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Happy Thanksgiving

We’ve been busy wishing all our friends and family a Happy Thanksgiving. Went to the grocery store with a list of all the important things so we wouldn’t forget anything. I’m cooking fresh green beans, corn pudding, and the sweet potatoes – with mini-marshmallows and caramelized walnuts.

My sister is doing the turkey – it’s 26 pounds of terror if I had to deal with it. I have never cooked a turkey yet! I might make it until old age without having to deal with a big bird that is so easy to undercook or overcook and so hard to get thawed out safely and in time to get in the oven for a big crowd with high expectations. As long as someone else will cook the bird, I’ll be happy to do the rest.

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A Squirrel with Manners

This squirrel was so cute! He would run over to the table and then stand up on his hind legs and look like he was begging. Then when he felt safe, he would dash over to the food that was dropped and pick it up.

He left people get very close to him, but he would not let anyone feed him out of their hand. The food had to be on the ground before he would take it.

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Too Much for Chips

Just noticed the price of a bag of potato chips while I was shopping today. At the Kroger a bag of Lays chips is $4.99. Not even gourmet chips – just regular chips in the bag.

I’m astonished. This bag is nothing more than one potato that has been sliced very thin, tossed in hot oil for a couple of minutes, salted and then tossed into an oversized thin foil bag. When you think about it, the bag is 80% air. So what on earth can justify charging almost five bucks for one bag of chips that will last an average family just one day? This amount of money for this little bit of snack food is crazy!

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Grazing at Sams Club

I only go shopping at Sams Club about once every two months. I just don’t need or want mega sized quantities of most household goods and foods. But sometimes the savings is big enough to make it worth going and buying 10 times more than what I would get at the local Kroger.

Today I went to Sam’s on my lunch break. I was surprised to find a lot of people giving away free samples of food at the end of every aisle. I ended up dining on large slices of pizza, chicken nuggets, ham and cheese on croissant, and meatballs. I was going to do a drive-thru to pick up my lunch on the way back to work, but I had so much free sample food that I wasn’t hungry.

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Happy New Year!

I am looking forward to a year of more healthy food choices and more outside activities. I promise to take my dogs outside for longer, faster walks and some romps across the field by the cabin as often as humanly possible.

Best wishes to you for a very Happy New Year!

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Merry Christmas to all

Today we had a good, large, family Christmas dinner at a local Masonic Lodge dining hall. All of the extended family members that could attend brought food to share, and nobody went away hungry. Much to my surprise, there were no family fights that I was aware of, and everyone had a good time. We sang a few songs (Jingle Bells and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer) and played a few games. We exchanged a few gifts here and there. Everyone chipped in with setting up the tables and buffet, and everyone chipped in with the dish-washing and cleaning up.

My mother said she thought it was a lot more work than when the dinners were held at someone’s house, but I completely disagree, since the dinners have been held at my house every year for the past six years. This year I didn’t have to run around the house in a panic, cleaning, de-cluttering, and worrying about the pets being upset, or about my things being broken (or stolen) by someone.

I really hope that all future family dinners will be held there. I liked it a lot.

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Back to work

Well I am back to work and the kids are back in school after a well deserved holiday. We went to my sisters for dinner on Thanksgiving day and really enjoyed spending time with the family. Now I have to start really working on my Christmas shopping list. I don’t have much time left, plus this weekend we will put up the Christmas decorations and tree. I am going to be so busy over the next month, it is already making me tired just thinking about it. I love the holiday’s, but I can’t wait till they are over.

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Dinner

Last nights dinner was amazing. My sister in law made this glazed chicken tenders entree that was to die for. It was so simple too. All she did was take some Zesty Italian salad dressing mixed with some honey and pour it over the chicken tenders in the skillet. Then she simmered them until the chicken was cooked through and the sauce turned a pretty brown color. I will have to remember that recipe because we really loved it. I like to learn how to make new dishes because eating the same stuff all the time can get boring. I don’t like boring food.

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A great day

If doing absolutely nothing except reading, catching up on movies I’ve missed and eating what ever I wanted constitutes me being considered lazy, as one of my co workers made mention of…well so be it. I consider it having one great day!! 🙂

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Dreading grocery shopping

I have been procrastinating going to the market and grocery store and running the errands I have to do. Grocery shopping, even for one person scares the hell out of me anymore. I have noticed, as everyone undoubtedly has, that grocery prices are soaring and there doesn’t seem any respite in sight. I so feel for people who have to feed families of two or more. It’s nearly impossible to eat healthy with the prices as they are. What kicks butt is “Lady Michelle” (and I use that term loosely anymore) raves about eating healthy and our kids having healthy meals such as hers do. I’m sure those two girls indeed have healthy meals. Umm.. DA…they are the President’s children and have free access to all these healthy tidbits of nutrition. Normally I don’t speak like this about politics the President, no matter who he is, or in a negative nature about issues concerning our “Leader”. I have had enough though. I could go on and on and fill pages now about issues I’ve kept my mouth shut about. But for now…I have to write a grocery list that will not drain my bank account. I seriously doubt if I’ll be eating as healthy as I used to be able to though.