Summertime Laziness

 Summer brings out the lazy in me!

Monday : I pickled the first round of harvested pears and was pretty pleased with how they turned out. Other than that is was just a normal hot summer day. I don't hibernate in the summer, but I stick close to home just because I don't like getting all gussied up to go somewhere when it is hot. It helps that the pool is just a few steps out the back door.

Monday dinner: I still had some produce from my prior visit to the produce stand and it needed to be used.

Deconstructed stuffed peppers, corn on the cob, cucumber tomato onion salad

Tuesday: Bennys and Brenda had their produce stand set up early so I went to buy the few things I needed. On the way home I stopped at The Pig to do a little cherry picking and to snag the free item. I drove back home, put things away and then crashed. I felt bad and was freezing. I am pretty sure I was fighting a potential sinus issue. I wrapped up in a blanket and chair slept most of the day.

Tuesday dinner: TheHub had played golf with a couple of our neighbors and, since I was not feeling well, counted on him eating lunch out. He didn't, his loss.

Baked potato, coleslaw

Wednesday: I spent the day mainly reading and doing a ton of laundry. 

I had bought 5 pounds of ground chuck at ThePig that I had just put in the meat drawer of the fridge. It needed to be processed for the freezer. I split it in half and packed some uncooked, and browned the rest before bagging it. (And this continual filling might be why I never come close to emptying the freezer!)

Wednesday dinner: I kept some of the browned ground chuck out to use for dinner

Spaghetti with meat sauce, tossed salad

Thursday: I woke and thought I had a ton of time before going to somewhere I had planned. I was enjoying a slow morning drinking coffee when DIL2 texted me. I had written in my calendar I needed to be there at 1, instead of 10. Oops.  I called My Beloved Sister to see if she could get ready in 15 minutes, so we could make it there just a little later. than our scheduled time. We made it but it was not easy. The upside is that I had not been to my happy place in at least a month and I had missed seeing all the participants at Independence Place

Thursday dinner: TheHub was out and about during the day and we both got home within 15 or so minutes of each other. Since we were both dressed for the day, we did a few inside chores,  and went out for an early dinner at The Pita Cafe.

Racer sandwich, fries

Friday: I had some major laundry catching up to do, and there was always reading that needed to be done.

Friday dinner: We try to have meatless meals at least once a week and I almost always plan a veggie meal.

Mac and cheese*, lady peas, sliced tomatoes, coleslaw

Saturday: I had planned on working in the room of horror, but accidentally stumbled on something that took up a large part of my day. I have said before that I have a well (overstocked) pantry/freezer with an overflow shelf stable food storage in the laundry room. While putting a load of clothes in the washer, I noticed some red powdery something on the laundry room floor, next to my overflow cabinet.  A cellophane packet of chili powder, had gotten overturned and looks like it snagged on the hinge for the cabinet door (the doors I never put on the cabinet)  probably when I was looking for something (i.e. shuffling things around while I looked) and was torn. It had spread all over the shelf it was on. Nothing to do but clean it up and once I started it morphed into a total removal of everything in the cabinet and a complete clean out. And why would I want to just clean the cabinet and leave when I could clean out even more areas of the laundry room?

Saturday dinner: Son2 and DIL2 had temporary guardianship of one of the Independence Place participants a couple of years ago prior to his move to Little Rock. He was in town and spending the night with them Saturday night. We have missed seeing him and asked them to meet us for dinner at Martin's BBQ.

Pulled pork, broccoli salad, green beans

Sunday: We woke early and went to our church's communion service, then went to the early traditional service. It is the best way for me to start my week.

Once home I actually cooked breakfast ( not in my normal wheelhouse) before processing the pears I picked the other day that needed to be processed.

I made pear /cardamom preserves with about 4 pounds of pears, then canned them.

Once they were done I went out and picked about 5 more pounds of pears and there are still a lot more one the tree. 

Sunday night: It was a leftover kind of evening.

Mac and cheese, lady peas, coleslaw

What we might have this week:

1. Big salad meal

2. Veggie meal

3. Fundraiser w/ meal

4. Crack chicken, green beans, tossed salad

5. Steak, baked potato, tossed salad

6. Tacos with all the fixings

7. Grilled tuna steaks, mashed potatoes, broccoli salad

Books read in July:

Holly

Eruption

You Make It Feel Like Christmas

*Go to any meat and three in the south and ask for a vegetable plate. Mac and cheese will be listed as a vegetable

Oh no just 24 weeks till Christmas

 It is really too hot to get any sort of Christmas mojo going but I have noticed a few places like Michael's and Hobby Lobby are beginning to sneak a few Christmasy things out. I suppose those are for the true crafters who start and finish projects before the seasonal rush. 

These people are not my people!

I finally did get the pickled pears made and canned, and still have a ton more to pick and process. I think I will pickle another batch and then make pear preserves to also give as Christmas gifts. I have one friend who always talks about how much she loves them, so she will definitely get a jar.

I did not touch the room of horrors, but have noticed on the local Buy Nothing facebook site, people are starting to sort through their decorations and give away those not used anymore. There seem to be many people who are interested in getting them, so I need to finish sorting and give it away sooner rather than later. However I have managed to ignore the room pretty successfully so far. Maybe there is no reason to think I will do otherwise in the very near future.

I read the Christmas book I had chosen from the Libby app, You Make It Feel Like Christmas.  Now I need to read 4 more to catch up on the one a month I anticipated reading. 

Amazon Prime Days came and went and though I found a really good buy on what would have made a great "add in" Christmas present for my sons, I did not pull the trigger and get it for them.  Now I regret it!

Speaking of Prime Day and Christmas__I did order a set of calligraphy markers, and downloaded a font I really like. I have been trying to master the Alphabet to possibly address my Christmas Cards this year.  Or maybe just address the ones to my most special friends?

Ho, Ho, Hum

Anne

Lazy week

This was just one of those regular summer weeks, mostly unplanned days with lots of sun afternoon rains, swim time, and iced tea on the porch.

Planned  meals:

1. Big salad meal

2. Veggie meal

3. Grilled tuna, tossed salad, green beans, mashed potatoes

4. Zucchini cheese strata, tossed salad

5. Stuffed peppers, coleslaw, mashed potatoes

6. We might be going tn Nashville and if we do we will eat out some

7. Ditto

Joys and meals that happened in real life:

Monday: I like to take Mondays and plan out the week, so I did just that, along with a lot of laundry and pool time. TheHub and I swam laps. We rarely swim laps at the same time. (I think it is a competition thing)

TheHub was/is athletic and played baseball all through college. All our married lives he could beat me no matter what we did, except swim. I am a much stronger swimmer than he is and his competitive nature will not allow him to be bested by me.

Dinner: There were things in the fridge that needed to be used.

Stuffed banana peppers, coleslaw, cornbread

Tuesday: I was on hold waiting for My Beloved Sister to let me know when she needed help. BIL had bought a new car in August of '24, and she was selling it. The place she was selling it and she had agreed to a price and all that was left was to deliver the car, get her money and be picked up. Simple right? Nope.  

Our plan was for me to leave 40 minutes after she left. It would (according to what they told her) give her time to do the paperwork about the time I got there. I had already told her it was no big deal if it ran a little over. 3 1/2 hours later!

Dinner: Rotisserie chicken from Publix saved the day. The rest was in the fridge.

Roast chicken, pink eyed peas, cucumber onion tomato salad

Wednesday: Spent the day sorting, organizing or tossing then cleaning the bathrooms and linen closets.  We have a lot of bathrooms and linen closets in this house so it takes a while. Now I have a true picture of what I might need to purchase to meet our shampoo, soap, body wash, first aid, etc. issues for the next year. Not a blooming thing!!! I am overstocked on all fronts!

Wednesday dinner: After spending the day in various bathrooms, cooking was not on my priority list.

Leftover chopped roast chicken in Italianish pasta, tossed salad

Thursday: Woke to no internet. A house is being built in the neighborhood and evidently while accessing water and power lines the crater they dug cut through the ATT fiber line.

I could do without internet or tv but a day without music?

TheHub and I did not go totally digital, and still have a tuner, turntable, cd player, and even cassette player plus thousands of albums, cassette tapes, and cds, decades worth of all genres. So, after dusting it off, I was able to blast whatever I wanted to. The bonus? TheHub met Son2 for lunch so I could really crank up the volume! I felt like a teen, well except for the knees, and back, and . . .  

Thursday dinner: TheHub had eaten a big lunch when he met Son2, so I felt no obligation to cook a real meal.

BLT* salad

Friday: My Beloved Sister came over and we spent about 2 hours in he pool. We both swam laps, then did some floating, followed by more laps.  After getting out, and a quick shower, TheHub and I had some running around we needed to do. We hit 5 different places before heading home.

Friday dinner: We were out later than I thought we would be and decided to pick up a quick dinner.

Chicken, green beans, coleslaw.

Saturday: TheHub and I ran by our favorite produce stand, then ran a couple of other places before coming home for a quick lunch.

More swimming with MBS. While we were swimming, the skies darkened and we played the game "Is that thunder or a plane" . I am perfectly fine swimming in the rain, but not so much in a thunderstorm. We agreed it was a plane and finished our laps. The actual storm happened about an hour later.    

Saturday dinner: We had been to Benny and Brenda's produce stand which meant a veggie dinner was going to happen.

Lady peas, okra, sliced tomatoes, cornbread  

Sunday: We woke in time to make it to the early church communion service, then the 8:30 service in the sanctuary. Our Sunday School class takes the month of July off. Many of our class members have beach houses or lake places and are gone most of July. 

We were going to be through with our church activities by 9:30 and decided to go out to breakfast afterward. We thought about hitting Big Bad Breakfast but their parking lot was full and there was a wait out the door. Nope, we just moved on to Jack's**. 

It is a local fast food restaurant, but the one nearest us had been torn down and rebuilt and actually has a nice eating aren. I am usually a cheap breakfast date as I generally get just a cup of coffee, however, Jack's has a smoked sausage biscuit on their menu that is fantastic. I don't know if they use Conecuh or not, but if it isn't it is a near ringer in the flavor and texture department.

After we came home I headed to the screened porch to read (thankfully we have a ceiling fan out there) and may or may not have dozed until a fierce clap of thunder changed that. Then I got to do one of my favorite summertime things. I love being outside yet protected during a storm, and like most summertime thunderstorms here, it lasted about 25 minutes with lightning, thunder and rain that looked like someone turned on a faucet. Then about as quickly it blew in, it was gone, followed by sunshine and steam rising everywhere. Ah, summer in the south!

Once the grass dried a little I picked about a dozen more pears to pickle.

Sunday dinner: We ate a later breakfast, then skipped an actual lunch, though some snacking took place. We had a boatload of fruit , cheese and different crackers on hand to fill that snacking need. Neither of us were actually hungry for dinner, and I was not really in the mood to cook. Instead we took the easy route and went to the absolutely cheapest place nearest us to snag dinner. Taco Bell to the rescue for a not delicious but adequate dinner.

Two of their regular cheap tacos***

What's possibly up for dinner this week?

1. Stuffed banana peppers, corn on the cob, tomato cucumber onion salad

2. Veggie meal TBD

3. Big salad meal TBD

4. Spaghetti w/meat sauce, tossed salad

5. Grilled tuna steaks, baked potato, green beans

6. Hamburgers w/ all the fixings, fruit salad

7. Take out or out to eat (We did not go to Nashville but it is a possibility again for this week)

Books read in July:

Holly

Eruption

Have a great week staying on plan going off plan or with no plan at all.

May all your weeds be wildflowers.

Anne

* I cook 2 or 3 pounds of bacon at one time in the oven until it is done but not crispy (we like it crispy) then freeze it. When we want bacon all I have to do is nuke it for about 45 seconds. Before TheHub retired that much bacon would last about 3 months, but now that he is home and is on to my bacon trick, he makes a BLT for lunch often. It is disappearing much faster than it did.

** Though Jack's began its life as a locally owned fast food hamburger joint, it added a really good breakfast menu and fantastic chicken dinners. It also has limited monthly specials, and you never know what they will be.

They are all over Alabama, a couple on Georgia and at least one in/near Chattanooga TN. If you are near on and have a hankering for something good give them a try. The biscuits are cat head biscuits just like your granny used to make.

***The bonus (if there actually is one) of going to Taco Bell is having the overage of taco sauce packs they stuff in the take out bag. I can never understand how two tacos require a dozen packs of sauce, however, I will save them and add them as flavoring to something I cook later on.

Oh no just 25 weeks till Christmas.

 I have noticed Christmas in July stuff all around, and realized we are halfway there. I am still in a holding pattern and totally uninspired to finish the room of horrors. It's hot, muggy, and I had rather be swimming than stuck in a room surrounded by seasonal decorations. Maybe next week? I have my doubts, though it could happen.

The only thing even remotely Christmasy I have done this week is to download a Christmas book from my Libby app. I said in January I was going to read a Christmas book every month, but as I look in the mirror I am 4 months behind, excluding the current download, You Make It Feel Like Christmas.

It looks like this will be a quick read if I ever open the blooming thing and start reading. 

My pear tree is loaded this year and I have picked some hard green ones to make pickled pears for Christmas gifts, but have been skillfully avoiding actually doing it. This is time sensitive because I can't make it with fully ripened pears. 

At least I do have the jars washed and ready and have all the necessary ingredients. Now I just need to get my rear in gear, but the pool is screaming at me right now and I feel I must pay attention to it. Tomorrow? 

Ho, Ho, Hum.

Transition and Confusion

This was a transition week after having Son1 and Pip here. Even though they left on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday I woke still thinking they were here. I am not the brightest bulb in the box until I have been awake a couple of minutes.

What was planned:

Grilled tripletail, baked potato, coleslaw

leftover conecuh sausage, leftover cheese biscuits, coleslaw

Veggie dinner TBD

BLT salad

Spaghetti with meat sauce, tossed salad, garlic toast

Something*

Something*

How far I veered off the planned path:

Monday: Pip had one last request of things she wanted to do while here, so off we went to Starbucks. She has some pink drink she likes to drink and wanted a grilled cheese from there. I had no idea Starbucks even had a grilled cheese option, but I am not a Starbucks regular. I only go twice a year, once for a caramel macchiato and another time at Christmas for their peppermint mocha. 

I love coffee, but I am not a fancy coffee drinker. I make it at home every morning like I prefer it, strong and black, not burnt tasting like Starbucks plain coffee tastes to me. 

Mid-day we had to leave to get them to the airport. It is always hard saying goodbye, but we had them for 2 weeks and that filled my cup until the next time we see them.

We got home and rested because we both were tired. I did pick some of the bigger pears from the tree in the front yard, then decided to research what to do with them. I need to harvest them all soon and need, plans in place for long term, as well as short term storage.

The tree is covered  this year, but a mocking bird is nesting there and she is not fond of me being around. I don't mind sharing the tree and some pears with her, and will not bother her babies, but would appreciate her not dive bombing me.

Monday dinner: We had some food in the fridge that needed to be eaten.

 Leftover conecuh sausage, coleslaw,  cheese biscuits

Tuesday: We woke and hoped to get out early to beat the heat. What a foolish thought. It was hot and humid at the start of the day. We had been missing Benny and Brenda's produce stand because the rains kept them from setting up on their usual days closest to my house. I was getting desperate for some good tomatoes (the ones in our yard are not really producing yet) . We ran by and they were there, but without their usual glut of produce. The rains have really affected their crop growth with some crops molding in the fields. Though I was happy for the tomatoes, I really wanted yellow squash and cucumbers, but they have not been producing well this year.

After the produce run we ran by Pilleteri's to grab some of their ground chuck/bacon mix. We have never had it before but 2 different trusted friends told us how good it is so we decided to give it a try.

Next we headed to Snapper Grabber to see if they had any tripletail. It was our lucky day.

Tuesday dinner: Because our fish monger did have tripletail in their case, dinner planned itself. Honestly though, even if they had not had it I would have just bought grouper because we love it also.

Grilled tripletail, baked potato, tossed salad

Wednesday: I did a bunch of laundry, then talked with MBS while I cleaned out the laundry room refrigerator. After it was cleaned and the many loads of clothes I was doing Wednesday were done, I spent time reviewing our July schedule, browsing recipes for potential meals, some advance cooking, and catching up on some reading.

Wednesday dinner: I found a lot of things in the laundry room fridge that needed to be eaten, cooked, or frozen.

Leftover collards, corn on the cob, pink eyed peas, cornbread, peach cobbler

Thursday: I have to stop staying up so late. It was 4 before I finally went to bed, so I slept until a little after 9.  Bad me!

Got up, had coffee (needed a caffeine i.v drip for I was still tired) talked with My Beloved Sister then got ready for the day. Cute clothes and summer heat are not mutually inclusive, but I refuse to compromise and am just very thankful for a really good car a/c.

TheHub and I ran a few errands, picked up the ribs for the fourth (yes I let someone else do the smoking and I pick them up cooked and ready to eat. It is worth every penny). After we grabbed the ribs we stopped by JaWanda's Pies in Inverness. I was not, nor am I ever interested in a sweet potato pie, but she also makes delicious pound cakes. Again I paid for the convenience of not having to bake, and again it was worth it. I do not mind spending money if there is value in it, and after the past two weeks I am putting a price on my time. I had rather be spending the fourth swimming and having fun than cooking.

Thursday dinner: Thanks to the refrigerator clean out and advance cooking, dinner was almost ready and only took about 5 minutes to heat and throw together.

Something like if a fajita and nachos had a really weird baby

Friday: Happy 4th of July if you live in the States and Happy Friday  (or Saturday) to everyone else. Hope all of you had a good day regardless of what side of the pond you live on.

We had a day of swimming and enjoying family. Son2 and DIL2 were here along with MBS. The day was hot but the pool felt great.

Friday dinner: We had just one meal for the day because we knew it would be a big meal, and it was.

BBQ ribs, potato salad, collard greens, vidalia onion pie, watermelon, chocolate pound cake, ice cream

Saturday: TheHub and I got up and ran a few errands. ( I left before coffee which is always dangerous for anyone around me) We ran by Benny's produce stand and he was not there. Brenda had told us they would only be there if they had enough to harvest, so I am assuming the weather (rain) still was impacting their yield.

We had a few more things to do before we came home to eat lunch, then rested, read and did a few chores. TheHub left to play 9 holes of golf and we had planned on swimming after he got home, but he ran into some friends on the course and golf was extended. Did not matter at all to me, but once it got closer to 6, I decided to nix swimming and just get dinner started. 

Saturday dinner: I don't mind swimming before dinner if all I am going to do is warm leftovers but I was going to cook and I don't like coming in from the pool, taking a shower then starting dinner from scratch. It is never about eating late, but cleaning the kitchen late really pisses me off.

Hamburger patties, french fries, cucumber tomato onion salad

Sunday: We woke in plenty of time to get to church, but right before time to get dressed we decided to stay home and watch it online. Since it was the 4th weekend, we only had one service and no Sunday School.

The day was beautiful and I decided the pool was calling me. MBS came over and we swam laps, then just floated and talked. It felt great!

Later in the afternoon I talked with Sluggy and caught up on her trip. Now I know my southern rear end does not need to go near the Arctic Circle__ever. A summertime high of 47? No thanks!

Sunday dinner: This was a reheat and eat type of night.

Ribs, collards, potato salad, baked beans

What might possibly happen this week? Because we might swim right before dinner I want things I can have ready in a jiffy.

1. Big salad meal

2. Veggie meal

3. Grilled tuna, tossed salad, green beans, mashed potatoes

4. Zucchini cheese strata, tossed salad

5. Stuffed peppers, coleslaw, mashed potatoes

6. We might be going tn Nashville and if we do we will eat out some

7. Ditto

Books read in July:

Holly

Have a great week staying on plan, going off plan, or with no plan at all.

May all your weeds be wildflowers.

Anne

Oh no just 26 weeks till Christmas

 I did go into the room of horrors and work a little bit, but did I finish?

Nope!!! I guess you can call me  a . . . 

                                     . . . 

The whirlwind is over__for now

After time at the beach and a week+ having Son1 and Pip here, our lives are now back to just the two of us. My days are all mixed up and I operated all day today assuming it was Monday. It wasn't. We really did love being with them and now things will settle to a dull roar for a bit, and we will just do the things we normally do together.

Meals planned for the week:

None. I knew the week was going to be unusual and there would be no reason to plan, so I didn't.

Monday: When Pip is in town, TheHub and I act like Disneyland grandparents. On a good year we see her three times, but usually twice is the norm. Though, there was that 2 year period during Covid when we did not see her live and in person at all. 

Instead of being able to take her to grab a burger or something similar every week, like all of my friends who have grands living close by, our spending on her is done in a concentrated amount of time during visits. It might seem excessive to some, but our options for spoiling our only grandchild are limited and we plan for and take full advantage of it when she is in town.

Since she was a little older and wiser, this year instead of grabbing the credit card and swiping every time we were out and about, we gave her cash the first day she was here, with the promise I would take her shopping wherever/whenever she wanted to go, but once the money ran out, that was the end of what we would buy. (There was a codicil that if we were out and about, food purchases were excluded and would be on us.)

Our first stop was to her favorite place, Sephora. And trust me, she flat out knows what she wants there. We shopped and shopped and shopped some more, until she had found the things she wanted, ever mindful of her budget. We would still be there today if I was not about to wet my pants. Sephora at the Summit has no rest rooms and it required going to Trader Joe's for a little relief. While we were in the store I did pick up a few necessities.

We had not eaten lunch by about 2:30 and were hungry. When I asked her what she was thinking might be good, she suggested sushi. Not my favorite, but I gave her the option and she chose, so I went along with it.

We came home in time to find the pool guy here. The rains are still messing with the water balance, but he assured us it would be good to go by Tuesday.

Monday dinner: We scraped together leftovers from the Sunday birthday party

Hamburger patties, salad

Tuesday: The first thing Pip wanted to do was go to Crumbl cookies. We went and came home with a 4 pack. Of course she got to pick out all the flavors.

Swim day, all day with jumping out of the pool only to eat or get out of the sun. Fortunately it was overcast part of the day so no one was sunburned. 

Tuesday dinner: A quick and simple dinner was called for

Conecuh sausage, coleslaw or salad, rice, mango cubes

There may or may not have been a Bruster's ice cream run!

Wednesday: I had arranged for one of our neighbors who has a daughter Pip's age to come over. They had a good time swimming, laughing, talking, eating until it was time for L to head home. 

Pip had to make a choice between seeing the play Frozen or visiting Son2, DIL2 and their 4 dogs. (Know what you call the condition of having too many dogs?   A Roverdose!) She chose to see Jack, Reesie, Cocopuff and Trixie.

Wednesday dinner: We took dinner to their house

BBQ pork, coleslaw, baked beans, cornbread

Thursday: Another swim day. MBS came over to swim with Pip and me. After swimming we got dressed and headed to Barnes and Noble. Pip has developed a keen interest in CD's and Vinyl albums and wanted to go browse and see if she could find anything she wanted. After looking through every single cd and album available, she bought what she said she wanted before we ever left for B and N. So the band, Brat, can count on Pip for another CD sale.

(As an aside: I subscribe to Sirius radio for my car and until the past week it had never been tuned to a pop 40's station. This past week that is all I listened to. I am unsure if it was my ears or brain bleeding!)

Thursday dinner: 

Thursday dinner: We met Son2 and DIL2 for dinner at Waldos

Chicken, collards, coleslaw, toast, fried pickles, other stuff that I don't remember.

Friday: Swimming happened in the morning, then Son1 took Pip to the Galleria then to Son2's house. She wanted to spend the night with them and have lots of time with the dogs.

Friday dinner: Son1 met two of his former fraternity brothers and their wives for dinner, so it was just TheHub and me for dinner here.

Hot dogs, french fries

Saturday: We met Son2 at a restaurant halfway between our houses for a quick lunch and Pip exchange. Once we were home she decided some shop[ping was in order. We left with the intention of going to Ross then Ulta. However she found a haul at Ross then nixed Ulta altogether. If the truth is being told, she still had one large bill left from the money we gave her for shopping and did not want to break it, so it could go back to Portland with her.  I am sure she had plans to use it there, probably for entertainment with her friends. Fine with me! I don't like to shop and only go with her because I love her.

Saturday dinner: We were running out of days to use our minimum from the club so we had to use it.

Fish sandwich, shrimp bowl, or pizza

Sunday: This was the last full day for Son1 and Pip to be at our house. It was a swim, pack get things together kind of day.

Sunday dinner: Son1 wanted bbq one last time. It is not that you can't find bbq in Portland, you can. You just can't find that slow hickory smoked jukcy delicious type you can find all over the south.

We were happy to oblidge and invited Son2 and DIL2 to join us. They love bbq too!

Pulled pork, baked beans, collard greens, cheese biscuits, mac and cheese

And with the exception of a flight the next day, our time with them was over. Did I mention how tired I was, since Pip did not go to bed before 2 every night and I stayed up with her watching Young Sheldon. I had never seen it before and it was a cute show, and I shoud know because we watched episode after episode, season after season

What might be on the menu this week? 

Grilled tripletail, baked potato, coleslaw

leftover conecuh sausage, leftover cheese biscuits, coleslaw

Veggie dinner TBD

BLT salad

Spaghetti with meat sauce, tossed salad, garlic toast

Something*

Something*

Books read in June

We Could Be Rats (This book has a hard subject matter)

My Italian Bulldozer

The Dutch House

The Friday Afternoon Club

The Year I Turned Pretty**

This is a Love Story***

Have a great week staying on plan, going off plan or with no plan at all.

May all your weeds be wildflowers.

Anne

* I need to clean the fridge and see what needs to be eaten, but I am not in the mood to do it today.

** Read in tandem with Pip. Now I wonder why I am not churning out "Hallmark books" for tweens.

*** Supposed to be good but I found it just tedious