Taste Like Chicken Monday 6/17

Linda, thanks for the recall info. Wasn't e-coli the contamination in the King Arthur flour as well? Wonder if there is a connection to the Pillsbury. Maybe they are packaged at the same place. Odd about the raspberries supposedly being infected with norovirus. That is so contagious.  I'm glad that's not my brand. I just saw a frozen burrito recall that people are saying they found rocks. I think they are El Monterey. Sure seems to be a rash of recalls over the past few days. When will you hear back on your mammogram? How are things going with the AC guys?  I had a feeling the dog's little faces would be the most challenging part of the painting. How was art class today?

Are you going to try the Teavana iced, Chele? According to the Walgreen's website, my local store may have the pineapple berry blue, which is one I really want to try, along with the Passion Tango. Most of them have green, black, or white tea in them, so probably not an option with my being caffeine sensitive. Congrats on the new cable box working so well. It's a shame they didn't give you that one to begin with. Enjoy winging the menu for the week. LOL on Dale being a muckety-muck. Guess that makes me one as well because we both got a pair at the same time. Sweet Potato is plastered to me again today and I have master gardeners this evening, so she'll have to plaster herself to her daddy for the evening.

Liz, it looks like you just got out of NC before the shark attacks started. You picked a good week to be there, and not just for stellar weather. Were there any shark sightings that you know of while you were there?

Are you still getting rain, Kathy? Which direction does your front door face? I hadn't even thought about what you might get from hurricanes and tropical storms. Amazing that you had 50 mph wind gusts yesterday. Do you think if you got a storm door it would hold up to the wind, or would it be like Chele's that is frequently out of kilter? Towels are a good stop gap. Could be a weird summer when you get more rain. With the way things have been everywhere, anything could happen. Hope you don't have wood floors butting right up to that door.

Becky, does the auction go on all week or just on certain days? How's your weather? Were you able to walk outdoors today?

I swam over 1/2 mile this morning and the lake was a lot cooler than I thought it was going to be, but it felt good. I have the 2nd load of laundry in and Arya has her week's worth of boiled eggs. I'm down 1.8 lbs from the last time I weighed, which was probably about a month ago. Maybe 1200 calories and 15% from fat is starting to kick in. Or not. Guess we'll see. I hope tonight's meeting will be less contentious than last month's was. We'll see if anyone steps up to be treasurer or if the president will have to beg. One of the other board members suggested the person who caused the issue last month should do it but I said I didn't think I would trust him with our money. Hope I don't have rain coming home. We have some scattered showers but the ones on the radar are really heavy, so if I get in one it will be a doozy. At least it shouldn't be dark coming home. I'm one of those folks who never liked to drive at night.

For those of you with air fryers, I saw a warning on Fat Free Vegan to never plug them into any kind of adapter--always plug directly into the wall. The blogger almost had a fire from plugging hers into one.

Also, Dale heard from his boss and the company is suggesting a 2 month unpaid sabbatical or going to part time, in lieu of his quitting. Don't know what he's going to do. I said maybe cut back to 2 days a week and getting them to keep him on insurance as part of the deal. His decision, so we'll see what he wants to do.