The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[French Quarter]

It was really great. Where I live now, it's so small that you drive from one side of the country to the other in just a couple of hours. We drove all the way to the opposite end of Germany almost to Austria in something like 9 hours. We did a bus tour to Paris and I think it was somewhere between 5 and 8 hours. But those trips have just be DH and myself...we've never done that with the kids and hubby doesn't think the kids would be able to sit in the car for that long. They aren't used to it. I grew up with that, but the kids haven't because we just don't HAVE those distances here unless you are going to another country. I would LOVE to do a big road trip in the US, but DH isn't real keen on it.

Sounds like you have been able to see some amazing things. Is it Germany that you live in? That's at the top of my wish list in terms of travel. I know a number of people from there.

 

[French Quarter]

We did it once the year after I moved over here. My mom passed just before we moved and we came back to do her burial, which was in Illinois. Then we drove from IL back home to Wyo to visit family and friends. I took him on our standard drive through Blue Earth Minnesota to see the Jolly Green Giant, across South Dakota through Sioux Falls, the Badlands, Wall, down into Wyo. On the way back, we went through Kansas to meet some cousins I found through Genealogy research and see my Great Great Grandfather's house and grave and one of the churches he built (he was a stone mason and minister and the Secretary of State in Kansas in the late1800s).

There are lots of interesting road trip opportunities in the US. I still have to do Route 66 and I would love to follow the path of Laura Ingalls Wilder.

 

[French Quarter]

You still live in a huge country.I can drive around my island in less than an hour and thats with a speed limit of 35mph.kinda freaked us out the first time we got directions in Florida and down the road turned out to be a 20 minute drive.

Where do you live @MR FERRET?

 

[French Quarter]

Never had it, but I'll take your word for it, that it tastes like chicken. I've also heard that alligator and rattlesnake both taste like chicken. Haven't had those either. I've had chicken though.

I have had alligator nuggets and they do taste a lot like chicken, it's true! I was actually disappointed. I was hoping for a more exotic taste.

 

[French Quarter]

I love Christmas as much as anyone else, and all the fun activities. The problem (for me) is that I stress out if it's mentioned too early, as I'm always battling budget issues as it is. And don't think that our salaries will ever even catch up with the cost of living at 2% a year. I recall years ago that it was common to get 8-10%.

Yes, I can understand that. It can be an expensive time of the year.

 

[French Quarter]

Thank you. The turkey is in the oven, getting all happy, as I type.

That is one of the best feelings in the world, isn't it? When you are all cozy in your house, smelling the turkey cooking. It feels so peaceful. Probably because there is nowhere else to be.

 

[French Quarter]

Today's pictures.

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The crowds were crazy busy at Food and Wine, we only got in one plate. A pork and mangu the picture follows . Good day All!

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So beautiful! It does seem like it's been especially crowded this year for F&W. I wonder if that's true?

 

[French Quarter]

funnily.. thats another thing on my bucket list.. rent one of these big RVs and do a tour for US national parks.

Oh I would so love to do that too! Make room in your RV for me. I'm pretty quiet.

 

[donaldtoo]

Monkey brains!!!!

 

[French Quarter]

RIP turkey.. we hardly knew yee!

 

[catmom46]

Clear and 92 here right now.

About the same here! Bleah.

 

[FutureCEO]

You still live in a huge country.I can drive around my island in less than an hour and thats with a speed limit of 35mph.kinda freaked us out the first time we got directions in Florida and down the road turned out to be a 20 minute drive.

You can drive one side of my state to the other in less than an hour depending on traffic but speed limit is 55 - 65 mph. Obviously some people drive the road like its the autobahn.

 

[catmom46]

Thank you. The turkey is in the oven, getting all happy, as I type.

Any leftovers? It's almost dinner time over here.

 

[brb1006]

I just got done binge watching Season 1 and 2 of Ricky and Morty. Now I'm beginning my second binge watching of Gravity Falls from start to finish with the current episode. Finally I will binge watch Steven Universe. Boy this is going to be a long week! Wish me luck alright?

 

[MOXOMUMD]

 

[MOXOMUMD]

I just got done binge watching Season 1 and 2 of Ricky and Morty. Now I'm beginning my second binge watching of Gravity Falls from start to finish with the current episode. Finally I will binge watch Steven Universe. Boy this is going to be a long week! Wish me luck alright?

 

[donaldtoo]

My uncle would make squrrel stew quite often when we were younger. Not to sound cliche but it does taste like chicken.

I know I've told this story here before, but, we have new peeps...

Anyway, my mom and pops yards are full of large pecan trees. My pop has always maintained a live trap for all the squirrels (yes, of course, even he knows it's an exercise in futility , but he does it anyway). He usually releases them when he has an errand to run somewhere.
Both of my folks were raised on farms in South-Central Texas. They, and us children, are not unfamiliar with "exotic" foods. DWifey, not so much.
One Sunday dinner at my folks house, after we had said grace, my pop picked up a pan off the table, and offering it to my DWifey said... "Squirrel, Carolyn?"
It was not malicious, they have an awesome relationship, but, it was darn sure funny!
Pop said he had not had any in a while, and that one looked like it might make a decent little feast.
Pop, myself, and my two brothers then proceeded to finish it off.

 

[ShoalFox]

I just got done binge watching Season 1 and 2 of Ricky and Morty. Now I'm beginning my second binge watching of Gravity Falls from start to finish with the current episode. Finally I will binge watch Steven Universe. Boy this is going to be a long week! Wish me luck alright?

I feel like the only one who isn't remotely interested in any of those shows. Most people I see on the Internet can't stop talking about them.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Poor squirrels... they're so cute sometimes...

Like in The Sword in the Stone

Yup, those bushy tailed rats are the definition of cute.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

Jack has all kinds of carp laying around--half destroyed toys, and a few he can't wreck. I find the thick, tight, rope toys work well as he can't destroy those!!

Oh, and he also improvises his toy collection . . . that is, with anything of ours that he's not supposed to have!! He goes for the craziest stuff and his interests run in phases . . . Sometimes, he'll go on a paper towel fest and rip them to shreds--and leave the evidence all over the house . . . and sometimes, he'll grab a sock from the laundry basket and it will end up under the kitchen table all gnawed with dog slobber . . . Those are just a few of the things I can mention here!

Our Henry, who passed in Jan, used to take garments out of the laundry basket too! Glad to know it isn't just our dog! Kapono only likes used socks, no other garments. Jack sounds like he would get along well with my pup.