We've found a buyer for the lawn tractor. As a matter of fact, we've had several people express interest as soon as we sold the darn thing to the first person who stopped by off the road. Denny did manage to get the tractor started after replacing the spark plug, but since it acted up on us once, we figured we'd drop the price and get it out of here. I can't set up all the tools and "stuff" in the garage for a moving sale with the tractor and trailer taking up half the space, so selling it was a good thing. Now if only finding a buyer for the house and land goes that easily....
Denny cut me a break this morning and did my lawn mowing chores so I could start preparing the food for our cookout tomorrow at Mom's house. We're going to grill "beer chicken", which is simply marinating the chicken pieces in beer for 24 hours. The beer pulls the blood from the bones and makes the chicken nice and juicy and of course the alcohol burns off during the grilling. Add a nice barbecue sauce the last few minutes and voila'; beer chicken. Denny said that with all the stuff we're going to be lugging north it would be easier just to hitch up our fifth wheel and take it all with us. I don't think so! But since we're staying for three days to get some appointments taken care of and work done around the house and even a visit or two with friends and family, we're going to be loaded for bear.
Painting-wise, we're still on the back bedroom but it's almost finished. Denny gets side-tracked with little jobs or last minutes patching/repairs so it's not going as quickly as I would like. It will be Tuesday before we get back to painting here, but we'll finish off the bedroom and start on the bathroom. We'll do better once Denny's step-mother moves down to Tennessee, because she doesn't roll out of bed until 10:30 or 11AM which puts a serious crimp in our working hours. Me, I'd be in there at 8:30 or 9 o'clock otherwise, since I'm up at 5:30.
Our first Super Fantastic variety of tomato is ripe so we're trying that on a BLT for dinner tonight. The tomatoes are still kind of small, but there's some good sandwich sized ones on the vines that should be ripe in a couple of weeks. At that point, we'll be looking to give the darn things away because 19 tomato plants are way too many for someone who no longer cans produce from the garden. After all, how many tomatoes can two people eat? (I know, Nancy, a LOT, right? Heh.)
Well, the ice is melting in my frozen margarita and that's not good. Y'all KNEW it had to be 5 o'clock SOMEWHERE, right?
2 comments:
Sigh, I've no tomatoes this summer after some bad beasties knocked down my bushes...sigh
eat in good health and great delight!
Beer chicken is a favourite around here.
And painting, I discovered this spring with our mini-reno, never is quickly accomplished. The only good thing about painting is the feeling of satisfaction that comes after it is a done deal. :-)
My tomatoes are still quite small and very green. But I can hardly wait to bite into the first ripe red one. Can one have too many red tomatoes.. I don't think so. :-). Did you know that you can freeze them whole.. just cut off the stems ,throw them in freezer bags and toss them in the freezer. Great for stews and sauces.
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