It's Friday and I'm doing the happy dance that the week is just about over. For some reason I feel like the dog in the meme full of energy and excitement. Got a good night's sleep and woke up to rather warm weather. Of course, tomorrow it is supposed to be in the 40's with more rain, so will spend the day cooking for the week. I have to stop at the Asian market on my way home to get the ingredients to make another batch of Kimchi.

I found out this morning that my company has a Charitable Match Program where you can donate up to $200 to eligible charities and they will match it 100%. When I was looking through the list of animal charities, I found that a rescue I follow on FB is one of them. MAD Belgian Malinois and Dutch Shepherd Rescue. I am definitely going to be donating since they currently have 4 different dogs that they have rescued who need different surgeries.

QOTD: Speaking of charities do any of you here donate on a regular basis to any specific foundations? In the past I've donated to some small local animal rescues, but nothing big. For the last few years here at work on March 26 Jersey Mike's does all proceeds made go to March of Dimes so we make sure to get in on that.

B: coffee and I'm going to skip breakfast because we are having pizza and wing dings for lunch at work.

L: pizza and wing dings

D: Fish and Chips

30 minutes on the treadmill

Have a great day and weekend everyone!!!

Ahh halfway through another week all. Still so far so good with the second outage. My hot cherry pepper seeds have finally started to sprout. Those suckers always take forever unlike the other peppers. I also have some tomato seeds that have sprouted and the wisteria are almost 4 inches tall with two sets of leaves. I will be planting some squash and cucumber seeds tonight and weather permitting potentially planting some kale and Swiss chard seeds outside. Those are some plants that do best in cooler temperatures.

QOTD: What was a simple food didn't make you sick after having WLS and you still eat today? Either deli ham or deli turkey sliced thin wrapped around a slice of cheese or cheese stick. A couple of months after surgery when I was pretty much cleared for more solid foods I had tried some thin sliced deli ham wrapped around a slice of Swiss cheese. I felt like I was eating the best thing in the world and even today I still eat the ham and cheese quite a bit.

B: coffee and breakfast burrito

L: salad with leftover chicken loaf

D: baked cod with garlic, shallots baby clams

30 minutes on the treadmill

Have a great day everyone!!!

Happy Monday all. I made those chicken waffle things and OMG are they delicious. I seasoned the chicken breast then baked them. Once they were done I let them cool before putting them in the food processor to grind up. After that I added 2 eggs and a 1 1/2 cups of shredded cheese with some pepper and chopped scallions. Mixed up well and then put a large spoon of the mixture in my little waffle maker. I can eat just those no need to even use them as a "hamburger bun", but we did. We went early Saturday and got the two rabbit cages then on the way back we swung by Dockside Market in Warwick. We grabbed some fresh fish and some beef that they had on sale. The weather wasn't all that great so we just did some stuff in the house and then relaxed on Sunday.

QOTD: How do you hang toilet paper or paper towels under or over? I have always put both over. For some reason I feel like if you do it under then the roll would somehow touch the wall and contaminate the TP or PT. Not saying the wall is dirty, but it's a weird OCD of mine.

B: coffee and two chicken waffles

L: snail salad and stuffed cherry peppers

D: leftover hamburgers over a tossed salad

30 minutes on the treadmill

Have a great day everyone!!!

He uses fresh chicken that he cooks.

Sorry to hear about your mom. Our parents sure do love to worry us don't they.

Morning all we have halfway through the week again. Our VP of the company and two HR people are here today bright and early. Not 100% sure why, but I know it has nothing to do with me so I'll just sit back and listen to what goes on in the conference room. There is a goodbye luncheon for a co-worker who is leaving to become a CT correctional officer. Kind of a bummer because he is one of the good employees who is a hard worker.

Got some more stuff sorted through in the office last night and I found the dump trailer registration renewal that was due last February apparently dum dum me put it in there and then totally forgot about it. Now to find out what I have to do to get it reregistered. This is why I make a list of things to do because I just can't remember everything.

QOTD: Do you make a list of things that you need to do or work on? I try to write stuff down that I know I have to do or get done. If I don't well then, they usually don't get done which gets frustrating.

B: coffee and 2 egg omelet

L: Jersey Mike's tuna bowl

D: grilled teriyaki chicken

30 minutes on the treadmill

Have a great day everyone!!!

Good Morning Gang. The weather yesterday was pretty crappy, chilly and rainy. Today is supposed to be sunny and 50. Irvin got two outside rabbit cages almost done. He just has to put the doors on. They came out pretty nice and we are going to Dartmouth, MA Saturday morning to hopefully pickup two stainless steel rabbit cages so we have extras for when we breed the rabbits in a couple of months.

It was funny when I got home I noticed a notebook on the kitchen table with things written down on it. Then realized that Irvin had made a list of things he wants to get done this year. He must have seen my list from the weekend and how much of it was crossed off. LOL

QOTD: What's your favorite Ice Cream flavor? Haagen Dazs Chocolate Peanut Butter hands down. There is something about the creaminess of the chocolate and the peanut butter is real no fake crap.

B: coffee and bacon and egg wrap

L: corned beef and butternut squash

D: turkey and mashed potatoes

30 minutes on the treadmill

Have a great Tuesday everyone!!!

Happy Monday Gang. What a great weekend I had. Got a bunch of stuff cooked for the week including the shrimp recipe that is on the main page of OH. Only thing I did different was use shallots instead of the onion. If you guys like shrimp, I recommend trying it out. I also cooked another corned beef, a huge beef brisket which was done in the oven for 7 hours with a French onion sauce/gravy, beef jerky, hard boiled eggs, and then cooked a turkey yesterday. So, we are set with protein for the week.

I helped Irvin with the brakes in the dump truck, but something isn't right because there is still air in them. I did some prepping of raised beds, moved the young egg layers the big coop/run and as you see from above the bean sprouts are doing amazing. I think we can eat them at the end of the week. Oh, and my Wisteria plant gave me some seed pods last year, so I planted what seeds I had and low and behold I have 7 Wisteria plants growing. Very excited about that.

QOTD: If you couldn't drink coffee anymore in the morning what would be your go to drink? Mine would be a nice big cold glass of milk. There is something about cold milk that I love even though I really don't drink a lot of it except in my morning coffee. LOL

B: coffee and 2 hard boiled eggs

L: beef brisket and mashed potatoes

D: Shrimp over tossed salad

30 minutes on the treadmill

Have a great day everyone!!!

Good Friday morning gang. It was a bit rainy when I got up at 4am, but it has since stopped, and it appears that the sun will be coming out. Yesterday turned out to be a nice day after it being a bit drizzly in the morning it became sunny and 60 out. I plan on making a beef brisket and turkey this weekend to have some stuff for lunches next week. My garlic is coming nicely and I have more seeds to get started.

QOTD: What was your favorite class in high school? I remember starting my freshman year and I had to pick an elective class. They had several interesting classes, but I chose AG class which was held in a building outside of the main school. It had a greenhouse attached to it and that is where I learned a bunch of stuff. I ended up taking horticulture, animal science, floriculture, joined FFA, and in my senior year I had three hours of working in the greenhouse. That all was so much more fun and educational than sitting in a classroom listening to a teacher go over the same stuff day after.

B: coffee and breakfast burrito

L: Fish sandwich (co-worker wants fish and chips)

D: spinach stuffed sole and sweet potato fries

30 minutes on the treadmill

Have a great Friday and wonderful weekend everyone!!!

Oh and here are my sprouts started.

Good Friday Eve. Happy first day of Spring!!!

Not much going on today. I do have to take Irvin to a quick doctor's appointment at 8am as the tranny in his truck has decided to give him fits. He's going to have to work on getting the replacement one out of his old truck as it only has 20k miles on it. I started two jars of sprouts this morning and I'll work on posting a picture later when I get into work.

QOTD: What's your favorite local news channel? Channel 3 in CT is my favorite one. All the people on there are so funny and down to earth. The other channels available the people all seem kind of snobby and almost like robots.

B: coffee and 2 egg bits

L: ham and swiss wrap

D: pork chops and salad

Have a great day everyone!!!

Happy Hump Day gang. Halfway through the week already.

We ended up being 14 hours ahead of schedule with boiler 1 outage. This is very good news since our Westchester plant has been down for 10 days so far due to some 480V power failure. They are working off of rental generators but are not able to process anywhere near the amount of trash they normally do. Hopefully they can get back up and running soon as they take the long tail from us that is brought in by Rand Whitney and we have a huge pile of it on the tipping floor like 5 trailer loads. That stuff takes up a lot of space.

Other than that not much going on. Two types of my peppers have germinated and are doing well. My hot cherry peppers on the other hand have not sprouted. Looks like I will have to plant some more from a different company and hopefully they sprout and grow.

QOTD: Has anyone ever tried to grow sprouts like Mung beans, radish, chickpeas? Since we eat bean sprouts and others a few times a week I have decided to try and grow them myself. It seems pretty easy and they are grown in mason jars with a special lid. I ordered the lids from amazon and they should be in today. I'll keep you all posted on how it works out.

B: coffee and egg, cheese, ham wrap

L: I might go get some tacos from the little food truck down the road

D: Salad with grilled chicken breast

30 minutes on the treadmill

Have a great day everyone!!!

When the Tulips do bloom Marilyn should make note of what colors are where that way if and when she decides to replants she'll know what colors she wants in a specific area.

Happy St. Patrick's Day to you all. Three more days left to this outage and I can't wait until it is over. One of the guys that is on the night crew got a warning for driving too fast through the parking lot and almost hit a contractor walking to their trailer. The contractor reported him to our shift supervisor that was on. This guy has a history of driving too fast even with company vehicles. Not sure if more will happen to him besides the warning.

QOTD: Who here will celebrate St. Patrick's Day with corned beef and cabbage? I have a corned beef that will be made in the instant pot when I get home and will do brussel sprouts instead of cabbage for the side.

B: coffee and 2 egg omelet

L: tuna wrap

D: corned beef and sprouts

30 minutes on the treadmill

Have a great day everyone!!!

Morning Gang sorry I'm a little late a bit busy this morning at work. We made it through another week. So far the outage itself is still going well, but we have had a couple of employee issues. We will see how HR handles them.

I can't wait to get outside this weekend and do some yard work. I did do half of a list yesterday of what I want to get done this year. Other than that not much planned for the weekend.

QOTD: Does anyone here like to star gaze or watch eclipses? I love looking at the sky at night especially during the Summer. I swear the stars are so much brighter in the Summer than in the Winter. Unfortunately, I missed the Lunar Eclipse last night due to the overcast skies.

B: coffee and 2 hard boiled eggs

L: Jersey Mike's tuna sub

D: Fish and chips from Henry's Diner they have Lent specials

30 minutes on the treadmill

Have a great day and weekend everyone!!!