I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Bren-2007

Welcome Cindy .. join in the fun and post often!

Bren

PS .. It's past lunch time, so the four of us are snacking on carrots.  My dogs love them!

crazy4carrots

Gracie -- Just give me a box of chocolate truffles and I can be easily amused...for hours.

Bren-2007

Linda .. you're talking about my favorite chocolate ... and I'm eating carrots.  Something seriously wrong with this picture! 

Bren

Marple

I Googled 'chocolate covered carrots' in hopes of finding an appetizing pic.  Blech, they look awful.

Bren-2007

I suppose I could dip them in some chocolate syrup .... thanks for looking Sharon!  Maybe I could make them into a carrot cake with some nice cream cheese frosting!

Ah geez .. I am really making myself crave something better than carrots now!

Bren

PS ... Love your little duckie avatar!

River_Rat

Welcome Cindy. 

Bren, please do not waste good chocolate by dipping carrots in it.....now the carrot cake idea sounds like a winner.

BarbaraA

Thanks for the tip Cindy. I will try it. I think y'all are right...she is picking up on my stress about my brother. Gotta work on calm thoughts, self hypnosis, happy thoughts.

ananda8

BarbaraA, 

How's your bro doing?  Does he have a bit more energy?

hillck,

Thanks for your post and welcome to this thread.

BarbaraA

Hi notself, thanks for asking. Slowly he is getting stronger every day. Yesterday he fell down so he has been pushing my mom's wheelchair around as a precaution but he is getting stronger.

I need to NOT stress about him since my cat is licking herself bald on the stomach and I am having intestinal issues I know are stress-related. Zen. Ohhhhhm. I am calm. I am at peace. Ohhhhmm.

So yesterday I got my delivery from the Florida Meat Company. They raise grass fed hormone free steers and I had a delmonico last night. Yum. I had a Groupon for 130$ of meat for 60$. I am definitely buying from them again. Taste was GREAT!

Tonight is hamburgers with mushroom red wine sauce, fresh organic green beans and mashed yukon gold potatoes (plus salad). Brussels tomorrow, though.

Bren-2007

Dinner sounds good Barbara ... I know you have been under an enormous stress with your brother's illness.  Just hope you have a chance to unwind this weekend.

hugs,

Bren

annettek

Barbara- truly glad your brother is doing better...the last thing we need is for you to start licking your stomach!

1Athena1

Barbara, I am glad you are de-stressing.

Is your meat organic? When I lived in Florida I used to go to Publix and they usually had some organic fillet mignon in the back that they would get for me - for $20 per lb, so it wasn't exactly an every day event. Still, it is delicious. Here in DC I can't seem to find any.

Dinner? So far it's a gin and tonic! Left work early today.

Claire82

One of my kitties chews plastic- the vet said it was a vice - hmmm like crack lol

they cant help it

be careful with it though especially tinsel

they will swallow it

BarbaraA

Athena, order yours from Florida Beef. Totally organic and if you get some people to go in, you can get 1/2 a beef. Check it out on their website.

bluedahlia

We buy organic meat.  Mostly chicken and turkey.  It's really good.

My pooches love to lick me.  I think they are addicts and need their fix.  I'm still taking some ldopa.  hehehe!

pickle

I love organic meat and can't believe how wonderful the taste and texture is compared to the mass produced, hormone, antibiotic injected stuff is. When I roast a chicken now, my house smells just like it did when I was a kid....delicious. It is rather expensive but it's not full of salt and water therefore you get no shrinkage.. ahhh shrinkage, now that could be a whole new topic!

Beth

1Athena1

Barbara, Do you mean that I can actually order it on the internet?? Do you have the site?

otter

We are having organic meat for supper, too...  I haven't had the inorganic kind of meat in a long time.  (Sorry.  Couldn't help it.)  Seriously, we're having hamburgers, only they're elkburgers.  Burger-meat doesn't get any leaner than that.

I would love some Yukon gold potatoes, but we can't get them here.  There are potatoes sold as "yellow potatoes", but I think those are imposters.  They just don't have that same flavor as the true Yukon golds have.  At least we can get good sweet potatoes here, any day of the year.  I do like sweet potatoes baked until they're completely soft and mushy.  Add a small pat of butter and a sprinkle of brown sugar, and yum!

I didn't reveal my lunch menu because it was too embarrassing:  peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.  At least mine was on flatbread.  And, I tossed down a cheese stick as an appetizer, to get some extra calcium.

otter

crazy4carrots

Otter, I made a really delicious sweet potato and ginger soup the other night.  Recipe (for 2) follows:

2 cups cubed sweet potato

1 diced yellow onion

3 cloves garlic

1 or 2 tbsp fresh grated ginger (I keep mine in the freezer and take it out and grate when needed)

1 tsp of turmeric

Saute all of the above in a little olive oil.

Then add 2 cups of either vegetable or chicken stock, and simmer until all veggies are soft.

Puree in the blender and add a little milk until you get the consistency you like.

Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper, serve and eat! 

molly52

This has been fun seeing pix of everybodys' pets.  All of them are beautiful!!

About the tartar buster - I have seen a few different brands in the pet store, but have always wondered if the ingredients (whatever they are) could be harmful to the cats - their liver, kidney, etc.  Has anybody every checked this out?  My youngest cat has had tartar since she was a year old.  I do brush, but I don't believe it does any good.

About Assange - this is an interesting article about the events.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1336291/Wikileaks-Julian-Assanges-2-night-stands-spark-worldwide-hunt.html 

Has anybody read the three Steig Larson books, "The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo", etc?  He paints a picture of a very corrupt Sweden.  Then we hear about the somewhat odd case against Assange.  Don't know what to conclude, other than it seems like life imitating art.

Edited to provide the link

pickle

Mmmmmm. Yummy potato ginger soup. I also love carrot ginger soup. But tonight, the kids are coming over to play cards so it's Papa Murphy's pizza. I'll get it thin crust and whole wheat. The kids won't love it but i hate doughy pizza so this will be a compromise.

I just downloaded " the girl with the dragon tattoo" e-book. My daughter read them all and loved them.

Beth

1Athena1

So if the Assange tale is one of neither heroes nor villains, this one is all villains as far as I can tell. It is a dime-store novel that belongs in a soap opera or a blockbuster movie (ie: a bad one). The sad part is that it is true:

A mayor is running for president, and there is a powerful news executive who wants him to win. But the executive is concerned that a big supporter of the mayor, a former police chief looking for a very powerful post, may be in trouble if certain things about him are known. So the news executive apparently advises the police chief's lover to lie to law enforcement authorities. The lover is a well known book publisher who happens to work for the company headed by this news executive. She files suit when she is fired by the company.

But how do we know that the news executive asked her to lie (possibly a felony, in this case)? Because said publisher apparently fired the lawyers she hired when she filed suit against her former employer just so that she could avoid paying them fees. The lawyers belong to a firm whose head was charged with fraud, BTW, and the firm has since gone bankrupt, but still, they are suing their former client. And in the discovery process, that is how we know this sordid tale.

Oh, and why did the publisher get fired? It may have been because of an anti-Semitic remark she made to her employer's lawyers, but it was also possibly because she appeared willing to publish a novel written by a murderer discussing his crime.

As they say, truth is always stranger than fiction. If you don't believe it, read here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/nyregion/25roger-ailes.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=nyregion

leggo

Molly, the only one that I know of that is truly safe is the Oxy-fresh Oral Hygiene Solution. My whole family uses it (comes in two strengths...one for people...one for animals). There is a whole Oxy-fresh line of products, not just dental care.

Every once in a blue moon I've just got to have a big, sloppy, greasy Whopper...tonight's the night.

ananda8

I live in a small town in the Ozarks; 12600 people by the recent census.  I have had sushi in Hawaii, in California and in big cities in other States, but the sushi in our local "Chinese" Restaurant is as good as the best I've had. 

Sushi is what we had for dinner tonight.

Tomorrow, Brussels Sprouts!!!

BarbaraA,

Have your brother keep drinking lots of fluids including V-8.  If he complains about getting up in the middle of the night, tell him to stop drinking anything after dinner.  He might be able to rent a walker until he's stronger, but I would be concerned that he would become permanently dependant on them.

Take it easy and take care of yourself

Enjoyful

Jenn3 and hillck - Welcome!

More on the dog/carpet issue - The dog didn't chew up the carpet.  It's a long story, but I'll try to give the short version.  My ex-husband watched the dog for a week while my sister and I were away.  Dog starts eating blanket.  Ex thinks this is ok (not sure in which universe this is ok, but whatever) so doesn't stop dog.  THEN dog's anal glands get impacted.  Related to the blanket?  I don't know.  Dog drives herself nuts trying to lick/bite her butt.  Digs nails into traction-rich berber carpet to brace herself for Heavenly Butt Fest 2011.  Nails pull up long strips of fuzzy berber. 

She tore up 6 separate strips and I was only gone from the house for 15 minutes!  Agggh!

New slippery carpet arrived today!  Yay!  Still the same dog, though.  :-(

E

Alpal

Berber is tricky. Just one pull and you can undo about 12 feet. Easy peasy! Poor doggie!

1Athena1

Lol!!

otter

Same dog, same impacted anal glands.  <sigh>

Enjoyful

Well, my sister took her to the vet and had the glands expressed.  She still acts as though they bother her; hopefully that's just residual irritation.

Marple

Anal glands.  More gross than chocolate dipped carrots.

For short trips away, try a crate maybe?