05/18/08 CS's Chat

• Good “Almost” Morning!!

• The BB is so slow tonight I am not going to even try to post sigs tonight!!  So you will have to settle for just my old GM.

• Today is a big day for Darlene and Zeno!! Can you here us celebrating with you all the way up??   Have a great anniversary and do something memorable just for the two of you!!  Glad your DSinL is showing so much improvement!!

• Well Bob wore his old shoes to Shoe Town and got a pair just like what he had.  Now just hope they are exactly like his old ones and New Balance didn’t decide to “improve” them. 

• He watched an Indiana Jones marathon on Si-Fi tonight.  He wanted me to watch it too but every time I tried there were snakes, rats or some other disgusting creatures trying to get them or Indiana was fall off a cliff.  I don’t watch things like that at night or I have nightmares so I bowed out gracefully.

• Thought for the Day- Be confident of this: He who began a good work in you will continue to perform it until it's perfectly complete.-Philippians 1:6

• Today is No Dirty Dishes Day, a reprieve from the daily pile of dishes to wash and dry. Day after day, we do the daily chore of washing and drying dishes, then put them away in various cabinets and drawers. We perform this task after each and every meal, and often after snacks. Even putting them in and out of the dishwasher and running it can be a chore.

• You deserve a break from this routine. And, today is that day. The objective of this day is to have no dirty dishes. It is not intended to pile them up until tomorrow.

• We can think of two ways to avoid dirty dishes today:

• Use disposable plates, cups and silverware for all meals and snacks.

• Take the family out to eat all three meals. Then for snack, go out for ice cream!

• We strongly recommend that you do not pile up the dishes to do tomorrow.  This defeats the purpose of this very special day.

• Filling the prayers basket and hugs basket! Don’t forget the extra baskets that are out or the basket marked Anne and her family! 

• Special hugs and prayers for Cilla, Louise and Maury, Gat and Jeanette, Mabel and Floyd, Grace, Sally, Ruth, Anne, NancyZ and Russell.

• Remember the group prayer! “Heavenly Father, we ask that you watch over and care for all Cookin’ Seniors and those they love as they go about their day!!”

• Zora

• Cats-I guess I just “rent” music for my MP3.  I pay about $10 a month and can change music as often as I want.  I just save my playlist on the site and then listen to them for awhile and delete them and find something else.  If I find something I want to keep I just buy the CD.  I don’t download much I just play it thro the computer or if I do download it I play the MP3 thro the stereo system.  But we have a digital receiver so it would sound good thro the speakers.  Earphones drive me bananas!!

• Tippy-I am waiting patiently for the pictures of the graduation cake to post!! YOU did take pictures didn’t you???

• NancyZ-Bob has a EEE width foot so finding shoes is nearly impossible for him so he finds something he likes he seems to buy the same shoe everytime.

• Beth-Did you have a good cookout??

• Beverly-Lady need to come here and teach Shorty and Emily some manners with cat food.  They think anything that is in a bowl on the floor is their’s.

• Ce-I guess you must be in the minority with your SpaghettiO’s.  But I know during a hurricane they would taste better than most things!  

• Cilla-Glad you are feeling better!!

• NancyB-Did you hear from Pat?? I sure hope so!!

• Grace-Glad all your snow is gone!! How long before it comes back??

• Ruth-Hope you had a good night’s sleep!! Have you arranged a meeting with Pat yet??

• Gat-Bob want the old sarge recipe for SOS!!

• JP-Glad you liked my description of SOS!! LOL

• Hugs and prayers for all!!  

•  Zora

Good morning!

Zora, LOL, don’t remind me that it IS coming back! At least not yet! It could be here as early as September but usually around the middle of October. But that’s not to say that it’s gone for sure now. Last year it snowed on the 20^th and stayed for 2 days.

JP did you like living in Winnipeg? My daughter lives there now. I haven’t even heard about the appointment. And the pain is still with me. Unfortunately this is the second time that Tylenol stopped working again. It happened in February and I had to stop taking it for two months. I have regular Tylenol, extra-strength, with codeine AND Tylenol 3, and not one is working. Two months without any pain medication is a real pain! Literally. LOL! I’m really tired of it.

I’d like to hear from that doctor because I want to go to Winnipeg, and with gas prices what they are I’d hate to go now and find out I have to go again in couple of weeks. Being unemployed and all, I can’t be gallivanting all over the place!

Hope you’re all having a wonderful weekend.

Happy Victoria Day to JP and Lynne.

Good morning all just popped in to give you all a quick wave, we are off to a bootfare (think you call them garage sales) then going to visit my niece. I send best wishes to you all, have a nice day once you are all up and about 

Good morning, CS.

We do have sunshine, but still cool in the mornings.

ZORA, we know Bob's dilemma. Russell needs a 7 1/2 EEE. Not easy to find. And, he hates when the salesmen try to tell him a half size larger will fit----he knows it doesn't. Paper plates only used here for picnics. I always have dishes to wash. I think Russell watched the same movie, not me. I watched 7 Brides for 7 Brothers.

GRACE, sorry those aches are still hanging on for you. Praying relief will come soon. HAPPY VICTORIA DAY to you and our other Canadian friends. May you enjoy your long weekend.

MARGARET E, love the name for your garage sales. Sometimes they are advertised as rummage sales, too. It's good to know British expressions because many times they are used as quiz questions and puzzle words. I know the most popular ones, but not alot. I do like trivia.

Lots of music at church, today. The choir sings at 8 and our bell choir plays at the 10:30 service. There is also an ice cream social after church for a VBS kick-off. DD, Laura will be helping all day. She will be teaching the children of couple of songs they will sing during VBS.

Hugs and prayers for all CS.

Nancy Z.

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Don’t feel good again…I think it’s the dang meds I’m on…I started reading the handouts with my refills…and a lot of the problems (headache, tiredness, hurting muscles)…are side effects from the meds…heck I didn’t even hurt this bad while I was HAVING the heart attack!! That list for the dr keeps getting longer and longer…DH asked the pharmacist when he picked up the refills…if I could take Aleve and HALLELUJAH!!!! I can take it but not a lot…I’ve taken 1 Aleve…I’ll just interchange the Tylenol and Aleve. Please, Lord, let this work.

Waving to all…please forgive me for not mentioning each separately. Filling the baskets with lots of hugs and prayers for all…

 

 

Good Afternoon,

This is the first I have been able to get the BB to come up, grrrrrrrrr.  Our cookout is today so don't have time to talk much but have most everything ready. 

It is 94 out now so will cook the hotdogs outside and come in and eat!  Tx just does things a little differant.  In the winter we cook out and eat out when it is cool, like in the 70's.  Of course we'll have a few rounds of some kind of cards later on.

Had another death on Fri. nite.  My sister's BIL.  It's a blessing in a way and he had cancer so bad and was in so much pain.  He has willed his body to science.

As far as dishes are concerned, I have done a few today but did all my cooking yesterday so ran the dishwasher about midnite. (I'm a nite owl).

Better run for now and set the table.  Will "talk" to you later if it's not to late when people leave.

Beth

Howdy...   Zora... tell Bob that the old sarge is going to try and find his old recipe, however, his wife...Millie doubts that that will ever happen???    He is 92 and she is 84.. They are both pretty sharp but Millie tells me that he probally has no idea where his old books are??   She still drives as he lost his license several years ago.... something about running over a golf cart???  and the Law or The Insurance Co. decided that he had better surrender his license??/ Ha!!!!

However he is adamant about that there was only six (6) ingredients:   Sausage, butter, milk (on many bases..powered), flour, salt and pepper....

Last night I copied several recipes from AllRecipes and showed them to him and he said the one called "Bill's sausage gravy" was the closest (except he never used any flavored type sausages) to what he used to make for the NCO clubs, however, he also told me that when feeding thousands at a consolidated mess, the gravy was more like a milk country gravy as the gravy and sausage had to be prepared in different pans then mixed prior to serving...  Bob will attest as to the size of the huge cooking vessels used in most mess kitchens or maybe he lucked out and never pulled KP?????   When cooking for smaller groups he liked to get the gravy slighly brown.... bull... Millie said he used to also burn it to get what he liked?????   p.s.  He also told me that real SOS had large quanitys of Sausage in fact he said that if you could evev see the gravy, then you did not have enough sausage added... Ha!!!!!

More than you need to know again....  just go to   http://allrecipes.com  and query sausage gravy and a group will come up...  Bill's looks like what I might like...   Have never used flavored sausages either, but????????

Grace, Jeanette and I are praying that that pain will be lessened each day till gone!!!!!

Take care all CSers... God Bless... The Gat...   (Arizona Coyote)

Howdy again...  Cilla,  I had the same problems right after my stent was put in due to the meds the doc put me on...  Right now I only use Plavic...   The blood pressure med liked to done me in...    I have never had high blood presure so I asked him why I needed it????   He just said it was a precaution after surgery!!!   I believ the correct medical term is: "CYOB" ...Then he took me off it...  Half the meds scare you  to death as to just what their side effects might be?????    Oh well that's life I guess!!!!!   All I know is that if I get a bad reaction to one, I just let the doc know and try another...[:'(]

BTW... Allrecipes also has all kinds of meat gravies... even Hamburger???

The Coyote..

Good late afternoon to everyone.  It's windy & cool here, only in the low 60's.

Tried to get on this morning but had no success, seems as if the BB was having the problem, everyone else experienced it also.

Been here all day by myself, DD had to work & DH was outside all day, he mowed the lawn then went down to his shop, notice there are some visitors down there with him now.  Fixed a Swiss steak with potatoes & peas around it, didn't have any carrots.  Pretty tasty if I do say so myself.

Off to take a shower & get in my chair for the evening.

Hope everyone had a good day.

Pennybrown

Hi All

Darlene & Zeno - hope the day has been wonderful so far & have a happy, happy evening!!!

Zora - hope Bob gets those "perfect" shoes.  My late Danny had a 9 EEE  since he was an avid tennis player, shoes had to fit perfectly.  No - size 10 E doesn't work!!!

Grace - so sorry to hear you're still in so much pain.  Pray something works for you soon.

Margaret E - find any bargains at that bootfare?

Doreen - hope that lady's son does step up & do what has to be done.  That poor lady has just lost her independence.

Cilla - please watch those meds - sometimes the side effects are worse than the original problem.  I know, cuz if there's a side effect, I tend to get it.  Therefore, I take almost nothing now.  Pray that you are "back to normal" soon.

Gat - thanks for the education on SOS.  Everything you say makes sense, BUT, I still say it's dried, chipped beef lol

Suggestions please - very seldom do I eat a hot dog, but when I do it has to be a certain hot dog (Nathan's beef) w/only1 brand of sauerkruat & mustard.  So, I can't just go to a sandwich shop & buy one - have to buy a pak - 8 dogs.  One is a meal - love beans, so can do one more meal of "hot dogs & beans".  Then what - anybody have any brilliant ideas of what to do w/the rest?  Haven't had luck freezing hot dogs - any tricks?

Happy Sunday to all of you, and HAPPY VICTORIA DAY to all our Canadian friends.

Also a Happy Anniversary to Darlene and Zeno.  Enjoy your celebration, and I wish you many more.

Peg, I used to cook hot dogs with sauerkraut.  I'm like you though, I prefer to eat beef hot dogs, but sometimes I probably eat the mixed ones without knowing it.  LOL.  Like at our cook-out at this apt. bldg., which will be coming up later this month. 

I hope that this posts okay for me.  I've had nothing but trouble on the internet since I got home from Church.  I tried to come here first, and it wouldn't work, so I went to another group I belong to on MSN.  One of our posters was starting a new game "Where's Waldo".  You pick out a square, and put your name in it, and whoever picks out the winning one, wins a new siggie.  Well I copyied it and chose the one I wanted, and copyied it,but it wouldn't paste.  So I decided to come back here again.  I swear, I had copyied a new siggie for my greeting, and when I went to paste it here, up popped my Waldo game, so I deleted that and started again.  Wish me luck.  LOL.  Well at least the two above copied okay, so guess it's working okay now.

I hope everyone has a good evening.

Hugs and Prayers for all of you, including your loved ones.  Condolences to Beths sister's family.

 Margaret