Questions 177 & 178

Q:  What are the top songs on your 'recently played' list?

A:  I don't have one since I am listing to local radio lately but Lumineers would be on it.

Q:  What can you live without right now?

A:  The heat. (103' yesterday, 100' today, 103' tomorrow and a cool 98' on Tuesday... ugh.)

Question 175 & 176

Q:  When was the last time you ate pizza?  What kind?

A:  June 22nd, sausage from Round Table. 

Q:  If your mood were a weather forecast, you'd be ____________.

A:  Mild sunny day with gusty winds out of the Northwest. (Good mood, having to drive kids around)

Questions 172, 173 & 174

Q:  What is your next social engagement?

A:  A girls night out on Friday.

Q:  Who is your closest companion?

A:  Jim?

Q:  What's your biggest indulgence?

A:  Running.

Croissant sandwich with egg

This recipe is NOT for Debbie.  So, if you are Debbie stop reading now.  No.  I mean it, stop.  Now.  The rest of you can read on.

 I have made croissants and they are not for the weak of heart or the time challenged.  They take two days to make with the real French recipe.  And it isn't just being lazy baking either.  No you have to work for these.  But I'm not making croissants.  I just wanted to talk about them.  The French recipe is why I love Costco croissants.  Someday I am going to work in the Costco bakery and figure out how they do it.  I am.  You can't stop me.

I wanted a croissant sandwich and so I put this little beauty together.

1 Costco croissant split sandwich style
Sweet Hot mustard
2 lg Basil leaves (that you grew yourself so it's even more organic .. and everything)
Black Forest Ham (about 4 slices)
Smoked Turkey (about 4 slices)
Heirloom tomato sliced medium-thin (that you grew yourself so it's organic and everything)
Pepper Jack thinly sliced

One fried egg lightly salted

Spread the mustard on the bottom of the croissant.  Layer all other ingredients in the other listed.  Place under broiler for about 1 - 3 minutes until cheese has melted.  (I put the top of the croissant under the broiler for about 30 seconds so it gets just a tad crisp and warm.  Remove from oven and add the fried egg to the top of the cheese. Slap the top of the croissant on the top of the egg and enjoy with a crisp, cold dill pickle wedge. Oh, and an IBC Root beer too.  Can't forget that.

(L and I shared this because it was so big.)

Supporting the YW to go to camp

Shhh, don't tell anyone but I have a little bit of a competitive streak and this jelly fish is proof.

The YW decided to do a silent auction to raise money for Girls Camp.  They had a lot of great donations including; a night at a fancy hotel, donuts, baskets and baskets of movie nights and glamor stuff, fitness memberships, and some knitted stuffed animals that a sister in our ward makes.  (Sarah Tubbs does these when she is bored.  I clean or organize things, so boring.)

I fell in love with this little guy.  So darn cute!  I placed my first bid and then went on my merry way thinking no one would out bid me. I texted someone and asked if I was still high bidder - best to check this sort of thing if you are competitive and hate losing - then sneaky Leda Nelson wanted it for one of her grandkids.  She almost doubled my bid.  WHAT? I almost dashed back to place another bid and then I hovered over it just waiting.  Leda placed another bid.  I bid again. Then Leda looked at it but she decided I wanted it more than she needed it for her grandkid. HA!  I win!

I was thinking that wasn't very nice of me but then Leda kneed me and I felt better about winning it.

Teeny Tiny Tomato

Eight weeks ago I bought a small tomato plant - just one because we have had three in previous years and had so many tomatoes we were eating bruschetta and salsa for weeks - and put it in a large pot.  I am a very decent gardener and try to read up on the variety of plant I am putting in, which I did.  I chose an Heirloom that said it was a meaty, medium sweet, medium sized tomato plant.  There are 11 other tomatoes growing but it supposed to produce through mid-August.

Here is my very first tomato of the season.

The tiles are 2.75" squares. My tomato is about 1" across. 

"Meaty" is questionable.  "Medium Sweet" fairly accurate.  "Medium Sized" not close.

 

Is it too late to ask for my money back?  I think I am a victim of those marketing guys over embellishing their product.

Question 171

Q:  When was the last time you cried?

A:  Three weeks ago, when T decided not to attend church any longer.

Question 170

Q:  What was the last movie you saw in a theater?

A:  The Great Gatsby with Leonardo Dicaprio.  Very decent.

Once Upon A Ball

Once upon a time Jim and Sherri bought a house with windows that looked out over the backyard.  Lovely view to see their three sweet children cavorting hither and yon. 

Middle child Tylor likes balls.  One baseball through a window when he was 4 convinced us we should use wiffle balls instead.  Did you know that wiffle balls go through 80 year old glass really easily?  Yes, it's true. Two windows on the garage down.  Only one more on the garage and three on the back of the house to go.  Sherri put in tall bushes that protected those windows for years.  Good job!

Fast forward to 13 year old Tylor putting a soccer ball through another window.  How lucky have Jim and Sherri been to have kept the other two windows  in single pieces?  Very lucky.

Seven months after the soccer incident Jim stays home from work to tear out that window.  And the window on the far side of the picture and the moulding around the back door.  Why so much you ask?  Silly people.  It is because of a ball.  Jim found 3 more balls behind the dryer (the big white thing in the first window) and thought we should put in shatter resistant glass in the other two windows on the back of the house.

Jim also found out why Sherri's office is sooo cold during the winter and soooo hot during the summer.  There is no insulation in the walls around the office.  None.  Zip.  Zero.  Jim guesses the building inspector was not paying attention or was bribed with a cheap bottle of vino.  I'm going with the vino. 

So those balls that Tylor likes so well has turned the back of Sherri and Jim's house into a construction zone for a few weeks - the windows won't be in for about 10 days. (They said six weeks to start.)

Oh, and it's supposed to rain Sunday. 

The End!

Question 169

Q:  Who do you want to know better?

A:  Heather Jance from church.  She seems nice and interesting.

Question 168

Q:  Write the first sentence of your autobiography.

A:  I am Three of Twenty-seven.

Beach Tote

Beach tote for YW Fundraiser

Isn't this cute?  L did this at sewing camp this week

and is donating it to the YW Fundraiser for

Girls Camp.  She filled it with beachy things

from the Dollar Store.  Love it.

Question 167

Q:  What was the last personal letter you received?

A:  A thank you for a teacher gift.

Question 166

Q:  What was the last meal someone cooked for you?

A:  Jim made three kinds of wings for Father's Day; teriyaki, bbc and hot.

Question 164 & 165

Q:  What makes you cynical?

A:   It's in my nature.

Q:  The best hour of today was __________?  Why?

A:  5 a.m..  I run.

Question 163

Q:  What is your favorite gadget?

A:  My smart phone.

Red, White and Blue

Lauren saw a pair of shorts like these at a big name store that cost $54!  She really liked them but not how short they were OR the cost.  So, my little crafter thought up a plan.

She taped off the a pair of $9.99 Target shorts and bought some red fabric paint.

(We already had the white.)

This is the finished product that came in under $13.00. 

What do you think?

Question 162

Q:  Did you exercise today?

A:  Yes.  I ran 10.25 miles, 500 crunches, 100 side lunges and 75 pliés.

Questions 158, 159, 160, & 161 (It's been a busy week!)

Q:  How many cups of coffee did you drink today?

A:  Zero.

Q:  What is your favorite thing to do on a Friday night?

A:  Dinner at the food trucks (close and fun!) and relax with my family watching a movie.

Q:  Is something in your way?  Can you move it?

A: Sometimes.  I can change my attitude.

Q:  Something that made you worry today _________?

A:  Being late for the missionaries visit.  (We weren't.)

Food Trucks & Bucket seating... love it.

Questions 156 & 157

Q:  What makes you miserable?

A:  Tooth pain.

Q:  What makes a good friend?

A:  A mom (she makes the sisters).

(Before I get calls, I love you all, but I really liked this pic of Suz.)

Questions 154 & 155

Q:  Which family member are you closest to?

A:  Depends but either Suzanne or Debbie on any given day.

Q:  What do you feel grateful for today?

A:  School is out!

Reason 27 Not to Travel to Third World Countries

I had the weirdest dream last night.  I was studying a seemingly peaceful tribe when I discovered a bunch of freshly cleaned human bones.  They didn't know I now knew what type of people they were.  We were supposed to take a boat across a wide but fairly slow moving river but I 'accidentally' pushed off without the oars and couldn't get back to them.  As the river narrowed it got faster and a bit steeper but still rolling type hills.  But then (enter dramatic music) I snatched a child out of the river that looked in trouble and we starting to go faster ... and steeper.  We were just getting to some rapids when I noticed I couldn't see any more vegetation ahead.  I threw (gently) the child on to the short grass of a small fall (think Pirates of the Caribbean) and leaped off behind him.  It was just steep enough that we couldn't really go up so we started climbing down and it got steeper and steeper until it looked like Bridal Veil Falls (Utah).  We were clinging to this short grass and the incline seemed to start to be so that we were almost upside down in places.  I was climbing with the child underneath me so he wouldn't fall but he seemed fine with it all.  But the grass was getting sparse and I was starting to panic.  This is where I woke up... in a cold sweat ... wondering where the cannibal were.  Ugh.

Question 153

Q:  What was the last fruit you ate?

A:  Raspberry.

Question 151 & 152

Q:  Who do you miss the most right now?

A:  Debbie and Suzanne, they both know why.

Q:  Today you wore ___________?

A:  Stone colored slacks, navy nicer t-shirt, canary yellow short sweater and flats.

Questoins 149 & 150

Q:  On a scale of one to ten, how healthy are you?

A:  Let's see, I have high cholesterol but it isn't clogging my arteries.  I have borderline medicatable thyroid levels but I don't have a single symptom.  I have bad teeth that will probably fall out someday.  I run a lot.  I work on my core.  I eat pretty well - I go with the theory of 10 good, 1 bad (or for me, not so bad).  So, overall, I'm giving myself a 9.

Q:  Should you trust your instincts?

A:  Definitely!  I read Blink years ago and really think we need to trust ourselves more.