Frieda taking a nap next to poppy. Can you tell Mark hangs onto things way too long? Like a t-shirt from 1995. A paragon of fashion.
Yesterday was the first time in a while I was able to get outside and yesterday was too humid for my liking. I got most of the yard mowed and plan to finish this afternoon. It's Monday, so it's also laundry day. We have a bit over an acre of yard and I cannot go very fast while mowing, so it takes hours. Like around five hours to mow. Yep, it's a wild and crazy life here on the farm.
We didn't do anything on the fourth. But then, we usually don't. I was having one of my ongoing sinus issues and found doing nothing to be just fine. I used the grill for the first time on Saturday. First I used it as an oven to bake bread and then later in the evening I grilled steaks. I buy most of the meat through Butcher Box and have done for many years. It's all pasture raised, organic and a reasonable price.
Mark's plate.
Mine.
I really do not like mushrooms and he really does like mushrooms.
Mr. McCool.
He is one of the four born in the barn ten years ago. He's decided he is mostly a house fellow. When you wear a tux it seems reasonable to live in comfort.
I am so hungry looking at your photos! Glad you felt well enough to mow the lawn....time for me to mow again too. Hopefully it will be a little cooler starting tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteBy the time I came in I thought I was going to collapse, Lori. The largest part of the lawn is in full sun. Last evening we each came up with our own dinner, I had an egg and cheese sandwich. There was no energy for cooking.
ReplyDeleteI'm impressed Mark can still wear and fit into anything from the 1990's. *Smiles, can't say the same for myself* Those Cats sure are Posers, I can't get Eli to be still for a Pix, he Hates the Camera, and People, and... well, everything.
ReplyDeleteHe has put on weight, Dawn. I think the shirt just grew with him! The cats are models!
DeleteMy late husband never seemed to ditch clothes. We had a picture of him with five year old son, and another with son in late forties. Same shirt, now almost transparent with wear. He only gave up on it when he could no longer manage buttons.
ReplyDeleteThat's funny and also familiar, Boud!
DeleteCool cats and a very tasty-looking steak, especially with mushrooms. 😎
ReplyDeleteMushrooms....no thanks, AC, you may have them all!
DeleteI can eat mushrooms but prefer not to. My steak would look like yours--naked and mushroom free--lol!
ReplyDeleteI had to chuckle at the t-shirt from 1995. It looks in pretty decent shape for being that old, though.
I do love seeing your cats. :)
Mushrooms make me retch, Rita. I tried some stock to see if it is just the texture, I have a thing about texture, but it is not. Yuck!
DeleteI'm going to have to look up baking bread with a grill!
ReplyDeleteI use the grill like an oven, Cheerful. Bread in a cast iron skillet off to the side of the grill. It bakes just like in an oven.
DeleteYour steaks look so delicious!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Miss Merry.
DeleteHahahahah on that mushroom plate. That would be ME!
ReplyDeleteLove that you baked bread that way. How fun!
People love 'em or hate 'em. Ivy. It's too hot to use the oven.
DeleteYour plates make me hungry! I hope it cools off some.
ReplyDeleteWe have a couple of days that will be tolerable, e. Then it goes back to miserable.
DeleteOh the steak looks good! My husband loves mushrooms...I do not! I don't like humidity either.
ReplyDeleteWe are food and weather twins, Far Side.
DeleteFive hours to mow the lawn is quite a slog. It takes me a good hour to do one of our small lawns, and like you I have to take it slowly nowadays. Glad I don't also have crazy temperatures and humidity to deal with.
ReplyDeleteIt's a lot of grass, nick. I've let sections of it go wild and other sections have been taken over by trees, but it is still a lot. We haven't always had this kind of humidity but it's here to stay, sadly.
DeleteCutting grass in VA on hit weather days meant doing it before late afternoon when it became wet with dew and harder to manage. Wondering how you baked bread on the grill? My husband also has a few favorite dated shirts.
ReplyDeleteI use the grill as an oven. Heat the grill to the temperature I want input the dough in a cast iron skillet away from direct heat.
DeleteI have a t-shirt from 1975. My dad saved it in his things after I left home. It was a t shirt that I got at a college track meet.
ReplyDeleteOnce in a while I do get it out when I feel nostalgic.
I'm struggling too with the humidity and doing all the outside work.
That is a lovely memory, in part because your dad saved it, Val. I can't keep up outside when it's tropical humidity. I'm a northerner for Pete's sake!
DeleteOn the upside, Mark still fits in his t-shirts from 1995. I don't like steaks but your steaks look good.
ReplyDeleteHe has a belly, it grew during radiation. But, yes, he is still fit, Pixie.
DeleteI'm a fan of mushrooms.
ReplyDeleteThey are a favorite of a lot of people, Dora.
DeleteYou have very sweet kitties. Mark can have a chat with Gregg about his own fashion style, and will admit we both have clothing that go back a few years, lol! Another scrumptious meal and thank you for giving me a few ideas for our own.
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