Cookin’ Up A Storm…
That’s what we’ve been doing. And kinda fitting as all it does is rain lately. I only got to go in the pool 3 times so far, oh well, I’m sure it will get hot and muggy sooner or later, and I’ll be able to spend plenty of time floating around.
What’s cooking you wonder? Well, last night we made a couple trays of lasagna, but not the ususal kind. Ours was made with a bechamel sauce, and you add a little tomato sauce to the bechamel so it’s kinda pink. We used the home canned tomatoes I did last fall up in New Hampshire when we had “family canning day” up at my Dad’s. It turned out very good, was soupy at first (too warm) but after setting up overnight it’s quite yummy.
Today was another rainy day. So I picked up Maggie this morning and brought her to the mall to get her birthday present (yesterday was her B-day). She wanted some C.S. Lewis books in the series she’s reading so we got them, walked around some, and then headed back. We stopped at Mi Bohio and had some fried plaintains and mango shakes, the shakes there are out of this world!
Then I spoke to Grace and we made plans to bake some cookies. So she met us at home and we went and got the ingredients for “Maggie’s secret cookies” and also stuff for dinner. So while G and Maggie made the cookies (I helped a little), I kept busy making swedish meatballs for dinner. The cookies are EXCELLENT, they are oatmeal-chocolate chip, with one secret ingredient, of course. Here’s Maggie taking a batch off the sheets to cool. The swedish meatballs weren’t so bad either, seeing as how it was my first attempt at them.
Then after I dropped Maggie back home, I ran into Stop and Shop down there, as it was the last day of the weekly sale and they had Purdue whole chickens, buy one get one free. So guess what we’re roasting up tomorrow for dinner…
And I had a big scare today, I thought we lost the new cat. Her name is really kee-kee, but we’ve taken to calling her “pretty cat”, just not to her face, as she is pretty. Here she is reclining in my bed, and you can see her weird haircut- all short but her head, legs, and tail are still long. Here she is eating, see how huge and bushy her tail looks! Once her hair grows back she’s gonna be a beautiful kitty, just look at that face. Anyway, she must have gotten out somehow, and I didn’t see her all last night or today. I was thinking she won’t know her way around. but I opened the laundry room door to check for water (yes when it rains hard for a long time I get seepage, even minor flooding at times) and there she was! She must have discovered there’s a missing pane in one of the windows there, that’s the kitty-door the other cats use to come and go as they please. I’m just glad she’s home safe and sound.
Otherwise nothing much else is new around here. Same old stuff. No work on the cottage as I ran out of money, but I may finish the closet up there and paint it, maybe work on it a little to keep it going until I figure out how to get the cash to finish it. Looking forward to the July fourth, having my annual bar-b-q and fireworks show, this will be my sixth or seventh one now and everyone seems to enjoy them so far. So anywaaay, I’m outta here for the night, but before I go, wanna post this picture of Grace and I, so you know what we look like when we’re smiling together.
