January 28

Hi lurkers and friends, how are you all today? Same shit, different day here, got up, dressed, got coffee, let cats in/out, cleaned up kitchen, checked e-mail & message boards. It's another bright sunny day, not a cloud in the sky, it's 25C here at 2:30PM (77F for those in the US). I'm listening to Jimmy Buffet's CD Fruitcakes today, I don't listen to music very often, I like quiet.

I joined another cross stitch forum today called Jayne's Attic. I've read about her shop on the Ozark Sampler board so I thought I'd have a look around. Looks like a fun group, lots of interest and different things going on at the board.
Looks like our Needle Nook group will be moving over to the Yucko, I mean Yuku board this week. I don't look forward to that but hopefully we won't have as many problems and Cross Stitch Crazy board does.

Of course I read my newsletter from The Sweetheart Tree today and went to their website and found lots of cute designs I like. This is quite a switch from the last couple months when I had no desire to look at new designs, charts, fabric etc. I am still going to clean out my charts and get rid of some this summer.

Last night I fixed a "southwestern" style "lasagna" that I fix quite often. Our son's girlfriend likes and and will ask me to make it when they come up. I often refer to stuff like this as "slop in the pan"
You take a 9 x 13(I hope that is a pan size and not just a cross stitch fabric size) inch glass baking dish, heat and place 6 empty tortillas in the bottom & up the sides of the dish. Then put layers of refried beans, ground beef(optional, I don't often use this) black beans. Then I poured a can of enchilada sauce over that then added a can of whole kernel corn, chopped green chillies, chopped black olives, chopped onions, chopped tomatoes. Then covered that mess with shredded cheddar cheese, a can of tomatoes & jalapenos, a little bit of spicy green chili sauce, added chopped green chilies(hot chilies). I cooked that in a 325 oven for about 30-45 minutes. I served it with a side of avocado sauce and sour cream. It was GOOD but too runny, I'll leave out the can of enchilada sauce next time. I now have leftover meals for the next 2 nights. Sorry if things are spelled wrong, for some reason the spell check button at the top of the page doesn't work today.