Jane, Pennsylvania Prep?

Good morning everyone.well this computer is all out of whack again this morning,saying no internet?

Lloyd

Good Morning Everyfriend!  I'm up and attem and I don't have a doggie to look after!

LLOYD I can't call it what you suggested because it doesn't look or taste anything like the goulash we made all the years I went to Girl Scout camp and it doesn't look or taste like what my grandfather used to come up with.

PATRICIA, I kind of like Pennsylvania Prep but I think I'd shorten it to PA. Prep.  It wouldn't take up as much space in the recipe book!  I might have known our "recipe-a-holic" would come up with an acceptable name!

I'm going to do a little baking today.  I have the stuff out to make some brownies and not much more planned for today!  I'm still working on getting used to my email on this new computer.  I thought I had it after Cathy put her hand and mind to it yesterday but I sent her one and she never got it so....back to work on that!

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

Good morning...

No rain..yet.
Need to pick up soil after getting the trug in the garden. May pick up tomato plants while the supply is there.

Jane, hot brownie with ice cream on top...brings a smile .Happy to read your good news!!! That too would bring a smile to both you and Cathy!

Need to rush this morning..

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

Good morning everyone. Weather guessers yesterday were saying thunderstorms last evening and ending near midnight. Not even a storm cloud showed up. We have that bright blue sky aging now but it is cooler, 58° and 75 for a high. I can take that OK.

PATRICIA  one of my sons lives a little over 2 miles from me and it is a different temperature there -colder too. My other son lives 15 miles south of me and in the spring forsythia is in bloom there but just budding here and in winter people call this town the ice box of the state.

JANE  at times throwing different food together ends up being good but we can never make the same thing a second time.

Woke late this morning and just looked at the time. Better get busy. lazy dirty hands will be here soon and want to be dressed before she gets here. Want t o put on something bright and cheerful. I still don't know if she only has one uniform or if everything she owns is black. I have to combat that dreary color anyway I can when she is here.

Have a good day and stay safe.

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Shirley here is the link to Jack's  gran-cat : Kimber, the Maine Coon

Good morning, I just finished my morning routine, and coffee's finished brewing. I've put chicken breasts out to thaw and I'm going to attempt Dora's Thai, Basil, & Sweet Chili stir-fry. It's basically chopped chicken, beef or seafood, sliced veggies such as onions, carrots, and long beans. Plus two cups of jasmine rice are cooked quickly, then added to cook with the rest with a small amount of oil in a wok. It's a great recipe to fool around with.

 It's 40 degrees presently at seven forty-one in the morning with partly cloudy skies with a repeat possible of yesterday's afternoon rains.

The roads in the foothills are in bad shape, with many residents unable to navigate out of their driveways. "Potholes, eroded edges, and large cracks in the road: this is last winter's legacy in the Fairbanks North Star Borough." It continues, "We've had a number of road service areas that have been impacted very significantly by the winter storm and then two, the snowmelt," said borough Mayor Bryce Ward.

Ward added that in many remote areas around the borough, the situation is dire, with "overflowing ditches, culverts that have been frozen from the winter rain, and that's causing washouts and significant damage to the roadbed."

Some living in the hills can't even navigate in or out of their driveways.

Service Areas maintain these regions of the borough.

Residents within each Service Area pay taxes toward road maintenance. According to Ward, "Each of our road service areas is their own taxing jurisdiction, and so the revenue that's generated to pay for those road services are paid for by their residents."

Now, many of these areas are out of money. Ward said, "A number of those service areas have either extinguished all of their existing operating budgets and in some cases, that and their emergency reserves."

According to Ward, there's not much the borough can do, but they are looking into outside options. "We are having conversations with FEMA and the state emergency operations to talk about what options are available for our road service areas, but the options seem pretty slim."

Meanwhile, residents can report road issues to their Service Area Commissioners using the borough's reporting center."

Evidently,  neither the city nor the borough has been prepared for two record-breaking snowy winters.

I'm glad I live on the city's edge, even without a view other than an older industrial area. The foothills, ridges, and domes are beautiful with close mountain views, but the land is wild, and plenty of black or grizzly bears looking to fatten after a long winter along with wolves, foxes, and other not so amiable critters.

Well, I'm heading for the haystack as soon as I'm finished here. Today was a busy one and tomorrow will be even busier.  I have breakfast with my former high school classmates and then in the afternoon a dentist appointment.  YUK!!

I've had two more suggestions for my "whatever it was I made".  One was "Janie's Joy" and the the other one was "Mom's Meat Stuff".  Of course there was a third;  my son thinks I should just call it "What-cha-call-it"! 

Now I'm heading out.  I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy tomorrow and may God bless us, every one!  And may he watch over the Ukrainians!

good Morning everyone. well I had a good sleep and am up and ready to face the day. I still do not reamber very well, so I do not reamber if I told you all or not, but I have a heart moniter fastened to my chest on the left side right to Left side of my heart, it has a speical cell phone sending activeity to va derictly. I am to wear it at least seven days. I have my regular head ace again this morning. Life is sure not fun any more,it would be alright with me if , god woud call me home any time.hope you all have a great day.  JaneS put us to bed and I got us up today.

Lloyd

Good morning..

Foggy here ,no rain for today I hope. Will get the last trug moved into the garden area later on today.

Have nothing other than picking up soil and gardening today but one never knows how the day will play out.

Jane, enjoy your time out with your friends. Would Janie's Jumble be appropriate for your concoction?

Patricia, how did your stir fry turn out?

Shirley talked with my sister last night and she also has a Maine Coon cat.

Gloria, I don't think my strawberries made it through the winter. I am going to pull a few plants and see why no growth on them.

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

Good morning everyone. Slept with the window open last night with the cooler air coming in. At 7 this morning a loud noise woke me. Today is Wednesday and the landscapers are here making way too much noise for the neighborhood of mostly senior folks, not just the ones in this building.
I have time now for a nap before my good CNA gets here.
Have a good day and stay safe.

Good morning all! This morning I woke up at 4:15, and the room was daylit. I pulled up a blind and was gratified to see nary a cloud in sight or damp overnight streets. Satisfied, I went back to bed to sleep a few more hours, and here I am, coffee in hand.

Amy, Dora's recipe was delicious. I improvised with a few more spices and added green and red peppers and some small golden tomatoes. All told, it was something I'll make again with one difference. Due to my magpie sensibilities, I rarely do tasks the same way twice.

When I was growing up and my mother cleaned out the fridge and cooked it all together, we called it Slumgullion.  Don't ask me why, Jane....that's just what it was called.

My younger son and dil got home from the cruise.  The cruise was wonderful but the trip home exhausted them.  They texted me about 6 a.m. and told me they were home and going to bed!

Take care, All.  Maybe I'll find some time tomorrow to write more.  Yesterday was a bad day for my body    and today I was busy all day trying to get caught up with what I didn't feel up to doing yesterday.     

good night everyone, I am going to bed it has been a good day but long one.went to the sams club and to VA alo. they told Nancy how to set the heart moniter on my chest. Our old cow is giving two gallons more milk per day more than her calf use,s. so we brought two gallons and a pound of fresh butter home. our cow is up at our deaughter's. both her andher calf is doing good. sil sterred the  calf, we will fatten him up for meat. I have a colliney of aunts moove into my office so I am going goget the aint spray, and see if I can end them. good night and sweet dreams everyone.

Lloyd

Good morning.

I am on the road early taking my friend to an eye appointment in the city. We will shop a bit afterwards and then head home before the madness starts. Long weekend here ,road will be a snake of vehicles .

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

Good Morning Everyfriend!  I noticed that I did not post at all yesterday.  It was "one of THOSE days" and I was so tired I couldn't even think straight!  I had two major things to do yesterday...one in the morning and one in the afternoon and it just took the wind out of my sails!  You don't suppose I'm getting old, do you?

And today my daughter will be arriving from Maryland.  She's newly retired and enjoying being able to do as she pleases whenever she pleases.  But I do have some things to do to get ready for her visit.  She's also bringing me two chickens to cook for broth and that's one of our activities.  Another will be to can the broth and the shredded chicken for soup later and a third will be for her to drive me to the kinesiologist appt this afternoon!  She's taken on a lot but none of it is new to her! 

I have to go get ready to meet Cooper!  He'll be arriving at his usual time...about 6:45 and he'll be hungry.  I wish you all a good day...better than yesterday but not as good as tomorrow. 

P.S.  I think I'm going to go with Janie's Jumble for the new dish in my repertoire!  Thanks AMY!

Good morning everyone, it is raining this morning, we need it but my back does not appreciate it.  I have to start  making appointments, eye doctor have ears checked, think my hearing is going or  else everyone is mumbling lately and I do have to find a new dentist. The teeth I have left have to come out and I will not go where I have gone for years with that dumb one just loves prescribing antibiotics. A CNA was telling me she did the same thing with her husband. He called and said he thought he had an infection after she pulled a tooth and after she sent in the second script to the pharmacy Fran said it was twice the strength of the first  one and she checked it after he had already taken a couple of the new pills and started feeling odd. She made him stop. I wonder how many others that went to that butcher that ended up sick because of her antibiotic scripts. It is over a year now and I still have problems and afraid to go to a dentist-if I can trust one again.
That was more than anyone is interested in but I am having a pity party for myself. I have miss lazy dirty hands coming today and I cannot stand her but am lucky to have someone to do things I cannot do. I cannot cook anymore but I will not let her cook for me.

Have a good day and be safe.

Good morning from a primarily sunny Interior; we're expected to reach mid-sixties today and perhaps seventies. That's the good news. The continuing bad news is that many of my friends are still stranded. While the main roads are paved, many of the little roads people live on in the foothills were damaged by the sheer unexpected amounts of snow and the snowmelt activities. There have been two sinkholes discovered that are rapidly expanding. A development that has never been seen here before. There is also the issue that multiple road service areas have run out of money due to increased, unforeseen spending.

While they are dealing with this in the hills, the lower levels and plains are seeing faster snowmelt in a time when the earlier cold weather and later snows left more snow to deal with. This area is a watershed with the five local rivers and numerous others draining into those five. The now warming temperatures and the sheets of river ice becoming unmoored and drifting have backed up and jammed at times, causing some village and small-town flooding. All of those issues and some refugees are on their way here.

We received yet another weather message in our continuing saga. "Middle Tanana Valley Alerts"

Increasing snowmelt and rising river levels...

Temperatures rising into the sixties and lower seventies will increase higher elevation snowmelt across the eastern and center Interior over the next few days. Some elevations in the Tanana-Yukon Uplands and the Alaska Range have a record amount of snow on the ground for mid-May. Runoff from snowmelt will bring significant rises to rivers and streams, especially along the Alaska Range and those draining the Tanana-Yukon Uplands. River levels will likely rise to bankfull and possibly higher over the weekend and into next week. This includes the Chena River, Salcha River, Tanana River, and Chatanika River,  as well as drainages along the Taylor Highway. Residents are encouraged to watch river levels and to move items along riverbanks to higher ground."

Guess where all those rivers and drainages will end up and all refugees. Don't you love climate change?

Today has been a fantastic day.
 We left here in light rain, but it did not spoil the fun day.
Appointment went well, shopping filled the van and so did our laughter.
We scurried home before the holiday traffic starts.
 I don't think either one of us will need any rocking tonight.

I'm glad you had a good day, Amy! On this end, the fire alarm, a high-pitched rotating/reverberating sound, began at 12:45. Everyone assumed it was the usual idiot who opened his door to announce to everyone "that it was okay." and set off the building alarm, which would go until the fire trucks arrived to turn it off and chat with the offender.

However, the offender was maintenance as it reverberated through the building from 12:45 to 4:08. At 5:29, my ears are still ringing. So far, besides the fire alarm and the two-month broken trash compactor, and my Fridge shelf and long bar door that needed new fastenings and was reported on the eleventh, I'm among those upset.

And then the people from Juneau's head office scheduled to come to inspect on the twelfth only to have management drop notes on the late afternoon of the eleventh that any inspection would be postponed until sometime in July!?!

Hello Y'all!  Hey AMY, what's the holiday you keep referring to?  I've tried to look it up and I can't find it.  So I'm asking you!

Christy arrived from Maryland today and she took me to my appointment with the kinesiologist.  She used to work for her and they've remained friends.  When I went in the inner office and told her that I'd had a special driver to bring me, Debra ran out to hug Christy and greet her leaving me alone in the office.  I knew she would!  It was a good appt and all went well.  I have lots to do to help the healing process!

On the way back Christy and I stopped at an Amish Farmer's place.  He sells milk and butter and cheese that he makes himself.  When Christy lived in that area she shopped there often and he remembered her and they did a little remembering!  Then we stopped at Davy's and got some things that we both like to eat so we have stuff for while she's here!

Now I'm headed for the haystack and I'll have two to sleep with.  Christy will share my bed and Cooper will crowd us both.  Frankie will occupy the single bed alone because she has to work tomorrow!  I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy tomorrow and may God bless us, every one.  And may He watch over the Ukrainians!

Good morning..

My peepers didn't want to wake up this morning but it is another day. Have things to do places to go. Kyle would like a piece of pine , I would like a bag of peat moss and that should be it.......maybe

Jane ,it is Canada day here on Mon but traffic will be horrific as this is also the time cottagers open up their cottage. Have a fun time with Cristy.

Patricia, that is a sharp sound to listen to for that long!! Hope today is a much better day.

Gloria, when will Yvette be back?


Phyllis, not nice when the body has a mind of its own. Hope today is a better day for you.

Better get a hitch in my get a long..

Enjoy your day  and stay safe.

good Morning everyone. we have over cast and cloudy skye this morning. do not kot why but my computer wanted to clean up and re set it,s self again this morning, done same thing yesterday. its miend is just like mine, dose not rember well at all. I had a rough night the heart moneter fell off or I knocked it off, either way had a hard time getting it to stay on. and am not sure i have it in the right place. so I will go back to the heart people at va today and and get hlp with it. hope you all have a great day.

Lloyd

Good morning everyone, overcast and did not  hear local weather this morning so have no idea what the day will bring. All I know it is  55 damp degrees inside my apartment. I have my warm winter robe on and am not exactly warm. Of course the heat  in the building is off. 
time for breakfast and think I will have hot oatmeal, coffee did not warm my innards up.


Have a good day and be safe.

Amy, thanks for understanding.  Summer weather in NC is hard for me because of the almost daily thunder/rain storms.  It rained and thundered during the night but I didn't hear it.  David told me about it.  I only know that I woke up with a headache and having to be careful because my balance is bad and I keep getting dizzy.  Today's temp. is supposed to go to 97 deg. and the humidity is very high.  I don't want to complain here everyday so I usually don't say anything or sometimes I don't open S&F at all.

Take care, All.

Power is back on so now the fun of changing all those clocks (3 in kitchen alone). I was outside watering & heard a loud pop, usually means a squirrel was playing on a transformer.

Good chance to have me a camper breakfast with coffee water boiled in a pot, bacon & egg fried (gas stove but match light without power), then wiped out the skillet & toasted my bread in butter in the skillet. Yum! Had bird TV eating sandwich in front of the window  where I just put out the food... cooked hamburger, grapes cut in half, walnuts, regular mixed bird seed & some bread for the black birds. I tear bread into bite size & put some in their bowl of water & some on the side. Robby (the one raised here, I'm sure), will sass me from the corner of the roof or even sitting on the edge of the post where I put the food... very friendly. The robin & mate are loving the grapes, I cut in half so easier for them to grab & go down on the grass or sidewalk to "kill it" bamming it to get the meat loose.

Woke up to 75° & now it's 64°, more to my liking. Was a tad chilly when I was out watering the seeds in the trug & some flowers in pots. 

Happy Holiday, Amy. How far is "town" from where you live?

Busy girl, Jane, I'm sure those chickens taste better than anything you can buy but just reading about I can smell the feathers in that boiling water & plucking them out. I think my mother had me help so I realized ALL chickens weren't pets!

Phyllis, hope the body is better today. As we've heard all our lives, "Getting old isn't for sissies"... & they weren't kidding!

Lloyd, you go to the VA so often I'm suspecting there is a cute nurse you are flirting with, should we ask Nancy?  Hummmmmmmmmmm......... Bad Boy!   My youngest son had to wear a heart monitor one long week & also had trouble with it. Take care.

Patricia, been reading about the flooding where you are... sounds as bad as St.Louis right now. The wind around here sucks up the moisture so fast the river didn't even come up behind my house.

Gloria, my house is a wreck & still haven't found my fav summer tops I wear to clean the pool, spend half my life searching for stuff. These are all cotton tank tops from the sale days so can't replace. I bought one of every color to have "sunburn" marks same. I always keep a shirt handy to throw on if anyone shows up to talk over the fence!  Need to sort & donate, lots of stuff I'll never wear or use again. Easier to put off & face the MUST DOS of the day. But a nap first?

Not getting anything done & still have bedroom clock to re-set. I need to just unplug it because youngest son gave me a Google clock that will tell me anything I want to know. The radio on the old one set on the all news station drives me nuts the last year so I keep an old Sony handy & use it most. Don't know why these radio people think it's cute to play all the loud background noise/music when giving news or even advertising, I can't understand what they say with that noise. May be my hearing but didn't bother me until they started having the younger guy on & he is the one that started it.

Time to move, lunch time already! I need that nap!

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I'm off to bed!  We've had a busy day!  The chickens are cooked and ready to can the broth tomorrow for soup.  My yard looks beautiful.  Christy is my gardener.  We went and bought mulch, some plants and a few other things today and she worked between storms.  We also stopped in my son's store (he's Christy's twin) and discovered that his high school daughter was part of a chorus and orchestra concert tonight.  So we went to that!  Now we're both off to bed!  Tomorrow is another day. 

And tomorrow, the chicken has to be canned.  And we have a couple of errands to do! And some shopping that we WANT to do.  So another busy one is coming up!  I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy tomorrow and may God bless us, every one!  And may he watch over the Ukrainians!

Good morning.

Going to be a warm one with rain later on tonight. That will put a damper on the fireworks (I hope). Will have Janie's Rescue on hand just in case.

Today is going to be a tad busy, Kyle wants to hit a garage sale that is selling tools plus pick up more lumber. When home I will do laundry and vac seal some meat.


Shirley ,we are about 10 miles or so from town. Doesn't take long to nip in and out providing it is not a holiday then town becomes a sardine can!

Jane, sounds like a fun time for you and Christy today..lot of work but laughter also.

Lloyd, hope you got your monitor put back on.

Better scoot..

Enjoy your day and stay safe..

Good Morning AMY and everyone else that follow. do not know how much rain we got have not been out side to look at the rain gauge, but there are wattet puddels every where we had lot of loud thunder and lot of lighteining Last night. woke me severial times. it is over cast nowand light wend. hope you all have a good day today.

Lloyd