Jiminey Jeepers! What a Jolt

 Good Morning!  Well, what's left of it.  I will head out here shortly and see if I can get some good blood-movin' air pumpin' exercise in.

The jolt?  Oh, that!  Well, I was headed down the hall this morning when I saw great clouds of 1. smoke 2. steam. 3. fog.  So I jumped to conclusions...that counted toward exercise, and stood there looking.  Called the company who put the new unit in (gas pack) 5 or so months ago.  When I finally got something besides the voice mail tree (I called a tech whose number I saved) and told the woman who answered what I saw and that it scared the hair off my head.  That IS what I said! She said I'll tell them and call you right back.  At her word she did.  They said it was steam from the exhaust of the unit.  (It is a gas pack as I mentioned) W-H-E-W! Thought the house was afire! That was an unpleasant start.  The next is:  the handyman didn't show up again nor did he call.  Several days later he texted and said he forgot.  Oooookay.  That's the (yes, I counted) 12th time in just over 2 months.  And the times he told me were at least a week apart. Moving on...I need to find someone else to finish the job I paid for already.  Could pay a gabillion dollars for a pro, out of the yellow pages so to speak, as such pages don't exist any longer.  There is so little to do.  Some paint.  About an hour's worth tops, & covering the eyesore he made on the wall. 

Meanwhile I am cat sitting again for an undetermined time.  The Mrs. is in sad shape back in the hospital after 2 weeks home. Unless it is very necessary I said once in the morning.  There IS a story here in that home. I won't write it in a blog.  

Thank you all who commented on the horrors I saw as recipes for cranberry sauce.  Glad I am not the only one who doesn't want turnip greens and mushrooms in the sauce, ice cream or cake.  

Guys, can you tell me how to make a subscribe button that works even!!! on this and Katie's bloggie? If so, I can supply my yelly-o-fone number to you for instructions while I do it  I don't think anyone will burn up my cell phone lines, so to speak but thought I would ask.  Those who text me see my number by default...but others don't know it.  

OK, I need to get out of here.  I'm kinda mad about that man, and need to get some of my OWN steam let off.  

Love ya bunches and appreciate your coming over  to see me and my Angel. 

Guys:  Reminder that because of SPAM, I have comment moderation on because of so much SPAM..  I'll always approve you all's..but may take a few days to get over here to check.  So, your comment "took"...but I have to run back over here when Katie lets loose of my arm to check it in. 

Recipes of Old, and Nowadays. AND Oxford Commas R Us.

 Ya know...I made the cranberry sauce myself last Thanksgiving.  Full berried and that is how we like it though we will eat the smooth.  For the heck of it I looked all over the internet and I have never seen such nonsense.  I thought I would come across yet another recipe of cranberry sauce with the ever popular kale, spinach, yogurt, sour cream, coconut oil, protein powder, etc etc.  I am slightly joking.  But the recipes I saw ...holy cow!  Ewwww.  I just bought the berries, picked through them, boiled them, added sugar.  Voila!  That was the way it was in the dark ages of my youth. Now when I go through various magazines or recipes on-line it is to me, a "no can do!" Is there ANYTHING that people don't put spinach and kale in?  Coconut oil?  Protein powder.  One day, I will look for a cake recipe and see stringy spinach AND kale in it...to "make it healthy!!" All this to say that if I need the assistance of a recipe, I sure ain't gonna get anything edible from the past 15+ years.  I have all the cookbooks I was given from the time I was married at 17 years of age. Amy Vanderbilt, The Random House Treasury of cooking.  Several others, including Good Housekeeping. No "sneaking" fish eyes and scales into the icing on your cake (kidding, I hope) for your dietary good.  No strings of boiled, steamed or raw kale draped and cooked into your broiled chicken.  All the "milks" out there .  The day I use any oat "milk" soy "milk" & you name it "milk" hasn't had the sun rise on it yet. 

I have gone over every recipe I see hoping for something edible in all the magazines I have and will read.  Something in the  ingredients never fail to make me reject it.  If I am in need of direction I will go to one of my many cookbooks.  Back before the mania for adding "things that are good for you" regardless of into what!  

Ah, that felt good.  Now.  On to other things.  I am a sky maven and take many photos of it.  This was here at my house.  No spinach or Kale involved.  😆

Mackerel Sky

Soon wet or dry.

Time Really Does March On! Like it or Not.

 Here I am! Just scarfed down a peanut butter and sweet pickle sandwich.  Want one?  Still have plenty of both.  Waiting on laundry to get dry.  Then have to fold and put away.  Wish I had someone else to do that part. 

Angel Katie told all about my Chicken and Cat wrangling for about a month for the one and just 4 days for the other(hens).  Both are done.  I don't anticipate the cats needing to be sat for any longer.  I hope they don't ask me to Hen sit.  The effort just to turn the faucet on to give them fresh water and  so I could clean their watering can was almost more than my wrists could take.  Took a long time to do each of the two things.  But they were sweet and I enjoyed them very much.  The cats were used to me and started coming out when they heard me at the door.  

LOVED this. Charlie Leghorn was the first to make a 7 yr. old..me..laugh so much people turned and looked at me.

One of my sons from NC came over the Mountains to stay with me here from Thursday night till Sunday morning.  I loved every minute.  If you-know-who was here, she would have loved it too.  Took him out to eat on my birthday after going to Costco.  It was the next day that we had dinner and presents at another son's home.  That was because birthday was on Friday and N. still had to work. So Saturday it was.  

Aster.  Sept. birth flower.  Taken at the Arboretum.

The guy who did some work for me left unfinished work, made two appointments after not showing for others he made, and today, canceled again.  He does have bad family problems.   He is permanently out of my contacts now and I need to find another. The money he has for three things he needs to do can be his tip (which I don't do for expensive "handy" help.  They charge enough!) 

I am still trying to get used to sleeping by myself.  I think I never will.  I would rather have a warm fur baby who tucked herself under my chin.  Then changed  position to into my neck, head first.   

Had my yearly Lab tests and the results visit a few days ago.  Tests were all well. Humana is raising their prices this tie around.  And changing tiers of drugs.  And imposing a co-pay.   And raising drug prices. Makes a fella think. Charge requires one to remember: A lot depends of who takes what re: insurance and Doctor.