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Well, here it is. Saturday sun's out. It's a beautiful day, we thought we'd talk a little bit about what's happening on Saturday. I've been watching a lot of, Italian cooking shows. We've talked to some of you folks about some of them. One of'em was, The pasta Mama? No pasta queen. Oh, pasta Queens. Pasta Queen. Pasta Queen's. Middle name is Macaroni. She lives in Florida. She's on Prime, I believe, right? Yes. And she has 13 episodes. Another one we watch is Gino's Italian Escape he goes to Italy finds food and makes different dishes for his family and relatives I was telling Joe, one of the things, I miss and they talk about in these Italian shows is. Having cousins that they talked to and play with, and I didn't have any cousins to play with. Joe, how about you? Oh, I did. Well, tell me about'em. Well, I had, several cousins, Well, I had Jimmy, who was my favorite cousin, and actually that's how I met my first husband. Through Jimmy? Yes. And why didn't you hook up with Jimmy? Well, he was my cousin. gotcha. go ahead. and, Doris What, two cousins? You don't have any more cousins than I do. they were distant. Those were the ones that lived in our state. How about on your street, did you have any? No. Town. Town of Ambler? Mm-hmm. Joe was born in Ambler the Third floor in, March. As you all know, her birthday was just last week It was 96 years ago. And you know that house, we looked at it on our realtor.com. House is still there. It's really nice looking and people have redone it and made it into a beautiful home. Joe complains about growing up there because, she didn't have all the facilities that she's become used to. Well, there was a lot of work involved at that house. my dad believed that you had to paint the shutters every year, and we did. also we had a victory garden and, just a lot of work. oh, and my mother took in laundry and I ironed napkins and got 25 cents a dozen for ironing napkins. Who, who counted the napkins? Did your mother count'em or did you say Of course. Of course my mother did. Now we're kind of just stalling here because, I Joe wants to say she helped make pasta dough today..For, pasta we used, two, cups of flour, which I measured a hundred grams is about a cup. And I used two eggs, and this time I added a half a teaspoon of olive oil. And, uh, I put it together and, and Joe says, I can do it better than you. So she took over. I don't like the way he needs. Well, can you need better than I need? I need a lot of stuff. You know, I need, it's a different kind of need. Okay. I need things on Amazon every day. I need something. So, alright. I don't mean kneading with your, knuckles. So what did you, you need it? I, she, she needed today the dough. she needed it. And then she got tired. Of course I had to take over and finish it. We wrapped it in plastic wrap. It's now in the refrigerator. doing whatever pasta does it has to bloom, blooming like coffee. Mm-hmm. So it's been, it's been in there for a 30 minutes. the other thing we did, earlier was to do Joe's voice on artificial intelligence. we could do artificial, we're not artificial. We're real people, and we'll tell you when it's gonna be artificial. But at any rate, um, we did that, today too. Joe even got her hair washed again. I went to the, stylist. if it's over double digits, it's a stylist. If it's under that, it's a haircut and wash. I get haircut and washed, Joe gets a stylist. So I was having trouble getting gas, using my reward points. Joe said, when you go to the gas station, go up to the, clerk and ask how to use it. And I said, there's no way I'm going to ask somebody how to do Something I should be able to do so Well, we were about lose gonna lose our points, we're gonna run outta gas. And I said, well, let's try it. So I did it and I got a 50 cent discount on my gas today. So I think that's doing pretty good. And we were in a different county and they were cheaper. we were in Hall County and we live in, Gwinnett County. But anyway, getting back to, our pasta. When this pasta is, ready? We're gonna cut it and then we're going Toro. Need it now? You fluff it. You mean fluff it. After you cut it. This week I bought a, French rolling pin. it doesn't have handles you roll the whole thing. Now this is an Italian buying a French rolling pin. Exactly. Now. we're gonna use that today. And also I ordered a mortar and pestle, which I've never had before. I think they only use that in drugstore when they're making prescriptions. But, um, what's that for John? I'm gonna grind peppercorns. And I'm gonna make up a peppercorn and a pasta dish, with two kinds of cheese. The problem we're having now is finding a place to buy proper Italian cheese We need to find an Italian market without going to Atlanta If you know of any place, tell us and we'll certainly try it out. Oh, my pasta. We're gonna make, some kind of spaghetti. Don't know how we're going to dry it. We got a little problem. Are you gonna make the spaghetti, spaghetti? Or what, what else? Fettuccine Yes. No, I'm gonna make spaghetti. Oh, okay. We have to put it through the, pasta machine, four or five times to get it to the right flatness. Then we squeeze out those noodles in the pasta machine. do I hang them on a spaghetti rack, which I bought off Amazon. Before you do that, how do you know when it's thin enough? you put your hand through it or you put a piece of paper through it. If you can read the paper through the, pasta dough, it's ready. Am I right? That's right. So Joe comes from a long line of Italians. by the way, Italian cooks also, we watched, pasta grannies. There are, women in Italy, 103 years old, that go out and gather eggs. And make pasta. Now I'm telling you. Well, the, the reason they gather the eggs, uh, well they have to look for them is these are free range chickens, Yes. And I brought up us having some free range chickens. Mm-hmm. And our, community and people said, you can't do that. It's against the HOA. And I said, if they're free reign. How do we know how they got there? And then Joe brings up, how do we gather the eggs? Because they could lay eggs anywhere, but that would be like an Easter egg hunt, wouldn't it? So the other question came up, and those of you who are farmers would know this, do you need a rooster to, have a hen lay eggs? And I Google it? And the answer is no. Only if you want little baby chicks to come from those eggs. One of our neighbors said, what if the rooster crows and wakes everybody up? Well, that's not gonna be a problem because we don't need a rooster. We just need hens. That's half a dozen chickens. So if any of you have any chickens you want to drop off, no, don't do it. And we'll be in trouble in our free range farm, we will have, chickens, eggs, which we will gladly, distribute. Well, I think the Scottishness has gone on long enough. What do you think? I think so too. And how are we gonna end this, John? Well, I've been trying to figure out how to add some music and stuff to this. I haven't done that yet, but we're going to do it. I think with that being said, we're gonna end this session, which is number four. Am I right? That's right. we thought we'd end with a public service announcement. Now, today's public service announce basically for your seniors is, and. Joe's done this so she knows do not take a sleeping pill and laxative at the same time. thank you. You're welcome for that. Are we done? I think we are. We're signing off John and Joe. Goodbye.