We were very lucky this week. I ate out three times  once at Carrabas all you can eat soup & salad $7.99. it was all good the salad was nicely done and I had one of each of the soups they were very good. Especially the sausage lentil soup.

The next day I took my wife to Olive Garden and of course had the soup and salad. I tried two soup both were very good. I would say they were both restaurants equally as good. Bread and salad were excellent.

I was going to brag about Off Duty’s food but someone said they close. I heard they are looking for a new place. It is a great concept catering to Off Duty first responders. I hope they reopen soon, the food was really good.

Mother’s Day / Texas Roadhouse 7 pm Sunday night. I had got on the waiting list day before. When we got there at 7 pm there must have been a hundred people waiting outside. I check in they looked for my name on the waiting list and we made it in with a short waiting time. There was six of us, my Son Travis wife Lindsay, my wife Phyllis, two grandsons Brantley Cash and Lane Continue reading →

Ingredients
4 cups Chicken broth
1 teaspoon Ginger paste
8 ounces Sliced mushrooms
1 tablespoon Soy sauce
⅓ cup Chopped green onions
3 large Eggs beaten lightly
Salt and white pepper to taste

Instructions
Add the chicken broth, ginger paste, mushrooms, soy sauce, green onions and salt and white pepper to taste in a pot over medium high heat on the stove.
Bring the mixture to a boil, and simmer for 15 minutes.
Mix the eggs in slowly, stirring as you do.
Continue to simmer a few more minutes before serving.

From LowCarbYum.com

(NAPSI)—It’s likely you see one of the most common sources of plastic pollution everyday—on the ground, in parking lots, in gutters or at the beach—cigarette butts. This is not trash but toxic garbage and plastic pollution poisoning marine life and humans.

Since cigarette filters are made of plastic, they can take years to decompose, leaving behind toxic microplastics that pollute our environment—and could make their way inside of us. In fact, every smoked cigarette filter contains 15,000 strands of microplastic fibers. Though often invisible to the human eye, microplastics are nearly everywhere—polluting the food we eat, the water we drink, and even the air we breathe.

So, what exactly are microplastics? Microplastics are tiny pieces of plastic measuring less than 5 millimeters long, or about the size of a sesame seed or smaller.  Continue reading →

By We Can Do This COVID-19 

Public Education Campaign

(NAPSI)—After a few weeks without rain, most people don’t throw out their umbrella. Just because someone has driven thousands of accident-free miles, that doesn’t mean seatbelts should be abandoned. Similarly, health officials encourage people to think about such prevention measures as wearing masks in the same way that we think about our umbrellas. People shouldn’t stop taking steps to protect themselves and others from COVID-19, even if there is a lull in cases.

“Like the weather, COVID changes over time, and what we know about the virus has expanded, providing effective tools for preventing severe illness, hospitalizations, and deaths,” said Dr. Mohamed Yassin, infectious disease specialist at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Mercy in Pennsylvania. “It is vital that we continue to layer prevention strategies appropriate for your health status and COVID rates in your community to keep from getting and spreading the virus.”

The most effective ways to prevent COVID are simple and widely available to all Americans.  Continue reading →

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(NAPSI)—How good is your imagination? Can you picture yourself the lauded winner of a writing or illustrating contest, accepting thousands of dollar and the acclaim of famous writers and artists at a gala awards show? If you can, and you can use that imagination to write or illustrate science fiction and fantasy, here’s good news: You can enter the 39th annual L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future or Illustrators of the Future contest.

The Contests

The annual contests are free to enter. Winners retain full rights to their work and get cash awards, a trip to Los Angeles for a weeklong workshop with professional authors and illustrators and a black tie gala awards event.

How It Started

Famous author L. Ron Hubbard created the Writers of the Future Contest in 1983 to help aspiring writers of speculative fiction. Its success led to the Illustrators of the Future Contest in 1988. The two contests have produced 38 anthology volumes and awarded upwards of $1 million in cash prizes and royalties.  Continue reading →

by Marcella Bianco

(NAPSI)—According to recent research by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 2 million middle- and high-school students use e-cigarettes. With the study conducted fully during the COVID-19 pandemic, this places U.S. youth in a pandemic and an epidemic.

Nicotine hurts the developing brain and this addiction can lead to others. What’s more, vaping increases a person’s chance of experiencing complications from upper respiratory illnesses, and some researchers believe a relationship exists between vaping and serious respiratory impacts, such as those from COVID-19. While a network of solutions is required to overcome this epidemic, there are actions people can each take today. Continue reading →

Steak Tacos

1 pound flank or skirt steak, frozen for 30 minutes

4 tablespoons (1/4 cup) Mazola® Corn Oil, divided

3 tablespoons tamari or reduced sodium soy sauce

3 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice

3 cloves garlic, finely minced

2 teaspoons chili powder

½ teaspoon ground cumin

½ teaspoon dried Mexican oregano

8 taco-sized flour tortillas heated on skillet lightly coated with Mazola® Corn Oil until lightly charred. Continue reading →

(NAPSI)—When people think about FIRST, they immediately think of high school robotics competitions. But for the 2.5 million students who have participated in FIRST programs worldwide since 1989, the payoff is so much more.

FIRST is a robotics community that prepares students for their future through inclusive, team-based robotics programs for ages 4-18. Its mission is to inspire young people to be science and technology leaders and innovators, by engaging them in exciting mentor-based programs.

“FIRST Robotics is not just a program about building robots, it also focuses on the growth and development of the individual, with technical training, organizational training and community outreach,” said Derek Curd, a mentor of the Up a Creek Robotics team (Team 1619), based in Longmont, Colo. “FIRST teams operate like small companies, so when students come out of the program, they’ve had the opportunity to develop management and operational skills as well,” he said.

Up a Creek Robotics was established in 2004 and partners with the St. Vrain School District. Curd, a tech industry engineer, has been a team mentor since 2014. The team has won numerous regional competitions dating back to 2015 and has earned several invitations to compete at the international meet in Houston, Texas. It also took first place in the global skills competition last year against more than 1,500 teams. Continue reading →

(NAPSI)—After these many months of sacrifice and seclusion, isn’t it time for a journey guaranteed to elevate the spirit and soothe the soul?

A luxury African safari is at the top of most travelers’ wish lists and for advice on the only way to go, look no further than the readers of Travel+Leisure. The prestigious publication recently named Micato Safaris the #1 World’s Best Safari Outfitter for a record-breaking tenth time in their annual survey. No safari outfitter—no tour company of any kind—has come close to landing in the #1 spot 10 times.

“In the past year, Micato Safaris has safely escorted many hundreds of guests on magical holidays through the vast plains of Africa. Our guests have been treated not only to a daily cornucopia of magnificent wildlife viewings but also to the indulgent, worry-free journey they deserve,” said Dennis Pinto, Managing Director of Micato Safaris.  Continue reading →