My Brother the Uni-Bomber - August 12, 2010

I had dinner at my youngest brother's home on Sunday.  We got to talking/joking around like we always do about things and somehow, and I'm not quite sure how, my brother started talking about wanting a slide rule and how hard they were to find these days.  He said he even looked on E-bay for one.  Somehow he feels the need to have the ability to do higher math functions even if the power is out and all the batteries in the calculators are dead.  Let me just add here that he is not a mathematician.  I said "never fear dear brother, for I have a slide rule and you can have it."  My husband was an electrical engineer and graduated from VPI in 1961, before the age of electronic calculators.  I have a foot long, engineer's slide rule in a leather carrying case with a belt loop!  It has his name stamped on the front in gold letters too.  I didn't have the heart to throw it away so I'm very glad I found someone who feels so passionately about it.  I told my brother that I found his fascination with slide rules slightly disturbing and just might have to blog about it.  I told him I'd title it my brother the Uni-Bomber.  And so it is.

One Thing Leads to Another - August 10, 2010

I had plans today to start (yet again) to clean out my husbands garage or at least to organize the things I want to have hauled away.  However, I went to get something out of the freezer and decided that the freezer was in chaos and needed to be organized immediately.  So out came all the frozen foods so that they could be put back in in such as way as to be easily found again.  I found a mystery meat wrapped in foil and unwrapped it to ascertain its animal of origin and discovered a ham bone I'd placed in there for soup making.  Hmm, soup!  So next I made a pot of split pea soup with ham. 

Since I'm in the kitchen anyway, I decide to go through the vegetable drawer (fondly called the rotter) to see what needed tending to.  Unfortunately the romaine had gone the way of all flesh and was tossed.  I trimmed and washed a bag of radishes, peeled and cut into spears 2 cucumbers, and sliced up a red onion.

I still wasn't done.  Yesterday I had poached two large chicken bosoms in broth and deboned them.  Today I used the broth and some of the chicken and some vegetables to make a small pot of chicken soup.  I also made up some chicken salad.

I haven't spent that much time cooking in awhile.  Never did get out to the garage, but tomorrow is another day to procrastinate.  I wonder if I have room in the freezer for all that soup.

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