aKathy's What's for Dinner 11/30

Thinking of you leannec and hoping you can check in soon.

After we walk this morning, DS will head home. He'll be back for over a week at Christmas. He (and we) are so lucky his company has a very good vacation policy. He's also going on a cruise in late January for a week.

Dinner will be whatever I pull from the freezer as LSU plays at 4PM this afternoon.

This took me a few seconds:

Having company for supper is a really good reason to clean the house! I especially needed to wash the floors to remove the muddy paw prints from the last couple weeks. The house smells clean and fresh!

I’m making lasagna, Caesar salad and garlic bread for supper. My bestie is bringing dessert - sweet potato brownies! Never had them but definitely willing to try!

We went to grandboy #2’s hockey game this morning and he got a goal - his second of the season.

Thinking of leannec and hoping she’s well.

We could either do a third round of Thanksgiving dinner or I could pick up Shawarma after I stop at the store after my massage.

The meal we had was a meal for 6- so far, it has been 8 meals and we have enough for 2-3 more. Im not gonna feel bad if we dont finish it.

I don’t get it. Help me out here.

Look at the screws.

I’m an inspector and notice things like this way too often. But then I do get paid to do it.

Jeremy noticed it right away. I knew he would. He's like get your glasses checked, you don't see anything. 😂

I have had a lovely day today. I went to Munich Knits, a yarn fest here that is just in its second year. I missed last year as it was the day we had 35cm of unexpected snow overnight, which caused all sorts of problems with buses and trains. I had a couple of hours to wander the stands before I took a class on Roosimine - an old Estonian knitting technique. I knew the teacher, as she lived in Munich for a few years back before COVID, so it was nice to catch up. I’ll add a photo of my sample in a bit.
Picture added:


I also bought some yarn(jeremysgirl - stop laughing!) - a skein for an assigned pooling cowl that will be my travel project for Australia, a kit to make a pair of Latvian mittens which will be a gift for my friend who is from Latvia, and another kit for a shawl by one of my favourite designers.

We’ve just finished dinner - lamb steaks, with ratatouille and potatoes. It was delicious, and really good as I hadn’t eaten much today.

leannec - I hope you are beginning to feel better and are back home soon.

jeremysgirl, love your photos! We cut down our tree the first few years we were married but finally started going to a lot, then artificial. The bugs, sap and falling needles drove me crazy! I do love the smell though.

I'm glad the meme stumped a few people besides me. When I got it, it looked so obvious!

jeremysgirl and Delta Dawn, look at the screws! Things like that set my teeth on edge. 😁 I have been known to "fix" that problem in airbnb and vrbo type places.

We are hitting up our favorite brewery today. They are having a little Christmas market and food trucks. Then we will head to mil for tonight. I had hoped to go home today to avoid Sunday traffic, but we can't bear to drive past mil house. She is at the age where we can't not drop in when near.

Ds24 resigned from his job today. I hurt for him. Back in August, when he started he was so freaking happy to start his career. It pretty quickly went south when he realized they had lied to him about the job. He graduated from Construction Project Management and stood out for his scheduling ability. He was very aggressively recruited by many companies for scheduling. He really liked what this company was doing and telling him. He gets there and finds out that their scheduling is a third party company, so he won't be doing scheduling. He had also up front told every recruiter that he couldn't do long term night shifts, as it massively messes with him. Low and behold he was put on night shift on his 3rd day. He pushed back and got to days to only have to push back again and again. He had been given the 3 days before Thanksgiving plus Thanksgiving and Friday. On Monday when he got to us, his boss sent a letter telling him that the nightshift guy wasn't doing a very good job, so ds had to switch to nights for 3 months and the schedule would be 13 12 hour shifts with day 14 off. These shifts are on a barge out on Lake Michigan. And while the shift is 12 hours, it also is an hour each way to get to the site on the barge. He immediately contacted his immediate boss and his boss. He was told too bad. He talked with some of the guys that had taken him under their wing, and they told him to get the f*ck out now! Apparently ds is the 9 person they have done this to, and ds had actually lasted longer than anyone else. I feel so badly for him, but on the plus side, he has already been contacted by two other construction companies. He thinks the barge supervisors put out the word.

Thank you for letting me get this out.

sueg I am not laughing. Pooling yarn is such a fun thing no way I'm shaming you for buying it. One of my most favorite shawls is a pooling yarn. And I have three more skeins on a different color way that needs my attention.

Aww...malibou his first job out of college? What a bummer. That's got to really have messed with his head too. Kids often just get in there and they feel so committed and want to do their very best. They haven't got years of experience and disillusionment that us oldsters do. How disappointing.

Good afternoon ladies! Today is my 39th anniversary but I'm still with kids. I had initially planned on being home but DH misunderstood plans and made suit shopping/game watching with best friend out of town. So I stayed here. DD and I did an Aldi run with a couple of quick in and out trips at TJMaxx and Home Goods. Home for a cold dressing and homemade cranberry relish lunch. Another outing to Dollar Tree to look for the wooden Mason jar lids that some are getting. None here. So now I'm home under a warm throw with a hot cuppa and my new Sourdough cookbook. DS is going to play a new game.

He's promised me a good dinner of whatever tonight, so who knows. I jokingly asked where I could get a nice vegetarian steak and he said they would look at me like I had 3 heads around here.

jeremysgirl love the photos. We used to cut our tree when the kids were young but DH rediscovered the joy of plug and immediate lights again. Ahhhhhh...

malibou so disheartened for your son.

cadoodlebug saw it almost immediately. Because I made mine look that way.

Speaking of brownies, I made pecan pie brownies for Thanksgiving. Lawdy, I need to forget those ever existed!

we are glad today it is not raining. hugs to all those who need them.

we are riding in a small train in old gold mining area this afternoon.. weather not good enough for the beach. eating dinner at the same hotel tonight. only a two minute walk from campground.

I did have a thanksgiving win.. I brought to new zealand a can of pumpkin (TJ's) and spices. and I made a pumpkin pie without the crust for dinner. our american friend said he always hated pumpkin pie and wouldn't have any. no problem. but his kiwi wife talked him into trying a bite of mine and he loved it!!! mine is more like a custard very light, and he had only had very dense pies in the past. none was left in the end. grandma's recipe never fails.

(( hugs )) to anyone who needs 'em!

Hoping leannec is okay! 

@jeremysgiri....LOVE the snow, trees, and wow---beautiful horses! Such a Christmas-ee scene!

malibou ....So sorry about your son's job, and hoping a much better one replaces it.
You asked about my hip yesterday---both are replaced, but the left has
given me a LOT of trouble, no matter what I've tried--- Physical Therapy, Stretches, Swimming, Heat/ Cold.


Had fun cooking our T'giving dinner the other day, until my thumb, other fingers, one heel,
one knee, and one hip
started throbbbbing... We LOL over  rubber-banding tiny ice packs to different appendages. 
The three separate headaches I had through the afternoon/ evening added more fun! 


Even with allll the pain, we had fun watching the Dog Show (did y'all see that a PUG   won
"Best-in-Show?" )  and then, our fave movie of all time:  "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" 
We are obsessed with that movie and analyze it, discover new things, pause to discuss
things, etc. every year. 


Tonight we'll have pizza and salad