Slightly OT, Are some dinners/occasions more "china-worthy"?
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Comments (41)Maddie, My tractor mower has headlights. Mine is an old one I bought for $300 - mows great, has four speeds, plus revearse, and has headlights. :) I tend to get cracked heals, too, and cracked fingers and they are painful. I use a dremel to sand off the thick calluses and then I apply bag balm. At night, I put socks on afterward when are very cracked & sore. Works great, gets rid of the stains and helps them heal. Bag balm has a natural anti-biotic in it that helps heal cuts and sores, too. Great for cat scratches. When I was a Vet-tech years back, I used it on the animals feet or sores or when they bit or scratched me. I found that it helped prevent my feet from cracking, because of the emolients in it. Put the bag balm, rub in well, then don your latex gloves or other gloves. In winter, I put on latec gloves then my winter gloves to keep my hands dry and warm. I love to "play in the dirt", go barefoot and garden till I am grubby, but I can't stand to be dirty and wet afterwards, for some reason. I am constantly rinsing off my feet and hands with the garden hose, which of course, tends to make my feet dry out and crack even more. The calluses get so thick that they crack and it really hurts. It also cripples me if I don't keep them sanded off with the dremel. I don't like that. But wearing shoes causes my ankles to swell, so it is either men's sandles, Flip-flops (we used to call them thongs), of I go barefooted. I do have a pair of men's Adidas slides, but they are size 12 - just twice my shoes size, but I wear them. I look like a Hobbit in those! I am a dust magnet and always have things caught in my hair - twigs, bits of grit, flowers, leaves, bugs. Believe me, I am not a "priss", but I like to look nice when I go somewhere. Once a week I work my feet over really well. I cannot go to bed with dirty, craggy feet. Grosses me out! I also paint my nails from time to time. (doesn't last too long, but I like it and it makes me feel pretty). Gotta go put up my chickens. It is thundering and about to storm. Zooks! Love this thread! Keep it going! ~ SweetAnnie4u...See MoreHoliday decorating / slightly OT
Comments (11)Are you a long lost relative I don't know about, Sue? LOL I'm a crazy, Christmas decorating 'junkie' too. I won't be home for Thanksgiving(NC), but will start with the decorating just as soon as I return. My big 10' tree will be in the LR, with a small 5' in the sitting room off the kitchen, a 5' on a landing going upstairs, 5' in the DR, 3' on DR table, 3' in powder room vanity, and a 2' in each BR~have I left out any?LOL The big one in the LR is decorated with *pink* lights, and ornaments that *must* have pink on them, pink balls, irridesent icicles/snowflakes, and I made at least a hundred beaded tastles out of pearl/irridesent madigras beads. I also started collecting ballerina ornaments a few years ago~I had lessons in 'pointe' for many years, and still hang my shoes on the tree. I've been doing the pink for at least 30 years, and my grandchildren, even the oldest ones, are always excited to see 'Grandma's big, pretty tree'. The one in the sitting room became my tribute to Katrina, decorated in madigras beads of lime green, purple, and turquoise. It has a madigras mask as a treetopper with peacock feathers. Ornaments are in the same colors, but NO solid color is used. They're differed designs~stripe, dots, zig-zags~and shapes. Being my powder room is a deep red, I use leopard print ornaments on the little tree. It's a 'small room with a lot of interest', so I need an interesting tree. LOL The one up on the landing is all sparkly in golds, white, and seashells. Dr table gets deep red ornaments. Bigger one in DR corner is bronze/gold. MB is irridesent white, but i'm looking for sparkly black ornaments. 2nd BR is monkey/tropical ornaments. I use the electric candles in all the windows, wreaths on the ouside front door, as well as the inside. Mantle, mirrors, chandliers, tables, armoire, hutch, desks, are also 'adorned' in Christmas finery. My legacy to my children is to continue the tradition of Christmas being all about family, and part of that is a beautiful decorated 'Christmas home' that feels cozy, and the smell of good food coming from the kitchen. ALL my children 'show signs' that's it working! ;o)...See MoreSlightly OT What habits did or didn't work in your kitchen?
Comments (21)How have my habits changed? I now bake which I never did before. Before renos my counter measured 2X2 and everything happened in that space. Cooking was a challenge and baking was impossible. The other counter had the microwave on it and the largest counter space was outside the work triangle and so was nothing but a dumping ground. When we redid our kitchen it was all about getting as much counter space as possible. My prep counter for cooking is now 4 1/2" long with a prep sink that anchors it and I am a clean as I go cook. When you've spent 25 years with a counter as small as mine was you have no choice but to become a clean-as-you-go cook and that habit has stuck with me. My baking counter is 7' long and I use every inch of it. Turns out I am a very, very messy baker and so my baking counter is right above the DW and right next to the clean-up sink....See MoreSlightly OT - Where do you eat at home?
Comments (41)Last while while Kevin and I were visiting our sister in Austin, we ate a couple of meals in her kitchen nook/breakfast area, where she has a table and chairs for six. Our BIL has taken over her dining table with his research papers, and has completely cluttered it up to the point that the dining room is completely useless to anyone except him. He already has an office in her house (He has his own house that he seems never to use any more - it may have been taken over by raccoons) but does not appear to be content with that. She also has a living room plus a den, and the den is connected to the breakfast nook. BIL has decided that her living room is the perfect place to strew his mail; i..e. mail for his relatives who use my sister's address instead of their own so that they can send their children to a different school district. Her living room floor is now covered with mail because BIL puts it there and does not pick it up. His children are her step-children - they do not have children together, but she has adopted them as her own. Anyway, we had no meals at her house, and it would have been nice if we could have had a family reunion in her dining room, but since that was unavailable, one niece decided that she would only see us at a restaurant of her choice, one hour before we were going to leave. Because it rained that day, we had to eat inside at the restaurant, which was so noisy that I could not hear a single word at our table. It was a very disappointing meeting, and I do wish that my sister could arrange to have family reunions at someone's house - I hate going to restaurants for reunions or parties and will not attend another one. My sister offered to make dinner for us one evening and asked us which can we wanted her to open, and so we declined. I was very sad that she was unable to use her dining room, and I only sat at her breakfast table once - to have reheated leftovers from a Cajun restaurant. While I was eating my leftover, BIL came and leered over my shoulder and asked what I was having - I assume because he wanted me to give him some, as he was acting like a puppy. Since I do not feed dogs in the house, I ignored him. I was having leftover stuffed crab and shrimp, and he could have ordered that when he was at the restaurant with us, but instead he and my sister split an order of crawfish etouffee. They only order things that they can split and therefore never have leftovers but like to graze on other people's plates, if there are any around. I do not like this practice - I do not eat off of other people's plates, and I do not want anyone eating off of mine. This was the first time we had been back to Texas in more than four years, and I told my sister that we might go back in 2020 or 2021. If it were more pleasant to have meals with them, I would feel differently about this. We did enjoy time we spent with one nephew and one niece, however....See Moreannie1992
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