Making the rounds

Goodness, what a day's expedition that was! My guess for dinner is
shrimp bbq or grilled chicken breast <g>.

Cheers
Bronwyn

"Bronwyn" <[email hidden]> looking for trouble wrote in
news:[email hidden]:

Quoted message said:

Goodness, what a day's expedition that was! My guess for dinner is
shrimp bbq or grilled chicken breast <g>.

Cheers
Bronwyn

I was power shopping. I like to power shop only because I pretty much hate
shopping altogether. When I want to go, I do it all at once. If it was
warmer and drier, I'd still be digging in the dirt outside.

I have plenty of food for the weekend. Saturday I'll shop for veggies and
such. I think tonight will be the shrimp. A quick squirt of cooking
spray, roll the kebobs in some lemon and pepper. I'll broil them. Served
with salad and some type of rice. I need to get into the kitchen and get
busy. Steven will be home at 8:30. I did spy some dried pepper flakes.
It might get interesting 😉 Hmmm... Asian or Cajun. That is the big
question.

Michael <- always partial to Asian and French cooking. Fish in particular.

--
“It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun.”
_Ray Kroc, creator of the McDonald's franchise

On Thu 02 Feb 2006 05:26:28p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Michael
"Dog3" Lonergan?

Quoted message said:

I had today off. Armed with a tidy new paycheck to spend on anything I
pleased, I chose the markets... naturally. Browsed TJ's. I didn't find
anything I wanted or didn't already have. Went to DollarTree. I bought
some olives and potato chip bag clips. On to Schnucks. I bought about
3 pounds of skinless, boneless chicken breasts on sale for $1.99, a
summer sausage, Triscuits and shrimp kebobs. The kebobs are a buy. 89
cents for about 5 medium shrimp, already skewered and ready for your
seasonings and the grill. I bought 10 of them. Next was Dierbergs. I
bought more boneless, skinless chicken for the same $1.99/lb as
Schnucks. I bought 2 bottom round roasts (for sandwiches) for $2.49/lb.
Lunch was at the Fatted Calf in Clayton. Went home, put the groceries
away and off to lunch. I met friends from my old employer and had one
of their wonderful hamburgers. Mine was grilled medium, topped with a
mushroom/onion saute' and a lot of bleu cheese. I also had a side salad
with it which was rather non- descript.

After lunch I took the cat to the vet. Got a damned good check up he
did. I stopped by Shop 'N Save on the way home. Picked up 5 cans of
diced tomatoes and a giant block of Jack/Pepper cheese. Fed the
livestock and headed to Straubs. I splurged and picked up a couple of
quarts of their soup. Cream of Mushroom and Clam Chowder. That was
about it. Oh... I did fill the Jeep up with gas and had it washed.

Michael <- sated and tired... wondering what's for dinner

All in all, the best news was what you heard at the vet's!

--
Wayne Boatwright o¿o
____________________

BIOYA

Michael \'Dog3\' Lonergan said:

I had today off. Armed with a tidy new paycheck to spend on anything I
pleased, I chose the markets... naturally. Browsed TJ's. I didn't find
anything I wanted or didn't already have. Went to DollarTree. I bought
some olives and potato chip bag clips. On to Schnucks. I bought about 3
pounds of skinless, boneless chicken breasts on sale for $1.99, a summer
sausage, Triscuits and shrimp kebobs. The kebobs are a buy. 89 cents for
about 5 medium shrimp, already skewered and ready for your seasonings and
the grill. I bought 10 of them. Next was Dierbergs. I bought more
boneless, skinless chicken for the same $1.99/lb as Schnucks. I bought 2
bottom round roasts (for sandwiches) for $2.49/lb. Lunch was at the Fatted
Calf in Clayton. Went home, put the groceries away and off to lunch. I met
friends from my old employer and had one of their wonderful hamburgers.
Mine was grilled medium, topped with a mushroom/onion saute' and a lot of
bleu cheese. I also had a side salad with it which was rather non-
descript.

After lunch I took the cat to the vet. Got a damned good check up he did.
I stopped by Shop 'N Save on the way home. Picked up 5 cans of diced
tomatoes and a giant block of Jack/Pepper cheese. Fed the livestock and
headed to Straubs. I splurged and picked up a couple of quarts of their
soup. Cream of Mushroom and Clam Chowder. That was about it. Oh... I did
fill the Jeep up with gas and had it washed.

Well isn't that special. I suppose we could all provide minute by minute
accounts of what we did all day today, but you would probably find it every
bit as interesting as we found this.

Dave Smith said:

Michael \'Dog3\' Lonergan said:

I had today off. Armed with a tidy new paycheck to spend on anything I
pleased, I chose the markets... naturally. Browsed TJ's. I didn't find
anything I wanted or didn't already have. Went to DollarTree. I bought
some olives and potato chip bag clips. On to Schnucks. I bought about 3
pounds of skinless, boneless chicken breasts on sale for $1.99, a summer
sausage, Triscuits and shrimp kebobs. The kebobs are a buy. 89 cents for
about 5 medium shrimp, already skewered and ready for your seasonings and
the grill. I bought 10 of them. Next was Dierbergs. I bought more
boneless, skinless chicken for the same $1.99/lb as Schnucks. I bought 2
bottom round roasts (for sandwiches) for $2.49/lb. Lunch was at the Fatted
Calf in Clayton. Went home, put the groceries away and off to lunch. I met
friends from my old employer and had one of their wonderful hamburgers.
Mine was grilled medium, topped with a mushroom/onion saute' and a lot of
bleu cheese. I also had a side salad with it which was rather non-
descript.

After lunch I took the cat to the vet. Got a damned good check up he did.
I stopped by Shop 'N Save on the way home. Picked up 5 cans of diced
tomatoes and a giant block of Jack/Pepper cheese. Fed the livestock and
headed to Straubs. I splurged and picked up a couple of quarts of their
soup. Cream of Mushroom and Clam Chowder. That was about it. Oh... I did
fill the Jeep up with gas and had it washed.

Well isn't that special. I suppose we could all provide minute by minute
accounts of what we did all day today, but you would probably find it every
bit as interesting as we found this.

Oh come on, don't be such a Grumpy Old Man. I know it's Friday arvo and
all that (well it is in Melbourne), but there's no need to take it out
on other people. Remember what your mother said about if you can't say
anything nice...

Personally I quite enjoy "slice of life" posts. A lot of Michael's post
was rather exotic - summer sausage and Triscuits are new to me. On the
other hand, a lot of it was comfortingly familiar - we all have to take
the cat to the vet from time to time.

Just consider yourself lucky that I don't decide to treat you to a
complete account of what I did today. I mean, the parking fairy granted
me a space just about where I wanted one, I had my usual latte and scram
with ham and polenta at Cafe Sweethearts, I buggered up the Sudoku, when
we got home the Hindlemobile was unnaccountably parked in the number two
spot, there were four messages two of which were duds - and that was
just before lunch. I will not continue, you are probably already comatose...

Christine

Wayne Boatwright <wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com> looking for trouble wrote
in news:[email hidden]:

Quoted message said:

On Thu 02 Feb 2006 05:26:28p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Michael
"Dog3" Lonergan?

Quoted message said:

I had today off. Armed with a tidy new paycheck to spend on anything I
pleased, I chose the markets... naturally. Browsed TJ's. I didn't find
anything I wanted or didn't already have. Went to DollarTree. I bought
some olives and potato chip bag clips. On to Schnucks. I bought about
3 pounds of skinless, boneless chicken breasts on sale for $1.99, a
summer sausage, Triscuits and shrimp kebobs. The kebobs are a buy. 89
cents for about 5 medium shrimp, already skewered and ready for your
seasonings and the grill. I bought 10 of them. Next was Dierbergs. I
bought more boneless, skinless chicken for the same $1.99/lb as
Schnucks. I bought 2 bottom round roasts (for sandwiches) for $2.49/lb.
Lunch was at the Fatted Calf in Clayton. Went home, put the groceries
away and off to lunch. I met friends from my old employer and had one
of their wonderful hamburgers. Mine was grilled medium, topped with a
mushroom/onion saute' and a lot of bleu cheese. I also had a side salad
with it which was rather non- descript.

After lunch I took the cat to the vet. Got a damned good check up he
did. I stopped by Shop 'N Save on the way home. Picked up 5 cans of
diced tomatoes and a giant block of Jack/Pepper cheese. Fed the
livestock and headed to Straubs. I splurged and picked up a couple of
quarts of their soup. Cream of Mushroom and Clam Chowder. That was
about it. Oh... I did fill the Jeep up with gas and had it washed.

Michael <- sated and tired... wondering what's for dinner

All in all, the best news was what you heard at the vet's!

Got that right Wayne. Did you get my earlier email?

Michael

--
“It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun.”
_Ray Kroc, creator of the McDonald's franchise

Dave Smith <[email hidden]> looking for trouble wrote in
news:[email hidden]:

Quoted message said:

Michael \'Dog3\' Lonergan said:

I had today off. Armed with a tidy new paycheck to spend on anything
I pleased, I chose the markets... naturally. Browsed TJ's. I didn't
find anything I wanted or didn't already have. Went to DollarTree.
I bought some olives and potato chip bag clips. On to Schnucks. I
bought about 3 pounds of skinless, boneless chicken breasts on sale
for $1.99, a summer sausage, Triscuits and shrimp kebobs. The kebobs
are a buy. 89 cents for about 5 medium shrimp, already skewered and
ready for your seasonings and the grill. I bought 10 of them. Next
was Dierbergs. I bought more boneless, skinless chicken for the same
$1.99/lb as Schnucks. I bought 2 bottom round roasts (for
sandwiches) for $2.49/lb. Lunch was at the Fatted Calf in Clayton.
Went home, put the groceries away and off to lunch. I met friends
from my old employer and had one of their wonderful hamburgers. Mine
was grilled medium, topped with a mushroom/onion saute' and a lot of
bleu cheese. I also had a side salad with it which was rather non-
descript.

After lunch I took the cat to the vet. Got a damned good check up he
did. I stopped by Shop 'N Save on the way home. Picked up 5 cans of
diced tomatoes and a giant block of Jack/Pepper cheese. Fed the
livestock and headed to Straubs. I splurged and picked up a couple
of quarts of their soup. Cream of Mushroom and Clam Chowder. That
was about it. Oh... I did fill the Jeep up with gas and had it
washed.

Well isn't that special. I suppose we could all provide minute by
minute accounts of what we did all day today, but you would probably
find it every bit as interesting as we found this.

It's so special you found time to respond. Loverly.

Michael

--
“It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun.”
_Ray Kroc, creator of the McDonald's franchise

Hi Christine!
I'm an ex-Melbournian (now on the Gold Coast). I think I know Cafe
Sweethearts - Albert Park, or am I wrong?) Used to live down that way.
Hey, love your rcf addy

Cheers Bronwyn (keeping cool in the a/con and machine quilting).

Quoted message said:

Oh come on, don't be such a Grumpy Old Man. I know it's Friday arvo and
all that (well it is in Melbourne), but there's no need to take it out
on other people. Remember what your mother said about if you can't say
anything nice...

Personally I quite enjoy "slice of life" posts. A lot of Michael's post
was rather exotic - summer sausage and Triscuits are new to me. On the
other hand, a lot of it was comfortingly familiar - we all have to take
the cat to the vet from time to time.

Just consider yourself lucky that I don't decide to treat you to a
complete account of what I did today. I mean, the parking fairy granted
me a space just about where I wanted one, I had my usual latte and scram
with ham and polenta at Cafe Sweethearts, I buggered up the Sudoku, when
we got home the Hindlemobile was unnaccountably parked in the number two
spot, there were four messages two of which were duds - and that was
just before lunch. I will not continue, you are probably already comatose...

Christine

Old Mother Ashby said:

Oh come on, don't be such a Grumpy Old Man.

<snip - no offence intended 😉 >

LOL. Should team Dave up with Sheldon and they could become "The Odd
Couple"

Cheers
Cathy(xyz) - still chuckling

Michael 'Dog3' Lonergan said:

I had today off. Armed with a tidy new paycheck to spend on anything I
pleased, I chose the markets... naturally. Browsed TJ's. I didn't find
anything I wanted or didn't already have. Went to DollarTree. I bought
some olives and potato chip bag clips. On to Schnucks. I bought about 3
pounds of skinless, boneless chicken breasts on sale for $1.99, a summer
sausage, Triscuits and shrimp kebobs. The kebobs are a buy. 89 cents for
about 5 medium shrimp, already skewered and ready for your seasonings and
the grill. I bought 10 of them. Next was Dierbergs. I bought more
boneless, skinless chicken for the same $1.99/lb as Schnucks. I bought 2
bottom round roasts (for sandwiches) for $2.49/lb. Lunch was at the Fatted
Calf in Clayton. Went home, put the groceries away and off to lunch. I met
friends from my old employer and had one of their wonderful hamburgers.
Mine was grilled medium, topped with a mushroom/onion saute' and a lot of
bleu cheese. I also had a side salad with it which was rather non-
descript.

Man, I miss shopping sprees like this. Since we adopted DS, it's "Run
to the store after his nap, before he melts down and run home quick!"
I can maybe sneak in two stores with him, if I am lucky. I love the
Dollar stores, BTW, especially their olives.

Quoted message said:

After lunch I took the cat to the vet. Got a damned good check up he did.
I stopped by Shop 'N Save on the way home. Picked up 5 cans of diced
tomatoes and a giant block of Jack/Pepper cheese. Fed the livestock and
headed to Straubs. I splurged and picked up a couple of quarts of their
soup. Cream of Mushroom and Clam Chowder. That was about it. Oh... I did
fill the Jeep up with gas and had it washed.

Michael <- sated and tired... wondering what's for dinner

Dude, I am tired just reading all of that!

Quoted message said:

--
"It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun."
_Ray Kroc, creator of the McDonald's franchise

Great sig, LOL...
-L.

-L. said:

Since we adopted DS, it's "Run
to the store after his nap, before he melts down and run home quick!"
I can maybe sneak in two stores with him, if I am lucky.

I hear ya...🙂 Mind you, I have never really been a "real" shopper - go
in, get what I want (from a list) and get out quick... unless it was
Christmas shopping - I used to enjoy that... what I miss the most is
being able to stop for a cup of coffee or a snack somewhere anytime..
its a bit difficult to do that when you've got a little one with you -
I just can't do that to my fellow shoppers!

Cheers
Cathy(xyz)

Michael 'Dog3' Lonergan said:

I had today off. Armed with a tidy new paycheck to spend on anything I
pleased. Went to DollarTree. I bought
some olives and potato chip bag clips.

I've never gotten with the 'hip crowd.' I still use a regular ol'
wooden clothes pin, the type with the spring, to close my chip bags.
Must be the miser in me coming out. :-)

Quoted message said:

After lunch I took the cat to the vet. Got a damned good check up he did.

Michael <- sated and tired... wondering what's for dinner

--

The animal place I take Smitty to has Wednesday's reserved as "Cats
Only" day. It doesn't matter, he's terrified anyway.

On Thu 02 Feb 2006 10:51:00p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Michael
"Dog3" Lonergan?

Quoted message said:

Wayne Boatwright <wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com> looking for trouble
wrote in news:[email hidden]:

Quoted message said:

On Thu 02 Feb 2006 05:26:28p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Michael
"Dog3" Lonergan?

Quoted message said:

I had today off. Armed with a tidy new paycheck to spend on anything
I pleased, I chose the markets... naturally. Browsed TJ's. I didn't
find anything I wanted or didn't already have. Went to DollarTree. I
bought some olives and potato chip bag clips. On to Schnucks. I
bought about 3 pounds of skinless, boneless chicken breasts on sale
for $1.99, a summer sausage, Triscuits and shrimp kebobs. The kebobs
are a buy. 89 cents for about 5 medium shrimp, already skewered and
ready for your seasonings and the grill. I bought 10 of them. Next
was Dierbergs. I bought more boneless, skinless chicken for the same
$1.99/lb as Schnucks. I bought 2 bottom round roasts (for sandwiches)
for $2.49/lb. Lunch was at the Fatted Calf in Clayton. Went home, put
the groceries away and off to lunch. I met friends from my old
employer and had one of their wonderful hamburgers. Mine was grilled
medium, topped with a mushroom/onion saute' and a lot of bleu cheese.
I also had a side salad with it which was rather non- descript.

After lunch I took the cat to the vet. Got a damned good check up he
did. I stopped by Shop 'N Save on the way home. Picked up 5 cans of
diced tomatoes and a giant block of Jack/Pepper cheese. Fed the
livestock and headed to Straubs. I splurged and picked up a couple of
quarts of their soup. Cream of Mushroom and Clam Chowder. That was
about it. Oh... I did fill the Jeep up with gas and had it washed.

Michael <- sated and tired... wondering what's for dinner

All in all, the best news was what you heard at the vet's!

Got that right Wayne. Did you get my earlier email?

Michael

The one with the joke? Yes, I e-mailed you back.

--
Wayne Boatwright o¿o
____________________

BIOYA

cathyxyz said:

I hear ya...🙂 Mind you, I have never really been a "real" shopper - go
in, get what I want (from a list) and get out quick... unless it was
Christmas shopping - I used to enjoy that... what I miss the most is
being able to stop for a cup of coffee or a snack somewhere anytime..
its a bit difficult to do that when you've got a little one with you -
I just can't do that to my fellow shoppers!

Cheers
Cathy(xyz)

Fred Meyer (grocery) here has a little sprog play area where you can
drop them off to play with a babysitter for an hour. It has a
playhouse, toys, crayons, etc. DS just turned two and *loves* it,
although I *swore* I would never let him go in there. It's a nice way
to pick up the essentials - or stop for a java (in store Staryucks) or
whatever, unincumbered. We also have a great coffee house that is
geared for Parents - Toney Baloneys: http://www.toneybaloneys.com/ I
love to go there for tea, sit and relax an just let him play.

-L.

"itsjoannotjoann" <[email hidden]> looking for trouble wrote
in news:[email hidden]:

Quoted message said:

Michael 'Dog3' Lonergan said:

I had today off. Armed with a tidy new paycheck to spend on anything
I pleased. Went to DollarTree. I bought
some olives and potato chip bag clips.

I've never gotten with the 'hip crowd.' I still use a regular ol'
wooden clothes pin, the type with the spring, to close my chip bags.
Must be the miser in me coming out. :-)

Quoted message said:

After lunch I took the cat to the vet. Got a damned good check up he
did.

Michael <- sated and tired... wondering what's for dinner

Ya' gotta come out and play with the cool kids!

Michael <- smiling

Old Mother Ashby said:

Quoted message said:

Well isn't that special. I suppose we could all provide minute by minute
accounts of what we did all day today, but you would probably find it every
bit as interesting as we found this.

Quoted message said:

Oh come on, don't be such a Grumpy Old Man. I know it's Friday arvo and
all that (well it is in Melbourne), but there's no need to take it out
on other people. Remember what your mother said about if you can't say
anything nice...

Friday makes no difference to me. I am retired.

Quoted message said:

Personally I quite enjoy "slice of life" posts. A lot of Michael's post
was rather exotic - summer sausage and Triscuits are new to me. On the
other hand, a lot of it was comfortingly familiar - we all have to take
the cat to the vet from time to time.

Oh I am sure that slices of life can be interesting. A minute by minute account
of one's day and the big shopping decisions generally aren't worth sharing with
the world.

Quoted message said:

Just consider yourself lucky that I don't decide to treat you to a
complete account of what I did today. I mean, the parking fairy granted
me a space just about where I wanted one, I had my usual latte and scram
with ham and polenta at Cafe Sweethearts, I buggered up the Sudoku, when
we got home the Hindlemobile was unnaccountably parked in the number two
spot, there were four messages two of which were duds - and that was
just before lunch. I will not continue, you are probably already comatose...

Well let's see. It's 11 am. I as awakened by a telephone call at 8:45. I laid in
bed and listened to a radio program about the Moslem outrage over Danish cartoons
that pictured a guy named Mohammed. I got up and made some oatmeal for
breakfast. Then I toasted a couple pieces of Italian bread and ate them with
butter and honey. I made myself a latte and sat down to read my email, check out
news groups, read some online newspapers and do the cryptogram and three
crossword puzzles.

In a few minutes I am going to get dressed and go out to run some errands. I have
to go to the liquor store to get some rum for my wife and maybe to the video
store. Then I will go to the Y gym. I will so on the cross trainer for 15-20
minutes, then visit the weight stations on my program. Following that I will walk
a mile, but if there is lane swimming I may go down to the pool and do 1000m.
Then will stop at Tim Hortons for a coffee, read a newspaper and do the crossword
puzzle. The next stop will be the grocery store. I need to get some fresh meat
or fish for tonight, something nice for Sunday, maybe some chicken wings for
Saturday night, and I need some fruit and vegetables.

I can post more when I get back so that you know how I made out.

:-)

Dave Smith said:

Friday makes no difference to me. I am retired.

Quoted message said:

Oh I am sure that slices of life can be interesting. A minute by minute account
of one's day and the big shopping decisions generally aren't worth sharing with
the world.

Well let's see. It's 11 am. I as awakened by a telephone call at 8:45. I laid in
bed and listened to a radio program about the Moslem outrage over Danish cartoons
that pictured a guy named Mohammed. I got up and made some oatmeal for
breakfast. Then I toasted a couple pieces of Italian bread and ate them with
butter and honey. I made myself a latte and sat down to read my email, check out
news groups, read some online newspapers and do the cryptogram and three
crossword puzzles.

In a few minutes I am going to get dressed and go out to run some errands. I have
to go to the liquor store to get some rum for my wife and maybe to the video
store. Then I will go to the Y gym. I will so on the cross trainer for 15-20
minutes, then visit the weight stations on my program. Following that I will walk
a mile, but if there is lane swimming I may go down to the pool and do 1000m.
Then will stop at Tim Hortons for a coffee, read a newspaper and do the crossword
puzzle. The next stop will be the grocery store. I need to get some fresh meat
or fish for tonight, something nice for Sunday, maybe some chicken wings for
Saturday night, and I need some fruit and vegetables.

I can post more when I get back so that you know how I made out.

ROFL, Thanks Dave... or is it Felix? I read your entire post without
falling asleep... you're good!

Cheers
Cathy(xyz)

cathyxyz said:

Quoted message said:

I can post more when I get back so that you know how I made out.

ROFL, Thanks Dave... or is it Felix? I read your entire post without
falling asleep... you're good!

The afternoon was much better. I went by the video store. I was having trouble finding
enough older movies to get the 5 movies for 7 nights for $5, and then I noticed their
new prices and saw that special was no $7, roughly a 40% increase, so I decided to
forgo the videos. I stopped for a newspaper on the way to Hortons where I had a medium
size black coffee and a cranberry blueberry bran muffin. The girl at the counter tried
to give me to butters but I told her I only needed on. there wasn't a lotof
interesting news, the crossword puzzle was easy but I had some difficultywith the
Jumble Puzzle.

After I finished there I headed over to the Y and had a pretty rigorous workout. I did
20 minutes on the cross trainer before I went to the weight stations. I did a few extra
sets on some of them, especially on the leg presses because I have a riding lesson
coming up and need to keep my legs in shape for posting and cantering. I did a total of
85,000 lbs in weights. Then I did a mile on the walking track at a briskpace. That
gave me a total of 1045 Fittlinx points bringing me to a a little more than 109,000
since I signed up to that tracking program last April.

I didn't bother going to the liquor store, just for groceries. Since I stocked up on
meat for the month last week I didn't get too much. I picked up some chicken wings to
make Buffalo wings tomorrow and a small boneless leg of lamb for Sunday. I decided to
get some shrimp for tonight, just the cheap medium size white shrimp because I am going
to fry them in butter or oil with lots of garlic and garlic and a some dried chili and
serve it with angel hair pasta. I got a nice fresh baguette. I have a bottle of
Gerwurztraminer chilling that should go nicely with it, but there is also some
Dubrois, an inexpensive Hungarian white that is not bad, and can stand upto the heavy
flavouring and spices of the sauce.

I picked up so phyllo pastry. I wish I had been able to get some fresh because I have a
hankering to make a batch of Galakabouriko, a thick sweet custard baked in a pan lined
and covered with Phyllo and then drizzled with a honey syrup.

That left me to wonder about dessert. I picked up a pound of some nice looking fresh
strawberries. I was all set to leave when I remembered that I needed some espresso
coffee. I have never had much luck grinding my own espresso. I get it toofine or too
coarse.

Of course when I got home I had to put the groceries away. I made sure the phyllo went
into the fridge to thaw so that I can use it tomorrow. The phone was flashing to
indicate a message, but when I discovered that it was for my wife I just hung up
because it is easier for her to see the flasher and check it herself thanit is for me
to remember to tell her that there was a message, never mind remembering the details.

So now I am just sitting around reading newsgroups. My wife is out with her retired
teachers Friday afternoon walking group. She will probably drop by to visit my mother
on the way home and drop off the stamps she had offered to pick up for her. When she
gets home we will sit down and have a drink and some canapés, just liver pate on Breton
crackers and some cream cheese with red pepper jelly on Triskets. She will have one of
her rum concoctions and I will have a Manhattan. We ill likely have a few games of
cribbage. I will probably have a second Manhattan, but not a third because it is not
safe for me to be around hot stoves and sharp knives after three of them.

If I hadn't been so cheap and refused to pay the 40% increase in rental fees we would
have been able to watch a video tonight, but I will check the online tv listings to see
what there is on the movie channels.

"Dave Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

cathyxyz said:

Quoted message said:

I can post more when I get back so that you know how I made out.

ROFL, Thanks Dave... or is it Felix? I read your entire post without
falling asleep... you're good!

The afternoon was much better. I went by the video store. I was having
trouble finding
enough older movies to get the 5 movies for 7 nights for $5, and then I
noticed their
new prices and saw that special was no $7, roughly a 40% increase, so I
decided to
forgo the videos. I stopped for a newspaper on the way to Hortons where
I had a medium
size black coffee and a cranberry blueberry bran muffin. The girl at the
counter tried
to give me to butters but I told her I only needed on. there wasn't a
lot of
interesting news, the crossword puzzle was easy but I had some
difficulty with the
Jumble Puzzle.

After I finished there I headed over to the Y and had a pretty rigorous
workout. I did
20 minutes on the cross trainer before I went to the weight stations. I
did a few extra
sets on some of them, especially on the leg presses because I have a
riding lesson
coming up and need to keep my legs in shape for posting and cantering. I
did a total of
85,000 lbs in weights. Then I did a mile on the walking track at a
brisk pace. That
gave me a total of 1045 Fittlinx points bringing me to a a little more
than 109,000
since I signed up to that tracking program last April.

I didn't bother going to the liquor store, just for groceries. Since I
stocked up on
meat for the month last week I didn't get too much. I picked up some
chicken wings to
make Buffalo wings tomorrow and a small boneless leg of lamb for Sunday.
I decided to
get some shrimp for tonight, just the cheap medium size white shrimp
because I am going
to fry them in butter or oil with lots of garlic and garlic and a some
dried chili and
serve it with angel hair pasta. I got a nice fresh baguette. I have a
bottle of
Gerwurztraminer chilling that should go nicely with it, but there is
also some
Dubrois, an inexpensive Hungarian white that is not bad, and can stand
up to the heavy
flavouring and spices of the sauce.

I picked up so phyllo pastry. I wish I had been able to get some fresh
because I have a
hankering to make a batch of Galakabouriko, a thick sweet custard baked
in a pan lined
and covered with Phyllo and then drizzled with a honey syrup.

That left me to wonder about dessert. I picked up a pound of some nice
looking fresh
strawberries. I was all set to leave when I remembered that I needed
some espresso
coffee. I have never had much luck grinding my own espresso. I get it
too fine or too
coarse.

Of course when I got home I had to put the groceries away. I made sure
the phyllo went
into the fridge to thaw so that I can use it tomorrow. The phone was
flashing to
indicate a message, but when I discovered that it was for my wife I just
hung up
because it is easier for her to see the flasher and check it herself
than it is for me
to remember to tell her that there was a message, never mind remembering
the details.

So now I am just sitting around reading newsgroups. My wife is out with
her retired
teachers Friday afternoon walking group. She will probably drop by to
visit my mother
on the way home and drop off the stamps she had offered to pick up for
her. When she
gets home we will sit down and have a drink and some canapés, just liver
pate on Breton
crackers and some cream cheese with red pepper jelly on Triskets. She
will have one of
her rum concoctions and I will have a Manhattan. We ill likely have a
few games of
cribbage. I will probably have a second Manhattan, but not a third
because it is not
safe for me to be around hot stoves and sharp knives after three of
them.

If I hadn't been so cheap and refused to pay the 40% increase in rental
fees we would
have been able to watch a video tonight, but I will check the online tv
listings to see
what there is on the movie channels.

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I don't know how to say this but..... I love to hear about the minutiae
of peoples' lives🙂) It is always so different to my own!

O