Sprucing things up before it rains!

This is Coquille Valley Hospital on a surprisingly sunny day in October. The board approved replacing the aging shingle facade.



Here lie the new panels that will replace the shingles.




The deconstruction crew got an early start and hammered most of the shingles off in one day. It's kind of hard to tell anything was done as the under layment is black tar paper and there is not much contrast between that and the blackish shingles.




This is the vapor barrier,Shark skin, which went up pretty fast. It took longer to maneuver the hoisting machine, the ladders, etc.




Here you see the green panels going up, it looks very nice. I hope to take a picture once it is done.

Low low prices and felt like cooking

We finally fell below the 3 dollar per gallon threshold. No idea how long this will last. It is a wonderment.






I felt like cooking this morning. So I made spaghetti and meatballs bake.

Recipe as follows; Scrounge cupboards for pasta. I had half a box of Fettuccine pasta that needed to be used up. The purists among you may break out the pasta machine, whip up some dough and massage it for the appropriate number of time. Cook in 4 quarts salted boiling water for 12 minutes,turn down from full boil to avoid over spill.

Scrounge onion, left over spaghetti sauce, olive, tomatoes, chopped garlic, what ever wine is in the fridge.

Drain pasta, rinse pot, pour in olive oil, chopped onions, saute, add olives, tomatoes, wine, garlic, season to taste.

Scrounge from freezer the last batch of beef veggie meatball, dump all together, simmer 15 minutes, dump in drained pasta. Mix well, pour in casserole dish and top with three partial bags of cheeses from the freezer; cheddar, Parm and white stringy.

Bake in 350 degree oven for 30 minutes. Also scrounged from freezer, one loaf of garlic bread, cook in package, it will be perfect at 30 minutes.

Enjoy!

Get out the rain gear its really coming down!

This was the price this morning before I went shopping in Coos Bay.



This was the price in the afternoon after I got home from Shopping in Coos Bay. Freddy's seemed to be having a canned beans sale so I purchased 5 cans each of garbanzo, red kidney and black beans. I like to drain one can each, chop up one medium sweet onion, make a dressing of red wine vinegar, olive oil and Splenda to sweeten the tart of the vinegar. This is my three bean salad and I get a craving for it every once in a while.

I also watched "Like Water For Chocolate" on OVTV this afternoon. I may have to break out the turkey mole recipe or the walnut sauce with peppers. Yowza!

RE-RUN TAMALE PIE

I had a request from the home front for tamale pie. So here goes. I clipped this recipe from the Anchorage news paper several years ago when I lived in Barrow. If the noon jet didn't get weathered out we would get the Sunday paper about 2 pm. That recipe called for breakfast steak and cheddar cheese. I have modified it a bit over the years, still tastes and smells wonderful.




First you roast the peppers in a 350 degree oven for about 45 minutes, cool, peel and chop.



Brown one diced onion in olive oil, add 1 1/2 pounds ground turkey, 1 whole frozen jalapeno pepper (freezing the pepper takes some of the heat away...really), add 1 can chopped tomato, add chopped roasted peppers, add one can of black olives, halved, add garlic, salt and pepper to taste.

Stir in a separate bowl one cup Ricotta, one cup corn meal, 3 cups water,one whole egg, blend well, pour into meat and veggie mixture, allow to simmer for a few minutes. Pour into glass baking dish. Bake in 350 oven for 45 minutes. .




Top with frozen onion rings, bake another 15 minutes. You may serve piping hot , however the flavors will blend together by the next day. My house smells wonderful

Jello Jokes

This is in honor of First Nations most recent post on collages in particular the one where jello recipes have been mounted including the recipe with cherries and black olives.

What do you get when you play a recording of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir backwards?

Jello recipes.


C'mon there must be more jello jokes out there!

I just can't keep up

Snapped this running to the bank on Monday.



Snapped this getting haircut on Tuesday.

Tonight I watched ESPN 2008 Poker Championship. Dad would have LOVED this, Texas hold'em no limits. 7000 players started,they are down to 40 remaining, very interesting watching the poker stars and listening to the commentary. What a job!
At this point the losers are in the money and are getting upwards of 100k. The end pot will be 9 million. Tsk, can't even start a small war with that kind of chump change.

Price check and turning leaves

Gas dropped again, has a way to go but is welcome, however, I still have a 5 gallon can of $4.20 gas from this summer!



This is a shot of the surrounding mixed forest and hard woods as they turn color. Not a lot of red but a nice mixture.