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Caro_Lynne my mom’s legs look good actually. The honeymoon is over today though. She is being her spun up self today I understand.

Think i remember dad doing that when he built fence

who'd a thunk it, so many voters and non-voting citizens wonder after every election . . . every one seems to have surprises hit them as things evolve, tis the nature of the process. If things are oddly sideways, I remember to understand there's nothing I can do about it and keep to my days as usual and before we know it, time for another election cycle.

AND . . . if a person has not voted just because they did not want to, NO complaining at the outcome.

J.

Do what makes you happy!

I will keep in touch.

A stranger bought our lunch today.

DW and I picked up DS from his group home, took him to the optometrist, and then to the diner for lunch. The waitress told us we didn't have a check today, a man had paid ours as he left. I don't even know who it was.

Just when you think the country has gone completely to pot, someone does something nice. How can I be an old curmudgeon under these conditions?

Morning

Morning

I hope that you are right. I will let you know

HB that is a lot of driving.

My mom’s narcissism will never end i guess but hopefully together we will learn to not respond to the manipulation and controlling. Today I was grocery shopping and got a call. It sounded like a young little girl. I felt sorry for her. She said your mom needed cleaned up and I told her we would do it as soon as we finished a shower we were doing. She said your mother started hollering Call my daughter. She asked me if my mom had a phone and I said no I didn’t bring it.
There were several reasons I didn’t bring it because if I get her phone it’s gonna be different than the one she had at home. It’s gonna be a flip phone. But the other reason is One of the problems was mom was calling me so many times and she called me at 3 o’clock in the morning if she felt like it so I don’t want that to restart. That’s the reason I’m paying a lot of money every month. So I told the girl I would come up. so I went in I think it was both for me and them. She’s close to the door and when I entered I heard no noise. It was quiet. I said oh OK. She’s quiet she said yeah and she goes this tends to happen more in the morning I’ve noticed and I said well at home in the morning she would call me , two or three times saying mother is ready. She was wanting me to come and do what she wanted done right then. That’s back to manipulating and control. I said so she’s fine and I’m not gonna go back to her room. said if she does ask you if you called me, you just tell her yes and Sara said she would be in tomorrow but from now on I’m not going to say tomorrow I’m just going to say later . We will both learn. I had already planned on going tomorrow though.
butter beans and cornbread sound good

from Bon Appitite;

Soaking beans in the refrigerator overnight will reduce the time they have to cook drastically. And the texture of the beans will also be it their best, with fewer split-open and burst ones. But like we said, you don’t have to commit this hard. If you’re the impatient, bean-hungry type, you can cook your beans from dry without any soaking at all.

HB…wow!

Iris…there is likely a reason.

Go ahead with that cornbread! Beans and corn (or beans and rice) together have all the amino acids your body needs to make human protein to repair the muscles we use to chase calves or whatever.

My doctor thinks I should eat one protein, one carb, and two veggies each meal. Corn and beans count as the protein, the carb, and one veggie. Add some greens or tomatoes or whatever and you're there. What I did after reading Lorita's post was make some bean soup out of one can each of corn, tomatoes, red beans, and black beans, with chili powder to taste. DW thinks this mix, like much of my pantry "cooking" is "just awful" so I'll be having a bowl a day through the weekend and fixing her something else to eat.

Soaking beans makes them cook a lot faster, but I don't think doing it in the refrigerator makes any difference. I've been soaking them on the counter for 60 years and haven't gotten sick yet.

Cajun rice and beans is made by soaking half of the red beans, then cooking all together until the beans you didn't soak are done. The beans you did soak have cooked to mush, making that delicious bean gravy. Pour it onto a bed of rice and serve another veggie on the side. Or top it with a sausage (sorry, Lorita) and eat with French bread and butter.

David, best withes on your move. I hope they serve some good beans at the VA.