Sunday Dinner, May 3, 2009 & The Usual Ramblings

Time for Sunday Dinner again, and boy is my oven going to be busy this evening!

I'm going to cook my BEEF ROAST, POTATOES & GRAVY for Sunday Dinner, and I'm also going to make 2 pans of brownies and 2 OLD FASHIONED COCONUT CAKES tonight. One cake and one pan of brownies are for a bake sale my ladies' group at church is sponsoring, and the other cake and pan of brownies is for dessert after Sunday dinner.

I'll probably fix a vegetable to be determined at a later time to go with the roast and fixin's. Nothing really appeals to me right now, but I'm sure I'll come up with something.

That's my Sunday Dinner menu: Beef roast, potatoes and gravy, an as yet undetermined vegetable and coconut cake and brownies for dessert.

Got any special plans or making a yummy recipe for your Sunday Dinner? Bare your soul and make us all jealous in the comments if you'd like to participate this week.I've been on a hot tea kick lately and BIGELOW'S EARL GREY is my favorite hot tea. When I did my monthly Wal*mart shopping on Friday they were completely out of my Earl Grey, so I bought some STASH EARL GREY to try.

I hope I'm not terribly disappointed, which I will be if the Stash Earl Grey doesn't live up to my exacting standards.

I also noticed on Stash's website that they have a double bergamot Earl Grey which I'd love to try, but Wal*mart doesn't stock it and I haven't seen it anywhere else. I may have to order at least one package online just to sample it.

In general I'm not a what-not or knick-knack type of girl. I'm not much on lots of stuff on all my tables and walls that need to be dusted and washed. But for some reason dainty tea pots and cups and saucers appeal to my feminine side.

There's just something about good tea poured from a pretty tea pot into delicate tea cups that calms me and makes everything perfect for just a little while.For those who've asked and been concerned, the finger I pinched so badly last Saturday is much better now, and thank you for your kind thoughts. It's still tender and a little swollen but I can wear my ring now. The swelling only went down enough on Thursday that I could get my ring on again!

My crocheting kick is still in full swing, and I've made lots of dish cloths over the last several weeks. I've lost count but I've probably made at least 3 or 4 dozen dish cloths both for myself, as gifts and for my sister who bought the yarn for hers.

I have arthritis in my hands so after crocheting for several hours I have to take a break. When it's rainy like it is now my arthritis gives me fits, as I'm sure it does many of you. Speaking of rain, it still is. Raining. Here, that is. A lot. We've gotten somewhere in the neighborhood of 12 inches of rain in the last 10 days or so. We've had rain and thunderstorms every single day for more than a week, with more to come according to the weather geeks.

All our rivers and ditches are full and running over, and we've got everything from minor flooding to water in homes and businesses across the area. Our apartment is on fairly high ground and we've never had water in our home as long as we've lived here. I'd like to keep that record for a long time, but all this rain has me wondering about it.

And just to keep the record straight, I'm not complaining about the rain. I know from experience that in a few weeks or so the rain will dry up for most of the Summer and the farmers will be wishing for rain for their crops, not to mention those with flowers, gardens and lawns.

I just take each day as it comes, wet or dry. I'm pretty philosophical about the weather, knowing there's no point in worrying about it since it's in God's hands, not mine.Sometime in the last few weeks I've been exposed to the fever blister virus and I have a cozy little cluster of them in the left corner of my lip. I have a feeling Emmy may have gifted me with them when she was here last weekend. She was running a low grade temp and it takes a few days or so for the blisters to appear after you've been exposed.

I couldn't tell you the last time I had a fever blister. I rarely have them and I'd just as soon not have these, whereever I may have been exposed.MY DAUGHTER JESSICA started a new full time job at a local hospital as a CNA. She hasn't actually passed her state test to get her license yet, but her test is scheduled for June so she can legally work until she takes her test.

Here's praying she passes her test and gets her license. She'll be able to work as a CNA anywhere in Arkansas, and I think some other states also honor Arkansas' licenses, but we won't discuss the possibility of her ever moving to another state.

Jessica has great benefits with her new job and she'll be working 3-11 pm, her choice so she can spend more time with her family and other interests.

I'm very thankful for your prayers and positive thoughts while Jessica was looking for another job.It's time to start our Saturday Supper, even a little past time, so I'm going to get busy. I'm going to stir up the brownies and get them in the oven to bake while I'm cooking supper.

I bought some chicken livers yesterday and I'm going to fry them for supper. Not sure what else I'm making, but I'll almost certainly have to make Lamar some cream gravy with his fried chicken livers. I'll come up with something to go with the livers.

I still have to make those cakes and cook that beef roast for Sunday dinner after supper too! Busy evening for me. Hope y'all have a great evening as well.

May God meet all your needs, and may you have enough to share is my wish and my prayer for each of you.