New roof
Puff balls
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Carolyn had her surgery on September 4th and officially returned to work yesterday. She did better than I expected, especially after having visited the grocery store and then preparing a meal of her famous meatloaf and potato salad. She has fairly light-weight vacuums in most of her buildings, and she will not have to carry heavy trash, so she expects to get along well once all the kinks are worked out. She tires easily and her back hurts after awhile, but it is to be expected after riding a bed for two months. Tonight and tomorrow night will not be too bad she says, but the first real test will come Friday night when they have the most buildings to clean.
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Related news: Carolyn baked a cake yesterday; something she used to do fairly regularly. It was supposed to be a bundt cake with lemon Jello pudding in the center. When she removed it from the oven, it looked like it had not raised very much, but it sure smelled good. She figured there was something wrong; that maybe the cake mix she used was old or something of that nature, but after trying to remove the cake from the pan wihtout success (it fell apart) she tossed it into the trash. She was telling Vicky about it later on, and Vicky asked her if she mixed the Jello pudding real good. That is when the light bulb in her head shone brilliantly; she had forgotten to mix it at all. She poured the dry mix straight from the box into the cake without adding a drop of liquid, much less stirring it into pudding. We ended up with a store-bought lemon meringue pie which she had in the freezer. She was in a very bad mood when I took her to work.
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Do you know which movie spawned the title quote?
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Related news: Carolyn baked a cake yesterday; something she used to do fairly regularly. It was supposed to be a bundt cake with lemon Jello pudding in the center. When she removed it from the oven, it looked like it had not raised very much, but it sure smelled good. She figured there was something wrong; that maybe the cake mix she used was old or something of that nature, but after trying to remove the cake from the pan wihtout success (it fell apart) she tossed it into the trash. She was telling Vicky about it later on, and Vicky asked her if she mixed the Jello pudding real good. That is when the light bulb in her head shone brilliantly; she had forgotten to mix it at all. She poured the dry mix straight from the box into the cake without adding a drop of liquid, much less stirring it into pudding. We ended up with a store-bought lemon meringue pie which she had in the freezer. She was in a very bad mood when I took her to work.
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Do you know which movie spawned the title quote?
2 comments:
Hey Ken, What the heck are "puff balls"? they look pretty cool.
I hate it when food is wasted due to an error in the kitchen but it does happen to us all from time to time. Once, when my brother was about 14, he made a cake substituting salt instead of sugar. That cake was pretty gross and we still laugh about it today. We lived in an old trailer out in the country which had many holes in the floor. Needless to say we had a serious bug/critter problem. My mom used to put everything in glass jars to keep the vermin out and my little bro mistook the salt jar for sugar! Those are the stories which make up our lives.
Happy Thursday. Almost done with this work week. Blah
good idea on the corn in the garden.I may just plant a few rows to dry out for those little fat squirrels and save a few bucks. They are plump. good thing we don't have too many rednecks around here! Its almost time to plant collards and carrots.
Tammy
Hi Tammy,
Puff balls are a type of mushroom that when stepped on, they send a cloud of spores into the air. Some are much larger than these.
I bet that really was some attention grabbing cake! Wow!
Until we bought this house, we lived in a trailer that was decaying around us. The biggest and nosiest possum I ever knew of took up squatter's rights under our bathroom floor. It took forever to evict him. He came through a hole and lay waste to the groceries one time.
The collards and carrots sound good. I won't have any fresh greens until field cress comes up in late February.
Have a great day yourself.
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