A Beautiful Mess

Had I taken the time to blog yesterday I would have said that the weekend was a pleasant mix of busy Saturday and do-nothing Sunday. I still stand by that but given the fact that D and I are both beginning to sound like Barry White sans the sex appeal its possible Sunday’s do nothing was the beginning of our slide into blech. The worst part about being sick at the same time is that neither one of us has much sympathy for the other … the old ‘I’m sicker than you’ game – heh. We’ve no idea where it came from but if you couple it with Emma suddenly having a bacterial infection on her tummy (poor spotty belly is all blisters) and one has to wonder if it’s cold / flu or something else entirely. I will say this, it’s a fast mover and hopefully it will move on as quickly as it arrives. Till then its vitamin C, copious amounts of hot tea, and resting whenever possible.

In other news: Emma had her 5 month check up over the weekend and her last round of puppy shots. Other than her exuberance over food hitting the bowl the ‘puppy’ part of her is nearly gone and she’s more of a ‘little dog’. It doesn’t look like she’ll make 50 lbs after all; probably more like 30-40. Her legs are so long though I think its still possible she’ll be taller than Duncan and her rat-whip tail is already deadly. We go back to the vet in two weeks for new film on her hip. Seriously, I don’t know what we’d do if all four legs worked properly. She’s a wild thing now; she’d be uncontrollable with four on the floor.

In other, other news: I made the flank steak part of this recipe last night and you would not believe how darned good it was! If you never cooked flank steak I’ll offer a word to the wise. That bit about tenting and resting and cutting across the grain and on an angle…very important if you want to be able to chew it. I plan on trying the whole thing as written someday but D is anti-bean so it probably won’t be anytime soon. Instead I caramelized some onions (adding a little of the marinade to them at the end of cooking) and served it wrapped in tortillas. Delish!

And finally, other, other, other news: There weren’t enough students for class this go-around. Meaning: no torch for six agonizing weeks! I may be forced to clean out the garage so I can torch at home. The. Horror.

My craptacular week has greatly improved. Thanks honey!

Golly but its been one of those weeks.  Sunday we made up for a lazy Saturday by cleaning house, shampooing carpets and doing mounds of laundry.  Monday night I grocery shopped, Tuesday was glass, Wednesday I mowed, tonight I trimmed.  All of which left little time to blog in the evenings.  “What no blogging at work?” you ask.  No, not lately as my responsibilities increase my ‘stand-by’ time decreases.  Where I once could blog while I waited on the backup to complete I now have other things to catch up on.  Silly work, interrupting my blogging.

Tomorrow our first storm of the season arrives; we expect mostly rain and maybe a little gusty wind.  The longer I live here the more I understand how people before all this technology knew storms were coming.  There’s the obvious; the wind picking up and bustling around for more just an afternoon.  And there’s the not so expected; the evening light takes on a harsh quality and everything seems rimmed in chrome.  Its pretty and peculiar all at once. 

Tomorrow and the weekend are likely to be nothing but rain, perhaps a good time to start another quilt.  What’s on your ‘doing’ list for this weekend?

…no one that reads my blog.  That’s right, the quilt raffle went to a long ago friend that has dwindled to acquaintance.  Well, dwindled to a FB friend that has left one thing on my wall in the last year - a joking message to sell the quilt back to me.   I’m still trying to figure out how I feel about it, but the good news is that the quilt raised a little over $300 bucks and that is ultimately all that counts.

The fish raffle was going well (about 265 last check) but has run into a hang up with PayPal.  I cannot accept money through them for a raffle so if you are still interested in tickets you’ll have to email me for my address or donate directly to the NFT (make sure you put David Kendrick under patient name).  Otherwise I’m very happy with its progress.  Its nice to be able to help so much more than I could have on my own and that’s all thanks you guys!  Fish winners on Friday.