Hi again

Hello:

How are you doing this late in the week?

The picture is one of my "oh sh..." ones. I have 12 of them so you will see more of them in later posts.

I had tea this morning but I watched Black Coffee on TV, recorded from last night. This episode was on The Perfect Cup, which got me thinking about a good cup of coffee. I made one using my single serve set-up. The coffee is much better this way so I may try making it again tomorrow. I usually use a French Press, which makes excellent coffee but not as good as my single serve set-up.

We shall see how drinking coffee affects my sleeping tonight. Usually, drinking coffee in the afternoon severely affects my sleep pattern.

I spent this day taking it easy after returning from the dump. I still not feel very good, but we shall see how it goes tomorrow.

Tomorrow I am hooking up an older VCR to my TV here. I have a few tapes to watch so I can see them. I have a channel 3 come up on my TV, so we shall see how this will work.

I have a DVR in my DirectTV receiver so I record my TV shows on that device.

It is now past 4:00 pm and I still have had no lunch. I am just not hungry. I ate two pancakes for breakfast and nothing since. We shall see how much dinner I eat.

Write me if you have any questions or comments about what I write here or what I fail to write on this blog.

Steven

H here now...

Hello:

H stands for Thursday; I get this from my time at the U of O. Classes were on M, U, W, H and F.

The picture here is my last picture of the great white shark. Interesting, this top predictor in the ocean. Or at least I thought this to be top predator until on NOVA I saw a great white attacking a seal, but a killer whale snaps on to the shark. Now we know the top predator in the sea.

Last night I felt I was getting a cold, but after 9 hours of sleep I feel better today. I have a headache, something I hardly ever get.

We went to the dump today, to take all of the paint products to the dump. There you go up the building, stay in your car and the clerks take away the paint from your vehicle. They mix it together to get a grey paint they sell there. But you better the correct amount of grey for your needs, as the next batch will be a different shade of grey.

I do plan to take it easy as I am afraid of catching the cold...or worse. It is lunch time but I am not hungry at all.

The rain has started outside.

Steven

Nice day today

Hi again:

The picture tells the story of it.

Today is a very nice day. We took a two hour walk this morning to visit some homes we are considering buying. I will post some pictures later here to show the house we picked to buy once the grant comes in.

Have you gotten a swine flu shot yet? I have the regular flu shot already, but I may not get the swine flu shot. I believe the swine flu is affecting young children and younger adults. I have not heard older people like me getting the swine flu.

I know the years I get a flu shot, I do not get the flu. Those years I do not get a flu shot, I get the flu.

Do you read on a Kindle? If so,write to me to tell me that. I published two books of poetry by other authors. My last book is by the late Raymond Geraths. He was a devout Catholic so many of his poems reflect that faith.

I will send you the link to this book of poetry is you indeed read a Kindle.

Are you enjoying your day today?

Steven

Good morning

Hi again:

As I look at my bookshelf in my office at my home I gaze upon my canned products:

the purple of the prunes
the yellow of the peaches
the white of the sauerkraut
the brown of the applesauce
the green of the asparagus
the yellow and red of the tomatoes
the paleness of the pears

It was indeed a busy summer for me as I learned how to can fruits and vegetables. I do not like sauerkraut, so the canned stuff I give away to my dad and others who like it. My second batch of sauerkraut is fermenting now, and should be ready the day before Thanksgiving. I canned 5 jars of it with the first batch and will get 4 t0 5 more when this one is finished.

I also froze a crate of strawberries and made some freezer blackberry jam, both of which do not show up on my shelf.

The picture is one of the "oh, s...." ones I have here.

My clothes I hung outside yesterday barely got dry after almost 8 hours outside. My flannel shirt did not get completely dry so I had to hang it inside for another 12 hours to get it dry.

I heard yesterday that only 2% of the people in the U.S. plan to enroll in the public option part of the health care plan. So all of that talk in Congress is much ado about nothing.

I hope your week goes well.

Steven

Now on Standard Time again.

Hi again:

I take it all of you turned back your clocks either last night or this morning. I did it this morning, thinking as I was getting up there is something I should do but could not remember it. I finally did remember it.

The Oregon game was so good last night, I count this as a great weekend, even through the hated Beavs won too. But the Oregon win last night was monumental. If the Ducks win the rest of the way, then maybe the Ducks will be playing the big guys for the national championship, assuming others lose another one in the next few weeks. The Trojans gave up only 42 points in all of its prior games, but gave up 47 points just to the Ducks.

One of my cans of asparagus did not seal yesterday. So I put new water in the jar, and put in my canner. It sealed nicely. I must remember to wash off the top of each filled jar with a damp cloth before putting on the lid. I did this and it sealed very fast after taking it out of the canner.

The picture is a triple galaxy. I am amazed the pictures the Hubble Space Telescope takes.

The TV show Lost will not be on until 2010. Now they are advertising it as the Final Season. That is 2 years too early.

The Shaw Parrish breakfast was this morning. I found out where the Knights of Columbus gets it sausage--from a place in Salem on Silverton Road. They buy 35 pounds of sausage for the breakfast, cooking it up Saturday for insertion into the gravy on Sunday morning. Like I have been telling you, it is the best sausage gravy I ever ate. One friend wrote me to tell me she makes better sausage gravy but we shall see later.

The next breakfast is December 6. I will be there as usual. I can eat one big plate of eggs, hash browns and biscuit, covered by sausage gravy. Nolan can eat two big plates of it when he goes with us, but he has not been there this year yet.

That big breakfast is enough for me for the rest of the day.

I was able to hang some clothes outside today, even though it is getting only to 59 (15 degrees Celsius). I will keep them outside for the next 3 to 4 hours to see if the towels and my flannel shirt gets dry.

I plan to take my camera outside this afternoon to take some pictures of the trees turning color.

No trick-treaters last night. Which means I get to eat the Butterfingers I bought for them.

I usually buy some candy I will never eat. Snickers or Milky Ways, for example. I do not like caramel. It is on my "cheese list"; I hate the taste of caramel, burnt sugar in my mind.

Not much else to tell you.

Steven