General Discussion & Chat: Coffee and.....Thursday, May 18th, 1 by balvenie

balvenie wrote:
Time for a rest. Another sunny day, not as hot as the last two. Watered the back garden, finished the last row of shingles on the gateway roof, started on framing the sidewall, drew up a working drawing for the steel fabrication of the main arbor gate and took the rhubarb pie out of the oven. The pie is a new idea, I followed a recipe to make it. Except used a Marie Callender frozen crust instead of making one (lazy) and is it ever flakey. (much better than mine would have been.) Will make some sauce with the remainder and pull a couple small bunches for dw to take to work tomorrow.

Sorry to hear of your neighbors passing Babs, 52 is so very young. Hope his widow is healing, it's a terrible loss.

Sarv, the Bank ordeal is so typical. All they can think about is how to get into your pocket more. The last commercial bank I dealt with opened our Safe Deposit box and removed everything before they found out they got the wrong box, and when my "play money" savings account dropped below their minimum they deducted a penalty fee. That was close to 20 years ago and after switching to a Credit Union I've never had a problem. Foo and fie on Banks and their thievery.

Meezer, we usually use Millstone. It may be a local brand,When the grocery stores have it on sale for 4 or 5 $ a pound I get as much as I can find coupons for, usually a 2# limit. But it does pay to buy an extra newspaper or two for extra coupons, and we freeze all but what we are using.

Better water the front yard before it gets too hot. Have a couple Poppies that opened up today.

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