Morning all,
Mini - I'm confused. Are you actually American or are you German? Not that it matters, just that you said you went back to Germany. Made me wonder. Oh shoot, I just went back and read your bio and sorted it all out in my mind. Don't mind me, I'm a nut case most of the time. I see you do SBD. We have Ruthxxx from the SBD forum come down here occasionally and keep and eye on us. She may come down more frequently if you are here to ensure you are not being corrupted. At present she is in Italy cooking up a storm so we can talk about her for a while!!! :wink:
We came together because of weight problems and we've stuck together for a fair while now. We all try hard to lose weight, but over the years we sort of have become family. This discussion is not to try and squeeze anyone new out you understand, we love to have new people. Sometimes I think we talk in shorthand because we know each other so well. I rant or praise my sons, brothers and assorted nieces and nephews (and I complain about the cat) as does Mel and Annie and Ceejay. Michelle and Happy have husbands and pets and Laura has b/f and pets. Feel free to join in and whinge, rant, complain, fill us in on your travels, etc.
As for finding food for American style recipes, just ask, someone always knows some sort of substitute or what it may be called someplace else. I am forever educating these Americans on kilos, grams, food varieties etc. We learn as we go. For example, I consider pumpkin to be a vegetable. We roast it, boil it, mash it, make soup out of it. They use it as a fruit and stick sugar in it and put it in pies etc. Naughty people. Pumpkin is yummy on its own
Mel - good for you getting all those dusty books and things out of the place. Have a garage sale and see if you can make any money out of them!!! As for the laundry, I don't think it is possible to empty the hamper. Mine is never empty, why should yours be. Sometimes I think I have the dirtiest household in town.
Happy - glad you liked the on-plan inspiration. Words from Annie, put together by me.
Ceejay - Cold? in Arkansas? well, well. You'll have to exercise to keep warm.
Right - I am off to get on with my day. Yesterday we wandered the local shopping plaza looking for a reasonably priced book on Cactus for Chris to give to her grandchild for Christmas. Apparently he is right into the prickly things. We can find shelves and shelves of books on cooking and very little on gardening these days - and what there is, is shoved into a badly lit shelf in the back of the space. Not wonder we are challenging the Americans for the fattest people on Earth. Don't tell 'em how to grow it fresh, just cook it with sugar and butter and fats and add cream and....... etc. I'll get off the
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now.
So anyway, as I was saying before I digressed into a rant, today we will go to the next big shopping plaza where they have a wonderful second hand bookshop complete with coffee. You can sip, snack and read or browse to your hearts content. Should be fun. And it is raining, so there isn't much else we can do. 'Bout time it stopped raining. Our dams used to be 19% full in the days of the big dry (drought) and now they are 100% full - it's the days of the big wet (floods). Either boom or bust in this country. Oh and while I think of it, my friend in Christchurch has run out of mango. Anyone got any to keep her in a befuddled state until the tremors cease??
Sorry Mini - I have a friend in Christchurch, New Zealand whose house has been damaged during the big earthquake 4 weeks ago and who has decided to stay drunk until the aftershocks cease. It's a joke because if they didn't laugh over there right now, they might all be in tears. My cousin tells me that if the aftershocks dont stop soon, they may become known as the twitchy province of New Zealand.
Right time for
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and then a shower. Catch up later.