Chicken day at the retirement home

 This chicken was labeled 'REGULAR'. Not sure what the other options were. I don't think I have ever cooked a whole chicken in a crockpot before, always roasted them on the oven. What could go wrong?

Some folks will say I;m an idiot, (duh) but the feet, heart, gizzards and livers get cooked seperatly and fed to the house critters. And how come us and cows and shit don't have gizzards? And why does the dog have anal glands? First time I heard of them I said,"you're gonna squeeze what?" I think I could use a set of anal glands these days. This all ties in with the chicken dinner coming up.

We been trying a new diet, Keto, basically it's a low/no carb diet. We gave up flour, rice, taters, sugar. But it's freeking hard. I have a hard time living without tortillas and beans! So we cheat a bit.

This chicken is destined to become enchiladas. I have a keto friendly recipe for corn tortillas that consists of eggs and cream cheese. Crepes I guess. But it works out OK. As they say, 'it will all end up in the septic."

Snacks are hard as well. Chips are a no no. Pretzels too. Goss chocolate is not bad but I don't like plain chocolate. I need nuts or rice crispies or something in it.

So here ya go. Melt the bars and stir in some peanuts and toss in the freezer! Good to go!

Looks like they already made a pass thru the septic,,,

Never take advice from me. You'll just end up drunk.

Life in lockdown

We are in lockdown again. We were doing so well with 2 deaths and no cases for days. But then it spiked. Sounds like the biggest problem is with border jumpers. Ironically, I hear people are sneaking across to Mexico and smuggling back Corona beer! Go figure.
We handle it OK here as we never really venture out anyway. Her once a week poker games and my once a week drink-fest with the guys are now on hold. We have been doing these events for many years.
Me and a few guys get together at Doris's shop and we knock back a few while we solve all the worlds problems.
With one flaw. No body takes notes. So we have to meet again next week and do it all over again.
For awhile there we were losing guys to the hearafter at an alarming rate. Treetop, Scott, George.
When someone would die, I would find a photo I had of them and print out an 8x10. Then take it to Doris's and pin it to the door. Once I just printed a 8x10 of a ? and pinned it up with them. Who's next?

We are required to wear a mask. Here's my new one.

My new favorite shirt from our neighbors the Crocodile Research Coalition. Thanks Karl!

 She is very nice to snuggle with. The cat ain't bad either.

He's baaaack,,,,

 some news happening here where the coconuts drop. some big news, and some minor news. lets start with the minor news. we got a cat!

 her name is Pheobe.

and yes she is into everything. i was unloading the dishwasher a few days ago, turned my back and she was in it. she likes to munch on lizards, and ambush the dog. that's the minor news.

big news, we sold the business! after striking a deal back in march, the plague slowed down the process until last week when it all finished up, money in the account!

yep, we are retired! 
it feels real good too. i can't help but think we got out at just the right time as well. who knows if tourism will ever be a thing again? we had a spike in 'rona cases just as we were doing so good. seems some border jumpers brought it in with them, and now we are back in lockdown again. No gatherings, no bars, take out food only ect. Which none of that realy bothers me anyway as we just stay home anyway and do our drinking right here. Luckily we get along well enough it works out fine.
One problem is we had said once we retire we want to go visit Cuba, before it gets screwed up. But now neither one of us want to get on a plane! Maybe we can find a ship willing to sail our asses over there.

So now I have a shit-ton of time on my hands that I can get back into blogging. I have got quite a few requests for that so here we go.I also see I need to find that button that magically fixes all my spelling and other errors. I am rusty and don't see it. 

Good time to be away from the beach lot as well. There is construction going on both sides. Both jobs seem like they will go on for years!

So bear with me as I ease back into this. With all the time I got, I should be able to crank out some shit somewhat often.

Let's see if I can remember how to do this,,,,

Ok, it's been quite awhile since I did any blogging. Maybe it's time to hack out some stuff.
We have been in our new house for a year now and we LOVE IT! We waited 20 years in a 16x20 house. Since there is two of us I always say it was realy 8x10, and that O.J. had more room than that. But we got along just fine, know each other probably better than most couples as a result. We did not even have a bathroom door! I am no carpenter, I can

not do much with wood, maybe start a fire is about it. So when she asked me to add a shelf above the bathroom door, I grudingly went to work. It turned out better that I expected too. But while I was patting myself on the back I found out that now the door won't close. So had to loose the door. And when we moved out, I could not find the door, had to get a guy to make us a new one.

We still have our nights apart where she plays poker and I hang with some drinkig buddys, only thing changed is the venue.
And sometimes it makes the next morning a bit fuzzy.

Been enjoying the fact that I have a real kitchen now. Cooking more than ever, the cast iron is getting a real workout. I send munchies to the girls poker games and last one was bacon wrapped brussel sprouts. Sounds a bit weird but they were good. You can wrap a dog turd in bacon and it would be good.(so I am told, no first hand experiance!)

Business has been good despite how much I want out of it. She slaps me back in line when I get grumpy and points out that we are still making money.
And I signed up for Social Security this month! Whoo Hooo,, let's hope the dipshits running the show up north don't screw it all up for me.


So,, give me a chance to get back up to speed and maybe I can spit out a blog or two while still making it somewhat interesting.

This Dick came,,,, and went!

What are we now about 3 weeks into construction? Sounds ‘bout right.
They are really haulin ass! Today they poured the slab under the house and they already have the post up for both decks. All this with a tiny generator and a small roll around cement mixer.
Today it has been hovering around 95-99 degrees and these young guys can be seen running with full wheelbarrows of cement! Makes a guy feel a bit old, watching from a safe distance.
They plan to have all the other columns up by the Easter break, next Wednesday.
Has not been too much of a headache for us. The drone of the gen and cement mixer seem to lull me to sleep!
On the other end of the property, it’s a different story.
All the sudden one fine morning, Hey Mo, Hey Larry pier construction crew began building a pier one lot to the north of us.
These guys also have a generator going and a water pump. The fumes from them are bad at times due to the direction of the breeze.
And they are just a bunch of naturaly noisy guys. Lots of yelling and hollerin, whoopin and shit.
So much so, we had a set of guests leave two days early due to the noise.
When he left he told me it was because he was sick and needed air conditioning. Nothing about noise.
I found out about the noise when I saw his review on trip advisor.
Neither of these problems are under our control, certainly not the pier construction.
And if we have to have a guest leave in order to get a new house, PHUCK HIM!
His name was Dick btw,, and he was every bit one while he was here.
Nobody knows how much I want to retire!