EnTicing, EnTrancing, Tuesday of TaDas

[Harriet]

Even better true July Tomatoes made great sandwiches today. First time I've thought, "real tomatoes", this year. There's such a difference, and it shouldn't be so surprising when you realize these are fruits, not veggies, and thin-skinned at that. We just think of them as veggies and imagine they shouldn't be so vulnerable to whims of time and temp.

Twins', your instacart delivery got a smile out of HRH. I thought it would.

Cathy, I chatted sort of intelligently with a friend about his wife's great love of embroidery. He thinks she does cross-stitch, but not on Aida but hand dyed fabrics. He was complaining about shops not letting folks know they are closed at times. That happened to us yesterday, too, with a quilt shop, though we found out before getting on the road. Perhaps just a sign of economic times, scheduling woes.

Need to get the recycling into the can.

HRH is insisting I wear his fingerless gloves. Went into hand cramps earlier, working in the kitchen with somewhat tedious chores, I guess. So far, I admit they do feel reassuring, snug, and I'm typing fine.

We expect ds' children soon.

[Twins' Mom]

Ugh. Needed to deal with a cemetery issue and I let the bottom of the challah burn. The concrete contractor needs to be paid but there are issues. And I need to request the $$ from the trustee accounts ($$ were held there for investment since last winter.) So in the middle of two phone calls, I had the burner on for the peaches and sugar, and left it on, took the challah out (I was on the phone and dh came to tell me the buzzer was going off) and then I sat the challah down on the burner. Anyway, I think we can trim the blackened bottom off.

I do feel like my hair is on fire today with those complications.

The peaches/cobbler is in the oven. A recipe I've used several times: butter in the bottom of the casserole dish, mix the flour, sugar, baking power et all and put on top of the butter. Then peaches heated through with sugar on top. Some of the "crust" bubbles to the top as it bakes.

The table is set. The roomba went back to the base to charge. I hope dh can handle it finishing up later, lol. I need to clean up the kitchen again and I'll be done for now.

[MysteryWoman]

Good afternoon!

I had such high hopes for today. Then we had a thunderstorm this morning, and I didn’t want to shower while there was thunder and lightning going on. (I could not give you a logical reason why….) So I got a late start, and then I forgot to take my ADD meds with breakfast. (Eventually I took them with my even later lunch. We’ll see if it keeps me up at night.) I did get the breakfast and lunch dishes done, and I did my chair exercises before DH got home and claimed the chair I use. But that’s about it.

I’ll try to come back later, and maybe I’ll have some ta-das to report back on.