We're having cool mornings this week and warm afternoons - 75-80 degrees. Purrfect!! Bill has the end of the house where our patio and firepit are located all pressure washed. Now he's doing cement parking pads in front of the house, then the house itself. I would do it the other way around, but if I've learned anything in the last 29 years husbands don't like suggestions, ideas, or comments from wives. So I'll just let him do it his way.
I'm still working alternately on Christmas Swap blocks and GD3 blocks. And tomorrow will come another Sew-along block to add to my list. Life is good!
VELDA - I can sleep through storms, but let the cat or dog start "urping" and I come awake instantly! I think it's a mom thing . .
TINA - Glad you finally got the skirting all done! Whew! I'm no fan of painting, though I AM a fan of things getting painted. Just not by me! lol! Smart to do yard work in the cool cool cool of the evening! We have all our sprinklers on 5 different timers and they water from 3:30am to 8:00am. Any later and the heat of the day makes the water evaporate too quickly, especially on hot days. We run our sprinklers 45 min every other day in summer, but during our really hot spell a few weeks ago we upped it to an hour every day. Our plants were grateful. We see orange chicken in the frozen section of most grocery stores - different brands. We have Trader Joe's in Tacoma and Silverdale but not close to us. So we buy Costco. The Costco variety has 2 packages of it in the box and each package serves about 5. It's great with white rice.
JANA -thanks for the recipe though I'd have to 'tweak' it a bit for us.
Bill loves pasta salad but I haven't made one for a long time. I usually make potato salad and yes, with yummy Miracle Whip! We like the tangier taste. Mayo is too bland for us. I also love to add smoked paprika to both pasta and potato salad.LORI - is your retreat an overnighter or is it just "day camp"? What projects are you taking?
We heard from our Oregon friends (Jay & Jackie) last night. They are arriving 2 days sooner (July 17) than we'd thought so we'll be scrambling a little bit next week. Then our other Oregon friends, Bob & Betsy, also texted that they will be arriving on schedule July 19. And everyone will be leaving July 21 or 22. Good thing we have lots of RV parking! Also, I volunteered to make a big cake for the party at Tex & Annette's on July 20 (Bill's birthday). There will be 20 people. I have a set of square wedding cake pans and I'll use the middle one I think and start baking (from scratch) today and freeze the cake. I was thinking of making one layer white and one layer chocolate. So life is going to pick up the pace here very soon. My sis and DBIL will be arriving Aug 2nd for 2 weeks so nothing is going to settle down for a while. But they are no stress guests. And we love company so all is great! But we do have to write detailed notes for everything on our calendar!
Meanwhile, tonite's supper is a big old guess! Maybe homemade pizza?
Have you got a plan yet?
