So sorry I haven't written lately.
I am going through a very depressing, hard, bad time.
My camera is broke...I have no car....I think I messed up a relationship that I thought had promise...and I need a roof. Plus my washer is ancient and showing signs of giving out..the stove only has 2 1/2 burners working and the glass on my self cleaning (albeit second hand) oven door broke...(I don't even know how) On a deeper level..the electric in the house badly need updating...several plugs in the bedroom don't even read my laptop battery....thats nothing new..we've know for a long time now, that the electric wiring in the house is sub-par and not up to code......"wing and prayer", folks....(that sounds careless...ALL safety precautions are in place where we can put them..)
I am not giving up or stopping...I am still looking for my True North... I am actually not even "taking a break". More like a "delay"..like the LIRR.......
On the good side, it was SOO warm yesterday in NY I went out and did garden work! I raked out some chickweed...a LARGE patch formed in the garden in the fall when I left some broccoli raab in place because it was so warm...not wating to distrub it the weeds grew.
And BEST of all....THE GIANTS ARE IN THE SUPERBOWL!!
And lastly...it is Ground Hog day.....and they are saying 6 more weeks of "winter" if you can call it that...(actually the ground hog in PA said 6 more weeks and the one in Staten Island said early spring...BUT the NY weather people are saying 6 weeks all round.) Now really...we are going to have 6 weeks til spring no matter WHAT the ground hog says!! LOL!! I just wonder what all this mild winter stuff is going to do to spring and summer! We have had warm winters before....not even sure if these warm days have set any records..but generally when we have a warm winter, we have a cold wet spring and summer...so we shall see what we shall see.....
I think I will post few "happy" pictures..from last summers garden..
OOOKKKK..guess I won't...Blogger is giving me trouble loading pics! What else is new!?
Is anyone else having this trouble? I know they are making changes (merges whatever) but to not be able to upload pics for your own files??? Somethings not right here...
See you later...I have much to do today, and if I can get a chunk of time, try to figure this picture thing out. If I do I will post some posies...
Janie
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Etta James
Etta James.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etta_James
She was one of my favorites. She sang as hard as her life was. Starting as many do, with gospel music, then into R&B.. Later mixing R&B with gospel, jazz, blues, soul, rock and roll, doo wop, and even later adding elements of hip hop. She was something very different. Her own person..her own style.
Her best remembered (popular) song were "At Last", and I Just Want to Make Love to You"... But she was great all round....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1uunRdQ61M&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUgvVAFFzN8
In January 2010 she entered the hospital for a MRSA infection and it was then they diagnosed her with Alzheimers. Which has been said to be the cause of her tirade on Beyonce about singing her song.. Later on in early 2011, she was diagnosed with terminal leukemia, and she died just short of her 74th birthday, yesterday....
Good bye Etta. Your last few years were very hard ones, and the road ahead, even without leukemia would have been torturous at best. She can rest now.
Have snow to shovel now, first one of the season (finally)!
See you later,
Janie
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Do You Throw Money Way? Marking Events and Time..
Everyone has left overs. Except a cousin of my great grandmother. My mother used to laugh about her, and tell me, when her grandmother would take her and the family there for dinner, she never cooked enough. And after dinner, her grandmother's cousin would look around at the table, and the empty bowls and say, "Look at that! I made just enough..."
How many times do you open the frig to get something out, and find a container of some sort of green fuzzy thing? And wonder when did you put it there and what the heck was it?
I have tried different ways to avoid that, once saying I was going to date all my leftovers. That works, but there are those times you forget because you are in a rush, or it doesn't seem like enough to bother with, but there's enough for a mini meal for one, etc. I have also read that it is better not to put vegetable in the produce drawers because they get forgotten in there. And sometimes things do. But I don't think they keep long enough without the "environmental controls" on the produce drawers.
Last year, I read a blog by a couple (and I am really sorry, but I don't remember who it was! Senior moment?) who said they found a way to stop wasting food.
I have always kept a calendar in the kitchen. I used it to mark Dr appointments or "dates", so I know what everyone is doing. Sorry Flylady, I know you do this too, but I, as my father did.... always did this! My dad left us a drawer full of calendars that record everything that ever happened in our family over the years...EVERYTHING.....births; deaths; anniversary's; marriages, everything.....we call them his calendar records. All the facts and dates of our family...if anyone says, "When was it that "so and so" came to visit?", we run and check the calendars...there it is. He even marked when certain family members called. Later on, as they got older, he even kept track of what my mother WEIGHED because we were all worried she was losing too much weight and she was tiny already...
Once I was talking to a friend on the phone, and my sisters work schedule came up. And I said she was working that day. The friend asked surprised, "You know your sisters work schedule?" Yep..so does my other sister..because it seems like we "inherited" our dads calendar habit...
I took a while to try out this couples method, of recording leftovers, and it does work.
First I make menus for the week and write the plan at the top of the calendar square. When I come home from shopping, I list all the produce and meat I bought on the calendar. When I cook a meal, if anything is left over I leave the menu entry as is. Once I use the left over I line it out, if it wasn't a raging success, or put a check next to it, if I am going to do it again. This way I also have a calendar of menus that worked, then I know exactly how old a left over is, and what it is and better yet, when to use it! And no more digging through the freezer to see what I have. (It's a deep chest) because I have a running list. If I make double soup, chili or stew recipes or anything I can freeze for an extra meal, I put an F next to it.
It doesn't have to be a large calendar because this is the only thing I use it for. Just make sure it has pictures you like, and boxes to write in. Flylady has one but with no pics. But it is large, and I use one as my master calendar and that is where I now put Dr appointments and tasks I am doing, or errands. Right now, in the ktichen, I have a Farmer's Almanac recipe calendar in the kitchen.
Hope in some small way this might help someone keep track of a part of their lives. Do you have any tricks you use to amrk leftovers?
I am in a no camera phase again. Probably time to get a decent camera for a change!
See ya later ; )
Janie
How many times do you open the frig to get something out, and find a container of some sort of green fuzzy thing? And wonder when did you put it there and what the heck was it?
I have tried different ways to avoid that, once saying I was going to date all my leftovers. That works, but there are those times you forget because you are in a rush, or it doesn't seem like enough to bother with, but there's enough for a mini meal for one, etc. I have also read that it is better not to put vegetable in the produce drawers because they get forgotten in there. And sometimes things do. But I don't think they keep long enough without the "environmental controls" on the produce drawers.
Last year, I read a blog by a couple (and I am really sorry, but I don't remember who it was! Senior moment?) who said they found a way to stop wasting food.
I have always kept a calendar in the kitchen. I used it to mark Dr appointments or "dates", so I know what everyone is doing. Sorry Flylady, I know you do this too, but I, as my father did.... always did this! My dad left us a drawer full of calendars that record everything that ever happened in our family over the years...EVERYTHING.....births; deaths; anniversary's; marriages, everything.....we call them his calendar records. All the facts and dates of our family...if anyone says, "When was it that "so and so" came to visit?", we run and check the calendars...there it is. He even marked when certain family members called. Later on, as they got older, he even kept track of what my mother WEIGHED because we were all worried she was losing too much weight and she was tiny already...
Once I was talking to a friend on the phone, and my sisters work schedule came up. And I said she was working that day. The friend asked surprised, "You know your sisters work schedule?" Yep..so does my other sister..because it seems like we "inherited" our dads calendar habit...
I took a while to try out this couples method, of recording leftovers, and it does work.
First I make menus for the week and write the plan at the top of the calendar square. When I come home from shopping, I list all the produce and meat I bought on the calendar. When I cook a meal, if anything is left over I leave the menu entry as is. Once I use the left over I line it out, if it wasn't a raging success, or put a check next to it, if I am going to do it again. This way I also have a calendar of menus that worked, then I know exactly how old a left over is, and what it is and better yet, when to use it! And no more digging through the freezer to see what I have. (It's a deep chest) because I have a running list. If I make double soup, chili or stew recipes or anything I can freeze for an extra meal, I put an F next to it.
It doesn't have to be a large calendar because this is the only thing I use it for. Just make sure it has pictures you like, and boxes to write in. Flylady has one but with no pics. But it is large, and I use one as my master calendar and that is where I now put Dr appointments and tasks I am doing, or errands. Right now, in the ktichen, I have a Farmer's Almanac recipe calendar in the kitchen.
Hope in some small way this might help someone keep track of a part of their lives. Do you have any tricks you use to amrk leftovers?
I am in a no camera phase again. Probably time to get a decent camera for a change!
See ya later ; )
Janie
Monday, January 2, 2012
50 Healthy Recipes for 2012 from the Brown Eyed Baker
The Brown Eyed Baker posted this link on FB. Everyone of these recipes sounds like a winner. I am going to try them all..probably sooner, and more often, then one a week! (that's how good they sound).
http://www.browneyedbaker.com/2012/01/02/50-healthy-recipes-for-2012/
I hope you enjoy them...
Tonight it is getting colder (for a day or two!)
But it looks like a good soup night. So I am making the (because it was planned before I found the above!) Rosemary Potato soup sent by Two Peas and Their Pod. Pairing it with a green salad and I think I am going to make the Hearty Whole Wheat Sandwich bread from the Brown Eyed Baker's list..
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1CARcp/www.twopeasandtheirpod.com/potato-rosemary-soup/
Better get started..nary a picture to post today..my camera isn't working, and I need a new battery...and I don't have a car until next Sunday!! I must do something about this!
See you later,
Janie
http://www.browneyedbaker.com/2012/01/02/50-healthy-recipes-for-2012/
I hope you enjoy them...
Tonight it is getting colder (for a day or two!)
But it looks like a good soup night. So I am making the (because it was planned before I found the above!) Rosemary Potato soup sent by Two Peas and Their Pod. Pairing it with a green salad and I think I am going to make the Hearty Whole Wheat Sandwich bread from the Brown Eyed Baker's list..
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1CARcp/www.twopeasandtheirpod.com/potato-rosemary-soup/
Better get started..nary a picture to post today..my camera isn't working, and I need a new battery...and I don't have a car until next Sunday!! I must do something about this!
See you later,
Janie
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Looking Back and Moving Forward....
There have been countless articles written about whether or not looking back is good or bad.
Whereas dwelling on the past, living in the past, or trying to revive the past, is what many of these articles are pertaining to, I think (IMO) that we need the past to be able to move forward.
Looking back we can see where we might have made mistakes, and where we can improve our lives... and in improving our lives we in some way help improve the lives of those close to us.
“Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.”
― Winston S. Churchill
This quote applies to world history, as well as our own histories. No one is perfect, everyone has failures and mistakes at times. Ever have the same thing, or problem, keep happening in your life? Maybe ti's time to look back and figure out why.
As the calendar is about to change to a new year, many see it as a place for a new beginning. One can't make a fresh start without looking back, regardless of whether it is the changing of a year, a month, and day or even a decade..
I don't make resolutions at this time, because as most people know, or have tried, seldom do they work. I do set goals as the days go by, refreshing, or revising, or even discarding, old ones not yet completed, and setting new ones as life goes on, but this time of the year is often thought of as a good point for looking back, over the past year.
Right now I am planning the garden. Making plans now so I have a jump on the future. NOT my biggest project ahead for the next year, but certainly one that can be done ahead so I can work on the bigger plans. Like the ant in the fall, making plans so the next season is taken care of.
What do you do? Do you make resolutions, or think over the past year? Do you make plans for the immediate future or some time in the distant future?
Gotta run, See you later,
Janie
Whereas dwelling on the past, living in the past, or trying to revive the past, is what many of these articles are pertaining to, I think (IMO) that we need the past to be able to move forward.
Looking back we can see where we might have made mistakes, and where we can improve our lives... and in improving our lives we in some way help improve the lives of those close to us.
“Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.”
― Winston S. Churchill
This quote applies to world history, as well as our own histories. No one is perfect, everyone has failures and mistakes at times. Ever have the same thing, or problem, keep happening in your life? Maybe ti's time to look back and figure out why.
As the calendar is about to change to a new year, many see it as a place for a new beginning. One can't make a fresh start without looking back, regardless of whether it is the changing of a year, a month, and day or even a decade..
I don't make resolutions at this time, because as most people know, or have tried, seldom do they work. I do set goals as the days go by, refreshing, or revising, or even discarding, old ones not yet completed, and setting new ones as life goes on, but this time of the year is often thought of as a good point for looking back, over the past year.
Right now I am planning the garden. Making plans now so I have a jump on the future. NOT my biggest project ahead for the next year, but certainly one that can be done ahead so I can work on the bigger plans. Like the ant in the fall, making plans so the next season is taken care of.
What do you do? Do you make resolutions, or think over the past year? Do you make plans for the immediate future or some time in the distant future?
Gotta run, See you later,
Janie
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Happy Winter Everyone...
Officially Winter came in at 12:30am this morning.....(on the East Coast) So far it looks like a mild fall! (rare not to have a half day of winter before the first full day)I have tiny flowers on my Bridal Wreath thinking it is time to come out!
I thought this would be an appropriate song for the first day of winter...memories of winters past.
This is by Dean Martin-compliments of You Tube...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SHbpmn32i8
FINALLY! My header makes sense......Promise, after the season is done I will try to be good, and figure out my cameras picture program (problem with the camera is it is over used. Three of us are using it..every time I look for it someone else has it out..it is not a big camera only a small pocket one I bought just for carrying to take pics for the blog!) My work station changed (not for the better) my equipment..lot of changes.. And I never actually seem to have the camera in my hands at the same time I can sit down and use it, OR put pictures on the computer...! I think we need another camera...
Oh...if you have a few minutes to spare the next time you sit down at your computer...go to Google and type in "let it snow". Or type in "tilt"...or better yet.."Do A Barrel Roll"
Just for the fun of it....(I am sure your kids already know about them)
See you later-gotta run now,
Janie
I thought this would be an appropriate song for the first day of winter...memories of winters past.
This is by Dean Martin-compliments of You Tube...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SHbpmn32i8
FINALLY! My header makes sense......Promise, after the season is done I will try to be good, and figure out my cameras picture program (problem with the camera is it is over used. Three of us are using it..every time I look for it someone else has it out..it is not a big camera only a small pocket one I bought just for carrying to take pics for the blog!) My work station changed (not for the better) my equipment..lot of changes.. And I never actually seem to have the camera in my hands at the same time I can sit down and use it, OR put pictures on the computer...! I think we need another camera...
Oh...if you have a few minutes to spare the next time you sit down at your computer...go to Google and type in "let it snow". Or type in "tilt"...or better yet.."Do A Barrel Roll"
Just for the fun of it....(I am sure your kids already know about them)
See you later-gotta run now,
Janie
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
It's National Ice Cream Day!
Not sure about anyone else but its just not fair that
Number 1 : Its a WEEK day!
And Number 2 : It's too COLD for ice cream....
But I could go for a Black Cow, aka Black and White; aka Rootbeer float
Compliments of The Nibbler
http://blog.thenibble.com/2010/06/10/recipe-have-a-cow%E2%80%94a-black-cow-a-k-a-root-beer-float/
Ingredients Per Serving
• 2 scoops vanilla ice cream
• 1 tablespoon chocolate syrup
• Chilled root beer
• Whipped cream
• Maraschino cherry
Preparation
1. Scoop ice cream into a tall glass. Add chocolate syrup.
2. Slowly pour root beer over ice cream being careful not to let it foam up over the side of the glass.
3. Garnish with whipped cream and a maraschino cherry—or with a flute cookie, as in the photo. Serve with a straw and a long spoon for the ice cream.
Now this I could go for..
To warm you up...here is a pretty flower in sun colors from earlier this summer...a reminder of what is to come again for certain....
See you later.....Blogger and the Internet itself is making me crazy today..it took over a half hour to load this picture on! So now off to get busy!
See you later......hope everyone can take a break and enjoy their ice cream today!
Number 1 : Its a WEEK day!
And Number 2 : It's too COLD for ice cream....
But I could go for a Black Cow, aka Black and White; aka Rootbeer float
Compliments of The Nibbler
http://blog.thenibble.com/2010/06/10/recipe-have-a-cow%E2%80%94a-black-cow-a-k-a-root-beer-float/
• 2 scoops vanilla ice cream
• 1 tablespoon chocolate syrup
• Chilled root beer
• Whipped cream
• Maraschino cherry
Preparation
1. Scoop ice cream into a tall glass. Add chocolate syrup.
2. Slowly pour root beer over ice cream being careful not to let it foam up over the side of the glass.
3. Garnish with whipped cream and a maraschino cherry—or with a flute cookie, as in the photo. Serve with a straw and a long spoon for the ice cream.
Now this I could go for..
To warm you up...here is a pretty flower in sun colors from earlier this summer...a reminder of what is to come again for certain....
See you later.....Blogger and the Internet itself is making me crazy today..it took over a half hour to load this picture on! So now off to get busy!
See you later......hope everyone can take a break and enjoy their ice cream today!
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