Are you sure its Monday? it's not raining!?!

Monday dawned sunny, with a promise of a long-awaited warm up. However, a cold front was supposed to bring rain in the late afternoon.

It was so warm out (69 degrees F. was the official high) that both my morning and afternoon walks were taken without a coat!

I drove home at lunchtime (with the car window down), making one quick stop at Kroger’s. I wanted to turn the rest of the roast beef leftovers into beef noodle soup and found Sunday night I was out of Kluski noodles. They are the only egg noodles I have found so far that can stand up to freezing, thawing and reheating without turning to mush.

Once home, I made a BLT for my lunch.

It was about 3:00 PM when the word started trickling in about the bombings at the Boston Marathon. One of the sad things about getting old is remembering things. And, so when I heard about there being two bombs, one after another, I immediately thought of the IRA. They introduced that idea (luring in the first responders and then setting off a second bomb) back in the 70’s when they first brought their bombing campaign to England itself.

Now, I know it wasn’t the IRA. It just depressed me that some things never change…

I got home after work, took the trash can to the road, went in and treated the cats and was changing clothes when my cell phone rang. It was Michelle from work. She had gone out of the room for something or another and when she returned, everyone had left for the night and locked the door, leaving her locked out with her purse and keys inside.

So, I drove back to work and let her in. She apologized, but I told her not to worry as it was not everyday I got to help a damsel in distress.

Back home again, I refused to treat the cats, which ticked them off. I watched the news until 7:00 PM. Then I sliced off three thin pieces of the roast beef for my dinner and cut the rest into one-inch cubes.

I steamed some frozen sweet corn and them warmed up the beef and the last piece of the potato bacon casserole (I had taken two pieces of the casserole into work for Vicky and Michelle to try).

While that was warming up, I mixed some mayonnaise with horseradish as a sauce for the beef. When everything was ready, I ate a great dinner.

I put the beef cubes in my Dutch oven with two fresh bay leaves, about four cups of water and the au jus from yesterday. I brought that to boil and let it simmer for a couple of hours (to tenderize the meat). I plan on making the soup tomorrow night so after it cooled down, the whole pot went into the fridge.

I watched an old western on the Turner Classic Movie channel, “Winchester ’73.”  It starred Jimmy Stewart, Dan Duryea and a very young, surprisingly attractive, Shelley Winters.

When that was done,  I watched the taped Sunday night episode of the Vikings. Then I went to bed.