20. He holds my hand in the car
19. He changes the light bulbs
18. He lets me sleep right up next to him, with a leg thrown over top
17. He cut my toe nails when I was big, huge pregnant with our Baby Punk
16. He can do just about anything with a computer
25. He takes care of all the maintenance on the cars
24. He kisses me on the back of the neck when I am doing dishes or cooking
23. He saves the first kiss for me when he gets home at night
22. He lets me pretend I am a farmer and he goes along with my quacky projects
21. He drives a half an hour away to get me my favorite pizza because they won’t deliver to the middle of nowhere (that is where we live)
This one is my new all time favorite. I got this recipe from my kid sister’s (she really isn’t a kid, in fact, people would probably say she is the more mature of the two of us! anyway…) sister-in-law. She brought it to a birthday party and I have been HOOKED ever since.
So here we go
Here are our players:
Then dice your chicken breast. My sister and Jana buy theirs from Sam’s already cooked, and it is wonderful. Since I am a nut, I cooked my own the night before. I first pounded the chicken down so it was nice and thin, I then drizzled it with olive oil (the extra virgin kind) and sprinkled it with lots of lemon pepper. I happen to like lemon pepper on chicken, but really you could use anything you like for seasoning. I baked it for 30 minutes at 350 degrees. I did four chicken breasts and used one for this recipe and froze the other three.
Then add your peas.
I wish I was showing you fresh peas out of my garden. However, the cats decided that I was not to have peas this year, or at least anytime soon.
Put them in frozen.
They will quickly thaw and be nice and cool by the time you serve the salad.
Stir that bad boy up.
Make sure you have enough of each ingredient and adjust where necessary.
Here comes the dressing.
This Kraft dressing is good, but I like the “Brianna” brand better. They happen to be out at my local grocery store, and I was too impatient to wait until my next shopping trip to serve this dish, and too LAZY to hit any other stores TO see if they had some.
Stir it all together, add more dressing if needed, don’t be shy people.
This stuff is darn tooting good.
Even the men-folk will like it.
Serve it all up on a pretty dish.
Here was the big bowl of Salad after my punks, got done with it.
This is some seriously good stuff.
SERIOUSLY.
Tuesday I am making another one of my favorite salads, and it is really good too. Watch for my post, you won’t want to miss my PESTO PASTA SALAD!
Then I had a neighbor move in next door, she had 10 cats. Yes, 10 cats! She kept them inside with her during the day, but at nights she let them roam. Now one would wonder why I would be so opposed to 10 cats wandering around at night, it isn’t like I would see them, right? (BTW, NONE OF THEM WERE “FIXED” SO WE DEFINATLY HEARD THEM AT NIGHT) Well, I didn’t see them, however, they all decided that my flower beds would make a great litter box, and I smelled them!! I am a lover of gardens and gardening, especially my flower beds, and it really ticked me off that every time I went to work in my flower beds I was digging in their potty! That is when I started to hate cats!
Luckly cat lady moved away after a couple of years, and the amount of cats roaming my yard went way, way down, almost to manageable levels. I would have the occasional cat bug my rabbits, but it wasn’t TOO bad. Until now. I have my beautiful garden boxes, all ready and planted, for the past three nights the neighborhood cats have decided that once again I am the provider of litter boxes. ARGH!!!! They have dug up my garden boxes. So now I have three boxes full of cat poop, and seeds scattered all over! Needless to say, I am mad! So, so stinking, cat-kicking mad! So today, I will be covering my garden boxes with “floating row cover cloth” and chicken wire so I can keep the
(here she is before the dentist appointment, you can’t see the color change very well, but you can see the broken tooth)
Last week we noticed a big, pus filled bump on her gum right above the broken tooth. I took her to a neighbor who is a dental hygienist and she told me it was an abscess and that we were OK to wait until Monday when we had an appointment with the dentist anyway. On Monday we all trooped into the dentist office (I think we filled the entire waiting room). When the Dentist looked at it he told me that the tooth would have to come out. He numbed her gums really well (he is really cute, he told her to close her eyes and make a wish while he was using the needle, she had no clue what was going on) and got out the big plyer (I can’t spell that word, and spell check can’t figure it out either) thingies and pulled that tooth right out! She gave him the biggest, crustiest look I have ever seen! She didn’t cry until she realized she was bleeding, then was soothed when they gave her a treasure box to put her tooth in! She got even more excited when she remembered that the
tooth fairy
would be coming!
Now when she
smiles
I have to
laugh
she looks like a
toothless
HILL BILLY!
