So...whats for dinner?

I agree minus 😀

Tonight was grilled chicken, a boiled potato and salad.

For dinner I had the same thing I have every day.. lettuce, spinach, radishes from the garden, avocado and eggs. It will be nice when the "warm weather" vegetables start coming in and I can start gazpacho and other things.

There is so much to catch up on, but I see that everyone has been keeping busy

Lacey, my daughter and grandson, who is one, and I took the swan boats in Boston the other day. I go to Jamaica Plain about once a week to see them.

Being lazy these days and working just a few days at camp this summer, maybe 2-3 months in the Fall.

Going for an exhausting one day trip to Atlanta today to deal with a locker of antiques. that I left when I moved about 10 years ago Awaiting many snafus

I saw my oncologist yesterday who reminded me that it's been 7 years with no problems. Very grateful.

I hope everyone has a wonderful summer

At my age, we're talking mostly tinted sunscreen & spackle, plus just enough eyeliner, mascara (actually, brown lash primer), blush and lip stain so I don't look like I just crawled from the crypt. Giving up on the spackle soon, since concealer doesn't really cut it for me any more--that's why I have so many pairs of glasses.

When I was in jr. high we were allowed to wear lipstick, but no eye makeup. Never tried it till tenth grade. I wasn't a tomboy but I wasn't fashion-forward either. I was a baseball fan, but had no athletic ability whatsoever. Terrible dancer, too.

Packing this weekend is a challenge: not only do I have a 3-day trip to Lake Geneva for our godson's wedding, but I fell again yesterday, and it's bad: broke my R elbow (radial head) and perhaps L scaphoid. Walking through hospital corridor, I took a step but the "non-skid" rubber sole of my shoe refused to follow suit--it gripped the terazzo floor and down I went. (Broke my glasses too--my cheapest Zennis, thank goodness). So having had ltd. L wrist mobility anyway (in a splint-brace), now I can't really use my R hand for much except typing, signing my name, carefully slicing foods, and (when I take it out of the sling) basic toileting. (More detail would be TMI). Have to do my eating with my L hand, because I have too little ROM in the R arm for my R hand to reach my face. (And unless someone can fetch a dish from the cupboard for me, I can eat only finger food, as a paper plate is too soft to cut any food for which I need a fork). Can brush my teeth & hair only with my L hand--good thing I got that Brazilian Blowout Tues. night because I can't hold a hairdryer & brush with the same hand. Icing & elevating several times a day. Putting on my bra today was a challenge--can't really fasten it in front & turn it around because both my boobs and belly are too big. (Ditto for trying to step into it too). I refuse to wear a muumuu to the wedding. (And my makeup will be truly minimal--either using my L hand or lifting a magnifying mirror to my face so my R hand can try).

Obviously, next week's gig is canceled. And in a way, it's a good thing that 3 weeks ago I backed out of playing the processional at this weekend's wedding, giving the bride & groom time to find a substitute. Imagine if they had only 2 days to do so! As to said wedding, Bob says he'll drive...but only his little Fusion Hybrid, which doesn't have enough room for the 3 of us and even our minimal luggage. (The guys have to use suiters--I will wear knits I can roll up so I can take a tote and a tiny rollaboard). He refuses to drive my Subaru--"it's too unfamiliar," also the reason he will go months without a car repair because so are rentals & loaners. Amazing how set in his ways he can be at only a year older than me. So I messaged my surgeon, who let me out of the sling yesterday to drive myself home. Hoping he greenlights me to drive--but I will make the menfolk do everything else for me.

Getting tired of pasta or avocado toast.

illimae you should have that that sounds great. Ramen noodles are so comforting and I have loved them since College

bedo, I did, it was great and ramen got me through the bad taste part of chemo. 😋🍜

I don't recall ever eating ramen noodles but there's always a large selection at the supermarkets. I always think "salt" when I notice them, obviously from what I've read about them.

We were venders at a flea market yesterday. DH is a wood turner and he displayed some of his beautiful bowls. I displayed some lovely placemats I created and crocheted cotton dish cloths, also very pretty if I do brag on myself. I didn't sell anything. Didn't really expect to since my prices don't compare with Walmart. People tend to be looking for old rusted stuff or cheap "buys." DH sold some of his bowls, more than enough to pay the $20 fee for the site. If we could deposit all the compliments in the bank, it would be profitable.

It's interesting chatting with people and doing some people watching. I was struck yesterday with how many people limped, walked with canes. It was almost like being in south Fl.

I use cloth placemats at every meal even here in the camper but I don't think a lot of people do use them. I started making my own when I couldn't find any to buy that suited my taste. We also favor real plates over paper except for lunch fare like sandwiches. I don't like "wet" food on paper!

After the flea market, we came back to the resort and mowed grass. I was tired afterwards and hungry last night. We had a burger cooked on the grill and a salad full of blanched veggies and other additions like avocado and feta cheese.

We're playing couples golf at noon and eating out at Iron Horse grill in Nevis with the golf group. We like this restaurant which makes great pub style food. They make their own smoked brisket for sandwiches.

I seldom go everywhere without a minimum of makeup. Tinted sunscreen, mascara, and lipstick on too-thin lips. I was a natural blonde and feel like I'm invisible without a little artificial color!

Carole - I'd love to see some of your placemats. AND the wooden bowls. Can you post a picture or two? I'm always on the look out for crocheted dish cloths. Anyone who's ever used them knows they are worth the price.

Off to have Japanese lunch with my ex-DH. We usually manage to have lunch every 6-8 weeks even after being divorced for 25 years now.

We just didn't see any reason to be enemies, but we wouldn't be vacationing together. His "new" wife (of 22 years) listened to her high school girlfriends who said she should not allow us to be friends or ever see each other, so for year or two we didn't fraternize much. Ex-DH just laughed. He got my approval before he proposed and If we'd wanted to be fooling around, why would we have gotten divorced? And she & I have NOTHING in common, except this engineer type DH.

Japanese Hibachi lunch was delicious. We both agreed we could eat this 4 days a week. Choice of Miso or Onion soup, salad, huge bunch of veggies, fried rice, choice of protein (he had filet & shrimp, I had shrimp & scallops). I ate my shrimp & scallops but brought home 1/2 of the rice & the veggies.

The Red Hook Skillet Asparagus sauce was delicious. Next I'll try their Thai Ginger vegetable skillet sauce.

Carol, your day sounds so nice, it was a pleasure reading about it. My Mom sold decoupage purses at markets and I sometimes posed as a customer and asked questions, it made people more comfortable coming up to look.

Special, I will have to try adding vegetables to the Ramen , I have some sugar snap peas coming in.

Dodgers thanks for reminding me about hibachis! I am on a budget

Dinner was airplane food. I somehow managed to fly out of Boston to Atlanta ( I live in RI) , clear out a storage unit left for 10 years, with the help of a moving company and return home. I left yesterday and came back today. I am glad to be home and to have the few things that I loved from my childhood on the way. My daughter wanted her baby clothes (we have a grandson! :O ) and childhood photo albums. It is nice to downsize and keep only what you love.

Dinner at Iron Horse after golf last night was delicious. The menu is quite large with many tempting sandwich and burger selections. DH had a brisket reuben sandwich with fries. The sandwich was huge with thick cut slices of marbled rye bread and and a large helping of fries. I tasted a couple of fries and they were good but too salted for my taste. He didn't eat all the bread, saying there was simply too much bread.

I had a single meat BB'Q dinner (you could have two or three meats!) with brisket as my meat choice. My two sides were a garden salad with blue cheese dressing and cole slaw. The dinner came with a large cornbread muffin and a little paper cup of a flavored butter, cinnamon and sugar. Yuk. Plain butter would have tempted me. I'm a brisket fan and my six slices were tender and perfectly to my taste. I did not reach for the barbecue sauce. The garden salad was lovely with not a shred of iceberg lettuce! The blue cheese dressing yummy. The coleslaw was sweet. I took a few bites of it but the brisket and salad were enough food. I had two icy cold bottles of Michelob golden light. Golfing on a hot afternoon (low 80's and a bit humid) worked up a thirst despite drinking lots of water.

I'm thinking tonight will be a pasta dish. One ingredient will be the 8 oz of ground turkey in the refrigerator, thawed but not used for Thursday night's dinner. I'll turn it into Italian sausage with some fennel and other seasonings and open up a jar of Rao's tomato sauce.

Minus, I must admit that the idea of being friends with an ex is strange. My younger sister is on friendly terms with her ex but their communication is strictly about their two adult children who remain needy individuals with mental problems.

None of the fires were near where we were camping, so there was no smoke nor falling ash.

Next Saturday will be the 5th anniversary of the deaths of the Granite Mountain Hotshot crew and we are going to go to the state (memorial) park established at the place they died. It's a 7 mile (round trip) hike that follows the same route they took from their parked trucks to where they died.

Today was an all day feast of homemade beans, fajitas, tamales and watermelon/vodka punch. Now I’m full and exhausted but having a great time.

Those cupcakes sound yummy!

Tonight will be chicken breast fillets--one large boneless chicken breast cut into three pieces and flattened, lightly breaded and browned in butter/olive oil. Cauliflower mash and romaine salad. A WW meal! Tomorrow afternoon is my WW meeting in Bemidji. I will be happy to weigh in at the same weight as last week. My summer goal seems to be evolving into "don't gain" rather than "lose."

Yesterday I stopped in at Ace Hardware in Park Rapids. The Farmers' Market sets up in part of the Ace parking lot, so I wandered over to check out the venders. I ended up buying a pork steak, ground pork and ground lamb from a young couple. The young man had cooked a pork steak on a grill and was offering bites. It was delicious. I would have bought lamb chops but they were out of them. They sell meat from animals they raise.

Hi, all! Sending good thoughts to Minus for good news, and hoping Sandy's arm is healing well.

We went to the farmer's market last weekend and as usual I got a little carried away.... Got Manilla clams and had a friend over for spaghetti alle vongole. Fresh berries, so raspberry clafloutis for dessert that night, and drop biscuit blackberry/raspberry shortcakes a couple of nights later in the week.

Sand dabs with summer squash sauteed with onion and serrano peppers. Lamb steaks with roasted potatoes and salad. Grilled calamari with Greek salad (red leaf lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, red onion, kalamata olives and cojita instead of feta cheese.)

We're going out for pizza this evening at a place we like within walking distance. I'm planning Jacques Pepin's mother's simple cheese souffle to use up some cheese tomorrow night, with more salad. Also green Thai curry with sweet potatoes, eggplant and green beans that are all in the crisper for another night this week. Both recipes make enough for us to have at least a second meal from them, so that should take of us for a while!