can you pee a pound ?

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we weigh ourselves in the morning when we get out of bed in our night clothes

night clothes are usually lightweight linen

later when we get dressed we become naked and then we weigh a pound less than with the night clothes on

one morning we got naked and weighed ourselves and then we peed and then we weighed ourselves again / just curious, you know

we weighed another pound less

did we really pee a pound ?

son.out.law sez just because a scale is digital doesnt mean it is accurate


note : we is the royal we / or maybe the royal weewee

iWeb urls

we are practicing using iWeb, the .mac webpage application

our first pages are here :

you will have to cut and paste as several attempts at the linkage code is failing / doan no why

http://web.mac.com/skaterina/iWeb/Site/Blog/Blog.html

http://web.mac.com/skaterina/iWeb/skaterina/patio.html

stuck stumped stupified stymied

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lather rinse repeat

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arriving at old ladyness

you know you have arrived when you have whiskers on your chinny chin chin

smile

just two or three

i stroke lovingly

(now i know why men have beards)

(whiskers are like having a beloved pet on your chin)

life by numbers

change the clock
turn it back
now it is no longer dark at seven in the morning
and it will be very very dark at seven in the evening

this number change rearranges all ones routines if one wants

Mrs Foley looks in the mirror . . . . .

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oh
i see i was right
i said when
i was younger

i am too vain to be vain

now i look like i have been dragged through a knothole backwards

hmmm / smile

yet somehow comforting to be all let gone and growing old as ungracefully as possible

(yet all those other parts of me / especially Miss Tickle with her heart-healthy ways / are calling in
la donna della vanita*



* put a little accent mark over the second a in vanita / thatta girl)

Feeding Mrs Foley

Caterina la cugina italiana anche dalla cucina

well she is learning how to cook for one

the one and only

Mrs Foley

tonite she wants potatoe chips with sourcream onionsoup dip

Mrs Foley Flirts . . .

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with dementia
? dimentia ?

in other words (IOW)

further adventures in the art of Controlled Schizophrenia

Mrs Foley promises to herself that she will refrain from
walking around the neighborhood without clothes on

she will always go as someone else

doing something different

constant change is here to stay

all i needs is one reader / smile

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thanks, kate

inventory . . tomatoes . . 2006

7 quarts red ripe tomatoes of all varieties grown this summer / with a layer of golden strawberry topping three of the quarts / gorgeous / no garlic

4 pints golden toms and one additional 4 oz jar

3 pints tomatoes with tomatillos and garlic

7 halfpint jars Fancy Ketchup / Catsup

9 halfpint jars tomato garlic jam

7 pints tomato garlic jam

2 pints plum toms with cherry toms and garlic and 1 halfpint

5 pints spicey and a little hot

5 halfpints cherry toms with garlic and one small sample jar

4 pints whole roasted genovese with garlic

1 pint whole roasted marvella (so beautifullymelony)

5 half pints pickled onion relish in chutney syrup

2 halfpints (the flat jars with platinum lids) special relish (onion.peppers)

3 flatpints of green zebra

3 flatpints of golden strawberry

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one quart spiceyhot tomato juice in the reefer

hmmmm . for virgin merries ?

godmother

a young man ambles up the driveway
have i a surprise for you, he says

i am B.... M.... and you are my godmother, he announces

ooops / my last known memory of this young man he is 16 and i am 40something living the get away from it all life on a mesa in se Utah / no water, no electricity, no clocks, mirrors, tv

what do you DO there ? he asked

i see a spectacular sunset every evening

he says he'd rather watch Starsky and Hutch

that was then and this is now

^^^^^

indeed he is the son of best friends during the young married phase of my life when, yes, skaterina participated in such events as bridal showers, baby showers, christenings, and general allround comaraderie with former highschool and college pals, hanging out at home and abroad, sharing beach cottages, ski trips, and supporting each other through mental breakdowns and what not

we were all growing up together

this godson's parents died youngish (under 50) and that was a while ago / we would all be 70somethings now / and so close contact went down the drain

now said godson lives in the same state but up north and has brought his two sons down to our mtn bike, jeep loving town to partake of the local recreation and he acquired my address from another old pal

well......

at this point i wish to revise history and tell what i would have liked to happen next for example we planned a get together for later that day / say 5:30 and a picnic supper on my new tumble rock patio where the dining table now resides

how charming and bucolic with the two boys, 8 and 10, having a merry time on our property with the dogs and so on while we got reacquainted and all of this out of doors

for, you see, my house is a jumble with my bedroom now in the living room so the bedroom can be replastered / all is awry and i am not as flexible as i used to be with my routines / i like to go to bed early, yeah, like 8 o'clock

so when he calls and sez we got lost on the trail we cant be there until 7 / i go along / daughter
now sez it is too cold to eat outside and she willy nilly hauls the table back inside necessitating further rearrangements of furniture

i drink some gin and mineral water and then i drink some more while waiting for them to arrive to we can eat the rather divine chicken wings and assorted salads

drink some more gin n min

whew well at last they arrive, the boys too tired to participate with the adults, boring as we must be, and shucks there are no toys and they are too picky to eat the wings and salad and a pizza must be ordered in a town with no delivery

sonoutlaw volunteers to go get the pizza which upon inspection hardly seems the kind of rubbish one would eat if one were truly "picky"

nevermind

canning by colour

red tomatoes / genovese / big beef / early girl / julliettes

green tomatoes / green zebras

golden strawberry tomatoes

yellow pears

sugar snack

to layer in a quart jar

or

to can separate small jars / each a different colour and colour combination / for instance yellow pears and golden strawberry and little sugar snacks / and another that is just golden / just marvella / just green zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

to make colourful wintertime pizze

yow

Palm grease

(((((((**********)))))))

palm grease is the oil that comes off your hand onto
the buttons of your remote control

skaterina noticed that many of the buttons on the remote were dingy grungy despite them not being punched often or not at all

she wd expect the most punched buttons to be dimmed with grey but not all the buttons for the vcr which she does not use with this television

allora cosi :

as she handles the remote and positions it in the palm for rapid execution and response (quick hit the mute) the hand just naturally emits some of its essence

we now address the issue of how to clean the remote

marvellas

marvellas are heirloom tomatoes
coral red with delicate pale golden streaks
they are pretty and sweet / thin skinned &
not too many seeds

the marvella plant immediately produced two big green tomatoes
big like big as a softball / green as the green giant with no sign of red

hmmm i thought the plant would not produce any other tomatoes until the first two big ones were picked and / yes / eaten

Fried Green Tomatoes :

tomatoes need to be firm and crisp / slice into 1/4 or even 1/2 inch slices

dip in flour / dip in egg/water or egg/milk bath / dip in panko crumms

heat peanut oil hot not smoking / i like a large iron frying pan for fried green tomatoes

fry til crisp and golden on one side / turn and do the other

season with salt and pepper / whatever

our neighbors had never had a fried green tomato before

didnt know what he was missing

and yes after i picked the two big green ones the plant put out dozens more and they turned out to be these pretty pastel coloured Marvellas

how marvelous

tanka time for tomato world

(tanka : five lines with 5,7,5,7.7 syllables)

Tomatoes 2006 Part One

(5) tomato fatigue
(7) flourishing beyond belief
(5) can you name them all ?
(7) sun gold, thessalonika
(7) marvella, genovese*


Tomatoes 2006 Part Two

(5) big beef, early girl
(7) sugar snap, sweet one hundreds
(5) golden strawberry
(7) the neighbors' and the grandkid's
(7) green zebra, wait, that's only

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

*genovese in italian pronounciation : gen O vay zay

the authentic apology

not politician speak :

so sorry You were offended

(not my fault, bub, if you were offended)

authentic :

i was rude
i was an efn asshole
i dont expect you to forgive me

so dont make me feel worse by being gracious and understanding

heh

the Telephone Jones

a phonejones person
will answer the phone
no matter what
will jump out of a tub
or shower or put down
fork with luscious morsel
even interrupt love making
(yes, i have seen it happen_)


thank goodness for cell phones


phonejones person can be in touch every moment / hands free / ear piece firmly planted

and will call with every momentous bit of trivial minutiae / whether you are interested or not

but of course you are interested because you are the enabler and so you answer the phonejones summons because now it is your habit too / your addiction too / and because you have discovered that even when you dont answer and the phonejoneser leaves a message on your machine that the phonejoneser will just keep calling and leaving more messages and cannot wait for you to return its call so then your machine is all loaded up with messages / usually the same one "we havent talked for a while"

subtlety doesnt curb the onslaught / changing your number or heaving the answer machine out the window not appropriate at this time / time for the enabler to crack / lose her cool / lose her
control / hit the wall and turn into a raging a.....e

there

i said it and i am glad

and

that's my story and i'm sticking to it

PEACHES

peach season in se utah

breakfast :

handful grape nuts
handful homemade granola
(rather seedy and nutty)

a fresh peach

her skin slipped off and her seed removed
(she is a freestone)

she is golden rich juicy in a word PEACHY

with sunshine

skim milk or 2% milk or whole milk or soy milk or half n half to moisten the cereals and to

adorn the peach : un po di creme fraiche or a dab of sour cream or a drool of heavy cream

whew

one more thing to do before i die

make shrimp scallop bisque with the stuff in the freezer

oh yeah oh sure oh okay

any minute now

KitterZ the Perfect Cat, Part Two

kitterz the guest kitty settles in
she has climbed every tree
sat on every roof
(buildings and cars)
crouches in the open windows
at night keeping an eye on the locals

some of the locals are designated pets
others are feral who have been kindly
trapped and neutered and returned to
the neighborhood that trapped them
who are committed to continuing care
if needed

our community is a no kill zone for any animals that can be adopted, fostered, or returned to the wild (yeah, like deer and bears)

so ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

KitterZ "dad" came to get her the other day as he is in town for the week / she came when she heard his voice call her name / she headed for a door / one of the things she likes about my house are all the exits / one from every room / i like this too / smile

he took her away anyway / backing up to her travel cage so she wdnt see / hah

a couple of days later he called / she was relentlessly clamoring at him / demanding ! he said

she wont leave him alone ~ ~~ !!

next morning he brought her back

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for "KitterZ the Perfect Cat" click on June 2006 in the Archive on the left / June 29