AKathy's "What's For Dinner?" 10/05

Happy Saturday!

I'm cleaning this morning, finishing what I started yesterday by working on the bathrooms. I bought an electric scrubber and I've been very excited to try it and it works well. You know you're an adult when you're excited about a scrubber. I think I'm going to hire a cleaner but of course, the house needs to be cleaned in anticipation.

This afternoon, I need to pick up my grocery order and my wine order but I got a notice that my grocery order isn't ready on time so I figured I'd get some cleaning done so I can enjoy the afternoon. I'll play some Epic Mickey and binge some shows.

Good luck on your date leannec! Can't wait to hear about it!

Dinner tonight is up in the air. We'll see what I feel like later.

Good morning.

leannec , I hope that you're at the end of this depression and will feel much better as the day goes on. It takes away far too much good stuff. Is your date w/the guy you met and mentioned yesterday? If you go have a great time.

jeremysgirl , my mom made a pumpkin bread that everyone loved. I'll bet your muffins are delicious. Enjoy your today!

Kitty is acting strange. She's popping in and out of the yard, but we're not seeing her all day as we're used to. I'm not sure if she's nesting somewhere or if she's just dissed us. I watched her yesterday and her low hanging fruit is hanging even lower. I left messages for rescues, but everyone is overfull.

I'm going to get into my game today. I'm really stuck on one segment and it's driving me nuts. I'm not dexterous and certain things are really tough. I need ods to come over and finish this for me. He played the old version of this game years ago.


scrappintoee , I read what you wrote to me on yesterday's thread and I want to thank you. You're such an empathetic pea. ((((HUGS)))).

Have a happy, relaxing and fun day, everyone.

I love both of these appliances I have a bad back and scrubbing the bathtub was not fun for me. I think I'm going to get a cleaner but this was a good stopgap!

Good Morning!

We've been to a soccer game already. One more to go this afternoon. We stopped by the farmers market. I needed some honey and I bought myself a bouquet of flowers. Then it was on to the grocery store. It wasn't nearly as busy as I expected so that was a plus.

I've got laundry going and I am getting ready to sit down and watch some college football. Not going to spend too much time inside today. It is a beautiful fall day. Going to go out and enjoy it because we won't have many more days like this.

I am going to grab some pork chops and corn out of the freezer for dinner tonight!

I hope everyone has a wonderful Saturday!

leannec I sub to YouTube premium too and watch it for hours everyday. I love it. I watch ASMR all day and night sometimes.

Today I need to get out of the house. My dad has another funeral to go to today so I can go at 11.

Dexter is all better and is doing great. I am so happy. He was a total baby last night. If your are a cat person he was the equivalent of making biscuits cuddled up. So sweet.

I hope those who need to feel better soon start to feel relief.

DH and I walked at Town Center and are headed down the freeway to pick up a Honeybaked Ham and some more pumpkins from Trader Joe's. They have the best ones!

Dinner will be from the freezer: Tomatillo Pork! Ta da!

Today will be stress free because LSU has a bye!

Truth!

Hi friends! DH and I returned from a trip to visit his dad and my folks this past week last evening and I picked up Miss Bess from the cattery this morning. DH is wondering if we should consider moving back up that way to help his dad out a bit more. He is mostly independent, but could definitely use some help in some areas. He does have a house cleaner who comes over every other week. We also went over to see my grandma. She definitely has some dementia going on, which is tough to see, but at 88, I'm glad to have her still.



Tonight's dinner will be steak salads.

Happy Saturday everyone!!! It's a hot one today and tomorrow. I think we are promised fall starting Monday. So since I need to be inside, I military cleaned the bathrooms this morning. Like broke a sweat clean. I love the playlist for the day. Jason Mraz, Journey, theme from Rocky, Korn, Muse, etc. It's all over but very UP music. So indoors is a laundry day. But I am also decorating the front porch. It's Halloween time and I'm all for it!!

I haven't thought about dinner. I have some chicken sausages and may bake those up. DH has been jonesing for some hot dogs, so tonight may be that night.

I'll be back to catch up after I have to call it outside. Y'all have a great Saturday!

Yes! When I make Tomatillo Pork, I use a 5-lb pork shoulder and it makes enough for about 3-4 dinners and lunches the next day. I freeze portions using my Foodsaver so they lay flat. I don't have a stand-alone freezer just the bottom of my French door refrigerator. Right now I have ground beef, chicken thighs/breasts, pork chops, spaghetti sauce, a pork shoulder and a tri-tip roast in the freezer. Oh, and several packets of rotisserie chicken. I always have that for making Chinese Chicken Salad or Chicken Noodle soup.

Hi everyone, we are having a lovely time in Venice, despite starting off with some awful weather. It rained nearly all the way here on Thursday and that, combined with roadworks meant it took us nearly 2 hours longer to get here than it should have. 
Yesterday we had a walking tour in the morning and a guided tour of San Marco Basilica and museum after lunch. Today we wandered around in the morning and then did a boat trip with a guide out to Murano and Burano islands, where we saw a glass blowing demonstration and women working on traditional lacework. 
The food has been wonderful - we are just home from dinner out where we had a chateaubriand with vegetables. The meat was perfectly cooked and I am now feeling quite stuffed. 
Hopefully I can post some pictures tomorrow. My phone hasn’t synched with my iPad yet today sadly.

I got a special delivery today in my mailbox. scrappintoee sent me the cutest haunted camper sign. I can't imagine why this would have reminded her of me. . Look how cute!

ok.. today, ran to the store first thing for milk for my coffee. opening mail and packages. going across the street to see the house for sale.. they finally finished it after 4 years. 3 beds, 4.5 bath, 2 car garage postcard backyard.. $3 million. interesting to see if they get it. we are higher up and have a better view..

got thai last night when I got into town, so leftovers tonight..

skip if you don't have time.. the saga of driving from idaho.. left the house at 5:50 am.. 34 degrees out. after driving an hour south, just started to see the light of dawn..nothing happened til I was in western nevada. first, east of winnemucca, there was a. median fire (about 30 ft strip between east and west lanes of freeway.). it was almost out when I got there, but lots of trucks, police, fire trucks, etc. then east of fernley.. I almost hit a dog running around the freeway at 80 mph. there was a lady in a truck on side of road, but didn't know if it was her dog or not. I called it in to 911. the speed limit was 80 mph.

then I was crawling in 10 mph traffic down the western slope of the sierras through construction zone. lots of trucks, lots of traffic. someone bumped me from behind. I pulled over, the guy behind me pulled over, but the person who caused it didn't. there wasn't a stratch or any sign of anything happening to my car.. about 10-15 min later, I started to hear a strange sound from the front of my car.. intermittent, no indicators of problems.. so I pulled off on a small exit and looked all around. nothing. called my husband, and he said auburn had a subaru dealership. he called them and they said they would look.. so I drove slowly sort of down there.. dh giving me directions over the phone.. and I arrived 4:30 on a friday. They could not have been nicer people. they put it up on a lift.. and it turns out that the lugg nuts on my front driver side wheel were loose.. and damaging the wheel a bit.

they tightened everything up.. checked out everything and didn't even charge me!!!!! I am going to do the best google review and write a letter. before I left, I made an appt at my local dealership--who were the last to rotate the tires 1400 miles earlier. so after lots of stress and fun.. I got home about 7:30 pm. I mostly wanted to know if it was a minor thing or major.. I could have stayed in auburn but was so relieved to pull up to my own house.