Sunday Dinner, August 23, 2009

First, I have a confession to make. I did indeed cook okra and tomatoes and a whole chicken in the crockpot for Sunday Dinner last week, but my sister CECIL'S hubby, Brian, treated us to lunch at a local Italian restaurant so my Sunday Dinner was eaten there, not here at home.

Not to worry though, because nothing went to waste. We ate the chicken later in the week and I took the okra and tomatoes to my church ladies' meeting on Monday night.

Now for this week's Sunday Dinner. As you may have guessed from the chef's tray on my Sunday Dinner button, if we eat Sunday Dinner here, sandwiches will be on the menu. Fried ham sandwiches to be precise.

I bought half a ham when I got groceries a couple of weeks ago. I debated whether to bake it and fix some sides and veggies to go with it or slice it and fry it for sandwiches, and sandwiches won the debate. For one thing, it means less time and preparation in the kitchen for me, and another, it just sounds good right now.

What's on the menu for your Sunday Dinner this week? Share your plans in the comments if you'd like.It's not the weather that's keeping me from cooking right now. Usually August is our hottest month, with temps well into the 90'F to over 100F, but not this year.

We're experiencing a rare August cold front at the present and I must say, this rare Summer weather is refreshing. It's partly cloudy, breezy and only 79F as I type this at 4:30 pm, with low humidity. Delightful for Arkansas in late Summer is what it is!

I know we'll more than likely still have some hot and humid weather before Fall arrives, but I so hope the really torrid heat and humidity is behind us for this year.

This has been the strangest Summer here. Unusual to say the least, starting off with a very cool and soggy Spring, then June set records for drought and high temps. We had several days with temps over 100F and weeks with temps in the upper 90'sF.

Then July dawned with record rainfall and flooding and cooler than normal temperatures, which has continued into August. We've had a few hot days that made it back into the 90'sF but for the most part our daily high temps have been in the 80's and we've even had a few days where we didn't make it out of the 70'sF.

I want to go on record here that I'm not complaining! I love the cooler temps.

But this strange Summer has me wondering what's in store for our Fall and Winter. Hmmmm........Changing the subject rather abruptly, I spent most of the night trying to evict a rather nasty virus from my computer.

It was really strange how it started. I was on Facebook and one of those ads about using a "free" antivirus scan just took over my screen! The more I tried to click out of it, the more pages it kept opening, until eventually it shut down my Firefox browser.

Keep in mind that I have 2 anti-virus programs that run continuously, and a program to detect and deflect unwanted pop ups and ads, and yet it still managed to somehow bypass them all.

I thought it might be linked just to Firefox, so I started my anti-virus scans and opened Internet Explorer. It started out fine, but after a few minutes the same thing happened with IE and the virus shut it down too.

I was one mad and frustrated fat girl for a good while, let me tell you! I was about ready to pitch my laptop out the window, and I wasn't really very particular if the window was open or closed!

Long story short, I eventually got rid of the virus and everything seems to be operating normally at the present time.

The bad new is that I have no idea how the virus bypassed all my anti-virus and anti-ad programs, so I can't prevent it from happening again. I keep all my anti-virus programs up to date, so maybe that one virus hadn't been caught yet and now it's in their databases.

I sure hope so. I was up all night and only got a few hours sleep. I didn't want to sleep all day because I need to go to bed at a reasonable hour tonight so I can get up for church on Sunday. Besides that, I still have to fix supper tonight, change my bed and remake it, and wash about 4 loads of laundry tonight after I get this posted.

Supper is going to be fried baloney sandwiches, so that's not any trouble at all, but I dread stripping my bed and remaking it. Which is a quandary, because I love a freshly made bed equally as much as I hate to strip and remake one.Well, time to quit blogging about all this and start actually doing it. My tummy is rumbling and that fried baloney is sounding better all the time, not to mention the laundry behind me that's staring at my back.

Y'all have a wonderful remainder of your weekend. May God richly bless you by meeting all your needs, and may you have enough to share.