I am always amazed at the amount of dishes it takes to cook for just 2 people even if you use a crockpot, might as well cook for an army. I went to bed early last night and this morning the sink was full, I hate night before dishes with dried left on mashed potatoes and gravy pans, yuck what a mess. We had roast beef, stove top stuffing, mashed potatoes, and peas and carrots. It was great of course, but the clean up mess wasn’t very inviting this morning.

We stopped at a road side stand yesterday while we were out riding and picked up some local grown strawberries which are delicious and the smaller they are the sweeter they are. I cut them up and added spring water and a little bit of grenadine and let them soak and the juice picks up the strawberry flavor. I know lots of people down South that add tons of sugar to make the syrup, but I hate that really sweet syrupy taste and all that sugar is horrible to balance out your bodies PH level.

We also picked up some new potatoes, sugar snap peas, and ham which we are having for dinner tonight. I just finished preparing the snap peas and will add them later because they don’t take that long to cook. Bill likes cornbread with this meal so he’ll make that when he comes home, he likes his better than mine. I grew up using yellow cornmeal, but he prefers white because that’s what his Mother used. I never mess up as many pots and pans as he does and I will certainly make sure everything is clean before I hit the bed tonight.

This past week Shadow has been letting me sleep in the bed till around 3 in the morning, but that’s because Bill has been falling asleep in the chair beside him and not waking up and coming to bed till around 2. It sure does feel good to be able to stretch out and rest. I’m loving all this nice weather and we certainly have been enjoying the outside as much as possible. I’ll have to start typing some posts in advance that I can publish on a time table, maybe less personal posts because I’m sure people get tired reading about my personal life all the time.