Friday May 2 2008

"I Love You, Mom" or

"Got any biscuits??"

Yippee!! Ruth is coming over today so after she called I hurried to get the clutter out of the studio to give us room to work. Having company is a good thing to get inspired to clean things up. We'll do some artwork together and I'm going to stick a frozen lasagna in the oven so lunch will be easy. I'll write more about it later and maybe Joe will take a picture of us for tomorrow's blog.

Yesterday was another good day in terms of having good ambition and I got quite a bit done. I started cleaning the shelves and drawers in the kitchen and got two cabinets finished. The spice shelves was probably the worst mess. I decided not to put in new shelf paper and just to clean what is there. It looks just fine. These smaller things I can do. I also finally got the new filter into the air purifier.

Jim is flying for a German outfit who is doing a documentary about the oil/gas/Jonah Field, etc. They installed cameras in his airplane the other day then went out for dinner and Doc Tom joined them. Got 3 pair of pants in the mail yesterday and have tried them on. One needs to go back.

Being's I spend a bunch of time hanging out lately, I've been watching a lot of HGTV and Food Network. Mainly just have the TV on to drown out Joe's perpetual Fox News. I love to watch the Food Network Stars. It seems like cooking is certainly becoming more popular again, mainly due to them. My favorite is Alton Brown and his show is Good Eats. It's pure entertainment, with very good recipes thrown in. Paula Deen and Rachel Ray are a close second. Paula is truly unique and rather outrageous. Even at this late date, I'm having a Renaissance in my food spirit from watching them and its got me thinking "I can do that", even when just chopping an onion. I learned the son of one of our local artists and his wife (who works in our bank) is a star on Designed to Sell, my favorite HGTV show. I'm fascinated by all those home makeover shows.

It was on this day in 1611 that the first edition of the King James Bible was published in England.