Weekend 4/25 & things

Friday I woke up early to take Bob in to work since he's on call all weekend.  We stopped at the City Market and he went in to get the R.O. water refills we can't get at our co-op, and some other food for me to have this weekend.  Back home by 9:00-ish, fed Wrigley, took a shower, hooked up the Switch to charge, measured the garden bed for Bob (where the people before us had a playhouse), so Bob could start ordering wood.  

Big plans to do not much today.  It's sunny and supposed to be close to 60, so probably open the windows, finish The Institute and start another book.  TBD.   Found a huge stack of TBR when I was unpacking.  Also got "Open Book" in from hold on library.  (follow-up, did finish The Institute, did start Open Book). 

Saturday afternoon we drove down to the wildlife viewing area, walked around a little bit and enjoyed the sun.  There were a ton of people out driving around, I think because the weather was so nice, and lots of people on motorcycles.  When we got back I opened the windows for a little bit, it was the first time since we moved in and it was delightful.

The sunset was nothing short of spectacular.

Sunday morning walked Wrigley a couple of times since it was supposed to rain.  It wound up not raining until the evening, but we got a couple walks in the nonetheless. 

          

Saturday night I made CYL Chicken from the Lazy Genius, vegetables were roasted but not completely burned like I sometimes enjoy them.  Just enough burned to get some really good flavor though.  Did some work stuff, made this spread from the Pioneer Woman, and watched a few episodes of The Crown.  I think I have started this show 2 or 3 times and never made it much past her coronation. Maybe this time it will stick?  Also re: recipe... I saw the original on an IG story she posted.  It called for salted butter and 1 t. salt.  This recipe doesn't specify the butter and used 1/2 t. salt.  I wound up using unsalted butter which is what we always have, and 1 t. salt.  I think 3/4 t. salt is probably a nice happy medium.  I didn't really have anything to put on top after, so I put some sea salt on part of it before it cooled, and left the other half plain.  In bed by 10 and fell asleep before I barely got a chance to read anything.

Monday picked Bob up at 7, back home by 8:30, fed Wrigley, showered and started working. Bob worked on sorting stuff out in the basement and getting things set up so we can start seeds growing.  Still haven't heard about the chicks... the warmer plate did come today, but not sure if we'll get chicks this year? TBD.

Bob went to the store Monday morning to get a few more things for the week.  Leftovers for lunch and pizza for dinner.  We've been using this recipe and it's pretty foolproof.  We have a cast iron stone that we bake it on, and have found it works best pre-heating the cast iron with the stove, rolling out the dough, transferring it to the hot pan, and then quickly building the pizza directly on the pan.  We've found if we build it first and then transfer, it's too weighed down with all the ingredients and hard to smoothly transfer, even with flour or cornmeal underneath.  We also tried building it without pre-heating the pan first, but the crust isn't nearly as crispy that way.  We've found this to be the best combination.   

Also hung the Tibetan prayer flags we have had... at least 5 years and never hung up.  Can't remember if we got them in Sante Fe or California.  Either way it's been way too long.  We finally found a good place outside, they'll get lots of movement with the wind there and are kind of in an entryway.  And there's a family of birds nesting up there above the firewood, so they can bless the birds too.

 

Sunday night... Bob watched Westworld, I worked on this and read. R+F zoom call at 8:00 to learn more about that. Currently not even 8:00 and ready for bed.  Goodnight, Monday.