Thanks for the post, Ellie. *waves to Margaret* I’ve been including updates on Christy at the end of most of my Over Easy Friday posts recently. I had looked yesterday early, apparently just before she posted the news of her aunt. In the post before that one, she admitted to struggling to keep a positive [...]

I didn’t know about Dr.Dick’s daughter in law. He’s usually at the Late Night posts I rarely read. Sorry to hear that news.

I’m out too — will be in and out, gonna get started planting impatiens. Waiting for Critter Control to come work on the carpenter bee problem.

Have a good day and good weekend, everyone!

I did a lot of NukeNEats when I was first divorced, but got tired of them rather quickly. I often have one or two Lean Cuisines in the freezer, but mostly eat them at lunch. I have discovered that Healthy Choice now has a line of little cups of frozen Greek yogurt, plain and with [...]

I cook a lot, really enjoy cooking now that I am no longer doing “production” cooking (when you have kids at home with multiple activities, just getting a meal on the table is “production” cooking). I cook quite nice meals for myself, and often scale down a recipe so that it will make a couple [...]

My microwave is fairly new, and it’s a Samsung 1100 watt model. It has a lot of handy features I use, like a sensor setting that softens butter, defrosts, etc. Except for vegetables, which I almost always microwave, I mostly don’t cook in it except those “NukeNEats”

Trying to find where I’d read that, I came across several online articles that discuss whether microwaving destroys nutrients. Seems the jury is still out. I love roasted broccoli, but don’t like to heat up the oven for the tiny bit I’d fix for myself. My DIL sometimes makes it for a family dinner, and [...]

Charlie does know how to turn a phrase!

I usually microwave it for about a minute standing on end in a coffee mug. I do most veggies in the microwave. Was surprised to read in an online recipe for roasted broccoli (my favorite vegetable) that microwaving eliminates one of its most healthful ingredients.

Oh that was hilarious, wasn’t it? Louie Gohmert Gets Pantsed Charlie Pierce begins by saying,

Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas, perhaps the dumbest mammal to enter a legislative chamber since Caligula’s horse, and Gohmert’s only the half of that, pretty much got pantsed in front of the world yesterday by Eric Holder who, while I still think [...]

My parents grew asparagus in their garden when I was a teen, and they just walked out and snapped some off — couldn’t have been any fresher. I loathed both the taste and smell. It wasn’t until Green Giant came out with those veggies in the “boilable bag” back in about the ’70s that I [...]

I’d take the joint, but it’s too early in the morning.

I should pass that link along to Christy Hardin Smith. It is the kind of breast cancer she has (estrogen receptor positive) according to her blog. I could post the link there.

Gloriously sunny here all week, and no rain in the forecast until next week. Supposed to be 90º over the weekend, I think. We had quite a bit of rain a month or so ago but it has been pretty dry. They finally finished turning on the sprinkler system yesterday, so I can plant my [...]

I will let BoxTurtle explain it! LOL.

Yep, I thought it looked pretty normal, too. Couldn’t figure out the first photo — is that some sort of test strip or device?

I am going to forward that to my son, who has three teenagers (hopefully NOT smoking pot). I was a young married before I smoked it. For a couple of years it was a social thing, at parties, never at home. I recall that the high was much nicer than alcohol, lots of giggling, and [...]

That IS an honor, Jim. I confess I had never heard of Benghazi before this incident hit the front pages.

According to someone on All In with Chris Hayes, the person at the Cincinnati IRS who should be fired is Lois Lerner, that the decisions all were hers.

Good morning, Firepups! It’s a beautiful day in THIS neighborhood!

I called Critter Control and they do deal with insects, including carpenter bees. $150 just for them to come out, and $50 for each area treated (only one needed AFAIK). The woman on the phone said they do a lot of hidden damage by tunneling around in the wood. And she said treatment may last [...]