Nick Sider – Canada – via Emma Taggart – MyModernMet
Nick Sider – Canada – via Emma Taggart – MyModernMet
Nick Sider – Canada – via Emma Taggart – MyModernMet
Keto Chicken and Broccoli Alfredo Bowls
I have just finished cooking this for tonight’s dinner (and tomorrow’s, with the leftovers). This is the second time I’ve cooked it, and my husband raved, even though he is not a huge fan of broccoli. Chicken Alfredo has always been a favorite of mine, crossed off my list when I started Keto because of the pasta. This recipe has no pasta and I don’t miss it!
When I told my husband earlier that I was going to fix it for tonight, his one word answer was “YUM!”
Net carbs are 7 grams per serving. This recipe is 4 servings.
I have truly never found a recipe book where we really like most of the recipes until this one. She uses down to earth ingredients so you are not having to hunt all over town or order a bunch of stuff online. They are also not labor-intensive recipes, a big plus in my book, since nowadays we are working outside a lot and I don’t want to go to a lot of trouble for something to eat.
This recipe is now one of our staples.
Filed under DIET!, Keto Eating Plan and Recipes We Like
Marriage Quotes I Love
My husband and I on our wedding day – June 14, 1969
Our marriage – something old that has been made beautiful with a lot of work and patching by both of us. – DiVoran Lites.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Mignon McLaughlin
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open. George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them. Ogden Nash
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. Sydney Smith
Marriage should be a duet – when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. Katharine Hepburn
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
Peter De Vries
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. ~Simone Signoret
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. ~Barnett R. Brickner
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time. ~Anne Taylor Fleming
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year. ~Paul Sweeney
I figure that the degree of difficulty in combining two lives ranks somewhere between rerouting a hurricane and finding a parking place in downtown Manhattan. ~Claire Cloninger
Like good wine, marriage gets better with age – once you learn to keep a cork in it. ~Gene Perret
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. ~George Levinger
Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid. ~Harlan Miller
To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you’re wrong, admit it;
Whenever you’re right, shut up.
~Ogden Nash
Filed under Favorite Quotes, love, marriage
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What did the hamburger name it’s baby? Patty!
One lung said to another, “we be-lung together!”
I asked a Frenchman if he played video games. He said Wii.
Why are frogs so happy? They eat whatever bugs them.
What did the duck say when she purchased new lipstick? Put it on my bill!
My parents said I can’t drink coffee anymore. Or else they’ll ground me!
What did syrup to the waffle? I love you a waffle lot!
My wife refuses to go to a nude beach with me. I think she’s just being clothes-minded!
Did you hear about that cheese factory that exploded in France? There was nothing left but de Brie!
I’m no cheetah, you’re lion!
Filed under Funny Signs - Humor, punny
Milestone
June 14, 1969 – 51 years ago today – my husband and I made the promise to share the rest of our lives. Both sets of parents thought we were making a mistake. We happily made the promises anyway, ‘riding off into the sunset’ together, our whole lives ahead of us.
51 years later, we are still going strong.
Marriage is one of the most important promises you will ever make. It’s the hardest job you will ever have. It’s an evolving work-in-progress that will sometimes require more than you think you have to give. Merging two lives is difficult, to say the least. You will grow and change, and hopefully continue to build a stronger and stronger bond as the years pass. It’s a union that will bring some of the very best moments you will have in your life. Bad things will happen, but you are stronger together than either of you is alone. Sometimes you will feel so close your heart spills over. Other times you want to bite each other in the leg. If you each feel that you are giving 150%, it is probably coming out pretty even. In some ways, I can’t believe it has been 51 years (‘officially’, my husband says, since we dated for 8 years before marrying.) In other ways, it seems we have ALWAYS been halves of a stronger whole.
Last year, on our 50th anniversary, my husband said we had a good start, but that he wanted another 50 years. I have told him that I will do everything in my power to give that to him. We don’t know what is in store in the future, but we will face whatever comes together.
Filed under Cause for Celebration, Family, love, marriage
Young at Heart
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It’s going to be warm today, but the humidity will be low, so no complaints.
I’ve been PLANNING to get out in the yard for a couple of days now, but never got beyond the talking state.
I’m going out now to weed whack.
Wish me luck!!!!
Dogs Have a Way
Thom Jones – PlayBarkRun.com
We found and adopted Molly in 2005. She was 15 in February. She brought a light-hearted goofiness to our home, even making our pit bull, Bambi, smile.
Bambi is gone now. We have Amber, a 95-pound 3-year-old yellow lab now. Sadly, Amber is jealous of Molly – after initially getting along fine – and so we are very careful to keep them separated.
I told you recently that we discovered that Molly has cancer. The vet examined her, cleaned out a really ugly place that had sprung up on one side of her mouth, and sent her home with antibiotics and pain/inflammation medicine for 14 days. We had agreed that if she had some quality time left, we wanted her to have it.
You see her sleeping at my feet as I type. She now rests well. When she awakes, she is full of energy and barks sharply for us to let her out. Many times she barks again within a very short period of time, knowing that she gets a treat when she comes back inside. She is taking great joy now – gaming the system – going in and out countless times each day. Her bright black eyes sparkle and she grins each time she gets another treat.
She is prancing around the yard, hopping around, playful as she hasn’t been in years. I’m playing with her, then spending as much time as I can each day, giving her as much love as possible. She is getting a lot of happy dog days now, and we are treasuring each one.
One happy day at a time.
Filed under Amazing Animals, Challenges, Changes, Family
Earth Without Art
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I am delighted to be on the same planet as the creative, talented people who make art.
It continually amazes me that several people can look at a material and react to it in different ways.
Take a ball of string –
- one person puts it in a drawer, just in case some string is needed in the future
- another person gets a crochet hook and makes a coaster out of it
- another gets a board, nails, and a hammer and uses it to create a picture to hand on the wall.
- another uses it to create an intricate braid in her hair
- another will use the string to pull paint down a canvas to create unique shapes
- another will use it to embroider a shape on a quilt –
The possibilities are endless. I love the different ways people look at things and ‘see’ the possibilities!
“Earth without art is just ‘eh.'”
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Tustin Ceramics – Ms. Gray
Leo Sewell’s “Boxer”, mixed media (photo courtesy of William Benton Museum of Art)
Leo Sewell’s “Scotty”, mixed media (photo courtesy of William Benton Museum of Art)
VisualArts Cork
Filed under Art From Found Things
My New Mantra
Positive Energy via Michael Remillard
I’m older than dirt and I have yet to even come CLOSE to doing this.
I have always admired people who calmly decide what is necessary in any given situation and do it.
I am TRYING to repeat this every day in an effort to FINALLY be able to remain calm and function like a normal human being with more than one brain cell before I croak.
Example – Years ago, my husband and I lived in Tulsa, enjoying our very first house. Our property had a garage apartment that we rented out, happy for the extra income. I came home from my job as a teacher one day to find smoke coming from the garage apartment. Like a complete ditz, I called my mother before calling the fire department!
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My mom was stopped by a policeman on her way to our house. The cop said, “Where’s the fire, Lady?” My mom, answered, “At my daughter’s house!” He waved her on without giving her a ticket.
The two renters had renter’s insurance, our insurance enabled us to rebuild the garage apartment, and I was able to handle all the details of that without problem.
If you have a similar problem, feel free to print the image in this as your reminder (as I have) and say with me, “One of the best lessons you can learn in life is to master how to remain calm.”
Filed under Attitude, life lessons, taking care of yourself
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Amazing Creatures
Who is the penguin’s favorite Aunt? Aunt-Arctica!
What should a lawyer always wear to a court? A good lawsuit!
The quickest way to make antifreeze? Just steal her blanket!
How do you make a good egg-roll? You push it down a hill!
Apple is designing a new automatic car. But they’re having trouble installing Windows!
I’ve started sleeping in our fireplace. Now I sleep like a log!
That baseball player was such a bad sport. He stole third base and then just went home!
Did you hear about the guy who got hit in the head with a can of soda? He was lucky it was a soft drink!
The past, the present, and the future walk into a bar. It was tense!
You really shouldn’t be intimidated by advanced math… it’s easy as pi!
Filed under Funny Signs - Humor, punny
Art from Found Things 2
Fiver – Imgur
Gadgetsin
Michael de Meng-Missoulian
Ritch Branstrom-Michigan Artists Gallery
Filed under Art From Found Things, metal art
Thoughts on a Thursday – June 11, 2020
Photo via J. Robert Bennett
Isn’t this a wonderful photograph? I don’t know who the photographer is, but Robert Bennett devotes a lot of his time to protecting wildlife and posts the wonderful photos he finds.
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We have had a busy morning. We caught Raccoon # 5 in our humane trap overnight, so we drove out to the spot where we relocate raccoons and he leaped into the small stream with great energy. (My husband put the trap in the middle of the deck floor, but this one apparently moved it so much trying to get out that he got close enough to our grill to trash the cover. We will just live with the trashed cover until next year, since the damage is at the bottom of it. ) We are HOPING that this is the last of the family and that we are now free of the sweet, but destructive critters now – at least until next year…
While we were out, we went to the clinic to get the lab work needed for our doctor appointment Monday. Of COURSE, they didn’t have authorization for MY lab work when we went in, even though they called to confirm the appointment for Monday. I have a GIFT for having my paperwork, authorizations, etc. lost, or the statistics that should apply to me, NOT…. I have hoped that I would finally get old enough to outgrow this ‘gift” …
We are finally out of the intense rain we have been having. The weather is gorgeous right now. Sunny, nice temperatures, and low humidity. We have our doors open and are really enjoy airing out the house and enjoying the breeze.
I plan to spray another container of weed killer today, plus do some weed whacking. All the rain followed by sunshine has caused a huge spurt of growth that we are trying to keep under at least reasonable control. My husband just finished mowing the yard a couple of days ago and it already needs to be mowed again.
First, lunch!
Have a wonderful day!!!!
The English Language is Nuts
This was forwarded to me by my good friend, Marsha. I loved it and wanted to share it with you – Hope you enjoy it! :0)
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“Pretty Heavy for a Monday”
Homographs are words of like spelling but with more than one meaning. A homograph that is also pronounced differently is a heteronym.
You think English is easy? I think a retired English teacher was bored… THIS IS GREAT!
Read all the way to the end ….. it took a lot of work to put this together!
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture..
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Let’s face it – English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren’t invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are animal brains. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn’t the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn’t it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why don’t preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out, and in which an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
PS – Why doesn’t ‘Buick’ rhyme with ‘quick’?
You lovers of the English language might enjoy this.
Filed under Funny Signs - Humor, punny, Word Play
Art From Found Things
Aetos – Pinterest
Brian Marshall
Colossal Art & Design
Filed under Art From Found Things
Lovely Leopards
ArcGIS Story Maps
Big Cat Rescue
“If we can teach people about wildlife, they will be touched. Share my wildlife with me. Because humans want to save things that they love.”
― Steve Irwin
photo via RJ Bennett
“Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world”
― Munia Khan
Minnesota Zoo
“When you look a wild animal in the eye, it’s like catching a glimpse into the soul of nature itself”
― Paul Oxton
Filed under Amazing Animals
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Getting the ability to fly would be so uplifting.
It’s hard to explain puns to kleptomaniacs because they always take things literally.
I can’t believe I got fired from the calendar factory. All I did was take a day off!
What do you call the wife of a hippie? A Mississippi.
There was a kidnapping at school yesterday. Don’t worry, though – he woke up!
What washes up on tiny beaches? Microwaves.
Why was the cookie sad? Because his mom was a wafer long!
What’s the difference between a hippo and a zippo? One is really heavy and the other is a little lighter!
Why was the baby ant confused? Because all his uncles were ants!
Why didn’t the cat go to the vet? He was feline fine!
Filed under Funny Signs - Humor, punny
Freeing
Everett Ruess via Lisa Bearnes Richey
My personal situation has forced me to live one day at at a time – sometimes one HOUR at a time. With this change in focus, I’m actually finding some good coming from it. Though things are tense here many times, being forced to ‘stay-in-the-moment’ is freeing.
Instead of worrying about my ‘to do’ list, all the other stuff I might – or even SHOULD be doing – slips WAAAAY down in priority. As I’m learning to focus on the most important, wringing out every moment of joy possible, my mind is less burdened. If I do anything else during the day, that’s good, but it is no longer NECESSARY.
I am being given the chance to keep my head on straight. I have people who are very, very important to me. I have animals who continue to give me unconditional love. Enjoying whatever time I have with them is paramount.
Making every day count – “while I am alive, I intend to live.”
Filed under Attitude, Challenges, Changes, Cherishing the Quiet Day
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Some aquatic mammals at the zoo escaped. It was otter chaos!
Never trust an atom, they make up everything!
Long fairy tales have a tendency to dragon.
The Middle Ages were called the Dark Ages because there were too many knights.
My sister bet that I couldn’t build a car out of spaghetti. You should’ve seen her face when I drove pasta.
I made a pun about the wind but it blows.
Never discuss infinity with a mathematician, they can go on about it forever.
I knew a guy who collected candy canes, they were all in mint condition.
My wife tried to apply at the post office but they wouldn’t letter. They said only mails work here.
My friend’s bakery burned down last night. Now his business is toast.
Filed under Funny Signs - Humor, punny
Wonderful Watercolor
Crowning Glory-Nisha Sehjpal-Saatchi Art
Greenorc
Rainbow Ostrich-Mac Jackson Art
Filed under Watercolors I Love
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