Taste Like Chicken Wednesday 10/23

Happy Hump Day!

Iggy has an overnight trip tomorrow to Indianapolis and after he gets back into town on Friday he has a dinner he has to go to. I will not have to cook for two days! Tonight I am making salmon and crab patties with cucumber dill salad and oven fries. That should not upset his stomach. I went to the other Kroger today. It is a lot bigger than neighborhood Kroger yet they have less cashiers. It is a beautiful autumn day and I am in long pants and a sweatshirt. It is the kind of day I dream about during sweltering summers and frigid winters, cool, crisp and sunny. The leaves are starting to change colors and the wind sends the leaves skittering across the road. I love that sound. This year we don’t have to bag our leaves. Once in November and once in January, a truck will come around a d vacuum the leaves that have been blown along the curb. My back is happy to hear that.

Karen, the French cookbook has been translated tk English. I couldn’t find a French copy. How is the leg today? It was probably wise to workout at home just in case. Nice that you found someone who will be good at the newsletter and wants to do it. Mayne once you don’t have the secretarial duties along with the newsletter, the presidency won’t take more of your time. I have only gotten one VM in Chinese bit plenty of SS and IRS scamming VM. The baked cider donuts sound  better with the lesser amount of butter. 9-1-1 got interesting with fight club.

Liz, how is the PT going? I hope the boss’ wife is doing okay. Did he approve the telecommute? I hope your weather is as good as ours is. I hope Gary and the pups are well. When is the visit to SM and DS?

Kathy, I don’t believe the do not call registry is working at all. I have received phone calls with caller ID “Scam likely.” I like that one. I wish we would get some of your rain.

Linda, I like your short hair but then again I am partial to short hair. I don’t think it makes you look old at all. It brightens your face, IMO.

Becky, the headache persisted until bedtime but I woke up without it. Yay! I am glad your weather is cooling off. Wow. 6 tornadoes is a lot. I hope that is the end of them.

Well, it is salad time, so have a good Wednesday.

Thanks for the start, Chele, and Happy Hump Day to All. I love your description of fall in your neighborhood. YAY on not having to bag your leaves this year. I just hope you won't have a wind storm the day before the vacuum truck comes that blows them  all back into the yard. Dinner sounds good, and yay for no cooking for a couple of days. Too bad you couldn't find the original French cookbook. But then Iggy probably doesn't read French, does he? I got another Chinese VM a little while ago, but just one so far today. Maybe the algorithm has something programmed in that if they call half a dozen times with no success, they move on. I did go online to see if there was a way to block an area code, since they were all 404, and there is not. BTW, there were over 31 billion robocalls in 2018 and an estimated 25% of them are scams. That's a lot of dishonest people. The donuts turned out pretty well and I'll most likely make them again.

Becky, have you heard from your relatives in north Texas? Is all okay with them? Has your weather cooled any?

Any news on DN's internship status, Kathy? Are you having fall (for Florida) weather now? If so, are you walking the neighborhood yet?

Liz, I'm surprised the VP hasn't approved your telecommute. It's not like he couldn't call your boss quickly to make sure it was okay with him. But I guess that should give you the rest of the week to yourself. Their loss. Glad that you got some walking and shopping done yesterday. How long is the drive to SM's? I hope it won't be too hard on your healing hip. A lot of malls and shopping centers are very sad these days for the reason you noted. It amazes me that there are new shopping centers going in despite there being plenty of open retail space in the same general area. PT can really wear you out. Leg is doing some better. It was more of a dull discomfort. The TENS unit helped and I put on some K-Tape for overnight and it seemed to help. It just feels kind of tired now but I did 30 (rather slow) minutes on the treadmill earlier this afternoon. Vet appointment went better than anticipated. She did fight us getting in the car, but got out of the car when we got there and walked on her own into the building, then walked out and got in the car with a little assistance to get that tush up onto the seat. She did whine and moan all the way there but was fine coming home. She was very good with the vet, who is a sweet lady who also knew Phoebe well. She took her shots like a trooper but has been a mama's girl since we got home and is happily snoozing next to me right now. We may start taking her on short rides to see if we can get her more used to the car. I'm excited about losing the newsletter responsibilities. I think she was ready to start immediately, but I told her let's shoot for January because I already have a good start on November's and we don't publish in December. I don't see a big problem with taking on the presidency. It's not like I haven't been president of organizations in the past and there is all the leadership experience I had in my work life.

Was today a museum day, Linda? Yay on the decrease in eye drops. I know you'll be elated to get the last ones in a few weeks from now. How is Bob doing? Have Micki's allergies faded?

After we got home from the vet, Dale went to the pool and I cooked ground turkey for Arya. Dale stopped at Papa Murphy's on the way home, so I'll be baking pizza for dinner. I have specific instructions on baking their pizzas in my oven but can't find them on the new computer. I'm not sure why it wouldn't have transferred over. It could be that the notes I put in to the pdf aren't showing up on the document on the new computer, so I hope I can get the old one to turn on so I can print it out. If not, I guess I'll go by memory, which may or may not work out as well as I would like.