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

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  • kira1234
    kira1234 Member Posts: 3,091
    edited July 2012

    So I bought some bokchoy  at the market yesterday. So how do I cook it? The leaves are really young I  would guess only about 3 inches long.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited July 2012

    rinse well, stir fry - cooks VERY quickly - delicious with any shoots, littel bits of any veggies, or meat...

    BITTER ifyou cook it tooooooooo long....one of the Chinese standards - 

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  • kira1234
    kira1234 Member Posts: 3,091
    edited July 2012

    Thanks Sunflowers I will try not to cook it to long then.

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited July 2012

    Don't forget to add garlic.

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited July 2012

    We finally got some rain....YAY!  Spent the day with my grandson.  I was having George withdrawal even though I saw him last week.  I sure love that little guy!

    Sometimes we go to Cora's for breakfast and they serve the fruit, usually assorted berries with the cream.  YUM YUM!

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  • kira1234
    kira1234 Member Posts: 3,091
    edited July 2012

    Thanks blue, I love garlic so will add that!

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  • lassie11
    lassie11 Member Posts: 1,500
    edited July 2012

    Blue, I am only a couple hundred km east of you and so far all we got today was the smallest sprinkle of about 18 raindrops.  Last night my air conditioner died. Today I got a new one and thanks to my son in law, the new one is installed and doing its thing. This weather with a humdidex of 97F is not a good time for an air conditioner to give up.

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  • kira1234
    kira1234 Member Posts: 3,091
    edited July 2012

    Lassie, I feel for you glad you have a new air conditioner.

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited July 2012

    It poured here for about 2 hours.  I was in Oak Ridges earlier today and it was pouring there as well.  Maaaaybe you're next Lassie!   Thank God for air conditioners and family members who can instal them.

    Hey Barbara, miss you girl!

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  • ananda8
    ananda8 Member Posts: 2,755
    edited July 2012

    Although we are terribly short on rain, the temperature has dropped into the normal range for this time of year.  It feels cool compared to the past month.  Just proves, everything is relative.

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited July 2012

    I thought strawberries and cream was an international staple...

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  • GatorGal
    GatorGal Member Posts: 2,550
    edited July 2012

    Gosh, you guys move fast. It's like reading a novel when you've been away for a few days. We had weekend visitation with my 7 year old grandson so I've been busy, busy, busy. We took him to his first major league ball game last night ... wouldn't you know it would go into extra innings. I was worried about pain for 9 innings and the game lasted 13. It was an awesome game with the Orioles honoring veteran pitcher Jim Palmer. Everyone attending the game received replicas of the Jim Palmer statue they had just unveiled. Dignitaries present were Cal Ripken (my hero), Eddie Murray, and other notable Orioles. My grandson thought he had died and gone to heaven. I get so much pleaslure watching him smile from ear to ear. Remember taking his Dad to Camden Yards 20 years ago. Did take my pain meds the minute I got home. Anyway, sorry that was so long. I get to typing away and my fingers don't know when to stop. Enjoyed the history of why this thread is not active. I feel honored to have been invited! I do plan to go back and hit that ignore button. I love political discourse when it is done in a respectful way but hate it when people get mean and nasty. I may not agree with everyone's opinion but I understand we are all entitled to them. What I hate the most is the presentation of opinion as fact when it is backed up by garbage, Okay, off my tirade. Tomorrow is Monday Merlot and I will have ONE glassl out of respect to my liver. My summer cocktail is cranberry juice and fresca. Yummy, although much better with a splash of vodka. I can dream!

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  • 208sandy
    208sandy Member Posts: 2,610
    edited July 2012

    Blue - you got rain!!!!!!????  We sure didn't and it doesn't look like we'll get any this week at all - honestly I am hotter here than I ever was in SC - what has happened to my Canadian summers??  Thank God for air conditioning - I'd never survive without it.

    BarbaraA - good to see you here - hope you enjoyed your afternoon at the pool.

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited July 2012

    Sandy, it was a sight for sore eyes.  Just didn't want it to stop.  I hope Mother Nature finds it in her heart to forgive us.

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited July 2012

    Just watched The Newsroom on HBO.  Great show!  Right after True Blood!  Gotta love those vampires!  hahahahaha!

    Night all.

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  • YramAL
    YramAL Member Posts: 1,651
    edited July 2012

    Worried mom here.Prayers, positive thoughts, good vibes-whatever works for you-for my daughter's boyfriend. He hurt his knee playing "Save the Baby" dodgeball yesterday(don't ask....) and is not able to work for at least a few days.He's seeing an orthopedic doctor later this week. He's also going in to the dermatologist this week to have some suspicious moles looked at. He(and my daughter) live from paycheck to paycheck and really can't afford for him to miss much work. He does have health insurance, thank goodness. My daughter is trying to be strong for him, but I can tell she's barely holding it together. She's worked very hard these last couple of years to recover from a previous bad relationship. 

    Funny thing-moms never get to stop worrying, do we?

    Mary 

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  • Momine
    Momine Member Posts: 7,859
    edited July 2012

    Kira, I slice the bok choy in fine strips and eat it as a salad.

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  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 6,059
    edited July 2012

    GIRLS!!! No one answered me on the Niagara on the Lake get together - are you having one this year??? It's my 60th birthday in September and Steve wants me to do something special. He said I should come if you are having one.

    Old Susie :)

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited July 2012

    Susie, not that I am aware of.  I'd love to have that get together too!

    Mary, sending strong vibes!

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  • alexandria58
    alexandria58 Member Posts: 1,588
    edited July 2012

    Susieq -  Niagra on the Lake?  I'm new on the thread - what's that?  I also turned 60 this year, just last week. 

     YarmL : wishing good things for your daughter's bf.  WE never stop worrying about them.

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  • GatorGal
    GatorGal Member Posts: 2,550
    edited July 2012

    I thought NOTL was New Orleans. I couldn't figure out the TL part of it. I'm new, too, so IDK what it's about. Happy 60th Alexandria and Susieq. I'll be 62! Mary, prayers for your daughter and her boyfriend. You're so right .... Once a parent, always a parent!!

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  • pupmom
    pupmom Member Posts: 5,068
    edited July 2012

    Seems like this as the weekend of the grandsons! Kiss

    Susie and Alexandria, HAPPY B'DAY!! Smile I'm a few years ahead of you, will be 64 in October.

    Mary, prayers from moi also for your DD & her boyfriend. Like Glenna said the worry never stops, but neither does the joy! They come as a package. 

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  • hrf
    hrf Member Posts: 3,225
    edited July 2012

    For the past 2 summers, lindasa was kind enough to host us at her beautiful home in Niagara on the Lake and many, many of us attended. However, it is a lot of work and lindasa can't do it every year. I'm sure we had well over 20 people last year....there is a picture posted somewhere on these threads. Some Ontario women are planning a get together at a restaurant late in August around Oshawa. I"m sure anyone who wants to attend just has to put a note on the the thread Ontario women get together. One of the attractions of NOTL was that it was convenient for many of our American friends to join us because of it's proximity to the border and to transportation. If enough people wanted, we could certainly arrange a get together at one of the lovely hotels in town......it would draw Ontario ladies as well as those of you south of the border who we love as well. So that's the story. I can't even attend the August get together because of a family event at the same time. 

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  • alexandria58
    alexandria58 Member Posts: 1,588
    edited July 2012

    Sounds lovely.  I'd love to attend, if I can, although I may be going to Nashville around that time for a mystery writing convention, called Killer Nashville. 

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  • AnneW
    AnneW Member Posts: 4,050
    edited July 2012

    Traveling is out for me till next winter. I'm spending every weekend working on my Pilates certification. When I'm done with that, I will take MANY trips! Never been to Niagra--that would be cool. Also Glacier Park in Montana and Cour d'Alaine (sp?) Idaho, despite the influx of supremists to that gorgeous place.

    I'm headed out to meet a local BCO buddy who just had another round of surgery with Dr. Marga. we always do a show and tell in the restaurant's bathroom after lunch.So far, we haven't had to explain anything to unsuspecting women walking in on us!

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited July 2012

    Susie -a thread reunion would be wonderful.  

    Looking around to see if anyone has any spare sorts. I'm all out of them today.

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  • Wabbit
    Wabbit Member Posts: 1,592
    edited July 2012

    What's with the darn 'sorts' wandering away from home nowdays?!  I'll send a couple of mine your way Athena ... and you little stinkers better not take any detours getting to her.

    Going back up to 100 this week and what little rain was around last weekend missed us ... it's getting ugly.  Sorry to hear that Canada is having the same heat/drought problems we are.  I was just thinking that we retirees need new migration patterns.  Instead of snow birds heading south for the winter we are going to have to be heat birds heading up north to Canada for the summers.  Just how far north do we have to go?? 

    Hugs to Mary ... yep worrying about our kid's troubles is worse than dealing with our own sometimes.  Hope it all turns out to be OK for them.

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  • 208sandy
    208sandy Member Posts: 2,610
    edited July 2012

    WR - thinking it may have to be Tuktoyaktuk and I think even there it is warmer than normal.

    Going to be somewhere between 95 and 100 in Southern Ontario tomorrow - then perhaps a huge thunderstorm, and lower temps on Wednesday - they keep promising but so far nothing...

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  • 208sandy
    208sandy Member Posts: 2,610
    edited July 2012

    AnneW-

    Many years ago when we lived in Calgary we used to travel down to Coeur D'Alene for the July 1/4 weekend - we had a very large group of friends (approx. 30 families) and used to stay at the one hotel or rent cabins - this was in the 70s - even then some strange people had taken up residence mostly in the Hayden Lake area - haven't been back in years because the neo-Nazi theme was starting to upset us and then we moved too far away to visit but it is a lovely little town and a beautiful surrounding area - their July 4th fireworks and parade were so much fun - I am sure things have changed in the last thirty-five years (for the better).

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  • crazy4carrots
    crazy4carrots Member Posts: 5,324
    edited July 2012

    Rabbit -- I just checked, and the temp in Whitehorse, Yukon, is 61F with RAIN!  Would that be cool and wet enough for you?  Let's go!

    But Sandy's right -- summer temps in the far north can almost equal summer temps here in the south.  We had a couple of light showers yesterday a.m. but it's hot again today, with a wee breeze.  

    Sorry to all that I can't host a gathering this summer, but if you're in the area, let me know and maybe we can get together on an individual basis.

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