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Hello again! Is it warm where you are? Our high was 68* today and the rest of the week is supposed to be up and down. By next week they are predicting snow again. We’ll see.
Here’s what we ate last week in no particular order:
Soup beans, roasted veggies, mac and cheese and my beloved salmon
Hamburgers, pickles and chips
Chicken salad with giardiniera and chips
New York strip, baked potatoes, toast and salad
Wendy’s – It was dentist appointment day. I’m not cooking on dentist appointment day.
Chicken fajitas with Mexican rice and beans. I am still not happy with my Mexican rice recipe. I’ll keep perfecting it. In the meantime, I’ll post my fajitas spice mix recipe tomorrow.
Chinese! I force my favorite on everyone occasionally.
What’s for supper at your house? What are you going to eat this week?
This week was a total fail in the nutrition department wasn’t it? So, I’ll give you a Story Time story to blow your mind in lieu of it:
Liv and I were on our way home from an appointment in West Virginia, and just off the interstate back in the woods, there was a house whose chimney was shooting flames about three feet into the sky. I couldn’t believe it. I called 911 to report it and when I told the operator where we were and what we had seen, she said, “Yes, we know who that is, he called to let us know. He did it on purpose to clean out his flue.”
And I was like – “That’s crazy”! And the operator said, “Yes, it is. He does this every year and calls us to let us know so that when the phone calls start, we’ll know it’s him.” Instead of paying someone to come and clean out his flue, or heaven forbid – do it himself, he set the thing on fire to burn out all of the creosote. He could have burned his house down!
I can and will go to great lengths sometimes to save money, but that is beyond ridiculous. You can buy a chimney brush for under $50.00 – one of them was $14.49 with Prime, people! I’ve watched my Aunt Mary Jane clean her flue many times, and even though I’ve never done it myself since I’m not graced with a fireplace in our house, it can’t be very different from cleaning out the dryer venting – which I have done.
By the way – house builders – please consult the people who do the laundry in the house you are going to build before you decide to stick the washer and dryer into a room that does not have direct outside venting. It’s very difficult to clean a dryer vent that is more than twenty feet down an inside wall. Ask me how I know. Washers and dryers belong in the bedroom in my opinion, or better yet, the bathroom where everyone takes their clothes off.
Anywho, that’s all I have from crazy town today. What lunacy have you witnessed lately?