In reference to the below post some may wonder where the toilet is since it is not in the bathroom. Well, here it is of course….in the KITCHEN. Where else would it be?
I am assured, however by my wonderful hard-working husband and father-in-law that by tonite I will have my choice of restrooms and showers to use. ie: both the downstairs and the master bath will be done.
So I am now paying the price for this early post. This is now our primary place to obtain hygiene in our home. Notice there is no shower curtain, no mirror, no anything really. Other than the really hot water that feels REALLY good according to my father-in-law who is here helping us with our house. We do have a working toilet upstairs and a sink there too. So you potty and brush your teeth up there and shower (as best as you can) on the main level.
After his shower my father-in-law asked for some tylenol and I said well, it is somewhere in there:
So Adam and I were invited to our first progressive dinner Friday night. The Doc I work with “won” it at a silent auction put on by a local church. The dinner was for six so the three of us providers and our spouses went.
I had never been to one before, in fact…none of us had but boy were we in for a treat! We started at one home where we had different wines and hors d’oeuvres to die for!
We then went to another home for the meal. The house was awesome because it is old like ours with a ton of charm. In other words, our house envies this house and wants to be like this house someday. The dining table was gorgeous. All done in black, gold and crystal. Gorgeous china and silver. It reminded me of that scene in the movie Pretty Woman where Julia Roberts was trying to learn which fork goes with what, etc…
Using a silver tong they handed us hot wet towels to “freshen” up with when we first sat down and then we were promptly served wine and our first course. Menus were waiting for us and the meal was considered international.
The first course included two foods: bruchetta from Italy and gazpacho from Spain. The gazpacho was amazzzzzzing. It was a tomato-like soup with lots of veggies in it….but it was cold. On purpose, of course. It weirded Adam out but it was soooo soooo good and how cool is that anyway: a cold soup during the summertime!
The second course was a spinach & feta sald from Corsica…also very yummy.
The third couse included souvlaki from Greece (very good: lamb and chicken), guacamole y camarones from Mexico and basmati rice curry from Thailand. All sooo good.
Have I mentioned how good this all was yet?!
To “cleanse our palate” we had lemon sorbet from France.
For dessert we had mousse au chocolat in a home-made crust from Belgium. To. Die. For! Followed by Irish coffee from Ireland.
They then brought out cognac in these little fancy crystal glasses that I guess are called cordial glasses. Supposedly you are supposed to “sip” this type of a drink. Adam and Steven drank theirs in one gulp. It wasn’t bad actually…very potent stuff though as I noticed an hour later I was still feeling a little hot!
Anyways, it was amazing and we thank Doc for winning the auction and inviting us along and the persons who did the cooking~wow! Father Dunavan, CJ Lamb and Steve & Kathy Mercure are AWESOME! I am happy to say, too, that although it was by far the fanciest dinner that any of us had probably every had I think we handled it pretty well. No one passed gas, we seemed to all use the correct silverware at the right time, there was no profanity said at the dinner table, we all had our napkins on our laps, etc…Overall, not a bad bunch I tell ya!
Hmmmmm, maybe Doc will win the dinner this year at the auction again….
For years, or decades rather, my mother has (proudly) told people about how I used to paint rocks and try to sell them and she was always my only customer.
When I was little we lived “in the country”. Nevertheless we as children refused to give up the opportunity to make money with lemonade stands or painted rock stands. The problem was lack of customers of course because of our distant locale. This is where the mothers came in…with their change and purchased our product.
My mom stopped by the other night and what does she bring for me? Yep, you got it…a painted rock. She kept it for the past 28 years! Probably the best dollar she ever spent! I mean check it out…it is tri-colored!
I have been broadening my horizons. Specifically in the field of carpentry/construction. We are madly trying to finish this darn house and therefore I am doing things I haven’t ever done nor want to ever do AGAIN!
But…I have to admit that I am pretty proud of my tiling job. I did the grout work in my “craft room”~an extra kitchen/bedroom that we converted for a craft room. I am thrilled to have a back-up plan in case this whole health care system eventually goes to pot. I can be a grouter.
Tiling by Shana
Or, I think it would also be awesome to be one of those people that name all of the paint colors at the home improvement stores. For example, the craft room is “dandelion”. Well my father-in-law kept calling it canary yellow and I accidentally referred to it as daffodil. How, I ask you…does one decide the difference!
Dandelion Yellow
Just like our deck below…the stain I picked out is “banjo brown”. How awesome is that. Thankfully we like the color because I am sure the pure coolness of the name “banjo brown” probably weighed heavily on my decision to purchase that exact color!
Banjo Brown Baby!
Anyway I think it would be a great job to just have to decide what fun name to call a color. If you hear of an opening in this field or if you know where I need to go for this type of training let me know.