Posted on 01/17/2014 5:49:09 AM PST by greeneyes
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Thanks for the recipe. I love those old time recipes. I managed to find some of my mom’s after she passed, but most she kept in her head.
I see we have some lemons on hand, so it wont be long before I make this one.
It’s party time at 3:15 every morning around here. I used to think they’d seen the Amityville movie but then learned trees/plants send out their pollen/spores at 3 AM so that might be waking them.
“here you are with a tried-and-true recipe”
I haven’t looked at that recipe for many years but now I’ll have to get the ingredients and make it. I think I remember it takes the larger type pie pan but maybe I dreamed that. We will find out when we make it whether I remember that right. I have both sizes so I’ll be okay whatever it takes. You will probably make yours before I do as I’m staying out of stores until the flu goes away.
I must go to the CDC website to see how flu is doing. I do know that one young lady from Huntsville, Texas, died last week and was buried last Saturday. One illness of several days and people are dead. Their families lost these people over the flu - one illness and they are gone. I’m sure it will take years for the family to finally realize those people are permanently gone. They had no time to come to grips with these people were dying, and they died.
I still dream of a certain lemon pie I had 30 years ago. Thanks, I’ll try yours.
Party time here is 4:30am when my wife has to get up for work. Puppy thinks we should keep the same schedule on weekends.
A week or so ago, Austin was reporting 8 deaths but don’t know how old that info was. It’s still hitting middle aged or younger otherwise healthy people.
Blah, the empress is still hollering despite being told we might be having bbq feline for supper... nose kisses and head bumps.
Your tobacco is getting big!
Not tonight. I'm making fake White Castle sliders, including making the rolls from scratch.
/johnny
Yeah, but it sounds serious. You cleaned off catz desk. Taking up the carpet for Her. Picked up trash in the yard. Next we will hear that you are growing more flowers than food.
CDC CURRENT REPORT ON FLU:
During the past two weeks ending with January 11, these are the reports for activity in the states:
ILINet Activity Indicator Map
Data collected in ILINet are used to produce a measure of ILI activity* by state. Activity levels are based on the percent of outpatient visits in a state due to ILI and are compared to the average percent of ILI visits that occur during weeks with little or no influenza virus circulation. Activity levels range from minimal, which would correspond to ILI activity from outpatient clinics being below, or only slightly above, the average, to high, which would correspond to ILI activity from outpatient clinics being much higher than average.
During week 2, the following ILI activity levels were experienced:
•Fourteen states experienced high ILI activity (Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia).
•Twelve states experienced moderate ILI activity (Alaska, California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, North Carolina, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont, and Washington).
•Eight states and New York City experienced low ILI activity (Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, West Virginia, and Wisconsin).
•Sixteen states experienced minimal ILI activity (Arizona, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Wyoming).
•Data were insufficient to calculate an ILI activity level from the District of Columbia.
If it gets that bad, just shoot me.
/johnny
“I’m making fake White Castle sliders...”
HOW FUNNY! I just ate a White Castle slider. I had bought a box to have as snacks. I have one slider left in their box. I’m sure your sliders will be great - the ones I have keep me from dying of hunger and that’s the best that can be said of these.
The logs and branches are supposed to reduce garden water usage and the mycelium encouraged by the rotting wood helps the plants.
/johnny
To all: I have seen a picture of “her” and can you say beautiful? She is worth tearing out carpet and rebuilding the whole house. Now, her choice of Johnny is perplexing as I have seen a picture of him. Perhaps it is his cooking she likes. :o)
/johnny
/johnny
Congratulations on Her (Marcella posted that she is beautiful). Maybe she will become unallergic to catz.
I guess I am practicing some hugelkultur without knowing its name. Just a small plot. My only regret is that I have perennials there, inluding berries, and the organic matter keeps settling and settling and settling. Next year I will have to descend, dangling from a rope, to pick berries. For annuals it might work good, especially if the native soil is rough.
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