I am having such an awesome time. I am so glad I have a family that fighting and disagreement just don't happen. It probably makes for boring blog posts but really! it just doesn't happen.
Graeme did all the driving over from the island. He doesn't get much driving time and I was quite happy to sit back and let him take the wheel.
There is so much recent stuff I don't remember. I am not sure if it's dementia or just tossing unimportant crap out of my head. I have very little recollection of the trip over. I think nothing happened. I do remember eating a bowl of clam chowder on the ferry! Jeez! I love that soup!!!
As usual I had a great time at April's. They are such good hosts. The first dinner I had at their place was honestly the best dinner I have had in forever. They use a butcher who shaves chuck roasts and marinates it in his special Maui marinade. Then Myles bbqed the meat as well as sauced eggplant slices, zucchini done April's famous way and she made rice. So delicious!!!!!!
On Sunday Bradley djs up a Brittania in a pub there for three hours. So April Myles Aryn (Bradley's roadie) and niece Dorothy all converged and had dinner.
Now I know this is beginning to sound like a food blog and my apologies. But I ate something for dinner there that I will spend the rest of my life trying to duplicate. A Sunday roast dinner was on the menu, which I ordered. It was a delicious amazing meal. I wish I had taken a picture of it. But the absolute star of the plate without question was the roast slices! So many I had to take about five huge slices and put them on a side plate for others to eat. I just can't eat that much meat!
Aryn is going to find out what cut of meat it was. She knows people up there!!! Given the amount of fat on the meat my feeling is it was a very slowly braised chuck roast. I MUST KNOW!!!! It was shocking how perfect it was. I HAVE to figure it out.
Now I am sitting on Arnie's couch. I love it here. We share tv watching and gossiping and great food. She is an amazing cook. She made the most delicious dinner last night and Dorothy came and joined in. She made very successful lemon potatoes! And Bradley bbq'ed a pork tenderloin and she made a delicious salad and a blueberry loaf for dessert.
Today sometime Aryn will drive me back to April's. I will head back to Port when it makes sense. I think April may need a Gdog sitter at some point. I will wait to find out. But I do have a notary appointment on Tuesday afternoon. So for sure will be home by Monday night.
Today is housecleaner day at home. I don't expect Monte to be able to completely clean the place to the point that I do. But...I did message her and warn her I am not there and she may run into things that are not perfect. I always feel bad when I make more work for the housekeepers I have had.
I have been totally happy with all my housekeepers. They were all hired for two hours and they all got it all done in that time. The current one is the sweetest girl. But she is kind of an odd cleaner. She doesn't dust anything. Nothing. Not my lamps. Not the piano. Not the hearth. And for sure not the furniture. She does an amazing job on the kitchen and bathroom and most of the floors. Plus she is by far the most expensive. Thirty five bucks an hour!!!
Well now I am sitting at April and Myles. Aryn Bradley and I stopped at a place they know for lunch then another stop at their storage unit to pick up a bag of fifty cloths he had ordered for work. He hated them and they were exactly what I wanted.
I am determined to reduce our use of paper towel. It has become so expensive for an unnecessary item. I didn't grow up with paper towel. I grew up with cloths in the kitchen. So, I went on that Asian website that none of us admit to and bought two cheap net red laundry hampers. In one I shall throw all the clean cloths. And as they get dirty we shall throw them in the other. In the dirty one I will put a garbage can for the really wet ones. I will report to you if it works out. Like you guys care!!lol!!!!
Anyway I am freezing. Myles came home in a bit of a stew about people's driving. I don't blame him. It's really ugly out there now...too many people. But he was too hot and the ac is blasting away and now I am freezing. So I am going to sign off here and go find my sweater. Have a lovely rest of day and TFL & TTYL
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