Ok, now I officially believe the gods of Spotify's algorithm have figured out what I am doing each week and have decided to mess with me. Bob Hope's Thanks for the Memories was the first song? Really!?!
So, I decided the songs I listened to had to either have memory in the title or lyrics. By Friday I was having a hard time thinking of them.
Monday: I truly like Monday's to be unplanned. This day worked perfectly with that. I was able to get some things in the house done and still have some time for reading.
What I learned: We watched a video about the topography of New Zealand and why it was the perfect place to film Lord of the Rings.
Dinner: A lot of overripe tomatoes set the tone for this meal. I was just glad I had a pie shell in the fridge.
Tomato Pie, coleslaw
Wednesday: I had my Wednesday class than went to lunch with 2 of my friends who are in the same class. We tried a restaurant, Local, that is under new ownership. It was pretty good, and the new owner told us there would be live music Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. TheHub and I will have to try it one night before too long.
Saturday: Ball Game Day!!! We began with ESPN Game Day on TV at 8 a.m. , and ended with the final play of the Ole Miss/LSU game.
Read: The First Time I Saw Him
** *I think I vaguely remember this from Lawrence Welk or some similar variety show.
Listened to: Memory
Tuesday: The day was, for the most part, a regular day. I did a little tidying and dusting and got the dining room ready for company. Normally on Tuesday nights we go to trivia, but booted it for a planned dinner here.
When others come to eat with us, I truly like using the dining room and the "good" stuff. Even if I don't bring out the china we still use nicer plates, the silverware, and some sort of table decoration.
Dinner: We had a birthday dinner here, but there was no cooking involved.
Take out ziti, garlic rolls, tossed salad, Italian cream cake, Italian cream cake baby bites, half moon cookies*
What I learned: If you tell people you don't want/need a birthday cake, you'll get treats anyway
Listened to: In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
What I learned: I actually learned to plan leftovers in my weekly meal plan. And it only took me this long to learn.
Dinner: Planned overs to the rescue. A heat, toss and eat meal was pretty nice.
Leftover tomato pie, tossed salad
Listened to: The Way We Were
Thursday: My Beloved Sister came to my house and we went together to meet our book club for lunch. I had never been to Slice before. (We got lost. Who knew it was in something that looked like a house?)
I am not a huge pizza fan and did not want any, but, their wedge salad with green goddess dressing was fantastic.
What I learned: We watched a video about Wales. It might have moved to one of the top spots on my bucket list.
Dinner: Leftover ziti, tossed salad
Listened to: Memories
Friday: I had another at home day, with massive work taking out and rearranging everything in the freezer.** It worked for not only creating additional freezer space, but also to visually inventory what I have. (Too much!)
What I learned: I learned there was a huge cholera epidemic in Birmingham sometime in 1873, which wiped out nearly half of the population. Thanks to the "ladies of the evening" who acted as nurses to many of the survivors.
Dinner: Stuffed bell pepper, leftover speckled butter beans, coleslaw
Listened to: In My Life
What I learned: Ole Miss now does their version of Rammer Jammer
Dinner: Ball Game days require ball game meals.
Hot dogs with fixings, coleslaw, Sun Chips
Listened to: Gentle on my mind
Sunday: We woke and did our usual Sunday morning church activities, came home for lunch and hung around the house for the rest of the day. It was kind of nice to have a slow/low day at home. My only productive thing was to work in the laundry room refrigerator and freezer.
What I learned: The Atchafalaya River in Louisiana is home to both fresh and salt water critters, including alligators, shrimp, crabs, and bull sharks.
Dinner: Veggie night
Lady peas, corn on the cob, tossed salad, tomato slices, cornbread
Listened to: Memories ***
Have a great week.
May all your weeds be wildflowers.
Anne
* I love Italian cream cake, but making one is not in TheHub's playbook. There is a bakery near here that makes a delicious one but it is huge and we just didn't need that much cake around, so TheHub went to Pastry Arts to pick up a few baby bites.
Meanwhile Son2 and DIL2 went to the Dutch Oven Bakery in Faulkville to pick up a one layer Italian cream cake.
Not to be outdone My Beloved Sister headed to Full Moon to grab a dozen half moon cookies.
**Handy tip for working in the freezer is to wear ski gloves. They repel any dampness and keep the hands from freeing.
You are so loved my dear.
ReplyDeleteWell the people I gave birth too are required by some lineage law to at least pretend like they love me. You know it's that pesky inheritance thing. None of them want to get written out of the will
DeleteSki gloves...smart! Happy Birthday and the cakes sound fabulous.
ReplyDeleteI keep a pair of ski gloves on a command hook on the side of the freezer.
DeleteYou're featuring three of my eternal favorite tunes!
ReplyDeleteBTW, thanks for the info on "What is a tomato pie" for a thousand, Alex.
Now I am wondering which 3 they are. Of the ones I thought of "In My Life" is my favorite.
DeleteThanks for asking! That's Elaine Paige's 'Memory', 'The Way we Were' and 'In My Life.'
DeleteHappy Belated Birthday! Apparently, Ladies of the Evening are good at more than one thing. :)
ReplyDeleteWhat's funny it that I had never heard of the epidemic before and certainly not the ladies, who evidently received some commendation for their works at the same time as they got a condemnation for their other works.
DeleteI love Italian Crème cake! Happy birthday! Cindy in the South
ReplyDeleteI love it too!
DeleteMemories sounds as if it would be exactly right for Lawrence Welk. You had some nice birthday goodies. I don't know if I've had Italian cream cake. I must have, but I can't remember it. Dulce de leche keeps throwing itself all over my brain to make me confused about cream cake. I hate it when dulce de leche does that.
ReplyDeleteLove,
Janie
You live in Central Florida where dulce de leche is more common that it is here. I love Italian cream cake, but an entire cake is just too much to have around
DeleteI live in Northeastern Florida. Not that it matters.
DeleteReally love Memory :-))
ReplyDeleteIt is a gorgeous song. It's the best thing in the entire play.
DeleteHappy Belated Birthday!!
ReplyDeleteHappy Belated Birthday! The cream cake sounds delicious.
ReplyDeleteIt was so good!
DeleteFirst of all, I hope you had a wonderful birthday. It sounds like you definitely had good food and family in attendance!! Is Local on Oxmoor Road in Homewood? If not, where is it? Also, speaker of the epidemic in Birmingham . . .have you ever attended the cemetery tour in October at the old cemetery behind the civic center downtown? (Oak Hill Cemetery) If not, you should go - they have people dressed in period clothing at quite a few of the graves and they tell their story. There is a famous person from that epidemic buried there!!
ReplyDeleteLocal is on 31 in Vestavia in one of the strips on the east side of the road. If you remember Jewels by Rose it's in that strip. Someone bought the jewelry store and changed the name but I have no clue what it is. There is also a cinnamon roll store there and a pizza place whose name I also don't remember off the top of my head.
DeleteI have been to a couple of graveside services years ago at Oak Grove, but have not been on the tour. I'll have to add that to my bucket list.
Happy belated birthday! Love your selection of Memory songs. I don't think I've ever had Italian cream cake, but, it sounds delicious.
ReplyDeleteThank you Bless. The cake is so good, very moist and quite rich. I had a harder time than I thought I would with memory songs.
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