She needs me.?ÿ Not very often, though.?ÿ A few minutes ago she called out to me saying she needed my height.?ÿ Turns out she is in the kitchen.?ÿ She points towards the top shelf of the cabinet with the door standing open.?ÿ Says she needs her muffin liners.?ÿ What!?!??ÿ Muffin liners.?ÿ Had to think about that for a couple of seconds.?ÿ She points towards a container of corn starch and says the muffin liners are next to that, partially hidden by the vertical board of the cabinet front.?ÿ I've made many trips to the grocery store over the past six decades and am certain I have never purchased anything identified as muffin liners.
I may not amount to much but she knows what I'm good for.............reaching the muffin liners.
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I have a feeling FL/GA will have something to say about this.
Didn't you correct her? They aren't muffin liners, they are muffin pan liners because you put them in the pan long before you have muffins.
But maybe keeping quiet gets you muffins.
Corn meal muffins to be covered in some concoction out of a recipe including black-eye peas and ham.?ÿ Good luck for the year and all that old wives' stuff.
Beats me, SWMBO ain't let me near the muffin for years. ????ÿ
Beats me, SWMBO ain't let me near the muffin for years. ????ÿ
Two words for you:
Hand lotion.
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For your rough hands....
Surveyors have calluses from rhe field work.
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Yer bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ???? ???
Please accept my apology, I should have known better. At my age I sometimes forget many are wary and unapproving of my guttersnipe humor. I??ve read too much Hunter Thompson.
@flga-2-2 No such thing as too much Hunter Thompson.
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I think you need some REAL banana, chocolate, blueberry, coffeecake, etc...muffins made for ya in the little muffin paper thingys. I use the foil ones; this way I don't need the tin to go with them. ???? ???? ?????ÿ
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Actually there is a difference between muffin and cupcake liners. I don??t know what it is but there is a difference.
Angel/Wendell, do you ever make Angel/Wendell home made ice cream with half and half and condensed milk, with cocoa powder. You can also use those ingredients along with a package of jello pudding mix. I think it??s better than what you buy at the grocery store. Don??t need no ice cream maker, just mix n?? freeze. ?????ÿ
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Wendell has made the home made ice cream a few times in this little automatic ice cream maker thing we have. It was delicious!! Now I want him to try your method. With Butterscotch though! YUM!!!!!!!!!!?ÿ ????
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You know after the holidays my A1C number requires an exponent.?ÿ I will spend the next 3 months eating moss and lichens just to get back on the straight and narrow.?ÿ And then you post some really cool sounding recipe.?ÿ
OK, maybe I'll start eating my bryophytes tomorrow.?ÿ 😉
OK, maybe I'll start eating my bryophytes tomorrow.?ÿ
Be careful man, I've eaten a lot of stuff but have never heard of a "bryophyte" before. I think I'd check with Tommy Chong before eating anything like that. ?????ÿ
Once I became the tallest one in my family, I was immediately promoted to "Exalted Reacher of High Stuff". Still when I visit home, the first thing said to me (after the obligatory hug and conventional greetings, of course) is "Richy (yes she still calls me that) your nice and tall can you get this or me". Now when SWMBO needs something, she start with it. Now at least my son is even taller so he is now asked if he happens to be there.
Worked out that way for me too after about age 10 or 11 when Dad wasn't handy.?ÿ By 15 I was taller than him.
Was close with another family about 30 years ago where they had a son-in-law who was 6'10".?ÿ When we first met I brought up the topic of basketball and he explained he knew very little about it.?ÿ He had been forced to play the game some in his school PE classes but that was the extent of his contact with the game.?ÿ He grew up in some large city in California where plenty of other tall kids with athletic ambitions geared their lives to the sport.?ÿ He was more interested in science and math (eventually had a Masters in Chemical Engineering) so never participated.?ÿ If he had grown up anywhere within 100 miles of my childhood home he would have been forced to be on the school team.
Actually, to be honest, these days height for me is not the issue, it's bending over or squatting down to fossick around for items on those pesky lower shelves in the supermarket. Luckily I have a ten year old shopping buddy that I can bribe.
My wife knows if she wants to hide some food item from me all she has to do is place it on the lower shelf in the refrigerator.?ÿ She could put a envelope stuffed with $100 bills down there and I would never find it.
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BTW, thank you for teaching me a new word.?ÿ Fossick was not a word in my vocabulary.?ÿ I might say rummage around, but not fossick around.?ÿ A common method of disposing of unwanted household items is to hold a rummage sale on your driveway or front yard area.?ÿ It would be entertaining to put up big signs saying FOSSICK SALE and see if anyone would stop.?ÿ The first thing the visitor might say is, "I stopped to find out what a fossick looked like."
"Fossick" must be a British term then. From memory they also use "rummage" for both sniffing around and for yard sales, but for the latter I seem to recall that "jumble sale" was/is used most often.
We tend to have rummage sales, yard sales, garage sales and moving sales that are incredibly similar.?ÿ Probably the most commonly used term is garage sale. I have yet to see a fossick sale sign anywhere.?ÿ That's why I would like to try it ala P.T. Barnum below:?ÿ This way to the Fossick Sale.
This fellow is the creator of the story below:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._T._Barnum
When P. T. Barnum needed to move dawdling spectators out of his museum, he posted signs over the exits that read, ??This Way to the Egress.? Standing suddenly on the street, Barnum's gullible patrons were left with two choices: pay for reentry or choose to see the world as the grand spectacle, the ultimate humbug
