Monday, March 29, 2010

the weekend and todays rain


one of my paper dolls that i am working on> we went out saturday night with my cousin nick and his wife michele, and their kids, and grandson.
it was a last minute for us, but since it was michele's birthday we went we had a good time
then we ditched the kids and closed down perkins again, and had a blast ---we laughed so hard that bernie spewed coffee numerous times out his nose
hahahah           
i knocked over a chair (all without anyone having drank anything stronger then coffee!)
and nick......while MOCKING ME.........got up laughing and knocked over his chair
he had to sit elsewhere until he could stop crying with laughter

yesterday bernie made me an angel food cake
he brought in wood, and i made shrimp scampi over angel hair
  • melt butter (a LOT of butter, i used a stick) and saute minced red onion and garlic, add shrimp and cook until shrimp is finished add fresh ground pepper and some parsley, meanwhile cook whole grain angel hair pasta until al dente, and drain and toss into the finished shrimp/butter sauce......... takes about 10 minutes. serve with locatelli cheese over the top.
i knitted on my lace (the emily dickinson shawl cause i needed a simple project)
btw----i also spilled some melted butter on my lace yarn.......(oh man) so after it's done in addition to the regular blocking wet........i have to give it a real bath with most likely dawn detergent
damn
we were SUPPOSED to go to alice and wonderland, but found out that the gift card bernie had gotten from work for christmas was almost empty, we had used it during one of the middle of the night road calls
right now i am worried about the local taxes we have to pay, followed by the car insurance/homeowners insurance bill we have to pay, and of course bernie who is burning the candle at both ends, the middle, the top and the bottom....and who will not listen to reason.
he never does until after something happens

he wants a lawn mower with the tax return, originally i had thought ok....now i realize that without a SHED to put it in......that the very expensive riding lawn mower will just rot out in about one season
soooooooooo we are going to have a fight as we have got to get a shed for that and the snow blower...........which is under the deck and cluttering up the exit from there
we can get a lawnmower next season, it isn't like this is an entire grassy acre......... not at all
(although i wish he would get to the back more often- but i may pick up a walk behind)
he's never home to mow anyway.........

it's been chilly and woodstove weather again, and of course i have a full ash bucket, full woodstove and the bucket is too heavy to lift.
oye
right now i am watching my AGAIN cranky woodstove limping along
it's not too cold in here this morning though, yesterday was a nightmare.......2 HOURS to try and get it started.
i was freezing my assets off........

bernie made me angel food cake yesterday, but something was wrong with the oven, the top burnt, and yet it wasn't totally finished, (just THIS side of unfinished) but still eatable.
angel food is my favorite and i did ask for it
i guess i need to figure out how to get the oven calibrated or something
he isn't taking tuesday off for me, so i told him next weekend NO road calls......no working......no nothing
period
it's our celebratory weekend- ok so who wants to take odds on something stopping that?
oye

now today, it's raining HARD, it's also dark out. i am going to finish my coffee and take my ducks out even though it looks like 5am out
i am going to graze my girls a bit too, as i miss seeing little feathered butts up in the air while they work over a pile of wet leaves for worms, small bugs and sprouted seeds-
bernie put them out and took them in the other day, i watched from the window, lilli nibbled his pants legs.....she went running up to him to do it and then waggled her tail and took off to graze....
THAT'S the real reason i make him do ducks and chickens every time he can.....cause he does love when they do things like that
and i think he needs the grounding after a nightmare week

ok day's started ttyl

1 comment:

  1. Vi, when we had an oven that wasn't calibrated right, I just got a cheapie oven thermometer. I discovered that that oven needed to be set 50 degrees less than the recipe called for. It was a really bad oven. But the thermometer helped me make it usable for just a couple of dollars.

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