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I've started to notice my bldg. that I live in is cliquey and I don't think I'm in the clique. Oh well, their loss.
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I don't want cliquey, but happy that you and CWillie are kind to me, friends really.
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I can't imagine anyone not being kind to you Send! You are a sweetie!
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Fave niece was the one who would bake desserts for family gatherings. She's no longer here on island now. After a few past family gatherings, her mother (my fave sis) told me that BBQs are just not the same without homemade desserts.

My mom was famous for her delicious Tutti Frutti pies. She altered the recipe found in a cookbook and made it her own style. Whenever we went to family gatherings, she would put aside 6 pies - one for each of her siblings to take home .. and put 2 pies on the table. Everyone (even ex-in laws) have been asking me and sis if we have mom's recipe. I say, "I don't bake. Nope." … Sis has the recipe but keeps misplacing it.

Text from sis: Found the recipe for tutti fruity. You want to make Saturday when you stay night?

My response: You trust me? Haven't baked in decades.

Sis text back: Ahh. And I never baked.... I have all the ingredients.
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Tutti frutti pie sounds delicious, Book. How hard is it, how much baking involved?
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So, where is CWillie?
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Hm, good point. There was a post on Thursday on the Dys thread - did she mention if she was going anywhere to anyone?
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Home made pie crust. I've never ever did one. I usually just buy the graham cracker crust. So, just by this, I'm deviating from mom's recipe. I sure hope sis bought those ready-made crust because I'm not making it from scratch...

I'd rather make an ice cream cake - buy the coffee flavor ice cream, buy nuts, strawberry cake mix box, instant coffee (to make the ice cream flavor ice cream have a stronger coffee taste), plus sliced almonds and sliced fresh strawberries for toppings. I'd bake the strawberry cake. Cut it in thin layers horizontally, layer with ice cream, another layer of thin strawberry cake, top with ice cream, another final layer of cake... I Visualize this. How would it taste? I don't know. I'm not really much into baking/cooking. I don't even know if coffee and strawberry mix well in the taste department... Maybe best to do neopolitan ice cream with chocolate cake that has nuts in it? .. sigh.. I need to stop by the yogurt place and satisfy my chocolate/strawberry cravings. I'm obviously craving those 2 flavors.
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Book,
Have some fun with this, be fearless. There are videos online demonstrating making pie crusts. Here is the idea for music:


Two years before Dorothy LaBostrie and Little Richard gave us the song, “Tutti Frutti” was just a humble pie filling published to help shoo away readers’ winter blues.

Bake any of these 1950s pie fillings in a 21st-century pie crust while dancing to versions of “Tutti Frutti” released in the decades between recipes: Elvis Presley (1956), The Jesters (1960), Marc Bolan, Elton John & Ringo Starr (1972), Queen (1986), Alvin and the Chipmunks (1991), Little Richard (Little Richard film, 2000), and Buckwheat Zydeco (2013).

Tutti Frutti pie, to the song of Tutti Frutti. You will be baking a classic!
The more I read, it seems you can add any fruit?

Definition for tutti frutti pie:
"Tutti frutti (from Italian tutti i frutti, "all fruits"; also hyphenated tutti-frutti) is a colorful confectionery containing various chopped and usually candied fruits, or an artificial or natural flavouring simulating the combined flavour of many different fruits."
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The ice cream cake with strawberry, chocolate, and coffee sounds good!
Sounds like a Christmas truffle/or is it a trifle? I don't know.
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Go the actual recipe for Kentucky Fried Chicken today; from a You Tube video on how to cook with an air fryer..... yeaah! Going to try it in my oven.
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Book- you can do a homemade pie crust.
The secret is real butter and Lard.
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Hi everyone, I've been away and am just catching up now - it looks like it has been busy the last few days.
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CWillie,
Good to hear you got away.
Any news on your Bil?

Wish we all could just get away, take a moment to change our environment.
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BIL has endocarditis and will need antibiotics administered daily through a picc line for 6 weeks, after that there will likely be surgery to replace a deformed valve and aneurysm repair. He is home now but still very weak, and a battle to get a nurse to come out to their home to administer the antibiotics has already begun.
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Welcome back CW
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OK, I need some advice from all of you who have embraced the digital age and have smart phones - how do I carry this thing around with me? I do not carry a purse, I shove my little flip phone and wallet in my back pockets.
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if you wear a belt maybe you can buy a case that attaches to the belt
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There is a zippered case you can velcro to your arm. It is cheap at the dollar store.
It can also velcro to a bicycle.

Even though I have not embraced the digital age, I can speak of this because my hubs has a smart phone, and he is OF the age.

Or, I know! Leave the technology at home, you can live without it, imo!
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I have been playing with my new phone, changing the ring tone and such - it is definitely easier to text than my flip phone. IDK about leaving it behind when I go out, being able to use it on the go is kind of the whole point of having one.

Seriously though, am I the only woman who refuses to drag a purse around with me? Do I have to dig one out of the back of the closet?
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There are really nice "backpack purses", some are leather. I liked the look so much, that my sister gave me hers, in leather! It looked really cool. (On her).

So, I did not like it. Had the backpack remodeled into a purse, with a long handle, which made the purse sit just behind and to the side. People said, where's your purse, because they could not see it as I approached. I still have it today, years later.

So you are not the only lady not wearing a purse. My sister walks in carrying her phone, computer, and keys, no purse. She is so much more cool than I ever will be.

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I too am not a purse carrier.
Now I see they have these leather purses, with a built in holster. I do not think it wise to carry a gun in your purse.
At least get a boot holster.
Anyway, I just thought that was odd.
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That cracked me up smeshque!
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I've discovered the phone fits in my jeans back pocket OK but I wouldn't want to leave it there and sit on it while I'm driving, so that is a pain. I figure I can maybe use my old flip phone as an emergency phone when I'm out for a run since it can still call 911.
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My hips are getting stiff
not sure I could bend over to pull a cute lil gun out of my boot 👢
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My everything is getting stiff. I spent the day in the mall. I feel like a cripple right about now. The escalators are always out of commission it seems and walking down a flight of stairs today I felt my right knee give out. I waddled down the rest of the stairs. People were looking at me funny. LOL

Yes, I carry a purse. I finally got wise and got a smaller one. When I used to visit my Mom at the nursing home she thought I was carrying an overnight bag. She would say "Where are you off too?" thinking I was going away for the weekend. I said it's just my purse Mom. Mom "my heavens!" LOL

CWillie if you carry your new smartphone in your back pocket be careful cause if you've programmed numbers into it sometimes a little movement will cause you to butt dial someone. I've butt dialed people by mistake.
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So, I have a sewing job to do. My DH took my good scissors for use in the greenhouse. I went to the store this morning to get some new scissors. I walked in and I was overtaken by all valentine stuff, when just yesterday I was there and it was still xmas stuff.
Can that candy really still be good in February?
It's crazy.
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Was reading online how payments made automatically may not cancel when you try. So I tried it out. Starting anew in January, we skipped 3 bottled water deliveries. Cancelled an automatic donation.
I like to shake things up financially to save money.
Also, increasing my FICO score is of interest to me.

Entering the New Year with zero balance on a credit card.! Yay.
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Send, Joy suits you much better, because you are a joy. :)
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Thank you Smeshque!
The JOY is a photo of my Christmas lights.

As a biblical christian, there has to be some sense of reaching out to those who do not know the Lord, aka, the lost. That is why I celebrate Christmas, even when I don't feel like it.

Gershun,
New to me, my knees have been really painful. Sometimes I feel crippled too, but
I am hopeful the Chiropractor can help me in January. Over-exerting is no longer a choice-easy does it for me.
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