Low Carb recipe website

I found a new website that I am enjoying immensely. Maybe you will too. Her recipes are tried and true and that is always a good thing. Today I will be making Strawberry Rhubarb Dump Cake.

All Day I Dream About Food.

https://alldayidreamaboutfood.com/ 

Grandsons of Leo and Keri

These are Leo and Keri's grandsons Jorgan, Brady and Beckett and someone, I know not who, bought these T-shirts for the boys and for those of us who know their Grandpa the shirts are quite appropriate.

Guy Wire or Guide Wire

Butch and I were having a casual conversation as I was working on a WordwithFriends game and I saw G-U-Y-Blank-I-Blank-Blank. So I asked Butch is it Guy wire or is it Guidewire? He said without hesitation Guy wire. Being the skeptic I am at times I decided to check it out and here is what I found. 

It is also known as a guyed wire, guy cable, guy strand, and guy anchors. People also (mistakenly) call it guidewire. The name guy wire is derived from the term guy: defined as a rope, cord, or cable used to steady, guide, or secure something. Guy wire is a tensioned cable that is both lightweight and strong.

Butch is sure that he had seen it in print and therefore knew it was Guy Wire.

Well, okay then. It still didn't work in the Word with Friends game. Keep that in mind my trivia friends as this could be a question used sometime in the future.

HWH Day plus old friends

Butch and I made our way to Moscow Iowa yesterday to have the leveling legs on the motorhome repaired. When we were ready to leave Texas we found our leveling legs, well one leveling leg, would not retract and we had to get help and use force to get it retracted so we could drive it. HWH in Moscow Iowa is the manufacturer of the leveling legs put on most RV's and when you choose to have them repair them you are looking at the Top Dog in the business. For anyone else, it will be a guessing game but HWH put it together so for them it is easy to know where and what to look for as the problem and they have all the means at their disposal to fix it.

HWH and Moscow Iowa are 200 miles east of us. So we got up early to head that way because we also wanted to work in a socially distanced visit with our long-time friends Bill and Kay Stilson in Walcott Iowa a mere 14 miles from Moscow. 

We knew there was a big old weather system between us and eastern Iowa and we did run into at about Ames and out of it again at Tama. Rain is not something we like to travel in. Tolerable if it is light rain, a challenge if it is medium rain, and horrible if it is a deluge. It was a medium rain. Butch is an excellent driver and it is never more apparent than when it is raining. He handled it very well. Me, not so much. I am stiff and sore today and only because medium rain makes me tense.

We arrived at HWH earlier than our appointment time and they got our RV in right away and fixed it easily and on our bill, in more than one place it had an amount and then it said it was a "goodwill" charge of $0.00. We were pleasantly surprised and our total bill was $99. We had expected it to be several hundred. I am sure it gets them a very good review every time! We had heard they do this but we were not expecting it. After all, our RV is 16 years old! Yeah, I know it shocks us too!

After we finished up with HWH we went to see our friends Bill and Kay. It was so good to see them again

The last time we had seen them was last summer when we went for our cruise on the Mississippi. It used to be when we were in Magnolia every winter we would see them several times a day. We have had many memorable moments and many adventures with those two and they are the very best of good people.

Kay was not happy with her hair as she is long overdue for a haircut but many people are in that same boat these days. I think they look great and I knew many of our mutual friends would enjoy the picture too.

Our return trip involved more medium rain but we did run out of it again and finished our trip with partly sunny skies.

For your entertainment

Keri sent me this video because Butch is such a squirrel warrior and she knew he would get a kick out of it. Butch's comment after watching it is "So I guess I should just give up." 

It is long so I am buying time while I write the latest edition of our wonderous adventures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFZFjoX2cGg

Enjoy

Doing Fine

It is amazing how busy we can be when we have nothing to do! We are being hindered by weather or we would be even busier. We are now settled in or at least as much as we can be. Today we are getting ready to take the motorhome to Moscow Iowa tomorrow to get the leveling legs repaired. We will be heading out bright and early in the morning. 

 Keri and I were able to get our first walk of the season done on the bike trail. We have a two + mile routine whereby we go to the 1-mile marker on the trail and then return. This is the same routine I did for a few years with my friend Colleen who now lives fulltime in Florida. It felt wonderful to get out there and move right along.

Another first is that we went to the Mexican restaurant for the first time since Covid-19. They are open for business with restrictions. They were not busy with sit-down diners but still extremely busy with take-outs. They all wore masks and we did too except while eating. It was a real treat and at least for us it was the first time we had eaten out since my birthday on March 6th when we ate at Dirty Al's in McAllen Texas. Butch broke his leg the next day so there was a double reason we didn't eat out. By the time he was released from the hospital the entire country was in lockdown. We hadn't eaten out much anyway but you know how it is when you cannot do something. Sometimes and I stress sometimes you want to even more. I am not one of those people really but it was nice eating out last night.

Butch is taking off without his cane more frequently these days and he is now preferring the single-legged cane over the 4 pronged one.  So this is progress. He still looks a bit like Grandpa McCoy on occasion but he attributes that to lack of confidence and it is happening less all the time.

Today is our day 14 of being at home in Iowa. We will now be adjusting to dealing with the outside world. There are still way too many people who either do not know what 6 ft apart looks like or are simply unwilling to take care. Very frustrating. I don't know what it is currently like in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas but when we left it was much, much better than what we have observed in Iowa. The belligerence adds another level of frustration and we detect that far too often for comfort. It manifests itself with eye-rolls upon seeing our masks along with smirks added to a refusal to give us enough space. It is mild aggression so far but disheartening to witness.

Butch has started his war with the squirrels. Life would not be the same without this bit.

 Till next time...

Speaking of recipes

65 Memorial Day Recipes

I ran across this site today and looked it through. https://www.countryliving.com/food-drinks/g3290/memorial-day-recipes/?slide=65

I found two I wanted to keep and I have placed them below.

This one appealed to me because I love horseradish!

Grilled Horseradish Slaw

Memorial Day recipe

INGREDIENTS

2 tbsp. white wine vinegar 

2 tbsp. prepared horseradish, squeezed of excess moisture

1 tbsp. olive oil

1 tsp. Dijon mustard

1/2 tsp. caraway seeds

Kosher salt and black pepper

1/2 small red cabbage, cut into 4 wedges, leaving the core intact

DIRECTIONS

Whisk together white wine vinegar, horseradish, olive oil, Dijon mustard, caraway seeds,

and salt and black pepper in a bowl. Heat grill to medium-high. Brush red cabbage

with 1 Tbsp. olive oil. Grill, turning once, until charred and beginning to soften, 3 to 5 minutes.

Transfer to a cutting board and coarsely chop (discarding the core); toss with dressing.

And this one is not Keto friendly but it sounded like something I would like.

Memorial day recipe

Charred Corn Salad

INGREDIENTS

1/2 small red onion, finely chopped

1 red chili, seeded and chopped

1/4 c. fresh lime juice

1 tbsp. olive oil

Kosher salt

Freshly ground black pepper

6 ears fresh corn, shucked

3/4 c. fresh cilantro, chopped

4 oz. queso fresco, crumbled (about 1 cup)

DIRECTIONS

Heat grill to medium. Toss together red onion, chili, lime juice, and oil in a bowl. Season with salt and pepper. 

Grill corn, turning occasionally, until charred, 10 to 12 minutes. Let cool, then cut corn from cobs. Add to onion mixture and toss to combine. Fold in cilantro and queso fresco.