Jane , check out what's for dinner. Is the chicken and dumpling close to your pot pie?

Hi Don Happy New years to you. 

Kelly and new baby boy!,  by the way
Covid has struck this whole family,
and maybe me to ..    Had all the shots
available,  so hopefully not too sick ..

Of course,  the little ones 7 months and 2
have  not had the shots.  Not available yet...

Hopefully all will be fine

Sandy, he's beautiful!

Patricia, he looks like a heart stealer!! Just want to hug him!

He sure is a cutie!

AMY, My grandmother used to make Chicken and dumplings and it was nothing like potpie.  Good but totally different.  The dumplings were (I think) a mixture of flour and water and when they were dropped in the chicken broth, they swelled up in a puff.  Potpie stays flat! 

What a cutie-pie.  Love the jammies!

Sandy, so sorry to learn about the possible Covid. Take care.

#2 son who had Covid before Christmas had a check-up earlier this week.  His chest was clear and all blood work normal!  Guess that mono...(whatever it is) infusion worked.   

Don't think I've mentioned here that grandson Carson's best friend and housemate during college died of Covid last weekend.  Friend still lived in Stillwater and was apparently recuperating alone at home. His girlfriend and girl Carson had dated discovered him.
 Carson hadn't seen his friend over Christmas but friend had gone to Texas the week before and they went to the Big 12 Championship football game.
Fortunately, Carson's bosses have been very understanding.  He is now here with his parents (working from his company laptop) until the services next Tuesday.
Losing your best friend is hard at any age but when you're 24 and just out of college, it's extremely traumatic.


I have a good recipe for vegetable soup using a big can of V-8 juice.  Usually make that pie filling/cakemix Dump Cake to go with it.  Good wintertime supper.

Callie, how sad to read of a young man's passing . All one can do is be there for Carson. Thankfully his boss understands.
Are you going to post the recipe? Please 

Jane the ones in the recipe are flattened and then cut and dropped into the broth/soup that is why I thought it is more like yours. I have made the big puffy dumplings to have with chicken but not the ones in that recipe..

For those who remember Shirley Navarro, whose onsite name is shirleyn, from SeniorNet and Norm's B&T, Marilyne posted this today,

I heard some bad news from one of our long time members, Shirley Navarro, whose screen name here in S&F is shirleyn.    She was one of the original posters in the Michigan folder, starting back in Senior Net.   Then she continued posting here when it became Norm's Bait and Tackle.   She was diagnosed with lymphoma, a couple of years ago - was treated successfully and was in remission for a long time.  It has returned, and has now spread to her brain.   She has been told that it is terminal.   She asked me to mention it here in Bait & Tackle, for those who were friends with her or who remember her.   I will update any information if I hear from her again.

I'm so sorry to learn about shirleyn.  I remember her from SeniorNet and how she/husband had fun with Norm and his wife.

Amy,  I've put recipes for Vegetable Soup and the Dump Cake in "What's For Dinner" but I don't know how to make a link to here.

Sleep well, Everyfriend and have pleasant dreams.

I spent a couple hours going back & forth at the grocery store. So many empty shelves & cases. I did have a grin at the jars of Vlasic Zesty bread & butter pickles, not packed in neatly like other years, guessing maybe a lot of "new hires". Suppose they do have trouble keeping the factories going with so many out with Covid. I don't usually buy canned soups but stocked up today, good sale & figured it would give me something to eat when "nothing sounds good". Shopping wore me out.

When I made chicken & dumplins for my family I used Bisquick or Jiffi Mix & everyone loved 'em. Been a long time since I fixed them, sounds good.

Sandy, sincere wishes that everyone comes thru Covid without side effects and maybe like me, has the antibodies a year+ later. I'm feeling very lucky but still doing all I can to stear clear of germs; masks, sanitizing & distancing.

So sorry to read the bad news about shirleyn.... she was one of the reasons I became Tisie back in the old days, already had a few Shirleys registered! Thanks for sharing the news, Patricia & Marilyne.... not what we like to hear but ready with prayers when needed.

Extra prayers for my Cyber Family! Sweet dreams & God Bless....

Hello Everyfriend!  My family arrived and we've had a very nice visit.  Lots of laughs!  I'm on my way to be and there will be prayers for everyone who needs them.

AMY, I've never heard potpie referred to as dumplings but when you describe them it does sound like potpie.  We roll ours kind of the thickness of pie crust and cut it in squares and drop it into the broth as it's on a low boil. 

I've got to go to bed now.  I'm past the slam shut mode and everyone else has retired.  Don't know if I'll be in tomorrow at all but I'll be thinking of all of you and your families and saying prayers when I do!

I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy tomorrow.  And may God bless us, every one!

Good Morning "Jane" and anyone else who shows up today.  I'm first up and having my coffee while I wait for everyone else to wake up!  Don't know if I'll have a chance to come back later so......

AMY, I finally had a chance to look at the "potpie" recipe you posted and it does sound similar.  The only difference is that we don't use buttermilk, and we roll out the dough with a rolling pin to about the thickness of pie crust.  I do use a pizza cutter to cut it and it sure beats the knife my grandfather and my mother used to use.

I wish you all a good day...better than yesterday but not as good as tomorrow!

Good Morning everyone. JaneS you Beat Me here again. I think you must not go to bed, you must just sleep in yor chair, so I am not the earley bird, I have been up about 1/2 hour and taken My vitals and sent them in to Va with the Machine and have been wished a good day by It. do not Know why but My blod sugsr is a bit high 179, the tatle tail says. 29º and cloudy,It must be It Is still dark but can see no stars out there. I am going to do some more walnuts again today Hope you all have a great day.

Lloyd

Good morning..

Geemogotchee day out there with a temp of -10°. Not as cold as Patricia but I don't think laundry will be hung out today.

This new variant omicron seems to have running shoes on and is spreading fast! We are scaled back to closures and limited capacity again.

Callie ,thank you for posting both recipes. Will give them a try and soon.

Jane, have a great time with your family. I thought it sounded like your pot pie but have no idea of why it is called dumpling.

Patricia, our weather is getting to be like yours for temp. Sure hope it finds it way back up and soon.

Gloria, not fit for man nor beast out there this morning. No new snow here. The snow would crunch underfoot if one wanted to go walking in it.

Better get a move on.

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

Good morning everyone. Short post. Fell asleep about 5 this morning and woke with the phone ringing. My son will be here soon, earlier than momal today. 16° with a bright sun. Really need sunglasses with the sun shining on the clean white snow. Want to go make the bed before son gets here. Really rather go back to sleep but maybe later I can get a nap.

Have a good day and stay safe and healthy.

Maybe it's the moon some of us aren't getting the sleep we need......you think, Gloria? I was awake at 3:30 because of Tom but didn't get up until around 4:15. We had an early breakfast & all went back to sleep, Tom got me up an hour & half later. He is miserable not being able to see so thinks he has to eat all the time. Could be the wind woke him up, it is howling & anything that can blow or bend is doing so. Warmer than yesterday, computer says 47° but TV said feels like 40°. I think the warm up is only for today so got outside things to do, plus go back to the store to see if they got the things in I couldn't find yesterday. I know I will need a nap today. 

Amy, you reminded me of when we lived in England one of the neighbors would love hanging the wash out to freeze, said it make "whites whiter".  Sounds pretty nippy where you are. Seems like we just had fall but I'm thinking spring & planting all kinds of lettuce, the whole trug full. That was so good, tender & tasty, a tad o sugar & vinegar, salt & pepper & then the bacon bits & hot grease. I could make a meal with that!

Jane, enjoy the family & tell them "HI" from Kansas!

Callie, few years back my next door neighbor called to say their only child had died overnight, same age as my gr-daughter (in their 20s). An aneurysm. Was long before Covid so the funeral/church was packed. So hard to believe someone that finished all their studies could leave this world before having a chance to really live. I hope Carson can find the good in such a loss, we have to, I believe. I was a Pollyanna before there was one.

I was going to take some food down to the river, the seagulls were floating around while ago but right now I don't see any birds moving, wind too strong? The bare trees are wagging like you can't imagine!

Good morning everyone, was rudely awakened again. This time my Life Line woke me calling my phone. By the time I got out of bed and put the light on to see where I was going it hung up Ok so went back to bed, just about asleep and could hear someone unlocking my door and that scared me. A man's voice called out "rescue"  When I did not answer them they called the ambulance and here it is the rescue from the fire department about a mile away.The man and woman asked questions and had to make sure I was OK. Heck I was standing there barefoot and in my nightgown holding onto the rollator. Should have said no -not OK standing here shivering and with bare feet. They finally left and back into bed. Phone rang again. Just what I hoped did not happen. It was my son that lives a few miles from me. His name is on their to call in an emergency. He was calling from downstairs to let him in. By then it was after 2 am. Now I am wide awake and frustrated. I will call them today and cancel that company. That mas said they told him when they called that they kept getting too many calls from it and it needed to be checked. Heck it was sitting on my rollator, cannot sleep with it around my neck.I was sound asleep when all this started, a ghost in here pushing the button? Now after being awake so long I was getting hungry so had a cup of hot cocoa and 2 slices of toast buttered and sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon. After it digests I might be able to go back to bed. Later I will go online and look up other life lines, the one I have I got in March, never wanted one but after what happened last year in February I thought I should have one. Kept getting adds for this one and now I know why.

AMY  think the snow would have crunched here yesterday, too. Even cold again this morning.

SHIRLEY  I was always a good sleeper, seldom had a sleepless night but the last few months have been terrible.Not used to this lack of sleep. Only in the low 20's here yesterday and 16°now at 3:30am. I wish I could hand clothes out to dry, I  used to all winter in the freezing temperatures and we do have lines up in the back of ths building but I would not be able to reach the lines anymore and the clothes would never be dry for the CNA to bring them in.

Goodness cannot find anymore new posts since Shirley's yesterday. Think I will try sleeping again. If i don't get back later
HAVE A GOOD DAY, STAY HAPPY AND HEALTHY.

Gloria I read what you said, first off I think you Need to get some House slippers, and not go around bare footed and what ever else off, that strange Man needs not see you Partley dressed. Have a good day going as you wish. well i am going back to bed and try for some good zzz' good night and sweet dreams.

Lloyd

Good morning..

Thank you for getting us back up and running. I bet a lot of us got a lot of housework done while the site was down.

Better temp this morning starting off at 30° 
Picking up planer blades this morning at Canadian Tire ,then to the grocery store for a few items and home.

Shirley we were up at 3:45 ,one of the fire alarms was chirping (low battery) and it scares Babe. Found the one that was making the noise and will put a new battery in it.I did manage to go back to bed for some sleep but a nap may be found later in the day.

Gloria, you know your life line works    Trying to convince SIL to get one but so far she won't. She lives alone and really should have one.

Jane, a new day full of wonderful memories from yesterday for you.

Better get a hitch in my get along...

Enjoy your day and stay safe..

A good Sunday HELLO TO EVERYFRIEND

Runnng behind as always.  This past week we had out hot water heater burst. Water valve failed to the hw heater so Bob had to shut all water off to the house.  Called many places to get a plumber to come replace it, and finally got one, so waterless for only 24 hours. Frightening amount of money to get a new one installed 🤪

I had a house cleaner come Friday as we were so far behind in getting some cleaning jobs done.  She was nice and did a pretty good job.  No one cleans your home the way YOU do, but I was thankful to have her here.

Yesterday Callie contacted me as she was unable to get in here....I tried and found I could not either!  No mention of it, so it must have not been out for too long of time.

SANDY, many comments about your cute baby boy, but there is no picture to see.  Sure hope I can find it somewhere.  Hope the Covid proves to not be too serious for the family.

Heartbreaking news about Shirley Navarro. I communicate with her on Facebook occasionally, but sadly I had not heard this news. 😩😢🙏

AMY, I plan to use your theory when I moan about the cold weather..."one day closer to spring"‼️ EDIT:  I see you did mention the outage😘. BTW, what are planer blades?

We are helping out with grands for the next 2 weeks as dad has to travel with his job.  He will be home on the weekend.  Then the next week we are going to take care of the little guy for two nights and three days. Biggest issue the first two weeks is getting up early to wake them and get them fed and to the bus when it is still dark outside🤪🤪. They are all self sufficient so I am sure we will do just fine🥰🥰

GLORIA, what a awful night you had with your Life Line going off and calling rescue'ers to your home.....especially since it involved your son😩Sure glad it was a false report and you are fine.

We had thick fog out this morning and it has finally burned off. 

Enjoy your day.

Jenny

THAT DOES IT.... HAD A LONG-LONG POST READY & WAS JUST THINKING & IT DISAPPEARED. I didn't do a thing, it just vanished. I have not found a way to just "go back" when this happens...  I am angry! Not going to try to do it over but will start keeping my wordpad minimized to type on next time, like I used to do. Not sure why this computer is jumping around like this... such as just now the curser jumped back a whole line. WHY? Is it Windows 10 (I've never liked it) or what?
Time is up, need to get ready for son & wife to stop by. I stopped in the middle of running the sweeper to see if we were back on again.

Thank you Oldesmann (Michael, right?)....

I tried again last night and this morning but got the same "502 error" screen as before.  Something about web server unable to connect with the web site.  Just now got in.

Glad to "see" everyone again. 

Still too cold to be out ( wouldn't have anywhere to go, anyway so I'm being a Recliner Radish and

Just found a new folder titled "Gateway Error" that tells about outage.  Michael fixed it - as usual!   Thank you, Michael!!!! .

   Good to "see you" both.....

Patricia,still can't get in and I don't know about Jane yet......she may be just enjoying her company..

I've been washing my Christmas things and packing them away.  I had to keep them out until Christy and her hubby, made it up here to celebrate Christmas with us.  Now I have most of it washed, folded and occupying my bed so I have to get it put away today or stay up all night.

I just sat down here for little rest and discovered we were back.  I really missed all of you.  Before they left, Christy went out to start my car and the battery is dead.  So I'm on my son's list for "sometime this week".  He'll either stop by to get me started or he'll send over one of the guys who works for him.

SHIRLEY, I have all the stuff for the Taco Soup and they got me double of everything when they went to the store yesterday.  And I checked on line and it can be canned so I will be making a double batch and canning some.  I KNOW I'm going to LOVE it!  And I think my SIL is interested also.  He wants a jar to try when I get it made.  And he's also a canner.  They work together or he does it alone while Christy is at work.  He's already retired and she's retiring this coming summer....I think.  Can't believe I'm still around to see my kids retire!

I guess I better get back to work.  It sounds like the dryer quit and that means more Christmas stuff to fold and put away.  I hope you all have a good day...better than yesterday but not as good as tomorrow!

Noon and finally got back into the site after two days. With Covid raging (Wednesday and Thursday past), saw 1000 new cases in 48 hours... plus most of December's snow is still sitting where it fell (They collected only where necessary, leaving narrow lanes in roads and highways), so I spent my time on email and Youtube.

My sister emailed a couple of days ago; my niece and her husband caught Covid from a friend. They both were in the hospital, but he quickly was sent home while she was still there with Covid and now pneumonia. Idaho is another place inundated with Covid. I don't understand how some people care nothing for their fellow humans.

We've had minus thirty to minus forty since Thursday evening, but they say next week will warm up. I need to get out there, even if it's only to walk around one of the parking lots!

Good to see Jane and Patricia made it in!
Patricia, hope your niece has a quick recovery.

Phyllis, how are you doing?

I've been in a snit ever since losing that post earlier today.... and knowing it was MY fault for not typing on WordPad.  Anyway, going to bed soon but need to eat since I skipped doing that at a normal time.

Gloria, I remember what I was smiling about... your wild night!  This far away I can giggle at all that happened, got to admit, it couldn't have gone much wronger.  But you came up with my favorite remedy for calming down, hot cocoa & cinnamon/sugar (lots of butter) toast.  I even bought a toaster oven mainly because I love to pop that toast under the broiler to bubble the sugar & cinnamon & don't like to do it with the big oven. 

Jenny, the hair stood up on the back of my head with your tale of the hot water heater.  Just recently I noticed the date on mine & it is over 10 years old.  With the hard water in this area we never had a hot water heater last but about 7 years so I know I should bite the bullet & go ahead & get a plumber out to replace BEFORE I have another water mess in the basement.  When my sink stopped up a couple weeks ago I called plumbers but they couldn't come for about 4 or 5 days & that didn't work so Andy came & fixed my problem. I paid him what the plumber would have charged (he protested but I threatened to NOT call him next time I'm in trouble). Glad you can help the kids while their dad is gone, will give them a secure feeling that they do have another home "just in case". 

Jane, hope you like that taco soup... and I was mistaken about the brand of taco seasoning I use.... it is Williams & not Taco Bell.  I use Williams for chili as well. I bought some when at the store this week & surprised myself as I automatically picked up the taco pack I always buy! I forgot to buy the taco chips so will be making another trip to the store before I make mine.

Amy, I went crazy one night with a smoke alarm chirping... turned out there is/WAS one just below one in the hall to the bedrooms. I got out my ladder & put in a new battery (middle of the night) in the hall & it started chirping as soon as I got back in bed. Went back into the hall but sound wasn't coming from that stinking little round thing so looked all around & finally went downstairs & discovered one at the ceiling so was right under my feet as I kept listening .... It now lays on a table down there & does NOT have a battery in it.

Callie, we've had some bitter cold winds but looks like this week will be in the 50s & that could cause a problem. My friend said her Bradford pear tree has fat buds on already!  It was so cold early this morning I had on my heaviest coat with hood & a ski head band under that & nearly froze getting into church from the parking lot. The actual temperature wasn't so bad but the wind felt like I had summer clothes & no coat on. The birds are sure hungry. Had to laugh, CallieCat was laying out front & I had just filled the bird feeder so a squirrel was in the tree waiting to get his share first ONLY... Callie was sleeping near by & didn't even notice the squirrel. Cat & squirrel stayed like that for over an hour, squirrel kept twitching it's tail in frustration. (Doesn't take much to entertain me. 

Got to grab a bite to eat & go to bed. This on the wordpad is also jumping from line to line & once since starting the whole thing vanished & it was minimized to the bottom... & while typing that line the curser jumped 2 lines back.  Any suggestions, anyone?   Shoot the computer or float it down river?

Hope to see y'all tomorrow (as Lloyd says).... sweet dreams and God Bless.