IT'S DONE!!

 I'm sad today.  No part of California that I know of, fell off into the ocean.  Maybe, just maybe that storm dumped enough water in San Francisco to clean up the sidewalks.  Not that I will ever go there again, which is sad, because it used to be a fabulous place to visit.  

So .... I cheered myself up with a nice big cup of chocolate!!  And SUGAR!!  There's actually cocoa underneath all those marshmallows.  Hey, I'm just doing what my mother told me ... waste not, want not.  What else can you do with these sweet little morsels of sugar?

Luckily I don't have to share with Cooper.  What I DO have to do is give him his four little nuggets of Beggin' Strips and a small piece of Pepperoni.  I think that equates to sugar for him.  It was time for the ball game!

It was a relaxing Sunday in the beginning.  I picked up a 3-pack of bacon at Costco a while back ... something I never do.  It's been in the freezer, and I need more space.  I drug out the big air fryer and went to work.  It's actually much less messy to use that than the barbecue.  I'm thinking some bacon cheeseburgers are on the menu for later this week.

Though I really prefer to sit around and watch the Houston Rodeo, I finally installed the last of the toilet guts.  Really folks, these are the cheapest made pieces of thin plastic they could find.  Instead of being on the uprise of manufacturing and quality, we are in the gutter with cheaply made, dare I say crap, from China that will last a few months before you have to go buy it again.

The years of making things to last have ended.  Now they make products that will die in a few short years so you will have to buy it again and again.  My oven in the old ranch house was 45 years old and worked like a charm.  Never had to have it repaired.  My oven here worked for about 5 years and there's not even anyone who can repair it.  A sad commentary for such a once great country.

Okay .... throw away the sad and get on to the laughing at oneself at how many times I can get stuck by pins.  Here it is ... the King sized gorgeous-in-my-eye quilt top that is finally done.  There are FOUR borders on this monster.  Each one had to be divided into quarters and marked with pins, as was the quilt edge, in order to be sure it all matched up and was straight.  

I stuck my legs, my arms, twice on my chin and many MANY times my fingers, manhandling this thing on my lap while seated at the machine.  At long last it is done ... and I don't even have a room with enough floor space to show the whole thing.

Just a note ... when I got this, I thought the fabrics were ugly, didn't match and would not turn out at all.  Boy was I wrong!!  I love it.  This is why I let others pick the fabrics for me.

Since it didn't rain at all on the second day of the huge storm (they even handed out sand bags to everyone), Mr. Cooper and I went for a walk.  He's like a little kid ... he walked through every puddle he could find.  He came back soaking wet, but happy.  And then it was time to cook the second Hello Fresh dinner.

Here's the SHOULD LOOK LIKE picture.  That's a hamburger steak, though they call it meatloaf.  It's meat, onions and garlic powder.  I have to admit, their hamburger is some of the best I've eaten.   Seems I pick the recipes that require roasting.  That's much easier cleanup.

And here's what it DID look like.  They shorted me a bit on the brussel sprouts.  They look yummy, right? Just like the picture ... only turn them over and they are black as can be.  The hamburger topping is onions and sour cream which looks pretty disgusting, but tasted really good.  The potatoes, well you just can't mess up mashed potatoes in my opinion, had sour cream and butter whipped in.  

All in all, it really was a very good meal ... quite tasty.  Especially when you get the ingredients delivered to your door.  I divided the leftovers into 2 meal containers and stuck them in the fridge.  No cooking for TWO MORE DAYS!

My to do list is getting long again, so I suppose I'll have to get out and about today.  Taxes have to be mailed, voting needs to be turned in, screwdrivers have to be found or ordered ... all before gearing up for another fun filled night of Bingo tomorrow!!