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15 years ago

Hey y'all, I can't keep doing this. It's taking me out of my comfort zone. I'm clinking with the rest of the white wine left after the baked pork chops by Sooz were in the oven. Have a nice weekend!

jude

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annie1992
15 years ago
TGIF indeed, Jude. I had Wednesday off because of the blizzard, but it still seemed like a long week. I've been up shovelling the roof and spreading ice melt. Again.

Elery is here tonight, fast asleep on the couch with both dogs, he worked the midnight shift last night, got off at 7 am and came up here for the weekend. We'll deal with the rest of the snow on the roof tomorrow or Sunday, not tonight.

Tomorrow I have to pick up my carpet cleaner at the Vac Shop where it's being repaired and then we're meeting Mother for lunch at Schuberg's. She bought us a gift certificate for Christmas because she knew we'd take her out, LOL.

Sunday is the farm, Elery is going back home, and I have to spend next week getting tax documents together. Ugh.

Clink with my cup of tea...

Annie
dedtired
15 years ago
I just got back from dinner with my friends at a local Italian restaurant. It was okay. The restaurant was so filled with cooking smoke and smells that my eyes started to bother me. I reek of garlic!

I will spend most of the weekend getting ready to have insulation blown into my attic on Monday. I had so much stuff up there. I own the mother lode of old Fisher Price toys! I will hang onto them. I also have an old mounted deer head from my great aunt's house. I think I will hang it in the garage as a joke.

Sunday night will be the Super Bowl at my Mom's house. I don't like football but I think she wants to make a "party" of it. Yippee (that's a joke).

Yes, I have to start thinking about taxes, too. Blech. Have a good one, everyone.
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Well, TGIF night, that's for sure. My day started out at 9 am on the farm. No water, the frost free spout is officially frozen. We took a 50 gallon barrel to Amanda's and filled it. 3 times. Back to the farm where we dipped it out with 5 gallon buckets and filled the tank. OK, time to set hay. Except the tractor won't start. We spend about an hour trying to jump start the tractor, give up and wrap a chain around a big round bale of hay and drag it out to the animals. One egg that wasn't frozen, hooray. On the way home, we lost power steering in the truck, apparently a bearing froze up on the tensioner pulley and the belt broke. If it had been warmer than 7F, with wind chills of about -20, the truck might have overheated. We limped it to Dave's, where he fixed it and we came home. Right now there are blizzard conditions and white outs and the wind is about 25 MPH. Did I mention that I woke up with a sore throat? Elery made chicken soup for supper and I'm sitting here with a cup of tea and a bag of Hall's cough drops. Tomorrow we go out and see if we can chop down through the frozen ground to find the problem with the water. The valve is 5 feet under ground, so we may or may not get that fixed. If not, we'll be hauling water in barrels for a couple of months. (sigh) Clink with my cup of Irish Breakfast tea, and think about me about 9 am tomorrow, out in the storm, using a pick ax to break frozen ground. Yes indeed, we farmers just sit on our butts and wait for that government subsidy, that's what we do. Annie
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It is damp here today too, we got some flurries last evening and now it is more of a mist with it turning to rain I think by the end of the day. I will just be here doing housework stuff as we are still in the orange alert, no schools in session once again. Izzi and I are sharing my breakfast of eggs and toast. I am having hot tea. My son just called and let me know what his plans are for today. Husband is off to work, so I have the day to work around here hopefully with out too much interruption. I hope everyone keeps safe as it is icy underfoot, at least it is here. Sue in Central Indiana
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TGIF everyone. I've been too busy to get into the holiday spirit this year. Bagged putting up a tree, and didn't bother with the usual lights. Work is decorated and that's where I spend most of my time. We'll go to The Kid's for Christmas and she's all into being a Martha (Stewart), so I don't feel too deprived. It's a long weekend for me, with a rare Saturday off. It's been an odd week, including bunch of deadlines, contentious meetings and being the victim of a random act of kindness (detailed on the Conversations side). I started out my weekend Thursday night with a deep tissue massage... came home, had a glass of wine and fell soundly asleep in my chair. Ahhhhh....... Today was a trip to town for a doctor appt. during our first real snow. People got complacent, I think...wrecks and ambulances everywhere. So we grabbed some groceries and ran for home. I got my sis's package mailed.... main mission accomplished. Tomorrow I'll wrap the kids' presents, put together goodie baskets for work. Maybe bake something using the wonderful crystallized ginger one of my girls brought me from Australia. Sunday DH made an appointment for a hearing test. At noon. At Costco. On the Sunday before Christmas. argh. Clinking with a cup of eggnog laced w/ rum. Be healthy and travel safely everyone.
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I am ready for a nap just reading of all your plans. My weekend so far has been quite glamorous. I dropped Mom at the hairdresser. Today was Perm Day so I had a couple extra hours. I went through the car wash, got gas and returned a pan to BB&B. Then I came home and continued the ultra-glam job of scrubbing the kitchen floor. The grout was filthy. God, I hate that floor with a red hot passion.Then back to retrieve Mom. She smelled like ammonia. I swear I am going to start a blog about that hairdresser and all the riotous elderly patrons. Since the Californians are coming to visit soon, (bro and DS #1), I am trying to get the place straightened up. Never ends. Jakabedy, sounds like we are having the same sort of day. I also bought some tickets on a whim, to hear Mika Brzezinski and her mother, who is a noted sculptor, speak. I have to give the plants a good soak. My grass is now crunchy, it has been so dry. I even watered a young tree the other day. It's a Redbud and I don't want to lose it. And the rest of the weekend is pretty much the same. My two closest friends are away so I have no playmates. Earlier this week I made the drive from Philadelphia, to Portsmoth NH for the night, then Boothbay Harbor Maine. The return trip was Boothbay to Andover MA for the night, then home. My eyes felt like two burned cigarette holes when I pulled in my driveway. Saw one bad accident that put the fear of God in me, although there are still the idiots out there. Lots of backups along the way, too. I could not believe the traffic trying to get on the Tappan Zee going the opposite way from me. I'd have turned around and gone home.
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dgkritch
15 years ago
Definitely TGIF!! Long week. TGIO (Thank God It's Over) might be more appropriate.
Clinking with my White Zin tonight.

Building some raised garden beds and better securing my canning shelf. Giving homemade whole wheat flour tortillas a try, a new sweet potato au gratin recipe, and maybe lemon/ginger biscotti (candied Meyer lemon peel from Bri and Alexa's recipe from a couple of years ago, gotta be a winner, right?).

Church followed by our first Sunday potluck.

Have a great weekend everyone.
Annie, don't hurt anything shoveling snow!!
dedtired, you too! Don't hurt anything cleaning out that attic.
Jude....what's taking you out of your comfort zone? Posting the TGIF thread or drinking the wine? :-) How were the chops?

Deanna
sooz
15 years ago
I love TGIF! I loved it when I was working, and I love it now that I'm retired--even though it's expanded to everyday and not just Fridays!

*clink!*

Hope the chops were as delish for you as they were for me!

Smiles,
Sooz
jude31
Original Author
15 years ago
Everyone 's planning on working but me! Sooz, I agree... Nice thing about being retired, you have the whole week to space your chores(not that I do that much) but it sounds good.

Deanna...that was a feeble attempt at being humorous! Someone else usually starts the thread.

Sooz...the chops WERE delicious as was the corn pudding, but you'll have to take my word that they looked as good as they tasted since I don't take pictures. Actually my corn
pudding would have given AnnT a run for her money. tee hee

jude
jude31
Original Author
15 years ago
Deannna, I mreant to ask about your sweet potato au gratin. Sounds very good.

jude
lindac
15 years ago
Went out to dinner with a friend last night....and am preparing to go from the freezing snow to the steamy chloirin-ey pool to watch a grand son swim in the district meet.......and crossing my fingers that his times are good and he qualifies for the state meet.
N o plans for tonight.....
User
15 years ago
At the cottage with our dearest friends. Just go back from snow shoeing on the lake and are about to enjoy some clam chowder and home made rolls.

Tomorrow the guys want us to go out on the snow machines. We will amuse them with an hour of our time and then they can sled all they want while we sit by the fire and sip wine!
bunnyman
15 years ago
No weekend for me. I was suspended at work so working for straight time. Claim at work is that I made one bad part, two weeks prior, that can't be shown to me... so I needed a 5 day suspension. Totally enjoyed my time off. I've been working 7 day work weeks except for the Christmas break... working longer then I can remember.

Partially snowed in still. My tractor ran out of gas and I didn't get more until yesterday. Not feeling like plowing this morning/noon. Leaving for work in a few minutes. Probably have to plow tonight as I see three days of snow forecast. If it were not for 4 wheel low-lock my truck would not be going anywhere.

My poor mailbox ran out into the road and was killed by a passing snowplow. Sister told me I should have had a shock collar on it. I put the collar on and gave it several shocks but it remains very dead. We had a wake for her with my getting overly drunk and my pets getting fed tunafish and cheese for dinner.

Clinking with day old rewarmed coffee...

: )
lyra
sooz
15 years ago
Glad the pork chops were all that for you too! Mmmmmm, corn pudding! Do I sense a corn pudding bake-off in the future? We all make two different recipes, and have double the mmmmmmmm corn pudding to savor! :O)
jude31
Original Author
15 years ago
Sounds like a winner!

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