Another Unofficial Chatterbox Thread- Everyone is Welcome!

[sameyeyam]

Made baked potatoes, biscuits and vegetable soup for dinner. Now I'm sitting here enjoy a cup of warm apple juice with a bit of brown sugar and cinnamon.

It's a lot of hard work to press apples, but there is nothing better than grabbing a half gallon of apple juice out of the freezer and making warm spiced apple juice on a cold winter's night. Tastes good too if you add some orange juice to it.

But I have to say my arms, back, stomach, chesticles, legs and feet hurt. It's Ibuprofen Time.

 

[funnygarcia]

Are you calling my man a heho?

 

[sameyeyam]

I bet you are exhausted.. and likely sore in the morning.. 11 gallons? Holy moley!

We put it up in 1/2 gallon plastic milk jugs and then split it between neighbor lady, us and my brother's family. Worked out pretty good, we took the crushed apple bits over for his goats to eat, gave them their juice and in turn my SIL gave us her freshly canned apple butter and a big bag of granny smith apples off her tree. My neighbor has 1 King apple, 1 unknown, 1 red delicious and 1 yellow delicious tree. The Delicious apples are great juice apples. My trees are still pretty small, but I planted gravenstein (good for applesauce) and my brother has granny smith good for eating. I think we have all the apple bases covered.

 

[funnygarcia]

Saturday is a hang out at home kind of day for us.

Had extra teenagers in the house for awhile, after we dropped them back home E says "what are we, their personal internet cafe?"

The whole time they hung out using our computers and looking up ring tones. Odd people teenagers today... very odd.

 

[sameyeyam]

Saturday is a hang out at home kind of day for us.

Had extra teenagers in the house for awhile, after we dropped them back home E says "what are we, their personal internet cafe?"

The whole time they hung out using our computers and looking up ring tones. Odd people teenagers today... very odd.

Normally we sort of hang out on Saturday's too, but today was just a busy day. Of course we are sort of all one family, so between our 12 acres, we just sort of go back and forth. The kids are normally somewhere in between running back and forth. Of course we spotted DS and my nephews and made them help with the apple juice. Little boys with lots of energy, just what we needed to help turn the crank and turn the press.

Why yes you are their personal internet cafe. Much better to have a house full of teens...at least you know your internet cafe isn't full of drugs, alcohol and porn on the computer. We feed them, drive them places (before they got their license), rent them movies, pop popcorn, throw out the sleeping bags and let them stay awake playing obnoxious music all night. At least we know where they are at.

 

[sameyeyam]

I'm trying to think what we did when we were teenagers. Oh yeah, now I remember...we were busy playing Pong or the new Atari game, cruising the strip, going to parties, drinking, smoking funny things, and chasing guys. Hmmm...not much has changed except for the ringtones.

 

[funnygarcia]

I'm trying to think what we did when we were teenagers. Oh yeah, now I remember...we were busy playing Pong or the new Atari game, cruising the strip, going to parties, drinking, smoking funny things, and chasing guys. Hmmm...not much has changed except for the ringtones.

Games are more sophisticated, different drugs out there (way more scary than what we could ever get our hands on), and not a strip to cruise aorund here.. I guess they hang at one of the local malls.. trying not to get busted by security. Mall of America has a strict policy for after 5, need to have an adult with you if under 18. Cut back on the gang warfare that was brewing before they started that policy. Other malls followed suit.. malls are for daytime hang out only.

 

[funnygarcia]

Why yes you are their personal internet cafe. Much better to have a house full of teens...at least you know your internet cafe isn't full of drugs, alcohol and porn on the computer. We feed them, drive them places (before they got their license), rent them movies, pop popcorn, throw out the sleeping bags and let them stay awake playing obnoxious music all night. At least we know where they are at.

Very true. We motor them back home at night too, no chance of getting hit by a car in the dark (no sidewalks )

 

[sameyeyam]

Games are more sophisticated, different drugs out there (way more scary than what we could ever get our hands on), and not a strip to cruise aorund here.. I guess they hang at one of the local malls.. trying not to get busted by security. Mall of America has a strict policy for after 5, need to have an adult with you if under 18. Cut back on the gang warfare that was brewing before they started that policy. Other malls followed suit.. malls are for daytime hang out only.

What?? You didn't think Asteroids was sophisticated. I mean geesh, those were horrific space rocks hurling towards your spaceship that could explode and kill you (but only after 3 of them hit you). And who could forget that scary game called Pac Man. Big gigantic alien like creature gobbling up everything in their sight, with those freaky blinking afterlife ghost creatures. I shudder to think of it.

And now we've come full circle instead of Pong, we have a Wii tennis racket.

I know there are obviously gangs everywhere, but I guess living away from a big town you just don't really see it or notice it. As far as I know none of the malls around here have those restrictions. But then again, I believe our malls close pretty early, so probably no need to impose restrictions on the teens...just kick everybody out at 6pm.

 

[sameyeyam]

I can remember we were one of the first families in our neighborhood to get an Atari. We got one for Christmas and hooked it up in the living room that nobody ever went into. The day after Christmas I remember my mom waking up to go to work around 6am and there were about 10 kids still awake playing the Atari. We had no idea we stayed up all night. It was pretty much that way the entire Christmas break.

 

[sameyeyam]

Of course I also remember my mom and her bff became Pac Man addicts. One day we left for school and they were sitting there playing Pac Man, we came home from school 7 hours later and they were still playing the same game. I think they had scores in the 2 millions or something like that!

 

[sameyeyam]

Well I need to go finish the dishes and get a couple of things done. TTYL.

 

[funnygarcia]

The gang activity seems to go in cycles, it was bad for awhile and now it's a quiet presence in certain areas.

In the 90's Minneapolis was known as Muderopolis in the media. Bad image to attract tourists

Hubby and I went out to Mall of America on Thursday, it was dead! The store workers looked bored, I got hassled by lotion kiosk guys on every level.

Just a few moms pushing strollers and a few groups of high school students rushing around doing some odd actitivity (there is a college and an alternative high school inside the mall).

I've noticed lots of new stpores, more upscale brands that you can't find at typical malls. Changing the image yet again to attract tourists in a slumping economy.

 

[funnygarcia]

The day after Christmas I remember my mom waking up to go to work around 6am and there were about 10 kids still awake playing the Atari. We had no idea we stayed up all night.

I try to tell the boys how lucky they are.. we didn't have that many games or had to go to an arcade to play.

No computers in the home (maybe you had an Apple but it wasn't easy to use unless you knew how to write code), no internet, cable was new (remember when MTV actually played videos???? Not anymore!), cartoons were only on Saturdays. Microwaves were new, took up a huge space and didn't work that great compared to today. When VCRs came out it was exciting to watch a movie at home.

Heck we still had 8 tracks and records when I was little.

 

[Alex2kMommy]

Huh?

I just forgot what I was going to say...

 

[staley7580]

Huh?

I just forgot what I was going to say...

Uh-huh... Color me surprised.

 

[Alex2kMommy]

I opened a reply window, then got a PM from Lynn, and by the time I replied to that and popped back to the thread, I had NO IDEA what I'd meant to say.

 

[staley7580]

Oh my goodness. I just read on the twin boards that one family had their twins in the NICU for 8 weeks... and the total cost was $1.6 mil. Holy freaking crap. Im glad we just upped our insurance to premium.

 

[Alex2kMommy]

OMG!

 

[staley7580]

I know. I knew it was going to be high... but not that high. Shoot. Okay.. no sense in worrying about it now, right? Oy. Yeah right. I wish I had never read that. I so need one more thing to worry about. About as much as I need to be kicked in the face.