The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

BuddyThomas

BuddyThomas

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EDIT - I can't seem to get the spoiler button to work, but the same applies. Don't click on the video if easily offended.

If anyone is getting stir crazy and is looking to take a little trip to a land far, far away, clear the children out of the room, pour yourself a stiff drink, and settle back to enjoy my kooky play Wonderland Wives, which is hidden in the spoiler content below because if it was a movie, it would be rated R for language and whacked out adult situations.

As my publisher describes it:
“Note: Wonderland Wives is intended for mature audiences with very immature tastes. Cinderella’s Prince Charming is serving ten years in the pen, Belle’s house is overrun with little monsters, Alice has been hitting the caterpillar’s pipe a little too hard lately, and Snow White’s husband has shacked up with the three little pigs. Now she’s keeping up appearances as the fairest in the land with the help of a little girdle and a lot of hair dye, and trying to keep Belle from draining the royal booze reserves and Cindy from inhaling the banquet table... “
In other words, don’t click if you are easily offended. Otherwise, enjoy! 😜

 
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Gabe1

Gabe1

Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
StarWarsGirl said:
They actually aren't completely closing. They're on a modified experience. So the restaurants, spa, Auntie's Beach House, and community Hall aren't available. You can get food by the pool, but you can't sit at the bar. The gift shops are only allowing a limited number of people in at one time. Hawaii isn't hit nearly as hard as other states; I think there's only 40 something cases so far.
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An update:
apple.news

Hawaii will quarantine all arrivals for 2 weeks due to virus — ABC News

The measure was implemented to help fight the spread of coronavirus.
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Gabe1

Gabe1

Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
@MinnieM123 I remember you having about the same reaction to the Instapot as my DD and I did. Not so Insta, lots of pre prep, bringing up pressure, cooking and release pressure time. So...

I bought two very long fresh baby back rib slabs that were 50% off. Guess nobody was hoarding ribs this month. Anywho...

My DD has a recipe with only a handful of spices she had. The oddest liquid smoke which we also had. The prep was pulling off the back membranes which took about 5 minutes. It was easy after a quick YouTube about 5 minutes with the help of a butter knife. The spices took about 5 minutes at best. Then brown sugar and spices pressed to top of ribs. Thin layer of Sweet Baby Rays sauce. Cut each slab in half to fit evenly in insta pot. Since there wasn’t liquid in the pot it came up to pressure fast. They cooked for 25 minutes and pressure released in 23 minutes. Put in broiler for 2 minutes on low
To caramelize the BBQ


All about in an hour from fridge to plate and 45 minutes of which was hands off. The meat fell of the bone. I put mine on plate but was able to eat with a fork it just pulled from the ribs that easily. Beyond awesome taste.

We are in shelter in place so such a wonderful treat

Raw
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Spices, sugar and bbq

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Off to broiler
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Baked
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Lovely ribs finished
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corn on the cob removed

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Look how
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Songbird76

Songbird76

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BAChicagoGal said:
No. I should have explained myself better. The ketchup is not for the pizza. The ketchup is to mix with the BBQ sauce, that they sent with the fried mushrooms. They sent a lot. It was so spicy. The ketchup will mix well, and I will have BBQ sauce for something else. Perhaps the ribs I plan on cooking soon. Just enough kick, but not too much.
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I have never heard of eating fried mushrooms with BBQ sauce. I always dip them in ranch dressing. Well, we can't get them here, but when I'm stateside or I make my own, I do ranch dressing. I can't get that here either, so I make it.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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I suppose that over a longish life one learns many things. I have learned that I own way to much stuff. I didn't think I owned any more then I had when I moved from Vermont 9 years ago. Or it could be I was just 9 years younger back then. Even after giving away things that I collected all my life, like my Craftsman seven drawer tool box loaded with metric and american sized wrenches and sockets to my son in law, I still have to much stuff.

The move went smoothly but my new apartment looks like a bomb went off, but I suppose that all I need to do is find my way to the kitchen, the bathroom and the bedroom and have all our sequestered time to putter with finding a place for the rest of the stuff.

Everyone I met is very friendly, with the exception of one lady that started out OK, but then took a turn for uncomfortable when she reveled that the lady that previously occupied my apartment was her best friend. She had passed away a few weeks ago of renal failure. Her friend via body language and voice tone made it clear that she was not happy about me being the replacement. For the past couple of decades I have been pretty much a loner, but I'm starting to think that this place is going to pull me into someone that has to communicate with the general public. At least, after the era of social distancing has ended.

I did notice that a small grouping (at least 6 feet apart) had gathered at the atrium to take some sort of inventory of all my furniture and how many boxes I had, I guess. I'm glad I could provide some entertainment for the semi-isolated.
 
MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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Goofyernmost said:
I suppose that over a longish life one learns many things. I have learned that I own way to much stuff. I didn't think I owned any more then I had when I moved from Vermont 9 years ago. Or it could be I was just 9 years younger back then. Even after giving away things that I collected all my life, like my Craftsman seven drawer tool box loaded with metric and american sized wrenches and sockets to my son in law, I still have to much stuff.

The move went smoothly but my new apartment looks like a bomb went off, but I suppose that all I need to do is find my way to the kitchen, the bathroom and the bedroom and have all our sequestered time to putter with finding a place for the rest of the stuff.

Everyone I met is very friendly, with the exception of one lady that started out OK, but then took a turn for uncomfortable when she reveled that the lady that previously occupied my apartment was her best friend. She had passed away a few weeks ago of renal failure. Her friend via body language and voice tone made it clear that she was not happy about me being the replacement. For the past couple of decades I have been pretty much a loner, but I'm starting to think that this place is going to pull me into someone that has to communicate with the general public. At least, after the era of social distancing has ended.

I did notice that a small grouping (at least 6 feet apart) had gathered at the atrium to take some sort of inventory of all my furniture and how many boxes I had, I guess. I'm glad I could provide some entertainment for the semi-isolated.
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Glad the move went smoothly. Hopefully people will become at least civil to you in short time.
 
ajrwdwgirl

ajrwdwgirl

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Goofyernmost said:
I suppose that over a longish life one learns many things. I have learned that I own way to much stuff. I didn't think I owned any more then I had when I moved from Vermont 9 years ago. Or it could be I was just 9 years younger back then. Even after giving away things that I collected all my life, like my Craftsman seven drawer tool box loaded with metric and american sized wrenches and sockets to my son in law, I still have to much stuff.

The move went smoothly but my new apartment looks like a bomb went off, but I suppose that all I need to do is find my way to the kitchen, the bathroom and the bedroom and have all our sequestered time to putter with finding a place for the rest of the stuff.

Everyone I met is very friendly, with the exception of one lady that started out OK, but then took a turn for uncomfortable when she reveled that the lady that previously occupied my apartment was her best friend. She had passed away a few weeks ago of renal failure. Her friend via body language and voice tone made it clear that she was not happy about me being the replacement. For the past couple of decades I have been pretty much a loner, but I'm starting to think that this place is going to pull me into someone that has to communicate with the general public. At least, after the era of social distancing has ended.

I did notice that a small grouping (at least 6 feet apart) had gathered at the atrium to take some sort of inventory of all my furniture and how many boxes I had, I guess. I'm glad I could provide some entertainment for the semi-isolated.
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I'm glad your move went well and hope you are happy in the new spot. I'm sure that lady is just upset about her friend passing and it wasn't a personal reaction to you.
 
DryerLintFan

DryerLintFan

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Goofyernmost said:
I suppose that over a longish life one learns many things. I have learned that I own way to much stuff. I didn't think I owned any more then I had when I moved from Vermont 9 years ago. Or it could be I was just 9 years younger back then. Even after giving away things that I collected all my life, like my Craftsman seven drawer tool box loaded with metric and american sized wrenches and sockets to my son in law, I still have to much stuff.

The move went smoothly but my new apartment looks like a bomb went off, but I suppose that all I need to do is find my way to the kitchen, the bathroom and the bedroom and have all our sequestered time to putter with finding a place for the rest of the stuff.

Everyone I met is very friendly, with the exception of one lady that started out OK, but then took a turn for uncomfortable when she reveled that the lady that previously occupied my apartment was her best friend. She had passed away a few weeks ago of renal failure. Her friend via body language and voice tone made it clear that she was not happy about me being the replacement. For the past couple of decades I have been pretty much a loner, but I'm starting to think that this place is going to pull me into someone that has to communicate with the general public. At least, after the era of social distancing has ended.

I did notice that a small grouping (at least 6 feet apart) had gathered at the atrium to take some sort of inventory of all my furniture and how many boxes I had, I guess. I'm glad I could provide some entertainment for the semi-isolated.
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With it only being a couple weeks, I'm sure she's just still sad about her friend.

I'm glad the move went well!! Funny about the watch party! As you go through each room setting things up, you'll purge more. I feel the same way when i moved into my tiny house. I had purged for entire year but still had way too much stuff when i cut my living space in half. Now i have less stuff but an incredibly happy home. I wish the same for you ❤️
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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MySmallWorldof4 said:
Glad the move went smoothly. Hopefully people will become at least civil to you in short time.
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To be fair, most were quite civil and friendly. I probably didn't do the right thing, but when I got back from dropping off the van, they asked me to join into a small group of 2nd floor residents. At that point in time my apartment was a maze of bobbing and jumping to get from one end to the other, so I, hopefully, said sincerely that I would love too but I had way to much to do right now and I am, by nature, a procrastinator. If I stop now I will stay stopped. (at that time a couple hours of work to just be able to not sleep on the floor) That one lady was the exception. I'm sure when I turn on my world famous charm, I will win her over to the dark side. :cool::)
 
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donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Well, unfortunately, DS was temporarily laid off yesterday.
DWifey’s office is closed again this coming week, but, she is still being paid.
Haven’t heard anything from my firm yet that we’re not supposed to show up for work tomorrow, but, that could change any minute.
We’ve been in all weekend, but, did get some burgers from the drive-thru at P. Terry’s yesterday.
Talked on the phone with my folks earlier and they are hunkered down and fine.
Everything has been removed from their house, including all the cabinets, but, all the granite kitchen countertops have been salvaged. So, things are still moving along.
Hope you and yours are all doin’ well, and I’ll try to ketchup later...!!! :)
 
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