So...whats for dinner?

Susan, hoping for good scans too.

Our cat loves it when we get up early. He meows to remind us of our obligation, runs for the kitchen and waits impatiently for food.

Susan - hoping for only the best of outcomes on your scan.

I think there is a bit of leftover meatloaf in freezer. Might thaw that out later. If I can find the energy which will only be to wash/slice potatoes, want to make those Greek lemon potatoes again.

I managed to take a stroll out thru the goatyard and let them out to eat a bit of greenery in a place they don't usually get to go. Pretty nice day today before the cold invades starting overnight. I think we've seen the last of the golden orb for the week. Dicey if we will get freezing rain Wed night/Thurs am. One prediction was for 1/4 inch but not a source I'm familiar with unsure of how much trust to give it. I do need DH to bring some cut wood up from the back. He's off tomorrow, day not too bad so that is doable. Getting him to drive me to grocery. I'll be doing good to find a few things there b4 the knees get weak. Have a darned pres. to pick up. Hate the refill hassle of weekly Fosamax. Sometimes it will not refill and clerk has to manually do it. I knew last Friday it would prob. not so didn't even bother to call it in.

Happy Birthday Bedo.

Happy B-day Bedo!!!  For today we can change that to mean Bedo-Day!

happy birthday Bedo!

Carole, we've come home then gone again so I haven't been at my computer and may not be until Thursday. I promise I'll tell you all about it!

I'm hoping to find pomegranate molasses at global foods whenever I can get there again. I'm curious about the homemade stuff.

susan - yes, you do need this break - have a great time!

Carole and Red - I saw a man interviewed on TV. He was going in to urgent care, ticked off all the flu symptoms he had except he was not running a fever. I was taught one of the #1 symptoms of flu. But by golly his flu test was positive. This one may act a little differently. I will have the cough/snotty nose for weeks but generally I feel better. Cooked a passable dinner, a Hormel refrig. chicken in sauce that I dressed up with sauteed red bell peppers and chunky green onions and poured over some corkscrew pasta. Oh and a few dribbles of leftover heavy cream. Need a bit more seasoning but that was easily fixed.

Red - sounds like you had a wonderful time with you aunt and continue to have with your dad. Special times.

Susan - enjoy your 3 day "pass". Want to hear that you had some fun times.

I have - Susan don't listen - canned black eyed peas and a Cook's ham steak for New Years Day. I might get up enough umph to make biscuits but don't have any buttermilk. I need to get a can of that stuff but I never use it up. I know I can sour milk to make but nothing like really good buttermilk. My grocery has a good Bulgarian one why I don't know. DH supposed to work 9-5:00 tomorrow means he leaves here about 7:45, same for NY Day. Weather is iffy. Under freezing rain/travel advisory starting at midnight. Sure don't want him stuck an hour away in icy weather. If it's bad in the am he will call in. The tweets I've been getting sound like conditions are getting much worse west/SW. We are right on the eastern edge if, and a big if, they have put the advisory in the right place.

Oh Red, your comment about your cake makes me want to bake that "fruit" cake I found. Sweets have just sounded terrible to me, had only a couple of graham crackers. But that is beginning to sound better. Maybe a couple of more days and I will.

That dinner sounds wonderful, Carole! I love your cooking descriptions.

Had breakfast (fruit salad and coffee) with one of my good clinician friends this morning (one of the colleagues with whom I really miss working...really enjoyed our time catching up) and stopped at a local Home Goods store that was on my route home. They had lots of "organizing" items featured at the front of the store so I bought several to try to tackle the fabric chaos in my sewing room. Found lots of other little items, too....small impulse purchases. Darn that $10.00 coupon....am sure I earned another one! I do love that store....

We are going to dinner with our next door neighbors at a French restaurant up the street. Then maybecwe'll attend a concert or another event thatbis part of our town "First Night"... Or come home and crash. DH is not back to his healthy normal, and I am dragging a bit.

Hope you all enjoy health and happiness in 2015! Wonderful group here.....:

SpecialK, the urgent care visit sounds like a wise idea.  I know several people who did the same and got meds that helped them.  Your flatbreads sound good.  I did a thorough examination of all the pizza selections in the frozen food cases at Winn Dixie this afternoon.  Found several that looked good.  Thin crust and non-meat toppings.  But didn't buy any.  I'm not finding my pizza crust yeast so may have to shop online. 

Lacey, the dinner at a local French restaurant with neighbors seems really nice. 

Hope everyone enjoys New Year's Eve whether staying home or going out.

DH just got home. Watching for the ice storm. Heated up the bit of leftovers from last night which was good.

Minus - I hear Austin has cancelled the big NY Eve plans for tonight. Your domino party sounds like great fun. My Sunday School class is having a party but don't think they want Typhoid Mary coming. I'll settle in with the Stars hockey game shortly.

Home Goods - the one in Ft Worth I know of is not great. Not really impressed. More of them towards Dallas way. I think it's just what the store stocks what. Realized my comment sounded very negative.

Special - I'm sorry you're still puny. Maybe urgent care is calling your name.

Decided to end the year with a visit to the energy room. CRINGE ALERT: I was grating a large block of gruyere on my microplane box grater when the block of cheese broke in half and my thumb ended up being grated. Took off half of my nail and part of the nail bed. Ick!! It was somewhat shocking and slow to stop bleeding. It's been a while since I've had a tetanus shot, hence the er visit. Now my thumb has a huge bandage on it and is pretty much useless. Fortunately it's the same hand that's having surgery on Friday.

Sk, sure hope you feel better soon. One of the people who passed dh and me our nasty colds has had his turn into pneumonia. This crap is nothing to mess around with. Dh and I are still coughing two weeks later. I finally dragged out the humidifier last night and it really helped.

Hoping the new year is better for all of us!

Oh Aauntie Nance---did they stick your finger in a wire cage that looks like a mini beer can chicken roaster with the gauze on the outside to do that?   That's how they bandaged my pinky and the nurse said she wished she'd invented that little sucker.......

Just looked at my meds from Promptcare--40 mg of Prednisone at once daily for 5 days and a Z-pak.  No wonder I feel good....

Just home from my Oyster adventure with my 87 year old dad.  We fry oysters each NY Eve.  Drove to East Peoria to pick them up today----forgot to check directions before I left for his house, and he said he knew the exit and he wasWRONG, and me with my Bridge Phobia almost passed out thinking I was going over the river, but then I aborted the first chance and got directions and we were fine.   All the way home, he kept telling me he didn't think they gave us "counts" cause they were in a single container and I kept saying, yes, it's what we ordered.  Seafood shop was packed---they were calling # 74 when we got there, but b ecause we pre-ordered we could bypass that mess.  But I didn't get to shop for anything else, as it was toohard to control dad on his walker in the crowd..... And of course, he had to go in, cause they had out free samples.....

Well, when we got in the kitchen I put him to watching the temp on the oil while I breaded them all up and soon as he saw them, he admitted that they were correct, "if they are all that size"   they were.  We ordered 24 and he gave us 29. (priced by the lb, but anyway it tickled 87 that there were "extra's".   So, he ate his fill, along with 1/2 of an overly large baked potato  He drank iced tea and I finished off 1/2 bottle of white wine from the Hill in St. Louis.  Then I washed up the dishes, and we ate some French macaroons I got at Sams Club.  He is rubbed down with Ben Gay since his back was hurting and is tucked in for the night.  He said to me after he got in bed "new years eves are too far apart"  and I told him we could do oysters sooner, but it's nice to have special traditions, also.   

Happy New Year to everyone.....

Nancy, I'm alsomglad that hand is the one facing surgery! And morenthan haopy that we got the covered up visual!

Redheaded,mwhat a sweet story..worth every bridge worry, and fish store crowd! I was alsomamused to recall that my fake ID that I used in college was from Peoria.

Our dinner at Petit Bistro Robertwas very nice...not the greatest rack of lamb, but certainly fine. We checked out one of the local concerts after, then headed home and watched TV for ushering in 2015. Was happy that we received a New Year's greeting at "our"midnight from DS2 who is in a different time zone with girlfriend.

Happiness and health tomall....and those of you with this darn virus...please get better soon.

I'm watching DH's condition go a bit deeper, so if it stays in that bronchial direction, I'll be convincing him to head to the doc.

Please excuse all my typos...until I fight the crowds at the tech store, I'll just have to put up with this.....

Nance, SUPER CRINGE on your thumb event!  I have a mandolin that's part of a combo grating gizmo by Pampered Chef but I've never used the mandolin blade.  Your experience doesn't influence me in that direction.  Your hands aren't operating at their best with the carpal tunnel and numbness. 

Redheaded, I'm in love with your father from your stories about him!  He sounds like such a dear.  And anybody who likes fried oysters is a friend of mine.  One of my favorite splurge lunches out at a local restaurant is an oyster poboy.  Not only do we have good oysters here in south Louisiana but we have the perfect French bread loaves for a poboy.  Crusty so that your table gets covered with crumbs.  Hoagie bread is not the same.

Eric, a whole bottle of ale?  That is excessive.  LOL.  I had two glasses of Franciscan chardonnay.  If you're looking for a reasonably priced chardonnay that's very good, try Franciscan.  Minus, our neighbors gave us a bottle of the chocolate/red wine you mentioned.  It sounds like a weird combination.  Glad to know you recommend it.  Yesterday I splurged on a bottle of small batch rye that was on sale at the Winn Dixie.  Rye is better than bourbon for folks with diabetes because rye is made from wheat.  Probably not good for gluten free folks!  I'm not diabetic but am pre-diabetic. 

I'm looking forward to a lazy day.  Healthy 2015 to all of us.  My wish is that more of our foodie friends whom we miss will check in and let us know how they're doing.