Category: JANE LEE LOGAN
SILENT SUNDAY ~ BLOG 366.238
HAPPY HOMEMAKER MONDAY, MENUS, RECIPE LINKS week 33 of 2024 ~ BLOG 366.232
Be sure to join Happy Homemaker Monday with our host, Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom
WEEKEND RECAP
The Eagle’s Madam President dinner was a HUGE success! I have given up MANY of my day to day operational, maintenance and support duties because of the new board and their inability to follow rules and guidelines in the best interest of others, but I still support my sisters when and where I can with my cooking and baking. A friend asked me to bake her desserts for her fundraising dinner functions that occurred on National Lemon Meringue day and on the eve of our local Blackberry festival so I made her lemon blueberry scones, cherry lemon scones and blackberry pie bars. She made a fantastic dinner and had a dessert bar with one of the largest turnouts ever!
Hubby and I planned on being at the Show and Shine first thing Saturday morning because we were going to be under a red flag warning later in the day for dry lightning strikes. Well mother nature had other ideas! The coffee had just finished brewing when the power went out. Long story short a lightning strike took out a transformer transmission pole for several small towns. I took a shower by candlelight and then we still went to the Festival which fortunately was in an area unaffected by the power outage. Afterwards we went and had breakfast with a friend and the power was back on just as we got home. The serious rain began an hour or so later and the lightning storm continued throughout the evening.
I was able to get the tomatoes picked and garden cleaned up before the rain began and spent the day making my kitchen sink (clean out the veggie crisper) bolegnese sauce with the tomatoes I picked.
Sunday was planned to be almost as lazy. And then we changed our mind. 😀 It was our anniversary and the restaurants (there are only 2) that we had to choose from for a nice dinner out are now closed on Sundays so we decided to go out tonight instead and head to the coast yesterday which was a GREAT choice for us until it wasn’t LOL traffic to and from the coast was heavy so we changed our mind again and went back to the lazy Sunday idea and had a late breakfast/lunch at a local haunt that runs wonderful specials for the Blackberry festival.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
THE WEATHER OUTSIDE
This week is going to be pretty nice with highs in the low 80’s and lows in the low 50’s. I really hope this means fall is right around the corner. It’s only 3 weeks to the ‘BER’ months and I am ready!!! Please no Indian Summer this year!
TO DO LIST, APPOINTMENTS & PROJECTS
THIS WEEK’S TO DO LIST, PROJECTS & APPOINTMENTS
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DVR/TV TIME
WHAT’S ON THE DVR/TV
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READING TIME
I’m reading Gill Paul’s
FUNNIES
MENU PLANS
BREAKFAST is always a work in progress for me – it will generally be hot water and a fruit yogurt 😀
8/19 MONDAY
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8/20 TUESDAY
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8/21 WEDNESDAY
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8/22 THURSDAY
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8/23 FRIDAY
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8/24 SATURDAY
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8/25 SUNDAY
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DINNER
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OUT for our anniversary since everywhere we wanted to go last night was actually closed 🙁
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PORK CHOPS with PINEAPPLE RELISH, RICE & SALAD
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CHERRY COLA BBQ CHICKEN and COLE SLAW
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SPINACH SALAD with WARM BACON VINAIGRETTE
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CORN/YOYO clean out refrigerator night or you’re on your own
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LEMON CHICKEN, HONEY GLAZED SNAP PEAS and ROAST POTATOES
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CHICKEN TAMALE PIE |
DESSERT
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BLACKBERRY PIE BARS
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FAVORITE PHOTOS FROM THE CAMERA
This past weekend was our annual Blackberry festival – always a fun time with a show and shine classic car show, movie in the park (AMERICAN GRAFFITI), favorite craft and food vendors, a chili cook-off and lots of homemade blackberry goodies of every kind. Saturday did bring rain, thunderstorms, red flag warnings for lightning and a little bit of humid heat.
INSPIRATIONS
LIFE TIP
HOMEMAKING / COOKING TIP
RECIPE LINKS FROM LAST WEEK
- STUFFED BANANA PEPPERS
- SPICED APPLE SALAD
- LEMONY BRAISED CHICKEN THIGHS with CARROTS, LEEKS, ONIONS & POTATOES
WEEKLY FEATURED PARTY LINKS