August 20, 2013

  • Chewlee's First Day Back In School....

    TALES FROM THE BRAT FARM

    The Princess called me early in the afternoon to tell me that she just told the school to drop Chewlee off at our house every day and, on the days she doesn't work, she will just come over to get her.   She wanted me to know that Chewlee was so anxious to spend some time with me since it had been a week since she'd seen me last.

    I was out on the front porch waiting for her when the bus dropped her off.  She looked so cute in the little outfit she had on.  I'll be posting it, hopefully tomorrow.  When she got to the porch, she showed me her new backpack then sat down and said, *I was asleep until Mr. Martin woke me up when he stopped the bus.*  I hugged her close and then she suddenly almost exploded with excitement and opened her backpack to show me her new folder and her first Happy Face for good behavior.  Then she started to tell me, excitedly, what a full week of Happy Faces meant to her.....toy AND candy!  I had to laugh.

    She said she had a good day AND she had made some new friends, too.  The Beast took some pictures of her because she looked so cute even though Chewlee wasn't in the mood to have pictures taken but she did manage one or two that looked good.

    The Beast decided he wanted to make a meat loaf today.  He had the right idea but he did several things wrong.  He cut the onion and green pepper too big and he added celery (who the hell adds celery to meat loaf??).  He didn't add enough oatmeal for the number of eggs he added and he definitely didn't add enough salt and pepper.  I add a few other things when I make mine but, hey, he wanted no help.  But dig this......he never paid attention to how many pounds of ground beef he used, he was clueless about what temperature the oven should be and (since he had no idea how much ground beef he had used) no idea how long he should cook the meatloaf.  But he didn't need any help, TYVM.    But, add a little ketchup and a little salt and pepper and it wasn't too bad at all.  I don't use ketchup but the Beast uses it on a lot of things but I stand by what I said.  It wasn't bad at all with a little bit of seasoning and some extra chewing.

    It was really beautiful out today.  Not too hot, not too cool....just right.    It's going to be hotter tomorrow, however, so I tried to just enjoy it while I could.  Love you all and I hope you get some relief from all the rain all over the country.