Entirely normal so far. I guess I should buck up and make a special meal for my special kid. Happy Valentine's to everyone!

Working. :-)

Hubby brought me some roses he bought from a "street vendor" that's supporting the homeless. I gave him his card at the same time.

Hope everyone has a Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day! I made two dishes of lasagna that DH is taking over to DS's house. Later we will pick granddaughters up from school and take them home, where we will all enjoy the lasagna. For dessert, it's peach upside down cake with ice cream, one of our favorites! The dinner has been planned by DDIL to include a friend who recently lost her husband so that that she wouldn't be alone on this romantic day.

Happy Valentine's Day! I just stopped by the government office that I am trying to get a permit from....and it was a waste of time. So I may stop back by this afternoon around 4 or tomorrow at 8am. I am going to go home and start on yard work.

After two weeks of being snowed out of our house, we are finally home again (got in late yesterday afternoon). Today, I will be unpacking our luggage, doing laundry and getting settled in.

Our Valentine's Day dinner was last night - bbq NY strip, asparagus and sour dough bread warmed in the oven.

Tobey and I are just hanging out. I'm getting to hear all about his trip adventures. Tomorrow we at going to go to Nashville. He says he has a surprise for me there. I can hardly wait.

Wave as you drive by me Roseberry. I'm sure, with as much as we're on the road, we'll cross paths. East and north of Nashville early morning and late day, and west/south middle of the day. Hope you enjoy my hometown.

I took my kitten to the vet today to get his shots and get neutered. Then I stopped at the thrift store in that small town and made a couple of purchases. No I just made a few business phone calls that I had to make. I will finish my rug today and do some housework. I think we are going to our favorite steak house tonight for supper. I also have some coupons to go through and take them to the lady who sends them overseas for our vets. I have some photos I want to go through too. I guess I will see how much I get done.

A normal day. Laundry & errands. Working on the house. Leftovers for dinner; made wheat muffins. I plan on going for a walk...a treat from my every day routine!

We are going out to dinner tonight. I actually forgot to make reservations as we just got back from vacation. But luckily, there was room available at one of our favorite Italian places.

This morning, we exchanged candy and cards.

We had a power outage that lasted from 2:00pm yesterday afternoon until 5:00 in the morning. I am so happy that my food all survived in the fridge and freezer. Sometimes this isn't the case.

DH and I started out our day by going to breakfast before I went to work (late). It was great. He meets some his old Army buddies once a month (2nd Tuesday) for breakfast together and today the wives were invited too.

We exchanged cards this morning as is our usual routine. Sometimes we go to dinner, but most often lately we don't. Our favorite restaurants are so crowded and usually we don't even like the V-Day menu so we just skip it. Tonight is our DGD's first soccer game of the season so we'll go there. She plays/starts on her HS varsity team and it's really a big thing with her. We love to watch her play.

I plan to grill steaks tomorrow night.

Pulmonary rehab this AM, nap this afternoon. The excitement of my life is overwhelming...

Happy Valentines day!

I am watching the news showing all of the homes destroyed in the Tornadoes here this morning. Wild weather. No deaths reported so far. Well unfortunately they just came on the news to say a young person was killed. Thank God no damage in my immediate area.

Last night at 3am well this morning I guess, some idiot went in to the cul de sac directly behind my house and set off giant artillery shells. I flew out of the bed, Mia went nuts freaked her out so bad poor baby. I thought sure it was gunshots at my neighbors. There had been several break ins around the area during the day. One home in a nearby subdivision was broken in at gunpoint. These were in gated community's! Another man from the same area was held up at gunpoint at the atm then pistol whipped badly. I tell you these thugs are getting very bold.

Wave as you drive by me Roseberry. I'm sure, with as much as we're on the road, we'll cross paths. East and north of Nashville early morning and late day, and west/south middle of the day. Hope you enjoy my hometown.

I think Tobey has reservations at one of my favorite steak houses there. He mentioned something about wearing my formal jeans. LOL

Pulmonary rehab this AM, nap this afternoon. The excitement of my life is overwhelming...

Well pooh !! I hope it goes well for you though and mybe afyer, you can do something a bit special. Good thoughts coming your way.

Dang raven, that just stinks !! Praying for a more peaceful day and that those thugs get what's coming to them

Today is "everybody gets a haircut day" and that even includes the granddog. On haircut day, I fix supper for my daughter, her companion Connie (both of whom are also getting haircuts) and the g'dog. I got up at 6am and prepared a pizza casserole that needs at least 8 hours in the fridge before baking. Went and got my haircut, while DH went to his barber for his cut. Did a load of laundry, ate a little lunch and washed all the dishes. Just finished putting together a Caesar salad. Now I can relax till time to put the casserole into the oven. Then I will get my lap ready for the arrival of the love of my life, the granddog. She will come running in, completely ignoring DH and I while she checks the house for 'hidden' treats. Then she will jump in my lap showering me with kisses. That will be my Happy Valentine's Day, my family together for supper, even if I cooked it.

Dessert will be store bought Biscotti with our coffee later.

We don't do anything special for any holiday, which is fine with me. I don't feel deprived in any way. If I want something, I get it. Jody hasn't been home in 3 or 4 days. He met me in a nearby town and gave me some money. As long as I have money for horse feed, I am okay. I went to HEB and got some crab legs....on sale for Valentine's day, I suppose. Jody doesn't like them very much....prefers blue crab...so I enjoyed them by myself. As for today, the weather was bad this morning, although we didn't get much of the high winds here. One little burst that lasted about 10 min. No damage. I almost got the horses fed before it started raining...not quite tho.

I am raising 3 baby squirrels, that I got on Saturday. I would rather raise possums or kittens. I worry about them aspirating, so I feed them with a dropper, every 4 hours....around the clock. So mostly I have stayed inside today.... and fought the urge to take a nap!

A friend of mine has opened a flower shop in our little town and today I helped him with Valentine's Day deliveries. I worked about six hours and used my own car. It was lots of fun and a break from cutting brush and clearing land by hand.

DH and I went to the grocery store this morning and picked up a couple of lobster tails they had on special sale. Saw some stuffed clam in a 3" shells (5) that looked interesting so got that too. Going make rice pilaf later and do something different with fresh zucchini for dinner to have with what we picked up. I made fresh berry sauce to go on the cheesecake we will have for dessert. I would rather do something like this for V. Day than go out. I don't like eating out with the crowds, bad food and service at ridiculous prices. Not to mention the long wait and noise.

DH already gave me a big bouquet of alstroemerias yesterday, must be 50 multi colored ones. I got him a small bag of dark chocolate Ghiradelli squares. He just came in with a big bouquet of daffodils he picked from out front. We are due for rain storms from Thursday on for 7 days. He picked them because they are going to just get beat down. Happy Spring!

Happy Val's Day!

I bought dh a big box of Godiva chocolates. Yesterday I got each kid and my brother who is visiting a tiny box of chocolates, a pack of gum and something fun and/or usable. I haven't given them out yet. Will go to Costco and get pizzas for supper here shortly unless dh gets them on the way home. Not doing a big fancy meal out because I don't think tonight is a good night for it.

Happy Valentines Day to me, I've been on my hands and knees in the island and driveway beds trying to make some sense of winters mess ;0) Really, I feel pretty pleased, it looks better out there and I've been inside with our rain and cold for too many days. I found some baptisia shoots under the leaves, some inula too. I don't know yet if the salvia survived the colder winter, too soon to tell.

DH helped me take down a 12' rhody to the ground, one of 5 in a row we'd already shorted by about 8' two years ago and this one didn't ever thrive again like the others. I was pulling leaves and debris out from under the azalea hedge when it started to rain again so I came in - thinking it was about 5 PM from the darker sky and it was 3:30. I'm not sure what we're going to eat tonight, maybe he'll cook a steak. I have a couple of lobster tail in the freezer that I like, but lobster isn't his preference ever...

We are aiming for a Costco trip Thursday but DH did run to the store with a short list for me this morning and came home with flowers. Grocery store flowers, but I'm not complaining ;0)

Those pickles look delicious!

Thank you, Marilyn! I'll report back later about how they taste.

WOW! Home made pickles. Da bomb!

Those pickles look amazing! Mind sharing how you make them?

Thank you, nicole and Dakota! Now that they've had overnight to chill and marinate, I'm really pleased with the end result.

I used this recipe from the Food Network as a guide: Refrigerator Pickles

I didn't have all of the seasonings in the recipe so I used pickling spice instead (2 tspns in each jar) and regular cucumbers with most of the skin peeled off. Next time, I will add more garlic cloves and more dill. As an experiment, I added six tspns of sugar to one of the jar and those pickles ended up tasting like bread and butter pickles but not quite as sweet.

Really easy to make and only took about an hour.