It’s been kind of a long strange week. With alternate schedules. Monday I had to be at the library by 8:00 to help unload a 200+ box book donation. I kind of frittered around getting out of the house trying to decide if I should walk or bike and what to wear and ran out … [Read more…]
Jeez, I started this post on Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, added a bit on the Monday, and am now trying to wrap it up on the following Thursday, and that’s already June 1, this year. Traditionally on Memorial Day I invite people over for a picnic/cookout in the driveway and backyard. This year, because … [Read more…]
This Memorial Day hasn’t been much like other Memorial Days where we had lots of people over, and kids visiting from out of town, and went to picnics and outdoor concerts. We did have a small gathering on Saturday, our traditional driveway picnic, but it made me kind of question my hostess status, like do … [Read more…]
I took Friday off to get an extra long weekend for Memorial Day, and have been doing pretty good at not working, although I did check email everyday, and did reply to few messages on Friday and today (Sunday). Saturday we had friends over for a driveway cookout. I kept thinking there were going to … [Read more…]
It was a quite different type of Memorial Day this pandemic year. Normally we have people over for a driveway picnic, and there’s lots of cooking and eating going on. Looks like last year we had our driveway picnic on Sunday, and then had indoor hotdogs on Monday. Sometimes the picnic gets kinda big, 12-15 … [Read more…]
We chose to have our grillout on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend and good thing too, because today, Monday, the actual Day, is pretty rainy & grey, while yesterday was gorgeous, sunny and not too hot. My theme for the weekend menu was defrosting the freezer – accomplished on Saturday – using up last … [Read more…]
Or maybe I’m just having a bad week. Monday I put the first scratches on my car. I was pulling into a parking spot at my campus ramp, like I’ve done a million times, and there was this terrible scratching noise, and voilà. The true horror of it is look how many different pieces of … [Read more…]
Even the kitty cat slept in on Memorial Day. So here’s the plan. We had a nice little driveway party on Sunday, and we finally lucked out with the weather. I only took a pic of my beer; Megan got the best shot of one of the neighbor kids running down the driveway to the … [Read more…]
Although I am sure my brother would say that it’s not a real holiday unless there’re potatoes. But it’s after 12:00 noon, and I am still in pajamas cooking, and I’ve made: 2 pies, rhubarb-cherry, based on my rhubarb-strawberry pie, with cherries in the amount I usually use of rhubarb, and the rhubarb the amount … [Read more…]
