Stop and visit, ... #33

Pretty pic, Ernie. What's the weather like in WA these days? My DB in OR says they've had some wild weather lately.

Mild and wet about normal for this time of year

Thank you Terry and Ernie!

Ernie, my name is Christine, Crissy for short. This is going to crack you up:

My mom found out she was pregnant with me unexpectedly and had in her mind she was having a boy and named me James Robert, after my dad who is Robert James. Well I obviously came out a girl and she was stumped on girl names, so my dad came up with Christine as a middle name and she came up with Michelle as my first name, but she didn't want me to be called Shelley. So they reversed the names to Christine Michelle and she has always called me Crissy.

Oh a one year old grandson, I bet you had a blast! Pretty pic!

Terry it takes awhile to get used to the texting language. I still have never used b 4. I do use u and r a lot. It just takes practice.

I don't think I'll ever get used to the texting language because it's not normal!!! Not that I'm normal by any stretch of anyone's imagination....lol

Oh hey Crissy, I keep forgetting. I've been paying attention on The Food Network to how the chefs cut meat...on their wood cutting board or what. They all have a plastic or whatever material board that they use. Then I saw a commercial the other day and they were saying to make sure you used differing boards for cutting meats and veggies and don't use a wood board for meat. So I don't know. I guess I'll stay with my plastic board for meats and wood for veggies.

I have a question for all. Ernie's post is in bold print, which I get and know how to do. But how did the print under the picture come out in bold also? Where it says "click the image for an enlarged view"? Weird. I haven't seen that before.

I don't know if we did or not, but the town that the weather channel uses for this towns almanac on the local on the 8's broke a record day before yesterday. It was 75. We haven't seen rain in awhile, which is also unusual. Farmers are finally getting out into their fields. They have most all the beans in, but corn isn't. We had to go down to Peoria on Fri. and driving down, we saw farmer after farmer out in their fields. Coming home, I told my husband that in so many fields along the way, I could see corn as far as my eye could see. It's still too wet. As long as it doesn't rain, it'll dry. The weather people are calling for rain tonight into tomorrow, so I'd bet the farmers are out in full force today.

LOL Terry. All I know about like Iron Chef is there stuff is top of the line expensive stuff! Never paid attention to what they cut on, but do try to pick up on how to fillet a fish! LOL

Farmers here are cutting corn and beans also. We have rain coming tonight and this weekend so they are out there in full force getting as much done as possible.

Oh yes, I was listening to the percentages of crops lost here in AR because of all of the rain and they're really high. Cotton was real bad. The cost for these veggies are going to go sky high next year because of this.

The only reason we have crops is because we finally got some dry spells so the seeds could sprout and take root. For some of our farmers it took 3 plantings before they either gave up or finally got some to stay put. That then made the harvest alot later than normal. By now our fields would normally be empty and done for the year.

Ours are all messed up from all of the rain we got, we're 200% above normal right now. Everything got flooded after it had started growing.

Suddenly, I feel stupid. I don't know how our crops are doing this year. How bad is that?

We have snow and rain coming tonight or tomorrow. I can feel it. Plus, the little people on the TV told me.

LOL Celia!! Don't feel bad. I only know because I live in the country and some of our friends are farmers also.

Did you say SNOW???? I want snow!!!!

You can have the snow. I'm sick of it.

Celia you've gotten snow a couple times this year already, haven't you? We get ice and I am Not looking forward to that.

hey girl how are things going

We have a glass stove top and use cast iron on it but it is the painted kind if it makes a difference. I know it cost quite a bit. Linda found a cheaper but still pricey one thats works as well.

Anyone liking snow needs to commute a hundred miles a day in it. I di for 19 years and found it tiresome.