What's on your Tuesday Menu?

Good Tuesday Morning Gang. Today is the start of another heatwave here in the great Northeast. I'm in the scale house nice and comfortable with the A/C. We have a mid-year water wash on boiler 1 today just a routine maintenance thing it shouldn't even take 24 hours and the boiler will be back on-line. When I got out to the scale house I noticed the outbound scale guardrail was leaning in apparently overnight when we got a lime delivery the driver hit it and pulled it out of the cement.

Had another great night at the Y. Irvin was set and ready to go when I got home from work. I did a hike through the Costa Rican rainforest while he did weight machines and the stair stepper. We then hit the lap pool and finished off in the hot tub. I forgot how many muscles one uses while swimming, but I was able to do a total of 24 laps.

QOTD: Do you ever "invent" a food? I've started making what I call a breakfast salad bowl on the weekends. It consists of butterleaf lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, avocado, cottage cheese, soft boiled egg and homemade sausage. Very tasty and filling.

B: coffee and 2 soft boiled eggs

L: salad with 2 chicken salad stuffed peppers

D: grilled chicken burgers

30 minutes on the treadmill and then swimming

Have a great day!!!

My breakfast bowl and my two Hydrangeas. The pink one is finally blooming.

Good morning, everybody!

Apparently, the Greenland Shark has no kidneys. Consequently, when it filters its blood, it does so by sweating the Ammonia and Urea out through its skin. Basically, it sweats what we pee. Because of this , the Greenland shark meat had been considered inedible by humans for many years.

Greenland and Iceland can be harsh places to live, so you can imagine that if a 1,000 pound shark washed up on a settler's beach, that they would try and find ways to process that free protein. Various hanging and pounding techniques were tried but nothing seemed to work. One farmer gave up and decided to bury the stinky shark down by the beach, to at least get rid of the smell. To his surprise, 6 months later, his dogs dug it up and brought it home to eat. With some experimentation, the farmer learned that 6 months of burial followed by some farmhouse hanging led to a semi-edible shark product. Emphasize semi.

To this day, the Icelanders eat this rotten, fermented shark, along with a shot of flavored liquor. They claim that it is great for warding off colds. But let's be clear, it smells like a litter box. Anthony Bourdain described it as the worst thing that he ever ate.

On one of our excursions, they passed out the liquor and fermented shark. I took and overly aggressive sniff and decided, absolutely not. My older son said:

"C'mon Dad, it keeps you from getting colds."

and I said:

"I never get sick, I don't need to eat the smelly shark."

Uh-oh. Pride goeth before the fall.

Two days later I woke up with a sore throat. I'm now on day 12. The worst of chest congestion is over. My eyes are no longer crusted together in the mornings. But I still get tired easily, and there is a least some Coughin' O' The Green every day. Now Marilyn and my youngest have it.

I can't say that I am pining for the fermented shark , though.

QOTD: nothing comes to mind, but your looks great. And of course Emeipie Egg Salad.

Breakfast: Bagel

Lunch: Roast Beef

Dinner: Pasta

Have a great day, all!

Oh no! Feel better Jim.

That is an amazing story about the shark and this cold will make sure you never forget it. I once was invited to dinner with a black family. I always heard them talk about chitterlings and put some on my plate. I took one bite and felt like I was swallowing urine. I walked over to the trash can and put the rest from my plate in the trash. Nobody said anything but I am sure they were annoyed. I just could not eat the rest of the food, which was excellent with those things on my plate. You did the right thing to pass on the shark.

Jim, you may need some penicillin or a steroid to completely get rid of your cold. Hope it resolves on its own.

Sounds to me like you made a good call on the rotten shark. What if you'd gotten food poisoning and missed the rest of your vacation? Sorry the cold has gone through your family. Sounds like you might want to get that chest checked, it could be an infection in there.

Feel all the way better soon!

Oh stinky shark oh stinky shark. LOL I remember seeing Andrew Zimmerman on his bizarre foods show eating it. Now I'm game for trying things, but when it comes to rotted stuff that also stinks yea I'll eat hissing ****roaches first.

Good Morning! I am trying to post before my day gets away from me. It's going to be hot here today too so I will stay inside and be thankful for A/C.

QOTD: I guess I can count Emie Pie's egg salad for those that remember that. (basically egg salad but using cottage cheese and everything but the bagel seasoning.

My menu is the same today and excerise is done with water and vits non track.

Have a great day all!

Ooh, I definitely want to try your egg salad. Sounds like you invented a winner there.

Enjoy your A/C! It is one of the best inventions.

I would have passed on the stinky shark too!

QOTD- My breakfast is pretty much boring, Greek yogurt and raspberries when they are reasonable.

It's supposed to be 93 today, I will try to keep the house cool. I hate closing the blinds and drapes but with a 2 story house it's the only way I can keep my bedroom cool. The A/C works great but to get my bedroom cool the downstairs is almost arctic. I have multiple sensors so in the afternoon I switch to the one in my bedroom so it gets cool. My bedroom window faces East so it gets the morning sun, I hate to deprive the kitties of their sun time so I leave the blinds open. I know spoiled kitties. I honestly hate closing the blinds and drapes, I look out the window and watch the birds. I have large trees around me so there is always something going on.

My wrist is really aching today, I really do need to lower my desk. But I will need help to do it.

I'm struggling with trying to figure out how to retire. Between my Social Security & pension I barely have enough to cover my house payment. I know it's my fault for buying a house, but at the time I didn't realize the payment would be so high. My insurance and taxes have increased so the escrow account cost goes up each year. I also invested money in improvements a new furnace and A/C, I had to extend the duct work upstairs as the only heat was ceiling heat. I also replaced the 4 windows that needed replacing. It's much quieter and stays warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer. At this point I'm not willing to invest any more money in this house. I don't think it will be my forever home, as the stairs and broken bones attest to.

I just keep trying to figure out how to actually retire. I know that I'm not alone in this, but at the moment it seems like an insurmountable problem.

Sorry for the negativity.

Have a great day everyone!

I bought a home that ended up being too much for me to take care of when I started losing strength. At 70 I started having issues with the stairs and had to told on to the railings and pull when i walked up the stairs. I had stairs and some rooms were lower than others. After a few falls and broken bones, I put the home on the market and got a one floor condo. It makes like so much easier to have the issues with the place taken care of by the HOA. I look out the window and see them mowing, trimming, shoveling snow, painting or fixing the roof and I am happy I am not doing it.

I finally retired about a year ago. My bills are lower with the condo, but I was scared to death. You still spend money when you are retired. I now need help with laundry because my washer and dryer are upstairs and I don't want to carry laundry up and down the stairs. I pay someone to clean the house. I sold my car and stopped driving, so I have to pay people to take me to appointments. All things that cost money and that I did not anticipate when I felt stronger.

One thing that might help is that housing has gone up and you might be surprised what you can sell for. Also talk to the bank about reduced interest rates. My nephew go his home loan reduced to 2%. These are all tough decisions so take your time. What I did was retire and then work part time for extra money.