What did you have for dinner?

[Edwin]

We went to KFC a little early, but our granddaughter had to be at school at 11 a.m., and she needed to eat before that. They had a large bucket of chicken with 3 large sides, like potatoes and gravey, cold slough, and beans. It was on special, so it was reasonable, but you know how that you find something on special and you spend too much money, well, that is the way I felt about it. I thought it all cost too much money. But we had a quite a lot left over, so Carol is going to cut it up and put it in stir fry, and she figures we will have at least 2 more meals out of it, so that makes it more reasonable!

[Edwin]

Before Carol left she cooked a lot of dry beans. Then she put them in small tupperware containers for me to open and eat and put them in the freezer. I take them out and put them under the windshield of our car, as it is pretty warm there, and that thaws them enough so that the beans fall into a bowl. I microwave them for 4 minutes first, and then I microwave for 2 minutes each time, turning the beans, and finally breaking them up, and they are very good. When I finish all the beans I will figure something else out!

There is a funny saying, and I don't remember where I heard it, but it is: Beans, Beans, the musical fruit, the more you eat, the more you toot!

[red]

Its alright nobody is going to smell it around you. Lol

[Edwin]

Red, of course I am alone, Carol being gone for almost 2 weeks, and so you are right; no one is going to smell it, and I am working alone too! Where we used to live for ten years, one of my jobs was processing garbage for the Stehekin Landing Resort. They had a little tiny room they would put sacks of garbage in, until they had filled the room, then it was time to take out the garbage. We would load it in a pickup truck, usually trailer, but the last 2 years we just used the truck. We were required to process our garbage generated by the Resort, and the National Park Service would process everyone else's garbage, including residence and campers. The Stehekin Valley Ranch and Bakery would do their own garbage. In the summer when it was the hottest that place would stink to the high heavens! When I had people going with me to help process/compact the garbage and sort the recyclables, I would tell them that they could fart if they wanted because no one would be able to smell them above the garbage stink!!!!

[Edwin]

I guess dinner for me is the mid day meal because I am a farm boy. We worked so hard, and got up so early, that by the time mid day meal time came we were famished. One fellow from South Africa that I went to Bible College with told me that farmers ate more than anyone he knew of, and that is because they usually have much of their own food, so it is the best, and they work hard enough to gain an appetite! I have had to curtail the amount that I eat in recent years. I think that is because of lower basic metaballic rate, and also not working as hard anymore, although right now I am working harder than I ever have in my life, but I am toughened in to it, so it doesn't bother me. Our youngest daughter sent home with me last evening 2 pieces of chicken already cook, a thigh and a drum stick. I ate the meat and gave my dog, Rand the knuckles on the ends of the drum stick and thigh. I ate 2 bananas, and now I am eating some dark chocolate pomegranate, and boy is it good. It is so good that I am tempted to save it, and I many times do that with something I like very well, until it gets too old, and of course I eat it anyway, but much better to eat it before it gets too old, huh?

[Edwin]

For dinner, my mid day meal, I had a slice of whole grain bread with egg salad spread on it. It was very good, and I love that stuff! I also drank some milk. Then I ate 2 bananas. After that I ate 3 scoups of huckleberry icecream, and boy was that good! The bananas are going soft so I am eating more of them, rather than saving them!

[Edwin]

I am just finishing eating my dinner, mid day meal. Our youngest daughter sent some peaches, a lot of them home with me. So, I had peaches with 2 slices of whole grain bread with some home made butter on them. Then I ate some cookies that she baked and sent home with me along with drinking milk! It was a good meal!

[Edwin]

For this mid day meal I had a generous bowl of peaches! Also I had two slices of whole grain bread with very thick slices of butter! I ate some peaches, and then I ate a bite of bread, and boy was it good. I went to eating cookies with the rest of the peaches after I finished my bread, and then I finished up on milk and cookies, and I ate more cookies than I should have, but I didn't want them to go stale! They won't get stale, but they may not last long either, as I only have two of them left!

[Edwin]

Today for dinner, the mid day meal, I had roast beef and rice that our youngest daughter sent home with me, and that was nice of her! Then I ate a bowl of peaches that she gave me, and actually she gave me a lot of peaches, but I am eating the last of them with a piece of angel food cake that our daughter who lives here near us brought over to me mid morning! I am also eating one chunk of baker's chocolate! I also drank some milk! So I have had a good meal. I gave a few pieces that had fat on them to the doggies.

[Edwin]

Carol left first for Stehekin, and then for Hamlin Pennsylvania, and she has not been in the house since June 19th, and that has been a long time already, and she will not be back until July 10th! I am doing fine though as our youngest daughter has sent food home with me that I have eaten for some of my lunches. At first I was taking a tupperware container of cooked beans out of the freezer, then I put them on the dash of our car under the warm/hot windshield to thaw enough so that I can get them out of that container to microwave heat them. I did that for several days, and then I ate two pieces of chicken, leg and thigh. Then I had chicken and rice that she sent home with me, then I had roast beef and rice that she sent home with me. For a number of days, for dinner, my mid day meal I had a generous bowl of peaches with 2 slices of whole grain bread with home grown butter on them. A few days ago our dauhter who lives here started bringing me supper, evening meal, and that has been very nice. It is usually cold by the time I get back from my 2 & 1/2 hour walk with the doggies, but it still tastes good! I got invited to supper once when we had mutual friends come for a visit, actually our daughter said that it was her 42nd birthday party, but I didn't know that then, because it wasn't her birthday yet, which was June 27, 1970 when our identical twins were born. Before Carol left she suggested that I could fry eggs if I wanted to. I have not fried eggs in at least 35 years, but I did today! It worked just like I remembered it. I fried 6 eggs and put them on two pieces of whole grain bread, and that is a good meal. Our daughter also brought over 3 small German Chocolate cup cakes with Chocolate frosting on them, so I will have that for desert. I finished all my Tillamook huckleberry icecream that our daughter got for me for Father's Day, but I still have a full, nearly full, I think Carol ate some out of it one time, but it is Tillamook Rocky Road Icecream, that I can eat whenever my heart desires it. Then I have chocolate bars and 3 boxes of bakers chocolate, 2 of which are about 6 years old, but the box says they never expire, so I am eating them. I bought another box not realizing I had them until I looked in one of my drawers, and there they were!