It has been hard to stay in tune and write things that happen here. I have been working on planes and doing radio stuff as well as some technical reading and I find nearly every night it is past midnight before I even get around to thinking about bed time… I need to get that turned around or ??? maybe not, hey I am retired so guess I can stay up late… Anyway with the late nights it turns into late mornings as well. but that is ok, not like we have a lot of places to be every day anymore. With the change and Sherrie being retired I have been cooking a little more… That just doesn’t sound right? She is retired and I am cooking more? oh well it is ok.
I have learned this about that..
Today I slaved over a Hot Crock Pot… for maybe 10 minutes… ha! it did take me about 40 minutes this morning to get it all put together and dumped in the pot…
In the pot and turned to hot for the next??? 4 hours or so. I was doing up Chicken Tortilla soup today. I started with this recipe , but for me a recipe is just that… a starting point… they usually need a little extra stuff?
In this one did cube up the chicken but think I will put them in whole and cook then pull apart at about 4 or 5 hours and put back… I also used a can of whole corn instead of frozen, a little less chicken broth (32 oz. box)… the tomatoes and green chilies were Hatch green chilies , I didn’t have any cumin so that was left out and I used twice as much chili powder then added in a can of black beans to mix… just put it all in the crock pot, and lid on and turn it up… and then we left for the BB game… When we got back I stirred it and turned the heat down to low and let simmer till about 7pm… well it was pretty good…
yep, this is my second bowl with a little grated chees on it to really make it better… maybe next time I need to start with a good Roux so it will thicken up?
This week I had to make several trips to the store to get things for the cooking and as I was headed in for a parking spot on one of those trips… hummm thought that was an empty spot?
seems they “landed’ it a big long on the runway? maybe they were running a bit fast and couldn’t get it stopped behind the lines? not sure which bu8t it didn’t leave enough spot on either side? oh well pull around and found another spot.
Also came across this when I was filling up yesterday…
That poor bumper has seen better days and it makes me wonder what is exactly holding it on? there were a few other bad spots on the pickup as well but this was all I got a pic of…
I also have finished up the latest addition of airplanes… last fall my SIL was with me when I made a beer run and he spotted these cans and said, “they would be interesting in an airplane”… so we bought two six packs then when we get home he says… “I can’t drink any beer” so it was u p to me… well, I am not one to shirk a duty but it did take me a couple of weeks… I don’t drink them down too fast anymore… anyway, when I got them done I realized I didn’t have enough for a full airplane so had to improvise a body for the plane and I did have a few of the Colorado Kolsch cans left so they were put in for the body… and hey with Colorado on the side of the plane why not put some mountains on the front in the cowling for which I did have a left over top from a Busch can that would work fine… makes an odd plane but it is “one of a kind”… ha!
I did get the Oktoberfest from the special Santé Fe brewing cans on the plane and it did make some interesting wings…
I think those mountains on the front add a bit of flare? although they run the wrong way… ha but it is just a beer can airplane anyway…
I still need to put on the thread or wire for the wing spans… but essentially it is done.
One more thing I am trying to convince people of is that I have a problem if I set too long… my butt seems to go to sleep, although it does fall asleep when I am standing too ?
Seem not too many people are believing that story around here? but they say if you tell it often enough it will come true, right?
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