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Shan, that is a beautiful urn.
I still need a proper urn or something for my dad's ashes. They are still in the box we got from the funeral home. At least I hope. Something like that is a very nice tribute. One day we might scatter his ashes over the ocean in Guam if we ever travel again. Or even over the ocean somewhere. He loved diving.

I've heard if you remove the seeds, the peppers aren't as hot. My dad had a very high tolerance for peppers and spice. He barely reacted during the pepper spray training. He had a subordinate nicknamed "Boonie Pepper Bert" because she loved peppers. When they pepper sprayed her she licked the stuff that dripped to her mouth and asked them to hit her again because she liked the taste. LOL.

Today was another rainy day. I watched Star Trek: Enterprise (I didn't watch it when it first aired so I'm binge-watching it). My brother kept refusing to bring the dog food in from the CR-V. I kept forgetting and I couldn't unload it when he was out at a friend's or at work. He kept making excuses & saying he'd do it "later". Over a week & a half passed. Asked him Monday to take it out and he refused. So today Mom paged him on the intercom and was arguing with him. I kept telling her it was absolutely pouring rain outside but she wouldn't listen. I finally got tired of it and went outside in the rain and walked the ~100ft to the CR-V to get it and walked back. Dropped the wet bag next to Mom. I didn't mention it to my brother so later when the rain stopped he went out to the CR-V and discovered it was gone.

I cooked yellow rice & chicken for Mom. I get the 10oz packets that take 3 cups of water each. I use 2 packs and 6 cups. But I substitute one cup with chicken broth.

Got some more mushrooms to saute. I'll do that later after I do some cleaning in the morning. I really need to get stuff put away too. Too much stuff is out on the counters and keeps getting knocked on the floor by cats.
 
Yup. "Red eye chili". Sorta like "red eye gravy".

I've never made it, but it might be fun if I make a batch to bring to a party.
I made it last night, with just enough room left for a can of Tom sauce or a Cup of Coffee, I poured in the Coffee. I didn't notice a difference, but the canned Tomatoes overpower everything. I need to get Fresh tomatoes to get my recipe back on track. Canned is good, it's just not GOOD.
 
I suspect authentic chili wouldn't use ground beef because cowboys didn't grind their beef. I cut a roast into cubes when I make chili. I hate to say cubes because they real aren't and neither is my ice.
Chili without Beans doesn't make sense to me, but my Brother lived in Texas for a while and he won't eat it with Beans... Something about being "From" Texas... I remind him that I drove THROUGH Texas once and it makes me less Texan than the bugs that live there. He's FROM Seattle, just lived everywhere. It gets into a thing, but I don't get it.

As far as Chunks of meat, I don't know that either.
 
canned Tomatoes overpower everything. I need to get Fresh tomatoes
Once I switched to crushed tomatoes, instead of chopped or stewed or whatever, that did the trick. If I was gonna use fresh tomatoes I'd have to prepare them first and now we're talking serious work. For me the whole point of chili is it's easy. You can just throw something together and let it simmer while you go lasso calves or whatever.

When you say you didn't notice the difference with the coffee, do you mean flavor-wise or stimulant-wise? Or both?
 
Yeah, that's what I have used is Crushed. Straight Outta Costco.

I usually do Crockpot-Go simple stuff, but I'll spend time on Chili. That being said, 1 TBSP of each spice is much different with Fresh Tomatoes than with canned, so it's a question of whether I want to spend the money to figure it out. I don't think I will try it unless I also use Fresh Beans that I soak overnight.

As far as the Coffee, both. 1 Cup wasn't powerful enough, and anything short of Espresso isn't a stimulant for me much anyway. I can drink it at 8 PM, or in this case eat it in the Chili and sleep fine.
 
I just read another one, add a bit of cocoa powder to offset the acidity of the tomatoes. Maybe I should try that for Italian there are some sauces I don't like. I sprinkle some frozen pizzas with a slight bit of sugar to tame the tomato taste. I don't think a cup of coffee will do it unless you purposely make it strong. I saw a recipe and it used instant which I never purchase.
 
Homegrown and home canned tomatoes for our chili or anything else that calls for canned tomatoes. Can't beat them. We are starting to can this year's tomatoes now. Along with jams, pickles, maybe some salsa or spaghetti sauce and pepper mustard. Makes great gifts too. People love to get homemade treats. If you return the jars you have a good chance for refills too.
 
My wife always canned tomatoes and applesauce. We usually never had enough green beans to can. What a boring and time consuming task, stringing and breaking beans. A neighbor gave me what we call a "mess" of beans the other day. They were stringless (Blue Lake) so all I had to do was rinse and break them.
 
You guys are making me want to fix chili for dinner!

I worked on my garage for several hours yesterday. I was trying to organize it better, I put some shelves together, instead of trying to continue to build the shelves I had intended to.
There is just too much stuff out there and it is impossible to organize too much stuff. I need someone that sees things differently than me to help me go through and organize things.
I have lost my impact driver and drill. Not a clue as to where I put either one of them.
I have so many things that I need to do around here and it is frustrating, it is going to take months to go through stuff and cost a small fortune to throw things away that can't be used or donated.
I found all of my childhood photos in a plastic bucket in my moms car, however they are stuck together and covered in mold. That makes me sad. The only picture I would have of my dad (never met him) should be in there also.
my daughter and I both have gotten sick from going through stuff on the back porch (allergies-bronchitis). We have worked for maybe 5 or 6 hours, and there is just so much more to go through. I can't imagine having to go through an entire house, especially one with waaaayyyyyy to many items.
I got an estimate for a 21 cubic yard dumpster for when the time comes I can rent one for 3 days for $510 or rent on Wednesday for 7 days for $510. I wish I had a truck to just make trips to the dump. My trash service will pick up extra bags for $2.50 per bag.
I'm trying to remember that I don't have to get it all done right now, that I have lived this way for years and a little while longer is ok, but man am I ready to just have the house in order.
My backyard is out of control, my riding lawnmower is down currently, I've called 2 lawncare companies and again.... noone shows up.
One of my boys tried to weedeat some of it but that was pretty useless.
Anyways...... trying to give myself grace with everything.



And.... yes I am fixing chili for dinner lol
 
Straight Outta Costco.
Other day I was thinking with shoplifting rampant around here and mostly no longer getting prosecuted, we may see an explosion of membership stores like Costco and Sam's Clubs where you don't get in unless they know exactly who you are!
 
I suspect authentic chili wouldn't use ground beef because cowboys didn't grind their beef. I cut a roast into cubes when I make chili.
Was just reading that a drought out west is creating a massive selloff of cattle to slaughterhouses, so we may see some relief from the current high price of beef...
Meat grinders were invented in early-mid 1800s so some cowboys could have ground some beef... or especially seen it in low priced restaurants wanting to save time... of course, meat grinding wasn't just for chili but for making tough stringy beef/buffalo more easily chewed/eaten... as hamburgers, etc...
 
I will say chili without beans is just meat sauce,
Which is why I use it to make spaghetti... a generic brand can of about a pound of flavored already cooked ground beef for 89c is a super bargain...
Sometimes I don't add spaghetti sauce, just make chili spaghetti with beans like Denny's offers... for a different taste...
 
Yes, the Garage Blues, Shan... Yes, I know them... For the 8th Year in a row, I am "going to" sort through the garage this Winter when I can't mow the lawn... *THIS YEAR* I'm going to go through all the boxes and put everything in piles of keep, donate and sell. PERIOD!

I'm NOT keeping stuff... I'm going back in time to my first experience away from the nest when I could load all the garbage I owned in the trunk of my 79 Audi 4000... Any thief taking possession of said car would be instantly in debt more.

WHY DID I BUY so much garbage as an Adult?
 
I have tried every brand of hot dog chili and have yet to find one that resembles hot dog stand chili. My buddy makes hot dog chili but it's just a meat sauce with no chili seasoning (I don't know why he calls it chili).
 
Other day I was thinking with shoplifting rampant around here and mostly no longer getting prosecuted, we may see an explosion of membership stores like Costco and Sam's Clubs where you don't get in unless they know exactly who you are!
Well, that's one of the Socialist Obama admin's goals along with Soros and the others... Get rid of all the small Mom and Pops. That's one reason they release all the criminals to keep looting / burning / robbing / raping / murdering.
 
Ooh, chili sounds good. I can eat it with or without beans so long as it has cheese. I love cheese. Sometimes a little sour cream.

Shan, I've been told you should always hold off 6 months after a major loss before doing anything drastic. I wish I was in your area because I would haul stuff in my truck for you. I hope you can find your missing tools. Mine go missing all the time and it is so frustrating. I'll see them when I don't need them but as soon as I need them they disappear.

I find it a bit annoying that Samsclub now makes people show their cards when they walk in. They didn't used to do it. I know why they do it, but it's annoying. Although, thankfully, some of the employees who recognize me will wave me on through as I'm fumbling for my card.

I did some brief cleaning, but not as much as I'd wanted. Knee isn't cooperating with me. Dog puked in my bed (but not in a spot where I sleep) so I had to clean that up. Waiting for some cleaning supplies (that are not available locally) to arrive from Amazon.

Went and connected the 3/8" part of the water supply lines under my sink. Couldn't muscle the old supply lines off the faucet though. Friend should be coming over to help with that. I'll have to get rid of the spiders in there before he comes over. He's afraid of them.

My mom needs to clean up her desk area because roaches are gathering on it. I got her some roach traps but apparently last night she saw a roach on the wall, pointed it out to my brother and said "I don't like it!" and the roach responded by flying toward her face. I heard my mother yell something like "Gyaaaah!" and my brother laughing hysterically while I was in the kitchen putting leftovers away.

I wonder if tomatoes in a jar are better than tomatoes in a can. But fresh is best if you can find them. I'm really missing the fresh tomatoes from my late friend's garden. I was spoiled from only eating fresh tomatoes instead of ones from the store. Store ones never tasted as good.
 
Just finished reading an update for a company I'm invested in, Enzolytics, Inc. For those with a brokerage account, you might want to do some DD on this company. I would copy / print the news from the 22nd, as it's 12 pages or so. I'll give you the basic nitty gritty...

The share price is about 5 cents now. The ticker is ENZC.

The CEO is a Patent Attorney of 50 years, a member of the Texas BAR, a former member of the Board of Directors of the Dallas BAR and an Aerospace Engineer.

The company is under several NDA's concerning their tech / discussions with Big Pharma companies.

The company is finishing their financial audit, with one lawsuit from a former partner about to be finished, the plaintiff claims he owns 71M shares, the company disputes this.

The company holds several patents for their tech as well as individual members having their own patents, such as the COO, who invented an AI system for identifying target areas on viruses prior to production of Monoclonal Antibodies.

The company is partnered with Samsung Biologics for production of Monoclonal Antibodies.

The company authored a white paper with Intel on AI...

It's my personal thought that Samsung wants to completely take over the company since they have had the full access to the tech for almost a year now. In an even better "Home Run" scenario, I hope the NDA's mean they are in discussions with several big name Pharma companies, I.E. a bidding war for the technology.

I wouldn't be typing this for just any old stock. I feel this will be world changing, or at least threatening enough to Pharma to make an insane buyout offer...

https://enzolytics.com/company-news/
https://samsungbiologics.com/media/company-news-view?boardSeq=1377
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/healthcare-it/resources/enzolytics-whitepaper.html
 
I took out the trash (which my brother is supposed to do but he almost never does his one chore-- aside from washing his own laundry), put a new bag in, did some more mild cleaning in the kitchen, went outside and picked up some stuff in the yard so it wouldn't get ruined & brought the stepladder out from the back and put it on the porch. Doesn't sound all that hard but its heavy/bulky & kept getting tangled on weeds. I made pork chops for lunch. Also opened a new bag of cat food & put it in the feed bin.
 
My chili was delicious!

@zannej yes, major changes should wait. I just want to be able to use my backporch as a porch and to be able to get regular homeowners insurance instead of forceplaced (i also have to replace gutters/downspouts). Also, thank you for your thoughtfulness!

Someone stopped by asking about my moms car (doesnt run/mildew/mold) about 10 or so days ago. I told him he could have it if he could get rid of a bush in my front yard. So I went out today to throw out a hvac filter and he had pulled up and was eyeing the bush and his trailer. I don't have a full pic of before, but it looks so much better. The first picture was with 1/2 of it cut down. Its nice to know there are good people still out there.

There is a small mulberry tree, he told me if I cut it down and brought it around front he would pick it up and haul it off for me.



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