1. When I wrote yesterday about a turkey breast lasting for a few days, I meant that, first of all, there are leftovers and tonight Debbie and I ate a casserole that was a mixture of leftover turkey, cornbread dressing, broccoli, and gravy. It was easy to prepare and delicious -- and it's not all gone.
Moreover, because I had bought a bone-in turkey breast, I put the bone and some remains of the meat in the crock pot with coarsely chopped onion, celery, celery greens, a few green onions, and some small sweet peppers along with salt, pepper, sage, thyme, and marjoram and it will simmer away for a day or two.
I could use this stock to make turkey soup -- which would last us a couple or three days -- or we might make a batch of turkey noodles, also long lasting. We have a container of leftover turkey pieces to put in either one.
We also have a container of turkey and dressing to give to Christy and Everett.
The day I bought this turkey breast, I also bought a whole chicken and one of these days we'll get three or four days of meals from it.
2. Debbie spends much of her time during the day knitting. She has brought her yarn stash upstairs and is determined to use it all up. When she finishes two or three different items, like caps or scarves, she packs them up to be mailed out to family and friends. Today, three packages were ready to go and I took them up the post office and stopped at Yoke's to buy some milk, coffee, onions, cheese, Ritz crackers, and a handful of other things to help sustain us while we lie low.
3. At seven o'clock, on his Facebook page, Bill Davie performed live again for an hour. Bill's Tuesday evening gigs have become my favorite hour of the week. Once again, he played a mixture of songs from his early recordings and played some of his superb recent work. I enjoyed, by the magic of the internet, being in the same room with friends from Whitworth and Eugene -- Val, Jeff, Dave, Kathy, Loras, and possibly others and look forward to returning to Bill's page, where these performances are archived, and listening to this performance again.
April 29th is National Zipper Day and Stu's limerick commemorates it:
A button can hold up your britches.
To close up things tight might take stitches.
But to shut the "barn door",
Takes a "Zipper", no more.
Which you hope can go up without hitches.
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