What's new? Is summer really almost over? Can't be, I haven't even been kayaking yet. Apparently that will involve actually getting the kayak out of the barn and putting it in the water. Not to mention sweeping all the spiders out of it. That's what's stopping me.

I can't do anything but watch the Olympics anyway.

Kiwi

I'll tell you in a couple of weeks. Keep your britches on.

Last night, I made peanut noodles, a recipe featured in the current Prevention magazine. DS ate it and never wants it again. I'm having the leftovers for breakfast. How could a peanut butter recipe go wrong? Yum. Sugar, do they still not have peanut butter over there?

Glad your DD is staying near, Lushbot. Is that NY she's looking at?

heyyyyyyyyyy guys---i love the olympics toooooooooo Kiki!!!!---i love ALL of it---but i adore the swimming,the diving and the GYMnasties---they seem to be embroiled in controversy all the time [like the skating which i love toooooo} Loho----my sister's children are doing a lot better----my sister however is still very sad and yesterday was tough---she is quite a trooper and would appear to the outside world as perfectly fine but it does seem like yesterday to her and the effects are long reaching--- your daughter is graduating this year!!! how exciting!!! not that i would want to live through all that again but i LOVED it at the time----- the drama!!!! the build up to the prom!!!! {the ten month build up---quite exhausting actually!!!!}------can't wait to hear about peachbat's job !!!!---SUGAR!!! are you alone in the house already!!! how wonderful!!! i can't wait for that either!!!------ i just got a note from an old client of mine { i used to sell painted jewellery} --she says she wants to order some of my christmas cards!!---interesting.----------hi wabbs,painty!! see yas-----

When we were driving the long and winding road that leads to Tofino, we went over a little bridge and there was a sign: Lost Shoe Creek #1. No one could figure out why I was laughing. Then Lost Shoe Creek #2 came along and they all thought I was nuts.

In a fit of homemakeritis I went out and bought some Pledge today, except here it's called Pronto, and I started spraying and wiping the wooden stairs that go upstairs. I guess the last time they had that treatment must have been...oh...never, I guess, and we've lived in this house for 9 years now. Boy are they shiny. Got bored half way through so the rest will have to wait until tomorrow.


Some strange woman e-mailed me during our vacation saying she found my address on the internet and asking if I could give her English conversation lessons. I said yes. I hope she's not an axe murderer. She claims she's a biologist. We'll see. Along with that I may have up to 5 tutoring students every week so I'll be rakin' in the big money. Gotta save up to move to Dogpatch.

Yesssssss, we have peanut butter but I did have to bring a 4 lb bag of chocolate chips back with me because they only sell those in itty bitty packages and by the time I get to putting them in the cookie dough, I've usually eaten them all (quality control and all that). I also made a delicious noodle thing with a peanut butter sauce the other day and they all hated it. How rude.

Your poor sis, Bagzie. I can't even imagine what she must be going through.

We're invited to the neighbours' for dinner tonight, more for convenience sake than anything else. Apparently Neighbour Lady's brother met some Canadian people when he was on vacation in Canada and now these Canadian people are here visiting and no one speaks a word of English so they want us to do it for them. Food better be good. Wouldn't it be funny if I knew them?

Can someone please tell me the many uses for goat cheese? I bought some today but I don't really know what to do with it other than eat the whole thing as it is or smear it on a cracker or something.

I want to know what Painty is knitting.

ohhhhhhh--i had goat cheese on a whole wheat pizza at an italian restuarant----it had a pesto base,artichoke hearts,sun-dried tomatoes and GOAT CHEESE!!!! it is to die for---AND i like it in a salad or tossed onto pasta after the sauce is on--- I LOVE GOAT CHEESE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!YUMMMMMMM MMMM

hi guys---i just saw this and went to the site----kind of interesting

Sept 2004
O, The Oprah Magazine
Live Your Best Life: Treats
Page 90

Aviva Goldfarb had one of those ideas - incredibly obvious, yet nobody had thought of it - that immediately make the pieces of your brain fit together with a neat click. A wife, mother, self-published cookbook author, and organizational ace, Goldfarb realized that for most people 6 P.M. was too late to start wondering what to cook for dinner. So she started the Six O’Clock Scramble (thescramble.com), a weekly e-mail newsletter with five days’ worth of dinner recipes, plus grocery lists. The meals (grilled teriyaki chicken tenderloins one night, baked huevos rancheros another) take about a half hour to prepare and are creative, healthy, unprocessed and kid-friendly without being adult-alienating. A subscription costs $5 a month - a small price to pay for a whole new kind of happy meal. Goldfarb herself is happy, having graduated from the self-publishing business: Next fall St. Martin’s Press will release The Six O’Clock Scramble Cookbook.

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I can't wait 2 weeks. Are you working for the CIA? I know what it is; you got a job covering the Olympics and you won't be home for 2 weeks.

You should have asked me first about the peanut noodles; DD won't eat them either. I think they're excellent, but I don't bother to make them anymore, because I seem to be the only one.

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Originally Posted by Bagzz

Aviva Goldfarb had one of those ideas - So she started the Six O’Clock Scramble (thescramble.com),

Smart lady. Think I'll go look at that.

Hah. 3fc tried to mess me up and lose my message, but I fooled them, I had most of it copied and I can just paste it in here and rewrite the rest. Nyah nyah nyah nyah.

I refuse to believe that you have a DD graduating next spring, Lush. Because that would mean I have a DD graduating the following year, and I am seriously in denial. Mine is going to start teaching guitar lessons next month, if you can believe it. Denial denial denial. NoNoNo

Kiwi

Goat cheese with olives in salad. Yum. I think you can use it any where you'd use Feta or even Bleu.

I am in an xmas scarf-making frenzy. Presently doing a loose loopy business with fringe, platinum shiny stuff and a black/white and brown ribbon. AND re-knitting a denim/tan ribbon pancho that dh laughed at the first time I modeled it for him. What does HE know. But He's the one who has to look at it, so it was worth doing it over.

Have now been on plan for 3 weeks. Hooeeeee.

I wasn't wrong. I really was getting sick last week. Ended up having to get the poor DH up in the middle of the night Friday so he could take me to ER. After a lung x-ray (for pneumonia)and cat scan (for blood clot) they decided I wasn't dying after all so they sent me home w/ pain pills and told me I had pleuresy, which is a catchall for inflamed tissue between lungs and chest wall. They don't know what causes it, and it goes away after a week. And it hurts like you have little demons in there. Why can't I just get a cold?

Now DH has some horrible chicken pox looking stuff all over his upper body. Dr. can't figure out what it is, but it's driving him crazy. We are quite the pair.

Excuse this post for being all about ME. I'm feeling quite the big baby lately. And I mean BIG.

Poor Wabby!! My friend who moved to your neighborhood had pleurisy a few years back -- you can blame her for it. She also has various arthritis issues, including in her chest, so it hurt like a b . I hope you get some rest. Did your DH go swimming somewhere with ducks recently? That's what causes horrible unidentifiable rashes around here.

DD has been gathering lots of stuff for a yard sale her friend is having and she cleaned out the upper hall!! I wonder how I can get her to do the rest of the house -- she's good!

Feel better, Wabbit,
Kiwi

Poor Wabby! I had pleuresy when I was 18...boy did it hurt. Your DH probably has fifth disease or something of the sort. You are sicker.
We have dd's book sale today. Her last one...sob.

two things----POOR WABBY!!!!!!! that is soooooooooo terrible for you---i had bronchitus for 6 weeks once and it REALLY hurt----probably not as bad as pleuresy----we are sending you healing vibesssssssssss--------------the other thing-----poor Lushie-----i know just how you feel-----my dd caught the bus for school in front of the house---everytime i watched her leave i was thinking about this coming year when she wouldn't be there----sigh---------on the last day she took the bus,i took pictures......the time flies sooooooo and now that we have them all grown up and so smart and interesting to hang with---they get ready to leave................----let's talk to wabby about it----she got them back and that was an altogether different slant on it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!_-------oh one more thing----I CAN'T STOP EATING NOW THAT I AM AWARE OF HOW FAT I AM.

I never had pleurisy .... WABBYYYY ... get rid of it!! Poor little thing. *huggie hug*

Today, I went to see where I'll be working as I was interviewed in Dogpatch and the job, part of it, is elsewhere. I observed that my new tee shirt collection will not go over well there. Then I went shopping. Bought clothes I don't love but at least I feel I can be appropriate there.

I have been distracted for a big as DS had to pass a swimming test to go white water rafting. I have been affirming, praying, coaching, etc. He did fine.