Goosey had a major job planned for Erin and Alex today. A couple of days ago Goosey and Alex took the aluminum cans to the recycle place so that freed up a large place in the garage...and I guess Woody decided that it would be a good day to clean out the garage. Everything was taken out (bottom right picture), and then the sweeping, shoveling of leaves that had blown in and also a lot of dirt. Then Alex hosed the floor off as well as the driveway. The little toad in the middle on the right got interrupted from eating a giant cricket...he was the main critter found inside the garage...perhaps he was keeping the cricket population down...but he is no longer in there as Erin prodded him out with the broom handle...he was a bit reluctant to leave...he had a pretty big mouthful...his cheeks stuck out funny. I was taking a picture of a little wild flower using my tripod and one of my father's lenses when Alex was spraying off the driveway...so I snuck a picture of him. While Alex and Woody hosed, swept and shoveled off the driveway, Erin got underway with preparations for our "last supper!" Tonight we made items from Jamie Oliver's Cooking Revolution cookbook that Woody had checked out at the library. When Woody came home with this cookbook, he challenged Alex to find a recipe or two that he would like to try. He found a crispy garlic chicken recipe that he okayed and also a dessert tart. So Erin set forth to make those two items as well as a dressing to drizzle on our asparagus. In the upper right hand picture, she is making the shortbread crust for the tart. As I type, the tart and filling is cooling in the fridge. The chicken was delicious...a recipe that we voted "a keeper." I also liked the vinagrette dressing for the asparagus. What I consider to be the "picture of the day," is the bottom left...it shows the family room just prior to us eating tonight...one of the down times in the cooking as neither Erin nor I are in the kitchen. I walked to the back of the family room to show our "electronic times." Of course, I am behind a digital camera, Erin is playing a game on her computer, Alex is playing a hand-held video game and also watching the baseball game on TV with Goosey. Guess we were all happy doing what we like...in this electronics age!
Woody got up early this morning and made his neighborhood 4-mile circle. When it was still early he worked in the gardens...mulching, weeding, etc. He helped Alex take things out of the garage and then Woody put back in what has been put back in the garage. Woody enjoyed an extra-inning baseball game this afternoon and evening and he has read. I did dead-head flowers this morning, started a new book, assisted the cook, and took a few pictures. I guess it is time to go down and see if the tart is ready for us to eat a bit of dessert...special treat for their last night here! Alex and I have talked to Melany. The last that I talked with her they were waiting in the Seattle airport for their flight to Phoenix. They don't get in to Nashville till fairly late tonight. We plan to head their way after Sunday School...guess I had better motivate several teenagers to start finding all their things and gathering them together so they will be ready to load up everything in the morning before we leave for the early service.
Glad I wasnt there to find that critter
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