I know it'll probably come as a disappointment to some that look forward to reading my menu for Sunday Dinner, but as we say around here, I'm give slap dab out and I ain't cookin' tonight for tomorrow's Sunday Dinner.
I've had Emmy all week and we're trying to get her potty trained, so every 15 minutes I have to get up and get her on the potty chair. About the time I get settled and comfortable in my recliner, it's time to do it all over again, and that's besides my other tasks and things I have to do.
In addition to that, the humidity is outrageous right now, and paired with the heat, it just wrings me out, so that's another strike against cooking tonight.
So, for Sunday Dinner this week, it'll be root hog or die for those in my little circle. How's that for an old Southern saying that I'll bet most of you have never encountered? ;-)
Lamar is on his way home from his brother's place in Fort Worth as I type this. He's riding Amtrak home, as he usually does, and if the train is on time he should be home about 4 am. Jessica is going to pick him up at the train station and bring him home, so that'll spoil her night's rest, but maybe she can get caught up sometime Sunday with a nap.
I have Emmy at least 3 days a week now, sometimes 4, from around 10:30 am to 7-ish, so I'll probably be kinda missing in action on the blogging scene. I'll try to comment and keep in touch, but this is one of those times when real life comes first and blogging may have to take a back seat for a while.
I don't even turn on the computer when Emmy's here because there's no point. She takes every bit of my attention, and she deserves my full attention anyway. She'll only be little for these few years, after all, and I don't want to miss a moment of this special time with her.
I'll try to sneak in a post sometime during the week, but don't bet the farm on it. You may end up looking for a place to house your pigs and chickens. ;o)
Hope y'all have a blessed Sunday, and a wonderful new week. May God meet all your needs, and may you have enough to share.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Sunday Dinner, July 12, 2009, And That's About All
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Sunday Dinner, July 5, 2009 & Happy Independence Day!
I'm a little late getting my Sunday Dinner post done because I've been celebrating Independence Day with family and friends, doing that most patriotic of activities: eating too much.
More on that in a bit, but first let's deal with Sunday Dinner.
I fear many may be disappointed again this week, because I'm not cooking Sunday Dinner. My church is having Patriotic Sunday which will be finalized with a sandwich fellowship after the 11 am preaching service.
I have a surplus of homegrown cucumbers that my father in law has shared with us, so I'm going to make some of my HOMEMADE REFRIGERATOR PICKLES to take for the fellowship, and I think I'm going to make some homemade lemonade to take.
The fellowship completely slipped my mind when I went to Wal*mart Thursday so I didn't get any kind of sandwich makings or enough bread either, so refrigerator pickles and lemonade it is.
What's on the menu for your Sunday Dinner? Share your plans in the comments if you'd like to participate this week.
I trust you all had a wonderful and meaningful Independence Day.
As I alluded to earlier, I spent Saturday afternoon at my nephew's place, enjoying food, fun and fellowship with family and friends. Danny fried catfish and French fries outside under their carport and man, was it ever good!
I took some of my homemade refrigerator pickles to the fish fry, and others contributed various desserts and side dishes to round out the meal.
The day started out hot and sunny but as the day wore on it got really cloudy and humid and we were under a thunderstorm watch until 8 pm tonight. We got several showers but nothing severe, and not much thunder and lightning at all, praise the Lord.
It was still very hot and humid, but we made it okay under Danny's carport with some box fans moving the air around and helping keep the flies at bay, although not entirely successfully.
We left a little after 8 pm to come home. The mosquitoes were beginning to make their presence known and I for one wanted no part of feeding the skeeters.
It was a very enjoyable afternoon/evening and I enjoyed the catfish and the company immensely.There's really no news about Lamar's eye, still yet. We did get word that the blood work they did this time came back negative, but since we don't know for sure what they were testing for, we're not really any better informed than before we got those results.
Negative for what???
And of course the offices were closed Friday-Sunday for the holiday weekend, so we haven't been able to contact them for more information.
Lamar's next appointment with the eye specialist from Memphis, Dr. Meyer, is on July 17th, so we're basically in a holding pattern until then, assuming we don't hear anything from them before then.
Since we're at a standstill regarding Lamar's eye, he's going to take advantage of an opportunity to visit his brother in Fort Worth this week. Barring any unforeseen hindrances, Lamar will be leaving with his Uncle Pete in his semi truck on Sunday morning, headed for Fort Worth. He'll be there for a week, riding back on Am*trak next Monday night/Tuesday morning.
It will be good for him to get away for a while and take his mind off all the circumstances surrounding the issues with his eye, and it's been nearly a year since he's seen his brother.
I'll be well occupied with my grocery shopping on Monday or Tuesday, and then I'll have Emmy here with me Wednesday-Friday, so I'll have a full week. And that's in addition to my usual chores and things I need to get done during the week.It's nearly midnight my time, so I'm going to get this proofread and published. Y'all have a blessed Lord's Day. May you have all you need and enough to share.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Sunday Dinner, June 28, 2009
See the question mark on that chef's serving tray? If you've been reading my blog for very long at all, you know what that means.
Diane ain't cookin' Sunday Dinner this week.
This is due to several different reasons, listed in no particular order:
1.} It's hotter than a French fried werewolf and I refuse to spend much time in a hot kitchen. It's 97F as I type this at 3:30 pm on Saturday afternoon. Supper tonight will be quick and easy, just as soon as I figure out what I'll be fixing.
2.} Lack of inspiration on the cook's part.
3.} Lack of inspiration coupled with the fact that it's the end of the month and the pantry is nearly bare, which greatly limits my options even if I were to suddenly become inspired.
As far as I'm concerned, we can either go out to eat somewhere cheap or stop and get sandwich stuff on the way home from church. I say somewhere cheap because as I said, it's the end of the month and the old bank account is about as empty as the pantry.
So, those are my plans for Sunday Dinner this week, or maybe I should more precisely say, my lack of plans.
What're your plans for Sunday Dinner? Feel free to share your menu/plans in the comments, although I feel obligated to warn you, if you're cooking something especially scrumptious or going out to eat at a yummy establishment I'll be terribly jealous of you. Don't let that stop you from sharing though.
Some of you have asked in the comments here and on Facebook about Lamar's eye. Well, there's no news, still yet.
His eye remains the same and he's still on 2 different eye drops, 3 times a day, along with prednisone by mouth every other day. His left eye has normal vision from the center of the pupil to the outside of his eye, but from the center to the inside, toward his nose, his vision is gone, apparently permanently, unless God intervenes.
And remember the bloodwork the lab bungled? And Lamar and Jessica had to make that flying trip to Memphis so Lamar could give more blood samples? And we've waiting to hear from those samples that were sent on to another lab in California?
Well, guess what? They also lost and/or bungled those blood samples too!
So the nurse from the infectious disease specialist called yesterday morning to tell us that bad news, and to also tell us that the doctor was very unhappy about the lab's performance. The doctor then proceeded to call the lab and chewed out some butts, the end result being that the lab SENT A NURSE FROM MEMPHIS TO OUR HOME TO DRAW MORE BLOOD SAMPLES.
Yes, you read that correctly. We live 65 miles from Memphis and it's even farther if you factor in the distance to the doctor's office after you get into the city.
The doctor was livid about all the bungled tests and apparently she has some pull because about 4 pm Friday a nurse was in our living room drawing more blood samples from Lamar.
We're hoping and praying that these will finally yield some answers as to what caused Lamar's eye problems, but it's been so long since the initial problem that we're pretty much resigned to the fact that we may never know.
Sunday would have been my Mama's birthday if she was still living. She was born June 28, 1929 and died April 13, 2005. I miss her every day.
Mama fought and lost a brave battle with cancer, dying less than 4 months from when Daddy died in December 2004.
I often think about how much Mama would have loved playing with Miss Emmy. Mama would have eaten her up with a spoon!
Happy birthday, Mama. I love you.
I wish you all a blessed, happy and COOL weekend, unless you live Down Under, in which case I hope you stay warm. ;o)
May God bless you with all you need and enough to share.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
A Meme & A....Um.......Whatsit
My dear friend NANCY @ MORE THAN ENOUGH recently tagged me for a meme in which I'm challenged to list 6 UN-important Things That Make Me Happy.
All righty then, let's see if I can accommodate her.
In no particular order, because I'm all about randomness, after all:
1.} The smells of holiday cooking, especially Thanksgiving and Christmas times. It brings back such wonderful memories of holidays past, and of dear loved ones who aren't with us anymore.
2.} A freshly made pot of Folger's Columbian coffee; hot, strong and black. Mmmmmm......
3.} Snowflakes swirling and falling. I LOVE snow!
Bonus: Newly fallen snow, before it's been sullied by tracks or melting.
Another bonus: A full moon's glow on newly fallen, unsullied snow. Magical!
4.} Rainbows, because they're so colorful and vibrant, and because they're God's reminder of His promise that He'll never destroy the earth by water, ever again.
5.} My beloved and greatly appreciated Air Conditioner. And no, I ain't even joking, and I hesitated to even list this, because the meme is supposed to be UN-important things. I assure you, my AC is high on my list of important things when it's 100*+ and the humidity is pushing 100%!
6.} The first fresh garden veggies after a Winter with little or no good quality fresh produce and fruit. Fresh corn on the cob, green beans, yellow Summer squash, cucumbers and bell peppers, all given to us just this week. Yum!
Another dear friend, SARAH @ MY WONDERFUL LIFE, recently was gifted with a bounty of fabric and notions and a variety of other things squirreled away by her grandmother and graciously shared her abundance with some of her blog friends.I am one of those lucky enough to be blessed with some of the bounty, and along with the gifts given to us, Sarah asked if we'd be kind enough to participate in kind-of-but-not-really-a-meme-thingy about the things she sent us.
How's that for clear as mud?
Anyway, Sarah asked us to look through the items she sent and find some things that:
A.] Make us laugh
B.] We will throw away because she couldn't
C.] We will use and enjoy, and:
D.] We will look at and say, "What the heck?!?!"
Now, let's see what I can find to fall in each category.
A.] Things that made me laugh:
For one thing, I'm practically a tee-teetotaler, and I know for a fact I haven't imbibed in any intoxicating beverages, but there's a pink elephant, sure as shootin'!Also, get a load of those rolls of pink double knit. They're sewn together in strips about an inch and a quarter wide, for whatever reason. Unless Grandma was going to use them to make an old fashioned crocheted rug from them, I haven't the faintest idea what she had in mind.
I do know one thing for sure, a rug made from that double knit would be slicker than snot on a doorknob on tile, linoleum or hardwood floors.
And I can't leave out the used elastic. Although I can't say much because I've been known to recycle scavenged elastic myself. ;-/
Take a closer look at that pattern:
I don't know if I should feel complimented or what. It's been many a moon and many a fried pork chop since I saw size 38-40, but I appreciate the humor, intended or not, Sarah. ;o)I'm not sure exactly what it says about me, but if I could wear that pattern I'd sure make some robes/house dresses with it.
And take a look at the price! One dollar patterns are a thing of the past, for sure. I found a copyright date of 1973 on that pattern!
B.] Things we will throw away because Sarah couldn't:
Well, I hate to say so, but some of these things fit in more than one category, and the balls of double knit strips are one thing that I think I can live without, and quite happily. Also, the pink elephant kind of gives me the creeps, so it's a goner too. More in this category coming up.
C.] Things we will use and enjoy:
Several large pieces of fabric that Sarah sent me will be put to good use. And no, she didn't send me the cat, I already had her, but Candy had to investigate all the goodies when I was trying to take photos for this post, naturally.That pink, purple, orange and white plaid fabric has a strange texture, so I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do with it yet. I'm going to make house dresses with the other pieces if there's enough of each one for a dress, but that plaid may not be suitable for a dress. It's kind of itchy, but that might go away after washing the sizing out of it.
Also, I forgot to take some pictures of a tiered cake pan set that Sarah sent me. It has 4 round graduated cake pans, as you'd use for a wedding cake, etc. As I told her, I'm not exactly sure why I wanted them, but I do.
However, I'm not going to advertise the fact that I have the cake pans, because I don't want to be inundated with requests to make wedding cakes, shacking up cakes, "my divorce is final" cakes or any other cakes.
These buttons will also be used, especially the adorable kitties, bunnies, bouquets and lady bugs. I can envision some of these on little dresses and things for Miss Emmy.Special bonus in this bag: Note the googly eyes in the top left background. :-/
And those googly eyes? They remind me of those Geico commercials that are out right now, with the googly eyes on the stack of money, with Rockwell singing "I always feel like, somebody's watchin' me....." Now that's stuck in my head on a repeat loop.
Gee, thanks, Sarah. ;-)
Which now brings us to the category:
D.] Things we will look at and say, "What the heck?!?!"
There were actually several things I could say that about in the packages Sarah sent, so let's hit the highlights.
As I said, the pink double knit strips made me laugh, I'll be tossing them, and they also made me wonder, "What the heck was Grandma thinking?!?!" when she sewed those strips together and rolled them into balls. So they fit into three of the categories all by themselves.
Also included in the "What the heck?!?!" category is this:
Notice the wooden thread spool? It has small rick rack wound around it, but I was struck by the price and the brand name on it. If you'll click to enlarge you can see that the price on it is 4/$1, and it's from T G & Y.Any of my readers remember those stores? I have many memories of shopping at T G & Y, but they moved from our area back in the 1970's, and to my knowledge they're not in business anymore. If you know different, I'd be interested to hear about it.
As for the lace and eyelet in the photo, that's something else that falls into the category of Use and Enjoy.
And another entry in the "What the heck?!?!" category:
Note the date on this Velveeta box, and also the advertisement for the movie, "Willow". It's dated Oct. 6, 1988. Grandma knew how to pack rat, now didn't she?Oh, but wait, there's more in this category! Look what's in the box!
I'd say this falls under "junk drawer" or "various and sundry", but "What the heck?!?!" fits very well too.And I have to admit that most of this will also fit in the "Things we will throw away because Sarah couldn't" category as well.
Thanks for all the stuff, Sarah! I got a kick out of it, and I got plenty of useful stuff too. :-)
And I'll leave you with this pic of Emmy and JESSICA playing in Emmy's pool in my back yard on Tuesday afternoon.
Summer is here. :o)
