General Discussion & Chat: Coffee and...Part 35...! :-D, 0 by meezersfive

meezersfive wrote:
Yes Bisquik!!! I haven't made a homemade biscuit in years! They are always just right, light and fluffy unlike mine which are sometimes not. Why tempt fate, go with a winner.

Speaking of, Mary, you are already a winner in our eyes. Doesn't that just get your cork when you forget something like that? Which reminds me, I have a check to the DMV sitting here that I need to mail. We're paying $70 annually to renew our plates &
registration in WI, I don't know what it is elsewhere but that seems a lot to me. Tell me you pay more and then I'll feel much better. LOL

Whoooo! It's supposed to get up to 84* today. Last time it was this hot in September was 1953, the year I left the Northwoods and came to Milwaukee to work at a psychiatric hospital. (And you thought I was born this way...) We wore nylon uniforms, with a full slip underneath, plus a girdle and stockings, and no central air in the facility. Whew. I look at hospital staff now with those comfy scrubs and think they don't know how lucky they are!

Sarv, it ain't the potato that's a problem, it's all the good stuff we add to them! I'm a big potato fan too, I like them any way you can cook them, big wedges baked with parmesan cheese, mashed, fried, scalloped, etc. Little red ones, big Idahos, pretty Yukon Golds, pass me the dish, I've got my fork ready.

And look what's on the counter! All kinds of goodies today. I'll have just a nibble of each.... uhhhh.. why is my nose growing longer?

While we were out digging yesterday and moving daisies (no choice, they had to be taken out of the septic access area) I looked at the long bed on the north side of the house. It's loaded with hosta and other big leafy perennials, and finally gets sunshine now that the earth has rotated into fall........and there, still growing, is a tomato plant I forgot I put in , and it's got about twenty good size green tomatos on it! What a surprise! I wonder if they will ripen. Even with today's high temps, by the end of the week it is supposed to drop into the fifties.

DGS borrowed the big truck Saturday and brought me a bag of plum tomatos when he came back. I'm going to roast them with garlic and olive oil and hope for better luck than the ones I did last. Those were so juicy that by the time they were done I ended up with only about a cup and a half of tomatos....! The flavor should be intense!

Oh Maria, I am so sorry you are having a dark spell....I'm sure it's because you are missing your Richard, holidays and birthdays are difficult when your favorite person isn't there to share it. Give yourself a lift, pick some flowers and take them to a nursing home and count your blessings..you'll feel better. And, here's a little bouquet just for you, with my hopes that your day will brighten....

I know I haven't mentioned all my friends here, so if your name didn't appear, you haven't been forgotten, have a good day, don't eat all the treats before I get back!

Edited for sloppy speeling and punkshiashun.

This message was edited Oct 3, 2005 7:00 AM