GOOD OLD ROUTINE IS BACK

                         It is only 4 weeks since Donna's operation and, to me, already it seems like way in the past because everything is back to the good life as it supposed to be. I love it, well not everything, not when things break, but I guess this is part of the life routine too.

                         Donna feels very good most of the time and is back full time at her job. Myself, I set Donna up with the best possible take out luncheons every day

LUNCH SAMPLES

Chicken, bacon and spinach salad

Seafood salad

Cervelat salad

Bare Bruten

Salmon with caper sauce and salad

                                   and of course with a semi gourmet meal for dinner when she comes home. I did not get very many complaints from her , because I keep all the portions small and use less cream and butter to keep up with a good healthy daily diet.

DINNER SAMPLES

Salmon and potatoes pancakes



Talapia, roast potatoes and broccoli

Fillet Mignon Princess

Steak and salad

Chicken Parmesan, angel hair pasta

                          All the storms around here are also in the past and we have at the moment some descent weather. I am back to mowing the lawn for the first time this year and also cleaning up some trees and brushes. I planted 6 tomato plants and transplanted a few strawberry plants to sunnier grounds. This is about all the garden I will have this year except some herbs and hot peppers I will keep in flower pots on the deck.

 Strawberries

Tomatoes

                        The one annoying thing right now is this 75 meter tall, about 100 year old cottonwood tree.

Biggest tree in the neighborhood

 As every year at this time the tree releases all its cottony seeds and it looks like it is snowing. This will last for 10 to 14 days. As soon you open the door for a few seconds our kitchen and living room is covered in cotton. The garage is full of it and you find that stuff even inside your car. As you see, I am the Hoover king
for the next few days to conquer the cotton pollution. An the other hand, the tree is beautiful and provide us with a lot of shade in the hot summer. (It is also the home of a few dozens squirrels)

Everything is white from cotton

You should see inside the garage!

                         Like I mentioned before, also unfortunate things happen around here, throwing our budget in to a loop. 3 weeks ago my beloved coffee machine, after 11 years and 19,246 cups, stopped working. We had problems for the past few months with the machine, but I was always able to fix it , not this time.

Time to recycle this one

                  Fortunately, we had our old one, who will keep us over the few weeks, until we get the new one.

Slow, but still brews some good coffee

                        At the same time our Air conditioner crapped out after ONLY 16 years, and we had to get a new one. (You can not live here with out AC) I know, many years ago there lived here without AC, but we are smarter now!

 There goes our budget for this year

                          We had a beautiful Mother's day for Donna last weekend. Windy brought over Barbecue ribs ,pulled pork and beef and all the trimmings. I contributed a cake and we all had a few cocktails. Even Eric came over. Only Brian and Karla where missing to complete our normal family gatherings.

Donna enjoys her Mother's Day cards and gifts

We all had a few Bacardi and coke,

played games

and had chocolate mousse cake