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I didn't look up a recipe to be honest. I did it from memory on what I thought a shepards pie was like.
@AgitatedRiot I will be keeping you in my thoughts today. Good luck on the MRI.
@McGyver thank you for the story of the 'Adorable Little Idiot'. Babies are soooo much fun. Except when they just chewed the antique furniture's legs.
Complaint: I finished cleaning the bulk of the mess on my MacBook Pro after that Login to Daz last apparently in Feb 2025. But it stripped out a lot of work I did on Fabiana's products that were moved to this store and that I bought. I will have to add the labels again to them. They renamed them without the 'FK' that were required initially. I have no idea what is going on at DAZ but I wish they would figure out their naming structure and stick with it.
Add to that, iCloud turned itself on and hijacked my files that are in the main drive.
Okay, two cloud fare errors for one post, that is enough.
Thanks, I don't think our one external drive is very large and his laptop is almost as old as mine (8 vs 10 years) but it might be possible.
I am still hoping Husband can sort it out. He's a retired computer tech so sometimes he can coax or coerce the darn things when they just ignore me. Like it's a cat and I am a human they judge unworthy.
Fingers crossed for you. My last job, before the department upgraded to a rented multifunction unit, there was this color printer that h.a.t.e.d. me. I could follow the instructions exactly, and the stupid thing would balk regardless. I used to tell my boss to go over there and give it a threatening glare or something... for some reason all he had to do was walk past and it would spring into action and function flawlessly. I think it was afraid of him because he handled the department budget and it was worried about being replaced.
I was not at all sorry when the dumb thing went away.
Yeah, the modern versions leave out the meat scraps... which was a rude surprise the first time I had one that wasn't my grandmother's. I didn't know it came in a fruit-only version.
Dearly wish I had her recipe, but she didn't have one. She just threw in whatever she had sitting around... it was always different, but always amazing.
Like many things I suppose it isn't what it used to be, and as time passes it won't be what it is but will become something it wasn't, a pattern that will continue until it either goes full circle and becomes what it was* or becomes something else entirely, like a currently unknown mode of transport rather than a pie filling.
Personally I'm not too concerned, I don't eat it as it contains candied peel, something I detest. Of course if it morphs into something without the dreaded peel before I shuffle off this mortal coil I might give it a try but the chances aren't great.
*Alternatively at this point it might of course decide to impersonate the infamous Oozlum bird and disappear up it's own fundament and make the world a better place, or at least a world with less candied peel in it, which in my opinion is the same thing.
I'm at a mall's food court waiting for a friend. I saw this gal walking with her guardians. She looked just like a little dog. She even was wearing a collar with a leash attached to the collar. She was even the size of a little dog. The only way someone could get that realistic as a little dog is by being a little canine. I didn't take her picture because I didn't want to be rude. She even walked like a little dog.
(How I knew she was a she? I did not see any boy parts between her hind legs. I also thought I saw some nipples, but I know boy dogs might have some. I didn't ask her guardians, but she might be expecting puppies. Maybe she was but maybe she was spayed.)
Oops. I got a new bottle of hand soap from bath and body works.
Complaint: My bank changed its rules: I've had lots of banks over my lifetime, everything from the Riggs Bank in Washington, DC (known as the bank that financed the purchase of Alaska in 1868), to the modern Bank of America (known for various scandals), to various regional banks in Florida that kept getting bought out by bigger conglomerates, and most recently a small regional bank in western NY State. I've been very happy with this little bank. No monthy fee on my checking account, the tellers all know me, and it's convenient to the various places I manage to get to using the local ancient person's bus. I hated the big national banks, they had fees for everything and money evaporated spontaneously, but have been very happy with my current little bank until recently. They decided that I now need to keep a minimum balance in my checking account. Not just $20, or $50, but a whopping $500. Otherwise they would charge me $4.50 per month if even for a minute I dipped below the $500 minimum. Grrrrr....
Yeah, yeah, it's possible, I could (and did) just transfer a good sized chunk of my savings account into checking but that makes it too easy to forget, and end up spending money that really should have been moderately inaccesable to my spending whims. I keep a spreadsheet accurate to the penney and never overdraft (a $50 fee
), so running the checking account total down to even $10 or $20 doesn't scare me, I'd still know that I was OK. And I've now even added a line that accounts for the $4.50 fee when necessary, but I would rather see that $500 sitting in my savings account generating interest instead of in the checking account where it is tempting me to overspend.
A looming $20 balance scares me into frugality more than a $520 balance does.
And hey! $4.50 is almost enough to do laundry or a little more than two rides on the bus.
Incidentally, the bottom line on my spreadsheet is "Checking Balance If All Credit Cards Paid Off" I try to keep that a positive number.
I've had lots of problems with credit over my life. Been there done that, burned the T-shirt.
Or in the words of Mr. Horse: No sir, didn't like it! Back when I was making big money if I had kept careful track of my money as carefully as I do now, I wouldn't have to be keeping as careful track of my money as I do now. Lessons learned too late.
However, I did have a lot of fun with that money, and lots of stories to reminisce over .
We use
1lb mixed dried friut (sultans and raisins)
2 small apples
mince up
3oz soft brown sugar
1/2 tsp mixed spice
1/4 tsp nutmeg
some (1-2 tsp) lemon juice
mix into minced fruit and set aside overnight (I usually put a bit of kitchen paper over the top)
brandy
mix into minced fruit the next day and put into jars. It keeps quite well, we often use some of last Christmas' on the next Christmas (Edit: but that is sitting in a storeroom at the back of the house, unheated and with a cavity wall between it and the rest of the house, that is pretty much sunless for more than half the year - sitting in a kitchen cupboard in a heated house in the southern US might well be another story)
Sounds about right. Husband used to tell me stories. Like Printer 1 would not work when connected to Computer A, while Printer 2 didn't work with Computer B, with all drivers updated and everything wired correctly (pre wireless days). But if you connected P1to CB and P2 to CA everything worked.
I suppose I could make my own, I have on occasion considered making my own Christmas cake as again the tend to include the dreaded peel, not to mention the glacier cherries which I also dislike, I actually dislike all cherries but especially the glacier type, I mean what is a 'Glacier Cherry' is it some sort of prehistoric cherry preserved in a glacier then defrosted just to pollute fruit cakes? Surely this can't be sustainable or environmentally sound, I mean aren't glaciers considered an endangered species these days?
But back to the Christmas cake, I could remove the peel and the cherries but that leaves the marzipan, guess what? Yes also on the 'I can't stand it list', this makes me sound like a bit like fussy eater*, well I can be but I do like some foods, most actually but when it comes to Christmas Cakes if you take out the stuff I can't stand what's left is basically a boozy fruit cake, of course you could always leave out the alcohol but let's be honest I've taken so much other stuff out if I removed the alcohol it would just be fruit cake and what's Christmassy about that?
End result, I’ve never got round to making my own Christmas Cake, then of course due to me occasionally getting reward points from work throughout the year and the fact I can convert them to gift vouchers I tend to convert whatever I have accumulated by about November into Marks & Spencer gift vouchers I basically get lot of our Christmas food for effectively free** so what's the point of making my own Christmas cake when I can have a M&S Chocolate Yule Log for nothing, yes chocolate*** is one of the foods not on my 'I can't stand it list'.
*It's basically why learnt to cook, and I quite enjoy cooking, most of the time, as long as it doesn't have any tomatoes in it, guess what?
**Except of course I have to work over and above for the company to get the points to get the vouchers to get the food, so it's not really free is it.
***Chocolate is made from cocoa beans, they're actually seeds but what the heck there’s no need to be pedantic is there? Anyway chocolate is made from beans/seeds and beans and seeds are good for you right, therefore chocolate must be good for you and surely it counts as a vegetable, right?
Note: There may be an actual complaint or two in there somewhere.
Well that's all for tonight folks, it's 21:40 and I've been up since 05:00 and I'm tired so I'm calling it a night, I'll probably dream about being chased by giant man-eating peel monsters and carnivorous cherry demons and falling into pit's of quick-marzipan*, but don't worry about it, I never remember my dreams.
*A bit like quicksand but it doesn't taste as nice.
Glacé cherries - bewcause, I think, they are glazed with the sugar solution they are in.
Beans are seeds (baked bean type, or haricot) or seed pods (french or runner beans that haven't been left on the plant for too long)
The Mincemeat Pie Meat Version. delicious eats.
4 pounds venison, elk, or beef
Water
2 1/2 cups suet, finely chopped or grated*
7 1/2 cups tart apples, chopped
3 cups liquid (liquid from the meat of your choice, which was cooked in)
5 cups granulated sugar
3 cups apple cider
1 cup molasses
1/2 cup cider vinegar
3 cups raisins
2 tablespoons cinnamon, ground
1 tablespoon cloves, ground
2 tablespoons allspice, ground
2 tablespoons nutmeg, ground
Juice of 2 lemons
Juice of 2 oranges
1 cup brandy or sherry
The concept of mincemeat originated in the Middle Ages as a method for preserving meat during the winter. Crusaders returning from the Middle East in the 13th century introduced European cooks to a variety of spices and techniques for blending meat with fruits and seasonings.
Harrumph!
non-complaint: The trail by the busy street is finally finished (more than a month and a half late), and the weather finally cooperated for us to go out and enjoy a walk. And ohhhh man that wagon rolls over it like silk now! I had figured that was the hardest part of the walk because it was uphill at the very end and by then I was getting tired... nope, it was the hardest part because the trail was in such horrid shape. With it smooth, I didn't mind at all. And bonus points: there's one place where it passes over a driveway, and previously it had a very steep slant that always had me fighting to keep the wagon going straight (and when it was the stroller, fighting to keep it from outright tipping over). No more! They re-graded it so it's flat now. My wrists are very, very happy with that.
Today is the last day of summer. I rather call fall Autumn. I fell down some stairs this last Friday. It was not great. I had a bloody nose and now bad bruising on my left leg.
Please take care of yourself Sfariah. I hope you are not feeling too achy?
I've done it too, even when I was pregnant with my son. And then I couldn't take anything except 1 regular Tylenol a day. The kid was okay.
Mary
i took 2 Tylenol around 10:30 which was 3 and a quarter hours ago.
Complaint: I have a bad headache & can't tell if it's sinus or a mild migraine. I can't tell because my migraines don't have the classic symptoms. So I took anti migraine meds in case.
Non-complaint: it is our 34th anniversary & I am hoping The Husband will make the chocolate chip cookie mix.
Warum essen Hühner ihre eigenen Eier? or does she?
I finally was able to get photographic evidence this morning for you. The 3rd pillow is more of a brace/wind brake for me. I have spine issues and developed a series of pillows to prop up my back when I sleep. Charlie moved in and found the 3rd one is hard, can be flattened down and purrfect for sleeping on. It also gives him access to my hair so he can run his claws and teeth through it to groom it when I am asleep. Kind of a cool weird feeling.
Mary
Charlie looks like a pretty kitty. Love the name. Sorry about the spine issues. Glad you can get some relief with the pillow set up.
hope you don't mind me saving the picture to my iPad?
I am up. Now to get breakfast which will be cereal. Not sure which kind.
Not at all @Sfariah_D. Charlie is a bossy cat. So be careful, he might just start telling you when it is time to go to bed, wake up, feed him, brush him, play time, turn on You Tube, and get off the computer. His nickname is 'Momma Cat' as I believe he raised Simon, who he is a year and a half older than. They are bonded, male, mates now.
I took the trash dumpster to the curb. It is the usual size of one for a house.
I saw this near the street. I had to get my iPad to take pictures of it.
Right now I'm listening to music in my AirPod. I want it to drown out the poltical radio. I don't like listening to politics. Please focus on the fungi pictures. They are so fascinating!
This is a leg selfie I just took this morning. It is bruised from my fall Friday. It is amazing it does not hurt at all.
edit I think I was wrong. It does hurt when I use that leg. Especially when I walk.
When is the Quick Grab outlet gonna be updated? Hopefully, it'll be put up while I sleep.
Educated guess: Last week when it did this, it popped up the new selection at 12 hours after changeover. So... maybe then?