Wednesday April 30 2008

Cuzzins

Well, here we are all blurry. We went to dinner with Kathy and James yesterday evening at the Chinese Restaurant. .....At least the car started this time. I asked the waiter, who could barely speak English, to take our picture and he wanted to take a second one but I thought I was being polite by not wanting to bother him any further. Actually it took two of them to get the button pushed. Anyway you can see we were having a good time. We even got one of the Chinese warriors between James and Joe.

We went in to Pinedale about 3 p.m., got some errands done - P.O. UPS to return clothes, bank safety deposit box where I put our brand info and paperwork, and then stopped by Kathy and James house to trade their cooler with my suitcase. I took them a jar of the blueberry jelly. We visited there and they went to dinner with us. I had the best time just doing something socially, and being half silly. Really enjoyed the time together. They are going to Georgia for a month again soon to visit their family. This time they are going to bring back some Vidalia ? or ? the sweet onions they grow there. Afterwards we took the dogs to the park for a short walk and let them have Joe's leftover General Kung Pow chicken or whatever it is. I saved my shrimp and broccoli for lunch today. It was 60 degrees but the wind was so cold and I wore a lighter jacket- wished I had still been wearing down.

Wow can't believe April is gone. This morning woke up to it snowing again, and just above freezing. Enough, already. The two oncology doctors are having differing opinions and haven't decided on what to do with me. I finally called Oncology a couple of times when I knew we were leaving and wouldn't get the call. Dr. Ward was in Philadelphia so Paige will call me in the morning.

Have spent time organizing more of my photos lately. At least they aren't such a mess now. And I finally figured out why I wasn't seeing all of my blog, even though all of you were. Every day, since the blog with the photos of the calves, wasn't showing up for me. All the Internet windows were either half or one quarter of the page every time I opened one. Boy was I getting frustrated with it all. On that day I had clicked "Tabs"(some kind of view on the browser) to try to learn about that, and unbeknownst to me why at the time, the blog stopped showing up correctly then. I hate when that stuff happens. So yesterday I dug around in the innards a couple of times, and finally figured it out and changed it back. But am so proud of myself for getting it fixed on my own.

My fall road pastel landscape is about finished. I'll tweak it a little more and get a photo of it soon.

Vidalia Onions This is perhaps the most well-known of the sweet onion varieties. It was first grown in Toombs County, Georgia, but it came to Georgia from Texas. It is by law grown only in thirteen counties and portions of seven others in southeast Georgia. The soil and climatic conditions in these defined areas combine to produce the sweeter granex hybrid trademarked as Vidalia onions. The city of Vidalia was the site of a Farmer's Market since it was located at the junction of several heavily-traveled highways. The sweet granex onion came to be called after this hub city. Vidalias are harvested from late April through mid-June, and thanks to controlled-atmosphere storage, they are available through December. The Vidalia onion is a light golden-brown bulb with a white interior, rounded at the bottom and somewhat flat on the top stem end. ( The ones from Washington are the Walla Walla.)