..... the 13th,,,lol.

I made it!  lol.  Glad i went yesterday, today is so foggy, not safe to drive.   I went to the Bluebonnet, there since 1929, and got the fish.  ummmmm.. Got home and got my big red wagon to load my stuff in, dropped my plate of leftovers, but,,,it landed upside down is all, so was ok, just mixed.  Got everything in, almost, just left the 24 pk of water out there.  Way too heavy for me to even move from wagon to inside.  Don't know where i'd put it anyway.  ONLY reason i have that, was, if you bought duracell batteries, which i had to, you got that water free.  HEB has that kind of thing a lot.  I'm gonna just bring in a few at a time.  I shopped there instead of Walmart because i didn't need other things.  Well, had to get stamps, glue, but HEB had those.  You can get lost on some of their freebies. lol.  Buy this, get all these free. 

I keep reading others blogs, and i don't think there's any sun left.  Not here either, and won't be.  But i love rain, so bring it on.

Lol, told DD he should check out Ol Jules, and then!!1 today, he's got all this stuff about the sun.  hahahaha  He's always talking about stuff that DD does too.

I ordered some stuff way back, about a month ago, and filled in on ,,other instructions,,to put on the box,,Do Not Open til 12-14.  I had it delivered to my niece and her family at Lake Worth.  Since i had never done this, i texted her too, not to open til then,, the reason being she and her oldest have birthdays starting on the 14th.  She told me, tho, that it was on the box, so they have gotten to stare at it, wondering what,,,  Well, tomorrow is the day.  It's BDs and Christmas time.   One time, we were at the check out counter with my oldest son's pellet gun, paying for it so we could hide it in the trunk, and here he walked up.  Well, it was the WORST thing he ever had happen,,because he had to wait til Christmas to get it!! The thing he wanted more than anything,,was torture.  It was about 6 weeks, too. lolol,,poor kid.  They pored over those catalogs, making lists, and just wore them out.  I got 2 Christmas ones.  But he told me one time,,how do you always know what i want?,,,

Visibility, 1/3 mile right now, just after noon.

I know there was something else i wanted to put on here, but,,,where it went i don't know.  So yall tc, and

HAGD

Grocery Shopping Day,,

Gosh, we have lost a lot of bloggers, seems to me.  Is it the season?  Mine is gonna be short today, going to Marble Falls doing my LONG grocery list, and the savings more than pay for the gas.  I tell ya, this one here gouges.  Besides, that good mexican restaurant sounds really good.  But who knows, by then, something else might. lol,,,They have one that's been there forever, and serves the best home cooking type meals.  It's the one, that when i get there, i can't decide on their chicken livers, or fish fillets.  OMG, mouth's watering right now!  lol.

Gotta git,,yall tc and

HAGD

Fried Chicken for Christmas

Gosh, it's taking me more time to read the paper than before.  I just kinda dawdle.  Then there are some of the ads i like to look thru.  NOT all,,,lol.  I can never pass up a Home Depot one.  Or a Lowes. lol, I should have, that's the way i got my front doors, looking in that thing and seeing what they had that door priced at!  When i bought them, i had no idea when i would get them put in, so just propped them up in that front room i rarely use.  This time of year is pricey for me.  Seems like all the extra stuff comes due this quarter.  So the doors were out of place.  No extras now,,for a while.  Good thing i got Christmas done way back, but i'm the kind of person that shops all year, lays things up for birthdays, or Christmas, or something.  I've always done that.  When i would run across something and think,,ooo,,,so and so would just love this,,i would buy it and put it up for later.  So Christmas is not bad, since i've been spending all year.  Now,,if i just had the food figured out,,,,lol.  OMG,,,i know!!!  A bucket of fried chicken!!!  hahahahaha,,,not kidding.  I know for sure, my youngest brother would LOVE that.  And,,, the little ones. Ok,,gotta ask the place if they're open or not.  Even that sounds better to me, than turkey or ham,,,AAAAGAIN. 

I found 2 waffles yesterday, when i was going thru my freezer.  Ate em this morning.  My freezer is just one on top of my fridge, but plenty big enough for me.  Even with that one, i have to watch it and try not to let things get old.  Like part of a roll of sausage, i had to toss.  Since i don't cook much, i  don't store stuff for later.  What i put in it, is for instant access stuff, things i can microwave.  I'm ready for some new "stuff" now,,,lol.  I still have a fairly large serving of those veges i cooked, so i need to get those gone.  Not now,,lol,,they don't go with the other 1/2 of my burger from last nite.  That reminded me,,,(%*^&$#$% on that burger!  I pick it up at the Sonic, get home, and it's made with mayo!!! YUKKK.  They just can't get an order right!,,I order, no pickles, and then have to take them off but that's not the same,,,i can't take that mayo off.  Soo,,i call, and of course, am told to,,,bring it back,,,I tell em NO WAY, not getting back out.  Finally talk to the manager, and i have a credit for one, which serves them right.  I told him i'll just have to look at my order every time, before i leave.  And, of course, he's blaming it on "new help",,which i can understand, but where is the one that's teaching the new help?  I know i seem extreme, but gosh. don't you get tired of ineptitude?  All the time?  I did get in my car one time and take back some chicken, and when i showed it to the manager, he said "OMG, no one can eat that!"  Same with some fish from there.  Moral of this story,,,lol,,,watch it!

Now i'm hungry,,left over burger coming up... yall tc,,,and

HAGD

Another Day, Another,,,uh,,Whatever,,,,

Wow, i have so many new blogs to read (not all of em are listed), takes me a long time to post mine.  So many i look forward to each day, and i'm really missing ONE of them,,hey BB, you hearing this?,,,lol.  Must be catching so many fish, having a hard time cleaning and eating them,,or,,,throwing them back.  God forbid,,getting pics...hahahahaha

I think i told yall, i needed to use my eggs, soooo,,,this morning, i had 2 scrambled, with bacon, and one of Ss homemade rolls.  Gosh, was good.  I think i still have some of those little sausages, cocktail, in the freezer, that i'll use tomorrow.  I think i've told you, you can cook bacon frozen, just put it in the pan, and it peels off as it thaws.  That's the way i did this morning.  Ummm,,,good, too.  If you don't want to use all of it, just take out the still frozen  and put it back in the freezer.  Figured that out one time when i needed some bacon, and it was frozen .  You're hearing this from someone, me, that won't use a whole package before it ruins.  And yep, i've bought the pre-cooked, but was out of that.  OMG,,have yall seen how high that salt pork is???,, I refused to buy it last time i needed it!!!!  That's how i came up with this bacon.  Was just as good in my bean soup.

OK,,enough cooking lessons today.  Forward, hooo. lol,,Now what?

It has clouded up and feels cooler, got dressed in my sweats.  Yall wanna hear a story about these new sweats i bought a couple of years ago?,,,Don't think i've told it here, but anyhow,,,I bought 4 sets, got home and tossed em in the washer.  Now this is still a huge mystery to me,,,but,,,SOMEHOW,, they got washed with one of those maxi maxi pads!!!  Can you imagine,, millions of these tiny little white specks stuck on all these dark colored sweats?  I can't and i saw it for real.  Well,,,ok,,decide to run em thru the wash again,,hmmm,,,didn't help much, so,,put em in the dryer,,,nearly stopped it up.  Was such a thick layer on the filter, wonder it didn't get on fire.,,,Ok,,run thru the dryer again.  Finally,,,getting somewhere.  That whole first winter,,i was speckled.  Picking,,,watching for a fire in my dryer.  I just pretended that was how they were supposed to be...hahahaha,,,

Ok,,over that now,,took a few years, but,,,had to live with it,,,lolol. And specks.

Digging around in my freezer i found 3 bags of pecans.  When we had the big house, back in the 80s i think, there were 6 pecan trees,3 or 4 varieties.  One was a big soft shell native, the rest had been grafted.  Well, one year they ALL made.  I had pecans running out my ears.  We had the poles and thrashed them, picked up forever, off the plastic and stuff on the ground.  Really hurt, crawling around and hitting them with your knees.  I had the whole porch covered with big paper sacks of them.  Tried to give em away, couldn't sell em, too many that year, and no one would take em,,and that was sitting there in those bags!!!  Guess they wanted them  peeled and in bags!!.  Didn't know what i was gonna do,  then Dad said he'd help for 1/2.  Whoooopeeee.  I took them all and had them cracked, then,,,we shelled all winter.   Every time anybody sat down in my house, they were handed a pan and shucked.  lol. Fingers turned black, but ,,,we got em all done!!.  Had gallons and gallons of shelled pecans in my freezer, and they did too.  They don't ever ruin, but what i have now is not those. lol.  I gave em away for Christmas gifts, a gallon of pecans.  lol. Had to get rid of some of them.  I don't think those trees ever made like that again, and now my youngest bro lives there.  The old native tree has died, but the rest are still there.

Gonna get outa here,,,yall tc, and

HAGD

PS,,forgot to add.  Wanted to tell all of you that don't make me print out a word verification to comment on your blogs...thx so much.




 

Sooo Late Today

Just had my waffles.  lol, I know it's almost noon.  It was my last 2, gosh, i'm getting a long grocery list for next week.  I guess i need to think about what i'm gonna cook for Christmas, but,,,that thot just now hit me.   I did those hunks of red potatoes for Thanksgiving, but just don't wanna do those again.  Hate the thot of the same foods again.  But nothing sounds good, anyway, at least not often.  HA,,,that way i won't eat much.  I just might do some stir-fry veges ( not spinach,,hehehe).  I CAN make that good tho.  Stir fry with some bacon grease, onions, bacon bits, good seasonings,,,  I still have my lemon pepper, Mrs Dash, 2 or 3 unopened, and a couple more of good ones.  O yeah, garlic powder.  I keep that in the fridge, with a few more. 

Those frozen veges i cooked yesterday, were ok, but not something i'll do again.  They looked better than they tasted,,to me, but of course, i never cared for veges.  (except that spinach,,hahahah).  I drink V-8 sometimes,,does that count? lolol  One year, long ago, i craved green beans, fresh, and since i did ONE garden and no more, i started looking for them at road side stands, grocery stores, (we had 3 at that time).  Months went on by, and NO GREEN BEANS!! How can that be?  My craving had gotten worse, i'm dreaming about them.  No one around here had a garden either!  Well, about 3 months down the line, i went into one of the little mom and pop groceries,,and ,,,,there they were!!!.  I bought a BIG bag of them, some new potatoes, and got my pressure cooker out, cooked them right then.  Nearly ate the whole pot.  Don't know why i did that,  my body was screaming for em, but i don't know why.  Think it was just my taste buds,,,

Nothing screaming at me today.  Trying to eat stuff out of my freezer, and making pretty good progress.  I have to do that sometimes, to keep stuff from getting old, and to make room for other things.  I should take some of that venison out, but,,,not sure i want to do that much cooking.  lol,,It's just one pan, but makes a mess battering it and all.

Today seems so much like Saturday.  Several times i have reminded myself it's Friday.  It's not a bad day, kinda sunny sometimes.  Not really cold. 

Ok,,nothing but babble, so,,,yall tc,

HAGD

Almost Christmas,,i Tell You

My management of time is getting worse, i tell ya.  Since i don't HAVE to manage it, it just gets away.  I was up about 8/30,,and here it is, 1 pm,,and i'm just getting started here.  There were a LOT of blogs to read,,,that's why.  And comment on.  I thot i had a problem with my keyboard, but after lots of time spent trying to correct it, finally realized i didn't have one to start with.  Now,,go figure. 

Cooked a bag of veges, big hunks of em, and used the rest of that beef broth.  If you look, you can find all kinds of new things at a big market.  Like these, in the frozen section.  Gonna have em with some ham steak, potato salad i keep on hand.  I need to correct the date on the camera,,don't i?,,,lol.  Never been interested in doing pics, especially with a camera, so i'm just not good at it, so what you see is what you get.  That or nothing.. I see all these good photographers on here, and then,,i put mine on?  Gosh,,what am i thinking?

Years ago, like 30 or more, 2 women here, wrote a book and put lots of old pictures in it, about our town, the history.  This year, they did an extension, and added about 52 more pages, with some old old pictures.  I found one that l especially love, and it was taken before the dam was built, right here in the city!!!  Pre 1892!!!  I didn't even know they could take pics then.  Most of the new part is about the North side, and it's heyday.  That's where the train brought in passengers, a huge hotel, and lots of other businesses.  Fascinating.  I got mine back weeks ago, at a book signing.  Still not all the way thru it.  Anyway, i had it with me yesterday, and stopped by the car lot, and showed my x that picture,,He said he had been meaning to get one too, just hadn't done it.  Welllll,,,since our 2 kids never know what to get him, i called and told my dotter, but she had already gotten his gift.  Later, my son called, asking about it.  I told him how to get one, so maybe my x won't buy one before then,,and i warned my son.  O well, each could have one,,,,There won't ever be any more.  i typed the manuscript for the 1st one, and that was before computers!  For doing that, i was given 4 copies, so each of the kids have their own.  Well, i have 2 now.  3 if you count the new one.  Going thru my Mother's things, i found hers, and gave it to my g/dotter. 

Might bbl,,,but ,,,yall tc,

HAGD

You Actually Believe What the Weathermen Say?

LMAOOO,,just read rvsue's blog, and she was talking about watching weather reports ahead of her.  OMG,, those weathermen get so much wrong, i wouldn't have any faith in any report they put out.  Would yall?  I'd check with a whole lot of em, and then go down the middle,,,They sure can't predict rain,,,(snow?) at all around here.  And that would be my main concern towing an rv, on bad roads.  Sunny weather, no matter what the temp,,would sure be my choice, but,,how would you know?  Well, here in the summer, it's always that, so you do know. lololol.

Yall believe in all that man made global warming?  I've read too much about the other side of the coin, so to speak, to take it serious.  Yeah, weather has been unusual but that seems to happen every 1000 years or so,,and that makes it normal.  Man has nothing to do with it, it's nature.  One even said all the hoopla has been caused by newscasters, causing the scare thing, over-reaction to it.  They need something about every 20 years or so, to jump on the band wagon with,,,now it's weather, global warming.  Before this, it was something else, can't remember what, but you might.  There's lots of info out there on this.

O Wow, F1 might be coming to Austin, after all.  Construction on the track starting up again.  They had moved all the heavy equipment away, now bringing it back.  A race gonna be run next year, Sept i think it said.  Get ready DD!!!!!  Throw that job out the window, take off in that new home!!!  Must be a LOT of money involved,,,lololol.  This just happened this morning,,

Got some cornbread cooking to go with my 15-bean soup i took out of the freezer.  And yes it's still not out of date. hahahahaha,,And,,,it's the last package, and on my list again.  Not gonna look at the egg date.  lololol   I just ate oatmeal tho, so it'll be a while before i eat it.  Gotta remember to eat those eggs, i have had em a long time,,, I took something out of my fridge, in a butter container, took the lid off, and,,,have no idea what it was, since it's all mold now.  Think i oughta put the fridge on my cleaning list?  How long is cheese good, if it's not moldy?  I usually just cut that off and use it. hahahahaha,,, OK,,no more food talk.  Got yall sick probably.

That reminds me of that green thing i read somewhere, rvsue?.  We didn't throw food away and didn't come up with food poisoning.  We left most leftovers out from dinner to supper on Thanksgiving and Christmas, and no problem.  I rarely ever looked for an expiration date on anything.  Now,,spices are different.  They just don't "spice" any more,,,it's not the date, it's the taste.  If i ever cook any more, it will cost a fortune,,,lol having to buy all the ingredients.  Stick to bean soup, cornbread mixes...

I just remembered,,had to do a load of laundry.  I still wash in cold water, using liquid soap.  Well, it says u can.  Clothes are clean, best i can tell.

I'm gonna get my faucet covers out of the store room today and stick em on the 3 outside ones.  Have to take hoses off first.  It got down to 25 here,,what that man said on tv,,and tonite supposed to be colder,,,he says,,sooo,,they need it any way,then i'll be thru.

Am i outa date???,,,Out of the 10? new rock hall of famers, i just knew a couple.  Never heard of most of em!!  Well, maybe heard the names, but not the music,,,,My kinda rock is from the 60s, 70s.  Maybe some 80s.

It amazes me, how many Idol singers are at the top of their genre.  In the awards shows, so many winning are x Idols.  One of my favs from Idol is Adam Lambert,  love his voice, his style.  Well, not when he's kissing a guitar player, but otherwise,,,hahahahaha.  He was in the top 10 money makers from last year, like #6. 

Ok,,gotta get,,yall tc

HAGD