For a couple of years now, Vince's recliner has been making noise. He reclines, he sits there for a while . . sometimes for hours, sometimes for minutes . . wait . . always for hours but . . the chair makes this awful noise and it's very unpredictable. Sometimes he's been sitting in the chair for a few minutes and it does it. Sometimes, he's been sitting there for hours and it does it. Sometimes . ...
Archives for April 3, 2018
The Long Road Home
We've been here going on 7 years and this is life as we know it. We get used to certain things and don't notice they're odd or unusual. One thing is that the National Guard is not far behind us and we're so used to hearing "war" going on back there that we don't even notice it but several times, we've had friends over and they'd stop in their tracks and had a look of "fight or flight" and we ...
Impressionists MKAL
The first clue was released over the weekend for Curious Handmade's Impressionists Mystery Knit Along. I never had time over the weekend to get started on it as I was trying to get one project past a certain point and get another project to where I could knit on it without having to look at the instructions. This morning, for some reason, someone (NOT me!) was up at 5 a.m. I tried to go back to ...
Matzo Ball Soup
Neither of us had ever had Matzo Ball Soup so we weren't exactly sure what to expect. It was delicious. I can see how this is the "go to" soup when you're sick. The broth is so soothing. Vince said "This is like comfort food!" My matzo balls were fluffy . . according to me. I'm not sure what a Jewish Matzo Ball Soup expert would say about them. I think I followed the recipe fairly ...