Saturday Stuph
Nothing much exciting to do today. Gotta head out to that fancy French department store, Tar-jhay, and get my flu shot. Then we need to go shopping at Shaw’s, which is right next door to the Tar-jhay.
I’ve been on sort of a pumpkin-cooking kick, cooking recipes out of a book that I bought at Old Sturbridge Village a few weeks ago…Pumpkin. The first recipe from the book that I tried was the Mexican Pumpkin Lasagna. It was very tasty. But the thing was, Mike brought home this humongous can of pumpkin, way more than I needed for the recipe. So I’ve been making more pumpkin recipes to use it up…I have since made Pumpkin Glazed Meatloaf and Pumpkin Sloppy Joes. And I STILL have some canned pumpkin left!
So I was watching CreateTV earlier today; every Saturday they have special themed marathons of cooking, gardening, travel and craft shows. Today the theme is Halloween. So there’s a lot of pumpkin cooking going on.  On an episode of Caprial & John’s Kitchen, they made these pumpkin cookies that looked yummie. If I make them, it will use up the remainder of my canned pumpkin puree. And there’s very little else I have to buy…I’m out of eggs anyway so I have to buy those, and we also don’t have any pecans. Caprial said on the show that you could use raisins instead of dried cherries, so I’ll do that because I already have raisins. Caprial says she doesn’t like raisins, that’s why she doesn’t use them.
There’s a guy outside painting the front porch. So I guess we’ll have to use the back door to get in and out. It’s kind of silly, I think, to be doing any outside painting, because it’s supposed to rain tonight into tomorrow.
I don’t know why they didn’t get this painting done sooner, anyway.  They did replace the spindles on the porch railing that the local FFAâ„¢ chapter broke last year. Actually, they were replaced twice, because the Future Felons of America came back and broke them again. But nodoby has broken them since, and there is now a plywood board mounted along the bottom of the railing, supposedly to keep the spindles from getting broken again. Not sure how much good that will do, though. Anyhoo, it’s all unpainted wood now, at least until the guy paints it.
Thankfully, I heard one of the landladies outside telling the guy to paint everything grey. I hope that means anything that is that fugly teal color, including the front doors.
Well, we’d better get going now, to get to the place before the flu shots are over for the day!
