Another Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

It was another gorgeous day on Thursday: not too hot, with low humidity. Oh, there were more clouds than sun, but all in all, pure Michigan.

My glass frames came in so I headed up to Farmington at lunch. Since one of our Manufacturing building is close to there, I called my friend Joyce up and asked her to meet me for lunch. We ate at J.C. Cowley’s Irish Pub. We chatted through lunch, catching up. I haven’t seen her in probably five years, so catching up took some time.

After lunch, I walked down the street to my eye doctor. While the one lady was putting my lenses in the new frames, I went over their options for some bike glasses. I picked out two that seemed like they might work. They are going to order them and let me know when they come in so I can try them on. If I like one of them, I’ll have them fitted with my correct prescription.

Back at work the afternoon seemed to fly by. I guess taking a two hour lunch has it benefits besides meeting old friends and getting your glasses repaired.

Once I was home after work, I went out back to check on the vegetable gardens. Now, I have been snacking on the raw peas, but they seemed to have gotten ahead of me! Also, I had a handful of green beans that were ready. So, I picked them and took them in the house to process.

I left the peas in the fridge for snacks. But, I steamed the green beans in my Tupperware microwave steamer (handy little gadget, BTW) and then stuck them in a baggie when they cooled. The baggie was labeled and went in the freezer to await more harvests.

Next I went out in the garage to check on the project. I blew it, BTW. I should have stained a test board first. Why? Because I don’t like the way it looks. I used Walnut and it’s too dark and cold looking. Luckily, I only stained the bottom.

So, I sanded off the stain (pain in the *ss and you can’t get it all). I mixed the Walnut with some Colonial maple (about half and half) and test stained a board. Much better. The red in the maple gave it more “warmth” or something.

So, then I stained the whole thing. It was after 8:00 p.m. when I came in. So, I washed up, warmed up the last of the sauerkraut, potatoes and kielbasa and at dinner. I watched a little TV, but went to bed early.