I'm Picking Up What You're Laying Down

Learning the "new" lingo at work.  Rapper Style.  Always open to new things.  Keeps me "fresh". (can you see me smiling?) The rapper lyrics are sort of like Beat poetry (if you remember the 50's).  I can't say as I have actually listened to any recorded Rap (or Beat poetry), but I do get to listen to D, at work, rattle off all the words to one tune after another.  Astounding memory.

Didn't sleep much last night.  Up early and out the door to the grocery with the dog in the car.  It was cool enough for him to come along.  Riley finds sitting in the car in parking lots to be a wondrous experience.  Library first to pick up books.  I am 47th in line for Bringing Up The Bodies. Rats. I could have been number one if I "Nooked".

I purchased 5.5 pounds of yellow squash (picture above is of my own 2011 squash) because it was on sale and because sliced thin and fried up with onion and butter, it is now my favorite food.  So I wanted more.  Lots more.  Long before my plants start producing. It takes forever to cook down to a nice brown mess.  The girl can't wait.  I also have some "also on sale" zucchini to make into a casserole with cheese and sausage. I'll be sampling pepper jack cheese for the first time in the baked casserole.  Really.  Never have had pepper jack cheese.

It rained last night.  It was 87 yesterday but breezy.  So last night and this morning are muggy and full of bugs.  The deer came up on the front porch last night to eat my petunia baskets and the one "safe" hosta I haven't planted yet.  G thinks it's one young deer.  All on his or her own, who thinks the yards on this street are her territory.  And she eats all day long.  Not just at night.  Nothing is safe.  Riley isn't even a deterrent.

I found Tide on sale at my grocery for $9.99 a jug.  Target had it for $9.50 but the savings was in the form of a $5 Target gift card if you bought two.  49 cents more at the grocery and I didn't have to wade through Target to get it.  And the grocery always has original scent and regular style.  Not the specialty types for the new washers.  I would have been plenty mad if I gone over to Target and couldn't buy my kind and then drove back to the grocery to find it all gone (which is what happened once before).  I now have four bottles (two for colors and two for whites) so I am set until the next sale event.  Our Target just got a make over and now has a grocery inside with fresh foods.  I don't think it will help.  But then, I am not someone who finds things they like at Target.

I am back to reading Swedish mysteries.   I am not watching much television.  I have been watching YouTube videos of Alys Fowler's Edible Garden series and Rachel Khoo's Little Paris Kitchen.  Both are very entertaining.  To me.  I like that I can watch the entire show (BBC) and not have to watch in ten minute segments.  Which is annoying.

I have laundry to do, I may wash the kitchen floor and then do some work on Myths.  See you Monday.