Something About Nothing ... #12

[tinydancer09]

And my last post of the night....

I'm glad I'm not the only one who wanted turkey for Easter. Everyone thought I was nuts... We always do a ham. However, I have never roasted a turkey so we're going to do both.... For only 4 people HAHAHA. My brother loves left overs and I love turkey.

Not going to be home much in the next several weeks or else I would test the turkey roasting skill for another weekend. I'm not a huge fan of my moms (don't tell her. It's good, just not the most delicious ive ever had.) starting testing for thanksgiving... Does anyone else do that or am I just too much of a planner and perfectionist?

If you guys have trouble peeling your eggs put a teaspoon of baking soda in the water while boiling. Really helps! Tried it on fresh and old eggs and seems to work great. I also flash cool them with ice water.

Oh did I mention Easter is tomorrow for us? We never do things on the right days. Big family problems.... Just having the brother and Niece this time though.

Happy Easter everyone just incase I don't get on before! Eat lots, praise if that's your kind of thing, and be thankful for family and everything you have... I did say I'm training for thanksgiving right? Hehehe

 

[macraven]

Grocery shopping was a disaster but I did buy eggs and cat food today

As long as you told the incoming vacation guests it was rain and not snow, I'm sure you did not get any cancellations tiny D


Robbie if it was an emergency like you were gonna die, don't fret

She probably didn't have your medical insurance in her file and needed that

 

[macraven]

We don't always celebrate the holiday on the actual holiday either
Have a great family dinner Saturday for the Sunday Easter

When my boys were little, mr Mac or myself would go shopping the day after Christmas to buy decorations , wrapping paper and toys that were marked down as they didn't sell prior to the 25 th

Then on dec 27th, we had a tree up, house decorated and gifts under the tree
They loved it and never knew we were few days late

 

[tinydancer09]

Mac that's very clever on Christmas. Mom and dad could have used one out of your book back in the day. 6 kids the wallet wasn't so full.... They did well not clueing us in to that though.

And no no... No one cancels due to rain... And if they do we keep their money anyways! It's so different running properties than hotels. All these renters had already checked in as we do weekly Saturday/Sunday to Saturday/Sunday rentals. Most don't mind the storms but this one was saying it had 60 plus gusting winds on it. Turned out to not be much to us... Thankfully. One woman wasn't so happy when I called her thiugh and started flipping out on me... Excuse me for being nice and calling to warn you. Won't happen again! See you in OZ! I'll be the one that's green

 

[schumigirl]

Robbie........scary call.......but it's probably an admin issue or similar.......if it was really urgent they'd get to you quickly!

Vicki, yes they're like wasps but don't sting. Slightly smaller and even more pesky!! We had to strip down the whole tree to get rid of them and I could see us having to lop every one.......but miraculously they didn't just move on to the next one which the tree surgeon thought they might......they disappeared. So I have a big gap where that tree used to be.......trunk is still there and most of the branches but it looks bare all chopped back! All my plum trees are Victoria Plums.......lush!!

Shame you have to work Sunday.......most stores close here for the day, some little ones do open but for the most part it is an observed holiday. Hope you enjoyed your cocktail.........

MonyK.......always love a good girly lunch with friends! So much fun to catch up........


Weather here is windy, but so far not as bad as forecast.......cloudy and sunny at same time........not sure what I'm doing today.......got a friend popping in this morning for coffee and that's about it.......definite quiet weekend!

 

[pcstang]

Schumi is up and I still haven't gone to bed yet! More rain here as a lot of you have been posting. Wife and kids went to Nashville to visit the inlaws for the weekend. Repair man for our refrigerator will be out for the 7th time tomorrow sure hope they fix the damn thing finally! This has been going on for 4 months now!

 

[schumigirl]

Schumi is up and I still haven't gone to bed yet! More rain here as a lot of you have been posting. Wife and kids went to Nashville to visit the inlaws for the weekend. Repair man for our refrigerator will be out for the 7th time tomorrow sure hope they fix the damn thing finally! This has been going on for 4 months now!

Haven't actually got out of bed yet.................but I'm awake......... Really should still be sleeping as our clocks go forward tonight and we lose that damn hour........

4 months of repairs!!! Buy a new one PC.........but then my husband says I don't know what a repair man is........ Would hate to lose stuff in freezer if it finally gave up the ghost.......

On your own for the weekend!! Shame your weather isn't great either.......

 

[pcstang]

We have another fridge in the garage so no big deal. It's rather comical now! The fridge and freezer our two seperate units built in with a trim kit. Custom cabinets were built around them along with wall ovens and a microwave so...yep, probably shouldn't have done it that way. Oh well, it could be worse!

 

[schumigirl]

Lol......I hear you........in our previous home we had everything built in........vowed never again.......we have a huge fridge freezer free standing in utility room which we didn't think was gong to fit through doors......long story......but I sure the delivery men will remember us!!! And a normal large fridge freezer in garage.....we can access through utility room door so it's handy.......we do have a free standing chest freezer in garage but we only use that if we do things like buy a whole cow (cut up of course) or other bulk buy.......

And that's because our built in one in previous house died suddenly and it was such a nightmare trying to find another of same dimensions...........vowed never to be stuck again!

But hope you get yours sorted........7 times is a bit embarrassing for them not to be able to fix it!!

Must be nearly 4am for you there!!! I'm assuming you're not working today.........

 

[schumigirl]

 

[Kivara]

Have to run out to the store soon; thankfully in my small town, it's only crowded right after school lets out. My boys all went to their grandma's house for 2 days...I went to the store (spent 2 hours buying everything), came home and realized I forgot 3 things I need for Easter...haha!

Even with a list, I forgot things!

I'm in the ham group...can't stand turkey...if I could get away with baking a ham at Thanksgiving I would.

 

[Lynne G]

Oh Robbie, I hope all is well, and just a minor issue too. Stinks you have to wait. Take care.

Haha TinyD. Our weather guys said a rainy day yesterday, we got so little rain, it did not even water the flowers. We had sun most of the day. Apparently, the rain went mostly south of us. Either way, we have cool high of 50 and a beautiful blue sky right now. Down to freezing tonight. Not enough spring days for us yet. Sending some sun to ya. And have fun at the Portofino.

Morning all. Pot of tea ready. I need a large cup today, it is cool inside.




And a funny:

 

[keishashadow]

morning sunshines - giggles reading all the easter thots Two huge refrigerators (one limping along will need to be replaced soon), 1 mini beer fridge and a freezer big enough to stick a body - or two I feel the refrigerator repairs, reminds me of my washer issue under warranty eeeee

turkey #2 today needs to go into the oven, ham tomorrow. Pumpkin pies came out nicely, may have to do some quality control later. didn't get around to eggs yet, that'll be when i come back from fighting the horde at WM to pick up maraschino cherries. i forgot - can't have ambrosia without them! hope sams still has strawberries for the shortcakes.

i do 6 doz eggs, gang gets artistic, i'm told we're going with star wars theme this year. um ok. Start mine in cold water, bring to hard boil, let them go for 5 min then shut off for an hour & drain. easy peasy, no cracks, no green yolks easy to peel.

PSA for the day - check! lol

tink - aw hope it's not too busy @ work tomorrow.

robbie - good luck, twisted how dr's offices tend to call with test results right before close of business on Fridays.

 

[marciemi]

We must be really uninteresting people as we have one fridge (and have never had more) and usually usually barely halfway full (fridge or freezer). Grew up in a family of hoarders (with probably 7 fridges and a basement you can no longer walk through due to all the junk - mostly expired food - that they still refuse to throw out). So we're strong believers in only buying what you will use in the next week or two.

DH & I signed up for the Wine & Dine Half Marathon in November! Time to lose 20 pounds and actually start training! Goal is to be able to run half and walk half alternating (pretty sure I'm past the time in my life where I'll ever run 13 miles straight).

Off to use Benihana vouchers before they expire then hoping to hit Aquatica and then see Village People at Epcot, but weather may not cooperate again (we had similar plans last Saturday and yesterday and tomorrow - going to get it in somewhere!).

Hoppy Easter everyone!!

 

[schumigirl]

Janet......I adore maraschino cherries.........I buy them for cocktails but end up eating half the jar before I can blink........yep, I never have issues shelling eggs either........

Marci.......no expired food in this house.......I keep tabs on everything......we are big meat eaters in this house.....so a visit to the wholesale butcher every couple of months suits us perfectly.......everything else is fresh produce as I don't ever buy frozen ready meals.......

I forgot to add the wine fridge in the kitchen too...........



Such a lazy day today............had coffee with a friend this morning..........made dough for pizza tonight.......tomorrow I have flourless chocolate cake to make and that's about it apart from cook turkey.......not making a big deal as its just the three of us this year.......

So pizza Saturday it is for us tonight.........wild and woolly outside..........heard the shops are mobbed beyond belief.........I'll stay home.

Have a great Saturday.........

 

[macraven]

well, i have nothing interesting to say.
can't compete in the fridge department......
had the issue pcstang is going through and the built in area of my kitchen made it impossible to replace our fridge when it died after we were in the house for 10 days.

only problem is, we have no room for a spare fridge or freezer in the garage.
so every other day to the store for certain items
door side has two shelves and a mini shelf that will hold 3 coke cans.
freezer with 3 shelves.

and all because we had to downsize from what we were used to all our lives.
did not have time to find a carpenter to redo the wood framing around an appliance.

hope all have a great cooking day.
i'm going out with son for burgers in Tn today.

when he mentioned going there, it sounded like a good idea.
yesterday i was on I 75 and it was horrible.
stand still in parts.
either everyone was going to florida or going to family for the holiday weekend.
and this was at 11:30 yesterday, a slow time on the interstate.

the overhead signs has messages of slow down, heavy congestion.
and many police and other flashing vehicles on the side of the interstate.

of all days to hit the big city for us.........ugh

 

[tinydancer09]

My friend was headed down I 75 and they witnessed a wreck. Got to it before first responders and people in the friends car were first responders so they stopped. Said it was stop and go a lot of the rest of the way. Worst I've ever seen it was when we went sunday after thanksgiving. Poor planning on our part.... We forgot about everyone headed home towards Orlando.... Thoughts were only on everyone going home AWAY from Orlando. It normally takes us 4 hours and it took us over 7.


Decided to hold off on the turkey til the next weekend I'm home. (April 9) so no thanksgiving experiments this weekend. Just ham, deviled eggs, Mac and cheese, and homemade noodles. Any Yankees around here do the typical homemade noodles in broth for holidays? I'm a southern yank

 

[ky07]

A quick drive by to say hi homies and hope everyone is well

 

[macraven]

My friend was headed down I 75 and they witnessed a wreck. Got to it before first responders and people in the friends car were first responders so they stopped. Said it was stop and go a lot of the rest of the way. Worst I've ever seen it was when we went sunday after thanksgiving. Poor planning on our part.... We forgot about everyone headed home towards Orlando.... Thoughts were only on everyone going home AWAY from Orlando. It normally takes us 4 hours and it took us over 7.


Decided to hold off on the turkey til the next weekend I'm home. (April 9) so no thanksgiving experiments this weekend. Just ham, deviled eggs, Mac and cheese, and homemade noodles.

ended up not getting to the city

all lanes north were a crawl and got off past chickamauga exit.
passed a two car pile up right before that.
4 sheriff cars, ambulances and two cars in the middle section pulled to the median.
since we were bumper to bumper and going 2 mph, saw them trying to get a back seat passenger out onto a stretcher.

ended up going back home and hitting a chinese buffet.

another day another time for the city and we will avoid the weekend next time.

figure many are done with spring break for schools/colleges and heading north for home.

no traffic going south on I 75

you will have two weekends with great food tinyD.
all sounds yum!

 

[macraven]

A quick drive by to say hi homies and hope everyone is well

Hi Ya back StL !!

well, did you order the tickets yet??




hope you are doing good and will have a great Easter weekend.