AKathy's "What's For Dinner?" 07/12

Good morning! I've been up since 6:30. I was at Lowes at 7:30. Front yard is cut. Back yard has been cropped in the bush/tree limb dept. If I can get the lawn mower started again, I'll cut the small section that has grass. Sitting in the shade drinking water in a nice breeze. If I can't get the mower started, then I'm painting the metal storage shed.

I got a paint sample for my porch ceiling. I'm going to do the southern thing and paint it haint blue. Look it up. I'm settling into my earthy, listen to your inner voice self. If I had a tree that would work, I would do a blue bottle tree. So I may just hang blue bottles at the end of the porch or on the playhouse porch hang.

Dinner is definitely takeaway and may even be beef.

I don't have a sister and not close to my familial cousins. I would say I am closest to my DH's cousin. I always joked I got her in the event of a divorce. Now she's just mine.

Dinner here is pork carnitas. Ds is cooking.

You all know that I’m very close to my sister, karenlou. She is amazing and I’m so grateful for her. We have another sister who has completely separated herself from the family. We also had 4 brothers. We’re the only ones who are close.

I am sad to say that Ds quit his job. I am sad but know it was too much for him, physically, especially after not working for over 5 years.

Fun photo leannec ! My sister was my best friend, I miss her. Except when I was very young or when we visited, I never lived close to my cousins. There are only 3 of us left and they are all back east.

KelleeM I'm sorry it didn't work out your DS ~ hopefully something else will come up that is a better fit.

I've been running errands while DH is playing in a golf tournament. In this God-awful heat. Tomorrow we'll head to the Bay Area for our Meet & Greet in advance of our Greece trip. It's always in the host's backyard so it will be hot. There should be about 35 of us. I just finished a batch of pralines and will make one more batch to take.

Sending big hugs to everyone.

Happy Saturday!

DS and I took my dad to brunch this morning and then they spent a few hours going through old memorabilia and pictures. DS loves old stuff and got a big bag to put together to take home.

Mom has done very well with DS being here. They have a special bond and she's just been so happy.

Tonight, we're going to teriyaki. We have a good PacNW style restaurant here and it was DS's choice to go. My brother and his GF will probably go with us too.

I am very close to one of my sisters. She's more like a mom to me. I was also close to my cousins growing up because they were slightly older than me and lived close.

Hope you all have a great day!

Those are amazing! What a fun contest.

naby64 your pool looks so inviting!

dh and I went down to the local art fair.. in the big festival meadow this morning. he biked and I took the bus. we had lots of fun wandering around the stalls.. and they had a nice shady eating area and some food trucks.. so we got mexican for lunch. I bought some notecards, some pull ties for my jacket and a jumpsuit/overalls thing.. very cool looking and it fit!!! I'm so short usually it doesn't work. but it did. in black. with neon green shoulder straps.

dh is going back tomorrow I think.

dinner is going to be leftovers out of the fridge..there is some left over pizza.. and I'll have cheese and fruit. or something.

I have one sister who is severely mentally ill. I am a long distance caretaker for her.. but I only see her in person 2-3 times a year.  I have no first cousins.. and only know a few second cousins.. I don't have many relatives.  I was closest to my sister in law, but she died last year.   dh is not close with his sister.  so we don't hang out with family other than our kids. 

pretty warm out.. but there is a breeze.

I need this pool. it looks just the right size for a good soaking on a hot day.

I have 2 sisters. I’m closer to my older sister.
She’s staying at her son’s in the UK and we’ve talked on the phone 2x today.

I’m really close with cousin from dad’s side. We lived a block away growing up. We went away to college together. Him 2 years before me. And he and his roommates always looked out for me. We see each at least monthly.

Dinner isn’t decided. We are visiting dd3 to see her new apartment. I’m in Farmington Hills jeremysgirl. How long did the artists have after they went to the dump?

cadoodlebug funny meme

austnscrapaddict I meant to respond about your friend dilemma. You def don’t need her for a friend.

Jeremy has to go over to Sam's later this week and pick up my party cake. For $40 I'm going to make him look for that pool naby64

teddyw I have no idea how long they got to work on it. We got to vote for the People's choice award.

Wow, your pool really does look inviting, naby64! Enjoy! And I hope you find one for yourself too jeremysgirl!

Dinner was leftover pizza. DH is binge-watching some show on Netflix and I'm scrapping & making some cards.

I didn't do much today except recharge. (DH says until I retire that is what I should be doing on weekends - and he's right!) I did do some cleaning and laundry, then treated my self to a bath in my soaker tub while DH had a shower after mowing. I don't take baths as often as I'd like but when I do it's soooo relaxing. Usually I'm a morning shower person instead, especially when I need to wash my hair. It's long-ish and thick/curly so if I try to leave it to dry overnight it's still wet in the morning. When I wash it in the morning I can just let it air dry and style it later on unless I'm going somewhere that will require me to use the blow dryer...I mostly try to avoid that! And I WFH so the vast majority of the time I can let it air dry, and I don't wash it every day anyway.

I love the scrapfest idea and the pictures you took are great! Which one did you vote for, jeremysgirl?

I have one sister - she and I are very close and would love to actually live closer to each other. As it is we live about 8-9 hours apart and don't see each other nearly often enough. But we talk on the phone a lot. I'm also very close to all my sisters-in-law: DH's 3 sisters and his brother's wife. DH & I are getting together with his family tomorrow as a matter of fact, so that should be fun!

My brother is long divorced and I was never close to the piece of work he was married to (pretty much the opposite of close...but those are stories best left forgotten!) I have several female first cousins as well but we didn't see each other much when I was growing up and had pretty much nothing in common then or now. Most were a fair bit older than me, and we really didn't keep in touch much as adults either.

I have one sister. We're very close, but rarely get to see eachother in person. We didn't talk for 10 years unless it was to scream at eachother. Then my mother received her terminal diagnosis. We worked together to support our parents and as we did so we talked and talked and one day I apologized for my actions in the relationship. That was a game changer. It took tragedy to bring us together. Now she's a best friend.

I have 2 cousins that I will never know or want to know. Their mother was psychotic and dangerous. My extended family is a bunch of awful on both sides and I have no need to ever talk to them. I'm so much better off w/o them.

My dh's family is my family. His cousins are my cousins. We are very close and it's been great to have a family that I can trust and be close to. It was very healing for me to see a healthy, functioning family dynamic.

lucyg then you should get one. Check your Sam's! Link is a few posts above.