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[LynneK]

Can I get away with serving a light tasting red wine?

Wow, does that sound fantastic! I think I'll draw some inspiration from this menu for my future cooking.

Two aspects of the menu -- the lime marinade on the salmon and the butternut squash -- make me suggest an Alsatian Pinot Gris. Your LWS will be able to suggest a good one in the $12 range; one reliable producer is Trimbach. A gewurztraminer might also work, but it might be a bit sweet for the tang of the lime.

If you want to go red, there are plenty of good-value-for-money pinot noirs, but even that is likely to come in conflict with the lime on the salmon. In that case, you could change your marinade to balsamic vinaigrette or something like it.

YUM!

[chickwhorips]

deb whenever i would take my big dog hiking i would worry about her getting up some of the steap stuff, but she seemed to be better at it than me. and she didn't fall on her @ss as much as i did either.

dogs are amazing and great for stuff like that. love the picture!

[KnottedYet]

Ordered the Mad Plaid. And a pair of pink Terry socks, only because I don't do laundry often enough and can't find my nice thin biking socks. And socks didin't increase my shipping charge. I'm such a sucker....

Had tunafish on rice cakes for dinner and a V-8. SOME folks are planning meals I'd MUCH rather eat!

[chickwhorips]

Knot sign up for the october seceret sister. its socks this month. the mad plaid was my favorite!

[Lise]

Snap--the menu sounds wonderful.

I, too, love the taste of orange St. Joseph baby aspirin. I hate grape and cherry flavorings. I still remember the taste of the polio vaccine on the sugar cube they gave me. YUCK. Beats polio, of course...

Deb, that picture and story of the dog hiking is wonderful. Like everyone here, I have a soft spot for valiant, smart, loyal pups. Your hike sounds amazing. Looking forward to stories and pictures!

[KnottedYet]

Orange baby aspirin is the best! I was taking aspirin after my blood clots, and orange brought back all those happy childhood memories. (stealing yummy aspirin from the medicine cabinet!)

Ah, those halcyon days before child-proof caps!

[Nanci]

MO3, I'm glad you have a diagnosis! You say you remember the day it happened, how did you know, and, retrospectively, was it any of the things like we hear on the public service commercials- difficulty speaking, one-sided weakness, etc?

I am at increased risk of stroke due to the hole in my heart- say I fracture one of my femurs and there are big globs of fat/marrow/clots floating around in circulation- normal people get that stuff filtered out by the lungs before that blood heads up to the brain- mine can cut across in the heart and head up there, bypassing my lungs. Not to mention the at least three AVMs in my lungs that will let big stuff right on through even when it does follow the normal path of circulation...

I remember baby aspirin. We had some little tiny cherry kind that came in a tiny square bottle. I liked to sneak and eat that, as well as vitamins. My favorite kid medicine, though, was and still is grape Dimetap (diphenhydramine.)

I stayed up all night. I feel like crap. We're supposed to be going on a motorcycle trip to Georgia. Blech.

I have a wildebeast LS jersey that I got on clearance last spring that I haven't worn yet. I can't wait.

Wine for salmon- I love Pinot Gris- but most of mine is from Oregon and Washington. That is probably my favorite white right now. Otherwise, what about a dry rose, like Bonnie Doon Vis Gris de Cigare? That's a blend, I think, but I just had a Temperanillo rose from Bodegas Vina Villano that was very good. They are sort of watermelon/ripe tomato/flowery. Or white merlot is getting better and drier lately, too.

Deb, sounds like a fun trip you have planned. It would be so cool to have time to hike any of the big trails. I have this DVD about a guy, David Horton, who tries to break the record for the Pacific Coast Trail, supported. I've been on little bitty bits of the Long Trail and the AT. Wow- to get to do the whole thing of one of them- that's a dream.

MO3, back to you, how long till you get to drive again? I have a friend, who had a diving incident, who got driving taken away for several months...That would be horrible! I guess a good excuse to bike to work, though.

Well, I guess I'm going to sit out and have coffee. It's only 66F. High of 85F.

[Bikingmomof3]

To answer your question Nanci, the symptoms were exactly what the service announcements warn about. Unfortunately I spent years with those symptoms, since it is what usually occurs just before the actual pain of a migraine arrives.

First I lose most of my vision. My vision returns and then one half of my body goes completely numb. Sometimes the numbness is accompanied with me not being able to say words properly. For example I will see a shoe, think shoe, but gibberish comes out. Finally the the pain comes. I am always relieved the pain comes because it has always meant I did not have a stroke.

The only differences this time were the following; I kept cycling through not seeing/numbness/pain over and over and over all night; and I was not making sense when I was speaking. It sounded correct in my head, but not to my family.

Would it have made a difference had I gone to the ER? Maybe.

As a result I am weak/numb on my left side and occasionally I cannot recall words.

To answer your question about driving, I was never to drive with a migraine and since I have them so often, I was not driving much. Now he would prefer I not drive until the tests are in on the 18th. I think he is worried I will have another stroke on the road.


Sorry, this was so long and unbelievably boring.

[chickwhorips]

It's only 66F. High of 85F.

only 66? thats a heat wave. *breaks out in song*

i'm planning on going down to phoenix to sort some things out in storage in november and thats probably going to be the weather. i'm going to have heat stroke!

anyone want a gliding rocking chair with matching foot stool or a computer desk? still looking for takers on those out of my storage.

[Xrayted]

The skort - the mad plaid, definitely. Should look hot.

The wine - Bet Nanci would know. (I'm a total wine idiot)

The menu - my next dinner party I'm coming to you for suggestions. Mmmmmm...