Tuesday

I put out two bags of trash to the road before leaving for work Tuesday morning. I was a little bummed that I never went grocery shopping over the weekend, so I couldn't swap out the kitty litter.

So, I bit the bullet at lunchtime and went to Meijer's. I got more kitty litter, cat food and various other staples I was either out of or running low on. When I got home, they still hadn't picked up the trash, so I kicked it into high gear, swapped out the kitty litter and took the old bag out to the road.

The cats were grateful.

I had made an impulse buy of a rotisserie chicken and ate most of the dark meat for lunch.

When I got home at 5:00 PM, I called Carla's mother, Acenter, to wish her a happy birthday. She said she treated herself to lunch at Red Lobster and was walking around the mall. She said when she got home she was just going to relax. I told her that sounded like the perfect birthday.

The temperature was in the 80's again, but with low humidity. So, I went out and planted some leaf lettuce and another row of sugar snap peas. I picked nine more ripe tomatoes and took them in the house. Then I watered the grass seed and the raised bed garden. I set the timer for 40 minutes (one inch of water using the square sprinkler).

While I was watering the raised bed garden, I started saut�ing 8 ounces of sliced mushroom that would soon go bad. While they were reducing, I deboned the rest of the chicken. I put the bones in the freezer for stock, in the fall. I added the chicken to the mushrooms and then added a big can of drained chop suey vegetables. While that was warming up I made four helpings of brown rice.

I plated some of that and went in to watch some TV after shutting off the sprinkler. I got a call from my friend B___. For some reason, we were talking about Irish women. I said, "You know, like Maureen O'Hara in the John Wayne film "The Quiet Man" (one of my personal favorites). He said it was on tonight! So, after hanging up, I put the rest of the leftovers in the fridge. Then I went to TMC and set the DVD-R to record.

I didn't really need to do that as I watched the whole damn movie until 10:30 PM or so. Then I went to bed.