Our first Christmas Tree casualty. Bailey, Dane of Destruction. Homemade gift I’ve had since just out of high school. Goofy dog.
Tossing around ideas for my Christmas Eve party and settled on lasagna this year. It will once again be gluten-free using specialty noodles. Excited to have our traditional party in the new house.
On the board:
- Spinach Lasagna
- Tossed Salad
- Garlic Bread*
This recipe takes about an hour to prepare and another hour to cook. It easily serves 6 – 8. I will make it a day ahead and refrigerate. It will need additional cooking time to bring center up to temperature.
Spinach Lasagna
Sauce:
- 3-15 oz cans tomato sauce
- 2-6 oz cans tomato paste
- 14 oz can diced tomatoes
- 2 tsp oregano, crushed
- 2 tsp basil, crushed
- 2 tsp crushed garlic
- 1 medium carrot, peeled & finely grated
- pinch of sugar (reduces acidity of the tomatoes)
- Optional: ½ lb ground beef and ½ spicy Italian sausage, browned
Saucepan
Add all ingredients to saucepan on medium-high, stirring constantly until it begins to boil lightly. Turn to low and let simmer while you prepare the remaining ingredients.
Lasagna:
- 1 pkg lasagna noodles (16 oz), cooked and placed in cool water until layering
- 16 oz ricotta cheese
- 8 oz package frozen spinach, thawed or 8 oz fresh, washed and dried
- 1 egg
- 12 oz sliced mozzarella cheese
- ½ cup parmesan cheese
13×9 baking dish (I prefer glass), lightly oiled
To prepare: Mix ricotta, spinach and egg until well blended. Ladle a layer of sauce on the bottom of the baking dish. Cover in a single layer of noodles. Ladle sauce over noodles. Spoon ½ of the ricotta mixture evenly (if you place large dollops evenly like putting cookie dough on a baking sheet, fairly close together, it will spread as it cooks, no need to smooth it). Layer 1/3 of the mozzarella over the ricotta. Repeat: noodles, sauce, ricotta, mozzarella, noodles. On top of the last layer of noodles, add remaining sauce, mozzarella and parmesan cheese.
Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes, uncovered – I like to place the baking dish on a baking sheet to catch any spills as it bubbles. Place knife through the center, if it comes out heated through, remove and let stand for 10 minutes before cutting and serving. If it needs more cooking time, you can cover with foil to keep the cheese from burning and cook 10 more minutes. Let stand uncovered before serving.
Garlic Bread
*I’m going to purchase a gluten free loaf (we have a great local bakery for that) and I’m also going to make this Slow Rise recipe. Making the garlic bread is easy. I slice the loaves in half lengthwise, melt butter, add a healthy amount of crushed garlic and brush liberally on each loaf half. Then I top with shredded mozzarella and Parmesan. Broil until cheese is melted and bread is golden brown. Slice and serve.
Tossed Salad
I try to change it up each year, and I don’t know how I’m going to do this time. Maybe spinach/raspberry or a veggie toss with romaine.
Next up: Dessert Menu
Hillary Rettig
Is he a Good Dane? No, he’s a Great Dane!
Gin & Tonic
Excuse me, but two teaspoons of garlic? Who are you kidding? Do you want flavor, or do you not want flavor? I’d put half a head in this, easy.
Baud
We can rebuild it. We have the technology.
Pogonip
I love spinach lasagna!
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: that made me so sad; I’m such a softy about old handmade things!
Mnemosyne
We set the (artificial) tree up last night and put the lights on. We’re going to see if it gets knocked over before we attempt ornaments.
Also, that “Bitter Yuck” anti-chewing spray seems to be much more of a deterrent to humans than it is to cats. Just sayin’.
raven
@Mnemosyne: We had a big unbirthday/holiday party last night and I was exhausted all day!
JPL
@Mnemosyne: Even though the boys are grown, and on their own, I still hang bells on the tree. It came in handy when my son’s cat was here though.
Mnemosyne
@raven:
I had three work parties in two days last week, and I had to organize two of them!
raven
@Mnemosyne: Yea, the lady texted me about 4 and said she wouldn’t be home for dinner! Another party I assume.
TaMara (HFG)
@Mnemosyne: I thought I was safe with only unbreakable ornaments this year. Yeah, right.
Were there photos from the meet-up? Did everyone have fun?
Roger Moore
@TaMara (HFG):
I know BillinGlendaleCA took a bunch of pictures, so you should check with him. I think everyone had a good time; at the very least, nobody got up to leave in the middle.
raven
The mantle with magnolia leaves.
rikyrah
I pretty much love anything if it’s in a lasagna. Yum???
Corner Stone
That second one down from the top, the one with the googly eyes. He’s fucking horrified and screaming, “Where is my junk!? WTF have you done to me, you animal?!”
Major Major Major Major
@Corner Stone: looks to me like he’s thinking “really, Reggie? Again?”
Larkspur
@TaMara (HFG): Yes. Go to JC’s “Angry River” post of December 18, then scroll down to comment 98, which is where BillinGlendale posted a link to his meet-up photos. Identification of the participants is slowly revealed in subsequent comments.
Corner Stone
@Major Major Major Major: He’s the clothespin model for Edvard Munch’s famous painting.
NNNOOOoooOOOOooOOOOooo!!!!
Aleta
My mom’s Christmas Eve salad:
Break the seeds out of a pomegranate or two.
Mix with torn-up spinach leaves (newly washed to rehydrate and patted dry).
Just before serving, toss with a fresh dressing of olive oil shaken with lemon juice, a crushed garlic clove and a bit of salt.
Looks like Christmas in a wooden bowl.
Corner Stone
Look at him. He’s going into shock and may need to be stabilized.
Larkspur
@raven: There is an image in the mirror! Is it a real person or a manifestation of some spirit? The decor is lovely, btw.
raven
@Larkspur: LA Meetup pics.
raven
@Larkspur: One of our wonderful neighbors.
Corner Stone
@Aleta: Does anyone actually eat pomegranate seeds? I am scared to death that damn armor clad Samurai is going to show up if I have one in my house.
Major Major Major Major
@Corner Stone: my favorite emoji this week has been ?, incidentally.
debbie
@raven:
Very pretty! Glad there isn’t an elf on a shelf on the mantle.
debbie
@Corner Stone:
I’ve eaten many and no samurai have shown up. Be brave.
Yarrow
Don’t have anything planned for Christmas Eve. Might get with my dad. Might stay home. First Christmas since my mom died earlier this year, so kind of a hard one. :( Will be with my dad on Christmas day and again with extended family on the 26th. Not sure I have the energy for the 24th. Will see how it goes.
Larkspur
@raven: Thank you. I oughtn’t to have made TaMara(HFG) work so hard to find three darn pix.
@Aleta: That salad sounds beautiful and delicious. Would it ruin the effect if I added some crumbled feta cheese? I could pretend it was snow or something.
Corner Stone
@debbie: No brave. No brave. You’re the brave!
raven
@debbie: We have this one that got for the Iceberg Swim last winter but she hid it!
Aleta
@Larkspur: sounds amazing. I don’t think they had feta cheese during her formative years. The garlic was radically cross-cultural.
Corner Stone
Chris Hayes is the softest POS garbage motherfucker on TV.
Baud
@Corner Stone: I switched.
Corner Stone
He’s getting cutoff on his own fucking TV show! Repeatedly!
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: @Corner Stone: what’s going on?
Larkspur
@Yarrow: Best wishes to you. I have a friend whose husband died earlier this year. It’s her first Christmas without him – and their 51st wedding anniversary is the day after Christmas, so very hard, even though her children and grandchildren are close by, thank goodness.
Aleta
@Corner Stone: Belushi? (He’d be a good ghost of christmas past.)
NotMax
If have never tried them, the no-boil lasagna noodles really do work well. Only thing to be mindful of is avoiding overlapping the edges of the noodles, as they expand while in the oven and the parts touching one another might not cook properly.
Probably going to splurge with a standing rib roast for the holiday. Possibly a simple spinach kugel as a side.
2 pkgs. frozen chopped spinach, thawed, thoroughly drained
8 oz. noodles, cooked al dente and drained
3 eggs
3 cups sour cream
¼ cup butter, melted
¼ cup onions, chopped, sauteed
Salt and pepper to taste
Optional: Couple dashes ground nutmeg
Mix everything together and pour into a greased mold or baking pan. Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 1 hour.
Can substitute cottage cheese, creme fraiche or ricotta for the sour cream (increase # of eggs to 4) and add parmesan and some diced or shredded muenster for a more faux quiche result.
Plan to use the brand spanking new silicone lasagna pan with the kugel.
Aleta
@Corner Stone: Belushi? (He’d be a good ghost of christmas past.)
Larkspur
@Corner Stone: I’m not watching, but although I like Chris Hayes, I want to buy him a big NancySmash hammer for Xmas. I know he doesn’t want to be an asshole, but times like these demand it.
Corner Stone
I have lost all respect for Chris Hayes, if I ever had any. He is getting steamrolled by Sarah Isgur Flores.
She has eaten his fucking lunch from top to bottom. How do you go home after this and look yourself in the mirror?
She just lied all over his show and he ummm huh,,uh,,,umm.,hhhuuhhed through the whole fucking segment.
Major Major Major Major
Apparently thanks to the moon, tonight will be the darkest night of the past 500 years. A fitting coda to 2016.
Larkspur
@NotMax: Mmm, kugel. Sounds wonderful.
ThresherK
Anyone have success using regular lasagna noodles with added water in the tomato sauce, and not boiling the noodles first?
Since our move I can’t find the one tattered index card I used to use. There are a few things out on the intertubes but I can’t test them all.
NotMax
@Corner Stone
Pomegranate tree less than a dozen steps from the front porch. Hate, hate, hate trimming that sucker. Large, almost surgically sharp thorns on the branches.
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: Eggroll skins. They’re just big, square pasta sheets. They are the easiest thing to use for lasagna. Also manicotti, canneloni, ravioli, torteloni, and tortelini. If you’re not going to make your own pasta, then using the eggroll wrappers and wonton skins are the best way to go.
Corner Stone
@NotMax: Any Samurai to be seen?
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: What the Deity, and my ancestors, is a spinach kugel? Potato kugel? Tracking. Noodle kugel? Tracking. Spinach kugel? Not tracking.
justawriter
My mom had a unique recipe for garlic bread. We lived in a place that made West Virginia look like Paris, so she got a lot of her recipes from “women’s magazines.” I think the pictures made the garlic bread look bright yellow, and butter back in the 60s was pretty pale, at least in our neck of the woods. So she made a puree of butter, yellow mustard and garlic salt and buttered the bread with it before using foil to wrap the loaf of supermarket “french” bread (that we brought back from the “big” town 40 miles away) and baking it. Now I call it German style garlic bread and it is surprisingly good. Now I puree fresh garlic and add a little salt, but it’s basically mom’s creation. She had a lot of improvised dishes that stood the test of time in our family. This will be my 40th Christmas without her.
debbie
@raven:
Smart lady!
Adam L Silverman
@Corner Stone: She does it every time she’s on with him. She also tries to do it with Joy Ann Reid, but Reid has far less tolerance for it. Isgur Flores’s politics are a tribal affiliation. She will defend anything and everything a Republican does as vehemently as necessary regardless of facts or norms or ethics or anything else.
Yarrow
@Larkspur: Thanks. It’s hard for my dad – they were married a long time. It was fairly sudden, so something of a shock. We’ve all been adjusting. It’s also been a year of many other losses. I think I attended more funerals in the first six months of 2016 than I have in the last decade. Just brutal. Then some other bad stuff – health issues, job losses. I can’t count the crappy stuff anymore, it has been so bad. And then Trump elected. This year sucks. I wish I could feel that 2017 will be better, but I don’t. I think this year was the preview. 2017 is the main course.
Lalophobia
@Yarrow: Don’t know whether I consider it good or bad my mom went just before the holidays. In some ways I think it’s good, because I have stuff to distract me, and with Thanksgiving and Christmas, there are people willing to let me come over and eat. And food was very good while I was nervous about coming by it until the benefits came.
Adam L Silverman
@ThresherK: Eggroll skins/wrappers. Get them in the dairy case at your local grocery store. They’ll be over by the bean sprouts.
Adam L Silverman
@justawriter: Roast a head of garlic slowly. When its done, let it cool. Then puree the garlic cloves with butter and kosher salt to taste. Spread on French bread or Cuban bread or whatever type of bread you want to use.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Mnemosyne:
G has a chewing problem?
Yarrow
@Corner Stone: Chris Hayes isn’t strong enough to stand up to a lot of people, from what I can tell. Need more Joy Reids and fewer Chrises – Hayes, Matthews.
Steeplejack (phone)
@TaMara:
What was that object before it was broken?
Corner Stone
Can someone with a Twit account ask Chris Hayes why he pussed out so hard during that segment? He got his fucking ass kicked and shut the F down. On his own show.
Adam L Silverman
@Steeplejack (phone): What they do in their private time is none of our business.
Mnemosyne
@Adam L Silverman:
Piker. The uncle we’re having Christmas dinner with makes his pastas from scratch and hand-rolls them. Plus he’s making either a standing rib roast or a pork roast, he hasn’t decided. And about a dozen side dishes, for five people.
I have to decide what to bring for dessert, but I’m a little intimidated and it’s a long drive, it will probably be something served at room temperature.
debbie
@efgoldman:
Rats, that would have made great stocking stuffers for the Trumpster brothers I want to piss off.
JMG
Excellent menu!!! This has been a tough Christmas for me. My Mom died on Dec. 4th. She was almost 93, had a great life, had all her three sons and many of her grandchildren and great children see her before a death that’s as painless as hospice can make it. And the preceding sentence doesn’t help a bit. Still hurting. My daughter’s home from France and my son will come out from Boston for the Christmas weekend. That makes it better. A little.
I am very glad for knowing all of you.
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
Delectable.
Mnemosyne
@Steeplejack (phone):
The stuff flakes off onto your hands. It is quite unpleasant.
Yarrow
@Lalophobia: Glad you have good friends who are supporting you through the holidays. I’m not sure there is a good time of the year to lose someone. I think all the “firsts” are hard.
I was consumed this year with caring for everyone under the sun, including my neighbor’s cats (twice a day) while she was out of the country. I had to juggle that while dealing with life and death health problems in my own home and help my dad with his health issues and grief. I don’t really know how I did it. It was like this all year. And just when I would think I was catching my breath another truly awful thing would happen. I’m tired.
Adam L Silverman
@Mnemosyne: I stated the following:
A lot of people are not going to make their own pasta, no matter that it really isn’t difficult. So if you’re not going to make your own, why mess with the dry stuff when you can use square, flexible, fresh mass produced pasta sheets?
Mnemosyne
@efgoldman:
Most people I know who have the Elf on a Shelf spend their time subverting it. The kids wake up to find out what mischief the elf has been getting up to while unsupervised.
SiubhanDuinne
@Corner Stone:
I fear Proserpina/Persephone.
Yarrow
@efgoldman:
I used to love going to Christmas Eve services, but haven’t been in a long time. We’re not doing presents this year. Too hard. Will probably look at some donations to some worthy organizations.
Adam L Silverman
@JMG: Sincerest condolences.
Mnemosyne
@Adam L Silverman:
I’m just saying, go big or go home.
Plus bragging that I don’t have to cook this year, just drive to where the cooking is.
Yarrow
@JMG: Sorry for your loss. Lost my mom earlier this year, so have some idea of your emotions. It is some comfort that you know she passed easily and was well cared for and loved by family to the end. Still such a loss.
SiubhanDuinne
@JMG:
I’m so sorry for your loss, which I know is still raw. I’m glad your mom had what sounds like a peaceful transition, with loving family surrounding her, but it’s always really tough on the survivors and that’s just the plain truth. May your extended family, and lots of good memories, help you through the season.
Baud
@Corner Stone:
NotMax
@Favorite trick for extra garlicky goodness is to first peel garlic cloves. Slice one in half, lengthwise, then rub the cut side over the crust and bready part of the partially sliced loaf before brushing on garlic butter. Repeat with as many cloves as it takes to do the entire loaf (2 will usually suffice, 3 if they’re smallish).
Baud
@JMG: I’m very sorry.
Gin & Tonic
@Mnemosyne: I think we’re going to make one of these. Then I have three weeks until my annual physical to get my cholesterol back down.
SiubhanDuinne
@Yarrow:
My sincere sympathies to you, and to everyone who has suffered the loss of a loved one his year. The first holidays (birthday, anniversary, etc.) are always rough.
NotMax
@Not Max
Whoopsie. That was meant to be Adam L. Silverman.
Adam L Silverman
@Baud: Strangely I’m not seeing that on his timeline.
debbie
@JMG:
I’m sorry. My mom died so painless I wasn’t even sure she had died. But you’re right, it’s no consolation. Hope you find peace in the holidays.
Elmo
Reading the thread, I’ve now lost track of those dealing with loss both recent and distant. So for all BJ-ers who are grieving, my condolences and best wishes. It does get better.
My mom died in Jan of 1991, when I was 24. My dad died on Dec 14 2012, the day of Sandy Hook and also my birthday. This year – my 50th – was the first since his death that my birthday felt like something to celebrate.
But it does get better.
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: Are you trying to imply that I look like a clove of garlic?
Baud
@Adam L Silverman: Fake news is in! Get with the program.
Mnemosyne
@Gin & Tonic:
I wouldn’t be surprised if we get something like that, because my uncle is Boston Italian. We won’t know for sure what dinner will be when we get there, except delicious. He’s a great cook.
Yarrow
@SiubhanDuinne: Thanks. It has been a really rough year. My dad’s birthday was days after my mom’s passing. Just awful for him. We did what we could to help but it wasn’t easy.
Iowa Old Lady
It seems to me a lot of Juicers have had a bad year, not even counting the election. I hope all of you find some peace and joy over the holidays.
Yarrow
@efgoldman: Oooh…I don’t know how you could play brass instruments outside for any length of time in freezing weather. Brrr…
TaMara (HFG)
@ThresherK: Yes, but I also like Adam’s idea.
@Steeplejack (phone): A reindeer.
Everyone’s recipes look really good. What’s a kugel?
And to everyone suffering loss, my deepest condolences. [[hugs]] This is a good place to hang out when you need some support.
mai naem mobile
@Corner Stone: I love pomegranate seeds but it’s a lot of labor and sometimes they’re too tart and sometimes they’re perfectly tartly sweet.
Yarrow
@Baud: I hope people start separating out the different types of “fake news.” Propaganda, disinformation, etc. They’re all different and with different reasons and purposes. I think “fake news” turns it into a joke and makes it easier to wave away. We already have words like “propaganda” and “disinformation.” Why aren’t we using them?
Lalophobia
@Yarrow: They were my sister’s friends, who she was able to convince I wasn’t crazy and dangerous.
I couldn’t imagine having to take care of other people right now. My job ended up being making all the phone calls and cleaning up the house and guarding said house (to various levels of success) from our bipolar narcissistic dad who left 8 years ago but believes he’s entitled to everything she used to own, while my sister handled the financial stuff.
I need to get the hell out of this house, because as long as I’m listening to a 63 year old throw screaming tantrums about how dumb his kids are and how much we hate him because we won’t come live with him (rather live in a box) on a semi regular basis has made it hard to grieve and think clearly about what my next step is going to be.
Aleta
@Adam L Silverman: But … then what do we use to wrap the sacred holiday eggrolls a la wonton?
Baud
@Yarrow: “Fake news” has a different flavor from propaganda and disinformation. Propaganda doesn’t have to be fake at all. Disinformation doesn’t necessarily involve masquerading as “news.” And “fake news” is simply what people know about now.
Corner Stone
@Baud: Oh, baby! I need a smoke and I don’t even smoke cigs. Thank you, Baud. Thank you.
BillinGlendaleCA
@TaMara (HFG): You rang? Photos(3) from the meetup.
ETA: I see I’m a day late and a dollar short, everybody’s already answered your question. That’s what I get for going out and taking sunset pics and feeding the dogs.
Corner Stone
@TaMara (HFG):
Isn’t it where…one…continuously…squeezes…nebber mind.
Yarrow
@Lalophobia: Wow, that sounds rough. Be sure to take time for yourself so you can grieve. I hear you, though. It’s hard when you’ve got so much else to deal with. I have had so much responsibility on my plate this year, I’m not sure I’ve been able to grieve my mom. Losses came from every direction in every way I can imagine. I think I’ve got PTSD from this year.
Adam L Silverman
@TaMara (HFG): A noodle kugel is a noodle pudding/casserole. Usually sweet. It contains egg noodles, raisins, sometimes tinned fruit, and either cottage or farmers cheese or another soft, crumbly, neutral cheese with sugar and cinnamon. A potato kugel is a ground/mashed potato casserole. They originate in Eastern Europe, specifically the Pale of Settlement. In Lithuania they are called keegels, not kugels because of a vowel shift. In the US they’re traditionally considered Jewish (comfort) food. I’ll try to dig out my grandmother’s recipe from the Denver Jewish Alliance Cookbook and post it at some point. In the meantime, here’s more info:
http://toriavey.com/toris-kitchen/2012/05/sweet-lokshen-kugel/
(lokshen means noodles in Yiddish)
http://toriavey.com/toris-kitchen/2011/07/vanilla-noodle-kugel/
http://toriavey.com/toris-kitchen/2016/04/passover-potato-kugel/
Adam L Silverman
@Lalophobia: Sincerest condolences.
raven
@BillinGlendaleCA: I thought I’d help. It would be nice if there were names with them mugs!
Yarrow
@Baud: I know “fake news” is what people know. I think it’s imprecise and serves as an umbrella phrase for various types of things we already have words for. I think it also sounds funny, which makes it easier to dismiss.
TaMara (HFG)
@BillinGlendaleCA: they were great photos. You guys look terrific.
Iowa Old Lady
@TaMara (HFG): A kugel is a kind of coffee cake shaped like a wreath.
When the guy who owned the best bakery in town closed down, he bought the house next door. The first Christmas, all his old bakers came over and baked kugels, which he passed around to all the neighbors. Best neighbor ever.
ETA: Wait. I take it back. That was a kringle. A kugel is like a noodle pudding thing. We don’t get it here but when I lived in Detroit, the delis sold them.
NotMax
@TaMara (HFG)
A goyische upbringing can be so constrained. ;)
Kugel>
Adam L Silverman
@Aleta: Eggroll and wonton skins. They’re not going to run out.
Adam L Silverman
@Corner Stone: Actually, yes. In Lithuania kugel is pronounced keegel. I had a great aunt that pronounced it that way because her family was originally from Lithuania.
TaMara (HFG)
@BillinGlendaleCA: Well, now you owe me sunset and pet pix.
Yarrow
@efgoldman: Yeah, but the marching band doesn’t play continuously. it’s stop/start throughout a game and then the halftime performance. They get breaks from playing throughout the game and can warm up a bit if necessary. A band playing Christmas carols for passers-by is going to play nonstop until they quit. That’s what I was talking about. I think that would be cold, especially for brass instruments that themselves are cold. Hard to keep your embouchure in freezing weather. Your face freezes!
Adam L Silverman
@efgoldman: You can do that too. I’ve seen and had parve (non-dairy) noodle kugels. I know someone down in Miami that actually puts crushed frosted flakes on top of their noodle kugel. It works surprisingly well.
Yarrow
@Iowa Old Lady: I just bought a square of noodle kugel at the prepared foods counter at the supermarket today. I’m not cooking dinner. Letting them cook it for me.
Iowa Old Lady
@Yarrow: Sounds delish.
Aleta
@Yarrow: I remember that Christmas. For me it was bleak.
NotMax
@efgoldman
If memory serves, RI also has the oldest synagogue in the country.
Hoary childhood yuck:
Why was the merger of Stop ‘n’ Shop and A&P called off?
The stores were going to be called Stop ‘n’ P.
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax:
http://www.tourosynagogue.org/
JMG
Thank you all for your kind words. I feel strange, because it’s not like me (or my WASP family) to admit bad stuff can happen, but maybe being here is helping with that.
Yarrow
@efgoldman: That sounds awesome! Smart!
Adam L Silverman
@JMG: Let me guess: your family crest is a stiff upper lift surrounded by the motto “suck it up buttercup”.
Aleta
@Major Major Major Major: >Darkest night in 500 years<
An omen that forecast the decline of the Roman Empire? : )
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud:
Chris better stay away from Trump then.
Aleta
@Yarrow: flute sticks to your lower lip
Culture of Truth
You should keep the ornaments. They have even more character now.
Adam L Silverman
@Major Major Major Major: @Aleta: From The Book of Oa:
http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Blackest_Night
BillinGlendaleCA
In moderation cause I quoted Baud, my bad.
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
Pelt the Guardians with lemons, grapefruits and bananas and they’ll surrender right quick. :)
Tbone
So how do I change that bread recipe for high altitude?
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: Doesn’t effect the Guardians themselves and the yellow weakness was a result of Parallax being bound within the central battery on Oa. Once Parallax was purged the constructs are no longer weakened/susceptible to anything yellow. Rather, fear weakens the constructs of specific Lanterns. Hence the statement of each ring when it chooses its new bearer: “you have the potential to overcome great fear”.
Denali
@Lalophobia,
Hang in there. Hoping things get better.
Aleta
@Adam L Silverman: IIRC, that’s what the Romans said too.
Adam L Silverman
@Aleta: Possibly. My Latin is very, very rusty.
Lalophobia
@Yarrow: It’s like, first that, then the election. So on top of taking care of the aftermath of losing of loved one, while we’re trying to deal, we’ve got to hear stories everyday about how bad things are going to be.
*sigh* I think the best thing we can do is find ways to make time for ourselves. I’ve had days with my sister and her friends where we forget about everything and just do something fun. As soon as I’ve sorted everything out (what goes to charity, what we’re going to keep) and I’ve made it out of this place to a new permanent address we’ve got set up, I’m going to take the time to just….exist, for a little while. Just let my feelings catch up with me, because I’ve spent the last couple of months outrunning them, and not wholly willingly, either.
If you can, remember to set aside some times where it’s just you. I’ve been surprised by how much doing that can help when I’m able to do it. I’ve spent a lot of my time feeling and thinking things for other people; setting aside time to just selfishly want and prefer and enjoy and rage and despair has been surprisingly relieving and can even be liberating. But that’s just me, and again, that’s if your able to.
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
DC has had so many reboots; I’ll stick with the classics, thanks. What age is it now in comics? Tin Age? Styrofoam?
seaboogie
A Great Dane walked by our shop on Saturday, and I was like “Whhaaaaaa was thaaat?” Finn was a gorgeous deep gray color, and so HUGE! Apparently he came from Germany.
Now, we also have a miniature horse named Peanut Butter that gets strolled by our joint every day. Apparently Finn and Peanut Butter met, and Finn was the definitely the larger of the 2 – what a magnificent fellow he was!
seaboogie
@raven: So pretty – and I love your pottery and porcelain.
seaboogie
@Aleta:
That made me laugh…thanks!
TaMara (HFG)
@Tbone: Sorry, I had to go back to work so I didn’t see your comment until now – I don’t know your altitude, but I’m at about 5280 and it works great. The slow rise seems to counteract any of the high altitude issues.
TaMara (HFG)
@seaboogie: Blue Euro Dane, most likely. Bixby was suppose to be Blue, but love his soft black coat.He is also a Euro Dane – much heavier and broader chest than Bailey will be. Though she might just be taller than he is when she’d done growin’
seaboogie
@TaMara (HFG): Thanks…I’m remembering your tales of training Bixby on the leash. Finn’s mistress is a very petite lass, and she was walking him once as a younger pup when he espied another dog on the other side of the street, catching her unawares. He took off and she ended up on her back, dragged across the street. I think she lost some skin in the episode. Amazing animal to behold tho’ – and glad to have met a Bixby-esque dog for context for your posts.