The NFC B-Day Chat Thread

[The Farmers' Daughter]

Your right about that FD, you gotta know how to cook them right. My mom was from Louisiana, we had grits pretty often.

When I worked at Cracker Barrel, the maintenance guys would get them going in the middle of the night so that they'd be ready first thing.

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

You could always send the fruit cake East. I'm one of those weird folks who actually like fruit cake.

I like it too

 

[ronott1]

I wonder what the difference is between the old ones and the modern ones? Modern one sounds good

The difference is the fruit used. Most people that do not like fruit cakes do not like the Citron. I do not like them either! The other candied fruit is odd too. Modern fruit cakes use dried dates, cherries, apricots and prunes instead. Other dried fruit like mangoes would be good too.

 

[ShrekDawg]

The difference is the fruit used. Most people that do not like fruit cakes do not like the Citron. I do not like them either! The other candied fruit is odd too. Modern fruit cakes use dried dates, cherries, apricots and prunes instead. Other dried fruit like mangoes would be good too.

Ahhh okay. That makes sense. I imagine dried fruit would be much better than candied.

 

[sharron]

You could always send the fruit cake East. I'm one of those weird folks who actually like fruit cake.

husband loves fruitcake so every year i make sure he have a couple

 

[Blooie]

Everything is ripped out now. Wiring started going in today. That will be done tomorrow. Inspection on Thursday. Plumber can't come until the beginning of January and the gas fitter/HVAC can't come before the middle of January. So, about a month from now we should be able to start closing things in.
How's yours coming along?

Man, not wasting time! I can’t wait to see your and Debby’s places ready to move in to!

Fruitcake? Um, that would be a”no”. The only good thing I can say about any fruitcake is that since my list of stuff I should be eating doesn’t include it, I don’t have to eat it. I’d rather sit down and eat an entire Hershey Bar than fruitcake!

Had a little birthday celebration for Katie here. Can’t believe my little Bug is 13 now. We ordered her cake and then picked it up on our way home from my doctor’s appointment. We didn’t notice that it said, “Happy Britday Katie” on it until we were getting ready to serve it. Was going to take a take a picture of it, but while Jenny and I were getting out plates and such, Kendra smeared the letters in that and Katie’s name all to hades trying to get them off. Man, I dunno where the time has gone - Evan turned 13 in Aprill and now Katie is 13.

According to Dr. Caldwell, I’m exhausted. Well, DUH! Ken told him what I’d said about me feeling this was my last Christmas. Caldwell said, “Not on my watch.” and ordered an antidepressant, blood work, an MRI on my aching back, and recommended trips to my pulmonologist, cardiologist, and cardio-vascular surgeon. Ken had already made those appointments when he made the one with Dr. Caldwell. So one little remark has turned into a three-ring circus. I gotta learn to keep my mouth shut.

Tomorrow (oh, I guess that’s actually later today) I have an appointment for a haircut. I’m going to go super short again, and might even have a fun color put in. Thinking pink, but not sure yet. Still no eyelashes to support extensions so won’t be doing that - might as well do something else. I keep thinking that as of the 29th, I will have outlived my Ma by 10 whole years. She died on December 19th, 1991, a month after her 58th birthday. I’ll be 68 on my next birthday.

Someday I’ll tell you guys the story of how Katie ended up with “LaVonne” as her middle name. She never even met Ma, but she’s always asking for stories about her, like the broom story and the Charlie Brown Tree story. She and Evan can tell that one almost as well as I can. If Ma was still around, you can bet she’d have gone with a drastic haircut and a little wild color to perk herself back up. So maybe I’ll do it for her. Maybe I’ll even put on my wild fuzzy jammie bottoms, wear a tight crop top that shows my bellies - all of them - and become a Walmart Lady.

 

[sharron]

Man, not wasting time! I can’t wait to see your and Debby’s places ready to move in to!

Fruitcake? Um, that would be a”no”. The only good thing I can say about any fruitcake is that since my list of stuff I should be eating doesn’t include it, I don’t have to eat it. I’d rather sit down and eat an entire Hershey Bar than fruitcake!

Had a little birthday celebration for Katie here. Can’t believe my little Bug is 13 now. We ordered her cake and then picked it up on our way home from my doctor’s appointment. We didn’t notice that it said, “Happy Britday Katie” on it until we were getting ready to serve it. Was going to take a take a picture of it, but while Jenny and I were getting out plates and such, Kendra smeared the letters in that and Katie’s name all to hades trying to get them off. Man, I dunno where the time has gone - Evan turned 13 in Aprill and now Katie is 13.

According to Dr. Caldwell, I’m exhausted. Well, DUH! Ken told him what I’d said about me feeling this was my last Christmas. Caldwell said, “Not on my watch.” and ordered an antidepressant, blood work, an MRI on my aching back, and recommended trips to my pulmonologist, cardiologist, and cardio-vascular surgeon. Ken had already made those appointments when he made the one with Dr. Caldwell. So one little remark has turned into a three-ring circus. I gotta learn to keep my mouth shut.

Tomorrow (oh, I guess that’s actually later today) I have an appointment for a haircut. I’m going to go super short again, and might even have a fun color put in. Thinking pink, but not sure yet. Still no eyelashes to support extensions so won’t be doing that - might as well do something else. I keep thinking that as of the 29th, I will have outlived my Ma by 10 whole years. She died on December 19th, 1991, a month after her 58th birthday. I’ll be 68 on my next birthday.

Someday I’ll tell you guys the story of how Katie ended up with “LaVonne” as her middle name. She never even met Ma, but she’s always asking for stories about her, like the broom story and the Charlie Brown Tree story. She and Evan can tell that one almost as well as I can. If Ma was still around, you can bet she’d have gone with a drastic haircut and a little wild color to perk herself back up. So maybe I’ll do it for her. Maybe I’ll even put on my wild fuzzy jammie bottoms, wear a tight crop top that shows my bellies - all of them - and become a Walmart Lady.

yep, you sure have a sense of humor, pink?

 

[Blooie]

Sure, why not pink? If I did blue, I’d then become a “little old blue haired lady” and that doesn’t appeal to me. Purple? Too much. Green? As slow as I walk I’d have birds nesting in it. Pink seems to be the logical choice.

 

[sharron]

Sure, why not pink? If I did blue, I’d then become a “little old blue haired lady” and that doesn’t appeal to me. Purple? Too much. Green? As slow as I walk I’d have birds nesting in it. Pink seems to be the logical choice.

i kinda favor yellow myself, course i would have to bleach it first,i have my daddy's hair, when he died at 78 his hair was still a light brown, i'm 68 and still have the light brown hair like his altho i also have a real light silver in it, thats makes me look like i frosted it, i think the color of your hair is beautiful, silver is a gorgeous color

 

[rjohns39]

Morning all