I am starting this weeks post hoping I can remember enough songs with mentions of Birmingham either in the song or the title of the song. It may or not work.
I’m late posting this. Sue me if you are so inclined. Sometimes family fun gets in the way!
Monday: Had a wonderful stay at home day without having to go anywhere! It was much needed with some time to read
Listened to: Down in the Valley
Kind of sad that this was the first song I thought of that mentioned Birmingham
What I learned: After a long trip and a hectic few days upon return, I needed a day with no plans.
Dinner: We had a good bit of the rotisserie chicken that needed to be used. I summoned my inner Martin Luther and reformed it.
Mexicanish chicken casserole, tortilla chips, coleslaw
Tuesday: The day started a little slow with some reading time and some organization in the MBR closet. I like my clothes arranged by type and color from lightest to darkest. I have no idea why I like it this way but I do. When I changed over my clothes from cold weather duds to summer wear, I just hung them in a mishmash way giving no thought to my preference. I guess I could not stand it anymore. I was hanging some freshly laundered clothes and all of an sudden I HAD to fix it.*
Afterward TheHub and I ran a couple of errands.
What I learned: When changing over clothes go ahead and do it right the first time.
What I listened to: Birmingham Blues
Mostly different veggies for both of us.
Wednesday: TheHub had some zoom meetings and I was downstairs by myself most of the day. While he was busy, I read then decided I needed to clean out the laundry room refrigerator/freezer (not to be confused with the regular upright freezer). Things had been shoved in it and I really no longer knew exactly what was in there. I took each item out, made a judgement call about whether to keep of toss it (like a jar of kimchi I don't even remember buying)
What I learned: Even though the laundry room fridge holds seldom used items (or a whole watermelon) it needs to be inventoried regularly
Listened to Tuxedo Junction (which was written in the 30's by Erskine Hawkins from Birmingham
Dinner: I forgot to thaw anything so we had a meatless meal.
Pasta alfredo, tossed salad
While I waited on him to return, I put on ski gloves and organized the bottom two shelves of the freezer. If I had not already been dressed I would have finished it, but I did not want to get any freezer gradoo on my “ going out for the day” clothes.
What I learned: I have many more proteins in the freezer than I thought I did. Yikes! I need to start cooking more often, but 2 people can only eat so much. Anyone need chicken?
By the time TheHub got home and we had eaten a very late lunch, I headed to Publix to do some cherry picking.
Listened to: Birmingham
Sunday: We did our normal Sunday routine of the communion service, regular service, and Sunday School. The only difference was our traditional service was a special Independence Day celebration with Three on a String singing both old time hymns mixed with patriotic music.
Sorry, seems like the Randy Newman video is not available and I can’t access another one from my phone.
Dinner: I started using some of the chicken I have. Marry me chicken,** caulimash, tossed salad
Friday: We ran a few errands, and while we were out TheHub suggested stopping and having an early lunch. If I am up and dressed for the day*** I will always agree. We stopped by Cracker Barrel and both had their Friday lunch special, meatloaf, mashed potatoes, and coleslaw. I counted it as our main meal for the day.
After we ate we had a couple of other errands before heading home for the day. I did more laundry, read and possibly fell asleep while reading.
What I learned: I was reading about life in Czechoslovakia during the Soviet occupation. I know America is not perfect, but I wonder sometimes at the continual unrest I see from some people here, when I read the stories of what so many people there lived through.
Listened to: Make me a Birmingham
Dinner: Since we had a larger lunch than is our normal we opted for a smaller dinner.
Tossed salad, cheese toast
Saturday: We woke, had coffee then headed to our favorite produce vendor, filled the tank with gas for our trip Sunday, stopped by the pharmacy to pick up some meds for TheHub then headed home.
Once here, we tried to solve the mystery of where TheHub's green shirt disappeared. It took a couple of hours searching before it was found in a bag we had used for our dirty clothes when we stayed in the Nashville hotel the night before we left for our trip.
After that it was time for lunch, washing the dirty duds we found, and some reading. I love when I am reading and want to find out what happened, but really don't want the book to end.
What I learned: Even when it looks like things are washed and put away, there is always the possibility that something might be left behind.
Listened to: Boulder to Birmingham
(Sorry Emmylou. I couldn’t get the video to load from my phone)
Dinner: Lettuce cups w/ chicken, empanadas
Once everything was over we headed home to pack for our trip.
We headed to Dauphin Island for a three day visit with TheHub’s brother, sister in law and sister at his brother’s and SIL ‘s fantastic vacation home there.
It was a combo visit and birthday celebration .
Listened to: Whatever Sirius was playing on the way
Dinner: Boiled shrimp, corn, potatoes, coleslaw
Have a great week
May all your weeds be wildflowers
Anne
* It is odd that I am so weird about my closet, because I am not fussy about anything else in the house and can easily live with some clutter.
**I made a keto version but the original in the link tastes better
*** This means being up, showered, wearing some semblance of makeup, and “going out and being seen clothes”, as opposed to waking and just pulling on whatever clothes I was wearing the day before, with no makeup and hair pulled back, looking like I would scare small children and dogs.
Dauphin Island trip sounds fabulous! Family, beach, and seafood!!! Perfect! Cindy in the South
ReplyDeleteIt was just a 3 day visit, but it was about being together and celebrating TheHub's only sister. It was great!
DeleteYou still managed to have many things done even though you said that you need some metime :-) YES; I need chicken :-) Only if I lived nearby...going to the Turkish store to buy meat.
ReplyDeleteWell not only do I have too much in the freezer, be we stopped by the Conecuh store on the way home and now I have even more. Bad me!
DeleteHave a closet preference as well, though right now it does not meet my preference at all. I do "side quests" when reading or watching things with historical reference or setting. Yes, the past was horrendous for poor and oppressed, but I'd hope for higher standards today. I've decided that if I lived back in those times, I'd want a job that was needed but flew under the radar and out of the way of the rich and powerful...the blacksmith, the baker, the wine or ale producer.
ReplyDeleteMy closet is better and almost to my liking (my part of the closet is anyway)
DeleteAfter talking to our tour guide who grew up in the soviet regime, job choices were not about choice but about placement.
This is what Sissie looks like every day. Me on the otherhand...
ReplyDeleteI only seem to be obsessive about certain spots in the house.
DeleteGosh, the last time I was at Dauphin Island was the summer of '77 while on the way to Florida. A business associate of my hub lent us his beach house, but aside from a few like-kind structures I don't remember there being ANYthing around to see or do. I'm sure all that's changed; it would be fun to revisit.
ReplyDeleteWe had not been there since the early to mid 80's. It is a completely different place now. It is also a little smaller than it was due to hurricanes.
DeleteWhen I listed my house for sale, I read that hanging clothing by colour and type was a subtle thing that impressed buyers. I doubt it, but I went ahead with it, and found it made it easier for me to find what I was looking for. Now, I have a tiny closet (the house is over 100 years old) and items I used to hang are now folded into drawers.
ReplyDeleteYour get-away sounds like a great time!
We had fun and a lot of seafood!
ReplyDeleteI have been weeding out my clothes and getting rid of anything I do not actually wear.
I also need time at home with no plans after a lot of activity outside our home.i like the idea of arranging your clothes by color. Mine are sorted by long sleeve, 3/4 sleeve, short sleeve, and sleeveless. Bottoms are arranged by long, capri, and then shorts. It works for now.
ReplyDeleteBelinda
My clothes are also arranged like that but then I have them sorted lightest to darkest by types. I also do the same thing with dresses. With the exception of dress slacks (which are also color coded) all my bottoms live in drawers (also separated by type and color)
DeleteI have no idea why I am freaky about clothes and not a lot of other things.
My closet is so large that, actually, it is harder to keep organized. It is as big as a small room so it becomes a catch all. To prevent that I am ruthless about what goes in there!
ReplyDeleteYes, other times in other places were hard, which is why I expect more from our country. An injustice is an injustice even if it was worse “back then over there.”
-Meg B.
I prefer to have my closet arranged in a similar way, but it isn't that way right now (junky!) and I don't know when I will have time to organize it. Dauphin Island (and a shrimp boil) sounds wonderful.
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