In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Not worried about being attacked outside my apartment SIX.
Already dealt with a stressed out lab technician this morning and a snarky manager from a local fast food place that is contemplating reopening.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Good for you, BRENDA! Mission accomplished.
When do you get the results?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
#WEARAMASK
Yeah, it is good. I hate vampires.
Should be next Monday. I will drop by my doc's office tomorrow and make an appointment to go in and see her about that as well as get refills for my meds.
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Hey SIX, let us know how the A/C works out for you! I hope you get to enjoy that cool, sweet breeze...!
Me too.
It shouldn't get too hot in my house tomorrow. It usually takes a day or two of hot weather and warm nights to really heat up. I'll have it keeping the humidity out for sure though.
Any luck figuring out how that skunk got in?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Not worried about being attacked outside my apartment SIX.
Good.
I think the news wants everybody to. At least here in the US. It's creepy.
I live close to one of the most historically "dangerous" cities in the US and nothing is any different today than it was last week.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:A little stiff like always, but so far, vastly improved from when I woke up really jacked-up a few days ago. Thanks for asking!
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Hey KIKI, how's the back?
Weather's going to be unusually hot and oddly humid for the next couple of days. Stay cool!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
#WEARAMASK
So far the house is staying cool(ish) because it's cooling down nicely at night and the structure as well as the ground haven't heated up yet. In the PM when the ocean breeze kicks in - it makes it all the way here to the foothills! - I open up the doors and windows, and in the AM I close them back up. I'm glad I had those 2 (security) screen doors put in! which helps to create a nice cross breeze as well. This upcoming summer will be the first summer I test them out both together since I had the second screen door put in only later last summer.
I have a very simple but tasty recipe, makes 12 servings:
3.5lbs of ground pork made into 24 small meatballs and baked (you can always just brown it loose), with the juice drained off, then defatted, and returned. If your ground pork is like this new brand I tried out, you'll lose at least a pound of fat. (I may just buy a pork shoulder and have it trimmed and ground instead of getting that pre-ground type.)
1.5 lbs dried white beans (I used navy because that's what I had, but any white bean will do. My personal favorite so far is great northern.), cleaned, rinsed, and soaked in just regular water - no salt of anything - at least a full 24 hours at room temperature, or up to 36 (that I know of). (A good long pre-soak makes beans uniformly cooked and smooth on the inside and keeps the skins intact. Some beans become soft and creamy on the inside while others stay a bit firmer, depending on the type of bean. But the long pre-soak works for every kind of bean I've tried it with. And my experience is you can't oversoak beans. It's OK if they release air and get a few bubbles on the water at room temps. And if you're not ready to cook them, you can move them to the frig for 3 days until you cook them.)
Into a large pot add the beans AND soaking water, a pound of chopped onion, the meatballs/ ground meat and their defatted juice, 2 large bay leaves, and a mere half cup of tomato juice (or 1 medium tomato, blendered - the tomato adds a hint of umami but you don't want to taste it, which is why there's so little in the recipe). Cook covered at 350F till the beans are done, and portion out to serve or freeze.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Not worried about being attacked outside my apartment SIX.
Good.
I think the news wants everybody to. At least here in the US. It's creepy.
I live close to one of the most historically "dangerous" cities in the US and nothing is any different today than it was last week.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
The Canadian news has covered 3 protests in Canada 1 in Vancouver that happened today. Was quiet and 1 in Victoria also quiet. 1 in Toronto after an incident there, a young woman fell from her apartment balcony and it is being investigated. Nothing happened at that one. There was 1 in Montreal, Sunday. There was some windows broken, small fires and I think some stuff stolen. 11 people arrested.
The one in Victoria wasn't really covered as it just popped up and was only mentioned by another reporter after covering Dr. Henry talking about schools reopening in BC.
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I don't know about now, but overall your government has a long history of caring about its citizens, what with universal healthcare, low-cost post-high-school education, well-supported public transport, and other public services. People up there don't have their backs to the wall quite like here. The well-off aren't quite so obscenely well-off, and the desperate aren't quite so hungry and desperate.
Ain't 'Merica great! /sarcasm
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We've discussed this in other threads. There is a lot more money to go around when you don't have to worry at all about military spending because your friendly with big-brother-to-the-south that spends more money than the rest of the world on military.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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We've discussed this in other threads. There is a lot more money to go around when you don't have to worry at all about military spending because your friendly with big-brother-to-the-south that spends more money than the rest of the world on military.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Yes, we have but big brother to the south has been late to help out through 2 world wars then tends to grab all the credit. Your military spending has also led to... I don't want to cause a row in here Jack. As I said before Canada's population and economy won't lend to big military spending. So we don't.
You mentioned minorities to me the other day Jack and you forget technically I am a minority. In Canada I and my family going back to my dad's mother are Metis which means Indian and French blood. The only thing that stops us from claiming any sort of status in regard to that was the fact that my grandmother was an American.
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I don't know about now, but overall your government has a long history of caring about its citizens, what with universal healthcare, low-cost post-high-school education, well-supported public transport, and other public services. People up there don't have their backs to the wall quite like here. The well-off aren't quite so obscenely well-off, and the desperate aren't quite so hungry and desperate.
Ain't 'Merica great! /sarcasm
It does but big cities in Canada do have big to hug homeless problems. Reserves can be in shoddy shape all across country with high rates of alcoholism and other substance abuses on them.
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