Wednesday 29-07-2015 – It's National Lasagna Day – Ciao Baby!

Mmmm, lasagna. Love it meaty or veggie…delicious both ways. Makes me wish we were having Italian tonight. Hubby and I are having a rare date night to celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary! Italian is my favorite date cuisine, but we are trying to stick really close to home (and thankfully there are a couple of nice restaurants super close by) because we are letting older son be the “babysitter” for the first time ever. The boys are very cautious and will just watch movies with cell phone nearby while we’re gone.

I’ve been following a news story about two 14 yr old FL boys who were lost at sea. So glad to see this afternoon that they were found after 6 days adrift. I was just chatting with someone at lunch about it and we were both afraid there would be no happy ending.

Good to catch up here…happy moving, Cheri. I’ve not had a chance to check in before now with my house I cleaned, etc… Now off to primp some for my date. :).

KJ, dashboard cookies are indeed just that – cookie dough, a cookie sheet and a car in the sun – I’ve made them!
Enjoy dinner, ECB, and Happy 15th Anniversary! I’ve been following that story too, the good news being the boys are experienced boaters and fishermen (even though they’re 14) so hopefully they are applying their lifesaving skills.

Thanks for the anniversary wishes. That’s precious, KJ! Thanks…showed hubby as well. He liked it too.

Well, as I mentioned we were trying to stick close to home for the restaurant. There was a pricy but appropriate for special occasion place nearby. Never been there but the menu online sounded yummy. That’s where we were headed, then changed our minds last minute and went to a casual (pizza and a few pasta dishes) Italian place nearby. We got pasta (chicken parm for me and spaghetti and meatballs for hubby) and two for one glasses of wine and yummy cheesecake for dessert all for about the same price as the priciest entrees at the other place. Happy with our choice and had a nice time. Still might be fun to check out the fancier place sometime though. The boys did fine and are still finishing up the Harry Potter movie they picked out.

I hope you and Mr. ECB have a wonderful dinner and many more happee aniversaries.

OH, YUM… Lasagna!!! Now I want some!!! I have not had any for a few years….. The last time I made it, I cut it in squares to freeze. One day I took some out and I got a big long piece of white plastic in my mouth. I could NOT eat anymore. 🙁 I believe it was just a piece of the top edge of the plastic container, but wasn’t from the container mine came in. It was awful to get that sharp piece in my mouth… 🙁 Threw the rest out…..
I boiled up all my red potatoes before they go bad from this heat, cut the leftover corn off the cobs to freeze for later, froze 3 jars of the white milk from the dairy, washed all the dishes, and ate. Had the windows open with fans and the cool air felt SO good! Not to mention hearing the cute cricket! 🙂 Now I put the AC on. It only works about half and takes twice as long to cool it in here, just a few degrees, but is better than nothing. 86* is just too hot and miserable to sleep. Especially with humidity…. BY the time I wake up tomorrow morning, the temp. will be 78*…. Plumber friend hasn’t called or come over yet. 🙁 At least it’s supposed to cool off now with no humidity! YAY!!!
I spent some time today watching “YOU TUBE” videos of a mom of 7 kids, that homeschools, bakes all her own bread, muffins, etc. has a huge garden that she cans and freezes all her goodies, and is very organized! Wow… such a cool lady and family. I have only known about her for a short while, so have lots of OLD videos to catch up on. A great idea as she shares her knowledge with others to help make their lives easier. She has the life that I had once wanted. Boy, she makes baking bread look SO easy!
News guy stated our August weather will be cooler than usual. Did I mention some Ivys and Sumacs have turned colors already as well as a few leaves on the ends of some branches? SO pretty! The cool nights must have started them.
It’s TOO bad we can’t send this heat across the pond to you, MS, with your freezing weather….. Sorry your legs are hurting so much and that it is difficult for you to get the wood.

Moonshadow, yes, the families of the two lads thanked the New Zealand and Montréal police for their diligence, and everyone for their concern. It must be utterly horrible to lose a young adult child, even though he (or she) was doing his favourite thing. They were both students in industrial design at Université de Montréal, and worked part-time in outfitting shops.

Of course we are known for our cold winters, but it has been very muggy here of late. My 19-year-old black tomcat, Renzo, seems to be holding up all right and drinking lots of water. He was down in the garden last night (he doesn’t stray any farther, poor old guy) and dutifully regurgitated a bit of grass and liquid, as cats seem to want to do for their digestion. Not hard to clean up. I told Renzo the sad story of Cecil (in Canada, such wealthy “trophy hunters” kill cougars, the largest cat around here – mostly in Alberta. They also kill bear, and of course cervids, though the latter are at least in theory eaten. An uncle who had been a bush pilot told me about the canned hunts for polar bears and caribou, contracted by extremely wealthy people (usually from the US, sometimes from Europe). Usually an Indigenous guide (Amerindian or Inuit) would do all the actual work of quartering and butchering the beast, and rich tourists shooting large mammals from the air in the canned hunts really isn’t “hunting” in the traditional sense, which required skill and was perillous for the hunter as well as the prey.

ECB, I’m glad that you and Mr ECB had such a pleasant anniversary dinner and hope for a happy year. I discovered I do have some frozen lasagne in the freezer: spinach of course, I think also mushrooms, as that is what I usually make. I won’t eat it tonight as it is too hot, but they are predicting rain and milder temps, so I’ll enjoy it then.