Posted on November 25, 2009, 9:49 am, by Vkaryl, under
Real Life.
You need to do that some just before a holiday. Today, I’m doing the sweet potatoes and the hot rolls. The potatoes are boiling now, and will get skinned when cool then cut into slices, placed in a square baker and refrigerated. Tomorrow I’ll add the “rest of it”.
The hot rolls will get reheated in [...]
Posted on November 24, 2009, 3:33 pm, by Vkaryl, under
Real Life.
Supposedly, there wasn’t going to be enough Libby canned pumpkin this year, because the fields were too wet from flooding, and the harvesting machines couldn’t get into them.
I don’t know about that, and I wasn’t worried anyway, since I had a small can left from a year or so back (the size you make ONE [...]
Posted on November 23, 2009, 9:10 am, by Vkaryl, under
Real Life.
We have to pick up the last few items we need for Thanksgiving. As well as the normal like pet food and treats, dairy products, produce, and so on. Costco, Wal-Mart and a regular grocery store. Probably IFA and the liquor store…. It always takes me DAYS to recover from walking around all those huge [...]
Posted on November 22, 2009, 9:20 am, by Vkaryl, under
Real Life.
of things I want that husband is “giving me for Christmas” – hopefully without the attendant bitching about cost later. In the long run, I’d almost rather just tell him “nope, I don’t need ANYTHING – because you can’t figure it out yourself, and I don’t need you pissing and moaning about how much things [...]
Posted on November 21, 2009, 8:57 am, by Vkaryl, under
Real Life.
because their fields are too wet to use the machines…. Okay. So what happened to hiring BODIES (you know, people?) to pick the pumpkins? You know, the way it USED to be done?
Regardless, I have my one can of pumpkin left from the 2 or 3 I bought a couple of years back, when I [...]