Glenda: Glad you got to enjoy your lunch with a friend. It all sounds good, but especially the salad. Angela: What a fabulous feast you had tonight!! Raven: My mouth waters as I read about all the goodies you're having. I'm so jealous of the fresh tomatoes. Jasdip: You are really doing a number on us, showing these delicious foods. That looks so good. Fran: I wish I could sneak in your place and steal one of those oysters. Shirley

I had an enjoyable husband-less evening last night. He went night fishing with a buddy; left around five and returned after eleven. I collected some garden veggies and made a quick stir fry with some thawed frozen shrimp, garlic, and ginger. Plus a nice glass of wine, long gab sessions with family and friends, Orange is the New Black binging, and I was a happy camper for a few hours, lol. He sent me text videos of the water, of fish they caught (and released), of bats swooshing around the boat lights, of the sunset, and even of their hilarious banter. So I had a great evening!

Its confusing because it goes against what has been the accepted common knowledge since perhaps the early 1800's. The farmers growing them and calling them yams, are wrong. The grocers selling them and calling them yams, are wrong. The companies canning them and labeling them as yams, are wrong. The people who first introduced them to the United States called them yams, perhaps to distinguish them from the different variety of sweet potatoes that were already on the market, they were wrong too. Even some sites on the web that try to explain the difference with helpful images like this one: http://www.frugallivingnw.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/yams-sweet-potatoes-is-there-a-difference-2.jpg are wrong. (hint they are all sweet potatoes, despite their labels) So it is not at all surprising that what I learned at a young age from my mother and grandmother, and which was continually re-enforced every Thanksgiving or every time I visited a grocery store, is wrong. I have never eaten a true yam in my life, and seeing some of the pictures of what a true yam look like, I probably never will. Does it harm me in any way if other people choose to call some varieties of sweet potatoes "yams", no. It merely bothers the pedantic part of me a little when someone asserts something to be a fact, when they are in fact wrong.

Just made some Caesar salad dressing and topped the salad with blackened salmon for DH. I was too tired to eat myself. Maybe in a little bit. Returned home from a golfing trip with the ladies….3 days of golf and late nights. Took one day off except for Mexican train last night and played golf today. Looking forward to a quiet weekend.