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Right on schedule

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Yes, we are both out of school tomorrow!  The weekend was fraught with promise!  Would we have a zany adventure where we went to the airport with just a backpack of clean clothes and pick a random destination?  Would we go on a crazy window-shopping spree?  Or maybe just drive around Nebraska and take pictures of our rural state? 

None of the above.  I love Lloyd, I really do, but he has the uncanny ability to get sick almost every time we have a long weekend.  Today was no exception.  I’m not mad……. oh, who am I kidding?  I’m always mad. 

Here’s the arsenal so perhaps we can do something Saturday. 

Taking no chances.

(At least the lasagna was good.)

‘M’ is for Lasagna

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After each having a pretty bad day, Lloyd and I pigged out on lasagna made in the ultra-cool Baker’s Edge pan.  The noodles fit just right – after snapping off about two inches from each end.  This recipe uses the ‘no-boil-um-first’ method, which didn’t work well the first time I made it back in ought-one.  This time it was much better.  It turns out that you don’t need to worry about turning the corners – they just expand during cooking and fill up the space.

All in all, a good dinner.  Here’s to a better tomorrow! (It’s got to be better – leftover lasagna!)

An 'M' or an upside-down 'W'? You decide.

A River of Darkness

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 (Dang it, I did it again.  Happy YesterTuesbirthdays to Stephannie and Jacob!)

Serpentine goodness

It’s here!  It’s here!  I ordered a brownie pan from Bakers Edge that makes all sides and corners!!!!  I’ve had brownie mix on standby for days, and today the pan finally arrived!!  I know this news won’t excite all you ‘gooey middles’ people, but I love the edges of brownies.   So tough and chewy…mmm….   Unfortunately I was too anxious to get this batch out of the oven, so they turned out a little softer than I would have liked.  (I wanted crunchy!)

They have other recipes, too.  Lloyd’s most excited about doing lasagna (layers stay stacked), and I’m curious to try to roast something – you put the veggies in the bottom and put the roast on the top.  Crazy!

Dry run - get it? 'Dry?' noodles? never mind.

 

‘Tain’t natural

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Here we see the Lloyd in his unnatural habitat – the backyard.

No bugs....yet.

Tonight we sat outside for a good….seven minutes, I’d say.   We’re trying to stay awake until a respectable hour.  (Lloyd’s tuckered out because of yesterday’s baseball party, I’m tired because I had nightmares all night that a thousand children were enrolled in my room for summer care.)   Lloyd said he’d stay outside until the first mosquito bit him, then he was going inside.  (And that means ‘for the rest of the summer’.)

We take our shoes off when we go outside to keep the patio clean. 

Sunday wrap-up

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No photos today- reason posted below.

Sunday was Fantasy Baseball Auction Day, or – as it is for Lloyd, Christmas.  The day began with early church, not regular church, because Lloyd needed lots of time to set up for his baseball party at school.  (They do it up pretty slick – computers, projectors and giant screens to keep track of everyone’s bids, plenty of pizza and pop for the crowd.)  Anyway, there would be some wonderful pictures of it, since he took the camera along….but he didn’t take any photos.

My day was pretty good – TWO naps (the first one before 11!), some laundry, and some chores.  That’s about it.

Our junk drawer

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This is in response to Beth’s post about junk drawers.  Lloyd was ordering pizza for his fantasy baseball auction and forgot to put the phone book back in the junk drawer and also forgot to close the drawer.  So….can you guess where we keep our catnip?

Druggie