I must get some gloves before I freeze my hands to death for Pete's sake. With temperatures in the 40s and 50s, I figure it's about time. I'm really good at putting off going shopping until I absolutely have to as you can tell by now. While I'm on the hunt for gloves, I'll see if I can't find a good coat too. I checked Tractor Supply but I wasn't impressed. They just want too much money and I don't have anything to compare prices to unless I shop around (ugh!!!) so that'll be me tomorrow.
Also on my list, I'm going to collect some of the colored leaves that have covered the ground everywhere you look. Some are just brown but there are lots of red and yellow ones too. Somehow I plan to make an arrangement with them whether it be a wreath or in a vase.
I have to go to the dreaded Walmart too. For one thing, I need stupid contact lens cleaner again and they still have the lowest prices of anyone in town. On a happy note I also need to get a hunting vest, you know the one, really bright, bright orange? Everyone says I don't need one to hunt on private property but what if another hunter (who shouldn't even be on the property) mistakes my lovely locks for a deer? LOL ha ha ha pretty funny stuff. I still want one.
It doesn't look like much of a list but you have to factor in the regular chores too and then it just becomes crazy! Ah well such is life.
My roosters are not such scaredy cats anymore. They'll come right up when I'm throwing the scratch out for them. They have no interest in me but they do like that corn. The lone rooster is still on his own. They try to keep him from eating but he just moves away to another spot. They don't try to hurt him or anything and I can't figure out why they don't like him but they obviously don't.
I don't know if any of you remember the posting about Rebecca noticing how her friend's apt. was a pig sty but I have another "first" to report on Rebecca. You might want to sit if you aren't already. She called the other day and asked me for my recipe for making beef tips with gravy. Yep - she said she wants to learn how to cook!!!!!!!!!!! My, my, my the miracles never cease with this child. She's not talking the typical teen/early 20s cooking like I did, you know the tuna casserole, hamburger helper days... nope, she wants to know how to cook real food. I just knew I was rubbing off on her somehow even though she was pretty darn good at not showing any signs for the longest time there.
I sent her a couple of easy recipes and Wally said she needed to learn to make her own chicken & dumplins but she was quick to reply with "you can't improve on perfection." LOL She's just too lazy and wants me to make them for her. I don't mind. I actually enjoy making chicken & dumplins. She says the only problem now is that she doesn't have the Wolfgang Puck skillet that she needs to cook with. She said maybe someone would get it for her for Christmas... I get the hint child. :) lol
I had to put a couple of new tires on my car today. Tires are really no fun at all for as necessary as they are to the total car package. It took them an hour and a half to put the two new tires on the back rims and move them to the front and the front ones to the back. I know nothing about all this and just told them what Wally told me to tell them. Tires = expensive, black, grooved and smelly. That's the extent of my knowledge.
I went on-line to place my AVON order and naturally the one brand I like best is being discontinued. Boooooooo shame on them. It's my face and hand cream that I just love and have been using for years. I think the problem is that they keep coming out with so much new stuff that people stop buying the old stuff so they have to let it go. Well, I left a message for Lisa Adams today to see if she can still get either or both of them while supplies last. If not, I guess I'll have to make the switch to something else. I usually end up trying two or three before I find one I like.
My CSA basket had Bok Choy in it this week. Seriously folks, I've never cooked Bok Choy and not only that but I'm not sure I've ever eaten Bok Choy. Of course I went to my trusty Better Homes and Gardens cookbook but all it had in it was how to clean and store it. I went on-line and, almost without exception, every recipe tells me to sautee it in soy sauce with some grated ginger and red, yellow and orange peppers. I picked up the ingredients last night and plan to give it try this weekend. Maybe I'll throw in some chicken tenders while I'm at it :) Does anyone have a suggestion for how to cook Bok Choy other than with soy sauce?
Also in the basket were some hot peppers, green bell peppers, butternut squash, okra, basil, arugula, red leaf lettuce, radishes and turnip greens. It was a very plentiful basket and we have yet to finish eating everything from it. I did cook the turnip greens but we haven't eaten them yet. After all the ones Darryl brought us, we just weren't in the mood for them anymore. I'll freeze them for later though so they won't go to waste. I did use the peppers in my cornbread and the basil and arugula went into my shrimp-pasta alfredo. It was quite yummy if I do say so myself :) :) Too bad for me it was my last bag of Florida shrimp that Sandy sent up here with me when I made the move. :( :( :( sniff, sniff...
I bought some of those baby squashes that are coated with some kind of shiny stuff since they're to be used just for decoration and I put them all in a really pretty basket that my Mom gave me a long time ago. I have them sitting on the front porch step right up by the door. They are mostly golden, orange and greenish colors so they look really pretty with the brown cabin backdrop. I'll see if I can get a picture to put on the blog so you can see what it looks like.
Fall is truly in the air around here and the leaves are blowing around all over the place, especially when I'm driving. The wind gets them up in the air and spinning all around until they finally float back down to the ground. As soon as another car passes them, up they go again to start all over.
Update on William, Ernie's hubby... he's home and doing well. He has to take it easy and he has to start eating healthy and HE HAS TO QUIT SMOKING. Do you hear me all you smokers? He had a couple of heart attacks... do you think you'll be spared for some reason? Smoking depletes your blood of oxygen. Believe it or not, you really need oxygen - amazing huh? Without ample supplies in your bloodstream, you're likely to cause thinning of the walls of the veins and arteries that carry the oh-so-important blood around through your body. Whadda ya say? Won't you at least consider quitting???? If not for your own self, at least for those who love you and would like to have you around for a little while longer... :) Besides, it makes for very stinky breath.
I'll be digging out the soup recipes and telling you all about them. That big red pot is sure going to get a workout here. If you thought I abused it in FL, you ain't seen nuthin yet! lol Just today I turned to the broth, stock and soup section of Connie's Mom's cookbook. So far the broths and stocks are in conjunction with what I already know but the soups are varied and kind of in-depth. I'm excited to have new soup recipes to try out, not just for blogging, for eating!! ha ha ha. Soups freeze really well so you never know which one I'm going to dig out of the freezer to share with you when you come up. It'll be a great surprise!! lol
It's another good football weekend as the FL Gators take on #1 Alabama in Tuscaloosa. I'm not one to get excited about college football (sorry Rebecca and Ricky) but I do think that will be a good game. The Broncos are playing the Titans here in TN so I'll have to watch that one too. I'm still a Packer Fan tried and true but those games aren't always televised so I'm left with little choice.
Oh yeah, there's a pumpkin patch on my way home!! It's really a nursery but they were closed for almost a month. They just opened up the other day and viola! hundreds of pumpkins appeared. They have the orange ones, the white ones and the striped ones. They have the short, fat ones and the tall, skinny ones. They even have gourds of all shapes and sizes. You just know I have to stop and pick up a few to go with the wreath/arrangement I'll be making this weekend. I can just picture it now, sitting on my little gray table on the front porch all decorative and Fall-looking!! woo hoo!
Well you really should come see me before this beautiful weather turns cold on me. Let me know your plans. Southwest just posted their special rates again so take a look and see what works for you. :)
Enjoy your weekend. It might be time for the St. Mary Magdalen Church Fall Festival. You should look it up and see when it is. It is the very best festival of the year. They really go all out. There's bingo, 50/50 raffles, usually a car raffle, rides for big kids and little kids, tons of food, arts & crafts, bake sale and games for you to win those silly stuffed animals and other junk that gets thrown away after a week or so... lol Big kids and little kids alike always enjoy that festival.
"I have seen women walk right past a TV set with a football game on and - this always amazes me - not stop to watch, even if the TV is showing replays of what we call a "good hit," which is a tackle that causes at least one major internal organ to actually fly out of a player's body." ~Dave Barry
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