Just when I think I have everything I need for my Thanksgiving cooking and baking something else pops up. For the record, here is what we are having for turkey day.
Turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, gravy, green beans (no not the casserole kind), rolls and asst olives and pickles. For dessert you can choose from custard pie, pumpkin pie and apple/cranberry/walnut pie. I made a wonderful coconut creme pie the other night. Best yet. I actually made the crust out of coconut. Very yummy.
I have decided to start writing down some of my recipes so: one when I get old I can look at it and two so someday my girls will have them. So on that note, yes I wrote down the coconut pie recipe.
Everyone have a Happy Thanksgiving.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Monday, November 15, 2010
Another day in Memphis
Got back from Vegas. Really you only need about 2 nights and 3 days there. Actually, we did end up coming home early. Just before we left, Greg was told he HAD to be back for a meeting on Wed morn at 8 am. So, he figured he would take a red-eye home on Tuesday and be there for the meeting. By the time Tuesday rolled around, we decided just to get on the road home. Fortunately, we were able to get an 11:30 am flight be get on home. Made the 8 am meeting a whole lot better with some sleep for Greg and I was just tired of Vegas.
We went to a show while we were there. The original Circ show. It was good, but you really need to see them in order. I wish we had seen this one first before the other one we saw.
Found a couple of wonderful quilt shops. One, I had found the last time I was there. The other one is what I want to be when I grow up. O my gosh, what a beautiful store. They had just all kinds of antiques as merchandising tables. There was one old stove I would have loved to have. Dropped a couple of $$ there.
As usual, the slot machines loved my money. I could almost hear them saying, yum give us money. Went to the old strip and got to meet Elvis. Greg has the picture on his phone. As soon as I figure out how to I will post it. He was a really good one. It was obvious he had spent some serious $$ on his suit. The hair was real, all in all, pretty darn good. Pictures equal tips. Made some money on blackjack down town and gave it all back. Got a picture of Greg and I will $1 million. Had a lot of fun that day.
Back home and recouping. Last week was not so great, but I have faith this week will be better.
Chrystal had a wreak and totaled her car last week. She is ok, but very very sore.
Same day, different sh--with my mother. I feel so bad she won't allow us to help her. Please don't let me be that way when I am old. Denise-bless her heart-has tried several different ways to get Mom help with baths, house, etc. Mom ends up sending them away for different reasons. Most of those have to do with medicine. Last Friday, Denise had sent up a home visit, Mom-I don't need a bath, I need medicine, can't you get me some medicine? Any way......
Thanksgiving is upon us. Have some friends coming over, not sure about Ben and Angel yet. I am sure we will see them at least for a little while. Like most couples in town with relatives I am sure they feel pulled. We get to see them other times.
Off to the sewing room.
We went to a show while we were there. The original Circ show. It was good, but you really need to see them in order. I wish we had seen this one first before the other one we saw.
Found a couple of wonderful quilt shops. One, I had found the last time I was there. The other one is what I want to be when I grow up. O my gosh, what a beautiful store. They had just all kinds of antiques as merchandising tables. There was one old stove I would have loved to have. Dropped a couple of $$ there.
As usual, the slot machines loved my money. I could almost hear them saying, yum give us money. Went to the old strip and got to meet Elvis. Greg has the picture on his phone. As soon as I figure out how to I will post it. He was a really good one. It was obvious he had spent some serious $$ on his suit. The hair was real, all in all, pretty darn good. Pictures equal tips. Made some money on blackjack down town and gave it all back. Got a picture of Greg and I will $1 million. Had a lot of fun that day.
Back home and recouping. Last week was not so great, but I have faith this week will be better.
Chrystal had a wreak and totaled her car last week. She is ok, but very very sore.
Same day, different sh--with my mother. I feel so bad she won't allow us to help her. Please don't let me be that way when I am old. Denise-bless her heart-has tried several different ways to get Mom help with baths, house, etc. Mom ends up sending them away for different reasons. Most of those have to do with medicine. Last Friday, Denise had sent up a home visit, Mom-I don't need a bath, I need medicine, can't you get me some medicine? Any way......
Thanksgiving is upon us. Have some friends coming over, not sure about Ben and Angel yet. I am sure we will see them at least for a little while. Like most couples in town with relatives I am sure they feel pulled. We get to see them other times.
Off to the sewing room.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Wednesday
I have had 5 wonderful days. Believe it or not, I had 5 free days that I also felt well. Usually, I will have free days and then feel like crap and not get any thing done that I wanted to. Not so for the last few days.
I made Jennifer a bag for her birthday, hats for the boys, 2 pillowcases, went shopping for clothes and made it to Target and the grocery store. Now this may not seem like a lot to some people but for me it was great.
Coldwater Creek had a marvelous sale this weekend. Not only was everything 70% off but they tacked on 25% more. Greg had gotten me a leather coat for my birthday. It was marked down, the nice ladies at CC gave me the discount. I walked out of there with 2 jackets, a iron free shirt, skirt, pair of pants and a belt for the low low price of about $25. Can't beat it. Yeah, some pants that fit. For those of you who don't know I have lost 11.5# with Weightwatchers. I plan on losing an additonal 10-15 more pounds. Cheer for me, please. I have hit a plateau.
Going with Greg to Las Vegas this weekend. He has to be there for a conference so we are going in a few days earlier. Be gone from Friday until the following Wed.
If you have been reading my sisters blog you know about all the stuff going on with my mother. Her husband is toxic for her. I feel so helpless not being able to help her. She thinks because he takes care of making coffee, breakfast and such that he loves her. Well he is "loving" her into an early grave. Her blood sugar is out of control, she has very little medicine-that he helps himself to, it's a mess. Please pray that God will do something. She won't allow anyone to really help her. Her idea of help is to deposit money into her account. Which David promptly drains for who knows what. Last I knew she was behind on her house payments by at least 2 months that we know of. I'll stop my rant.
I made Jennifer a bag for her birthday, hats for the boys, 2 pillowcases, went shopping for clothes and made it to Target and the grocery store. Now this may not seem like a lot to some people but for me it was great.
Coldwater Creek had a marvelous sale this weekend. Not only was everything 70% off but they tacked on 25% more. Greg had gotten me a leather coat for my birthday. It was marked down, the nice ladies at CC gave me the discount. I walked out of there with 2 jackets, a iron free shirt, skirt, pair of pants and a belt for the low low price of about $25. Can't beat it. Yeah, some pants that fit. For those of you who don't know I have lost 11.5# with Weightwatchers. I plan on losing an additonal 10-15 more pounds. Cheer for me, please. I have hit a plateau.
Going with Greg to Las Vegas this weekend. He has to be there for a conference so we are going in a few days earlier. Be gone from Friday until the following Wed.
If you have been reading my sisters blog you know about all the stuff going on with my mother. Her husband is toxic for her. I feel so helpless not being able to help her. She thinks because he takes care of making coffee, breakfast and such that he loves her. Well he is "loving" her into an early grave. Her blood sugar is out of control, she has very little medicine-that he helps himself to, it's a mess. Please pray that God will do something. She won't allow anyone to really help her. Her idea of help is to deposit money into her account. Which David promptly drains for who knows what. Last I knew she was behind on her house payments by at least 2 months that we know of. I'll stop my rant.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Dieting
Okay, so after my trip to NM with Jennifer and the boys, I went on Weight Watchers. The first 6 weeks went pretty good, the next4 were ok and now I just want to eat everything in sight. Putting on weight is way more fun than taking it off. However, I have lost 11.2#. That .2 is really important to someone on a diet-or shall I say life style change. As if that makes it better, hooey, let's just call it what it is, a diet.
Had someone come by to give me an estimate to recover a chair and ottoman. Is sounds like it would be cheaper just to buy the chair. The issue is I want a red chair-not a lot of those in the furniture stores. We'll see.
Had a new roof put on last week. Nice guys, but they moved the dish and now we have no TV. I forgot to call on Friday so no TV all weekend, but I don't watch it that much anyway, so I forgot several times, finally just put it on my list. Frankly with the exception of a few shows, I could do with out.
Had someone come by to give me an estimate to recover a chair and ottoman. Is sounds like it would be cheaper just to buy the chair. The issue is I want a red chair-not a lot of those in the furniture stores. We'll see.
Had a new roof put on last week. Nice guys, but they moved the dish and now we have no TV. I forgot to call on Friday so no TV all weekend, but I don't watch it that much anyway, so I forgot several times, finally just put it on my list. Frankly with the exception of a few shows, I could do with out.
Friday, October 22, 2010
Just thinking
I just finished reading my children's blog and while I love hearing what they are doing, it makes me really, really want to be with them. This living so far away from them both really sucks, but that is what we have to do. Sometimes I long for the days where everyone lived in the same town and got to see each other daily. Oh, well, life isn't all fair.
On to better words,
I just finished making a dino hat for the boys, they are really cute. Hope to have them finished and in the mail by this weekend.
Greg is gone on a team run this weekend, should be back on Sunday evening.
Last weekend we took a break from Memphis and went to Hot Springs, AK. A long time ago, it was the Mecca for sick people. They bathed in the thermal waters. We tried one of the old bath houses. It is not for those who have any modesty. It was fun, I can say, been there done that, but give me a spa, where they have robes and such.
Went fishing on Monday for bass. I always go into fishing trips all positive that we will bring home huge amounts of fish. But alas, only one was caught, despite the fancy fish finder and gear. Greg caught a 11# 18" bass.It was quite tasty. Me, I only caught a great time on the water with nature.
Sunday was spent hiking in the Hot Springs National Park. Did you know it is the oldest part in the system? FDR used to go to the hot baths. It was very pretty and was nice to be outside doing something.
On to better words,
I just finished making a dino hat for the boys, they are really cute. Hope to have them finished and in the mail by this weekend.
Greg is gone on a team run this weekend, should be back on Sunday evening.
Last weekend we took a break from Memphis and went to Hot Springs, AK. A long time ago, it was the Mecca for sick people. They bathed in the thermal waters. We tried one of the old bath houses. It is not for those who have any modesty. It was fun, I can say, been there done that, but give me a spa, where they have robes and such.
Went fishing on Monday for bass. I always go into fishing trips all positive that we will bring home huge amounts of fish. But alas, only one was caught, despite the fancy fish finder and gear. Greg caught a 11# 18" bass.It was quite tasty. Me, I only caught a great time on the water with nature.
Sunday was spent hiking in the Hot Springs National Park. Did you know it is the oldest part in the system? FDR used to go to the hot baths. It was very pretty and was nice to be outside doing something.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Quilt politics???
I didn't realize that there are quilt politics until yesterday. There I was minding my own business eating my lunch during my break and WHAM I get hit with quilt politics. Less you think I have lost my mind here is a little background.
One of the ladies, let's call her lady A, at the shop did a quilt called Swirly Girl in mid March. Mind you, our sessions run Jan-May, June-Aug, and Sept-Dec. So the earliest she could teach this class would be in June. But she decides to take all of June of and part of July. Mean while, another of our teachers begged off at the last minute for the June-Aug session because her husband was ill. Literally, the schedule was done and really to go to print. Lady B-the sick husband-does a lot of classes for us, so this left a huge hole in the schedule. So, T.-the shop owner-knows that I am in the process of making Swirly Girl for my sister, so she asks me if I would be willing to teach it this summer. Sure I say but what about lady A who made this quilt in March. Answer-she is gone most of the summer and I need classes to run my shop. Makes sense, no classes=slow business. So I say ok. Later I find out Lady A is upset.
At lunch lady C-who also teaches at the shop and does quite well and already has 4 classes this summer-informs me that SHE was the one responsible for the Swirly Girl pattern being brought into the shop,and the fabric that I had used, SHE had talked T into bringing in and, well she guessed that you snooze you lose. Come on, if lady C had really wanted to teach this class this summer all she had to do was list it for T when T was doing the schedule. I wasn't asked until the last minute after all the rest of the schedule had been done. Wow, didn't know one little quilt would cause so much drama. I refuse to be brought into all of this. I didn't find all this out until after I had done the quilt and the schedule was posted.
The quilt did turn out quite nice and Chrystal likes it, so that is all that matters.
That's all I got to say about that.
One of the ladies, let's call her lady A, at the shop did a quilt called Swirly Girl in mid March. Mind you, our sessions run Jan-May, June-Aug, and Sept-Dec. So the earliest she could teach this class would be in June. But she decides to take all of June of and part of July. Mean while, another of our teachers begged off at the last minute for the June-Aug session because her husband was ill. Literally, the schedule was done and really to go to print. Lady B-the sick husband-does a lot of classes for us, so this left a huge hole in the schedule. So, T.-the shop owner-knows that I am in the process of making Swirly Girl for my sister, so she asks me if I would be willing to teach it this summer. Sure I say but what about lady A who made this quilt in March. Answer-she is gone most of the summer and I need classes to run my shop. Makes sense, no classes=slow business. So I say ok. Later I find out Lady A is upset.
At lunch lady C-who also teaches at the shop and does quite well and already has 4 classes this summer-informs me that SHE was the one responsible for the Swirly Girl pattern being brought into the shop,and the fabric that I had used, SHE had talked T into bringing in and, well she guessed that you snooze you lose. Come on, if lady C had really wanted to teach this class this summer all she had to do was list it for T when T was doing the schedule. I wasn't asked until the last minute after all the rest of the schedule had been done. Wow, didn't know one little quilt would cause so much drama. I refuse to be brought into all of this. I didn't find all this out until after I had done the quilt and the schedule was posted.
The quilt did turn out quite nice and Chrystal likes it, so that is all that matters.
That's all I got to say about that.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Hot and muggy
I just want my kids to be closer. As you well know, I just spent some time in southern CA with Becky and Brad. It makes me miss her even more. Last fall after spending a month at Jenn's house, I thought I would never get over being "homesick" for her and her family. Please just beam me up Scotty.
If you haven't noticed, Memphis is in the middle of a hot heat wave. Of course, we are always hot but not this early and not this long. As my beloved so often says -there are 3 parts of the day to Memphis, humid, hot and muggy. Of course, sometimes you get hot, muggy and humid. Just depends on which part of the day it rains, but we haven't had any rain since we got back from CA.
Not doing a whole lot right now. Working more than my fair share of hours this summer because 2 of our ladies have very sick husbands right now and are unable to work. Please pray for Charles Gibson and Mr. Jasper. They both are in need of prayer. One has lung cancer and the other stomach cancer. Charles has been well his whole life until he had a mild stroke and while he was at the hospital they found something on his lungs.
If you haven't noticed, Memphis is in the middle of a hot heat wave. Of course, we are always hot but not this early and not this long. As my beloved so often says -there are 3 parts of the day to Memphis, humid, hot and muggy. Of course, sometimes you get hot, muggy and humid. Just depends on which part of the day it rains, but we haven't had any rain since we got back from CA.
Not doing a whole lot right now. Working more than my fair share of hours this summer because 2 of our ladies have very sick husbands right now and are unable to work. Please pray for Charles Gibson and Mr. Jasper. They both are in need of prayer. One has lung cancer and the other stomach cancer. Charles has been well his whole life until he had a mild stroke and while he was at the hospital they found something on his lungs.
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