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Foto Friday/the scene of the crime
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Feb 5, 2010 3:51 pm
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Here's some good ol southern cooking for ya...I love okra. This day I made four or five things, and we ate left overs for a couple of days. Of course, the okra went fastest...it's like Lay's potato chips...You can't eat just one!
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Random rememberings
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Jan 20, 2010 7:29 pm
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We were sitting in a bar, drinking a beer, listening to the Doors.
The conversation was about Viet Nam..he said he didn't go..he was never drafted. I remarked that I was glad...he was such a gentle soul he would have been damaged beyond repair by all the death and destruction.
There was a long pause. He looked right in my eyes, and said, "Would you go to my funeral?" I of course replied yes, and I would cry, and I would expect you to cry at mine.
Another long pause. He says, "Everyone I have ever loved hurt me."
I asked if I ever had..he said no..and then I said I never, ever would, and I didn't.
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Just a random thought.
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Jan 19, 2010 10:31 am
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The worst possible lies a person can tell are the ones they have talked themselves into believing.
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Absoloodle comes to Texas
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Jan 4, 2010 8:05 pm
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Anyone in the Houston area on Wednesday night, 7pm..we are going to be eating at Guadalajara's on SW Fwy in Houston...Absoloodle is going to be down from Iowa...and several people are going to meet up there.
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Cassoulet for HappyMimi and Mssoosey et al.
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Jan 3, 2010 10:45 am
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Ok..sorry, I know recipes aren't all that popular..but what the heck..just pass it on by..
I believe Happy Mimi, and another person asked me to post this..Mssoosey...thats who else. So, complain to THEM...lol
Cassoulet
1/2 lb pork sausage browned (I use Ekrich sausage instead)
1 small onion sliced
1 clove garlic, minced
2 Tbs fresh parsley, minced
2 15oz cans of black eyed peas. (I use the ones with NO
sugar..and with the snaps in them.)
1/2lb cubed cooked ham. (please use REAL ham..it is best,
sometimes I buy a ham steak to use, if I have
no leftovers)
1/4C dry white wine. (you drink the rest) You can use balsamic
vinegar, or white wine vinegar..but
reduce the amount by half.
layer ingredients in order of list in a crock pot. Cook on low for 5-7 hours.
I serve this with cornbread, (made in a cast iron pan) and green onions.
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Rememberances of New Year's past.
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Dec 30, 2009 2:13 pm
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I have never been one of those people who desperately needed to go out on New Year's Eve...or even to have tons of people around..I like it that way...but frankly I expend so much energy from Halloween thru Christmas on holiday merriment that sometimes by the time New Years happens..I am content to watch the ball drop at midnight on Times Square through the miracle of modern television.
I have though had many parties at my home, gone out..done the party at a hotel thing with a large group of people..had the grands in...been alone. Many, many different ways to celebrate the turning of the calendar. One thing for sure, even if I celebrate alone, I make sure to eat black eyed peas on New Years Day...for good luck, and some kind of green...for money, and of course cornbread, well no special reason except with the black eyed pea cassoulet that I make it is food fit for the God's.
One, or two..maybe more particular New Years Eves stick in my memory more than others.
There was the year we went to Goldfingers, a greek restaraunt, and had a big group with us...at midnight the waiters were slinging champagne over their heads giving us all a shower with the bubbly..it was almost like the scene in Mamma Mia where the fountain bursts! Oh, and that year I only had one little glass of champagne at midnight.
There was the year that I had a party at my home and made fun of my CPA for falling asleep on the floor in front of the fireplace...(she just needed a LITTLE nap)...then at midnight, when I stood up to kiss the hubby Happy New Years, I knew I would not be far behind her. I did make it into the bathroom..and I have not been comfortable eating rotel dip with sausage in it since. Now I make jokes about drinking ...and I do drink..but that was in 1984...and only one of four times in my life I have been ill from drinking. That was also the only time in my nearly 30 years of marriage that man cleaned anything..the next morning, well afternoon, when I got out of bed, it looked like we had not had a party. He did it all..including giving the kids breakfast and keeping them quietly entertained. Another once only deal..lol.
A couple of years later, we went to the Hilton for their 60's New Years party....again with a group of friends. At the end of the party, there was a group of us went into the outdoor hot tub..and we were soon joined by another group....an au naturale group...laffin. The hotel manager just turned his head and walked off..I do believe he was laffin. And, yes, I had my swimming suit on. I have always been somewhat prudie about mixed sexual groups and nudity. That was my ex's year to imbibe a bit too much...ok..he was dayum near fallin down drunk..but what a lot of fun it was. Of course ya'll know me...I laff at most anything.
One year we went to a Chinese food place early, came home..put on our pj's..such as we wore, and sat in bed watching Shirley Temple movies..and drinking champagne...complete with strawberries and chocolates.
One of the best ones though..my barely a teen grandson..he might have been 12 was with me..just he and I, and we lit a fireplace outside in a Ben Franklin stove I have out there and shot off fireworks. I had a little cocker spaniel that would try to catch them when they exploded high up in the sky..that dog would dayum near fly especially with those ears flappin...laffin remembering her. It was 20 degrees that night..but the fireplace was VERY warm...and we sat as close as we could to it..roasting marshmallows and cooking hot dogs under the clearest star filled night you can imagine...while sippin on mimosas...(his was more mim than osa, if you know what I mean) I will never forget that night...it was magical.
Even the year at the VFW with a new love somewhat pales..well especially since the love has departed, and the grandson is still around. Laffin. and sighing too. The grandson is grown up and lives out of town, the dog died, and the man...well I still miss him some.
This year, it will be a home party, with some dear old friends, some of my daughters friends...and lots of laughter and yes, champagne and peas...at midnight. You can't start too early on that luck and money thing.... ya know?
Happy New Year to all..and if you are anywhere close, come on out to the house..we got lots of nooks and crannies for overnight company.
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Who am I?
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Dec 22, 2009 10:56 am
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Michiana wrote a self descriptive type blog, and I believe Singto responded with one...I thought chit..I can't do that. I've thought of it a lot though, and then I realized our profiles are somewhat self descriptive, so I made a new one for myself..and thought that I would post it..just for grins.
Describing your own self is very difficult....because we see through a filter...I have however figured out that I am too conventional for an un-conventional person..and too un-conventional for a conventional person...so if you are the type that fits somewhere in between these two extremes...maybe we will like each other.
I go to church...not every Sunday..but I like to..I will also say the eff word. Quite often really. I never said it when I was younger, and I am now old enough I can if I wish to. Of course not in church..or the grocery store line, my mamma would come out of her grave and get me. I like to drive fast, and I hate wearin my seat belt...and in fact won't quite often have it on. It is my form of civil disobedience...cause I won't litter...except under EXTREME duress.
I am southern to the bone..hate the cold, snow, and the mountains. I like heat, the sound of a thunderstorm in the afternoon, soft drawly masculine voices and the ocean best of all.
I garden, and sew, and watercolor paint..I build shelves, and complain about broken fingernails. I get pedicures....and am not afraid of bugs. I am a girly girl...who doesn't mind getting dirty.
I read..but nothing heavy. I have also figured out that I can't save the world, the dolphins, or the atmosphere, so I don't want to read about it, and really don't want to talk about it much..it just makes me worry about things I have no control over. I read romance novels, science fiction, murder mysteries, and spy novels, and sometimes the dictionary..I do get sidetracked when opening books. I love to learn..but conjugating verbs, proper grammar, and correct spelling is in my past, not my future.
I cook..when I feel like it. I like fresh food, not canned. I don't eat chemical loaded junk stuff..at least not more than once a month. I like spicy, cajun or tex mex based foods the best. I can make cornbread in a cast iron pan with my eyes closed.
I like camping, and traveling, being outside...even fishing trips, long as I don't have to fish...bait hooks, or clean the mess, and as long as it is WARM....but I will read a novel, while you do so..and then cook the stuff once you catch it and clean it.
I prefer C&W music...but like all types. I like to dance to it, but don't know how. (a perfect opportunity for someone to teach me). I prefer honkey tonks to symphonies, and beer to fruity little drinks.....yet I have two or three little black dresses, and know which fork to use when. Well, those dresses aren't as little as they used to be... .I always need to lose 10 lbs..if you want svelte..move on...I am an average old woman..with a few extra lbs and wrinkles. Mind you, I don't apologize for them...I have earned all those laugh lines, and those few frown lines...and the tracks that tears have made...I have spent who knows how much money gettin to the weight I am..so I have learned to love my fluffy self.
I brag about what I can do, ignore what I can't, and interrupt people when they are speaking. I like dogs..(mostly little ones now that I am older) cats, (on a very limited basis, and as long as they are outside), and birds, in the house or out....if it's not fluffy, and doesn't have feathers, or fur, it's not a pet in my book. You can keep your snakes, and rats, etc.
Who and what am I looking for? I have no idea. I suppose that I will be single for the rest of my life. It is not all that bad a thought. While it is true that if you don't look, you don't find, it is also true that if you don't look, you don't get hurt, and I am about done with the hurt part.
If I get lucky, and it would be pure dumb luck, believe me..I would want to simply find someone who liked me as much as I liked them. Pretty simplistic, I know..but it's what I need, I don't think I have ever had that type of relationship..mine are usually one sided, with me being the giver, and the man being the taker. I won't do that ever again........ergo..the single state for me.
I love people...all kinds, all shapes, all sizes..most personality types. I pretty much can get along with anyone for a day or two...just don't be racist, judgemental, mean, or argumentative, and I like ya.
I see most things in shades of gray. Not much black and white on issues in my world..but the ones that are clear cut..are carved in stone. I appear easy going..but if you get my back up...it's stiff all the way to the bone.
ok..that's it. Feel free to tell me I know nothin about myself...after all opinions are like...well you know..everyone has one.
Joyeux Noel Feliz Navidad Merry Christmas Froehliche Weihnachten
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pictures in blogs
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Dec 7, 2009 10:47 am
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ok..I'm gonna try this.
If it works, it should be a picture of my new baby...not a replacement for Merlin, because he can never be replaced; he was one of a kind...but a new love for me, cause I need a dog to haul around with me. And, yes, I realize that is sick..but it's part of who I am. I simply adore the fact that this dog adores me..although he and the tot are pretty well bonded too.
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Where there's smoke, there's fire.
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Nov 21, 2009 2:31 pm
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A. I was banned once for 20 minutes...because someone in the magazine reported every thing I posted to the abuse system. I had hundreds of complaints. If I posted that the weather was warm, she hit report for abuse. A report was made that I had commented about her..which was not true. When I was on the computer, I was banned. I called, and in 5 minutes after looking at the posts, and the number of times I was reported for nothing.....I was re- instated. I wish I could have been a fly on the wall to see that persons face the next morning when they signed in and there I was.
I got banned once for giving my phone number to a woman that I had e mailed the pre-requisite amount of times. When I called and asked why...they said you have to REPLY three times..the amount of actual e mails don't count. Again..in 5 minutes the ban was lifted.
B. Over a year ago, so many people from here were joining FB, and it was difficult to tell who was whom. I made an sff group to put handles on..to help us to pick the ones we wanted in our friends list.
So many people were using the group page, and the news feed to complain about one woman, that I made ONE place for people to post about her. Also I made one each for two of her friends. I did not want the front page to become a rant against the same people that appear to be ranted against here ALL the time. I deleted the posts the other day because no one is interested in posting there any longer. Perhaps I should have left them up, after this new round of bannings for ridiculous reasons...I'm sure the heat will be back on.
C. I find the insinuation that I might be in trouble for saying sff in fb ridiculous, and barely worth mentioning.
D. I am an equal opportunity banner and blocker. ANYONE who is argumentative to the max is not allowed. Neither are people with lengthy rap sheets..or the ones who report back to them.
E. I won't be involved in these petty arguments in fb. I am too busy with real life..like playing the farming game...or the aquarium game..or castle age, or mafia wars....oh and there is the ever so pleasant ability to be able to say boob, and discuss bob's and yes, even mention a name without fear of retaliation.
F. Anytime a LARGE number of people appear to dislike someone, and continuously accuse them of nefarious deeds...I pay attention. If it is only one, or two..or four who appear to have an agenda, I take it for what it's worth..which is nada.
G. Oops, I used a foreign language word.
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Blog comment
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Nov 9, 2009 11:48 pm
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Put that bottle down and cross my legs?
Well Ms. R, now THAT was classy.
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To link to this blog (belle_la_donna) use [blog belle_la_donna] in your messages.
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