Almeta's My Echo, My Shadow and Me

[Almeta]

Cherie wrote: "I did it last month with 8 to go. You can do it. You don't even have to go to work, do you?"

Should have stayed focused and planned better and not left this 'til the end of the year.☻

I AM retired.

[Cherie]

I'd like to say I was, but then what would I do? :o)

[Almeta]

Cherie wrote: "I'd like to say I was, but then what would I do? :o)"

Volunteer, spend time with family and read, read, read!

[Almeta]

✔42/50 Task 49. What is your hobby? Genealogy, Reading

The Reader, Bernhard Schlink 7 Dec

[Almeta]

✔43/50 Task 24. Name a place you’d like to visit. Butchart Gardens, which is on Vancouver Island. Not finding available books for the gardens themselves. The Story of Butchart Gardens may be an option, but I am reluctant to buy it.

Twilight Is Not Good for Maidens by Lou Allin features Holly Martin, a corporal in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada 9 Dec

[Almeta]

✔44/50 Task 20. What is your preferred mode of transport? = Automobile Read a book with your selection on the cover.

Hell & Gone 11 Dec

[Almeta]

✔45/50 Task 40. What is your favourite fruit? Avacado

The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two: The Hidden Lives and Strange Origins of Common and Not-So-Common Words, Anu Garg 14 Dec

[Cherie]

I honestly have never gophered for a book title using avocado. Who knew???

We may need a salad bowl or vegetable soup challenge to flush out all the "food" titles one day. Like a three ingredients recipe.

Did you like the book?

[Almeta]

Cherie wrote: "I honestly have never gophered for a book title using avocado. Who knew???...Did you like the book? ..."

I did like the book, however it is not really one to be read from front to back in one sitting. It's like reading an encyclopedia. Everything is interesting, information over-load. How much will I really retain.

This one I will remember!:

"AVOCADO ~ The word originated in the Aztec language Nahuatl, where it is called ahuacatl, meaning testicle because of it shape."

[Almeta]

Cherie wrote: "I... We may need a salad bowl or vegetable soup challenge to flush out all the "food" titles one day. Like a three ingredients recipe. ..."

I like the idea!☺

Three Bean Salad
Potato Salad
Maurice Salad
Caesar Salad
Shrimp Salad
Pasta Salad
Wilted Spinach Salad
Tuna Salad
Egg Salad
Taco Salad
Waldorf Salad
Fruit Salad
Ambrosia Salad

oh , and
Avocado Salad!

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Almeta wrote: "Cherie wrote: "I... We may need a salad bowl or vegetable soup challenge to flush out all the "food" titles one day. Like a three ingredients recipe. ..."

I like the idea!☺

Three Bean Salad
Potat..."

I have no idea what 90% of those things are.

[Margo]

Wilted spinach salad sounds a bit dodgey!!

[Almeta]

Margo wrote: "Wilted spinach salad sounds a bit dodgey!!"

Sooo Good!

Wilted Spinach Salad

INGREDIENTS
•	6cups spinach, washed,drained very well and torn into bite-size pieces
•	1⁄4cup sliced green onion
•	3hardboiled egg, coarsely chopped
•	5slices bacon, chopped
•	1⁄4cup vinegar
•	2tablespoons sugar
•	2tablespoons water
•	1⁄2teaspoon salt
•	1⁄4teaspoon pepper
DIRECTIONS
1.	Combine spinach, onions and eggs in a large salad bowl.
2.	Cook bacon in skillet until crispy; remove bacon and drain on paper towels.
3.	Pour off all but 3 tablespoons of bacon drippings.
4.	Add vinegar, water, sugar, salt and pepper to bacon drippings, heat to boiling, stirring to blend.
5.	Pour over spinach mixture; toss gently.
6.	Sprinkle with bacon.

[Margo]

Wow, that does sound good!! Copied to my recipes folder - thanks Almeta :-)

[Cherie]

Oh, I love wilted spinach salad! AmyK could tell you a story about the time I made it for her and her sisters. You would be rolling on the floor! They were sure that I was trying to poison them.

[Cherie]

Oh, Rusalka, you poor thing. I love them all!

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Don't pity me too much. While I have no idea what most of those are, I have many delicious salads in my life :D

[Janice, Moderator]

It does sound like an interesting challenge idea. I write that as my stomach growls. Timing! Or coincidence?

[Cherie]

Your avocado book sounds like the toothpaste book I read and I can never scrub the definition out of my mind now. Gah!

[Almeta]

Cherie wrote: "Your avocado book sounds like the toothpaste book I read and I can never scrub the definition out of my mind now. Gah!"

Okay....Do I want to know? You're such a tease!☺

[Cherie]

Sorry, I was not trying to be a tease. My book for the "what do you use every day" guestion was Why There's Antifreeze in Your Toothpaste: The Chemistry of Household Ingredients because my answer was "toothpaste". Pretty much a science book, like your definitions. I got something out of it, but most was bla, bla, bla.

You will have to look at my 2017 challenge to see my write up.

[Almeta]

Cherie wrote: ".......
You will have to look at my 2017 challenge to see my write up. ..."

Yeah, it does sound similar to my Avocado book!☺

[Almeta]

✔46/50 Task 22. Have you been in an accident? Yes. with skates, horses and automobiles. Most recently I fell off my shoes (I know, right?) and really damaged my foot. Now when I walk my left foot clicks! Read a book with the word “accident” in title.

The Accident 20 Dec

[Cherie]

I hope it wasn't too painful.

[Almeta]

✔47/50 Task 7. Pick a number between 1 and 10. 3
Of course I have to read book 2 first!☻

The Singapore School of Villainy 23 Dec

[Rusalka, Moderator]

You can do it!

[Almeta]

Rusalka wrote: "You can do it!"

Getting awfully close.

Thanks for the encouragement!

[Rusalka, Moderator]

No worries! I am good at yelling affirmative things.

Some people bought a house the other day near us, and were getting the obligatory real estate photo in front of the SOLD sign. I was driving past, and decided to woop and cheer and beep and flash and thumbs up out the window. I think from their faces they had decided they had bought into crazyville. I retold this to Lexx, and he responded with, "yes, a grats would have done."

[Almeta]

✔48/50 Task 18. What is your favourite season? On my TBR since February 2012.

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet 26 Dec

[Almeta]

✔49/50 Task 50. What language would you like to learn to speak? Spanish–

Havana Blue, Leonardo Padura 28 Dec

[Almeta]

IT'S GONNA BE CLOSE!

One more here (The Skull Beneath the Skin) and the group read Hogfather.

[Janice, Moderator]

You'll get her done, I just know it!

[Cherie]

GO! GO! GO!

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Yay!

[Almeta]

✔50/50 Task 32. What is the feature on (which) you are most often complimented? Physical = skin.

The Skull Beneath The Skin 30 Dec

[Cherie]

Sweet! Congratulations on finishing Part 3 and the whole challenge list!

No left overs for us going into next year.

[Almeta]

Cherie wrote: "Sweet! Congratulations on finishing Part 3 and the whole challenge list!

No left overs for us going into next year."

THAT is a very happy thing!☺