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Happy Birthday, Dad!

Breakfast was a bowl of pineapple and banana slices, a cheese omelette with salsa, two strips of bacon, a glass of orange juice, and three cups of coffee. I weighed 158 pounds. Gretchen made the omelette in our wok. We do not have an omelette pan, so she usually just makes them in a fry pan. Coincidentally, all of the fry pans were dirty this morning, so she used the wok. It just so happens that our wok has a non-stick surface. It is our only piece of cookware that has a such a surface. The omelets were noticeably different. Not in appearance, but in taste. They were really good, though I am not sure why, but I attribute the difference to the non-stick surface.

Lots of yard work today, nothing very interesting, but enough to keep us from having lunch.

Dinner was grilled marinated sirloin steak, cole slaw, asparagus fried in bacon grease, and two Saranac Pale Ales. For dessert, we made a banana cream pie with real whipped cream and split it with the in-laws. The pie was an experiment of sorts. Gretchen wanted to try out an olive oil crust. We had tried a whole wheat version of it before on our ham, cheese, and asparagus quiche which worked out all right. This was a plain flour crust and it was tough. I think there might be two factors that accounted for the difference. First, this was a pre-baked crust with a cream filling while the quiche has the ingredients baked in the crust. That may have moistened and softened the crust. Second, the asparagus released a lot of moisture into the quiche while it was cooking, further moistening the crust. The difference in flour may have had a tertiary effect, but I am betting on the two moistening factors.

Breakfast was a bowl of pineapple and banana slices and a cup of coffee. I weighed 158 pounds.

This morning, Gretchen and I cultivated the garden.

The onions are doing great.

As is the romaine…

…and the mesclun. Unfortunately, the spinach and peas are not really doing anything. Oh, if you ever wondered why you can never manage to pull dandelions, look at the tap root on this one I dug out of the garden.

For lunch, Gretchen made some whole wheat tortillas that we made into bean and cheese quesadillas. I had two and two Saranac Pale Ales. We had a couple tortillas left over, so we cut them up and fried them in a little olive oil and had our homemade tortilla chips them with some salsa.

After lunch we trimmed around the pine trees we planted by the fence on the front pasture and watered them. Then we put Kitten and her kid out in the pasture for a little exercise.

Later, Gretchen found this garter snake on the plastic she uses to cover the sawdust she uses for bedding in the horses stalls.

Dinner was Pasta with Asparagus and a Saranac Pale Ale with some peanuts for dessert.

Breakfast was a bowl of pineapple and banana slices and a cup of coffee. I weighed 158 pounds.

I had a meeting this morning at the Paterno Library and walked over and back — proabably two miles.

I walked over to the HUB for lunch — probably three miles round trip. I had Panda Express mandarin chicken with mixed vegetables on chow mein noodles with hot and sour soup, and a fortune cookie.

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must begin at the first step.

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Dinner was a salad, a slice of raisin bread, two Saranac Pale Ales, and some peanuts.

I would like to thank Marla over at Olive Cheeses for adding me to her “Chewing the Fat” list.

We had the kid out in the front pasture for the first time today. Here are a few snapshots.

There is also a ten second movie (804 KB) of them running around.

We have most of our seeds planted, but we grow much of our garden from live plants, so today I took the day off of work and Gretchen and I went over to Peachy’s Greenhouse and got some plants.

Gretchen and I looked for the varieties that we had already picked out. We ended up getting 14 Better Boy tomato plants, 6 Big Boy tomato plants, 14 Gypsy green pepper plants, 6 Jalapeño pepper plants, and two Rosemary plants.

Here they are in the trunk for the ride home. We’ll plant them in a week or so, after we are sure there will be no more frost. In the mean time we’ll keep them in the shade and well watered.

• 10.423 Gallons
• $1.919/Gallon
• $20.00
• 252.2 Miles
• 24.2 Miles/Gallon
• 8¢/Mile
• 10 Days

Breakfast was a cup of coffee, a glass of orange juice, and a bowl of fresh pineapple and banana slices. I weighed 158 pounds.

Lunch was a bowl of multi-bean and ham soup, a hand full of peanuts, a banana, and a Saranac Pale Ale.

During the afternoon we had another Saranac Pale Ale.

For dinner, Gretchen made a ham, swiss, and asparagus quiche that we split and had with another Saranac Pale Ale. I had some peanuts for dessert.

Mother and son are resting quietly. Both are doing well.

Grandma gets in a hug.