Bow to the SOUP QUEEN

It's a "homey" kind of day around here.

After the prerequisite coffee & newspaper,

I puttered around doing house stuff.

I am so aware that there are a lot of women that do not have this luxury.

I have gotten up many a morning and faced the dreaded drive into work.  

But, today I am able to putter-er.

For a lot of years I had problems finding "joy" in cleaning house.  

Mom told me that housekeeping could be a hobby.

  

(I decided she was crazy)

But

on mornings like this,

dreary, overcast and raining

I find my self taking a lot of comfort in straightening my nest.

After accomplishing several loads of laundry, 

a sink of dishes and taking trash out,

I sit down to write my blog.  

While we wait for lunch to finish in the oven,

we are relaxing in the living room.

I have started the first fire of the fall 

and that just adds to the coziness of the day.

The rain beats on the roof while my

 husband & a pile o'cats take up the other end of the sofa.

Johnna & I had a set of senior pictures scheduled this afternoon

and sorry to say we are going to have to re-schedule. 

This weather may be good for ducks 

but not so good for outside pics.

Last evening I traveled out to Eastern High School

to watch Al work with the Band.

On the way out to the school Anna & I were talking on the phone.  

She and I talk "on the fly" quite a lot.

I flew past this wonderful scene and had to pull off the road to get it.

Man, isn't this wonderful?  Those "bales" are corn stalks.  

Because I live in town now, I don't get to see these sunsets very often.

Thankfully Anna was patient with me and let 

me take the shot in the middle of our conversation.

So, I drove on out to the High School and spent time 

watching the staff work with the band.  

It was around 7:30 in the evening and the sun 

was really pink/orange tinged.  It was beautiful.

 These kids worked hard.  

They are a fun loving group with decent skills.  

I feel like they would follow Joel to the ends of the earth. 

 Joel Matthews is the band director out at Eastern High School.  

I think of him as a good kid.  

Everybody else probably sees him as an adult, 

but he is just young to me.  

But, then again, everybody seems young to me at this point.

Last night Joel, Al & Max Johnson were working with the band.

It was a tiny bit chilly up on the tower.  

But, as all of you band people know...

It's gonna get a lot colder before we are done, right?

Mr. Temby doing his thing three stories up in the air.
Isn't he handsome?  I love him so.

 So, this afternoon I plan on cleaning dog photos for Mr. Barber. 

It's a good rainy afternoon project.

Sally & Fred having a snack.

We have had our lunch, which by the way was the bomb...

I will never buy soup in a can again.  

I have become the 

SOUP QUEEN.

I made a big pot of homemade tomato soup last week 

and froze 2 person size containers of the leftovers.

I just pop the soup out of the container 

and put it in a Pyrex bowl and bake it for an hour.   

No, thank you.

I don't want to do it in the microwave.  

It was is Great Grandma Daisy's recipe.

It's good, cheap & without those scary chemicals.

I am not going to cook it with "gama rays".

So, what have we learned today?

1.   I am not the best house cleaner.  It is NOT my hobby.  But, I will do it when the mood strikes.

2.   I don't take pictures in the rain.  Does that make me a "fair weather" photo taker?

3.   I drive the back roads of Howard County looking for photo "opportunities" while talking on the phone and taking pictures.  Sometimes, I eat too.

4.     Band is one of my guilty pleasures.  It will be until the day I die.

5.    I don't understand how microwave ovens work or know what kind of "rays" they have.

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST

6.  I am the soup queen.

Good day, my subjects.

....Keep Calm and Carry On....