DON'T FORGET

Daylight savings time starts in the United States tonight. So before you go to bed....turn your clocks forward one hour. This is also a good day to replace the batteries in your smoke detectors.

Remember~ Spring forward and Fall back.

I'm Home !

I'm home from the hospital. I was finally discharged about 9:00pm tonight by the time all the paper work was completed, it was shortly after 10pm when I actually arrived home to a kitty that has eaten next to nothing since I left here Thursday about 11:30am. Bob put food out for her but she wouldn't eat....

Monica came to the hospital this evening with two bouquets of beautiful flowers....which came from my dear friends in Bloggerville. Thanks to Monica for coming up to see me and thanks to all of you for your prayers & kind thoughts sent my way.

I have a ton of emails & I won't be able to get to them tonight but will read them this weekend. I'm absolutely exhausted....someone was in my room doing something about every 45 minutes last night and today so I got very little rest. Tonight I feel like I've been in Jimmy's Area 51 for about 7 days~non stop.

By the way in case you think I worked some sort of magic....I actually did my Food Friday entry for today a couple weeks ago. I just wrote it and scheduled it to post this morning.

Thank you all again from the bottom of my heart!

FOOD FRIDAY

Pork Chop Casserole

one 6 ounce package of long grain & wild rice mix

2 cups hot water

four-six 1/2 inch thick pork chops (trimmed)

one can of condensed Cream of Mushroom soup (undiluted)

1/2 cup milk

Combine rice, seasoning packet from rice mix & hot water. Stir thoroughly and pour into 13 x 9 inch baking dish. Place pork chops on the rice mixture. Cover and bake for 1 hour at 350*. Meanwhile combine Cream of Mushroom soup and 1/2 cup of milk, stirring well. At the end of the 1 hour baking time, uncover pork chops and cover with soup mixture. Bake uncovered casserole for another 15-20 minutes or until heated through.

Mandolin Rain

I will be humming this song for days, I found this version on YouTube. Not Scott's version but he did an amazing job and I hope he goes far on American Idol.

You Have To Be Older To Remember These......

Yesterday, we (the gals from my high school graduating class) had another potluck luncheon. One of the gals brought her old scrapbook and she had the page from the paper that featured a picture of our 1960 high school graduating class. That was fun to see and I've borrowed it & made some copies.....but another interesting thing was the ads in this section of newspaper.

For instance; Geraniums, 3 inch pot for 19 cents each, hanging Fuchsia baskets for 98 cents each and a Stratolounger for $89.88.

One of the things that really caught my eye was this ad for a Spindrier.

My mom had one of these. It was the first washing machine she had after the wringer washing machine. It was a real big deal when this came into our utility room. It not only washed & rinsed the clothes but then spun them , so it didn't take them a long time to dry. Much like our washing machines do today. Although this had to be filled with water and drained into a laundry tub. We did not have an electric dryer so it was important for them to have lots of the wash/rinse water spun out of them. We had indoor clothes lines in the attic (dad made a stairway out of the utility room up to the attic and there were ceiling lights up there. It was like a big empty room with just clothes lines) and of course there outdoor lines for fair weather drying.

Like I said, only the older readers may remember these contraptions. In 1962 when my daughter was a baby, my first washing machine was a wringer washer, along with laundry tubs in the garage, with clothes lines outside and wooden dryer racks all over the house for bad weather drying. Today I feel blessed to have a wonderful washer & dryer inside my house, convenient anytime of the day or night.

P.S.~After reading Gerry's comment I remembered that in 1960 while living in my first apartment, my room mate & I either hauled our laundry about 10 blocks to a laundromat or used a scrub board that my grandmother had given me, in our bath tub to wash our clothes. That's when I bought the first of my wooden drying racks.

GOLDEN GIRLS

For those of who who loved the "Golden Girls' ~they are running a 'Golden Girls" marathon on the Hallmark Channel today. I understand there's going to be 18 hours of this great old TV show running today.

SQUISHED PENNY'S

Actually they are called "elongated" penny's but I just like saying the word "squish." LOL ! There are also machines for squishing dimes and quarters too but I've never seen them. If you're interested in locations of machines that squish penny's just check out the following web site. It even shows International locations.

The Penny Collector web site will show you all the machines they are aware of.

When we go somewhere, I refer to this list and have even printed them out for the states we have visited. I was really hoping there would be one at Whistler, BC but there wasn't. And since we didn't go clear into Vancouver, BC I wasn't able to get one there.