Hope you all survived the over eating of the past festivities...we did very well thankyou!!
After 4 days break, life returns to normal I'm afraid....
Sunday was my community cook day. Our usual crew had 2 new additions because of schedule issues and we ended up with Kathryn Nerbonne and Ali Squires taking the place of Jo Cox and her daughter Bradie, they were in Fairbanks, visiting a convalescent mother/gamma Lolly...but that is another story.
We had super subs with all the fixings...they were about 3 feet long per table and had turkey, ham, swiss cheese, shredded lettuce, tomatoes and dressing. The french bread was rather tricky to make and I think it could not be any longer because of the width of our ovens, which are already industrial size. One wonders how people make those 5 footers or more than one reads about...special ovens no doubt!
Anyhow, I usually dread my cook day 'cause this body is getting older and standing on my feet for about 4-5 hours is not something I particularly relish. However, our crew boss (Ali) is amazingly organized and energetic, despite, I might add, her own personal physical trials which she weathers with incredible fortitude...but this is also another story...haha!!
The young girls, Katherine, Olivia and my niece Kelsey were also great at just keeping everything in the flow and on the go...I mainly took care of dishes and tables...no brainer jobs is what I specialize in...!!
OK...so the meal went very well and I for one was thankful that the day ended on a good note...and was happy to put my feet up for a while...at home...actually I put my feet into an Epson salt foot bath...mmmm...nice...
Not much noose otherwise. Big Pat has gone off to Barrow (home of the Polar Bear...) to tune pianos for the strange people who live up there. Little Pat is pining to come home and has had enough of the UK, I fear....don't know what we'll do with him once he gets home, he can get rather restless...needs to find himself a satisfying job to keep him occupied for the rest of the winter. May is doing great is Ireland and I hear reports that they don't want to let her go...well, whatever the Lord wants...we all miss her but want her to find her own way and seek God's will for her own life....
Rob's doing great is school...has not gotten sick even tho kids and adults all around him are getting the nasty stomach bug left and right...he is one tough kid...give him some Colloid every am and keep his meds and vits up...so that shld help. Annie was sick for 3 days then went out and got sick for another 2....my spanish class is kinda spotty but I thnk we're gonna be OK...
Talking about Spanish, we are watching "Evita" and the kids are really enjoying it. I got the sheet music to "Don't Cry For Me Argentina"...and Annie and Kathryn who are our best piano players are looking into it...it was all the rave years ago...brought some memories from my home country back, just watching the movie. "Course Madonna, does Eva Peron great justice, although she is kind of a nasty person herself, but I gotta hand it to her, she did look very much like her and got the mannerisms incredibly accurately...I got into a site online and found a kind of study guide to the movie so my students can follow it and also interesting trivia and facts about how the movie was made. Much of it was filmed in Romania it seems as well as Buenos Aires. Also Madonna had to get special training vocal lessons to be able to hit some of the high notes and soften her rockstar singing voice....I had no idea that someone as famous as Andrew Lloyd Weber (Phantom of the Opera) had composed the music, seems Madonna (who is not particularly liked in Argentina because of her porno persona) convinced the current president at the time to let her use the balcony to the Casa Rosada ( = to the White House for the US) she put on an impromptu show of her title song and they were convinced...lots of trivial but interesting stuff...
Well....gone on for long enough. Enjoying the mild in the low upper degrees....nice weather...17's...
Hope u all enjoy the rest of yr week...
gri
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