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[liralen]

Hmm... had a taste of what it's like to have three kids Saturday night, when we took Alex and Haley in while Ray and Joan got a movie and a dinner in. I don't really see how silkiemom does it by herself. With John it was still a handful, though really fun, too. I'm very glad that Alex is a really cool kid and does a lot on his own, himself. Haley-bop is really fun and still learning how to talk so she was getting mildly frustrated with us not understanding everything she says, though Alex was good at translating. Jet just zoomed around, cool as a cucumber, with the other two running interference for him. Hee.

I was suitably exhausted enough to really sleep in on Sunday morning and have a great Mother's Day shopping at the Outlet Mall, eating lunch in Loveland, and then having John make both breakfast and dinner for me. Mmmm... potato chip chicken. Jet was great all day, too, just happy, playful, and content. That was really great. I now am the proud owner of a stainless saute pan and a cast iron griddle that should be useful for all kinds of breakfast things. Made banana pancakes on it this morning and realized, a bit too late, that a pastry brush is not always a basting brush, while most basting brushes can be used for painting pastry as well...

It was raining. Steady, slow, deep, wonderful rain, all Saturday night and Sunday morning, and it felt wonderful. Man, I miss Seattle. It's sunny today, again. Hopefully it'll be rainy and everything Tuesday through Thursday of this week. It's better than last year, when it was already in the 80's and 90's, but we really could use a few steady showers this spring.

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[niherlas.livejournal.com]

liralen said: Man, I miss Seattle.

And it misses you. You did have to move east just before I came out here...

[agrimony.livejournal.com]

What is potato chip chicken? :)

[liralen.livejournal.com]

I did, didn't I? Bah. *grin*

I'm glad that you're finding it so cool and your house looks great. It's very cool to see the little house with all the green and the growing things and flowering things and things you're thinking of *taking out*...

Here, we even have to water the trees, and when it's a near-drought like this year, that's just psychologically hard to do.

I miss the rain. I miss the fish. I miss Japanese teriyaki huts every block. I miss even the mild ethnic diversity. There I was a raisin, of at least a handful, in a bread pudding. Here I'm a brown dot on a white tablecloth. Yeesh. I miss trees. I miss mountains brooding in mist and cloaked in evergreens right on the doorstep rather than jagged teeth of ice and snow filling the horizon with their glitter. I miss Vancouver. I miss having it be spring or fall for most of the year.

I don't miss the traffic. I don't miss the fact that you can't really see much more than a few hundred feet at a time. I don't miss it being overcast two-thirds of the year. I don't miss the humid, biting cold of windy days. I don't miss not being able to find decent Mexican food (well, okay, being right next to Canada helps). I don't miss the mosquitos or fleas and the thriving insect life always trying to eat the house along with the mold, dry rot, wet rot, leaves filling the gutters, and the plants breaking apart anything else we might have missed. *grin*

Back and forth.

We'll probably move back, eventually. For now I'll enjoy the sunshine with sun screen, and the green chilies and pray for more rain..

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Hee. It's one of John's family recipes...

Take some chicken parts. Rub 'em in melted butter.

Crush some potato chips. Sprinkle on some garlic powder and pepper. Press the buttered chicken parts into the crushed chips. Place on a pyrex baking pan. Bake at 375 for about 35 minutes or until they're cooked through. They'll bubble and pop and hiss like crazy and come out crisp and wonderful.

It is not a low-fat recipe. *grin*