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Archive for June, 2012

Jun
29
Posted by Stace

Grocery Clearance Deals

I learned a lot from my mom, including how to be frugal and how to shop for deals. I also try very hard to stick to a list and not get anything that isn’t on my list. I have my Grocery IQ app on my phone, but also on my iPad (and I use it daily), and as my new giant Kroger has free wi-fi, I just carry my Ipad to the store. It’s a tough life 🙂

Anyway, I deviate from my list when I find “deals”. Recently, I found some Laura’s Lean organic ribeyes in the clearance bin, so I snatched them up. Same with a whole organic chicken, which Tim smoked on his new smoker he got for Christmas (ooh, I feel another blog post coming up!). Today, I found a basket full of reduced priced items in the Natural/Organic section. I could have bought a lot more, but I was good and just came home with these:

The agave was my big score. I had *just* bought a bottle of this brand in their organic section two weeks ago. Luckily, I have been using it and knew it had a good taste. Instead of 3.99 a bottle, I got them for 99 cents each. Me and my “oatmeal on steroids” are set for a while now, since I add agave to my oatmeal every morning. I’ve bought Bare Naked granola before and liked it. The organic “pop tarts” are a new try, but maybe they won’t be too bad. 🙂

I love a good deal at the food place!

Jun
28
Posted by Stace

Snakes Alive!

Last night after nine o’clock, our doorbell rang and someone started pounding on the door. Ever the chicken, I went to get Tim, who had just got in from the golf course, and was about to jump in the shower. It was our neighbor’s son. He was breathless and blurted out to Tim as soon as he opened the door “We’ve got a snake in our house, can you come help us?”

“INSIDE YOUR HOUSE?” I said. Yes, and he looked slightly terrified. “How did it get inside your house”. We don’t know, he said. Tim left with a hoe and came back a few minutes later. I heard the gate open and Beau barked like the wonderful security system that he is. I assumed Tim was going to dump the snake in the ditch out behind our house, but… NO. When he came inside, I asked if he had killed it. “No, it was a king snake, that’s a good snake so I just moved him out behind our fence” he replied.

UGH.

“How did it get inside their house? And why would it come inside”, I repeatedly asked Tim. “I don’t know, I guess it wanted to lay on the cool floors.” Oh. My. Gosh.

I am going to be SOOO careful about not leaving my doors open. I often go out on the deck to water my herbs and leave the door partially open so Beau can go in and out. Not for a while. Although Tim keeps reminding me, you have Beau, he’s the best security system in the world. No snake would try to come in the house with him inside. Once again, I’m so grateful for my wonderful Beau baby! 🙂

Jun
27
Posted by Stace

Some of my Favorite Movies

I saw on the news this morning that writer Nora Ephron passed away. Sad to hear, as she is behind so many of my favorite movies. I have a lot of favorites, but many of them are associated with her:

Sleepless in Seattle
When Harry Met Sally
You’ve Got Mail
Julie & Julia

Some of my other favorites are older movies, like…

Casablanca
Imitation of Life
Out of Africa
The Sound of Music

I have lots of other favorites, but those are always near the top of my list. Depending on my mood, I love to watch movies like my beloved Lord of The Rings movies, Star Wars movies, and then more action type movies like The Bourne movies, Italian Job, etc. When I’m in a girly mood though, Nora Ephron movies can’t be beat!

What are your favorite movies? Do you have movies you love to watch over and over again? 🙂

Jun
26
Posted by Stace

Summer is Here

After an extremely mild winter (I hardly pulled out a coat, it seems like), and a moderately long spring, I do believe summer is finally here. It rained here the whole time we were gone to Nashville (mid-June), but ever since we’ve been home, it hasn’t rained a drop. I’m sure our next water bill will be higher than normal, since I’m having to water flowers, herbs, Tim’s plants (tomato and peppers), and the grass.

Florida is getting drenched from a tropical storm (named Debby) that has stalled over most of the state. Oh, what I wouldn’t give for rain! Instead we get this forecast:

Sigh. That’s summer in the south. 🙂 I’m just grateful for air conditioning in the house, AC in the car, and no real reason to have to spend a lot of time outside in the heat! Tim doesn’t seem bothered by the heat, he plays golf in it (pulling his clubs the entire 18 holes) most every day!

Jun
25
Posted by Stace

What’s Happening

Hot Weather

Monday afternoon, June 25, 2012

Not a lot really blog-worthy happening around here, yet still I feel some sort of urge to blog again.

We recently took a short trip to Nashville (with a stop in Memphis for ribs at Rendezvous) and a stop on the way home for Tim to play golf at one of the Robert Trent Jones golf trail courses in Alabama (this one was in Muscle Shoals, he played the Fighting Joe course). After we got home, I got a bug about getting back into scrapbooking. I have done about 12 pages or more in the last few days. I finished up our last trip before this one to Nashville, the one we took two summers ago to Atlanta with Tim’s family. I also worked on some Christmas pages (I’m still 7 or 8 years behind though!). Along with scrapbooking apparently comes the urge to blog.

Tim is playing a lot of golf, and is tired, but so very happy to get to play a lot. He’s only missed two days in the last week (Tuesdays, his club Lake Caroline is closed, and he took off last Friday, so we could have date night). He’s left again today after work. Current temperature, 98 with a heat index of 101. Beau and I are happy to stay inside in the air conditioning.

This past weekend was fun, and sad at the same time. Sad because yesterday (6/24/12) was the tenth anniversary of Dodie passing away. I’m better about it than I used to be, but I do still miss her every day. Anway, the weekend: Friday night, we went out on a date, and tried a new restaurant. Krilakis in Ridgeland and we were both very pleased. Tim had a steak gyro and I had the lamb gyro and they were delicious! We both thought they were better than Kristos and Keifers. We tried one of their appetizers, a pita melt and it was like a double decker mozzarella sandwich on pita bread. Yummy, and next time we’re going to try the hummus, which I hope is equally as good! We also went to Sam’s Club after eating. Our refurbished Cuisinart coffee maker bit the dust while we were in Nashville, and we needed a new one. Along with various and sundry other things we tend to buy in Sam’s. Tim also got a couple of new shirts, including an orange polo, which tickled me no end 🙂

Saturday, he had a mid-morning tee time with friends, and I worked on scrapbook pages. When he got in mid afternoon, we went to Corner Bakery (near our house, so glad this one opened last December) and had sandwiches and caesar salads. We ran some other errands (he dropped me at Joann’s and Office Depot while he picked up a few things in Home Depot) and then came home. He promptly fell asleep on the couch, watching golf! Sunday was church, good as always. Our pastor is leaving on a mission trip and won’t be preaching at our church for 3 weeks. I hope the substitute guy is good! Our current series is called The Way of the Worshipper: A Summer in the Psalms and I’m really enjoying it. After church, we went to Waffle House and had waffles, eggs, bacon, etc. So good! I was stuffed the rest of the day. Guess what, Tim played golf again Sunday afternoon! After he got in, we watched some things on the DVR.

OK, I’m off to read (current book on my Kindle: A Necessary Deception, after which I hope to get the next Harry Potter from the library in an ebook loan, something my library added in April of this year) or maybe work on a scrapbook page.