The Old Folks Home

[Wickedchicken6]

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!
I may be early, but it's better than forgetting...lol.

No one eats giblets within the family dynamics now. So the dog loves holidays as well. I make my gravy with the potato and green pea water. So when I cook the turkey, I also have to do the potatoes and the peas!

I stuff the turkey with the celiac bread dressing. (made from scratch) I do our dressing outside the bird now. I also make a lemon pepper rice dish my mother-in-law used to make for Dh. Everyone would probably throw me out if I didn't make it.

We didn't celebrate Thanksgiving on my side this year. We were combining. I was very relieved... It didn't hurt my feelings one bit that my uncles family and we were still combining. We had a small dinner at the MILs because it's close and we only had to stop combining a bit earlier.

Christmas has been set 2 hours away again. I have to find out the particulars and whether I'm making the turkey side of the meal again. It's a challenge to cook it, travel 2 hours and have it piping hot and safe to eat when we get there.

@drumstick diva ...I was making chili on the stove yesterday and absent mindedly turned the wrong burner on. Instead of turning up the ground beef, I turned on the burner behind it where I had a paper towel with the spoon laying on it. I sat back down to continue with BYC and heard it go up in flames but it took a second for it to click in what happened. I was more worried about wrecking the spoon than the fact I had a fire blazing. The spoon was fine and the fire extinguished in the sink. So all was well.
That's the very first time I've ever had a fire when cooking!

@perchie.girl Hugs! The worst part is not knowing. Now that they know, you can kick it's kroompas!! Have you been designing lately?

@Peep_Show....sorry you're company won't be able to make it.

@Latestarter ...way back when I first got married, Dh gave me a set of gorilla slippers with light up eyes. (don't ask...lol) I could see where to walk by the light of the eyes. I once opened a pudding late at night and started to eat it when I realized something was wrong...oh SO very wrong. Turned out the plastic had been compromised and I had put a spoonful of fuzzy mold in my mouth. Let's just say i never did that again.

I would think your concoction would indeed be a sprightly way to wake up for those who are not morning people. Perhaps with the correct marketing...you never know.

For everyone who quilts and sews.... There's so much that goes into that. I can mend and do basic sewing but that's my limit...lol. I'm envious of the patience and foresight that goes into that time honored art.

I'm safest to stick with my nail art...lol.

 

[microchick]

OH WHOW! I love the nail art. I wish I could have nails like that but I came to accept the fact that when we retired and became hobby farmers, my nails were never going to be glamorous. When we went to medical conferences I made sure I'd given them sufficient time to grow out so I could 'spruce' them up a bit but usually by the time we were on the way back home, two were chipped and more were broken. So now I shoot for even and clean.....but have always wanted glamorous nails.

You have artistic talent, @Wickedchicken6

 

[Wickedchicken6]

First day of rifle deer/bear season yesterday. I'm still recouping from a week of 12hr night shifts, two more weeks to go. Have tomorrow off, it's one of our holidays, 'Deer day' holiday season used to start Mondays now is Saturday but we still observe the Monday holiday.
Split pea and ham soup in the crock pot. DD#2 asked if I could make it without peas....lol.

We have had quite the week of hunting here. The first couple days were busy with people stopping in...but it was uneventful. Partway through the week...a group of hunters apparently came across some hunters who had come up behind them. There was shooting from the men in the back...so the group in front circled around. That's when they confronted the second group and asked if they had our permission to hunt.

It turns out not only did they not have permission...but they had shot two moose; a female and her calf under the guise of hunting for deer. Thankfully they got a description and licence plates and notified Dh's uncle who co-owns that quarter of land who notified the game warden. So both our uncle and DH had to make a statement this week.

It turns out that a group/groups have been systematically taking down moose and marketing it in Winnipeg...four hours away. We've noticed that the moose numbers have been down...but we had no idea. So now with this first week of deer hunting season...these poachers are out in full force. Apparently there's been approx. 20 moose poached within the first 4 days of deer hunting. Just awful!!!

Apparently there's another spot on a different quarter of ours...it's hayfield/pastureland where there's remains of 3 moose taken. So now we're watching and patrolling for strange vehicles on our land. We're going to start protocols from now on where any hunters asking permission will have to come here to the office, give all their contact information on their party, and the licence plates/vehicle description and photos of their vehicles if they want to hunt on our land. We might have 5 parties of guys stop in asking permission in one day...we can't keep track of them all. Many have similar trucks etc.

We've decided to stop giving permission for all moose hunting I believe for next year. But some of the men coming out have been coming here for decades. Dh knows them and they're respectful so he's hesitant to stop all deer hunting, they haven't done anything wrong. There's always got to be someone ruining it for someone else.

 

[bruceha2000]

So now I shoot for even and clean

I've given up on both of those as well, though most men aren't as concerned about their nails as many women are. Doesn't seem possible to keep them clean.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

OH WHOW! I love the nail art. I wish I could have nails like that but I came to accept the fact that when we retired and became hobby farmers, my nails were never going to be glamorous. When we went to medical conferences I made sure I'd given them sufficient time to grow out so I could 'spruce' them up a bit but usually by the time we were on the way back home, two were chipped and more were broken. So now I shoot for even and clean.....but have always wanted glamorous nails.

You have artistic talent, @Wickedchicken6

Thanks micro! I'm much in the same way. My nails get a lot of abuse...lol. They don't always look the greatest...I've adapted with nail art that gives the "illusion" of longer nails for those times when they're short.

This last year I've really seen them slow down in growth and strength as well as my hair growth...so I'm trying to be very diligent in taking my vitamins and such and I just realized that they are growing more like they used to. I sort of fell off doing them because my nails weren't in good enough shape. I'm very excited that I can keep them done up again.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

I've given up on both of those as well, though most men aren't as concerned about their nails as many women are. Doesn't seem possible to keep them clean.

For a moment I had a pause...because what you said caught me for a second that maybe you were a woman. I make a lot of mistakes with people on BYC...lol.

I think it's very cool that you're trying for nice nails. I always notice nice, clean nails on men. I think that's very commendable! DH is still a work in progress.

I have an older pair of round tipped tweezers at home that clean under the nails better than any nail file I've ever used. I keep it very clean under my nails. It not only bugs me if I don't by feel...but I have to have them clean when I work with food.
I SO could've been a surgeon!

 

[ronott1]

First day of rifle deer/bear season yesterday. I'm still recouping from a week of 12hr night shifts, two more weeks to go. Have tomorrow off, it's one of our holidays, 'Deer day' holiday season used to start Mondays now is Saturday but we still observe the Monday holiday.
Split pea and ham soup in the crock pot. DD#2 asked if I could make it without peas....lol.

Make Lentil soup! Maybe she will like it better

 

[microchick]

I saw on Fox News on Friday that a Missouri youth, 14 years old and on her first hunt shot what she thought was a deer with a big rack. Turned out it was a young elk. She took the animal near Columbia, about 90 miles from us. What was weird is that this animal was a wild elk. About 6 years ago MODOC started a program to reintroduce elk in the state. They released a herd in a reserve in the southern part of the state. This wasn't one of those animals so nobody has no idea where this elk came from unless it was indeed, a natural, wild animal. They are running DNA tests on it trying to figure out where it came from. When I heard about the repopulation effort I just laughed and said, great, like running into deer with your car wasn't enough. Now we have to watch out for animals that almost as big as a cow.

It's terrible that people are resorting to poaching. It happens everywhere unfortunately. One of our neighbors was telling us a few weeks ago that he had been watching a herd of 7 deer every morning coming up to graze in a field near their house. One morning about dawn, he he heard two gun shots. The next day there were only 5 deer remaining in the herd. There are always going to be those who will choose not to obey the rules.

 

[ronott1]

For a moment I had a pause...because what you said caught me for a second that maybe you were a woman. I make a lot of mistakes with people on BYC...lol.

I think it's very cool that you're trying for nice nails. I always notice nice, clean nails on men. I think that's very commendable! DH is still a work in progress.

I have an older pair of round tipped tweezers at home that clean under the nails better than any nail file I've ever used. I keep it very clean under my nails. It not only bugs me if I don't by feel...but I have to have them clean when I work with food.
I SO could've been a surgeon!

It does not help that some purposely keep their Gender a secret and the people keep adding a gender. We should use Gender neutral pronouns for Alaskan. We do not know their gender

 

[microchick]