Now that I'm acting like a real person again, I have taken up cooking a good supper on my days off, like I used to. I just stuck the beef burgundy in the oven to cook low and slow, and there is a fresh sweet pea salad chilling in the fridge.

Don't you wish you were coming to my haus for supper? *grin*

I talk my husband up quite a bit, I know. Like any normal man he has his faults, of course, but his awesomeness outweighs his little quirks by far ( Read more... )

My daughters' Gramma Joyce is dying ( Read more... )

The 15 book meme. Here goes ( Read more... )

I've lived in the extreme northeast corner of Iowa my whole life. That's coming real close to 45 years Folks. I know our weather and usually exercise fairly conservative judgment when the weather guys and gals, namely Mark Schnackenberg from KWWL, tell me to stay my ass to home. A quick spin around town hotdoggin' the corners in weather is one ( Read more... )

Now here's another chick to tuck under my wing. I really need to stop doing this ( Read more... )

Here's what happened this weekend ( Read more... )

My new userpic is Dad and Ole, from the Jul feast the night before last. You can see what a long drink of water my boy is, and that he has Great Grampa wrapped nicely around his finger.

The Salow Family Christmas last night, an annual obscene orgy of gifts and food. A few years back I tried to interest them in providing gifts and feasts for poor families in the area rather than each and every person in the family buying gifts for everybody else. They just looked at me blankly, like WTF?. Salows adore giving gifts......to other ( Read more... )

Jul at Haus Salow tonight. Good company, good gifting, good food. We all had fun ( Read more... )