Taking a much needed break

If I never had to sand and stain another door again, I could be a happy girl. As it is, we still have to purchase three doors for the closets. On the brighter side, all but one of 5 doors are finished. I do need to bring the three in the garage inside, I just haven't motivated myself to do so.

I'm also on a cooking kick in my disaster of a kitchen. I put a slab of pork on the stove to simmer all day. It will become carnitas for dinner tonight. I'm also going to try my hand at making some corn tomalito. The closest explanation of it that I can think of is spoonbread. If you've ever eaten at Chevy's, it's the little dollop of corn stuff that they serve with fajitas. It's heavenly in the mouth. All the recipes that I've found so far basically read like making spoonbread. I'll try it and if all else fails I guess the dog gets a treat. I've also got a batch of yogurt going. Now if I could only get someone to wash all the dishes I'd be in business.

Yuck! Now I've reminded myself that I need to do laundry. RTL goes to Seattle tomorrow and then leaves on Friday to go see her dad. Clean clothes would be nice.

OK, this post is boring, so I'll get back to what I need to do.

Free Market perspective

This was sent to me in an email and I don't have a person to credit for the thought.

Think about this:
A car company can move its factories to Mexico and claim it's a free market.
A toy company can out source to a Chinese subcontractor and claim it's a free market.
A shoe company can produce its shoes in south East Asia and claim it's a free market.
A major bank can incorporate in Bermuda to avoid taxes and claim it's a free market.
We can buy HP Printers made in Mexico. We can buy shirts made in Bangladesh.

We can purchase almost anything we want from 20 different countries. BUT, heaven help the elderly who dare to buy their prescription drugs from a Canadian pharmacy.
That's called un-American and you think the pharmaceutical companies don't have a powerful lobby? Think again!


I won't get on my soapbox about pharmaceutical companies and prescription drugs, but I had never thought about this issue from the perspective of all the other things that we are able to buy from other countries.