tranquility

While cleaning I found quite a few camcorder tapes of my family during holidays, doggies we had and our cruise. These are Hi8 tapes and I know there used to be a way to use a VCR type tape to put them in so you could watch them but don't know if they still make those. These have my Mom on them during Thanksgiving and Christmas for several years and I would really like to watch them and have a way to preserve them for years to come. Anyone know if I can have them transferred to DVD ?

Their Jamaican spice tuna is the bomb on a Jalapeno and cheese bagel. Sounds odd but boy is it good. I think it's called Jamaica me crazy tuna !!

Set your clocks an hour ahead so you aren't late getting somewhere tomorrow. I meant to do this earlier but watched a movie and just now remembered.

Just a small price to pay for clean blinds.

That's good stuff isn't it ? I was in line at $ Tree not long ago and a guy in front of me had 4-5 bottles of it, he was telling everyone how he is a mechanic and that stuff is "Awesome". I think he just found it because he was still very excited about it. Today I will do the livingroom and diningroom. I hate corners on anything, windows, doors and mirrors. I use Q-tips to get in the corners.

If your blinds are wood or the faux wood plantation type you may want to look it up to see the best cleaner, I wouldn't soak wood or faux wood in the tub. I clean our faux plantation blinds with diluted Clorax Clean up but I'm a bit addicted to that stuff anyway. Awesome Green (Dollar Tree)is a great cleaner also, that stuff will take road tar off your car and not hurt the paint. I use it for the cars and cleaning our outside trash cans because it's so quick to work. No scrubbing.I have also used it on the cheaper plastic blinds and it worked great. I take a tarp out on the driveway, let t

I started yesterday in the kitchen, bleaching (Clorax Clean-up) doors, trim, baseboards, cleaning windows, washing and re-arranging cabinets and the pantry. Taking pots and pans out of the cabinets and washing the ones I haven't used in a couple months. (dust) One room at the time from floor to ceiling. Just checking to see if this is a ritual other people do also before spring and winter. It's about time to swap out the winter clothes for summer clothes, that's always fun.

Very cool, thanks for sharing. I love the rival grandmas handing out meatballs part.

I would say in 2007 after my husband and I both were laid off when the housing industry collapsed. We were happy go lucky and felt secure in our lives until then, the first part of 2008 hit us hard with the realization that our industry was pretty much non existent. It was terrifying and a hard adjustment. It made us quickly aware that our world would never be the same again. I feel as though we have aged at least 10 years since 2008.

Maybe that's what we need around here, a time out when people get mean and nasty. We could have a "time out" list so everyone would know they were in time out and maybe they wouldn't be so quick to jump next time.

It's amazing how "back then" they set out dinner on tables for hours covered with towels to keep the flies off and we didn't get sick. Now we have about 30 minutes or so before Salmonella sets in and tries to kill us. I haven't seen a canner blow up but I had to squat and duck walk to turn the stove off once when my sister's pressure cooker jigger blew off, she kept yelling that it would blow up if we didn't get the heat turned off.

Not mentioning "her" made me think you got hit on the head and forgot.

These stories are great ! They make you wish you were there and if you try hard enough you can feel the warm air and hear the birds singing. Thanks Lowrider. I have always wished I grew up on a farm, as far back as I can remember. I loved to pick vegetables, shell peas, etc. I helped a neighbor years ago, we would spend most of the day sometimes cutting vegetables to make chow-chow and washing veggies so she could can them. Yum ! The only thing I really hated with a passion was picking okra. It was gosh awful !

That is exactly the name that popped into my head too. That and the word "sheep".

Wow Lowrider, that was fresh. Memories are wonderful. These are making me want to go to the store and cook a big meal tonight but I just don't know what to cook. We are pretty much burnt out on chicken and had roast a few days ago. I'm thinking though.. Maybe cubed steak. I fry it in Panko bread crumbs until it turns brown then bake it to finish the cooking. It's really good. I love Panko bread crumbs !

Every week we had Sunday dinner. My Mom would cook on Saturday and when we would get home from church on Sunday we would change clothes, I would help her take things out of the refrigerator and heat it up then we would sit down, say the blessing and eat the most wonderful home cooked meals. Everything was always perfectly delicious. Roast beef with potatoes, carrots and onions or chicken and dressing, mashed potatoes with gravy, beets and some sort of fresh cooked beans and always cornbread to go with the beans. These were my two favorite "Sunday" meals. She enjoyed cooking, the old

Good morning, a couple more.....

I don't post often anymore because I really don't want to have to sit and monitor the post all day to see if someone said something ugly or had a differing opinion. People have different ideas and opinions, that is what makes us individuals and we should be able to express them without having to stand and fight to defend them, get ripped to pieces or called a troll. It just seems that some people are walking around in the world looking for a fight and no one else has the right to express their feelings without that fight. Politics and religion are two subjects that incite venom so I sta

We were out on the back deck (off Hiram Sudie) but just saw lightening and a little wind toward Dallas / Hardy Ford area. I stood at the door so I could hear the info. and the "take cover" roads, my husband would ask what they said, I told him they said "get off the deck, redneck". Of course I was out there with him at the time.

I knew you weren't being smart I just wanted to make sure my response didn't sound that way either. The written word can be misunderstood so easily by the way things are said and I didn't want it to come across as negative , all is good, have a great day.

My husband hates that commercial about as much as I hate the "wee, wee, wee pig" commercial. I told him she reminded me of her but he didn't see it, glad you mentioned this one.

I'm sure it was, I'm just impatient and wanted to get a zip code to go look at some rates. *** Note - That may have sounded a little funny, but I promise you it was a legit "I'm sure it was" because I know what was in your heart, not a smart butt kinda tone. I wanted to check rental car options so they could maybe drive the things they have down to her and see her and the kids also, if that was an option. With shipping costs on heavy boxes this may be a better option ?? So many questions, my mind is in over drive.

Funny you mention this, I had this conversation with my doctor. I have become OCD with the antibacterial soap handwashing here lately for some reason. So much so that the top of both hands, across my knuckles were splitting open and I had to use Polysporin on them to heal the cracks. They told me to wash my hands "as needed" and be aware that I was in overkill.

Give us her city and zip code so we can at least look at shipping options to try to get some help with food down there to her, p.com pulls together when there is an emergency. And this definately sounds like an emergency. Maybe we could get together, help with some items and raise the money to ship it down there for you guys.