Heading back to Willamette Valley

Well I am going back to the valley after Melody's lunch at 1:00.  I have enjoyed spending some time with her and the girls.  It has been beautiful weather here.  I started going through her cookbooks and getting some new recipes to try.  Sunday she made some interesting and good sour cream chicken enchilidas.  For someone who doesn't cook or even likes to she has a lot of cookbooks.  Friday I made a new recipe "Fruited Chicken Salad.  I really liked it.  It was refreshing on a hot day.  I will have to make it when I get my own place.

I need to get things lined up since I got rid of almost everything when I moved from Tennessee.  When I moved I got rid of a lot since I only came back with a u-haul trailer.  I do now have a mattress and box springs.  I did bring back my headboard and footboard and frame.

I am excited to have my own place and have friends over to try some of the new recipes I plan on trying.  I am also looking forward to once again to trying more in the mixology of making different kinds of drinks.  I am diffenently interested in learning to infuse alchol with herbs and fruit to have different ones.  If anyone has any drink or infusion recipes I would love to share with you.  I understand cucumbers are interesting in drinks so I guess I need to google and see if I can find some recipes to try.  I would appreciate any and all suggestions.  I want to help my friend Tom to get his coffee, chocolate, peanut butter drink created. 

I have a friend who is a vegetarian and so if anyone has good recipes I need some since Larry was a meat and potatoes man.  When I made the pasta with hot sausage for some friends I made the sauce without the meat and put some aside and than added the sausage.  But it is hard to make a recipe where meat is the main ingredient.

Well I need to get my stuff packed to leave this afternoon.  Melody charged up her IPad to let me play with it this morning before I leave so looking forward to it.  I love the games and all the cool things you can do on it.  I need to save up to get me one.  I know Larry would alreay have had one.  I didn't think I would want one because I have a laptop but guess what I was wrong I do want one. So now I need to save pennies so I can get one.

Hope you all have a great day.  I will write again in a few days.  This has been very helpful for me to put my feelings and thoughts down and to hear from all my friends.  I am anxious to play pogo again (Word Riot in particular), and be on facebook more again.  I haven't played facebook games much lately so facebook friends be ready once I settle into my new place I will be back!

Love you all