| Author | Message | ||
| River Registered user Username: River Post Number: 511 Registered: 9-2006  |
yeh, I always could plan a fishing trip, take a 33 ft. boat out to sea and not miss a thing but God help me if my wife gives me more than one thing to do at any one time. Birth Days and anniversaries is a mystery unfathomable and has to be some kind of magic. River | ||
| Aliza Registered user Username: Aliza Post Number: 157 Registered: 8-2006 |
My daughter's birthday was yesterday. She was supposed to be a valentine but came two days early. | ||
| Grace_alone Registered user Username: Grace_alone Post Number: 455 Registered: 6-2006  |
Ha! Aliza, Mom said I was supposed to be a Valentine too, but I was a day late. She said she squeezed and squeezed, but no luck. I just wanted to have my own special day! And it's nice too... Candy on one day, and cake and ice cream the next. YAY! Now If I can just lose that 18lbs I've gained in the last year... | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 5411 Registered: 12-2003  |
Well, we're about to be off to take our 20-year-old-today younger son to dinner for his birthday. He's chosen The Lotus Garden because he loves their vegetarian chicken. Ha! (He's our last vegetarian holdout...) Colleen | ||
| River Registered user Username: River Post Number: 513 Registered: 9-2006 |
Colleen, ya gotta let that boy know they don't make chickens outa cabbage. Hold a chicken in one hand and say "this isa chicken and this isa cabbage". P.S. Live chickens required for sich demonsterating. Yer cuntry cuzin. River | ||
| Randyg Registered user Username: Randyg Post Number: 368 Registered: 12-2004 |
Well we had a wonderful birthday supper for our 19 year old son tonight. He got what he asked for, Waffles and applesauce Orange juice Hashbrown potatoes, Fake links, and the new episode of Stargate! Chocolate cake to follow. | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 5413 Registered: 12-2003 |
Ha! I love it, Randy! We had vegetarian orange chicken, vegetarian chicken broccoli, and cubed vegetables with cashews. Oh yes, don't forget the jasmime tea! (We had his birthday strawberry cheesecake on Sunday with friends...) Y'know, River, I doubt a live chicken OR a cabbage could change that boy! I'm thinkin' it might take a nice carnivorous Christian girlfriend one day...! Whatever it takes, judgin' by his dad, I'm guessin' it'll be a crisis of faith when it happens... Colleen | ||
| Randyg Registered user Username: Randyg Post Number: 369 Registered: 12-2004 |
Colleen, I think I should have come to your party, as this herbivore would have liked your supper. Now my 19 y/o vegetarian son seems to have attracted several nice carnivorous Christian girlfriends. It hasn't changed him as they think its kinda "cute". It seems that the nice carnivorous Christian girlfriends feel he is fair "game", which of course he thinks is kinda "cute". | ||
| Melissa Registered user Username: Melissa Post Number: 1546 Registered: 7-2003 |
Yes...it's 'kinda cute' until you have to make two meals for every meal because someone won't eat anything tainted with meat products. OR better yet, when kids come along and what is okay to feed them becomes a routine topic evolving to blatant deception so one parent doesn't know what the other is doing. THEN, it becomes quite the drag. Not to be a wet blanket on the humor ...  | ||
| Dennis Registered user Username: Dennis Post Number: 987 Registered: 4-2000  |
CONFESSION TIME My wife and I enjoyed vegeburgers at BURGER KING for lunch today. | ||
| Randyg Registered user Username: Randyg Post Number: 370 Registered: 12-2004 |
As I crawl out from under the wet blanket, I fully understand what you are saying Melissa. Sometimes if we didn't laugh at some the peculiarities, we would have to cry. And I don't know about you, but enough tears have been shed over all the differences we encounter. | ||
| Melissa Registered user Username: Melissa Post Number: 1547 Registered: 7-2003 |
Until I lived it, I never could have imagined the problems such seemingly 'little' differences made. How could it be any different than not liking .... let's say... onions. But it is. And you're right about the tears. But with a 3-year old trying to understand why mom says we can eat ham and dad says people aren't supposed to eat ham.... It's hard to laugh about that. And...by definition, aren't most non-vegetarians really omnivores rather than carnivores? From wikipedia: "Characteristics commonly 'associated' with carnivores include organs for capturing and disarticulating prey (teeth and claws serve these functions in many vertebrates) and status as a hunter. In truth, these assumptions may be misleading, as some carnivores do not hunt and are scavengers (though most hunting carnivores will scavenge when the opportunity exists). Thus they do not have the characteristics associated with hunting carnivores." I'm not sure that would describe any girlfriends I would want for my sons . | ||
| Randyg Registered user Username: Randyg Post Number: 371 Registered: 12-2004 |
As someone who will only eat onions if they are minced, or I don't see them, you have chosen a great example. In our house, there are often parallel dishes prepared, one with onions, and one without. However as often as not, it depends on who is doing the cooking. My wife will often find it easier to eat what I cook without onions, than to cook the food herself. Now if I get home, and everything has onions in it(rare), I have no problen fetching a bowl of Mini-wheats and a banana. Melissa, obviously diet is only one area of potential conflict, the other prominent one is day of worship. (We all know there are many more) Paul noted in Romans 14, of course that these two specific areas are morally neutral, and should not be points of division among believers.(Fine and dandy if everybody used the Bible as their sole reference, RIGHT!) I have noted that even some Herbivores, can at times, exhibit some of the characteristics used in Wikipedia's apt description of Carnivores. Manifestation of these said characteristics, is often determined by the presences of competing ____-vores of any description. As for my hunted son, at 19 he seems capable of determining the things that matter. We of course, are always willing to offer opinions whether solicited or not, and usually they are considered somewhere along the line. | ||
| Loneviking Registered user Username: Loneviking Post Number: 549 Registered: 7-2000 |
V E G E T A R I A N Old indian word for 'lousy hunter'! | ||
| River Registered user Username: River Post Number: 514 Registered: 9-2006 |
I absolutely refuse to eat onions with my possum and sweet pertaters!! A man has got to draw the line somewhere,unless of course those big old sweet juicy Walla Walla onions are in season. I know that is a profound statement. River  | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 5415 Registered: 12-2003 |
I'm laughing so hardóbetween Dennis's announcement of enjoying vegeburgers at Burger King and Lone's definition of vegetarian...I'm totally entertained! Melissa, great point: I'll amend my earlier statement: Perhaps a nice Christian omnivorous girlfriend will have an impact on my sonóbut then again, perhaps not. I'm more inclined to think that if this issue become a crisis for him, it will be more closely related to children than girlfriends. I suspect that, somewhere deep down in his vegetarian heart, he would not want to raise another generation of Tinkers with an aversion to meat... Colleen | ||
| River Registered user Username: River Post Number: 515 Registered: 9-2006 |
Lone's right, a man that cain't find a Bar er at least a skinny Rabbit and a woman to skinnem oughta have to live on leaves and sich. River | ||
| River Registered user Username: River Post Number: 516 Registered: 9-2006 |
I been thinkin about fryin up one of them house Cats that live around here, i'm gettin lazy in my old age and all I got to do is stand in the door and shootem, might go good with green onions. River | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 5416 Registered: 12-2003 |
Speaking of meat and not-meat, I just have to share a laugh Richard and I had today. In honor of Valentine's Day, he took me to lunch. We decided to go to the Southeast Asian restaurant that is catering our Saturday evening meal at the FAF retreat this weekend since we'd never eaten there before (although we had heard rave reveiws). We were ushered to a table directly across from a group of people including some of Richard's past colleagues from Loma Linda University. That fact alone caused us to grin at each otheróthose at the table that knew Richard steadfastly refused to acknowledge him. Then, the restaurant owner with whom I've been making the catering arrangements came to our table and said, "I'll bring food that you'll like. Give me the menus!" Not knowing what to expect, Richard looked at me and said, "Isn't it great to sit here and to know that we can eat WHATEVER they bring to us!" After enjoying the soup, out came our meals. I was given a delectable chicken curryóit was amazingly good. But Richardómy recently omnivorous but willing to try anything husbandóreceived a beautiful plate of big sweet and sour shrimp! He grinned at me and said, "How do I eat them?" After establishing that he could cut them and leave the tails, he wolfed those things down, enjoying every biteóalways consious of sitting in full view of said former colleagues. The irony of the whole situation was quite amusing. Colleen | ||
| River Registered user Username: River Post Number: 517 Registered: 9-2006 |
Ha, I imagine the folks from Loma Linda thought you guys had gone over the edge for sure! Is is sad when people you know refuse to acknowledge you though, got my taste of that just recently. But Gods true way is that we love one another or how can we say we know and love God. Its too bad that Richard had to go through this but he will grow thereby just the same. Wish I had been there to eat shrimp with Richard. Makes me in the mood to go hunt up a Shawnees Resterant. |
