FOOTBALL!!!
Is there anything better than college football? Especially in the SEC? What a Saturday!! Tennessee vs. Georgia, Auburn vs. Arkansas, Alabama vs. Mississippi, Gators vs. LSU!! It doesn't get much better than that!! Even Mississippi and Houston are having a good game as well as South Carolina vs. Kentucky.
The genius and I plan our whole day around watching the games. It's really too bad that this is the end of the quarter for him and he has so much work to do that he can't watch all of it. He just has to take breaks and check in every now and then.
Right now I'm watching the Ky-SC game and am pulling for the Wildcats, of all things. While I used to be a huge Spurrier fan (after all, he played AND coached at Florida) but since he has been at South Carolina I have learned to dislike him like the rest of America. (Except for SC, of course; I'm assuming they still love him.)
People say it's just a game, but tell that to the people in the South on a fall Saturday.
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Friday, October 9, 2009
WHITE CHICKEN CHILI
OK I just discovered the best chicken white chili recipe! (Men, or women for that matter, if you don't cook, you can stop reading.) This is just soooo easy and it tastes like it did when I used to make it from scratch. I'm all about saving time in the kitchen.
Here's what I did: I found a white chili mix (McCormick) in the grocery and looked at the package directions and it looked like a breeze. I always have cooked chicken on hand because of Rufus so all I had to buy was a can of white beans and the mix.
The first time I made it, the chile was a little blah, so I tried it again and Presto! a great dish. This time I sauteed a little chopped onion and green pepper and then followed the directions by addihg the mix, the beans, and one cup of water. Wahlah-- chicken the Shackleford way.
I may just have to write a cook book or have a TV show like the Contessa!
OK I just discovered the best chicken white chili recipe! (Men, or women for that matter, if you don't cook, you can stop reading.) This is just soooo easy and it tastes like it did when I used to make it from scratch. I'm all about saving time in the kitchen.
Here's what I did: I found a white chili mix (McCormick) in the grocery and looked at the package directions and it looked like a breeze. I always have cooked chicken on hand because of Rufus so all I had to buy was a can of white beans and the mix.
The first time I made it, the chile was a little blah, so I tried it again and Presto! a great dish. This time I sauteed a little chopped onion and green pepper and then followed the directions by addihg the mix, the beans, and one cup of water. Wahlah-- chicken the Shackleford way.
I may just have to write a cook book or have a TV show like the Contessa!
Thursday, October 8, 2009
WEATHER TALK
With all the rain we have had this fall, the mushrooms have been popping up all over the place. They are interesting to observe, coming up so fast and growing so rapidly. Sylvie Plath wrote a poem about them that we used to study when I taught eighth grade literature, amd I don't see a mushroom now that I don't think of that interesting little piece.
Mainly, the poem was about something that arose overnight and spread rapidly until it took over the world. And like all poetry, the mushrooms (which are not mentioned in the poem, only in the title) obviously symbolize something else. I had the bright idea that since the poet eventually committed suicide (why did so many writers do that?) that the mushrooms stood for depression.
Recently, I went online to read the poem again and read other folks' interpretaions. There were many.
One was that they stood for the women's liberation movement because Plath was a feminist. Another idea was that because she was pregnant at the time she wrote the poem to describe how that experience felt. That's a unique way to describe a new life growing inside of a mother!
The most unusual theory was that the mushrooms represented communism or maybe even China, which was the big enemy in the 60s when the poem was composed. Others thought that maybe it was war.
Not one mentioned depression. But I'm sticking to my belief anyway.
That's a nice aspect of poetry: Readers can interpret it any way they want!
With all the rain we have had this fall, the mushrooms have been popping up all over the place. They are interesting to observe, coming up so fast and growing so rapidly. Sylvie Plath wrote a poem about them that we used to study when I taught eighth grade literature, amd I don't see a mushroom now that I don't think of that interesting little piece.
Mainly, the poem was about something that arose overnight and spread rapidly until it took over the world. And like all poetry, the mushrooms (which are not mentioned in the poem, only in the title) obviously symbolize something else. I had the bright idea that since the poet eventually committed suicide (why did so many writers do that?) that the mushrooms stood for depression.
Recently, I went online to read the poem again and read other folks' interpretaions. There were many.
One was that they stood for the women's liberation movement because Plath was a feminist. Another idea was that because she was pregnant at the time she wrote the poem to describe how that experience felt. That's a unique way to describe a new life growing inside of a mother!
The most unusual theory was that the mushrooms represented communism or maybe even China, which was the big enemy in the 60s when the poem was composed. Others thought that maybe it was war.
Not one mentioned depression. But I'm sticking to my belief anyway.
That's a nice aspect of poetry: Readers can interpret it any way they want!
Monday, October 5, 2009
OH, THE JOY OF BEING A GRANDMOTHER
For a week now I have had "issues" with our wireless box. Sometimes it would work and then go off while I was online. Other times I couldn't get on at all. Finally, I marched upstairs and jerked the plug, let it wait a few minutes, and plugged it back in. It WORKED!!! Sometimes you just have to show it who's boss!
Anyway, I haven't been able to write any blogs for a week.
The genius and I had a great weekend, eating out, going to Michael's varsity football games, etc. This afternoon we watched him play a junior varsity game, the first one we have been able to get to and boy, were we proud grandparents!!
He did a great job of blocking. Sometimes they put three guys on him just to keep him in his place, but most of the time he just bowled over his opposing lineman. He also recovered the other team's fumble, and near the end of the game when we were leading 8-0, he tackled the ball carrier and saved a touchdown. So they beat a team they hadn't beaten before!!
I remarked to Brenda toward the end, "This is definitely one of the highlights of being a grandmother. I have been looking forward to watching Michael play football since he was two years old -- NO, three months old!! It's his SPORT, and I love watching him.
Of course, I have enjoyed all my grandchildren, and I have sat through dance recitals, school pageants, basketball and baseball games of the others, and several graduations and been a proud grandmother at all of them.
But today was Michael's day.
For a week now I have had "issues" with our wireless box. Sometimes it would work and then go off while I was online. Other times I couldn't get on at all. Finally, I marched upstairs and jerked the plug, let it wait a few minutes, and plugged it back in. It WORKED!!! Sometimes you just have to show it who's boss!
Anyway, I haven't been able to write any blogs for a week.
The genius and I had a great weekend, eating out, going to Michael's varsity football games, etc. This afternoon we watched him play a junior varsity game, the first one we have been able to get to and boy, were we proud grandparents!!
He did a great job of blocking. Sometimes they put three guys on him just to keep him in his place, but most of the time he just bowled over his opposing lineman. He also recovered the other team's fumble, and near the end of the game when we were leading 8-0, he tackled the ball carrier and saved a touchdown. So they beat a team they hadn't beaten before!!
I remarked to Brenda toward the end, "This is definitely one of the highlights of being a grandmother. I have been looking forward to watching Michael play football since he was two years old -- NO, three months old!! It's his SPORT, and I love watching him.
Of course, I have enjoyed all my grandchildren, and I have sat through dance recitals, school pageants, basketball and baseball games of the others, and several graduations and been a proud grandmother at all of them.
But today was Michael's day.
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