07-07-08 CS's Chat

          

  

• Question for all you seafood cooks out there? Bob brought home a huge slab of King Mackerel tonight that one of the family of a patient brought him.  Never cooked anything like that before.  BTW since it is huge can I freeze it??

 

• Well Shorty is back normal today as there were no fireworks or storms near us.  I did see a big red blob on the radar but it change to little green blobs before it reached us so I was glad. 

 

• Thought for the Day- Every obstacle presents an opportunity to improve our condition.-Unknown

 

• Today is National Strawberry Sundae Day, your opportunity to indulge yourself in this delicious dessert. Strawberries are one of America's favorite fruits. When the strawberries ripen each year, it's time to celebrate. Many communities hold strawberry festivals to celebrate the harvest. At the festivals, strawberries take center stage. They are in the ingredients of hundreds of recipes.

 

After the harvest has come and gone, summer arrives with heat and humidity. This is the perfect time to add sweet, tasty berries to ice cream for a cooling summer treat. Don't forget to add your favorite toppings. Whipped cream is a must.

 

• Celebrate today, with a Strawberry Sundae. The only bad thing about today’s special happening is Strawberry Season has come and gone down here.  So mine will have to be made with frozen berries!!  The strawberries down here were not super good this year as we really didn’t have the rain they needed to grow well.  Oh well maybe next year!!

    

• Special hugs and prayers for Betty, Louise and Maury, Gat and Jeanette, Mabel and Floyd, Grace, Ruth, Helen, and Anne.

   

• 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

   

                               

 

 

• LOL Ruth-You are wrong about TLW!!

 

• JP-You sound like you have been busy!

 

• Rosie-Did you get enough coffee for today??  Enjoy the new PSP!!

 

• Tippy-Glad you got to enjoy the parade.  Better watch snagging coffee from Rosie and Ruth! You might not get your hand back in one piece!!

 

• Beverly-The skunks are near us but haven’t made it to our sections of the country yet.  Bob will have a fit if they do as they would give his chickens a hard time.

 

• Roberta-You and your DH sound busy over the holidays!!  Make sure he rest some!!

 

• NancyZ-Enjoy that DGS while he is back!!!

 

• Cilla-I had gotten CDM at Bruno’s and they may still have it.  I have got to look when we go back.  I love Community coffee but really don’t care for their Chicory coffee that well.  I think CDM is a Community product but I like it much better.  I haven’t talked to the vet yet.  Really it is only thunderstorms right now and you know how suddenly they can come up down here.  They would come and go before it even took effect.

  

• Penny-Can I send DH up for Sauerkraut?  He loves it and that is something I refuse to cook.  Well liver too but that doesn’t count. 

 

• Sally-Sounds like you got some good suggestions for “gold” for the party!!

 

• Pat-No coffee??? Don’t tell Rosie that or she might think you were un-American or something!!

 

• Helen-I scream at the BB to sometimes but it doesn’t do a bit of good. 

 

• Doreen-3 o’clock?? In the morning??  Did you just have supper for breakfast?? Hope you sleep better tonight!!

 

• Hugs and prayers for all!

 

• Zora 

 

             

Yes, I've been busy, but you know, we just spent a relaxing time together this weekend, visiting an aunt in Edmonton who celebrated her birthday and the kids&grandkids, too. It was great! This week I have 2 long shifts for sure, and maybe 3. We had a very lovely downpour Friday and Sunday...the farmers will love love it (unless they were baling hay) and my flowers and trees were so thirsty. Natural rain sure beats well water. **Waving to everyone from our little corner in Canada and wishing you all a wonderful day.***JP***

Good morning to you all, its a wet day here, so if you need rain I will send some over for you. well we had a fun weekend very busy for me and dh enjoyed himself.  Tippy picnics here are almost how you imagine it varys from person to person, I usually pack cold meats, salads, potato salad, strawberries, cake, well what ever we have in, we do have a picnic table that folds up, but some people use a blanket.  well have a good day, I have housework to do.sending you all a hug Margaret E 

• Morning everyone!
• Shorty, glad the boomers have gone away.  We just turn Daisy's hearing aids off now so she can't hear them. :)  One of the advantages to getting older.
• Did the calendar yesterday and now in a ring tailed "gotta get to Sam's" panic.  Critter and Company come in soemtime between Wednesday and Friday and from then until Trish leaves on the 30th I have hollow legged grandkids to feed.  Persnickity grandkids too.  One doesn't like hamburger, the other doesn't like this, the other doesn't like that....well guess what, there are corn dogs in the freezer.  Oh goody I'm already getting a 'tude...LOL.
• Did you know Corel bought out JASC?  PSP has a whole new look.  There is enough similarity that I have been cleaning up directories though.
• Off to make menus, see if there is more coffee, and buy a ream of paper so I can make a grocery list :)
• Hugs and prayers to each of you, because YOU are loved!

     Man, oh man!!! What a storm we had yesterday!! We were just sitting down to eat and the wind start whipping, white caps started on the bay…thunder started and then the rain!! Man, it stormed for over an hour like that….sure helped the rain deficit!!! Then everything calmed back down… The sun is coming out and up now…   We ate strawberry shortcake yesterday…we are getting CA strawberries that are really good!! The Low Country Boil was so good!!! And sis & gang had put the crab traps out…caught 4 crabs in a little bit of time so sis cooked those…her DD love crabs and so does Dad. I tasted a little and they were sweet!! They put the traps back out…   Up early…I didn’t sleep well…hot and just tossed and turned….errrr!!!  

 Zora, never cooked mackerel but googled this for you…that was nice of the family to give Bob that!!  http://cookingwith.miklb.com/dijon-baked-spanish-mackeral

  JP, good to see you this morning…glad you had a relaxing weekend. 

Margaret E, good to see you too this morning…glad you had a good weekend too.

 Rosie, I did that gathering of stuff for those coming in town and sis brought lots with her. We leave a few things at the bay house but you never know if someone has used the last and not replaced it (happens all the time) but sometimes things are out of date so out they go. Never ending chore…   

Waving to all…filling the baskets with lots of hugs and prayers for all…

Good morning, CS.

 

Hey, ZORA, I see you are keeping ROSIE inundated with cups of coffee. And, that's good, 'cause my hand hurts from getting slapped. I am thinking your chicory coffee could be too strong for me. I get a little high from the stong stuff. When we catch salmon, we do filets, or steaks and freeze both. Russell has even frozen a smoked salmon for later use. We wrap the fish in saran and use a Food Saver bag. That way it does not get freezer burn. Bradley will be glad for the special day, today, he wanted ice cream and strawberries on his pancakes.

 

JP, farmers haying here, too, and glad it is dry for a couple of days. When we were up north we got to see the Amish and their horses pulling the hay rake and loader. I talk to HAUKE on the BB a lot and she lives in Edmonton.

 

MARGARET E, glad your picnic-y weekend was an enjoyable one. If people picnic in parks here, there are usually tables there for their use. We just have a long table on our patio, nothing fancy. Housework here means "dancing" with my Hoover.

 

ROSIE, where, oh, where do the kids put all that food? The children's menu is no longer needed at the restaurant or at home. DD gave me a Scrapbooks Plus program, now I just have to learn how to use it.

 

Well, here comes CILLA tip-toeing in with her flip flops. Nice to get something in the crab traps and then eat them right away. A quick storm like that can be refreshing. Well, not with white caps and you're on the bay in your boat.

 

I am here while Bradley is doing his morning routine. He did his reading and now he is practicing his drum patterns. Next he will help Russell with a project in the workshop.

 

Hugs and prayers for all CS.

 

Nancy Z.

 

 

Warbie, a seven-week-old ring-tailed lemur is pictured yawning at Bristol Zoo Thursday, July 3, 2008. Warbie was born at the zoo on May 10 this year.

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Humidity cooled wind has the trees swaying and looming thunderclouds has given us a bluish cast to the morning. Critters are fed and grand-kids will be here shortly.

 

Tadpole, house dog, needs a good brushing. Dancer, outside dog, needs it as well. He is harder to do as he jumps in n' out of the water and then romps about in the dirt. (Pomeranians) 

 

Rosie--My 3 teen grand-kids are like that. One will not eat wheat bread, only white, (I only buy wheat). One hates meatloaf, the other chicken, another dislikes dumplings, and the list goes on. . .

 

72° with 69% humidity and a muggy high of 88°.

Howdy friends.

 

Just another quick stop to catch up. I am going to be "laying low" for a bit.

 

The phone calls have started again and this time the "person" is asking for ME by name. My name is not listed in the phone book so they have to know me somehow....Which is the creep-factor in it all.

We were able to get a number that was used this time and the sheriff payed "him" a little visit. He claims,  "Someone else must have used his phone while he was in the bar Saturday night"....All in all the messages are creeping me out and  the fact that he is now asking for me by name is even worse.

I do not recognize the voice nor the name of the phone owner so ?????

I'll be paying very close attention to "voices"  that I encounter on a day to day basis.

Hoping this has nothing to do with what has been going on at work. (swallowing hard).

 

ROSIE~~the "project" sounds fascinating and I will be in touch.

 

Sorry, not much in the mood to chat but you are all in my thoughts and prayers continue.

Tippy

 

Good afternoon from a muggy Indiana, it's 79 out there, rained a little this morning.

Just got done talking to DD #1, she just came from the doctor.  She's only 36 & has been experiencing change symptoms.  They did some blood work & sure enough, she's starting, she always had trouble with periods even as a young girl.  They put her on the pill as the hormones will help her, I didn't go through it so early, she's having trouble sleeping also, bless her heart, her with the two little ones, hope it's an easy transition for her & the pill helps.

Swept the garage this morning, wrote a few checks & balanced the checkbook.  DH had to go to town on some errands, was gone for a couple of hours.  He's starting to split wood for the winter all ready................always a project.

Laid out some chicken for dinner tonight, fixing rice with it.

Not much else going on today, hope everyone has a great day.

Zora.........tell Bob to come on up for some sauerkraut, I'll eat that, but won't touch liver, hate the stuff.  I haven't fixed it for DH in years, he says it's delicious............yuck!

Talk to you later.

Pennybrown

A quick good morning,  I have an emergency dentist appointment in an hour, broke a tooth this weekend and boy is it sharp!  The two boys were out on the go cart earlier, but I made them put it away when it started to sprinkle.  The yard is already torn up from it and wet grass would do it more so.  Shall we say they aren't happy with me.  I played some cards with them and got beat.  Oh well they think it's great to beat me.

 

Tippy, was going to call you, but guess I'd better wait.  Don't know when I'll be heading that way.  DS will be having surgery on the 15th to  have that tumor removed, but don't know just what that will mean for me.  As long as DM is taken care of, we don't have to worry about her.  But I WILL call you.  I'm hungary for those chicken and dumplings!

 

Got to get moving.  Talk at you later.  Pat

Good Morning!

This is a drive by hello for now. By the time I read the posts, it is time for me to get to the pool for water aerobics.

Will be back in an hour or so when I dry off.

Hugs,

Doreen

Hi All

 

Never go on yesterday.  When I finally got some free time, there was too much lightening.  Had a storm similar to what Cilla talked about.  In fact, my flag ripped of the pole - where it flew to I don't know - not around here.

 

Zora - thanks for the brew - have been enjoying the chickory blend - can't get a good one around here.  Sure you can freeze your mackerel - assuming it's cleaned out - can't do it with the innards intact.  You can cook it any way you like - I think it's good in an oriental type marinade then grilled.  BTW - anytime Bob wants sauerkraut send him over - I love the stuff.  If fact, on my agenda for the near future is country style ribs braised in sauerkraut and apples.  Have a friend who's crazy about this dish.

 

Rosie - that sure is some project you got going!!!  Of course, I don't understand a word you're saying  lol !!

 

Margaret E - what a busy weekend !!!  Guess you didn't have clothes out on the line today lol

 

Cilla - crabs are by far my all time favorite seafood - any variety.  How I envy you having them fresh out of the traps!!!

 

Tippy - this is really scarey.  I'd be paranoid - would also be listening for voices wherever I went.  Sounds like somebody you know from somewhere.  Be careful, friend.

So happy that our CA friends are safe from those awful fires

 

((HUGS))  going out to Mabel, Gat and Jeanette, Betty & all our MIAs

 

Have 4 over ripe bananas that need attention - looks like some banana bread a'comin.  Will be some on the platter for breakfast - to go with that great coffee.

 

A Peaceful Evening to Y'all      Peg

 

Sending hugs and prayers for everyone hurting physically or emotionally, and waving to you all from NW of Edmonton, Alberta.

 

It's been a gorgeous day, with temps in the low 70's F. (for those of you in the U.S.) Can't handle the heat and bright sun, so this is just right. We may get some more showers later.

 

Have a roasting chicken in the oven. It's been in the freezer a bit long so I hope it's still okay. It's the last one.

 

Have a great evening...JP

 

 

Hi Everyone!

Well that was a looong hour. LOL

I came back from swimming and Mark wanted to go out for a burger and Walmart, so changed quickly and we took off. As we were pulling out of the driveway, I could hear the phone ringing. Mark said they would call back, so off we went. By the end of the street, my cell was ringing. Julie was on her way to Walmart and needed a sitter for about an hour.. We ended up babysitting at the McDonalds in Walmart then wandered the store with the 2 kids. Didn’t meet up with Mom until about 10 minutes ago when we dumped the kids in the car and ran. LOL Good to be home, now I don’t have time to cook the dinner I planned because I have to play cards at 6. Oh well. Another day shot. Tomorrow we head up to LA to watch the Dodgers play Atlanta. Mark wants to go up in the morning to hit the Bass Pro shop and Graber Olives. (Helen~ He is so hooked on those olives)

Will spend the day driving around LA.

Hugs to you all and prayers for those who need them.

Doreen