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Awesome idea! They would need to be effective ones for me to feel safe using them, though. Most of the decorative ones I've seen don't measure up to my safety standards. At least double layer cotton, with either a pocket for inserting a blue shop towel filter, or sewn in washable interfacing, is preferred. My mask maker, Susan's Sewing,Embroidery, and Digitizing on Facebook has done bulk orders. I'm uncertain whether she can get custom printed material with the GottaDeal logo, though. You would have to discuss that with her. These are bulk masks she made for the military. I prefer the sculpted form fitting masks, but sizes need to be specified for those. If the link doesn't work, you can do a search on Facebook for the page, select the one with the profile picture which says "bubby."

*nod* While I haven't followed K-mart in recent years, as there are no longer any near me, I hope as the originator of opening on Thanksgiving Day sales (that I know of), that they decide to follow suit, and that remaining closed on Thanksgiving Day is the norm moving forward. Let us get our deals online early, and allow us and the retail associates to enjoy the holiday at home with their families.

Got home about 7:30 pm PST. OR ran two and a half hours behind, so although I was taken back to preop pretty much as soon as I checked in at 11 am, I wasn't brought back to the OR until 3:30 instead of 1 pm. Recovery was a little difficult coming out of it, so took about 2 hours, rather than 1. But I'm home now and finally having something to eat, other than the apple sauce and graham crackers I had in recovery. Thanks for the good thoughts and light sent my way!

Some good vibes sent my way requested around 1:00 pm PST as I'm put under to go through biopsies of yet two more different areas. Hoping they come back clean, but that answers to why I had symptoms once several months ago are explained. Right now we're fishing in the dark. I don't know if I'll be allowed my phone in preop or recovery; usually my roommate has been with me prior to my procedures and holds on to my phone once they put me out. But due to visitor restrictions this time, I don't know if I'll be allowed my phone. So, if not, I'll see y'all on the flip side.

A friend of mine had a procedure done yesterday, and I asked if there was anything I could fix for her, since currently visitors are discouraged. She asked for a plain and a rainbow challah. When I went shopping for the m&ms, I saw both milk chocolate and dark chocolate m&ms. I asked her husband which she would prefer, and dark chocolate it is. My recipe makes 3 challot, so I asked my roommate what type of challah she would like, and she suggested a cinnamon swirl. I haven't done that type before, so that loaf was an experiment. I used a different challah recipe than the one from CHABAD I usually make this time. If my roommate's cinnamon swirl challah is any example, this one is much more tender than the other one. 4-strand braid cinnamon swirl challah. The strands are rolled out in to a rectangle and then layered with cinnamon butter before rolling them up jelly roll style. Then they're braided. I did four, as I found dividing the butter in to four equal parts to be easier than dividing in to five or six. I had some butter leakage while baking, so the bottom baked up soggy, hence putting the cooling rack over newspaper. However, the caramel on the bottom firmed up as it cooled. The inside of the cinnamon swirl challah. I think the leakage may have occurred due to one of the jelly roll braids not staying sealed. But, the flavor is awesome. 5-strand braid plain challah. 6-strand braid rainbow challah. It's been awhile since I've done 6-strand braiding; looks like I need to practice it a bit more.

I agree with online deals only. However, the companies need to really up their reliability and fulfillment ratios on orders compared to previous years to keep the good will of Black Friday shoppers.

Be sure to be absolutely clear on the method before beginning. The first time I did it, I brought the water to a boil and then added the gelatin before stirring and adding to the oil. It still cleaned the oil I used, but wasn't as effective as I thought it would be. I realized my mistake the second time, and it worked much better. As Kenji says, don't be surprised by some bubbling and popping when you first heat the clarified oil. It is leftover water burning off, and soon dissipates.

Yes. It works a treat

My one piece of advice, since I only deep fry turkeys on occasion, so have never owned an electric deep fryer, much less one with built in filtration, is to check out this awesome hack for cleaning deep fry oil over and over from Serious Eats. A Mind-blowing Technique for Cleaning Deep Fry Oil

I have finally seen my first comet! Too faint for a photo with my phone, but my roommate's binoculars brought NEOWISE front and center!

Happy Independence Day to all in the US, and citizens of the US visiting or residing elsewhere! I think this is the first time in several years I didn't hear any home fireworks/fire crackers go off the night before. We'll see if that carries through tonight. (I am a native born US citizen, but I find this meme funny...)

Rabbit! Rabbit! Rabbit!

It's a good thing I appreciate my roommate's humor. So, I had my initial consultation with a new endocrinologist at EvergreenHealth today. Of course, I was screened for Covid-19 symptoms as I entered the building from the parking garage and given a sticker I never looked at designating I've been screened to put on the left side of my chest. I still had the sticker on when I came home. George took one look at the sticker and started chuckling. "What?" I asked. "I'm just thinking about two years ago," he replied. "What about two years ago?" In response, he reached over, pulled off the sticker, and showed the woman who had a double mastectomy in June of 2018 the sticker she was wearing on her left reconstructed breast which read... "Flatten the Curve" *snort*

*cross posting* Some good news... National Cancer Survivor's Day #NCSD2020 #CelebrateLife

Earworm time... (although I do wish these meme creators would spell things correctly) It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day I was out choppin' cotton, and my brother was balin' hay And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat And mama hollered out the back door, y'all, remember to wipe your feet And then she said, I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge Today, Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge And papa said to mama, as he passed around the blackeyed peas Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense; pass the biscuits, please There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow And mama said it was shame about Billy Joe, anyhow Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge And now Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge And brother said he recollected when he, and Tom, and Billie Joe Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night? I'll have another piece-a apple pie; you know, it don't seem right I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge And now ya tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge And mama said to me, child, what's happened to your appetite? I've been cookin' all morning, and you haven't touched a single bite That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge And she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge A year has come and gone since we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe And brother married Becky Thompson; they bought a store in Tupelo There was a virus going 'round; papa caught it, and he died last spring And now mama doesn't seem to want to do much of anything And me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge I think the way Bobbie Gentry handled the simple scene was absolutely amazing. The way she said so much, with so little, and managed to capture that callous nonchalance to Billie Joe's suicide is pretty close to perfect.

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In remembrance of all who served and gave the ultimate sacrifice... Happy Memorial Day!

A couple of days late, as it was this past Saturday, but... Belated Happy Armed Forces Day to all *currently* serving and their families!

I think it will depend on when, and how safely things open up. The general public has a short memory. If things open up safely by late July/early August without a spike causing retail spaces to lockdown again, I believe many may risk going out by the end of November for in-store deals. However, if things don't start to reopen until mid-September, or even if things do but schools remain closed and switch to online learning for the first half of the school year, I think that constant reminder will keep people home, and retailers will have to switch to online offerings. If such happens, my personal thought is deals need to start showing up by Halloween, as retailers will be slammed and any hope of receiving shipments in time for Chr-stmas will need to be spaced out. That's if the unemployment rate can recover with safe reopening, and people have the income to shop the way they have in the past.

That's beautiful.

Really? Perhaps I am more aware of them, having raised a son on the autism spectrum and having to explicitly teach the concepts to him. Read and learn if I piqued your curiosity. The concept goes back to at least Epicurus.

Being a 60-year old 3 time separate cancer thriver, I'm a stickler for social distancing. On the rare occasions I do need to go in to a grocery store, I diligently adhere to the one way aisles, and patiently wait 6' back if someone in the aisle I'm on is stopped to make their selection. I expect social contracts to imply the same behavior from others, not enforcement by store employees or hired security. It aggravates me immensely when others do go the wrong way on aisles, or pass me and others by while we make our selections when there isn't 6' of distance to safely do so. If an aisle is empty, and one is at the closer end to an item one needs, I can see darting in to grab the item. But, leave the aisle in the proper direction, and if someone correctly enters the aisle at the same time one enters from the wrong direction, the one in the wrong needs to exit the aisle on the proper direction and make their way around. We need to protect each other. Being inconvenienced by such details is part of that.