
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It was actually not much of a choice between meat or no meat.
 
Spent the morning in the dentist chair. Complete bottom jaw numbed. Two teeth had to be surgically removed as they did not want to let go of the jaw bone. Then I had two cavities filled, one on each side. It did not hurt during the procedure, but Doc said it will feel and look like I was in a bar fight. Lots of swelling and probably very bruised on the right side. I can tell you now. I know what it looks like to have a lip filler, it is not pretty!

The numbing will last for a few more hours. He gave me tylenol 3 with codeine. He said the government has now come down hard on prescribing painkillers. Gave me enough for 7 days.

Next visit will be fillings on the upper and replacement of some cosmetic areas done 25 years ago.

Now, I am starving but can't eat until the numbing wears off. Thinking I will just make a big pot of potato soup. I am not supposed to have many starchy foods but I will have to do what is needed while I heal.

@hollydolly, I sometimes get out of the loop, have you had your haircut yet. I am still loving my short cut, so easy to take care off but I really want you to take a good long think. Your hair is so beautiful, think of the true reason you want to cut it, do not rush. For me, it was right, but then again, I don't have the energy to take care of long hair, wear make up, worry about and keep up with the fashions.

You on the other hand are vibrant, social, enjoy meeting and participating in things that interest you. I still think you would be just as pretty in an edgy smart cut. I also think short cuts work so well with all the cute hats.

Hope you all had a better start to the day than I did. Christmas is running up fast, do the things you enjoy, see those use love, throw the diet out the window and eat the things you love. It is only once a year!
 
Oh @Blessed ..your very brave going through all that at the dentist. I have the same thing to come in Janury...

I do hope your mouth isn't too painful for you when the numbing wears off...

In answer t your question, no I haven't had my hair cut yet... very kind of you to be so complimantary of my hair...

I was thinking of getting it cut before Christmas but it seems I've left it all too late, and the salons are all booked up.... so it may be happening in the new year ...so for now it still looks like this...

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You wouldn’t believe what an accomplishment it is more me to sew anything. Even a button is a chore. The sleeves on a new-to-me lightweight down coat needed to come up a hem length. It basically took three tries over that many days. The first day I didn’t have bright enough natural light. The next I got started and realized a little bit of the stuffing was coming out on each stitch so I quit. The third day I just took a deep breath and decided to hope no more feathers come out. It looks great .. for now. I hope I don’t end up leaving a trail of feathers.

This is how a procrastinator handles chores.
 
@hollydolly Just yank something out of your freezer and call it good. ETA: Better idea. How about a Cornish game hen? Just enough for dinner and a bit left over for a sandwich later.

I've given up on what to have and when for Christmas. First it was dinner on Christmas Eve, light lunch on Christmas Day. Then meat, cheese, veggie tray on Christmas Eve, dinner at 6 on Christmas Day. Then something else at a different time on whichever day. Now it's Christmas dinner at 1 on Christmas Day, or at least it was the last I heard yesterday.

Deliver me. I'm supposed to make deviled eggs and hash brown casserole. I'll make them during the day on Christmas Eve, reheat whenever the time and day have been decided on.

Dancing to somebody else's tune without a say in the plan is a PITA. This isn't the gramma life I envisioned years ago. Not. Even. Close.

Is it spring yet? Wait. No. It isn't. We still have at least one ice storm and probably a little sNOw before spring happens.

Please may I have a do-over from my 50s?

ETA: Wait. I think it's copious amounts of breakfast foods Christmas morning, then big dinner at 6. I dunno what's happening Christmas Eve. At this point, I don't even give a rat's rear🐀 except that it seems I'm being voluntold to provide the aforementioned copious amounts of breakfast foods...
 
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@hollydolly Just yank something out of your freezer and call it good. ETA: Better idea. How about a Cornish game hen? Just enough for dinner and a bit left over for a sandwich later.

I've given up on what to have and when for Christmas. First it was dinner on Christmas Eve, light lunch on Christmas Day. Then meat, cheese, veggie tray on Christmas Eve, dinner at 6 on Christmas Day. Then something else at a different time on whichever day. Now it's Christmas dinner at 1 on Christmas Day, or at least it was the last I heard yesterday.

Deliver me. I'm supposed to make deviled eggs and hash brown casserole. I'll make them during the day on Christmas Eve, reheat whenever the time and day have been decided on.

Dancing to somebody else's tune without a say in the plan is a PITA. This isn't the gramma life I envisioned years ago. Not. Even. Close.

Is it spring yet? Wait. No. It isn't. We still have at least one ice storm and probably a little sNOw before spring happens.

Please may I have a do-over from my 50s?

ETA: Wait. I think it's copious amounts of breakfast foods Christmas morning, then big dinner at 6. I dunno what's happening Christmas Eve. At this point, I don't even give a rat's rear🐀 except that it seems I'm being voluntold to provide the aforementioned copious amounts of breakfast foods...
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We often had game hens at the inlaws, wild rice, asparagus and a host of other things. Of course, we were required to come for Christmas breakfast, which was always wonderful.

In later years, when there was more money, they switched to Prime Rib. My husband and his brother fought like still, little boys, both trying to get the most. It was so embarrassing as they both could go out and buy a roast anytime they wanted. They were always competitive about their Mom, if Mom cooked it, they each had to eat the most. Still makes me laugh to this day!
 
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I got up at 11:30 p.m. and stayed up to, clean the litter box and gather the garbage for my son to take out. Then I did some financial stuff. I made my evening and morning prayer right together (both are done when the sun is down). Morning prayer started today at 5:55. I decided to go to the supermarket this morning. I thought it was going to be raining but that wasn't scheduled to start until this evening. I spent a whole $5.99! They didn't have the bread nor the frozen onion-pepper mix I wanted.

I napped then had a phone conversation with my "Li'l Sis", the good friend who produced my music videos. She sent my son a new version of a Christmas song she and her talented friends recorded so he can master it. He's working on it without the headphones and what I'm hearing sounds real good, so I'm sitting at the computer Rockin'! He had gone to Costco for me after work. I only got a couple of items. Had to put the cases of egg whites and yogurt away before getting on the forum.
 
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