Last night I never got around to making the caprese pasta, ended up just eating a bowl of cereal. Tonight, I went for it. So good! 2 romas, the 3 remaining baby cukes from tabouli the other day, a clove of garlic, mozz, parmesean, a couple of mushrooms, basil, salt/pepper/lemon juice/olive oil, & penne. Good enough to take a picture for facebook. ( Read more... )

Pat will be coming over in a bit to see how to take care of the kitties - was going to try to get Lisa to do it, but she's been hard to find. I'm thinking that maybe they took off for her birthday and haven't been around ( Read more... )

Finished mowing the yard, then set up the tomato stakes stuff around the tomatoes & green beans. Picked a few strawberries, but not nearly as many as the other two times. Took a few pictures of how things have grown ( Read more... )

Got most of the lawn mowed this morning, but there's still 1/3 of the backyard to do that I didn't have the battery to get to. Should be able to finish it in the morning before it rains. Hot & muggy - dripping sweat onto my sunglasses. Got cleaned up, then went to Des Moines to see about replacing the tea pitcher I broke (World Market didn't have ( Read more... )

Apparently somebody in the Education department cancelled my MOAB class for today and never told me - so I ended up having 8 hours of time back that I wasn't expecting. There's a project I've been working on trying to get a good view on ER heads-in-beds by days of the week & time of day, and I spent all afternoon fiddling with that and I think I've ( Read more... )

Rain last night, rain really hard tonight. Lost TV signal for a bit, but oh well. Not much going on today, kinda boring.

Today's over 90. Might have to start wearing short-sleeve shirts again. Had a meeting at work with all the House Supervisors where I was supposed to do a Q&A for emergency preparedness plans & responses, but it was the first time they were meeting since Gina's departure and so the brand new CNO took over the meeting to lay out her vision & ( Read more... )

Did some dishes, made a pot of tea. Hot out today. Left work late again, so I didn't get the chance to drop off the compost, but I ought to be able to do that one of these days when I'm out on time. I realized that I was in a meeting today where, not only was I the person with the most seniority at the hospital, but I also 'outranked' everyone else ( Read more... )

Today after talking to my honey on the phone, I finished mowing the yard, and then came inside to cool off & rehydrate. Played some string with Keiko while Crimson watched from the tree. After it cooled off and the sun started to go down, I went back out & ripped out all the weeds in the exposed side yard, which really needed it, and now I have ( Read more... )

Slept in this morning, no big shock there. Put the laundry away from last night, got my driver's license renewal done, finally sent the email that says you have insurance, although it shouldn't be an issue. Mowed as much as I could - I need to pull some weeds from the side yards, and take compost to the site. Maybe that will end up on tomorrow's ( Read more... )