The Dackel Princess

After nearly a week of doing nothing but coughing and sleeping, I decided to actually cook a real meal. Oh nothing fancy, mind you, but something that is not a frozen TV dinner.

I chopped up an onion, and a green pepper and sauteed some sweet Italian sausage. I tossed that into a pot with a bunch of chopped up garden tomatoes, and now I have that simmering on the stove for dinner.

Not the best meal I have made, for sure, but not the worst either!

I got two loads of laundry done and I am actually feeling better, despite the fact that my voice is non-existent. I think Hubby is actually happy about that because it has remained quiet around here all day.

In fact, while he was picking fruit, I turned the TV down and just let my ears and head rest.

I checked out the TV schedule for tonight and there is NOTHING on. So I am thinking about just watching a movie or two in the bedroom. I’m sure Hubby will want to watch football.

Slowly but surely, I am getting back in the saddle!

Well somehow I managed to live through the week! I actually think I am doing a little better, despite not having any voice. I have done a little laundry and prepared a couple of easy meals, and even took a long hot shower, allowing for some sense of normality to return to my life.

Hubby even went out for me and bought more Nyquil, Halls Cough Drops and honey for my chamomile tea. What a guy!

I did have plans for the weekend. I’d wanted to go to the Highland Games, just north of us, but alas, that will have to wait until next year.

I had put a couple of chicken breasts in to marinate a couple of weeks ago, and when I couldn’t use them right off, I tossed them in the freezer. Today I pulled them out, and I will roast them along with some sweet potato fries for dinner. I hope I can eat some of it. If not, it will be a good lunch for Hubby tomorrow.

I am simply loving my new gas range and find that cooking is once again a pleasure for me!

Hubby is busy picking apples and soon we will make up some applesauce for the winter! I want to look for some canning recipes and see how a batch or two of that goes.

Someone also mentioned seeing a recipe for apple pie filling that you can. Must look for that.

Well, have a nice weekend everyone!

Have you ever had a high fever, where even you hair roots hurt? How about coughing so much and so hard, that you feel like your head will actually explode?

How about being so sick with an unknown virus that you actually start to think your significant other should bring you to the Emergency Room, because you simply might die on the spot?

Well the last 24 hours have been like this for me, and after actually getting up this morning, I found myself crawling back into bed right after breakfast and sleeping well past lunch.

I got up to have a little soup, but mostly toast and tea. And in the hours since lunch, I’ve been counting down the time until I can go back to bed.

I think it will be tea and toast again, but I somehow think if I can live until the morning, I may just, finally, be over the worst of this!

I just would rather be doing anything in the world, other than coughing so hard that my head pops off!

Monday started out about 6 AM, when I woke in a haze. The dogs had all come to bed with me at 7:30 on Sunday night, needless to say they all had to commune with mother nature at that early hour. Even in the rain.

I went back to bed, not even stopping to make coffee, and slept with the TV on until they broke in with the news about the shootings in Washington, DC at the Naval Base.

By then it was 9 o’clock and Hubby was just stirring from the guest room. Feeling as sick as I do, I sent him straight to the guest room to keep him from getting my germs.

We sipped coffee, and just listened to the news until well after 10:30, when Hubby announced he was hungry. An easy breakfast was made, and then I settled into my recliner.

The day seemed to slip away and before I knew it, it was time for lunch. Hubby ran out to get hamburgers and Still I slept on.

Later in the day, Hubby brought in three and a half pounds of Concord Grapes. This meant I needed to mash them up, and cook them down and now they are in a jelly bag. I can let it rest until tomorrow.

I’m planning another early night, to see if I can kick start a resolution to my illness. Trust me, in the morning, if I am not much better, I will be calling the doctor.

And I will tell you, it was not fun!

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 woke at 3 AM on Sunday with a burning throat, and the inability to swallow without pain. I was also freezing cold and shaking, which told me that I probably had a fever. My muscles and joints ached (even my fingers) and my neck is swollen and it hurts to move it.

I got up and made coffee and breakfast, and I knew I needed to go get the last few things to make stuffing for the turkey, and turkey soup tomorrow.

As I walked through the store, my body began to ache. I could feel the sickness coming on.

I got home, knowing I needed to make stuffing for the turkey and then get the turkey in my new oven.

Have I mentioned how much I love my new stove? It works so well, and the temperature is right on every time I check!

Once I got the turkey in, I sat down with a thermometer! Not to take the turkey’s temperature, but to take my own!

102.6! Yeah, I’d say that is a bit of a temperature! I was quiet in the afternoon, watching a movie, and then in the end, I stumbled around and got the meal cooked.

Now the bones are simmering in my crock pot. Tomorrow I will try to make a turkey soup, but I need to see how I am feeling. I didn’t even finish the dishes tonight. Just too darn sick!

The turkey was nice, the Brussel Sprouts too, but in the end, I had no appetite.

So I will be busy tomorrow making the soup, if I feel better. If I don’t, then it’s off to the doctor’s office.