Mikiesboy

Thanks Thorn... I think a lot of people hide behind clothes..

Thanks, Wayne for sharing this.

i am home .. but off to bake some blondies .. back in a bit.

Welcome to GA, Mike ... you're welcome here. I look forward to reading your work.

it's really easy .. just dont make a large amount because they aren't properly canned and don't keep more than a month in the fridge.

Always Sir..hehe

Okay my lil DiC-adees .. time to visit the shrink and then get my long locks cut off ... Michael does not approve of long hair ... back a bit later..

You're a bad man. LOL

OH, i better rephrase that ... Michael does cook. When i changed my hours at work i knew i'd not be home till 6pm. His hours are flexible, so He often preps things or even cooks it all or else we'd not eat until 8pm.

i have and yes.. amazing. i love food ... i try to blog about it.. cuz it's not a good thing in the DiC...LOL Haha...they'll be ready for your soon.. Yay Your husband!! Mine just eats what i make.

I was out with Michael last week, in a local grocery store and while He was looking at poppadoms ... i wandered off. Wow, i found pickled garlic. Pickled garlic if you've never had it, is a wonderful thing. Delicious with a steak, a good sandwich or served with antipasto or just cold cuts. But i digress, this store, which has ideas above its station, had small jars of pickled garlic on SALE for $7.99. I mean if there were two full heads of garlic in there i'd be surprised. The regular price is $10.99. Mmmm, i wanted some. But this boy is not paying that price. Fresh pickles are a glorious food. They are still recognizable as what they were. Cucumber still has it's clean flavour, onions are still aromatic and garlic is garlic just mellower. I often quickly pickle some red onion to have with burgers or on curry. You only need a few hours, the produce of course, and a few basic ingredients. Things like mustard seed, fennel seed, whole black peppercorns, red pepper flakes, red or white vinegar and some sugar. All those are nice but i often don't have them, well except the peppercorns (always grind your own pepper!!). So i make the pickling liquid from what i have.. sometimes water, vinegar, pepper and sugar. If i have whole seed mustard i add a bit, or even just some ballpark or Dijon... just a teaspoon or so. Pack your sliced onion, or cucumbers or nice garlic (buy the freshest you can find) peeled of course into a heat proof jar. Pour the pickling liquid over the top. Put on the lid and stick it in the fridge. In a few hours... heaven. There is a basic recipe below but add a bay leaf and a couple of peppercorns if that is all you have in... I'd recommend dropping the garlic cloves into a bit of boiling water and cooking for 3 minutes. Then pack in a heatproof jar. Then add the following to small saucepan and boil until the sugar disolves. Then pour over your garlic: · ⅔ cup water · ⅓ cup white or red vinegar · ¼ cup sugar · 1¼ teaspoons kosher salt · ½ teaspoon whole black peppercorns · ½ teaspoon mustard seeds · ½ teaspoon fennel seeds · ½ teaspoon crushed red pepper Refrigerate the jar(s) for up to a month. But don't keep it... eat it!! The above can be used for any pickled vegetable. These need to be in the fridge and eaten. They will not last like your jar of Vlasics !! Enjoy ... Make your own food!

dont forget Janka ratings ... very important.. it was a good chapter !

it's a great word: Fine ... it can mean so much, hide a lot, like your pic here.

aw A ... we all love you. and worry too .. like you do about us. xox

-15C /5f here .. hi of 28f today.. but Sunday will be 5C/41F .. woohoo ..

remember.. give em the finger (mentally, not literally) and you ARE a range rover ..

You done good, C.

I always wrote free verse .. i still like it .. but there is something .. freeing.. when you make yourself work within a form, within it's frame work. It's hard. It really is .. but once your 'get' meter .. it's a part of your poetic side and it's in everything you write. Working within a form forces you to be more creative.. to hunt for words to make it work and be right. It's a challenge and i really like it now. If you're going to, then do the prompts in order.. it's worth the work.

shard noun | SHAHRD Definition 1 a : a piece or fragment of a brittle substance; broadly : a small piece or part : scrap b : shell, scale; especially : elytron 2 : a fragment of a pottery vessel found on sites and in refuse deposits where pottery-making peoples have lived 3 : highly angular curved glass fragments of tuffaceous sediment Shard dates back to Old English (where it was spelled sceard), and it is related to the Old English word scieran, meaning "to cut." English speakers have adopted the modernized shard spelling for most uses, but archeologists prefer to spell the word sherd when referring to the ancient fragments of pottery they unearth. Other specialized uses of the word shard include a sense referring to the thick front wings in beetles that protect a hind pair of wings and another sense used for the highly angular curved glass fragments of a type of volcanic rock formation.

The Prompt: As we are studying the rhymical back and forth of poetic lines, let’s approach the exercise as a thought vs. feeling experiment. For each of the following topics, create at least one stanza of poetry (say a minimum of four lines per stanza). You want to explore the thoughts versus emotions you had during your: - Last visit to the doctor’s office - Last Valentine’s Day - Last funeral you attended - Last wedding you attended - (guys only) Last clothes-sh

yes, Sir... more rest is good.. i hope A is sleeping too .. and i wont be much longer... Good night Sir

are you sure, droughtquake .. are you really ... really sure?

Nope.. i'm not writing that story either.. LOL