The Hermit Club

Options
1…448449451453454…477

Comments

  • magiclight
    magiclight Member Posts: 8,690
    edited July 2016

    Jazzg, that salad looks original. I lack the cooking gene and without a recipe would not think to mix foods. If I'm cooking real food then company is coming and I do great with complex recipes. Mostly, I'm like Frances in Under the Tuscan Sun in that I most often buy a single serving and eat it over the kitchen sink. However, I'm expecting a puppy to arrive on Saturday and I dehydrated lots of liver yesterday and today cooked a whole chicken so I have plenty of training treats. As I write this I'm seeing a problem, but so it goes.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited June 2017

    Mags,

    image

    BBL

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Jazzygirl
    Jazzygirl Member Posts: 12,533
    edited July 2016

    New patio set I ordered in June arrived. Think a party will be happening sometime in August to christen it!

    image


    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited June 2017

    Yes, a party to christen the perfect patio set that has such lovely colors!

    BBL

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Jazzygirl
    Jazzygirl Member Posts: 12,533
    edited July 2016

    Teka- we had a big t-storm last night and new patio set got blessed by rain,wind and hail!

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited June 2017

    Jazzy, did the cushions stay dry?

    magiclight, did puppy arrive?

    *Good Morning Hermits*

    The following pic was taken from Facebook.

    image
    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Jazzygirl
    Jazzygirl Member Posts: 12,533
    edited July 2016

    Teka- the cushions got kind of wet. But bigger story than that, it snowed in our mountains here last night. Never seen that happened in the 20 years of living in NM. Just wow!

    https://www.facebook.com/SandiaCrestHouse/videos/1...


    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited June 2017

    Jazzy,

    Thank You for sharing!!

    Mother Nature is a mystery.

    Time to recline and listen to TV while reading a few chapters in a novel. ;o)

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Jazzygirl
    Jazzygirl Member Posts: 12,533
    edited August 2016

    image

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Lindzanne
    Lindzanne Member Posts: 94
    edited August 2016

    I somehow kicked this forum off my favorite topics and was wondering, where did all my hermit friends go, until I realized.........

    Thanks for all the compliments on my picture.

    I love looking at all your photos. I'll try to add some too as I get out more. So many beautiful summer veggies. On day 5 of round three of my AC and feeling like crap. Day 5 seems to be the day I think, I just can't do this. Then day 6 I rally.

    Finally been heating up here. Not too terrible, somehow after having such terrible heat the last few years we are the state escaping this heat wave! Minimal fires so far!

    Magiclights congrats on the new puppy, I know mine are getting me through this in a big way.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Lindzanne
    Lindzanne Member Posts: 94
    edited August 2016

    Ah, made it outside today! Despite my SES feels so good to feel the sun and breeze. And watch my happy pups on the dry grass!

    image

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Lookforward
    Lookforward Member Posts: 392
    edited August 2016

    Lindzanne, yes the SES can knock you off your feet. Glad to hear you spent sometime with your doggies outside. Just be careful in the sun , you will burn easier when you are in treatment.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • magiclight
    magiclight Member Posts: 8,690
    edited August 2016

    Lindzanne, what cute pups. Are they terriers? My pup did arrive from Texas and will post pics soon of Punkin. He is a bit under the weather with the big D for which he is being treated and I have the boiled chicken, homemade broth and white rice on his menu.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Lookforward
    Lookforward Member Posts: 392
    edited August 2016

    Magiclight too bad about your puppy, hopefully he will get better soon. I am having a hard time getting my 15 year old dog to eat anything. He comes to me because he's hungry, but turns his nose up at everything. Tonight he ate some ice cream and then a bowl of cereal, he does like his cereal . The vet suggested baby food, I'll have to get my husband to pick some up. I am having reconstruction surgery tomorrow and won't be out and about for awhile.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Lindzanne
    Lindzanne Member Posts: 94
    edited August 2016

    magiclight the one on the left is a Mexican Hairless mix (you can't see him very well but he has large dari spots that are Hairless and white fur spots) and the one on the right is a Rat Terrier.

    I hope your little guy feels better soon!

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited June 2017

    image

    BBL ;o)


    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Jazzygirl
    Jazzygirl Member Posts: 12,533
    edited August 2016

    I went to aqua zumba this morning! Now I need MORE coffee!


    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Lindzanne
    Lindzanne Member Posts: 94
    edited August 2016

    image

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited June 2017

    *Good Morning Hermits*

    Lindzanne, enjoying the pic!

    magiclight, waiting for a pic!

    Jazzy, aqua zumba would be fun!

    We now have 4 skunk kits eating bird seed and playing under our closed bedroom window!!!! The fox is even wary while looking for mice.

    I was able to finish weeding the 3 flower beds, rhubarb bed and vegetable garden in July. A long cold Spring and wasn't done in June.
    image

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Jazzygirl
    Jazzygirl Member Posts: 12,533
    edited August 2016

    Quite the parade of balloons this morning around the front and back yards!

    image

    image

    image

    image

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • magiclight
    magiclight Member Posts: 8,690
    edited August 2016

    Linds, thanks my little guy is feeling better and I got some better sleep in my bed. I'm really being the hermit because he can't go visit friends for 2 more weeks until all core vaccines on board. Today I baked bread, not the best idea with the stove on and 100 degrees outside. On a cooler note, I bought him a little plastic pool and surprisingly with just a couple of inches of water even my soaking feet cooled my body off. No wonder he jumped in again and again!

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited June 2017

    Jazzy, love the pics!

    Daughter enjoyed the one time going up in a balloon.

    magiclight, baked bread is so delicious!

    I'm lame all over from weeding. :o(

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • magiclight
    magiclight Member Posts: 8,690
    edited August 2016

    Teka: Weeds a Haiku I found online

    By Charlene - Aurora

    Undesirable,
    uncultivated, and yet
    they grow profusely

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Lookforward
    Lookforward Member Posts: 392
    edited August 2016

    magic light the pool sounds like a good idea, what we do for our dogs. Is your dog a swimmer?

    I also enjoy baking bread ,but I have been too lazy to make any this summer . I bought a new bread cookbook Flour Water Salt and Yeast and plan on using it in a couple of weeks

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Lily55
    Lily55 Member Posts: 3,534
    edited August 2016

    Just popping in to say hello I am still around but keeping away from BC stuff at moment as too devastated at being told recon will be 2020 the EARLIEST, I do read psots from time to time to keep up and see you are all doing well.......sorry, need to be away more than here right now....

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • magdalene51
    magdalene51 Member Posts: 2,214
    edited August 2016

    Hey Hermies! Sorry I have been so absent, seems I don't have a lot of energy these days, when I do feel up to posting I'm mostly on Insomniacs thread. I posted a long one and some pics this morning so you should check that out. Otherwise I would have to type it out all over again. And by type it out all over again I mean cut and paste. New pic of kitten there too. She doesn't hold still enough for pics except when she's asleep.

    Lookieloo, have you ever seen the Tassajara Bread Book? That was my bible in my back to nature hippy bread making days. I used to make 5 loaves at a time, I still have the 16 quart stainless steel bowl I mixed/raised the dough in. All by hand. Couldn't do it now.

    In case y'all haven't seen, I've been restaged, with mets to lung now. Getting faslodex, hope it nips it or at least arrests progression. 1st scan since April shows more spots in left lung, don't know how many. Had second tx yesterday, will see MO in 2 weeks. There's a bright side - I get to spend time with my awesome chemo nurses again. Dark side is the annoying whistle from my lungs. Meh.

    Ok I'm wore out

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • magiclight
    magiclight Member Posts: 8,690
    edited August 2016

    Llookingforward, I just checked out the book Flour Water Salt and Yeast and it looks great. Maybe like you when the weather gets cooler I might bake more and buy that book. I do have a great recipe for artisan bread that does take 3 days to make - lots of long rises in the fridge, but the taste is well worth the wait.

    Magdalene; Tassajara bread book also looks great to add to my collection which I admit is very small. I tend to bake the same few tried and true (for me) bread recipes. Sorry to hear about your new mets and that whistle! Gentle hugs to you. Until you feel a bit better maybe you can find a great bread maker in your area and buy a good loaf, unfortunately there are none in my small town

    One bread that is always a hit is called Bomba - full of air and great with good olive oil and balsamic for appetizer. I make it when guests arrive and it is a favorite as they get to see the transformation from dough to bread rather quickly. I would post that recipe but I don't know how to attach a docx file.

    .

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Lookforward
    Lookforward Member Posts: 392
    edited August 2016

    hi Lilly , hope you are doing okay.

    Mags I hope the faslodex kicks in for you soon and your engery level goes up. I found the mental stress plays a big role in how we are feeling, you have so much going on and it is hard to wrap your mind around mets. Hugs. I am going to look into the tassajara bread book.

    Magiclight I have read that the best breads have less yeast and are allowed to rise over a longer time, sounds like you have this down pat. We do tend tend to make the same thing over and over, I plan on getting out of my rut.

    My poor dog is gassing me out of the house. I told my husband yesterday I needed to go to a decompression centre


    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Jazzygirl
    Jazzygirl Member Posts: 12,533
    edited August 2016

    Good morning friends- good to hear from some of our sisters who have not been on this thread for awhile.

    Lily- waiting another four years for recon would be devestating. I am so sorry to hear this news. You do what helps you at this time and if not being here does that, we do understand. Sometimes we just need a break from the whole crappy thing.

    Mags- I have been following you on Insomniacs and remember being here with you on this thread when you went through treatment. I read on the other thread about your lung mets and just so sorry. I hope the treatment you are doing helps to keep things at bay. Hugs sister.

    I went to a great concert this week with Michael McDonald and Boz Scaggs. I have been a huge fan of both, seen MM a good 10 times through the year but my first time with Boz. It was SOOOO good. He is a seriously good guitar player on top of vocals. Such a treat! Brought me back to the 70s to early 80s. I used to work in a restaurant while in college and late at night as the bar was closing, someone was always playing Harbor Lights on the jukebox on the dance floor. Took me right back to that place and time, and the feeling of my youth, if only for that song. I love that about music.

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
  • Teka
    Teka Member Posts: 10,052
    edited June 2017

    magiclight, so true!! ;o))

    Lily, please keep us in the loop.

    Mags, pleased that you had some enjoyable family time.

    Lookforward, gassy dog! ;o(

    Jazzy, I would just once like to tag along to a concert. ;o)

    *Good Morning Hermits*

    We continue to enjoy scallions and now grape tomatoes from the vegetable garden!

    Daughter and I cleaned the lovebird cage and the sun conure cage this week. :o)

    Thankfully, no longer have fish tanks! :o(

    image

    · Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Categories