tinidril

 We are close to signing the contract for our house! Well, actually it's just Jeff who will be doing that. Apparently I no longer have a credit history, even though I'm the only one who has had an active credit card in the last 10 years. But I allowed my credit card account to lapse because I didn't dare use it anyway. So he will be signing the mortgage when all the paperwork has finished being "underwritten", and then we have to wait 72 hrs. Inspections and repairs are done, arrangements have been made to acquire a bed and mattress, and rent and storage fees are paid for December. Jeff is going to build a ramp up to the front porch initially to make it easier to bring furnishings into the house, but also because we will both be needing an easier (as in less painful) way to get into the house than the few stairs needed at present. 

 I'm going to try to cross-post blog once in a while to both LiveJournal and Dreamwidth! No promises I'll remember to do it very often, but I'll try.

 I did finally get access to my website control panel and have uploaded the barebones archive: dearheart.org/lotrfanmb/ 

All it needs is for the index page to be prettified and then some volunteers to begin saving threads.

Currently all the links in the pages work, they connect to the original website even though the messageboard database is in another place. But when that site goes down those links will not work. I have a plugin for my browser which allows me to find the code for any part of a page. In this way, each page can have updated navigational links/buttons without me having to wade through miles of complicated php code.

Growing up I had never tasted yogurt. I don't know why, perhaps it was not one of my parents' favorite foods, but I was married before I was introduced to it. Hubby loved it, and would put his breakfast cereal in a bowl of yogurt... to my disgust! Ugh! I couldn't get past the smell of the stuff. But being somewhat of a gastric adventurer, I did at least try it. But in my estimation it tasted pretty much like it smelled and I left it to Hubby and Son to devour.

Years go by and so do food fads. Yogurt became a thing, and manufacturers were trying all sorts of things to jazz it up. Finally I decided to try Yoplait, which came in 6 oz containers in all sorts of interesting flavors like chocolate, caramel, and coffee. These actually tasted good to me! Once in a while I would try the store brands that came in 8 oz containers but I'd get tired of the taste after about half of the container, so I switched back to Yoplait.

Fast forward a couple decades and multiple health issues... I had a dietitian suggest I try to keep my breakfasts to 14 or fewer grams of sugar. Do you know how hard it is to find a single serve container of yogurt with less than 15 grams of sugar?? Dang near impossible, that is! Unless you don't mind the clingy aftertaste of artificial sweetener. The beneficial bacteria in yogurt make it especially good for one of my issues, but the sugar is not good for another. I needed to find a way to continue eating yogurt. The Dietitian suggested I try plain yogurt with fresh fruit, and I made an involuntary face and shudder of disgust. To compromise she suggested Tillamook greek-style which actually made several flavors with 14 or fewer grams of sugar. So I did this. And it was good.

Then we moved to the coast. The grocery stores here don't carry Tillamook, or they only carry a few things like their cheeses. Now I was forced to try to experiment with ::shudder:: plain yogurt! So I gathered a variety of fresh berries, grapes, bananas, kiwis and picked up the only single-serve plain yogurt I could find. It was nonfat. The result was pretty good but tasted a bit thin, not really satisfying. Next I tried to find a NON nonfat plain yogurt, but only found a quart size. "Fine", I thought, and bought it, still disappointed that there were no lowfat plain yogurts in single-serve size. I just wanted to experiment, not commit myself to a quart of the stuff!

The next morning I spooned about 6 - 8 oz of really thick yogurt into a bowl, added my fruit and stirred it together. I took a bite and nearly fell out of my chair! Wow.... it was so delicious!..., but there was something really odd here, it was so rich and tasted like really heavy, pure unadulterated, but slightly tangy, cream! I took out the container again and looked it over (with my reading glasses on!) and there was no mention of the fat content. The nutrition list revealed the truth: this was fullfat yogurt!

So now I am enjoying yogurt garnished fresh fruit for breakfast. Two teaspoon scoops is all it takes. A fruit salad with cream dressing. Heaven.