Sunday

Sunday morning, I carefully made coffee, lol! I also made myself some soft boiled eggs for breakfast. Jake and Carla will be coming back today with my car and the meat, so I thought I'd have something cooking (in case they are hungry) and anyway, I will need a Sunday dinner. So, roasted a turkey breast. They had given me a butternut squash someone had given them, so I cut it in half, scooped out the seeds, added two tablespoons of butter and sprigs of rosemary, thyme and parlsey to each cavity (to kick it up a notch).

Then cleaned the upstairs bathroom, The floor was still wet when they got here around noon. Not sure why, but my left leg is really killing me today, BTW.

We talked about our respective weekends for a while, then finally went out to unload the meat. Carla kept an inventory while Jake called off the items. I am charged with putting the data into a spreadsheet, so we can check off when we take stuff out and thus always know what we have on hand (new for this year). They also brought me some hunter sausage that I hung in the back room to age a bit.

As I suspected, they were beat and declined waiting a couple of hours for dinner. So off they went, now in their own car again. I begin basting the bird every 20 minutes.

Sunny, but windy day and its supposed to be warm and dry again tomorrow. So, I have a chance to get the last outdoor project done: Burn up all the scrap wood from projects in the chiminea. Then, tomorrow, I'll blow out the ashes and take it inside for the winter. Due to the wind, I had to keep the fire small and keep feeding it a little at a time. Took a picture of the last choiminea fire of the year, and my Japanese maple, which has turned a beautiful scarlet. But, Blooger is giving me problems again and I can't post them. Grrr!

Meanwhile, dinner was done. Sliced some turkey and mashed the squash after removing the herbs. Very, VERY good! Squash was particularily good, so I will definitely make it that way from now on!!

Satisfied, I decide to watch some of the Nascar race and see how our guys were doing. I fell asleep (I'd hoped I would) and had a very nice hour's nap. Got back up and there was just enough light left so I could blow the leaves off the front porch and away from the garage. Did a little more of this and that, getting ready for the week ahead.

Watched Extreme Makover and then Iron Chef America. Went to bed at 10:30 and slept soundly...