It's gray and rainy here. Thinking of making myself some tea.

Ick! I can sympathize, Kirin Rosenbaum. It is dull gray and windy here today. Glooooomy...! :/ But I am happily - TOO happily - drinking Diet Coke. I love Diet Coke. It's my number one drink. But I quit periodically because it is so bad for me. But I always end up going back to it. If I am ever hospitalized, they will have to hook up an I.V. of it to my vein.

But I have gotten a few things productive things done today. Very few. I printed out a one to one hundred number chart for the 4 year old and we went over it using pointers as we counted the numbers. The chickens are turned out of their pen for the day, which made them really happy. I did a tiny bit of reading. I made the bed, ...and that's about it. But the day is still relatively young. I may get more productive later. One can always hope! ;)

The dogs had a lot of fun excitement in the wee hours this morning. Around 4 am, three them got totally, completely skunkified. Ugh...!

What's 'oc'? No, I am not a certified teacher, but I do quite a bit of pre-kindergarten and kindergarten activities with the just-turned-four year old that I babysit five days a week. She enjoys it; I enjoy it, so it is a win-win situation. :)

OC is Original Character. unlike CC which is Canon Character.

I am a Coke Zero girl.

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*sets out fresh teas and treats*

I don't drink sodas because they upset my stomach too much. More for y'all!

*sets out some of the yummy gluten-free cookies Elmira's daughter baked today and tea*

I can drink Sprite if it's kind of flat. It's the carbonation that bugs me.

Gluten free cookies!? Can you share resipe?

She's a member of Mene now and I asked her to post a thread in the IRL forum, so she may do that tomorrow. I'll ping you to it if/when she does it! We've purchased some flour mixes, and the one we like so far is by Glutino. I think she adds some other flours to it.

never heard of Glutino... my favorite company for Gluten free mixs is Bob's Red Mill but that may be only a local brand.

I've heard good things about Bob's Red Mill and I'm pretty sure I can find it locally. We tried Glutino's because they have brownie and other mixes. Not sure if they're also organic or not, but I'll look into it. The good news is, none of us get sick after we eat anything made with the products!

that is really good. My favorite mix is their brownie's and their corn bread.

I'll look for it. We have 3 different grocery store chains. Sometimes one has better prices for stuff than others, but it's a matter of remembering which ones! We looked for Bob's Red Mill at the store we went to Friday, but they only had the flours and no mixes. Gotta love living in a somewhat rural area!

I love Cheerwine.

Never tried it. What does it taste like?

It's a cherry flavored soda pop.

Sounds tasty. I looked it up on Google. I like the bottle design - kinda vintage. Has it been around a while? I've never seen it in GA.

It's been around since 1917. It's out of North Carolina.

Coke is king in GA, so I have to wonder if other bottling companies are under-represented here. When we lived in MA, there was a brand my late husband drank called Moxie. I think they're out of NH or VT. It was supposed to be a tonic type of beverage. He loved it but I thought it tasted like what paint thinner smells like.

The thunderstorms we started experiencing last night were much worse than our local weather gurus forecasted. Had to spend some time today redirecting water into drainage ditches. AND I think I'm coming down with another dang cold. We watched the latest Hobbit movie and I fell asleep for a few hours. Very unusual for me to do.

Well there are regional soda pops. Vernors is huge here in Michigan, actually started here in Michigan.

I've heard of Vernors from friends who live or lived in Michigan. Some post about it on facebook once in a while so I had to ask to be reminded of what it was! I forgot about this - Moxie was even featured in a Stephen King novel.