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  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,374
    Mystarra said:
    Mystarra said:
    DanaTA said:
    Mystarra said:

    hungree  has a hankering for pulled pork and mashed sweet potato, secret ingredient jack daniels.
    and fresh pumpkin pie

    I have a package of Jack Daniels Pulled Pork in the freezer!

    Dana

    surpriseyes

    sounds easier than waiting for the slow cooker

     

    well,
    not finding the jack daniels version,
    but grocery delivery has  https://www.peapod.com/product-search/pulled%20pork
    Sugars 17g per serving.
    Cholesterol 30mg
    Sodium 470mg

     

    edit  they have jack daniel's pulled chicken  oooo so close

     

    I get it at BJ's.  Two packages bundled together.  We use one and freeze the other for another time.

    Dana

  • manekiNekomanekiNeko Posts: 1,455

    i really really really had to lmao very loud as i saw this thread title. srsly, you have NO idea.

    agreeing 500% with this statement "The Things Which Could Be Worse Need Cats To Make Them Better".

    i live in an old farm-ish house in the outskirts of a small swiss city, in the attic actually. we have the whole floor, amounts to 5 rooms/about 80m2 maybe. BUT no hot water, no bathroom - just an old toilet, and a stone sink with cold water in the kitchen. no heating either except for a fan heater next to our bed, and the house is very badly insulated - this by winter temps that go regularly under 0°c, even down to -20°c when it's bad, sometimes my food in the fridge is actually protected from the cold. short, we freeze our ** off. the tarnished brownish peeling wallpaper is torn, the paint looks like a mosaic of plaster, grey and dirty, and the floor rags catch on the old wooden boards that seem to have more interstices than planks. at least we have electricity - but since the recently deceased owner never repaired the outdated system, there's a risk the electric company might cut the power soon-ish, and then it's the pure horror trip, cuz the little fan heater is electric (as is my cooking plate).

    "why would you even live in a dump like that", you're asking...i don't really live here by choice - with my big feline family (16), and on sickness benefits to boot, it's the only place we were accepted.

    but BECAUSE The Things Which Could Be Worse Need Cats To Make Them Better... it's actually bearable, when i look at them mulling around, playing, stretching or sleeping piled up, i still manage to be happy (or have happy moments among the dull or dark ones) even when i'm in a dire slump (i am now because we will have to find something else very soon, the owner died, and no solution yet) - i wouldn't trade my *hole for a mansion with swimming-pool if i had to get separated from those beautiful amazing creatures in exchange! so, cats really make everything better! <( ^x^)>

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,252
    edited October 2018

    Non-complaint:  Pumpkin has been washed hefted and gutted.  Still need to carve a face and secure a candle.  It will be ready for tomorrow night. yes

    Complaint:  Pumpkin gut aroma spreads around the house quickly. frown Thankfully garbage day is day after Halloween. indecision

    Non-complaint:  After a week of steady cloudy/rainy/drizzly 40F temperature, today is beautifully sunny, temp is 45F.  Took a drive around half of the lake today.  All the roads I took, (local 2-lane state road, city roads, and Interstate 4-lane roads have now all been completely resurfaced and lined.  It's like driving on a cloud.  Only bad spot was the the Interstate bridge across the lake that is still undergoing repair.  Trees are still not full color.

    View from Interstate 86 as I near hometown.

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  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,355
    kyoto kid said:

    ...unless it was George Sand, then it would be Soylent Green.

    laugh

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,355
    McGyver said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...unless it was George Sand, then it would be Soylent Green.

    Mmmmm... Free range Soylent Green with Jack Daniels sauce and a cup of Soylent Flan... Mmmm... Peoplicious... 

    laugh

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,252
    edited October 2018
    Tjohn said:
    McGyver said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...unless it was George Sand, then it would be Soylent Green.

    Mmmmm... Free range Soylent Green with Jack Daniels sauce and a cup of Soylent Flan... Mmmm... Peoplicious... 

    laugh

    Oh, duh! Now I get it.  blush  I'd originally thought it was erroneous reference to the actor "George Sanders" but after looking it up he's not even in the Soylent Green movie.  It was Edward G. Robinson that died and was followed into the SG factory. blush  Sigh... 70 year old brains run in idle a lot of the time. sad

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  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,456

    I see sparkly lights.  I cannot go home to rest.  If I understand correctly I am supposed to clean for the rest of the evening.

  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,456

    Back home and expected to clean.

  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,670

    I'm back from the oral surgeon.  He thinks some fluid is pressing against a nerve.  He doesn't know what is pressing against the nerve by looking at the X-ray.  He will need to remove one tooth and the crown of a wisdom tooth in additon to the fluid.

  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,456

    I better go attempt to ask for a pain pill but I am afraid it will be misinterpreted as me not wanting to do anything.

  • carrie58carrie58 Posts: 4,142
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    Back home and expected to clean.

    Clean what?

     

     

  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,456
    carrie58 said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    Back home and expected to clean.

    Clean what?

     

     

    My room I guess.  Just ate dinner and trying not to lose that.

  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,456
    edited October 2018
    Mystarra said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    I got this which I am nervous if it is a good buy.  Also still having difficulties at home, so I am afraid they will complain about one little box.

     

    seems a bit pricey, but if you get several years use, quality be worth it

     

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  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,456

    Just lost a fang right before bed time.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,374
    manekiNeko said:

    i really really really had to lmao very loud as i saw this thread title. srsly, you have NO idea.

    agreeing 500% with this statement "The Things Which Could Be Worse Need Cats To Make Them Better".

    i live in an old farm-ish house in the outskirts of a small swiss city, in the attic actually. we have the whole floor, amounts to 5 rooms/about 80m2 maybe. BUT no hot water, no bathroom - just an old toilet, and a stone sink with cold water in the kitchen. no heating either except for a fan heater next to our bed, and the house is very badly insulated - this by winter temps that go regularly under 0°c, even down to -20°c when it's bad, sometimes my food in the fridge is actually protected from the cold. short, we freeze our ** off. the tarnished brownish peeling wallpaper is torn, the paint looks like a mosaic of plaster, grey and dirty, and the floor rags catch on the old wooden boards that seem to have more interstices than planks. at least we have electricity - but since the recently deceased owner never repaired the outdated system, there's a risk the electric company might cut the power soon-ish, and then it's the pure horror trip, cuz the little fan heater is electric (as is my cooking plate).

    "why would you even live in a dump like that", you're asking...i don't really live here by choice - with my big feline family (16), and on sickness benefits to boot, it's the only place we were accepted.

    but BECAUSE The Things Which Could Be Worse Need Cats To Make Them Better... it's actually bearable, when i look at them mulling around, playing, stretching or sleeping piled up, i still manage to be happy (or have happy moments among the dull or dark ones) even when i'm in a dire slump (i am now because we will have to find something else very soon, the owner died, and no solution yet) - i wouldn't trade my *hole for a mansion with swimming-pool if i had to get separated from those beautiful amazing creatures in exchange! so, cats really make everything better! <( ^x^)>

    I hope you can find a suitable place to live, more comfortable and warm, with at least late 20th century amenities!

    Dana

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,161
    LeatherGryphon said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...unless it was George Sand, then it would be Soylent Green.**

    Or possibly Chopin's female friend/lover novelist who dressed like a male. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sand

     

    ** What's the connection to "Soylent Green"?

    ...Tjohn's comment above mine.  She was an "Organic Sand".

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Note:  The movie "Soylent Green" was set in the year 2022! surprise

    ...well you never know with time travelling doctors in police call boxes or Star Fleet starships flitting about the temporal stream like they were out on a Sunday drive.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,161
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    I see sparkly lights.  I cannot go home to rest.  If I understand correctly I am supposed to clean for the rest of the evening.

    ...long day?.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,161
    manekiNeko said:

    i really really really had to lmao very loud as i saw this thread title. srsly, you have NO idea.

    agreeing 500% with this statement "The Things Which Could Be Worse Need Cats To Make Them Better".

    i live in an old farm-ish house in the outskirts of a small swiss city, in the attic actually. we have the whole floor, amounts to 5 rooms/about 80m2 maybe. BUT no hot water, no bathroom - just an old toilet, and a stone sink with cold water in the kitchen. no heating either except for a fan heater next to our bed, and the house is very badly insulated - this by winter temps that go regularly under 0°c, even down to -20°c when it's bad, sometimes my food in the fridge is actually protected from the cold. short, we freeze our ** off. the tarnished brownish peeling wallpaper is torn, the paint looks like a mosaic of plaster, grey and dirty, and the floor rags catch on the old wooden boards that seem to have more interstices than planks. at least we have electricity - but since the recently deceased owner never repaired the outdated system, there's a risk the electric company might cut the power soon-ish, and then it's the pure horror trip, cuz the little fan heater is electric (as is my cooking plate).

    "why would you even live in a dump like that", you're asking...i don't really live here by choice - with my big feline family (16), and on sickness benefits to boot, it's the only place we were accepted.

    but BECAUSE The Things Which Could Be Worse Need Cats To Make Them Better... it's actually bearable, when i look at them mulling around, playing, stretching or sleeping piled up, i still manage to be happy (or have happy moments among the dull or dark ones) even when i'm in a dire slump (i am now because we will have to find something else very soon, the owner died, and no solution yet) - i wouldn't trade my *hole for a mansion with swimming-pool if i had to get separated from those beautiful amazing creatures in exchange! so, cats really make everything better! <( ^x^)>

    ....wow that sounds terrible.  Particularly with the cold winters there. (spent some time in Switzerland back in the 70s skiing, and it can get very cold in the mountains). Hopefuly you and your feline family can find some sort of accommodation before power gets turned off.

    Yeah felines do make life easier to tolerate.  Wish I could have a feline companion but the pet deposit where I am is about 65% of my monthly rent and he/she would have to be a strictly indoor cat as traffic where i am is terrible.

    I miss all my kitty friends in the old neighbourhood.  Sometimes took me twice as long to walk to market because they would come out of their yards to say "hi" to me. Not many in the city centre where I am now (again because of the traffic, even in the older residential areas).

  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,456
    kyoto kid said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    I see sparkly lights.  I cannot go home to rest.  If I understand correctly I am supposed to clean for the rest of the evening.

    ...long day?.

    Yeah but I feel better now.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,252
    edited October 2018
    kyoto kid said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...unless it was George Sand, then it would be Soylent Green.**

    Or possibly Chopin's female friend/lover novelist who dressed like a male. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sand

     

    ** What's the connection to "Soylent Green"?

    ...Tjohn's comment above mine.  She was an "Organic Sand".

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Note:  The movie "Soylent Green" was set in the year 2022! surprise

    ...well you never know with time travelling doctors in police call boxes or Star Fleet starships flitting about the temporal stream like they were out on a Sunday drive.

    Well, that too, but my fear at the year 2022 was its proximity. surprise  Kind'a like the year 1984 back in 1980. frown  I'm so old, (how old are you?) I'm so old that I remember when the book "1984" was describing the far future. sad

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    kyoto kid said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...unless it was George Sand, then it would be Soylent Green.**

    Or possibly Chopin's female friend/lover novelist who dressed like a male. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sand

     

    ** What's the connection to "Soylent Green"?

    ...Tjohn's comment above mine.  She was an "Organic Sand".

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Note:  The movie "Soylent Green" was set in the year 2022! surprise

    ...well you never know with time travelling doctors in police call boxes or Star Fleet starships flitting about the temporal stream like they were out on a Sunday drive.

     

    2022 getting close, few years.

     

    think is almost time to 'fall back' the clocks

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,252
    Mystarra said:
    kyoto kid said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...unless it was George Sand, then it would be Soylent Green.**

    Or possibly Chopin's female friend/lover novelist who dressed like a male. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sand

     

    ** What's the connection to "Soylent Green"?

    ...Tjohn's comment above mine.  She was an "Organic Sand".

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Note:  The movie "Soylent Green" was set in the year 2022! surprise

    ...well you never know with time travelling doctors in police call boxes or Star Fleet starships flitting about the temporal stream like they were out on a Sunday drive.

     

    2022 getting close, few years.

     

    think is almost time to 'fall back' the clocks

    Setting the clocks back won't help much to avoid 2022. wink

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,252
    edited October 2018

    Non-complaint:  My pumpkin is carved with an appropriately halloweenish face and has been hefted back onto my porch.  Tonight I'll find a candle to illuminate the spirit within the pumpkin. smiley  However, it won't attract any trick-or-treaters because that tradition is pretty much dead in this town.  All the costuming stuff takes place at the party held in the Fire Hall.  Not a problem, it just means I get to eat more all of my bag of give-away candy. 

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  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,456

    I am dressed up as a snagged tooth cat girl today.  When wondering about the mall I will have a backpack so I will also be a school cat girl, or is it a cat school girl with a snagged tooth?  Why the snagged tooth? You might ask.  I could not get the other fang to stick.  I only have one fang that will stay in my mouth.  I can get glue to fix the other fang for cosplay time, but I have to order it and wait for that to come in,

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    i didnt dress up today, but i filled 2 halloween bowls at work with dumdum lollies

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  • manekiNekomanekiNeko Posts: 1,455
    DanaTA said:
    manekiNeko said:

    i really really really had to lmao very loud as i saw this thread title. srsly, you have NO idea.

    agreeing 500% with this statement "The Things Which Could Be Worse Need Cats To Make Them Better".

    i live in an old farm-ish house in the outskirts of a small swiss city, in the attic actually. we have the whole floor, amounts to 5 rooms/about 80m2 maybe. BUT no hot water, no bathroom - just an old toilet, and a stone sink with cold water in the kitchen. no heating either except for a fan heater next to our bed, and the house is very badly insulated - this by winter temps that go regularly under 0°c, even down to -20°c when it's bad, sometimes my food in the fridge is actually protected from the cold. short, we freeze our ** off. the tarnished brownish peeling wallpaper is torn, the paint looks like a mosaic of plaster, grey and dirty, and the floor rags catch on the old wooden boards that seem to have more interstices than planks. at least we have electricity - but since the recently deceased owner never repaired the outdated system, there's a risk the electric company might cut the power soon-ish, and then it's the pure horror trip, cuz the little fan heater is electric (as is my cooking plate).

    "why would you even live in a dump like that", you're asking...i don't really live here by choice - with my big feline family (16), and on sickness benefits to boot, it's the only place we were accepted.

    but BECAUSE The Things Which Could Be Worse Need Cats To Make Them Better... it's actually bearable, when i look at them mulling around, playing, stretching or sleeping piled up, i still manage to be happy (or have happy moments among the dull or dark ones) even when i'm in a dire slump (i am now because we will have to find something else very soon, the owner died, and no solution yet) - i wouldn't trade my *hole for a mansion with swimming-pool if i had to get separated from those beautiful amazing creatures in exchange! so, cats really make everything better! <( ^x^)>

    I hope you can find a suitable place to live, more comfortable and warm, with at least late 20th century amenities!

    Dana

    thanks a lot for your very warm & welcome wishes @Dana , from us all! <( ^x^)> <3 <3

  • manekiNekomanekiNeko Posts: 1,455
    edited October 2018
    kyoto kid said:
    manekiNeko said:

    i really really really had to lmao very loud as i saw this thread title. srsly, you have NO idea.

    agreeing 500% with this statement "The Things Which Could Be Worse Need Cats To Make Them Better".

    i live in an old farm-ish house in the outskirts of a small swiss city, in the attic actually. we have the whole floor, amounts to 5 rooms/about 80m2 maybe. BUT no hot water, no bathroom - just an old toilet, and a stone sink with cold water in the kitchen. no heating either except for a fan heater next to our bed, and the house is very badly insulated - this by winter temps that go regularly under 0°c, even down to -20°c when it's bad, sometimes my food in the fridge is actually protected from the cold. short, we freeze our ** off. the tarnished brownish peeling wallpaper is torn, the paint looks like a mosaic of plaster, grey and dirty, and the floor rags catch on the old wooden boards that seem to have more interstices than planks. at least we have electricity - but since the recently deceased owner never repaired the outdated system, there's a risk the electric company might cut the power soon-ish, and then it's the pure horror trip, cuz the little fan heater is electric (as is my cooking plate).

    "why would you even live in a dump like that", you're asking...i don't really live here by choice - with my big feline family (16), and on sickness benefits to boot, it's the only place we were accepted.

    but BECAUSE The Things Which Could Be Worse Need Cats To Make Them Better... it's actually bearable, when i look at them mulling around, playing, stretching or sleeping piled up, i still manage to be happy (or have happy moments among the dull or dark ones) even when i'm in a dire slump (i am now because we will have to find something else very soon, the owner died, and no solution yet) - i wouldn't trade my *hole for a mansion with swimming-pool if i had to get separated from those beautiful amazing creatures in exchange! so, cats really make everything better! <( ^x^)>

    ....wow that sounds terrible.  Particularly with the cold winters there. (spent some time in Switzerland back in the 70s skiing, and it can get very cold in the mountains). Hopefuly you and your feline family can find some sort of accommodation before power gets turned off.

    Yeah felines do make life easier to tolerate.  Wish I could have a feline companion but the pet deposit where I am is about 65% of my monthly rent and he/she would have to be a strictly indoor cat as traffic where i am is terrible.

    I miss all my kitty friends in the old neighbourhood.  Sometimes took me twice as long to walk to market because they would come out of their yards to say "hi" to me. Not many in the city centre where I am now (again because of the traffic, even in the older residential areas).

    thanks a lot @kyoto kid for your lovely message! <3 \(^_^)/ - we need people who wish us good!
    if we're lucky the power thing won't happen, i just have no idea. i know they have gas bottle heatings but i'm srsly scared of gas xploding, leaking etc (and i have no $$ to buy one but with some help from friends/family maybe.. still scared tho).
    it's so hard when for some reason you can't enjoy the company of those amazing companions, renting is a major pain.
    yup, the best encounters when one is on their way are kitty friends or kitty new encounters ^^ - makes my day every time!

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  • WinterMoonWinterMoon Posts: 2,016

    That's better than emptying two bowls at work for lollies.

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,097
    edited October 2018

    One of my daughters decided to be Bellatrix Lestrange for Halloween... She actually hates the character, but she has her hair and she dresses like her, so it was an easy costume to make... I asked her last night about what she was going to use for a wand... She replied that she didn't think about that... I offered her a wand I made a while ago, but it looks nothing like it and it lights up blue... She said it didn't matter and if anyone asked, she'd say, she Bellatrix, she stole it from someone...

    I decided to make her one while she was at school... It's only 12 1/2 inches long (a 1/4 inch short), only half walnut (the curved part is sassafras), the core is squirrel fur (not dragon heartstring) and the runes or whatever is carved in the handle is a guess based on bad reference images...

    The picture are terrible, but it sorta looks like most of the reference pictures... Which vary wildly.

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    a phoenix feather inside it? wink

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