Breaking Through, Travelling On

Karmacat

Just realised I'd better pop back to my own diary after all ... :beer: hi RT!

You know what, I've given up on avocadoes, I can never, ever time them right - they're either rock hard, or they've got those black stringy mould things in them. But they're really, really good for you, right? So what I do, when I'm having pasta with, say, beans - tomato puree and some herbs, I'll drizzle avocado oil on top. Little bottles are expensive, but per use they're very cheap, excellent value To me, thats win win.

I'm still terrible at using herbs but I'm just at the end of a kitchen storage re-jig, should do better soon.

Up early-ish this morning - it was nice to get up to have a rest, I had *that* sort of night :rotfl:got to see if a blog of mine will accept pictures today, it turned up its nose at me! No clue why ...

I did very badly on my to-do list yesterday, blogging took forever, and I published as-is rather than as I wanted, grrr. And I only did one. And the bleeping things aren't monetised, not do they have an offer of writing/cooperation on the About page like my blog guru does, and like frugalwoods does. This one: http://www.frugalwoods.com/ I'd never dress up an animal the way she does, but otherwise, its mindblowing.

1.5 hours work today. Second-breakfast-pasta is cooked. All's well :T

Goldiegirl

I tried an avocado in about 1976, didn't like it and never tried it again!
But I like the idea of avocado oil.... would make a change from olive oil.


The word 'avocado' brings back memories of the bathroom of our first house!:rotfl:

Karmacat

Yep, thats tricky, isn't it (note the green, please!).

:rotfl:


Goldie, the only caveat is that it shouldn't be used to fry, the way we do with olive oil - it has a strongish taste, anyway, and I believe the vitamins and micronutrients etc are destroyed by heat.

I still can't upload pix to one blog, have yet to try the other ... got to do a search, but part of me is really tempted to splurge some time on the free military weekend on ancestry. Choices!

Karmacat

I splurged the time, and ohboyohboyohboy!!!!!!

My Irish ancestor who fought at Waterloo also went to Canada with the British Army ... he was in Quebec in December 1813 (on Christmas Day, actually!). Never knew that!

And fifteen months later, he drew his pay for the first quarter of 1815 on the Champs d'Elysee I *really* like the sound of that! Of course, thats the army of occupation. I think of myself as a historian, I really don't know much about early 19th century domestic issues in any of those countries - Ireland, Canada or France :j:j:j Got a great reason to learn, tho :rotfl:

rtandon27

splurging time is good for the soul!

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Goldiegirl wrote: »

The word 'avocado' brings back memories of the bathroom of our first house!:rotfl:

Me too, Goldiegirl:T

I was very fond of that colour actually and OH, being the skinflint that he is, refused to replace that bathroom suite until quite recently:eek:. Visitors must have thought we were living in a time warp:eek:. The suite was still in really good condition considering its age and how much use it had had and someone we know asked if he could have the toilet and basin to fit in the cloakroom at the end of his garage-workshop. It's still going strong today:rotfl:. There were no takers for the bath though.

OH throws nothing away, everything might come in handy one day, and he recently unearthed a half box of new avocado tiles left over from when I tiled behind the bathroom basin in the '70s. Made me feel really nostalgic, I'm still wondering if I could use them somewhere:rotfl:

Karmacat

Thanks RT!

CBC - my business partner still has an avocado suite in his bathroom :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: he has to get his house re-wired soon, so it *might* go, but I wouldn't count on it.

CBC, how you doing yourself, honey? :kisses3: I know how RT is :kisses3:
Great idea to stick it into someone's garage cloakroom tho :j As for the tiles ... hmmm ... smash them up in a cardboard sandwich and use them like landscaping pebbles? I have a few bits in the garden like that, but admittedly they're nearly all white

I can't rememer if I confessed what one of the other "shtf" moment was ... I had a rat in the garden it was an albino, and it *might* have been a pet. Don't know. I splooshed some water at it, and ran inside the house.

Erm ... something's got it (as in "deaded" it) and left it on the patio. It's now my pleasant job to lift it with a spade into a newspaper lined bag, and dispose of the poor little thing

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Karmacat wrote: »

I can't rememer if I confessed what one of the other "shtf" moment was ... I had a rat in the garden it was an albino, and it *might* have been a pet. Don't know. I splooshed some water at it, and ran inside the house.

Erm ... something's got it (as in "deaded" it) and left it on the patio. It's now my pleasant job to lift it with a spade into a newspaper lined bag, and dispose of the poor little thing

Thanks for asking, KC:T. I'm fine, thank you, although I wish this horrible weather would go away. I'd even prefer it to be colder if it meant the rain and murkiness would stop.

Actually, the white rat may well have been a pet. They make wonderful pets and are really intelligent creatures. My nephews kept some when they were younger. My SIL is very fastidious and houseproud (just the opposite of me:o) and didn't seem to object to them being in the house (the rats, not my nephews:rotfl:)

Karmacat

Its *so* rainy, isn't it! Glad to hear you're okay otherwise

I felt quite sorry for the rat, in some ways, but it was when I had my gastric upheaval, and I couldn't leave the house, or cope with finding an animal charity to ring plus, there'd been treecutting nearby - it *might* have been an adolescent that was just turfed out of its nest too soon. Doesn't matter now, poor thing As they said on Falling Skies when Jimmy got killed, "may the next world be kinder than this world ever was".

I'm footling about on the interwebulator, and checking to see if the rain will *ever* stop.

Watty1

no sign of letting up here. Definitely ark weather