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[Chickielady]

Well..............various OEs went into lockdown this AM, pip is Friday.

FlyRobinFly : Hope you got my e-mail, Johnny's seeds have shipped, and when I get them I will be going to Seattle and will make some arrangement to meet up..that will be I am guessing, a week to week & 1/2...............OK ?

Imp : Also sent me a PM that he is fine.
I told him to stop being a stranger !
Hopefully he'll come back, he was alot of fun !

 

[OvertheHenHouse]

Gotta go right past the best to get to the rest.

OK so ya gotta go by my place to get to the rest of the good folks who are nearly all North of me.

He he he - I think I saw that coming

 

[Chickielady]

My Granmother cenini & Poppa Joe had a restaurant in Day City & another in San Mateo way way back.
The one was called "Joe's cafe" and had a long bar in it as well & Granma cooked.
Upstairs was a large home where my Mother grew up.

Cippiono was an everyday event.

She did stress that it is NOT fish stew, but is SHELLFISH STEW and should never have fin fish in it.
Prawns, clams, crab, crayfish & the like, although we do slice calamari tubes & put that in and I had added baby octopus tenticles and that was very good too.
It is spelled many different ways, the 'C' in Italian is pronounced as "Ch" when followed by e or i.
So to say it :
CHA- PEE-No

as my Mother's name is pronounced:
Cha-NEE-NEE (Cenini)
Anyways, a BIG pot of tomato base is made, as spaghetti sauce, lots of red wine, no meat though.
Fresh live shellfish is dropped in...ALIVE, unpeeled !.....crab cracked & cleaned & dropped in.
The whole thing is VERY messy as you sit & pick the meat from shells, peel shrimp & dip your bread.
DH gets so messy (with the moustache) that I make him take a shower afterwards...LOL
A big empty bowl sits in the center of the table where all the shells & shrimp peels go, and I usually cook pasta, rinse & drzzle EVOO, and have that on the table as well, as I love the pasta in the sea food sauce,,, SO YUMMY!!!!!!!!!
I see some prawns in this photo are peeled & that should not be done.
They should go into the pot intact, only heads removed.

 

[renart]

By Nature :
The neighbor man's kids are varying shades of uselessness.
The son was a user/and on SSD for some unknown brain/thought issue.
Although he acted & looked normal to us, he got his check monthly & lived off the parents and was up ALL night partying & never paid a penny to his parents for rent (in the double wide) nor utilities.
So the parents got stuck with a loss in rent and all the utilities to support the creep.
When the man finally went into foreclosure, the idiot son hauled buns to Tennessee with his equally user-friendly gal pal.
When the ship sank, they ran to mootch off of her relatives.
We were so glad he left !!!
The other 2 kids are grown daughters that picked out a few things but have too much of their own.
So stuff sits there.

How sad...where much of a person's life is totally veiled and forgotten, left amongst the ashes of ones dreams.

 

[Imp]

Well..............various OEs went into lockdown this AM, pip is Friday.

FlyRobinFly : Hope you got my e-mail, Johnny's seeds have shipped, and when I get them I will be going to Seattle and will make some arrangement to meet up..that will be I am guessing, a week to week & 1/2...............OK ?

Imp : Also sent me a PM that he is fine.
I told him to stop being a stranger !
Hopefully he'll come back, he was alot of fun !

Thanks Robin & Rob, for checking up on me. Was a long 5 days without power. Fortunately I have a woodstove, gas hot water and gas stove, so mostly I was bored without TV and internet. Now 5 days of hauling firewood into the house means I have a monumental cleaning project ahead of me.
I hope the rest of the of you are doing OK. Still lots without power, or have serious damage.

Russ

 

[OvertheHenHouse]

Wow, I finally caught up...only 7 pages ?
I have to go to town & open an account at the Credit Union, then after auto deposit next month I can close the B of A account as they have yet devised another way to add fees:
Minimum $300 in your savings or get a fee of $5.
This is a brand NEW fee, never had it before.

They have attached 2 or 3 other NEW fees to DH's account....after he added over $300 to his savings, they taked him for $5 fee to use his ATM at stores as he does not have auto deposit.
Imagine !
They also tacked him $7 a month for using the bank teller instead of the ATM machine outside, and another fee for some other poop..oh yeah it was for the mailed checking statement, they charge a fee for that now, too, and treid to get him to do "on line" banking there by he would need no paper statement mailed.
He said he did not want either paper OR on line. But they will not do that, it is sign up on line & stop the paper statement or get another fee !!!!!!! .total fees were about $20
This can add up every month (and you never know what day they take the fees out of your account) & CAN deduct enough funds as to put your account into the NSF category & then they bounce your checks and really nail you!
I have had it with B of A.
I hate messing with them.
I have seriously been expecting a fee for every paypal deposit/withdrawal...that will be next.

And this is EXACTLY why I will never be a B of A customer. They got such bad press recently when they announced fees for ATM use that they backed down - this must be their back-up plan to make money off of their customers. Those are huge fees!!!
B of A also made a deal with California's Employment Development Department to be the ATM card issuer for unemployment payments. No more paper checks - all funds are credited to the ATM cards and B of A is using this as an opportunity to try to get new accounts. I'm happy to be a Wells Fargo customer ... and wish I qualified for a credit union ...

 

[OvertheHenHouse]

My Granmother cenini & Poppa Joe had a restaurant in Day City & another in San Mateo way way back.
The one was called "Joe's cafe" and had a long bar in it as well & Granma cooked.
Upstairs was a large home where my Mother grew up.

Cippiono was an everyday event.

She did stress that it is NOT fish stew, but is SHELLFISH STEW and should never have fin fish in it.
Prawns, clams, crab, crayfish & the like, although we do slice calamari tubes & put that in and I had added baby octopus tenticles and that was very good too.
It is spelled many different ways, the 'C' in Italian is pronounced as "Ch" when followed by e or i.
So to say it :
CHA- PEE-No

as my Mother's name is pronounced:
Cha-NEE-NEE (Cenini)
Anyways, a BIG pot of tomato base is made, as spaghetti sauce, lots of red wine, no meat though.
Fresh live shellfish is dropped in...ALIVE, unpeeled !.....crab cracked & cleaned & dropped in.
The whole thing is VERY messy as you sit & pick the meat from shells, peel shrimp & dip your bread.
DH gets so messy (with the moustache) that I make him take a shower afterwards...LOL
A big empty bowl sits in the center of the table where all the shells & shrimp peels go, and I usually cook pasta, rinse & drzzle EVOO, and have that on the table as well, as I love the pasta in the sea food sauce,,, SO YUMMY!!!!!!!!!
I see some prawns in this photo are peeled & that should not be done.
They should go into the pot intact, only heads removed.

Sooooo missing my shellfish right now. Dang this stupid adult-onset anaphylactic shellfish allergy. Cioppino, Linguini alle vongole, oysters on the half-shell, escargot ... all things I sorely miss..

 

[Chicken Rustler]

By Nature :

When the man finally went into foreclosure, the idiot son hauled buns to Tennessee with his equally user-friendly gal pal.
When the ship sank, they ran to mootch off of her relatives.
We were so glad he left !!!

NO he was probablly on deck to help the passengers and slipped and fell over board right into a life raft.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Thanks Robin & Rob, for checking up on me. Was a long 5 days without power. Fortunately I have a woodstove, gas hot water and gas stove, so mostly I was bored without TV and internet. Now 5 days of hauling firewood into the house means I have a monumental cleaning project ahead of me.
I hope the rest of the of you are doing OK. Still lots without power, or have serious damage.

Russ

OK so now you have found yer way back here HOPE YA STICK AROUND.

 

[Imp]

Quote: I'm around everyday. (well, that I have power- lol) Just don't post much.

Russ