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We taught our other cats, most of whom we got when they were small, not to jump up on the table or kitchen counters by using a spray bottle of water.
Whether that training method will work on an older cat is uncertain. The vet said he's probably 2-3 years old.
He has apparently lived on his own outdoors since last August according to my sister-in-law's neighbors. He wants to go outside, too, but that's not going to happen anytime soon, mostly because right now we're not sure he'd come back in or even stay in the neighborhood. And my wife doesn't want him hunting her birds. (The foxes may get some birds, I'm pretty sure I heard one get a rabbit the other day, and we've seen a fox chasing squirrels. The Cooper's hawk gets some birds, too , though I haven't seen him lately.)
We had a thunderstorm roll through overnight, with nearly an inch of rain, and at one point the cat tried to jump on the table and knocked several things off, setting off the glass break alarm at 4:30 AM. Nothing broke but it took us a while to get everything picked back up again.
So the new cat is causing us to do some reorganization in the family/informal dining room, as he has not yet learned not to jump on the table. (That might be a hard lesson since he's about 2 years old.)
We are also doing some reorganization in the kitchen, swapping some things between two sets of lower cabinets and getting stuff the cat might get into or knock over put away, even though we're currently keeping the cat out of the kitchen entirely. That probably won't last forever, I used toddler gates to build a wall between the kitchen and the butler's pantry, but it means we have to go the long way around for everything, which will get old in a hurry. The one serious mistake we made when designing the house was we didn't put a pocket door on both kitchen doorways.
We had sirloin steak, sauteed mushrooms, steamed broccoli and a small salad tonight.
I think I'll pass on the chicharone pizza.
I think we're going to do mozzarella crust pizzas tonight.
I can tell you from decades of baking chocolate chip cookies that the brand and variety of the chocolate chip does make a difference in side-by-side tests. In terms of the grocery store name brands, I prefer Hershey's over Nestles.
If you're going to melt them and use them in something like a cake, that might make them a little harder to tell apart, especially if you're also adding cocoa powder.
Milk chocolate chips are very different from semi-sweet chips The dark chocolate chips have a higher percentage of cocoa solids, and usually less sugar.
I stay away from the really cheap house brands, they taste waxy, probably because they scrimp on the actual cocoa products in the chip and use cheaper oils. (Some of the cheap ones can't legally call themselves chocolate.)
The size can make a difference, too. The mini chips seem to almost disappear into the cookie, the big chunk ones will usually become a soft pocket of chocolate in the cookie, hardening a bit over time.
I tend to keep Callabaut couverture callets (semi-sweet and milk chocolate) on hand, but that's because I buy them in large bags. (I'm afraid to find out what an 11 pound bag of them will cost now!)
Valhrona and Scharffenberger are good couverture grade chocolates as well; Guittard and Ghiradelli are OK but I think they're a step down from the couverture grade chocolates.
We had hot dogs and I had a salad. I think Diane's going to finish off the keto cheesecake tonight.
We had some chickens when I was young, I'm content buying them from others, too. Our next door neighbor's youngest son is interested in agriculture and is raising some chickens again this year. Last year he had both chickens and ducks. The fox might have gotten some, but I think their dogs got most of them, so this year they bought a coop that ought to keep both types of animals away from the chickens.
The biscuits were pretty good, a bit high on sodium and they had garlic in them so my wife couldn't eat them. I think I prefer the Brazilian cheese rolls I make, but they're pretty high in carbs so they're temporarily off the menu here.
$4 a dozen is pretty good for a farmer's market, they're more like $6 a dozen here. I'm almost tempted to buy duck eggs, they're around $8 a dozen and bigger.
Grocery store eggs are running about $3.50, but more like $2.10-$2.50 at Aldi, WalMart and Target.
We had taco salads
We had big salads, tuna on Diane's and pork loin on mine. (The cat enjoyed the tuna water and got a bite or two of tuna, too.)
We stopped going to Red Lobster several years ago because they changed their recipes and their crab alfredo now had garlic in the sauce. Bleh!! (That should be a culinary felony!)
Other recipes changed as well.
I don't eat shrimp (I had a bad reaction to some shrimp creole 50 years ago and since then I just avoid it), which means their shrimp promotions were lost on me. And shrimp scampi has garlic in it (as did several other shrimp dishes) which means they were lost on Diane as well.
The location in Lincoln closed several years ago, and it was over a year before Diane even noticed. (It needed some serious remodeling/upgrades, as did many of their locations according to various articles on their bankruptcy.)
There really isn't a good seafood place in Lincoln these days unless you count the sushi places, and some of them aren't that great. The nearest Joe's Crab Shack is in Missouri and Legal Seafood just opened in Pittsburgh but nothing really close.
But if the restaurant industry had to depend on us, they'd all be out of business.
Sure, it makes a great spread on raisin bagels.
At first, but he's getting more comfortable sitting on laps and likes being petted. And is putting on some weight already.
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