So...whats for dinner?

Sending healing thoughts to your family, Vivian.

Wow, Eric, what a pain! I'm just shocked that the "finder/keeper" didn't give you at least 24 hours to inactivate the card....;).    Not!   I really do hate that this annoying inconvenience (we went through it last year) as well as some other more terrible, frightening behaviors/events are so much a part of our culture these days. . Guess that's why someone returning the wallet makes the evening news!

Vivian, hoping for a good outcome.  Keep us posted.

Yesterday was a foodie's delight for me.  My lunch after golf was a grilled blackened salmon sandwich with tartar sauce.  I think I have already given a drooling account of how perfect the salmon was.  Then my dinner choice at our club's nice dining room last night was duck, something I have never ordered.  It was a half duck in a dark sauce and couldn't have tasted more delicious.  The side was two small cannelloni with goat cheese stuffing.  My mouth waters as I recall it! 

Plus good company and a Grey Goose on the rocks and two glasses of chardonnay. 

This morning I'm off to pick blueberries with my cousin at her ex's house.  My middle sister is in town to celebrate dh's birthday tomorrow at my mother's house so she'll be in on the picking.

Happy Saturday.

Nancy - seeing Twitter pics of damage in St. Peters. Hope you are safe. Looks like very stormy in NW Tenn and Ark. We are forecast to get some tomorrow or Monday more likely.

Made an absolutely disgusting jello salad - disgusting only in calorie content. Strawberry-lemonade jello, pineapple, buttermilk, walnuts and buttermilk. Used up some things that had been hanging around. Will go good with leftover spaghetti watching car racing tonight.

Tonight is baby red potato salad with dill, steamed broccoli, and black peppered pork tenderloin - will eat while watching baseball.  DH is not feeling very chipper and running a low fever - highly unusual for him.  Played with the dog in the pool earlier, but it has been a quiet day.  Had thought I would go to the grocery store, but it didn't seem to happen...

Hello all and thank you for prayers, 

Surgery has been scheduled for Monday 7 am.  I'll update you all on Monday.  

As much as we all have been through and all of the surgeries I've read about here, I was scared to hear what the neurosurgeons had to say. So clinical almost like robots. 

Thank you again and please keep them coming especially Monday.

Vivian

Vivian still keeping you and your family in my prayers

Yesterday was "Mussels Saturday". Every week for the last 2 years a friend and I have gone to the same restaurant for the same thing. Mussels, Naan, Vegetarian appetizer platter and Blue Moon Ale with slice of orange. They know us there and even add, "mussels not too spicy with extra sauce and an extra order of naan, correct?" Sometimes it's" Mussels Monday" or "Tuesday". Just a wild a crazy pair. We know what we like.

Lacey, you're right, I should have said stuffed AND exhausted!

What a great waffle iron Eric! Love me some waffles, yum!

WEll everyone, I shot my WW points at Breakfast out with the gals I went to grade school with 50 years ago..... I wanted a waffle, but 9 points (I looked it up beforehand) seemed to many, so I opted for 2 scrambled eggs with bacon hashbrowns and rye toast, coffee, cream, jelly--now -by my caculations I only had 4 points left ( I get 26).....  So now  I am having a ribeye steak ciooked inside oven because of weather  and a tomato and going to dip into the activity points I have banked.  I pray this rain we have had in Central Illinois blows out of here by morning so I can get my 2 miles in to earn 4 more points.  LOL.

Viv-prayers for you, your SO and everyone involved. Nuerosurgeons may not have bedside manner, but they are very skilled at what they do. 

 Close your eyes, breath deep and feel all of us there with you .  You are never alone.

Redheaded, my daily allotment is 26 pts. too.  I had a McD's Large choc. shake one day recently.  Looked it up later and it's 20 pts!  Now when my car drives itself into a McD's, I try to muster the discipline to order senior coffee!  Tomorrow morning is my ww meeting but I weighed in for June last Monday and was "legal."  So I won't have to weigh in again until July. 

Eric, I finished up the rice and chicken salad for my dinner last night.  Hardly a grain of rice was wasted!  I'll definitely be making it again. 

One of my brothers brought boxes of fresh veggies to my mother's house today, where we were gathered for dh's birthday meal.  So I have tomatoes (not red ripe), green peppers, cucumbers, yellow squash and eggplants in abundance.  The birthday  meal was hearty and good but nothing like Nancy's DS's feast.  We had giant meatballs in red sauce, linguine (white), tossed salad, steamed squash and garlic Texas toast from a box and heated up.  Carrot cake (not home-made) and ice cream (not home-made!)  for dessert.  Also, pass around stuffed mushrooms for an appetizer.  My sister made them and they were very good.

I rarely overeat but I felt too full today.  Not a feeling I like. 

wow. You guys were very busy..All I had on my agenda was a graduation party for my nephew and going to pick up some flowers and a few herbs for my container garden. I didn't get them in the ground yet. I'll have to try tomorrow or Tues or Wed. Got a Dr apt (preop) tomorrow.  Got Cardiologist Tues.  Oh boy. Fun.  Little more than a week to go. Have to stop my anti inflammatory.  I hate that. My legs swell up and get real stiff. Ug. Food was beans and brats or chicken. I chose the brat. Just one. It was good. 

Viv prayers for you and yours. 

So relieved for you and ylur family, Viv.

Vivian - good news.  Sending continuing hugs & prayers.

Oh Moon - I love stove top stuffing.  never thought of switching out applesauce for butter.  I'll give it a try.

viv - so happy that things are looking good for Iggy - I am sure that this was a very long day, hoping you can rest.  I just made a bunch of food for my DH to take over to the east coast - we have an elderly friend being released from the hospital on Wed. - my DH is like a son to him, he has no family, so he is going over to get him home and set up, so I cooked for the week  - he will probably stay until the end of the weekend.  I actually thought for a minute that he should take some of this food to you!  He is probably driving right past you!

I love stuffing and cranberry sauce - nobody else in my house does.  What's up with that?

joyce - your DH sounds like a prince!