Oatmeal

I am still just so grateful that we finally have a Trader Joe's in OKC!

While we avoid eating a lot of grain-based foods (hardly ever do we eat bread or pasta), one of my favorite things in the winter months is a nice bowl of steel-cut oatmeal with dried fruit, nuts, real maple syrup, and cinnamon.

TJ's makes a quick cook (8 minutes) version of it, and this is one of the things my sister used to send to me at Christmas.

It's just so nice to be able to go buy more when I run out!

Not much going on this weekend at our house.  Dave took care of his dad yesterday (no groceries needed this week, but instead, he took Pop for a shave and a hair cut for the first time in months).

I did laundry and basic house keeping yesterday, as well as some cooking.

Today, we hope to get out and do a little thrift store shopping.  We need some juice glasses, thanks to the CAT-astrophe of a couple of weeks back when one of the cats jumped up on the counter, and pulled the drying pad, and ALL of the glassware that was drying on it, to the floor.

We lost the coffee carafe, vintage wine glasses, antique shot classes, and juice glasses.  It was awful.

We've been saving up money to get a new cover for our hot tub.  The original one lasted 3 years, and now it needs to be replaced.

Dave learned that the reason for this is that the tub is so small that the bromine gas from the bromine water sterilizer is too strong.   The guy at the spa place recommended a different way to administer the bromine, so we will switch to that when the new cover is ready.

That's about it for this week.  No protests to go to, no drama at work (that effects me directly, anyway), no other news.

Have a good one, gentle Reader!