A Friday Chat ( about this and that )

Last week while we were at the nursery picking up plants and flowers - John stopped all of a sudden and started pinching at my neck ( just under my chin )

I swatted him off

Suzan says - Do you mind?
John says - There's a long one growing there !
Suzan says - PLEASE !  Not in public
John says - Here - I'll get it - stand still
John says - It won't come out - and now it's curling like a pig's tail
Suzan says - Thank you - thank you very much
John says - Let me try again
Suzan says - LEAVE ME ALONE - THERE'S PEOPLE ALL OVER THE PLACE
John says - Fine - you want to just leave it there blowing around - fine
Suzan says - Blowing around ?  How long is it?  Oh My God - I can't take it any more !  Can it actually blow around?
John roars..........

We got to the cash to pay - and his hand flew out of nowhere...........

John says - Ta Dah !  Got it !
Suzan yells - Ow !  Are you nuts????

The cashier looks at us and smiles.

John says - Hold on - there's another one
Suzan says - between clenched teeth - If you come anywhere near me with your fingers again today I'm going to knock you out with the rose bush..................
John says - It looks like you have a rose bush growing under your chin.

I'm going to speak to a lawyer next week - he's crossing a line now - really.

Did he really get that hair?
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind..........
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We ordered in Chinese last week.
Is that politically ok to say?
Or should I call it Eastern Cousine?

Suzan says - did you eat this as a kid sometimes?
John says - Never - it wasn't big in Yorkshire
John says - But when I turned 16 we started going to an amazing Chinese restaurant
Suzan says - What was your favorite ?
John says - Well I didn't eat the food
Suzan says - You went to a Chinese restaurant and didn't order the food????
John says - No - but their soups were out of this world.

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?

Suzan says - Well when I was a kid - on the fifth time you ordered you got a small but fancy
John says - If I hear the story about the red lanterns again.

But it's true !!!
He loved the soups?
I loved the little battery operated red lanterns - does anyone else remember them?  They were red silk with gold tassels and I think they hung on a little stand.
My bedroom looked like a 6 year old brothel.

Later when we cracked open our fortune cookies...............

Suzan says - Mine says I should buy whatever I want - life is short - as I quickly crumpled it up
John says - Mine says I should golf twice a week - every week - life is short - as he quickly crumpled his up.

Neither of us verified what the other's said
But I think John made his up
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We' got trouble
Trouble with a capitol T
And that rhymes with P
And that stands for Pool...................

I wanted to have it opened professionally this year.
John wanted to save the money ( 250.00 or so )

And so we bought the chemicals
And we bought more chemicals
And then we bought even more chemicals - and couldn't get it cleaned.
We bring samples of the water to the Pool Store and they put it in a computer and tell us
" you need to buy this - that - and half the store "
We buy this - that - and half the store
Still not sparkling clean
We go back -
Well you probably have to have your sand changed.- the expert tells us.

I wanted to have it changed professionally
John wanted to save the money.

We changed the sand - for polished glass ( because we're very posh like that )
WHAT A NIGHTMARE OF A JOB !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
( and I don't think it had to be done at all - the sand did not look dirty )

The pool is still not sparkly clean.

John's off with another sample this morning........................
We're now over the 250.00 it would have cost to clean it professionally.

Oh we got trouble.
Trouble with a capitol T
And that rhymes with P
And that stands for Pool..........................
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WIKIPEDIA

Pressure cooking is the process of cooking food, using water or other cooking liquid, in a sealed vessel, known as a pressure cooker. Pressure cookers are used for cooking food faster than conventional cooking methods, which also saves energy.

Pressure is created initially by boiling a liquid such as water or broth inside the closed pressure cooker. The trapped steam increases the internal pressure and temperature. After use, the pressure is slowly released so that the vessel can be safely opened.

Pressure cooking can be used for quick simulation of the effects of long braising or simmering.

Almost any food which can be cooked in steam or water-based liquids can be cooked in a pressure cooker.

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The above is meant for food - not a life style - just saying.
Even if life sometimes feels similar -

I beg your pardon.................he never promised me a rose garden 

Yesterday the both of us felt like we were in a pressure cooker - and POP - the steam was too much and we exploded.
All over each other.
In the garden.
Over planting a rose bush.
One minute we were smiling at each other and discussing where the rose bushes should go and how beautiful they'd look next summer when they'd spread a little - me with a little dance because I was so excited - John leaning on the hoe - chuckling at my tap dance  -  and the next moment rose petals were flying all over the place and we were angrily pointing fingers and raising voices.

along with the sunshine - there's gotta be a little rain sometimes

It was NOT a Bon Jovi moment -
Lets just say he didn't want to lay me down on a bed of them.
He wanted to bury me with the rose bush ( he made the hole big enough anyway )
Only one got planted - the other one came precariously close to being tossed over the fence into the neighbor's yard.
A gift so to speak - to go with the free I LOVE LUCY episode they got to hear.

And for some reason today - I don't love rose bushes quite as much as I did yesterday.
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I was so upset that I decided I was never going to cook him another meal.
Done.
Over with.
Finito
But I've had time to cool down and now I'm thinking I'm going to make him his favorite supper tonight.
Just because at the end of the day

You've got to give a little - take a little
And let your poor heart break a little
That's the story of
That's the glory of 
Love

You've got to laugh a little, cry a little
Until the clouds roll by a little
That's the story of 
That's the glory of 
Love

As long as there's the two of us
We've got the world and all it's charms
And when the world is through with us
We've got each other's arms 

( the better to strangle you with my dear )
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You got 4 songs today so YOU get to choose which one sticks in your brain

Okay - gotta run - there's another &$^#*@&^$)  rose bush to plant :)

Suzan says - You all have a beautiful weekend
Johns says - See if anyone wants a rose bush

Hugs,
Me