I guess if you're drunk enough... That's the beauty of the Orioles games. No one knows what they sound like, and people aren't gonna sit in a stadium doing bird calls for 3 hours.
I found an old picture of my great grandparents at their house in West Virginia. My mother's mother's parents. I was at this house once as a child, so I only have 2 childish memories—all 5 cousins sleeping in various arrangements on one mattress on the floor and lots of cats living under the house. My great grandfather. I saw him once, maybe twice. He died in 1954 He and my ggrandmother had 11 children. Children were second class citizens during that era and didn't speak to adults unless spoken to, so we never spoke to each other.
Ha! Ha! That one is my grandmother's old house. My dad's side of the family. Did you know it is simple to tilt a picture by any degree, up to 45, on the newer smartphones? Either Android or IOS. Notice the chicken house up on the side of the hill in the back.
Thanks for fixing that. I was gonna do it, but didn't know if all your family could afford was the lot on the side of the hill, and I didn't want to offend. Hey, at least it has good drainage.
Speaking of houses, I ran across a picture of the first configuration of the house I grew up in. Probably around 1947. One bedroom, 1 bath. Coal furnace in the basement. Seems like I can remember that rock out front. It must have sat there a long time. So I was told... My parents built this from scratch, including digging out the basement with a wheelbarrow and shovels. By first grade we had extensions on both sides with 2 more bedrooms. I don't have a picture of the whole house again until it went up for sale a few years ago. From the real estate agency. From current StreeView it looks like the new owners are not keeping it up very well.
That's pretty cool, Nancy. There's either a story to that rock ("Took us all morning to dig out, let's leave the memory there") or it was too difficult to relocate. I guess we've all seen the bump-outs & additions over the years. You didn't have to know the owners to see that families were expanding. Quite an era in our history.
Pretty slick. All I could think was that some guy with a remote control could foreclose on you, and there would be no eviction process.
I finally found something I'm pretty good at. Match 3 games. Where you move symbols up or down to match 3 in a row/column. They have online challenges against real people. And I can keep up with them. I figure the game is so simple-minded, only old people and little children play it. There are also bots. When you first get on the bots say, "We missed you!" "We have prizes and gifts for you!" They give you gold bars and coins, diamonds, and little blue energy bars shaped like cameras. It makes you feel special. There is only one challenge per day where you can play against yourself. You can keep playing over and over to increase your score if you like. That's what I enjoy most.
I can die happy now. To the store to get fixings for another chicken pot pie, but forgot to buy the pie crust. Decided one last try at a pie crust from scratch. Used Betty Crocker's recipe for pie crust from 1974. Ran short of shortening and used half butter and half Crisco. I could roll it out almost paper thin and it didn't keep springing back like a rubber band. The Betty Crocker book said when you cook the bottom crust separate, let the dough hang down over the sides of the pan so it can't shrink into the pan. It still shrank but rose up from the bottom instead. Like a little tent covering the pan. The weight of the filling took it back down. It was good. Light and flaky! .. Do you suppose it was the butter?
Perhaps. Saturated fat, like butter and lard always made the Flakiest crust. Crisco is only partially saturated, so it may not be quite as good.
My mother-in-law, who was English , made the very best pie crust in the whole world, and her mince tarts were just awesome. I don’t think any of them ever lasted long enough to get cool unless she baked them when no one else was home. Anyway, she always used lard for her pie crusts, and she said it was much better than using shortening.
They always said add at most 5 tbsp of water to one cup of flour and 1/3 c shortening. I always had to add more than 5 to make it stick together like dough. This time I only needed 4 tbsp! I'm thinking you don't have to add so much water with butter. It could be the extra water made it rubbery. I didn't even bother to keep it cold, like Martha Stewart seems obsessed about.