We were both glad to have a day to stay home. Last week wore me out. I spent some time working on my classes for Wed. I'm trying to think of some fun things to do for the last couple of weeks. Maybe some songs and games, though those of you who have heard me sing might not think it would be fun for them.
Years ago at Medina County, I had a 2 year old in the early intervention class who took offense to my singing. She was one of those kids who understand what is said to them but was completely non verbal. The first two times I sang, she put her finger to her lips. I tried again, thinking I might be able to torture her into some vocalization. This time she put her finger over my lips. On the next try, she took her little thumb and pointer finger and pinched my lips together. I felt it best not to try again that day in case she went for the teacher's staple gun. From that day on, she skipped the warnings and went directly to the pinching action. She was non verbal, but she certainly could communicate. She moved away after only a couple of months, so I don't know whether she began to vocalize or to talk.
Del spent the day at the computer. He did go out to take the trash and stop by the Iki to get some ground beef and cilantro. I made meatloaf for the first time since we've been here. It really did taste good, I had planned to make scalloped potatoes since I had the very tempermental oven running, but Iki was out of potatoes. I can't imagine such a thing. It would be like being out of bread in the US or rice in Thailand. We had salad and fresh pineapple. One of the neighbors brought it down. Del really loves fresh pineapple, and this one was really juicy.
I'm always interested that some people we know make scalloped potatoes one way one time and another way the next time. While I enjoy them all fancied up, they don't actually count as scalloped potatoes unless they are made as Mother made them. Slice the potatoes thin, shake a little flour, salt and lots of black pepper on them, put in dish with milk to almost cover and dot with butter or margarine. Bake until tender. Yum. I don't make them often, but have discovered that if I start them in the microwave it doesn't take as long. We also pronounced it, and I still do, as though the /a/ was /ah/ rather than /a/ in at.
Of course, Del says that for a person who will eat things the dog won't eat, (A quote from our son) I have very strict rules about how things should be eaten. I can only think of a few:
Meat and eggs should be cooked so done that no one else would eat them.
The only soup to be served with a grilled cheese sandwich is cream of tomato soup.
Crackers should always be eaten so that the salty side touches your tongue. Try it, you will be surprised.
Oyster crackers should be put into soup one or two crackers at a time.
When ordering a two dip ice cream cone, have your favorite kind placed on the bottom so it will be the taste you enjoy last.
Cottage cheese should be eaten with green pepper, tomato and black pepper, not fruit.
Watermelon and cantelope should be eaten with salt and black pepper.
Hot dogs should be served with mustard, onions, chili and cole slaw.
Never eat a corn dog. Who knows what they are hiding? At least with souse, you know what you are getting.
If you are going to eat a bologna sandwich, it should be sliced thin, fried until almost crunchy and served on squishy white bread with french's mustard and iceberg lettuce.
S'mores should have peanut butter on them.
Hot dogs should be fried in a dry skillet until almost black, not boiled or microwaved.
Marshmallows should be burned.
Anything you can eat for dinner can be eaten cold for breakfast the next morning - unless you are under 16. Then this rule applies only on Saturday mornings.
After holiday meals, a small plate of saltyVa. ham slivers is passed around after dessert to "take the sweet taste out of your mouth." I inherited this one.
Gravy should be a beverage.
Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners should be identical except for the centerpiece.
Weddings in the South where there are no pecan tarts or ham biscuits probably aren' legal.
Butter beans (baby limas) should be cooked in lots of liquid and should be eaten in a bowl with green pepper and diced tomato. Use a spoon to get the juice.
Okay, so there are more than a few, but don't sit there and pretend you don't have a few rules of your own. And I want to hear them! I know one person in the famly who likes to eat pie in a bowl with milk poured over it and another who peels all the steamed shrimp before eating even one.
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