Two Cuties
Our friend and dog on our path. It’s compacted as it is groomed about twice a week when it snows. It’s strange to walk along the path at such a height and see the fence to the Preserve about at one’s waist or knees. My new boots feel like snowshoes and keep me steady on an uneven path, as well as warm.
I made ribs tonight, sweet potato fries and salad. Now it’s bedtime, time to go. Cheers from Dee and Zoe The Hipless Wonder
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Our guest took this yesterday from her phone camera. Note to Mr. Steve Jobs: taken on an iPhone, transferred to a MacBook, and it wasn’t easy!
We’re so glad when our guests have a good time visiting us. What was I doing? Laundry, cleaning up and relaxing for a few moments. Cheers, Dee
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Hilarious! We saw it locally. Author Dean Cameron wrote it after nearly a year of emails and phone calls with a Nigerian spammer. He acts in it with Victor Isaac. Theatre audiences, gear up for this one because it’s short (a little over an hour) and so funny I didn’t fall off my seat but did cry/laugh several times.
If I tell you anything more I’ll ruin the fun for you. Let’s hope this play makes it BIG! I hope the FCC is funding PBS to film this as a public service announcement. We didn’t get to meet the author/actors after the performance but we say a resounding “Bravo.”
Cheers, Dee, Mr. Snickers and JoJo the Dancing Clown
We know an empty water tower in a minuscule town in the midwest that we actually thought of converting to a loft. Now there may be a use for it. We don’t own it but it’ll be a lot cheaper for the government to house Charlie Sheen and Lindsey Lohan in the same place, and just send up food and take out the trash every week. Give them some green cleaning supplies (no sniff-able glue) and a swiffer cleaner and they can heal themselves out of the public eye for a few years. Sounds like a plan to me! Dee
It’s so cool to have a girlfriend in town. Yesterday we tooled around all day, catching up on two years of lost conversations. She wanted to stop at Best Buy and I found a Peter, Paul and Mary cd with two songs on it that I sang when I got my first guitar (cheap, nylon strings) at age 12.
So while I clean house and prepare for a weekend with husband and guest I’m singing along with Peter, Paul and Mary. How cool! I actually had a girl guitar band (the other two were tone deaf) at age 12 and we performed “500 Miles” and “Day is Done” at school. Mortifying. What gets me is how I even knew those songs existed. I know I heard them and figured out the chords.
That I’m listening to “This Land is Your Land” and the previously mentioned songs 40 years later means that they are timeless, ageless. Something I could aspire to be, someday. Enjoy your weekend! Dee
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Jim’s off to work, our guest is off on the ski slopes and I’m cleaning house, doing laundry and soon will make the dough for “pizza night.” Tonight I’m making a pepperoni, mushroom and red pepper pizza; and a spinach, roasted garlic and goat cheese pizza.
Last night a friend from Jim’s work came up here for dinner. A veteran skier, he helped our guest plan her visit, ski-wise. I marinated a 2# pork loin, first salt and pepper, then coarse-grained mustard all over, then added two bottles of local beer and let it sit for a couple of hours. I roasted it in the oven, and also made rosemary potatoes and braised carrots. We had tea, coffee and sharp ginger cookies and Mexican wedding cookies (store-bought) for dessert.
Oh, near the end of cooking the roast I poured about 2 tbsp maple syrup on it and it made a great glaze. While I’m able to catch up on duties today, hopefully tomorrow night we’ll be able to see a play that’s in town for the weekend. It’s the Nigerian Spam Scam Scam, supposed to be hilarious.
Our dog loves our house guest, and our dinner guest. Both have helped take care of her over the years. She’s up on the couch and didn’t even bark at the trail grooming machine because she’s having some down time as well! I’m glad my ski pants are getting a workout today. Better them than me… Cheers, Dee
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“Hall Pass,” and Owen Wilson. Thumbs down, way down. No, haven’t seen it, only one review. We’re in a serious relationship for nearly 10 years, married for eight of those years and giving one another a ‘hall pass’ has never entered our minds.
We’re much more comfortable with “The King’s Speech” and basically quality films that don’t blow stuff up with no reason, and aren’t of the horror variety.
One of my film criteria now is to make sure neither of the Wilson brothers are in the movie. I’ve never done that before but I thought it was warranted. I enjoy many films that come out in order to make the next year’s Oscars but in our middle age we do not see many of the teen summer and holiday blockbusters. They’re so silly and don’t mean anything. Don’t think we have no sense of humor. We just like wry humor, double entendres and an actual plot. We’ve a guest here so we’ll be watching the red carpet on Sunday!
Did you actually ask that Jim cook us dinner while we’re watching the red carpet? Maybe we’ll send him out for pizza then he can nap on the sofa. In the meantime guest and I will talk about old movies and look forward to “dishing” dresses. Cheers! Dee
Yesterday I was early to pick up our friend from the airport. My husband and his team have been working hard, late hours for a while now to get a certain project deployed. Last week I made them a blueberry-lemon trifle. Yesterday I had no time to do anything so I stopped by a local place to get some brownies and tarts. They told me to come around more often!
Then I headed to a bookstore, which I found, then ended up on local streets that took me far afield of the airport and by then our friend had her luggage and was waiting. It was made up last night with a nice dinner and five minutes of fireworks at the 2002 Olympic ski jump/bobsled and luge venue right across the street. I said they were for her.
So, today I took her first to the visitor center so she could find out what to do here for the next few days. Then we drove through Park City, to Deer Valley resort and off to Kamas for a visitor experience like no other. A drugstore that sells camping equipment, has a pharmacy, sheet music, lawn and home decorative items and a 1950′s lunch counter with the best burger in the state. Just like getting lost yesterday, it is closed every Thursday (even the pharmacy). I never knew because every few months my husband and I make a point of going there on a Saturday for lunch, and always bring out-of-state guests for the experience.
We headed back to “civilization” and hit one of my favorite burger and fries places, no muss, no fuss, just order at the counter and wait for your number to be called. But they know us there so we had a nice conversation.
We ran a few errands for camera batteries, food et al and one of Jim’s colleagues joined us for dinner. It was hastily planned so was to be a very simple dinner. I got a 2# pork loin. seasoned it and put stone-ground mustard all over it, placed it in a bag (in a dish in case the bag leaked) and poured two bottles of a local beer over it and let it marinate for a few hours.
I roasted some red potatoes with garlic, rosemary and olive oil; and wanted to make green beans but they were so washed out and mealy that I braised carrots instead.
For dessert we had tea and very intense ginger cookies, plus a wedding cookie, both store-bought. Let’s hope my bad luck doesn’t continue as our guest wants to go skiing tomorrow. I just knocked wood, hope you’ll do so as well.
Our Houston guest hasn’t met the Pippi hat as yet, but chose my faux fur Russian hat for us to walk the dog this morning. She’s looking forward to the deluge of snow that is expected tonight and for the next two days. That’s easy, she’s not driving! I do hope she’s having a good time. She’s already found a play to go to this weekend that sounds very funny. I would like to dedicate this blog to easy-to-entertain guests and old friends. Cheers,Dee
ps pdxknitterati I got a Peter, Paul and Mary cd today just because it had 500 miles and Day is Done on it, two songs I taught myself to play when I was twelve and got a cheap guitar for Christmas. I actually had a band, three inept guitarists and even worse singers, and we played at our school! I’d just like to remember how those songs are supposed to be sung, over decades. d
Many of us have had to tighten our belts over the last couple of years due to job cuts and the sagging housing market. Our government has been using our money to bail out banks, insurance companies and auto manufacturers and now unemployment is even higher and the American people are feeling no relief.
So, why is the Air Force using our money to buy up land in the Wasatch mountains to build hotels so armed forces personnel can fish, ski at rates that will also be subsidized by the US taxpayer? Probably the same reason our military “owns” the best land on the coast of California for golf courses et al.
Yes, I have a Superman to look into this one, take it on NotionsCapitol! Cheers, Dee
We’ve tons of snow, it was cold as it could be this morning so I bundled up to take out the dog first thing. Now there are blue skies and it’s warm (maybe 30 degrees). Great day to fly here, as our friend is right now.
At night we can see the stars, unimpeded by city lights, and the moon is so bright on the snow it almost looks like daylight in the wee hours.
As to guests, I obsessed over the long weekend about keeping the place as squeaky clean as it was on Friday, when I did six loads of wash. My husband thought otherwise and seemed to enjoy messing things up, like washing the dog in the guest bath. I nagged and he got cranky and finally I made peace with myself and said I’d just let it go and clean up when he leaves the house.
Then I remembered that I don’t need to coddle this guest. We haven’t seen her for two years but she’s the one who, for five years went with my husband to see the occasional movie I would not attend (mainly the horror variety) and was a stalwart holiday “orphan” at our table. And she has seen our home in every stage from clean to messy to helping us move out.
The downstairs was vacuumed on Monday. Yes, there are a few dog hairs on it but I’m not going to obsess. Que sera, sera. But the dog is clean and brushed out and I had her nails trimmed AND washed the car. Not obsessing, though. Cheers, Dee
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