HIJACK THIS THREAD!

Sheila, my mom told me to eat desert in the middle of your meal. That way you are not too full and can really enjoy it!

I am going to try the dryer sheet. I get eat alive everytime I go out in the garden in the evening.

I have some leftover Ravioli, but not enough for two. So I pulled some homemade lasagna out of the freezer to supplement and will have it with a salad. My husband said "Leftovers?" I told him "No, an Italian Medley"

Debbie 

Whoosh! This thread does move fast here!  

I have to say Debbie, that your garden looks like it belongs on a Garden Tour! Exquisite!

Love hearing about all the summer storms. This is the only place I've ever lived that simply does not get thunderstorms. Maybe one every two or three years - and then it's talked about for days. I go out on my front porch and revel in the power in the sky whenever it happens. When I lived in MD, it seemed like there'd be a late afternoon thunderstorm 3-4x/week.

I could do without pancakes indefinitely, but mmm-mm. good NoCarolina BBQ with slaw on top. I rarely eat meat, but boy, could I go for one of those! My family is from NC, so even though I grew up all over the country, I'm a Southern girl, too. Cracked up over the Bambi-Q term!

Peggy - thanks for sharing the good news on your friend. Sounds like a small miracle. Oh - and HUGE congrats on the weight loss! Don't you just love those increments where you get to put the chunk marker on the doctor's scale down a whole notch!?! 199 and 3/4th and down it goes.

Nicki - so your vacation is winding down already? Sounds like you have had plenty of pool time, though. WTG! You must have seen me on the SanDiego thread in pics w/SoCal and BMD. Did you see me with my 'real' hair? Only in the very first one.  It's come in so much darker and of course, curly that I don't even look like myself!. SoCal is our photographer/historian - she's so talented she makes us all look good. You are right - we are so lucky to have our monthly BCO group. Any of you ever come visiting in San Diego, come join us. We love guests!

Gotta run!

Lisa

Hi everyone!

Just stopped by and enjoyed reading the last few posts!

Nicki, I am going to try your Eggplant Parmesan...sounds not only easy, but soooo yummy! My DH makes some mean whole wheat banana pancakes for us Sunday mornings (yay...tomorrow's the day!)....he uses whole wheat flour (duh),splenda,bananas,eggs,etc. so when I use sugar free syrup I feel I am eating a healthy breakfast..lol. I love finding healthy recipes,so am anxious to try yours.

Ladies, all the garden pictures were beautiful! This spring I thought I couldn't do any gardening till next year, w/bilat mast,recon surgery in May....but I was wrong...now I have been able to get outside, and get dirty, doing yardwork...and I love it, although here it is in the 90's and very, very humid.

BTW...what does "HIJACK THIS POST" refer to? The original message has been deleted...so I have no idea. But you all are neat, interesting ladies, so its been fun "visiting" with you all!

Kathy

When I was in high school, in the late 70's, we used to say people who ate the green m&m's were horny, probably because of Van Halen, I didn't know that.  We assigned meanings to the other colors, too, red meant you were hot, but I don't remember what the others meant..  I think it must have been a local thing.  I also love the dark ones.

I can't contribute to the M&M discussion...I just know that I love all colors and kinds except those crunchy ones.  However, my BBQ last night was fabulous!!!  I ordered the ribs with onion rings and cole slaw (had to have something remotely healthy), and ate myself into a stupor.  The leftovers await me in the fridge for lunch...yum!

All the garden pictures are beautiful...I've never had a yard so never got into gardening beyond a couple of boxes of petunias on the balcony.  Friends tell me that digging in the dirt is very tranquilizing.

Lots of Tar Heels here!  Gorgeous, gorgeous state.  I'm a FL resident so am planning to retire there, but maybe I should check out NC, too.  Is the cost of living still relatively low?  They have state income tax, don't they?

Off to the library today...I'm devouring fiction like mad.  There's a great library here with lots of new books...unlike our little military base library, which is poorly funded---most extra $$$ go to the war.

More later...off to eat pancakes.  Do you see a food theme w/ me?? 

Lynn

Tarheels! Did I hear the sacred word!!!

I'm Cherryl, a  Tarheel born and a Tarheel bred. I'm now in IL, hi NIcki, Laura GTO and other ILers. My heart, of course, remains in God's country. Looking forward to meeting other 'Heels.

 Cherryl

Tar Heels, from NC, right??  I wasn't born here, but I moved here shortly before my bc dx. 

I didn't have very much luck with the drs. in Maryland, so I am thinking it was maybe a good thing that I moved to NC, even though I have had my share of problems with drs. here, too.  I love my surgeon, my onc is ok, and my ps is ok, too, so I guess that is the most important thing.

Lynn, I hope you move to NC, and maybe live near the Myrtle Beach area.  I live about three miles from the NC/SC border, in a town called Carolina Shores.  I would LOVE to have you as a neighbor!!

Harley 

Good morning--

I think anyone who loves NC can be considered a Tar Heel--at least an honorary one.  Harley, thanks for the invite to the coast, but it seems like there have been a ton of hurricanes hitting there in the last few years...don't want to see my retirement condo float away.  Of course, FL is major hurricance country; although I've never been through a direct hit in all my years there, Katrina has made me have a much healthier respect for those devils.

Of course, no matter where I end up in my sunset years, I'll still be a die-hard FL Gator fan.  I can't wait for college football to start!  Any other fans of the game?

Debbie, where did you live in Japan when you were a kid?

Last night my niece and her husband were here for dinner...we had steaks on the grill and ate out on the patio.  It was a beautiful night...a nice breeze kept the hot flashes away, and we were enjoying conversation and wine.  I looked up and there was skunk waddling across the yard!  I'd never seen one that wasn't road kill.  He toddled around, went to the neighbors' yards, and disappeared into a rock wall.  My BIL said he might be rabid since he was out so early.  We also saw a little rabbit hopping through...lots of Bambi-like creatures in suburbia!  I haven't seen any deer this year, though.

Shorkk, what a riot about the plastic bags!  Whatever floats your boat, I guess.  My stepmother was a huge packrat...every drawer and closet was packed with crap.  She saved everything, though...although she was partial to margarine tubs.  There was one cabinet I'd innocently open looking for something to put leftovers in, and tons of those dang tubs would tumble out.  Just thinking about it makes me want to go clean out a closet.

Lynn

Shokk -- Cracking up over the plastic bags and she wants it returned. . .ROFL! Must admit that I keep a supply of them in my pantry because I use them as liners in my smaller trash cans, but I do pitch them when the supply gets too big (hopefully I'll continue to do that and not start to horde them. . .LOL)

Lynn -- I lived in NC for a year and it's a beautiful state. Lots of stuff to do that's very close. I love football and my team is the Uof L Cardinals. . .go Cards! Professional team would be the Colts although I enjoy college ball more than paid teams.

Nicki -- Big congrats on the weight loss and not smoking. Losing weight while you're not smoking is a major accomplishment! I just recently had my 1 year anniversary of not smoking (after 30+ years) so I know it's not an easy thing to do. I tried to quit for my 50th bday last year, but that was just 2 weeks after my dx and I was way too stressed to quit at that time. I waited a couple of months and quit on May 1. I still miss them. . .seems like I've had to give up a lot this past year. . .my cigs and my boob. Hang in there

Hey Shokk,

I have a great idea.  Ask your mom if we can use those plastic bags.  We can go into business.  Look what we can make with them.......handbags!!!!!!!!!!!

 Praises are being sung high and low, and I wanna be CEO.

Blue I sure have missed you...........what a fantastic idea...................I did tell her that she could recycle them back to the grocery store but she is afraid she might "need" them...........maybe I will show her a picture and it will at least give her some ideas on how she might be able to put them to good use instead of folded so neatly in her drawers, cabinets, under the beds in containers, etc.......Blue you are so smart to think of an idea like that............of course since I am a conservative and don't care at all about the environment I would never have thought up such an idea like that and also being TEXAN we aren't the sharpest tools in the box......ha............Shokk

HaHa............oh Blue thanks for reminding me I need to be sure and go eat a banana today........been having leg cramps and me thinks my potassium is too low...................as a matter of fact getting ready to walk out the door to go choo shopping...........not sure why but I decided I needed a pair....wonder if  Choo makes cowboy boots............hmmmmm.........oh well going to check out goodwill and see if some rich woman with size 11 shoe decided to have some goodwill and donate some Choo cowboy boots..........ha..............adios..........(that's how we say goodbye in TEXAS)............Shokk