General Discussion & Chat: Coffee and...part 2 :-D, 1 by MaryE

MaryE wrote:
Good morning. I'll have some hot chocolate this morning, brought my own little packet in case there wasn't any here.

Fried cornmeal mush with maple syrup, YES! My husband thinks it's wierd but my kids liked it and we had it for dinner now and then when DH was working swing shift. Another thing we did when he was on swing shift with his weekends in the middle of the week was to go to meet him for a quick dinner at the Chinese restaurant near were he worked, and at least we had a dinner together. We all remember one cold night when a drunk trancient type guy came in and sat in a booth were the kids had a clear view. He ordered a bowl of something with lots of noodles, but he kept falling into it face first. I wondered why they served him but maybe the waitress didn't realize he was drunk. As soon as he got warm he got v-e-r-r-r-r-y sleepy. When his face hit the noodles he would wake up and try to wipe his face, take a few bites and soon it would happen again. The kids giggled a lot watching the poor guy but he didn't seem to know anybody else was there.

So far my morning has been frustrating, trying to sign on to MSN IM and we go round and round, enter password, answer secret question, enter this, enter that, over and over. It was working ok yesterday but this morning we had this problem out of the blue. So I gave up for a while since I have done everything at least 12 times! There is no link to get to a real person. GRRRRR! Maybe my daughter in law will have time to help me this afternoon, they are comming out to buy a recliner from a neighbor so I hope they will stop in.

On the brighter side, the sun is out and it is beautiful with all the snow. The greenhouse got to over 90 yesterday afternoon so I opened the window on the door and one of the roof vents. We have an automatic venting system in it but turn it off and block the vents in the winter to keep the wind from flapping the exhaust vent and letting the cold air in right over the furnace and thermostat, and letting out the warm air. After about an hour it was down around 78 so I closed everything again, the sun went down soon after that and before long the heater was on again. I worked out there for a while, treated some buggy plants with a systemic insecticide. Mealy bugs are such a joy, but at least they move slowly and don't fly. Last year it was aphids, haven't seen any of them this year. I potted up some more sprouting lily seeds, these are the slow ones, I already have a 4 inch pot with about 15-20 in it. These all came from one lily, a red one growing next to a yellow one, so who knows what the babies will look like, but it will be fun to see. I'll plant them outside somewhere with no other lilies around this spring.

Well, I'll be off now to check out Dave's interview. See you all later.