GOOD DAY (29)

That's where I was, Karen.  It was easier then I thought it would be, thanks to walking.

Good advice, James.  As for me, I'm a lot happier if I feel good, and I feel a lot better since I've lost weight.

gee, you people been talking up an storm....I don' tknow where I left off with Marjorie and Mick now ...I'll have to see if I can find them again...the postings.  I provided the "lightening" around here earlier myself.

Ruth,... we call the potaotes as you described as "baked potato"'s...unless you take out the insides, mix that with sour cream and some milk...make like an mashed potato...and fill inside the jacket of the potato again, sprinkle with cheese and bacon bits and put back in the oven and bake until the cheese is melted...then they are called " twice baked" potatoes....yams are better for everyone's health though supposedly...if you leave off the butter and tone down the salt. They taste good also with steamed broccoli and Dash herbed spices...the one with garlic and onion...little bit of sugar-free maple syrup...forget teh butter/margerine. Your right about starting out with an onion I think...of some kind.  

I don't do dishes...in leiu of that...I don't go in an touch my hubby's so called "room" either...though occasionally we might enter and do something. This came about because when I was an kid, my older sister. Mother had an thing going, one night you washed dishes, one night you dried dishes..and we alternated....this became One night Shirley washed all the dishes that were soaked from the night before also,..and the next night Shirley was putting all the dishes away from the night before that sister was "air drying" so she could dry what little she wasn't soaking clean that night for the next night....Shirley had to do these things because we were accused of "fighting" otherwise and sister was considered mentally " slow" an bit in life. so one could never do anything about making her do things corrrectly as she got off with excuses otherwise. My mother never bought an dishwasher until after I left the house married. I'm not joking here....I was most my life made to deal with an Cinderella lifestyle and those nasty sisters.. So my hubby said...you cook dinner...we have an dishwasher....I'll do the dishes...and  then even times he doesn't do an though job of clean up duties..so I'm still going back over the drainboard after he's done...but an little help is better then none. Tis not to say if I cook things, I don' t do those dishes either. The idea of today is "eat fresh" and it cuts out an lot of dishes...because it leaves out the pots and pans..You can ususally buy food in containers now already made also, that elimnates cooking from scratch also.  Things like potato salad, macaroni salad, etc...buy it and. then add your own touch to it....whic for me is usually frozen veggies of some kind and an bit of fat-free salad dressing. I like the kind that has broccoli bits, kidney beans, carrots, red peppers, onions in my potato salad.And sometimes add salsa on top of it all depending on what else I make to go with it..like and thin crust mushroom pizza...that's dinner for us on an hot night. Sometimes I buy the pizza already made...and have it delivered. I use to know 2 people that worked diffferent pizza chains...if someone didn't come in an pick up an pizza and it was there by closing time, they'd let you buy them for 50 cents if you were an employee to take home with you.

I've been watching that British Chef that came over her(Robert)...renovating restruants on TV...his show is called "Restrurant Impossible" He gets them pretty stirred up at times ...almost telling them they don't know what they are doing, but after things are all done, he leaves them in tears crying for the up-grade....which just about puts him in tears at times also....he follows through on the restruant to see if he's made an difference also. So far he's done two Italian Resturants, and one general "Mom and Pop" and an "Sports Bar"., most the time the first thing they do is tear out the carpeting and follow it with taking out the built-in booths and changing them for small tables with chairs.  then adding new lights...fresh paint...and inexpensive decor of whatever they can create...and that's why I watch the show...they come up with some good ideas. For instance...stained boards over lights behind them...so four or five of them....stack one on top the other gives an soft glow against the wall then an small hanging down light over the table. First time they did this it was walnut stain over the boards....but they got carried  away on the next one and did gray boards over an white wall...and glass shelves with glass drinking pitchers...and an slightly brighter table light over everything. anyway, enough about this now. You'd have to see i tto see how nice it ends up looking.

All this talk of diets and excercise is making me feel slim. Yes, I think I've lost another couple of pounds! lol

Hi to all POEster's...

Hello everyone!  I hope you have all had a great weekend!

Thoughts today for our friends across the sea as they remember 10 years ago the tragedy of 9/11 

good morning...tired as all get out..but good morning.  Yep, and people over herre are just as confused about the true facts behind  9/11...now as they were back then, 3.000 plus people died in it, and another 4,500 plus soldiers since then also. Lot of people died for it all to more or less say....closer to 8,000 in all. 

I went "blastic" yesterday...but the Solar flares came in big time and thier impact was along the west coast for starters...Tuson, Arizona had such an wild storm yesterday, even tornadoes were spotted and they don't ususally see tornadoes. Graph work shows four or five X-class flares, one behind the other...some were high M flares also, but they catorgized them in red graph work as "extreme"...Lelsie gave us links for the Ham Radio operators also...in case they knocked out power grids...let us know what's going on. 

My seedless green grapes are ready now to be picked, ones my neighbor didn't cut off the vine..to save her dogs that I can't really say I've ever seen over there, but that's OK, I have no want to climb over there to take care of them.  they are hanging comviently over my patio off my bedroom. One year I made them into golden raisins and then into trail mix with cranberries and M & M's choclate candies and some cashews. I don't know if my apples are going to make it, the sun is scorching them to death...it's suppose to cool of tomarrow so maybe I can get to some of this stuff needing taken care of. I guess you could say that "Harvest" has truly arrived now. I feel it...supposedly after one week of in the 90's it drops back down..let's hope... I've been taking "sweat baths" every night for an solid week now trying to sleep.  If any of you should happen to have the Keys of Enoch..book...what does pages 48 and 55 say about an "Dove"????Someone recently made mention of it in naother web site. The book was quite expensive and still is in ways...$48. So I by-passed getting it and when Borders went out...and got down to the 70 per cent off on thier books, I had no money to go "hog wild" in buying books...but I can assure you..most everyone else probably did as they wiped the store out in mere hours....even down to the book racks. If the store were in town yet, I go could there and find this information out myself Alas..so goes.... and so goes me for now also..