Re: I've got a question......

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It is a cycle... chicken or egg, egg or chicken?

You NEED to eat... something small, light, quick to digest... think of it as 'priming the pump' you need energy.... when you don't eat your body has to rely on hormones and the break down of fat and tissue to give you energy to be up and about.... the effort required to do that makes you more tired... We get through this part of it with things like naps... and veging on the couch... if you can figure out how to get your self just a bit of something in to get the energy up to be up and about.. .it makes you feel better... lifts the brain fog.... increases your metabolism (which makes it easier to manage weight).

I'm not suggesting a pig out or and excuse to just munch down... You have to be realistic and analyze the situation. I never noticed this, even though I'd read about it for YEARS, until I started the mini meal eating stuff.... by eating SMALL meals regularly and not skipping (out of fat phobia) I end up with more energy, ambition... and 'want to' than I did before....

It's worth taking a close look at... I think.

Topper () aka ThyroGeek

On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 11:22:57 -0700 (PDT) DerSpiff writes:

I'm wondering.......it seems that when I'm the most froggy-headed, I also don't seem to have an appetite. Not even a nice steak and spuds sounds good right now. I just get too lazy to eat. Is it a vicious cycle, no appetite>froggy-headed>no appetite, or is it froggy-headed>no appetite>more froggy headed?

I don't feel like doing anything, just sitting at my desk with my eyes closed. No reading, solitaire, nada. God forbid a customer actually call in and need help..lol.

Any input guys?

unspiffed

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Most of the time I try to eat an apple or some protein of some sort. Last ditch effort I use chocolate. Once I had a bowl of carrots, a bowl of fresh green beans and a pb sandwich. That took forever to eat, but it did help for a little bit. I don't want to do the carb stuff because then I really crash. Like having hashbrowns for breakfast on sunday. I sleep in till 9, then have breakfast and by 11 I'm out like a light. I don't like to do that, I want to be up and around, getting stuff done so I try not to do that anymore. I've been thinking on this while waiting on calls and what I believe it boils down to is this: You are definetly right, first off. Secondly, I believe I got into this habit when I was working at the paper, "I'll eat when this run is done, or I'll eat when I get done moving this bunch of crap around...." and then I get roped into doing something else and it ends up being 4-5 hours later, and still not having eaten anything. Always put it off till

later. Well, it's worked for 15 years, but it's got to stop. I don't know why I don't have an interest in eating, on ocassion I really get into a pizza freak or head for the steak, but that's rare. To be honest, I'd like to have it rigged up so that I could just have food intravenously and not have to worry about taking time out to eat. I know that doesn't sound good AT ALL and I know the condition you'd have to be in in order for that to happen. Don't wanna be there, don't wanna go there. I don't know why I don't much care about eating. Haven't figured that part out yet. I never really have to tell the truth. Spifftopper2@... wrote: It is a cycle... chicken or egg, egg or chicken? You NEED to eat... something small, light, quick to digest... think of it as 'priming the pump' you need energy.... when you don't eat your body has to rely on hormones and the break down of fat and tissue to give you energy to be up and about.... the effort required to do that makes you more tired... We get through this part of it with things like naps... and veging on the couch... if you can figure out how to get your self just a bit of something in to get the energy up to be up and about.. .it makes you feel better... lifts the brain fog.... increases your metabolism (which makes it easier to manage weight). I'm not suggesting a pig out or and excuse to just munch down... You have to be realistic and analyze the situation.

I never noticed this, even though I'd read about it for YEARS, until I started the mini meal eating stuff.... by eating SMALL meals regularly and not skipping (out of fat phobia) I end up with more energy, ambition... and 'want to' than I did before.... It's worth taking a close look at... I think. Topper () aka ThyroGeek On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 11:22:57 -0700 (PDT) DerSpiff <mzspiff (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> writes: I'm wondering.......it seems that when I'm the most froggy-headed, I also don't seem to have an appetite. Not even a nice steak and spuds sounds good right now. I just get too lazy to eat. Is it a vicious cycle, no appetite>froggy-headed>no appetite, or is it froggy-headed>no appetite>more froggy

headed? I don't feel like doing anything, just sitting at my desk with my eyes closed. No reading, solitaire, nada. God forbid a customer actually call in and need help..lol. Any input guys? unspiffed

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I had a tough time getting started with mini meal ing..... I was used to eating, once, sometimes twice a day. Part of it was habit, part of it was lack of energy to get something made. For too too long a time it was too much effort to get up to go make something.... if I just waited a while I'd forget I was hungry and I might get away for another half a day before I really got hungry enough to eat.

I started out with a timer... I timer every thing... I get too focused on projects and 'forget' stuff.... Anyway... it's been 2 or 3 years I've been doing this now and I've worked it into such a simple, for me, routine... I cook three days a week.. and set up my meals for two to three days at a time... when it's meal time I just grab a ready made meal, already portioned and ready to go. With the heat wave I've made them meals that can be eaten either cold or at room temp so that I don't have to deal with either heating them up and eating hot food, or even having to go to the kitchen.

My body seems to be used to the routine for that type of eating... I'm just a tad bit hungry when my three hours is up and I know it's time to eat... I have my mini meal, which amounts to 1 to 1 1/2 cups total volume of food... and then I'm good to go until the next meal.

For me.. it's the not having to deal with stopping what I'm doing to MAKE something. it's a whole different deal to just grab the meal, already the right amount and just eat it...

Once you get the routine down for how to cook ahead to always have the meals ready to go it becomes pretty easy to do. I'm working on a section on one of the websites (haven't decided if it will be on the phoenix site or my personal site... they are both linked now so folks will actually find it pretty easy from either staring point once it's all up) that runs through the 'perspective' of setting up stuff for cook ahead meals.... A simple plan, when you are just starting out... is double what ever it is that you are making and portion and freeze the extra and have it for fast food.

I quadrupled my bread recipe... pudding recipe... do LARGE roasts and turkeys... Pretty much figure out ways of making as much at one time as I can for the cookware or oven space that I have... the logic is that you only measure once, and clean up once.. for a LOT more food, meals.

It's the same work to bake 1 loaf of bread, for example, as it is 8.. as far and the mixing and the rising part goes... there is a little more effort in shaping the loaves and in wrapping to freeze... but if you can cut out 4 to 8 times setup and cleanup you've saved a pretty decent amount of time.

A 25 pound turkey is enough meat portions for about 75 mini meals.

Do a six pound roast instead of a two pound roast and have an extra dozen or so mini meal portions of meat....

.... get the idea?

I do EVERYTHING in bulk that way. Yesterday I did a double batch of the rice dumplings I 'invented' this spring. that makes enough dumplings to set up two days mini meals three times. I like my cooking. (I'm vain) ummmm I get by with smaller portions, mini meals, by reminding myself that I can have seconds of anything that I've made.... in two hours. It's a mind game.... by the time you've eaten and realize that it tasted pretty darn good it's 2 1/2 hours or so til the next mini meal time... but it's easier to chant "I can have seconds in just 2 hours!" and that way I can wait and have MORE... but in the time frame that helps with energy, conversion, metabolism and not gain weight.

Mini meals today, for example are the chicken dumpling soup that I made and mixed in between are toasted garlic bread and cheese sandwiches made with my home made herb and garlic bread... It's all evil food in that, for me, it's quick grab and nothing needs to be heated... it's 'grab and nibble'. The soup I made to be eaten chilled so it's been next to the keyboard to be eaten a spoon at a time between typing... It's kinda like being on an all day munch fest but still keeping it within the calorie range to not gain weight.... See, today I'm in maintenance mode... not in weight loss mode.... You need a day a week, roughly, of kicking up calories, to keep your body from stepping down metabolism... today is my high calorie day and I just decided to make it a 'nibble and snack' type day.

Between that and the cool weather (it's gloriously cool today!) I have finally rerouted a bunch of cables for the puters to (oh it's all geeky -- I rigged the monitors up so that I can 'have my cake and eat it too')... something I've been wanting to do all summer, but it's not only been to hot to go digging through all the cabling.. but also too hot to have the puters on for any decent length of time to make it practical.

Amazingly, the med schedule I've got set up while I wait to see if I'll be able to get my order has been working fantastically. The silver lining in this cloud is that I'm gonna be shifting around how I do my meds once I can get a new supply..... Long story short... I'm doing much better on straight T3 than I did on natural... and I did WAY better on that than I did on straight T4... the only draw back is that dosing is VERY time sensitive. I have to dose every three hours... if I'm much more than that fifteen minute window late I'm crashing. It's AWESOME when you feel good....

You mentioned steak.. boy, could I use one of those!!! My budget hasn't allowed much in the way of meat and I'm starting to drool when I see squirrels! heheheheheheh

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On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:53:22 -0700 (PDT) DerSpiff writes:

Most of the time I try to eat an apple or some protein of some sort. Last ditch effort I use chocolate. Once I had a bowl of carrots, a bowl of fresh green beans and a pb sandwich. That took forever to eat, but it did help for a little bit. I don't want to do the carb stuff because then I really crash. Like having hashbrowns for breakfast on sunday. I sleep in till 9, then have breakfast and by 11 I'm out like a light. I don't like to do that, I want to be up and around, getting stuff done so I try not to do that anymore. I've been thinking on this while waiting on calls and what I believe it boils down to is this: You are definetly right, first off. Secondly, I believe I got into this habit when I was working at the paper, "I'll eat when this run is done, or I'll eat when I get done moving this bunch of crap around...." and then I get roped into doing something else and it ends up being 4-5 hours later, and still not having eaten anything. Always put it off till later. Well, it's worked for 15 years, but it's got to stop. I don't know why I don't have an interest in eating, on ocassion I really get into a pizza freak or head for the steak, but that's rare. To be honest, I'd like to have it rigged up so that I could just have food intravenously and not have to worry about taking time out to eat. I know that doesn't sound good AT ALL and I know the condition you'd have to be in in order for that to happen. Don't wanna be there, don't wanna go there. I don't know why I don't much care about eating. Haven't figured that part out yet. I never really have to tell the truth.

Spiff

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Hey Topper, you got a 410 gage shotgun, we can cook up some squirrel tonight! I apologize to all the squirrel lovers our there, but they DO taste GOOD, lol.

>You mentioned steak.. boy, could I use one of those!!! My budget hasn't allowed much in the way of meat and I'm starting to drool when I see squirrels! heheheheheheh

Topper ()

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I might give a country squirrel a try one day.. but not these fuzzy tailed city tree rats. We've had this house since '69. Back then there were only 20 houses clustered here and corn and wheat fields around us for miles... now we have more roads, houses everywhere (3 to 5 acre lots, but all filled in with no fields anywhere close). The critter population has really changed... all the good birds are gone... doves and pretty song birds... now it's crows and grackles and blue jays and cardinals... all chasing off the other birds... we had deer and such in the woods just two blocks from here... now the woods have been gutted to be filled with cul de sacs and houses with stray dogs and cats and gray squirrels.

No more waking to the sound of mourning doves at sun rise.. it's jays and cardinals squawking and griping right outside my bedroom window an hour and a half before the sun is up.

*** sigh ***

I have come across some great recipes for smaller critters... part of the 'what if' stuff that I have on hand if the big bomb hits and I survive... along with instructions on how to extract thyroid glands and process them if there is no other source......

... if you ever hear of a farmer that has a lot of cows and pigs that have had thyroidectomies in this area... don't tell them it was me, okay?? heehehehehe

Topper ()

On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:08:30 -0500 " " writes:

Hey Topper, you got a 410 gage shotgun, we can cook up some squirrel tonight! I apologize to all the squirrel lovers our there, but they DO taste GOOD, lol.

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This makes a lot of sense.......When I can get the scratch together, I'm gonna stock up and do some serious cooking. I like what I cook too, ( pat pat ), so that won't be a problem. The problem WILL be, breaking that old habit! I wish I had a little tazer thing that'd go off when I waited too long! Spifftopper2@... wrote: I had a tough time getting started with mini meal ing..... I was used to eating, once, sometimes twice a day. Part of it was habit, part of it was lack of energy to get something

made. For too too long a time it was too much effort to get up to go make something.... if I just waited a while I'd forget I was hungry and I might get away for another half a day before I really got hungry enough to eat. I started out with a timer... I timer every thing... I get too focused on projects and 'forget' stuff.... Anyway... it's been 2 or 3 years I've been doing this now and I've worked it into such a simple, for me, routine... I cook three days a week.. and set up my meals for two to three days at a time... when it's meal time I just grab a ready made meal, already portioned and ready to go. With the heat wave I've made them meals that can be eaten either cold or at room temp so that I don't have to deal with either heating them up and eating hot food, or even having to go to the kitchen. My body seems to be used to the routine for that type of eating... I'm just a tad bit hungry when my three

hours is up and I know it's time to eat... I have my mini meal, which amounts to 1 to 1 1/2 cups total volume of food... and then I'm good to go until the next meal. For me.. it's the not having to deal with stopping what I'm doing to MAKE something. it's a whole different deal to just grab the meal, already the right amount and just eat it... Once you get the routine down for how to cook ahead to always have the meals ready to go it becomes pretty easy to do. I'm working on a section on one of the websites (haven't decided if it will be on the phoenix site or my personal site... they are both linked now so folks will actually find it pretty easy from either staring point once it's all up) that runs through the 'perspective' of setting up stuff for cook ahead meals.... A simple plan, when you are just starting out... is double what ever it is that you are making and portion and freeze the extra and have

it for fast food. I quadrupled my bread recipe... pudding recipe... do LARGE roasts and turkeys... Pretty much figure out ways of making as much at one time as I can for the cookware or oven space that I have... the logic is that you only measure once, and clean up once.. for a LOT more food, meals. It's the same work to bake 1 loaf of bread, for example, as it is 8.. as far and the mixing and the rising part goes... there is a little more effort in shaping the loaves and in wrapping to freeze... but if you can cut out 4 to 8 times setup and cleanup you've saved a pretty decent amount of time. A 25 pound turkey is enough meat portions for about 75 mini meals. Do a six pound roast instead of a two pound roast and have an extra dozen or so mini meal portions of meat.... ... get the idea? I do

EVERYTHING in bulk that way. Yesterday I did a double batch of the rice dumplings I 'invented' this spring. that makes enough dumplings to set up two days mini meals three times. I like my cooking. (I'm vain) ummmm I get by with smaller portions, mini meals, by reminding myself that I can have seconds of anything that I've made.... in two hours. It's a mind game.... by the time you've eaten and realize that it tasted pretty darn good it's 2 1/2 hours or so til the next mini meal time... but it's easier to chant "I can have seconds in just 2 hours!" and that way I can wait and have MORE... but in the time frame that helps with energy, conversion, metabolism and not gain weight. Mini meals today, for example are the chicken dumpling soup that I made and mixed in between are toasted garlic bread and cheese sandwiches made with my home made herb and garlic bread... It's all evil food in that, for me, it's quick grab and nothing needs to be

heated... it's 'grab and nibble'. The soup I made to be eaten chilled so it's been next to the keyboard to be eaten a spoon at a time between typing... It's kinda like being on an all day munch fest but still keeping it within the calorie range to not gain weight.... See, today I'm in maintenance mode... not in weight loss mode.... You need a day a week, roughly, of kicking up calories, to keep your body from stepping down metabolism... today is my high calorie day and I just decided to make it a 'nibble and snack' type day. Between that and the cool weather (it's gloriously cool today!) I have finally rerouted a bunch of cables for the puters to (oh it's all geeky -- I rigged the monitors up so that I can 'have my cake and eat it too')... something I've been wanting to do all summer, but it's not only been to hot to go digging through all the cabling.. but also too hot to have the puters on for any decent length of

time to make it practical. Amazingly, the med schedule I've got set up while I wait to see if I'll be able to get my order has been working fantastically. The silver lining in this cloud is that I'm gonna be shifting around how I do my meds once I can get a new supply..... Long story short... I'm doing much better on straight T3 than I did on natural... and I did WAY better on that than I did on straight T4... the only draw back is that dosing is VERY time sensitive. I have to dose every three hours... if I'm much more than that fifteen minute window late I'm crashing. It's AWESOME when you feel good.... You mentioned steak.. boy, could I use one of those!!! My budget hasn't allowed much in the way of meat and I'm starting to drool when I see squirrels! heheheheheheh Topper () On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:53:22 -0700 (PDT) DerSpiff <mzspiff (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> writes: Most of the time I try to eat an apple or some protein of some sort. Last ditch effort I use chocolate. Once I had a bowl of carrots, a bowl of fresh green beans and a pb sandwich. That took forever to eat, but it did help for a little bit. I don't want to do the carb stuff because then I really crash. Like having hashbrowns for breakfast on sunday. I sleep in till 9, then have breakfast and by 11 I'm out like a light. I don't like to do that, I want to be up and around, getting stuff done so I try not to do that anymore. I've been thinking on this while waiting on calls and what I believe it boils down to is this: You are definetly right, first off. Secondly, I believe I got into this habit when I was working at the paper, "I'll eat when this run is done, or I'll eat when I get done moving this bunch of crap around...." and then I

get roped into doing something else and it ends up being 4-5 hours later, and still not having eaten anything. Always put it off till later. Well, it's worked for 15 years, but it's got to stop. I don't know why I don't have an interest in eating, on ocassion I really get into a pizza freak or head for the steak, but that's rare. To be honest, I'd like to have it rigged up so that I could just have food intravenously and not have to worry about taking time out to eat. I know that doesn't sound good AT ALL and I know the condition you'd have to be in in order for that to happen. Don't wanna be there, don't wanna go there. I don't know why I don't much care about eating. Haven't figured that part out yet. I never really have to tell the truth. Spiff

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This weekend I had some friends out and made a flank steak. I cooked it in some butter. This turns out really good when you remember that the steak is cooking....still....as you beat the mashed spuds. It coulda lined my boots when I got done. At least they were polite enuf to not mention that they had to chew it like a dog. Spiff wrote: Hey

Topper, you got a 410 gage shotgun, we can cook up some squirrel tonight! I apologize to all the squirrel lovers our there, but they DO taste GOOD, lol. >You mentioned steak.. boy, could I use one of those!!! My budget hasn't allowed much in the way of meat and I'm starting to drool when I see squirrels! heheheheheheh Topper ()

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My sister had squirrel once, her husband shot it. She said it was kinda greasy, not much too it ( obviously ) and it was hard to get all the hair removed, she still found some in hers. She has a thing for trying wierd food. She really liked Rocky Mountain Oysters. She wasn't so hep about the squirrel tho. Spiff topper2@... wrote: I might give a country squirrel a try one day.. but not these fuzzy tailed city tree rats. We've

had this house since '69. Back then there were only 20 houses clustered here and corn and wheat fields around us for miles... now we have more roads, houses everywhere (3 to 5 acre lots, but all filled in with no fields anywhere close). The critter population has really changed... all the good birds are gone... doves and pretty song birds... now it's crows and grackles and blue jays and cardinals... all chasing off the other birds... we had deer and such in the woods just two blocks from here... now the woods have been gutted to be filled with cul de sacs and houses with stray dogs and cats and gray squirrels. No more waking to the sound of mourning doves at sun rise.. it's jays and cardinals squawking and griping right outside my bedroom window an hour and a half before the sun is up. *** sigh *** I have come across some great recipes for smaller critters... part of the

'what if' stuff that I have on hand if the big bomb hits and I survive... along with instructions on how to extract thyroid glands and process them if there is no other source...... .. if you ever hear of a farmer that has a lot of cows and pigs that have had thyroidectomies in this area... don't tell them it was me, okay?? heehehehehe Topper () On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:08:30 -0500 " " writes: Hey Topper, you got a 410 gage shotgun, we can cook up some squirrel tonight! I apologize to all the squirrel lovers our there, but they DO taste GOOD, lol.

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Hehe, Topper! I can just see you now, out there like Davy Crockett!

Re: I've got a question......

I might give a country squirrel a try one day.. but not these fuzzy tailed city tree rats. We've had this house since '69. Back then there were only 20 houses clustered here and corn and wheat fields around us for miles... now we have more roads, houses everywhere (3 to 5 acre lots, but all filled in with no fields anywhere close). The critter population has really changed... all the good birds are gone... doves and pretty song birds... now it's crows and grackles and blue jays and cardinals... all chasing off the other birds... we had deer and such in the woods just two blocks from here... now the woods have been gutted to be filled with cul de sacs and houses with stray dogs and cats and gray squirrels.

No more waking to the sound of mourning doves at sun rise.. it's jays and cardinals squawking and griping right outside my bedroom window an hour and a half before the sun is up.

*** sigh ***

I have come across some great recipes for smaller critters... part of the 'what if' stuff that I have on hand if the big bomb hits and I survive... along with instructions on how to extract thyroid glands and process them if there is no other source......

... if you ever hear of a farmer that has a lot of cows and pigs that have had thyroidectomies in this area... don't tell them it was me, okay?? heehehehehe

Topper ()

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Hehe, Topper! I can just see you now, out there like Davy Crockett!

Re: I've got a question......

I might give a country squirrel a try one day.. but not these fuzzy tailed city tree rats. We've had this house since '69. Back then there were only 20 houses clustered here and corn and wheat fields around us for miles... now we have more roads, houses everywhere (3 to 5 acre lots, but all filled in with no fields anywhere close). The critter population has really changed... all the good birds are gone... doves and pretty song birds... now it's crows and grackles and blue jays and cardinals... all chasing off the other birds... we had deer and such in the woods just two blocks from here... now the woods have been gutted to be filled with cul de sacs and houses with stray dogs and cats and gray squirrels.

No more waking to the sound of mourning doves at sun rise.. it's jays and cardinals squawking and griping right outside my bedroom window an hour and a half before the sun is up.

*** sigh ***

I have come across some great recipes for smaller critters... part of the 'what if' stuff that I have on hand if the big bomb hits and I survive... along with instructions on how to extract thyroid glands and process them if there is no other source......

... if you ever hear of a farmer that has a lot of cows and pigs that have had thyroidectomies in this area... don't tell them it was me, okay?? heehehehehe

Topper ()

[Guest guest]

Hehe, Topper! I can just see you now, out there like Davy Crockett!

Re: I've got a question......

I might give a country squirrel a try one day.. but not these fuzzy tailed city tree rats. We've had this house since '69. Back then there were only 20 houses clustered here and corn and wheat fields around us for miles... now we have more roads, houses everywhere (3 to 5 acre lots, but all filled in with no fields anywhere close). The critter population has really changed... all the good birds are gone... doves and pretty song birds... now it's crows and grackles and blue jays and cardinals... all chasing off the other birds... we had deer and such in the woods just two blocks from here... now the woods have been gutted to be filled with cul de sacs and houses with stray dogs and cats and gray squirrels.

No more waking to the sound of mourning doves at sun rise.. it's jays and cardinals squawking and griping right outside my bedroom window an hour and a half before the sun is up.

*** sigh ***

I have come across some great recipes for smaller critters... part of the 'what if' stuff that I have on hand if the big bomb hits and I survive... along with instructions on how to extract thyroid glands and process them if there is no other source......

... if you ever hear of a farmer that has a lot of cows and pigs that have had thyroidectomies in this area... don't tell them it was me, okay?? heehehehehe

Topper ()

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You betcha... leg hairs braided... my long (head) hair flyin back in the wind.. ThyroPhoenix pendant hangin from my neck whisperin' here squirrely squirrely squirrely!

hehehehehe

Then headin back to where the stew pots sittin next to the fire waitin to fill! hehehehe

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On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:12:18 -0500 " " writes:

Hehe, Topper! I can just see you now, out there like Davy Crockett!

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Sounds like that movie where that one chick was raised in the woods and couldn't talk and she meets that guy. Jodie was in it, I don't remember the name of it. ( Ya know.....with that getup you're talkin about, you could fit in right well with the rest of the crowd that lives up behind me.....banjos in the background type of stuff! ) Spifftopper2@... wrote: You betcha... leg hairs braided... my long (head) hair flyin back in the wind.. ThyroPhoenix pendant hangin from my neck

whisperin' here squirrely squirrely squirrely! hehehehehe Then headin back to where the stew pots sittin next to the fire waitin to fill! hehehehe Topper () On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:12:18 -0500 " " writes: Hehe, Topper! I can just see you now, out there like Davy Crockett!

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Sounds like that movie where that one chick was raised in the woods and couldn't talk and she meets that guy. Jodie was in it, I don't remember the name of it. ( Ya know.....with that getup you're talkin about, you could fit in right well with the rest of the crowd that lives up behind me.....banjos in the background type of stuff! ) Spifftopper2@... wrote: You betcha... leg hairs braided... my long (head) hair flyin back in the wind.. ThyroPhoenix pendant hangin from my neck

whisperin' here squirrely squirrely squirrely! hehehehehe Then headin back to where the stew pots sittin next to the fire waitin to fill! hehehehe Topper () On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:12:18 -0500 " " writes: Hehe, Topper! I can just see you now, out there like Davy Crockett!

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Sounds like that movie where that one chick was raised in the woods and couldn't talk and she meets that guy. Jodie was in it, I don't remember the name of it. ( Ya know.....with that getup you're talkin about, you could fit in right well with the rest of the crowd that lives up behind me.....banjos in the background type of stuff! ) Spifftopper2@... wrote: You betcha... leg hairs braided... my long (head) hair flyin back in the wind.. ThyroPhoenix pendant hangin from my neck

whisperin' here squirrely squirrely squirrely! hehehehehe Then headin back to where the stew pots sittin next to the fire waitin to fill! hehehehe Topper () On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:12:18 -0500 " " writes: Hehe, Topper! I can just see you now, out there like Davy Crockett!

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The movie you're thinking of co-stars Liam Neeson.. it's called 'Nell'

Jodie sat on that script for a long time before she did the movie.... she did a bang up job...

Um... fellers with banjos and corn cob pipes and such.... ? Na... not me... I'm a Boone type of a girl... 'cept I don't like the long skirts.... so maybe more of a Calamity Jane type... the Jane version, not the Doris Day version! hehehehehe

I always felt that I was born about 200 years too late for what types of things I like... until puters came along....

Does coon skin caps, leather breeches and a satellite dish and solar power panels go together!!?? !! heheheheheh

Hmmmm would have to rig a clamp-on table set up for a laptop in the canoe while I'm a fishin' for my supper! hhehehee

Oh my gosh... I just got a visual in my mind of me in the middle of the woods with my braided leg hairs, head thrown back and spinning around in circles hollerin' Free T4 and Free T3 means more!!!

Help... Insanity is setting in!

Topper ()

On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:08:26 -0700 (PDT) DerSpiff writes:

Sounds like that movie where that one chick was raised in the woods and couldn't talk and she meets that guy. Jodie was in it, I don't remember the name of it.

( Ya know.....with that getup you're talkin about, you could fit in right well with the rest of the crowd that lives up behind me.....banjos in the background type of stuff! )

Spiff

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The movie you're thinking of co-stars Liam Neeson.. it's called 'Nell'

Jodie sat on that script for a long time before she did the movie.... she did a bang up job...

Um... fellers with banjos and corn cob pipes and such.... ? Na... not me... I'm a Boone type of a girl... 'cept I don't like the long skirts.... so maybe more of a Calamity Jane type... the Jane version, not the Doris Day version! hehehehehe

I always felt that I was born about 200 years too late for what types of things I like... until puters came along....

Does coon skin caps, leather breeches and a satellite dish and solar power panels go together!!?? !! heheheheheh

Hmmmm would have to rig a clamp-on table set up for a laptop in the canoe while I'm a fishin' for my supper! hhehehee

Oh my gosh... I just got a visual in my mind of me in the middle of the woods with my braided leg hairs, head thrown back and spinning around in circles hollerin' Free T4 and Free T3 means more!!!

Help... Insanity is setting in!

Topper ()

On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:08:26 -0700 (PDT) DerSpiff writes:

Sounds like that movie where that one chick was raised in the woods and couldn't talk and she meets that guy. Jodie was in it, I don't remember the name of it.

( Ya know.....with that getup you're talkin about, you could fit in right well with the rest of the crowd that lives up behind me.....banjos in the background type of stuff! )

Spiff

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The movie you're thinking of co-stars Liam Neeson.. it's called 'Nell'

Jodie sat on that script for a long time before she did the movie.... she did a bang up job...

Um... fellers with banjos and corn cob pipes and such.... ? Na... not me... I'm a Boone type of a girl... 'cept I don't like the long skirts.... so maybe more of a Calamity Jane type... the Jane version, not the Doris Day version! hehehehehe

I always felt that I was born about 200 years too late for what types of things I like... until puters came along....

Does coon skin caps, leather breeches and a satellite dish and solar power panels go together!!?? !! heheheheheh

Hmmmm would have to rig a clamp-on table set up for a laptop in the canoe while I'm a fishin' for my supper! hhehehee

Oh my gosh... I just got a visual in my mind of me in the middle of the woods with my braided leg hairs, head thrown back and spinning around in circles hollerin' Free T4 and Free T3 means more!!!

Help... Insanity is setting in!

Topper ()

On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:08:26 -0700 (PDT) DerSpiff writes:

Sounds like that movie where that one chick was raised in the woods and couldn't talk and she meets that guy. Jodie was in it, I don't remember the name of it.

( Ya know.....with that getup you're talkin about, you could fit in right well with the rest of the crowd that lives up behind me.....banjos in the background type of stuff! )

Spiff

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Mom used to grill flank steak and boy was it delicious. She would marinate it overnight in italian dressing (NOT fat free) and then grill it until it was about medium to medium rare and take it off and let it rest for a few minutes. It will generally still cook a little while resting. The trick is to cut it very thin against the grain so that the strip is long and thin and doesn't have any long stringy pieces. It's easiest to cut it with an electric knife to me, but my knife skills are not the best either.DerSpiff wrote: This weekend I had some friends out and made a flank steak. I cooked it in some butter. This turns out really good when you remember that the steak is cooking....still....as you beat the mashed spuds. It coulda lined my boots when I got done. At least they were polite enuf to not

mention that they had to chew it like a dog. SpiffKathy >^,,^<KitzCat146@...http://www.chaytongroup.com/modernbill/order/index.php?aid=ka081104http://www.heartwarmers4u.com/members/?kitzcatkitzcat2001 on Yahoo Messengerkitzcat on MSN MessengerIn a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. - English Proverb

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Mom used to grill flank steak and boy was it delicious. She would marinate it overnight in italian dressing (NOT fat free) and then grill it until it was about medium to medium rare and take it off and let it rest for a few minutes. It will generally still cook a little while resting. The trick is to cut it very thin against the grain so that the strip is long and thin and doesn't have any long stringy pieces. It's easiest to cut it with an electric knife to me, but my knife skills are not the best either.DerSpiff wrote: This weekend I had some friends out and made a flank steak. I cooked it in some butter. This turns out really good when you remember that the steak is cooking....still....as you beat the mashed spuds. It coulda lined my boots when I got done. At least they were polite enuf to not

mention that they had to chew it like a dog. SpiffKathy >^,,^<KitzCat146@...http://www.chaytongroup.com/modernbill/order/index.php?aid=ka081104http://www.heartwarmers4u.com/members/?kitzcatkitzcat2001 on Yahoo Messengerkitzcat on MSN MessengerIn a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. - English Proverb

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Mom used to grill flank steak and boy was it delicious. She would marinate it overnight in italian dressing (NOT fat free) and then grill it until it was about medium to medium rare and take it off and let it rest for a few minutes. It will generally still cook a little while resting. The trick is to cut it very thin against the grain so that the strip is long and thin and doesn't have any long stringy pieces. It's easiest to cut it with an electric knife to me, but my knife skills are not the best either.DerSpiff wrote: This weekend I had some friends out and made a flank steak. I cooked it in some butter. This turns out really good when you remember that the steak is cooking....still....as you beat the mashed spuds. It coulda lined my boots when I got done. At least they were polite enuf to not

mention that they had to chew it like a dog. SpiffKathy >^,,^<KitzCat146@...http://www.chaytongroup.com/modernbill/order/index.php?aid=ka081104http://www.heartwarmers4u.com/members/?kitzcatkitzcat2001 on Yahoo Messengerkitzcat on MSN MessengerIn a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. - English Proverb

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My mom always teased me about being born too late as well. She said in a previous life I was probly a cook on a cattle drive, or at least worked on one because I was the only person she knows that will eat a 3 day old biscuit! Well ya! Throw a little butter on that puppy and YA! I never did see the movie, but I did see a spoof that SNL did on it, it was pretty good. Forget "Free Tibet".......FREE T-4's!!! Spifftopper2@... wrote: The movie you're thinking of co-stars

Liam Neeson.. it's called 'Nell' Jodie sat on that script for a long time before she did the movie.... she did a bang up job... Um... fellers with banjos and corn cob pipes and such.... ? Na... not me... I'm a Boone type of a girl... 'cept I don't like the long skirts.... so maybe more of a Calamity Jane type... the Jane version, not the Doris Day version! hehehehehe I always felt that I was born about 200 years too late for what types of things I like... until puters came along.... Does coon skin caps, leather breeches and a satellite dish and solar power panels go together!!?? !! heheheheheh Hmmmm would have to rig a clamp-on table set up for a laptop in the canoe while I'm a fishin' for my supper! hhehehee Oh my gosh... I just got a visual in my mind of me in the

middle of the woods with my braided leg hairs, head thrown back and spinning around in circles hollerin' Free T4 and Free T3 means more!!! Help... Insanity is setting in! Topper () On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:08:26 -0700 (PDT) DerSpiff <mzspiff (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> writes: Sounds like that movie where that one chick was raised in the woods and couldn't talk and she meets that guy. Jodie was in it, I don't remember the name of it. ( Ya know.....with that getup you're talkin about, you could fit in right well with the rest of the crowd that lives up behind me.....banjos in the background type of stuff! ) Spiff

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My mom always teased me about being born too late as well. She said in a previous life I was probly a cook on a cattle drive, or at least worked on one because I was the only person she knows that will eat a 3 day old biscuit! Well ya! Throw a little butter on that puppy and YA! I never did see the movie, but I did see a spoof that SNL did on it, it was pretty good. Forget "Free Tibet".......FREE T-4's!!! Spifftopper2@... wrote: The movie you're thinking of co-stars

Liam Neeson.. it's called 'Nell' Jodie sat on that script for a long time before she did the movie.... she did a bang up job... Um... fellers with banjos and corn cob pipes and such.... ? Na... not me... I'm a Boone type of a girl... 'cept I don't like the long skirts.... so maybe more of a Calamity Jane type... the Jane version, not the Doris Day version! hehehehehe I always felt that I was born about 200 years too late for what types of things I like... until puters came along.... Does coon skin caps, leather breeches and a satellite dish and solar power panels go together!!?? !! heheheheheh Hmmmm would have to rig a clamp-on table set up for a laptop in the canoe while I'm a fishin' for my supper! hhehehee Oh my gosh... I just got a visual in my mind of me in the

middle of the woods with my braided leg hairs, head thrown back and spinning around in circles hollerin' Free T4 and Free T3 means more!!! Help... Insanity is setting in! Topper () On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:08:26 -0700 (PDT) DerSpiff <mzspiff (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> writes: Sounds like that movie where that one chick was raised in the woods and couldn't talk and she meets that guy. Jodie was in it, I don't remember the name of it. ( Ya know.....with that getup you're talkin about, you could fit in right well with the rest of the crowd that lives up behind me.....banjos in the background type of stuff! ) Spiff

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My mom always teased me about being born too late as well. She said in a previous life I was probly a cook on a cattle drive, or at least worked on one because I was the only person she knows that will eat a 3 day old biscuit! Well ya! Throw a little butter on that puppy and YA! I never did see the movie, but I did see a spoof that SNL did on it, it was pretty good. Forget "Free Tibet".......FREE T-4's!!! Spifftopper2@... wrote: The movie you're thinking of co-stars

Liam Neeson.. it's called 'Nell' Jodie sat on that script for a long time before she did the movie.... she did a bang up job... Um... fellers with banjos and corn cob pipes and such.... ? Na... not me... I'm a Boone type of a girl... 'cept I don't like the long skirts.... so maybe more of a Calamity Jane type... the Jane version, not the Doris Day version! hehehehehe I always felt that I was born about 200 years too late for what types of things I like... until puters came along.... Does coon skin caps, leather breeches and a satellite dish and solar power panels go together!!?? !! heheheheheh Hmmmm would have to rig a clamp-on table set up for a laptop in the canoe while I'm a fishin' for my supper! hhehehee Oh my gosh... I just got a visual in my mind of me in the

middle of the woods with my braided leg hairs, head thrown back and spinning around in circles hollerin' Free T4 and Free T3 means more!!! Help... Insanity is setting in! Topper () On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:08:26 -0700 (PDT) DerSpiff <mzspiff (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> writes: Sounds like that movie where that one chick was raised in the woods and couldn't talk and she meets that guy. Jodie was in it, I don't remember the name of it. ( Ya know.....with that getup you're talkin about, you could fit in right well with the rest of the crowd that lives up behind me.....banjos in the background type of stuff! ) Spiff

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Now that sounds good! If you're gonna go all the way like that, go with the fat! Sounds like that'd make good steak sandwiches! SpiffKathy Kitzcat wrote: Mom used to grill flank steak and boy was it delicious. She would marinate it overnight in italian dressing (NOT fat free) and then grill it until it was about medium to medium rare and take it off and let it rest for a few minutes. It will generally still cook a little while resting. The trick is to cut it very

thin against the grain so that the strip is long and thin and doesn't have any long stringy pieces. It's easiest to cut it with an electric knife to me, but my knife skills are not the best either.DerSpiff <mzspiff (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote: This weekend I had some friends out and made a flank steak. I cooked it in some butter. This turns out really good when you remember that the steak is cooking....still....as you beat the mashed spuds. It coulda lined my boots when I got done. At least they were polite enuf to not mention that they had to chew it like a dog. SpiffKathy >^,,^<KitzCat146 (AT) aol (DOT) comhttp://www.chaytongroup.com/modernbill/order/index.php?aid=ka081104http://www.heartwarmers4u.com/members/?kitzcatkitzcat2001 on Yahoo Messengerkitzcat on MSN

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