Food

For the first time in ages, I have a full freezer. I am trying to get food ahead so when my daughter comes in with her four children we do not have to run to the store.

Dave and I do not eat a lot of things, We stick to the basics, like Chicken and more chicken. I think children would tire of that pretty fast.

So I bought wieners and ice pops, fish sticks, tuna, taquitos and the ever present,(when children are around) corn dogs.

Next week I will buy the potatoes and eggs. I do not want to buy fresh food too early or it won't be fresh, Right?

As I said, I as a rule do not keep a lot of food on hand. My poor fridge and pantry were looking pretty empty except for the cleaning products, (pantry) and sodas.

Oh yes, Papaw said he will not be buying much soda when we have company, He is the soda drinker and children certainly do not need the acid on their teeth.

One item I do keep on hand is a bag of Onions. Is that weird? I eat onions with almost every meal. As long as Vidalia and Walla Walla are in season my pantry will have a ten pound bag. I love Onions. Fish and onions, Beans and onions, chicken and onions. You name it and it goes with onions. OK OK not ice cream or any sweets.

When they get here we may have beans and peas producing and possibly corn. I know we will have squash. We always have plenty of squash.

Today has been a futile day. We did shop but not much else. I cleaned the floors last night and I am getting the guest bedroom ready for company. (not that it needs much).

We then came home and watched Rambo. It was pretty good. It was gory but it did have a story line.

It was a pretty good depiction of war. So do not let the children watch it or they may have nightmares.

Lots of blood and heads blown off and language is pretty awful.

If you all were here I would have turned it off, that is how bad the language was, Embarrassing.

Definitely not child proof.

That is my day, not much else.

David had a quiet birthday, I think he is sad because I did not get his caked baked.When he is home my day seems thrown off. I can accomplish very little.

Now it is Friday, another trip into town, David had to get his check, deposit it and I had to go to Longs.They had pork and beans on sale, Three for a dollar. I love pork and Beans.
when I was a kid, if I opened the beans, I always, Always ate the pork and proceeded to tell my brothers and sisters, they had not put pork in that can.
I have always done that, however the last can we opened did not have one piece of pork in it, Not one.
I then relived my time stealing the pork and told David. He laughingly said, "Yes you do that now and did when the kids were little".
He is right but what can one little tiny piece of pork hurt? Not like I eat a lot of anything but I love that pork, seeped in bean sauce. Yummy.
I actually bought 24 cans of beans today. That is a lot of beans but I am sure we will eat them, I plan on bar-b-Que beans. Have you ever ate those. You take bacon and onion and fry it up in a pan, add your beans, pour on some Bar-b-Que sauce, top with a few pieces of bacon and bake until bubbly and bacon is cooked.
I Have not made that in Years.
We also made a trip up to Shasta Dam. We could see the fires, it is so sad to see that hillside burned. We stood there as Channel twelve interviewed a fire coordinator from Southern California. we have them here from all over the state and surrounding states.
Whiskeytown Oak Bottom had 98 campsites open, they were on hold for holidays not they are all cancelled.
Most of the campers were from southern California.
All I can say is I want to get away to the mountains, As we drove up today I just wanted to keep on driving.
You know the feeling, You get in a car and you want to go and go.
so tonight we plan on going back up and taking photos at night, of the blazes. You could see them flaring high as a big tree caught on fire. we watched the bombers as they dropped the chemicals on the fire.
So far no lives or homes lost.
Thank God.