aKathy's What's for Dinner 5/17

I have some laundry to do tonight so I can pack in the morning. I also want to work on some ribbon curls for the flowers we are going to put at the cemetery for Mom and Dad's "drawer" and our grandparents "drawer". If I don't get to it, I will bring the supplies and work on it in the hotel room.  

Electrician is coming today to get the bathroom lighting, switches, and fan wiring set so that will be ready for when we drywall the ceiling and walls.
But the tub has to come out first...I think SO will work on that while I am gone.  Hopefully!  He may have a couple of rain days next week to work on it too.

I think Monday I will go to the nursery to but my flowers for my pots.  I did not want to go last weekend, too busy.  I am hoping Monday will be nice and quiet.

I'm off today because it is an non-instructional day at the schools so teachers have to be there but not students ... so no subs!    

I'm going to do some laundry today and pick up a few groceries ... just enough for dinner because it is raining all day today and I don't want to be out in it!     .  I'll do a decent shop tomorrow ...

My Mum is coming over for dinner so I'll speak to her soon and see what she would like   

After living through six months of a home renovation, I don't envy you scrapmaven and scrappert ... but living in the result is alway so nice!

Back home from After School Care. Being that it was the last day before a 2 week school break, the children were remarkably well behaved. It helped that we started out with 8 kids not there - some sick, one never comes on Friday and a few just went home straight after school, possibly as their family was heading out early on vacation. One colleague and I came up with a spontaneous craft activity after lunch - we found some pretty origami paper in our stash, showed them a couple of things, then let them go!
On my way to school, I stopped off in the city at the large open-air food market. There is a really good fish shop there and the sell a lovely 'fish mix' - the list it as a fish soup mix, but I buy it for fish pie or paella. It has salmon, white fish, baby calamari and prawns. Once I got to school, it went into the fridge in the kitchen we use - I set a couple of reminders to go it it before I left.

It's a long weekend here, even for those not in school. It is possible we'll go to the garden centre tomorrow after we do our weekly grocery shop. We normall plant a lot of herbs and a tomato plant or two.

Dinner tonight is Paella. Not sure when to expect DH home; I might get everything ready soon so I can cook once he's here.

This was exactly my thought. 

Another rainy day here. Mother Nature is not cooperating with my need to get the backyard dried up.

Walker presented us with a dead squirrel at the back door this morning when DH let him out for his morning break. We aren’t sure whether he killed the squirrel or if it was already dead in the yard and he claimed it as his own.

Today is grandboy #3’s seventh birthday. He asked me for a pet snake! Instead I filled a diaper box with candy - bags of sour keys, ju jubes, licorice, Tootsie Pops, gum, his favourite drinks, chips, Freezies, etc - lots and lots of junk but figured that was better than a snake!

Not sure about supper yet. The local restaurant is having a burger/fries special so maybe…

so I did my marathon drive from san francisco to north of seattle. lots of cops.. smooth driving. got to the mukilteo ferry dock at 9:20 pm.. thought there was a 9:30--nope a 10 pm ferry. missed that by 3 cars... so took the 11 pm ferry and got here at 11:45 pm. up early with the light. ran down to the store and got coffee and breakfast.

lock guy coming in 30 min to change locks on mother in law's house. then I am taking shower, then back down to "town" to get more moving boxes. pack up some pots to send my son, start packing and repacking other stuff. we are going to clean out house for good this week and then it will be sold. I am packing my car for the drive back. dh is flying up monday.. he has a lot of lawyer stuff to do.

for dinner.. I have a salad I brought with me. and some fruit. nice weather out. I will miss the eagle that nests right next to the house.

Sorry, scrapmaven, that was a typo. It was a snake he asked for, not a rat!

Not sure what is for dinner today. Scrapmaven, we buy our basil plant at Costco then re-pot it into another one under our eavestrough. Then we sell the empty basil pot at four or five dollars.

Getting ready to go to bed. The overnight ferry was great fun and now we're in a nice hotel in Copenhagen. 9 of us went to a fabulous Italian restaurant. I'm beat. More tomorrow as it's a few day!

Happy Friday!  Houston pea checking in to say we survived the storm last night!  Currently sitting in a favorite restaurant for late lunch and WIFI.  First time on the internet since yesterday afternoon. 

 No power still, no cell service in our area, which has turned out to be one of the hardest hit.  May be next week before we have power.  Parts of downtown look like a war zone.   Our neighborhood looks like Hurricane Ike 2.0 came through.  The winds were the same strength/type.  We were very lucky in that the neighbor’s ash tree dropped 2 huge limbs right between our garage and house.  Missed both by mere inches!  Many neighbors weren’t so fortunate.  We hired a neighbor’s crew to chop them up so DH could get his car out of the garage.  

Dinner tonight will be what we can eat from the fridge.   DH went out and found dry ice so several chunks are in both the fridge and freezer and it is working very well.  We have a gas stove so I can warm things there.  Hope everyone has had a Good Friday and great weekend plans!

Our Costco doesn’t have basil plants. I’ve bought multiple ones from the garden store.

scrapmaven how’s your cat scratch?