[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-March 2020 #109191

Hi Adele,
Your meal looks good. I don’t roast veggies a lot-I should do it more. I know Greg liked when I made those Italian sausages with the peppers. I added some mushrooms to mine and put parmesan cheese on the top. We eat the crepes with jelly in them. It was Greg’s Mom’s recipe and that’s how she served them. Last night for dinner we had shrimp cocktail, deviled eggs and a fruit salad with cantelope, strawberries and grapes. Kind of a weird combo but it was good. When I was preparing the deviled eggs one of them was a double yolk. I rarely see them anymore although a few months ago I had two of them in one pack of eggs. When we had chickens we used to get them a lot as the young hens lay a lot of them.
Greg was able to get some yeast from our across the street neighbor as she buys it in bulk so I see some bacon buns in our future.
I know Greg is enjoying the home cooked meals. Sometimes I think it’s the high point of his day as he is always asking eagerly what’s for dinner. lol
Good for Steph making sure that stuff in the building gets cleaned.
You know if you really wanted to read there are large print books or if you have a tablet or kindle you can enlarge the size of the print. I know. Now I’m being Gail the pushy librarian. lol I guess I just wish everyone could share my love of books as when you have a book you are never alone and you can travel places and experience things from the comfort of your arm chair.
I watch Grey’s anatomy but I am about a season and a half behind so I am not current at all. I just finished watching the episode from last year where Amelia and Link were in NY and they went to her sister’s house for dinner and she had Link pretend he was Owen as she had never told her family that she got divorced. I hear that they have stopped filming because of the virus and either this weeks episode or next weeks episode will be the last for the year so there will not even be a big dramatic season ender like there usually is. Pretty soon there won’t be any new shows filming. It’s a good thing that we have a bunch of DVDs that we have not yet gotten around to watching. We don’t subscribe to Netflix but could also do that if we wanted. Plus i just bought a couple of new board games that Greg will probably beat me at. lol So basically I don’t think we will run out of things to do.
Stay safe-stay healthy.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-March 2020 #109188

Hi Colleen,
Yes, there are lots of people doing nice things during this crisis. I watch the Today Show each day and it seems like they make it a point to show people doing nice things each day. One thing they showed was a family in a neighborhood going out and putting up their flag each day and saying the Pledge of Allegiance. Other families in the neighborhood noticed and started coming out to the ends of their driveways to watch and say the pledge too so now it is a neighborhood thing.
I’m sure your home is like ours being out in the country you can go for days without seeing anybody-just people driving by. We are on a dead end road so the only people driving by are the ones who live on the road.
Our neighbor across the street lost his koi to the mink this winter and Greg says he can’t see anything in our pond again so he probably cleared us out again too. I told Greg he wouldn’t have that problem if he had put a swimming pool in that spot instead. lol He didn’t think it was too funny. lol
I saw some other postings of toilet paper gowns and now I can’t remember where. They kind of remind me of the crepe paper gowns for the Milk Day princesses. I don’t know if there will even be a Milk Day this year.
Now the kids finished spring break so I guess they will be starting up on line classes again. I would hate to be trying to help the kids with math as they do all the math totally differently from how we were taught. Even Jenny was taught different from how they do it now.
I like that Aliza calls her school pretty school. That is so cute. She really had a lot to say to you guys if she ran the battery down on the phone. lol
When I get tired of being home all the time I just have to think that going out in public could kill me and that brings me to my senses.
I think of Ann Frank and her family being in hiding for all those years and it makes me grateful that I am staying home within the comforts of my own home and have access to the perks of modern life. Or I think of the people sheltering during the London blitz and not knowing when the air raid was over if their house would still be standing. I worry so much about the health care workers and whether or not they have the equipment to protect themselves and save lives. I worry about my family staying safe. I am grateful that Greg is here with me during this time. Yes, sometimes I want to cry and I wonder why this is happening-I’m human. But we will keep on keeping on and praying that we all come through this safely.
Now that I have depressed everyone when i was trying to be encouraging I will go through my funny pictures and find something to post. lol
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-March 2020 #109141

Hi Adele,
Sorry your time alone was cut short. You must never get any alone time. I’m funny-I am very social but I like my alone time too.
Our governor does not have much love for Washington either. He comes on each day at about 2:30 our time-(right in the middle of GH) On a lighter note when he comes on he also has an interpreter for the deaf doing sign language on the side of the stage. I just love watching that guy as he really does his job with such expressiveness. He is kind of amazing. I wonder if he is interpreting right as the gov. is speaking or if he has the speech on a teleprompter as it looks like the gov. speaks from notes. If he’s doing it impromptu I just wonder how he keeps up-I could never remember all those words and interpret them at the same time. If you ever get to see an Illinois governors update check him out.
So far we are good and have what we need. We probably won’t need to shop again until towards the end of next week.
How is Tillie doing with all of this? I hope she isn’t too frightened.
Greg made crepes for dinner last night. He was going to make waffles but the mix I had in the pantry had a best by date of 2017. it would probably have been all right but I am kind of fussy about that kind of stuff. Then he looked up a recipe online and I didn’t have some of the ingredients so we just went with the crepes-which was fine by me. We had some leftovers for breakfast too. Yum!
Am thinking about what today’s dinner will be. Will figure it out in a bit.
Take Care,
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-March 2020 #109112

Sue,
I saw that about the lady in Pa somewhere online. What a sicko!
People are just going to have to learn to amuse themselves. I’d rather be bored than dead.
Yes, I do miss going out but people have to realize that this is temporary and it’s for the good of all mankind.
I hope you had some ideas to offer your cousin to ease her boredom.
Humans are social beings and I think that is the hard part. But I hope everyone can just be patient and realize that we are all doing this to help each other.
At least we now have social media for people to keep in touch with the world and their friends and loved ones.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-March 2020 #109090

Hi Colleen,
It’s crazy what nutty things people will do. You wonder what they are thinking. By the same token you see people doing nice things for each other too-so I try and focus on the positive as much as possible.
I see where some checkers are getting plastic shields to protect them. That is a good idea. Whatever we can do to protect the people who are out in public is good.
I hear a lot of people are doing tons of cleaning so Kaylee is in good company. I think Kaylee and Lachlin were born the same year. Here’s what Lachlin is doing-staying in his pajamas all day and playing video games. I think screen time limits have gone out the window with the kids being home all the time now. Piper video chatted with friends a few times. Kendall and the girl across the street text a lot. Fortunately the three of them play pretty good together so they do have some built in playmates. I wonder if they will have online classes again after this week of spring vacation.
I’m glad you like the posts. I’m trying to add a little humor to our very serious world situation as it’s good if we can smile and laugh a bit too.
I will keep it up as long as I can find funny stuff.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-March 2020 #109085

Hi DD,
Snowball looks like such a happy girl. I’ll bet you are so happy that you adopted her. Those cat whiskers do tickle.
I think you would be eligible for that check. They were trying to explain who was this morning but i got interrupted and didn’t hear it all. I’m sure you can check online and find out. I can say thank goodness for the internet during this time. It keeps people connected.
I watch the Today show in the morning, updates by the president and the governor and then that’s it. I have to limit my news intake otherwise I find myself becoming overwhelmed.
I’m glad you have been enjoying my funnies. I have been collecting them to post to give us something to smile at.
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-March 2020 #109082

Hi Sue,
I like your joke. That was funny. So I googled how this thing ends. It’s kind of hard to explain but it will fizzle out when enough people get it and become immune after having it where it is not so easy for it to jump from person to person. It may go away like SARS-it could mutate into something that isn’t as bad. There are a lot of scenarios that could play out. It’s probably best just to google it yourself as it’s hard for me to explain exactly what I read.
Ha ha I like that-bartering lasagna noodles for tp. I certainly will never look at tp the same again. Who knew it would become a precious commodity like gold or platinum. lol
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-March 2020 #109017

HI Adele,
The non boil noodles weren’t too bad. You have to make sure that you put a layer of sauce down on the bottom of the first layer and then make sure the rest of the layers has moisture on the noodles other wise they don’t get soft. It was an experience. But not too bad.
Tell Bobby he needs to be grateful that you are doing all this cooking. I have never put tomatoes in stew but every once in a while I will throw in a can of green beans.
I haven’t talked to Brent this week yet. I’m sure he’s gotten over it and hopefully is still working.
I keep hearing that gun sales are way up with this pandemic. Interesting.
So the wheels on Greg’s lawn cart were shot and he couldn’t repair them so he ordered a new one from Home Depot which arrived yesterday. It came in a hundred pieces so thank goodness he had a project to put together yesterday. it kept him busy most of the afternoon. lol
Unfortunately we have all the other ingredients for the bacon buns but yeast. In a pinch we can use frozen bread dough and I usually have some of that in the freezer but we lost the stuff we had when the freezer broke and I hadn’t replenished it. Looked on Amazon which is normally my go to place and couldn’t get any til April 12th. So we will just try again next week.
Keep your spirits up Adele. How is Tillie taking all this? Tell Bobby he can take over cooking duties if he doesn’t like what’s being served. lol
Gail

[Gail Norusis]

in reply to: Quacker Talk-March 2020 #109012

Hi Colleen,
It’s good to know that the Roomba goes easily from the rugs to the hardwood as we have both. I will have to rethink getting one sometime. The worst place is by the kitchen table. I never knew what messy eaters that we were until we no longer had dogs to clean up the crumbs. lol
I am trying to gather whatever funny memes that I can to post to keep us smiling. Laughing really does make us feel better.
It’s a good thing the Dollar Stores are open as Jenny has had to go there a few times to get things that she couldn’t get at Walmart.
I am imaging researchers around the globe are working to find medicines to help or a vaccine to prevent but all of these things take a bit of time.
Greg’s question is how does all this end. Does the virus just go away or do people just keep getting it forever. I kind of wonder the same thing too. Like in China where they haven’t had any new cases for a few days. Where did it go? Will it ever come back. Of all the questions everyone asks I’ve never heard this asked and answered.
Gail

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