AKathy's "What's For Dinner?" 7/18

Haha cadoodlebug! I stole that meme and posted it on Jeremy Facebook. He's a semi truck driver and I still can't shut my mouth over his driving. 🤣😂

I'm thinking I will have fajitas for dinner tonight.

Work has kept me busy this morning. I am also quite worried about Chloe after receiving some disturbing messages last night. I told my mom and my sister this morning. My mom made all manner of excuses. My sister was disturbed because some of the messages were threatening. I know sometimes she drives me crazy but my sister is fair and committed to doing the right thing. So she said she would handle this. I am grateful for her today. If you all could keep Chloe in your thoughts and prayers, I would appreciate it. She is not well and her behavior is escalating.

I am going to just continue working. Keep my mind off things. Only one more meeting to go. And I'm leaving work at 3 for a haircut which I desperately need.

Happy Thursday everyone!
I am cleaning my house today and reading a very good book!
Fixing barbecue pork sandwiches, sweet potato fries and roasted carrots.

Posting early for once! We will have dinner at some friends’ house and I believe I heard something about pesto pasta, maybe made from homegrown basil? We’re not allowed to bring a thing, because we took dinner over when they had COVID.


jeremysgirl, hoping Chloe’s issues get under control quickly. I’m so sorry you have these worries to deal with. Glad your sister is stepping up.

And I’m hoping scrapmaven is having a wonderful time with her DS.

Stop in again any time you feel like it, bc2ca. You have been greatly missed.

Oh, definitely!  Positive thoughts coming your way!

another lovely foggy day here. I got 1/3 of stuff out of spare room yesterday and I have to finish it today.. movers coming tomorrow afternoon. I will get my kid to try out the mattress and may move mattresses around.. take the worst one to the dump.

my kid is still pretty sick, I may just make some chicken and pilaf for dinner with salad.

prayers for chloe and all those who need them.

still planning my big camping trip with my dd and her wife. I think it is mostly settled, camping at mt rainier two nights, entrance reservations, at camp on hood canal for 3 nights, then camping out at sol duc hotsprings for 1 night, then backpacking shi shi beach for 2 nights, 1 night at hotel at ocean shores wa, then cruising back to SF. its a good thing we all get along. we will just have to plan food.. which will be a challenge. and I need to get out and organize the gear we are taking. and since it is washington state.. bringing my rain gear.

I am taking care of myself in the best I know how to without cigarettes. It involves, coffee and an overabundance of zucchini muffins. LOL! But seriously, not funny. Stress eating is a real problem.



My pesto pasta came out so delicious last night. I put some away for lunch today, but you know, muffins got in the way.



This is cute.

Thank you to our lovely cadoodlebug for starting the thread today.

bc2ca , thank you for coming home and allowing us to support you. You have a strong tribe and we are good cooks,too.

sueg , when dh lost his mom he suddenly had the need to take care of our final arrangements. We are all set. His sister then followed and bought a ground condo near ours. The boys will be in charge of taking care of all of us. We have plots near my parents. I called my sister and cried, "Omg. I'm moving back into the house with mom and dad forever. What was I thinking"? I wish
for peace and healing for your ddil.

My cleaner was also here this morning, so I went out to do a couple of errands...one of which was to pick up a rotisserie chicken from Costco to make a chicken salad with ..OMG the rotisserie was down...Like ALL of them...being worked on...so not a chicken to be had😱 DH was out and about also and made his way to a different store and waited 20 minutes for the chickens to be ready...I do love that man!!!

I just took zucchini breads out of the oven, my neighbor gave me a zucchini so it became bread!!! One I'll leave for DH the other will come with me to NH for a crop this weekend. That is what the chicken salad is for as well.
KelleeM and I will leave tomorrow morning, we are going to the home of one of our cropping buddies, who kindly invited the others in our group for the weekend...It should be fun, I'm looking forward to getting my Greece pictures cropped.

jeremysgirl...I hope your sister is able to get Chloe the help she needs (((hugs))) to you❤️
bc2ca...Wow!! Woman you are pretty amazing considering all you are going through!! Love and Prayers for continued healing!!
sueg....hoping that everything comes together for tuesday 💝

bc2ca. Glad to see you here! I’m glad you were able to figure out what was going on so that you could move forward with treatment.


Nice cool day here today it might’ve hit 72°. Hasn’t been that cool in a long time. Not much else going on been busy with my niece, her husband, and their two boys. They head back to Florida on Monday. It’s always sad when they leave.

jeremysgirl. Does Chloe need residential treatment or anything? I’m hoping your sister can help her.

The end of my birthday turned out differently than expected. Dh and I were out at a late dinner and I got some texts from dd1. A shelf in her pretty newly remodeled condo gave out (turns out contractor didn’t use adequate hardware) and everything came crashing down. She sent me pics of the disaster- broken ceramic and glass everywhere but the biggest issue was she had turned that shelf into a little bar area and colored liqueurs spilled EVERYWERE on her new white tile floors and white quartz counters and all down her her custom cabinetry. She was asking me questions as she was trying to deal with it all and it was t coming out well. Time was of the essence and so dh and I went home for supplies (to put the shelf up for him and cleaning for me) and grab the dogs and headed to a Seattle (about 1.25 hours away in decent traffic which it was since it was night time). Anyway, we all scrubbed and cleaned and got her kitchen back to almost perfect, thank goodness! The quartz counter and tile floor are saved.Strangely, there are still some faint stains on the cabinets which I thought was odd as they are coated - I’d would have thought the dyed red liquid would have wiped off. Oh did I mention it was all red. Poor things, a lot of things were ruined like cookbooks but it could have been SO MUCH worse - no chips to the counter and she is leaving for a 10 day trip tomorrow. If it had happened while she was away I’m sure the red dye were have set.

We got home after 2am so I had a slower start this morning. Dinner tonight is peppercorn tenderloin, roasted garlic and rosemary potatoes, and roasted green beans.

Wow paget that's got to be awful. Periodically I worry that my shelves holding a bunch of my everyday use Fiesta will fall.

I just got back from seeing my hairdresser. I have been seeing the same one for like 8 years. She says, are you doing something different? I said I'm using the exact same products you've been selling me for years. She says, no, like are you taking vitamins or something? I'm like why do you ask? She says, you have a ton of new hairs that weren't here when I saw you 2 months ago.

I was like, well I have made some changes...but how weird is that?

jeremysgirl I’m sorry to hear that Chloe isn’t doing too well. I will her, and you, in my thoughts. I’m glad your sister is helping out with the situation.

I have been getting home from work after 7pm all week, which means DSO has been cooking every night. It’s been years since he’s had to do that! Last night he cooked chicken schnitzel with potatoes and veggies. I whipped up a quick miso mushroom sauce just as he was finishing cooking.

paget you’re a good mumma to go all that way to help your daughter. And on your birthday no less!