One of the saddest things about my parents splitting up and then remarrying is that the new marriages ended up with new babies added to the families, and when my father died his first set of kids got absolutely nothing from his inheritance. Everything he owned was given to his new family – even his left handed Martin guitar that he had promised my left handed sister. As usual, the original family suffers. Sometimes I get angry at how unfair life can be!
Category: Friends and/or family
One of my favorite comfort food meals is grilled cheese sandwiches with tomato soup and bread and butter pickles. Oh, and rippled potato chips, and a cold glass of milk. I don’t know why I consider that a comfort food; I don’t think I’ve ever noticed that in a cook book about comfort food. A couple of months ago my son’s girlfriend came over to spend the day and they were cooking up some grilled cheese sandwiches with apple slices in the sandwich. I’d never heard of that before, but I tried one and it was awesome! I’ll be adding that to my mental assortment of recipes to do again the in the near future!
Over the past couple of years I have been noticing that our gutters and down spouts are deteriorating. I’ve been looking at decorating magazines and seen some articles and photographs of something called rain chains that I think I’d like to consider buying and using when my hubby finally declares that it is time to replace the down spouts.
Nobody that I know has ever told me that they have any experience with chains rain, so I’m a little bit anxious about trying something that nobody else that I know has used. Funny how I depend so much on the experiences of my friends and family!
I’ve fallen in love with the beauty of a copper rain chain that looks like lotus flowers, and I’ve bookmarked the website for future reference. My biggest worry right now about copper rain chains is whether or not some one would be bold enough to come up to the house and steal them just for the melt down value of the copper. Maybe I should consider aluminum instead, but I DO love the warm look of copper!
After dinner last night my sister brought out a large cardboard box full of pictures taken back in the ’60s. It was so much fun looking at how skinny and awkward we looked back then! Most of the pictures that were taken as group family photos had at least one of the kids pouting. That must have been very frustrating to our parents, trying to get a good group shot and there was always someone throwing a clog in the gears!
Some of the photos were of us kids inside the old log cabin that we used to spend our summers in. One of the things that I loved about that cabin was the feeling that you got when you were inside – it really felt like it was an authentic old log cabin. There were only three rooms – a small galley style kitchen, a small bathroom with a shower (no tub) and a large multi-function room. We used that large room to eat, play, and sleep. It was furnished with rustic log furniture that looked like Adirondack chairs made with whole logs. I was really quite sad when my parents sold that cabin; I loved that place.
When I have the day off of work, I like to use my crock pot and bread machine to cook supper while I’m hanging out around the house. The smell of the bread baking is pure heaven! So today I am cooking a chicken in the crock pot and french bread in the bread machine. I’m hoping that my hubby will prepare the potatoes and the veggies when it is closer to time to eat.
As I sit here typing this I’m wondering if I should have just dug out my second crock pot and cooked the potatoes in that. I’ve never done that before, but I’m thinking if I washed the potatoes, rubbed them with oil, wrapped them in foil and then just dumped them into the crock pot on low and let them cook the same amount of time as the chicken, that would probably work out just fine! I’ll have to try to remember to do that next time!