Category: Life

Our host is Gattina. Come join us and tell us what YOU did this past weekend! After all, you never know when you will need an alibi!

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This weekend was a rather busy one for me and for Hubby. With the forecast on the TV for sub zero temperatures and a heavy snow storm mid-week, Hubby and I decided that we needed to be pro-active and go out and do all food shopping and get the gasoline for the snow blower and any other incidentals, like dog food that we may need.

What a good plan, we thought! However, as we got to the shopping areas, we saw that almost everyone else in the area, had the same idea! The grocery store was so full that there were only a few shopping carts available and people were pushing and shoving, which made me recall a line in the movie “Shirley Valentine” and I found myself giggling all the way through the store.

This is what Shirley Valentine said:

“I think sex is like supermarkets, you know, overrated. Just a lot of pushing and shoving and you still come out with very little at the end.”

That sure made the time in the supermarket go by faster, as I thought about those lines, and laughed and laughed.

Hubby then worked to clear away as much of the snow and ice as he could, while I worked on Sunday cooking a roast beef dinner, much like my Grandma Honey used to do. Grandma’s father was a Butcher, and she always could appreciate a good cut of meat!

Which is funny because although my husband wasn’t a meat cutter, he knows how to select a good cut of meat, and since I embraced Julia Child’s “Mastering The Art of French Cooking” I can cook one heck of a roast!

There was movie watching, football watching and building a fire in the hearth two days for me. I’m getting quite good at it.

Huh, looking at all we got done, I realize how busy we actually were! Well, good. I hate to be bored!

Have a good week every one!

In my sidebar you will see a widget about another blogger named Joanne. She is a young wife, mother, and writer, who suffered a serious stroke on January 11, 2011. Her condition is serious and we are asking everyone to pray for her.

You can click on her button and go over to read updates, but I also urge you to go back in her blog and read Joanne’s posts. She is a wonderful, happy, loving, giving, woman. Her writing will make you smile and laugh and look inward.

Currently, she is in a drug induced coma to help her brain to rest. Let us all take a moment to pray for a miracle recovery and return to her family and friends.

1. Right now I need to get some extra energy to get my Christmas boxes put away.

2. Coffee is what’s in my glass/cup.

3. A copy of this letter will be sent to many people in this town.

4. An ice cream Sundae is best with a spoon.

5. The best movie I’ve seen lately is RED.

6. I’m a lucky woman to have known love, like; as a wife, sister, friend and mother. There is nothing better than love. (Wow, that sentence is not well crafted!)

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to a nice fire in the hearth, tomorrow my plans include the weekly, infamous laundry and Sunday, I want to make a beef stew in the crock pot and watch the Pats Game!

Well, we did it. Hubby and I went out on Monday to grocery shop, for the first time since the holidays! It was a big shopping and we spent a lot of money (thank goodness for plastic, I would hate to have to carry that much cash), and we loaded the car up with all sorts of foods, both fresh and packaged.

I love having Hubby come with me on these jaunts. He is great selecting meats and poultry, and he really knows his produce! He also knows me well enough, so that when I say, “Oh I need that stuff, you know”, he actually knows.

We both remembered “The List“, and because we remembered it, we remembered to get a new flashlight for yours truly!

Ever since the Coyote and bear episodes this fall, I have taken the dackels out at night and used a flash-light. My old light, is so bad that I was constantly shaking it to get any light at all, and then, it would go out again.  A candle would have given me more light than the flashlight did!

We got a super duper, extra large, super lumen flashlight that has a great bright beam! I can see all the way up to my neighbors house with it!

The other great part of our day was that when we went into BJ’s Warehouse to shop they had wonderful Australian lamb for $2.99 a pound! Yes, you read that right! $2.99 a pound! We bought 5 packages of them and froze 4 and have kept out 1 package for our dinner tonight! Lamb has been so expensive, that I cannot even recall the last time we bought lamb.

Since I enjoy lamb with mint jelly, I bought a new jar today. Oh I can hardly wait for dinner tonight! Lamb, roasted potatoes and cauliflower! Oh yummy!!!

Life is good!

Our host is Gattina. Come join us and tell us what YOU did this past weekend! After all, you never know when you will need an alibi!

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I’m afraid that this past weekend was not full of anything particularly interesting. In fact, I think you could say that it was fairly dull around here.

We did have a wonderful fire in the hearth and the dogs all took turns lying down in front of it, with the exception of Fritz. He dislikes the snapping sound that the wood makes, and so if there is a fire, Fritz is in our bedroom hiding!

Hubby went skiing on Sunday, and worked on some of his paper work on the other days. He also took his fair share of naps!

I cooked wonderful meals of Brook Trout, that had been caught by my cousin Janet’s boyfriend, Dave. The Trout were so wonderful and reminded me of summer!

We also have no snow. Well, perhaps no snow is me being a little dramatic, but we have almost no snow and that’s nearly as bad.

This is my back yard looking up the hill toward my neighbors home. There’s Arnie and Anneliese posing for you.

They claim that we will have a big Nor’easter on Wednesday, but so far “they” have been wrong about our forecasts and we still have almost no snow.

We will see!

It’s always been my policy not to dwell on the sad parts of life, but after the events in Tucson, Arizona today, I simply cannot think of much else.

A young, vibrant, Congresswoman, was shot and many others too, as a crazed gunman went into a crowd and at point blank range, shot as many people as he could before being taken down by two courageous men.

I’ve asked myself why? Why did he do this? I would love to be able to blame other people for this, but the fact is, the young man who did this, did it because he thought he should.

Many people say that we should have stricter gun laws, or that we should have no guns, but I am afraid that is not a logical solution. You see even if we took all the guns away from the good gun owners, Tucson is right next door to Mexico, and the thieves, robbers and crazy people could still get them. Actually I believe that the bad people would still get them period, leaving the responsible and good people unable to defend themselves.

So, what is the answer here?

I am thinking that we need to come to the realization that our politicians and celebrities are probably no longer safe. Many of them need a body guard, or to be packing a piece themselves.

I love the line from “Blindside” when Lee-Anne is threatened by a thug when she is looking for Michael, her adopted son.

“If you so much as set foot downtown, you will be sorry. I’m in a prayer group with the D.A., I’m a member of the NRA and I’m always packing.”

Perfect!

So forgive me, for not having too many positive things to say today. I have never been shot in the head, but I do know how it feels to wake up in the morning and by the end of the day find your life shattered. You see, no one gets up in the morning and says, “Ah yes, today will be the day that I die.” And yet, for 6 people in Tucson, Arizona that is exactly what happened.

I’m praying for their families, for the people who were shot and are in critical condition, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, and her family.