SIDEBAR #53 - Travis Alexander forum

[neesaki]

Hey Niner, my dog was bitten by a tick about a year and a half ago and she was deathly ill. When the vet figured out it was a tick, she got a week's worth of antibiotics. She had some slight residual confusion- forgot how to climb into the car- but it eventually went away.

Thanks for the reminder, Linask, my vet that bred my Schnauzer always gave Lyme's vaccines. We had to change to a vet closer to home because it was 70 miles one way to see him. As much as I love him, it's just too far to go. So the new vet I don't think gave that vaccine, I need to go back and check on it. And we do have some ticks in our area, but much more so in Arkansas where we go several times a year, they are really bad there because of the large deer population. So thank you ! :seeya:

 

[neesaki]

Some Otis Redding for a Saturday afternoon.

Zuri, dh has been in the same place as yours. And when I do meet people I always wonder what they think of me. Have I lived up to their expectations or failed and they think dh could do better.

I like being at home. I could live in just my bedroom if I had a stove and fridge. It's large, we have a king size sleigh bed that is a waterbed, and have four feet on each side of our bed. I have an antique wardrobe that holds our TV and stereo equipment and LP's and still have five feet at the foot of the bed. I have five windows and a french door that lets out on my front porch. My closet is twelve feet long and I don't have a bunch of clothes so I could put a stackable washer and dryer in there. My sister first apartment had a cool stove and refrigerator that were smaller than regular ones. I'd like those. I think my bedroom at two hundred and fourteen feet is larger than what her's was.

Has anyone ever thought how cool it would be to live in a caboose or rail car? Shhhh, don't let my dh hear me say that or I'll have one sitting in my backyard. Which probably won't ever get done.


[video=youtube;qZ6OrrkeVFo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ6OrrkeVFo&feature=player_detailpage[/video]

I'm a lot like that too now a days, totally different than when I was younger when I had a career and was always on the road and here and there and everywhere. I never in my wildest dreams would have believed I could enjoy being home as much as I do now. I used to hate staying at home. And not only that, I used to be so adventurous: we went on hiking / backpacking trips into the wilderness, we went scuba diving, bicycling, snow skiing, water skiing... you name it. So now, I'm trying to figure out what has come over me. I have become a true home body.

So instead of me saying, I'm ready to go somewhere, it's my DH who says he's ready to go somewhere. And it's me saying, well it's really too hot, or it's really too rainy, or we can't take our dog so it won't work out very well ... :dunno:

Seriously, after I've been out of the house for even a few hours, I'm ready to go home. My home is my fortress. I love being home with just me and my dog with Turner Classic Movies on low in the background. I love to roam the hallways, I love my kitchen, and I love being on the computer. I love walking into the back yard and being in the peace and quiet, watering my plants, walking my dog... What's wrong with me?

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

KERA is doing there beg a thon and playing The Wall by Pink Floyd.

 

[neesaki]

KERA is doing there beg a thon and playing The Wall by Pink Floyd.

Missed it. So now that you got me onto Pink Floyd BPages, I decided to find them on Youtube. Here's some of their 2005 reunion. Gosh, they sound the same.

[video=youtube;ikDEHygZzlI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikDEHygZzlI[/video]

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

I'm a lot like that too now a days, totally different than when I was younger when I had a career and was always on the road and here and there and everywhere. I never in my wildest dreams would have believed I could enjoy being home as much as I do now. I used to hate staying at home. And not only that, I used to be so adventurous: we went on hiking / backpacking trips into the wilderness, we went scuba diving, bicycling, snow skiing, water skiing... you name it. So now, I'm trying to figure out what has come over me. I have become a true home body.

So instead of me saying, I'm ready to go somewhere, it's my DH who says he's ready to go somewhere. And it's me saying, well it's really too hot, or it's really too rainy, or we can't take our dog so it won't work out very well ... :dunno:

Seriously, after I've been out of the house for even a few hours, I'm ready to go home. My home is my fortress. I love being home with just me and my dog with Turner Classic Movies on low in the background. I love to roam the hallways, I love my kitchen, and I love being on the computer. I love walking into the back yard and being in the peace and quiet, watering my plants, walking my dog... What's wrong with me?

You spent many years building your nest and now your enjoying it. Maybe you realized that your peace and happiness was there and not out there.

I love being able to take the dogs out any time during the night and watch the moon and stars, I can sit on my porch swing and listen to the neighborhood all in my nightgown.

I love to sit in the different rooms. The living room is long with doors on every side so furniture arrangement is pretty much the same around the fireplace. Anna and I have about the same taste so tasteful eclectic. I have a black suede sofa (yes I know, we have three dogs. I also told dh in the eighties that a white haitian cotton sofa would be easy to keep clean) , a rocking chair and a small Lane recliner in a tapestry fabric, I also has an very old antique table that holds my desktop by the front door so I can look out to see my outside world,but since I got my laptop I don't spend much time in there other than to get to the front door or the other end of the house. Over the fireplace I have a large Howard Miller wall clock, and I check it through out the day for the time.

I love the dining room, it has three windows across one wall that looks out on the whole backyard. It's faces the north side of the house and is cooler and is shaded by a fifty year old crepe myrtle. Dh and I bought our dining room table and buffet in 1978 at a estate sale. Anna and I love old table cloths, antique lace and flowers. I keep many of my plants in there over the winter. Anna and I color or do jigsaw puzzles together while we listen to music on dh forty year old stereo speakers that still sound good.

When you get up in the morning do you open your curtains and shades to have some sunlight and watch your neighborhood through out the day? That is what wakes me up. Once I do that I'm awake for the day. If I don't I tend to sleep longer. SAD was a real problem for me until I found websleuths and others that had the same thing and I wasn't weird and kept "abnormal" hours.

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

Missed it. So now that you got me onto Pink Floyd BPages, I decided to find them on Youtube. Here's some of their 2005 reunion. Gosh, they sound the same.


PBS is giving out tickets for donations to see The Australian Pink Floyd Show, Led Zeppelin 2 concert next month. I'm befuddled why one would want to see fake bands.



[video]https://youtu.be/-LCEUwxjIr8[/video]

 

[LinasK]

Thanks for the reminder, Linask, my vet that bred my Schnauzer always gave Lyme's vaccines. We had to change to a vet closer to home because it was 70 miles one way to see him. As much as I love him, it's just too far to go. So the new vet I don't think gave that vaccine, I need to go back and check on it. And we do have some ticks in our area, but much more so in Arkansas where we go several times a year, they are really bad there because of the large deer population. So thank you ! :seeya:

We have wild deer in our neighborhood too. Also an occasional mountain lion, and wild turkeys, raccoons...

 

[Spellbound]

Pages, I enjoyed your description of your home. It sounds very comfortablead lovely.

 

[Chelly]

Good morning Sidebar Friends!
:loveyou:
In my neighborhood we have rabbits, the occasional foxes and roadrunners!

 

[Niner]

Morning! :wave:

All your houses/homes sound lovely!! I have a big picture window where I can see my neighborhood and watch TV as background noise! LOL! I could swear the people across the street are selling drugs... It's a 3 bedroom home and about AT LEAST 20 people living there. They are the ones that block my dirt driveway (where no one parks), but STILL - don't block my driveway!!! :gaah: but they don't listen, and the Huz told me to "give it up".... :gaah: again! LOL!

I sent the Huz a link to the Lyme Disease story - and he thinks he has Lyme disease too, as all the symtoms mentioned, he has. Like I said before - he'll be calling the Emergency Nurse tomorrow to get his results. Hoping it will just take antibiotics to "fix" him! That would be nice.

Oh!!! I cooked my own dinner last night, with the Huz sitting there giving me instructions... Oh what fun!! NOT!!! :lol: But I had a nice hamburger pattie, with white rice and green beans! It actually tasted pretty good, if I say so myself!!

coffeejunkie - :hug: Hope you feel better!!

Okay - off to see what's happenin' around WS!

Enjoy your Sunday everyone!! :seeya:

Oh - and I saw this on my Facebook - so had to share! My Huz called Hans fat, but I tell him, Hans is big-boned!

 

[LinasK]

Morning! :wave:

All your houses/homes sound lovely!! I have a big picture window where I can see my neighborhood and watch TV as background noise! LOL! I could swear the people across the street are selling drugs... It's a 3 bedroom home and about AT LEAST 20 people living there. They are the ones that block my dirt driveway (where no one parks), but STILL - don't block my driveway!!! :gaah: but they don't listen, and the Huz told me to "give it up".... :gaah: again! LOL!

I sent the Huz a link to the Lyme Disease story - and he thinks he has Lyme disease too, as all the symtoms mentioned, he has. Like I said before - he'll be calling the Emergency Nurse tomorrow to get his results. Hoping it will just take antibiotics to "fix" him! That would be nice.

Oh!!! I cooked my own dinner last night, with the Huz sitting there giving me instructions... Oh what fun!! NOT!!! :lol: But I had a nice hamburger pattie, with white rice and green beans! It actually tasted pretty good, if I say so myself!!

coffeejunkie - :hug: Hope you feel better!!

Okay - off to see what's happenin' around WS!

Enjoy your Sunday everyone!! :seeya:

Oh - and I saw this on my Facebook - so had to share! My Huz called Hans fat, but I tell him, Hans is big-boned!

Cooking can be fun when you have the resources- money, time, energy, and inspiration- like when a friend hands me a homegrown zucchini. I just hating cooking dinner on an everyday basis. Then it becomes a chore to put food out and be creative, and there's all the cleanup. I like holiday cooking and "special projects"- a new recipe or what do I do with this ingredient, or a challenge like a theme for Supper Club. Watch Food Network for inspiration. I used to love to watch Iron Chef and the next Food Network Star. Bobby Flay is magnificent!

 

[GigiG]

Good morning Sidebar Friends!
:loveyou:
In my neighborhood we have rabbits, the occasional foxes and roadrunners!

A few years ago I was in Page, AZ for a houseboating trip on Lake Powell, and saw a roadrunner dashing through a desert expanse across the street from the grocery store where we were buying provisions. I was so tickled!!! Halfway expected to see Wyle E. Coyote following close behind...

 

[GigiG]

Cooking can be fun when you have the resources- money, time, energy, and inspiration- like when a friend hands me a homegrown zucchini. I just hating cooking dinner on an everyday basis. Then it becomes a chore to put food out and be creative, and there's all the cleanup. I like holiday cooking and "special projects" - a new recipe or what do I do with this ingredient, or a challenge like a theme for Supper Club. Watch Food Network for inspiration. I used to love to watch Iron Chef and the next Food Network Star. Bobby Flay is magnificent!

BBM

I used to own two restaurants (one in DC, the other in Bethesda, MD) and loved having commercial kitchens and being able to order whatever I wanted from our vendors. I felt like a kid in a candy store; testing recipes and ideas and different ingredients. Although graphic design is my "thing," being innovative with food was a great creative outlet for me. Plus, good food makes people happy, and if I can provide that, it makes me happy, too.

But lately, I can't get inspired enough to do much of anything on an everyday basis. Also, since I don't have much of an appetite any more, it seems like too much work (and waste!).

Now, I focus solely on doing fun things with seasonal ingredients, which still excite my "inner chef." Lobster (from my family in Maine) is so delicious and surprisingly versatile. Summer produce always inspires me, as do root vegetables and stews in the colder months.

I still save my best culinary efforts for the holidays, although I threaten each year that "this is the last time I'm doing this!" It's become a running joke, but I'm only halfway kidding. It's so much work and takes a lot out of me, but again, I think good (homemade) food is the language of love when it comes to family and friends, and I always feel so gratified to be able to please the people who show up at my table.

 

[LinasK]

BBM

I used to own two restaurants (one in DC, the other in Bethesda, MD) and loved having commercial kitchens and being able to order whatever I wanted from our vendors. I felt like a kid in a candy store; testing recipes and ideas and different ingredients. Although graphic design is my "thing," being innovative with food was a great creative outlet for me. Plus, good food makes people happy, and if I can provide that, it makes me happy, too.

But lately, I can't get inspired enough to do much of anything on an everyday basis. Also, since I don't have much of an appetite any more, it seems like too much work (and waste!).

Now, I focus solely on doing fun things with seasonal ingredients, which still excite my "inner chef." Lobster (from my family in Maine) is so delicious and surprisingly versatile. Summer produce always inspires me, as do root vegetables and stews in the colder months.

I still save my best culinary efforts for the holidays, although I threaten each year that "this is the last time I'm doing this!" It's become a running joke, but I'm only halfway kidding. It's so much work and takes a lot out of me, but again, I think good (homemade) food is the language of love when it comes to friends and family, and I always feel gratified to please the people who show up at my table.

BBM. Yeah, that's me with Latkes. They are very labor intensive, but worth it.
I too studied Graphic Design, but haven't done much with it and my software is way out of date.

 

[GigiG]

BBM. Yeah, that's me with Latkes. They are very labor intensive, but worth it.
I too studied Graphic Design, but haven't done much with it and my software is way out of date.

I love latkes! I was just given a new cookbook of innovative Jewish cuisine written by a woman whose background is half Eastern European and half Middle Eastern, although I believe that she (like you, LinusK) lives in California. She incorporates a lot of fresh ingredients in traditional dishes. I like that. Her latke recipe really piqued my interest. Very detailed. So much care must be taken at each step -- but well worth it for the delicious final product.

 

[neesaki]

Some Sunday evening music for you all, love Bobby Hackett on the trumpet. :loveyou:

[video=youtube;cc93hMvSdak]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc93hMvSdak[/video]

 

[GigiG]

You spent many years building your nest and now your enjoying it. Maybe you realized that your peace and happiness was there and not out there.

I love being able to take the dogs out any time during the night and watch the moon and stars, I can sit on my porch swing and listen to the neighborhood all in my nightgown.

I love to sit in the different rooms. The living room is long with doors on every side so furniture arrangement is pretty much the same around the fireplace. Anna and I have about the same taste so tasteful eclectic. I have a black suede sofa (yes I know, we have three dogs. I also told dh in the eighties that a white haitian cotton sofa would be easy to keep clean) , a rocking chair and a small Lane recliner in a tapestry fabric, I also has an very old antique table that holds my desktop by the front door so I can look out to see my outside world,but since I got my laptop I don't spend much time in there other than to get to the front door or the other end of the house. Over the fireplace I have a large Howard Miller wall clock, and I check it through out the day for the time.

I love the dining room, it has three windows across one wall that looks out on the whole backyard. It's faces the north side of the house and is cooler and is shaded by a fifty year old crepe myrtle. Dh and I bought our dining room table and buffet in 1978 at a estate sale. Anna and I love old table cloths, antique lace and flowers. I keep many of my plants in there over the winter. Anna and I color or do jigsaw puzzles together while we listen to music on dh forty year old stereo speakers that still sound good.

When you get up in the morning do you open your curtains and shades to have some sunlight and watch your neighborhood through out the day? That is what wakes me up. Once I do that I'm awake for the day. If I don't I tend to sleep longer. SAD was a real problem for me until I found websleuths and others that had the same thing and I wasn't weird and kept "abnormal" hours.

BBM

I sooo relate to this. I've built my nest in this 90+year-old house over the past 30 years, and although there's always something that needs fixing, everything about it feels right to me. It's almost as though this old house knows how much I respect it and want to protect it. Over the years, I've spent a lot of time and effort (and $$) in RESTORING, rather than RENOVATING it. I raised my children here, and hope to pass it on to the next generation. Not too many families have that kind of continuity nowadays.

I like to be sociable, but like Neesaki said, wherever I go, whatever I do, I always look forward to returning to my home sweet home. No place I'd rather be.

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

My dh saw two baby skunks go between the brick columns on the front porch last night and set a trap, and this morning he had a baby possum in the trap and a mother skunk and two babies on the outside wanting in. The cat collector has been bringing in more feral cats in the last month, and she walks the neighborhood at night and puts out bags of food for cats which brings in raccoons, possums and many skunks which brings in coyote's. Many times I'm sitting on the porch swing enjoying the quite when she leaves and it seems to freak her out. We did have a kit of foxes live under one of our decks one year. Every once in a while you can see scissor tails.

I collected recipe books at one time and my favorite is a 1945 Fannie Farmer that I found at a flea market. It's all from scratch. If you're going to cook you have to have good knives. Dh has a set of Henckels that are OK, and I have three Zwilling J.A. Henckels Pro - an eight inch chef's knife which feel perfectly balanced in my hand, an six inch utility knife and a two and half inch paring knife. It's better to get the best you can even if the three cost more than what you buy as a "set" of knives and steak and block and a steel.

I love prep work, it's calming to me. I love all cooking, I just don't do it at home during the week because I'm cooking at my sisters. I haven't made shrimp, sausage and oyster gumbo in a long time. It always goes good with crab and shrimp etouffee, a good coleslaw, fried catfish and fresh made tartar sauce.

My favorite thing to bake is cheesecake. I don't do just plain or strawberry. My favorite is a black forest cheese cake. I bake a pan of brownies and cut off the corners and edges to use later and press the rest of brownie in the bottom of a spring from pan then layer chocolate cream cheese cherry pie filling and chocolate bits and pecans then a layer of brownie and repeat for the second layer and top it off with my pie filling hot fudge and brownie corners. And next weekend I'm going to get a whole chicken cut it up and fry it to see if I can still do it.

 

[Nore]

Sorry to hear it Coffee. It's cold and humid that affects my asthma. Fortunately my QVar inhaler does the trick.
I was hoping to get alot done on finishing off the Den today, but our Home Depot was one board short of the baseboard I wanted, and by the time we drove to the other Home Depot last night, they closed. Then DH stayed up way too late with DD last night, so he's still sleeping in. Her performance for today got cancelled-yeah!, but I still have to take her to a rehearsal tomorrow, which will cut into working on things- boo...

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Hi CJ and LinasK ,I'm right up there with you and allergies. Hot and humid summer , cold and windy winter.Havng trouble iwith writing again.:gaah:

 

[Spellbound]

Some Sunday evening music for you all, love Bobby Hackett on the trumpet. :loveyou:

[video=youtube;cc93hMvSdak]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc93hMvSdak[/video]

Very nice