What's On Your Mind?

[godisagardener]

I've become interested in Indian food. I've been trying out the spices they use -- ginger, cumin, curry so far. I've ordered some garam masala.

For supper tonight I made a quasi-Indian dish, sort of used a regular recipe along with Indian spices. I made brown rice and chicken thighs in the slow cooker. My husband didn't think it was spicy enough, I didn't want to overdo it. But it was really good. A few weeks ago I made lentil and sweet potato soup. Very good!

 

[mourningdove~]

I've become interested in Indian food. I've been trying out the spices they use -- ginger, cumin, curry so far. I've ordered some garam masala.

For supper tonight I made a quasi-Indian dish, sort of used a regular recipe along with Indian spices. I made brown rice and chicken thighs in the slow cooker. My husband didn't think it was spicy enough, I didn't want to overdo it. But it was really good. A few weeks ago I made lentil and sweet potato soup. Very good!

Wow! I admire your energy and ambition ... 'You go, girl!'

 

[mourningdove~]

 

[Rescued One]

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Ditto. I want a shirt like that!

 

[Rescued One]

I've become interested in Indian food. I've been trying out the spices they use -- ginger, cumin, curry so far. I've ordered some garam masala.

For supper tonight I made a quasi-Indian dish, sort of used a regular recipe along with Indian spices. I made brown rice and chicken thighs in the slow cooker. My husband didn't think it was spicy enough, I didn't want to overdo it. But it was really good. A few weeks ago I made lentil and sweet potato soup. Very good!

I made chicken curry in the 70's, but misplaced my recipe after that. I can't tolerate spicy food these days.

 

[godisagardener]

Wow! I admire your energy and ambition ... 'You go, girl!'

Well, I don't think I have either of those two things, but thanks! Just wanting to try something different. Plus my doctor chastised me about my cholesterol, so I'm trying to rectify that if I can. Indian food seems to use a lot of veggies and chicken.

 

[mourningdove~]

Well, I don't think I have either of those two things, but thanks! Just wanting to try something different. Plus my doctor chastised me about my cholesterol, so I'm trying to rectify that if I can. Indian food seems to use a lot of veggies and chicken.

Well, it would take more energy than I presently have, to do what you are doing.
So I guess it all gets down to "Compared to what?" (lol)

Good for you, though, that you're working to improve your health.
Our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit.
To take care of our 'temple', would seem to be a good thing!

 

[Rescued One]

Oh, dear! What can go wrong will go wrong!

Daughter brought me a new TV. She hooked it up. Wonderful daughter! I paid her. I HATE, HATE, HATE the new TV. I HATE the remote, I HATE the programs, I HATE my isolation. I'm grumpy. I'm depressed.

Dryer only about (maybe less) five years old; stopped working yesterday. Riding mower died this year; still paying for new one.

Still have friends on Christian forums! You are my lifeline!

 

[godisagardener]

Oh, dear! What can go wrong will go wrong!

Daughter brought me a new TV. She hooked it up. Wonderful daughter! I paid her. I HATE, HATE, HATE the new TV. I HATE the remote, I HATE the programs, I HATE my isolation. I'm grumpy. I'm depressed.

Dryer only about (maybe less) five years old; stopped working yesterday. Riding mower died this year; still paying for new one.

Still have friends on Christian forums! You are my lifeline!

So sorry to hear that! Seems every time they make a new model of something, it's harder to understand and make work. Technology is supposed to make life easier, but the creators think everyone is a genius. Everything says "plug and play" but its just the opposite many times! Is it a "smart" TV?

We had to get a new TV last year. All we found were smart TVs. We ended up buying one and it didn't work at all. No picture. It was SO smart! We returned it and got a ROKU TV which we like fine, but my husband hasn't mastered the buttons.

Things don't last these days do they? They're often not made well. The new washers and dryers I've seen lately all have computerized this and that. Guess we need to go back to wash boards and clothes lines!

 

[mourningdove~]

Guess we need to go back to wash boards and clothes lines!

I vote 'NO'!

(When I was a little girl, we had a wringer washing machine!
Oh my, the women sure did work hard back then!!!)

 

[Rescued One]

I'm LOSING my mind! My daughter came over and "pared" or "paired" my voice TV remote with directions from the company. So I had my favorite channels until I fell asleep. Now they're GONE!

 

[godisagardener]

I'm LOSING my mind! My daughter came over and "pared" or "paired" my voice TV remote with directions from the company. So I had my favorite channels until I fell asleep. Now they're GONE!

What brand TV is it?

 

[Rescued One]

What brand TV is it?

Roku. But my Xfinity voice remote had to be changed to work apart from Roku. No offence to anyone who likes Roku. In the mid nineties my husband got cable and paid Comcast which became Xfinity Comcast and we've had it ever since with a voice remote. I simply press on a key that has a microphone symbol and state the name of the show I want to watch. I have favorite shows I've watched every day for years. My local news and weather was one (Roku weather is in Nashville]. I like to know local news. So now I can use my Xfinity remote, but first I have to scroll though umpteen icons to get to the one that takes me to my cable channels. Then I can finally speak to voice remote and go straight to anyhing I want to watch. But if I turn off the TV, I have to go through the whole rigamarole again. I didn't know that a lot of people don't have voice remotes. I thought it was fairly common among the middle class. While I was growing up my mother had a black and white portable TV. My first stepfather made her get rid of the limed oak TV set that my Dad bought in 1954. When my mother divorced our stepfather, she bought a TV after having gone without. A lot of people had color TVs in the sixties. Mother was always pinching pennies to move to another location.

 

[godisagardener]

Hmm. Our Roku TV remote includes voice commands, but we never use it that way. I feel funny talking into a remote. Had never heard of a voice remote before that. I must live a sheltered life.

Sounds complicated. As for weather, there are a number of channels on Roku. We use Weather4us. It's free but usually has a commercial. You just enter your zip somewhere. It has local forecast and radar. And we watch Weather Nation which is set up by zip too I think. Plus over the air on four channels, and if we miss that they have their own apps on Roku and we can watch that for local news and weather. And all that sounds complicated too!

The first TV I recall my parents having was a big square wooden one, with four short legs. It took forever to warm up and when it was turned off it fizzled to a white dot that finally faded. Those were the days!

 

[Rescued One]

Hmm. Our Roku TV remote includes voice commands, but we never use it that way. I feel funny talking into a remote. Had never heard of a voice remote before that. I must live a sheltered life.

Sounds complicated. As for weather, there are a number of channels on Roku. We use Weather4us. It's free but usually has a commercial. You just enter your zip somewhere. It has local forecast and radar. And we watch Weather Nation which is set up by zip too I think. Plus over the air on four channels, and if we miss that they have their own apps on Roku and we can watch that for local news and weather. And all that sounds complicated too!

The first TV I recall my parents having was a big square wooden one, with four short legs. It took forever to warm up and when it was turned off it fizzled to a white dot that finally faded. Those were the days.

My cheapo Roku was $175 at Target. Dau. didn't ask me where to shop or how much ro spend.

Your parents' TV sounds funny. LOL. Dau. remembers getting up and turning the knob to change the channel; that faded from my memory. It took me some time to get used to talking to my remote, like when I had to leave a message on an answering machine.

 

[Rescued One]

I vote 'NO'!

(When I was a little girl, we had a wringer washing machine!
Oh my, the women sure did work hard back then!!!)


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I don't remember any wringer washers anywhere in Florida. But I'm sure people had them. Grandma's washing machine was on the back porch. Grandpa also installed a drinking fountain on the porch. The water was ice cold.

 

[mourningdove~]

My grandmother had a Bendix washer:

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I don't remember any wringer washers anywhere in Florida. But I'm sure people had them. Grandma's washing machine was on the back porch. Grandpa also installed a drinking fountain on the porch. The water was ice cold.

I bet that cold water tasted real good in the summertime in Florida!

 

[mourningdove~]

Hmm. Our Roku TV remote includes voice commands, but we never use it that way. I feel funny talking into a remote. Had never heard of a voice remote before that. I must live a sheltered life.

You sound like me ... I have the ability to do so, but I don't want to talk into the remote.
(Call me old-fashioned! lol)

The first TV I recall my parents having was a big square wooden one, with four short legs. It took forever to warm up and when it was turned off it fizzled to a white dot that finally faded. Those were the days!

Yes. Those were the days!

But those old tvs were kind of dangerous, too, if the tubes got overheated.
When I was young, we had a tv that caught on fire inside ...

Envision this:
My parents both carrying the hot, smoking tv out of our house and onto our front porch in the middle of the nite ... while waiting for the Fire Department to arrive!

Porch floor got burned up abit, and down in the basement under the porch, too ... but at least there was no damage to the interior rooms of the house. We did live with the yucky smell of smoke for awhile, down in the basement. We didn't have fancy room air filters back then ... our 'air filters' were the open windows! lol

 

[Rescued One]

You sound like me ... I have the ability to do so, but I don't want to talk into the remote.
(Call me old-fashioned! lol)


Yes. Those were the days!

But those old tvs were kind of dangerous, too, if the tubes got overheated.
When I was young, we had a tv that caught on fire inside ...

Envision this:
My parents both carrying the hot, smoking tv out of our house and onto our front porch in the middle of the nite ... while waiting for the Fire Department to arrive!

Porch floor got burned up abit, and down in the basement under the porch, too ... but at least there was no damage to the interior rooms of the house. We did live with the yucky smell of smoke for awhile, down in the basement. We didn't have fancy room air filters back then ... our 'air filters' were the open windows! lol

Jeepers!

 

[Rescued One]

I'm depressed. I HATE my TV! HATE IT! Whoever invented it hates me! I was able to watch Xfinity for a while, now I can't. I'm in my late seventies, can't drive and only have accesss to the world on the internet and sometimes not even the internet. My daughter stays extremely busy, goes out of town a lot and has a busy social life. Life is insane!

I used to pray: "God make my life a little light within the world to glow."
Now I'm just a mess.

God, make my life a little light
Within the world to glow;
A little flame that burneth bright,
Wherever I may go.

God, make my life a little flower
That giveth joy to all,
Content to bloom in native bower,
Although the place be small.

God, make my life a little song
That comforteth the sad;
That helpeth others to be strong,
And makes the singer glad.

God, make my life a little staff
Whereon the weak may rest,
That so what health and strength I have
May serve my neighbors best.

God, make my life a little hymn
Of tenderness and praise;
Of faith that never waxeth dim.
In all His wondrous ways.
(By M. Betham-Edwards}