Room For All

[BetteTheRed]

While he's away, can we just have some tea brew ready in the fridge? 1/3 c of this refrigerated concentrate makes a perfect carafe of tea without fussing with fishing out bags.

 

[Redbaron]

'Twould be nice if one could also make coffee that way.

 

[BetteTheRed]

Well, we could install a Keurig, but man, that is expensive coffee. We have a nice fast Bunn unit at the church, and if you keep running it and filling carafes, nicer coffee than the 30-60 cup percs with the spout.

 

[BetteTheRed]

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I had to grab the cups from Redbaron. Kettle's on, coffee's made and in the carafe. Only up at this ungodly hour, as I had to pick up the big guy at 6:30 and meet one of his friends in the south end to get my summer tires for my car.

 

[JayneWonders]

Thanks for the coffee @BetteTheRed

For those bustling about early in the morning, and for those who are having a lazy hazy mornings..let's sit for a moment and enjoy the room

I thought I heard a loon earlier

 

[Luce NDs]

No wonder we're tyre 'd so early in the great gammas ... intended?

 

[Nancy]

Hope @Redbaron enjoys his break from routine. And thanks to @BetteTheRed for starting us off in a capable way. Maybe I'll add some rhubarb loaf to the table. I love all things rhubarb.
In a not-nice-way, I will comment on what I've noticed about a new young neighbour. She sits outside her front door and smokes for the best part of a day. I see her when I bring laundry out to hang up, or when I come and go doing a number of chores. She is out there before 8:30. I shouldn't be judgmental but I do wonder....doesn't she have better things to do? There...my witchy self is done being witchy, and I will think only pleasant thoughts for the rest of the day.

 

[Mendalla]

Well, we could install a Keurig, but man, that is expensive coffee.

Keurigs are nice for convenience but they suck at making tea. Whoever thought of putting tea out for what is clearly meant as a high-speed coffee maker was a bit out of it or something. (no, I don't do it regularly but one time when I was waiting at my car dealer for some work to be done, I tried a Twinings green in the waiting room Keurig).

 

[JayneWonders]

Thanks for the rhubarb loaf, @Nancy

Yum

 

[ninj]

Thanks for both coffee and rhubarb loaf -- if there's any left!

 

[Northwind]

Good morning. Thanks for starting us off @BetteTheRed. Thanks for the stories friends. Since the day is moving forward for some of you, I've brought some home made hummous. It turned out pretty good this time. There's veggies to dip in it and some crackers.

 

[KayTheCurler]

I will add some fresh crumpets - you will have to operate the toaster yourself.

 

[Mendalla]

*shudders*

They are still reminding me about the "incident". How was I to know you should unplug the toaster before using a metal knife to dig something out?

 

[BetteTheRed]

I had a rhubarb loaf last Wednesday, and came home with the recipe. Nancy, is your recipe by any chance a simple brown sugar/shortening cake with a cinnamon sugar topping?

 

[KayTheCurler]

You have to admire Saskatchewan's extreme weather capabilities. Temperatures high enough to boil you or low enough to freeze you. winds, dust storms, blizzards.....and just now a hail storm so intense that the drains got blocked, leading to a river running down the road. Also couldn't see across the road! Maybe the gardens will be flattened - have to wait to check.

 

[ChemGal]

You have to admire Saskatchewan's extreme weather capabilities. Temperatures high enough to boil you or low enough to freeze you. winds, dust storms, blizzards.....and just now a hail storm so intense that the drains got blocked, leading to a river running down the road. Also couldn't see across the road! Maybe the gardens will be flattened - have to wait to check.

Hopefully not too much damage!

 

[Nancy]

You have to admire Saskatchewan's extreme weather capabilities. Temperatures high enough to boil you or low enough to freeze you. winds, dust storms, blizzards.....and just now a hail storm so intense that the drains got blocked, leading to a river running down the road. Also couldn't see across the road! Maybe the gardens will be flattened - have to wait to check.

yes. And I make a rhubarb cake with dates in it and a lemon glaze on top...old family recipe. Yummy but super sweet.

 

[BetteTheRed]

@Nancy, please share recipe!

 

[BetteTheRed]

You have to admire Saskatchewan's extreme weather capabilities.

It's funny, but I only had to travel across Canada, and back, in the fall, to appreciate Ontario. I could not cope with that level of wind all the time, and what seems to me an extreme level of weather variation, way worse even than Ontario, and I think longingly of the gentle season changes of Wales...

 

[KayTheCurler]

Hopefully not too much damage!

Several trees down, a bit of flooding in low spots and one person taken to hospital after a tree fell on his car. Strangely, my son barely got any moisture out of it. He lives bout half a mile away.