What's on your agenda for today?

...nothing much planned for me today, I'm watching the radar and the rain northwest of me, if it misses me, I'll be dragging the water hose out.
 

Like Jackie22 I don't have much planned today either. I called the service station to get my car taken care of and they won't have a loaner car until tomorrow. I need that so I'll wait till tomorrow to have my car towed in to get fixed..Again.
 
It's just after 6am..I've been up for an hour, now I'm just checking emails and having a cuppa tea before getting ready to leave for 11 hours at the workhouse..

Wet out there this morning, I think Oldman may have chosen the wrong week to visit Europe... :eek:
 

Porridge. I've always wondered just exactly what that is. Oatmeal?

It's going to rain again today...patches of clouds, then sun, then more clouds, etc. Right now it's sort of semi-sunny so I've been working in the garden.

Today is the first day grandson drove to school. He got his license Tuesday, gathered up all his parking-permit paperwork yesterday, drove today. Um...in my car:D Not to worry, folks. My daughter took car of all the insurance stuff, and I'm now on their policy. Because they had two cars and their home with the same company, adding mine gave them a bigger discount. My premium went down, but not by much. I'm saving a grand $12/year. Grandson? Adding him to the policy also added $1476/year to their premium. Let's hope he finds a job soon because they told him they'd pay the additional premium for two months, and after that, it's his money. No job = every penny of his allowance paying for insurance!

Gotta get back to the flowers before the heavens open up again.

Y'all have a swell day.

Oops. Not added $1476/year to their premium...added $1676. That's a lotta lettuce!
 
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Georgia, porridge means any hot cereal, but yes, what I eat is the same as oatmeal. I use Scottish porridge oats. The best!

Teens make car insurance go sky high!
 
This afternoon we will meet up at a Subway sandwich shop with our x-daughter-n-law so she can take our grandson back to her house and then tomorrow (Friday) he'll take a bus back up north to college. We will sure miss him as he's been here since Monday. Then we'll go to Wal-mart and buy my husband a couple sleeveless t-shirts. After all these years I've finally gotten him to try wearing shorts, t-shirts and sandals in this heat and he really likes it. :) Then I'll come home and feel sorry for myself for awhile cause none of my grand-kids are around.
 
Linda said:
Glad to know that Ameriscot as I have wondered exactly what porridge was too. I knew it was cearl but I thought maybe it was some certain kind we don't have in the US.
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I just don't say oatmeal any more. Porridge is implanted in my brain! The only time I hear the word oatmeal here is when referring to oatmeal raisin cookies.
 
Weetabix...is that stuff like shredded wheat? Some kind of flakes likes Wheaties? I see it mentioned in a story every now and then.

As for porridge...I'll eat Cream of Wheat any time but truly cannot stand oatmeal. When I was a kid, my mother would get up early to start a fire in the kitchen stove and to have a cup of coffee undisturbed. Our kitchen stove was wood-burning on one side and gas burners/oven on the other. The coffee perked while she made oatmeal. Then...she'd set the saucepan on one of the burners (unlit) and cover it, where it would get cold and congeal.

After she'd had her coffee, she'd wake us up. By the time we got to the table, if we'd turned the oatmeal out on a plate, it'd have come out of the saucepan in one big lump. Not very appealing. I vowed to never, ever eat that stuff again once I was lucky enough to leave home. Ew.

She never made Cream of Wheat because it was too expensive.
 
My mom, poor thing, couldn't fry an egg to save her life. Too bad because we had chickens and ducks and, therefore, a plethora of eggs. On the occasions when she attempted fried eggs, what we got was eggs either with the yolk cooked to death and like sawdust or eggs with runny yolks and runny whites to go along with them.

She could make crepes. And homemade bread. I ate a lot of homemade bread growing up. Sadly, she didn't learn to make crepes until after I left home!
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
Weetabix...is that stuff like shredded wheat? Some kind of flakes likes Wheaties? I see it mentioned in a story every now and then.

As for porridge...I'll eat Cream of Wheat any time but truly cannot stand oatmeal. When I was a kid, my mother would get up early to start a fire in the kitchen stove and to have a cup of coffee undisturbed. Our kitchen stove was wood-burning on one side and gas burners/oven on the other. The coffee perked while she made oatmeal. Then...she'd set the saucepan on one of the burners (unlit) and cover it, where it would get cold and congeal.

After she'd had her coffee, she'd wake us up. By the time we got to the table, if we'd turned the oatmeal out on a plate, it'd have come out of the saucepan in one big lump. Not very appealing. I vowed to never, ever eat that stuff again once I was lucky enough to leave home. Ew.

She never made Cream of Wheat because it was too expensive.
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I tried Weetabix once just to see why so many loved it. Gag! It was like eating hay. Similar to shredded wheat but I liked shredded wheat - although I needed to put a ton of sugar on it.

I put my porridge in the microwave with mixed dried fruit added, cinnamon, and half water, half soy milk. I add almond milk after. Very creamy.

I love Cream of Wheat. We don't have it here and sometimes I buy it and bring it back home from US visits.
 
LOL Annie you don't have to go all the way to that American planet far far away to get Cream of Wheat...you can get it here in the the land of the Royal kingdom...in the Castle they call..*tesco*

Now before you say it I know you're nearest store is Morrisons but I'm sure there's a tesco supermarket somewhere closer to you than the USA...and just think of the weight allowance saved too.. :wiggle::wiggle:

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=281222031


 
Oh weetabix..yuk I heartily concur it's horrible. I have no idea how it still sells and so many people seem to like it. It's a solid brick of dried hay ( as you say Annie), which has to have some hot milk or water before you can even digest it, and then it becomes the consistency of lumpy puke... ...of course it's high in fibre so you're supposed to be good for you...errrk...and as for shredded wheat well that's even worse it's like eating straw baked hard in the sun


Weetabix before it goes all mushy...

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hollydolly said:
LOL Annie you don't have to go all the way to that American planet far far away to get Cream of Wheat...you can get it here in the the land of the Royal kingdom...in the Castle they call..*tesco*

Now before you say it I know you're nearest store is Morrisons but I'm sure there's a tesco supermarket somewhere closer to you than the USA...and just think of the weight allowance saved too.. :wiggle::wiggle:

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=281222031
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My only store is Morrisons! I can get to a Tesco but it's a pain as we rarely take the car across the water. It's been a few years since I bought Cream of Wheat to bring home, so I guess I don't miss it that much. My big purchases in the US are clothes and shoes and Hefty or Ziplock bags - enough to last a year. Gallon and quart sizes. I use lots of them when packing. There are zipper bags here but the zipper is very poor quality.

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I just purchased wifi for my 8 hour 40 minute flight from Amsterdam to Detroit! Never tried it before. But since the seat back screens and the choice of entertainment is so bad on Delta, I figured I'd get this 24 hour wifi package. $16. I've got books to read on my Kindle and music if I want. But nothing passes the time like the internet.
 
Weather here is wet - big downpour with lots of thunder and lightening. Walked the dog with a rain slicker on and my baseball cap on my head. If there is lightening, I don't carry an umbrella/brolly because I might get struck by a lightening bolt. The dog hates rain but she just tucked her head down and forged ahead until we reached her own personal toilet turf.

I spent a big block of time on the phone calling the pharmaceutical shipper to find out where my medication is when it was ordered a month ago. I only get one of my meds through the mail because it has to be shipped under refrigeration - none of the pharmacies locally has ever carried it. I emailed my endocrinologist and he had one of the nurses make some calls too. Bottom line: The med is out of stock and on back-order. This is not good as I'm nearly out of this med. All my other meds are carried at all the nearby pharmacies except this one. If more people had my health situation there would be no med problem, but I was unfortunate enough to get something ultra-rare. Sometime if I get up the nerve, I'll tell how I came to get this disorder but it's a traumatic tale to tell.

Everyone preparing to depart for other climes, put your trays in the upright position, and have the best trip ever! :bonvoyage:
 
What a hassle for you, Kath. I hope your medication arrives soon. Re Your harrowing tale of how you came to develop this disorder, if you ever feel ready to share the trauma we are here for you.:love_heart:
 
Kath, sorry for the meds problem! Thanks for the trip wishes.

Last gym day today before trip. 99% packed. Will give the house a good cleaning and leave husband reminders since he'll be locking up the house by himself a week after I leave.
 
I'll have to clean out everything under my kitchen sink at some point. My Kohler kitchen faucet decided to stop delivering water and I'll have to get a plumber to fix it.
 
Another grey start to the day here...although it's forecast to be hot and Sunny later...but with a very wet weekend ahead. Poor Oldman, he chose the wrong week to come to London I think. Unusual for us to have so much rain in August.

Kath I do hope your medication gets to you quickly, what a concern for you :( Good grief, you would think that as your local pharmacy knows you have to have this regular medication for such a rare complaint they would ensure they had it in stock ready for you.

Day off today back at the workhouse for me tomorrow...Hubs has a day off today too so we may go out for lunch later...:cool:
 
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