I am sorry that most of you did not have a Valentine Day dinner as good
as mine. My sweetie picked up some huge shrimp and some asparagus. I
didn't have a problem deciding whether to measure by weight or by volume
or to use Imperial or metric because I pretty well faked everything. I
melted some butter and chopped up two nice big cloves of garlic. I
snipped the tips and peeled off spines on some snow peas and sliced up
some red peppers. I heated some butter and EVO in a pan with a small
pinch of dried hot chili flakes. When the fat was bubbly I tossed in
the red pepper, then the shrimps and later the peas. There were served
in a bed of Basmati rice with a side of steamed asparagus.

On 2/14/2017 7:18 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> I am sorry that most of you did not have a Valentine Day dinner as good
> as mine. My sweetie picked up some huge shrimp and some asparagus. I
> didn't have a problem deciding whether to measure by weight or by volume
> or to use Imperial or metric because I pretty well faked everything. I
> melted some butter and chopped up two nice big cloves of garlic. I
> snipped the tips and peeled off spines on some snow peas and sliced up
> some red peppers. I heated some butter and EVO in a pan with a small
> pinch of dried hot chili flakes. When the fat was bubbly I tossed in
> the red pepper, then the shrimps and later the peas. There were served
> in a bed of Basmati rice with a side of steamed asparagus.

But Dave, I'm sure someone *did* someone weigh the shrimp and the
asparagus at the time of purchase. LOL

I'm glad you had a good dinner. I'm also glad you chose Basmati rice
since it allegedly doesn't contain as much arsenic as some other rice.
Maybe your Valentine's Day dinner won't kill you.

Happy Valentines Day!

Jill

On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 19:29:40 -0500, jmcquown >
wrote:

>On 2/14/2017 7:18 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> I am sorry that most of you did not have a Valentine Day dinner as good
>> as mine. My sweetie picked up some huge shrimp and some asparagus. I
>> didn't have a problem deciding whether to measure by weight or by volume
>> or to use Imperial or metric because I pretty well faked everything. I
>> melted some butter and chopped up two nice big cloves of garlic. I
>> snipped the tips and peeled off spines on some snow peas and sliced up
>> some red peppers. I heated some butter and EVO in a pan with a small
>> pinch of dried hot chili flakes. When the fat was bubbly I tossed in
>> the red pepper, then the shrimps and later the peas. There were served
>> in a bed of Basmati rice with a side of steamed asparagus.
>
>But Dave, I'm sure someone *did* someone weigh the shrimp and the
>asparagus at the time of purchase. LOL
>
>I'm glad you had a good dinner. I'm also glad you chose Basmati rice
>since it allegedly doesn't contain as much arsenic as some other rice.
>Maybe your Valentine's Day dinner won't kill you.

I don't see any valentine shrimp so I don't believe. Was most likely
canned cheapo flaked tuna with a mega gob of mayo.

On Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 7:16:44 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
> I am sorry that most of you did not have a Valentine Day dinner as good
> as mine. My sweetie picked up some huge shrimp and some asparagus. I
> didn't have a problem deciding whether to measure by weight or by volume
> or to use Imperial or metric because I pretty well faked everything. I
> melted some butter and chopped up two nice big cloves of garlic. I
> snipped the tips and peeled off spines on some snow peas and sliced up
> some red peppers. I heated some butter and EVO in a pan with a small
> pinch of dried hot chili flakes. When the fat was bubbly I tossed in
> the red pepper, then the shrimps and later the peas. There were served
> in a bed of Basmati rice with a side of steamed asparagus.

Nice. We had leftovers. Valentine's Day just isn't important to us.

Cindy Hamilton

In article >,
says...
>
> I am sorry that most of you did not have a Valentine Day dinner as good
> as mine. My sweetie picked up some huge shrimp and some asparagus. I
> didn't have a problem deciding whether to measure by weight or by volume
> or to use Imperial or metric because I pretty well faked everything. I
> melted some butter and chopped up two nice big cloves of garlic. I
> snipped the tips and peeled off spines on some snow peas and sliced up
> some red peppers. I heated some butter and EVO in a pan with a small
> pinch of dried hot chili flakes. When the fat was bubbly I tossed in
> the red pepper, then the shrimps and later the peas. There were served
> in a bed of Basmati rice with a side of steamed asparagus.

So you fed your sweetie arsenic rice on Valentines Day. That's not
good, Dave.

We went out to the pub for lunch.

He had an avocado salad
followed by green thai vegetable curry
followed by bread and butter pudding with home made custard.

I had a baked goats cheese in parma ham with figs and fig chutney
and a green salad;
followed by finnan haddock with mashed potato, on a leek puree topped
with a poached duck egg,
followed by vanilla panna cotta with plums

Janet UK

Janet wrote:
>
> So you fed your sweetie arsenic rice on Valentines Day. That's not
> good, Dave.

Really Janet? Nit-picking Dave's nice meal? LOL!


> We went out to the pub for lunch.
>
> He had an avocado salad
> followed by green thai vegetable curry
> followed by bread and butter pudding with home made custard.
>
> I had a baked goats cheese in parma ham with figs and fig chutney
> and a green salad;
> followed by finnan haddock with mashed potato, on a leek puree topped
> with a poached duck egg,
> followed by vanilla panna cotta with plums
>
> Janet UK

Wow. Really?.... ;-/
Those meals sound so cool-kid (bragging), touchy-feely and even
a bit *** to me. Actually, YOUR meal sounds so VERY bragging
and even very ******* to me. lololol! You Scottish phony, you!

Let's read this one again (it's a classic):
--------------------------------------------
> I had a baked goats cheese in parma ham with figs and fig chutney
> and a green salad;
> followed by finnan haddock with mashed potato, on a leek puree topped
> with a poached duck egg,
> followed by vanilla panna cotta with plums
---------------------------------------------

I love that. Thanks for the funny.

I stopped by McDonald's and bought 2 double cheeseburgers and
2 large fries with tons of salt and pepper. oh baby, yeah! ;-D

Oh, and some bread pudding with 'one too many eggs' with
some vanilla ice cream.

On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 03:26:38 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 7:16:44 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
>> I am sorry that most of you did not have a Valentine Day dinner as good
>> as mine. My sweetie picked up some huge shrimp and some asparagus. I
>> didn't have a problem deciding whether to measure by weight or by volume
>> or to use Imperial or metric because I pretty well faked everything. I
>> melted some butter and chopped up two nice big cloves of garlic. I
>> snipped the tips and peeled off spines on some snow peas and sliced up
>> some red peppers. I heated some butter and EVO in a pan with a small
>> pinch of dried hot chili flakes. When the fat was bubbly I tossed in
>> the red pepper, then the shrimps and later the peas. There were served
>> in a bed of Basmati rice with a side of steamed asparagus.
>
>Nice. We had leftovers. Valentine's Day just isn't important to us.

Is it an American thing? Although retailers in other countries love to
import it.

On 2017-02-15 10:02 AM, Gary wrote:
> Janet wrote:
>>
>> So you fed your sweetie arsenic rice on Valentines Day. That's not
>> good, Dave.
>
> Really Janet? Nit-picking Dave's nice meal? LOL!
>
>
>> We went out to the pub for lunch.
>>
>> He had an avocado salad
>> followed by green thai vegetable curry
>> followed by bread and butter pudding with home made custard.
>>
>> I had a baked goats cheese in parma ham with figs and fig chutney
>> and a green salad;
>> followed by finnan haddock with mashed potato, on a leek puree topped
>> with a poached duck egg,
>> followed by vanilla panna cotta with plums
>>
>> Janet UK
>
> Wow. Really?.... ;-/
> Those meals sound so cool-kid (bragging), touchy-feely and even
> a bit *** to me. Actually, YOUR meal sounds so VERY bragging
> and even very ******* to me. lololol! You Scottish phony, you!
>
> Let's read this one again (it's a classic):
> --------------------------------------------
>> I had a baked goats cheese in parma ham with figs and fig chutney
>> and a green salad;
>> followed by finnan haddock with mashed potato, on a leek puree topped
>> with a poached duck egg,
>> followed by vanilla panna cotta with plums
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> I love that. Thanks for the funny.
>
> I stopped by McDonald's and bought 2 double cheeseburgers and
> 2 large fries with tons of salt and pepper. oh baby, yeah! ;-D
>
> Oh, and some bread pudding with 'one too many eggs' with
> some vanilla ice cream.
>
It's a wonder you survived to post here today:-)

graham wrote:
>
> On 2017-02-15 10:02 AM, Gary wrote:
> > Janet wrote:
> >>
> >> So you fed your sweetie arsenic rice on Valentines Day. That's not
> >> good, Dave.
> >
> > Really Janet? Nit-picking Dave's nice meal? LOL!
> >
> >
> >> We went out to the pub for lunch.
> >>
> >> He had an avocado salad
> >> followed by green thai vegetable curry
> >> followed by bread and butter pudding with home made custard.
> >>
> >> I had a baked goats cheese in parma ham with figs and fig chutney
> >> and a green salad;
> >> followed by finnan haddock with mashed potato, on a leek puree topped
> >> with a poached duck egg,
> >> followed by vanilla panna cotta with plums
> >>
> >> Janet UK
> >
> > Wow. Really?.... ;-/
> > Those meals sound so cool-kid (bragging), touchy-feely and even
> > a bit *** to me. Actually, YOUR meal sounds so VERY bragging
> > and even very ******* to me. lololol! You Scottish phony, you!
> >
> > Let's read this one again (it's a classic):
> > --------------------------------------------
> >> I had a baked goats cheese in parma ham with figs and fig chutney
> >> and a green salad;
> >> followed by finnan haddock with mashed potato, on a leek puree topped
> >> with a poached duck egg,
> >> followed by vanilla panna cotta with plums
> > ---------------------------------------------
> >
> > I love that. Thanks for the funny.
> >
> > I stopped by McDonald's and bought 2 double cheeseburgers and
> > 2 large fries with tons of salt and pepper. oh baby, yeah! ;-D
> >
> > Oh, and some bread pudding with 'one too many eggs' with
> > some vanilla ice cream.
> >
> It's a wonder you survived to post here today:-)

Yeah...McDonald's food is so darn evil. Note: I didn't really eat
there yesterday but I did think about it. It would probably have
tasted better that what I really had for dinner.

I probably will stop by there within the next few days. :-D

On 2/15/2017 6:26 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

>
> Nice. We had leftovers. Valentine's Day just isn't important to us.
>
> Cindy Hamilton
>

I'm not sure how to interpret that. Many holidays are commercial
ventures to suck money from the participants. While i try to make every
day like Valentines, it is a good excuse to go little overboard for my
sweetie.

I worked a few hours in the morning but came home with lunch and
flowers. Granddaughter and fiance stopped in for a visit. Later we had
a nice dinner and chocolate dipped strawberries for dessert.

Gary wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> Janet wrote:
> >
> > So you fed your sweetie arsenic rice on Valentines Day. That's
> > not good, Dave.
>
> Really Janet? Nit-picking Dave's nice meal? LOL!
>
>
> > We went out to the pub for lunch.
> >
> > He had an avocado salad
> > followed by green thai vegetable curry
> > followed by bread and butter pudding with home made custard.
> >
> > I had a baked goats cheese in parma ham with figs and fig
> > chutney and a green salad;
> > followed by finnan haddock with mashed potato, on a leek puree
> > topped with a poached duck egg,
> > followed by vanilla panna cotta with plums
> >
> > Janet UK
>
> Wow. Really?.... ;-/
> Those meals sound so cool-kid (bragging), touchy-feely and even
> a bit *** to me. Actually, YOUR meal sounds so VERY bragging
> and even very ******* to me. lololol! You Scottish phony, you!
>
> Let's read this one again (it's a classic):
> --------------------------------------------
> > I had a baked goats cheese in parma ham with figs and fig
> > chutney and a green salad;
> > followed by finnan haddock with mashed potato, on a leek puree
> > topped with a poached duck egg,
> > followed by vanilla panna cotta with plums
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> I love that. Thanks for the funny.
>
> I stopped by McDonald's and bought 2 double cheeseburgers and
> 2 large fries with tons of salt and pepper. oh baby, yeah! ;-D
>
> Oh, and some bread pudding with 'one too many eggs' with
> some vanilla ice cream.

My Valentines meal was coddling my husband with some of his favorite
foods as he started a low level chemo for skin cancer.

-BBQ pork (home made, from the freezer)
-Fresh 'Jewish rye' (from the bread maker then baked in the oven)
-Steamed Brussells Sprouts and small carrots rolled in olive oil
-Strawberry Ice Cream

May not sound fancy, but it's real just like you having fun with McDs.






--

In article >, says...
>
> Janet wrote:
> >
> > So you fed your sweetie arsenic rice on Valentines Day. That's not
> > good, Dave.
>
> Really Janet? Nit-picking Dave's nice meal? LOL!
>
>
> > We went out to the pub for lunch.
> >
> > He had an avocado salad
> > followed by green thai vegetable curry
> > followed by bread and butter pudding with home made custard.
> >
> > I had a baked goats cheese in parma ham with figs and fig chutney
> > and a green salad;
> > followed by finnan haddock with mashed potato, on a leek puree topped
> > with a poached duck egg,
> > followed by vanilla panna cotta with plums
> >
> > Janet UK
>
> Wow. Really?.... ;-/
> Those meals sound so cool-kid (bragging), touchy-feely and even
> a bit *** to me. Actually, YOUR meal sounds so VERY bragging
> and even very ******* to me. lololol! You Scottish phony, you!

Do try to get at least one thing right. I'm English.

Janet UK

"Gary" > wrote in message ...
> graham wrote:
>>
>> On 2017-02-15 10:02 AM, Gary wrote:
>> > Janet wrote:
>> >>
>> >> So you fed your sweetie arsenic rice on Valentines Day. That's not
>> >> good, Dave.
>> >
>> > Really Janet? Nit-picking Dave's nice meal? LOL!
>> >
>> >
>> >> We went out to the pub for lunch.
>> >>
>> >> He had an avocado salad
>> >> followed by green thai vegetable curry
>> >> followed by bread and butter pudding with home made custard.
>> >>
>> >> I had a baked goats cheese in parma ham with figs and fig chutney
>> >> and a green salad;
>> >> followed by finnan haddock with mashed potato, on a leek puree topped
>> >> with a poached duck egg,
>> >> followed by vanilla panna cotta with plums
>> >>
>> >> Janet UK
>> >
>> > Wow. Really?.... ;-/
>> > Those meals sound so cool-kid (bragging), touchy-feely and even
>> > a bit *** to me. Actually, YOUR meal sounds so VERY bragging
>> > and even very ******* to me. lololol! You Scottish phony, you!
>> >
>> > Let's read this one again (it's a classic):
>> > --------------------------------------------
>> >> I had a baked goats cheese in parma ham with figs and fig chutney
>> >> and a green salad;
>> >> followed by finnan haddock with mashed potato, on a leek puree topped
>> >> with a poached duck egg,
>> >> followed by vanilla panna cotta with plums
>> > ---------------------------------------------
>> >
>> > I love that. Thanks for the funny.
>> >
>> > I stopped by McDonald's and bought 2 double cheeseburgers and
>> > 2 large fries with tons of salt and pepper. oh baby, yeah! ;-D
>> >
>> > Oh, and some bread pudding with 'one too many eggs' with
>> > some vanilla ice cream.
>> >
>> It's a wonder you survived to post here today:-)
>
> Yeah...McDonald's food is so darn evil. Note: I didn't really eat
> there yesterday but I did think about it. It would probably have
> tasted better that what I really had for dinner.
>
> I probably will stop by there within the next few days. :-D



They are having two for one Papa Burger meals at A&W on Tuesdays right now.
I almost went there but was too lazy, so made a semi-boneless leg of lamb
instead. DH does not like lamb, so he had some of the salmon he caught
awhile ago, salad and rice. I had lots of lamb left over, so froze it for
further use. Sounds like everyone had a nice meal on Valentine's Day.

Cheri

On 2017-02-15 12:02 PM, Gary wrote:
> Janet wrote:
>>
>> So you fed your sweetie arsenic rice on Valentines Day. That's not
>> good, Dave.
>
> Really Janet? Nit-picking Dave's nice meal? LOL!
>
>
>> We went out to the pub for lunch.
>>
>> He had an avocado salad
>> followed by green thai vegetable curry
>> followed by bread and butter pudding with home made custard.
>>
>> I had a baked goats cheese in parma ham with figs and fig chutney
>> and a green salad;
>> followed by finnan haddock with mashed potato, on a leek puree topped
>> with a poached duck egg,
>> followed by vanilla panna cotta with plums
>>
>> Janet UK
>
> Wow. Really?.... ;-/
> Those meals sound so cool-kid (bragging), touchy-feely and even
> a bit *** to me. Actually, YOUR meal sounds so VERY bragging
> and even very ******* to me. lololol! You Scottish phony, you!
>
> Let's read this one again (it's a classic):
> --------------------------------------------
>> I had a baked goats cheese in parma ham with figs and fig chutney
>> and a green salad;
>> followed by finnan haddock with mashed potato, on a leek puree topped
>> with a poached duck egg,
>> followed by vanilla panna cotta with plums
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> I love that. Thanks for the funny.
>
> I stopped by McDonald's and bought 2 double cheeseburgers and
> 2 large fries with tons of salt and pepper. oh baby, yeah! ;-D
>
Sorry Garry, but you are just too much of an epicure for us.

On Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 12:22:25 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 03:26:38 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> > wrote:
>
> >On Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 7:16:44 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
> >> I am sorry that most of you did not have a Valentine Day dinner as good
> >> as mine. My sweetie picked up some huge shrimp and some asparagus. I
> >> didn't have a problem deciding whether to measure by weight or by volume
> >> or to use Imperial or metric because I pretty well faked everything. I
> >> melted some butter and chopped up two nice big cloves of garlic. I
> >> snipped the tips and peeled off spines on some snow peas and sliced up
> >> some red peppers. I heated some butter and EVO in a pan with a small
> >> pinch of dried hot chili flakes. When the fat was bubbly I tossed in
> >> the red pepper, then the shrimps and later the peas. There were served
> >> in a bed of Basmati rice with a side of steamed asparagus.
> >
> >Nice. We had leftovers. Valentine's Day just isn't important to us.
>
> Is it an American thing? Although retailers in other countries love to
> import it.

Total spending for Valentine's Day was predicted to be
$18.2 billion, or an average $136.57 per person.

The power of marketing. We've been inundated with
jewelry ads on television for weeks. Apparently, if
you're not willing to drop a few kilobucks on diamonds,
you don't really love your partner.

Cindy Hamilton

On Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 1:40:40 PM UTC-5, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 2/15/2017 6:26 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>
> >
> > Nice. We had leftovers. Valentine's Day just isn't important to us.
> >
> > Cindy Hamilton
> >
>
> I'm not sure how to interpret that. Many holidays are commercial
> ventures to suck money from the participants. While i try to make every
> day like Valentines, it is a good excuse to go little overboard for my
> sweetie.

No judgment of others' relationships is express or implied.

I got my hair cut after work yesterday, and overheard a
very sweet young man describing the plans he had to make
his girlfriend feel special on their first Valentine's Day.
I forbore to tell him that the most memorable (but perhaps
least romantic) Valentine's Day I ever had involved snaking
out the kitchen drain in our crawlspace.

> I worked a few hours in the morning but came home with lunch and
> flowers. Granddaughter and fiance stopped in for a visit. Later we had
> a nice dinner and chocolate dipped strawberries for dessert.

I expect I'll get flowers within the next few weeks. Every
couple of months I come home and there are some in a vase
in the living room.

Cindy Hamilton

On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 12:07:51 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 12:22:25 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
>> On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 03:26:38 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >On Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 7:16:44 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
>> >> I am sorry that most of you did not have a Valentine Day dinner as good
>> >> as mine. My sweetie picked up some huge shrimp and some asparagus. I
>> >> didn't have a problem deciding whether to measure by weight or by volume
>> >> or to use Imperial or metric because I pretty well faked everything. I
>> >> melted some butter and chopped up two nice big cloves of garlic. I
>> >> snipped the tips and peeled off spines on some snow peas and sliced up
>> >> some red peppers. I heated some butter and EVO in a pan with a small
>> >> pinch of dried hot chili flakes. When the fat was bubbly I tossed in
>> >> the red pepper, then the shrimps and later the peas. There were served
>> >> in a bed of Basmati rice with a side of steamed asparagus.
>> >
>> >Nice. We had leftovers. Valentine's Day just isn't important to us.
>>
>> Is it an American thing? Although retailers in other countries love to
>> import it.
>
>Total spending for Valentine's Day was predicted to be
>$18.2 billion, or an average $136.57 per person.
>
>The power of marketing. We've been inundated with
>jewelry ads on television for weeks. Apparently, if
>you're not willing to drop a few kilobucks on diamonds,
>you don't really love your partner.

I supposes the retail industry thought it was too long between money
spending events in February. Easter must be next.

"Cindy Hamilton" wrote in message
...

On Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 1:40:40 PM UTC-5, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 2/15/2017 6:26 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>
> >
> > Nice. We had leftovers. Valentine's Day just isn't important to us.
> >
> > Cindy Hamilton
> >
>
> I'm not sure how to interpret that. Many holidays are commercial
> ventures to suck money from the participants. While i try to make every
> day like Valentines, it is a good excuse to go little overboard for my
> sweetie.

No judgment of others' relationships is express or implied.

I got my hair cut after work yesterday, and overheard a
very sweet young man describing the plans he had to make
his girlfriend feel special on their first Valentine's Day.
I forbore to tell him that the most memorable (but perhaps
least romantic) Valentine's Day I ever had involved snaking
out the kitchen drain in our crawlspace.

> I worked a few hours in the morning but came home with lunch and
> flowers. Granddaughter and fiance stopped in for a visit. Later we had
> a nice dinner and chocolate dipped strawberries for dessert.

I expect I'll get flowers within the next few weeks. Every
couple of months I come home and there are some in a vase
in the living room.

Cindy Hamilton
====

Your relationship sounds a lot like ours and I wouldn't change it for
anything or anyone)))



--
http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk

On Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 3:21:40 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 12:07:51 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> > wrote:
>
> >On Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 12:22:25 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
> >> On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 03:26:38 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> >> > wrote:
> >>
> >> >On Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 7:16:44 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
> >> >> I am sorry that most of you did not have a Valentine Day dinner as good
> >> >> as mine. My sweetie picked up some huge shrimp and some asparagus. I
> >> >> didn't have a problem deciding whether to measure by weight or by volume
> >> >> or to use Imperial or metric because I pretty well faked everything. I
> >> >> melted some butter and chopped up two nice big cloves of garlic. I
> >> >> snipped the tips and peeled off spines on some snow peas and sliced up
> >> >> some red peppers. I heated some butter and EVO in a pan with a small
> >> >> pinch of dried hot chili flakes. When the fat was bubbly I tossed in
> >> >> the red pepper, then the shrimps and later the peas. There were served
> >> >> in a bed of Basmati rice with a side of steamed asparagus.
> >> >
> >> >Nice. We had leftovers. Valentine's Day just isn't important to us.
> >>
> >> Is it an American thing? Although retailers in other countries love to
> >> import it.
> >
> >Total spending for Valentine's Day was predicted to be
> >$18.2 billion, or an average $136.57 per person.
> >
> >The power of marketing. We've been inundated with
> >jewelry ads on television for weeks. Apparently, if
> >you're not willing to drop a few kilobucks on diamonds,
> >you don't really love your partner.
>
> I supposes the retail industry thought it was too long between money
> spending events in February. Easter must be next.

St. Patrick's Day is considered a good excuse to drink
too much beer (probably dyed green). There's a small
market for cardboard "leprechaun" hats and the like.

Cindy Hamilton

On 2/15/2017 3:11 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

>
> I expect I'll get flowers within the next few weeks. Every
> couple of months I come home and there are some in a vase
> in the living room.
>
> Cindy Hamilton
>

Real love does not need a designated day on the calendar.

On 2017-02-15 4:48 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 2/15/2017 3:11 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>
>>
>> I expect I'll get flowers within the next few weeks. Every
>> couple of months I come home and there are some in a vase
>> in the living room.
>>
>> Cindy Hamilton
>>
>
> Real love does not need a designated day on the calendar.

Is it about the nice things you do for the love of your life, or is it
the fear of retribution if you don't do something special?

On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 13:42:47 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 3:21:40 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
>> On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 12:07:51 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >On Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 12:22:25 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
>> >> On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 03:26:38 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
>> >> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >Nice. We had leftovers. Valentine's Day just isn't important to us.
>> >>
>> >> Is it an American thing? Although retailers in other countries love to
>> >> import it.
>> >
>> >Total spending for Valentine's Day was predicted to be
>> >$18.2 billion, or an average $136.57 per person.
>> >
>> >The power of marketing. We've been inundated with
>> >jewelry ads on television for weeks. Apparently, if
>> >you're not willing to drop a few kilobucks on diamonds,
>> >you don't really love your partner.
>>
>> I supposes the retail industry thought it was too long between money
>> spending events in February. Easter must be next.
>
>St. Patrick's Day is considered a good excuse to drink
>too much beer (probably dyed green). There's a small
>market for cardboard "leprechaun" hats and the like.

All churches and ethnicities add their own holidays, I guess.
According to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, every Friday
is a religious holiday. Let's hope retailers never realise that.

On 2017-02-15, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

> Real love does not need a designated day on the calendar.

Play this fer yer wife.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74A8wFv7qnw>

nb

In article >, says...
>
> On 2/15/2017 3:11 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>
> >
> > I expect I'll get flowers within the next few weeks. Every
> > couple of months I come home and there are some in a vase
> > in the living room.
> >
> > Cindy Hamilton
> >
>
> Real love does not need a designated day on the calendar.

Sounds like a man-excuse for forgetting the wedding anniversary.

Janet UK

On 2017-02-16 10:21 AM, Janet wrote:
> In article >, says...
>>
>> On 2/15/2017 3:11 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I expect I'll get flowers within the next few weeks. Every
>>> couple of months I come home and there are some in a vase
>>> in the living room.
>>>
>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>
>>
>> Real love does not need a designated day on the calendar.
>
> Sounds like a man-excuse for forgetting the wedding anniversary.
>
>
Criminals tend to remember their time in prison but don't remember the
date they were sentenced ;-)

Janet wrote:
>
> In article >, says...
> >
> > On 2/15/2017 3:11 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I expect I'll get flowers within the next few weeks. Every
> > > couple of months I come home and there are some in a vase
> > > in the living room.
> > >
> > > Cindy Hamilton
> > >
> >
> > Real love does not need a designated day on the calendar.
>
> Sounds like a man-excuse for forgetting the wedding anniversary.
>
> Janet UK

LOL! Good one, Janet. Heaven help the husband that forgets or
ignores a wedding anniversary...or even Valentine's Day.

I will say this though. Sounds like Ed is the "Sean Connery" of
husbands here (ie - women's dream husband). He sounds very
loving and dedicated.

I was too but my wife ran off with the first boss she had. arrghh@
After 7 years of 'stay at home Mom', she finally got a job
and ran off with the also married bum.

The story is perfect for daytime soap operas. ;-D

On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 15:21:03 -0000, Janet > wrote:

>In article >, says...
>>
>> On 2/15/2017 3:11 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > I expect I'll get flowers within the next few weeks. Every
>> > couple of months I come home and there are some in a vase
>> > in the living room.
>> >
>> > Cindy Hamilton
>> >
>>
>> Real love does not need a designated day on the calendar.
>
> Sounds like a man-excuse for forgetting the wedding anniversary.

I'm lucky. My wife forgets it too.

On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 12:21:33 -0500, Gary > wrote:

>Janet wrote:
>>
>> In article >, says...
>> >
>> > On 2/15/2017 3:11 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> >
>> > >
>> > > I expect I'll get flowers within the next few weeks. Every
>> > > couple of months I come home and there are some in a vase
>> > > in the living room.
>> > >
>> > > Cindy Hamilton
>> > >
>> >
>> > Real love does not need a designated day on the calendar.
>>
>> Sounds like a man-excuse for forgetting the wedding anniversary.
>>
>> Janet UK
>
>LOL! Good one, Janet. Heaven help the husband that forgets or
>ignores a wedding anniversary...or even Valentine's Day.
>
>I will say this though. Sounds like Ed is the "Sean Connery" of
>husbands here

Are you saying Ed beats his wife? I don't believe that.

Janet wrote:
>
> In article >, says...
> >
> > Janet wrote:
> > >
> > > So you fed your sweetie arsenic rice on Valentines Day. That's not
> > > good, Dave.
> >
> > Really Janet? Nit-picking Dave's nice meal? LOL!
> >
> >
> > > We went out to the pub for lunch.
> > >
> > > He had an avocado salad
> > > followed by green thai vegetable curry
> > > followed by bread and butter pudding with home made custard.
> > >
> > > I had a baked goats cheese in parma ham with figs and fig chutney
> > > and a green salad;
> > > followed by finnan haddock with mashed potato, on a leek puree topped
> > > with a poached duck egg,
> > > followed by vanilla panna cotta with plums
> > >
> > > Janet UK
> >
> > Wow. Really?.... ;-/
> > Those meals sound so cool-kid (bragging), touchy-feely and even
> > a bit *** to me. Actually, YOUR meal sounds so VERY bragging
> > and even very ******* to me. lololol! You Scottish phony, you!
>
> Do try to get at least one thing right. I'm English.

Yes, you are. I remember. So is Oph. So how did you two
end up in Scotland? Is it a nicer area of the UK?
I have/had 2 close friends that grew up in Manchester.
One lives in Canada now.
The other got shot in a drive-by just a few months ago.

Also, your island that you live on sounds so nice to me. I even
remember an old pic you send of your garden and I saw the
water in in the background.

Anyway.....sounds like a nice place to me.
No doubt, you will agree.

Cheri wrote:
>
> They are having two for one Papa Burger meals at A&W on Tuesdays right now.
> I almost went there but was too lazy, so made a semi-boneless leg of lamb
> instead. DH does not like lamb, so he had some of the salmon he caught
> awhile ago, salad and rice. I had lots of lamb left over, so froze it for
> further use. Sounds like everyone had a nice meal on Valentine's Day.

Actually wild caught salmon. I'm jealous. I would have joined you with
the lamb though. I like both foods. I get plenty of seafood here, fresh
caught, but not salmon.



Last week, a friend brought me just 10 fresh-caught oysters.
I opened them, dipped them into a tempura batter, and
deep fried them just for a couple of minutes.

IMO, fresh seafood doesn't get any better than the
oysters cooked that way. No condiments necessary at all
other than a bit of S&P.

The last time I went to the State Park at low tide and
harvested a few myself was also a good eats thing.
I dug a shallow pit in the sand on the beach and built
a small campfire in it. I then harvested a half dozen oysters
while the fire was burning down. Once just hot coals, I put
the oysters on the coals until they opened then ate them. YUM!

The people that go to raw bars and just slurp down oysters are
really missing out on one of nature's best foods, imo.

Bruce wrote:
>
> On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 15:21:03 -0000, Janet > wrote:
>
> >In article >, says...
> >>
> >> On 2/15/2017 3:11 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> > I expect I'll get flowers within the next few weeks. Every
> >> > couple of months I come home and there are some in a vase
> >> > in the living room.
> >> >
> >> > Cindy Hamilton
> >> >
> >>
> >> Real love does not need a designated day on the calendar.
> >
> > Sounds like a man-excuse for forgetting the wedding anniversary.
>
> I'm lucky. My wife forgets it too.

I'll bet she doesn't.

Bruce wrote:
>
> On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 12:21:33 -0500, Gary > wrote:
>
> >Janet wrote:
> >>
> >> In article >, says...
> >> >
> >> > On 2/15/2017 3:11 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >> >
> >> > >
> >> > > I expect I'll get flowers within the next few weeks. Every
> >> > > couple of months I come home and there are some in a vase
> >> > > in the living room.
> >> > >
> >> > > Cindy Hamilton
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> > Real love does not need a designated day on the calendar.
> >>
> >> Sounds like a man-excuse for forgetting the wedding anniversary.
> >>
> >> Janet UK
> >
> >LOL! Good one, Janet. Heaven help the husband that forgets or
> >ignores a wedding anniversary...or even Valentine's Day.
> >
> >I will say this though. Sounds like Ed is the "Sean Connery" of
> >husbands here
>
> Are you saying Ed beats his wife? I don't believe that.

Dude! Are you saying that Sean Connery has beaten a wife?
I've never heard that.

To me, he portrays himself as the ultimate cool husband.
At least in the movies. ;0

On 2017-02-16 11:01 AM, Gary wrote:
> Cheri wrote:
>>
>> They are having two for one Papa Burger meals at A&W on Tuesdays right now.
>> I almost went there but was too lazy, so made a semi-boneless leg of lamb
>> instead. DH does not like lamb, so he had some of the salmon he caught
>> awhile ago, salad and rice. I had lots of lamb left over, so froze it for
>> further use. Sounds like everyone had a nice meal on Valentine's Day.
>
> Actually wild caught salmon. I'm jealous. I would have joined you with
> the lamb though. I like both foods. I get plenty of seafood here, fresh
> caught, but not salmon.
>
>
>
> Last week, a friend brought me just 10 fresh-caught oysters.
> I opened them, dipped them into a tempura batter, and
> deep fried them just for a couple of minutes.
>
> IMO, fresh seafood doesn't get any better than the
> oysters cooked that way. No condiments necessary at all
> other than a bit of S&P.
>
> The last time I went to the State Park at low tide and
> harvested a few myself was also a good eats thing.
> I dug a shallow pit in the sand on the beach and built
> a small campfire in it. I then harvested a half dozen oysters
> while the fire was burning down. Once just hot coals, I put
> the oysters on the coals until they opened then ate them. YUM!
>
> The people that go to raw bars and just slurp down oysters are
> really missing out on one of nature's best foods, imo.
>
I had an Australian friend who kept an oyster shucking knife in his car
glovebox. He'd drive to a particular cove, wade out at low tide and
shuck and eat oysters within seconds of gathering them.

On 2017-02-16 11:03 AM, Gary wrote:
> Bruce wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 15:21:03 -0000, Janet > wrote:
>>
>>> In article >, says...
>>>>
>>>> On 2/15/2017 3:11 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I expect I'll get flowers within the next few weeks. Every
>>>>> couple of months I come home and there are some in a vase
>>>>> in the living room.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Real love does not need a designated day on the calendar.
>>>
>>> Sounds like a man-excuse for forgetting the wedding anniversary.
>>
>> I'm lucky. My wife forgets it too.
>
> I'll bet she doesn't.
>
A couple I know - friends of over 50 years, have to look up the date.
They just aren't bothered.

On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 13:05:53 -0500, Gary > wrote:

>Bruce wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 12:21:33 -0500, Gary > wrote:
>>
>> >Janet wrote:
>> >>
>> >LOL! Good one, Janet. Heaven help the husband that forgets or
>> >ignores a wedding anniversary...or even Valentine's Day.
>> >
>> >I will say this though. Sounds like Ed is the "Sean Connery" of
>> >husbands here
>>
>> Are you saying Ed beats his wife? I don't believe that.
>
>Dude! Are you saying that Sean Connery has beaten a wife?
>I've never heard that.
>
>To me, he portrays himself as the ultimate cool husband.
>At least in the movies. ;0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo0d1zTAFKA

Question: "Do you think it's good to slap a woman?"
Sean Connery: (...) "It depends entirely on the circumstances and if
it merits it."

I guess he reads RFC.

On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 13:03:10 -0500, Gary > wrote:

>Bruce wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 15:21:03 -0000, Janet > wrote:
>>
>> >In article >, says...
>> >>
>> >> Real love does not need a designated day on the calendar.
>> >
>> > Sounds like a man-excuse for forgetting the wedding anniversary.
>>
>> I'm lucky. My wife forgets it too.
>
>I'll bet she doesn't.

Oh yes We've both forgotten most years.

On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 13:00:38 -0500, Gary > wrote:

>Janet wrote:
>>
>> > > We went out to the pub for lunch.
>> > >
>> > > He had an avocado salad
>> > > followed by green thai vegetable curry
>> > > followed by bread and butter pudding with home made custard.
>> > >
>> > > I had a baked goats cheese in parma ham with figs and fig chutney
>> > > and a green salad;
>> > > followed by finnan haddock with mashed potato, on a leek puree topped
>> > > with a poached duck egg,
>> > > followed by vanilla panna cotta with plums
>> > >
>> > Wow. Really?.... ;-/
>> > Those meals sound so cool-kid (bragging), touchy-feely and even
>> > a bit *** to me. Actually, YOUR meal sounds so VERY bragging
>> > and even very ******* to me. lololol! You Scottish phony, you!
>>
>> Do try to get at least one thing right. I'm English.
>
>Yes, you are. I remember. So is Oph. So how did you two
>end up in Scotland? Is it a nicer area of the UK?
>I have/had 2 close friends that grew up in Manchester.
>One lives in Canada now.
>The other got shot in a drive-by just a few months ago.
>
>Also, your island that you live on sounds so nice to me. I even
>remember an old pic you send of your garden and I saw the
>water in in the background.
>
>Anyway.....sounds like a nice place to me.
>No doubt, you will agree.

Don't ask. She'll tell you she lives he
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRpYwTD4sPU

On Thursday, February 16, 2017 at 10:21:09 AM UTC-5, Janet wrote:
> In article >, says...
> >
> > On 2/15/2017 3:11 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I expect I'll get flowers within the next few weeks. Every
> > > couple of months I come home and there are some in a vase
> > > in the living room.
> > >
> > > Cindy Hamilton
> > >
> >
> > Real love does not need a designated day on the calendar.
>
> Sounds like a man-excuse for forgetting the wedding anniversary.

A couple of times we've gotten a fair way into our wedding
anniversary before one of us remembered. It's not a just
man thing (although I realize I'm way at the end of the bell
curve).

Cindy Hamilton

On Thursday, February 16, 2017 at 11:14:56 AM UTC-7, Bruce wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 13:03:10 -0500, Gary > wrote:
>
> >Bruce wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 15:21:03 -0000, Janet > wrote:
> >>
> >> >In article >, says...
> >> >>
> >> >> Real love does not need a designated day on the calendar.
> >> >
> >> > Sounds like a man-excuse for forgetting the wedding anniversary.
> >>
> >> I'm lucky. My wife forgets it too.
> >
> >I'll bet she doesn't.
>
> Oh yes We've both forgotten most years.

Classical symptom of early onset of Alzheimer's...eh Bruce? Ahahahaha
====

In article >, says...
>
> Bruce wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 12:21:33 -0500, Gary > wrote:
> >
> > >Janet wrote:
> > >>
> > >> In article >, says...
> > >> >
> > >> > On 2/15/2017 3:11 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > >
> > >> > > I expect I'll get flowers within the next few weeks. Every
> > >> > > couple of months I come home and there are some in a vase
> > >> > > in the living room.
> > >> > >
> > >> > > Cindy Hamilton
> > >> > >
> > >> >
> > >> > Real love does not need a designated day on the calendar.
> > >>
> > >> Sounds like a man-excuse for forgetting the wedding anniversary.
> > >>
> > >> Janet UK
> > >
> > >LOL! Good one, Janet. Heaven help the husband that forgets or
> > >ignores a wedding anniversary...or even Valentine's Day.
> > >
> > >I will say this though. Sounds like Ed is the "Sean Connery" of
> > >husbands here
> >
> > Are you saying Ed beats his wife? I don't believe that.
>
> Dude! Are you saying that Sean Connery has beaten a wife?
> I've never heard that.

His wife Diane Cilentro said he beat her unconscious.
here he is, justifying hitting women

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo0d1zTAFKA

Janet UK