Just need to talk to my friends (213)

I love the beautiful colors in the sky every morning and evening. Besides the sky, God has created so much beauty all around us, all we have to do is open our eyes.

Wind is trying to blow me away this morning!

Ron

Hello

It is noon. Just had some white chili. It turned out good. Beth the chicken fritters are ok. I make them quite a bit.

Always enjoy pictures of the skies.

My nephew got his CDL yesterday. Now I hope he is blessed to find a job that works for him.

Vegetarian chili? Just leave the meat out.

Amy's vegetarian black bean chili is good but it costs about $4/can.

Lorita…don't you have a pharmacy or an Urgent Care that has shots???

Iris - I bought a package of those little mug hangers - they are super cute. I'm going to give them to a friend of mine.

The Trader Joe's that isn't close to me is close to a Cost Plus/World Market, so I stopped there as well, since I was in that neck of the woods. I picked up several packages of Biscoffs to give as gifts to people. I even picked up one for my trainer because he let it slip one day that he's partial to those. 😈

HB - My sister and I were not as careful with our Barbies as you were. Peggy's Barbies also had haircuts. I saw the trailer for the Barbie movie and immediately recognized which Barbie Kate McKinnon was supposed to be. 😄

I didn't know what the Silken Flame doll looked like so I looked her up. As soon as I saw her, I thought of one of the outfits my Skipper doll had (remember her?) It's the same color scheme but made for a child. Here's a link to the Skipper dress - you'll have to scroll down just a bit.

JeriLynn and Sandy - I'm going to live vicariously through your photos, which are both gorgeous. No sun for us in the PNW. We had a lot of wind and rain last night and today. I've got my candles and lanterns out and ready to go should we need them.

Carl - the first Christmas (or any anniversary date) is always the hardest. Take it slow.

I'm a big fan of cinnamon toast, even if I don't have it very often. My version is a seedy slice of wheat toast, with melted butter and cinnamon and sugar sprinkled on top.

Lorita - My dad used to do that - white bread and butter with sugar sprinkled on top. He had a sweet tooth!

With all of this talk of cornbread, I think I'm going to make some over the weekend. It sounds really good.

good morning

Lorita if you Google taste of home white chili, the recipe will pop up.I fried up some chicken just till it was no longer pink, then I added broth two cans of any bean, I used white beans. And I just added some dried onion, some oregano, some cumin, garlic powder, green chilis and a little onion powder. It called for sour cream and cream. But I did not use those instead. I used cream cheese. It was very good a little thick so the next time I’ll cut back on the cream cheese & I might add a little sour. no reason you could not make it without chicken. I was thinking it would be good with like potatoes, carrotd and broccoli in it. I might add some fine noodles or a little rice you could do about anything you want with the recipe.

I think I found some help with getting my mom on Medicaid hopefully. They were very knowledgeable and can tell they know how to do it. It is definitely not their first rodeo. I know I’ve heard people say area on agency was very beneficial . I found them very unhelpful. They told me I had to go to job and family services and I just did not want to do that. I felt like I’d be one unnoticed cow in the herd if you know what I mean, very thankful that I’ve found this person.
My mom won’t become medicaid eligible until toward the latter part of the year. We had applied for VA . They told us that she is on the cusp that we might not get it and it takes a year to find out. So that year is not up until I think either February or March. If we do get it, I know a lot of things they backpay so if they do that, it may be a little bit while longer before we would need Medicaid, but I’m not counting on that.
There is one other option. I kind of forgot about. I thought about this earlier because lady I helped was there and I knew she never had money to pay one month much less two years and so I assume they took Medicaid without a waiting period. They brought it back to my memory as an option if there’s no Medicaid bed available where mom‘s at.
there’s also a new AL home being built right now. It is huge. And the article I read said that they take Medicaid upfront if you are unable to pay. If you are able to pay then, of course you would have to but as soon as you become unable to pay anymore, they will get you switched over to Medicaid. So I drive by there every once in a while, and I will be checking it out whenever it’s available.

I hope my mom can stay where she is because she’s very happy there. My mom will be 90 in July so there’s a possibility also that none of this will ever be needed. We could need it a few more years. No way to know that. But I know the one who knows that and he will help me through this.

Take care everyone

Good morning.

Mint, I like your chili recipe too.

Iris

I was too old for Barbie dolls but I still have a box of Story Book dolls. And just now I am reminded that a high school friend designed the American Girl dolls.

I learned from living in NM that chili did not have meat. If it had meat it was chili con carne.

Now I want some…with corn bread/honey.

Funny where your mind goes…yes?

A booster shot with the Moderna vaccine offered older people better protection against COVID-19 if they had previously taken Pfizer jabs, researchers at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) have found.

One of my friends used to bring canned biscuits on camping trips. He cooked them on a bed of coals with butter, sugar, and cinnamon to make cinnamon rolls.

Oatmeal is good with cinnamon, sugar, and butter too, as are sweet potatoes. The heel of my boot would probably taste good with that stuff on it, but I haven't tried it. 🤗

I went to the senior center and ate fish sandwiches, tater tots, and coleslaw for lunch today. Someone was handing out cans of Campbell's spicy tomato soup. It has cayenne pepper and paprika in it. I'll either eat spicy tomato soup this weekend when the temperature is expected to drop back into the teens or mix it with corn and beans for veggie chili.

One of the women I eat lunch with wants to go on the bus trip to Branson in January but doesn't have transportation to and from the senior center for the trip. She asked me if I'd take her home after the trip, and I agreed to do it. I have already seen the "World's Largest Toy Museum" but it will get me out of the house, and I wasn't raised to refuse a woman a ride home from a party.

It's 55 and partly sunny today. I'm going outside for a while and enjoy it. TTYL

Let's be careful indeed, Eaglemom. There are flood warnings in the Pacific Northwest, and snow/ice warnings for several northern states.

I'll bet a handful of cinnamon thrown into the furnace would make the whole house smell like burnt cinnamon. Not sure that's a good idea though.

Ron, do hurry back. We have added another lady to the table since I saw you last, and we're having meatloaf tomorrow!

Iris - I'm curious where you went for your Christmas Mystery Trip today.

Mint - I hope your mom gets to stay where she is, especially since she likes it there.

Lorita & Judith - I've heard the same about mixing covid vaccines, and I've done that myself. I think I've had every different kind there is. The last one I had was Pfizer, I think.

Carl - canned biscuits?

Meatloaf? Every time I think of meatloaf, I think of Meatloaf, the singer, and in particular, his role in Rocky Horror Picture Show. At a point in the movie, it is appropriate to yell at the screen, "meatloaf again??!!"

eaglemom - I know everyone here is good for me. I was just thinking today about how grateful I am for all of you, and the site in general.

Over here in the PNW we're dealing with flooding and weather. We almost lost power last night, but held on. We seem to be okay, flood-wise. We're on higher ground, but some of those places you're seeing on the news aren't that far away from us. Fall City and Carnation are each about 20 min. away. Today it was dark, dark, dark. One of those early winter days where you just want to sleep all day.

Of course I didn't do that. 🙂 I went to the gym for a cardio heavy workout. We did escrima almost the whole time. I don't know why I like stick fighting so much, but I do. Maybe it's because it can be so graceful? My trainer put on the goth radio station for the workout and I was surprised how well some of the old goth rock songs go with escrima. One of the songs that's still stuck in my head is So Alive by Love & Rockets. It's from the '80s, and sounds like it's from the '80s. It's one of the softer new wave songs. I'm still humming along.