SIDEBAR #55 - Travis Alexander forum

[coffeejunkie]

Good Morning!!

In all fairness I will not be posting many pics, ect. Maybe it will speed up the thread for those who are having problems.

So here is a yummy Easy Candy Corn Hot Chocolate recipe:


Candy Corn Hot Chocolate

Prep time: 5 mins

Cook time: 2 hours

Total time: 2 hours 5 mins

Serves: 8

Ingredients
•½ gallon whole milk
•1 (11-oz.) bag white chip morsels
•2 cups candy corn
•Whipped cream, marshmallows or ghost peeps for serving

Instructions
1.In a 3-quart or larger slow cooker, add the milk, white chips, and candy corn. Cover and cook on HIGH for 2 hours, stirring every 30 minutes. Serve topped with whipped cream, marshmallows, or ghost peeps. Enjoy!

 

[coffeejunkie]

Pecos Bill Rides a Tornado

Now everyone in the West knows that Pecos Bill could ride anything. No bronco could throw him, no sir! Fact is, I only heard of Bill getting' throwed once in his whole career as a cowboy. Yep, it was that time he was up Kansas way and decided to ride him a tornado.

Now Bill wasn't gonna ride jest any tornado, no ma'am. He waited for the biggest gol-durned tornado you ever saw. It was turning the sky black and green, and roaring so loud it woke up the farmers away over in China. Well, Bill jest grabbed that there tornado, pushed it to the ground and jumped on its back. The tornado whipped and whirled and sidewinded and generally cussed its bad luck all the way down to Texas. Tied the rivers into knots, flattened all the forests so bad they had to rename one place the Staked Plains. But Bill jest rode along all calm-like, give it an occasional jab with his spurs.

Finally, that tornado decided it wasn't getting this cowboy off its back no-how. So it headed west to California and jest rained itself out. Made so much water it washed out the Grand Canyon. That tornado was down to practically nothing when Bill finally fell off. He hit the ground so hard it sank below sea level. Folks call the spot Death Valley.

Anyway, that's how rodeo got started. Though most cowboys stick to broncos these days.

 

[coffeejunkie]

Bigfoot Wallace Runs the Mail

A Texas Folktale

Bigfoot Wallace – that wild and wacky Texas Ranger -- returned to the wilds of frontier life once the United States won the war with Mexico, and it suited him as nothing else could do. Soon he was freighting mail six hundred miles from San Antonio to El Paso, and it was the wildest stretch in the Wild West! Wallace was the only man who could do it. Anyone else who tried was scared off by attacking Comanche and Apache warriors or killed outright. It took a month of hard riding to make the trip, which ran right through the old Comanche Trail. Indians and Army soldiers all knew him as a reckless, fearless man. Any warrior who killed or wounded “Captain Wallacky” was sure of a heroes welcome in his tribe. But none ever succeeded, though there were times that Wallace would ride into an Army outpost with his mail coach so shot up he had to lie over for a few days to repair it.

When he wasn’t running the mail, Bigfoot still worked with the Texas Rangers, taming the untamable and keeping the peace. Took him another twenty years of busting desperados and dodging Indians before he decided to retire. Wallace lived out the rest of his days in the company of his good friends, the Bramlette family, and as an old man he lived with their daughter Fran and her husband, Doc Cochran, telling tales of his frontier exploits and and outwitting the antics of Fran’s very active boys.

Bigfoot Wallace died in 1899 and his final resting place was the State Cemetery in Austin. But the stories of his exploits live on to this day, and somewhere on the road to El Paso, the spirit of El Muerto still rides.

 

[daisymae]

Reporting in with weather news: no rain last night or today thus far.

 

[Bernina]

Dr Oz for some reason creeps me out. Don't know why.

If he's such a great Dr., why is he on TV? :thinking: And "Dr." Phil..........
I don't get it, they make money by publicly exposing people's suffering, pain, and sorrow in the name of "entertainment".
Shouldn't that be considered a violation of their hippocratic oath? I dunno...

HIPPOCRATIC OATH, MODERN VERSION

I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:

I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.

I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures which are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.

I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.

I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.

I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.

I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.

I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.

I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.

If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.

http://guides.library.jhu.edu/c.php?g=202502&p=1335759

 

[zoey]

If he's such a great Dr., why is he on TV? :thinking: And "Dr." Phil..........
I don't get it, they make money by publicly exposing people's suffering, pain, and sorrow in the name of "entertainment".
Shouldn't that be considered a violation of their hippocratic oath? I dunno...

HIPPOCRATIC OATH, MODERN VERSION

I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:

I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.

I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures which are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.

I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.

I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.

I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.

I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.

I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.

I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.

If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.

http://guides.library.jhu.edu/c.php?g=202502&p=1335759

I know!!!! Dr Phil s basically a walking talking informational selling whatever. I watched it was and he was going to treat someone (with mental issues) with his doctor on call app--then there is that weight thingy. SMDH just over t.

Used to watch food network but they they started selling whatever---heck I'm not that fond of commercials ��.

 

[neesaki]

Two more flying squirrels in our attic. RIP little squirrels.

 

[daisymae]

Thinking of my dad today -

Happy 101st Birthday, poppa.

10-10-14

 

[Niner]

Morning all! :wave:

Daisymae :Happybirthday: to your Dad's 101st!!! My Dad would have been 100 this coming February!

:waiting: for the Landlord to come by this morning and leaf-blow all the leaves off our roof! It's supposed to rain next week, and I wanted them off the roof!! Roommate leaf-blowed the driveway and front and back porch/balcony for me a couple of days ago! :happydance: Glad I have these people around to do these things for me!! I don't have the strength to lug around the leaf-blower! Which by the way our neighbor across the street gave us!! Nice people!

Now I have a problem with the neighbors next to them - directly across the street from us (where there is at the LEAST 20 people living there!!) - they have a friend that parks his truck - a white beat up truck, with NO back OR front windshields - piled HIGH with junk and a mattress on top of that - parking in my other dirt driveway!!! :gaah: the other neighbors will think it belongs to me!! What a piece of junk!! I saw it on one of the main highways the other day with a cop car behind it - I thought FOR SURE the cop would pull him over, since he had no front windshield - nope - saw it parked in front/side of the dirt driveway again later that day!! I'm hoping to get the landlord to put some rocks on this dirt driveway and also make a cactus garden for me on the side. I have TONS of cactus that my little bro left here... I'll see what he says! That way these neighbors can't park there. Maybe a little wood fence around our property there will also be a deterent!!

Anyway... that's my problem today! :lol:

Another hot :hot: one here today - well 85!

See you all later! :seeya: Oh - found another picture to share with you all!

 

[Niner]

♪♫ ♪♫ All alone am I... ♪♫ ♪♫

Well, at least when I started this post!

Had a nice visit with the Huz! He was supposed to get a haircut yesterday (made an appointment) plus his 2-times-a-week shower... did they happen?? Of course not!!

!! The Huz didn't want me to complain to anyone about it, he said he would mention it to one of his "nice" nurses! He had a visit with one of our old friends. He had moved back to Nebraska, as his mother was sick, and he'd been laid off his work here. Mother died, sold the house, and he's back here in California!! I missed him during his visit - came there 15 minutes after he left!

The landlord came and blew all the leaves off the roof, and then of course, he had to blow them off the balconies! LOL! I asked about putting in the cactus garden, filling in the dirt driveway with rocks, etc. He said he'd think about it! Hope he thinks fast! :lol:

:waiting: to watch Nadal vs Foginini play tennis!

Should be starting any minute now... :waiting:

Going to sign off for the day! nline:

Later! :seeya: Maybe when I get back tomorrow there will be a BUNCH of posts to read!

Zuri! JINGLES!!!!

 

[daisymae]

I'm watching Nadal, too, and he cracks me up with his ritual before he serves ... everytime! He touches his nose, then left ear, then nose again and lastly his right ear. Sometimes he mixes in touching his headband. :laughing:

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

Now coffee, don't forget the Red River Shootout. It's also called The Red River Showdown. It's always the second weekend in October at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, during the second weekend of the State Fair of Texas. It is an one hundred and ten year old rivalry between the University of Texas at Austin - Texas Longhorns, and the University of Oklahoma at Norman - Sooners and is still on of the greatest rivalries in American sports. The name is derived from the Red River boundary between Texas and Oklahoma that has in the past caused conflict between the two states, most notably the 1931 Red River Bridge War. And is still contested to this day.

Also, Bevo XIV won't be attending this year. The University of Texas says longhorn mascot has a "life-threatening condition" and won't travel to Dallas for the team's rivalry game Saturday against No. 10 Oklahoma at the Cotton Bowl. Bevo XIV has been the school mascot since 2004. The steer weighs 2,100 pounds and has a horn span of 82 inches.

My father's parents were big Sooner fans, went to every Texas OU weekend in Dallas. After we moved to Texas we'd see them twice when they came down. I remember my grandfather asking whose side I was on. On OU Weekend 1973 when they stopped by to see my mother, and we're going to go up to my sister's new house in a new sub division, and dh turned in front of them, on the hated motorcycle, and they followed us there, where dh (was not dh yet just boyfriend) took off his helmet and his ponytail was longer than mine. My grandfather was a barber so yeah, not a good start.


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[Nore]

Oh Lonesome Me! I just ordered something from Amazon so I ordered Juans book. Now to wait about 2 months and 3 weeks..I have a feeling his book will blow her right out of the water! I think they held back a lot. About pages ,slow loading I only get 15 at a time. This solved most of the wait time. Too much on one page slow load. I remember years ago Tricia asked us not to post full picturs etc , just post URL as it held everything up. She improved it after that. :seeya:

 

[Spellbound]

Oh Lonesome Me! I just ordered something from Amazon so I ordered Juans book. Now to wait about 2 months and 3 weeks..I have a feeling his book will blow her right out of the water! I think they held back a lot. About pages ,slow loading I only get 15 at a time. This solved most of the wait time. Too much on one page slow load. I remember years ago Tricia asked us not to post full picturs etc , just post URL as it held everything up. She improved it after that. :seeya:

Thanks for the tips on the forum use, Nore.

I have Juan's on pre-order, too.

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

1940 - Lanny Ross records "Moonlight And Roses." tops the charts


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[coffeejunkie]

Thanks for the tips on the forum use, Nore.

I have Juan's on pre-order, too.

me three on Juan's book, I ordered it a good month ago.

 

[coffeejunkie]

27 Household Uses for Coffee

1. Skip the toxic abrasive cleaners for pots and pans and use a handful of coffee grounds instead.

2. Scour (non-porcelain) sinks with coffee grounds.

3. Clean old food off of dishes. Be aware not to use coffee grounds on materials that might be absorbent or porous so that you don’t end up with brown stains.

4. Scrub your grill or electric griddle.

5. Coffee grounds can also be used as a deodorizer. Place grounds in a jar or dish to absorb odors from refrigerators and freezers.

6. Leave a dish of coffee grounds out to absorb odors in rooms that have an unpleasant odor.


7. Deodorize a car that may have had one too many fast-food items left in it.

8. Place a layer of grounds in your ashtrays to greatly reduce the stench of old cigarette butts.

9. Rub on hands to remove food prep odors.

10. Use wet grounds when cleaning your fire place or wood stove to keep the dust and ash from flying. You could also use wet grounds for the same purpose in a pellet stove, but take care to not allow the burn pot to get clogged, so I would use very sparingly in this case.

11. Use coffee grounds for natural ant control. Place dried grounds in the areas ants frequent. The smell is a deterrent.

12. Dye paper, fabrics, or other porous materials with a strong coffee solution.

13. Cover up scratches in furniture. Dab a strong solution of coffee onto the scratch. Naturally, this works best on darker woods.

Uses for coffee in the garden

14. Use coffee grounds as a non-toxic, fully degradable fertilizer. Coffee grounds are a good source of nitrogen, calcium, magnesium, potassium and other trace minerals. While you need to be aware that not all plants love coffee, such as tomatoes, most are enriched by the added nutrients.

15. Coffee grounds are an excellent nutritional addition to compost.

16. Use as a non-toxic bug repellant. Use a solution of coffee to spray your plants. The smell is too strong for most bugs. You’ll need to re-apply after a rain.

17. Use coffee grounds to keep cats from digging and pooping in your garden. Not only are cat feces bad for your plants, I personally hate the experience of accidentally scooping some up with my hands while gardening.

18. Use coffee grounds to deter slugs and snails. Both the smell and the abrasive surface help keep these pests out of the garden.

19. Coffee can add nutrients to acid-loving plants such as azaleas and roses. Simply pour any left-over coffee around the base of the plant. Hometalk, a home improvement social network, member John H. of Clermont, FL said, "Coffee is acidic. Roses flourish in soil with a pH around 6.5. Adding coffee will raise the pH."

20. Kill ants outdoors too. Just place grounds on the hills.

A word on worms: they love coffee as much as we do. Theory suggests that besides the caffeine, the bacterium that grows on the many-sided grounds is not only a food source, but adds grit to their digestive system allowing them to digest better. Coffee-eating worms reproduce faster, which is great for oxygenating our gardens and compost. So, in terms of worms, you can:


21. Work grounds into the soil.

22. Place grounds into your compost.

23. Mix grounds and soil to help keep fishing bait alive longer.

24. Put your bait worms in moist coffee grounds helps to mask human odor.

Uses for coffee as a beauty aid

25. Rub grounds through hair and rinse to add softness and shine.

26. Add highlights to brown hair by soaking in coffee.

27. Use grounds as a facial scrub or mask.

So drink up and enjoy the many benefits that come even after your cup is empty.

 

[coffeejunkie]

Johnny Appleseed

An Ohio Legend

Johnny Appleseed was a hermit and a wanderer who was welcomed wherever he went in the Ohio territory. Everyone loved him, in spite of his unkempt appearance. He always carried a sack full of apple seeds to plant, and walked barefoot all year round. He knew the frontier woods better than anyone. Even the Indians respected Johnny Appleseed for his courage.

When the War of 1812 began, many Indians allied themselves with the British, seeking to revenge injustices done to their people by the settlers. They attacked up and down the Ohio territory, but they left Johnny Appleseed alone. Taking advantage of his position, Johnny Appleseed became the Paul Revere of the Ohio territory, warning settlers of danger.

On one occasion, Johnny Appleseed learned that a band of Indians had laid siege on the town of Mansfield, Ohio. Johnny Appleseed ran twenty-six miles through the forest to Mt. Vernon to obtain help for the settlers. As he ran, he tried to warn other settlers along the path of the danger by blowing on an old powder horn. Aid reached the town within a day, and the settlers were spared, thanks to the bravery of Johnny Appleseed.

 

[coffeejunkie]

Hoosiers

An Indiana Tall Tale

There's an ongoing debate here in the great state of Indiana over the origins of the word "Hoosiers". My Granddad, he falls into the first camp, and me, I fall into the second.

My Granddad says Indiana folk are called Hoosiers because folks in Indiana are so curious they are always popping here and there, poking their heads into every door they see, and calling "Who's here?".

Me, I think we are called Hoosiers because of the hushers. That's what they used to call the town bully, because he could hush his opponent. Since we Indiana folk are so big and strong, we get called "hushers" or "hooshers" as our neighbors in Louisiana like to say.

I don't know if we will ever reconcile the two sides to each other. But anyhow, Indiana folk are called Hoosiers, right enough. And we're proud of it, too!

 

[coffeejunkie]

Baked Potato Soup

Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 8 hours
Total Time: 8 hours, 30 minutes
Yield: Serves about 10

Ingredients
4 pounds of potatoes
1 white onion, small dice
5 whole garlic gloves (keep them whole)
7 Cups Chicken broth
1/4 Teaspoon Black Pepper
16 ounces 1/3 less fat cream cheese (2 blocks)

Toppings
Sour Cream
Grated Cheddar Cheese
Green Onion
Cooked Bacon, crumbled

Instructions
1.Peel, and dice your potatoes in a small dice. Add potatoes, garlic, onion, black pepper and chicken broth to slow cooker.
2.Cook on low for 8 hours.
3.You are now going to blend about 2/3's of the soup with the cream cheese in your blender, you may need to do this in batches.
4.Season the soup with salt to taste.
5.Serve with desired toppings.

Notes
I used a 6 quart slow cooker.