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What are U doing today? (Ongoing thread)
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Nina
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Feb 01, 2014 08:22AM
Joy, Once when I was buying fresh salmon the young man behind the counter asked if I'd like to have his grandmother's recipe for cooking it. I assured him, Yes. I don't have the recipe in front of me but what I remember is I basted the salmon in Apple juice and it was so good.
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Nina, I'll tell my husband about your suggestion. He likes to try new things. Thanks.
Marg buys a lot of ready-made meals. They're expensive & get old. We have different tastes, too. I like things spicy, she can't have any pepper of any sort or much onion, so we're always looking for quick, easy recipes that satisfy both of us. I hate her spaghetti. It's boring. I found a way around that. She buys me a pack of mild Italian sausages, 2 green peppers, & an onion. I fry it all up & cut the sausages in half lengthwise. I then bag each one in a freezer baggie with some of the onions & green peppers & freeze them. I can microwave one & add it to her spaghetti which makes it really good or I can put it on bread for a lunch sandwich. Two on a hoagie roll are even better.
Great day today. Not only was it warm, but projects I was dreading turned out to be easy. My car hood that was dented by a deer last week actually still opens & closes fine. The leaking tire on the mower turned out to be the valve stem, etc.. And to top it off, we made a great dinner tonight.
Reference: My post above: Message #4440Hey, look! There's a copy of my review of the Tasmania book at WorldCat:
http://www.worldcat.org/title/tasmani...
(Scroll down at that page to see it.)
Wow, WorldCat has its fingers in every pie!
(I wonder if WorldCat shows EVERY Goodreads review. I'll have to research that.)
Jim, we use Ragu (original) sauce for our pasta. I LOVE it. I will tell Ed about your idea for freezing the cooked sausages. I LOVE pepper and onions even though they don't like me. :)
Jim, tell us about how the deer dented your car hood.
Joy H. wrote: " ... (I wonder if WorldCat shows EVERY Goodreads review. I'll have to research that.)..."WorldCat DOES show reviews by Goodreads members! It seems to show only a few GR reviews and then there's a link which takes you to the Goodreads website where there are more reviews of the same book.
For example, if you go to the following WorldCat link, you will see my review of Confessions of an actor : an autobiography:
http://www.worldcat.org/title/confess...
(You must scroll down at the above-linked page to see my review there.)
I have to be a bit careful of how much spicy stuff I eat any more too, Joy. Red hots have never been kind to me.No big deal with the deer. They're thick as fleas out here & I dodge them a lot. This moron, a big buck, jumped out of the woods & landed right in front of my car. It was one of the really cold, slippery mornings so I was going slow & just bumped him enough to bend up my car a little. He skittered & took off.
As stupid as he was, he didn't hold a candle to the young doe a couple of weeks prior to that. She & her sister crossed the road ahead of me, so I slowed way down. A good thing because she suddenly reversed direction & darted back out in front of me. I barely bumped her & she reversed direction again. Idiot.
No damage that time, thankfully. I've already had to replace my radiators a few months back when a coon ran out in front of me. I guess I should get a tank for my next vehicle. It would be safer.
;-)
LOL - Jim, at least you don't have to worry about moose! When they talk about re-introducing them to the Adirondacks, I cringe! They can REALLY do car damage and cause death as well.I wonder if those deer you bumped were hurt in any way.
So can deer & cows, Joy. One morning I almost ran into a big Angus bull that was wandering up the middle of the road.
Jim, that's a lot of bull! LOL
Hah! He sure seemed like it at the time. He was down over a bit of a roll in the road so was black in a sea of ink. There was a car a ways behind me so I got out & flagged it down. Forgot to shut my car door & the bull was sniffing at it when I went to get back in. I woke up the farmer & his wife closest & they said he didn't belong to them, but they would take care of it. I stopped by the next day & they had. Didn't belong to the farmer across the road, but one about a mile away.I'm staying home today. We got a fair amount of snow & it drifted badly. No driving my car out this morning. Once the snow quits & it gets light out, I'll have to break out the tractor & plow. Yuck. Depending on how wet & heavy it is, I think I'll try turning the plow backward & weighing it down. That way I might not push as much gravel off my lane. I have a feeling it is too wet, though. That means shoveling the gravel back on as the snow melts.
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Jim, I guess you don't get too near a bull, eh? There are probably some great stories about people's experiences with bulls. (...not stories about the Spanish bull fights. Those should be banned.)As to your dealing with the weather, it's best to stay home. On the other hand, bad weather is expected this week in NYC and my DIL is due to deliver her baby Feb. 5, the day a snow storm is predicted, with snow, sleet and ice.
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick....
http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/f...
I told them to get a room near the hospital and NOT to stay home!
NOPE! They're gonna tough it out. Makes me worry.
Stay tuned...
Remeber back when your kids were young and had to do what you told them to do? Those were the days and we didn't realize it at the time, did we? Good luck. I won't say "Try not to worry"
Joy H. wrote: "Jim, I guess you don't get too near a bull, eh? ..."Actually, I could have touched him. Most Angus bulls aren't that aggressive in my experience, unless there is a cow in season near by. Even then, they only have one thing on their mind & if you don't interfere, they'll ignore you.
It's been so cold that Hell must have frozen over: Mom is now on Facebook! She's friended Marg, but not me. I don't know whether to be insulted or relieved.
I'm sore. I think we got 4" or 5" of snow, but it drifted over the lane over a foot deep in places. I have piles 3' deep. It was a pain pushing it with the tractor since the ground isn't frozen. My neck is about done in because I pushed it backward, the curve of the grader blade pointing the wrong way. It kept most of the gravel on the lane, though.
Ice covered driveway and street here. My son in law had to use a hammer and chisel to break open the trunk of his car that had feed for the horeses inside of it. Not fun.
Nina wrote: "Remeber back when your kids were young and had to do what you told them to do? Those were the days and we didn't realize it at the time, did we? Good luck. I won't say "Try not to worry""LOL - Yes, Nina, I remember those days. :) They're gone forever!
Jim wrote: ",,, Mom is now on Facebook! She's friended Marg, but not me. I don't know whether to be insulted or relieved. ..."Only one of our 4 kids has friended me on Facebook! I think that only 2 of them are actually ON Facebook.
I love Facebook as it's the only way I can communicate with granddaughters in Africa, Vietnam, CT CA and even here in my own hometown.
Nina, it's so nice that your granddaughters keep in touch with you. It's a tribute to your own specialness as a grandmother. How old are your granddaughters?
My first two days back at work were interesting, to say the least! On Sunday, at about 9:43 p.m., the library abruptly lost all electrical power, and was plunged into total darkness. (This turned out to be part of a larger outage that affected a large area in southern WV and adjacent parts of VA. They got the power restored some time after 11:00 p.m.) I had to close the library early, and walk a mile to my daughter's house (without benefit of street lights or traffic lights).Yesterday, I felt fine when I went to work; but as evening wore on, I felt increasingly unwell, feverish, and achy. Normally, I would have toughed it out; but it actually got bad enough that I called Barb and asked her to bring a thermometer to check my temperature. It proved to be 100.7. (We get exposed to a lot of flu bugs our grandkids pick up at school, so that's probably the explanation.) The library director, when I phoned her, volunteered to come and relieve me; so I headed home when she got there.
This morning, my temperature is lower but still high, and my head and the rest of me still aches. :-( So, what I'm going to be doing today is resting, drinking fluids, and keeping warm!
Werner, keep resting. Rest is best. The power outage is a reminder that we all live near "the edge". Any minute our lives can change from what we're used to and what we take for granted. Hence, this quote I recently found:"The wind shows us how close to the edge we are." -Joan Didion
Thanks, Jim! I actually don't feel too badly at the moment; so far, my symptoms have diminished as the day wears on. Joy, good point, and good quote!
The power went out at 10pm, so no heat or light. We were dead sound asleep, so we turned off the UPS's & went back to bed. At 2am, it started getting chilly enough that I roused myself to hook up the generator & propane heater. Now I'm up at 3am. The generator is acting up a bit, too. It almost died a few minutes ago & I had to bump up the choke a bit. It won't go into econo or quiet mode, either.
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Jim, I really hope your electricity gets restored soon! Keep us posted.
Brrr! Better times ahead for you, I hope.
Listen to what your body temp is telling you, Werner.Stay inside and rest. I once had a shock when I felt unwell and took my tompeture and it was 105 degrees/not long after I was in an ambulance headed toward the hospital. Didn't die, but almost so beware of high temps.
Nina, I'll take your advice! I had a low fever all day yesterday, so let my colleagues at the library know, at about 9:00 last night, that I wouldn't be coming in to work today. (Because of the ramifications of scheduling, it's best to decide that by the night before.) But I was fever free this morning, and hope to be back on the job tomorrow! (Now, for my third day back to work, what else can go wrong...? :-) )
Hope that by now, things are going better for Jim and Werner too. We're going through a huge snowstorm right now. The snow keeps coming down. We had someone come and snowblow our driveway a little while ago. Now the backyard must be done for the dogs. Meanwhile, I'm sweeping a little patch for them.
Our electric came on at 5am but was flickery for a while. My neighbors lost it again just before 6am & didn't get it back until 3:30pm, but we had ours all day. The temp is now dropping, still getting some snow on top of all the ice. I posted some pictures here:https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?s...
Jim, thanks for the icy pics. They sure bring home exactly what it's like. Those poor goats! Love the birds with the red cardinal standing out. Did you make that dandy whirlagig? I'm sure you did!
Jim, My favorite picture is the one way in the corner of the horse and GREEN grass. Why did I forget what it looked like. Glad your power has returned.
Thanks, all. Yes, I did make the whirlagig out of scraps, including the drive shaft & all. I had some plans, but just used them for the general idea.We sometimes see over a dozen cardinals both front & back of the house this time of year.
I love whirlagigs. We have one which we bought in Cape Cod years ago. It's a sailboat which rocks on the "water" when the wind blows. Bright red, white, and blue.We have only one pair of cardinals which comes to our backyard. Haven't seen them lately though.
Glad to report that I was fever-free all day yesterday, and that I'm headed back to work later today! It's nice to be off the sick list. :-)
Will do (if I can), Joy! Thanks, Jim.
Our Internet is down at home. Marg said it worked until mid day sometime. The ice was melting, then the clouds covered the sun & it refroze, so our antenna quit getting a signal. (We have wireless 'high speed' Internet, not satellite, but kind of like WiFi. It's the best we can do since there is no cable or DSL out our way.)I'm hoping Ted, the antenna guru extraordinaire here at work, can give me pointers on thawing it tonight without breaking it & hopefully I can get to enough of it from a ladder. Our house isn't tall nor is the roof slope steep, but the landing would be the fish pond & sundial. Uncomfortable, at best.
The tractor wouldn't start last night, but I didn't try too hard since there's not much it could do. The end of the lane is a sheet of ice, but there's no salt to be had for love or money. I carried a couple of buckets of stone dust out & spread them, although that was tough. It kept freezing to my shovel & buckets. At least the pile wasn't frozen under the layer of snow & ice.
I'm really beginning to hate winter.
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Jim, I hate winter already! Our home thermometer said -5 F this morning and the weather service online says -8 F.Our pipes were frozen this morning because we didn't leave a trickle. We didn't expect these freezing temps. We thawed the pipes by running the drier for a while. The hot air inside the exhaust-space heats the pipes.
Hope you can get your Internet back soon, Jim.
Glad nothing broke, Joy! We're a balmy 5 degrees above 0 this morning, but not supposed to go above freezing until possibly one day next week.:(
Hope the horses have their blankets on!
You are in a heat zone compared to our fifteen below predicted tonight..Today I am out and about no matter. Otherwise we drive on an ice covered driveway and tromp through drifts to feed the birds, but we do have no frozen pipes. We just keep our cabinet toward the outside, doors open and that seems to work for us.
Glad your fever departed, Werner and good luck the remaining winter time.
Joy H. wrote: "Nina, it's so nice that your granddaughters keep in touch with you. It's a tribute to your own specialness as a grandmother. How old are your granddaughters?"My youngest granddaughter is twenty six and lives and works in Spokane, WA, her sister is thirty one and she teaches English in Vietnam, another sister is thirty six and she teaches Design Art at the U. of New Haven, CT. Another grandaughter is thirty seven and she is a missionary in Africa. Her sister, Joy is a student in college in San Diego. These latter sisters once lived together in Siberia and both lived in Africa ten years.together until Joy came back to US. One granddaughter lives in my area and she is a nurse and has three children.
Thanks, Nina! I'll cross fingers (in a praying hands position!) for the rest of the winter. :-)Right now, our outside temperature is 44 degrees (if our thermometer is to be trusted); but it was definitely a lot colder overnight, since the water in the dog's bowl on the porch froze solid. Our pipes haven't frozen yet, but we use similar measures to the ones described above (and sometimes a small heat lamp).
I spent 30 minutes clearing the ice off our Internet antenna. Working, although not great. Probably due to the ice on trees in between.
Joy H. wrote: "Nina, it's so nice that your granddaughters keep in touch with you. It's a tribute to your own specialness as a grandmother. How old are your granddaughters?"I forgot to mention that my three sister granddaughters lived for a while in India after France and they used to ride camels to their various destinations.
Crazy day & evening. It was busy at work, then I had to go to 3 stores on the way home. Found ice melt at Lowe's!!! They'd just put 2 big pallets out & 1/4 of each were already gone & the rest was going fast.Got home & spent 30 minutes on a ladder thawing out our Internet antenna. Time well spent since it's working again. Had 1/2" of ice over the entire thing.
Marg got home just as I was finishing up in yet another bus. This one is brand new. I think they're taking quite a chance giving it to her. She went through 4, got her old one back 'fixed' & had it break down again this evening, so she was running late.
I spread most of one 40lb bag of ice melt just hitting the worst spots on the lane while she got started on the animals. We couldn't get the sliding door open to add water to the tub, so we put the hose out the window, but that took another 20 minutes to thaw enough to open. Then I had to go back out & hit it with the heat gun again to close it. We finally sat down to dinner at 8pm.
I'm so done with winter.
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Next winter take a hint from the animals who hibernate, Jim.
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