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hollydolly said:
Oh Rae..I'm not really an amibitious cook... @StarSong song is the one for that... and in truth I despise cooking, I don't enjoy it, but since my Soon2BX left, I had no-one else to cook for and I lost the impetus to make cook for myself for about a year.. .. ..once I'd risen from the depth of a deep depression, I knew I had to start looking after myself again.. so I started batch cooking.., which means only roughly once a month I spend a day cooking for the freezer, all portioned up individually and that gives me meals for the next month..
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You still buy well and cook appetizing meals. Stay well and keep cooking.:)
 

I WISH YOU ALL A HAPPY EASTER SUNDAY

Left: On my walk with the Boxer pups this morning, I took a coffee break at Starbucks to keep me going. The pups are my protection.
They will attack anyone who gives me a dirty look. When we four walk abreast, then everyone gets out of our way. I feel secure with them.
Right: Yesterday I cut an Olive Tree in our garden. Stretch your imagination: can you see the head of a poodle in the grain of the wood?

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Rant ahead.

I'm feeling meaner than seven mortal sins. Meaner than a snake.

First it was cutting up all those stupid branches because after DD did most of the biggest ones yesterday, she said she was done and I should do the rest. It was one heckuva job and plumb wore me out.

Then there was a crapton of garden stuff to clean up and put away.

Then it was putting together the casserole for tomorrow. A nuisance. I did print out the recipe to give to DGD tomorrow, though.

While was making the casserole, my brother called. I kept on keeping on while talking to him...never miss a chance to talk to him...DD called while I was on the phone with Bro from wherever she was wanting to know do I want her to bring fast food home for me for supper.

Then the darned eggs, which I never, ever have trouble peeling because I bring to a boil, take off the heat, cover for 10 minutes (10 minutes using a timer), plunge into cold water, let them cool for about 30 minutes, et voilà! Works every time. Every time except today. It has never not worked. Until today. Keep in mind the price of eggs...

Then I was going to take a nap. Every darned time I was drifting off, the phone would ring or the ring doorbell would chime or what the heck ever else.

So tonight? I'm gonna take Benadryl, and if I get Alzheimer's from taking diphenhydramine hydrochloride, so be it. I'm gonna sleep the night through. If Maggiecat wants breakfast before the roosters are even up, she's outta luck and will just have to wait.

When I went to MS365 to print out the casserole recipe, I discovered that Outlook had updated (again) and 365 was an all-new format. The first thing was that Mr. Chat popped up and wanted to know what he should write for me. I told him to leave me the eff alone. He finally got it and said he would. He didn't. I ignored him.

Tomorrow morning? I'm on tap for making cheese and sausage muffins, which is what we have on holiday mornings. I should have printed that recipe for DGD, too.

There. I ranted. I feel better now. All I need is a hug.
 
Georgiagranny said:
Rant ahead.

I'm feeling meaner than seven mortal sins. Meaner than a snake.

First it was cutting up all those stupid branches because after DD did most of the biggest ones yesterday, she said she was done and I should do the rest. It was one heckuva job and plumb wore me out.

Then there was a crapton of garden stuff to clean up and put away.

Then it was putting together the casserole for tomorrow. A nuisance. I did print out the recipe to give to DGD tomorrow, though.

While was making the casserole, my brother called. I kept on keeping on while talking to him...never miss a chance to talk to him...DD called while I was on the phone with Bro from wherever she was wanting to know do I want her to bring fast food home for me for supper.

Then the darned eggs, which I never, ever have trouble peeling because I bring to a boil, take off the heat, cover for 10 minutes (10 minutes using a timer), plunge into cold water, let them cool for about 30 minutes, et voilà! Works every time. Every time except today. It has never not worked. Until today. Keep in mind the price of eggs...

Then I was going to take a nap. Every darned time I was drifting off, the phone would ring or the ring doorbell would chime or what the heck ever else.

So tonight? I'm gonna take Benadryl, and if I get Alzheimer's from taking diphenhydramine hydrochloride, so be it. I'm gonna sleep the night through. If Maggiecat wants breakfast before the roosters are even up, she's outta luck and will just have to wait.

When I went to MS365 to print out the casserole recipe, I discovered that Outlook had updated (again) and 365 was an all-new format. The first thing was that Mr. Chat popped up and wanted to know what he should write for me. I told him to leave me the eff alone. He finally got it and said he would. He didn't. I ignored him.

Tomorrow morning? I'm on tap for making cheese and sausage muffins, which is what we have on holiday mornings. I should have printed that recipe for DGD, too.

There. I ranted. I feel better now. All I need is a hug.
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Sure. I am sending you a hug. I hope you sleep well tonight.
 
Georgiagranny said:
Rant ahead.

I'm feeling meaner than seven mortal sins. Meaner than a snake.

First it was cutting up all those stupid branches because after DD did most of the biggest ones yesterday, she said she was done and I should do the rest. It was one heckuva job and plumb wore me out.

Then there was a crapton of garden stuff to clean up and put away.

Then it was putting together the casserole for tomorrow. A nuisance. I did print out the recipe to give to DGD tomorrow, though.

While was making the casserole, my brother called. I kept on keeping on while talking to him...never miss a chance to talk to him...DD called while I was on the phone with Bro from wherever she was wanting to know do I want her to bring fast food home for me for supper.

Then the darned eggs, which I never, ever have trouble peeling because I bring to a boil, take off the heat, cover for 10 minutes (10 minutes using a timer), plunge into cold water, let them cool for about 30 minutes, et voilà! Works every time. Every time except today. It has never not worked. Until today. Keep in mind the price of eggs...

Then I was going to take a nap. Every darned time I was drifting off, the phone would ring or the ring doorbell would chime or what the heck ever else.

So tonight? I'm gonna take Benadryl, and if I get Alzheimer's from taking diphenhydramine hydrochloride, so be it. I'm gonna sleep the night through. If Maggiecat wants breakfast before the roosters are even up, she's outta luck and will just have to wait.

When I went to MS365 to print out the casserole recipe, I discovered that Outlook had updated (again) and 365 was an all-new format. The first thing was that Mr. Chat popped up and wanted to know what he should write for me. I told him to leave me the eff alone. He finally got it and said he would. He didn't. I ignored him.

Tomorrow morning? I'm on tap for making cheese and sausage muffins, which is what we have on holiday mornings. I should have printed that recipe for DGD, too.

There. I ranted. I feel better now. All I need is a hug.
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We are in a rainy spell of late April here in the St. Louis area. All the rain Fall has got Rain Popping
up every day after a couple sunny days, all over the place.
2 more inches are expected to fall in the next 2 days. The ground is soaked and most everything
has standing water. Very wet spring, the action words. Many flooded basements and damage.
Ruined furnaces, damaged hot water heaters, total loss to papers getting wet. Ugh, We are ok!
 
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hollydolly said:
Oh Rae..I'm not really an amibitious cook... @StarSong is the one for that... and in truth I despise cooking, I don't enjoy it, but since my Soon2BX left, I had no-one else to cook for and I lost the impetus to make cook for myself for about a year.. .. ..once I'd risen from the depth of a deep depression, I knew I had to start looking after myself again.. so I started batch cooking.., which means only roughly once a month I spend a day cooking for the freezer, all portioned up individually and that gives me meals for the next month..
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Hollydolly, we've stocked up pretty well with bargains from Aldi and Tesco. With the exception of meat or chicken pies and cakes, I mainly freeze ingredients and then cook meals on the day.
Today is just another day as far as shopping is concerned with most of the big stores open for normal Sunday hours. Sunday is one of the busiest days, so we avoid shopping then. Mrs.L suggested going to the beach and buying an ice cream, but that might be very busy too.
 
This was from yesterday. Just realized I didn't hit Post Reply! 🙄 The last sentence explains the likely reason.

I had to dig out a couple of boxes in the linen closet and under the bed to put away my Amazon order which consisted of several bottles of hand soap and mouthwash. I loaded and ran the dishwasher early. I spent a good part of the day continuing research for tonight's radio program on which I was special guest for the second week in a row. We got excellent feedback via texts to the host before I even left the studio. That was nice.

When I got home, I was very hungry and dinner awaited me. My son picked up fish dinners from the mosque. There is enough for three meals (for me). My son finished all of his. I'm sure he was very hungry after fasting for a few days. Time to get off the computer...I'm sitting here 😴😴
 
Georgiagranny said:
Rant ahead.

I'm feeling meaner than seven mortal sins. Meaner than a snake.

First it was cutting up all those stupid branches because after DD did most of the biggest ones yesterday, she said she was done and I should do the rest. It was one heckuva job and plumb wore me out.

Then there was a crapton of garden stuff to clean up and put away.

Then it was putting together the casserole for tomorrow. A nuisance. I did print out the recipe to give to DGD tomorrow, though.

While was making the casserole, my brother called. I kept on keeping on while talking to him...never miss a chance to talk to him...DD called while I was on the phone with Bro from wherever she was wanting to know do I want her to bring fast food home for me for supper.

Then the darned eggs, which I never, ever have trouble peeling because I bring to a boil, take off the heat, cover for 10 minutes (10 minutes using a timer), plunge into cold water, let them cool for about 30 minutes, et voilà! Works every time. Every time except today. It has never not worked. Until today. Keep in mind the price of eggs...

Then I was going to take a nap. Every darned time I was drifting off, the phone would ring or the ring doorbell would chime or what the heck ever else.

So tonight? I'm gonna take Benadryl, and if I get Alzheimer's from taking diphenhydramine hydrochloride, so be it. I'm gonna sleep the night through. If Maggiecat wants breakfast before the roosters are even up, she's outta luck and will just have to wait.

When I went to MS365 to print out the casserole recipe, I discovered that Outlook had updated (again) and 365 was an all-new format. The first thing was that Mr. Chat popped up and wanted to know what he should write for me. I told him to leave me the eff alone. He finally got it and said he would. He didn't. I ignored him.

Tomorrow morning? I'm on tap for making cheese and sausage muffins, which is what we have on holiday mornings. I should have printed that recipe for DGD, too.

There. I ranted. I feel better now. All I need is a hug.
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I think you shoulda told the whole day, including the eggs, to go to you know where................but here's a hug!

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Happy Easter Everyone!
We're traveling to DD's today for dinner. We saw pictures yesterday of the grands at an Easter Egg hunt. Looked like a big time.
My son and family can't make it. They have season tickets to Carolina Hurricanes and will attend that. Hockey on Easter!?
If DD was hosting breakfast they could go, but we will have late lunch after they attend church and all. Anyway, we'll see them in May.
All I have to make is dip. I make a 1970s recipe clam dip that is a favorite. After thinking that the dip doesn't seem quite as good the last couple of times I made it, it dawned on me that cans of clams have gotten smaller since the 70s.
Shrinkflation! I've adjusted accordingly and it's much better!
I'm also making a strawberry mango sweet spicy salsa with some of the strawberries we picked Wednesday.
Sourdough has risen. I'm thinking "It has risen". 🤔
Have a wonderful day!
 
Good Easter morning, folks, and thanks for the hugs. They were badly needed. Here's hoping today is a better day than yesterday. I slept like I deserved to, and Maggiecat courteously waited until 6 for breakfast! So far so good.

The special muffins are in the oven as we speak. All I have left to do is put the potato casserole in the oven and "devil" the eggs. Eggs are already cooked.

It's supposed to be hot again today. Geez, I may be able to put my little "furnaces" away today.
 
Georgiagranny said:
Then the darned eggs, which I never, ever have trouble peeling because I bring to a boil, take off the heat, cover for 10 minutes (10 minutes using a timer), plunge into cold water, let them cool for about 30 minutes, et voilà! Works every time. Every time except today. It has never not worked. Until today. Keep in mind the price of eggs...
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That's how I always used to do them and then some test kitchen tried all different ways and said the secret is to add the eggs to already boiling water -- after which not much else mattered not even ice baths.
But I'm guessing what happened to your eggs were they were just too fresh, they should be at least a week old.

We had our Easter dinner yesterday because son has to work today for all the Walmart customers who forgot to get the kids Easter basket until now.

Happy Easter everyone!
 
My early walk at 7am the sun was rising ,temp was 37 heard a couple robins as I walked around the building before breakfast
Today, I'll be with my 'buffalo family' Marcia&Dave at their house for Easter brunch with sons Alexei & Dave, Jr. I'm sure family dog,' Tage' will be excited to see me, haven;t been with him in a couple of weeks
We'll finally exchange our Xmas gifts ,couldn't;t do it in Dec when I got sick with pneumonia
The rest of my day read the local paper,may go for afternoon walk
Happy Easter all
 
Afternoon all... it's almost 4pm now and the skies are overcast, and it looks like it might rain..unbelievable after such a glorious start to the day

I've got the bedding in the machine now ... I thought that when I got back from the Marina that I might attempt to assemble the new Lawnmower, but my back is too sore for it..I had a horrible night again last night with the pain...

The trouble with having all that pain disturbing my sleep is that I feel sooo tired during the day... then I take a nap and then I'm up half the night..

Anyway enuff gloom.. look at these glorious pictures of the Marina instead...


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Grandson's birthday party and Easter egg hunt yesterday. A lot of daughter-in-law's family was there including the grandson's 2 1/2 year old cousin.

Gloomy day but they got some people to bring over two ponies and both kids had rides.

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In the background my son is working with an uncle who came to help clear away the tree that took their wires down in a storm a month ago.

On my way home (70 mile round trip) the tire pressure monitoring system alarm came on just a few miles from home. I've pumped up the tires today, so I have an excuse to go for a little drive in the sun before the storms come along later on tonight. The TPMS Calibration process requires a few miles of driving for the system to reset for the inflated tire diameters.

At least it beats the systems that use batteries on the inside-tire portion of the valve stems. Lots of labor dealing with that, so most people just let the idiot light stay on and ignore it!
 
It all started with a ripped pj t-shirt. Remembered my mother's "rag bag" and tore shirt so I could never wear it again. Then, I used it to DUST. That's right,you heard right! Been dusting this dump! Got so much done and will do more!! A memory of mother started it and thoughts of @debodun inspired me to continue. Thanks deb!
 

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