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Outside My Window ~ 7.14.2013
Outside my window…today is hot and humid. We have had intermittent sunshine and cloud cover but the heat has remained consistent. At approximately 2:30 it is 85°F but feels like 92°F ~ humidity is 71%. We had a dry, hot week until Thursday which saw heavy rains that afternoon, rain again on Friday and more heavy rain Saturday morning and early afternoon. Our chance for rain this afternoon is relatively low at 20%, but then I have seen pouring rain when our chance was only 30% so hard to say. I can see dark clouds outside my window looking East but there is plenty of sunshine right now. I wouldn’t…
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A Recipe or Two
Confetti chicken is up on the menu tonight…. ….an easy to make dinner dish…. It can be served with a heavy cream sauce…. …or it can be prepared with just the vegetables and maybe some fresh mozzarella…. This is the Italian Seasoning I use….but like any recipe, this is a starting point…take it and run with it, make it your own. I personally think some fresh, summer basil would also be a nice addition….something I will try this summer. Either way, I hope you enjoy. Click here for Confetti Chicken and Spicy Cream Sauce. Enjoy! 🙂
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Getting Things Together
I have been working on putting together some recipes for posting this evening…hope to have them up here tomorrow.
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Outside My Window ~ 7.31.11
Outside my window…is a warm, cloudy morning. Currently at 10:45 this morning, it feels like 88°F out although the actual temperature is 85°F. Not too bad outside actually….it is a bit muggy but then it is summer in Hampton Roads ~ muggy and humid is a given for this time of year. Our forecast high is 90°F and we do have a chance for thunderstorms today and this evening. I noticed on the weather channel this morning there is a rather large green, orange and red blob moving our way…could be our chance of storms perhaps? This has been one of the hottest summers I can recall in some time. {do we say that every year?} This…
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Things that made me smile this week
Looking through my old photographs…. and discovering some I had forgotten about…. Discovering I will have two more tomatoes ready to eat very soon… ….and harvesting some herbs. Enjoying my first tomato of the season with some basil from my garden… two farm fresh eggs from my friend scrambled with feta cheese and basil…heavenly. The tomato was wonderful! Welcoming another summer solstice… What made you smile this week? 🙂
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Things that made me smile this week…
Home-cooked goodness at my mom’s house… Dress found…no more shopping…sweet… 😉 Backyard ducks…. Seeing my tomatoes multiply… A bloom from a plant that made it through the winter in the house when I had my doubts… Gazing at my fountain as I enjoyed a backyard corner filled with jasmine… Fungi enjoying a new hangout… Welcoming back old friends…. What made you smile this week? 🙂
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Outside My Window ~ 5.15.11
Outside my window…is a Sunday that didn’t quite know what it wanted to do. Cloudy….rain….sun….cloudy….more rain….more sun. Currently, at 8:00 p.m., we are at 72°F with cloudy skies…there may even be a few rain drops falling as I sit here. Looks like we have had a little over a quarter inch of rain in the past 24 hours ~ I think most of that fell last night during some storms that moved through our area. When I went to bed it was raining quite hard with lots of lightening and thunder. It is quite humid outside right now, 78%…and if you are doing any type of activity out there right now, you know it. I…
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Things That Made Me Happy This Week
Fresh tomatoes…… The fact that the drought hasn’t killed my hibiscus plant. My harvest of lavender…all dried and smelling so divine! My sunflowers.
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Wednesday
I love this plant….so full, so lush and green. And the flowers make me smile. This is what the drought has done to it. I came home from work recently…it was wilted and withered from the heat. I watered but it wasn’t time to save the leaves that were on it ~ they shriveled and died. The plant seems to be surviving and perhaps even coming back. I’m officially not a fan of droughts.