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One of Those Days

Posted in Captain Cavedweller, Entertaining at Home, Family, Musings, tagged , , , on July 19, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Yesterday was one of those days. You know the type… when you wonder why you ever bothered to drag your sorry self out of bed because that was the beginning of the descent into non-stop not-fun drama.

Ever have one of those days?

Phew… I’m glad there are a few hands raised out there.

My day started with me trying to gather up all the trappings I feel necessary to drag out the door with me on my way to work. In juggling the plunder, I inadvertently hit the panic button on my key chain which set my car alarm blaring at the early morning hour of barely after 7. I’m sure my neighbors and their out-of-town guests were thrilled for that rude awakening. Especially when it went on for goodness only knows how long because I couldn’t hear it until I actually opened the door and stepped outside. Sorry, Jennifer!

Arriving at work, I found my computer had been attacked by evil trolls and refused to boot up. I think it is the same set of ruthless, wicked minions who have invaded the phone line at work. So there I sat with no computer or phone which is pretty much like tying my hands and putting a blindfold on me for the day. Which was a great way to train a new assistant. The village idiot has got nothing on me considering my discombobulated state yesterday. The poor girl will probably turn tail and run while the running is good.

After blundering through the day by playing musical computers, and not getting half as much done as I had on my to-do list, I arrived home only to find Captain Cavedweller had his own disastrous day.  To top it off, he pulled in the driveway to find our garage door wide open (evil trolls are on the move, I tell you!) and an army of the tiniest ants I’ve ever seen swarming over our kitchen counter. Thankfully, they had not yet found my stash of peanut M&Ms.

Ah, so there was the bright spot in the day. My M&MS made it through unscathed.

She Who is Glad Yesterday is Finished and Done!

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A Monday List

Posted in Musings, tagged , , on July 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »

1. I cleaned my car inside and out and found more goldfish under the front seat which proves my theory that the crackers I spilled last year do indeed hide under there and multiply.

2. The fact that I cleaned my car inside and out made it rain. Randomly.

3. The fact that it rained made Captain Cavedweller cancel our picnic plans. Instead we went for a drive.

4. A speedy rodent that looked like a squirrel on steroids minus the tail ran in front of us on the drive. According to my Captain, Oh My Captain, it was a rock chuck.

5. Which makes me think of woodchucks.

6. Which makes me think of a ridiculous rhyme my sister would dare me to say when I was little.  “How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.” Yeah. Say that fast five times before you’ve had your morning shot of caffeine.

7. Apparently wild turkeys and deer love blueberries because the field we drove past had an abundance of both.

8. The further you drive up into the mountains the higher the odds that the rain that was a pleasant sprinkle when you started out will turn into a deluge by the time you reach your destination and someone who shall remain nameless and blameless decides to be a party poop and not get out of the car. The cats and dogs  falling from sky was definitely wet blanket on the whole go for a nature walk experience.

9. The same deluge will move out of the mountains and catch up to us heading the opposite direction approximately 23 minutes later, making it impossible to see to drive on the highway which made for an exciting few minutes of driving.

10. I promise not to clean my car ever again if it keeps the rainy, stormy weather away. Be warned, though, it may eventually be taken over by the rogue goldfish.

She Who Now Has a Very Dirty Car

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Watermelon and Feta Salad

Posted in Easy Recipes, Recipes, Salads, tagged , , , , on July 15, 2011| 1 Comment »


Anyone who knows me well, knows I kind of have a thing for Feta cheese. It is creamy and salty and pefectly delightful on so many different things especially salads.

I also have a thing for watermelon and mint. So why not combine all those favorites into one fun salad?

This was really simple and easy to make. It literally took just scant minutes to put together and turned out so bright and beautiful!

Ingredients

 

Mix up your dressing. I did not have rice vinegar and substituted what I had on hand - and it worked fine.

 

Cut your mint into little ribbons.

 

Sorry, I skipped a few steps in the photo process. Mix the mint and melon with the dressing then top with cheese and sprinkle on just a dash of seasoning. Garnish with mint and you are ready to enjoy!

Watermelon and Feta Salad

1 seedless watermelon

3 ounces feta cheese

1/4 cup fresh mint chiffonade

1/4 cup olive oil

1/4 cup rice vinegar

1/2 tsp. salt

1/4 tsp. seasoning

Mix salt, oil and vinegar and set aside.

Cube, ball or chunk melon into bite-sized pieces.

Cut your mint into little ribbons (chiffonade). Mix together mint, watermelon and dressing. Chill.

When ready to serve sprinkle on Feta cheese and a dash of seasoning. Garnish with a sprig of mint and enjoy!

She Who Is Entranced with the Smell of Fresh Mint Being Cut

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Popsicles

Posted in Captain Cavedweller, Musings, tagged , , , on July 14, 2011| 2 Comments »

I wandered into the family room the other evening to find Captain Cavedweller sucking down his fifth, yeah – that’s  right FIFTH, Otter Pop of the day. Granted, he spends the bulk of every day out in the hot sun and comes home in need of something cool and refreshing. But this may have gone too far. Maybe.

He could at least eat a real Popsicle instead of the plastic filled tubes of frozen liquid sugar. The whole thing is so… unsportsman-like. Not summery. Icky. There is just something wrong with sucking on a plastic tube. It seems so uncivilized.

And while I’m on a rant today, I’d like to know what happened to the old-fashioned kind of popsicles. You know, the kind that came on two sticks?

I was going to prove to Captain Cavedweller how much better my frozen sugar on a stick was than his tube-filled thingies. Only I couldn’t find my popsicles anywhere. Believe me I’ve looked. The closest I could find was a box of single popsicles on one stick. But at least they had my favorite flavors of banana and rootbeer.

Captain Cavedweller can’t even identify the flavors he is inhaling. He brought a yellow tube for me to sniff to see if I could determine the flavor. I started to tell him exactly what I thought it smelled like and decided I better behave myself.

“Pineapple,” I said. “Definitely pineapple.”

So as the battle lines are drawn down the middle of our freezer this summer with Otter Pops on one side and sad little single stick Popsicles on the other, what kind of frozen treats are in your freezer?

She Who Still Thinks Popsicles are Best

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