Weekend Recap

For a good many of us on the east coast the weekend was consumed by

concern for the impact Hurricane Irene may have held.

Luckily, I am somewhat inland from the coast, but we still get bombarded with the tropical storm weather

when a hurricane comes in on the GA or NE FL coast from the Atlantic or comes in on the FL coast from the Gulf.  

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Question of the Week:  Were you and your family affected by Hurricane Irene in any way?

This time we did not get any rain from the Hurricane, but my daughter who lives NW of Boston, did have some brief power outages and a good bit of rain and wind from it.

Since I am off most Fridays and the hubby is home for his first full day off, our weekend starts on Friday.  We got up at 5 a.m., (yeah, I know) to see Ashley and Stephen off to KY. While up this early I spied this gorgeous scene to the East of us.

The sun rising and the moon still brilliantly visible.  

Not long after I took this the sun was up enough that you could no longer see the moon.

This past Friday was our wedding anniversary, and you can so tell that we have been married a while.  Instead of doing anything really special, we spent the morning going to the Doctor's office so he could get some lab work drawn and then on to breakfast at IHOP, and a trip to WalMart. We came home and spent some time in the pool with the grandbaby girls, the daughters of my son Michael.

Later that evening we went out to eat at a semi-local steak house, 

 The Country Cabin Steakhouse

photo credit can be found on their Facebook page.

The food and service was excellent as always and the sunset looked just about like this when we got there.

Saturday I did not have anything on my plate, so I just lazed around, got in the pool for about an hour and a half and as you can tell from the picture above, I have fair skin and will burn, but luckily I have learned to use 

sunscreen. I look most of the time like I've been in the sun, but am not burnt.  If all my freckles would just connect I'd have a heck of a tan though!

The hubby, however, had a big day ahead of him.  He decided to buy a tractor.  Yes, a bonafide tractor.

Why you ask? 

(Michael (left) & William (right) at William's wedding a week ago.)

Because as my son and his friend, above,

speculate, 'it must be some kind of redneck one upmanship.'  

Yep, that's a mouthful, and he just laughs about it. The 'official' reason for the tractor is so that he can use it at the farm

which he currently only mows a small part of with this

and to use on the hunting club.  But know this, all of his hunting club buddies have tractors, and have had for several years, just sayin'.  Here he is with his tractor.

Finally after an all day ordeal of going to get said tractor he did come home and fix us a wonderful meal of venison cube steak, limas and mashed potatoes.  Well, really it was a collaborative effort, we all three worked on different aspects of dinner, Kenneth, Michael and myself.

Sunday was once again spent lazing around, getting in the pool with the grandbaby girls and Michael for another hour and a half, and of course, True Blood at 9pm. 

Meanwhile, prior to TB, we had brenner for dinner.  A new word/slang to me, Michael my trained chef,  explained that it is breakfast for dinner.

Homemade (from scratch) blueberry pancakes (with blueberries grown on said farm), bacon and fried eggs.  Yum!  I haven't had that in ages, for any meal.

So enough about my weekend.  Hope yours was spectacular and Hurricane Irene free.  If not, at least safe and sound from Irene!

Have a great week~