In 12 hours I will be getting my hair cut. It really needs it.
Hip hip hooray! I still don’t even have a replacement salon boohoo
That looks like a lot of fun to visit! And Amish food too......sounds a lovely way to spend the day, make sure you buy something nice!!!
It was not as expected, more flea that Amish market. I did come back with lots of baked goods...different cookies (the fruit filled ones are my favorite, went with Raisin & peach ones) and some choc chip for the less adventurous. apple & blueberry pie
homemade: extra garlic pickle slices, a quart for me, 1/2 for one of my kids; large jar of orange marmalade and couple of different sauces for cooking (bbq, sweet chili, etc.)
No country ham until the fall i’m Told, was tempted to wait for the inch thick pork chops & some of the cheese (they have a interesting cheddar/salami one, but line just too long.
wound up stopping off on turnpike on way home to treat family to Cracker Barrel so I could get my country ham fix. A new location, worst one i’ve Ever tried, ham was so dry. Even my DS didn’t want mine lol
Will say, if i had to do it again, would’ve stayed home. I was alarmed to see that, other than us, maybe a handful of other people wearing masks and it was hip to hip before 11 am. A red state, people were very vocal not wearing masks were political statements. We actually got heckled a few times for wearing them in that vein. Stay classy Ohio
Got my share of ribbing from my own family too
. Two of my doctors advised with the breathing issues/needing surgery to wear this in lieu of mask. Between that & the sun hat, managed to cross the line into even goofier grandma territory. Here we are taking a cloth mask break in a clearing. Honestly, really starting to 2nd guess if we could bear wearing in August in MCO. We’ve done that time period often, you expect to be miserable but thinking, factoring in cloth masks, would be a whole nuther sort of awful. Going to think long & hard on that. Sept/Oct can get hot/humid but nowhere as bad as August there IMO
I want to visit Keisha this July 4th
......food is always outstanding and plentiful!!!!! Have fun today and a lovely weekend
I’ll set out a few extra plates for all. Going a bit simpler as it’s just too h-o-t.
and I have my hair appointment on Monday morning....first one of the day
Lucky you, pictures needed
Yes, that is a good phrase to use......LOL...the girls at the salon say they have seen some pretty bad pandemic hair. After some color, cut and styling happy hair it is.
Haha here, they often charge at least double for corrective color. My hair is half way down my back. I’m getting ready to put it in a braid & lop it off. Dave says he’s going to hide all the scissors
I made homemade gravy yesterday, meatballs and a pan of lasagna.
Called son to come over and pick some up for their dinner and had him drop some off to granddaughter.
Homemade is always better for sure.
Agreed, especially sauce once you get used to making it. I always loved how Phillie/Jersey calls it gravy
. I automatically think of brown gravy. When it’s not so hot, i love to toss in some meaty bones to amp up the flavor & let it simmer for hours but a quick sauce is good in it’s own right.
Have fun......we have a good Amish restaurant that’s about an hours drive from here. They also have a quilt auction once a year that is slammed with people. The quilts are gorgeous.
Jealous, we’d have to drive at least 2 hours...north, then east. A you can’t get there from here type of thing.
Recipe looks easy enough to try
Make sure to sprinkle lemon juice over the cut apples first or they look & taste mushy
Good morning everyone. I slept in late because I had crazy dreams that kept waking me up all night.
Just saw a report on tv that said that is common Expert offered up that people are sleeping longer & going into another REM stage, then remembering their ‘usual’ dreams more vividly. Maybe? Lol
Happy hair.......yes indeed......my hair will be happy come Monday......me too!! I let it dry completely naturally a few weeks ago......no hairdryer or straighteners........Kyle took one look at me when he came out of the office for lunch and looked rather alarmed and asked me if I felt ok.......lol.......it was a bit wild!!
We all need to go just a bit wild now & again to blow off some steam
. Dave loves a good beachy wave but mine isn’t exactly natural, more work than standard styling for me. Well, except when i’m near beach, the salt water in the air & and the soft water in the taps, change
Ribs have all had the membranes removed and rubbed with seasoning and wrapped in foil everything else is coming along great also.
Here the racks standardly have it removed, well, other than the type that come prepackaged/vac sealed. Not a fan of those ones, usually very little meat.
Have my country ones started in crockpot, dry rubbed them, will finish on grill later. Chicken breasts in their own crock, they too, will get the sauce slathered on later.
Hope Keisha is having a lovely day today travelling with her family.....and hope she gets her ham!!! I think the closest we`ll get to trying Amish food is Yoders in Sarasota, that`s supposed to be so good.
Didn’t know they had any Amish in FL
Right now my favorite person in the world is the one who invented central air conditioning. It's around 93 today, so I am staying inside.
Uncle Orville lol WDW Carousel of Progress joke, couldn’t resist.
Sigh, how I do miss the parks
So any thought of traveling to Florida is out the window for us for the Fall. Keisha and Lynne, will it affect your travel plans in the next few months?
Depends. If the numbers don’t take a whopping jump, I expect the 14 day quarantine will be dropped. If anything, more concerned that FL may close their border to those from out of state if things keep spiking upward.
Mandatory is an interesting term. Unless enforced (by employers, airline flight lists, neighbors/friends spilling the beans on one’s ‘illicit’ travel) don’t see many paying much heed to it if truth be told.
We ‘broke the law’ by driving 5 minutes across border to middle of nowhere Ohio, where the Amish were obviously outnumbered by residents of other tri-state areas. When i questioned a couple of them, they freely explained they didn’t believe in wearing masks or modern medicine, but explained it in a respectful, non-judgemental manner. They were a more progressive group than we have in our area of PA.
Our numbers in Allegheny county dropped about 50 overnight. Still four X what they were a week ago. Figure within two weeks will probably be closer to 500 due to 4th of July lack of social distancing. Sigh
We ate in Butler county yesterday, social distancing was strongly in place, all wearing masks until they were seated and tables very widely spaced. Requested to be sat in far corner circular table we saw open. Maybe another 6 tables filed in whole place while there. Is it something I’d normally do now? No, but felt comfortable after my family eye-balled the re
All restaurants & bars are closed for a week here in Allegheny county (except for takeout). I think it’s a very good thing. Contract tracing has the upsurge in cases going back to a very large, popular bars/restaurants in our country. Increase in cases ages groups of 20 - 35 y.o. Let’s hope they didn’t bring it home to ma & pa or grandparents.
Doesn’t take much for people to drive outside our county to find a watering hole but maybe the edicts will have them think about things in general.
We have a State mandate to wear masks in public - hooray, about darn time!!!
Now, if they would only enforce that rule...the more rural area it is, the worse it is. They need to start citing & fining people as a certain element takes it as a big joke
If you don’t have central air, a window ac unit is a must for a bedroom.
I grew up in southern Illinois with just a box fan in the living room.
Now everyone has house fans or ac.
Anyone doing something special for the 4th?
You are preaching to the choir sista! I have all the ceiling fans running and an additional box fan in the LR & Kitchen
We have window AC in bedrooms. I always buy double the BTU needed, so rooms are delightfully freezing at night.
I’ll be making like a hippo in the pool every chance i get
This will be our longest stretch of 90 degree weather in my memory
One of his coworkers is in Florida now and will have to quarantine for 14 days when she gets back. I get the reason, since our numbers are staying pretty low compared to other areas, but it is another disappointment not being able to travel anywhere we like to go. We can't even go to OBX now.
Can’t say I’ve heard a single person in my area changing their plans. One middle DS’s employer is world-wide, they have been mandating a CV test for anyone who is off work more than 3 days. when this first started in March, they made him self-quarantine for 14 days as he was at a conference in large casino in your area. They just lifted the NYC ban a few weeks ago, haven’t put in place any others...yet.
We have been invited up to the lake where my sister has her motor home for a barbecue tomorrow. I will put some ribs in crockpot early in am. Going to make some potato salad and brownies to take.
Sounds lovely. Lynne got me hungry for Amish macaroni salad
, make it instead, thinking less time to cook noodles/less heat in kitchen
ALL UPHILL. Took us an hour. Gorgeous views along the way. Mile around base and then down. Thighs are crying today. This after 5 miles of hiking previous day (with a .6 mile near sprint UP at one place- more to that story). Today was much easier. Tomorrow we pan for gold! Avoiding Keystone today at all costs. Sure you know why!
Yes, indeed, ugh. Beautiful pics. That is some hike, any altitude issues with the hike? Hope you strike it rich.
If anyone needs me I will be moving in next to MRose
Lol. Most i know here like to put out a spread when they cook. Everything tends to revolve around food lol
I grilled these Tbones tonight and the meat was literally falling apart for some reason
Hmm, sound like they may have been over tenderized by the butcher/processor or via any at-home marinade
I will happily admit, I wouldn`t have taken a picture of the one I made.....it kind of sank!!! Mainly because the profiteroles were just too heavy. My friend Sue however makes them so well....but she does everything baking wise perfect, she has a real gift. It is a lovely dessert and loks wonderful, when done correctly....
You sell yourself short, those are crazy difficult to make even for pastry chefs. So much can go wrong, including moisture in air, kitchen temp, etc. I’ve washed my hands of trying.
GhilaineMaxwell herself came from a very dodgy family. Her father famously robbed a lot of people`s pension money years ago and is still spoken about today, no surprise she ended up the way she did. Lots of delusional people around for sure.
She went to extreme measures to hide herself in a McMansion here. Living under an assumed name no less. Transferred millions of $ around hundreds of times between 15 banks but the Feds still managed to follow the money. Absolutely sounds as though she’s totally innocent
even if it’s just one girl, this sort of abuse has been swept under the carpet for far too long. They need to prosecute those who prey on minors in all sorts of matters.
I know Keisha is busy today with family....but hope she had a fabulous day yesterday......
I do treasure the time the kids want to spend with me even if it’s out of my comfort zone lol
It seems like the start of summer now but in my area kids go back to school in one month
That’s early. Hope they have AC in the schools, here they don’t
Many schools starting to roll out their plans. Thus far, appears to be a hybrid type, combo of cyber & in-school instruction. Elementary mostly in school though unless another wave hits.
They’ve started limited practice/camps for fall sports. eldest DS had to put together a proposal for school board to vote upon. Breaking grades up into groups, no usage of locker room or water fountains, lots of hygenic instruction. Will be a good indication if fall sports will be doable . At best, expect the games to be played with no fans or only immediate family, socially distanced.
It’s too easy to say just throw your hands into the air and cancel outright. Too many of the kids strongly rely on athletic scholarships, different between them attending college or not
But I caught myself on that one as she does not do Sams club potato salad
Lol
yep, can’t see that happening either. They do sell a red potato one that if i’m Hankering for it within an hour or two can doctor up with celery, HB eggs & spices and it’s passable
So no port wine here, well maybe, as we are gifted wine.
I’m a grey goose/absolute/stoli sort too. Switch it up with tequila and lite rum now & again. The darker the booze, the worse the hangover is my motto
I like my wine to taste like kool aid, there I said it lol Give me a good, cold Lambrusco and I’ll top it off with 7up and be happy With my spritzer. When i’m Feeling fancy I will go with a moscato or a sweet reisling.
least I know what i like & stick to it. My take on Port is that it’s so heavy and smells rather, well, funky. Carole can translate that into wine aficionado speak i’m Sure
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. Thankfully, only some fireworks last night, and expected some tonight too. Yep, that time of year.
hot as could be. It would be miserable without air conditioning.
It hasn‘t stopped raining. Record breaking apparently worse June since 1960. All our Canada Day celebrations were cancelled. Some held virtually online. Not the same, I didn’t bother. It sure was a quiet one. I’m happy no one here was setting off fireworks or firecrackers. But its not a thing here. Many towns all have their own big fireworks so no need. I miss our fireworks display over the inlet. Can watch from my deck. 
To everyone! Sounds like lots of yummy food happening. 
