The perfect night to rent some movies and stay at home. Downtown is swarmed with tourists for CMA Fest, and I have no interest in dealing with those crazy crowds. Plus the shows are crowded, expensive, and the big concerts are sold out.
Stopped at Thorntons and got gas tonight and saw the Redbox machine, which gave me the idea. I rented The Blind Side and Dear john. It’s going to be a chick flick night!
Paula Dean is a southern cook with her own TV show who makes the most delicious foods. Of course, they are all fattening as hell. But they sure do taste good. I bought one of her recipe books and I’m going to start trying some of her suggestions once a week. The rest of the week will have to be low calorie and fat free to make up for it. But I love to eat and I want to eat something that tastes really good.
Sometimes I like to make a couple of hard boiled eggs. I like to have them on hand so I can easily add chopped egg to cold salads or to make deviled eggs as a side dish.
To make them only takes a couple of minutes of actual attending the eggs. I take a small pan of cold water, add the eggs in a single layer and put on the small burner on medium heat. As soon as the water comes to a boil, I turn down the heat to low and set the timer for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, I turn off the burner and let the eggs cool down naturally or put them to immediate use.
My mother lives in Virginia, which is a 14 hour drive from my home. There are no major airports near her house out in the country. So getting there is tough and I regret I cannot be there with here for Mother’s Day.
My mom has been a fantastic mother. she is a marvelous cook, kept a spotless house, and made sure that all of us kids had nice, clean clothes and plenty of recreational opportunities. All five of us played in sports, took dance and piano lessons, and had our own little TV in our rooms to watch after our homework was completed.
It has been raining here for two straight days and now the city is having problems with flash floods. There was coverage on the TV news this evening about cars being trapped on the interstate that was flooding. Some people were able to abandon their cars and wade through waist high water to safety. Others waited too long to leave their cars and had to be rescued by the police in boats.
The forecast is for more rain tonight and tomorrow. I cam getting very concerned about the flooding here, although my place is on a hill. This is too much rain all at once for our ground to absorb the water.