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Re: That's Thursday For Ya

Posted: Thu May 28, 2026 5:01 pm
by Harriet
Sorry about your tummy, Mystery, and I truly feel for you since we had to get the new daily liquid med out of my life because of worrisome digestive side effects. In a way, I feel like I'm recuperating now, and I hope you had nothing but a random something-or-other, having nothing to do with meds.

I'm recording my meals and, while being gentle with myself, I'm trying to get good variety of nutrition, too. Checking off the beans and grains, etc. Made a smoothie of lots of fruit and the new kale we just got.
Oh, and Nancy, avocado, too. That is a cool treat sometimes, isn't it?

Was going to make a big salad today, but I believe that needs to be tomorrow. I'm feeling the lack of large plastic lidded bowls around here - we've lost some to too much use.

LadyM, so nice that you had pleasant gardening time, and even peppers. WonderBoy reports that the unusual pepper plant we brought home for him almost a month ago is yielding a lot now. He is the adventurous eater in our family in every way, and certainly with peppers. But that one was greenhouse-grown and marketed as a basket gift at Mother's Day (it was gorgeous even then), so you are definitely ahead of our growing season.

Feline chat - Tobias does not hate the new toy. Every once in a while, we hear that he is batting at it (ping-pong balls roll around and hit each other). It does not inspire him to actually stand up, just to lie down nearby and flick a paw. But the stick that cost a little more than a dollar? (dgdC has already reminded me she would have made it for free - turned out to be not much better than a twig she might pick up in my yard plus my own wide ribbon) That stick is the most exciting prey in the house. :roll:

Desk Day is finished successfully with bills to go, waiting in the basket by the door.
Laundry load done, clothes hanging.

Re: That's Thursday For Ya

Posted: Thu May 28, 2026 5:14 pm
by Lady Maverick
And the hours of the day keep marching right along.

Project of the day has been accomplished.

Two types of sausage and mashed potatoes were prepared for family lunch. Beef ribs were cooked and packaged into portion size containers for future meals.

I have something unusual happening in the garden. This year I bought and planted 12 tomato and 12 pepper plants and put them in individual cages well space apart. What is unusual is the many tomato & pepper plants that came up on their own that are allowed to grow. Previous years I would pull these volunteer plants but this year I decided to let them grow. Forget about having an organized & well spaced garden. Instead, because I'm letting these volunteer plants grow it is quickly becoming a hodgepodge of plants. What I am finding interesting is the volunteer tomato and pepper plants are outgrowing the purchased plants that started out a good month ahead.

Re: That's Thursday For Ya

Posted: Thu May 28, 2026 8:23 pm
by Nancy
My cherry tomatoes are blooming and the other one not a cherry tom. too,
but the slicer ones are not.

Hear today the spacing on packets and packaging tags is for commercial growing,
I have plants that reseed themselves and are closer than the recommended spaces doing just fine.
Bonus no room for weeds.

bs tanked took care of that.
We have clouds and it's stuffier than it was. But down a bit temp. wise.

Re: That's Thursday For Ya

Posted: Fri May 29, 2026 12:26 am
by lucylee
Yep, Thursday. I've done nothing today -- dgrands both spent the night last night and after I took them home, I took a long nap. They will be back tomorrow evening. Dfriend texted wanting to know if I wanted to eat lunch tomorrow -- I answered YES, YES -- it will give me an excuse not to get them till late in the day. LOL. (It was my idea for them both to come tomorrow, because it is DS/ddil's anniversary, but I hope they don't come until closer to supper time.) And I don't mean to complain -- as I told Dfriend, I love them more than anything, but I've had them (at least one of them) every night since last Friday, and I will have one or both of them every night in the next week. DS
I did spend a little time looking at my expenses and I just cannot figure out where it all went! When I itemize things in my checkbook and credit card statement, it seems that I'm not spending a lot more than usual (except for gas!) But gosh... I don't see how I will EVER get back to where I was before I put this roof on. That took ALL my "emergency" savings plus about $200 out of my main account.
Anyway, we will save some $$ tomorrow, because we're having taco soup.

Cathy, I cannot believe it, but there are some hot air balloons here near my little Tiny Town! I never see them, but people on FB take pictures and they had a float in the Christmas parade, blasting that hot air thing periodically. And I think I mentioned in Next Town where they have a big balloon festival every year on Memorial Day weekend. Only a couple attempted to take flight this year because of the rain.

IKWYM re: the queso Rotel dish, LadyM! I could eat my body weight in that stuff. But then my body weight doubles, right? LOL.
Taco soup may be just as bad, because I'm sure there's lots of sodium in all that stuff, but at least it will be cheaper to eat at home.

I don't have much to tell... I'm going to go take a shower and try to rest up for tomorrow.