Taste Like Chicken Tuesday 10/5

Thanks for the start, Karen. I knew the avatar was for the Giants. I was just teasing. DB became a fan when he moved to Portland and then both boys went there. Our mild jalapeños didn’t do well this year either. How is your stomach today? I find that certain combinations of food upset my stomach. Dairy with anything is particularly upsetting but I can have it alone. That is wild about the key fobs. I never would have thought it. Did you get your booster?

Linda, congratulations on the loss and the smaller size. How is your stomach today? Did Micki get his walk last night?

Kathy, the rankings in football sometimes feel subjective to me, but what do I know. Congrats on the loss.

It was a Kroger day today. Last Tuesday morning the place was empty. This morning it was busy. Both times there was only one cashier and no packer. The cashier is at least 70, sweet as pie and slow as molasses. I have been doing the packing these past couple of weeks, so I could get out of there. I also did some housework and was excited as Karen was about hers.

Liz, Becky, Denise I hope you are all well.

With the size of the avatars, Chele, I wasn't sure it was going to be apparent that it was the Giants. My original plan was to post their team photo, but that was way too small and would have looked like more than 50 dots with a scoreboard behind them. Maybe it was just a bad year for mild jalapenos. I suspect the red one that was hot may have been a mild that went beyond where I planted it. Stomach is doing a bit better. I just need to be really careful on the food. I looked back through my food diary and nothing seems out of the ordinary, so I'm wondering if it's the IBS again but it's just a bit different this time because of the things I've been doing to this point. I can't do dairy at all. I got my booster, but I can't say Walgreens was all that organized and it took a lot longer than I had expected. But it's done. Arm is a little stiff, but otherwise no symptoms yet. I think we've had our last hummer for the year. I'll probably take the feeder down tomorrow. Odd about the difference in customers at Kroger between today and last week. I usually pack my own groceries when I can because most people just throw things into a bag.

Linda, the key fob thing was really weird. Congrats on exchanging the tops for ones that fit so well. I saw on TWC that your area was expecting storms today. So I guess you're having Chinese for lunch and dinner. I'm not a huge fan of most wonton soup. Too greasy. Hope yours wasn't.

We watched the end of the Kentucky game, Kathy. Liked the outcome. I guess you saw that ND got beat by Cincinnati. I saw at the gym this morning that Texas A&M got beat by Mississippi State. That knocked them out of the rankings as well. Are the pumpkin patches there mostly for the kids or do they grow a lot of pumpkins? I don't think I realized pumpkins would grow well there do to the heat. Have you been getting rain? What we are getting today seems to be coming from the south. Are you sending it to us?

I found a tea recipe I am trying for my GI system. It has 1 tsp each of cumin seed, coriander seed, and fennel seed plus a piece of ginger in a qt of water. I had to get the coriander seed on Amazon because I checked 3 grocery stores and all they had was ground coriander. I wonder if that's something used more in seed form in other parts of the country. Despite GI problems (or maybe because of), I lost 1.2 lbs. Two steps forward, one step back. Gym wasn't bad. I was able to do everything I needed to and get to my booster appointment on time, not that it would have been a problem if I had been late.