the fair is back!

it started last night and we all know how much I love the fair! TVA fair was loads of fun and we had a great time last year. Why on earth had I not gone before? Plans are for a trip next Saturday with the gang I kinda wish we were going today but C has a baseball game this morning and I think we are cooking out this afternoon weather permitting I suppose. Not to mention he has school work to catch up on(more on that a later time) It was such a crazy summer that we didn't get the chance to cookout half as much as we usually do. I think we are going to try to put together one more big cookout it won't be a Meatfest but we'll see what we can come up with.

a little political snark to start the day

I can't take credit one of my friends posted it on facebook and he heard it from someplace else so no idea where it originated but it brought a smile to my face this morning
Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor

fried chicken phenomena

shortly after David & I married his grandmother died and I was introduced to the fine Southern tradition of showering the grieving family with buckets, boxes and hell maybe even bags of fried chicken. Seriously there was chicken for days! Being a northerner some sort of pasta dish was always the covered dish of choice for a grieving family. Anytime I send something down here it is generally a baked ziti because I know they'll have plenty of chicken, ridiculous amounts of chicken The added benefit is that the recipe is easy to double and it'll take care of dinner here as well. And I guess I'll be making one this week as a friend of David's family passed away suddenly last night. I did not know him very well I usually saw more of the wife but it is shocking to think wow 58 he was so young...

but isn't it Labor day?

I have lived in K-town for 16 years now and I have never quite understood the concept behind Boomsday(huge fireworks display set off of the bridge downtown for the uninitiated) I get the ohh & ahh of the fireworks but why Labor day? I have been a few times and it is fun but the traffic sucks and my job being on the south side of the bridge it's mostly a minor inconvenience each year. It also affects business which played a part in the decision to close today and do inventory, oh joy, I hate inventory but being salary and having worked each and every inventory since the beginning of time I sort of had no choice.
What sucks was my boss was unloading two passes he had for tonight on the Riverboat it included free drinks, dinner and a river view of the fireworks..oh the really sucky part was I couldn't use them!