So...whats for dinner?

Well power is still out. I guess it was too much rain or maybe a downed tree. It is still raining and there is some wind, but it doesn't seem that bad. The biggest problem will be if there are so many outages getting to them all will take time. I am in a very populated area so hole illy it will be high on the list to fix.

No power here in Southern NH.  The fire station is just across the pond, maybe half a mile or so, and they're probably out, too. I would hope that when they are restored, we will also be back up. 

DH is bored, so he is going to fire up the generator because he wants to watch tv.  I made a comment about power for the fridge and he said that the fridge would be ok for a few hours.  But HE will not be ok if he doesn't have his tv...LOL!!!!!   I wonder how many channels we can get if the cable is out.  This will be fun!

Michelle

Still have power here, cleaned and filled my hurricane lamps for nothin.  Oh Well.  I'm bored.

SouthWESTERN NH (Sullivan county) is mostly OK. It's just like a big bad rainstorm for me; just windy and rainy but (so far) no downed trees or power issues. 20 mins south of me and more rural -- where my Pack Rat and his cousins live -- they ARE having a few downed trees and power issues. But they own generators, they'll be OK. All in all, for us at least, the hype was worse than the actual storm has been, so far.

I'm still eating way weird (the combinations my body craves of late is basically getting even stranger than some of the things I already mentioned, if you can believe that), and unpredictably and not cooking any real food to really have anything interesting, meaningful, useful or on-topic to say in a food thread (my Pack Rat and I got pizza Friday night). And I'm sleeping a lot (I slept till 1:30 PM today!). Hope this all is just my body's way of healing up from radiation poisoning. (Oh did I mention? right after 25/33 I had to stop treatment because I ended up with second degree burns?)...... 

Hope you all are as OK as possible! 

Lena,



Glad to hear things near you are OK! Sorry to hear about radiation! I know by the end my skin was pretty burned and hurt like heck but, the radiation nurse said that my skin had actually held up well! Also, I had extreme fatigue an it stuck around for a few weeks after....



Rest when you can!



Laurie, What a nice thing to do for your neighbors!!





To all... Looks like how bad the storm was depends very much on where you are.... We're still doing OK but, my sister called on her cell phone... She's in Albany... No power and tons of trees down. She said it looks like a war zone.



Weather Channel says flooding in some upstate NY areas is catastophic. National Guard out of Ilinois has been called to assist.



Yikes!!

Yeah!  We have power.  Our daughter called around 5:30 and asked us to meet them all at a Chinese Restaurant, so we left, had dinner and just walked in the door to...lights!!!  I hope the power stays on, it's windier now than it was all day.  We maybe got 3 inches of rain and it really was never all that bad.   I thought it looked like upstate NY would get a ton of rain, so I am not surprised.  You could see really heavy rain bands all the up to Syracuse. 

Laurie - block party!  Great idea and so nice of you!  Sounds like you have a great neighborhood.

Lena -  hope you are healing from the rads.  I hate hearing those horror stories...you have to wonder why some people burn so badly and others just get a little red.  I guess it's the same thing with sunburns, you just don't think about it. 

I wonder how Kay is doing...

Hope everyone is having a good evening.

Michelle

Sat in upstate NY was beautiful and our carribean party was great fun.  My daughter and I went to the grocery store and kind of dreamed up a pasta dish that would be carribean inspired....orzo pasta, mango, red onion, cucumber, black beans, fresh cilantro and a sesame ginger dsg (bottled made by our local grocery store  Wegmans)  everyone loved it and it disappeared.

Sunday very windy and cold but not a lot of rain.  Daughter left to go back to the city, we didnt want her to go but her boyfriend really needed to get to job on Mon.  Travel was all good on the main roads and there was power when she got home.  She said just a lot of debris in the streets, and of course they need to get the transit system back up and running so she can get to work today.

Now to get ready for my son to come home this weekend.  told me he expects some good home cooking.

Happy Birthday Chabba!  I hope you are enjoying your birthday dinner right this very minute!

 Long day today, I spent it all at my mom's.  FairPoint was scheduled to show up to turn on her phone service some time between 8 and 5.  Geez, that's a pretty wide window, and the guy didn't show up until 3:00 or so.  He made a phone call on mom's new phone and said "you're all set."  What he failed to tell me is that the line isn't fully provisioned, so I spent another hour trying to program all the family phone numbers, which are all long distance.  And nothing worked.  I finally recognized the pattern of failure and gave up, and called them when I got home.  That's when I was told that the line wouldn't be fully provisioned until midnight tonight.  What a stupid process!!! 

And I spent an hour in discussion with the director of my mom's facility.  I am guessing mom will get top-notch attention for at least the next week or two...lol.  And I think the communication in the nursing department will improve.  And while I was there, the psych NP came in and so I got to meet her.  She is very nice and she agreed to start mom on the anti-depressants this evening.  I hope it gets rid of the panic attacks, we'll see. 

I did go out for lunch, had some great French onion soup and salad.  Then I took mom for ice cream and we shopped for a few things she needed.  And I made peace with her former roommate.  So all in all, it was a productive day.  Now I am mentally exhausted...LOL!

Dinner is each "man" for himself, all two of us!  We have some leftovers in the fridge and they need to be cleared out.  And I'm not hungry yet, but Rick was starved - he worked on a remodeling project at my daughter's house all day. 

Laurie - are you still running on a generator? If so, this is just like camping, right? Except you have your beds!

Michelle

Laurie  I went through a 3 mo kitchen renovation with no stove.  i had a hot plate type thing for my stovetop, but had the mocrowave, and the grill.

I taught my kids to make grilled cheese (when they were too young to use the stove) by making toast, butter it, put the cheese on and microwave for about 30sec, whala instant grilled cheese. not quite the nice fried one on the stove, but they could do it themselves.

Michelle.  your mom is so lucky to have you, not all children take the time to care for their parents, or to even visit when they are placed in a home.  My parents are still with us and pretty self sufficient, but my dad had two hip replacements and my mom had her knees done..so all of us kids got together (5 of us) and remodeled their house to make it handicapped accessible, new bathroom, widened some doors new kitchen cabinets etc....very lg project but worth it .  Since the cancer my mom still wants to take care of me...ha ha ..always a mom!

Seaside Memories,

It is 1/4 cup of the prepared kind of mustard, not the powder.  I prefer it with honey mustard but dijon works good too.  A hearty, grainy mustard might also work, but not the regular yellow stuff.  It mixes with the brown sugar and makes a night glaze.

Steaks on the grill, real (hopefully fluffy) baked potatoes with sour cream and chives, caesar salad, and apple pie from the apple farm we just discovered that is five minutes from our house...that's what's for dinner!  Tomorrow morning Rick has promised to go back to the apple farm at 11:00 and pick up a few fresh blueberry muffins made with the little deep blue Maine wild blueberries.  They bake them in the morning and have them ready to go around 11.  This place just opened, literally 5 minutes away.  All local products - honey, jams and preserves, pies, freshly picked apples, pumpkins..mmm! 

I love this place more and more every single day!!!

Michelle