Archive for the 'Food' Category

A second turkey day, and some bowling

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

Last night Kelly prepared our own Thanksgiving dinner, cooking a 11 lb turkey, mashed potatoes and stuffing. While the turkey prep and cooking was a bit involved it turned out delicious. After an early dinner we plugged ourselves into the living room furniture for an evening of movie and television watching. Nice relaxing night. I [...]

Turkey day

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

Yesterday I had the day off of work, and had the downstairs carpets cleaned by a local service. What a difference! After only three years in the house (and a few dozen parties, cat hairballs, and random spills) we had managed to build up quite the number of nasty stains. Now it looks like new. [...]

Goose Hollow, and a long ride home

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

This evening Kelly and some friends of ours had tickets to see 80’s goth-rock gods Sisters of Mercy play downtown on a reunion tour. I opted not to go. I like them fine, and wore my Floodland cassette out decades ago, but just not enough to pay for the rather spendy ticket.
I did go along [...]

Weekend recap

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Saturday after Kelly got home we had a night in (as poor Kelly was exhausted from partying ’til the break of dawn). So I went to the local Thai place and picked up some dinner, and then we watched some television before Kelly went to bed.
Yesterday we went over to our neighbors to get the [...]

Time off ends.

Monday, October 27th, 2008

I didn’t blog quite as often as I thought I would over the past few days… distractions distractions. So here’s a recap of my short holiday.
Thursday was Kelly’s big Mac & Cheese contest finale at Kells, and I ate way too much food. Some of the finalists recipes were really good, and the ones I [...]