Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch-Part Six

[2legsshrt]

Is she a herding breed? She wants to keep y'all rounded up! Stay!

No she is a Havanese. We went with a small dog. Had her for about 3 years now. She is a doll but spoiled rotten.

 

[Iffy]

I think I was 18 before I ever missed a meal.

Ya really expect us to believe ya weren't ever sent to bed without supper as a younglin'?

 

[DavidOck]

peanut butter and graham crackers hidden under the bed

 

[Semiretired]

peanut butter and graham crackers hidden under the bed

One of my favorite snacks as a kid. And of course I don't pass up a chance on them now either...

 

[bigbells]

Ya really expect us to believe ya weren't ever sent to bed without supper as a younglin'?

Always managed to plea bargain for some food. The subject actually gets serious at some point here, I think, with tales of pitiful whining and kids finding out whether it would be mom or dad who would break down first.

I'm pretty sure there was a time my sister was sent to bed without supper, and she just complied without complaint. A couple hours later mom or dad was waking her up to give her something to eat.

 

[bigbells]

peanut butter and graham crackers hidden under the bed

"David, I washed your sheets today. There was some stuff smeared on the sheets. Did you have an accident?"

 

[Semiretired]

Always managed to plea bargain for some food. The subject actually gets serious at some point here, I think, with tales of pitiful whining and kids finding out whether it would be mom or dad who would break first.

My father was always the softee. Mother was like a stone immovable - even when she was wrong.

 

[Sir Kadly]

My father was always the softee. Mother was like a stone immovable - even when she was wrong.

Wrong??? But my mom always taught me that women are never wrong...

 

[umanbean]

"I washed your sheets today. There was some stuff smeared on the sheets. Did you have an accident?"

-or-

"I washed your sheets today. There were some magazines under the mattress. Are they yours, or did they get there by accident?"

 

[DavidOck]

My older brother put them there.

 

[Kenna]

My father was always the softee. Mother was like a stone immovable - even when she was wrong.

Mom wrong? [emoji79] Mine is never wrong, & never apologizes. Even when wrong is staring her in the face. Never says please or thank you to her kids. It taught me to be quick to do the opposite. But if I went without eating it was my choice. I just wish I could break the habit of cleaning my plate. Or at least getting smaller portions!

 

[Kenna]

Dbl post. Somehow I did it wrong!

 

[Kenna]

Triple post? Ok, that's not me. Tapacrap is whacked.

 

[Debadoo]

Wrong??? But my mom always taught me that women are never wrong...

well of course she's right!!!

 

[Kaezziel]

I can post the recipe if anyone else wants it, or pm it it if not. It's a Tex-Mex layer tortiilla, chicken, cheese casserole. Quick, easy, tasty! Mom's recipe is called George Straight's King Ranch Cassrole. Lurkers, speak up!

Sounds good! Definitely sounds like somthin' that I'd eat!

We do the tortillas on one burner & the meats, or whatever, on another at the same time. Just medium to low flame, straight on the burner & flip with tongs. We normally use flour tortillas. BIL & his kids are from NM so thats where we learned.

I have to use corn tortillas for everything because my Bride had Celiac disease and can't have anything with wheat (or anything else that contains gluten). I did throw some of the corn ones on the burner this weekend, though, and they were very good that way. Not as soft as when ya nuke 'em, but they seemed to have a bit more flavor with that little bit of char... I'll definitely be doing that again!

I'm too far behind to even think about catching up. I hope that everybody is well. After ten days of working like a pack mule, I'm home. They can call me for overtime if they want to this week, but it's not happening.

We had an S92 that was hit by lightning on the flight line, so I was a busy woman while I was at work. It's a HUGE bird. Don't know if you can see this video, but they're on here.

Very happy to see ya again, Deb! I figger'd that you were off workin' your tail off. Just hope that you can get some good rest and recuperate a bit before ya gotta get back to it.

Love a good shredded beef taco. The ground beef ones are good but, not as good as shredded. Just saying. I actually like the Old ElPaso taco seasoning. We get the kits quite often because they're not bad and are really quick to fix (cheap too!).

Usually for beef tacos, I grill skirt steak with some fajita seasoning, then cut it into small pieces. Not a huge fan of ground beef tacos, but I'll eat 'em. Shredded is definitely better... but skirt steak is my favorite!

I love shrimp tacos. Fish too, but prefer those if the fish is battered and deep fried. With shrimp, don't care if they're battered or not, but actually prefer them just sauteed or grilled.

I haven't had a fried fish taco... the ones I've had were grilled. Fried would be pretty darn good, too! Still haven't had a shrimp taco, but will look for 'em next time I go to the taco shack!

really wish I had a gas stove. You probably know, but that's also a great way to char peppers to peel them. Just put em right on the gas flame, keep turning em. Then put em in a bowl with plastic wrap on top about 20 minutes, to steam em. Peel comes right off. Have often wondered if this would work with maters.

Yep, my Bride does that with Hatch Green Chili Peppers. Then put 'em in the food processor with some cream cheese and fajita seasoning... makes a pretty awesome dip! That might work with maters, but I've never tried it... I have grilled the little cherry maters, and it looks like the skin would probably come off pretty easy, so I imagine that it would work.

Why would anyone peel a pepper???

Lotsa reasons... grillin' 'em brings out a completely different flavor, but it makes the skin too tough, so ya peel 'em.

In my recent experience, there are several distinct culinary phases after ones' wife leaves for a several-days road trip with her Mom and Sis:

1. Friday - after work, bring home take-out catfish plates for self and son.

2. Spend Saturday working outside and simultaneously 'cleaning out the fridge' and snack cabinet... have 'friendly' competition with son to see who gets 'the good stuff' first. Eat peanut butter on Ritz crackers, and potted meat on saltines for the first time in a long while... hmmm, not too bad...

3. Sat. eve. - after son leaves to go jukin', eat chicken and wild rice soup, cold, straight from can... augment with beer, saltines, and vienna sausage as necessary. Then open every door and turn on every light in the house; including deck, porches and carport. Stream smooth Jazz radio off internet after turning house stereo system up to '7'... work towards organizing 'stuff' - open all drawers in filing cabinet, spread papers out on all available horizontal surfaces, drag junk out of closets, stay up too late - snacking prolifically as-necessary. Crash on top of made-up bed, lights and music still on.

4. Sun. a.m. - drink too much coffee, eat last of lemon pound cake wife left, while watching CBS Sunday Morning - then later eat brunch: tuna-in-spring-water (again, straight from can) with saltines. After another while - assess pantry, cabinets, and freezers; make grocery list so I can go buy some 'good stuff'.

5. Decide instead to ride golf cart buggy in the woods and on dirt roads.
Charging it's battery, filling a cooler, grabbing a .22 rifle, takin' off... see y'all later!

Hahahahahaha!!! Loved this, but couldn't relate... last time my Bride was gone for a couple of days, I grilled quail, fried squirrel, made biscuits, and basically ate everything that I normally can't have when she's at home. I ate GOOD!!!

I stroked out Sunday

{{{{{{{{{{LULU}}}}}}}}}} So happy that you're recovering and able to post and update. Now rest up and take care of yourself!! Praying HARD for a quick and full recovery!

Oh, we don't. I was trying to thank the wench for cleaning my refrigerator, and she said, "Look, don't get all mushy on me." We are VERY irreverent with each other. For us it's the ultimate form of love.

LMAO!!!!!!! You have no idea how much I have laughed at your re-telling of this today!!! Thanks for that!!

I have a happy story!

Got together with Geordi's breeder today. We took Geordi and his sister to Rural King for some socializing and training then went back to her place. She has 3 horses, cutting/roping horses, all in their upper 20s in years. Real nice horses. I used to ride hunters/jumpers when I was young and haven't been on a horse in many years. She was in a car accident 4 years ago and we are lucky she survived. She was real banged up with breaks and concision, but is much better now. She hadn't ridden since the accident. Last week her daughter and family came to visit and they rode the horses. So today, we saddled 2 of them up and rode in her pasture. Man, it was so good to be back in the saddle again! Although the muscles aren't there anymore, the memory is. I felt at home. We are going to go riding more in the future as we can get together.

So for me, it was a GREAT day! Back in the saddle again!

AWESOME!! I haven't been on a horse in quite a number of years, either... I really miss that. Never really rode for any "purpose" other than enjoyment. My Bride used to show horses in her younger days (before we met). Whenever she gets her strength back up enough to handle it, I want to take her somewhere to ride... there should be somewhere around here where we can rent-to-ride for a day (more like an hour or two... that would be about all either of us could handle at this point!). Glad y'all had such an awesome time and visit!

An old memory just popped out of nowhere. Well actually, out of somewhere, but I don't want to give away a clue. It's more fun if it takes you a few seconds to pull the file from the old memory bank:

Fizzies.

Remember them? (They were pretty horrible, even when I was a kid.)

Remember them? Heck, I bought some the other day... just for the sake of memory. They were better as a memory... Bought a coupla Abba Zabbas, too... those are still awesome!

CliffNote story of yesteryear:

summer school recreation program field trip (twix 1st & 2nd grade) to wildlife/'gator farm
one raccoon in large enclosure wid a flow thru water source
one grape Fizzie from lil' Johnny's lunch bag
raccoon realizing Fizzie getting smaller wid each 'rinse', pops said Fizzie in mouth
raccoon doing NASCAR laps after Fizzie 'explodes' in mouth wid abundant purple rabies foam aflying
lil' Johnny successfully ditches lunch bag

LMAO!!! I could actually picture that in my mind! That would have been absolutely hilarious in person!!!

 

[Debadoo]

Yep, my Bride does that with Hatch Green Chili Peppers. Then put 'em in the food processor with some cream cheese and fajita seasoning.

oh yummmm.....I bet that would be good. and with some cilantro too. I love love love me some cilantro, I even stuff the bird cavity with it, and use it in my stuffing for Thanksgiving. Sounds odd, but my niece who is a very picky eater, said it was the best stuffin she'd ever had.

 

[Semiretired]

Triple post? Ok, that's not me. Tapacrap is whacked.

That is why I quit using it...

 

[Semiretired]

well of course she's right!!!

 

[3mg Meniere]

AWESOME!! I haven't been on a horse in quite a number of years, either... I really miss that. Never really rode for any "purpose" other than enjoyment. My Bride used to show horses in her younger days (before we met). Whenever she gets her strength back up enough to handle it, I want to take her somewhere to ride... there should be somewhere around here where we can rent-to-ride for a day (more like an hour or two... that would be about all either of us could handle at this point!). Glad y'all had such an awesome time and visit!

You don't have to wait. Even driving a sulky would be fun. When a horsewoman wants a ride, people can get very creative. Watch this; it gave me tears the other day.

 

[bigbells]

You don't have to wait. Even a ride in a sulky would be fun. When a horsewoman wants a ride, people can get very creative. Watch this; it gave me tears the other day.

Guess I better go rinse my face before the salt from my tears gets too caked, but I'm not done weeping yet. That was so amazingly beautiful.