Okkel Dokkel as my Uncle Warren used to say,  Second blog comin up.  Roses are red, sunflowers are gold, stick your nose outside,  and it'll get cold.  Uffda! (This will be the weather portion of the show, thanx Vicki for giving me that idea,) Winter, it's time you were outta here.  So, so long,  farewell, auf weidersein, good night (think Sound of Music .) Isn't there another hemisphere expecting you to show up and cool it off?  Yeah? I thought so. Get a move on and don't return for nine months okay?  Well I just spent several minits trying to make a new paragraph, my attempts were unsuccessful so will proceed unparagraphically, at least in the accepted way, and trust you'll be okkel dokkel with it.  Okkel dokkel?  Topic two: In a  a 'real' letter you often or sometimes always :) (what's the term that describes the rule I just broke by saying sometimes always?) begin with, how are you? I am fine.,and then move to the weather, so the cart is sorta before the horse here in blog two but just crack the whip, say giddyup and I'll move right along.  I'm havin' a struggle comin' up with topic two, can you tell?  Someone Else could make a suggestion right about now...What's for lunch might do okay if I had that figured out yet and here it is 11:45 already.  But not to worry cuz I've often pulled a Rachael Ray and had somethn' ready in 30 minutes, haven't you?  Probably not 3 courses though so Rach don't get your knickers is a knot, your job is safe for the foreseeable future from me.  Over in the unplugged Slo cooker there is a too long package of on sale chicken drumsticks leaning and thawing so they can be busted to fit in there and the appliance plugged in and then they can be annointed with either Campbells, Western Family or Lipton's products and simmered to gourmet perfection for supper.  Whaddaya think? Baked potatoes and green beans?  Yeah, a salad would be ideal but nobody went to the store and the last head of lettuce is now decomposing in the garbage can after vacationing in the crisper drawer for longer than it should have. I have alot of heads in the lettuce department 'go off' that way.  Heard some good advice once about shopping and or eating healthily,  'Buy food that spoils(w/o chemicals.) and eat it before it does.'  Now that's quite a feat.  But then again, chicken with rice is very nice...or it would be, if one were not cooking for one Norske who thinks rice is really only nice with butter,cinnamon and sugar.  Well lunch is now underway and the suspense is over.  The winning menu is...tah dah...Lalon's recipe for mac and cheese made with commodities found in the pantry and the frig.  And piping hot from the Turbo oven  from the dairy case at Reynolds, we have Western Family on sale, jumbo, flaky, biscuits.  A little heavy on the carbs and fat you say and that is sure true. Guess we'll have a slice of balony meat on the biscuit for balance. What say Rachael? I also found two ripe tomatoes in the kool kupett (my spelling of the Norsk words for icebox) so we did have a veggie after all and some strawberry jam on a piece of biscuit for 'pudding and also half of a Fuji apple apiece.  Who says Harlequin's aren't educational?.  Pudding is British for desert, so there.  Those biscuits are the pull apart kind and two pulled apart with a piece of bolony betwixt is a tasty and tender morsel.  Well friends I'm thinkin there won't be a topic three in this my second blog(should the b be capitalized?)  Come to think ( and don't you know someone should be, thinking, that is)  there wasn't in Blog one either.  So the advice is worthwhile that sez, "begin the way you intend to finish,'  or words of that ilk.  You can be relieved that future blogs will be confined to a two topic length. Roses are multi-colored like the dragons that snap, and I'm outta here cuz it's time for my nap.  Signed,  'The Meandering Mind,'  Blog Two