Something About Nothing............ #14

[Lynne G]

Yeah, the damage was nasty as seeing from our news. No prize in that sense Schumi, I was saying did the zero, one, two or the three was the damage winner. All showed damage and knocked over trees, roots and all. Yeah Mac, even though we did not get anything, was scary as the air has that feel you know bad weather around.

And so, grocery done, decided not to go to car wash, line was too long.

Now just chilling and thinking of what for dinner. Ladies night out maybe, as will be just little one and me for dinner. Keisha has that brisket on my mind, but oddly, there is no good bbq places around here. We do like one bbq place enough, but is not close. Eh, guess what we will figure it out closer to dinner time.

May all enjoy this mist pleasant of a Saturday.

 

[macraven]

Drive down to Georgia for bbq lynne!

brisket is great here!

 

[macraven]

Dang now I want bbq brisket for dinner
Had planned on a pizza before I read Lynne’s post

It’s a real shame I had a late lunch two hours ago and have food on my mind now

 

[Lynne G]

Yeah, you’d think we’d have some good bbq places here Mac. Not many, and only one to our liking now. There used to be a really good one in the little borough next to us, but it went out of business years ago. Was a sad day, as all liked their style of bbq. I guess someday when I’m living part time down South, I’ll be looking for our liked style of bbq. Lucky you, Mac.

Ah, snack time, as I don’t think little one is even close to saying hungry for dinner. Just made some burgers for lunch, but that was hours ago now, LoL

 

[schumigirl]

Drive down to Georgia for bbq lynne!

brisket is great here!

I love the sound of your very local place for bbq food mac…….makes the taste buds tingle. We don’t know how to cook proper Southern bbq food here in the uk.

We have a lovely man living local to us who originates from the Southdown the US and his ribs with a sauce are the best!

Hope you’re keeping cool……and yes, email is back now



Forgot how much I love The Greatest Showman…….fabulous movie and watching it on the big screen in back room was fabulous. Yes, I admit to singing along……..

Bedtime soon for us. Enjoyed some nice wine too.

Up early tomorrow for a walk, think a couple of friends will join us, hope so, but we enjoy our walks regardless.

Happy Saturday night

 

[Charade67]

Good evening everyone. I was going to do a long catchup post, but I think something I ate is disagreeing with me, so I will keep it brief.

Dh and I are trying to look ahead to our kitchen makeover, but have no idea what colors to use for paint and countertops. We went to a couple of places today to look for inspiration.

Lynne - Scary about all the tornados. I still think about a time in elementary school when one passed near the school. All the students had to go into the hallway and stay in the tornado drill position.

Robo - Hope your post vacation recovery continues to go well and it's not too insanely crowded at HHN.

Keisha - So sorry about the car. Glad you are okay. Enjoy your getaway.

Last week 2 of dh's cousins were in town. He and I were comparing how may first cousins we had. He has 7. Five on his mom's side and two on his dad's. I've had to ask a couple of aunts to help me count mine. I think there are 5 or 6 on my father's side. One of my aunts confirmed the number on my mom's side today - 29. In sharp contrast B has exactly one first cousin.

Hard to believe that in a few minutes it will be August already.

Hopefully my stomach will settle down soon and I can get some sleep.

 

[macraven]

Hope you feel better real soon charade and able to relax and sleep well tonight

It’s hard to sleep with digestion issues
Or it is for me.

Almost August!
Bet it will be a sizzler one and hot
Ugh..

 

[Charade67]

My goofy cat has decided to sleep in a bag Dh got at a National Association of Broadcasters convention years ago.

 

[schumigirl]

And we have a for one of our ladies today.......

Vicki......(tink1957)...Hope you have a wonderful day today and get a little spoiled....you deserve it.......

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Charade.....hope you feel better and get a good sleep.

Your daughter has only one cousin? That isn`t a lot. I have more cousins than I can count half the time......Tom doesn`t have many though.


mac....hope you stay cool in your heat.......we saw Georgia in the news again for weather.......hot!!!




Little dull and little breezy this morning. Think the rain will stay off while we`re out. And just us this morning.........others wimped out.

Grand Prix later this afternoon, not sure we`ll watch though. But, cooking a roast chicken for dinner tonight, bacon sandwiches for lunch, might make it a BLT.

And first day of August........that came around quick. Have a few birthdays this month, before September which is my busiest month of the year for celebrations, birthdays and anniversaries and one of my Goddaughters is getting married next month too. Looking forward to that wedding, it`ll be a short visit for the wedding only as the hotel is almost fully booked the whole of September.

Time for tea........

Happy Sunday and 1st day of August ​

 

[Charade67]

Your daughter has only one cousin? That isn`t a lot. I have more cousins than I can count half the time......Tom doesn`t have many though.

Yep, just one. Dh is an only child, so no cousins on that side. My brother doesn’t have any children and my sister just has one.

My mother is the oldest of 10. Her siblings have 1-5 children each giving me a total of 29 on that side of the family. The family isn’t close, so I wouldn’t even recognize any of them if I saw them.

 

[macraven]

My mom’s family was like that also

the many years of an age spread caused it for them

20 years apart in age with siblings

 

[schumigirl]

Yep, just one. Dh is an only child, so no cousins on that side. My brother doesn’t have any children and my sister just has one.

My mother is the oldest of 10. Her siblings have 1-5 children each giving me a total of 29 on that side of the family. The family isn’t close, so I wouldn’t even recognize any of them if I saw them.

I think I have a few cousins I haven`t seen in many years, but for the most part we kind of keep in touch with birthday cards/phone and emails. One contacted me recently for some questions on Orlando, he`d heard from another of our cousins we had been many times and they haven`t visited there for over 25 years, and when we spoke it was as if we had just spoke last week and I haven`t spoken to him in over 35 years.....lol.....

I always enjoyed having lots of cousins growing up, many lived away from us so it was always fun to travel and visit them and vice versa.




Ended up a lovely morning here, so we got our 6 miles done.

About to have club sandwiches as we have bacon and turkey......always popular. I am so hungry today, I`ll blame the breeze we walked through, and sea was rough looking this morning. We also watched the Lifeboat do some exercises in and out of the water, how they do it I`ll never know.

Lunch is being made for me today, and about to be served........yum!

 

[macraven]

Miss Vicki

 

[Lynne G]

Yay! A birthday for Tink, happy birthday Tink. Yay for starting off the birthday month for many of us homies. Hope you have a great birthday.

Charade, hehe yep cats will find any bag or box irresistible. Seems like a perfect place to sleep. And hope you feel better and got a good night sleep. Yeah, they are now saying 8 confirmed tornadoes. I was so lucky, as they are all close to me, like a ring from the 11 to 2 on a clock.

Ack, I’m not a night owl. Went to bed around 11:30 pm last night. Sometime hours later later, older one said he’s home, as he went to a friend’s home after he got off work at 10 pm. Then sometime even later, I heard little one say goodnight. Sigh. But at least I did get some sleep, as did not wake up until after 9 am. Mostly because I am still hearing a very loud machine very close to us. Guess someone else is up early.

And the rain has been failing since the early morning. Oh well, not much on the agenda today. It’s the get the trash out, get ready for week day routines.

And ooh, mention of tea from Schumi. Yay,as I’m enjoying some now. I do enjoy tea.

And so, it is a Sunday, that most of day of being in a relaxing state is the correct way to be. Ooh I heard a mom? I guess I need to get moving.

Hope this finds all having a wonderful weekend, and say a big happy birthday to Tink.

 

[keishashadow]

Janet, yes, she did look a little aggressive. Hope the neck doesn`t bother you too much, especially this weekend!!

All good, thanks

The opening music was a Perry Como christmas song with a kids choir

He’s from my general area. Don’t remember that tho, may have to seek it out

Brisket sounds SO good!!! And roast chicken too.....lush.....can I leave the beans.....one of my most hated foods......lol......but, have a blast, although I`m sure you will......your birthday celebrations are legendary.......

It was killer. Went out to the store & bought several more to freeze


skipped corn & bisquit on my plate, heavy carb load
At the risk of breaking my arm patting myself in the back...most photogenic cheesecake I’ve made LOL tasted pretty good too

Just hoping that HHN offers those multi day tickets soon. Tick-tick, two weeks and six weeks. Double woot!

Seriously, any time!

The tornado that went 2.5 miles near our house before we moved here, still have not recovered fully
75 was repaired quickly but not the land going into it

Terrifying as to the damage they can wreck. We still have a wide swath of tree line that was taken down. Big microburst came down their river valley & followed utility company service road up the mountain.

For some reason when it appeoachrd my ridge it elected to hang a right & take out about a 1/4 of a mile of woods. Also, all the windows on my house that side and many trees on my lot.

what’s odd is it then followed the street for a half mile & just disappeared

Yeah, you’d think we’d have some good bbq places here Mac. Not many, and only one to our liking now.

Same, other than the old dudes with homemade barrel smokers set up in parking lots. Never tried as no health dept oversight.

surprised no food trucks have picked up thatnitche market here

My goofy cat has decided to sleep in a bag

 

[keishashadow]

Vicki

Take the time to don a funny hat & have a very, happy birthday!

 

[schumigirl]

Food looks gorgeous Janet…….like the meats!!

And cheesecake…….yep, looks very good, hard to just eat one slice……lol……glad the celebration went so well!

Yes, the opening music did have me raise an eyebrow, it just seemed so out of place in a film about Nazi hunting.




Early night for us tonight I think. And good to see it starting to get darker a good bit earlier at night now. Our stargazers will be happy.

Dentist in the morning, never a fun thing to do, but just a check up and will see how the new dentist is. If I don’t like her we’ll change to one closer to where we live now.

Hope you’ve all had a lovely weekend………

 

[Lynne G]

Cake looks awesome Keisha. Yum!

Ah yes, was a very dreary day. Rained on and off all day. Just overcast now. But a big YAY. Another absolutely sunny Fall like day for our Monday. 81 the high. And hoping to see Saturn this week if we have a clear night sky.

And so, a Sunday evening is here, and trash put out for collection, and alarm already set. Will be an earlier bedtime for me. Picked up an English style black tea bags box on the clearance shelf. It’s quite tasty. That, and a brownie piece, as had made brownies this afternoon. Did not mind heating up the oven today. And I like them, as one bowl and one pan. All enjoyed them when still almost cooled, and no reason not to have them as an evening snack with my tea.

And so, hope all have that good night. Week day routines commence upon waking up, but hey, little one is happy that means second to last week of camp. Gosh that 6 weeks of camp went fast. But she is stoked, as camp ends next Friday, and then we leave that Sunday. Woot! Though both of us are a bit nervous of how much different FLA is to where we live. But masks indoors, not a problem. And so, we are still looking forward to getting away before she starts college.

Kids are hungry? How can they be? Dinner was my style of chicken stir fry. Cut up some fresh chicken breasts, added some rice, and chicken broth, added carrots and broccoli. Eh, I guess some greasy food is wanted. Saying a BK run. I may steal a fry.

 

[macraven]

You can never go wrong with BK !

I’ve snacked all day and too late to fix dinner

Have a busy next 3 days in a row, all doc appointments

Only dread of them which is the dentist
More crown work

Waiting for the night light !
Who is going to share it with us?

 

[Lynne G]