Tag: FOOD FOR THOUGHT
HAPPY HOMEMAKER MONDAY & RECIPE LINKS week 27 of 2024 ~ BLOG 366.183
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WEEKEND RECAP
This was supposed to be super brief as we are still away having a fabulous time on the coast with beautiful weather, at least weather we like – cool, cloudy, 60’s, breezy… Thanks to a dear friend we had the opportunity to spend several carefree days in the coastal resort community of Ocean Shores. But, I couldn’t sleep and was ups so early I found quite a bit to say.
We left last Thursday after my eye doctor appointment to avoid the Friday traffic. Well, that didn’t work. Between construction and just way too many people, traffic was still a nightmare, just not as bad as it would have been on Friday. We ended up in a cute little and colorful town for the night.
Friday we trekked down to Cape Disappointment that has 2 light houses and seriously earned its name for more reasons than the internet will tell you. 😀 We then crossed one of our favorite bridges to Astoria, home of the Goonies where we visited a favorite antique store, but didn’t buy anything for a change and had a fabulous late lunch/dinner at Astoria Brewing Company before checking in at Ocean Shores. Such a beautiful place and what a view! We also had a momma deer and her fawn that spent the evenings in front of our balcony.
Saturday we spent at the Sand & Sawdust festival followed by a little antiquing in junk stores and then beach combing in the afternoon at low tide. We found odd things to buy this trip like a vintage pair of pinking shears that hubby is going to oil for me and 3 OLD knobs for a set of drawers I already have as well as an OLD rusty hand saw that hubby will clean up for me so I can paint it for a Christmas tree. I LOVE the new architectural salvage company we found.
Sunday found us having our coffee with having a bit of a storm and turbulent waves that sounded glorious by the fireplace while we had the sliding door open. The weather was such that we were certainly glad we had opted for indoor activities which included a coastal drive where we encountered an odd “new” (built in 2005) little town, Sea Brook, that is a planned community resembling Pleasantville or home of the Stepford Wives or maybe the Truman Show or even the fictional town of Stars Hollows from the Gilmore Girls in a location previously abandoned by the navy after WWII and left off maps for years as well as a visit to make a deposit at the local casino for a friend LOL. Here’s an article that really spells out that odd little town. We also had brunch/lunch at a fun little spot called, Brunch 101. Oh my was the food awesome. This was half of an amazing chicken and biscuits Benedict that hubby and I shared. But I LOVE their motto! “Brunch without mimosas is just a sad late breakfast”!
Unfortunately, today we will be saying goodbye to Ocean Shores and heading homeward, but will stop somewhere tonight near a few towns we like that have some great antiquing.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
Can you believe it’s July already? It seems like the days are running on double time. I’m not ready for July!!!!! For heaven’s sake it’s only 177 days until Christmas!!!!
THE WEATHER OUTSIDE
The weather is glorious here, but will get warmer and warmer as we trek towards home. I see at home we will finally and consistently reach the 80’s this week, so I’ll enjoy the 50’s-60’s here as long as I can.
TO DO LIST, APPOINTMENTS & PROJECTS
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THIS WEEK’S TO DO LIST, PROJECTS & APPOINTMENTS
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DVR/TV TIME
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WHAT’S ON THE DVR/TV
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READING TIME
I’m about two thirds through Phillipa Nefri Clark’s House at Angel’s Beach. I decided to wait on the The Memory Thief until we get back – just seemed too heavy for a vacation read.
FUNNIES
MENU PLANS
BREAKFAST is always a work in progress for me – it will generally be hot water and a fruit yogurt 😀
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7/1 MONDAY
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7/2 TUESDAY
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7/3 WEDNESDAY
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7/4 THURSDAY
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7/5 FRIDAY
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7/6 SATURDAY
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7/7 SUNDAY
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DINNER
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OUT
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TACO TUESDAY
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MEATLOAF & SAUER POTATOES
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HOBO PACKS on the GRILL
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CRIBBAGE TOURNAMENT CORN/YOYO
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CRIBBAGE TOURNAMENT CORN/YOYO
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DESSERT
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BUTTER BISCUIT CHERRY COBBLER
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FAVORITE PHOTOS FROM THE CAMERA
This is a wide open category this week and if you have been following me on Facebook or Instagram you know I’m really behind in posting pictures 😀 so I’ll just give a couple of the highlights from this weekend – A couple of sunsets from our balcony, a foggy rainy landscape, Irwin the friendly raccoon who was living in the boulders I was crawling on to get a lighthouse picture, the town hall from the cute little town of Sea Brook.
INSPIRATIONS
LIFE TIP
HOMEMAKING / COOKING TIP
RECIPE LINKS FROM LAST WEEK
WEEKLY FEATURED PARTY LINKS
HAPPY HOMEMAKER MONDAY & RECIPE LINKS week 26 of 2024 ~ BLOG 366.176
Be sure to join us for Happy Homemaker Monday and link up with our host, Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom
WEEKEND RECAP
After working so much and doing the auxiliary dinner at the Eagles last Friday we went for a lazy weekend. We visited a few garage sales. I cleaned and did some laundry, read a little, worked on menus and recipes, but nothing strenuous or that used a lot of brain power.
OH MY, it really just hit me that we are almost literally 1/2 way through the year!!! Can you believe there are only 191 days left in this entire year of 366 days!! Or in realer terms, Christmas Eve is 6 months from today. 😀
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
THE WEATHER OUTSIDE
Lows in the 50’s here and highs in the 70’s here at home. We’re going north to the coast though for the end of the week and it’s supposed to be in the low 60’s during the day and low 50’s at night so no complaints here!
TO DO LIST, APPOINTMENTS & PROJECTS
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THIS WEEK’S TO DO LIST, PROJECTS & APPOINTMENTS
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DVR/TV TIME
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WHAT’S ON THE DVR/TV
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READING TIME
I finished Marie Force’s State of Suspense last night and will start Emily Conlin’s The Memory Thief tonight.
FUNNIES
MENU PLANS
BREAKFAST is always a work in progress for me – it will generally be hot water and a fruit yogurt 😀 With leaving on Thursday for a short trip it’s a pretty basic menu this week.
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6/24 MONDAY
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6/25 TUESDAY
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6/26 WEDNESDAY
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6/27 THURSDAY
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6/28 FRIDAY
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6/29 SATURDAY
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6/30 SUNDAY
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DINNER
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GREEN CHILE BEEF CALDILLO and REFRIED BEANS
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CAJUN CABBAGE and SALAD
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CORN/YOYO clean out refrigerator or your on your own 😀
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OOT
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OOT
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OOT
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DESSERT
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FAVORITE PHOTOS FROM THE CAMERA
I’ve been cat/house sitting since Thursday for a neighbor. KitKat and I had a great time together. My English Lavender and Calla Lillies are looking absolutely gorgeous this week. The bees LOVE them! I have rarely seen a spotted cucumber beetle, let alone get a picture of one. They are considered BIG pests, but are so unique looking. And my Clematis are looking really nice also with HUGE purple blossoms.
INSPIRATIONS
LIFE TIP
HOMEMAKING / COOKING TIP
RECIPE LINKS FROM LAST WEEK
WEEKLY FEATURED PARTY LINKS
HAPPY HOMEMAKER MONDAY & RECIPE LINKS week 25 of 2024 ~ BLOG 366.169
WEEKEND RECAP
Friday night we were supposed to go to a local winery, Joseph Jane (who has one of my all time favorites, Pink Panik) to meet friends for wine slushies and brick fired pizzas, but they bailed so we did too and will try again in a few weeks after we get back from our trip. Then on Saturday the temperature dropped A LOT! (high was 55°) and it rained off and on so I got the baking done for the Eagles event, researched some recipes and planned our upcoming trip. I actually pulled out a hoodie and then yesterday was Father’s Day and hubby got to choose everything 😀 which did NOT include the father’s day event at the Eagles this year, but I did make a pan of pecan pie bars for them to have. Hubby decided he wanted to exploring so we went down to the river as we hadn’t been there much since the Archie fire a few years ago and ordered our favorite sub sandwiches (the FLY FISHERMAN and the SWIFT WATER SUB) from a favorite little hole in the wall trading post on the way home.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
THE WEATHER OUTSIDE
Whenever I read the title for this section a Christmas song pops into my head! “The weather outside is frightful”…, but in reality it is the BEST time of the year weather wise, at least in my neck of the woods. I absolutely LOVE this time of year when the weather is just about as perfect as possible.
Temperatures are mostly in the 70’s during the day, but still getting down into the low 50’s at night… ABSOLUTELY my PERFECT weather. BTW since I brought it up, it’s time to start those summer Christmas projects so they’re done in time!
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ON MY MIND
I’m making a list of all the things I have been putting on the back burner and trying really hard to get back to my organized self! My biggest need is blocking out section of time to make this happen. July seems to be the time this will happen after my obligations are done at the Eagles and we have gotten back from our trip.
TO DO LIST, APPOINTMENTS & PROJECTS
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THIS WEEK’S TO DO LIST, PROJECTS & APPOINTMENTS
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DVR/TV TIME
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WHAT’S ON THE DVR/TV
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We watched a wide and varied range of things this past week, EVERYTHING FROM DISNEY+ Marvel movies (MOBIUS and LOGAN) to old classics like CHARADE with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn and Jimmy Stewart in ROPE by Alfred Hitchcock. I also watched quite a few cooking shows – GUY’S ROAD TRIP, MASTER CHEF, MARY MAKES IT EASY |
READING TIME
I finished Jana DeLeon’s Baskets and Beignets so am down to 2 books which is more manageable as I seem to binge read anyway – Marie Force’s State of Suspense and Philippa Nefri Clark’s The House at Angel’s Beach.
FUNNIES
MENU PLANS
BREAKFAST is always a work in progress for me – it will generally be hot water and a fruit yogurt 😀
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6/17 MONDAY
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6/18 TUESDAY
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6/19 WEDNESDAY
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6/20 THURSDAY
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6/21 FRIDAY
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6/22 SATURDAY
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6/23 SUNDAY
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DINNER
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TERIYAKI CHICKEN MEATBALLS with RICE NOODLES
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BEEF TIPS IN BALSAMIC SAUCE over GREEN BEANS
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CARIBBEAN CHICKEN with PINEAPPLE SALSA
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SALISBURY STEAK, SAUER MASHED POTATOES & GLAZED CARROTS
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YAY!!! LAST CHEF NIGHT AT THE EAGLES!!
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FIRECRACKER CHICKEN with CRISPY PARMESAN POTATOES
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PULLED PORK ROLLS & SALAD |
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DESSERT
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CHOCOLATE CHERRY DOODLES
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FAVORITE PHOTOS FROM THE CAMERA
Friday afternoon was absolutely beautiful! We had an absolutely gorgeous and unusual double halo rainbow around the sun. From what I read this usually indicates that it is caused by ice crystals when the sun or moon refracts off them in a thin veil of cirrus clouds. It also said snow or ice is coming. We didn’t get either, but did get a severe drop in temperature and rain 🤣
Trees and the landscape are FINALLY trying to grow back after the devastating Archie Fire a few years back.
INSPIRATIONS
LIFE TIP
HOMEMAKING / COOKING TIP
RECIPE LINKS FROM LAST WEEK
WEEKLY FEATURED PARTY LINKS
SILENT SUNDAY ~ BLOG 366.168
HAPPY HOMEMAKER MONDAY & RECIPE LINKS week 24 of 2024 ~ BLOG 366.162
GOOD MORNING dear friends. Summer is quickly approaching and I still have so much I want to do for spring! The weather has FINALLY turned nice here on a consistent basis and I have FINALLY packed away the flannels and jackets. Though I do have a sweatshirt in the car for those places that are now cranking the air conditioning so high it’s like a meat locker.
Highs in the mid 70’s with lows in the mid 40’s – my FAVORITE combination of temperatures! So today will be my most comfy levis, a plaid blouse and flip flops.
I’m adapting a new attitude and trying extremely hard to NOT to let the idiots, blowhards and the like affect me. The “changing of the guard” is going to be hard for me to adapt to at the Eagles. Those few “in charge” as of June are either repeats from the past with serious egos and attitudes that aren’t good leaders or they tend to drink too much and spout off orders and rude comments to people or they have zero idea what it’s all about. Worse yet are the ones who were talked into filling a vacancy so we can keep the doors open, yet they aren’t either qualified to fill the slot, too easy to be pushed around by the blowhards or they don’t know how much work it will be and here we sit waiting for it to all fall apart, because it has before with these same people in charge. I am prepared to turn in my duties and find new avenues to donate my time. A couple friends and I had “bets” on when the first would fall. I wish we’d actually bet money. My bet was for 1 week and the first of the five resigned last night. 🙁 Sad, but true.
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THIS WEEK’S TO DO LIST, PROJECTS & APPOINTMENTS
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WHAT’S ON THE DVR/TV
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I went from not reading at all to having 3 books at once going. I’m reading Marie Force’s State of Suspense, Jana DeLeon’s Baskets and Beignets as well as Philippa Nefri Clark’s The House at Angel’s Beach.
BREAKFAST is always a work in progress for me – it will generally be hot water and a fruit yogurt 😀
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MONDAY
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TUESDAY
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WEDNESDAY
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THURSDAY
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FRIDAY
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SATURDAY
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SUNDAY
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DINNER
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CHICKEN CAESAR PASTA SALAD
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PERUVIAN CHICKEN with SALT & VINEGAR POTATO SALAD
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GRILLED CHICKEN PEACH SALAD
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CORN/YOYO CLEAN OUT REFRIGERATOR or YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN
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OUT
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STRAWBERRY JALAPENO CHICKEN with SALAD
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BRUSCHETTA GRILLED CHICKEN and SALAD |
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DESSERT
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PECAN BARS
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HAPPY HOMEMAKER MONDAY & RECIPE LINKS week 23 of 2024 ~ BLOG 366.155
GOOD MORNING! Can you believe we are in June already? This year is zooming by! There is so much I had hope to have already accomplished by this time, yet here we are almost to summer and I haven’t. For me, it was our lack of a real spring this year and the “extended” wintertime that seems to be holding me back. 😂 At least that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.🤣 I do have the garden beds planted FINALLY! and yesterday’s rain seems to be helping them settle in quite nicely.
We had quite a bit of rain yesterday and a much cooler temperature. Today is supposed cooler still (than normal), but at least sunny and then we should be getting much warmer by the end of the week. Spring temperatures are FINALLY here. I’m still carrying a light sweatshirt in the car at all times because it takes all day to get to the warmer temperatures 😂
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THIS WEEK’S TO DO LIST, PROJECTS & APPOINTMENTS
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WHAT’S ON THE DVR/TV
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After a couple of weeks of audio books I’m having a tough time getting back into reading 🙁
BREAKFAST is always a work in progress for me – it will generally be hot water and a fruit yogurt 😀
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WEDNESDAY
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THURSDAY
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FRIDAY
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SUNDAY
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DINNER
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BBQ BEEF PATTIES & ASPARAGUS RICE
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SOUR CREAM PORK CHOPS & CORN TAMALITOS with GREEN BEANS
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ORANGE TERIYAKI CHICKEN
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HONEY THYME PORK TENDERLOIN
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YOYO CORN your’re on your own or clean out refrigerator night
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BALSAMIC HERB CHICKEN and PARMESAN MASHED POTATOES
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JAMBALAYA & SALAD |
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DESSERT
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PECAN BARS
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We took a walk around the pond the other day and I found that the blackberries are starting to bloom. Hopefully they’ll be on time this year for the festival in August.
There is a neighbor who spearheaded a grant program to “build up” the pond. Unfortunately, most of us don’t share his vision. There are tons of construction changes (paving walkways where there used to be a well used path, tearing out the trees that lined the south side of the pond, adding pavilions and tons of concrete…) and upgrades going on that are disrupting the local neighborhood peace. Many of the animals aren’t happy either. The 9-10 swans that were living on the island are gone, literally just vanished, many of the birds are no where to be seen, we haven’t heard the frogs this year, the beavers that built this dam have lost most of their trees and vegetation in the area…
SILENT SUNDAY ~ BLOG 366.140
SATURDAY COFFEE ~ BLOG 366.139
HAPPY HOMEMAKER MONDAY with MENU PLANS & RECIPE LINKS week 19 of 2024 ~ BLOG 366.127
We were at 48° yesterday with wind and off and on rain despite no rain in the forecast and are supposed to be at 55° with rain today. But by Friday we’re supposed to be up to 87° and sunny for 2 days! This weather is completely crazy everywhere. I am hoping it has leveled out by the time we get back from the family reunion and that spring will finally make an appearance. I’m having enough trouble believing we’re in May already. I’m not ready to go from winter to summer, but am ready to pack away the flannels for awhile. I want some spring!
I’m not going to get into specifics, but could use everyone’s prayers for some health issues my mom is going through.
I can’t believe were already a week into May let alone that there are only 232 days until Christmas. Life is passing by all too quickly. I want to make changes to my life to allow me to slow down and enjoy it more.
I’m still all about helping where and when I can, but I will be more selective about it. I was asked last minute to fill in for the kitchen at the Eagles Band Night Saturday for a man who was scheduled to work and had to deal with a family emergency so of course I said yes. Long story short he told one person in charge it was a family emergency and another that it was counseling with his wife. He then proceeded to show up as a guest and danced the night away. Twice earlier this same week I had already had clean up the kitchen he’d left dirty so needless to say I was a bit miffed at the audacity to lie to 2 different people in charge and then act like he did. He didn’t even thank me for filling in for him! People like that just kick the nice right out of me 🙁
I had already talked to a few other people about helping on some other community projects (that are non-Eagle) related for after we get back from the family reunion. I’m going to accept their offers and jump in to help in other areas.
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THIS WEEK’S TO DO LIST, PROJECTS & APPOINTMENTS
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WHAT’S ON THE DVR/TV
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I’ve been exhausted while falling asleep, but I’m still on Fannie Flagg’s I Still Dream About You.
BREAKFAST is always a work in progress for me – it will generally be hot water and a fruit yogurt 😀
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5/6 MONDAY
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5/7 TUESDAY
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5/8 WEDNESDAY
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5/9 THURSDAY
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5/10 FRIDAY
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5/11 SATURDAY
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5/12 SUNDAY
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DINNER
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SEAFOOD SALAD & PARMESAN ROLLS
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CHICKEN WRAPS & PEA SALAD
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POT ROAST & NOODLES
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CORN clean out refrigerator night
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OUT
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ON THE ROAD
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SIL’s CHOICE |
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DESSERT
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This is the first MAY POLE I’ve seen since I was kid and we did it in grade school one year. I am impressed with the creative ingenuity of using the basketball pole.
