1. While I was pushing and pulling on the NuStep machine this morning, Ed called me. We'd agreed on Friday that just for the fun of it, we'd go to a sports book in Spokane and lay down a modest wager on the Super Bowl. I lost interest in watching football about eight or more years ago -- I had to go to Wikipedia today to find out who has won the last several Super Bowls --, but it'll be fun to go over to the Spokane Tribe Casino. I'll place my wager on the underdog, spin a few reels, possibly have a bite to eat, and enjoy hanging out with Ed for a few hours. He'll pick me up on Tuesday when I'm done at the rehab gym in CdA.
2. I prepared my contribution to today's Family Dinner on Saturday. Carol assigned me to bring pickled cabbage. This was a new endeavor for me. So I chopped up about a pound and a half of red cabbage, followed the recipe's directions and made a brine, mixed it all together, and put it in a sealed container to pickle for about 24 hours.
My effort was successful and got me thinking that I'd enjoy using the same brine to pickle other vegetables, like, say, baby carrots or cauliflower and see if this way of doing it works with them.
3. Carol and Paul hosted Molly, Christy, and me this evening for a seriously much-anticipated pastie dinner. We started with mixed nuts and a honey whiskey ginger cocktail and moved on into the dining room and enjoyed our delicious pasties with the pickled cabbage. We ended our dinner with a piece of crustless cheesecake that featured homemade lemon curd.
Discussion tonight was wide ranging -- we talked about church and the challenges of budgeting money, novels and tv shows and movies that tell stories about acting troupes and the theater, and even some political history. It was fun.
Debbie stayed home to rest up for the start of a new semester at school and I brought pasties home. She enjoyed one tonight and packed another in her lunch for tomorrow.
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