Scattelogical ramblings and desultory humor - User's Guide

I know - some old people rock. My dad - well,,, let's not get started. Patti, will the hired help be accompanying us on our alleged trip to the Arboretum? (So I know who to look for?)
x, C

Patti - Elegant, Elegant, Elegant!!! (The table AND your awesome Mom!!)

Patti - please tell your mom about my spring deck project!

Victor.......tell us about your spring deck project.....I think I missed that discussion. Share, Share!

It's somewhere on the Plant collector thread!

Plant collector thread? Oh my......you mean I've actually missed more threads than the birthday ones??? I'm just watching too many....got to get a life and branch out some!!!

Here Louise:

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/802921/

Victor, I think AYankeeCat has a neighbor who is closer and rocks, not sure if the 90 year old decks. Patti

Carrie, Yes, that would be the dirty blond that you will be looking for, but I will dmail you a picture when the buds begin to swell. I have now taken up the lilac search and will rely on Polly for some advice when I get a list ready to add a few, well 5 maybe to the yard. Then yesterday on one of Victor's post, I saw crape myrtle which I thought was a type of fabric or a something in a Victorian novel. I need to read about that shrub today.

DonnieBrook, Thanks, I love doing table settings. Mom dresses up well, though she forewarned me that she was only bringing a carry on as she didn't want to hassle with the checking of her luggage, so she was not bringing many outfits or her good jewelry. I was hoping she might and leave some with me. I am the only daughter.

Over the holidays I start with a centerpiece that I change for each event by popping out a color and adding another, but that the major portion and base stays the same. It only takes a few minuets and by changing the plates and napkins and mats and candles it looks totally different. This one which was black, silver, white one started out being bright blue, silver and white and then became gold, silver and white. Kind of fun. It is nice to have retirement time to putter about and do these kind of projects.

I had hoped to be out brush whacking today but it is spiting rain at the moment. Patti

Patti, I was about to say "you must not have little kids" but then the 90 y. o. mother and the retirement part made it all the way up to my brain. It's a long way from the rear-end, you know,,,,,

Yup the rain is pretty wicked today! Thunder and lightning and everything up over here. DH of course is worried about 'his' airplanes - jeez, you'd think he owned them, not just was an underling in a failing company.

x, C

Carrie,one kid, who just called from New Orleans. DS is down there checking out the food and restaurant scene. He arrived on Tuesday night and had interviews set up for Weds with job offers at a couple of great places already and he is having a second meeting today with the place he may one to work at to talk turkey. His best friend is at Tulane Law School with a really nice apartment for him to move into and share,. So if he decides he wants to stay and work down there for the spring he already has housing. I hope he does, so I can visit as I haven't been there in about 50 years. I am drooling at the thought. We just had rain, and lightning and thunder, but clearing now. Patti

Patti, your DS only cooks turkey? confused as usual, Carrie

Carrie,

I was kidding, Patti:>). In the theme of the thread. And I thought it fascinating that he was talking turkey for a job as a chef! x, C

Carrie, that is why I was trying to answer in another theme of this thead. And my mom will eat turkey, but not herring. Gobble Gobble. Patti

Ooooooh, Patti - GREAT restaurants in New Orleans. Lucky you if DS takes a job there! Courtyard of the two Sisters! ....Yummm.....best shrimp remoulade I've ever had.....and everything else is great too......Hope he finds what he's looking for.....for your sake! LOL

Not herring? What a shame. Not pickled, creamed, or whatever that white sauce is? How about sardines? In high school (?) I used to go to a restaurant and order a sardine sandwich (we had an open campus), I do not think I would do that today. xx, Carrie

i love new orleans! when i still lived in STL, my best friend/roommate moved to NOLA, and i went and visited him several times. Last year i went back for the 1st time post-katrina, and it was astonishing the condition many areas were still in.
but in some sense, the city's heart is unkillable and we still had lots of fun - i got to take DH to his 1st Mardi Gras as an almost surprise for his 50th b-day!
i HATE that i am going to miss it this year - it is TOO EARLY!

Peanut butter and sardines on hard rye bread. An old canoe trip favorite from the Canadian woods. I doubt I would eat it today. But I love herring, not mom however. No I mean she doesn't like herring, I like her.

amethystsm, I can't deal with crowds anymore, but I hope DS can experience some of it. Though if he stays in NOLA he will be working so much that I doubt he will get to see much of it. But he will see enough, I am sure. I never went, but did go to Rio for Carnival back in the 70's which was amazing. It is very early this year, next year for you and DH. Patti

PB & S? I would never have eaten that, Patti, I'm sorry. xx, Carrie

Carrie, You would if you were hungry and there wasn't anything else. Plus we were goofy kids and like Mikey, we would eat anything out in the woods after days of paddling. I was a very keen campy camper in my youth. I haven't tried it since. Patti

I like sardines on saltines, I still buy Kipper Snacks and DS & I will eat them for a snack. Of course we don't go socializing afterwards!

I would absolutely eat them separately, just not together. I eat quite a bit of peanut butter, a food my DH detests. For one thing, he thinks it has to be refrigerated - after ten years, I still haven't managed to cure him of that! x, C

Gasp!
Peanut butter doesn't have to be refrigerated?
(Kidding of course!)

Tell it to DH. Although when I was younger and less mainstream, my BF and I used to buy a brand of very healthy natural PB that you had to "stir and refrigerate". (Because it would separate if you didn't.)

I propose a new acronym: JKOC! ("Just kidding of course!") And I'm not kidding.

xx, Carrie

Real peanutbutter is fairly mainstream these days. Mine says "stir & refrigerate" and it's from regular supermarkets.

The Smart Balance one does not need refrigeration.

They make peanutbutter? Is it real?

How does one verify 'realness'??

Real peanutbutter has no sugar, no hydrogenated garbage. Peanuts, oil & salt

That's their whole approach. I've been using their margarine for years.

i get the smuckers kind. no extra anything...

At one time, they sold peanut butter already mixed with jelly...I tried it once, and thought it was horrible.

I think they still might. 'kind of in stripes? Unfortunately, I'm not always able to get to the store and see what they have for myself - like the Stupid Super Stop and Shop might have it, but today, it would take seven snowblowers seven days to get the van out, and I'm the only one that would eat it anyway, so I'll eat my sugar and hydrogenated garbage and enjoy it. xx, Carrie