So...whats for dinner?

Yay SpecialK, congrats!

Thanks - glad to have a good report and the procedure in the rear view mirror.

Ha ha SK, so to speak.

LOL - Special Woo Hoo!! 10 years is great.

Dinner was carrots & cauliflower sauteed in butter & garlic - poured over leftover bow tie pasta that was heated with a dollop of Hatch Chili Ranch Dressing. Yummy but it's all April's fault that I'm succumbing to the pasta. Usually I just have the veggies with no carbs but her meals sound so darn good.

It's apparently car week. Oil change Wednesday. Three new motor mounts today (ouch for my wallet). Also a new battery today. Luckily it was under warranty with AAA. Tomorrow will be two new tires. And the car insurance is due!!! Texas doesn't have personal income tax so they make it up with things like high car insurance & home owners insurance and high real property taxes.

SpecialK, great results! We have a busy week ahead, liver biopsy came back positive for mets, so seeing MO on Monday, and DH is having his colonoscopy next Friday.

I hope everyone in the path of the bad weather is doing ok. It looked nasty on the news. We have 4 states enduring extreme heat for the next few days, hopefully no bush fires eventuate.

Dinner tonight was Beef Fajitas with guacamole and salsa.

leftovers

Freya, terrible news. Hugs.

Freya - sorry to hear also of your worry about your MIL, dealing with aging parents is hard when you have your own health to consider. I have limited personal experience with dementia but have several friends who have dealt with this with their parents and my understanding is that behavior can indeed turn on a dime and change quite quickly. Hoping there is something that can be done to bring your MIL back to her social and cooperative self - I am sure that would be a relief for you and your DH. Safe travels when you go to visit, is it a long trip?

I'm here Auntie Nance! The storm was incredible! Blizzard conditions for 6 hours (thankfully a very fast moving storm) and where I live (in Central CT near the CT River) we got 16.5 inches. We had yesterday off work (even the State told non-essential workers to stay home which is rare) and today, we opened an hour late. The roads are still pretty awful and what normally takes me 25-30 mins commute took an hour today. Ugh! I hate winter. The older I get, the less tolerance I have for it.

I was a cooking machine yesterday since I had the time. I made the mac and cheese, home made brownies, chocolate chip cookies, pulled pork, stuffed cabbage, and I made 7 quarts of home made chicken stock. I usually get 8 out of this recipe but I guess it cooked down a little more than usual cause I was so busy and not paying as much attention to it.

Tonight will be home made chicken soup with the noodles I also made yesterday. I love chicken soup and my hubby needs to stay good and healthy for his surgery on Feb. 21st. I will also have pulled pork sandwich with the soup if hubby wants one but I am good with my soup and some bread that I made in the bread machine.

Enjoy your day~!

Hubby has a torn ACL Minus and since he needed a total knee replacement on that knee anyway, it is going to be done all at once. It will be a bit tougher to rehab from, but last time he had the other knee done, the doctor said it was the worst one he had ever rebuilt and a surgery that was supposed to take about 3 hours took 6! He did all the exercises and was back to work and driving in about 4 weeks instead of 6-8 they told him. He is determined NOT to be down long.

If it were me, I would whimper on the couch as long as possible and take pain killers until they MADE me take the advil instead. I HATE pain when it comes to my knees/legs. Childbirth, C-Sections and other pain I can deal, but my darn knees are terrible too and I can't stand that kind of pain. It eats at you all day long and especially at night when you are in one position and move when you are half asleep. OWIE!! LOL I will be having my knees done next year most likely. Right now, they really can't spare me in work to take the time and just do it!

I was ready to do it in 2013 when this darn BC came a callin and after I had back to back lumpectomies, I did not wish to go back under anesthesia for a while. (I hate hate hate being put out and in fact had both of my C-Sections with a spinal to be awake the whole time)

We got about 16 inches here where I am in Western Connecticut. Had a few claps of thundersnow.

My mom's burial service was today and tonight is dinner tonight with my brother and sister in law.

It's sunny, mid 80F degrees, slight breeze, etc.

A Navy honor guard did the rifle vollies, taps and flag presentation.

Just got a vintage Lodge 6" skillet on eBay, seasoned so well the interior is like a baby's bottom. Since I had only one egg (poached in stainless) this morning, I'm going to the stove to fry another and report back. My Lodge Logic (factory-preseasoned) 10-incher I use to cook steaks and bake cornbread has a long way to go before the seasoning closes up the spaces between the sand-cast “pebbles" on its surface—assuming they ever close. The no-name one with a tad smoother yet still pebbly surface (but some rust on the outside bottom) is the one I'm going to try for the 6-coat flaxseed oil super-seasoning method (once I get my gas grill fixed so I can do it outdoors and not stink up the house). I am not about to use power tools (which I don't own) to sand those latter pans down to smoothness. The seller of the 6-incher says he uses a 50-50 mix of water/vinegar, followed by a good scrubbing with a brass grill brush, to get rid of rust on his flea-market/yard sale finds.

Oh Eric, the weather was nice for your moms service but like Special said, it must have brought the grief back up again....Not that you can get away from it but military services seem to be especially heart rending. Thinking of you and your family.  Hugs!

Thinking of you Eric . . .

Tonight I made jambalaya in the slow cooker. I didn't have high expectations for it but it was better than I anticipated. I'll tweak it a bit next time and I think it will be better. One thing I'll do is make half as much - lots of leftovers!

Spent the day with dad yesterday. He's been experiencing some weakness which I think is from some medication, but today he seemed to be doing better. This is the way things seem to go -- good days then a few bad and back again.

Ran the new dishwasher for the first time. Extremely quiet and all dishes were clean and dry. A hopeful sign!