Mashed Potatoes Monday @ TDD - C&C

[trissie]

Triple Dog Dare!

Pick 3 things
Do them
Post your TaDas!

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Don't think about it. Just do it!
~~ I Triple Dog Dare ya! ~~
Good Morning!
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[trissie]

Mashed potato or mashed potatoes (American, Canadian, and Australian English), colloquially known as mash (British English), is a dish made by mashing boiled or steamed potatoes, usually with added milk, butter, salt, and pepper. It is generally served as a side dish to meat or vegetables. Roughly mashed potatoes are sometimes called smashed potatoes.

Mashed potatoes are a Christmas staple due to their comforting, classic nature, versatility with gravy and other meats, ease of making in large batches for crowds, and historical roots as an affordable, hearty food that became central to festive feasts like Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners in America and the UK. They offer a "triple carb" indulgence perfect for holiday celebrations, symbolizing tradition, family, and a return to comforting basics.

[Kittykatt]

Good morning Trissie and thank you for the start. Mmm, mashed potatoes with plenty of butter!

Fun fact, the "Mashed Potato" was the name of a dance craze in 1962.

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Today DH goes to the office, someone is coming to hopefully fix the dining table, and, along with the housework, I need to do some present wrapping! DNeighbour S will also be coming to finish paint our side of his fence today (weather permitting!) or tomorrow, if it's wet today.

I also have the spectre of BIL's visit hanging over me - he arrives Friday,and leaves Sunday (I hope!) It's also DH's birthday on Sunday - fortunately, I have his birthday presents wrapped!

[Kittykatt]

To do:

Appointments:
Monday: DH to office
12 noon MJ is coming to look at table
Tuesday: DH WFH
At home for me
Wednesday: DH to office
At home for me
Laxapet for Jude and Matilda
9 pm Final touches to Waitrose order
Thursday: DH WFH
10.30 am church followed by coffee and chat
Hoover car first thing? ( Weather permitting!)
Bring blue crates up from garage
6-7 pm Waitrose delivery
Laxapet -Jude and Matilda if not yesterday
Friday: BIL.arrives.for the W/E
At home. for.me
Saturday:BIL staying
*Text DF E re coffee tomorrow* not this week
Sunday: DH's birthday
Church 9.30 am
Lunch out to celebrate DH's birthday with BIL and a couple of his friends
BIL hopefully leaves
Laxapet Jude and Matilda
Set up new Waitrose delivery

Future dates to note:
15/12 order HRT
6/1 Freddie - Solensia 8.30 am
8/1 Jude weight check 2 pm

Outstanding deliveries:

Extras:
Order my meds!
Reply to DF CW's WhatsApp
Put pictures back WIP
Order new orthotics - wait until ankle settles
Can I do 15 minutes of decluttering in the bedroom each day?
Digital decluttering- Google Photos for 2024 and 2025
Pick up my footprints
House tasks: Replace the bit of mortar that's fallen out of the edge of the roof (I think its called the verge? Can this wait until next year when we get the house painted when a roof ladder will be in place?) I need for it to stop raining before I ask anyone to come and look!
Verge and ridge tiles on garage roof
Sort out cabinet that wobbles - does the back need some sort of bracing ?
Take up and hem those thick winter curtains for the kitchen
Book eye test for me
Sort prints and put in albums (this will probably be an activity to do on wet days!) WIP I am now working on 2024
Think about setting up Guardianship for F,J and M - looked on Cats' Protection, I need their microchip numbers, approximate DOB, colour and markings and useful information about them. Bookmark link with local recommended solicitors (also ask DF CW?)
Change health centres to the one nearest us? On hold ATM , but I'll leave it on my list so I don't forget. Were going to do this in January

To do:
Early morning:
Cuddles and treats on the bed with Matilda, Jude and Freddie
Cup of tea
QT
Lightbox session
Make bed
Shower / wash hair/ moisturiser and sunblock/ clean and floss teeth
DH launched
Physio exercises and back exercises WIP
Proprioceptors exercises X1 x2 x3
S/S bathroom
Get dressed
Breakfast and meds / supplements - me
DRINK WATER #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8
Check bank account
Go for my walk

Garden:
15 minutes in tiny front garden
15 minutes in back garden

Cats:
Cats’ breakfast and meds / supplements
Fresh water in cat bowls
Scoop cat trays
Check Jude’s bowl
Check Matilda's bowl
Walk Freddie
Lap time with Jude, Freddie and Matilda
Play with Jude, Freddie and Matilda
Head rubs with Jude, Freddie and Matilda
Cats' supper

House:
Rubbish down to wheelie bins
Kitchen clean up
Unload DW
Reload DW
Run DW when full
Unload DW
PUPA downstairs
Quick dust sitting room
Quick hoover downstairs
PUPA upstairs
Quick dust bedrooms
Quick hoover upstairs
Lunch
Supper
Lay out clothes for tomorrow
Journal three things I am thankful for today
Hand cream

Extra house tasks:

Monday:
Clean bathroom
Clean spare room
Clean bedroom

Tuesday:
Clean hall
Clean sitting room
Clean stairs
Empty hoover before starting work
Wheelie bins back when dustmen have been
Filing paperwork for 15 minutes

Wednesday:
Clean kitchen

Garden extras:
Water pots
Feed pots weekly

Financial:
More work on budget
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[Gma]

MMMMMMmmmmm mashed potatoes! with butter, with turkey gravy, with cream gravy and meatballs, with lutefisk. Made from potatoes, not dried instant potato flakes

[Kittykatt]

Sleep well,.Gma! You're right about using real potatoes (I prefer Maris Piper or Desiree for mashing, King Edwards for roasting. IMHO, Golden Wonder make the *very* best roast potatoes but they're very hard to get!) We'll be having baked ham with mashed potatoes and other veg on Christmas Eve, but for a more every day meal, I like sausages, baked beans and mashed potato. Sometimes, with a little parsnip mashed in as well, which gives a nice flavour.

[Kittykatt]

To do:

Appointments:
Monday: DH to office
12 noon MJ is coming to look at table
Tuesday: DH WFH
At home for me
Wednesday: DH to office
At home for me
Laxapet for Jude and Matilda
9 pm Final touches to Waitrose order
Thursday: DH WFH
10.30 am church followed by coffee and chat
Hoover car first thing? ( Weather permitting!)
Bring blue crates up from garage
6-7 pm Waitrose delivery
Laxapet -Jude and Matilda if not yesterday
Friday: BIL.arrives.for the W/E
At home. for.me
Saturday:BIL staying
*Text DF E re coffee tomorrow* not this week
Sunday: DH's birthday
Church 9.30 am
Lunch out to celebrate DH's birthday with BIL and a couple of his friends
BIL hopefully leaves
Laxapet Jude and Matilda
Set up new Waitrose delivery

Future dates to note:
15/12 order HRT
6/1 Freddie - Solensia 8.30 am
8/1 Jude weight check 2 pm

Outstanding deliveries:

Extras:
Order my meds!
Reply to DF CW's WhatsApp
Put pictures back WIP
Order new orthotics - wait until ankle settles
Can I do 15 minutes of decluttering in the bedroom each day?
Digital decluttering- Google Photos for 2024 and 2025
Pick up my footprints
House tasks: Replace the bit of mortar that's fallen out of the edge of the roof (I think its called the verge? Can this wait until next year when we get the house painted when a roof ladder will be in place?) I need for it to stop raining before I ask anyone to come and look!
Verge and ridge tiles on garage roof
Sort out cabinet that wobbles - does the back need some sort of bracing ?
Take up and hem those thick winter curtains for the kitchen
Book eye test for me
Sort prints and put in albums (this will probably be an activity to do on wet days!) WIP I am now working on 2024
Think about setting up Guardianship for F,J and M - looked on Cats' Protection, I need their microchip numbers, approximate DOB, colour and markings and useful information about them. Bookmark link with local recommended solicitors (also ask DF CW?)
Change health centres to the one nearest us? On hold ATM , but I'll leave it on my list so I don't forget. Were going to do this in January

To do:
Early morning:
Cuddles and treats on the bed with Matilda, Jude and Freddie
Cup of tea
QT
Lightbox session
Make bed
Shower / wash hair/ moisturiser and sunblock/ clean and floss teeth
DH launched
Physio exercises and back exercises
Proprioceptors exercises X1 x2 x3
S/S bathroom
Get dressed
Breakfast and meds / supplements - me
DRINK WATER #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8
Check bank account
Go for my walk

Garden:
15 minutes in tiny front garden
15 minutes in back garden

Cats:
Cats’ breakfast and meds / supplements
Fresh water in cat bowls
Scoop cat trays
Check Jude’s bowl
Check Matilda's bowl
Walk Freddie
Lap time with Jude, Freddie and Matilda
Play with Jude, Freddie and Matilda
Head rubs with Jude, Freddie and Matilda
Cats' supper

House:
Rubbish down to wheelie bins
Kitchen clean up
Unload DW
Reload DW
Run DW when full
Unload DW
PUPA downstairs
Quick dust sitting room
Quick hoover downstairs
PUPA upstairs
Quick dust bedrooms
Quick hoover upstairs
Lunch
Supper
Lay out clothes for tomorrow
Journal three things I am thankful for today
Hand cream

Extra house tasks:

Monday:
Clean bathroom
Clean spare room
Clean bedroom

Tuesday:
Clean hall
Clean sitting room
Clean stairs
Empty hoover before starting work
Wheelie bins back when dustmen have been
Filing paperwork for 15 minutes

Wednesday:
Clean kitchen

Garden extras:
Water pots
Feed pots weekly

Financial:
More work on budget
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[Smile*Lee]

Good morning!
trissie ~ thanks for the start.
Doggedly ~ wtg on finding your 8$ ticket! I love it when that happens!
kitty ~ I'm a little jealous of your potato choices. We have russet, golden, red, & white. yeah.. pretty boring. And we do have baby potatoes, and fingerlings. And sweet potatoes. I want names like Imperial. Did you get a choice of paint color on your side of the fence?

Mashed potatoes are one of my favorite foods. My fave "recipe" is boiling them with a clove of garlic, a stalk of celery, bay leaf, and salt. Whipped up with 1/2 & 1/2, butter, & salt & pepper. My fave topping is butter. It was a staple for Sunday dinners along with homemade fried chicken when I was growing up. My second favorite is mixed with butternut squash and seasoned with salt, pepper & cumin - which I recently posted.

[Smile*Lee]

Woke up at 0'Dark Thirty - 3 am. Couldn't go back to sleep so I finally got up.

Got a bit of a busy day.
• look at more tubs online. I've got about 1/2" clearance from the door with the one I'm looking at.
• Call contractor to see if he'll meet us to talk about the tub situation.
• cancel an appointment
• go back over Xmas catalogues
• gym?
• make appointment with supply place to solidify choices
• Find out about paying these places. Not sure where in the process that happens.
• pack
• head to Indy to stay overnight for an early morning flight out to NC. Be back Thursday night.
Need to look at stone. Talk to stone guy. Talk to landscaping guy. Meet with garage door guy. Look at what's done overall at the house. I woke up thinking about the floor. I got talked into a way darker stain than what I originally wanted. If it's not done yet, I'm going to have them refrain from staining it till I come back and look at the natural wood first. Nobody will be happy with me about that, I imagine. But hey.. it's my floor, and I'll have to look at it for the next 20 years (hopefully).

[Kittykatt]

Good morning, Smilelee! I do hope you can get the floor situation sorted out. As you say, you'll be the one living with it! I did "help" choose the paint colour for the fence about 6 months ago -S is painting both sides of a very long tall, fence - and suggested a medium brown colour, close to the original colour of the wood, would be unobtrusive, and wear well (I really, really did not want bright blue, red, or what ever the current trend is, as, although it can look pretty when it's done, once it starts to weather and the original wood shows through, it can look shabby quickly. ) The colour S has picked is a bit darker than I would have picked, but once the plants start growing again in the spring, it won't really be obtrusive, and I'm just grateful it's not bright blue!

It's raining today, so no fence painting is taking place, but Freddie has been for his walk, and I've had a few minutes picking up leaves in my front garden. Ive also done a quick PUPA in the sitting room and cleaned up the kitchen, so it looks respectable ready for when MJ comes to look at the table. He's running a bit late, so I'm tackling some admin tasks and having lunch while I wait.