The Official Status Update Thread: Part 162 - Circus Maximus

[churchmouse]

Strawberry short cake for Desert

 

[SEIndSAM]

Dinner sounds good at CM's house.

 

[Leadeye]

Dinner just keeps getting better, CM is definitely living right.

 

[mom45]

We had salads again...too hot to cook. Hubby had picked up a roasted chicken at Kroger today so I chopped some of the meat and put it on the salads. Pizza tomorrow night.

 

[SEIndSAM]

Wifey is coming down with a cold....

 

[Leadeye]

We had salads here as well, the gardener has been foraging for wild blackberries which were an interesting addition to the salad. It's still rabbit food though and I can only eat so much before wanting something more substantial.

 

[mom45]

Hubby seems to be getting tired of salad, but I could eat it every night. Sometimes I make meat and potatoes to go with it...usually at least some meat either to go with it or on top of it.

 

[Leadeye]

Wifey is coming down with a cold....

Aspirin and a 50/50 mix of Schwepps and Bombay Sapphire on ice with a lime.

 

[SEIndSAM]

Aspirin and a 50/50 mix of Schwepps and Bombay Sapphire on ice with a lime.

Never heard of Bombay Sapphire

 

[Leadeye]

Good Gin, the aspirin, quinine, lime and alcohol are good for a summer cold. Winter time I use the aspirin/bourbon/honey/tea/lemon version.

 

[churchmouse]

Good Gin, the aspirin, quinine, lime and alcohol are good for a summer cold. Winter time I use the aspirin/bourbon/honey/tea/lemon version.

My grandmother had a winter remedy close to this. Exact recipe escapes me but it did put a glow on you.....

 

[Leadeye]

Grandparents are good people to listen to, I learned mine from my grandfather.

 

[churchmouse]

Grandparents are good people to listen to, I learned mine from my grandfather.

They survived with out Lilly's

 

[Leadeye]

I remember the Great Depression, WW1 and WW2 stories I was told as a kid. My grandparents were either farmers or worked in a factory. I think about those stories now that I'm old and wonder how I would have handled the adversity they did.
Life is much easier today.

 

[churchmouse]

I remember the Great Depression, WW1 and WW2 stories I was told as a kid. My grandparents were either farmers or worked in a factory. I think about those stories now that I'm old and wonder how I would have handled the adversity they did.
Life is much easier today.

It was hard times and required hard people.
My Dads people were depression farmers. They still had both the family farms. They still worked them and worked very hard. They knew no other way.

 

[SEIndSAM]

Chocolate shake for dessert....Mrs is having a vanilla malt, I thought it would feel good on her sore throat...

 

[churchmouse]

Chocolate shake for dessert....Mrs is having a vanilla malt, I thought it would feel good on her sore throat...

I have not had a "Malted Milk" in such a long time.

 

[Leadeye]

It was hard times and required hard people.
My Dads people were depression farmers. They still had both the family farms. They still worked them and worked very hard. They knew no other way.

Remember grandmother talking about changing a diaper in a hard winter and finding it frozen to the floor before she could pick it up and wash it. Wife has been more fortunate with early pictures of her grandparents, one I like is her grandfather using mules on the farm. Grandma's brother talked about being abandoned on an island in the pacific during WW2 for a long time and eating "bugs and bark" as he called it. He was with Carlson's raiders. Today things are much easier.

 

[db1959]

Hello

 

[Leadeye]

Hi Sunshine