Fabulous Friday

For today:

Looking Out My Window:  A couple of weeks ago my pumpkin plant had a flower. Now look what I have.

 My Weekend Plans Include: We're having some friends over for dinner on Saturday so Ed and I will be doing some fun cooking.  This is our new favorite way to cook salmon.

Pan-Seared Salmon with Ginger Lime Butter

from: Tastes of Italia, August 2010

4 t butter,softened at room temp

3t fresh lime juice, warmed slightly

2 t fresh ginger, minced

1 t chopped parsley

1 t olive oil

4 salmon fillets (4 oz each) skinned, if desired and patted dry

salt and freshly ground pepper to taste

Preheat oven to 500 degrees.

In a small bowl, mix together the butter, lime juice, ginger and parsley. Set aside.

In a large ovenproof skillet, add the olive oil and spread.  Lightly sprinkle salt and pepper on salmon.

When oil just starts to smoke, add salmon, skin side up and cook about 1 minute or until nicely browned.  Turn the fish over, cover the skillet, and put it in the over.  Cook for 3 to 4 minutes or until desired doneness. 

Remove skillet from the oven.  Press on top of fish.  If firm, salmon is done.  

Serve immediately with ginger lime butter and extra fresh lime juice if desired.

 

I’m Reading: Where Women Create  and Organizing Your Craft Space by Jo Packham.  I'm hoping for some tips.

 

Movie Marquee:   It's Complicated, and With Six You Get Egg Rolls, with Doris Day and Brian Keith, 1968.

Something Quiltie: My favorite batting to use is Quilter's Dream Cotton, Request.  It's 100% cotton, low loft, it gives my quilts an antique look and feel, and it quilts through like butter.

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I’m Thinking About:  This is upcoming week is the last week of training for my running man. 

One of My Favorite Things: I'm a list maker.  I make lists for the day, for the week, for the month, quilting lists, grocery lists, Target lists, Sam's Club lists, movies, books, ...  

What I’m Planning: I need to get my list going for Leadville, winter coat, hat, mittens, blanket, food, hot chocolate, cookies....

What’s For Dinner: I'm not sure if Ed is on a carbo loading day or a protein day.  I'm having a leftover turkey burger.

A Favorite Photo:  Do you ever see faces in the trees?

 The old cottonwood by the lake

 The ash tree by the patio

 Until Next Time-Kyle

Ladies of the Lake

One of my favorite quilt patterns is Lady of the Lake.

It's a wonderful example of a positive and a negative pattern 

in the same block.

It's on my to do list.

Once upon a time, it seemed like I had forever

to work on that list.

 Maybe I'd better work faster or become more selective.

Yesterday we were visited by our own the Ladies of the Lake.

First one lady.

She marched right up the hill to see what part of my

lunch I wanted to share.

Not to be left out

the other ladies followed.

Ed got some bread, not from my sandwich,

and the ladies all gathered around.

There was a bit of competition, but we 

tried to be fair.

We ended up with about 15 female mallards

enjoying a snack.

Living on the lake does provide some fun entertainment.

Until Next Time-Kyle

Kindergarten

Today is the first day for Jessica's new kindergarten class.

It will be a very busy and memorable day.

I know she has lots of wonderful activities planned.

Do you remember your first day of kindergarten?

I was excited.

I loved school.

Kyle, 1955

Ed on the other hand.

Was not happy about going.

Ed, 1955

He wanted to stay home.

Funny, once he started, he didn't stop for 23 years.

Elizabeth was excited about school.

She loved everything about it.

 Elizabeth, 1986

She kept going and going as well.
Now she's Doctor Redente.

Jessica was happy about heading off 

to Kindergarten.

Jessica, 1990

Now she goes to kindergarten every day.

Kate was ready to go.

Kate, 1990
She kept going until she got her master's degree.

I thought you might enjoy this, just as a reminder.

All I Really Need To Know
I Learned In Kindergarten

by Robert Fulghum

- an excerpt from the book, All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten


All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten.
ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW about how to live and what to do
and how to be I learned in kindergarten.

Wisdom was not
at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the
sandpile at school. These are the things I learned:


Share everything.

Play fair.

Don't hit people.

Put things back where you found them.

Clean up your own mess.

Don't take things that aren't yours.

Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.

Wash your hands before you eat.

Flush.

Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.

Live a balanced life - learn some and think some
and draw and paint and sing and dance and play
and work every day some.

Take a nap every afternoon.

When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic,
hold hands, and stick together.

Be aware of wonder.
Remember the little seed in the styrofoam cup:
The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody
really knows how or why, but we are all like that.

Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even
the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die.
So do we.

And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books
and the first word you learned - the biggest
word of all - LOOK.

Everything you need to know is in there somewhere.
The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation.
Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.

Take any of those items and extrapolate it into
sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your
family life or your work or your government or
your world and it holds true and clear and firm.

Think what a better world it would be if
all - the whole world - had cookies and milk about
three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with
our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments
had a basic policy to always put thing back where
they found them and to clean up their own mess.

And it is still true, no matter how old you
are - when you go out into the world, it is best
to hold hands and stick together.


© Robert Fulghum, 1990.
Found in Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten, Villard Books: New York, 1990, page 6-7.

Have a great day, Jessica.
Teach your little friends well.

Until Next Time-Kyle