computer kitty

Cool Black Cat with Green Eyes (click link below) to see

If you tease her with the
mouse pointer on her chest or stomach she will purr, I got her to
meow also, by rubbing her forehead with the pointer. If you make a
slow circle around her body, (counter-clockwise) not only will her
head/eyes follow your pointer, but toward the top, her paw will go
up, and when in front of her paws at the bottom, her foot comes
out like she wants to play with your mouse pointer.


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LEFT OVERS

Hmm, what do you do with what feels like a gallon of left over ham?

Ah Hah! Deviled Ham for sammies and/or to be scooped with Ritz crackers!
Utilizing only ingredients on hand and not bothering to Google a recipe assemble as follows:

1. Chop into itty bitty bits all the left over ham. (chopping is the only option if you do not possess either a food processor or an old fashioned meat grinder)
2. Chop one medium onion into fine bits.
3. Slice and chop one rib of celery (That's all I had left!)
4. Chop remainder of condiments consisting of green olives stuffed with onions, garlic and almonds, black olives and pickled okra. (Yes picked okra, it was in the condiment dish!)
5. Mix in enough mayonnaise to moisten.
6. Add a couple health squirts of yellow mustard.
7. Add a couple glops of whole grain mustard.
8. A good shake of chopped garlic from the quart jar purchased at the grocery store.

Mix well, pat lovingly into storage container, let season briefly.

Adjust menu board on fridge from "Baked Ham" to "Deviled Ham".

Scrounge up crackers, thrown some on a paper plate, decant couple heaping tablespoons full of Deviled Ham onto paper plate. Enjoy!

PS: We received a couple of bottles of very interesting Oregon wine; one is cranberry and another is blackberry. I may have to get brave and open one or the other to go with the Deviled Ham.

Electric blankies

I got to thinking about electric blankets the other day. While I was out mall crawling I sashayed through Penny's and spotted a pile of electrified blankets and for a queen size they wanted 169 bucks! Holy Cowsky! I actually owned an electric blanket in the mid sixties. I stopped using the thing because I could hear it cycling on and off and it made me kind of nervous, especially after I washed it and began to feel creaky and thread worn, so pitched that for the next 40 odd years.

It got to be 37 degrees today and it hailed pea sized hail and rained and was very shivery and I was thinking warm thoughts about electric blankies, so I Googled some prices. Range seems to go from 40 to 200 bucks depending on size, controls etc.



These above are available from J.C. Penny for between 40 and 80 dollars.



While not comfy looking this little item by LCC both heats AND cools for around 200 bucks.


So is anyone out there really using electric blankets? In the meantime I have cuddled up to my heating pad and it generates a surprising amount of warmth.

Christmas menu

This pretty picture is NOT what was served at my house today.

Baked bone in ham at 250 degrees all night until it fell off the bone.

Orange rolls (this item cancelled, I did not read the directions telling me to put frozen rolls in a non stick pan, cover with wrap and let RISE for 4 hours prior to baking-- okay boys back in the freezer, maybe a debut on New Years..sheesh)

Steamed broccoli in a bag. This is a microwave dish and should turn out well...uh..if I actually remember to stick the bag in and nuke it.

Waldorf Salad. Since I didn't have Mom's recipe I Googled a recipe and discovered that the original bonified recipe calls for green grapes and green onions! Well I had the apple, celery and walnuts. So I begged some grapes from the kitchen at work and Viola we haz Waldorf, Mayonnaise dressing cut with a bit of sour cream, 1/4 tsp celery seeds and 1 capful of apple cider vinegar and 1 packet Splenda. Not bad for improvising but certainly not the classic recipe. Sorry.

Thawed pumpkin pie left over from Thanksgiving...yeah Thanksgiving...it actually lasted that long!

Condiments consisting of black olives, green olives stuffed with onions, almonds and garlic cloves AND pickled okra...which by the way Mom introduced me to this last summer. Yummy snackin' Happy Day Off everybody.

And for those of you who have to work today the hospital is serving prime rib, garlic mashed potatoes, green salad, pie etc. Not too shabby. Bless 'em.

Which one is not a Van Gogh

I was browsing a poster site and found these very pretty pictures. One of them is not by bad, mad, sad Vincent. But I do rather like them all.

Fun neighborhood

It was a dark and wintry rainy night not unlike those nights in New Zealand when they were filming "The Return Of The King" third installment of Lord Of The Rings and during those interminable times when the hand grips had lost grip and there were no donuts at the food cart and all the tall fairy actors were eyeing each other in a rehearsal sort of way....er...'scuze me...had a Bulwer Lytton moment there....

I awoke to a clatter, and sprang from my bed to see what was the matter. When to my amazement I happened to see flashing lights and heard a very official stentorial voice say,

"Lie down on the ground, put your hands on the ground, I'm not going to tell you again!" (repeated several times)

"Arrrgh Arrrgh Arrrgh" (repeated several times)

"What's your name?" (repeated several times)

"Arrrgh..arrrgh...arrrgh." (repeated several times)

I peeked out the window and sure enough one of our local police type fellas had someone on the ground. Then another officer pulled up and eventually an ambulance was summoned to cart the young man off to the hospital.

Merry Christmas to all and to all..Good night!

(Apologies to Clement Moore who may or may not have written the obliquely cited piece)

Lunch in Coos Bay

This is a picture of the charming little garden and Koi pond just outside the front door of Kum Yon. They serve oriental food there. Today I had the Bento Box. I traded the California roll for an extra pot sticker. There is also a small dish of grilled chicken in Teriyaki sauce, lovely crispy fried veggies and prawns, some BBQ pork and dipping sauce. Kum Yon also serves a terrific blackberry cobbler.

I also went to Pony Village mall with the intention of purchasing; two Euro pillows (Got them at Macy's on sale), Number 2 in a collectible series of angels (Got it at Hallmark) and spied a charming kitty calendar for Tim at a kiosk in the hallway. In and out in under 45 minutes. Very nice except for a rather aggressive saleswoman peddling microwave heated aromatherapy pillows that smelled strongly of lavender. Some people like lavender, I ain't one of them. 'scuze me, I SAID don't touch me!

Oh and the Macy's people had NO idea if they had fine mesh lingerie bags for washing your dainties in the washer. Well spit,shoot and dirty words, they sold me my last one a couple three years ago....will have to Google the darn things then. Merry Merry, my friends.