I'm back with another snapshot of life from the past week. When I logged in I noticed that my Friday Five post never got completed last week, so we're just skipping that one for now. Hopefully we'll be back this Friday but they should start working on all our hail storm repairs this week so it could be chaos around here.
Let's get right into it because ya'll know by now, this girl is not short winded.
Let's run it back to last Tuesday, the 2nd, and see what was on the dinner menu. It's those Siete tortillas made into quesadillas again. Hubster was out working in the yard, it was after 7 pm and we were hungry and without a plan. Mine tortilla had cheese and diced jalapeños and tomatoes. Hubsters had some added pork pieces diced up teensy-tiny. Add a little salsa on the side and dinner in a flash.
Looks like Wednesday had us heading out into the garden. It's starting to be a busy place.
Wednesday night we had another usual dinner. Fish Sticks from Costco and I cut up a tomato from the garden along with a garden cucumber for a quick salad. Those biscuits are Mrs. Janie's mayo biscuits. I make them anytime I need biscuits but don't have any on hand. Here is the link to the post with that recipe. It really couldn't get any easier to make.
Thursday gave me an excuse to put something other than my yard clothes on because I had to head out to return my Nuuly rental box to the UPS store.
The shorts are from Gap Factory, they are a bit high waisted for me but I wanted a pair of railroad striped shorts and these were a good price. I did take an XS in these. Here's a pic of the shorts close up so you can see the stripes better.
I didn't get a picture but we had good old fashioned Manwich's for dinner. Nothing else, just those sandwiches. We also ate dinner very late for some reason.
Last Friday we got the best little surprise from our neighbors that moved. Remember we went out to dinner with them? Well, this came to us and man, color me impressed. I already know of 1 or 2 folks who'll be getting one of these boxes for Christmas this year.
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| The Fruit Company from Costco |
I wore the outfit below around the house on Friday.
Nothing exciting and that you haven't seen before. I did wash and dry my hair, so there's that.
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| skort (s) Then later Friday evening, Hubster and I took a ride over to a new neighborhood near us to stalk a house that's being built. I figured I should change clothes in case we went to eat, which we did.  The shirt is old, from Tommy Bahama and a size medium. I did toss it in the dryer yesterday when it was washed and I am pretty sure I managed to shrink it a bit. Fingers crossed. We did grab dinner at our little local pizza place, Tony's Pizza & Pour House. We intended to run in and sit at the bar, grab a slice, a salad and a cold beer and be home in a jiffy. We instead stayed until after closing, met some new people that were just delightful AND of all things, bumped into the attorney I used to work for. He's recently purchased a house just down from our neighborhood so we may bump into him a bit more often. Sometimes, the best things come from going with the flow. Saturday we trucked back over to that house and did a full video walk through, because seriously, we LOVE the floor plan. The lots in that neighborhood are re-donkulously priced but the house is good. Then we had some errands to run but I slapped on some of my new duds for the day. I'm terribly sorry there's no picture of the rain boots I put on because we got an inch and half of rain Friday evening and it was a mud pit over there.  We later went out to dinner with a few neighbors to a new to us place, Maria's Mexican Kitchen We tried to go to Pappasito's but the wait was two hours so we baled and went down the street. The food was definitely incredible, the prices, a tad on the expensive side but once again, primo food and sorry, no picture. I was starving by the time we got our food.  This little set came from Target and it's super comfy and I've decided, I'm glad I kept the Small in these shorts, it was super hot and muggy on Sunday and having no fabric clinging to me was so nice! I told you I'd be happy about the loose fabric by the middle of summer! Sunday evening we had Costco Beef & Broccoli w/ Noodles. It's one of their meals and the first time we've had that one. It was pretty tasty indeed, I didn't get a picture of it after I cooked but here's what the container looks like.  I woke up yesterday feeling like crap and it lasted mot of the day so we have no clothing pic and we had leftovers for dinner. Today, we're back at it and after I felt yucky all day yesterday, Rouxby Sue 🤮🤮 barfed all her dinner while we were watching Dutton Ranch. We all went to bed early Monday night. Today we are all feeling more like ourselves again but the power washers are here prepping all of our fences and the greenhouse so they can stain/paint them. We'd normally do those things ourselves but the contractor doing our roof from the storm damage said he was handling it all. Let me tell ya, it's so stinking muggy outside, I'm grateful for their hard work but that means mine and Rouxby Sue's pool time is on hiatus until they get finished.  We had soooo many cherry tomatoes in the basket on the counter and I knew they were going to go bad so I made a big container of Southwest Tomato Soup for lunch. I had a bowl then popped the rest in the refrigerator for the rest of the week. I know, I know, I just told you how hot it was and I made soup but let me tell you it's so easy and the best way to use up your not so lovely tomatoes. I do a Southwest version when I have fresh jalapeños on hand so that's what we did today. Take your tomatoes and dump them in your Vitamix blender. Then grab that leftover cut up onion in the refrigerator, a couple of fresh jalapeños from the garden and the orange and yellow sweet peppers that have really seen better days, chop off the stems and toss in the blender. Next you're going to add some salt, pepper and a little bit of cumin. Top all that with a little bit of milk and water. I give it all a couple of quick pulses with the blender then hit the soup setting and go about my business. Today, that was emptying the dishwasher. In about 10 minutes you have a piping hot bowl of the freshest tomato soup you ever did eat!  Then you put the rest in a jar, label it an pop in the refrigerator. Now there's fresh tomato soup for lunch when we'd like it this week. Most of the time I freeze the leftovers but I'm sketchy on dinner plans this week so I figured it'd be nice to have around.  This is another one of my no food goes to waste solutions. Seriously, that soup setting on the Vitamix is incredible not to mention cleanup is just rinsing out the blender container. That's a wrap on the food and clothing, now let's finish up with all the other things. Watching: We are still watching Dutton Ranch. Just finished episode 5 last night so we are caught up. I still am ambivalent about this show, these people are just horrible humans. The only redeeming factor is that Beth loves Rip and Carter with her whole heart and that's charming. Also, anything with Annette Benning and Ed Harris is good. We won't be starting any other new series because coming soon:  Coming June 21!!! Yipppeeee HBO  Final season coming June 25 FX/HULU  Netflix And In July  July 23 HBO This is a Big Bang Theory spinoff, it could be hilarious or horribly bad but we'll tune in for a few episodes for sure. Looking all the way to August. Lioness new season Aug. 2 so you can see we've got lots to watch this summer so maybe I'll get the rest of the DVR cleared off in the meantime. Reading: Finished up the Murder Unabridged book from last week, my review is up on Goodreads and with that I have emptied my NetGalley queue, now maybe I can work on some books in TBR pile. I am reading this book, it's #30 in the Miss Fortune series. It completely cracks me up too! Gertie, Ida Belle and Fortune are quite the trio and always up to some sort of trouble.  Also, I'm STILL listening to The Goldfinch...at this point I feel this book is never-ending! Ok, peeps, the power washing dudes have left for the day so Rouxby Sue would like a little swim time so I'm going to run put my suit on and hit the pool. Peace, Love & Summer time! Samma |
