3542 Days since retiring July 1, 2005!

”As time goes by”

After every phase change in my life I wonder how in the world I am going to handle the next phase. Then time passes and the new becomes ordinary. New phase, same routine. I am busier now than ever since I was working 2 full time jobs, going to college nights and weekends, and being a new father and husband. How did I ever get all that done? Now all I have to do is feed Rascal and I and keep the place clean. I fall into bed each night exhausted. Recently I spent an extended weekend in a beach house between Rockport and Corpus Christi. Her family was having a get together there. All her kids are grown and scattered around the world so their beach house was kind of a “grand Central Station”. I made no attempt to learn names because most family members were there only a couple days. I made a huge batch of pinto beans. The beans exposed a wide divide between the people north of the southern Kentucky border (36 degrees North) and south of that line. The southern people thought the beans were slightly warm and the northern’s thought the beans were inedibly spicy hot.

I will not try to recount all since my last entry. Instead I am happy to report I am well and feeling even younger than just a month ago. I find I have begun reading about baseball again. That even includes reports about the Houston Astros. I will always wish them well but my true favorite baseball team is the St. Louis Cardinals.

My skill as a cook has improved enough, and I have acquired enough cooking gadgets, that I am now experimenting with my favorite recipes. Our senior daughter and her family is coming for a visit this weekend. I developed a menu that, I hope, demonstrates my “chefery”.

Dinner Saturday
Shredded Kale, Romaine lettuce hearts, and halved Cherry Tomatoes Salad with Pistachio Vinegrette

Talapia with Garlic Butter Sauce

Farm raised Tilapia drizzled with freshly made buttery Garlic sauce, oven baked to fork flaky tenderness

Buttery Mashed Potatoes--Made from a mix chosen after a competition involving an even dozen product line and styles.

Homemade (experimental) “Cookies and Cream” ice milk and a scant side serving of Carmelized Clemintines drizzled with a wine sauce reduced from brown sugar and August Nights yellow wine.

My home health care nurse brought me a dozen oranges from the tree in her backyard so I am going to use them instead of the Clementines.

I need to stop now to prep the Salad components and clean up the orange segments.

See yall down the road aways.

Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.