Hi Lloyd
A very good poem

Kelly

Janie--I forgot that story about how you mother, in the end, outsmarted you.  I hope the doctor allows you to get rid of that clunky shoe.

Linedancer--Rain is better than snow, right.  Your panic button, as you call it, probably saved your life when you had the heart attack.  Maybe Jeanne Lee will help you with the weather thingy.

Hi Kelly.

Hi Joan
Not long on the computer after being out for a few hours.

Kelly

Well as to be expected, new Dr ( female ) is referring me to hospital for a scan, forgot to ask whether external or internal, or maybe both, with the possibilty of seeing an Oncologist, re, my continual bleed...Says the app should come through in a month....

I had to eat what was on my plate too but I don't recall we had too much trouble as there wasn't that much to eat or much variety. 

We've had some very light snow today but it is not staying on the ground.  Temp is 36 and should stay that way until sundown, then the temp will go down.

Jeanne Lee helped me with my weather thingy.

Mary Ann

Good Afternoon Everyone!

Been a busy day so far.  Men's breakfast and bible study, then a haircut and met up with my Daughter from Del Rio and her friend and had lunch and a nice visit and they took off for fabric world and I went to the bank to get a new debit card.
I must say the bank is more efficient now.  They took care of things very quickly and I was headed back home.

You all were speaking of dessert, we didn't always have dessert, sometimes you either had some syrup or preserves or nothing.  And everyone ate the same thing.  Unless, someone was not well then maybe they got something more to their liking or special.  But most everything I liked, except liver, and it was edible.

Jackie, hope they find your problem and fix it.

Lloyd I hope you are getting things fixed back up.

Joanie, today wasn't the dr. for the clunky shoe.  That's tomorrow.  Today was for a cough that's been hanging on for months.  I finally decided that I don't want to drag it along to Texas next month so made an appt.  She said I have NO infections and my lungs sound fine so she thinks it might be an allergy.  She asked me if I'd take something for allergies and I said, "It depends on the side effects.  I don't want to take something that will entail taking something else to get rid of the side effects."  She said this one might make me drowsy but I only need to take one a day and it doesn't matter when.  So I'll try it at bedtime. 

Today's the day that Kiran goes for her piano lesson so I usually give her supper.  I'm going to ask her if she wants to go with me to pick up my prescription and then to MickeyD's for supper today.  I already know the answer to that question.

Have fun but don't forget to come back and share it with all your friends!

Hi Kelly.

Jackie--Perhaps this new doctor just wants her own up to date records.

Mary Ann--Jeanne Lee is so nice to help folks with their weather "thingy.

halkel--You've been a busy bee today.  My mother very much disliked liver, so we never had it, thank goodness.

Janie--Sorry, I thought today was the clunky shoe doctor.  Hope the new medicine cures the cough.

I was brought up in a household that was where my Father worked (as a carpenter) and had to travel one and one half hours to work every week day morning,  and back home again in the evening.
Lower  "Middle Class"  that could live on one
paycheck.   (Back in the day)  after WWII...   

Meals were pretty basic meat and potatoes
with always "desert"  at the
end "desert"... 

I was never,  ever forced to eat, or clean my plate. 
Or punished because I didn't finish everything on my
plate.     Yes,  I got my desert too no matter what.

I also brought my kids up the same way.    I served
a meal.   Usually one which the kids would eat.  And
yes,  we had a lot of cereal and pasta  and peanut butter
and jelly sandwiches.   But not a lot of sweet treats.
I was much of a dessert Mother.

Real butter and for a long time  real fresh
whole milk from the cows that lived in the barn
of the house that I rented.  Whole pasteurized
milk with GREAT creme on top.   Lot's of OJ.

Also  a lot of fresh fish as I always lived in communities
that bordered the Atlantic..

Food was never used  a bargaining chip.  If a person
really hated what was being served,  they could
make themselves a sandwich or bowl of cereal. 

We were lucky.   Not rich,  but lucky to have
enough money to live on.    (Those were my
good ole days)   I didnt' realize that we
were not rich.

Sandy

Oh,  Liver and Onions or Bacon,
was a favorite in my family when I was growing up.
Also Peanut Butter and Bacon Sandwiches.

Liver and onions, and brussel sprouts (can't even spell them right ) were about the only things I simply detested as a kid and had to sit there and eat them even if they congealed on my plate Thankfully we didn't have them often.  I still don't like them so don't fix them.  If we had dessert, it was usually fruit jello except on Sundays when we had pie or cake.

My kids ate whatever was on their plates but now they are adults, they are very picky about what they will eat.  Cathie won't eat green peas or anything that was touched by them and Jeff won't touch green beans .

Mary

Liver and onions plus bacon, that sounds good to me

Kelly

One thing I remember about Mother's cooking was that most vegetables were creamed.  I did not like them that way and wouldn't think of creaming a vegetable today.  I wasn't fond of either carrots or peas and my Aunt Vera (Mother's older sister) suggested I eat what I didn't like before I ate what I did like.  That way it would be gone.  I did that and got to like both peas and carrots.  Desserts were usually cakes, sometimes cookies.  As I've said, we had little variety so we usually ate what was on the table. 

Mary Ann

Sandy--It's interesting how different families had different ways at meal time.

MaryTX--No liver and onions or brussels sprouts for me either.

Kelly--You can have my share of liver and onions.

Mary Ann--My mother creamed many vegetables, too.  About the only thing I creamed occasionally when my children were growing up was potatoes.

Count me OUT on the liver and onions, too!  That's probably what was on my plate the night I refused to eat.  My dad loved it and so did my mother and my grandfather so we had it as often as we could.  I looked forward to not having to cook it when I got married and about a year into my marriage, my husband asked me to make it.  And we had venison liver in the freezer so I couldn't even "forget" to buy it.  I managed to only have it about once a month and I lived by my own rule...you eat a "no thank you" helping.  That's 3 bites and I never did learn to like it.  And I don't think any of my kids like it either...maybe my son!

Time to feed the doggies!

You are kind Joan!

Kelly

Liver and onions, a big share for me as JaneS also would give her share to me. 

kelly

Good evening, finally stopped raining late this afternoon.

Desert was jello, or bread pudding mostly, some time we had other puddings, not much cake.  Oh we did have junket or custard sometime.

Hi Lindancer
You are making me feel hungry 

kelly

Good Evening Kelly ................No I have not seen CharlesA 


June ok if your not over doing it I will accept that but we all know we should build limits

Have a great night and even better tomorrow

Mycheal

Hi mycheal
I think CharlesA was spotted in the supermarket by the potato counter

Enjoy your evening

Kelly

It's been awhile since I've posted but I've been keeping up with all of you!

I had one of my front teeth extracted Monday (the one that broke off at the gum line) and the implant inserted. It went well for the most part but still have a lot of soreness and some aching today. I could probably remedy that but I don't like taking a lot of pills. The sutures won't come out till the 25th and I'll get a temporary partial at that time. The permanent crown will be added 3 to 6 months from now. I know this is too much info but at the moment it's the main thing on my mind!

When I was growing up we didn't have dessert after every meal and sweets in the house, such as candy, were for special occasions. Like Sandy, financially we were "lower middle class". My Dad worked at the lumber mill and my Mom in the dress factory.  I did get a nickel for candy at the store fairly often. I did the same with my children........very little junk food in the house and I never kept candy around. My children did the same with their children even though some of them married soda-holics.

I never liked vegetables very much. I can remember sitting at the table after the rest were finished,  trying to swallow carrots. We had a back porch off the kitchen with a high railing and more than once that's where my carrots ended up.  Funny thing is, carrots are one of my favorite vegetables now. We didn't have creamed vegetables except for succotash (shelled beans and corn). I still love it but haven't thought to make it for awhile.

We're having beautiful weather now. I love this time of year in Florida.

I'll try to pop in more often......Love some of the conversations!

Glad no one came to my door this morning. When I got away from here I turned on the TV took the remote and laid on the couch dozing on and off till almost 1pm. Good day for it. It has been pouring all day. Looks like it finally stopped. Watching the news earlier they showed the traffic on I95 going slow and just about bumper to bumper.  Hope my SIL did not get stuck in that traffic coming home from work in Providence.

JOAN  My Mom didn't make pancakes often so when a kid they were a treat. At times I would get home from work and would make some for my supper. No special meals growing up in the family and I never made special meals for one of mine either. Eat what I cooked or don't eat anything. My Ex was the one had to please. Didn't like stews or soups and first time I made Shepherd’s pie he asked if I was trying to poison him. My kids loved it and so did I. He did finally eat it. Something my MIL never made.

PHYLLIS  my younger son does that to his youngest daughter, she is now 24 and he still cooks special food for her.  I told him he was foolish. When she got so she could make something when she got home from high school I told him if she doesn't like what you and my DIL like let her make her own. Only things I did was for my oldest son. Spaghetti sauce made him break out in a rash so I would put butter and seasoning on his pasta and give him the meatballs without the sauce. He did not like cooked peppers so when I made them I would put some of the filling separate and he would have that and a raw pepper. Heck I didn't like cooked peppers either when I was young. My MIL made him eat spaghetti at her house once and when she saw what happened she apologized to me for making him eat it. She thought I was babying him. Even when I was very young I could not eat onions and I still can't. My daughter hated Lima beans.


JANE  I think there is something for all of us we cannot eat. My younger son is baked beans, never made him eat them either. Funny story about him and beans. When the boys were in the boy scouts they had a week end at a BS camp. They had a bean bake supper on Saturday night that families were invited, too. The scout leader was dishing out the food and put 1 yes one bean on his plate. He thought Bill would not see it.  When they brought the plates to the table to clean after the meal there was that lone bean still on the late. That leader had a great time telling that story.

LLOYD  love the poem you posted. Oh yes kids were happier and healthier in those days. They used their imaginations and their brains to figure things out.  They could go online looking for simple answers like today's kids.

PHYLLIS  we were all happy with what we had in those old days. No designer clothes or sneakers that cost well over $100.  Wonder if any of the kids today wear hand me downs.

DON  that no dessert is one way to make sure kids cleaned their plates.

JEANNE P  sure glad I did not have to go out today the way it was pouring. It never slowed to a slow rain at all. Just poured all day.

JUNE  they had a lot of rain at my daughter's today. A steady rain that soaked into the very dry ground. Sad to see the fires already starting in some of the western states already.

GLORIA de  I woke this morning to the rain and it has poured all day. I know there was flooding in some areas of the state. There always is even with a little rain. When I first saw the temperature here thin morning it was 50 degrees warmer than yesterday morning. Possible snow for us, too , on Sunday. I gave up on the weather widget, too.

KELLY hello.

JACKIE  hope your doctor/hospital appointments are better at your new home.  I know you had to wait a long time for your appointments before.

HAL  I don't remember my Mom ever cooking liver. I remember one during WW2 when meat was so hard to get the little neighborhood store told my Mom all he could bet was some cow's tongue. She bought one and cooked it. It looked like beef and tasted like it. We did have chicken often My Mom had an egg man for years and he is the one who brought the chickens. That was Sunday diner almost every Sunday during the war and right after it.

JANE  hope that new med takes the cough away for good. If it can make you drowsy bedtime is the right time to take it.

MARYTX  no liver and onions for me but I don't mind Brussels sprouts once in a while.

MARY ANN my Mom would have cream carrots at times but not often. Sure glad we not longer have to eat canned peas or spinach. Frozen are so much better if you can't get fresh.

BEVERLY  my Mom didn't make desserts often except on Sunday. When I go married and had meals at my in laws there was dessert after every meal. Glad I never got into the habit of making dessert every day.

I bid you all a good night, sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite.

Hi Gloria
It was a nice but cool day yesterday as Friday here now.

Enjoy your evening.

Kell

Good Evening,
I've enjoyed reading all the food stories.

When I was growing up, the main meal was at noon.  There was no school cafeteria and we had an hour for lunch. In elementary school, I would walk the 1 1/2 blocks to my Dad's office and he would take me home with him.

My Dad absolutely refused to eat liver, which my Mother loved.  So the only time she and I had it was when Daddy went to Lions Club, which met for lunch in a restaurant.  Years after I was grown, Mother said she was always afraid I would ask why we never had liver when Daddy was at home.  I told her I always thought it was something special that she only fixed for the two of us.

She was a champion cookie baker and the cookie jar was always full. However she rarely made a cake and never made pies; she did make fruit cobblers by putting the crust into the dish, adding the fruit filling and folding the crust edges over the fruit.   Most of our desserts were Jello or pudding.   
I didn't know Jello was served as a salad until I was an adult.

NYC report:   Miss Ellen and friend made it from OKC to Brooklyn just fine and she said their AirB&B hosts are "amazing" (the highest compliment she gives).  Today, they were to take the subway into Manhattan for some sort of audition (I didn't know they were going to do any), then to meet up with friends they knew from college and then go to see "Fiddler On The Roof" tonight.  She posted a picture of her program with the stage behind it - so the rain must not have slowed them down.

Time for "Doc Martin" on PBS.
Sleep well, Everyfriend and have pleasant dreams.

Goodnight Everyone

Kelly

Well it has bee a good couple of days here.I need to get someone to tell me how to get S&F fourm streightend out . It wont go back to where i was last like it used to before the crash,also the spell ck don't work here,I click it and it brings up a blank page and dos nothing. my spelling dose not seam to bother you all but it dos me. I do not know how to delet it and re instal? Have a great rest of the day and a better tomorrow.

Lloyd

Good Night Everyfriend!  I'm off to Dreamland!  The furnace cleaning man is coming at 7 a.m. and I have to be up, have my shower and be dressed to leave for the dr. as soon as he goes.  Gonna be another busy day tomorrow.

Sleep peacefully and wake happy!

Callie, we had lots of cobblers in the summer when fruit was local and plentiful.  In the winter they would fix peach cobblers cause they canned lots of peaches.  It was fixed like you described, except, the put a crust on top.  Believe it or not but my Grandfather made the best cobblers.

Aunt Mae would get us kids to climb the trees on the creek and get wild Mustang grapes to make pies.  We gather these early in the season before the bugs got in them or the birds started on them.

I hated gathering peaches, that peach fuzz would drive you crazy when you got it on you, itching.

Some of you were talking about how hard meat was to get during WWII, but I don't recall our families having any problem.  But of course both my Grandparents had farms and they raised beef and pork.  I do remember sugar was a problem during the summer when they were doing a lot of canning.  And I remember Granny getting in trouble with the ration board cause she wouldn't take any ration stamps for the butter she sold.  They were always fussing at her, but she was an old hardheaded Texas farmer and could care less about federal rules.

Good evening. 

It was a fun day for us.  We drove to my brother and sister-in-laws
home, about a 60 mile drive, each way.  Chatted at their place for a few hours then went to a favorite restaurant that we all enjoy.  Unfortunately this place is known for their chicken fried steak..... It is delicious but much too heavy for me to eat later in the day.

JACKIE, I was finally able to open your videos that you sent in email, on my desk computer.  I loved every bit of them and thank you so much.  It is beautiful around there and I am just SO happy for you. I must say, you all look very happy with your new surroundings.   I am sorry you continue to have female issues and sorry that it will be a bit before you can get in for the scan.