The Dinette Set by Julie Larson for February 11, 2012

Cognitive disorder.

Good Morning

Verl’s a two faced pig.

Burl is the consummate gentleman,‘koff, koff’.

Today is Saturday :-D

I tell you what………………those people are quite the fashion plates!!

Marg and myself posed for an avatar picture.I will have it up at tomorrows turnover!!

@ODDBALL okay, NOW I get it! Two-faced pig! LOL! Thanks for the tip, I never would have got it on my own.

Guess I’m just slow tonight (this morning? Haven’t been to bed yet…). I’m just soooooo tired, spent the day canning marmalade, and I’m exhausted. Gonna do the same thing all over again tomorrow (today?) after I get a nap.

@Leakysqueaky712 Comin’ right up! Where’s that sous chef of mine? Seriously, though, I make the traditional English marmalade, with the whole strips of peel in it, which gives it its classic bittersweet flavour. Most Americans can’t appreciate this particular flavour profile, and it’s hard to get ‘real’ marmalade over here, so I make it for the family. Not difficult to do, actually, just time consuming. As for the scones, ‘His Lordship’ (my DH, a/k/a ‘Himself’) has requested them with raisins this week, so if raisins are your thing I’ll e-mail some scones right over to you, Leaky! LOL!

Meanwhile…. I saw river Dance…. and did not really care for it…. ! ! … You… ? ? ?

Good Morning, Good People of Crustwood!

“Most People would just butt in line????"

Most people? Hahahaha!!! I can’t get over it!

Most people with a death wish, if they happened to be brought up by a family of hogs in the jungle…. oh, wait…. we’re talking about the Pennys here….

Joy gives Burl extra credit for using a fork, wearing some clothes to work…. and not running over small children in the crosswalk…..

cos most people wouldn’t be so refined, you know.

“Just socks” is just as funny….. as when the Sock Shop opened in the mall here, back in the 80’s.

It reminded me so much of a recurring Saturday Night Live bit, about a store that sold nothing but tape.

And it lasted almost as long.

Yay Marg!! Happy Saturday!You made it through a whole week, I think.

GymShoe — I probably write the most….. but I just cram it into a couple of posts. LOL

@Leakysqueaky712 Right, then! Raison d’être Scones it is then, with Citrus Medley Marmalade! Yum!

Y’know, I SHOULD be napping, but now I’m hungry!

Purple and Leaky…. please please please…. me too!

I *love" marmalade, anything from the cheap sweet stuff to the fancy, and bitter, English kind. I hardly eat any jam these days, cos I seldom make toast, but I can’t resist marmalade.

A long time ago, Cost Plus, a chain of import stores, sold Seville orange peel in a tin for the purpose of making your own bitter marmalade. Good stuff.

But Purple…. you make it with regular oranges, though, not Seville, right? With lotsa peel and not so much sugar as most commercial ones?That’s actually my favorite!

What would you like? I could make some marzipan — haven’t done it in years, but I can. Or even an English Christmas cake.

Hope it doesn’t get stuck in transmission.

Still more…. sorry….

From yesterday…. Thanks Leaky…

Oh — I just saw your post above, and I was already tying this!

I have LookOut, thanks. Just downloaded it about a month ago.

I haven’t looked into customising my keyboard… might do that.

I do know that the portrait (vertical) keyboard is harder to type on than landscape but I seem to make fewer mistakes on it in Swyping…. and it also maintains the page, rather than making the screen all keyboard.

I do use both. Give Swype another chance some time — it is really a lot faster than tapping keys.

Also I’m very nearsighted — even with progressive bifocals I have to take them off to do much key-tapping, but I can swype while wearing them…

I love my phone too — it’s a Samsung Fascinate.

I got it just before the 4G ones came out…. but those plans cost even more, so I’ll probably have to stick with 3G — especially as unlimited data is grandfathered on my Verizon plan.

I use about a Gb/mo or a bit more now, but it slowly grows. Glad I didn’t sign up for 250 Mb!

Oh — and GymShoe, I loved your terrain trigonometry (so to speak)! You’re right!

@ SusanSunshine — I make marmalade out of almost any citrus. Right now I have in my pantry marmalades made with regular oranges, Seville oranges, blood oranges, Meyer lemons, kumquats, and a citrus medley made from regular oranges, lemons and limes. And, yes, that’s precisely the way I make mine: the whole peel (pith and all, which gives it its classic bitterness) cut in a very fine julienne, and about half the sugar as the American stuff. I make a lot of jams and preserves and chutneys, too, as well as putting up scads of veggies because we grow plenty of yummies in our back garden. We’ve a lovely pear tree, a couple of apple trees, several mulberry bushes, a pecan tree (we used to have two, but lost one in a wind storm a few years back) and lots of other goodies that we grow as annuals. So, all that canning keeps me busy — off the streets and out of the pubs! (snicker!)

And now I MUST get a nap! >yawn!< Ooooh, beg yer pardon! I’ll phone in that marmalade before I nod off!

Mmmmm Purple…. I love it all!

American marmalade is made with whole peel — but precious little of it, as it’s boiled in a lot of water, sugar and juice.

Dunno what state you live in, but Seville oranges are hard to find here in California, and I live too far north to grow citrus myself, except Meyer lemons, which I love, but my little tree died.

Leaky you do NOT have to tell people that the state I actually live in is confusion…. I think they can tell on their own.

Riverdancing sounds like too cultured a an art for the Penny’s to attend.

I like don’t like marmalade any more than I like oranges, but then I’ve been told I’m a picky eater.

Good Morning Rasp

My little guy just woke up and indicated that he wanted some corn on his shiskabob (an ear gives 2 or 3 refills on it) -one of his favorite things for the cage. I never cared even for real step dancing (dispite my partially Irish heritage) much less the “River Dance” hyped up version but the Pennys seem to like any performance on ice. Did anyone read Verl’s armband “Smurfs____”?Just about sunrise now so I can finally see my keyboard; by the light of the moniter I often mistype.

Last week’s funeral

C’mon someone…..just a “nudge”; firm enough to put him on the ground. That would be as satisfying as watching “House” get physically knocked down.

That’s what I get for sleeping in. Any joke I could come up with for today’s panel has been said.

Good morning Crustwoodians.

Apparently Burl is not only polite, but a very near sighted polite one. I saw a version of this show on tv one Saturday afternoon when I was bored. I was curious to see how they could do step dancing on ice. They don’t. It’s on a stage at one end of the arena and ice skaters are added to the boredom. It’s not a show I would recommend, but people like the Pennys would like it. They must have plenty of money to waste on shows like this!

Is he counting comments again? Do I sense OCD? ;-)

* * * FYI:…..36 Minutes ago…. Julie made a comment at the end of yesterday’s postings……………..* * * *.

Listening to the Pennys kind of kills my appetite. But then the comments bring it back.

must, not most! new painkillers…

Really funny :)

it’s ok for about 15 minutes. not much plot tho. sorta looked like hillbilly retards, only with irish music.

GymShoe! Thank you!!!

Don’t know whether I’d have ever seen it.