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Close Encounters..

So I was making breakfast in the kitchen yesterday when what sounded like some kind of sonic boom exploded overhead... Our place is on the flight path of airplanes flying in and out of Abilene, so it was no big deal to hear airplane rumblings at times. We also have an Air Force Base in town, and so we are also used really loud roars from the jets now and again.. but THIS was ridiculous. I thought "oh, another one of those"... and then it went by again, and again and yet again! This loud loud WHOARGHHHSHHH overhead... And it was driving the dogs crazy.

So I walked outside and saw this crop duster flying back and forth over our property, dusting the field right next to us, flying so low and swooping in over and over, using our property to circle back to the field.

It felt like it was out to get me, like how Cary Grant was being hunted down by the crop duster in the Alfred Hitchcock movie, North by Northwest.

Who knows what kind of herbicide/pesticide/fertilizer fell on us yesterday. Bleh.

Allergy Season

I don't know which one the culprit is,

but I'm allergic to some weed that grows by the roses. Last year, I got some on my arms, but this year, I managed to get some on my FACE! So I'm walking around with red, crusty, itchy cheeks. ARGGGGHHHH.

*sigh*

Anyway,

David said I had to blog what I made for dinner on Wednesday, which was broccoli cheese rice and chicken pot pie.

and for Letti Thursday, I made sweet & sour chicken, stir fried Napa Cabbage, and more fried rice.

Tyre Trouble

We've been working in the yard

and extending the lawn from in front of the house to across the driveway where there is this big space, waiting to be worked on. Anyway, David and I have put sod down on about half of that area, and there's still more sod on our trailer, waiting to be laid.

Speaking of trailer, we were on our way home from Lowe's a couple of days ago, and were literally just FEET from our front gate when THIS happened to a tyre we had just put a plug in...

A tyre that had been patched prior to getting the load of grass, had decided to die on us and fall off the freakin' rim! Anyway, we inched our way back into the driveway, close enough to unload some of the turf, and we had to go and get a new tyre today, get the Walmart guys to put it on the rim, and David put it back on the trailer. Thankfully, no one was hurt in the little incident.

Food Glorious Food

I'm not a wonderful cook

by any stretch of the imagination, but when there is only 1 authentic South East Asian food place in town, I really HAVE to stretch my imagination and try to come up with something resembling anything from home :P And it's a good thing David enjoys them too!

Stir Fried Vermicelli




Baby Bok Choy with Carrots




Chicken Curry




Genesis 9:3

Everything that lives and moves will be food for you.
Just as I gave you the green plants,
I now give you everything

We're such the global multinational multicultural family...

Congratulations to Vita and Esad

on their wedding on Saturday. Vita is from Ukraine and Esad is from Bosnia :) What a handsome couple they make, ya?

The wedding was held in Stephanie and Mike's backyard,
on the deck by the pool, and it was gorgeous..

Tony, the father of the bride, officiated the ceremony :)







Shana, Tony, Vita, Elizabeth and Esad




The reception at Stephanie and Mike's

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways...

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, --- I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! --- and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.