COLD DARK ROOM

[CarolM]

I thought blind baking was wearing a blindfold and using your sense of smell (to tell whether you'd burnt your cakes/pies etc or not,) and your sense of hearing (for the smoke alarm)!

Nahh. It is more like what i do. Read the recipe, estimate the quantities, put it all together, bake and pray it comes out like it should. [emoji6]

 

[Bee62]

They're only human.
Or at least most of them were................

Most of them were ???? Psssst, you can pm me. Have you gotten in contact with some lovely aliens ? Psssssst.....

 

[Kristoff]

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Have I already said that it’s brilliant? Oh dear, not again!

 

[CarolM]

Happy Friday all..

Almost jumped in the truck and went out kayaking again....but not since I have an all day trip scheduled for Saturday. Looks like everyone is busy singing, feeding squirrels, getting kids off to school, drinking heavily or wanting to, dreaming of fossils and stocking up.

Not sure how widely spread this “tree” grows.... but I’m sure many don’t see this type of fruit on their trees.. like the size of American softballs..

Any guesses? I’ll send the ID later... ogh....very humid here already...temps to climb to 93 ish.

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Oh wow. I have never seen that before. What does the fruit taste like?

 

[Kristoff]

Seems you are cheese-blinded. That is a very serious desease ! Please get asap in contact with a doctor who is familiar with this desease. At the end when you take no meds you will see cheese everywhere and everyone will be cheese too.
Even wifey ! I think she is not amused when you try to cut a piece out of her with a knife !

I think “Doctor Who” should be capitalized

 

[CarolM]

Good morning Carol!

Good Morning, Good Afternoon and Good Evening Heather. Hope all is dandy on your side of the world.

 

[CarolM]

I am wishing you the best of luck.. but also warning you.... it seems that when or if I even touch ANY kind of plant, it dies. I tend to heart beats & hubby does the foliage. (He’s gone right now or I would have got him to cut the pieces).. but it will make me feel really great if you can get one to root for you. I’ve boxed them up and will send out UPS later today.

You are very sweet Heather. And because it was done with lots of TLC i am sure they will thrive when Kathy gets them.

 

[Bee62]

Probably they meant “hamlet” as a mini-village. Which is not a Danish name at all by the way.

All foreign ships passing through the narrow Øresund Strait (between Sweden and Denmark), whether en route to or from Denmark or not, had to stop in Helsingør (Elsinore) and pay a toll to the Danish Crown. If a ship refused to stop, cannons in both Helsingør (Denmark) and Helsingborg (Sweden) could open fire and sink it. Apparently, the Danish king of Shakespearean times (either Frederik II or Christian IV) was a bit of a show off. On top of collecting the toll, he once held up all trade ships for days just to show another king how they all leave the harbor at the same time, one after another. As a result, many Europeans didn’t get their goods on time and were pretty pissed off. This may have motivated Shakespeare to use Elsinore and the Kronborg Castle as a setting of the “rotten” state in his tragedy.

History is always interesting. Thank you for the historical trip.
I am pissed off too when I do not get from amazon what I`ve ordered. Can I blame Denmark for this ?

 

[CarolM]

Don't be silly.
It's the bit of baking that occurs after you've peeled half a dozen onions and wiped your eyes with fingers covered in chili powder.

OMW My eyes hurt just thinking about that.

 

[CarolM]

Thanks Lena! Of course it’s ok. Glad to know something I did was helpful[emoji23]. Your weekend sounds like mine.. I have kiddie play date one day and teenager bday party the next. Sometimes I crave quite time so bad, I sneak off from work to see a movie all by myself!

Hmmm. I should do that one day.

 

[CarolM]

Good morning/afternoon one and all.
A very quiet day here for me today, just off for a walk later.
Lola still in bed so off to drag him from his pit for a soak.
Not see you later
TTFN

Good Morning, Good Afternoon and Good Evening Lyn. How is your Saturday going?

 

[CarolM]

Drive through shopping?

Now there is a thought. It would certainly stop me from buying stuff I actually don't need.

 

[CarolM]

Sure, I recognize it! It’s a ball stuck in the branches. Points?

Points from me for a good answer.

 

[CarolM]

Yep! Thats what it is. 2 points.

Hedge apple or Osage Orange
Maclura pomifera is a small deciduous tree with round, rough textured fruits. It's bumpy and spherical. Used by the Comanche as an herb using a root and water infusion for eye problems. Native Americans used it for cancer treatments. The sap has been used for tooth pain as well.

Oohh nice.

 

[Moozillion]

and another silly, funny clip

That was very creative!!!![emoji2]
I enjoyed that!
Where can we see more of these?[emoji2]

 

[CarolM]

P.S. Am I wrong to write “a” herb? “An” herb, “an” history etc. irks me greatly.

I was taught that you always use "an" when the word after starts with a vowel and " a" if the next word starts with a consonant

 

[CarolM]

An aardvark
A donkey

An angel
A gate

An orange
A pear

An avocado
A grape

Right?

Always thought that AN goes in front of vowels and A in front of consonants. No.


Ok.....off to cut some grass in our lawn on the side garden.

Snap'ish.

 

[CarolM]

It's a vowel sound , so for example it's a union, but an umbrella; umbrella is a vowel sound but union starts with the 'y' sound as in you, so is not.

Now that I did not know. Must remember this.

 

[CarolM]

An hour?
An honest man?

Now you have just confused me!!

 

[CarolM]

Maclura pomifera, commonly known as the Osage orange. I grew up calling them horse apples. Same family as a mulberry tree

Thats what Heather called it.