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ch sittin time so pleased with my many accomplishments i was i decided to go look at new plants cletus ate my money tree i don t know what that means in the feng shui sense but it cannot be good speakin of cletus and plants here he is on his perch as i explained to river having lost a lovely mango bowl to catticus s dominance for window space i yield to cletus and cletus has become a decor item here are some photos of the other animals because i m not playing favorites yes clara is my favorite she is my cat re favorites according to previous posts some people thought the boy one was my husband similar as they are what with bein kin and all they are actually two different people see after buyin some plants and a new rake moo and i stopped for coffees when moo and i returned the mister was still power washing moo said daddy with his power washer is like a toddler with a popcorn popper so true so lolz i had a nice lavender soak when i got home put my jammies on then i consumed a yummy turkey sammich on wheat some chips some strawberries and a couple slices of horseradish cheddar got some laundry in on a saturday fanfuckingtastic day tomorrow bakin banana bread makin chicken parm and doin a lil beauty control readin watchin shows it s supposed to be 63 in february when it s 63 who cares if it rains not me i love a good rainy day especially a sunday imma open the windows posted in personally tagged bubba gratitude happiness moo nature pets the mister 68 comments it s a whole thing posted on february 7 2021 by joey years and years ago i picked up on my mother s complaint that the perlo recipe was lost when my grandmother passed my grandmother apparently made this dish a lot when my mother and her siblings were growing up none of them had learned to make it and people had a sad about it in hopes of rediscovering this lost dish and making it for my mother i asked my father if he d ever had opportunity to eat my grandmother s perlo and what the hell it was my father had eaten it did not enjoy it and remarked as such in a colorful and unforgettable way if i ever ate perlo i don t recall i spent large chunks of time with my mother s mother and she seldom cooked i don t think she liked cooking we made sandwiches we ate cold cereal soup from cans pasta from boxes and best of all we baked and went to dq alawt when the interwebz became a thing i did dutifully search for perlo in the hopes that i could recreate my grandmother s noms no such luck years passed decades even last month i made hoppin john if you don t know hoppin john it s all about rice and beans and salty pork there are as many variations as there are for any regional dish that travels peasant food gets gentrified when some famous chef serves it with his own twist or fuck s sake deconstructs it elevating it to haute cuisine status instead of the delicious bowl of slop it s always been hoppin john is a delicious bowl of slop but i only know about it because twenty years ago i read about it on the back of a bag of black eyed peas yes i am the kind of person who reads everything i see including bags of dried goods while my hoppin john was simmerin i debated on whether or not i really had to have red pepper because the mister done ate those up and i ended up on this serious eats article about the historic problem with hoppin john which lo and behold included information on perlo which is also pilau perloo purlo pileau and apparently it s debatable as to whether all these dishes may or may not be chicken bog or a version of pilaf it s a whole thing there are two million websites that mention it i am the kind of person who enjoys learning about both the origins of food and language so this was the most exciting thing that happened to me that day i was enthralled and journeyed readin recipes and blog posts about everybody and their daddies versions of perlo there are versions of perlo rumored to originate in at least eight worldwide locations that s fascinating i told you it was the most exciting thing that happened to me all day i asked my mother if she gave up hunting and she told me that while her sister has obtained the recipe she s not made it because it serves six well duh four kids serves six sounds perfect to me i told my mother i would make it and i did i didn t use a recipe i read many recipes and variations i ended up doing a mirepoix six trimmed and quartered chicken thighs two long links of kielbasa chicken stock jasmine rice and hellaspice it was delicious it s a wonderful one pot meal and well suited to our cold weather serves four of us twice here in the us perlo is said to originate in the rice lands of the carolinas i find this interesting as i do not have kin from the carolinas and have informed the children perlo is melungeon food because donobody know where it came from i am the kind of person who enjoys eating i am not the kind of person who enjoys arguing about whether chili should have beans in it whether cheesesteak should be topped with green peppers or which type of barbecue is right because i would rather eat the food than argue about it but that s a whole thing too now i m eager to discover whether you ve eaten or cooked a dish similar in composition as well as what you call it or if you have experienced such a recipe hunt but you can still type whatever you like posted in personally tagged food 62 comments tidings posted on december 23 2020 by joey remember when you were little and the anticipation of events would suck up all your attention and you thought you d burst before the happening me this year christmas dying i hope our family makes it to our shared time together it s ironic since we re more together than we have been ever but we re not any of us handling these circumstances well and i feel like if we can make it to when bubba gets here and there are latkes and i hand those girls a present like my mother did me gawd i miss my mother if we can just wake up to pancakes and stockings we can for one whole day maybe find our normal it would only last a day a day that is always some version of the same day and is unarguably delightful people with better mental health probably think that s nice she s looking forward to christmas it s more akin to she is terrified all the time my anxiety is multiplied in the last week i have damn near convinced myself that i will slip on the ice bust my head open and bleed out or maybe fall in the bath or maybe accidentally impale myself on the scissors i keep seeing office administrator walking around with or waving maybe i ll be abducted while putting groceries in my trunk or i ll die in a fiery auto crash caused by some asshole in a big truck oh yeah and there s a fucking plague and some people say you can get it twice i m irrational yes but it s not like these things don t happen i don t want to be panic stricken but that happens too and let s be clear i m not afraid of dying not really not the actual dying bit though it has occurred to me i ll be right disappointed at being unable to write about the experience afterward i m afraid i will die and miss the joy i want the joy i need the joy i am joy deprived i may write about joy an expository essay my boss picked me up a little special somethin last week she said she knew it was for me cause door that was joy there are plenty of big blessings and small pleasures in my life for which i am grateful unfortunately many of them teeter on bittersweet due to the current state of the world for years our children have gathered on the big bed at night for attention and affection because of all this gestures at everything their talk has seldom been high school drama but skewed toward loss which is abundant they re the bearers of bad news and they bear it honestly it s too much my heart breaks for them and for their inner circle of friends parents losing parents losing jobs who s sick who s grieving their sense of freedom and fun is replaced by burden which provides me with deep heavy worry we still laugh a lot but we don t laugh as often and when we do the aftertaste of bitter reality lingers cletus does not care what the bedtime chats are about i have no model on how to parent my daughters through a pandemic even my mother s mother was born after the last one i miss my mother now like i ve never missed her weepy lump in my throat miss her i haven t completely sorted this out for a while i thought it was because the moon was in cancer and i was all up in my feels but now i think it may be how so much of the holidays are our mothers it came upon me while i decorated the tree many of my ornaments are hers from home it comes upon me while i curl the ribbon like her there are poinsettias and cheeseballs and holiday cards all of this is her in an instant i become acutely aware that these feelings are as intense as those i feel after losing my father except my mother is alive and a thousand miles away i didn t get to see her this year i don t know when i ll see her i don t know that i will see her and by then what will be changed terrifying it s hard to bring love and light and hope and humor to a blog when i feel this way hm i told you i m not myself the atmosphere is thick with ick it s so icky right now that random previously insignificant things provide relief or hope like i saw a baby the other day and i thought holy crap i don t know when i last saw a baby life does go on i m not even a baby person okay we finally hosted bubba and simon and kiki and her husband for smoked meat and cocktails it was wonderful a great time was had by all laughter ruled there were no leftovers and best of all no one fell ill in the weeks after three of us had birthdays they did not entirely suck but they were not party ish which is sad when one is 17 i blind baked some cookies for a woman with dementia her own recipe her family hoped it would provide a happy memory my wheelhouse the woman did indeed find a happy memory she loved the cookies and thought she had baked them herself and doesn t that make you feel all gooey inside also when moo bakes cookies she puts mine in baggies to take to work i began my cookie baking festivities complete with the christmas music i think the lemon curd is my favorite i do not like newfangled christmas music i like old school mostly before my time christmas music if it didn t first release on vinyl with winter art bonus a pop up scene inside the album i likely shout a trail of obscenities at it as i skip it just sayin oh i cannot wait just one more day of work and then four days of yuletide joy bubba s smokin a brisket y all i don t know when i ll write again between the blocks and the photo upload and the number of times i had to close the page and go in again i could scream what s with the delays in the meantime happy holidays and many twinkly lights to you posted in personally 81 comments halloween hello posted on october 31 2020 by joey first things first i still hate the block editor and instead i m coming from edits in my dashboard to avoid it i forget which clever blogger wrote that option but thank you i don t know how long this will be an option but i tried the plug in method and wp told me i have to upgrade to a business plan to access plug ins on an emotional level i find our wp community priceless and on a practical level i truly believe 99 a year for pleasing visuals is enough of an investment for me and my lil blog it s nice when y all write that you miss me i miss y all too i m introverting so hard over here stuck in weariness thick as molasses practicing avoidance good times good times are had they seem few and fleeting we celebrated sassy s 18th birthday with a handful of people in an upscale joint where i drank overpriced but delicious cocktails made of new amsterdam grapefruit vodka combier pamplemousse rose liqueur aperol pineapple lemon and fresh beet juice evidence of the cocktail of our celebration it was a milestone night as along with sassy s age of majority i happily embraced my older woman tendencies by wearing an obnoxiously colorful and shiny jacket recently acquired from the closet of an octogenarian and i got four compliments on it so i am thoroughly looking forward to rocking bedazzled track suits and rhinestone eyeglass frames the size of my head we ve had a long primarily warm fall and no snow all of october and the next week shows some highs in the 60s and 70s wild moo goes to school one day a week for things that must be done physically i drop her in the morning and the mister drives her three more times before the day is done he is working from home and is expected to until at least midsummer 2021 sassy is 100 virtual and lamenting the fact that she chose not to graduate early due to her lack of a crystal ball when designing her 2019 2020 school year i go to work like normal for several months the city paved the street six lane thoroughfare in front of our office and honestly as annoying and inconvenient as it was it was impressive they accomplished such a massive project in such a short time and it sure drives smooth now i took a four day to enjoy all the leafeses sassy and i went to the apple orchard for lunch shopping and goat watching it was a pleasant outing but it was a far cry from how it usually is safety first and all that sometime in the four day i took we went to falls of the ohio i hadn t even known it was a thing but y all it is an awesome thing there s a tiny museum with exhibits i swear usta be in the children s museum and they have a chihuly we walked around for hours looking at the devonian fossil bed moo ever intrepid did her very best to get as far out into the water as she could it was a beautiful perfect fall day and we had a wonderful time i ve worn all my new sweaters from the last post not worn the new jacket yet the eye shadow palette was elf nude rose gold and it turns out only three of the shades work well for me so inevitably i bought my third l oreal paradise enchanted palette because i wear seven of those shades well although not all at once i can t remember if i told you but bubba bought a smoker this summer and he keeps it at our house because that s a no no at his apartment poor us forced to endure smoked meats whenever the smoky mood strikes him one time this fall he smoked a turkey breast i made fries and mac n cheese and peas and gravy that was a damn good day last time bubba came he didn t smoke any meat but he did bring my nephew simon with him and if you don t know my nephew simon is one of my absolutely favorite people on the whole planet i love that kid i made pasta e fagioli and we played board games and discussed the merits of belonging to too many cats and correctly purchasing top loading washers with knobs man i love that kid next time bubba s supposed to bring simon and even more young people i adore there will be smoked meat there will be cocktails there will be laughter something to look forward to is kinda where i live also while in recent years i 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