Roslyn

I love my "Big Blue" 7 liter Le Creuset dutch oven. It is well used, but I have had it for about 20 years. The inside is well discolored, but it is my favorite roast/braise/soup pot. I also have an eclectic collection of All Clad bought over the years and I love them all. I do have an old enameled cast iron Lodge braizer (3 1/2qt) and as Yeah no mentioned...mine also has a few giant chips on it, but all are on the outside, so I do still use it. However for even bottom heating it can not hold a candle to the Le Creuset, even being cast iron. Le Creuset is heavy and mine lives on a shelf next to my stove because of the weight. My wrists have issues off and on and I am very careful with them during the good times, so I don't like lifting Big Blue unless I have to. I recently searched for an in the middle pot from All clad that could be bigger than my braizer but smaller than the dutch oven and I bought a discontinued pan that is a straight sided very wide round pan with a dome lid, it's called a rondeau but sometimes a braizer. Its a bit odd looking but being a clad pan it sautes meat or bacon really well and holds a 6qt volume. With the big dome lid it can even do a smaller 4 pound roast or turkey breast. You can't go wrong with All clad. My only beef with them is their handles on their saucepans. They just don't feel right in my hand and when I'm carrying one full of liquid it is awkward for me. I love my 2qt saucier and even with the handle, it has good balance and I can hold and carry and pour easily. They have a seconds sale each year and they do discontinue pieces. You can get good prices if you shop around.

Maybe 1/16th Irish 🤣 My Grandmother was really into genealogy and traced her mother and father's lines back to Ireland and England to the 1500's. She made many trips to both countries to search church record books and graveyards. She traveled all over and met quite a few of our distant relatives and amassed a lot of family stories as remembered by living relatives. The Irish keep a lot of their history alive orally, or at least back then they did.

My memory says that the owner of the Inn said that to Meri when she was giving a tour.

Davenport is an Irish name through England and Adams is Scottish and English.

Ahh Robyn Brown... "It's a convection oven so food doesn't burn" 🤣

I agree. I think that Janelle only left because Kody turned his venom onto her since she didn't coddle him like a toddler. She also took (and held) him at his word and not all the back peddling he did with the battle with her sons. Instead of Kody being an actual man and working things out with the boys face to face, he was a little bitch about it and threw tantrums because Janelle didn't force them all to kiss his ring, because she isn't and never will be Robyn. If he would have kept his big mouth shut on the couch with the camera on, Meri would not have officially left. She has just been living her life her way for a long time.

I grew up in the deep country and losing electricity was a common occurrence. We always kept several buckets in the basement shower stall as a just in case. Before any predicted storm one of my chores as a very young child was running up and down the stairs with the buckets and filling them in the bathtub to use to flush the toilet if we lost electricity. Water can be manually poured into the back cistern, but lifting the porcelain top can be cumbersome. Having a smaller 2 gallon bucket is handy, just scoop water from the bigger bucket into the 2 gallon bucket and pour that straight into the bowl to flush it, using the old "brown flush down and let the yellow mellow" saying. A quick spray of Lysol to the surface of any standing "yellow" takes care of any odor as it mellows. I am still in the country and my skills still come in handy. Christmas 2022 was so much fun when a sub zero cold snap hit and our well pump died on Dec 23. It was too cold to safely pull the pump out, but my husband rushed to buy the last one in stock at Lowes on the 24th and we kicked into gear using carried spring water to run the household. While I rarely fill buckets of water with predicted storms these days (because of the spring by my driveway) I did that time. I had 5 buckets in the bathtub filled and just didn't get around to dumping them when we realized the next day that the pump died. Old habits die hard I guess. It saved carrying 25 gallons into the house for toilet flushing!! It didn't warm up enough to fix it for 6 days. Fun times.

The pond isn't a pond, it's a type of retention ditch. Part of their properties are a flood zone and water flows from the road that they often film on through the center of the properties into the "pond" where the solids can fall to the bottom and the water on the top flows out the other side. They are to control the flow of the water and trap it during heavy rains or snow melt from the mountain to prevent flooding. If you look closely at the aerial view they show of the properties you can see (with the different color of the soil) the flow of the flood waters. I believe that the weird mountains of random dirt are from the "pond" being dug out. Eventually it will fill with dirt and debris and needs to be maintained. Way back when the realtor was telling them that they could line it and stock it with fish...I wonder if that was just some random thing said for a storyline, but that ditch is most likely controlled by the local authorities governing water flow.

The saddest part of catfishing in my humble opinion is that we (those outside of the con) want to make as much sense of it as possible, and can see the holes everywhere. Yet those inside the con (even educated and intelligent peoples) seem to accept the most bizarre "facts" as truth. A handsome man who's new photos don't really look like the profile photo, a mega rich person who pilots planes around the globe, but can't show up at ANY time in the city you live in...ever. A man of such great wealth as to own such a plane, but "he" sends you a bouquet of flowers and it is a low cost basic bouquet of baby's breath and carnations. Also I have a good friend who is Australian and he didn't know if "returning to keep your natural citizenship" was a thing or not. And he tried to explain their voting system and I couldn't wrap my head around it...except that you MUST show up to vote but that you can refuse TO vote. 🤨

In reference to the 6' 6" tall pilot... Yes, Sam the catfish man was supposedly a tall pilot as well as a multi-millionaire, owned his own plane and routinely flew Lindsey, his sidekick back to Australia for her to renew her citizenship each year (is that even an actual thing!!??) So he wasn't just an everyday private pilot license holder...but had his international license as well. 🙄 ...I have trouble these days remembering what I made for dinner two days ago...but these random bizarre catfish crapfacts seem to stick in my head like glue.

Western Pennsylvania checking in with the obligatory younze/yinze !!

My husband is still horrified after all these years when he sees me chopping onions and snacking on them as I go. The hotter the better !! 😁

Or maybe..you know... take the onion and make some soup 🙄

I'm sure it took way longer with Kody driving. Layovers for various car maintenance issues and all those bathroom breaks to fluff and primp and scrunch his hair along the way.

I can never judge anyone rushing to marriage... My husband and I married 4 days shy of 6 months after our first date. 33 years ago. I suspect they moved in together quick quick because Christine was itching to get divorced "all the way" 😉