A bad eating weekend, but a most satisfying weekend!

Saturday, August 13, 2016 -
          Sunday, August 14, 2016


Saturday
This Saturday started as most Corgan-weekend Saturdays do, with me "sleeping in" while Ron and Corgan went out into the garage and started their messing about with lawnmowers, weedeaters, and whatnot. I did get up a little before noon because I wanted to run over to Felicity to see if I could find something for supper tonight in their selection of the 5/$20. meat, and I thought Corgan might want to go with me.  He is getting pretty good at getting out of real work when Grandpa has work for him to do, you know.  He will be 12 in a couple of months....
Anyway, he declined to go with me, but Ron was put on alert that when I got back, it would be time to down tools, clean up, and go to lunch.  This was planned because Grandpa wanted to show Corgan the new restaurant we've discovered (BJ's Lake) and he didn't feel like going last night.
I found nothing at Felicity but our ice cream bars (finally!), so only came home with two boxes to put into the freezer.  After we eat lunch, I'll have to go up to Save-A-Lot and see what I can find there for supper.
After a half hour wait, we get to go to lunch (yeah, the man doesn't take hints well), and Corgan enjoyed his lunch of fish'n'chips.  Ron had the mushroom hoagie again, and I tried a different cheeseburger - this one was like a Double R and was supposed to have hickory BBQ sauce, but I asked to NOT have that - and it was delicious!
After lunch, we do go up to Save-A-Lot, where those two decide to sit in the hot ol' truck while I go in the nice air conditioned store.  I peruse the 5/$20. meat, and I do find some small steaks that I can get enough packages of to feed us all, and that is what I chose.  I also got a bag of potatoes to make fried potatoes to go with the steaks.  Sounded like a yummy summer to me!

We got back home and Corgan started playing his video game again, Ron went back outside, and I went to lay on the bed and read until time to start peeling the potatoes for supper.  I expected Josh and Chelle around quarter after 6, so I wanted to start peeling the potatoes at 5, so they'd be on by 5:30.  Believe it or not, all that worked out just about perfect!  Corgan had chosen mixed vegetables as our veggie, and I added a jar of mushrooms to them, and I had them on low on a back burner.  When Josh and Chelle got here, I had Josh cook the steaks on the griddle because they all like them medium-rare, but I like to cook them done. He cooked mine first, so it was done enough for me.
So, anyway, supper all got done at the same time and on the table hot, hot, hot!  Man, was it good!

After supper, we played cards.  Lots and lots of cards, with one break to eat ice cream.  You see, there was some ice cream left after the birthday party last week, but someone (who can't figure out why he weighs so much) finished off two of the cartons.  He told me to buy more while in Save-A-Lot, and I did, plus one.  So we had lots of ice cream to eat!  After our break, we played more cards.
We had a grand time - it was wonderful!


Sunday
Sunday.  Church and lunch.
Well, Ron surprised me today - he wanted to go somewhere different for lunch.  I told him that I didn't care - he was driving, and he was paying, so wherever he goes is fine.  I'll find something to eat.  He both threw out a couple of choices, and he said Butterbee's in Mt. Orab a couple of times, so I finally told him that if he wants Butterbee's, go to Butterbee's!
So that's where we went.  We took the longcut - it's not a shortcut - up to Mt. Orab, and finally got there.  We had the appetizer sampler (I think it's called the Tailgate Sampler), then we both ordered meals.  He got chicken - something BBQed - and I got the big fish dinner (cod).  Well, we had filled up so much on the appetizer and our sides that we couldn't finish our meals, so we got to bring some food home, and that doesn't happen very often.

We were driving home, coming up Hoover Road, and as we came around the curves, we saw the rain up across 133.  How cool it looked - like a huge curtain!  We were hoping that we'd be able to get home before the rain crossed 133, but we weren't that lucky.  We got soaked while our fat asses ran into the house.  It only rained for maybe five minutes, too - we could have just waited it out!  Who knew?  We're still waiting for the rain that's going to start and last for four days that the weatherman said was going to start Saturday around noon.....

Anyway, we were home now, and we changed out of our wet clothes and Ron turned on the TV and that was that.  It was dead guys for the rest of the day.
After a while, we did go have some ice cream, but we didn't really have any supper.
It did start to sprinkle rain once again, and we were blessed with a rainbow again - the second one this week!  I know rainbows don't really look all that different every time, but when they happen in your back yard, it's kinda thrilling, especially when they are full arches!

And now this day is over.  Not only the day, but the weekend, and it's been a most satisfying weekend.  Not good on the diet part, but very good on the being with family and just enjoying life part.  I can certainly live with those!


Nothing at all planned for this week, so I will be bored out of my skull.  Oh, well, I was busy as hell this past week, so this will balance it out.