Thanks Giving...

We had a nice dinner...I made Betty's rolls and they were not that great...I think for 6 cups of flour it should take 2 packages of yeast...plus there was no egg in this recipe and I guess I really like an egg in my rolls. They each weighed at least 12 oz. each...It did make exactly 18 rolls. But if the truth be told I have made worse at times.. I cooked and cleaned up all of the mess... Bill made the pumpkin pies last night and they were some of the best I have ever eaten. The crust was great...I have posted my crust recipe before but if you have not tried this you need to. I have been making this for years...
5 C. Flour
2 1/2 C. Lard or shortening
1 tsp salt
Blend together with pastry cutter
add
1 T. vinegar
1 egg
1C. hot water...
This makes 5 deep dish crusts.
It works every time, even for Bill...

Old Green Chair...

I bought this chair when Kenzie was a baby and just getting big enough to sit at the table and eat with us. I painted it and distressed it but I have noticed in 10 years it has became even more distressed. About two years ago Austin and Benjamin fought over who got to sit in it for Thanks Giving dinner. Austin informed Benjamin it was his chair long before Benjamin came along. This year I guess Lexi will sit in it.

I still remember Mackenzie sitting in this chair and eating scrambled eggs. She was probably only about a year old. I loved for her to eat eggs and she did not care for them and preferred pancakes or something sweet. But I would tell her I could see the eggs in her stomach. She would sit in the chair with her dress or shirt pulled up to her chin. She would take a bite of eggs, when I would see her swallow I would exclaim, "There they go, right there!" While I pointed to some part of her stomach. Eggs were the only food I could see in her stomach. We ate them often.

This is the second set of pictures I took of the Green Chair today. When I went to blog the first ones there was dust all over the rings of my kitchen chairs and I knew Erin would notice so I dusted them.

Since Mackenzie was not prepared for her home work last night I went over with her what her job was which is to do good in school and Granny's job is everything else. We were at school early this morning and I was sitting in the car talking to her. I said well my job today is to do all of the floors, the laundry, ironing, make chicken and noodles, and what is your job Kenzie? She said to do good in school and get home with all of my homework. Thank goodness I have completed all of my job today because I am about wore out. If it was not all done I am sure Mackenzie would have noticed. She would not have said anything but she would have noticed.

BTW while I was ironing all of Kenzie's t shirts and Jeans this morning I thought, I'll bet my Sisters know how important it is to have a good Rowena iron when it is time to press things...Then I laughed to myself!

Pictures...

These are some more pictures of the Girl's trip to San Diego.

She is off to school all ready, having a great day I hope.

This is a ship they saw on the ocean, one of her school mates tuckered out, and Kenzie and friends in a sharks mouth at Sea World.

We went to tumbling last night. She loves going and as I said before it is one hour of good exercise for her.. She came home with a ton of home work last night. One was a math paper and she did not have her math book. She had copied down all of the problems on a piece of paper. I hope she copied them right. Then she had a History sheet and no History book. We were able to look up everything on the net.

You know Granny has no patience for not getting here with the proper stuff, so Kenzie was informed if this happens one more time she will have to bring ALL of her books home every night. She said they would not all fit in her back pack and I informed her then she would have to carry them in her arms....

Then Missy came over and was looking at Kenzie's math and asked her where her math book was. Kenzie fessed up again. I asked Missy what should happen she said, "Kenzie will have to start bringing all of her books home every night." This got the same back pack response from Kenzie as she gave to me. Without skipping a beat Missy said, "Then you will have to carry them!" I think Kenzie understood I had been down this road before...

I am making chicken and a few noodles this morning. I have that left over chicken Grandpa and I bought Sunday. They work out well to make noodles with.

Someone has got to make it to the Honey Baked Ham store today. I need to call Gramps and see if he is going or he wants me to go. The Girl wants ham instead of turkey....Fine with me, ham is easy...We have all of the other fixings and we will make the pies tomorrow night..I will have to look up that recipe of Fleta's again since all of those Tyson people thought it was sooo good!

Well as I am sure you know Sanford of SC has his tail in a sling. Thirty seven counts of misconduct and they are going to try to impeach him...Oh well, he has a 'sole mate' I am sure he will be fine..

Ole Palin is having a little trouble selling her book. There seems to be another book out with a similar name and some people are buying the wrong book.....You know it looks like she would have known that with all of the reading she has always done...

Ironing, dirty floors and noodles await me. I had better get started on my day...

Here Ya Go, Betty..

Betty asked me what were concierge Doctors. Here is what I have been reading on the net.

It seems there has became a growing trend in the profession that certain Doctors are now charging their patients a yearly fee from 1500 to 5 K a year to treat them. The doctors still charge the insurance companies the regular amounts but the doctors are getting a yearly stifle from their patients to keep doctoring them in addition to any other payments.

When a patient pays these extra fees they get ‘special’ care. Often they get to enter through a back door into a luxury waiting room that lower class patients can not enter. These patients are often given the Doctors private cell phone number and of course they are treated first if they are in need of a doctor.

Now these are not the Doctors ‘new‘ patients, just one day you walk into the Doctors office and you are informed he has started this new service and if you want to stay in his care you need to pay the fee.

When I looked up the actual definition on the word and the synonyms for the word it became clearer why I have a problem with Doctors becoming these kinds of Doctors…
It is all over the net for the last month because it is getting more and more popular.

Definition. The Concierge offers a specialized first class service. S/he assists you in organizing your special events or s/he looks after your corporate needs. S/he takes care of your guests requirements, rents the limousines, finds a translation service and sends flowers to your business contacts.

Synonyms
janitor
doorman
attendant
porter

Bring it on Obama we need to stop this sort of thing....

Free Enterprise...

I have been reading more and more about these concierge Doctors...This is part of an article on MSN today....I have a BIG problem with this practice...

If Doctors want to charge these fees maybe they should be allowed to do this but not to be able to charge these fees and collect the insurance payments to boot...

This is just WRONG on so many levels!

5,000 concierge doctors — and growingAs many as 5,000 doctors nationwide have opted for full or partial concierge practices. Surveys suggest that number could quadruple within the next few years.
The result, critics say, is a segregated system that offers extra access for extra cash, even as it escalates a looming health care crisis for everyone else. And there’s nothing in the current health reform bills being considered in Congress to stop it.
“These practices exacerbate a fundamental problem in our health care system, which is this health care chasm between the haves and the have-nots,” said, Laura Weil, director of the health advocacy program at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y., and an analyst of concierge care.