This looks like such a pretty place...
Did you notice who the narrator is? It is none other than Toni Tennille. She and Daryl live in Prescott. Phoenix is on our list of future vacation spots and Prescott is only about 100 miles away so maybe I can talk Bill into visiting Prescott. I mean heck, they even have a microbrewery called Prescott Brewing Company so it would definitely be worth the trip. :)
OK, so it's not totally unusual to have snow here in March. Sometimes it's even a fairly big snowfall. I remember back on March 7 of 1978, we got about 8 inches of snow. Now you're probably wondering how I remember the date and the fact that it snowed. Well, there are several reasons. First, I was in 10th grade that year and was taking Driver's Ed. It was my 6th hour class (last class of the day) and I was supposed to drive after school that day. Well, it had started snowing around noon and there were already several inches of snow on the ground by the time my Driver's Ed class started. When I got to class, I asked the teacher, Mr. Brooks, if our driving session was cancelled due to snow. He said, "No" and then I replied, "But I've never driven in snow." He looked at me and said, "Well, you've got to learn sometime and today is as good a day as any." Grrrrr...I was so not looking forward to it. I had only driven two other times so I wasn't exactly an experienced driver. Besides that, Captain & Tennille were going to be on the Mike Douglas Show that afternoon and I was going to miss it if I had to drive. Well, about half way through the class, a school-wide announcement was made that all after school activities were cancelled due to the snow. Of course I immediately raised my hand and said, "Does that include our driving session?" Mr. Brooks looked and me and said, "Well, I guess so but you'll still have to learn to drive in snow one of these days." Hee hee hee. I didn't have to drive in snow that day AND I was able to see Captain & Tennille on Mike Douglas. School was cancelled the next day due to snow and it was my sister's birthday so that's how I remember the date. Well that and I also have a memory like an elephant!
So, we got 3 inches of snow on Monday and then yesterday it was 68 degrees and I drove home with my top down. Today it was a record-high 83 degrees! Talk about wacky weather.
OK, so technically we've had a functional kitchen for about 6 weeks now. The cardboard was still covering the floor until about 4 weeks ago when they removed it and sealed the grout. The knobs were finally finished about 2 weeks ago along with a lot of little odds and ends. As I mentioned in my last post, we still need to decide on new window treatments and we also need to buy a new fridge. We're looking at stainless, counter-depth models. That will be fairly easy but the window treatments are much more difficult. We keep going back and forth on what we want. Anyway, here are a few pictures of the kitchen as it is today...
Here is a picture of what is written on the frames of the cabinets...
I just cracked up when I saw this. C&T stands for Callier and Thompson but I immediately thought Captain & Tennille.
We got 8" of snow on Thursday and they were predicting another 1 to 2 inches on Friday night. That never materialized, thank goodness. They were then predicting another 2 to 4 inches today but we only got get another inch or so. I am so sick of winter. When our local Fox weather guy, Dave Murray, gave his extended forecast/prediction back in November, he specifically said that January would be very mild temperature-wise and that there would be little if any snow. You can ready his entire forecast by clicking here. Um, hello? I haven't seen "mild" yet this month. I have shoveled "little if any" snow 4 times so far and each time, it hasn't exactly been little. If anything, I'd say his prediction was a "little" off.
I have a few cards to post in the upcoming week. Be sure to check back. Until then...
We went to the River City Casino last night. It's a new casino in South County, Lemay to be exact, which opened about 6 or 8 weeks ago. The theme is the 1904 World's Fair which, as you probably know, was held here in St. Louis.
We ate dinner at one of the restaurants in the casino called 1904 Beerhouse. They have 32 beers on tap and 100 bottled beers. We tried their house brew which is a red ale. It was good and the funny thing is, the waitress told us that it's brewed for them by Anheuser Busch. Like I've said before, they know how to brew beer, but they choose to make that light stuff instead...hee hee hee. Anyway, we started with the crab fritters; think hushpuppies with crabmeat inside. I then had a big bowl of the cheddar beer soup and the hot pretzels and Bill had the french dip. We headed into the casino after dinner. I lost $5 and Bill won $2.44. We're such big gamblers! After we finished gambling, we stopped by the 1904 Beerhouse again to try one of the bottled beers, Arcadia Cocoa Loco, a triple chocolate milk stout. Perfect for dessert.
In other news, Toni Tennille turned 70 years old today. Happy Birthday, Toni.
Have a wonderful Saturday!
I received my Pioneer Woman cookbook from Amazon a few days ago. I absolutely love her website. She has a great sense of humor and her recipes are amazing. Her real name is Ree Drummond and she lives on a ranch with her husband and children. If you've never visited her website, be sure to click here.
Pioneer Woman was in St. Louis last week for a book signing. For the past month or so, I had been thinking about going to the signing but about a week before the signing, they changed the venue from Left Bank Books to Christ Church Cathedral because they were expecting A LOT of people. I'm not fond of standing in lines, especially long lines, for hours and hours. The change of venue pretty much sealed the deal for me and I decided not to go. As much as I would have loved to meet her, I was not willing to wait around for hours. I'm satisifed with my non-autographed copy. I figure that any recipe I make will taste the same whether the book is autographed or not...hee hee hee.
This started me thinking about the people for whom I'd be willing to stand in line for a chance to meet. When I say "in line" I mean for hours and hours. OK, here's my list.
There you have it. If you're not on the list, I'm not going to stand in line to meet you...hee hee hee.
I just love the Sirius Satellite Radio in my car. There are so many cool stations and the best part is, most of them are commercial free. How great is that? I also like the fact that the artist and song are listed on the display because sometimes I know the song but have no idea who sings it.
Some of the stations that I have preset on my radio are the Fox News, Conservative Talk, Mellow Rock, Disco, 70's Rock, 80's Rock, Hard Rock, and 40's Big Band but perhaps my very favorite is the 70's Pop channel aka 70's on 7. They play artists such as Donna Summer, Andy Gibb, Carpenters and my absolute favorite of all time, Captain & Tennille. Woohoo. Before I had Sirius Radio, I can't even remember the last time I heard a C&T song on the radio. Anyway, I heard Love Will Keep Us Together a few days after I bought the car and I heard Do That To Me One More Time a few weeks ago. Well, I heard Love Will Keep Us Together again this morning on the way to work. I sang along and then hit the "back" button to listen to it again. Yes, that's a cool feature. There was even a sound bite from Toni and Daryl after the song. Ah, the 70's!
By the way, I do still stamp. I've been stamping quite a bit lately, however, most of the creations are either Halloween or Christmas so I can't share them on my blog until the recipients receive. I do have some 3x3 cards that I made last weekend so I'll be sure to take a picture and post them here tomorrow.
We're going to dinner at Blueberry Hill tonight. Can't wait to eat the fried cheddar cheese balls and the blue cheese and bacon burger. Mmmmmmmm...
OMG. Has it really been 23 years? Yes, Bill and I were married 23 years ago today. That's almost half of my life time ago! Yikes.
Here's the card I made for him. Being the avid Captain & Tennille fan that I am, I love the "love will keep us together" sentiment and I use it whenever I can...
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The Muny season opens tomorrow with 42nd Street. Stay tuned for details...
We saw Fleetwood Mac at Scottrade Center Tuesday night. It was over 2 1/2 hours of great music. They sang many of their hits including Go Your Own Way, Dreams, Gypsy, Rhiannon, Gold Dust Woman, Tusk, etc. They even sang "Stand Back" (Stevie solo song) and Go Insane (Lindsey solo song).
We've seen Fleetwood Mac in concert numerous times, including 8 times during the summer of 2003 which we fondly refer to as "The Summer of Fleetwood Mac." We saw them in Nashville, St. Paul (twice), San Antonio, Houston, St. Louis, Las Vegas, and Biloxi. Now that I think of it, I've seen Fleetwood Mac more times than I've seen Captain & Tennille!
We'll be seeing Fleetwood Mac two more times during this current tour. Stay tuned!
Here is the other ATC that I mentioned a few weeks ago. For this swap, we had to use embossing somewhere on the ATC. I decided to emboss the heart image using clear embossing powder and I really like the result. Since I don't have many occasions to use the Love Will Keep Us Together stamp from the Papertrey Love Songs set, I thought it was the perfect addition to this layout.
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Have a great rest of the weekend.
Bill left a funny comment on my So Wrong post. He made up word to the Lunch Will Keep Us Together song. Here's his comment:
Lunch...Lunch will keep us together...eat ham and cheese wherever...some brownbagger comes along...talking me down....chew with your mouth and you won't hear a sound....so Stop!..'cause I love slaw too.....Stop....I wanna trade pretzels with you....
Hee hee hee...
