Theo needs a puppy.!.
Saturday, September 30, 2006
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Mel's bed
Here is another photo of Melanie's bed. I am finishing up a checker board for my Dad. I am also finishing up a frame for a picture of Cecile & me that is going to work. Then I am going to start on a coffee table for our living room. Beside all that, life is routine in the bear den.
Monday, September 18, 2006
Eat Your Vegetables
Sunday we took a carload of "essentials" to Megan. Then we took her to dinner at a restaurant called La Shish. The menu was a blend of Indian and Middle Eastern foods. We ordered 2 entrees and they came with soup and salad. The salad was your typical greens with Greek style dressing minus the spinach leaves. Then they brought the bread which was the naan that Jason makes.
The main dishes were very delicious. One was rice with grilled shrimp and vegetables. The other was a thick ring of hummus surrounding a stew of lamb and vegetables. You dip the naan in the stew and hummus and eat it. Yummmmmmeeee.
We dropped Megan off at her photo lab and went to Whole Foods Market. The superstore for organic and health freaks. We love wandering around in there. Randy tastes the cheese samples and drools over the huge cheese selection. I search for all the different soy based products to stock up on. Like soy yogurt(it doesn't taste like yogurt but it's smooth and creamy and fruity).
Then we checked out their cafeteria and deli. Wow what a lot of yummy looking stuff. I got ideas for foods I've never attempted before.
Tonight's dinner:
Lembas (Elven waybread)
grated daikon radish, one
grated carrot, 3/4 of 1-lb bag baby carrots
minced onion, one
minced garlic, 2 cloves
sea salt and ground pepper to season
Steam 8 minutes.
Cool.
Add:
cilantro, 1 bunch leaves removed from stems
In separate bowl mix:
1-1/2 C. flour
1/2 C. cornmeal
2 T. olive oil
2 eggs, slightly beaten
1-1/4 C. soy milk
sea salt and ground pepper to season
Fold vegetables into batter. Mix well.
Put large spoonful on waffle iron or panini maker and cook until browned.
Serve with favorite condiments: butter, catsup, sour cream, Ranch Dressing or salsa.
It stores well and can be reheated in toaster oven.
To pan fry, use only 1 C. milk and fry in about 4 T. oil until browned on both sides.
A box without hinges, key or lid
Yet golden treasure inside is hid.
Answer: egg
Laters,
Mom
The main dishes were very delicious. One was rice with grilled shrimp and vegetables. The other was a thick ring of hummus surrounding a stew of lamb and vegetables. You dip the naan in the stew and hummus and eat it. Yummmmmmeeee.
We dropped Megan off at her photo lab and went to Whole Foods Market. The superstore for organic and health freaks. We love wandering around in there. Randy tastes the cheese samples and drools over the huge cheese selection. I search for all the different soy based products to stock up on. Like soy yogurt(it doesn't taste like yogurt but it's smooth and creamy and fruity).
Then we checked out their cafeteria and deli. Wow what a lot of yummy looking stuff. I got ideas for foods I've never attempted before.
Tonight's dinner:
Lembas (Elven waybread)
grated daikon radish, one
grated carrot, 3/4 of 1-lb bag baby carrots
minced onion, one
minced garlic, 2 cloves
sea salt and ground pepper to season
Steam 8 minutes.
Cool.
Add:
cilantro, 1 bunch leaves removed from stems
In separate bowl mix:
1-1/2 C. flour
1/2 C. cornmeal
2 T. olive oil
2 eggs, slightly beaten
1-1/4 C. soy milk
sea salt and ground pepper to season
Fold vegetables into batter. Mix well.
Put large spoonful on waffle iron or panini maker and cook until browned.
Serve with favorite condiments: butter, catsup, sour cream, Ranch Dressing or salsa.
It stores well and can be reheated in toaster oven.
To pan fry, use only 1 C. milk and fry in about 4 T. oil until browned on both sides.
A box without hinges, key or lid
Yet golden treasure inside is hid.
Answer: egg
Laters,
Mom
Saturday, September 16, 2006
Fall Rituals
As the fall leaves are thinking about changing colors, mama & papa bear are preparing for something much worse. Angel dandruf!
Papa bear bought a large grass colored rug to put on the pond where all the animals bathe and drink. Hopefully this keeps all the critters & leaves out, especially the cats that can walk on water.
Today we are going up to the next valley where all the animals buy produce in larger quanities.
I have to get a couple of bushels of "Granny Smith" apples for you know what.
We are starting our fall ritual of eating less & more healthy, knowing that during the winter we don't get out as much and like to store up extra cellular structures that aren't necessary.
Tomorrow we are going to see baby bear and take her some stuff that she will need during the cold months ahead. They have a "World Market" in her valley not too far away from her cave. We will have to stop there and browse also. Gota go! "Growl"
Papa Bear
Papa bear bought a large grass colored rug to put on the pond where all the animals bathe and drink. Hopefully this keeps all the critters & leaves out, especially the cats that can walk on water.
Today we are going up to the next valley where all the animals buy produce in larger quanities.
I have to get a couple of bushels of "Granny Smith" apples for you know what.
We are starting our fall ritual of eating less & more healthy, knowing that during the winter we don't get out as much and like to store up extra cellular structures that aren't necessary.
Tomorrow we are going to see baby bear and take her some stuff that she will need during the cold months ahead. They have a "World Market" in her valley not too far away from her cave. We will have to stop there and browse also. Gota go! "Growl"
Papa Bear
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
No Worries
For Labor Day Weekend we went to Grandma and Grandpas house to hobnob with the relatives.
Aunties Valorie and Tara were there working on homemade Christmas cards. When they weren't paperworking they were crocheting dishcloths. Aunt Valorie plans to open a craft store in the little barn on her property. She also plans to teach lessons in a variety of crafts.
If you have any little crafty objects you would like to sell, she is willing to take them in to her shop and put them on display.
Nellie was there and was busy knitting a sweater for a newborn girl she knows. She used a thick soft chenille yarn in pastels and white. When it was done it looked so soft and cuddly you just wanted to squeeze it tight.
Nellie has been taking monster antibiotics for the H.pylori bacteria that has given her stomach ulcers. Her 90 year old father is causing her a great deal of anxiety. She'll come home from work to find his tractor with its nose half up a tree trunk or the back end in the trout pond.
He'll extricate it and get it into another predicament the next day. She is in constant fear of what she may come home to one day.
There was plenty of good food as usual. Granpa rigged up a homemade chicken rotisserie for slow roasting his homegrown chickens over the fire pit.
His garden is huge. The corn stalks must be over 10 feet tall. He rigged an electric fence around the corn to keep the varmints out. It's a bare wire poked into the outlet of an extension cord! Mmmm... electric fried racoon.
Grandma's hand is still healing from the surgery so she has not done any sewing lately. She goes to therapy 2 times a week where they stretch it and press it until it hurts. The scars are in three places, the palm and two on the finger. They are not neat scars either, they are all jaggedy. It'll be a while before she has full use of it again.
Randy's toenail is still hanging on by a teensy bit of skin. He protects it with a bandaid. You can see the new nail growning underneath. It's grown out about half way.
We don't see Christina anymore. She gets up about when I go to bed and comes home just as I'm leaving for work. I'll have to settle with reading about her in her blog.
Until next time
Cec
Aunties Valorie and Tara were there working on homemade Christmas cards. When they weren't paperworking they were crocheting dishcloths. Aunt Valorie plans to open a craft store in the little barn on her property. She also plans to teach lessons in a variety of crafts.
If you have any little crafty objects you would like to sell, she is willing to take them in to her shop and put them on display.
Nellie was there and was busy knitting a sweater for a newborn girl she knows. She used a thick soft chenille yarn in pastels and white. When it was done it looked so soft and cuddly you just wanted to squeeze it tight.
Nellie has been taking monster antibiotics for the H.pylori bacteria that has given her stomach ulcers. Her 90 year old father is causing her a great deal of anxiety. She'll come home from work to find his tractor with its nose half up a tree trunk or the back end in the trout pond.
He'll extricate it and get it into another predicament the next day. She is in constant fear of what she may come home to one day.
There was plenty of good food as usual. Granpa rigged up a homemade chicken rotisserie for slow roasting his homegrown chickens over the fire pit.
His garden is huge. The corn stalks must be over 10 feet tall. He rigged an electric fence around the corn to keep the varmints out. It's a bare wire poked into the outlet of an extension cord! Mmmm... electric fried racoon.
Grandma's hand is still healing from the surgery so she has not done any sewing lately. She goes to therapy 2 times a week where they stretch it and press it until it hurts. The scars are in three places, the palm and two on the finger. They are not neat scars either, they are all jaggedy. It'll be a while before she has full use of it again.
Randy's toenail is still hanging on by a teensy bit of skin. He protects it with a bandaid. You can see the new nail growning underneath. It's grown out about half way.
We don't see Christina anymore. She gets up about when I go to bed and comes home just as I'm leaving for work. I'll have to settle with reading about her in her blog.
Until next time
Cec
Nothing Much
Nothing exciting going on with Randy or me.
I did watch Randy pull out tons of English ivy from under the old maple in the back yard though.
He's an animal! Grrrrr.....
He let me pretend to help by rolling the ivy up with the use of a pitchfork. Then he used brute force to yank the roots out of the ground.
It's been raining three days straight. Good for the saplings we planted. Grandpa gave me some American chestnuts and some acorns last fall. I planted them and voila! Trees!
The American chestnut we have is not self-pollinating so we planted a mate for it by the relocated compost pile. The oak is planted just in front of the back fence.
We are officially finished planting any more trees on our property. Within another 10 years we won't have any sunny spots around.
Now that the weather is cooler, and as soon as the rain stops, we will get back to work on our variegated brick patio. I don't know if I like it or not. But it will be a pleasant place to sit even if it looks strange.
Randy and I have been watching some ooooold movies. Black and white ones. Some Hitchcock and some Paul Newman ones. Some Shirley Temple movies just came in but I doubt I can get him to sit and watch those with me. :)
It's great to read your interesting blogs. Keep up the good work!
Cec
I did watch Randy pull out tons of English ivy from under the old maple in the back yard though.
He's an animal! Grrrrr.....
He let me pretend to help by rolling the ivy up with the use of a pitchfork. Then he used brute force to yank the roots out of the ground.
It's been raining three days straight. Good for the saplings we planted. Grandpa gave me some American chestnuts and some acorns last fall. I planted them and voila! Trees!
The American chestnut we have is not self-pollinating so we planted a mate for it by the relocated compost pile. The oak is planted just in front of the back fence.
We are officially finished planting any more trees on our property. Within another 10 years we won't have any sunny spots around.
Now that the weather is cooler, and as soon as the rain stops, we will get back to work on our variegated brick patio. I don't know if I like it or not. But it will be a pleasant place to sit even if it looks strange.
Randy and I have been watching some ooooold movies. Black and white ones. Some Hitchcock and some Paul Newman ones. Some Shirley Temple movies just came in but I doubt I can get him to sit and watch those with me. :)
It's great to read your interesting blogs. Keep up the good work!
Cec
Friday, September 08, 2006
New again!
Here it is. Jason left a dark brown (stained) coffee table in storage when He & Leanne left for Washington. Megan & I went to storage to browse. She thought she might need a coffee table, so we took it home and she helped me strip it. It's just pine, but it should get her through the next couple years.
