PAUL HARVEY + CHICKEN & ASPARAGUS STIR FRY + 12-12-12 METHOD FOR DECLUTTERING + FERTILIZING HANGING BASKETS

Mellow Monday greetings, friends –

I had a ton of fun collecting these for today!

Beginning with:

12-12-12 Method for spring/purging cleaning
I’m gonna dial it back to a 5-5-5 Method.  Baby steps for me.  Ha

SIZE COMPARISON OF LIVING + EXTINCT ANIMALS
Holy camoly!
Seeing is believing!
My personal YIKES take-a-ways were:
Manta Stingray — 15 feet
Saltwater Croc – 16 feet
King Cobra – 13 feet

11 ADVERTISING SLOGANS
I remember one and all.
Makes me feel a little older OR I feel like I have a great memory OR the advertising slogans were so great that I still remember them.
My favorite take-aways are:
“I can’t believe I ate the whole thing”
“Where’s the Beef?”
“It’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature”
“Calgon take me away”

I’m thinking the advertisers might want to resurrect these great ads – because we know they’re “stickers” – but who am I to suggest such?  Ha

WALLPAPER ART INSPIRATION
Beautiful ideas.
I remember when there was a time in my world that I was a “hater” of wallpaper.  Specifically, when Peter and I bought our home 30+ years ago.  Crazy wallpaper from room-to-room and we stripped all from the walls.
But wallpaper and it being art has evolved!
Now, downstairs half-bath is wallpapered with art and also upstairs master bedroom (one wall only).  Both beautiful.

HOW TO FERTILIZE HANGING BASKETS OF FLOWERS
Is absolutely timely!  I’m so gonna follow these tips from the Pros so my pretty hanging baskets will be happy and make me smile throughout the summer and fall.

RECIPES

1. Chicken Asparagus stir fry — velveting the meat?  Who knew?  Not me.
2. No Knead Olive Bread – had me at “no knead”
3. Herb Butter Salmon + Couscous Parchment  Packets – easy + fantastic presentation
4. Italian Chop Pasta Salad – Pasta, deli meats, olives, tomatoes, dressing.  Winner!!
5. Orange Cake utilizing entire oranges – peels and all!
   Wow – first time I’ve ever read a recipe like this – fan-tastic reviews tell us all we need to know.

PAUL HARVEY’S TRAVELING SALESMAN
Is so worthy of a listen.  I miss Paul Harvey at noon.  What a great composer of something/somehow/somebody we didn’t know about.

THE EXERCISE PROGRAM
Is a hoot!
From my collection of old emails.

WE SURE THANK ALL
For being part of Daymaker Readable Art Community + sharing + caring + commenting.
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• 12-12-12 Method for Spring/Purging Cleaning
• Size Comparison of Living + Extinct Animals – SUPER COOL
• 11 Advertising Slogans That Became Famous Catchphrases
• HELLO! Wallpaper Art Inspiration!  Definitely worth a looksy and a thought or 2
• How to Fertilize Hanging Baskets as the Pros do
• RECIPE (!) Chicken and Asparagus Stir-fry
• RECIPE (!) No Knead Olive Bread
• RECIPE (!) Herb Butter Salmon + Couscous Parchment Packets
• RECIPE (!) Italian Chop Pasta Salad
• RECIPE (!)  Orange Cake using whole oranges
• PAUL HARVEY – Traveling Salesman

THE EXERCISE PROGRAM

This is too funny not to read.  For anyone who has attempted to start an exercise program:

And the story goes:
For my birthday this year, my husband (the dear) purchased a week of private lessons at the local health club for me.  Although I am still in great shape since playing on my high school softball team, I decided it would be a good idea to go ahead and give it a try.

I called the club and made my reservations with a personal trainer named Tony, who identified himself as a 26-year-old aerobics instructor and model for athletic clothing and swim wear.  My husband seemed pleased with my enthusiasm to get started.

The club encouraged me to keep a diary to chart my progress.:

MONDAY:
Started my day at 6:00 am.
Tough to get out of bed, but found it was well worth it when I arrived at the health club to find Tony waiting for me.  He is something of a god with blonde hair, dancing eyes, and a dazzling white smile.  WOO-HOO!!!

Tony gave me a tour and showed me the machines.  He took my pulse after five minutes on the treadmill.  He was alarmed that my pulse was so fast, but I attribute it to standing next to all those rippling muscles.  (I enjoyed watching the skillful way in which he conducted his weight training class after my own workout today.  Very inspiring.)

Tony was encouraging as I did my sit-ups, although my gut was already aching from holding it in the whole time he was around.  This is going to be a FANTASTIC week!

TUESDAY:
I drank a whole pot of coffee, but I finally made it out the door.  Tony made me lie on my back and push a heavy iron bar into the air … then he put weights on it!

My legs were a little wobbly on the treadmill, but I made the full mile.  Tony’s rewarding smile made it all worthwhile.  I feel GREAT!  It’s a whole new life for me.

WEDNESDAY:
The only way I can brush my teeth is by laying the toothbrush on the counter and moving my mouth back and forth over it.  I believe I have a hernia in both pectorals.  Driving was OK as long as I didn’t try to steer or stop.  I parked on top of a Geo in the club lot.

Tony was impatient with me, insisting that my screams bothered the other club members.  (His voice is a little too perky for early in the morning, and when he scolds, he gets a nasally whine that is VERY annoying.)

My chest hurt when I got on the treadmill, so Tony put me on the stair master.  (Why in the WORLD would anyone invent a machine to simulate an activity rendered obsolete by elevators?)  Tony told me it would help me get in shape and enjoy life.  He said some other stuff too.

THURSDAY:
Tony was waiting for me with his vampire-like teeth exposed as his thin, cruel lips were pulled back in a full snarl.  (I couldn’t help being a half hour late.  It took that long for me to tie my dang shoes.)

Tony took me to work out with dumbbells.  When he was not looking, I ran and hid in the Ladies’ room.  He sent Barbie to find me, then, as punishment, put me on the rowing machine … which I sank.

FRIDAY:
I hate that SUCKER Tony more than any human being has ever hated any other human being in the history of the world.  (Stupid, skinny, puffed-up pea.)  If there was a part of my body I could move without unbearable pain, I would beat him with it.  Tony wanted me to work on triceps.

I don’t have triceps!  And if you don’t want dents in the floor, don’t hand me those barbells or anything that weighs more than a sandwich.  (Which I am sure you learned in the sadist school you attended and graduated magna cum laude.)

The treadmill flung me off and I landed on a health and P.E. teacher.  Why couldn’t it have been someone softer, like the drama coach or the choir director?

SATURDAY:
Tony left a message on my answering machine in his grating, shrilly voice wondering why I did not show up today.  Just hearing him made me want to smash the machine with my planner.  However, I lacked the strength to use the TV remote and ended up watching eleven straight hours of the weather channel.

SUNDAY:
I’m having the church van pick me up for services today so I can go and thank God that this week is over.  I will also pray that next year my husband will choose a gift for me that is fun like a root canal or a mammogram.

~ hilarious author unattributed
from my collection of saved emails
this one from year 2000

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