aKathy's What's for Dinner 6/21

Welcome back, scrapmaven . I'm glad y'all had fun. Enjoy family time this weekend!

Dinner will be pork chops with baked yams.

TGIF!!

Day 3 –The Golden Circle of Iceland Part 1

First we headed to Thingvillir National Park where there is an open-air governmental assembly that was established in 930 and continued until 1798. The entire area was amazing and history of The Mid Atlantic ridge runs through this area  where tectonic plates are moving in opposite direction. Sometimes our guide didn’t speak English well enough to explain things but the beauty was fascinating.

Anyway, there were fissures and we had fun taking pictures with them.




You can tell it was cold because everyone was bundled up!


Then we took a group picture before hiking along a wall of lava that was formed centuries ago. I am where the red line is and DH is way in the back by the blue line.




To be continued tomorrow with our walk along this incredible walkway to a waterfall.

More great pictures, cadoodlebug. You are giving me wanderlust.

I’m happy your trip was relaxing scrapmaven. Time with family is even better.

I’m not going to my mom’s this weekend. She refuses to use air conditioning and I’m not a masochist. My siblings will have to do the heavy lifting of doing her bidding. 😊

I’m going to do some yard work interspersed with inside chores to keep from combusting in the heat and humidity here. Big excitement could be a trip to Home Depot for more mulch. I’d post pictures but they might interfere with everyone’s enjoyment of Cadoodlebug’s pics!

Dinner will be something light because heat kills my appetite. I’m definitely ready for some cooler days.

We’re having pork chops, broccoli, salad and egg noodles for dinner here.

I went out this morning for blood work because my doctor discovered “you’re 62 now!” Ha ha! Hoping my numbers are good!

Glad you enjoyed your getaway scrapmaven. Loving your vacation photos cadoodlebug!

You look so cute inside the fissure.

I wonder why you can't? I post them from my computer.



Welcome to Louisiana! My high school wasn't air conditioned and it was really hot. But, you know as youngsters, we didn't feel the heat like we do when we're older.


I wouldn't do it at first because it was so uneven in there. Getting in and sitting down was not easy ~ I just knew I was going to twist my ankle!



That's a tough one. Each country had different things to offer. Silly as it sounds, the two overnight ferries were wonderful. Perhaps because it gave us some down time and we were so relaxed. I think of all the countries, Norway was our favorite.

Happy 2nd Friday! (Due to Juneteenth for me)

I was up early to take my mom to a procedure for her back. She was supposed to be anesthetized but had to drink some OJ this morning for a diabetic low so they ended up doing it with a local anesthetic. She's a trooper though and I was back home to start work at 9am. I just took a nap during my lunch hour because I had to be up at 5:30 and I was dragging.

Dinner tonight will probably be pesto ravioli unless I can talk someone into going out. I'm tired of cooking and want to be pampered

Hope you all have a great day!

I was eligible for a senior discount at the Seuss museum last week! It was actually $8.50 off of a $25 fee which I thought was great!! The museum was wonderful!

That would have been a super cool trip.  I would totally have enjoyed that. 

Hi all! TGIF!

I've been working on pulling together all of my evaluations for sessions and speakers today, and will then probably take the last hour of the work day to tackle some refunds. Fortunately, I already had my evaluation calculator set up, so all I have to do is filter by questions and responses and plug in numbers. I have way too much fun with Excel, but it certainly makes this task much faster! The only thing that annoys me is when I see comments that say things like, "See above" since I'm not going to hunt through thousands of responses to see what was said above. But I digress.

Hope you all have a great weekend!

Good evening all, A late check in for me today!
I had a relatively quiet morning - mainly checking in with family. DS says his MiL is ‘no change, really’ so it’s still wait and see there. My dad let us know that my stepmom had a fall and has injured her shoulder, so he had called an ambulance for her. As they both currently have Covid, he couldn’t go with her and she is in isolation at the hospital. After hours of waiting, she finally had a scan on the shoulder at 4:30am, about 14 hours after she was taken to hospital. She’s obviously in overnight at least and dad didn’t have results when I last heard from him. After she was so sick back in January, this is a big setback in her health, so I am really worried for her.

This afternoon I met a work colleague for coffee and we had a nice chat. Yesterday, when I told DH I was going to this particular mall and could get fish there for dinner, asked if they would also cook it for him. I took this as a hint and called our local Greek restaurant for a reservation. We are just home after a lovely meal - prawn saganaki, grilled fish and baby calamari with salad, then Greek desserts, finished off with a shot of ouzo.

Tomorrow I have a pottery class, which is part two of the voucher DH bought me for Christmas. I have never done anything like this, so I am looking forward to it. 

I really hope your stepmom is alright sueg COVID and a fall too are serious.

Enjoy your pottery class! I'm envious....ahh....someday...

I know that pain but by the 3rd day I felt pretty good.  Tired but ok. Hope he starts to feel better

Have fun Marina!