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  1. 14 hours ago, mollycan said:

    Wht are a lot if women using so many names these days?  Instead of Jasmine Broock. Its Jasmine Annette Reed Smith Broock. Or more??? Just wondering. 

     

     

     

    It's not just women and it's not just after marriage or multiple marriages.  I've seen birth certificates where the parents have given the child 5 or 6 names.  I've seen women that have had multiple marriages and never drop the previous name/s, just keep tacking on the new one at the end.  

  2. File a police report immediately.  Make sure to notify the bank that a police report has been filed.  Also, when dealing with the bank and the main account holder is deceased, make sure to have a death certificate on hand to present to them.  I had to have the death certificate for my mother for every single account she had in her name.  I think by the time I was finished I went through approximately 30 copies.

  3. 5 hours ago, Petee said:

     There is really nothing else worth living for, so what do these kids have of lasting value?

    I'll disagree.  The tangible of family has more lasting value than the intangible.  The kids in this country are not suffering from a lack of love from a God.  They are suffering from participation trophies, a lack of being taught right from wrong, a lack of education, a lack of consequences from their actions, and a lack of parental involvement.  Parents are more interested in their phones and posting cute tik toks dancing with their kids, wanting their children to avoid ALL conflict instead of teaching them to deal with conflict, and teaching them that their feelings are always above and beyond anyone else's.

     

  4. 5 hours ago, Petee said:

    :pound:  Has anyone mastered this yet?

    Mastered in what way?  I use it for work, almost every aspect of it and also for personal.  3 different logins and one drives.

  5. What is the best way to deal with whatever it is that has decided my flower bed is its dining room table?  I had a flower bed FULL of lilies, they were gorgeous and I was closing in on having about 80 of them.  Something is eating the bulbs and I'm not especially happy about that.  It's hard enough that someone is cutting my flowers (pretty easy to tell they were cut off).  I have no idea what it is that is eating them.

  6. Thanks :) I am taking him in Monday. It's really hard like bone. I am thinking maybe it's a partial dislocation. There is no fluid build up and it's staying the same size. He has been staying off of it, poor guy :( It is right at the joint above his foot. Front left leg. I stayed up late last night and baked him doggie treats to baby him. I am super worried and hope it's nothing serious. I appreciate all the helpful advice from everyone so far :) Please let me know if you think of anything else!

    My cat has a knot like that on one of his joints, but it didn't appear suddenly like your pooch's did  :(   My cat's was caused when his leg was broken by the abusive twits that had him before we stole him.  It didn't heal properly.

     

    I hope that it's nothing serious and he's up and about on it soon.

  7. I cut the living daylights out of that thing. I'm not real thrilled with things that creep, crawl, and choke other things. Along with that there was morning glory that took me three years to get rid of.  I can live with these things, I'll just have to mindful to keep them trimmed and cut back to only where I want them. I think I'll look into the low growing evergreens for the shady side.

    Once I dig up these lilies this fall to separate them, what do I do with the extra that is going to come out of them? I'll gladly part with them to anyone that wants them, if I'm lucky enough they will continue to do as well as they have. I wasn't expecting 60 plants from 6 in 3 years.  :o  

  8. Do you want annuals or perennials?

    a perennial would work best, I'm afraid of digging up the bulbs already planted there as it is. The lilies are absolutely beautiful, I'm going to try to get my other laptop started up so I can get those pictures.  I've been working on it today on and off. One of the lilies came up between the bricks. I have tulips planted on the one side of the porch, and nothing planted on the side that is almost all shade because I don't know what would do well there. I have some crocus bulbs I wanted to plant but not sure the best location in all of this for them.

     

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  9. The lilies are asiatic lilies. The bushes I was trying to get something that wouldn't grow any higher than 18 inches to 2 feet at the most. It's a really small area in between the front porch and sidewalk.  It used to be covered in morning glory. It took me 3 years to finally get rid of that completely. I have to add some more soil to it, especially after getting rid of all the dead leaves and cutting off about half the plants that were there and taking care of the weeds. This is just the front part, the sides are similar, but they are ground level and not built up at all.

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  10. First, my lilies. I had bought 6 orange lilies a few years ago and planted them. The second year they were no longer orange and I've had blood red lilies every year. Not only do I have blood red lilies, but they've multiplied faster than bunny rabbits. I truly love them, but is there any way to control where they grow and how they multiply?  I need something else to plant in the flower beds with them also and I need something that hopefully prefers shade and isn't orange or yellow. One side and the front pretty much get full sun and my tulips and lilies thrive there, but the one side is almost in shade all of the time.

    I also have 3 bushes in the front flower beds that I took the shears to today and butchered half them off as they were choking the lilies and going out of control. They are hardy, easy to deal with, don't mind the butchering, but they are royal pain.  I don't kill plants that go in the ground, but I do have a tendency where they go out of control, haywire, and take on lives of their own. I need something that requires little care, beyond a simple snip and trim, that won't breed like a cache of bunny rabbits. :duh:

  11. Homemade Beef Stew

     

    Ingredients:

    2) Large Potatoes

    2) Large Carrots or 1) Can Sliced Carrots

    1) Medium Onion

    1) Can Whole Kernel Corn

    1) Can Green Beans

    1 1/2 Lbs of Diced beef or Stew Beef

    1/2 tsp garlic salt

    2-4 cups of hot water (depends on how much you make and how big your pot is)

     

    Fry up stew beef in fry pan, just enough to brown them. (Don't worry the inside will still get cooked). Peel the potatoes, carrots, and onion. Dice the potatoes and onion, slice the carrots, add to a large pot with water. Add corn green beans, garlic salt, and beef (if there is no juice left with the beef, you can use beef broth, but only use half a can). Stir really well. Set stove to low or medium and let set for at  least 2 hours, stirring randomly. Add more water if neccessary.

     

    Serve with fresh homade bread, and you go yourself a tummy warming meal. You can also use this recipe with a crock pot, works just as well too.

    I usually skip the corn and green beans.  I also usually mix cornstarch and water, or flour and water, and add to it to thicken it up because I like a really thick gravy stew, instead of a soup.  I usually add dumplings or cook noodles on the side to pour the stew over.

     

  12. Cheryl?s Chili

     

    Add about 1 inch of water to the bottom of a large heavy soup pot and bring it to a boil.  Add about 1 ? C. large chopped sweet onion.  Cook till transparent, then add 1-2 lb lean ground beef.  Cook through, and stir gently, being careful not to break up meat too much.

     

    When done, add 2 Tbl finely diced green pepper (and red sweet pepper if you have it) , 2-3 large crushed cloves of fresh garlic, a little salt and pepper, and 2-3 Tbl of Chili Powder.  If you like it hot, you can add Cumin, Hot Sauce, Cayenne Pepper and extra Black Pepper.  You choose because you will have to deal with it the next day!

     

    Add enough crushed tomatoes, and kidney and chili beans (I rinse and drain the kidney beans) to your preference making sure it?s a little juicier than you want the finished chili.  (Tomato Juice works best to add moisture).  

     

    Once it?s all stirred and hot, add about 2/3 C Ketchup, 2 Tbl Prepared Yellow Mustard, and 2 Tbl Sugar.  (This is a good time to do a taste test and alter seasonings to your personal taste).  I usually add extra salt and sugar at this time.  Simmer for about ? hour, stirring gently to make sure it doesn?t stick.  

     

    Good topped with Sour Cream, Shredded Cheese, and Beano!

    Try adding spaghetti noodles broken into about 2 inch pieces, or elbow macaroni noodles.   ;)

  13. Potato Soup

     

    has always been a favorite of my kids and now my grandchildren all love it too.  There are no specific measurements, as I learned to make it from my Mother, and she learned from her Mother.  It was a staple during the depression when most everything you ate had to come from your own garden.

     

    Start with as much water as you wish to end up with as soup.  Bring it to a boil in a generous sized kettle.

     

    Add approximately 1 Tbl of real Butter, ? C sliced sweet onion and salt/pepper to taste, plus some parsley, remembering that there will be less water when the Potatoes are finished.  Don?t overdo, you can always add.  

     

    Add general purpose round white potatoes peeled and diced into bite sized pieces, about half as many potatoes as water.  I prefer the size of a very large grape or a little larger.  Baking potatoes will disintegrate.

     

    Cook potatoes till they are very tender.  Add little egg dumplings (about 1 level tsp of dough or less) to boiling soup.  Wet a tablespoon in the boiling soup, collect a narrow oval dumpling on the side edge of the spoon, drop it into the soup.  Work fast.  Allow soup to simmer gently for 5 minutes, reduce heat to low, then cover for 15 minutes.

     

    Chewy Little Egg Dumplings:  We like a lot of them!

     

    About 1 egg or more, beaten thoroughly, for every pint of finished soup. Mix in enough flour to make a very soft dough, plus salt, pepper, parsley, or whatever spices you like.  You can cook a couple of dumplings while potatoes are boiling to get the consistency and taste as you like it before you actually cook them all.  If dumplings are spongy, add more flour next time; too tough add less.  

     

    Your soup should end up being slightly thickened and full of potatoes and dumplings.  I sometimes add some diced ham to it too.

     

    That is pretty much how my mother and grandmother made it, except they add milk at the end.  They just pour the milk in until it looks right to them and leave it on the stove just long enough to heat the milk but not really boiling it.  The depression turned out some of the best food when people had to start stretching what they had, and getting inventive with their rations.  My mother tuned in really quickly to my love all depression era goodies and purchased me a cook book "Depression Era Recipes" last year.   :)

     

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