Something About Nothing ... #12

[Lynne G]

Home made pot stickers for dinner. Just little one and me. Men are busy. Bought a waterproof camera. Was cheaper at the checkout then at aisle. Wahoo. I hope it takes good pictures underwater on our trip.

Like the picture of Lil Roo and DD, MonyK. Yeah, people were wearing long pants with short sleeve shirt or long sleeved shirts with shorts. Most still wore flip flops though. It was 69 this morning. Rain stayed mostly down the shore. We got around an inch. Short shower this morning, and most of the rain came around 4 am this morning. To be a beautiful 85 degree Sunday. Goodbye rainy low weather systems. It will be nice to say Hello sun, we have not seen ya for days.

 

[Robo56]

 

[Lynne G]

Good Morning Robo. Sunday errands and breakfast are on tap.

Hehe, woke little one up a few minutes ago. She asked why I did that. In more colorful words than that. Well, the fact that yesterday she woke up at 10:30 and tomorrow, she needs to be up by 7, yeah no slacking this morning.

It is Sunday, and an absolutely beautiful start to today. The sun is out, the sky is blue.

Have a nice Sunday homies. Need to check on little one.

 

[Robo56]

Morning Sans family

Cool start to the morning here in my neck of the woods. Nice to have a break from the heat wave.

Monykalyn that is a cute picture of your little roo and daughter.

Neighbor shared their bounty of Roma tomatoes Friday so made some tomato sauce. Then went to farmers market yesterday and bought some peaches and made hubby peach cake for dessert yesterday evening. Now I have some bananas that need to be made into banana bread.

I don't usually do much baking unless I have company coming over. So I will have to find some minions to help eat the banana bread.....LOL...

Lynne always nice to find out you saved more money at the checkout. Hope the camera works well on your trip.

Kohlby hope your little hits a growth spurt so she can ride the coasters.

Nom nom, can't go wrong with chicken parm. Used to be my date food, always enough leftovers or dinner the next day hehe. Gave mine to kiddo who took for lunch. None of kids are spring chickies

Chicken Parmesan is right up there with one of my fav meals. Our son is going to be 40 in a couple of weeks. It's seems like only yesterday he was a baby.





Stoking the HHN fires. Wish Universal would make a banquet like this at HHN.

 

[schumigirl]

Good Sunday afternoon..........

What a beautiful day here after a rainy start........but stuck in house watching Grand Prix.........sun will still be out when it finishes........

Yes Robo that would make a fabulous feast! That's one I would go to........and they could charge what they liked for it........I'd be there....... Love the sound of your tomatoes and peaches.......never had peach cake, but love peach cobbler........nothing nicer that home grown tomatoes........not a fan of bananas........I love baking though.......I used to always say I wasn't a great baker, but last couple of years or so I would say I've got much better.....haven't had any disasters.......touch wood!



Lazy afternoon ahead..........cooked 3 crockpots of pork butts overnight.......smell was gorgeous first thing this morning.......so pulled pork for dinner tonight with sweet potato wedges and salad........normal potatoes for my two who don't like sweet potatoes........

DH thinks it's just him and I tomorrow afternoon when he gets home from leaving lunch.......so I had told him we had no champagne in our wine cupboard.......he didn't know I had stocked up with three cases for tomorrow......so he picked up a couple of bottles today and a giant cake.........couldn't tell him it was all organised........lol......still an extra couple of bottles won't go wrong. Not in our house anyway.......

Have a great Sunday...........

 

[keishashadow]

Morning all!

Robo I've a freezer bag full of 'the last banana'. Need to do something with them, I'd wind up eating the whole banana bread as nobody else here likes. May make some smoothies for breakfast next week. Wonder how long bananas are 'good' in freezer, they look fine.

Unfortunately, I don't have an AP. Although, I do want to eat at Mythos and I know that's not cheap. The thing is, with the money issues I've had lately with the car/ac/etc, if I keep it, I know that I have at least 2 meals a day while I am there that are paid for.

BTW @Lynne G: 1 month, 13 days, 15 hours, 40 minutes, 27 seconds. (or 44 days total...)

JMHO but several items on menu in line with what you'd pay @ CS. I'm fan of the daily risotto Could always stop in for soup just to enjoy the vibe.

Oh Janet, never go grocery shopping while hungry!!! Make it a rule not too as I end up buying the whole store out of stuff I don't really need........

Monyk.......that is a cute picture! DD looks so cosy with chicken!! And food sounds good.......hope you have a fun time........and yep, don't forget the bacon



Minion movie no 3 wasn't great.........I wasn't keen on the 2nd one really, but they should have left it there. Some funny bits of course........but, wouldn't watch it again........

Planning a movie tonight, not sure which one though........may try the golden oldie Evil Dead since it's going to be at HHN...........

Turned off the minion movie shortly after he met his brother. Fell asleep last night early on in Spider-Man. Im sensing a pattern of some sort lol

I was lazy went to closest place - WM & Sams. Noshed my way thru the free samples

Don't think anybody has girls of the Disney Descendants fan-base age here; but I'm still dancing. i snagged one of the new sold out dolls via ordering thru WM. As much as i enjoy knocking them via people of WM hehe, they do tend to come thru for me on those hot toys if i pre-order them.

Home made pot stickers for dinner. Just little one and me. Men are busy. Bought a waterproof camera. Was cheaper at the checkout then at aisle. Wahoo. I hope it takes good pictures underwater on our trip.

Like the picture of Lil Roo and DD, MonyK. Yeah, people were wearing long pants with short sleeve shirt or long sleeved shirts with shorts. Most still wore flip flops though. It was 69 this morning. Rain stayed mostly down the shore. We got around an inch. Short shower this morning, and most of the rain came around 4 am this morning. To be a beautiful 85 degree Sunday. Goodbye rainy low weather systems. It will be nice to say Hello sun, we have not seen ya for days.

You can make pot-stickers lol who knew. I did a stiry fry, cheated & rigged a combo of premade teriyaki & chili sauce. Nothing left, may be my new go-to.

Cool here too, hankering for fried chicken fingers, marinated overnight in butter milk. Will make a cuke salad (since they are exploding in garden, still no tomatoes). Watermelons are getting nibbled on by something. Have seen rabbits, no idea they'd go for melons?

What camera did you get? We blew thru an Olympus & canon, both leaked. Bought a Pentax and now it's the camera we tend to use when too lazy to drag one of the fancy ones along. Hate to say it, with quality of pics on iphone, usually leave camera back in hotel room.

 

[Lynne G]

Easy to make Keisha. Little one is picky with some and I can make chicken with no onions. Camera is a little Fuji one, and bundle came with card, case and float ring. I hope it works well. Has wifi so will upload pictures to phone, then cloud. We are a Nikon DSL camera fan. Older one has a Canon DSL, that I like too.

Coffee is hot and on second cup.

 

[Monykalyn]

Coffee on deck- was downright cool this morning- so nice for end of July!
My good egg laying hen did her thing this am-and then she did her egg song as usual . Lil Roo was confused so he tried to sing the egg song too! Was hilarious- wish I'd had my camera to video it.
Several came for cuddles this morning. Lil Roo wore himself out- he's snoozing

Hamburgers and hot dogs on grill this afternoon. Then I HAVE to get serious about organizing and start packing. 5 days til we leave, I'm working 3 of those, have hair appointment and birthday lunches on day off. It's so nice on deck though, coffee in hand...

 

[Lynne G]

The sky from last night. Red skies at night are a sailor's delight. 82 and low humidity today, with a mostly dark blue very bright sky, so home from a long walk. Chicken parm and noodles for dinner. That kinda day. Will do my own red sauce. Meat kind.

Ah, Sunday night is on tap soon. Just chilling now, as wash in the washer. Yep, the weekend.

 

[macraven]

Started to clean out my closet and organize it better so i could find things.....

then decided to take a 20 minute break and catch up on the threads.

two hours later.........still here

 

[kohlby]

Seems I have a little virus I'm getting over. I thought it was the result of one of the types of wine I had Friday night not agreeing with me. (I didn't drink enough for just drinking to be the reason). But my skin is still achy today so hanging out resting at home as I gear up for another week. Husband took middle child to Universal yesterday evening - she really, really wanted to know if she was tall enough. She made the outside height check at Dragons, but they told her the inside one is harder to make due to the type of measuring stick that they use - that you have to be slightly over to make it. She did not make it. She then went to Hulk and tried and she was tall enough on the Express line so they put their things in the locker and then got in the regular line - but she was too short at that one. So - very close. Hoping she can at least make Dragons before it closes but I'm not sure with their second measuring stick actually requiring more than 54".

Monykalyn - Awwww, I didn't know chickens were so cuddly.

 

[schumigirl]

I had no idea chickens were as cuddly and calm either.........they are cute. When we go buy our eggs the chickens are roaming around......always terrified I run one over! Prefer when they drop our eggs off...... But, cute picture.......

Janet both movies sucked for me too.........glad the food samples kept you going

Nice picture Lynne.........

Mac.......done that many times.......sat down with iPad for 10 minutes and 3 hours later I'm still there.......lol......

Kohlby.......shame DD didn't fit on Dragons.........love that coaster! Hope she does grow enough to get on it......



Ended up going out with friends for a drink tonight.........they're over from Paris where they've lived for years.....right in the centre of the city.....sat in the garden earlier before we went to pub and she couldn't stop commenting how quiet everything is, hardly even heard a bird chirp while we were sat out.......think they like the hustle and bustle of city life........quiet countryside suits me better......then walked round to village pub, had a few drinks and now they've gone back to his mother's who lives relatively close to me, about an hour away maybe. Nice to see them again, been a while.

Won't be long till bed tonight I think.......couple of glasses of wine tonight has made me sleepy. Maybe it was 3 glasses Won't be getting up at 2am for Game of Thrones on internet tonight........

Hope everyone's had a great Sunday.........

 

[Monykalyn]

night Schumi! Sounds like a nice day!
Great pic Lynne-very pretty.

DH got his Bday present early-has wanted a small TV out on deck so we can sit out there on nice nights and watch ball games. Found a good price so off he went to get it. We have a deck friendly fire pit on there too, so fall will be nice to sit outside. I prefer outside to inside most of the time.

I don't think all chickens are cuddly-mine are just very used to being handled from hatching-I did not want mean to humans chickens, so they get lots of interaction. Roo is back up on deck napping with oldest DD (she's working a split shift today and is home for a couple hours before she goes back).

Got bacon cooked, tomatoes sliced, lettuce ready to go...

 

[keishashadow]

I'm ready for GoT & Preacher & Strain

Those chickies are seriously cute, says the woman who just wolfed down their fried cousins eek.

Mac - closets empty out? Who knew? I don't want to know what's in the dark recesses of most of mine. Probably giant, hairy spiders

View attachment 257407 Coffee on deck- was downright cool this morning- so nice for end of July!
My good egg laying hen did her thing this am-and then she did her egg song as usual . Lil Roo was confused so he tried to sing the egg song too! Was hilarious- wish I'd had my camera to video it.
Several came for cuddles this morning. Lil Roo wore himself out- he's snoozing

Hamburgers and hot dogs on grill this afternoon. Then I HAVE to get serious about organizing and start packing. 5 days til we leave, I'm working 3 of those, have hair appointment and birthday lunches on day off. It's so nice on deck though, coffee in hand...

Who takes care of the little buggers while you're away?

Seems I have a little virus I'm getting over. I thought it was the result of one of the types of wine I had Friday night not agreeing with me. (I didn't drink enough for just drinking to be the reason). But my skin is still achy today so hanging out resting at home as I gear up for another week. Husband took middle child to Universal yesterday evening - she really, really wanted to know if she was tall enough. She made the outside height check at Dragons, but they told her the inside one is harder to make due to the type of measuring stick that they use - that you have to be slightly over to make it. She did not make it. She then went to Hulk and tried and she was tall enough on the Express line so they put their things in the locker and then got in the regular line - but she was too short at that one. So - very close. Hoping she can at least make Dragons before it closes but I'm not sure with their second measuring stick actually requiring more than 54".

Monykalyn - Awwww, I didn't know chickens were so cuddly.

That had to be utterly disappointing for your DD. Have you tried her wearing different types of shoes vs perhaps flip flops? Hope it's a little virus thingfor you vs the long, nasty we had here.

 

[Lynne G]

Kohlby, hope you are feeling better soon. Awww, sorry to hear DD not quite tall enough. My little one can relate. It took forever to be tall enough to ride RRR. When I took a picture of her in the car she was in, she asked how I knew it was her. I said because it did not look like anyone was in the one seat. She loves coasters, so not very happy that will not get to ride Dragons one more time.

Sounded like a nice evening Schumi. Have a good sleep tonight.

Mac, my closet could always need a cleaning. Though I do on weekends as trash pick up is on Monday.

MonyK, DH got a good present. TV on the deck will be nice when the weather cooperates. Yep, neighbor chickens are friendly to humans as well. They were handled since bought as very young chicks.

Hey Keisha, us too, chicken patties for dinner. I make my own red sauce, but buy the patties. Also use cheese cut at deli. Maybe ice cream for dessert. Full from dinner though. Hope your meal was good.

 

[macraven]

Did clean out a lot in the closet

Made a pile for GoodWill drop
off for next week

Next week I'll go through the clothes again and eliminate more
Can never decide what to part with so will add more for the give away box
Second round I go through clothes, I'm more successful

Many of the tops/ blouses were too large from the weight loss
Jeans, did not even try on to see what fits or not

I keep the jeans and slacks on the shelves in the closet
Can not bend the knee enough to try them all on
My knee swells more if I have been up
all day without a break
Useless to attempt it today

MonyK.... when I see your chicks no way can I eat chicken that day

Pasta tonight seems better

Hope kohlby is doing better tonight
And hope her girl will grow the smidget of an inch real soon

I cheated with my boys and gave them paper napkins to stuff in their shoes
It was a last ditch solution to keep them from whining at me

 

[Lynne G]

Yep, a nice cool and bright start to this Monday, last day of July. We were in the low 60's overnight. Perfect sleeping weather. Lest the summer is not forgotten, we almost start the heat wave, with high of 89 today, and the humidity creeps up again. So, warmer today, and quite warm tomorrow. The beginning of August will be the start of our 7th, I think, heat wave, but a barely heat wave, as the rest of the week is to be in the low 90's.

Ah, August means, soccer starting up, birthdays, and vacation. That deserves a wahoo. And, little one is grumbling about the soccer practices starting this week. Yeah, back to nights out. It will be long days for her though, as she is still working for 3 more weeks.

Little one helped me with errands this week-end. Somehow, we had to just try on and see some dresses. Apparently, I had forgotten she was going to a friend's birthday party this week-end and the requested dress is semi formal. Sigh. Of course no dress at home was sufficient. Yes, she will be 16 and a Junior in our senior high school.


I need a larger cup of tea. The first one finished too fast.

Have a great Monday homies. Wake up. The sun is shining.

 

[Chuckers]

View attachment 257407 Coffee on deck- was downright cool this morning- so nice for end of July!
My good egg laying hen did her thing this am-and then she did her egg song as usual . Lil Roo was confused so he tried to sing the egg song too! Was hilarious- wish I'd had my camera to video it.
Several came for cuddles this morning. Lil Roo wore himself out- he's snoozing

Hamburgers and hot dogs on grill this afternoon. Then I HAVE to get serious about organizing and start packing. 5 days til we leave, I'm working 3 of those, have hair appointment and birthday lunches on day off. It's so nice on deck though, coffee in hand...

I LOVE the chicken pictures!!! I want to come to your place and have a chicken sleep in my lap!!!

 

[Chuckers]

Happy Monday!!!!

Today when I got into work, I went to my white board to update my countdown and hit a milestone!!!

Less than 1000 hours until vacation!!! 984 to be exact!!!

And now that I have housemates, I have built in cat caretakers, so when I go away, I don't have ot have a stranger in my house taking care of my furbabies!!!

 

[macraven]

you will have built in cat sitters now