Everything is cleared, cleaned and ready for our kinfolk to come on Friday for the Derby weekend.
I don't have the energy to get into it now but I'm dealing with a drama here at The Compound. I am putting it off and will deal with it on Monday when the kinfolk leave.
Stay tuned.
We're in get things together mode for our annual Derby weekend festivities at the Compound, and now the freezer in the garage isn't freezing. It's cold, but not freezing. I honestly don't have the patience to deal with it now. I found the owners manual that my Sweet Mother had tucked away and went out and set the temp to Fast Freeze. We'll see if it works.
Stay tuned.
Today kicks off Derby week here in the Ville. The Great Balloon Race and the Mini Marathon are going on right now.
My Favorite Cousin and her Dear Husband will arrive on Friday for their annual Derby weekend visit. The Old Man and I have our food and adult beverage list made out, and now we just wait.
I stepped out of my cooking comfort zone yesterday and made something that is one of the Old Man's favorites - macaroni salad. Normally I would buy it at the grocery store or deli but yesterday I made it myself. It made me feel proud when he kept carrying on about how good it was. And he even had a second helping. He told me to be sure and put the rest in the fridge.
I got a new issue of Taste of Home magazine the other day, and gave it to the Old Man to read. After reading the magazine thoroughly, he handed it to me. He had torn a few strips of paper and had them in the magazine to mark some pages he wanted me to read. One of the recipes he marked was lemon blueberry cake. He said "I'm going to make you a baker. " That is a pretty tall order, coming from a man who did a lot of baking. He said "It's like any other recipe - you just follow the directions." Right.
Stay tuned.
The weatherazzi is still calling for a lot of rain and some severe storms tomorrow for Thunder Over Louisville. But once again, since I am not going, I have no anxiety. I did my weekend grocery shopping today so I won't be getting out in the rain tomorrow. I do feel sorry for the hundreds of thousands of people that are planning to go.
The big Thunder Over Louisville air show and fireworks is this Saturday. I have no anxiety about it whatsoever, because once again, I am not going. I will admit I enjoyed it the first few times I went with some friends, but even then I would be nerved up the week before - what to take, and more worrisome, where to park. It was cool to not only see the fireworks but to be able to feel when they would boom. But the traffic getting home was just too much to handle. Everyone that is planning on going should be nerved up about it right now - they are calling for severe storms Saturday evening. They've only cancelled it twice - the first time in 2020 when Covid was rampant, and then last year due to flooding. But I'm not nerved up at all.
