I I thought the month of May was busy, I’m beginning to think that June isn’t going to be any better!
Monday night I had put in the crockpot, a package of 3 large chicken breasts. I was going to make the chicken salad that was made at the Marcus Fair Cooking School last year. On Tuesday I bought the pasta and a green pepper to put in this recipe. But, I also was going to make another Chicken/rice dish and put in the crock pot for Zachary and Bethany to have after they were done trimming late Tuesday night.
When Bethany saw the 3 chicken breasts, she told me she didn’t want them in the rice dish as my chicken didn’t have the taste that a package of already cooked chicken cubes (sold at the grocery store) had. I stopped off at the store and bought this package and put it in the rice mixture. First, I took out enough for my own earlier supper that didn’t have this “tasty chicken” in. I put all the empty packages out on the counter so that she could see what I had in this rice mixture.
They did come home late and filled their plates with the crockpot recipe as well as eating some Hawaiian rolls with it. Later I came down to see that the crockpot was empty and there weren’t any leftovers in the refrigerator. (I wondered how they had eaten all this.) Then I went to get the other recipe ready (it is better when it stands overnight) and found that the 3 chicken breasts in the refrigerator were gone! When I asked her where they were she said, “Zach threw them out_we knew they were in the rice dish!” Well, they weren’t and now I was out the $10 chicken breasts as well as over that price for the package of cubed chicken. I was not a happy camper as my plans for the chicken breast recipe had to be scrapped. Wednesday night Zachary called me and said, “What’s for supper?”
That is when I told him it was supposed to have been creamed chicken on biscuits but after what happened to my chicken, I won’t be making this any more. I told him he was being accused of throwing them out, and he said he didn’t know what I was talking about. I had some good rich chicken broth that was to be used for this, but they or she hadn’t found this. Creamed chicken on biscuits was also something she liked, but now they will have to go without as I sure wouldn’t like to eat it if they tried making it. This may sound cruel, but as expensive as food is, I try and find what is reasonable cheap and be able to make something good from it.
Tuesday was voting for the Primary Election. If you didn’t vote, and the results of the election weren’t what you wanted them to be, then understand you had your chance, even if you thought your vote wouldn’t do any good. In case you didn’t see me at our local voting place, I did vote by absentee ballot. That way I would have no excuse of not having the time or forgetting about it.
Wednesday started the summer kids’ programs at the Marcus Public Library. A representative from the County Extension office in Cherokee, Deborah Erpelding, came over to bring a summer project for the kids to do. The programs are based on Summer Camping. If you have ever been to a summer or church camp, chances are that you made S’mores. As long as you have two graham crackers, a piece of a chocolate bar, and a marshmallow, you can make a S’more. They took their S’mores outside for the Sun to help make the S’mores and then returned inside to listen to the story she was going to read to them a book on the alphabet on Camping.
In going through a Cook’s Country Cookbook, I found a recipe dealing with graham crackers. There was a story about a person named, Graham that included graham in his diet. Later S’mores were using graham crackers. I was interested in this Graham and went to research him. If there is room this week, his story using graham (that was his name, also) is quite interesting.
Thursday the Library had two programs by Kathy Wilson_Girls Bad or Good at 2:30 and the other one on Changing Christmas at 6 p.m. In between there was a farewell given for Librarian Beth Kingdom. She will be missed. She and husband, Casey are moving to Eastern Iowa.
Kathy Wilson is a very good presenter. She has no notes in front of her as she presents. This time she used a power point presentation with some of the information she was talking about for both programs. How do you determine if a woman is a good one or not and if “not” what does she do to deserve your thoughts? Is it the way she conducts herself, dresses, or maybe, is she another nationality? She took us back to the 1700’s where women were judged and how they gradually wanted to be just as good as men as far as jobs and pay were. It was understanding Victorian attitudes about women, home and health. There were also some myths about women’s health that were presented, also.
The evening one was on the author of the “Christmas Story”. You remember the one with the Christmas Ghost of the Past, the Christmas Ghost of the Present, and the Christmas Ghost of the Future? Charles Dickens had written this to show people that even people that weren’t nice could change their ways if they tried. His own personal life certainly wasn’t the best. His wife was despondent and had had quite a number of miscarriages. He didn’t let this bother him as he was active with two sisters-in-laws as well as an actress!
These events will not be all in this week’s newspaper. It might take some time to get them ready. I’m working on the “Unconditional Surrender_a Visit with Ulysses S. Grant”. If you missed this program, you can see it on UTube; the entire program of one hour and 23 minutes called “Unconditional Surrender a Visit with Ulysses S. Grant.
I am doing more reading than what was presented and find Ulysses led quite a life for the jobs he held.
I see where one of the Supreme Court Judges was threatened but the person that was going to kill him was caught. His backpack had quite a bit of information in it. Other judges names were in this backpack. He was tired of life and what it was doing to him, so he decided to kill the judge. Mental health is something that should be dealt with before things get any worse.
Remember in your thoughts and prayers those who have lost friends or relatives to death and have had their lives changed, have health problems some of which are terminal, are trying to make ends meet even when holding a job, encourage jobless people to find a job, be with those who are grieving the loss of those involved in a senseless shooting, and be helpful to those who are distanced from family/friends to build a bridge instead of a wall. Count your blessings.
I will leave you with this quote from H. Jackson, Jr. (American author): “Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.”