monday always fresh

now i am not totally sure how these are going to load but we'll have a go shall we?

hopefully first up are the flowers bernie bought himself and the ones i picked out.......his are the multicolored petunias, mine the rose flowered pink impatients.

sorta makes up for that tick thing last night......

now the bowl of mixed ground veggies is the base for my mac salad, the veggies are

• purple cabbage
• sweet red pepper
• sweet green pepper
• sweet onion
• fresh garlic cloves
• fresh celery

salt and fresh ground pepper (add more salt then you think you need if the weather is hot...do NOT salt the finished salad, it has to be done in the dressing)

the next bowl shows the mayo added and it stirred up (use REAL mayo)

add the elbow mac well drained but still hot

mix throughly and chill

at serving add a big heaping tablespoon of mayo just to 'wet it' and stir well

it is going to be multi colored, blue and purple and pink and green etc

any leftovers will be a purplish color but will be just as good...... FYI there are RARELY leftovers

 next i hope that the picture of one of my living room walls is showing up, with my old calico red china...and those antique etchings from england. that's my favorite wall in the house, i love china, i love transfer ware in red or purple, and i also adore china with violets on them (and occationally some roses) i love vintage english teapots too, (and i got some good ones) and yes i love hanging plates on the wall...... oh my..... i also love depression glass, in pink, yellow, green but not blue......however i do like blue milk glass go figure...(and pink and also the white milk glass)

i have a bit of modern colored glass, in pinks also.
eventually  (if we stay here) i will line the walls of the front room with shelves and put my collections up there with earthquake wax
we do use them sometimes....not often, but we do use them. bernie loves them btw, he oftens shows me a plate or a teapot and tells me 'i want that one' we get it too. he's got one with purple pansies on it.
and a cobalt blue one.
so this is a part taste of how our weekend went. it was hot, we ran and got a monster AC unit for the bedroom 12000 btu's (for a 9x10 br) but we'll leave the door open and it will do the downstairs main house as well. the other unit in the studio just does the studio so between the two we're covered.
because of the new AC unit, the easter budgies are now in the studio (they are sitting on the woodstove....we've run out of space) and they are going to be just fine i think.. they were afraid at first, but now they are starting to watch the others and chirp and such....so we expect that within the week we can add an apple wood perch and more toys etc.
i am also going to put them on a water bottle instead of open water bowls
and a mouse committed suicide in an open duck water bucket i had forgotten to empty out of the Aframe pen
so that is what happened this weekend.......
the only real mar was the heat overnight and that damn tick

other then that it was a pretty perfect weekend