Friday Night Dinner And A Movie

We are really trying to eat healthy...

So tonight we are using mushrooms instead of beef.

Place in skillet with some olive oil...

Medium high to get it started.
Smoother in onions...or not.
We happen to love onions.
We've been married for 39 years,
so it's okay to eat onions for dinner.
Add a little more oil over onions...
Cook for 5 minutes or so, and turn.


Slightly brown onions,
and cover.
Cook on medium low for about twenty minutes.

Add some soy sauce...
I just sprinkle a little all over...
Cook another five or ten minutes,
turning mushrooms once again.

Remove from skillet to plate.
Cover in vegetable cheese.
We love a really cheesy burger,
so I added two slices to each mushroom.

Top with the onions.
Cheese will melt from the heat of the onions.

I used corn dusted, whole grain Kaiser rolls,

homemade mayonnaise,

and a few tomato slices on each bottom bun.

Sprinkle with sea salt.

The mushroom burger is SO delicious,

and very filling.

I actually like them better than beef.

Okay, so dinner is ready,

a glass of burgundy is served,

and it's time for the movie.

Traveling Man,

my sweet husband,

decided on "Ronin".

Of course it must be action packed

if Traveling Man is going to watch it.

Here we have a freelancing former US intelligence agent

trying to track down a mysterious package

that is wanted by both the Irish and the Russians.

He, Traveling Man, enjoys the frantic car chase...

And yet another thunderous car chase...

And another!

Thank goodness it was filmed in Europe...

Much of it in Paris.

So I enjoyed the European scenery,

and he enjoyed the action.

All in all, it was a good Friday night,

but WHAT was in the case/package?!?

I asked Traveling Man that question,

because I thought I missed an important part of the movie,

but he said, "no one knows."

What? Really?

This explains why I do not waste much time watching movies.

Have a blessed weekend, y'all.

Yaya

Collecting Treasures From Far Away Places

I must admit,

I have more paintings than I can find wall space to hang them,

but we buy them anyway.

This painting is so true to the mountains of Colorado,

and its beauty. We had to have it.

The aspens in fall...

Golden leaves...

White bark...

We had to have it...

Snow capped mountains...

I just love the intense color in this one...

We had to have it...

And this one....

Its beauty takes my breath.

I so love it.

We had to have it.

Thank you, Traveling Man,

my sweet husband,

for finding these and buying them.

Treasures to take back home to the deep south,

and hang somewhere in the country house.

Always a reminder of a fabulous trip to Colorado.

Blessings

Yaya

Riding Off Into The Sunset...

And so it is,

that the Traveling Man,

my sweet husband,

the globe trotter,

was assigned to a project

way off out into the western sunset...

I packed a few bags, (haha)

(okay, I filled a big surburban with my bags),

and three dogs,

and off we drove...

And we drove...

And we drove....

And we drove some more...

And on the second day,

there in all of their glory,

before us in the distance,

lay the snow-capped Rocky Mountains...

As we approached our destination,

the sun dipped behind the Rockies...

And I felt blessed to lay my eyes upon such beauty...

I have passed this way before,

but each time,

I am in awe of God's creation.

Blessings

Yaya

From the Country Desk

And so it is that I sit at my country house desk,

and ponder thoughts of springtime...

Renewal...

A time of creative dreaming...

A much needed reminder to open the chakras...

Make time for yoga...

Energize...

Eat the healthy Rainbow Diet...

Plenty of fresh air...

As I sit here,

I am reminded to organize...

It feels so good when everything has a place,

and is in its place...

I glance at the sun-dappled deck and courtyard,

and dream and plan a kitchen garden...

Herb garden...

I think of fresh picked vegetables...

The sound of a trickling water fountain in the distance...

Yoga in the courtyard...

The late February days are ever-lengthening,

still chilly, with overnight frost,

yet blessed with sunshine,

and dreams of springtime...

Blessings

Yaya

Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez

Let the good times roll!

Happy Mardi Gras,

from deep in the southland,

beneath my southern sky.

Blessings

Yaya

Run Away to an Island

And, "Lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach-

waiting for a gift from the sea."

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Gift from the Sea"

The perfect book for island time.

Blessings

Yaya

Speaking to the Mountain

Do you have a mountain?

Life can give us 'mountains'...

Sickness...

Relationships...

Financial problems...

The list of 'mountains' can be long.

We are instructed to speak to the mountain.

"Whoever says to this mountain,

Be removed and be cast into the sea,

and does not doubt in his heart,

but believes that those things he says will be done,

he will have whatever he says.

Therefore I say to you,

whatever things you ask when you pray,

believe that you receive them,

and you will have them.

Mark 11; 23-24

Blessings

Yaya

January Blessings

An island beyond the lowlands...

Across the causeway, and out into the Gulf...

The rain falls...

The smell of the marsh rides in on the salty mist,

and I feel blessed in the January rain.

And so it is

that

a little island time

soothes the soul,

even on a rainy January day.

Maybe even more so.

January Blessings

Yaya