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ost road through the woods but there is no road through the woods five years ago jefferson barracks posted by kathy g at 9 07 00 pm 18 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday april 21 2026 another challenge concluded remember my experiment with cooking lupini beans i am happy to announce it was a success ready to enjoy after soaking cooking and changing the water in the beans twice a day for an entire week yesterday i completed the final step a salt water brine soak this morning i tried a bean then i tried another they were firm and had a chewy texture almost like edamame the brine lent just enough salt i asked hubby tony to try one again he went for a second and we agreed that we liked them so now what in the mediterranean area lupini beans are eaten as a snack they re high in protein and fiber and low in fat and carbohydrates my experiment will keep for one week refrigerated or can be frozen for up to three months that s good to know because the pound of dried beans i started with expanded to halfway fill a three quart bowl it will take some time to get through them in other news this week s spring forward challenges were start reading a new book later in the week i have an event coming up that will require a lot of sitting so before then i need to load a couple of light summer reads onto my tablet any suggestions plant a favorite herb or flower i was sorry to have to pass on this one for now before moving into the condo i used to have a lot of plants now the sunlight on the deck is too strong for shade loving plants and not strong enough for sun lovers and the cats like to nibble on anything i grow inside so i don t the bonus challenge was to play a game in the aarp games center i looked at what was available and decided that none of them were better than the games i already play so i will pass on this one five years ago a happy coincidence posted by kathy g at 12 50 00 pm 30 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday april 18 2026 yikes on thursday i got a text from the company that issued the charge card i use the most it asked me if i had made a recent purchase at a restaurant i haven t eaten at in months instead of replying to that text i went to the company s website and found out that there were actually six purchases i hadn t made one of the charges was in my area and the others scattered around the country my account had been hacked stockvault i couldn t click the button to say i didn t recognize the transactions fast enough the company let me know they were cancelling the old card immediately and would send me a new one they assured me i wouldn t be responsible for any of the unauthorized charges i spent the rest of the afternoon remembering all the companies that had the card on file for automatic purchases and giving them the new card number i will be so glad when the promised nondescript envelope with my new card shows up the middle of next week but until then i ve had to cobble a plan together so far i ve accidentally used my bank debit card once fortunately the account had enough money in it to cover the transaction and the other times i ve pulled out a secondary card five years ago today go away posted by kathy g at 12 55 00 pm 32 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday april 15 2026 goose intimidation it s the middle of canadian goose mating season here and the birds can be aggressive and territorial hubby tony and i were walking home from the grocery store yesterday when i saw a pair of geese the female was on top of a retaining wall where i assume there was a nest the male was keeping watch on the sidewalk below her i was walking on the other side of the two lane entrance to the strip mall but after i snapped the photo the male still hissed at me after passing the pair i stopped paying attention so when i rounded the corner at the street i almost ran into the second pair of geese standing on the sidewalk once again i got hissed at and the male started toward me i had to quickly step out of the way five years ago take me out to the daytime ball game posted by kathy g at 8 56 00 pm 33 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday april 13 2026 some challenges started and some achieved i had two spring forward challenges this week and a bonus activity waiting for me in my inbox yesterday the challenges were try a new recipe from another culture or order takeout from a place i haven t tried before and try an online stretch dance or yoga video the bonus activity was to clean out a junk drawer or closet i am an adventurous cook and eater and there isn t much i haven t tried before but i decided to finally tackle preparing the lupini beans i bought a couple of years ago at a local italian grocery store the reason i never got around to cooking them is that when i got them home found out that unless they re prepared in a specific manner the beans are bitter and toxic due to alkaloids the elaborate preparation involves soaking for 24 hours cooking on the stove for 60 90 minutes rinsing with water putting in the refrigerator for 5 7 days and changing the water a couple of times a day soaking for 24 hours in a salt brine so far i have soaked and cooked more will be revealed on this project the vast majority of days i meet my 10 000 step goal and i go to the gym four times a week for a group class so i really didn t feel the need to add anything however in the spirit of trying new things i took a look at the ymca app and discovered they had a pretty robust selection of on demand videos i picked a spinal mobility stretch which was just challenging enough and finally the bonus challenge was just what i needed to get around to posting the pile of things in my office to the buy nothing facebook group this afternoon and make a pile of old tax papers from three years ago that i can shred on april 15th five years ago today taking care of business and more posted by kathy g at 7 48 00 pm 27 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday april 11 2026 i admire an optomist a funny from a friend jacob considers himself to be one of the lucky ones because he s the only one of his family to have survived two years in a nazi concentration camp he s now nearing 90 and his only remaining joy is the lottery which he s been playing for years without success but then he wins a big one a prize of 10 million dreamstime a journalist calls on him for a story jacob tells him as i m the only one in my family to have survived the concentration camps this has helped me decide how to make use of my large win i ve decided to donate 5 million to the save the children fund 3 million to the simon wiesenthal center 750 000 to the jewish museum 750 000 to hadassah hospital and 500 000 to be shared amongst my friends i m also thinking of donating 1 to the nazi party from my winnings the journalist is surprised but jacob how can you think of donating even 1 to the nazi party after everything that s happened to you and your family jacob rolls up his sleeve points to his arm and replies it s only fair they gave me the winning numbers free svg five years ago today time to sleep posted by kathy g at 7 34 00 pm 12 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday april 9 2026 poor guy on my post two days ago about no housekeeping day jj left a comment asking if part of my free time included extra lap time for foster cat smokey joe sadly the answer to her question was no since he came to live with us last november smokey joe has been treated for parasites fleas fungus and worms some of them more than once his positive feline immunodeficiency virus fiv status means that his immune system is weak making him susceptible to infections and secondary skin issues for example at the beginning of the year hubby tony and i found several bald patches on the cat s skin after a couple of trips to the vet and a couple of medicines everything healed up but the issue came back this time thick scabs covered the bald patches when one of the scabs fell off there was an angry red sore underneath so on tuesday once again the cat made a trip to his least favorite place the vet examined him and let us know we should restart the medicated wipes and shampoo we had discontinued she also said that if the problem continued she would suggest a veterinary dermatologist who knew there was such a thing phylopic when smokey joe finally made it home he seemed happy to be in his space but even though tony was sitting on the couch the cat took his sweet time jumping up on his lap however once he was there he didn t want to leave my turn for a lap cat came after dinner when smokey joe curled up and didn t leave until it was time for me to go to bed and for him to eat posted by kathy g at 8 00 00 pm 25 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday april 8 2026 first challenges accomplished if you remember this week i was given three spring forward challenges the first was to try a new type of drink or snack i haven t tasted before i had fun walking through an international grocery store and looking at how many of the items were new to me in the end i got a canned soursop drink and a bag of scampi flavour fries i have heard of soursop before and may have even seen it at the asian market i frequent but had no idea what it tasted like the internet told me that the flavor could be likened to a blend of strawberry pineapple and coconut or banana with a slight citrus tang the drink i purchased contained 25 percent juice listed second in the ingredient list behind water but before sugar when i got home i followed the suggestion on the can to shake it well to blend the flavors i normally don t drink things with added sugar so this one was very sweet to me but overall i liked it based on my experience i would even consider buying soursop fruit google told me the scampi fries was a mainstay of british pubs the bag said it was a scampi and lemon flavour cereal snack with an ingredients list that started with sunflower oil so i knew they wouldn t be diet friendly other ingredients listed included wheat breadcrumbs maize and seasonings the pillow shaped pieces were delicious with a slightly fishy lemony taste i was going to save a couple for hubby tony but ended up eating the whole bag myself the second challenge was to reach out to a friend i haven t heard from in months i started by going through the contacts on my phone and got temporarily distracted from my task by deleting a handful of names i didn t recognize but eventually chose to text a woman i had met through one of my daughter in laws i think i ve seen her once since brian and nicole moved to california in 2014 but this week our series of back and forth texts caught both of us up the third bonus challenge was to start a gratitude journal i have done this on and off over the years but for some reason this time i ve had trouble remembering to write down things i m grateful for tomorrow s outcome may be different though in the meantime i am enjoying hearing the birds chirping outside when i wake up a couple of minutes early and think about what i m thankful for five years ago today botheration posted by kathy g at 4 32 00 pm 26 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me kathy g welcome thanks for visiting my blog i live in kirkwood missouri a suburb of st louis with my husband our three boys are all grown and out of the house two of them living out of state we have six grandchildren and also have a foster cat who keep us amused with his antics view my complete profile my original blog kathy at 49 blog archive 2026 63 april 14 step up and show up forty trips around the sun a poem for earth day another challenge 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