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[EverythingDucks]

My brother is watching a video of someone using a baby doll as bait for fishing

 

[NanaKat]

Cakes are easy to make too. I know not what mess you speak of once the mixing bowl is licked clean.

Refrigerating the dough and rolling it out between saran wrap or in a plastic bag can make crust making easier.

Chilling gives the moistened gluten in the flour a chance to rest and the fat (butter, lard or Crisco) to chill for better flaking in the crust as it bakes.

I resisted smart phones for as long as I could, but texting was something I needed for business. My bill is the same and I do have a smart phone now, but it was well under $100, is all mine, and does all the fancy things I ever need a smart phone to do.
Including irritating the snot out of me when it's smarter and cops a 'tude.

Got my new phone this week...a Galaxy S20 with acessories was less than $900. I pay $65 a month for my Sprint service.
Didn't get all the bells and whistles but enough to last me for a long time. Hubby wanted my S5 to replace his archaic flip phone that he used only in emergencies....like come get me cause I'm broke down in the field. Will have to teach him how to text and take photos

You've never been to a Thanksgiving in my family ... Growing up, my parents hosted it for the whole extended family and it was like a reunion. We didn't start counting until I was in my teens and the family was starting to dwindle. Our high point was 128. Not all at once, but throughout the day. The most we had at once, that year, as near as we could figure, was 68. There was always a football game going on out back, a volleyball or bocce game out front and a pile of kids in the barn playing with the goats and petting the horses and rabbits.
Sigh - those days are long gone, and not just beasue of Covid. As the older folks have moved on, the youngsters have spread out and don't all come "home" for Thanksgiving, anymore. Last year, we had over 40 at the farm, and that felt almost like the "old times" ... almost. I wish, just once, that my children could experience one of those amazing Holidays we shared when I was a kid. And as we share stories around the table each year, so do they.

We did too.
Part of my eulogy for my Grandmother's funeral was to describe
"Watching our Grandma hand sewing the pieces of her day dress together with very tight tiny stitches. When asked why, she said because those stitches were stronger and would last a long time. She was the fabric that has held this family together thru good times and bad. The stitches are now her children and grandchildren who hold the pieces together as the garment ages. We must take care to mend the frays in the seams so that the family stays close for generations to come".
Sadly we haven't done a great job holding the extended family together. The separate families do fine, but the big get togethers/reunions has been few and far between.

 

[R2elk]

Chilling gives the moistened gluten in the flour a chance to rest and the fat (butter, lard or Crisco) to chill for better flaking in the crust as it bakes.

It also helps the moisture to spread more evenly throughout.

 

[R2elk]

For those of you that like poultry art, you may want to check out this thread.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/guinea-art-i-need-honest-opinions.1416004/

 

[EverythingDucks]

About to pick up the dogs.
Back to being a nervous wreck

 

[MROO]

Coffee is life.

My Motto - my kids even quote it to people!

 

[MROO]

It needs cream! Not that fake crap either, the real heavy whipping cream. Sugar is tasty, but coffee with some cream, fan-flippin-tasty-tastic. Like it doesn’t require sugar with good cream.

Baileys. REALLY good coffee requires Baileys. Period.

 

[MROO]

Is that ash??? We've got ya'll's smoke here, in case you were worried where it'd got off to...

Some of it's wandered all the way to Maryland. Yes, MARYLAND.
Hey Mama Nature ... howzabout some rain on the west coast fires, already. It's time to put those bad-boys on a MUCH shorter leash!

 

[Kiki]

Chilling gives the moistened gluten in the flour a chance to rest and the fat (butter, lard or Crisco) to chill for better flaking in the crust as it bakes.


Got my new phone this week...a Galaxy S20 with acessories was less than $900. I pay $65 a month for my Sprint service.
Didn't get all the bells and whistles but enough to last me for a long time. Hubby wanted my S5 to replace his archaic flip phone that he used only in emergencies....like come get me cause I'm broke down in the field. Will have to teach him how to text and take photos

We did too.
Part of my eulogy for my Grandmother's funeral was to describe
"Watching our Grandma hand sewing the pieces of her day dress together with very tight tiny stitches. When asked why, she said because those stitches were stronger and would last a long time. She was the fabric that has held this family together thru good times and bad. The stitches are now her children and grandchildren who hold the pieces together as the garment ages. We must take care to mend the frays in the seams so that the family stays close for generations to come".
Sadly we haven't done a great job holding the extended family together. The separate families do fine, but the big get togethers/reunions has been few and far between.

No fair! You got a better deal on the phone. I still haven't figured out how to use it well.

 

[MROO]

Since when did this thread title become so much shorter?

Sumbuddy done did the ol' switcheroo on us ... we're not in Kansas anymore.