Taste Like Chicken Fri May 3

Karen, the purple tomato is a Cherokee a d the purple sweet pepper is a Purple Beauty. The grilling pepper is a Giant Marconi and is supposed to have a sweet, smoky flavor and grows 6-8 in. long, changing from green to red. The green sweet pepper is a California Wonder. I’m not sure when we’ll get to the other nursery but soon. YS farmer does not have flower starts. He might have cucumber. We had a good cucumber season last year and did not notice any bugs but the year before was a terrible buggy season for the cucumbers. The special is for Sunday onky for Cinco de Mayo. I bet it was strange lifting with only your non-dominant arm. Our gas prices have gone down here, but we have a glut of new gas stations. We are also seeing a lot of new car washes. One just opened up in front of our Kroger and a second one is being built right next to it. That is such a cute avatar. Good news on the ultrasound.

Kathy, I hope your Tex-Mex restaurant stays open. One of our malls is going to have a church in the old Sears place. I’m having trouble picturing it. Wow, on knowing you were going to win the free trip and concert. Was it for U2?

Linda, we have more Mexican immigrants here now but people still only think of food and drink for Cinco de Mayo. It’s not a big day for drunks around here like St Paddy’s Day. Sorry you didn’t get to the German place. Did you go someplace else?

We’ve had a cloudy day with so e light rain. Iggy got the tomatoes planted before the rain. He didn’t water them hoping nature would take care of it. I’m e been pretty knocked out having to take a migraine pill. After Iggy planted he came in and made lunch and I was still snoozing. He roasted some potatoes, sautéed mushrooms and onions, steamed carrots and made egg salad.

Karen, that's awful that there's no way for the voters to get an item onto the ballot in TN. Glad you got good news on the ultrasound. The trip we won was to see U2 in a small theater north of Boston in 2009. It included the plane trip, a nice hotel and the show which was part concert and part interview. Nice checking into the hotel and being told "your room has been taken care of". We had to meet at a "secret" location in a museum and then we got on buses and got a police escort through town. Of course someone posted the location of the museum online so it was a zoo with lots of people wanting to buy tickets. You had to show ID inside to get the wristbands and tickets though. The show was aired live on a lot of rock stations.

We extended the trip a couple of days and had a great time touring around Boston. Hard to believe that was 15 years ago! It was in March and still in the 20s at night there, so I had to find a coat before I left. Our stores already had swimsuits where the coats were and I wound up getting something on a sales rack. I still have that coat and have barely worn it, lol. We made another trip to Boston a few years later and saw more since it was warmer.

Chele, hope the migraine is better by now. It was cloudy here earlier, but then got sunny and hot. I'm not sure what's in our old Sears at the moment. Now that I think of it, that's where I got the coat I mentioned above! It was the only store that still had any. The Sears where I used to live got taken over by the DMV. I agree, it's hard to picture a church in a Sears. I bugged the heck out of my sister to enter that contest and kept telling her I knew we were going to win it. She just rolled her eyes at me, but she finally did enter it and her entry was the winner. Later that year, I won a trip to Ireland and that one caught me completely by surprise with no clue it was coming. They do have some Cinco de Mayo celebrations around here, but it's nothing like it was when I lived in Texas. I had never heard of it before I moved there.

Linda, good idea to avoid eating in restaurants before your surgery. I hardly hear anything about Covid on the news anymore, but I know it's still out there. Chicken tortilla salad sounds good.