Wine of the night- Hob Nob

Last night Troy and I watched The Voice finale; no no I wont spoil it for you.

Troy was in charge of dinner (pork chops of course); we marinated it in Tequila & Lime 30 Minute Marinade (Troy added a bit of local honey), with rice and steamed broccoli.

Anyway, we broke out the wine of the month, Hob Nob Chardonnay. Let me tell you about this wine: It went well with this marinade. It has a hint of lime, big grapefruit, crisp, as it warmed it grew in  alcohol by volume. Wow-o, this wine achieved what I needed tonight, I'm relaxed with no worries. Troy has corrected in stating this wine is: clean, crisp, fun, light oak, not the butter bomb we are used to, with hints of lime, lemon and a touch of French oak and stainless steel.

There you have it, another wine review by a wine snob in the making and a  girl that just wants wine to taste cold and yummy.

I Peed My Pants

Does your husband/boyfriend/partner/bestfriend ever make you pee your pants?

Troy is my very best friend and makes me laugh every single day. There isnt a month that goes by where he makes me laugh at the smallest thing and makes me pee my pants.

My wish for you is that you have someone in your life that makes you laugh so hard you pee your pants!

I'm Stumped

I’m stumped. I am sitting in one of the largest libraries in the area where I live and I am stumped. You would think I could find a few answers to the issues below…

1.       I don’t know what books to check out.

2.       I don’t know what new websites to check out.

3.       I don’t know what to write about in my blog.

4.       I don’t know what to make with the pork chops that seem to keep growing in the freezer and yet again will be for dinner tonight.

I’m stumped.

Let me tackle these about issues one by one; bear with me while I try to work this out in a logical, black vs white, simple answer kind of way.

1.       Like I said I am currently sitting in the library and have no clue what book to check out. I have a stack of 15 books at home, none of them catch my attention past page 20. I have checked out 15 books today in hopes that ONE will “stick” and I can move on past page 20.

Why is this such a problem? I like to read. I like to soak in a bubble bath at night, relax and go to someone else’s world (fiction or not) and leave mine behind. I always learn something, even if it is just a catch phrase for the week.

I have joined an online book club and hope my new book lovin’ friends out there can get me on the right page again.

2.       Have you ever felt like you have surfed the web and back? I do. I feel like I go to the same boring websites everyday and hope that I find something to spark my interest.

During my career, I have dabbled in creating and maintaining a website. As I surf I see all the flaws or things I would “never” do. When I do find a site, I wish that I was still in a career that was putting website design and creativity to use.

But all isn’t lost in the world wide web; here are some sites that to blogs and sites I have visited recently.
        www.villycustoms.com
        www.exuberantcolor.blogspot.com

        www.bloggingbissy.blogspot.com

        www.praseks.com

        www.tabletopics.com

3.       I have NO clue what to write for my blog.

When I look back at my different blog entries, they are about as scattered as I feel. There is absolutely no pattern, no topic, no idea, no nothing that stays the course.

I follow about 100 blogs. How do you all do it? You stay on topic and keep me coming back for more?!!??!

4.       I feel like my freezer breeds pork chops. Skinny ones, fat ones, thick ones, puny ones.

I am not a beef eater and I am so over chicken. So we stock up on pork chops. But what to do with them now? I have made the following recipes in the last 3 months. How else can I make a pork chop exciting??

             Lemon Pepper Marinated pork chops (baked and grilled)

        BBQ pork chops (pan fried and baked)

        Teriyaki pork chops (baked)

        Honey & Mustard pork chops

        Garlic Herb Marinated pork chop

        Sautéed with garlic served with spaghetti and red sauce

        Pork chops with raspberry chipotle sauce (baked)

What kind of go to pork chops do you make (without apples!)? Throw a girl a pork bone!

Am I crazy? These things keep swirling in my head. There are other things swirling up there to, but I thought these were the most appropriate to share while I sit in the public library.

So help me out. Suggest a book or two, or heaven sake, suggest 15! Suggest some blog topics. What do you want to read that comes blurting out of my mouth? Should I keep my blog random like me or narrow the focus? And last but so not least, help Troy and I out with a recipe suggestion. We like other things other than pork!!

Random Photos

I have some of photos I have been saving... nothing goes with the other. Enjoy the randomness.

1: Tons of baby spiders on one of the rose buds- creepy!
2: My gift of Birds of Paradise Troy gave me--- wish ours in the yard would grow like this!
3: Esperanza- this is our newest addition. Doubled in size in three weeks and blooms galore.
4: 1st pink glady
5: 1st purple glady
6: Peter Fonda Yellow rose
7- 10: Mystery equipment from Grandmothers house (think it came from the family dairy farm, circa 1890-1965- ish) More research to be done.
11- 13: Fabrics from my Grandmothers house. Cleaned, folded and ready to be made into a quilt. I am thinking 9 patch (its easy for this newbie)
14: Lipstick that is still in tact after a min of 10 years in a HOT storage shed- what do companies put in those things to preserve them? I think the color is even popular again?1
15: An old gun. Must research what kind this is and what it is worth. There were 6 other guns, all loaded stashed in a box in the back of the closet.
16-20: Ella Mae posing for photos... I just love my snuggle bunny


Sorry the picture collage is wonky in formatting, but hope you had fun laughing with me. Oh, if you know what kinda of equipment that might be in #7-10, let me know.

I just discovered photovisi.com. Thank you Photovisi for providing free photo collage makers! Check them out.

     

   

Breaking News: How Not to be Shot by the Cops

Do you ever talk back to the news on tv? Well I do, or maybe it is more like yelling, I want to make sure someone hears me. In the last month I have noticed that there have been more police chases and more “innocent” victims shot by cops. This makes me sooo mad.

Examples of news articles I am yelling about!

                                       News Article 1
                                       News Article 2
                                       News Article 3

Just today there is a report of a 14yr old child that was caught at 12:30AM running out of a school that had a silent alarm going off. This is a child that had snuck out of the house, visited another young child and then broke into the school that he attends every day. The officer on duty ordered the child to stop, drop his bag of stolen goods and identify himself. He did not stop and the officer shot. By no means is this the whole story, it is still “breaking news”. And by no means does it mean just because this is breaking news that the officer or child has done anything wrong.

But this kind of story is on the news EVERY day, both local and nationally, with a different officer and a different offender. When will parents stand up and whoop the butt of the child that is out of control instead of allowing him to continue to commit crimes and then blame an officer for shooting at the innocent? When will a grown person take responsibility for themselves and get an honest job and work for what they want and need instead of stealing and accusing an officer for shooting for no reason.

I have “breaking news”!!! If an officer (neighborhood, school police or even the wild life dept police) orders you to stop and identify yourself- DO IT! If you have conjones to do the crime have the conjones to fess up.

I have NO sympathy to anyone (adult or child) that is shot due to running when asked to stop.