Menu

Sunday - do-it-yourself. Personally I had a bowl of granola! Fancy!

Monday - baked halibut, salad, fruit salad, pinched small, red potatoes (baked, pinched open, salt, pepper, and drizzled w/olive oil)

Tuesday - chicken cakes (like crab cakes, but with canned chicken), cinnamon/sugar apples, quesadillas

Wednesday - ham and cheese turnovers, nectarines, salad

Thursday - oven glazed chicken (YUM! and so easy), something else

Friday - leftover glazed chicken shredded and put over rice, biscuit bites

Saturday - beef taco skillet, ceasar salad, nectarines

This week I went through a bunch of recipes that I had ripped out of magazines, picked out what I wanted to make for the week, and left the pile on the counter. I did my grocery shopping Monday and got everything I needed for the week. Each day I went through the stack and chose what sounded good for that night. I liked this idea - it was a new recipe every night. I didn't think I liked cooking from recipes! Workers this week...I'm going to have to get more creative with my side dishes...the hardest part for me.

Garden Shed

The garden shed is slowly, but surely, coming along. I was able to take advantage of our late summer and get the whole thing painted. (Kaylee wanted to take a picture so bad!) After we get things cleaned up around and inside the shed, then I can take a picture from the front. It looks so tacky at the moment....our poor neighbors. Did I post ealier that I was going to paint the shed barn red? That was the original plan. The final plan ended up being the same color as the house so I can plant colorful flowers in front without clashing with red paint. I'm still going to have big, black hinges on the doors! And, one old window has been installed.

My helper!
Keeping out of the hot sun and the wet paint.

Birthday Boys

Wayne and Randy share the same birthday...years apart, of course, but the same day! Wayne provided great entertainment for all of us.

Trying to find the right angle in which to read something without one's reading glasses. This took some time!

Work in progress...YEAH!

This is so exciting to me. My backyard has never looked so beautiful. Mounds of dirty dirt, almost weedfree green lawn all torn up and trodden down, drain rock ground into the sifted garden soil, broken limbs on the lilac, backhoe-severed underground wire fence for the dog! All this means the addition is another step closer.

You can't see it in the picture, but Trevon took his breakfast to the window sill and was watching the construction while he was eating. Too cute!

Seven drainfield lines

Menu

Sunday - egg mcmuffins, fruit salad tossed with vanilla yogurt

Monday - orange chicken wtih rice; broccoli tossed with cheese, french fried onions, seasoning, tiny bit of mayo, bacon

Tuesday - poor man's steak (hamburger patties seasoned and grill like New York steak!), strawberry bran muffins (way yummy!!), broccoli casserole (made like green been casserole only with broc)

Wednesday - leftovers with salad and quesadillas

Thursday - marinated chicken largely chunked and put in a vege grill basket so it can be tossed while grilling, sauteed grean beans in olive oil with bacon and parmesan, lemon herb wild rice. (I got the rice at Winco in their bulk section. It made the pantry smell wonderful, it made the kitchen smell wonderful while simmering, but it was a tad blah and too much of a grown up taste for the whole family - we don't care much for the texture of all those extra "things" in wild rice!)

Friday - fajitas!! this just might make the "more than once a month list"!

Saturday - tried a Mexican restaurant in Mt V that was recommended to us by BethR. THANK YOU! it was awesome.