Topic: CIRCUS PEANUTS AND OTHER SORDID TALES (Read 12046 times)

singdaw · « **Reply #120 on:** July 30, 2023, 10:43:52 AM »

FIVE!

Jane · « **Reply #121 on:** July 30, 2023, 10:54:04 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on July 30, 2023, 10:38:18 AM

I always hear about how A/C in the Pacific Northwest is not a very common thing in people's homes.

And then I hear about the 90s and 100s and worse air quality than other areas, etc. etc. ..... so, um ..... ?

We have always needed it here, and in Ashland.

singdaw · « **Reply #122 on:** July 30, 2023, 11:12:40 AM »

I have always wanted to walk up to an operatic soprano and ask, "Aria Ready?"

singdaw · « **Reply #123 on:** July 30, 2023, 11:12:59 AM »

Wouldn't that be a HOOT?

singdaw · « **Reply #124 on:** July 30, 2023, 11:13:09 AM »

Well, perhaps not.

singdaw · « **Reply #125 on:** July 30, 2023, 11:13:29 AM »

A well-stocked bar:

Rodzinski · « **Reply #126 on:** July 30, 2023, 11:39:12 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on July 30, 2023, 10:38:18 AM

I always hear about how A/C in the Pacific Northwest is not a very common thing in people's homes.

And then I hear about the 90s and 100s and worse air quality than other areas, etc. etc. ..... so, um ..... ?

In this part of the Pac Northwest, 90s/100s has been a rarity until recently, and the hot months a pretty brief portion of the year. That all is likely changing. Haven’t really needed AC so far this year. We’ll see what August brings.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #127 on:** July 30, 2023, 12:25:23 PM »

Quote from: Rodzinski on July 30, 2023, 09:26:24 AM

I also had the bright idea of adding fruity Life Savers to cottage cheese. It did not catch on.

My mom used to serve it as a side to a meal. There would be an iceberg lettuce leaf, a half pear, a scoop of cottage cheese and a cherry on top. It's how they served it in the cafeterias.

When I finished mine, all the cottage cheese remained on the plate, some of it stained red by the cherry.

bk · « **Reply #128 on:** July 30, 2023, 01:27:50 PM »

I'm up, I'm up - maybe four, maybe five hours of non-consecutive sleep, all thanks to that rancid Big Mac. Never again. EVER. Would not digest, felt like it was all gonna come up (it didn't), and therefore mostly up - watched a Merv Griffen Show with Jack Benny from 1971.

singdaw · « **Reply #129 on:** July 30, 2023, 01:56:34 PM »

Sorry, BK.

singdaw · « **Reply #130 on:** July 30, 2023, 01:56:47 PM »

singdaw · « **Reply #131 on:** July 30, 2023, 01:57:47 PM »

We've actually got us a pretty nice day, here, weather-wise.

singdaw · « **Reply #132 on:** July 30, 2023, 02:09:59 PM »

Not a Big Mac in sight.

singdaw · « **Reply #133 on:** July 30, 2023, 02:17:43 PM »

Where do bad rainbows go?

singdaw · « **Reply #134 on:** July 30, 2023, 02:17:54 PM »

They get sent to prism.

singdaw · « **Reply #135 on:** July 30, 2023, 02:18:22 PM »

It's a light sentence, and it gives them time to reflect.

KevinH · « **Reply #136 on:** July 30, 2023, 02:19:27 PM »

Good afternoon!

KevinH · « **Reply #137 on:** July 30, 2023, 02:19:45 PM »

Wordle: 3/6

ChasSmith · « **Reply #138 on:** July 30, 2023, 02:29:02 PM »

I think I liked cottage okay as a kid, and btw it seems like it was more of a "thing" way back then. I might be wrong about that, but I basically didn't have any after I'd left home -- until years later, when I had it a number of times at...

(wait for it)...

Wendy's.

Remember when they had the salad bar? For me this was in the late 1980s, in the Chicago area, then in L.A., and finally here in Danbury before they got rid of the salad bars altogether. It's hard to believe, even for me, but I sometimes went to Wendy's specifically FOR the salad bar and didn't even go near a sandwich. (I'm looking down at my waistline right now, thinking how long ago that was. Oh lordy.) Anyhoo, I took pleasure in eating the cottage cheese there, along with the fruits and veggies, and I most definitely enjoyed it with pineapple chunks.

bk · « **Reply #139 on:** July 30, 2023, 03:06:38 PM »

I just spent ninety solid minutes futzing and finessing three pages I'd already futzed and finessed, but I think I finally got them right. Interestingly, it's a sequence that takes place in a setting that I've never written before, so it was a lot of trial and error. Now ordering a salad, and then I'll continue futzing and finessing.

Jane · « **Reply #140 on:** July 30, 2023, 03:07:00 PM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on July 30, 2023, 12:25:23 PM

Quote from: Rodzinski on July 30, 2023, 09:26:24 AM
I also had the bright idea of adding fruity Life Savers to cottage cheese. It did not catch on.

My mom used to serve it as a side to a meal. There would be an iceberg lettuce leaf, a half pear, a scoop of cottage cheese and a cherry on top. It's how they served it in the cafeterias.

When I finished mine, all the cottage cheese remained on the plate, some of it stained red by the cherry.

And yet, she continued to serve your plate with cottage cheese on it

Jane · « **Reply #141 on:** July 30, 2023, 03:07:17 PM »

Probably because it was pretty that way.

Ginny · « **Reply #142 on:** July 30, 2023, 03:09:34 PM »

Sunday evening greetings! I have spent the entire afternoon weeding another bookcase. It’s a small one, but full of sentimental stuff. Progress has been made, but I’ve also taken some side trips down memory lane.

Ginny · « **Reply #143 on:** July 30, 2023, 03:12:59 PM »

I have calculated that Richard and I will each have 23 feet of shelf space in the study and another 7 each in the bedroom. Those estimates are low, because we’ll each have some desk-adjacent shelving.

Ginny · « **Reply #144 on:** July 30, 2023, 03:14:05 PM »

One of our favorite side dishes is cottage cheese and cold pickled beets.

Jane · « **Reply #145 on:** July 30, 2023, 03:14:17 PM »

While I don't buy cartons of cottage cheese I do enjoy small amounts at breakfast buffets when we travel.

John G. · « **Reply #146 on:** July 30, 2023, 03:28:13 PM »

Cottage cheese is in lime congealed salad, which I have to make regularly for my dance instructor. It’s pretty good: lime gelatin, cottage cheese, pecans, canned pineapple, heavy cream.

John G. · « **Reply #147 on:** July 30, 2023, 03:28:39 PM »

Terrible name though

John G. · « **Reply #148 on:** July 30, 2023, 03:28:50 PM »

John G. · « **Reply #149 on:** July 30, 2023, 03:28:57 PM »

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