Good morning gals. I am going to hurry about a bit and set this up in case any of you come in early this morning. We finally has some sun for a couple days at least. We had heavy rains and tornados again yesterday, though the sirens were going off, nothing close by here. I will glad for a bit of sun. All that rain is depressing. BTW: Forgive me, I totally butchered Magnolia when I typed it for the new thread!
I decided to wait and pay bills today so that is what I have been doing since Jack left for work. Takes me a bit of time at the end of the month as Jack had two checks that come in, his navy retirement and his city check and so more bills are paid at the end of the month. I have a budget so I have to toggle back and forth between my spreadsheet and the bill paying websites to pay them and mark them as paid on the spreadsheet, then I have to print off copies of the confirm numbers. I am just glad I don't have to sit and write out checks. I only have a couple places I do that and even then 2 of them I could do online, but since I have had problems with them posting, I don't do it anymore.
I guess Jean is having issues with her computer still. I bought a malware program this morning for ours as I went to look at a knitting pattern and the site had what Jack called a "rider" trojan and it is this anti-malware virus. It isn't caught by regular virus software like Nortorn or Mcafee and this thing is a real pain. Jack removed the virus, but it dumped tons of stuff on my computer that have caused no end of problems. The ugly thing about this is that it is a anti-malware company and they use this means to force you to buy their malware program. What they don't tell you is that the stuff they dumped into your computer is not stuff they clean out. I guess tons of people have had trouble with this thing. The program I just bought is very good, highly recommended by IT techs. We still can't get our flash player to work though so Jack has to figure out what is wrong that it won't work. It shows it downloaded but it won't work. Wonder what we did before computers!
Maggie: I have about 6 cans of olive oil spray. Seems like everytime I went to the grocery store I thought I was out and would pick up a can I used the regular Pam, olive oil and butter too and never use oil unless I am going to make a pizza and then use the oil to cover the dough, but I still use the Pam for the baking stone. I have a great pizza baking stone from Pampered Chef I like. I have two of the bread loaf pans and a couple other things and really like their stone products. Usually I am kind of about stuff you get at those parties, but I really like the pampered chef stuff. I have a lot of their things from cutting boards, to different tools to use to the stones. The stuff isn't cheap, but then if you would go into a mall kitchen shop you would pay that kind of money. I always hate to open my mouth about stuff like that though because whenever I am enthusiastic about a company's product they try to get me to start selling the stuff. I did Tupperware twice over the years and I am too old and my knees to shot to stand up in front of people hawking my wares and then begging for parties! I talked to Jack about the plant and he said it isn't flooding of the plant so much it is that the "decellanized" (sp) water can't be released into the river. That means, the cleaned water can get out I guess after it has been through all the processing. The funny thing is the water coming out of the sewage treatment plant is cleaner than the river water! You definitely do NOT want to fall into the Mississippi. For one thing, it has some of the worst riptides ever. When you drive over the bridge between Memphis and Arkansas and look down into the water you can actually see them in the water.
Gail: Yum brands owns Pizza Hut, KFC, Taco Bell, and A and W so that is why sometimes you see KFC and a Taco Bell together. I like the KFC chicken, but the Popeye's sides better. They make this great gravy for their mashed potatos. I do like KFC's cole slaw though. There used to be a chain of chicken places similar to Popeye's called Bojangles. They had this vinegar based cole slaw that was to die for and since it had no mayo in it, you could scarf it right down and not worry about calories. I have to say that though I have always hated my first name, it does have its advantages. None of the people I went to school with had trouble remembering who I was since my first name is Modonna! I have sort of gotten used to it now since the singer is not as out there as she used to be, but I still get raised eyebrows whenever someone has to look at my driver's license for something. I had this kid I was to die in love with in jr high. He had this gorgeous black hair and cute as a bug. He used to tease me all the time, but I didn't care I was in love with him. I have my old diary from back then and you can read about "22." That is how my girlfriend and I talked about him as his football # was 22. Well, I actually found him on facebook and thought, what the heck? I sent him a message saying how beautiful his wife was and how it was great to see him and such and hoped his family was well. He sent me a friend request! I about died laughing. My romeo is now at least 60 lbs overweight and completely silver haired with bad teeth! I guess God knew what he was doing when he gave me Jack!
You gals have a great day. I need to get started on the ole chores. I didn't get much done yesterday with the sirens going off all day. I didn't want to be running the vacuum or such with all that going on so Fortune and I just sat in a safe area! Faye