Ate Way to Much!!!

For all of you who celebrated the 4th, I sure hope you had a good one. We sure did. We ate ourselves into a state known as “fatter than a tick.”

The brisket was awesome. That is the only word I can use to describe it. So tender it fell apart, and we just piled it onto buns and poured some barbecue sauce on it, and well, pigged out. The Contrarian seemed unable to even put his down for a taste of the other offerings. He moaned most of the rest of the day, unable to eat any more, even later in the evening.

The potato salad seemed one of the best ever I have made, I guess it concluded it had to step it up a notch to compete with the brisket. The pea salad was it’s usual self. The corn salad was a disappointment. I put jalepeno, cilantro, lime juice, roasted red peppers, diced black olives and seared the corn. The corn was canned because I find the frozen so tough. We are long out of our own corn, and of course our garden corn is far from being anywhere near ready. I just added salt and pepper and some olive oil and mixed it. All the ingredients sound good, but the taste was only hot, and flat. The corn flavor was totally missing.

The day was spent in total leisure, reading and I did some piecing work on a quilt wall hanging I started a couple of years ago. I also watched some of Federer’s match at Wimbleton and all of Nadal’s. What a body that Nadal has. I love Spanish men I have concluded. The Contrarian was not impressed. LOL. He thought he was going to get his revenge in the evening witha movie choice with John Travolta and HalleBerry. It started out a bit too gross (blowing people up) and we didn’t stay with it. We chose instead “The Long Hot Summer” with Paul Newman and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Troy Mills has a parade every year, but they are pretty much all the same as you might expect. It’s all neighbors and a bit of food in town after, and a tractor pull, the usual country fare. If you have seen one, you pretty much have seen them all. We’ve gone to a few, but don’t really care that much. We saw no fireworks off to the North as we usually do. Many communities are canceling because of the cost. The Contrarian hates them anyway, too much like mortar fire I believe.

So that was our day. Today, we get a repeat of yesterday’s dinner which we are very much looking forward to. Otherwise the day was back to normal. I took a walk, which was nice, but the heat is now getting back up fairly early, and my 9:30 am time found it already quite steamy. I go to the road now, so it’s a full mile. Not particularly tiresome except where I have to walk up hill through very loose sand. The Contrarian worked me up a sling for a water bottle which is really nice. The dogs accompany, but today left me on the way back and were laying in the shade when I got back to the house. The cats, Kate and Spencer who have been coming part way, decided that it was stupid and stayed at the house. Calvin and Hobbes have never been so inclined.

I hope your holiday or non-holiday was exactly what you would have desired. Ours sure was and that’s all you can ask for!