tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68212911421190188762024-02-07T23:57:22.953-06:00Kranky GrannyOne Old Lady Leaving her Mark Kranky Grannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01395118246357066241noreply@blogger.comBlogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6821291142119018876.post-9392238691889219312017-03-27T22:00:00.000-05:002017-03-28T14:46:26.432-05:00Fly on the Wall<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Kranky Granny’s poor old blog seems to have more time outs
than all the sports teams and misbehaving children in the country combined.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My apologies for not giving you’ll a heads up
to the latest absence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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abode, over the last month you would have thought you were in a testing center
for fog horns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks to the round robin
of croupy coughs that hubby and I have been passing back and forth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At one point, I called our doctor’s office
hoping to make an appointment only to learn that he was out of the office with
the flu. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few days later I caved and we
went to the urgent care center hoping for a refill of our cough syrup.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We came away with a lot more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Turned
out we both had sinus infections, hubby had a bad case of bronchitis and I was diagnosed
with pneumonia. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I’m no stranger to pneumonia. I’ve had at least a dozen bouts
over the years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While the medicine may help the pneumonia it
also puts me to sleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, I spent the next
ten days scaring the tar out of my husband.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He never knew a person could do so much sleeping. Eighteen hours a day
on average.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I took the last of the
medicine Saturday morning and now (Monday evening) feel I have finally slept off
the last of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirKAIxy_AzDxty1BePdV_-QfWBLfOA94YGkQrWBdKuO47vSUEuhDHxmwUl1AVmH82oxBZjSO9QKVJ-pqRQC7CJXptsPUeXQLbebKliFZ-4rml7rQ2Gt62Lav7awQlwJeiI3AFfqvdxZN8/s1600/images.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirKAIxy_AzDxty1BePdV_-QfWBLfOA94YGkQrWBdKuO47vSUEuhDHxmwUl1AVmH82oxBZjSO9QKVJ-pqRQC7CJXptsPUeXQLbebKliFZ-4rml7rQ2Gt62Lav7awQlwJeiI3AFfqvdxZN8/s200/images.jpeg" width="177" /></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Last Friday was our Tenth wedding anniversary and we had
made plans to celebrate with a trip to someplace warm and sandy, but that never
happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m just glad I procrastinated
on making those reservations. I did manage to get a small celebratory post on
Facebook between naps.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We did have one date scheduled that we forced ourselves to
keep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had been making plans with my
brother and his wife to go visit their new place in the country for months and
the dates got rescheduled several times by both sides.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When this last one came around we just forced
ourselves to put on our adult panties and tuff it out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Turned out to be one of the few sunny days
this month and despite having to down cough syrup every few hours we actually
had a very nice time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I even took my
camera and got a few decent shots that I will share soon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Kranky Grannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01395118246357066241noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6821291142119018876.post-938147916577226672017-02-28T17:51:00.000-06:002017-03-01T17:54:32.635-06:00Spring Craving<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sorry for the lousy photo. I was there at the wrong time<br />
of day. At least you can enjoy the blue sky and clouds in the reflection. </td></tr>
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This sign appears in the window of a local frozen custard stand. Given that today is the last day of February and they are not open I would have to say the sign lies. But the artist needs to get a few attaboys for their creativity.<br />
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Now how did I know about this non-event, given that I am not a frequent visitor to any type of ice cream establishment? And, our town has four that I know of. Well, on the first few sunny days of spring (and spring is coming early to our part of the country) I get a craving for an ice cream cone. This particular place is like the Dairy Queen's of my youth, where you walk up to the window and order and sit on the patio to enjoy your treat; so you would think I would choose one of the other three that have indoor dining rooms. Unfortunately, I have no choice because this is the only place in town that cares about diabetics, like me, and offers a no sugar added frozen custard. Yes, I would rather have the real stuff rich with heavy cream and sugar but, I'm thankful the owner of this stand cares enough to offer something for those of us with restrictive diets. <br />
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The recording on the stands phone tells me I will have to wait until March 4th to enjoy my first cone of the season. My question is why didn't I call them first. I could have saved a trip. But, no harm idone. I managed to not waste my trip by popping into the Sub Shop next door for my favorite bag of Cheetos and a tuna sandwich.<br />
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If the weather holds you now know where I will be on Saturday. I just hope that my visit does not leave me with <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "proxima"; font-size: 17px;">sphenopalatine ganglion neuralgia. In case your wondering that is </span><span style="background-color: white;">t</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "proxima"; font-size: 17px;">he medical term for an ice cream headache.</span> </div>
Kranky Grannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01395118246357066241noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6821291142119018876.post-85518530260955247662017-02-27T20:12:00.000-06:002017-02-28T17:01:36.126-06:00The 1950s Housewives <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today, as I was stripping and remaking the bed and folding laundry, I was reminded of the days of my childhood. Those were the days when you did not know a single mother who was employed for wages. There were many things back then that could be counted on, as surely as attending church on Sunday. The list might differ in each household but it would take a disaster of atomic proportions to cause the schedule to change. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Each Sunday, it was a given that almost every oven on the block contained a pot roast scheduled to be ready by the time the family arrived home from church. All that is, but ours. Having a mother from Alabama meant our Sunday dinners were always good old Southern fried chicken. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If a clothesline was empty when we walked home from school, on a Monday, it was a sure sign that the wife/mother of that home was either in the hospital or just home with her newborn. It also was a reminder to my siblings and me that the first thing we had to do after changing out of our school uniforms was to collect the sheets off the line and make up our beds. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Tuesday meant we were having Spaghetti for supper. Wednesday was always Meatloaf and every Friday was salmon croquettes. It was not unusual for kids to compare dinner menus with friends and try to get invited over for supper when they hated the dish being served at home. I remember a neighbor girl who hated the sauerkraut and sausage night at her house. It was one of my favorites but my mother rarely made it, so one night we traded places without telling either set of parents our plans. Needless to say, it never happened again. If it was that easy and the other parents didn’t mind, I, as a mom, would have been fine with it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I’m afraid those 1950’s rules never applied at my house. I have never been that regimented. Partly because I was always employed in retail with crazy schedules, and partly because it is my nature to attempt to accomplish everything in one mad whirlwind of activity. For years, I would spend one of my days off preparing a week’s worth of meals that could be either frozen or held over for serving. Leftovers are always better, right? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Until my mother-in-law became too infirm to cook, I never had to worry about Sunday Dinners. She expected each of her children and their families to be around her dinner table and seldom did any two plates have the same food on them. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Her entire married life she had run a restaurant each Sunday. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She was on the phone every Sunday morning asking for our order for dinner. That </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">would never have flown in my mother’s kitchen. Mom made what she wanted and we either ate it or went hungry. And, if you decided to pass on the meal Mom had best not catch you in the kitchen hunting for a snack later. It only took a few weeks for me to learn that my mother-in-law would call each child in birth order for their meal request. Since my husband was the youngest not living at home, we were always last. I soon started asking her what each of the others wanted that day and would choose from those items for my family. That way she was not cooking so many different items. Once my husband’s younger brother married his wife started doing the same and within a few years, most of the plates started to look alike. </span></div>
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Kranky Grannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01395118246357066241noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6821291142119018876.post-43096094393666605562017-02-26T16:26:00.000-06:002017-02-26T16:26:30.419-06:00Bumper Stickers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I have always hated these stickers and would search my car almost daily so that I could remove them before the glue was permanently set. Nothing worse than trying to get rid of aged stickers. For about a decade it was well known you had to leave your sunshades in the down position when parked in a tourist area if you did not want your vehicle stickered. After a while, so many people were doing this that it no longer paid to send out the troops and the posting of bumper stickers faded away. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04;"><br /></span> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie6efmGMJzlQ9vAm6iPU3HKlrJxr_FQ_-8NSZtV1C6pmfrSZMKH9gCL-5CRdrbA9d2m5at97Qpit7xORi0ziCYIUFOyA3zp3viXXN3ZXDEggy9IiqRl6v1EFkG6QcJd_GhQ9i2p2OL3F0/s1600/images.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #783f04;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie6efmGMJzlQ9vAm6iPU3HKlrJxr_FQ_-8NSZtV1C6pmfrSZMKH9gCL-5CRdrbA9d2m5at97Qpit7xORi0ziCYIUFOyA3zp3viXXN3ZXDEggy9IiqRl6v1EFkG6QcJd_GhQ9i2p2OL3F0/s400/images.jpeg" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A 2008 study by psychologist William Szlemko and his colleagues at Colorado State University showed that those who choose to adorn their vehicle with bumper stickers (and other personal items) are 16 percent more likely to be the aggressor in incidents of road rage.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What??? You mean that sweet person with the peace bumper sticker, personalized plates and fuzzy dice hanging from the mirror is 16 percent more likely to run me off the road than the person driving the plain, unembellished muscle car?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #783f04;">The car pictured here can be found most days parked in front of a house a few blocks from where I live. I see it around town quite often and each time it seems to have a new sticker added to it or placed over one that had faded away. I've never seen the driver but their aged Saab sure shows their love of music groups. </span></span></div>
<span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A few days ago I got behind a car that had a bright orange bumper sticker with only a single word "Sorry" on it. I wondered why someone would put a sticker like that on their car and what they were apologizing for?</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijXcP5kBTuHnp_TxfEEqDkDQjeKCNWJz7UCBVCRPrljlR57WzYrVp4hp9wsU6pujglLywHpRHfMxHXCURamVR0OlK9OYW2hXTTxMaGj-qRbvtCahswsb0oPsGvvuVTXZvr6gRYtpG8fN0/s1600/SORRY+sticker+for+web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="70" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijXcP5kBTuHnp_TxfEEqDkDQjeKCNWJz7UCBVCRPrljlR57WzYrVp4hp9wsU6pujglLywHpRHfMxHXCURamVR0OlK9OYW2hXTTxMaGj-qRbvtCahswsb0oPsGvvuVTXZvr6gRYtpG8fN0/s200/SORRY+sticker+for+web.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First chance I got I went to Google (what would we do without Google?) and found the sticker, but there was no explanation of why you would want to put it on your car. </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Are they apologizing for their bad driving? Possibly, for who they voted for? Or, perhaps the dilapidated state of their automobile? Or does that weatherbeaten Ford Focus I saw have the door panels stuffed with Meth or other drugs. Could the body of one of our states dozen missing persons be hidden in the trunk. </span></span><br />
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Kranky Grannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01395118246357066241noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6821291142119018876.post-70143998523849400252017-02-25T12:05:00.003-06:002017-03-01T16:57:29.834-06:00Mental Games and Castles<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Since that day I have used several of the suggestions from that book to reduce my stress level, get relaxed enough to fall asleep or just to alleviate boredom on road trips or while standing in a queue. One is a simple counting method that isn't worth talking about. The other is to mentally challenge yourself by designing something </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">elaborate and detailed like a house or planning the minute details of a large party. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That is when I first began designing my castle. Not a day goes by that I am not doing some adjustment to the Castle plans in my head. What was once a small square box with one tower is now a fortress large enough to house my entire family of 92 people plus their houseguests. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can't even count the number of times the decor has changed or the number of colors of paint on the walls. When out shopping in some thrift store or antique mall I find myself finding pieces to add to my castle. Every time I read about some new gadget I have to go and revamp the entire castle. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This castle now has a chapel, ballroom, two kitchens, huge library, media rooms, music room with every instrument possible, indoor pool, man cave with bar, ladies sitting room, four game rooms (arcade, board, card, and puzzle), two theaters -- one for films and one for stage productions, classrooms for homeschooling, a nursery for twenty little ones with Nanny quarters, workrooms for all kinds of male and female hobbies, spa, barber and beauty salons, 104 bedrooms and double that for bathrooms, Underground parking for sixty cars, a bowling alley, indoor handball and tennis courts, basketball courts, rooftop gardens, six turrets, an in-house nursing unit for the sick and elderly with resident RN, safe rooms, underground tunnels, hidden rooms and all the accoutrements needed to make the castle self-sustaining and able to last for centuries. All sitting on 200 plus acres dedicated to hunting, fishing, horse stables, woodlands, bike and go-cart racing, ball fields, gardens (both food and flower), livestock, service garage able to hold the family tour bus, and apartment buildings to house the many staff who care for it all. The only problem is, I need to win a billion dollar Powerball drawing to pay for it. And, at this point in my life, I doubt I would live long enough to see it completed. But, that doesn't stop the plans from growing. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">This certainly does not pertain to any guy I have ever known.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> I could never get my first husband to wear pajamas. A tee shirt and underwear were the best I could hope for. While my current husband does wear pajamas he changes them almost daily. As for me, I sleep in a nightgown and they get replaced every night because I seldom change out of it until after breakfast. By then I have a map of everything I came into contact with all over the front of my nightie. </span></span></div>
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Kranky Grannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01395118246357066241noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6821291142119018876.post-30959722070899871072017-02-20T19:46:00.000-06:002017-02-20T19:55:00.660-06:00Robert Hall part two <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background: white; color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One day, a lady was trying on swimwear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She came out to check herself in the large mirror a dozen times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then she came out in a skimpy bikini that certainly showed off too much if you know what I mean. That was against the rules.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Customers were supposed to keep their underwear on when trying on swimwear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, when she went back in to change she got her feet tangled in the tiny string garment and suddenly she fell out of the fitting room, landing on her back on the floor, in her birthday suit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I had had a camera I could have been arrested for shooting porn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That was the only time I applied for unemployment, but before I could start to collect it the district manager called me and offered me a job working with him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had been hired to help set up several stores in the St. Louis area for a new company called Marshall’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once the stores were up and running Mr. Barry was promoted to district manager and he offered me a job working in the store closest to my home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Kranky Grannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01395118246357066241noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6821291142119018876.post-54379807693834909042017-02-19T19:02:00.001-06:002017-02-20T19:56:17.734-06:00 pays to have a big mouth<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #783f04;">Today's headlines of our local newspaper read “Armed robbery suspect on the Loose in (my town)” The article starts by saying “<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue";">Police are investigating three armed robberies that took place during a span of a dozen days.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue";"><span style="color: #783f04;">I live in what (until recently) has been described as a sleepy little hamlet on the Missouri River, where crime is limited mostly to crimes of opportunity without violence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Several years ago, we had a pocket camera and our GPS stolen from our car one night. It was probably the only night in ages when we forgot to lock the car doors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was no great loss for us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The camera had a broken lens and the GPS was so out of date it liked to take us to empty fields instead of the location we programmed into it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both had already been replaced and were safely in the house. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue";"><span style="color: #783f04;">Our county is quickly becoming known as the Meth capital of the state and possibly the Midwest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both the manufacture and use of this terrible drug has been on the rise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a result, we are starting to see more and more crimes like the one in today’s headlines.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue";"><span style="color: #783f04;">But, I’m getting sidetracked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I intended this post to be about holdups.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or more specifically holdups that I have been connected with. Yes, there have been more than one. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIkHzJvQHYJKQqVytUz-bHCY_xmuFM_1x5mIzTGnmlTow5ZIbZu8ZvLNvsCZSArecxLnlAXbZRiyvRWb_qMFQKLXDFla4jMQp79Q_mE4xHd5fa-58pUIUx2k9SEVI24qTvZ360Rh6kaHc/s1600/Unknown-1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #783f04;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIkHzJvQHYJKQqVytUz-bHCY_xmuFM_1x5mIzTGnmlTow5ZIbZu8ZvLNvsCZSArecxLnlAXbZRiyvRWb_qMFQKLXDFla4jMQp79Q_mE4xHd5fa-58pUIUx2k9SEVI24qTvZ360Rh6kaHc/s320/Unknown-1.jpeg" width="242" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue";"><span style="color: #783f04;">Back in the 1970’s I worked at a family clothing store called Robert Hall located in the city of Saint Ann.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That store had been robbed several times over the years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And shoplifting happened on a large scale every few months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The store was on the main drag that went through half a dozen suburban towns and next to the only indoor shopping mall in the area at the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It made it easy for the criminals to get in and out without being caught.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Until I was hired that is <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue";"><span style="color: #783f04;">Someone attempted to rob the store twice while I was working there. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both times it was a black male who was armed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was told by the district manager after the second attempt that I was certainly more resourceful than most and certainly much luckier as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Frankly, he could not believe I hadn’t gotten myself shot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue";"><span style="color: #783f04;">I was the store cashier, bookkeeper and sometimes salesclerk. My office was on a raised platform in the rear of the store, designed to give me a full view of the sales floor. It was a “U” shaped space lined with a counter that came right below my breast. There was a wall that surrounded the countertop that I could just barely see over when standing at the register.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A cut out about a foot wide allowed the customers to come transact their business and many of them could barely see over the counter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of I could see of them was their faces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue";"><span style="color: #783f04;">One day at lunch time (which meant the salesperson was off the floor) a tall thin man came up and told me he had a gun and I was to give him all my money. I just simply said No I can’t do that while pushing the silent alarm that went off at the police station a block down the street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The man got angry and repeated his command and showed me the gun in his waistband.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I proceeded to lie to him and said that there was no money in the drawer to give him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told him I had just started my shift and had a new till with a fifty-dollar bank in coins and few singles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had not rung up a single sale since clocking in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He told me to open the safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told him the safe was locked and required a key that only the manager had and he was at lunch. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The man must have decided to see for himself because he headed around the counter for the swing door on the side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While he did that, I picked up the glass I kept to hold my water and once the door swung in I doused him in the face with the water and told him I would be throwing the heavy glass at his head next.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He decided to run for the door where he was met by two police officers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue";"><span style="color: #783f04;">The second time was the next summer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A man came to the counter and handed me a receipt wanting to take out his lay-a-way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the till opened so I could make change he told me he had a gun and wanted all the money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I looked him in the eye and said “what” as if I had not understood what he said. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I did that I was hitting the silent alarm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I repeated the demand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I promptly slammed the register shut.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reached up and grabbed the register key locking the register and made a big production of putting the key in my mouth and swallowing it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I then told him he would have to wait for my next bowel movement to open the till.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also headed for the door to be met by the cops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue";"><span style="color: #783f04;">In the first robbery, the man did have a gun in his waistband but it was not loaded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the cops searched the second robber they found he had a sawed-off shotgun down the leg of his trousers. And, no I did not swallow the register key.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes it pays to have a big mouth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue";"><span style="color: #783f04;">I never got the chance to see if there would be another attempt at robbing our store.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few weeks later I answered the phone and the person on the other end identified himself as being from the regional office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He told me our store was now officially closed and I was to immediately get the papers off the fax machine and tape the closing notice to the front door after locking the door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once there were no customers in the store I was to send all the employees home and have the manager follow the instructions in the paperwork.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was now out of a job. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue";"><span style="color: #783f04;">I should admit that I was young and stupid during those years. No way would I every try to pull the same stunts today, and I hope none of you will either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is best to just comply and give them the money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue";"><span style="color: #783f04;">There are a few other stories from my time at Robert Hall I should probably share so perhaps I will get to those soon. </span><span style="color: #212121;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Kranky Grannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01395118246357066241noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6821291142119018876.post-61367743728006760032017-02-18T17:35:00.000-06:002017-02-20T19:57:52.191-06:00On a Good Day <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My mother truly lives in the moment. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Due to a tragic head injury, a decade ago, my mother (who is 91) has short-term memory issues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She remembers trivial things for about ten minutes and, on a good day, things she is interested in may actually stay fixed for an hour or more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On Thursday, we attended the funeral of a lady that was both one of Mom’s friends and the mother-in-law of one her daughters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This dear lady who our family has always referred to as Mama San was a very large lady and responsible for many stories and comic moments in our lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was seven years younger than my mother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My dear mother had to suffer through learning about Mama Shan’s death several dozen times over the days leading up to the funeral because she would forget the information a short time after hearing it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each time she overheard the plans being made or a visitor stopping by to offer condolences to my brother-in-law and his family, who were all gathered at my sister’s house, it was as if it was the first time she had been told of Mama San’s death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Since extended family members were staying through the weekend, at my sister’s home, and Mama San was the main topic of discussion I went over to take my mother out for a while to save her having to continually relive news of her death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It turned out that yesterday was one of her good days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After taking her to a standing hair appointment I decided to take her to a small family owned eatery for lunch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew they served her two favorite foods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>French onion soup and Chocolate milkshakes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Usually, this would be a short lunch with little conversation but yesterday, being a good day, my mother was upset and talkative. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mom kept asking why God was keeping her here and would take someone like Mama Shan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mom felt that she had become a useless bother to her thirteen children and their families.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She kept telling me how she appreciated all we do for her but she was just someone who had to be watched over and toted around like an infant so why was she still here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I couldn’t answer those questions with anything but platitudes, at the time, so I decided to try and change the subject.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I started to ask her about things from my childhood that I wanted to clarify for the book I’m attempting to write.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That went pretty well and before long I realized that we had finished our meal and been occupying our table much longer than we should have; but, my mother did not want to leave. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Given there were a few empty tables and no waiting I agreed to stay a while longer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suddenly, the conversation turned dark and Mom began to cry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She asked me “Why did I ever marry a man that was so mean to you kids.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That was certainly not a conversation I wanted overheard by everyone in the tiny restaurant so I insisted it was time to leave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the time we were settled into the car the good day had vanished and my mother was back to asking where we were and why she was with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, I’m sure that my sister will be explaining Mama Shan’s death repeatedly for the next several days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This honking guy was only a few feet from our parking spot and would not stop talking to us as we passed by. It has been almost a year since I was able to walk around this lake and I noticed some changes had been made in our absence. One was new benches scattered around the shoreline. Each bench was </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">placed there by family members in</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> memory of a loved one Most just had the name of the deceased. Some would also say "in loving memory of. . ." and a few included the names of the family members who had donated the bench. </span></div>
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Kranky Grannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01395118246357066241noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6821291142119018876.post-18456871264231241592017-02-11T21:02:00.002-06:002017-02-14T20:53:51.614-06:00What would you wish far......<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Once at a weekend get-together, one of the questions asked during a party game was, “What would you wish for if you found Aladdin’s lamp, but financial gain for you (or others) was not allowed? </div>
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I would like to be able to interview the fly on the wall in every space shared by two people ( be they spouses, siblings, business partners, co-workers, roommates, inmates or just two folks sharing a carpool). Would we be able to find just one pair who over time never disrespected each other or had a disagreement during their time together? If so what could we learn from them? Would what they know help put a stop to all the mayhem in this world?</div>
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Kranky Grannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01395118246357066241noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6821291142119018876.post-16163556081077381492017-02-10T15:56:00.004-06:002017-02-14T20:54:52.476-06:00Friday Dialogue <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Last Sunday was the birthday of one of my dearest friends. She is a wonderful young lady the same age as my daughter, and she treats me more like the daughter I wish my child was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We took Jennifer and her family out for dinner to celebrate and had a wonderful time until the check arrived at the table.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hubby (never good at math) leaned over and ask me how much of a tip to put on the credit card slip.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jennifer overheard the amount and quickly told us that was too much. She felt we were over tipping for the service we received. This led us into spending an extra half hour taking up the restaurants table while we (Jennifer has worked as a waitress for many years and so did I, plus I once owned my own restaurant.) discussed proper tipping protocol. When the discussion got to the point of becoming angry we had to finally agree to disagree. Behind Jennifer’s back, I slipped a fiver on the table to compensate for monopolizing the table longer than we should have on a very busy Sunday.</span><!--EndFragment--> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">Each Wednesday I drive my 91-year-old Mother and her 85-year-old friend to a neighboring town to bowl.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">This week when I arrived at my mother’s house I knew things were going to be different.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">I found my mother sitting on the edge of her bedroom chair staring into space.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">She did not seem to recognize me at first and when I announced it was bowling day there was no excitement. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">I almost had to carry her to the car and </span>still<span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;"> no conversation came from her.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">This is a woman who normally chatters constantly.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">Before we reached her friend’s house I knew she was skipping bowling this week. I drove the ten miles to the bowling alley and dropped off the friend then headed back to my town to our hospital’s emergency room. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">I called my sister at work (Mom lives with her) and learned the entire household had been sick last week and Mom joined them a bit later with a flu-like bug. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The doctors thought at first that she might have had a mini-stroke</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. A few tests proved that was not the case.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">She apparently was exhausted and so dehydrated from her illness that she was almost catatonic so they kept her overnight.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Thursday my sister, a sister-in-law and I were sitting with Mom in the hospital waiting for the doctor to release her (she was back to her feisty old self) when she needed to use the restroom. The nurse helped her into the bathroom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We could hear Mom chastising the nurse for giving her to much toilet paper to use.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The three of us looked at each other and began to laugh hysterically. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Toilet paper among many other things, we’re not to be wasted in our house growing up. </span><br />
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Kranky Grannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01395118246357066241noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6821291142119018876.post-36540938858133512842017-02-09T12:36:00.000-06:002017-02-14T20:56:45.600-06:00NATIONAL PIZZA DAY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.aroundme.com/locations/7793/12-fun-foods-you-didnt-know-were-invented-in-st-louis#page=1" target="_blank">Check this link for other incredible St. Louis originals. </a></div>
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Kranky Grannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01395118246357066241noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6821291142119018876.post-10871338073708349952017-02-08T19:05:00.000-06:002017-02-20T20:06:33.729-06:00St. Louis Originals <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It is no secret in my area that some of our favorite foods were actually invented in St. Louis. For years I have always tried to take out of town guest on a trip around the city that allowed them to sample some of my favorites in the areas where they originated. We will have an appetizer at one spot, the main course at another followed by dessert in a third location. And I try to work several others into the menu the next day. </div>
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I can't count the number of trips I have made taking my mother back for visits with her family in her home state of Alabama. Hardly a one does not include a cooler full of frozen pork steaks and several boxes of Gooey Butter Cake. </div>
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Today I stumbled on a website that surprised me. It listed twelve items that originated here. I can't believe I only knew of ten of them<span style="color: red;">. <span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.aroundme.com/locations/7793/12-fun-foods-you-didnt-know-were-invented-in-st-louis#page=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Click here</span></a> </span></span>to read the article for yourself and see if you can figure out what foods I serve my company. While it is not listed in this article don't forget that ice tea was also invented here at the 1904 worlds Fair in St. Louis. </div>
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My favorite(of course) is a scrumptious only-in-St. Louis treat served for breakfast, lunch or dinner — ala mode or plain. What could be more sensuous and decadent than a gooey dessert, the kind that when you bite into it drips down your chin? And when it comes to gooey desserts, perhaps the champion is the aptly named gooey butter cake, though, surprisingly, it is little known outside my home region. Perhaps that’s because the gooey butter cake was invented here in St. Louis and possibly the recipe has been understandably safeguarded ever since. </div>
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Like many a delicacy — fudge, brownies and chocolate chip cookies among them –the gooey butter cake was created by accident. Sometime in the 1930s, legend has it; a German baker in St. Louis inadvertently put too much sugar into his cake batter and was too thrifty to waste it, so he just baked it instead. </div>
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The glutinous result was a hit and today there’s hardly a bakery in St. Louis or the surrounding region that doesn’t offer a version. The old Heimburger Bakery on South Lindbergh was especially famous for it. </div>
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You can find Gooey Butter Cake in bakeries all over the St. Louis area, but what’s someone from out-of-town to do? Here’s the answer. Enjoy making one of St. Louis’ popular, quirky foods.</div>
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There appear to be at least two different approaches to making gooey butter cake at home. One starts with a yeast-based dough over which a filling consisting chiefly of butter, sugar, milk and often corn syrup is poured. Similar to Philadelphia German butter cake, this may well have been the original version. More recently a version starting with a packaged cake mix has become popular. Its filling consists mainly of cream cheese and powdered sugar. </div>
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1/2 cup butter<br />
1 box yellow cake mix<br />
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Preheat oven to 350. Lightly grease one 9×13 cake pan. Melt butter. Empty cake mix into a large bowl. Stir melted butter, along with one egg, into the cake mix. Press mixture into pan. In a large bowl, mix cream cheese, almond extract, confectioners sugar and the remaining two eggs. Beat for three minutes with an electric mixer set on medium high speed. Spread over top of the cake mixture in the pan. Bake at 350 for 35-45 minutes until golden brown on top. Allow cake to cool. Dust the top with confectioner’s sugar. (Cake will be gooey on the top, so don’t over bake!)</div>
<span style="font-family: 'lucida sans unicode', tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.960000038146973px;">“This a very rich cake, but </span>mmmmmmmm<span style="font-family: 'lucida sans unicode', tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.960000038146973px;"> so good. Best when eaten with milk or coffee. You can also make it a Chocolate Gooey Butter Cake if desired. Just use a chocolate cake mix in place of the yellow.”</span></div>
Kranky Grannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01395118246357066241noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6821291142119018876.post-34062715873064933952017-02-07T01:28:00.000-06:002017-02-14T20:57:10.139-06:00My Father <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-size: 21.33333396911621px;">I made a post a few days ago that did not showcase my father in a good light. While I regret that, I was telling the truth about one side of his personality. My father had several sides to his nature. Below is an excerpt from the autobiography I am in the process of writing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 16.0pt;">My father was a handsome man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was short but lean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had a full head of wavy Brown hair and a thick beard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had to shave twice in one day if he was going out in the evening. He believed in dressing well and never left home without shined shoes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While he was not a big drinker he had perfected the art of acting drunk and could be the life of any party.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dad liked people and people liked him. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 16.0pt;">My father was also a decent poet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we had company, he would get up and recite half a dozen for the guest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a child, I loved joining the group on the floor that would gather around him. Dad would beam with the adulation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without much prompting he would begin to sing from a large repertoire of silly songs like “Old MacDonald Had a Ford”, “The Wheels on the Bus” or “The Ants Go Marching In” and he would soon have the whole room involved and laughter was everywhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, Dad never wrote down his poems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Dad began to age, one of my brothers recorded as many of his works as he could get him to recite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, by that time Dad had already begun to show early signs of Alzheimer’s and most of his poems were lost forever. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 16.0pt;">My father was also a wonderful dancer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a young man, Dad and his brother Robert had taken lessons at Arthur Murray’s dance studio in St. Louis hoping to become more popular with the girls that lined the wall at the local dances.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both Dad and his brother were naturals when it came to waltzing the ladies around the dance floor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There has been many a family wedding reception when all the guests would back off and circle the floor to watch one or both of them strut their stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ladies lined up to be their dance partner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 16.0pt;">I was the only child in the family that did not inherit some of my Dad’s talents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Among my twelve siblings there are quite a few with beautiful singing voices, several are poets, there are a few artists and all can dance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have none of those skills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neither does my mother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I noticed early on that when we attended a barn dance or wedding reception my mother became a wallflower. The only times I remember my father making an effort to dance with my mother was when the party was in celebration of one of their milestone anniversaries or her birthday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 16.0pt;">My father loved attention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was very generous, even to the point of our having to do without because he didn’t stop to think before making some contribution. Being generous brought him the attention he lived for. I believe that is why he volunteered for every organization or event that came along.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have to give my Dad credit, he had a talent for persuading people to get things done; provided he did not have to do much of the work and there was some reward in it for him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was always telling my mother it was good for business. We never knew when his volunteerism would lead to his next big deal.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Dad was always making deals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything from just trading up a yard sale find, to real estate, to the junk shops and antique stores he opened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think that is why he was so successful once he decided to become an auctioneer. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 16.0pt;">My father did have his dark side, which included a sharp tongue and quick temper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also used way too much profanity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, no matter how much mom complained about his use of the term “God Dammit” he never expunged it from his vocabulary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He did not like being crossed and his word was law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had a habit of striking out without thinking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t mean our father physically abused us, because he did not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Corporal punishment always came from our mother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dad would on rare occasions spank one of us but verbal abuse was Dad’s way. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 16.0pt;">When angered, Dad would have these blind rages and strike out at anything and everything in his path. He was known to throw anything he could touch from the kitchen chairs to the butcher knife lying on the table.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He once took a golf club and broke every light fixture in the house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another time he used a hula-hoop to destroy most of our living quarters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He waved the hula-hoop like a huge fly swatter breaking lamps; knocking over things and raking everything off every surface he could reach leaving piles of rubble in his wake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 16.0pt;">I heard several explanations as to what had set him off and to this day do not know which is the correct version.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do know that everything I owned was boxed up and stored in one corner of the basement and every bit of it was destroyed in that fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I lost every bit of my youth in that fire including all my high school yearbooks, keepsakes, saved letters, gifts and most of my clothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had been forced to move it all to the basement because one of my sisters was moving into my side of the bedroom I shared with another sister and my stuff had to be taken out of her way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I couldn’t take it with me to my tiny sleeping room so it was supposed to be safe in the basement where I could get to what I needed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of it was gone, in one raging blaze.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to my Uncle’s book, my father was known as the family prankster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was always teasing his sisters and playing tricks on his family. Dad had developed a reputation while in school for being a horse trader.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was able to take a small item and continue trading for something a little more valuable until he had increased the value considerably. He hated school and often skipped classes for the freedom of the woods where he hunted small game. Dad finally dropped out of school in the eighth grade to work on the family farm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Dad hated manual labor and </span>wanted more excitement than working on the farm so he left for St. Louis in 1941. A few months later the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and Dad enlisted in the Navy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Kranky Grannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01395118246357066241noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6821291142119018876.post-8252663529217804712017-02-05T22:02:00.000-06:002017-02-20T20:08:10.009-06:00HOW I SEE MYSELF<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #783f04;">As I sit to write this it is about six weeks before my dear husband and I will celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary. I’m convinced that our meeting was an act of divine intervention; our story is simply too amazing to have happened any other way.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was a widow living in a small second-floor apartment in, what is thought of by many townspeople, as our town’s version of the projects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By that I mean: <span style="color: #262626;">A low-income housing area that is often on the local police's "radar”</span> thanks to <span style="color: #262626;">a higher crime rate than the rest of our sleepy riverfront hamlet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was working in the Deli department of a big box store that everyone seems to have a love/hate relationship with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The kind of place you wish you could ignore, but are forced to use because no other store in town can match their prices.</span><span style="color: #783f04;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #262626;">Some eighteen months earlier I had on a whim joined several single websites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After meeting a long line of unusual, odd or just plain crazy men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I realized the cost of these websites just did not add up to the promises they made and I stopped renewing my subscriptions as they came due. I did, however, continue to keep my profile posted on Yahoo Personals simply because it was still a free site.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It had been such a long time since I had actually heard from anyone from there I had almost forgotten I was still a member on that Black Friday in</span> </span><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">November of 2006.<span style="color: #783f04;"> </span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #783f04;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #262626;">I was shocked when I returned home from work to find a message in my e-mail from someone called Frank 99.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a lovely message it was too. Frank explained in his message that from his experience you could take all the profiles of the women in his age group and shuffle them up like a deck of cards and hand them back and they would all still (pretty much) fit the person they were handed too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He found mine, however, to be unique and interesting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also admitted to having to do a Google search on some of the women I had named because they were unfamiliar to him. Frank said he had written just to complement me on my originality. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I will let you decide for yourself. Here is a copy of my profile. </span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">I see myself as a chameleon made up of tiny bits of Annie Oakley, Margaret Houlihan, and Julia Sugarbaker, with a sprinkling of Harriet Olson, and a whole lot of Jessica Fletcher. If I were a smell I would have to be the scent of lilacs on a summer breeze seconds before a slow rain. If I had to be a sound I would be the clanging of the last bell of the school day. At another time in history, this gal would have without question donned a prairie bonnet, and walked from Missouri to Montana behind a Conestoga wagon, because she trusted her husband's decisions for their family. If you and I were the sole survivors of a plane crash on a remote mountaintop, this gal could amputate your leg with a pocketknife to free you from the wreckage, build a travois and attempt to haul your butt off the mountain in a blizzard, if that was the only option for saving both our lives. For friendship (or love) I would sit beside your hospital bed till the end; drive half way across the state to deliver a spare key, in the middle of the night; or tape every book in the library. To win a wager I might make the climb to the top of a water tower but it would require being unconscious to get me back down. Mice have me climbing on tables and horror movies keep me awake for days. Overall, I would have to say that I tend to be the last person anyone thinks about, until something goes amiss, and then I become the first person everyone wants to find.</b></span></i></div>
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Kranky Grannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01395118246357066241noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6821291142119018876.post-34911344000216088422017-02-05T02:38:00.000-06:002017-02-20T20:11:42.297-06:00Being Housebound<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I mentioned recently that I had been away from blogging and housebound, most of the time, due to an accident I suffered last April. This is not the first time I have found myself in this position. This has happened for short periods more times than I can count. But, long-term confinements (like my recent one) has happened a total of four times. This last one was probably the worst though because I lost most of the use of my left hand and was gradually losing the use of my right so it was hard to entertain myself. I did not blog because hunt and peck typing with one finger takes ages. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: -0.2px; line-height: normal;">My first stint at being housebound began near the end of my freshman year of high school.</span> There was no known reason for me to be sick but I was dragging through my days. Every time I sat down I had trouble staying awake. I lost my appetite. It was exam time so Mom would not let me skip school. I just couldn’t concentrate. I had trouble staying awake during tests. This went on for several weeks. Then early one Saturday morning I was lying on the living room sofa and overheard a conversation between my parents in the kitchen. Dad told my mother he wasn’t feeling well and had been listless all week. He was going to go into town to see the doctor. Mom told Dad that I had been dragging around for weeks so perhaps he should take me with him. Dad said he would prefer not to because he had other business to see to afterward. Mom insisted and said he could leave me in the car.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So off on the thirty-mile drive to town we went. We did not have a regular doctor and when needed we went to a clinic. You signed in and waited your turn. Dad wanted to get there early so he didn’t have to wait long. When we arrived Dad signed in but he did not put my name on the list. I had an eerie feeling he did not intend to pay for me to see the doctor. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dad was called into the exam room and I sat in the waiting room for a very long time. Finally, a nurse came and got me. She told me my father was very ill and the doctor wanted to see me. I went into the room where my father was and the doctor started to ask me lots of questions. Then he drew some blood. We had to wait for the results. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After another very long wait, the doctor returned and told my father that I had the same illness he had but I had had it longer and my case was worse. The doctor asked if we had anyone who could drive us home. Dad said no. Dad was told that we should both go home and go straight to bed and we were to stay there until our next doctor’s appointment in one month. He gave Dad some prescriptions for each of us. He also wanted all the rest of the family in his office that very morning to be checked out. The clinic closed at noon on Saturdays but the doctor was going to wait for them to get there but he did not want them to dawdle. Our illness was very contagious and everyone had to be seen immediately so they could get gamma globulin shots if they were not already infected. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I ask the doctor what it was we had and the doctor said Hepatitis. When we got home Dad told Mom she was going to have to take all the kids back to town to see the doctor. She asked how? She did not drive. Dad said he was too sick to take them and she should call our next door neighbor Carol for a ride. I was never mentioned. Dad went to his room and went to bed. Carol agreed to take everyone and they soon left. I went back to the couch in the living room. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was early May of 1960. By then I had eight siblings. The youngest had been born that April and was about three weeks old. About four hours passed without any news, then the phone rang. I answered it and learned that everyone had passed the test for Hepatitis. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">However, my second oldest brother Richard had been complaining of a stomach ache for several days and Mom didn’t pay much attention to his complaints because he was always getting a belly ache. If he got the least bit excited or stressed he would complain his tummy hurt. To be safe Mom mentioned this to the doctor and it turned out that Richard had appendicitis and his appendix was on the verge of rupturing. He was going to the hospital for surgery and mom was going to stay with him until he could come home. Carol was bringing the children home for me to take care of. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Richard’s appendix ruptured during his surgery so he was in the hospital longer than expected. Mom returned home with him about a week later. That is when we learned there was an epidemic of hepatitis in our area. The hospital was full of people with it and they soon ran out of beds. Patients were lining the hallways and the employee dining room was converted to a dormitory. The hospital started to keep only the worst patients and everyone else had to be treated at home. Before long, a large red placard was attached to our front door warning everyone who knocked that we were under quarantine. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The county health department investigated the outbreak and discovered the source of the contamination was the water supply at the Catholic grade school were my siblings went to school. I rode the grade school bus to the school and transferred to a bus that took all the parish students to the high school in another town. I was the one who drank the water and got sick first. My father was still in a weakened condition from a previous chemical infection so he caught his hepatitis from me. We also learned that when the school was built in the early part of the century, they put the cistern and the septic tank in the same hole divided by a brick and concrete wall. Over time, the wall cracked and the sewage seeped into the water supply. The school was shut down until a new cistern and septic tank could be installed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dad never did tell mom that I was supposed to be following the same doctor's orders he was. So that never happened. I did, however, miss the last two weeks of school that year partly because of how I felt but, mostly because I was needed at home to care for my father. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When we returned to see the doctor in June Dad was better but I showed no improvement. The doctor upped my dose of medicine. In July the doctor released Dad to return to work but I was worse than before. The doctor asked Dad if he could explain why I was not improving. He said no. I then got angry and told the doctor my father was a liar. I told the doctor about babysitting when Richard was in the hospital, waiting on Dad hand and foot for months and that I was still doing all my regular chores and babysitting when Mom went to work at the family auction house with my brothers. I also said that Dad had no intention of having me seen on our first visit and he never told my mother how sick I really was. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The doctor read my father the riot act and then called my mother and did the same with her. When we got home I was sent to bed and my parents had a huge row. I ended up missing the first two weeks of school that September before the doctor would sign my absentee release form. </span></div>
<span style="color: #323333; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">If he had not been so sick I’m sure my father would have given me a severe paddling for choosing to be heard instead of seen. </span></div>
Kranky Grannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01395118246357066241noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6821291142119018876.post-50999574081724727542017-02-04T13:54:00.000-06:002017-02-14T21:06:59.848-06:00Good Memories<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">One of the blogs I pop into occasionally is about coming of age in the town of Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Written by a gentleman named Ken Steinhoff. A few days ago he had a post that hit home for me. You can<a href="http://www.capecentralhigh.com/family/raised-on-raisin-bread" target="_blank"> click here</a> to see the complete post that the following excerpt is taken from.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"> </span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 12.8px;"> What I remember more than the taste of the gooey stick-to-the-roof-of-your-mouth concoction was the sounds of its making. </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 12.8px;"> It would start out with the squeak of the springs in the oven door being pulled down. Then there was a clatter and crashing when Mother removed all the heavy pots and pans stored in the oven. That would be followed by a tiny sliding sound when she took out the warped and bent cookie sheet. </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 12.8px;">She’d butter up as many slices of bread as the sheet would hold, then sprinkle sugar and cinnamon on them, and stick them in the oven. Just as the sugar was beginning to bubble and, hopefully, before the toast would start to burn, she’d snatch it out of the stove and put a dollop of Peter Pan crunchy peanut butter on it.” </span></span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">This post resonated with me. In our house, the bread came from the “Hostess” Day Old Bread Store in a neighboring town. Mom and one of my brothers would visit the store every few weeks and buy</span><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"> all the day old bread our car would hold. It was a bargain costing pennies on the dollar. What was not eaten within a reasonable time was fed to our hogs. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"><br /></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white;">Just as in this story, several cookie sheets full of bread slices went into the oven to be toasted most morning, but our slices were just plain old white bread. We didn’t have the luxury of raisins and our peanut butter came in big jars from government surplus that was passed out to all the poor folks in our county so it was a bit stale not crunchy. Mom would spread half the slices with butter and sprinkle it with a mixture of sugar and cinnamon and the rest was smeared with peanut butter. I always tried to grab one of each so I could make it into a sandwich. The sugar made the peanut butter taste better and was less messy that way. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white;">Most mornings we barely had time to grab our slice or two as we headed for the door to make the long trek down the road to the bus stop. If we were lucky, there would still be a few slices on the tray for those that got through the door first after school. </span></span><br />
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Kranky Grannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01395118246357066241noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6821291142119018876.post-60085137311102289082017-02-03T17:36:00.000-06:002017-02-20T20:12:21.819-06:00Second Chances and Regrets<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #424242; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As to discussing my biggest regret in a public forum or on my blog. I have already tried that in some form several times only to dance around the most hurtful of the facts. But, discussing it has not reduced the amount of guilt I still feel over the events of that fateful night. Perhaps I will give it another go someday. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well, readers, it has taken nine months to get me back to battery, as my hubby would say. A previous post informed you of my fall last April. Long story shortened, I had more injuries than originally listed. Turns out I did major damage to my neck and ended up having to have spinal fusion surgery. Three discs were replaced with cadaver bone plus lots of metal held with screws. According to my surgeon, I was a sneeze are two away from becoming a quadriplegic. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Just got released from the awful brace I was wearing, the pain is gone and the paralysis in my hands has changed to an annoying numbness I can live with. So I'm back and I'm sassy. Who wouldn't be after so many months of being housebound and requiring help with every little thing! And, almost nothing on the television that wasn't political in nature. I've almost lost my mind. So Watch out, Kranky Granny is raring for some excitement. </span></div>
Kranky Grannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01395118246357066241noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6821291142119018876.post-7974820312708131732016-05-28T15:33:00.000-05:002017-02-20T20:15:05.304-06:00Missing the Fun<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #4b4f56; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">It's Memorial Day Weekend and everyone I know has left town for their first fun filled weekend of summer. Hubby and I are stuck at home because my broken wrist and ribs do not allow me to do anything that could cause more injury. It has been six weeks since my fall and my face is still swollen but the purple has gone away. The cast came off on Friday and I now have eight more weeks in a wrist brace. I'm slowing getting back to normal and can once again type with both hands. So perhaps hubby will no longer have to listen to this Kranky Granny complaining. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #4b4f56; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">The above shot was taken on the Big River at Washington State Park ( located on the eastern edge of the Ozarks) by a friend. I am using it with permission for this week's Pink Saturday Meme. Click the link below to check out what others are sharing this holiday weekend.</span></div>
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Kranky Grannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01395118246357066241noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6821291142119018876.post-74436858013930105172016-05-02T16:25:00.003-05:002017-02-20T20:29:32.892-06:00Out Of Commission For a While<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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