7 Quick Takes (Vol 49)

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I found these videos while reading on the SavingAdvice.com blog. I am totally enamored with Clara and her Depression era cooking. Some of the dishes remind me of the things that my Grandma Pringle made when I was growing up. The videos were produced starting when Clara was 91 and ending when she was 94!! She is just so cute I want to take her home with me.

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Ummmmmm, I was looking at the movies that are in the theaters at the moment, thinking about actually going to see something and I saw this little phrase:

No Children Under Age 6 Will Be Admitted To Any R-Rated Feature After 6:00 PM.

Ummm.........HELLO??? Would it not seem to any person with at least half a brain that children under 6 should never be admitted to an R-rated feature. That also goes for kids under 15 in my opinion no matter how "mature" you think they are. Who brings their child to an R-rated feature in the first place. Please do not give me the line "we just don't have a baby sitter available." I have one word for you.....

Netflix

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Reminder to self. When making The Pioneer Woman's Pico de Gallo recipe, do not breathe deeply especially when you are in the midst of dicing up the jalapenos. It.Is.Not.A.Good.Thing.

Also, I just have to say that I could eat Pico de Gallo every day and it would make me supremely happy. Pico on eggs, Pico on bread with butter, Pico with homemade tortilla chips. Oh Lord in Heaven that stuff is good.

I need to go to the store to get more Pico de Gallo supplies because.....I ate all of it.

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Have you noticed that I have been a tad short on posting lately?

Hello?......tapping on glass....

Is anyone out there? Does anyone read this small slice of knitdom?

I have been in a blogging funk lately but I am working my way out of it. Perhaps it is that there is very little sun outside. Perhaps it is that I have other things to do with my digits....like knit Christmas presents...... I have no clue.

I have lots of things swirling around in my head I am just having trouble getting them to travel down from my little gray cells to the ends of my fingers. But I'm baby steppin', I'm doing the work!

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One of the things that changes when all of your children are out of the house is that there is no one that I can make ask to help me decorate the tree. The progeny used to put all the ornaments on the tree for me but now I have to do it myself. Rats. It looks great when the tree is all done but it is just to doing that I don't like. And the taking down!!!

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What kind of ornaments to you put up on your tree? Our ornaments all have some memory attached to them and that is what I love. I promise that next week I will do a post on some of our favorites (I know that will be boring for you but....this is my blog so tough!). As you pull them out and hang them on the tree you can think about the person that made them for you or the time that you got them or whatever. It just makes me happy to see all of them on the tree. And now that we don't have any more cats, sniff, I don't worry that some of the more "tempting" ornaments have to be hung way high up so as not to tempt little feline brains.

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And since we are in the Christmas tree vein........

Real or fake?

I meant TREES and not...not.....female anatomy!

We have a non-living Christmas tree that resides in a box in the basement for 11 months of the year. We have talked before about actually getting a real tree but Cartoon Girl is horrified by the prospect of something that is so large and flammable and.....it is much easier to get the tree out of the basement.

I am a lazy bum. But at least my Christmas tree doesn't lose it's needles all over the floor.