Category: INSPIRIVITY

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GOOD MORNING LADIES! Did you remember to adjust your clocks? Personally I wish they’d pick a time and just stay with it!! That first Sunday after the time change is ALWAYS the hardest for me and this year was no different because it was dark, cloudy and foggy! To make matters worse, I’m not even sure how it’s Monday again. I feel like I lost an entire week! I’m pretty good about getting around to visit everyone, but I sadly fell short last week. I will be better this week! 😀

LAST WEEK RECAPPED

The week was full of “fires” to put out so I won’t bore you with too many details, but I ended up spending a lot of unplanned time at the Eagles including working the fundraiser dinner Friday night. Monday through Friday were jam packed with “STUFF”.  Saturday I took a paint class and then hubby and I went out for dinner at a favorite haunt. Sunday was doing normal chores to catch up on laundry and cleaning and helping an elderly friend with some house maintenance.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

THE WEATHER OUTSIDE

Welcome to the Pacific North West where your spring flowers prematurely bloom at the first sign of sunshine only to be beaten back down by pouring rain and snow and you are always only a layer or two from shivering.

While the EAST is supposed to have a warm-up this week, we’re just the opposite with thunderstorms and snow!

MONDAY Cloudy 65/41
TUESDAY Cloudy 47/40
WEDNESDAY Rain 49/37
THURSDAY Thunderstorms/Snow 47/34
FRIDAY Snow/Rain 46/34
SATURDAY Rain 45/ 39
SUNDAY Rain 45/34

ON MY MIND

I lost last week! I really do NOT know where it went and mainly because of other people and having to pivot to pick up the slack. I know I’ve said it before, but I’m getting super close to throwing in the towel on the Eagles and the continually growing issues at hand. :SIGH: 😔 See my funny for today. I picked it long before today, but boy does it fit!!!!!

TO DO LIST, APPOINTMENTS & PROJECTS

THIS WEEK’S TO DO LIST, PROJECTS & APPOINTMENTS

LAUNDRY & CLEANING As caught up as possible. GROCERIES & ERRANDS I’m headed to town today to get everything done before the next storm begins. RECIPE RESEARCH & MENU PLANNING I have a couple weeks planned, but am taking it as it comes so I’m not disappointed with all the pivots I’ve been having to make.

DVR/TV TIME

WHAT’S ON THE DVR/TV

STREAMING We’ve been binge watching CROSSING JORDAN and a new season of STEEL MAGNOLIAS is on for me during the day when I can. CABLE Tournament of Champions, Spring Baking Championship starts tomorrow, Guy’s Grocery Games, Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage, Ghosts, Matlock, Ellsbeth, Tracker, The Way Home, When Calls the Heart…

READING TIME

I’m between books, but hope to start a new one tonight.

FUNNIES

MENU PLANS

BREAKFAST is always a work in progress for me – it will generally be hot water and a fruit yogurt 😀

	3/10 MONDAY	3/11 TUESDAY	3/12 WEDNESDAY	3/13 THURSDAY	3/14 FRIDAY	3/15 SATURDAY	3/16 SUNDAY
DINNER	MEETING NIGHT CLEAN OUT REFRIGERATOR NIGHT or YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN	MEATBALL SALAD	STUBBY CHICKEN	SHORT CUT CHICKEN CORDON BLEU	OUT with FRIENDS	PIZZA EGG ROLLS	CHICKEN SALTIMBOCCA
DESSERT				SALTED CARAMEL PUMPKIN CHEESECAKE

FAVORITE PHOTOS FROM THE CAMERA

I am not entirely happy with my picture “A Walk in the Wilderness”, but I’ll keep working on it, the bushes in particular 😀

INSPIRATIONS

LIFE TIP

HOMEMAKING / COOKING TIP

RECIPES COMING UP THIS WEEK

• LOADED SEAFOOD CHOWDER
  
• BUFFALO CRUSTED BAKED FISH & CHIPS
  

RECIPE LINKS FROM LAST WEEK

• CHICKEN PARMESAN LASAGNA
  
• ITALIAN ENCHILADAS aka BAKED MANICOTTI
  

WEEKLY FEATURED PARTY LINKS

• PORK CHOPS in CREAMY GARLIC SPINACH SAUCE
• BEEF & BBQ BEAN STEW
• HALUSKI
  

Be sure to join Happy Homemaker Monday with our host, Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom

LAST WEEK RECAPPED

My week was busy with pre-Spring cleaning, sorting and organizing as well as my many Eagles duties, but my weekend was kind of lazy, yet productive!

Saturday was A LOT of cleaning and laundry. We began working on power washing the back patio, patio cover and gutters. For some reason they have gotten exceptionally mossy and slimy so far this year. We even found horrible moss patches on the new roof that we’re working hard to eradicate before it gets a foothold that can’t be stopped.

I even took time to have lunch with a friend on Sunday and watch ALL the NASCAR races (which were recorded) since it was raining so much and all outside cleaning came to a stop.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

THE WEATHER OUTSIDE

Beware of captions that say a warm up is on the way, BUT, don’t put away the winter coats! That’s how SNOWMAGEDDON started a few years back!

Monday 57/44 ~ 1 inch RAIN
Tuesday 57/44 ~ 1 inch RAIN
Wednesday 58/35 ~ CLOUDY
Thursday 58/34 ~ CLOUDY
Friday 58/44 ~ CLOUDY/RAIN
Saturday 56/43 ~ 1 inch RAIN
Sunday 55/38 ~ 1/2 inch RAIN

ON MY MIND

TO DO LIST, APPOINTMENTS & PROJECTS

THIS WEEK’S TO DO LIST, PROJECTS & APPOINTMENTS

LAUNDRY & CLEANING ~ cleaning is underway and laundry is done, at least until we take our clothes off later 😀 GROCERIES & ERRANDS Hubs has an appointment in town today and will do our shopping as well as the OFFYCE shopping RECIPE RESEARCH & MENU PLANNING I have the next 2 weeks planned

DVR/TV TIME

WHAT’S ON THE DVR/TV

STREAMING ~ still working on cleaning out the DVR CABLE ~ Kids Baking Championship, Next Level Chef, Tournament of Champions, The Way Home, When Calls the Heart…

READING TIME

I finished PICTURES OF YOU by Emma Grey last week and started THE BOYFRIEND by Frieda McFadden for book Club, but really want to start RUN, ROSE, RUN by James Patterson and Dolly Parton as well as so many more titles, so may be dropping book club 🙁 to read on my own.

FUNNIES

MENU PLANS

BREAKFAST is always a work in progress for me – it will generally be hot water and a fruit yogurt 😀

	2/24 MONDAY	2/25 TUESDAY	2/26 WEDNESDAY	2/27 THURSDAY	2/28 FRIDAY	3/1 SATURDAY	3/2 SUNDAY
DINNER	CHICKEN TETRAZZINI and a fresh batch of SWEET BBQ SAUCE	PASTEL AZTECA	PIGEON RIVER CHICKEN	BAKED MANICOTTI with MEAT SAUCE	cooking at EAGLES QUESADILLAS with MEXICAN CORN SALAD and MEXICAN ROSETTE CHURROS	CHICKEN SALTIMBOCCA	HUBBY’S BIRTHDAY HIS CHOICE
BREAKFAST						CANADIAN BACON ONION QUICHE

FAVORITE PHOTOS FROM THE CAMERA

This happened last year also. Spring blooms thinking it’s time only to be beaten back down by cold, rain, wind and/or snow 🙁

INSPIRATIONS

LIFE TIP

HOMEMAKING / COOKING TIP

RECIPES COMING UP THIS WEEK

• EARTHQUAKE CAKE
  
• BEAN & BBQ BEEF STEW
  
• HALUSKI aka POLISH COLESLAW
  

RECIPE LINKS FROM LAST WEEK

• PORK CHOPS IN CREAMY GARLIC SAUCE
  
• SODA SAUCE PORK LOIN & CREAMY CARROT CASSEROLE
  

WEEKLY FEATURED PARTY LINKS

• BACON CHEESEBURGER BALLS
• PEASANT STEW
• BAKED SWEET CORN
  

Be sure to join Happy Homemaker Monday with our host, Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom

LAST WEEK RECAPPED

WHEW! The last 2 weeks have been a constant blur!!! I finished the last “PLANNED” event on Friday night only to have a monkey wrench thrown into the rest of the month. Saturday was spent doing laundry and house chores as well as a lot of recipe sorting. I’m hoping to finish sorting through the tote I’ve been working on so I can make a “quarterly” menu plan and eliminate a bunch of scrap paper. Sunday was supposed to be a “slow” day at home watching racing and being lazy, but ended up being gone to lunch with friends and then several hours of Eagle’s chores. I’m looking forward to staying home today and getting caught up on what I didn’t get done yesterday.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

THE WEATHER OUTSIDE

It’s going to be a super wet week and still quite cool with highs in the low 40’s. I’ll be doing layers upon layers with turtlenecks and flannels with Levis & UGGs.

ON MY MIND

So many people are anxious to “join” organizations, but I have noticed that so many are NOT willing to put the effort into sustaining them. We have had a HUGE influx of members because of our Tuesday line dancing night, but that’s the extent of their involvement.  There was a “VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION” night with Italian bakes and dessert last Friday, but when all was said and done I observed that the people that participated in the bakes and desserts, set-up, break down and clean-up were the same volunteers being “celebrated”. Volunteers ate for free, all others it was a $10 all you can eat night and we did raise almost $500 for charity, but it seemed quite a bit of work and so so lopsided. 🙁

I had been asked to take over Friday night dinner coordination in June when the current lady was not going to renew her membership because of commitments elsewhere, but was a bit surprised when she announced it at the last meeting and that it would begin March 1st. And then to top it off the woman doing February 28th and canceled on Saturday so I’m hitting the ground running scrambling from the git go. 🙂 I do have some hopefully fresh ideas to generate more participation and support, so we’ll see.

TO DO LIST, APPOINTMENTS & PROJECTS

THIS WEEK’S TO DO LIST, PROJECTS & APPOINTMENTS

LAUNDRY & CLEANING ALL caught up fortunately! GROCERIES & ERRANDS Just a few things that I’ll pick up on Wednesday when we do the Eagle’s shopping. RECIPE RESEARCH & MENU PLANNING February is done and March is in the works. After that I’m trying to do “quarterly” plans to make life easier.

DVR/TV TIME

WHAT’S ON THE DVR/TV

STREAMING We have just a few episodes of BONES left from our binge watch and will then switch over to finish CROSSING JORDAN. CABLE Trying to catch up on the DVR and TOURNAMENT of CHAMPIONS started last night.

READING TIME

I should finish PICTURES OF YOU tonight. Book Club picked a new book because most people found it “BORING” and called it a DNF (do not finish and I have never NOT finished a book) book which only tells me I’m not well fitted with this group that prefer psychological thrillers.

Most of those that found it boring gave up by page 20, which I find alarming as the book has 350 pages so they really didn’t give it a chance. 

Two other friends are liking as much as I do and we have all vowed to finish it. One has finished it and declared it is definitely a book to finish.

FUNNIES

MENU PLANS

BREAKFAST is always a work in progress for me – it will generally be hot water and a fruit yogurt 😀

	2/17 MONDAY	2/18 TUESDAY	2/19 WEDNESDAY	2/20 THURSDAY	2/21 FRIDAY	2/22 SATURDAY	2/23 SUNDAY
DINNER	SALSA VERDE CHICKEN CASSEROLE	FIREHOUSE SPECIAL	CORNED BEEF HASH ~ DINNER STYLE	PORK CHOPS, MASHED POTATOES and MILK GRAVY with COUNTRY DRESSING	CREOLE HALIBUT	CORNED BEEF SAUERKRAUT BAKE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ HONEY ORANGE COTTAGE CHEESE PANCAKES (breakfast)	LIME GLAZED PORK CHOPS with COUNTRY DRESSING ~~~~~~~~ OVERNIGHT HAM& EGG CASSEROLE (BREAKFAST)
DESSERT		WACKY CAKE

FAVORITE PHOTOS FROM THE CAMERA

I borrowed some chafing dishes from a friend (she had owned our favorite deli – Nellie’s Deli but retired last July) and she brought me these sweet treats along with the chafing dishes! How sweet is that? And this was the sky over the pond after the event Friday night.

INSPIRATIONS

LIFE TIP

HOMEMAKING / COOKING TIP

RECIPES COMING UP THIS WEEK

• SODA SAUCE PORK LOIN & MASHED CARROTS
  
• PORK CHOPS in CREAMY GARLIC SPINACH SAUCE
  

RECIPE LINKS FROM LAST WEEK

• CHICKEN CABBAGE STEW
  
• BAKED SWEET CORN DIP
  

WEEKLY FEATURED PARTY LINKS

• APPLE WALNUT CAKE with CARAMEL GLAZE
  
• PINEAPPLE RAISIN TAMALES
  
• FIRECRACKER PORK CHOPS