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