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[Goofyernmost]

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

He has my prayers. The people in Wilmington will be so happy to see him and his fellow workers. He'll be doing some wonderful work, and that will mean so much to the people down there. Bless him.

This^^^^^ Utility workers after a storm can be underappreciated.

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

already recovering, yesterday was nightmarish.
Imagine having to travel for 12+ hours (total travel time of 15 hours) starting at 4:30 am.. while you're seriously ill, so bad that you cant even focus one of your eyes..

Glad that you are starting to feel better.

 

[Songbird76]

For @Songbird76 and anyone who wants to make. Very delicious!
Easy Baked Turkey Meatballs
Servings: 12 big meatballs
Ingredients:
2 lbs. lean ground turkey (I used half this recipe for two and had leftovers. You could use the whole recipe and freeze leftovers)
1/2 cup unseasoned bread crumbs (I used panic-japanese breadcrumbs)
1//2 cup carrot and 1/4 cup onion (minced in food processor or by hand)
2 eggs
1 tablespoon Italian seasoning
1/2 tablespoon salt (I used around 1/4 tsp. cause I watch my bp)
1 tsp. garlic powder
Instructions:
Preheat over to 350 degrees F. Put parchment paper or a silicone pad in a large baking sheet.
Mix all ingredients together in a bowl. Shape meat into 2 -tablespoon-sized-balls. Place on baking sheet.
Bake for 30 minutes checking after 30 to see if pink (165 degrees with thermometer). If pink, continue cooking 5 minutes then check. Mine were perfect after 30 mts. Cool and serve. Leftovers may be frozen. Put on baking sheet and freeze. When frozen, put them in a freezer bag. Thaw the night before to reheat next day.

I make my own spaghetti sauce since I watch by sodium. This one is easy and good. I make then, cool and put in freezer bags and freeze up to 6 months.
Spaghetti Sauce :
Ingredients:
2 6 ounce cans no salt added tomato paste
2 cups water
1/4 cup finely chopped onion
2 teaspoon minced garlic cloves in jar
1 teaspoon dried basil, crumbled
1 teaspoon dried oregano, crumbled
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme, crumbled
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1/8 teaspoon black pepper
1/8 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
Instructions:
Put tomato paste in medium saucepan. Whisk in the water, 1 cup at a time. Whisk in remaining ingredients. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce the heat to simmer, covered, for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. Cool or serve immediately.

Hope you enjoy!!

Thank you!!

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

I can "can" regular pickles but the fermented ones aren't shelf stable for as long. I wouldn't be comfortable giving them as a gift unless they were "fresh" if I had another extra fridge it wouldn't be a problem. and now we're back to a work kitchen would be nice

My supermarket always carries the English cucumbers all year. Wegman's will probably have them.

 

[DryerLintFan]

My supermarket always carries the English cucumbers all year. Wegman's will probably have them.

Same. These are one of the only fresh veggies/fruits we find in the winter time for our lunches

 

[Songbird76]

Back home!
Got one hell of a cold!
But I'm safe.. slept 14 hours straight.. (finally some sleep).

Welcome back! The cold must be going around there, too. My son has been home from school for 2 days, DH said he's coming down with it, DD hasn't felt well and warned she might come home early from school, but she's trying to stick it out so she doesn't get behind, and I can't say I feel fantastic...but we'll see.
I hope you are feeling better soon. Vitamin C, zinc, and garlic!!!

 

[93boomer]

Thank you!!

Any time

 

[Songbird76]

Teppan Edo has always been spot on for us.
We’ve likely been there 20 times.

That's a relief. The food looks so good and I think at least DD will enjoy it. DS won't like the food, but might enjoy the show.

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

Welcome back! The cold must be going around there, too. My son has been home from school for 2 days, DH said he's coming down with it, DD hasn't felt well and warned she might come home early from school, but she's trying to stick it out so she doesn't get behind, and I can't say I feel fantastic...but we'll see.
I hope you are feeling better soon. Vitamin C, zinc, and garlic!!!

Oh I hope you don’t get it and everyone else recovers quickly.

 

[donaldtoo]

Not heading into the office anytime soon. No weather/natural situation, but a truck carrying some huge heavy equipment (which I actually saw heading south as I was heading north on the main highway on my commute home) didn’t have enough clearance and drug down power lines and poles right in front of our office...
Got a call from our Office Manager earlier, and we’re hoping to make it in at some point this afternoon, but, it’s quite a mess (the story is being covered on our local news) so the whole day may be a bust.
DWifey thought about calling in so we could just hang out , but, decided she should go in because of a project she’s currently working on.
Anyway, doin’ some laundry and keepin’ my eye in the local news...!!!

 

[Figgy1]

My supermarket always carries the English cucumbers all year. Wegman's will probably have them.

It's not a matter of getting them at all it's a matter of getting them by the cases at a decent price.

 

[Figgy1]

Welcome back! The cold must be going around there, too. My son has been home from school for 2 days, DH said he's coming down with it, DD hasn't felt well and warned she might come home early from school, but she's trying to stick it out so she doesn't get behind, and I can't say I feel fantastic...but we'll see.
I hope you are feeling better soon. Vitamin C, zinc, and garlic!!!

Sympathy like and lots of {{HUGS}} from a nice safe distance. Vitamin C, an allium, zinc, tea and raw honey if you have it GWS

 

[Figgy1]

Not heading into the office anytime soon. No weather/natural situation, but a truck carrying some huge heavy equipment (which I actually saw heading south as I was heading north on the main highway on my commute home) didn’t have enough clearance and drug down power lines and poles right in front of our office...
Got a call from our Office Manager earlier, and we’re hoping to make it in at some point this afternoon, but, it’s quite a mess (the story is being covered on our local news) so the whole day may be a bust.
DWifey thought about calling in so we could just hang out , but, decided she should go in because of a project she’s currently working on.
Anyway, doin’ some laundry and keepin’ my eye in the local news...!!!

With pay I hope

 

[Songbird76]

That is kind of funny about your mom, she was probably just a little worried about you getting married and moving away and it just blew in that way. I understand what you mean about going shopping for dresses and only having a small size to try on. I had that worry too, but most of the shops we went to had a plus size section or had a couple large and small versions of the dresses. That advice your minister gave you was very good advice, marriage is the key a wedding is just one day but marriage is forever.

Oh, we lived in the US for a year and a half. We didn't decide to move here until after she passed away. So that couldn't have been it. But my mom was kind of a control freak and I had always done everything her way, up until I got into college. Once I was 18 and living on my own, I was independent, and she didn't like it one bit. So I think it was mostly just her feeling really out of control and she didn't like that feeling of things not being in her hands. My whole life, if I did something in a way that wasn't how she would have done it, she made me go back and do it her way. Once I was out of the house, I refused to do that, and she actually sent me a really long letter telling me how disappointed she was in me for not following her rules anymore....she asked why I waited until I was 19 to "rebel". She had thought she was so lucky when I was in school that I never went through the typical teenage rebellious period...I had always been obedient. Now I was in college and suddenly not following her edicts anymore. I wrote back and told her it's not rebellion when someone doesn't have authority over you...I was a legal adult and allowed to make my own decisions. That she had to trust her parenting of me enough to know I could exercise good judgement and rebound when I made a mistake, and that her role was no longer one of authority, but one of advisory. And that sometimes we would disagree on things, and I wasn't OBLIGATED to do what she suggested, but she could certainly give me her opinion on what she thought I SHOULD do, but I wouldn't always take that advice if I didn't feel it was right for me.

She tried to force me into obeying her.....like, when I was engaged to the other guy and I would go back home at Christmas and someone would say "Congratulations! I heard you are engaged!" and my mom would say "No, she's not! I didn't give her permission to be." or when she would come visit, she would just ignore me and spend her time with my brother. Once, on mothers day, I invited her out for lunch, and she waited until I left the room and she went out with my brother and my roommate instead. I came back 10 minutes later to them all gone, no note to say where they had gone or where to meet them. So she would do stuff like that to punish me, hoping it would make me want to get back in her good graces by obeying her again. When I finally called off the engagement (not because she wanted me to, but because I realized it wasn't a healthy relationship), she tried to keep me from dating my now husband. She told me I shouldn't be dating until I was at least 30, that I should have a job, get any traveling done, and be settled in my life before starting to date. I refused, and I think she realized by that time that she wasn't going to force me under her control anymore...that ship had sailed. But she still tested me every once in a while, and she still punished me for it. I think the wedding was just one of those days where she was stressing out because she knew she couldn't control it. She was just very vocal about anything she saw as a weakness in me and was trying to tell me how disorganized I was because I wasn't doing it her way. She thought I hadn't thought it all the way through because she assumed that if I had, I would be sure to realize that her way was the right way! As much of a planner as I am, my mom was way more so, and she was not flexible at all....I can go with the flow, most of the time, but she couldn't.

Like I said, we had a wonderful day, and I look back, even on that memory of my mom being so demanding about the potato salad, and it makes me smile. It was so typical of my mom, and it's actually a very positive memory. I have a lot of resentment toward my mom for the way she treated me, but not about my wedding day. That one just makes me smile. I was determined not to let anything ruin that day.

 

[Figgy1]

I have the dh home today Some of the roads around here are a bit iffy down the mountain. We're nice and safe up here but he has some use or lose days so better safe than sorry.

 

[donaldtoo]

With pay I hope

Yep. It’s an unforeseen event, so we won’t lose pay because of it...!!!

 

[Figgy1]

Yep. It’s an unforeseen event, so we won’t lose pay because of it...!!!

 

[Songbird76]

That's an old home remedy--I even remember my grandmother telling us to gargle with salt water for a sore throat!

Yep, I still use it when I get a sore throat and it usually takes care of it in a couple of days. There was one time I got a throat infection and the doctor gave me a prescription powder to gargle instead of salt. I'd rather have the salt...that powder was bitter!

 

[donaldtoo]

I have the dh home today Some of the roads around here are a bit iffy down the mountain. We're nice and safe up here but he has some use or lose days so better safe than sorry.

Flooding...?
Enjoy your day together...!!!