Did you do all things fall over the weekend? What about my friends on the southern part of the globe? Has spring arrived where you are? Did those of you in Canada celebrate Thanksgiving yesterday instead of today, letting yourself relax on a rare Monday holiday? My weekend was a mixed bag of stuff. As I mentioned, DH was off work Saturday, so he got all sorts of things done on Saturday that normally would have been left to Sunday. I liked it-though how well we will get on once he is around 100% of the time is to be determined.
Despite having my Saturday morning become wide open, I was not nearly as productive as I would have liked. I was happy that I remembered where I had a few other fall items-this wall hanging we received from my mother-in-law about five years ago for our anniversary and four little scare crows. Two are here on the front porch, and the other are poked into a hanging basket that is still holding onto a few spring/summer flowers. I tackled the entry closet-it has become a closet of doom. With moving one thing, several balls-basketball and soccer variety, mostly massively underinflated, rolled off the shelf and onto my head. Luckily though, I found two air pumps in a box in the same closet, one even had a needle. I added "mesh ball bag" to the list of things we need for the next trip to a store with such things. My daughter will be glad. Back in August, she was looking for a basketball that wasn't deflated and for the life of me, couldn't figure out where the air pumps were.
The Blogger Zoom meet-up was a success-I hope the others feel the same. Say what you want about how technology has taken over our lives, but who would have thought even a few decades ago that regular women from two different parts of the US, France and Australia would be chatting for an hour on a Saturday afternoon, solving world problems, and getting to know each other beyond words on a computer screen? Joining me were The Hawaii Plan, Just Baggage Enough, and Random Thoughts, though Treader at Random Thoughts has her blog temporarily on private. Trolls and witches you know! We left with happy intentions of setting one up again in a month or so-maybe before the race of the US Holiday season kicks off at the end of November. Jan at Just Baggage Enough wins the prize for most committed virtual world traveler as she joined us at 5:00 a.m. her time in Australia. When we get ready to pick a new date, you're welcome to join in.
I'm turning into a lazy cook in the kitchen-wondering at times where it is in fact. We went out to eat Friday night, then DH just made a frozen pizza for lunch on Saturday. He had a text from a friend who knew somehow he was off work, to meet for early drinks and dinner so of course we couldn't say no. After our park clean-up on Sunday morning, my sister had us worker bee's over for brunch. I stopped on route for fruit and coffee cake to go with her delicious cheese potatoes and egg bake. After the Vikings awful but winning game, we took a drive along the river and with the destination a BBQ restaurant we found by happenstance two years ago. We both got dry rubbed chicken and I have leftovers for today to either make into something, or eat for lunch. We need to give eating out a rest for the next two weeks as no doubt we'll go out when the college kid is home.
I have a busy work week, but fingers crossed, Friday will work for my flex day. I have two clean out projects I want done before the kid is home-then she can help me decide what can be donated and out of the house. I'll leave you with a picture of the evening sky as we were driving home. Despite it being from the car, the colors were notable.
Great post and that's nothing. You wanna talk lazy cook? My idea is ordering skipthedishes.
ReplyDeleteWell, I hat doing dishes as well!
DeleteI would like to be part of the next zoom meeting; I would enjoy meeting new bloggers.
ReplyDeleteI will make sure you get the link!
DeleteThe meetup sounds thrilling. I love what The Hawaii Plan has to say on her blog. Hers is a very calming read for me. I've only ever Zoomed a "Meet the Candidates" meeting, as the link was provided. (Yeah, I'm a Luddite.)
ReplyDeleteI haven't been successful at meal planning at all. One day I made Chili. Another day was just leftover spaghetti to which I added a can of tomatoes, shredded cheese and baked. I am hard pressed to remember any of the other meals beyond those. Yesterday, I did manage a nice roast chicken dinner for a birthday celebration, but left the roasted carrots in the warming drawer, only to discover them during clean up. Dessert was a pumpkin spice cake with butter roux frosting. Lazy describes me perfectly when it came to the kitchen this past week, but I give myself grace. And, frankly, I don't think any of us, PARTICULARLY those who work full time and still manage to prepare meals, need to beat ourselves up over the offerings we provide, even when we shrug our shoulders and say, "*%*# it, we're eating out."
Ah, this made my day to read. Thank you, Meg! :-)
DeleteOh, the pumpkin spice cake sounds amazing! Now I want to go find a spice cake recipe. I'm very much into fall meals these days.
I can say HP is even nice in person/on Zoom. I too would love a good spice cake recipe. The best I have is a boxed version that I doctor up with more cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and all spice, and add a cup of sour cream.
DeleteHere you go: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/8468/easy-pumpkin-cake/
Delete***I add 1 1/2 tsps nutmeg, and 1/2 of ground ginger to this.
I frost it with ermine, also known as cooked milk frosting, but, really, it is so moist, it really doesn't need it. Also, I've used coconut oil, melted butter, and extra light olive oil for the oil called for--olive oil gives the best results.
We cheated this weekend. Had a Strawberry Choco Blizzard (and a chicken sandwich) from DQ for out Slunch or Linner, depending on choice. We eat only 1 meal after a fairly filling breakfast, on the weekend. Yesterday was delivery from our local Pizza Pub. Caesar salad with the spicy chicken bites and husband had some kind of pasta meal. We often order and have delivered to help support our local businesses. We get great food and no dishes to do. Usually we only have one non home cooked meal, but we had lots of little chores we were working on in between. Tonight is homemade potato soup. I got tired of waiting for cooler weather, and have been craving it. I don't know if I've mentioned this on your blog before, but my mom always put diced up summer sausage in her potato soup. I know others use ham or bacon but it's always been the ss and people always wrinkle up there nose but when they eat it, it's a whole different story. Of course lots of half and half and butter don't hurt - ;). Hope you have a good week. Cooler weather ahead, or so they say.
ReplyDeleteWe have been known for getting a Culver's concrete mixer if we had a large Sunday lunch and call it supper. I don't feel bad supporting th elocal business, just lazy-and fat! Even yesterday with is supposedly cooler, it felt warm out. I love a good potato soup.
DeleteI was sooo busy on Saturday. But, I had planned to attend. When you read my Monday post, you will understand. I attended a memorial on Zoom. I suppose I can do it again. It sounds like fun.
ReplyDeleteYou sure had a rough day on Saturday. I hope you don't experience other days like that.
DeleteIt was a fun chat wasn't it (and you're right about commitment - fancy zooming at 5 a.m.!!!)! But since we've now solved all world problems what on EARTH will we talk about next time?
ReplyDeleteNow we can move on to lighter topics like aging.
DeleteI love your mums in this post. I saw some like that today. I wanted the mums at the top right of your blog page.
ReplyDeleteI didn't have a clue they would grow to this color. The plant was darker originally.
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