Taste Like Chicken Wednesday 1/11

Happy Wednesday.

Good luck with the vet visit, Karen. Hugs for you and Phoebe.

Linda, I am glad your knee felt better and you managed to fight off the sinus induced migraine. Our fluctuating temps are playing havoc with my sinuses, too. I wake up every day with pressure but have been able to avoid a headache since Saturday. 

Becky, I am glad you were able to take a walk. 81° would feel very warm after the temps you've had. I bet that rascally Scooter is a happy canine now that she can get out more.

Kathy, wow, if Tuesday made you feel like the week is too long, it must be crazy 😜. Someone on another thread was talking about the sequoia and posted a pic of she and her DH underneath. I wonder how I missed hearing about the Senator? There was a natural bridge made out of coral in Aruba that I just heard collapsed in 2005. I DID see that when I was there. 

Liz, are they kicking your behind at St. Crazy?

I am going to skip the treadmill today even though it is raining. My nemesis, left knee/right hip/right heel, don't like the rain and are acting up, so it is chair exercises and yoga for me today. I will get up every hour and walk 500 steps so I can get some cardio, too. If I break it up it will be manageable. 

Okay, Karen, Kathy and Liz may think I am obsessed because I have talked about this before, but I heard of a different method (to me) for boiling eggs that I am going to try. You let the eggs get to room temp, boil the water first, then put in the eggs. Boil 6min for soft and 12 min for hard. Then you put the eggs in a container with a lid and refrigerate them for 30 minutes. This is supposed to separate the shell from the whites making them easy to peel. I continue my quest for the perfect boiled egg!

Liz, I am sorry your pain is elevated again. Gentle hugs 🤗. I am also sorry to hear about the young lady passing away. Tough month for you and St. Crazy.

I changed my avatar to snow my DB's Corgi, Ginger, in their backyard. DB measured 8 inches at 11pm last night. Portland OR is not used to that much snow. They don't salt the roads but do have snow plows.

Thanks for the start, Chele. I created a long post in Notepad early this afternoon and the vet school called to say I could pick up Phoebe and I shut down the computer before I remembered that I hadn't posted it. I thought your new avatar might be Teddy in a Corgi costume. Cute! I have a friend on another board who lives on the coast of Oregon and she has mentioned several times how much snow and nasty weather they have been getting.  I think some of the weather many of us have been getting is coming from that direction. I actually used to make my hard boiled eggs by the new method you mentioned. That was before I got the Instant Pot. It worked well. The big thing is to be sure the eggs are at room temp because if they are still cold the shells might crack. You will want to lower them down into the boiling water with a long handled spoon of some sort to keep from burning yourself or dropping them in so hard that they hit bottom and the shells crack that way.

Liz, I'm sorry to hear about another employee dying. Was it expected? I'm glad the breakfast went well but hate the reason for it. That was nice of your former VP to foot the bill for it. How was it? Sorry about the census jump due to the flu. Also sorry about your increased pain level and Zoe's thirst not allowing you to get a good night's sleep. Might be good to schedule a talking appointment with the surgeon just to see. I will make one of the cheesecakes tomorrow afternoon and the other one on Friday so they will both be as fresh as possible for Saturday.

Linda, I can't take anything with Voltaren in it because I have asthma and had a stomach ulcer. I'm happy to hear that your insurance company approved your shots and PT so quickly. That's amazing! I hope it will work well for you.

Kathy, I hope today was better than yesterday must have been. I had forgotten about The Senator. Becky probably remembers in 1989 when somebody poisoned The Treaty Oak in Austin and it took about 20 years for it to recover enough to put out its first acorns after being poisoned. He sent 7 years in prison for that and well deserved. Kathy, U2 is headlining Bonnaroo, which is a festival held in Manchester , TN, between Chattalooga and Nashville. It's in June so it should be relatively comfortable then if you want to head a little north.

So, if you drink more water it helps your IBS? I think that would be enough incentive for me. Do you have well water? I remember the sand on snowy roads the few times I saw the white stuff when I lived in Austin. But most of the time it was after the fact when I saw it. Although I had a 4WD Subaru when I lived there, I knew better than to get out on the highways with people who had absolutely no clue how to drive on slick roads--or on wet roads now that I think about it. And the roads weren't designed for drainage so it was best to stay off the roads in t-storms as well.

I dropped Phoebe off around 9 and got home about 10:30 and the first thing I did was vacuum because the Swiffer hasn't been cutting it. I'll have to do it again in the morning because the charge died before I finished. Dale will be walking Phoebe in the a.m., barring rain, so that should give me a chance to vacuum a bit more. I will go to class tomorrow then will go to the big WM for things I can't find at my neighborhood grocery and then stop at Joann Crafts before I come home to get another skein of yar for my friend's afghan. I finished it and it's a trapazoid instead of a rectangular, so that one went to Dale's office and I will make another one. I think I know where I messed up and I just need to keep a betting eye on my stitch count . I tend to get wrapped up in something else and that's where I get off track. Anyway, Phoebe did fine and we had a different oncologist today who hadn't met her and was surprised at how great she looks after all she has been thorough in the past 10 months. She is doing fine but the oncologist said that side effects usually don't show up for 3 to 5 days, which means Dale may be dealing with them by himself because that would be Saturday and Sunday when I'm gone (unless it starts Saturday morning and I have to cancel out or rush back). As well as she has done with everything in the past, we are prepared but not expecting anything, but then she has existing GI problems from time to time, so I guess we'll just hope for the best. She is now on Prednisone so we'll have to watch her food intake. She is also on Pepcid in addition to the Benadryl she has been on for the last month. She takes more meds than Dale and I combined. But as long as she is happy, we'll take it.

I picked up my first CSA order of the year on the way to get Phoebe. I got some really nice Swiss Chard that I sauteed with some garlic and had it for dinner with the last of my salmon (that was very dried out) and a baked potato. I also got kale, oyster mushrooms, and a dozen eggs. I haven't decided what I'll do with the kale yet. Any suggestions?