Saturday morning!
Happy birthday Bugs Bunny!
Let the cartoon begin!
Happy birthday Bugs Bunny!
Let the cartoon begin!
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Those who weren't fans or are too young probably won't get that. But anybody who ever watched "Caddy Shack" are familiar with his work.
Those who weren't fans or are too young probably won't get that. But anybody who ever watched "Caddy Shack" are familiar with his work.
My dog gets beer and pretzels.Today, I walked outside and it felt like it was 110F. It probably wasn't, and tomorrow it's going to rain, But as I was sizzling, It was really a hot blast of air out front, even in the shade. So I brought refreshments for everyone who's experiencing a heat wave... banana splits!
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Oh, and if you're dieting, you get some sugar-free snow cones.
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Keep cool on these hot days. And hopefully, if you have dogs outside, be sure they have plenty of water and shade.
I hear that about the groceries. We are easily paying $100 to $150 more a month for groceries than we paid this time last year. Maybe more. I haven't done an in depth analysis.The heat wave was broken at 10:30 last night with a loud thunderstorm that played havoc with the electricity, and briefly knocked out satellite service.
I'm almost completely back to "normal", physically at least. I can't walk downstairs yet. I still have to go down one step at a time, but I can walk upstairs normally, and unsupported. I find I'm still tiring more easily. I was riding my bicycle to my physio appointments at the end. I stress that our town is very flat, and riding a bike here is easy. Oh yeah, and I've been dancing!!! Nothing too wild, but I can now dance once again.
I went to the Farmer's Market this morning, to get "just picked beans," corn and potatoes. Then I went to Sobey's one of our big chain supermarkets, to stock up the pantry. $171 for THREE BAGS of groceries, and the bags weren't even full.
And I bought a 6 qt. basket of Niagara Peaches - the best peaches in the world. Even people from Georgia have told us that good as they are, their peaches can't compare with ours. There are enough peaches to make a batch of peach jam, if I don't eat half of them first. The first basket of the year tends to get eaten while standing over the kitchen sink with juice running down my arms.
My friend and I are going to the race track one day a month. We each take $20 to bet with, entry to the clubhouse and trackside is free, and we buy a meal. Total cost, less than the price of the movie. I put my $20 in my pocket, and all bets and pay outs go into and out of the pocket. My friend bets on horses who's names she likes. Like Tomcat Black. Her last name is Black so of course she bet on Tomcat. He won. I bet on the horses by bloodline, prior results, and workout times. The first time we went, I came home with $40 in my pocket and I paid for my food out of the betting pocket. This time my friend went home with a pocket full of money and I went home with 40 cents.
I asked Siri to set up an appointment with my friend for August 16th from 2:30 to 9:00 at "Fort Erie Raceway". Siri dutifully set up a day out with my friend at "Fork eatery raceway". My friend says she's bringing a spoon.
Those are beautiful Beautress. My sister-in-law--Hombre's twin--crochets stuff like that but she makes little dish washing scrubbies out of I think tulle? yarn. She keeps us supplied . They're really pretty and they wear like iron but are flexible and really are great for washing dishes--wipes them clean and just abrasive enough to not damage anything but help take off anything stuck to the dishes or whatever. These aren't hers but she uses this pattern or one very similar. I think hers a bit bigger around than these but not a whole lot.Nothing new to report here except for my crochet hook has been flying trying to finish up potholders for family gifts in December. They take 30 hours apiece because I crochet two sides to guarantee the potholder will not ever allow its user to get burned. After they're joined, I try and make a nonflammable lace around them that matches the other threads in the little hexagonal shape of them. You can pick up an iron skillet of cornbread which cooks at 500F, and not get burned. Once in a while I make a crocheted dishrag, because I don't like the ones they sell now that are made of synthetics that show dirt, and you have to use two of them not to get burned. Hope everybody has a good evening! Found some others, but they all use fat thread. I use size 10, and instead of a few motifs, mine use about 17 rows, all the same popcorn stitch that is responsible for making mine burned-hand-proof.
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Thanks, Dragonlady. Those potholders I took from the search engine were all done by someone else using extremely fat threads, but some of the outer simple laces were similar to the ones I do in minutia, so I showed them as best I could. . Size 10 threads that I use are like just regular string, and 5 put together lengthwise would be the equivalent of regular 4-ply acrylic. Acrylic is cheap, but it is not nearly as absorbent as cotton, plus it melts if the heat is over boiling point, or ~212F. Cotton can be boiled for sanitary purposes if desired with no harm, no foul unless the manufacturer was careless with bleeding threads which were common before the 1950s except for indigo. As man-made "improvements" on plants has been done, i'm not sure if indigo is as boil-proof as it was in Martha Washington's day. The reason I picked other people's artistry is because I don't know how to do anything but screw up a picture if I take one! So I gave up on photography as an art form long, long ago, and since my wonderful husband passed away 6 years ago, I lost a really good photographer who had an eye for perspective that was uncanny, considering that he was a professional electrical engineering whose vocabulary was hmmmm, I don't know how to say it, but unintelligible to most of us mere mortals whose grades in mathematics depended greatly on divination. <giggle>Your potholders are BEAUTIFUL, your tension is so even, and I love your colour combinations.
Well, I'm very happy to report that the storm was a complete bust, at least on the part of my family and friends. I know other communities west of here did not fare so well. All we saw was a little light rain, and some thunder rumbles but nothing like was being threatened, at least not where I live.
I'm going to try to make peach jam tomorrow. Over the past couple of years I got really spoiled by making my own home made jams and preserves. When I ran out of my homemade, and had to buy mass produced, my taste buds noticed.