Let's visit on the Porch II (Clyde Park: locals, favorite, house)

[Reziac]

You know you are too tired when... you try to make pancakes by dumping flour into the frypan.

[ElkHunter]

Originally Posted by Reziac

You know you are too tired when... you try to make pancakes by dumping flour into the frypan.

Well, if you add a cup of milk, some baking soda, some salt, you would have one huge pancake that sticks to the pan really bad.

You must have been tired. That's one of the reasons I set up my coffee pot before I go to bed. I'm really afraid of what I would make if I was half asleep and tried to make coffee.

When I was about 6, dad come home from the road and he told me to start some potatos frying. So I grabbed the bottle of oil and poured in about a quarter inch and started cutting up potatos in it. Dad come out of the shower and asked how it was going, and he went to stir the potatos. He kind of laughed and asked me, what bottle of oil did you use? So I pointed it out to him up in the cupboard, I had used the step stool to get it down. There was no label on the bottle, it was half full. There was a full one there, but I wanted to use this one up first. So he showed me how the bottle was a little different shape.

It seems that the lady that came and cleaned once a week, and stocked the shelves, had found that the "Karo" syrup bottle had run down the side a little bit, so in washing it, she had washed the label off of it.

Moral of the story? Karo syrup doesn't do well for frying potatos.

[MTSilvertip]

I feel your pain Rez.

The wife and I were staying in the cabin, she was going to make flapjacks for breakfast, so went to the container where we keep the mix and made batter.

She poured it onto our cast iron griddle, but it didn't act right, just got flat and hard, didn't color right, so she asked me what was going on, and I couldn't figure out why we had boiler plate tortillas instead of fluffy golden pancakes.

When my mother showed up later in the day, mystery solved. She had used the last of the mix and had started making new when she found she didn't have all the ingredients, so just left flour in the container.

Even the dogs had a tough time eating those flour tortillas we made instead of breakfast

[Reziac]

When it finally occurred to me to dump the flour into the bowl and actually make pancake mix, well, they came out really good. Maybe I should do 'em this way more often.

Way better than the ones I made last week, which involved frozen milk.

[Reziac]

This is just too durn funny:


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[Reziac]

Something not exactly veteran-related, but the same spirit, in kids:


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[MaBonnema]

Hello EVERYONE!!!!
I hope all is well with y'all. Mom and I are finally in our own place. We rented a trailer in October and moved in. We had no furniture or anything but we did have a roof over our heads.
So nice to have a place of our own again. Through the help of family and friends we have gotten furniture. We are still in need of 2 beds but my brother says he is working on that. We have 2 nice sofas that we sleep on at the moment.
My brother flew up to Spokane and then rented a truck and picked up our stuff (knick knacks and pictures etc.. we had no furniture as we gave all that away before we moved) in Libby and then brought it to us in Alabama. He also managed to get us some furniture.
We have accumulated 2 large sofas, a coffee table, 2 end tables, 2 nice dressers, a china hutch, a small TV stand, a TV, book case, and a small round oak dinette set, microwave and toaster oven.. and my brother has us a washer n dryer and 2 more book cases and a pink chair that he has to bring down...hopefully he will have also found us beds by then as well.
2 new additions to the family. A white kitten named Casper and a Chorkie (chihuahua/yorkie mix) named Chloe.
Got internet turned on today.. and just had to stop by and update y'all.
Still havent heard anything on my disability claim.
Things are going well. And I can honestly say that this Thanksgiving will really be special for me. I am Thankful for friends and family that have helped mo and me so much. And strangers that have become friends via internet. The world is full of wonderful people. They are hard to find at times.. but they are out there.
Check out the pics.
Have a blessed day.

http://www.city-data.com/forum/membe...our-stuff.html

[Reziac]

Hey MaB! Sounds like it's lookin' up!

That isn't just furniture, that's NICE furniture! I love wooden stuff like that.

That's a cool rug, with the apples on it! (I guess they're apples!)

[MaBonnema]

Thx Rez. Yes, that is very nice furniture. And yes... those are apples on the carpet. One of the things mom did keep and had put in storage.
Leave it to my brother to pick out nice things. Oh... and the only thing he paid for was the microwave and toaster oven... $17 @Goodwill. The rest of the furniture was FREE!!!!
TV was free too.
On his next trip down he will try to bring us the washer and dryer, the pink chair, 2 more bookcases and hopefully he will have us some beds. Then we will be set.

[Reziac]

That's why I've never bought furniture -- there's all kinds of nice stuff begging for new homes!