Tuesday with Skylar

We had a very busy day.

After staying up way too late blogging and chatting, I got up this morning way too early.

Once I finished getting ready, I woke up Skylar and we went to Meijer. We also stopped at Russo's for root beer. Greg and his family have a summer bucket list and they had a root beer tasting (read about it here). Skylar and I picked out four root beers to try; Virgil's, Dog 'N Suds, Boylan, and Henry Weinhard's Root Beer. They also had Dang (which we've had) and Dad's (which we've had). There were a few others but we limited ourselves to four.

We did not do a blind taste test. We did have a sample of each. My favorite in order were the H.W., Dog 'N Suds, Boylan, and dead last is Virgil's. The guy at the store said Virgil's was his favorite. Unfortunately for us it has licorice in it and neither one of us is a fan of licorice. Anise. Don't like it. So if anyone reading this blog does like it, leave a comment and I would be happy to let you have the other three bottles.

We went downtown to the city market. That was the first time I have been there. It's fantastic! We bought some Michigan cherries and blueberries at one of the outside farmer's stands. We bought some chocolates and breads inside and walked around. There are still a few empty spaces but it seemed to be busy.

After a quick stop at CVS because Skylar accidentally forgot some medicine (just amoxicillin, nothing too important) we walked to Ken's.

Then we made No-Bake cookies, Rice Krispy treats and we were going to make white chocolate chip, dried cranberry oatmeal cookies but we used all the sugar. We took another trip to Ken's to buy more sugar and we came back and made the cookies.

I made Club Em's for dinner (chicken, bacon, avocado, cheese - Gouda today on a hard roll - pretzel bun today) and beer battered onion rings.

I washed dishes and we watched the Tigers game. Now it's time for bed. We have another long and fun-filled day tomorrow.

dinner

Tonight Bill made taco burgers.

Except they didn't taste like tacos. They tasted like burgers. I guess that means he's just going to have to try again.

For our side, I made beer-battered onion rings. The recipe is also for beer-battered apple rings but I've never made those. Tonight, I decided to use up a couple of apples that I've had sitting in the fridge. What better way to use them then deep-frying them?

While the apples could have been a little more fresh and crisp, the concept was delicious. I sprinkled them with cinnamon and sugar. It was like dessert.

It was also a bonus because I only had part of an onion. Rather than cut up a whole one and have too many onion rings, or cut the old one and part of a new one, the apples rounded out the quantity.

Now to get the taco burgers down pat… pun intended.

gettin' ready...

We are getting in good practice for when we are old enough for AARP memberships.

We had eaten dinner and were sitting around by 5pm.

We worked hard today. Bill ripped out the snowball bush in the front garden. I scrapped more paint off the windows.

By 4:30pm we were hungry. So we started dinner.

I really don't think either of us paid much attention to the actual time.

We paid attention to our stomachs.

I asked Bill if he wanted to play Scrabble or Cribbage. He said, "No. I don't want to play Scribbage or Crabble."

Hm, perhaps we will sit around inventing these new games!

In case you were wondering, we had bacon cheeseburgers with onion rings for dinner. Yum!